“ I could sell shit to an Arab.
Not quite the expression you were looking for mate.
Ross Burton
“ A couple of weeks ago, this page appeared on the elinux.org wiki. It’s written by an engineer at Sony, and it’s calling for contributions to rewriting Busybox. This would be entirely reasonable if it were for technical reasons, but it’s not - it’s explicitly stated that companies are afraid that Busybox copyright holders may force them to comply with the licenses of software they ship. If you ship this Busybox replacement instead of the original Busybox you’ll be safe from the SFC. You’ll be able to violate licenses with impunity.
Shit like this makes me furious (via mjg59)
“ The Public and Commercial Services (PCS) union, which has around 60,000 members in HMRC, has planned a one-day strike on 31 January to protest against the appointment of private-sector companies to run call-handling trials in two contact centres.
31st January is the deadline for paying tax, in case you didn’t know. Now that is well planned strike action.
“ Every time I’m asking for advice you’re making it harder, ebassi
Such is the problem with asking the Master of GLib Knowledge a question (via robsta).
“
> I’m also dissatisfied with the name of the distro.
> Linux is the kernel not the whole system.
Good news on that front too. Gentoo Linux will be renamed to
GNU/FDO/IBM/Oracle/Mozilla/KDE/Gnome/Linux as soon as we make sure we
haven’t left anyone out.
“This release features 2 new animation plugins:
Fade, which changes the opacity of windows
Scale, which changes their dimension
And 30 transition styles:”
Thanks Linux Mint, I’m sure that’s exactly what the GNOME 2 users who didn’t want to move to GNOME 3 were missing.
OMG. WTF. BBQ.I present you Cinnamon Linux Mint, also known as The Revenge of GNOME 1 point fucking 4.
selecting the effect, the easing mode, and the duration to the millisecond.
just in case you care.
“ Some have questioned the song’s implied necessity to row one’s boat downstream. This may in fact be a commentary on the paradoxical nature of time’s arrow with respect to man’s free will in a universe of materialistic causality.
Wikipedia on Row Row Row Your Boat.
“ There are two major modes to the game, a textual spell-casting game, and a more complex interactive puzzle mode. Play starts with the spell game. The game has three difficulty modes. In the two easiest modes Visual Studio questers must cast spells to appease a malevolent gatekeeper known only as “the compiler,” the text adventuring of Zork with the wizardy and magic of Loom. If the player’s spell contains even a single faulty incantation, the compiler will respond with a torrent of abuse and spells of its own; the player must piece together clues contained within compiler’s response to determine how they went wrong.
Microsoft keeps it old-school with a pricey text adventure game, Visual Studio 2010, Ars Technica.
“ At the [cyclocross event manager] training there were a number of questions like what would you do if there were a set of concrete steps in the course? Apparently ride down em wasn’t the correct answer, enforcing a dismount and run up only or bypassing them being the way forward. Another being what would you do if your course went off a steep bank? Again, build a kicker at the top also prompted derision.
Cyclocross racers need to, as they say, grow a pair.
