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General Software Discussion / Re: Command-line-fu is a brilliant idea (Linux)
« Last post by zridling on February 19, 2009, 10:35 PM »
command: rm -fr /
description: fixes all problems with linux
-f0dder (February 19, 2009, 10:44 AM)

f0dder knows the bomb key code! A good thing is, that's usually in Ch.1 of all shell books. Also, thanks for the Shell-fu link, Edvard!
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General Software Discussion / Command-line-fu is a brilliant idea (Linux)
« Last post by zridling on February 19, 2009, 07:32 AM »
Command-line-fu "is the place to record those command-line gems that you return to again and again. Delete that bloated snippets file you’ve been using and share your personal repository with the world. That way others can gain from your CLI wisdom and you from theirs too. All commands can be commented on and discussed - digg-esque voting is also encouraged so the best float to the top." The site is still in alpha, but it’s quite exciting.

clfu1010.png

And if you like that site, you may also enjoy Snipt.
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Living Room / Re: Watch PBS hour-long Inside the Meltdown on US economic crash
« Last post by zridling on February 19, 2009, 06:35 AM »
I've got this taped and will watch it later today. Saw a similar program yesterday titled, "House of Cards" on CNBC. The whole damn country was nothing but a Ponzi scheme. No one interviewed took any responsibility (including Greenspan), just blamed it all on human nature. Bullshit!

fail-truck.jpg

It's funny how cheating makes everything easier. And the US has become known as a nation of cheaters. From steriods in sports to kids using phones during tests to judges dismissing repeated Microsoft anti-trust cases to the multiple Bernie Madoffs to the Bush Admin. not using government email accounts (so their records could not be archived) to one cabinet nominee after another "forgetting" to pay their taxes. And it's so commonplace, the only surprise is the occasional chump who doesn't cheat! Arrggghhh!!
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Living Room / Re: Canadian Federal government looking at free software
« Last post by zridling on February 18, 2009, 11:20 PM »
Excellent find, Mooseman. Far more informative than I thought it would be. Thanks.
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Developer's Corner / Re: Beautiful Code: In your opinion, what makes code Beautiful?
« Last post by zridling on February 18, 2009, 11:14 PM »
As a non-coder, my end sees good code stemming from good design. It's easy to over-design. To start out by saying, "Hmm, maybe somebody would find this useful, that useful, and also that, that, and that over there" will lead to future frustration. Start from what you know people must have, and then try to make that set smaller. When you can make it no smaller, you've reached a nice [starting] place with your project.

Oh, and that whole 'efficiency' thing mouser mentions is probably goes pretty far toward beautiful code, too.  ;)
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Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]
« Last post by zridling on February 18, 2009, 09:07 AM »
turducken.jpg
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Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]
« Last post by zridling on February 18, 2009, 09:06 AM »
new_highrise_development.jpg
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Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]
« Last post by zridling on February 18, 2009, 08:59 AM »
One of my favs, from the infamous 4chan:

NSFW lots of bad language
bible cheat codes.png



[edited by mouser to put this image inside a spoiler block just because it's so laden with curse words and adult language -- let's remember there are people here who want to be able to avoid such things]
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Living Room / Re: Meme time! Five Things People Don't Know About Me
« Last post by zridling on February 18, 2009, 08:56 AM »
5. My spoken language is 80% danish, 10% English, 5% gamer slang and 5% leet.
-Shook (February 17, 2009, 01:54 PM)

Danish, what a cool language. Tried to learn it back in the 90s and got good enough to read online newspapers and one novel, then after several failed attempts to move there, I gave up. Total fail on my part. For speaking 10% English, Shook, you're doing great.
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General Software Discussion / Re: Linux finance management program (ALA Quicken?)
« Last post by zridling on February 18, 2009, 08:47 AM »
Here is more Josh, but not sure it's what you're looking for:
Free and Open Source Finance/Accounting Software for Linux
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Living Room / Re: Meme time! Five Things People Don't Know About Me
« Last post by zridling on February 17, 2009, 04:03 AM »
@dwbrant: Wow! You're... good. Very good.  :Thmbsup:
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General Software Discussion / Re: What audio software is best for medical transcription?
« Last post by zridling on February 17, 2009, 03:58 AM »
Hi sillymary; welcome to DC! Is this your opinion or was there a recent review that listed these? Links, please!  :)
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General Software Discussion / Overcoming the Cloud’s limits
« Last post by zridling on February 17, 2009, 03:04 AM »
Carol has been one of the clearest voices on the limits of cloud computing, so this paper caught my eye. It lays out how cloud computing can win if it overcomes the following ten obstacles (PDF), so say UC Berkeley researchers.
  • 1. Availability of service
  • 2. Data lock-in
  • 3. Data confidentiality and auditability
  • 4. Data transfer bottlenecks
  • 5. Performance unpredictability
  • 6. Scalable storage
  • 7. Bugs in large distributed systems
  • 8. Scaling quickly
  • 9. Reputation fate sharing
  • 10. Software licensing

