*shrug* And yet, despite having a shitty driver subsystem, Linux drivers work, and work very well.

For someone who ignores trolls, as indicated in your sig, I can only conclude you haven't paid much attention to what you wrote.

I hear ya. I responded with Debian to the distro question, which I was hopeful was close enough to Ubuntu that they'd sneak me in.

The funny thing is, according to the beta announcement, "An overwhelming majority of beta applicants have reported they’re running the Ubuntu distro of Linux". I have to wonder how many of those people are actually running other distributions and said Ubuntu, and how many didn't even bother signing up, because it was widely known that Valve were targeting Ubuntu for the beta.

First impression of the error: you're missing a library file.

I did a google search, and came up with this bug: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/samba4/+bug/887537

Maybe that will help?

That was quite the stream-of-consciousness post. Nice work. I think I even understood most of it.

By the way, to change your theme, download a new theme file, copy it to ~/.e/e/themes/, go to Settings->Theme and select it. Theme change is instant.

I'm running E17, on Debian Testing (proper). With a new theme. I'm happy with it.

If E is mostly masturbation, then I have been masturbating for the last four or five years. Daily. At work and at home. In front of friends and family.

Even more, if you count E16, although I only switched to using E17 at work around four or five years ago.

Third party software. For the most part, I administer everything via the command line. There are some third party systems that use an X GUI for configuration. Thus I need network transparency.

That ... is awesome news! Thanks for that information. I hadn't heard anything about it.

The X compatibility layer will still be useful regardless, but I'm very glad to hear that Wayland will likely have network transparency as well. The more I hear about this system, the more I'm liking it.

I agree that we need to come up with a brand new system to handle today's graphics systems. That's what Wayland is for, and why it's such an interesting project. It is not legacy baggage, but a ground up designed system. You have heard of it, haven't you? Seems like every Linux user and their dog knows about it these days.

Also, I'm very glad that Wayland is implementing an X compatibility layer. I'm one of those fraction of a percent that use and enjoy network transparency. It would annoy the hell out of me if I had to run a full graphic system on the servers I manage, and then use VNC to connect to them. It's just so much nicer to ssh into the machine, run the program, and have it appear directly on my screen. Never mind that I like keeping a minimal amount of packages installed on the servers. I try to keep it simple.

By the way, if we have the memory, computational power, and bandwidth, why are you so worried about X overhead and latency? Surely they become marginal with more resources.

Well, Enlightenment is not entirely a good argument. It's coming up for release very soon (E17), and the next version is already being talked about as having compositing a _requirement_.

Install Debian testing, and have the best of both worlds.

Not the Japanese. They love Mech stuff.

Actually, so do I. I think I'm turning Japanese, I really think so.

(well, you did mention the 80s)

Not sure about the DVD, but I have the Blu-Ray version, and the suicide squad scene was included as an extra "deleted scenes" feature.

I first encountered this joke around the mid 90's, and it was US/Canadian then. No recent ugly nationalism to blame here. It hasn't lost any humour value, so you can laugh if you want.

Snopes even have an entry about it, and they do go into the history of the joke, which is quite interesting.
http://www.snopes.com/military/lighthouse.asp

The article reminds me of that old US/Canadian joke that circulates every so often ...

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This is the transcript of an actual radio conversation between a US naval ship and Canadian authorities off the coast of Newfoundland in October 1995. The Radio conversation was released by the Chief of Naval Operations on Oct. 10, 1995.

US Ship: Please divert your course 0.5 degrees to the south to avoid a collision.

CND reply: Recommend you divert your course 15 degrees to the South to avoid a collision.

US Ship: This is the Captain of a US Navy Ship. I say again, divert your course.

CND reply: No. I say again, you divert YOUR course!

US Ship: THIS IS THE AIRCRAFT CARRIER USS CORAL SEA, WE ARE A LARGE WARSHIP OF THE US NAVY. DIVERT YOUR COURSE NOW!!

CND reply: This is a lighthouse. Your call.

A well written piece of sophism. It doesn't address the idea, though, of where there is no proof, there is belief. Belief in something that exists, or doesn't exist, is still a belief, and therefore can fit a definition of religion. If I get a bunch of people together, with the single belief that we are alone in the universe, that there is no life elsewhere except on this planet, I have established a religion.