Just got off the phone with a friend who lives in Rochester , NY . He said that since early this morning the snow has been nearly waist high and is still falling. The temperature is dropping way below zero and the north wind is increasing to near gale force. His wife has done nothing but look through the kitchen window and just stare. He says that if it gets much worse, he may have
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Another real life experience joke: Workin at a cement plant years ago my foreman was a rather large guy named Larry with a decidedly different sense humor. One night when we were pullin the midnight shift Larry decided to pull a joke on LD, our electrician. Larry had located a flesh colored silicone dildo and inserted a welding rod into it, bent it slightly to give it a bit of an arch, t
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Using my time machines I fast forwarded a week ahead so I could get the next winning lottery numbers. Now I have 'em and can't figure out the programming to make it go back to last week
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The car broke down on the way home yesterdee so I had to thumb a ride. A cat in a 60 Beetle finally stopped and I said "Thanks, but I'd rather keep pumpin the shoe leather express!"
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Went to the liquor store today and they were outta my favorite West Indian rum! Fargin Bastidges
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That's where the dual boot comes in as it effectively gives you a 2nd mosheen with only one Oh, oh, oh .... and you have to install Winblows 1st if ya wanna do a dual boot. If you install Ubuntu 1st Windows will require you to reformat the partition to install it. If you install Windows 1st, then Ubuntu, Ubuntu will simply repartition the drive and appropriate the necessary space needed on
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If you wanna try Ubuntu and prefer a Mac like experience then 11.04, 11.10 or the forthcoming 12.04 distros are for you Pro. If you prefer an interface more "Windozelike" then I'd install 11.04 as this is the last distro allowing the Gnome desktop option (unless 12.04 again allows that option). After installation of 11.04 in the start-up process after you input your username, wh
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If I had a nickel for every time I've heard someone say "I wish I could be more like you" I could problee afford a Sundee paper
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"When the goin get's tough, the tough get going!" Heard that a lot as a kid, but gas was $.28 then too
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Life as an animal must be great. Even when economic realities force a move from deli meats to the more mundane salami and bologna, the donkeys, goats, dogs and cats diet remains constant .... I wanna come back as a cat in the next cosmic go-round
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The ongoing exodus from big city dwelling is amazing. After movin to the sticks many of us now fondly look forward to the occasional rush of humanity we encounter in our hour long excursions into "town"
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True story time: While in high school I had a buddy who worked as a checker at the local Safeway grocery store. A lady comes to the register and he begins ringin up her groceries while the bag boy is merrily baggin up her stuff. He gets to the last item in her basket and courteously asks "Will there be anything else Mam?" She says "Oh my! I forgot the Tampax!" to
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'Bout time to change the oil in the car again but the sucker leaks so much it's become self cleaning. Think I'll just change the filter and call it a day
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The ol Casa needs a thorough Spring dustin/sweepin, time to open the doors, fire up the air compressor an get busy
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Sounds like it's doin what it's supposed to, which is good. When I was researchin WCing I also found a lotta disparity in the actual cooling blocks for the CPUs with some really well thought out and made, while others not. Ideally they'd be made of gold, but yeah, like that'll happen
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Curious pulse, were you runnin air cooled before so you have comparisons for the new water coolings effectiveness over straight air cooled? When I looked into WC a while back I wasn't impressed with the results and how the systems were designed. Aluminum or copper tubing with flexible connectors would be much more efficient as the tubing itself then becomes a heat transfer media. I bought a
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^^^^^ That's hilarious! ^^^^^ I have some peppers comin that I've been assured are some of the hottest on the planet. I'm lookin forward to their arrival
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Sorry to hear you guys got swindled with that nonsense. Those in favor of similar legislation here have received solid smack downs every time it's been brought up but they sure are a persistent bunch so they keep tryin
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Not funny but def a cool vid combining a night time air show and fireworks display
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Aww yeah baby! I've been wanting to set up Ubuntu server and try it out but the terminal only thing had me put off from doin so. Last night duggin around I came across info on installin a GUI on the newer 11.04 64 bit version. I DLed the server version .iso and installed it onto a spare 40gig HD sittin in my external HD cradle. Followed the instructions to install the GUI and badda-bin
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Wife says to husband, “If you start riding that new bicycle I bought for you to work, we can get rid of the second car.” He replies, “If you take it up the ass and let me blow a load of cum on your face, we can get rid of the nanny!” ____________________________________________________ A guy gets a call from the police telling him that his house was robbed. The offenders had also consumed
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quasi, thanks for the vote of confidence. My point was a discussion on differences between the typical Windows/Mac user compared to a typical Linux person. I agree the whole More, more, more thing has an impact, but that was not where I was goin at all. I own everything but the land I live on and carry a 0$s credit line myself. If there's no $$ in the bank, I don't buy it and ... I live v
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Sheesh dude, that's a buttload O storage. How much of it's actually already filled? Speakin of porn empires, a software engineer buddy of mine was in between gigs a few yrs back, and bored, so he wrote a spider program and used it to rip everything from a porn site as fast as his connection could stream it all back to his server. He'd set up one of their 2-3 day $1.99 trial subscription de
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I haven't been able to reconcile VM ware in my mind yet, kinda like with women, so ... My best understanding always comes from mentally being able to grok a thing though this has been elusive with VM ware. If it's caching everything into RAM isn't that also depleting the RAM as a resource in a real time sense or is that inconsequential in the grand scheme of things? Any idea what would lea
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Very interesting .... what are you listening to .... in Amsterdam
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Yep, with Ubuntu you're supplied with ample rope to insure you'll arrive 1st on the scene at the hangin I built a dual boot 7/Ubuntu machine for a customer a cuppla weeks ago and ran into a situation similar to what you're gettin 'berto and found out the major issues revolved around the ATI video card the buyer had chosen. After loadin up 7 and makin sure it was Ok I installed Ubuntu 10.0
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I was seeing some really disheartening signs with 11.04 64 bit and loaded up the 32 bit and watched 'em melt away. I found the 64 bit was hittin 2 of my 8 CPU cores really hard and not handin off core to core which eventually would lead to a CPU failure, or at least give better odds on that happenin. With the older OS I had been runnin most of the time all 8 cores would hover around 15-25% and
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The definition of "broke" in this instance is subjective quasi. If somethin isn't workin the way you know it can or want it to, isn't it broke even if it is otherwise functional? There's a total shift in how many Linux users see things compared to how many Windows/Mac users look at things. Windows/Mac folks seem to look at functional programs that consume huge amounts of system
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I guess if I didn like to fiddle and tweak everything the way I do it would be a lot easier. But, having gotten so used to Ubuntus total customization like I have, I always like to add in lotsa personal fave touches here and there, which can lead to some serious pitfalls along the way. One of my missteps was in trying to remove the user/shutdown icon off the taskbar which is now lumped togethe
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Just in case anyone ever reads this .... Hello, my name is Kim, and I'm a glutton for punishment Been havin nothin but hell outta 2 of my mosheens in the last week, one with a failing 40gig IDE OS drive that had to be replaced while it was still capable of slingin data and another started actin wiggy so I opened it up to find the CPU cooler fan was tits up. The failin OS HD was in my ho
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