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Re: DVR owners spend 48% more time on media at Scattered

Nate — Tue, 15 Mar 2005 21:48:31 -0000

40% more time, 43 % more time, 40% more time, 17% more time, but then only 22% overall. I'm figuring the non DVR owners win in the talk radio category. Oh wait, I bet TV watching is such a large chunk of time that it pulls the other percentages down. When do they sleep?

Re: In it to win at Scattered

Nate — Tue, 22 Mar 2005 22:02:03 -0000

highest paid CEOand found some interesting pages. Check the fourth and sixth link down from 2003.

Re: What am I doing at Scattered

Nate — Tue, 22 Mar 2005 22:13:02 -0000

Di d you do the following:
./configure
./make
?

Re: What am I doing at Scattered

Nate — Tue, 22 Mar 2005 22:16:56 -0000

actually thats:
./configure
make

Re: What am I doing at Scattered

Nate — Wed, 23 Mar 2005 00:54:29 -0000

$ ls /usr/bin | grep gcc
It's not the easiest thing to install. 1 and 1 should have it installed and available for your use uneless they are really anal.

Re: What am I doing at Scattered

Nate — Wed, 23 Mar 2005 01:30:23 -0000

$ echo $PATH
$ find / -name gcc -print 2/dev/null

Re: What am I doing at Scattered

Nate — Wed, 23 Mar 2005 21:01:05 -0000

this link if you care to find out more. I bet OS X has a utility like rpm. It's probably better and easier to use, but rpm is the tool that Red Hat (rpm stands for Red Hat Package Manager I believe) and Fedora uses and I like it.

Just to get you started try:
$ rpm -qi squid
which should tell you a bunch about what you just installed. While your at it see that gcc is not installed:
rpm -qi gcc
but it's not hard to install the rpm if you really need it.

Re: In it to win at Scattered

Nate — Thu, 24 Mar 2005 21:39:25 -0000

article I found when looking to see who the current highest paid CEO was said Steve Jobs was the highest paid CEO in 2003 even though he didn't take a salary. He's a businessman not an employee.

Re: In it to win at Scattered

Nate — Thu, 24 Mar 2005 21:53:09 -0000

Good gracious. these darn computer thingys!

My point is that heâ€šÃ„Ã´s not taking a salary so he can make more money not because he loves and cares about APPLE.

http://www.macnn.com/articles/04/12/29/jobs.hig...

Re: What am I doing at Scattered

Nate — Fri, 25 Mar 2005 19:16:58 -0000

When your viewing porn and your boss walks into your office they can see what your doing. Busted!

Re: Post Title in RSS comment feed plugin at Scattered

Nate — Wed, 06 Jul 2005 20:45:20 -0000

I'm using it, thanks guys. I did move the echo (actually I changed it to a return) outside the if statement just in case is_post() and is_single() both return true and we don't execute that chunk of code. I don't know a lick about PHP and very little about wordpress so it might not matter but anyway, thanks.

Re: Google Maps at Scattered

Nate — Wed, 13 Jul 2005 21:49:37 -0000

mapquest and yahoo maps are dead.

Re: Burger King and 911 at Scattered

Nate — Sat, 16 Jul 2005 12:40:55 -0000

It was a first for me.

Re: 1and1 Dedicated servers are… at Scattered

Nate — Wed, 20 Jul 2005 21:34:24 -0000

Do you have to sign a contract or is it just monthh to month?

Re: 3s Company at Scattered

Nate — Sat, 06 Aug 2005 12:20:35 -0000

They haven't outsourced tech support yet? That's a mark in the stupid column for me.

Re: Guide to Springfield at Scattered

Nate — Sun, 07 Aug 2005 00:58:51 -0000

Despite being snubbed, you should feel very proud. Very entertaining.

Re: 3s Company at Scattered

Nate — Sun, 07 Aug 2005 01:07:30 -0000

I had a really bad experience with tech support for Compaq which was in India I think, but I blame Compaq for having a ridiculous tech support system and not the people I had to deal with. I like the fact that companies are saving a ton of money by outsourcing work while the people doing the work are making a good living.

Re: Google Translate at Scattered

Nate — Fri, 19 Aug 2005 20:18:10 -0000

Natural language processing is one of the promises that A.I. has so far failed to deliver on.

Re: %*#@ing Windows at Scattered

Nate — Tue, 23 Aug 2005 01:23:26 -0000

There are few greater callings in life than programming applications that nobody uses.

Re: %*#@ing Windows at Scattered

Nate — Tue, 23 Aug 2005 01:43:05 -0000

gstreamer multimedia framework, and applications built using it.

Linux is used extensively in movie making so you might find some useful info at this site: http://linuxmovies.sourceforge.net/

Can't make any recommendations though. Sorry.

Re: %*#@ing Windows at Scattered

Nate — Tue, 23 Aug 2005 20:27:40 -0000

I have a comment in moderation, probably lost amongst all your span.

