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Comment: Python (Score 2, Funny) 429

by GFree678 (#26457669) Attached to: Steve Jobs Takes Leave of Absence From Apple


The Dead Collector: Bring out yer dead.

[a man puts a body on the cart]

Large Man with Dead Body: Here's one.
The Dead Collector: That'll be ninepence.
Steve Jobs: I'm not dead.
The Dead Collector: What?
Large Man with Dead Body: Nothing. There's your ninepence.
Steve Jobs: I'm not dead.
Large Man with Dead Body: Yes he is.
Steve Jobs: I'm not.
The Dead Collector: He isn't.
Large Man with Dead Body: Well, he will be soon, he's very ill.
Steve Jobs: I'm getting better.
Large Man with Dead Body: No you're not, you'll be stone dead in a moment.
Steve Jobs: I don't want to go on the cart.
Large Man with Dead Body: Oh, don't be such a baby.
The Dead Collector: I can't take him.
Steve Jobs: I feel fine.
The Dead Collector: I can't.
Large Man with Dead Body: Well, can you hang around for a couple of minutes? He won't be long.
Large Man with Dead Body: Well, when's your next round?
The Dead Collector: Thursday.
Steve Jobs: I think I'll go for a walk.
Large Man with Dead Body: You're not fooling anyone, you know. Isn't there anything you could do?
Steve Jobs: I feel happy. I feel happy.

[the Dead Collector glances up and down the street furtively, then silences Jobs with his a whack of his club]

Large Man with Dead Body: Ah, thank you very much.
Large Man with Dead Body: Right. ...

Too soon?

Comment: *cries* (Score 1) 654

by GFree678 (#26457605) Attached to: Ubuntu 9.04 Daily Build Boots In 21.4 Seconds

FFS people, just hibernate or if you really need minimal boot time, put it on standby.

Don't give me that rubbish about how these power saving modes don't work reliably. They work fine in Vista (for me anyway, heck they work fine for me in Ubuntu), and resuming from hibernation is much faster than Ubuntu's startup time. If they don't work on your Linux rig, well sucks to be you, but that doesn't mean your hardware isn't capable of it, just your distro for whatever reason.

Flamebait post, perhaps, but I wish people would appreciate the fact that fast boots are completely feasible these days, just not necessarily from a cold boot.

Comment: Re:It's not the first time, it won't be the last. (Score 4, Insightful) 62

by GFree678 (#26443975) Attached to: Taxpayer Data At IRS Remains Vulnerable

There were accusations of hacking and all, but it conveniently left out the discussion that it was a pretty obvious and blatant flaw.

Oh my God. Are you saying that changing one digit in a completely accessible URL is enough to be accused of hacking?

Humanity is hopelessly lost when it comes to common sense.


+ - Best Programming Language for Employment

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Ifflejink writes "A friend of mine has recently maid a decision to move to Ireland. However, upon reviewing the immigration procedures, you need a salary of at least 30,000 euros per year to even get a work permit in the country. We went over possible career choices, and eventually settled on programming. Now, here is where my question starts: what would be a good programming language to learn if one were trying to find employment in programming? I know that C and its derivatives are pretty ubiquitous, but something like Python seems like it would be easier to learn, which is fairly important, since this friend does not know any programming languages. However, in my experience, not too many things seem to be written in Python, which makes it a little more suspect. Does anyone have any suggestions of good languages for my friend to learn?"

Comment: Cool (Score 2, Funny) 95

by GFree678 (#26406619) Attached to: Open Firmware Released For Broadcom Wireless

Does this mean Broadcom can finally stop acting like precious little bitches, resign themselves to the enviable and open-source their officials drivers so we can have complete support?

Why must they insist on holding out? It's obvious that if they don't open source their drivers, someone else will. Might as well supply official drivers in that case.

Comment: Re:Keygens (Score 2, Insightful) 345

by GFree678 (#26396555) Attached to: Trojan Found At Torrent Sites Insists "Downloading Is Wrong"

Virtual machines baby, boot it up, run the keylogger, run the install up to the point where it gives you whatever you need to install, and then reset the hard drive state.

That works. My tactic is also to write the serial that is produced by a keygen into a text file so that in a future install I don't have to re-run the keygen, I just copy/paste the data safely from the file. Doesn't work for the more advanced keys which are based off a unique hash of the system's architecture, but for every else the text file is perfect. Heck, sometimes a key or keys are listed by someone in the comments of the torrent so that you don't HAVE to use a keygen, which is nice.

Comment: Re:Why use ISP email? (Score 0, Troll) 115

by GFree678 (#26396305) Attached to: UK Email Retention Plan Technically Flawed

How the fuck was this modded Informative? What non-geek, who can barely be encouraged to use something other an IE is going to go to the effort of setting up their own email server? And how can you measure the tangible benefits when they could just use something like GMail and get on with their lives?

Do any of you geeks mingle with non-geeks once in a while?
