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  6. Posted · Report reply

    the problem that I don't get the-empty-calorie is that why is he tackling me because I use KDE and not old skool software like TVWM, CDE and even MOTIF and all those things that most people don't use on their computer. Fine, kudos given to you saying you know CLI and use it frequently. I only use it for convenience when installing something. Linux: What Windows will NEVER BE. Windows: What other Operating Systems will surpass it.KDE's goal is not to make a Windows look-a-like, they do sometimes sidetrack and do that but the main reason is to make computing easier for the less educated.I choose SuSE because it's NOT a Windows look-a-like, if I wanted a Windows look-a-like or Windows-wannabe, I'll take Linspire instead.Even now, I step over the Linux boundary to discover BSD and other *NIX.I DON'T CARE ABOUT WINDOWS WANNABEs or whatever, AS LONG AS IT'S NOT WINDOWS AND IT'S NOT ACTING LIKE WINDOWS, THEN I'M FINE.The following distributions don't act/look like Windows:SuSEFedoraMandriva(K)UbuntuGentooThe following distributions do:LinspireXandrosArkArchAll that I said were purely my opinion.xboxrulz

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    lol, this is funny:

    Software Testing is not politically Correct.

     

    NEW YORK -- People for Ethical Treatment of Software (PETS) announced today that seven more software companies have been added to the group's watch list of companies that regularly practice software testing.

     

    "There is no need for software to be mistreated in this way so that companies like these can market new products." said Ken Grandola, spokesperson for PETS. "Alternative methods of testing these products are available"

     

    According to PETS, these companies force software to undergo lengthy and arduous tests, often without rest, for hours or days at a time. Employees are assigned to "break" the software by any means necessary, and inside sources report that they often joke about "torturing" the software.

     

    "It's no joke," said Grandola. "Innocent programs, from the day the are compiled, are cooped up in tiny rooms and "crashed" for hours on end. They spend the whole lives on dirty, ill-maintained computers, and are unceremoniously deleted when they're not needed anymore".

     

    Grandola said the software is kept in unsanitary conditions and is infested with bugs.

     

    "We know that alternatives to this horror exist." he said, citing industry giant Microsoft Corporation as a company that has become successful without resorting to software testing.

     


    Sources: Annoyances.org

     

    xboxrulz

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    This is stunning on today's front cover of the Toronto Star:

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    Sun hee Paik, 37, poses with her newborn baby girl, Mary Kim, and her 8 year old daughter Gloria, and EMS Jason Bodnar in St. Michaelâs Hospital where she was taken after giving birth to her baby on the Wellesley subway station platform Monday.

     

    Baby born on TTC platform

    Most passersby milled about â oblivious

    Feb. 7, 2006. 06:59 AM

    AMY BROWN-BOWERS AND ISABEL TEOTONIO

    STAFF REPORTERS

     

    For Ana Giczey, the scream was unmistakable. And when she looked across the crowded subway car and saw the pregnant woman standing, with feet wide apart, her suspicion was confirmed.

     

    "I know that scream, I've had two babies and that means the baby is coming," said Giczey, whose trek downtown during morning rush hour yesterday to do errands climaxed with her delivering a baby on a crowded subway platform.

     

    As Giczey prepared to spring into action, she was struck by the fact that most passengers milled about â oblivious. She said no one listened to the woman or her husband, who pleaded with passengers to call 911.

     

    "I saw this lady screaming, `Ahhhh,' like in pain," Giczey told the Toronto Star after delivering Mary Kim, a 6-pound, 4-ounce baby girl, on the southbound platform of Wellesley station â thanks, in part, to the help of a brown shoelace.

     

    Hui Cheon Kim and his wife, Sun Hee Paik, had left their Scarborough home with their three young children and were heading to St. Michael's Hospital. The 37-year-old had been experiencing intense labour pains but wasn't expecting to give birth until today.

     

    When the doors opened at Giczey's destination, Wellesley station, at about 9:20 a.m., the 41-year-old seamstress saw Kim pull Paik onto the platform. Paik collapsed next to the yellow line as her water broke. As she lay on the ground, her shaken husband held one hand and another female passenger held the other. Other passengers looked but didn't stop, Giczey said.

     

    "(Paik) just stepped from the train, lay down on the floor and started screaming," said Giczey, who grabbed the woman's two younger children, aged 2 and 8, and pushed them toward the wall as the train pulled away. The eldest daughter, 11, stayed by her mother's side.

     

    "The TTC guy making sure everyone gets off closed the (car) doors, he didn't stop and call 911," Giczey said, adding that even though they were at the end of the platform, she was stunned that more people didn't offer to help and the trains continued running.

     

    By that time, "half of the baby was already out," Giczey said. At 9:25 a.m., she pulled the newborn out, wrapped her in a blanket that one of the children was carrying and rested her on her mother's stomach.

     

    In the meantime, the next train pulled into Wellesley station. Passengers got off and sidestepped the drama, but those on the train pushed the passenger assistance alarm.

     

    Giczey tried dialling 911 from her cellphone but there was no reception, so she ran to a nearby pay phone. The operator gave Giczey instructions to tie the umbilical cord and suggested she use a shoelace.