The biggest obstacle is #2: data lock-in via proprietary formats. That's exactly why the more ODF we see, the more we will be free (to leave). Richard Stallman, warns us of the cloud's dark side: It’s stupidity. It’s worse than stupidity: it’s a marketing hype campaign. Somebody is saying this is inevitable — and whenever you hear somebody saying that, it’s very likely to be a set of businesses campaigning to make it true. (- The Guardian, 29 September 2008)
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General Software Discussion / Re: WINDOWS 7 THREAD (ongoing)
« Last post by zridling on February 16, 2009, 09:02 AM »
Windows 7 Vs. Linux: The Battle For Your Desktop
by Serdar Yegulalp

Some of the highlights of Win7 and why it won't dent Linux, but will put XP and Vista to rest.
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Living Room / Re: Meme time! Five Things People Don't Know About Me
« Last post by zridling on February 16, 2009, 08:19 AM »
dwbrant, do you have a Flickr account for your photos? Share man, share!
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Living Room / [Humor]: 10 Ways Microsoft's Retail Stores Will Differ From Apple Stores
« Last post by zridling on February 16, 2009, 08:06 AM »
[via SunMink]  :P
10 Ways Microsoft's Retail Stores Will Differ From Apple Stores
Brennon Slattery, PC World; 13 Feb 2009

Microsoft announced plans to open retail stores, hoping to boost visibility of many of its products and its brand. The move seems to be an effort to mimic the success that Apple has had with its retail stores. The news is just too tempting not to have some fun with. So here are some yet-to-be-officially-revealed details about the Microsoft stores.

(1) Instead of Apple's sheer walls of glass, Microsoft's stores will have brushed steel walls dotted with holes -- reminiscent of Windows security.

(2) The store will have six different entrances: Starter, Basic, Premium, Professional, Enterprise, and Ultimate. While all six doors will lead into the same store, the Ultimate door requires a fee of $100 for no apparent reason.

(3) Instead of a "Genius Bar" (as Apple provides) Microsoft will offer an Excuse Bar. It will be staffed by Microsofties trained in the art of evading questions, directing you to complicated and obscure fixes, and explaining it's a problem with the hardware -- not a software bug.

(4) The Windows Genuine Advantage team will run storefront security, assuming everybody is a thief until they can prove otherwise.

(5) Store hours are undetermined. At any given time the store mysteriously shuts down instantaneously for no apparent reason. (No word yet on what happens to customers inside).

(6) Stores will be named Microsoft Live Retail Store with PC Services for Digital Lifestyle Enthusiasts.

(7) Fashioned after Microsoft's User Account Control (UAC) in Vista, sales personnel will ask you whether you're positive you want to purchase something at least twice.

(8.) Xbox 360 section of the store will be organized in a ring -- which will inexplicably go red occasionally.

(9) DreamWorks will design a scary in-store theme park ride called "blue screen of death."

(10) Store emergency exits will be unlocked at all times so people can get in anytime they want even if the front doors are locked.
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General Software Discussion / Re: "National" operating systems; what's up with that?
« Last post by zridling on February 16, 2009, 07:30 AM »
As long as the code is open source, it's a worthy project for a government. IT -- and its ongoing costs -- are playing a much larger role than it did for governments from ten years ago. Something about self-protection.
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Older Newsletters / Re: --> Newsletter for February 16th, 2009 - Codename "Forum Valentines"
« Last post by zridling on February 16, 2009, 07:27 AM »
It's pretty amazing to see the cumulative output of a month's worth of DonationCoder.com. And this is only a fractional amount of the content traffic on here. Great tease to lure you to areas I seldom explore.
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Living Room / Re: DC should be Twittering its new topic posts!
« Last post by zridling on February 16, 2009, 07:24 AM »
Very nice, and for the record it's donationcoder.
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Site/Forum Features / Re: Follow DonationCoder on Twitter and Friendfeed
« Last post by zridling on February 16, 2009, 07:19 AM »
Freakin' awesome! Thanks!!  :-*
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General Software Discussion / Re: The ultimate piece of retro-computing
« Last post by zridling on February 15, 2009, 03:23 PM »
Perhaps your great-grandfather missed tradition more than anything else, something we greatly lack in the 21st century. Instead, our world is lived amidst novelty, the unending desire for the latest, newest thing. Now what's this sliderule thing you speak of, young man? Tell me more of your strange ways....

 :P
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General Software Discussion / Re: "National" operating systems; what's up with that?
« Last post by zridling on February 15, 2009, 03:11 PM »
Pardus has always been one of the more elegant distros, and is widely translated. Here's the English site, and Pardus's ABOUT PAGE explains a lot on this very topic. Thanks gorin!

Also, thanks Paul for posting about Bayanihan Linux. Very nice!
___________
Oh, and that penguin/bear does look so depressed, as if he's about to drown himself.
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Living Room / Re: Is World of Warcraft the only depression-proof industry?
« Last post by zridling on February 15, 2009, 03:05 PM »
So Codebyte, you're saying it's a life-sucking virus?  ;D  (I can't afford the subscr. price anyway.)
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Living Room / Re: DC should be Twittering its new topic posts!
« Last post by zridling on February 15, 2009, 03:03 PM »
I can also suggest Website Watcher to foolow donationcoder.
-gorinw13 (February 15, 2009, 02:17 PM)

 :(  Only for Windows users, though. (Still one of the all-time great apps.)
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Living Room / Re: DC should be Twittering its new topic posts!
« Last post by zridling on February 15, 2009, 03:00 PM »
For those who want a guide to/about Twitter, here it is:
http://www.buzzblogg...ve-guide-to-twitter/
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