Archive for September 7th, 2006
Quote heard somewhere… can’t recall where
Thursday, September 7th, 2006I find the continuing attacks on smokers and smoking a prefect microcosm of just about everything wrong with the United States:
- People unwilling to take responsibility for their own actions or decisions
- Demands that stupidity be profitable
- Insistence that life be risk free
- People who willingly take a well known risk, then demand compensation if they get hurt
- The deep dishonesty of spewing junk science to support an agenda
- The eagerness of the government and charity organizations to create that junk science
- The scientific illiteracy of the masses, which makes it easy for them to accept junk science
- The endless greed of the US government
- The endless greed of many US citizens
- The unfathomable greed of lawyers
- The incessant yammering of the sanctimonious nannies, who insist that they know what’s best for everyone else
The worst of the bunch are the nannies. Their self-esteem depends on looking down on others and meddling in their lives. In the past such people resorted to racism and homophobia. Now that such attitudes are socially unacceptable they have chosen smokers (among others) to hate. I’ll make no attempt to hide my contempt for them.
RPM hell: a real-life scenario
Thursday, September 7th, 2006You know, I’m trying to update to Fedora Core 6 development. It’s all good, except for one itty bitty thing: I cannot upgrade the GNOME desktop to the latest version without losing major applications that I have installed.
¿Pondrías BIGPNS en la placa de tu auto?
Thursday, September 7th, 2006Algunas personas son mucho más creativas de lo que podrías tu creer: URPL8SUX: Licensed To Offend - September 1, 2006.
Fotos que dan resultados
Thursday, September 7th, 2006Tips For Using People Photos That Get Results - Public Relations and Publicity Blog.
Después me dan las gracias. Con una jabita de bielas.
KTorrent crashing? Try this quick fix
Thursday, September 7th, 2006The brute force method:
#!/bin/bash
while true ; do ps ax | grep -v grep | grep " ktorrent" || \ ktorrent --nofork --nocrashhandler sleep 5 done
Save this script and make it executable. Leave it running overnight. Lather, rinse, repeat. Oh, nono, don’t do that — the script will take care of the lather, rinse and repeat for you.
