So it's ok to kill someone violently, but to possibly love someone and give them pleasure is taboo...

It works just like any oracle deployment!

This is why IT sucks so badly. Nearly every chap who uses twitter, facebook and plays world of warcraft think they're a technical genius.

In an interview I once had a chap tell me he knew everything about Linux. Come to find out, everything, was installing fedora and playing MP3's with xmms.

Does anyone else here get sick of IT staff making decisions about restricting computer access based upon the sole purpose of making their lives easier? Businesses and educational institutions need to wake up and realize that the world doesn't revolve around some lazy, uneducated IT staff, but instead the people who actually make the company money or research valuable things. /rant

Most of us where I work use Linux because the IT staff is thankfully too stupid to get their hands on it and break it for us. It's the only way we get any real work done. Not everyone uses a computer to write documents and waste people's time with powerpoint.

It's about time the IT staff learn that they're overhead and who they actually work for. And yes, I used to be a system administrator, but I hate to admit it.

Isn't a political wind just an analogy for a fart?

I stalk..er find women here.

http://women.debian.org/profiles/

PS. It's legit.

It doesn't exist, so I won't use it.

lenny:~# apt-get install ie8
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Couldn't find package ie8

like WTF.. :)

Dear lord, this is just SAD. The saw blade example frightens me as well. Too much protection out there for kids these days. There is no negative reinforcement of pain. Eg. If you fall off your bike, it will hurt and you will bleed. People learn from experiencing life, not being sheltered from it.

And lots of it from random locations. That and spam people... I know the Chinese and Africans will use it for this.

To dealing with people at work!!!

It seems like everyone I know buys a computer for "gaming". Without gaming, I'm not sure how many people would have computers. (queue "you're wrong debate.. go!)

If people didn't get computers for gaming, Linux would be adequate to do everything they need to do.

Duh! All torrents are illegal, don't you know this?

(I was actually told this by a CIO for a large unnamed company that I don't work for when having a discussion at the airport)

I never thought I'd see Wolfram compete in the search market. However, this isn't much of a surprise to me after reading The World is Flat
Apparently, Google and many others use complex mathematics to figure ouch which porn site has the best, free content! On a more serious note, it's nice to see Google is getting some competition. The Wolfram search appears to be easy, yet also simple; something that Google has pioneered.

I love this quote, "bigger screen" when talking about a netbook. My idea of a netbook is a small device that has most of the capability of a PC without the bloat and slowness of a PC. Linux makes a great embedded and netbook OS. I really don't see people processing a 100 page document or presentation on one of these. I guess you need full windows 7 to check e-mail, surf the web and IM.

Personally, I use a 13" notebook which is a good mix between a netbook and a laptop. Most laptops are too big for me and netbooks are too small.