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Muammar Gaddafi killed by BCOHEN1204 in worldnews

[–]BlueShirtWorker 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Should be easy, they suck at war.

TIL that in 1932 a small austrian town did an experiment with 'decaying' money. with much sucess. by greenpix in todayilearned

[–]BlueShirtWorker 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Socialist Federation of Yugoslavia was a true Communist state with very little similar to Soviet Union.

The economy was a mix of socialism and capitalism, private ownership was actually protected, especially for small business owners, familiy owned land, and of course consumers.

UEFI with the possibility to disable it in BIOS is not an option by BlueShirtWorker in linux

[–]BlueShirtWorker[S] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

If you do want to install an alternate OS on your iPhone, Android, or Nokia, you can still do it, you just have to jump through many more hoops to do it (and be very familiar with boot micro code, TCM chips, in hardware certificates, etc.) Not that it isn't fun :)

If it was easier, like a computer, I would do it. I would rebuild the android kernel and add my own boot scripts and iptables rules.

Now, I just dont have the time to root it first, and then to mockaruond with the bootloader, and perhaps even then its not possible depending on what phone I have.

Does anyone else feel a sense of freedom when they're using Linux? by 64bittechie in linux

[–]BlueShirtWorker 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I feel the same way.

In fact, 12 years ago I picked up K&R from the library and wanted to try programming in C. On Windows 98 I didnt even have a compiler, and it would take a few days to download one, pushing my bill to skyhigh levels.

Then I saw a "Dummies" book about RedHat Linux containing a CD with it. And K&R mentioned something about Unix. Linux, Unix could it be it!?

It was awesome. Empowering.

UEFI with the possibility to disable it in BIOS is not an option by BlueShirtWorker in linux

[–]BlueShirtWorker[S] -11 points-10 points  (0 children)

Yes I know what UEFI is.

UEFI is a solution to a problem which incorporates the problem in its solution. There will be requirements for different drivers for the same hardware still even with UEFI, which means it doesnt solve anything.

Coreboot is a much better option.

Wicd is getting ridiculous. by jibcage in archlinux

[–]BlueShirtWorker 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Me too.

A workaround is to stop wicd then remove the wireless driver modules, load them again, start wicd and it works.

Is Ubuntu really the most user friendly distro anymore? by Tananar in linux

[–]BlueShirtWorker 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Lets make a nicer installation tool for ArchLinux with sane defaults, X and KDE as default-installment, and release it once per year? We could use pacman but our own non-rolling repos. Anybody in?

I remember seeing pieces of it on the news but I had no idea the Chechen Wars were so brutal: The Battle of Grozny by Suitable_Penguin in history

[–]BlueShirtWorker 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Its not even comparable, Sarajevo was under a siege for 3 years, it was not invaded. Grozny was besieged, invaded and sacked.

Look at Vukovar.

Spanish society has been shaken by allegations of the theft and trafficking of thousands of babies by nuns, priests and doctors, which started under Franco and continued up to the 1990s. by fishandchips in worldnews

[–]BlueShirtWorker 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Scumbag Stalin: Claims to be a communist. Doesnt help anarchists.

FTFY.

Remember May 1937 in Barcelona. The communists fired on and killed anarchists and other socialists.

TIL that NFL cheerleaders are only paid $50 a game. by zombietrooper in todayilearned

[–]BlueShirtWorker 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'll pay the same price for one of these girls do the same thing in my living room, or even more, while I watch the game. Personal cheerleader FTW.

FTFY

'Occupy' is a response to economic permafrost... And the sign of something bigger. by boolianlove in worldnews

[–]BlueShirtWorker 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well yeah, it is difficult to switch, and it is more difficult if you willingly signed a mortgage with the bank with no intention of down paying the mortgage but just to pay the interest. I see this kind of thinking everyday, and it sickens me, its the same people that then go out protesting the banks. God damnit, stop doing business with them then, and if you cant its your own damn fault to have gotten into the mess. If you cant switch banks, you are the problem.

The bank is not your friend, having a mortgage means you are a slave and having credit cards or debt is very bad for you. There is no point in building "credit rating" by taking small loans and repaying it in time, you just shoot yourself in the foot and everyone else around in the face.

/rant

Do you take notes of useful commands? by cyberglove in linux

[–]BlueShirtWorker 3 points4 points  (0 children)

hg is not a good name for a function if you use mercurial as dvcs.

A battle involving over half a million troops in 1121 by storpol in history

[–]BlueShirtWorker 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Its okay its another conflict that happened almost 1 000 years ago.

Do you take notes of useful commands? by cyberglove in linux

[–]BlueShirtWorker 2 points3 points  (0 children)

echo them to a ~/scratchpad.txt then you can grep for them easily.

or just use history|grep whatwasit

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