FlorinAndrei

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by FlorinAndrei 17y ago
The first thing I did after the DiggBar was released, was to turn it off.
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by FlorinAndrei 17y ago
Always divide the load average by the number of cores. Maybe we should re-define load average, as the old definition divided by the number of cores.
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by FlorinAndrei 17y ago
Think of telescopes. You can advance the theory of astronomy all you want, but unless you build a bigger mirror to better see the stuff actually going on up in the skies, you won't get very far.
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by FlorinAndrei 17y ago
My first attempt. Here's the before: http://i.imgur.com/LHvih.jpg Here's the after: http://i.imgur.com/jSRoy.jpg Not perfect, but not too bad either, given that it took 30 seconds to do it. I'm sure the size and shape of the selection c
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by FlorinAndrei 17y ago
You also need gimp-plugin-registry if it's not installed. It contains the smart-remove filter.
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by FlorinAndrei 17y ago
On Ubuntu 9.10, the packages you need to install are: gimp-plugin-registry (it contains the smart-remove filter) gimp-resynthesizer
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by FlorinAndrei 17y ago
Cool. So as long as I'm my own CA and I use self-signed certificated (distributed off-band) then I'm safe.
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by FlorinAndrei 17y ago
Marginally related: MP4 as a container, H.264 (AVC) for the video track, AAC for the audio track - this video file format is playable everywhere. Windows, Linux, Mac, PS3, PSP, iPhone... if the kitchen sink had a display, it would probably
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by FlorinAndrei 17y ago
Careful with fundamentalist materialism (as with any fundamentalism in general). At the end of that road lie all sorts of aberrations such as "computer programs do not exist" and so on. Really? There's a whole industry built on the opposite
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by FlorinAndrei 17y ago
That "guru"'s particular flavor of religion has very peculiar morals indeed. I don't think I'm exaggerating too much when I say Tantra is basically incomprehensible for the typical Western audience.
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by FlorinAndrei 17y ago
"You know gods and goddesses do not exist." Do not exist as physically-independent entities, yes. That means you define "existence" as in "this rock exists." They might be quite real (and even somewhat powerful) as entities populating one's
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by FlorinAndrei 17y ago
Also, E=mc^2 needs to be considered.
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by FlorinAndrei 17y ago
opstache clostache Shorter this way.
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by FlorinAndrei 17y ago
> They had a theory of the disease that made sense, fit the evidence, but was utterly wrong. They had arrived at the idea of an undetectable substance in their food, present in trace quantities, with a direct causative relationship to s
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by FlorinAndrei 17y ago
"we're creating evolutionary pressure on the germs to become resistant to our countermeasures" I thought that's what we were doing anyway.
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by FlorinAndrei 17y ago
What's your native tongue?
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by FlorinAndrei 17y ago
Fascinating, thank you.
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by FlorinAndrei 17y ago
I wonder if it seems close to the languages one is familiar with. My native tongue is Romanian and I grew up on the border with Serbia - I used to speak Serbian near-fluently (but lost it after 2+ decades of not using it); I also know a lit
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by FlorinAndrei 17y ago
Whoa. My native language is in the Romance group, and I could pretty much muddle through a paragraph of Interlingua with no help. I think the comprehension level was about 90%.
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by FlorinAndrei 17y ago
"negatively strange" Is that, like, "boring", "commonplace", "average" matter?
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by FlorinAndrei 17y ago
Even with 9.10, booting up takes very little time. It's very impressive. I don't even think of using suspend now. And v10 is supposed to boot even faster. Yay! :)
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by FlorinAndrei 17y ago
Right. So, don't run it down a lot, and don't charge it to 100% unless you have to.
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by FlorinAndrei 17y ago
Oh, the "computer" (read: the manufacturer) has it all figured out already, rest assured. They just don't want to give up on a few performance percentage points.
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by FlorinAndrei 17y ago
Sure they can. But they're called iPads.
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by FlorinAndrei 17y ago
Spam from @gmail.com is increasing nowadays, AFAICT.
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by FlorinAndrei 17y ago
Ha ha! Nice! I was a chemistry geek in high school, with a penchant for highly exothermic reactions if you know what I mean. Thanks for the trip down memory lane.
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by FlorinAndrei 17y ago
Conquered by some other tribe?
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by FlorinAndrei 17y ago
Short term? (the "hookup phase") Maybe not, what with daily showers and deodorants and what not. Long term? It likely plays an important role.
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by FlorinAndrei 17y ago
He means eschew the hyper-daisychained ELSE from hell.
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by FlorinAndrei 17y ago
I wish I had some kind of glasses like that a decade ago, when my monitor was a small crappy CRT. That thing was painful to use, in the proper sense. Nowadays, I don't care that much, the currently available LCDs are pretty good.

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