littleweseth

Well, from 2am to 8am usually, so six hours on weekdays. Usually I have massive sleepins on weekends though (~10 hours, 3am to 1pm or so )Often I supplement my sleep in lectures, because MA1000 is just high-school maths B and C all over again in my case and it's counterproductive for me trying to stay awake when I could be rectifying my sleep deprivation

FreeBSD? *Good for beginners*? What the hell was that person on?Anyways, I heartily recommend Ubuntu, especially if you only want basic software and have a crappy internet connection, since Canonical kindly runs ShipIt to mail everyone free CD's (I have x86 5.04 CDs and one each of X86/PPC/AMD64 Breezy CDs). THe catch is that since Ubuntu is a one-CD distro, it doesn't come with *that* much software (though it does have office software, internet software, image editing and all that other naff stuff out of the box.) You can get lots more via apt-get, but the only issue is if you have limited internet connectivity. (try installing things over 56k, three-hour capped dialup. It sucks.)Anyway, Ubuntu is a pleasure to use in so many ways. And it comes with so many random screensavers.... flying toasters? My favourite would be colorfire though.

never actually done any star watching. Me and my friend settle for cloud watching - you know how fast a cloud moves? We were watching one one night (while waiting for someone else to have a shower and all that - lying out on her driveway) and we got distracted - and when we looked back, it was gone! vanished!Well, not really. It was just 15km away or so. But don't mess with a cloud... or it'll rain on you. Why am I talking about this?need sleep.

I swear on the effectiveness of that algorithmic credit-reward system. I just pulled myself from -24 or so (ouch!) to +0.4 with not that much effort, just half a dozen or so decent posts.The main reason I have trouble posting (and hence the -24 deficit) is that I can't find interesting stuff to talk about really. Well, allow me to rephrase - I can't find interesting posts on technical things (yeah, I'm a nerd... gonna do something, punk? ). I'm beginning to think I shoulda signed up for Xisto instead. Then again, since I've got nothing on my account anyways, picking up stakes wouldn't be hard.Any mods around feel like advising me? I've got nothing to lose... (zero files on server, all of 0.4 hosting credits)

It depends on how good the programmers who made the software were, or more specifically how well they abstracted the program from the platform. Decent software puts at least one layer between the functionality and the OS APIs so if they port the software and the API's don't exist, they can write new code in the interface layer to fix it up. Irrelevant here, don't try to confuse all the n00bs (Oh, and there's plenty of examples of web software that's cross-platform. Zend Studio runs on literally anything, Windows, Linux, or Mac OSes and x86, PPC, Alpha, Sparc... nice example of cross-platform software. Dreamweaver runs on OSX and Windows natively, and old versions on WINE. Bluefish runs on anything. N|vu runs on anything.) anyway, if you just want to maintain a website, and you aren't using PHP, n|vu should do an okay job. If you're more advanced and know you way around HTML, get Bluefish. And if you have money to burn and serious skillz0rz, pay for Zend.

GMail? Not enough space?It' like some guy standing with a freind in a giant warehouse.... with only two boxes in it, and saying;Guy 1 : "I Think I need more storage space-space-space-spa..."Guy 2 : "Yes, it is quite crowded-owded-owded-owde..."Guy 1 : "*darn*, those free warehouse providers are stingy these days-ays-ays..."

Now we just need to find a program that converts those useless consoles into PCs!Anyway, if you aren't a gamer, you could use Astonshell instead of GameOS. </shameless plug>

now for extra points, tell us how to do it (sucessfully) on Debian

this is old news :PAnyways, they pretty much violated a number of known laws, and it's not like the people who wrote the rootkit accidentally made a few hundred thousand consecutive typos and a rootkit came out the other end. They knew what they were doing (writing a rootkit) and should have known it was just a little illegal. They deserve to be litigated off the face of the earth.And that's just the software people. Don't get me started on sony XD

Ah, the 'end of the world + religion' evergreen thread.Just to weigh in :- Believe whatever you want, as long as you don't try to force it on others or brainwash them. Personally? I think that when I die, all the electrical activity in my body will stop and I'll just be another lump of carbon and oxygen, albeit one that gets treated nicely.- Regarding humanity's future : the species will survive. As was said above, someone will always survive the superbomb or the killer plague. However, society as a whole probably won't last too long, and in the aftermath of [disaster of choice] no-one's really going to give a fig about things like culture.

Try googling Motherboard Monitor. It's a little utility that gives you the various temperatures inside your box, usually CPU at a minimum and chipsets and things depending on what sensors your motherboard has. Granted, it looks horrible, but it does its job

Not installing heaps of stuff, just partitioning of a 80gb HDD into a 15gb Windows/programs/games partition, a 55gb data partition and a 5gb Linux partition. I don't really have that much on that partition, but it's still a third of it Oh, and it lags out severely (keyboard stops responding for long periods) so I'm thinking of ditching it for BF2 anyways.

I cadged a friends copy of UT2k4 off him and went to install it on my nice shiny C: partition with a grand 3gb remaining. Great! 3gb should be enough for anything, me thought.... Then the installer tells me it needs five and a half gigs just for the game, not to mention 4gb of mods. Crikey, UT2003 was only 2gb or so if I remember correctly. What the hell is IN there, 1200dpi textures or something?I think that 5.5gb is prety damned ridiculous, but i'm sure that UT2004 isn't the worst there is Seen any installers that need more than 5.5gb?

The wonders of Firefox + AdBlock. Does anyone know exactly how AdBlock works? I think it still downloads the ads, it just doesn't show them, hence Xisto gets the same effect as if I didn't use AdBlock (since I don't <- snipped -> for goddamn smileys or screensavers or mortgage help anyway.)However, if AdBlock actually stops the ads from downloading (and hence makes it look like t17 has less visitors) it should probably be turned off.Anyways, who do those *darn* advertisers think their audience is here? Ads for mouse cursors, screensavers, wallpapers, smileys..... a large minority of us aren't pre-teen idiots who jump on that stuff. Seeing as the advertising companies don't know anything, i'm just waiting for the 'enlarge y0ur m4nh00d' ads to start popping up.}

Here in Australia, it's called a silent number. It doesn't get printed in the phone book, pretty much. Anyways, it costs a few extra dollars every month, and seeing as the incessant prank calls went from umpteen/night to pretty much zero, it was definitely worth it. It didn't really help with the roof rocking though