Funniest thing I've heard of late:
"I love Mustangs. They represent everything that is America...plastic and stupid." - K. Kapadia
So my Linux experiment had partial success. I chose to go with Mandrake 8.2 based on its reputation for being the easiest install to install and get started with. Well I must say the install was rather okay. Key problems:
- no clue how the OS is laid out on the drive (windows sits in \WINNT, OS X sits in \system and \library and such)
- could not execute any GUI apps (under KDE) unless i sudoed as root
- could not upgrade KDE to 3.0.2 because Qt library update could not be installed
- could not change the resolution after realizing 1024x768 was just not going to work on the old monitor
- during install could not tell how much space each little app takes up and how that effects the overall drive space
All in all pretty annoying experience. I'm gonna leave it alone for now and try again later. MacOS X is god.
You know somewhere deep deep inside everybody wants to help others. Ever wonder why? This might be an answer.
How cool is this? Goes to show how much we know about the Earth.
This story really doesn't sit well with me. Putting a blackbox in cars is not the way to teach kids how to drive properly. Children need to be assured that they can be trusted and that their decisions can be meaningful. Adults who had constant supervision as children and teenagers aren't what I'd call well balanced individuals. How does this type of thing at all help instill a sense of trust and or respect? Constant oversight doesn't work with the society/government model the same way it doesn't work with the parent/child model.
So we detect a large rock coming right at us. Too little data to be alarmed, lets hope its another close call. However if it is on a collision course, it will give the space industry a boost akin to the boost during the cold war, however this time humanity's well being will be at stake, not just democracy. It would be cool though if scientists could figure out some way to get this rock into a HEO and then study it and such and then send it on its way into the sun or something!
Also I need to reiterate that I'm sick of constantly being harrassed to buy stuff online, on the radio, on the television. I offer this very apropos quote right now from Futurama:
Captain Taronga Leela: Didn't you have ads in the 21st century?
Philip J. Fry: Well sure, but not in our dreams. Only on TV and radio, and in magazines, and movies, and at ball games..and on buses and milk cartons and t-shirts, and bananas and written on the sky. But not in dreams, no siree.
Good night gentle people.
Posted by Mr. Keyur at July 24, 2002 11:01 PM