"Some monkeys & apes are known to imitate others."
"to "ape" someone/thing is to imitate it"

Thanks yes. I always thought that to be common knowledge.
However, "ape" & "imitate" in google gives me a link to "www.thefreedictionary.com" where "to ape" is defined as "To mimic slavishly but often with an absurd result."

And that's exactly what I was trying to say earlier: it's a pretty negative way of describing behavior. But then to use it in the context of software? Ridiculous! Software doesn't ape, or imitate. It emulates or re-implements. I really think it's a silly little article.

I'm no native English speaker but I know it's an normal English word. However, I've never heard someone use it when revering to software. And it sounds really derogatory. So yes, it's a weird use of the word.

"Like, think, abortion clinic bomber logic, but, one that sees not only abortions as evil, but making french fries, and then you kinda have your head around where the islamic mind is at these days."

Ok, I'm thinking of the abortion clinic terrorist (and all those hard-core, right-wing, fundamentalist Christians Americans associated with him, or them), I add some french fries. And now I somehow understand "the islamic mind"???

Uhm, you are drunk and rambling?

"The thing is that nobody had heard about Bing before MS."
I wouldn't know about that, chances are that before Microsoft announced Bing a search on google for "bing" and "design" would have brought up Bing Information Designers. Now it won't.

This is certainly damaging for the company, because every company remotely associated with IT and design/graphics should have a sound web identity.

So. There's damages, and Microsoft really could have researched more. Of course, a company should be proactive in protecting it's trademarks and Bing has been around for ages, now. Anyway, to me it doesn't sound so clear-cut at all.

Incidentally, a manager from a company with a silly name, told me it helped customers to remember the company's name.

"Are you feeling guilty? Did you steal code from work? You seem to have taken the question a little personal." What a lame and trollish attempt at an attack. So, still the question is: "Your point is? Do you have an accusation to make?"

Keep your own sig in mind...

I'm sure you're right.
Mr. Murdock, in my opinion, is just a not very capable competitor, when dealing with Google and the likes. He probably does understand how the world wide web works, but just doesn't like how it works.

Come one, I know all that. Everyday I sit with three other sys admins, and I'm sure that particular problem would baffle them as well (for a while). That _I_ happened know what to do, was because I googled for 1 minute (the "think" I was speaking of, two posts ago), and I've been there before. I haven't used lilo for years though, precisely because of it being much less user friendly than grub. What you fail to see is that pulling a boot disk will render ANY system useless, so just don't do that or think (but you can always easily revert the situation and then think, on your old configuration).

And I'll just repeat myself again: yes, it _would_ be nice if a system could help you with a missing boot disk, but obviously hardware just doesn't do that. You should understand that the hypothetical programming -that helps- you speak of would originate from the BIOS. Or, better still: from the embedded linux on your motherboard. But I just haven't seen anything like that before, have you?

It is a nice idea, by the way. I'm sure we'll be seeing that in years to come.

What exactly do you disagree with? That changing the order of disks breaks an installation?
I'd agree that it's a shame that something like that can happen. And sure: it would be nice if a system could help you with a problem like that. But seriously, how can a system help you without a boot disk? Do you even know what a boot disk is?

Obviously, the fix is with Windows and Linux the same: you pop in an install disk and repair your system.

And why do you call him somedumass?

Did it take you that long to figure it out or did you repeatedly enter "/sbin/lilo" for three hours before it worked?

My point is: the parent is speaking of upgrading a system but you're speaking of breaking it. Next time take some time to think before you yank a boot disk out from under a system.

Sorry, no. But I can burn it to DVD if you like.

Your wife drives a Hummer??? Then what the hell do you drive, an Abram tank?

Do you REALLY believe this shit? The cops can locate grow-ops FAR easier by tracking electrical usage and using infrared detectors(the heat detected is outside the house, so no warrant needed).

What about hothouses? There's a whole region of the Netherlands called "the glass city", lots of hot windows and roofs there. Guess you'd need a sniffer there.

Considering there is no human on board to generate a murder charge, that little fucker wouldn't last a minute over Los Angeles, but then again, we got guns.

Yes, I know, however we've got brains.

No. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abolition_of_slavery_timeline

And the only (partial) way out of this problem I know of is screen. It offers a way of not having to close a session but to disconnect from it and later connect. You still cannot use multiple session with one user and keep all history, but you i.e. can run your primary commands on you screen session and keep that one running all the time (and keep your important work). Working that way is also a nice way to keep focused. Need to keep your machine running, obviously.

Yes, but almost non-stop for two months?