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Well, that's just windows.
Install Linux. Soooooooo much better.
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has a username that is the same as a road a few blocks away from me
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The Silent Song - Anonymous
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Yep.
Hey - I'm studying your username in History class right now!
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Time for Me to Ride - Toby Keith
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If Windows were a car
At a recent computer expo (COMDEX), Bill Gates reportedly compared the computer industry with the auto industry and stated, "If GM had kept up with the technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving $25.00 cars that got 1,000 miles to the gallon."
In response to Bill's comments, General Motors issued a press release stating, "If GM had developed technology like Microsoft, we would all be driving cars with the following characteristics:
1. For no reason whatsoever, your car would crash twice a day.
2. Every time they painted new lines on the road, you would have to buy a new car.
3. Occasionally your car would die on the freeway for no reason. You would have to pull over to the side of the road, close all of the windows, shut off the car, restart it, and reopen the windows before you could continue. For some reason you would simply accept this.
4. Occasionally, executing a maneuver such as a left turn would cause your car to shut down and refuse to restart, in which case you would have to reinstall the engine.
5. Only one person at a time could use the car unless you bought "CarNT," but then you would have to buy more seats.
6. Macintosh would make a car that was powered by the sun, was reliable, five times as fast and twice as easy to drive -- but it would only run on five percent of the roads.
7. The oil, water temperature and alternator warning lights would all be replaced by a single "general protect ion fault" warning light.
8. The airbag system would ask, "Are you sure?" before deploying.
9. Occasionally, for no reason whatsoever, your car would lock you out and refuse to let you in until you simultaneously lifted the door handle, turned the key and grabbed hold of the antenna.
10. GM would require all car buyers to also purchase a deluxe set of Rand McNally Road maps (now a GM subsidiary), even though they neither need nor want them. Attempting to delete this option would immediately cause the car's performance to diminish by 50 percent or more. Moreover, GM would become a target for investigation by the Justice Department.
11. Every time GM introduced a new car, car buyers would have to learn to drive all over again because none of the controls would operate in the same manner as the old car.
12. You'd have to press the "start" button to turn the engine off.
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Cast Your Fate into the Wind - Vince Gauraldi (sp?)
Vince Gauraldi is the best jazz piano composer ever!
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Only the Good Die Young - Elton John.
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But the part when...
*SPOILER- SCROLL DOWN TO SEE*
they find Magrathea
is pretty important
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Number Association (you'll have to turn on old topics. It was fun posting big numbers there.)
Aleph_{Aleph_{Aleph_{Aleph_...(on forever)}}}
Biggest version of infinite. 'Nuff said.
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I've got a copy thats 815 pages.
Ya. I have that too B-)
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We do?
Oh well. Having joined less than 24 hours ago, I wouldn't know
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Actually, it's 130something pages in slightly-less-than-8.5x11-sized-pages
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For cross-platform GUIs I've been using wxWidgets, which works very nicely (in my opinion). Our desire is for all 0 A.D. modding tools to work on Linux, and wx is also nice enough to provide lots of other things for cross-platform applications (file handling, threading, dynamic library loading, HTTP/FTP, etc, most of which I've never wanted but at least it's there), so I like it
But why can't there just be some cross-platform standard? (Like using stdio.h for console input/output.) Can't GNU step in and develop something that is a. Fast. b. Easy to use/understand. c. Cross-platform
If only I lived in a universe called "Perfect"...
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Yep. I tell everyone in all of my classes to say to everyone else that the answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything is 42. BUT THEY KEEP SAYING "The answer to the world is 42." 42 IS NOT THE ANSWE TO THE WORLD! THE WORLD BLOWS UP IN H2G2!!!!!!!!
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It's pretty easy reading and my pocket-sized version is 215 pages.
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Sorry but I just have to say this... ahem... 42!!!
Yes! 42! (not factorial)
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So who has read the greatest book of all time, the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy?
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It depends on how in-depth you need it.
http://www.cs.cf.ac.uk/Dave/C/CE.html is a nice one that covers all the basics like pointers, linked lists, Hello World, etc. but there are typos EVERYWHERE!
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The Great Free Software Resources:
gnu.org
mozilla.org
sourceforge.net
freshmeat.net (not sure if everything here is free)
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has more of the local currency than me
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airplanes
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AND DON'T CLOSE THIS!
Confused About Linux
in Computer Desk
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OK. A couple things:
1. Mandrake Linux is THE begginer's Linux system.
2. http://www.gnu.org puts out thousands of free software packages. Most are text-based shell applications, though.
3. There are very few programs that work with only one linux distro. Most are distrobution-independent.
4. In response to your question: install it in /bin or /usr/bin (no 'c:/' stuff in linux) This is where Linux thinks that most of the programs are if you try to run it from a terminal.