     

    Just then, a third train pulled into the station and Giczey began pleading with passengers getting off for a shoelace. She stopped one man, explained the situation and he pulled the brown lace from his dress shoe. He handed Kim the lace and left, Giczey recounted.

     

    A woman who had gotten off that train wrapped the infant in her coat and tied the lace around the umbilical cord.

     

    Trains weren't stopped because they didn't pose a danger to the woman or her baby said Marilyn Bolton, a TTC spokeswoman.

     

    As paramedics arrived on the scene at about 9:45 a.m., an announcement was made on incoming trains that service was slow because a woman had just given birth, said passenger Jim Burnett, who works at city hall.

     

    A second announcement came over the speakers that said, "Ladies and Gentlemen, she just had a baby girl," he recalled.

     

    Jason Bodnar was the first paramedic to arrive.

     

    "The lady who called 911 was happy to see us â she was shaking," Bodnar said, adding Giczey quietly slipped away when paramedics arrived.

     

    The family was taken to St. Mike's, arriving at 10:15 a.m.

     

    "I'm good," Paik said from her hospital bed yesterday afternoon. "There was so much pain, it was unbelievable, but now it's okay."

     

    As the beaming mother gingerly stroked Mary, her other children looked on with relief.

     

    "I felt so scared because my mom thought she was going to die," said 11-year-old Rebekah, still shaken from the ordeal. "I'm happy to see my baby sister."

     

    Giczey was also relieved to hear Mary was doing fine and was scheduled to be released from hospital yesterday afternoon with her mother.

     

    The good Samaritan said she had no medical training and had never participated in a birth other than her own children. And the first thing she did after leaving Wellesley station? "I went into Starbucks and couldn't even order a coffee."

     

    With files from Paul Moloney

     


    This is an amazing story, but I don't get is, if you see someone on the subway platform who had given birth, the least you could do is to assist the person. It's during rush hour! There's like 3000 within an hour riding the subway!

     

    Your opinion(s)?

     

    -----Posts Merged-----szupie

     

    whoops, the source is here

     

    I left that out...

     

    xboxrulz

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    Google also earns money through stock prices. The more popular you are, on the market, your stock price will go higher automatically since more people want to invest in you. Therefore, you earn more money in the long run. That's why Google is so rich now.It will be a bad move if they start charging people.I think this "Web Messenger" idea is a great idea! It'll work on all operating systems :)!xboxrulz

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    ya, I was about to say that people above didn't understand you, I certainly did though (ironically). Well, anyways, it's much easier to program in java than C++.

    public static void main (String[] args) throws IOException {        System.out.println("Please input your name: ");        LineNumberReader in = new LineNumberReader(new InputStreamReader(System.in));        String name = in.readLine();        if (name != null) {            hello(name);    }

    This code will ask your name, then displays it. *Code maybe incorrect as I haven't tested it*

    xboxrulz

  20. Posted · Report reply

    It's universal. All Linux distributions have almost the same tables.

    Here's mine anyways:
    $ cat /etc/fstab

    /dev/hda1            /                    xfs        defaults              1 1/dev/hdb1            /mnt/windata         vfat       user,noauto,exec    0  0/dev/hda3            /mnt/winsys          ntfs       user,noauto,exec              0 0/dev/hda2            swap                 swap       defaults              0 0/dev/hdb2            swap                 swap       defaults              0 0proc                 /proc                proc       defaults              0 0sysfs                /sys                 sysfs      noauto                0 0usbfs                /proc/bus/usb        usbfs      noauto                0 0devpts               /dev/pts             devpts     mode=0620,gid=5       0 0/dev/cdrecorder      /media/cdrecorder    subfs      noauto,fs=cdfss,ro,procuid,nosuid,nodev,exec,iocharset=utf8 0 0/dev/cdrecorder2     /media/cdrecorder2   subfs      noauto,fs=cdfss,ro,procuid,nosuid,nodev,exec,iocharset=utf8 0 0/dev/fd0             /media/floppy        subfs      noauto,fs=floppyfss,procuid,nodev,nosuid,sync 0 0none                 /subdomain       subdomainfs noauto         0 0

    On Gentoo, you don't need subdomainfs since you don't have the need for it. It is a SuSE Linux feature for its security system.

    xboxrulz

  21. Posted · Report reply

    .exe files cannot be read by Linux unless you install something called WINE (WINE IS Not an Emulator) http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/

    As for your MP3, download Banshee or AmaroK.

    For newcomers, best to install using the RPM package manager.

    I tend to use the console to install stuff since it's faster.

    The command for installing RPM packages is: sudo rpm -ivh (root password required)
    to uninstall, it is: sudo rpm -e (root password required)
    to see the package information: rpm -qi

    Happy Linuxing!
    xboxrulz

  24. Posted · Report reply

    Well, just to show that Micro$oft never test their patches. They think it works, but it doesn't. Maybe they think it doesn't work and it still doesn't :).Anyways, I'm on Linux, and we have never found a critical flaw. Not even a buffer overflow. Most flaws are minor. Lagging the machine a bit, and those stuff. Why? It's because Linux has a whole community on its back to cover everyone. All for one and one for all.xboxrulz

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