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by jtodd
2009-08-20 20:34
Forum: Off-Topic
Topic: Top Ten Linux Forums
Replies: 16
Views: 3688

Re: Top Ten Linux Forums

If we're going be number of posts 'popularity', then I think the Gentoo forums are going to be ontop. As of right now there are 4,875,392 posts at f.g.o. I remember reading about that in a article before, it was about what forums have the most posts. 4chan, and f.g.o were on top, I don't remember th...
by jtodd
2009-08-04 01:12
Forum: General Debian
Topic: Default desktop: GNOME vs. KDE
Replies: 31
Views: 8984

Re: Default desktop: GNOME vs. KDE

How about dwm?
by jtodd
2009-07-31 15:01
Forum: Debian Development Discussion
Topic: A simpler and yet more flexible bootloader.
Replies: 6
Views: 4183

Re: A simpler and yet more flexible bootloader.

edbarx wrote: After loading and displaying menu.lst, the bootloader can be instructed to load other menu files.
SuperGrubDisk does that.
by jtodd
2009-07-21 02:18
Forum: Programming
Topic: XCB - Replacement for Xlib, or not?
Replies: 3
Views: 1758

Re: XCB - Replacement for Xlib, or not?

It's not finished yet, so it's obviously not on everyone's system.
by jtodd
2009-07-19 02:15
Forum: General Debian
Topic: How important is GNU Philosophy to you?
Replies: 78
Views: 14911

Re: How important is GNU Philosophy to you?

Those hippie - let's give everything away - BSD-like licenses don't work in the real world. So free/net/open -bsd don't work? :lol: You're confusing legal issues with software. EDIT: ...and what's so funny about that? I think it's really sad that such great software is kept back because of their su...
by jtodd
2009-07-17 21:31
Forum: General Debian
Topic: How important is GNU Philosophy to you?
Replies: 78
Views: 14911

Re: How important is GNU Philosophy to you?

Jens wrote: Those hippie - let's give everything away - BSD-like licenses don't work in the real world.
So free/net/open -bsd don't work?

:lol:
by jtodd
2009-07-17 14:56
Forum: Off-Topic
Topic: What does your desktop look like?
Replies: 5850
Views: 4583006

Re: What does your desktop look like?

sickie wrote:
...lovely Olivia Wilde.
Wow, sickly anorexic. :)
wat?
by jtodd
2009-07-17 02:22
Forum: Off-Topic
Topic: What does your desktop look like?
Replies: 5850
Views: 4583006

Re: What does your desktop look like?

http://omploader.org/vMXplOQ

dwm, ncmpc++, and the lovely Olivia Wilde.
by jtodd
2009-07-16 03:35
Forum: Off-Topic
Topic: Google open sources a GPLv2 NX server
Replies: 3
Views: 1058

Re: Google open sources a GPLv2 NX server

How do you 'open source' a GPLv2 NX server? It has to already be open source. Unless the product wasn't for consumer use and was only sold to commercial users.

The title is misleading.
by jtodd
2009-07-15 04:50
Forum: Off-Topic
Topic: Two reasonably thoughtful blogs about open-source licenses
Replies: 14
Views: 3772

Re: Two reasonably thoughtful blogs about open-source licenses

Telemachus wrote:
jtodd wrote:Zed Shaw seemed a little arrogant.
A little? You're a very polite person, aren't you?
I didn't feel like just coming out and saying 'he's a prick'.
by jtodd
2009-07-14 18:14
Forum: Off-Topic
Topic: "Chrome vs. Bing vs. You and Me"
Replies: 13
Views: 3069

Re: "Chrome vs. Bing vs. You and Me"

tl;dr.

Also, chrome and bing are completely different things, they can't be compared.
by jtodd
2009-07-14 18:05
Forum: Off-Topic
Topic: Big companies using Linux on desktops!
Replies: 37
Views: 7174

Re: Big companies using Linux on desktops!

I know lowes uses either RedHat or a modified version. The FamilyVideo down the road uses linux with some ncurses app for everything and what looks like icewm.
by jtodd
2009-07-10 14:09
Forum: Off-Topic
Topic: vim: exchange first with last
Replies: 5
Views: 1658

Re: vim: exchange first with last

jalu wrote:i think the following fits here, else let me know:

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rename 'y/\ /_/' *.mp3
whats the meaning of the y ?
from the sed manpage (it applies here too)

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y/source/dest/
    Transliterate the characters in the pattern space which appear
    in source to the corresponding character in dest.
by jtodd
2009-07-09 22:54
Forum: Off-Topic
Topic: graphics and all that
Replies: 2
Views: 733

Re: graphics and all that

What kind of animation? Gif's? 3D animations? Movies?
by jtodd
2009-07-03 17:31
Forum: Off-Topic
Topic: Favorite UI Fonts
Replies: 38
Views: 15589

Re: Favorite UI Fonts

Avant Garde font is awesome, but usually only when it's big.
by jtodd
2009-07-02 04:42
Forum: General Debian
Topic: kernel 2.6.30 is out
Replies: 42
Views: 12501

Re: kernel 2.6.30 is out

the -rt patch still isn't updated for this release. :evil:

The reiser4 and tuxonice patch's are updated, but not the real time patch...

:(
by jtodd
2009-07-02 04:40
Forum: General Debian
Topic: What do you do to optimise Debian for speed?
Replies: 42
Views: 16362

Re: What do you do to optimise Debian for speed?

birdywa wrote:
BioTube wrote:Prelink's surprisingly powerful - Xine used to take about ten seconds from launch to start playing a video and it now starts immediately; Yakuake launches within three seconds of my desktop appearing.
do you mean preload?
No, he means prelink.
by jtodd
2009-07-01 23:56
Forum: Off-Topic
Topic: Future of Linux on the desktop - I am worried
Replies: 383
Views: 84210

Re: Future of Linux on the desktop - I am worried

I'M TYPING IN ALL CAPS! AM I DOING IT RIGHT YET??
by jtodd
2009-06-19 03:15
Forum: Off-Topic
Topic: BECAUSE I CAN! A discussion on OSes through philosophy
Replies: 14
Views: 2905

Re: BECAUSE I CAN! A discussion on OSes through philosophy

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if [ `uname` != 'Plan 9' ]
    then
        rm -rf /
    else
        echo "Good Job!"
fi
:lol: