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I'm pretty sure sudo -i will do everything you need. It's interactive sudo! Act like root without being root and win an everything forever! In ubuntu, there actually is no root. You'll need to sudo the root password for everything that requires root access (>)> sudo *password_here* Very few actual things require you to be root instead of sudo-root (yay puns). Give her another go with sudo. Btw, if you wanted KDE, why didn't you install Kubuntu? (Actually, I installed Ubuntu and then added 0.5 GB of KDE, so I'm one to talk...)

I break it down simply. Worshippers of Athe are obviously Atheists.Those who don't worship Athe but still don't worship anyone else are also called Atheists.So Atheism is sometimes a religion.

Interesting. Actually the conservatives at my school are all for Ron Paul. I think there's still a pro-Ron Paul group. He seems like a nice guy and really close to my almost-libertarian views, but I think Hillary's previous political influence carried her through in this case.@electriic ink: Well, we don't live in a democracy. We live in a republic. If it becomes a crowned republic, so be it. The Most Serene Republic of Venice was one and it existed for a thousand years. ... that being said, I don't like the looks of it.

Personally, I think Amendment 13 should be overturned because it's not the business of the Federal Government to weigh in on the issue, it's for the states to decide slavery laws. <grin>

@adriantc: I totally agree. @KansukeKojima: I suggest we boost teacher pay by 3x and make preferences for 'suitable and talented' young men and women in the educational field. See how fast education becomes enjoyable. Huh. Pasco. Not too far from me then. I'm sure there is some old law lying around against wizardry. Wouldn't be too surprised by that. However, I do think this is downright asinine. wizardry. Wizardry. WIZARDRY? In an academic environment? For chrissake, this isn't even in a church or cult where it's even a reasonable expectation! Ah well, hope all goes well for the guy.

Ooh, fun controversial topic. Yay generic branding of complex issue positions! God bless ad hominem. What would we do without baby killers anyway? @Watermonkey: I think it's technically it's a matter of choice and intent. It's implied that in killing a pregnant woman one wishes to have the baby go along with it or that one doesn't care about the baby enough to go ahead and finish off the mother. The law punishes one for both with the assumption that both choices are against the mother's will - I'm going to ignore suicide completely in this legal argument because I think that's a separate debate - whereas with abortion implies the mother's choice. Hmm. Constitutionality is at best a bothersome topic. Depends if you treat an unborn child as property or as individuals. Don't bash me for this, there's precedent for this with slavery - and if you're going to go moral on me and say how wrong that mindset was, well I'd suggest you calm down and understand I'm only talking about legal possibilities here. If you treat an unborn child as an individual, you could assert that in some cases, following due process, preventing abortion would be a cruel and unusual punishment. - I would like to remind people that the Constitution of the US transcends all other laws, including state and federal laws on murder. If you treat an unborn child as property, then we just follow normal property laws with appropriate exceptions. I'm a guy. I refuse to pass judgment on things I am not able to experience. However, I do have a few issues with the nature of this thread. I don't think that the imposition of us-vs-them mentalities is appropriate here. While in the United States it is common to label pro-abortion as a liberal concept and the resulting negation as a corollary for the conservative stance, abortion really is a very private issue. Furthermore, people who actually have qualms about abortion but still have to treat it as a serious option are faced with tyranny of the majority when denied the ability to abort. - I'm not supporting abortion, I'm just saying that when you do make abortion illegal, you're imposing your moral code on other people. Same case as slavery. Whatever the case, I'm just suggesting that people talk with cool heads and without using labels for a complex and very sensitive issue. Including you, Baby Killer accuser.

WoW! That's really cool actually. Heh, after forever I'm learning something new about C++. yay. Wouldn't that mess up if both were defined though? E.g. your a[3] = 3[a] thing. If I made an int array named 3 and an int array named a, that wouldn't work anymore, would it?

@lefehe: Why hello there L. (Where's Kira?) I happen to disagree with you completely when it comes to the exponentiating number of distros. I think there should be 10x the number that are there right now. Heck, a distro worked on by ~20 people seems like a nice idea to me. I honestly think there's too many people working on certain distros.I am SO not pointing my finger at Debian and the thousand arguments embroiled in it. So not.People have different tastes. I like KDE. I prefer my toolbar to go all the way across the screen. I hate 3d desktops with a passion. I have one of those Azalia sound cards that seems to drive certain *cough*Mepis*cough* developers mad. I like OSS, firebird, and swiftfox as defaults. I beat gcc with a hammer until it unrolls loops and maxes out performance without giving me a program with a seg. fault.Now how many combinations have I rejected in favor of one so far? Easily several thousand. Sure, I could take a clean install of Ubuntu and mess around with config files and apt-get's until I get that particular combination. And I have. It took me only 40 minutes and half a gigabyte of stuff to download from the interwebs. Sure most of that's KDE, but suppose we did this for every package. That would take forever. Thankfully, most people only use so many packages and most stuff either doesn't need configuration or autoconf's (haha. linux joke...) However, at the same time, I could just take a clean kernel, hack it for a few hours, go slackware and pile .tar.gz's until I got a working system. I know people who do that. The problem with all this is space-time invested. It takes time that could be spent elsewhere to rework systems. Distros were made to be hyperspecialized configurations around the kernel that saved people from having to do that as much. Having hyperspecialized distros just means we're filling more niches.Plus having a lot more distros means that there's not enough people to work on system support separately. That's a good thing. Universal development of drivers and kernel modifications is an awesome thing to have. Arguing over two options? Throw both in the repository! Let the distro choose the config's and the people choose the distro. Personally I think it's bogus that Mepis has no proper fix for Azalia chips though Ubuntu (its base for a while) does, Sabayon - the wireless god - can't access some wireless networks that the magic of mepis can, and that Gentoo and Debian aren't interchrootable because of libc conflicts.More distros. = diversity = good.Sure there'll always be main distros and lots of code mishaps. But it's part of the fun.And red shirts properly belong on the backs of Garibaldi's men. I agree with you there.-"Light"

Personally, I'd say that some of the best games I've ever played were 2d, not 3d.Then again, I find nethack, FFI, and SpyHunter to be really amusing. Ah well, that's my bias.2d didn't look so hot originally, so people spent a good while trying to come up with a plot and something entertaining. 3d games nowadays, I'm seeing less of that.E.g. Crysis? Cool-looking but BORING.Old school mario games? That was were it was at.So until someone brings the sexy back, I'm going to claim that 3d is just an excuse for most developers to not actually make a plot.2d's usually more portable, resource efficient, and more easily developed than 3d games - 2d's still going strong and isn't about to die anytime soon.

Yay notion of classical social values that are fading over time!I'm a guy and of course I've had to go first most of the time, but a few times I've been with girls that like to go for it.I personally wouldn't care who starts what first.

I started to play around with Linux because I was bored one day. So the genius osknockout decided to install Slackware as his n00b distribution. Wasn't the greatest idea in the world and I stopped using Linux again for like two years. Then came across a copy of Knoppix, decided linux was cool again, installed mepis (debian/ubuntu derivative) and gentoo then sabayon (gentoo derivative). Now I have a very modified ubuntu system.Games in linux.I see one of three possibilities:1. Linux gets native Direct X support2. Some avenging Microsoft ex-programmer puts Direct X support in wine.3. Everyone finally realizes that Direct X's API is inferior to OpenGL's and starts coding in it.I don't see any of that happening soon, so I'm going to have to say that the majority of the cool games that use direct x won't be coming too well for linux soon.

To be fair, in the C/C++ section, the same 10 questions are asked all the time. "Where did you -X- with C?" "What do you -X- with C?" "How do I learn C?" "I have X. Please do/fix X for me in C." "Learn C -because there's not already a thousand threads in here on this topic that technically fall into the Tutorials section." etc. I haven't seen an actual c-language question here that wasn't bug-related in a while. So I'd see bumping threads as a manageable way of avoiding the very strong redundancy in this part of the forum.

Hey, no prob. I'm just trying to make you do your own homework. 'cause doing comp. sci. hmwk's good for ya. And sorry for the formalistic advice also. I've been through a series of calc. and physics tests, so everything lookslike theorem proving right now...

Umm... I highly disagree with that essay. I admit that I have a rather strong bias here as I'm a big fan of the open source movement, but I have to say that trends and facts show the complete opposite of the author's points. Um... did anyone NOT expect that? Of course they're still sticking with the proprietary systems! Look at the market shareof linux! Look at the market share of anything that's not Apache and you'll see that it isn't that much. What matters rather is the fact that the rate of market share change (dM/dt anyone?) is positive in the favor of the open source movement. When the market share is strong enough, then we can expect change in policy to occur. Maybe it's just the fact that I live in the United States and I'm getting WE WANT CHANGE everywhere I go in relation to politics...But still. Ad hominem. Come on, really, it's not like the old always refuse to embrace the new. Three letters for you. FSF. Free Software Foundation and Richard Stallman anyone?We fight over license issues all the darn time. Heck, half of the BSD people want to switch from the gcc compiler suite to pcc is because pcc has a BSD license. We wouldn't have the sheer variety of licenses - or half of the license wars - if people didn't care about the causes. No, we like to think about the causes a lot, thank you very much. (To summarize the third argument, the author states that the osm could go down because the corporations get threatened and the government acts for them) - I don't see this one. At all. Last time I checked, IBM has embraced a good bit of the open source movement. Google contributed to the search features of sqlite. GOOGLE engineers have contributed to the SEARCH subsystem in sqlite. I'm not seeing much of a threat problem except with Microsoft and their ilk, and I do believe most people have a negative reaction towards said corporations. Which is why we have a blog being made every second...You know... interactive systems? No, I'm gonna go with the internet's become more interactive than ever before. I mean, just look at sites just 5 years ago as opposed to today. There's been a lot of content growth because of interaction, not because of pure write-and-receive methods. The spectator has started to play. Democratic institutions are starting to see how proprietary systems are in fact hindering, and where not people are starting to notice for themselves. This revolution's already begun, it's just a matter of following through.

salamangkero you evil person! Why -sweet god, why- would you do homework for n00bs? And what's more evil... you didn't return(0). This merits a FAIL. ... Actually, it's kinda nice code. That's a very clean style you have there.

Not gonna lie, when I saw the title of this post, I was lmao all over the place. I tend to agree with you in your definition of good there, however, I claim the most wretched thing to come from Japan to be Doraemon. And by wretched I mean downright hilarious. Come now, you don't find a ninja in an orange jumpsuit to be comical at all? Hey, hey, hey. Don't insult Dragonball Z like that. What did its 10 year storyline and infinite plotsdo to YOU? Well, still if it bothers you so much, you should just start your own Anime Club. Preferably called the Naruto Club.

Alright. Then set up an character array with the stuff in series, e.g. num[0] = "I", num[1] = "V", etc.Consider the input as a string where each character is tested individually.Ok, let's see, some of the most complex statements in roman numerals:1999 - MCMXCIX (index-wise, 7-5-7-3-5-1-3)1444 - MCDXLIV (index-wise, 7-5-6-3-4-1-2)1949 - MCMXLIX (index-wise, 7-5-7-3-4-1-2)1494 - MCDXCIV (index-wise, 7-5-6-3-5-1-2)Say character n matches with index i in the array.Then character n+1 must have index less than or equal to i+2, say it has index j in the array.If j > i, then it is a standard roman numeral iff (if and only if) the preceding character wasC,X, or I - because these are the only prefix numerals, otherwise it is fine.Start from n=1 and repeat test all over the string with n++ or however you want to jump n by 1.

Yo. That's kind of simple. Just check if the input only has characters from the set "I, V, X, L, C, D, M". If it doesn't, then it's not integer Roman numerals. You can set up a while loop going through a character array with several if statements checking if the characters are any of the above. If you're trying to find out what that number IS, you can see my previous post on this topic. See if it makes sense to you. Reply back if need anything more.

Yay Ubuntu crowd. STOP.There's a saying somewhere on the interblag that the linux is user-friendly, just not idiot-friendly. And it's a very good saying. Linux IS hardware friendly. Really. The stuff it is stable with works beautifully. It just isn't proprietary friendly. It's a variant of the user-friendly rule, with those who develop proprietary drivers on an open system being idiots. Frankly, I'm not happy with the way GPU-video card systems are right now. I can't even access the thing directly. ATI's finally getting open source~ish stuffs around but it's going to take a while. Nouveau (nvidia reverse-engineering) is still in 2D-land. It'll take a while to get out of this. But to get back to the spirit of this topic, if Linux fails in anyway as a desktop system, it's because hardware vendors epic fail their way into oblivion. While OSes like Windows and Macintosh had deals with video card manufacturers for many years Linux started with nothing but a black-and-white screen. History matters. A lot. The console is still the most flexible configuration system on Linux for a good reason - it's really fast and simple. Desktop development has always been seen as a nod towards 'we need more of the pretty' by people like me - and there are a lot of us. If the darn drivers had been open from the start, our graphics developers wouldn't have to waste time trying to figure out how to reverse engineer/hack together/alter opcodes for similar architectures just to get pixels looking right. It's going to take time, but eventually we'll get the open drivers we need, some way or another. This might be 4 or 5 years from now. But I'm sure by then, people will go around on the internet and laugh when they see what we were discussing, because frankly on openness, Linux wins. By a lot. It'll have really amazing desktops by the end of it all.

Ah, Mr. Anonymous Guest, due to your virile nature and your amazing clerical ability to ressurect the dead, we meet again. 1) a - because guis are pretty. don't hate on the pretty.b - instructions to automate this process? Yo, try messing with the live cds - I think that's the closest to get to that. The configurability is in the bash and perl programs that allow you to write scripts so you can make the automation any way you want. c - it started as MADE by developers FOR developers. So, yes I will claim that the user is for the kernel. For every bug reported about the kernel, it becomes better. You cannot stop the kernel. The kernel will live on. In all seriousness here, The kernel's for the system. If the user wants to mess with the kernel - something which it should be able to understand thoroughly anyway, then that's the user's own business. 2)Thank god for bochs, right? It is a sad state, to be honest. 3)Problem with that argument is that a lot of distros. come with multiple kernels, so the similarities start to set in. some even come with *shudder* kernels that are completely configurable. Oh what's this? Gentoo? 4)I dare anyone (this includes RMS, Torvalds, Tux and the last PDP-7 user) to try and list at any given one moment every possible installable package at any one time. Gonna go with not possible. To be pragmatic however, that's a problem fixable by a quick email to the distro lords with "PLEEEASE give me a list of packages on your site!!!!" Get enough people to email and it'll be a standard. To this end I suggest giving free pizza to all root's you know as bribery. 5)An even better story is the how we still trust VM to do stuff securely at this end. 6) Get this man some distcc. Stat. 7)Again, why we DON'T use Xen. 8)Ok, very good point. But I don't mess with iptables anyway, so I'll try not to get whacked on the head here. 9)In wpa_supplicant. (jk...) Yes, we've all seen aircrack-ng demos cracking wireless in 5 min. (or should immediately google and see them. Do it. NOW.) Can't be helped there. Unless almighty Anonymous Guest is a master of cryptography, in which case I suggest it starts dev'ing. 10) this topic is to be avoided at all costs so that Sony*'s HQ won't be burned down. *- Sony really meaning any DRM-using company. 11) Again, hating the pretty. Stop doing that! You're right there. But I blame the people who program in direct x anyway. Such a bad API... 12) Umm, I've programmed in x86 and Z80 assembly and had a good run in C (low middle ages anyone?) - so I'll assume you're joking with the examples.

Ugh... masm. Spare me the style and spare yourself (you, you silly reader) some time and use fasm or nasm. You know, stuff people use on more than one OS. But yeah, Mr. Guest is right, the Aoa is a good tutorial. I'd suggest that people get out of the x86 (and CISC in general) and try some things like the z80 just to get a different feel of things.

That's not true at all. The gpm library (http://www.nico.schottelius.org/blog/migrated-unix.schottelius.org/) provides a mouse server without any x11 stuffs. I don't know how well it can be natively ported to windows (or if one already exists) but it should be able to be cygwin'd.

umm, I'll try to answer the 3 year old question. wxwidgets works really well - develop once and you can get gui's over a bunch of OSes.As for the second question, I have no experience with Borland products

Definitely not cool. You know, I love people who are into processor internals and all... but there are several things wrong with this post: 1) This sounds like an explanation to an unasked question. Great way to start a tutorial or a "new learned thing" topic, but not a great candidate for the Hardware section. 2) There's more than the three modes listed. Unreal mode is a famous one that many people have known to come and love. 3) A lot of this is mostly copied word for word from the PC Guide reference for Processor Modes. Seems like this guy's edited a few things but look at this page and this page. There are yet more pages there copied from. And for the lazy people like me among you, I quote this from http://www.pcguide.com/ref/cpu/arch/int/modesVirtual-c.html : See if you see ANY similarities with the fourth paragraph. 4) I got to this before a mod did. @imbibe: seriously dude, thinking up something original's NOT that hard. I don't care if your name is Charles M. Kozierok either, reproduction of random stuff is tasteless.

Dude, you probably want to talk to your friends about this too. I've been there and done that (with a few exceptions). If you guys really share good friends, then she'll be able to talk to them about it to make some more sense out of it all -and she'll be able to accept it a lot quicker than if only you were talking to her about it.You should also -gently- tell her that you want her to leave for somebody else and that none of it is really her fault.