@IRJ said:
Our company gives us a $75 gift card to an online store that sells business attire with our logo. So instead of giving us shirts they allow us to choose from different styles.
Oh I hope they've got tank tops or those half shirts from the 1980s
@IRJ I really can't stand those split keyboards, but your setup is really nice, probably why you've only got $12.00 left 
@Nic said:
Yes, but that's only because I went to their HQ and flashed them.
Got my tea all over my shirt with this one
People sure like voting down my posts without explaining why they disagree, great way to not stick by your convictions. If you disagree, say something, don't be a wuss.
I used to have a really complicated bashrc and bash_profile file, now I jsut don't gaive a damn. sanme reason i didn't spell check this.
@scottalanmiller Oh, I can use vi, I'm quite proficient at it, and I've used it many, many times (as implied by proficiency), but I hate it so much, I really do. I think from a design standpoint it's absolutely asinine. So many better editors have been created with the same functionality limitations.
First thing I did with IRIX back in the old days: install another editor, because it only comes with vi.
vi seems intentionally confusing and unnecessarily complicated. Insert mode, go straight to hell.
Picture me screaming like a maniac I HATE IT, I HATE IT! WHY!? WHY!?
If you've seen my Ubuntu-related posts on Spiceworks or maybe even here or basically anywhere, I've been highly critical of Ubuntu for effectively crippling new comers into being dependent on and overusing sudo, and not knowing how to actually download, compile, and install things instead of using apt-get. I've seen in the real world how this makes people think they know Linux/Unix, but then suddenly they can't do anything at all except type sudo and apt-get over and over and not even understand why there's no pico or nano (welcome to the absolute hell that is vi).
I've used Ubuntu on servers before, in fact we used it in staging for a while even though in production we mostly use FreeBSD. We also use FreeBSD (or sometimes PC BSD) for desktops, but never had installed Ubuntu on them, so my perspective of Ubuntu was essentially always as a server OS.
Anyway, so I started to use it on my other machine and it's not bad. I thought the install was very easy, but even Mandrake had an easy installer 14 years ago, and overall from a regular user perspective it's pretty great. I think it would work well for regular people, and since regular people don't really need to know about sudo or apt-get, it's fine.
I still prefer FreeBSD though. Also, I never liked Debian, which is Deb-Ian, not Deeb-Ian, by the way, because it's a combination of the names Debra and Ian, and I've yet to meet anyone named Deebra. Then again, I still hear IT people say Ligh-nix for Linux.
I was a Slackware user from the mid-90s, and also I used SuSe (pronounced Zoo-zuh for those who don't know German pronunciation), back when the interface was almost only in German (I remember it being the only distro that worked on my HP N3402 Laptop). I primarily switched to FreeBSD in 2001.
@nadnerB said:
Not yet available on my machine. Possibly because it does not match my WSUS criteria
More like Windows pirate! THIEF!!!!
“That's why PoS attacks are so viable right now, because from an attacker's point of view, [these avenues] are nearly as attractive as PCs,” Budd said.
And PoS manufacturers and programmers are total idiots most of the time and make the worst possible stuff you can imagine with literally no security at all in most cases, and in even more cases has to run as full administrator and every other terrible mistake you can imagine.
Reminds me of my first computer I fished out of a dumper
Goldfish will grow infinitely and get as large as their environment will allow. They don't need to be mutants. The concept of "normal size" for a gold fish is based completely upon our perception of them in a fish bowl or aquarium.
Having said that, I'm pretty sure that's a higoi or ogon koi fish anyway, and they're normally that big.
I have a thing for fish.
When I saw this topic my first thought was "God, I hope so!"
Each version of Windows is an evolution into more complex licensing, at least 10x as much bloat as the last version, and tons of features most people won't ever use.
I just can't stop thinking about all those people who want Windows XP to be supported forever.
Ubuntu 15.04 is not an exciting release,
Well, I'm never upgrading then!
@scottalanmiller said:
Eagerly awaiting GNU/Hurd to release!
That requires actual work, instead it's much easier for Stallman to just take credit for Linux GNU/Linux. I mean it's been 30 years and he's made no progress, and plus he lives in the 1970s anyway when it comes to his views of computers, and his followers tend to be overidealistic weirdos who do things like harass people who don't release all their source code, and make excuses for his general insanity, taking advantage of others, taking credit for others' work, and just being generally disgusting and unpleasant.
It's way easier to just do talks about why you should work for free, but not him.
@RojoLoco said:
Would you like a sample of the sparkly Data Dust(tm) that was inside it?
I prefer sprinkles over sparkles, this way I can put it on my ice cream and download data directly into my brain
@RojoLoco said:
Some interesting items: An absolutely destroyed spinny drive (see pic below), a half dozen oddball heatsinks, mounting hardware for a Meraki WAP, a handful of rack screws and cage nuts, a double handful off DDR2 sticks, a couple of good spinny drives, a couple of Xeon CPUs, an electric kettle, and blue painter's tape.
Just hose that off it'll be fine, don't worry about it
