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Yeah, the rest of us sleep with a Mossenberg Mavrick 88 12 ga. pump loaded with 00 shot. Go ahead, just try to take my Linux.

Or even other perl people for that matter. I have gone back to perl scripts I myself wrote a couple years back, being in too big a hurry to document them along they way and finding myself saying, WTF?
python? Dang man! I am still looking for the line that isn't idented just right.
I always go back to awk or tcl/tk for texty gui thingies and bash or ksh for systemy thingies.

But it seems to me that key based authentication mediates this risk. Am I the only one that does this? What the heck does everyone think ssh is for? I use password authentication the very first time I access a server. I put my pub key there, then disable password authentication. My private key never leaves the thumb drive I wear around my neck. Being a CHL holder, it is very unlikely you'll get to that without leaving your DNA and most probably grey matter all over the place. Plus, my cat sets my passwords.

Now if there were only better ways of ensuring that the money we pay for CDs and DVDs ends up mostly in the hands of the artists, rather than in the fat pockets of the big corporations that still mostly control the distribution channels.

I so totally agree with this. My daughter and by fiat myself are involved in the entertainment industry. So far we have limited ourselves to independent films, PSA's and such. But she keeps wanting and hoping to be picked up by Disney. I so hope that does not happen, in a way.

So far she has not made much money. But at least what she has made has been fair. Small independent production houses tend to treat their talent more fairly than the big names. Faith based production houses tend to be the most equitable ones. One can make a living in those industries. Just don't expect to get filthy rich from it.

For the true artist, the money is just a necessary secondary concern. The main thing is performing the art. I guess that is why it is so easy for the big money guys to tke advantage of them.

Pause/Break only dimly. But ctrl-s and ctrl-q remain have been burned into my memory - too many VT100 sessions, perhaps.

Death to scroll lock and CAPS lock!
LONG LIVE ctrl-s and ctrl-q!
I still use those to stop/start scrolling text on my Xterm

Can anyone else confirm this? I've heard about the famous .0 release meme from Windows, but this is completely new to me.

This rule is applicable to most software releases. Avoid .0 releases. In Ubuntuland the X.10 releases tend to equate to X.0 releases. I tend to only upgrade on LTS releases.

This is the kind of attitude that gives Linux a bad rap. Just because someone wants to use Linux doesn't mean they should have to learn to compile their own software. If that's the case then GNU/Linux will never make a formidable dent in the desktop market amongst "regular" users.

The point of Linux is not that you have to compile your own code/kernel. The point is you can. I have not complied damn thing since 2000. I only open a terminal because for alot of things it is faster that pointing and clicking my way thru. fact is, on the netbook I am using at this moment, I have never dropped down to the terminal. BUt it is there if I want too.

Just because one can do thing, does not mean one must do that thing.

You just failed Logic 101.

Well great. Now what am I going to do with this 20 years supply of beans? :^D

The scientific problem I had the most issue with was the "super-nova" that destroyed Romulus, enveloping it. Was it in the same solar system? If so, then Spock would destroy the Nova by turning the Romulan Sun into a black hole!? Or, was it in a different system? If so, then the Nova was so huge that the mass of the star could expand over distances of light years and envelop a planet in a different star system!? It made no sense at all. This explanation will only serve to complicate the matter. But it is scientifically accurate. When a star goes supernova, it streams two gamma ray bursts in opposite directions emminating from the magnetic poles.

These rays are so energetic that any thing with a line of site within 1000 light years is toast.

We are 8000 light years from a star that has probably already gone supernova. The light just now arriving to earth from it shows that it is on the brink of going supernova at anytime.

If it has gone supernova and one of the gamma ray streams is aimed at us,(The poles don't seemed to be aligned with us right now. But dying stars aren't exactly stable things.) then lights out for life on the planet. The planet may survive. But life most definitely won't.

The problem is, that collapsing the star into a black hole will with some kind of exotic matter not prevent the gamma ray burst. They are caused by the acceleration of matter by the gravitational collapse of the star.

I am a hard core trekkie. I have donned costumes and attended conventions. I was not at all put off by the alternate timeline track. I understand the need to do it. The world of 2009 is totally different than 1969. We advanced much further in some areas than we expected in 1969. We did not advance as far in others.

This has changed our view and therefore our expectations of the 23rd century. They did keep the basics the same. Kirk is "... from Iowa." and "... only work in outer space." Kirk "cheated" on the Kobayashi Maru.

I was at first afraid they were going to ruin the interpersonal relationships of some of the core cast members, but it all worked out in the end.

The "reboot" was necessary to appeal with the current generations in light of the advancements and lack there of since 1969. I think JJ Abrams did an excellent job.

And I HAVE TO GET SULU'S NEW SWORD!

Then lets call it the radical islamic fundamentalist terrorist flu! And bring are boys back home.

Wow, I wish I could mod this discussion.

A serious intellectual treaties on comedic philosophy? Now *that's* funny!

In Soviet Russia: 1) Build a beowulf cluster of hot grits. .... N) Profit!

Yeah, I was just commenting on this fact to my office mate today. BTW GP. I too disagree with most Republican politicians now days. And I am by registration, a Republican. Now, isn't that ironic?