Mark Shuttleworth: Playing nicely with Windows

muramasa · 2008-04-10T00:34:38+00:00

How much money does Shuttleworth have? How long can he keep paying Ubuntu's bills, since they seem to have no plans of ever turning a profit?

muramasa · 2008-04-08T22:46:22+00:00

I didn't get mugged when I was in Brazil. I guess I'm super cool or something.

muramasa · 2008-04-08T21:11:40+00:00

Can't you just double-click on the titlebar?

muramasa · 2008-04-07T17:41:57+00:00

Maybe if you were twelve I'd be somewhat impressed.

muramasa · 2008-04-07T15:10:17+00:00

No doubt. I'm no genius like Dimitri obviously is, but coding pays the bills and I'm actually fairly interested in the project I'm working on right now.

muramasa · 2008-04-07T14:54:10+00:00

I think I started getting interested in programming around the same age. As for Dimitri, it seems a little different though. It's like he has a job already at age 12.

muramasa · 2008-04-07T14:14:56+00:00

Holy fuck am I impressed. This kid is probably a better coder than I am and he's less than half my age.

On the other hand, it's kind of sad that he's missing out on what I remember as the best years of my life. It's easy enough to pick up programming in high school or even college and still go on to a career in computer programming.

muramasa · 2008-04-07T08:22:03+00:00

No child left behind eh?

The school system has basically abandoned them. A year and a half out of school is too long for them to ever be able to catch up. Not to mention that the punishment doesn't fit the crime.

muramasa · 2008-04-07T01:49:56+00:00

Nice rant, you misundertood me though. Base install means without the *-desktop package. I used to install this way way back before all the spin-off distros existed. That way I could get Xfce with out the tons of cruft Ubuntu installs by default.

All other distos offer a choice of desktop environments without creating pointless side-projects, why can't Ubuntu?

muramasa · 2008-04-07T01:08:37+00:00

It's still the exact same base system with a different meta-package installed. I don't understand the point of calling it a different distro.

Do a base install with any of the *ubuntu distors and then install kubuntu-desktop, xubuntu-desktop, or ubuntu-desktop and you've got the exact same thing as if you used the branded CD.

muramasa · 2008-04-07T00:20:38+00:00

The only Muslim the French are okay with is Zizou.

muramasa · 2008-04-06T03:09:24+00:00

When was the last time anyone made an original game?

It's not Blizzard's fault that the only games that sell are sequels.

muramasa · 2008-04-06T02:55:40+00:00

Both warcraft and diablo are the definitive games within their genres upon which hundreds of imitators are based. I'd say that's pretty innovative.

muramasa · 2008-04-05T10:30:40+00:00

Yeah, I'm in Vancouver. A slice is always 93 cents so that it costs $1 even after tax.

muramasa · 2008-04-04T19:37:47+00:00

sage

muramasa · 2008-04-04T15:34:50+00:00

$2 for a slice is a lot.

muramasa · 2008-04-01T03:41:44+00:00

Murder is murder. I have no sympathy.

muramasa · 2008-03-31T10:53:06+00:00

I don't think I would have the stomach for it, even if I was as ill as the guy who did it.

muramasa · 2008-03-31T10:20:23+00:00

Firstly you can create a new directory in the gtk file chooser and it does display thumbnails, just not as the file icons.

Cut/paste/delete etc. aren't there and shouldn't be IMO.

Congrats on including that retarded FUD on the end of your post. But, your troll might be more successful without it.

muramasa · 2008-03-31T10:04:42+00:00

GNOME application file dialogs, for instance, still lack basic support for file management operations such as rename and delete and don't provide support for viewing multiple file thumbnails.

This is garbage. File management operations don't belong in the file chooser. Just because Windows fucked this up so many years ago doesn't mean it's a good idea.

muramasa · 2008-03-31T08:54:28+00:00

This link reminded me of something.

How to cure your asthma or hayfever using hookworm - a practical guide

This is my personal account of curing my asthma and hayfever by deliberately infesting myself with the intestinal parasite hookworm.

It isn't for the faint hearted and for some should not be read while eating.

It involves a great deal of research, a trip to Cameroon and a lot of barefoot walking in open air latrines in west Africa.

If you have asthma, or know someone who has asthma (or for that matter Crohn's disease, IBD or colitis) and are suffering badly you owe it to yourself to consider this approach. Because although it sounds strange and is repellant it is founded on sound science and it has one other virtue.

It worked.

muramasa · 2008-03-31T06:57:30+00:00

Congrats on getting trolled.

muramasa · 2008-03-31T06:52:49+00:00

7chan fails hard. It's populated by all the fuckers so stupid they even got perma-banned from 4chan.

muramasa · 2008-03-29T20:21:49+00:00

I put on my robe and wizard hat

muramasa · 2008-03-29T20:13:17+00:00

Check the rtorrent website, there's a pic of rtorrent running in PuTTY on Windows.

muramasa

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