Re: Server outage at Scattered

Nate — Mon, 05 Sep 2005 11:44:06 -0000

The whole box didn't tank did it?

How about a cron job that runs every 5 minutes or so that checks to see if the web server and database server are up and restarting them if they aren't.

Re: Server outage at Scattered

Nate — Mon, 05 Sep 2005 19:52:31 -0000


#!/bin/sh

# Get the number of httpd processes currently running.
# ps will list the process table. The first grep will
# filter everything out except those entries with httpd.
# The second grep will remove the first grep command.
# And wc will return the number of lines or the number
# of running httpd processes.
num_processes=`ps -ef | grep httpd | grep -v grep | wc -l`;

if [ "$num_processes" -eq "0" ]
then
    # If there are zero processes running send an email
    # of the apache access_log and error_log.
    echo "access_log: "  /tmp/server_down_message
    cat /var/log/httpd/access_log  /tmp/server_down_message
    echo "error_log: "  /tmp/server_down_message
    cat /var/log/httpd/error_log  /tmp/server_down_message
    # replace foo@bar.com with your email address. The
    # subject of the message is "Webserver Down!".
    cat /tmp/server_down_message | mail foo@bar.com -s "Web Server Down!"
    rm /tmp/server_down_message

    # If you want to try and restart the web server automatically
    # uncomment out the next line. Otherwise restart manually.
    #/usr/sbin/apachectl restart
fi

Re: Server outage at Scattered

Nate — Mon, 05 Sep 2005 19:55:59 -0000

wow, those code tags really don't work. :)

Re: Server outage at Scattered

Nate — Tue, 06 Sep 2005 06:30:21 -0000

Along with losing all the formatting WP also decided to take a block of comments and converted them into an ordered list.

Re: Meet The F**kers at Scattered

Nate — Thu, 08 Sep 2005 19:44:58 -0000

I'm "locked" out of the quicktime download on the first link. Racists!

Re: Nano first impressions at Scattered

Nate — Fri, 30 Sep 2005 22:20:59 -0000

under a swim cap huh. hmmm

Re: Financial plan at Scattered

Nate — Fri, 21 Oct 2005 01:13:59 -0000

The interest rates on second mortgages are generally pretty good, so to come up with a down payment for the second home you can take a second out on the first home. Hopefully the rent will at least cover both loans.

Re: Financial plan at Scattered

Nate — Fri, 21 Oct 2005 01:21:04 -0000

Also you can try to buy in areas that are increasing in value more than the average. I like looking for deals in areas that are growing fast and areas that aren't that nice right now, but might be in a few years.

By the way, Ventura is overrated.

Re: Financial plan at Scattered

Nate — Fri, 21 Oct 2005 21:56:42 -0000

Don't know if this is always true but it seems like rent prices lag behind home prices a bit but still go up at a similar rate. Just for reference, I bought a condo 2 1/2 years ago--not a great deal, definitely after prices started skyrocketing, but a little cheaper area then Ventura--and last week I finally saw an ad in the paper of a unit just like mine for rent at a price that would cover the mortgage, taxes, and HOA with a little left over. Now I'm looking for a fixer-upper with a yard or thinking of trying to get some land to build on in a cheaper area of town.

Re: Financial plan at Scattered

Nate — Mon, 24 Oct 2005 23:10:17 -0000

Dan "greedy real estate peep" Cameron

Re: Financial plan at Scattered

Nate — Tue, 25 Oct 2005 00:05:23 -0000

I'm just playing. I'd buy a forclosed property.

Re: Financial plan at Scattered

Nate — Tue, 25 Oct 2005 21:15:26 -0000

I don't know how to find for forclosures. I've asked a few real estate agents both in California and Arizona and they always say they are hard to come by. I don't know if they get a commission from selling a foreclosure. Maybe they don't get much or it's too much work for them, or maybe they don't like to share their inside information, or maybe their telling the truth and foreclosures are just really hard to come by. Bottom line, I don't' know and have never done it.

Re: Financial plan at Scattered

Nate — Tue, 25 Oct 2005 21:23:07 -0000

Dan, I'm not trying to run you out of Ventura or anything but from my vast experience of moving a couple of times you'll find good friends and a good church anywhere you go.

Re: Google set to release Video Blog service?

Nate — Mon, 31 Oct 2005 00:37:58 -0000

nope.

Re: Financial plan at Scattered

Nate — Mon, 31 Oct 2005 20:36:06 -0000

what are feelings?

Re: MPEG-2 Conversion

Nate — Wed, 16 Nov 2005 16:46:12 -0000

maybe try ffmpeg

Re: MPEG-2 Conversion

Nate — Wed, 16 Nov 2005 20:13:11 -0000

blasphemy! just kidding but the developers are probably all volunteers so that's why it doesn't have a cool gui. That and you don't need one when you can just do:

for i in *.mpg; do ffmpeg --appropriate-options $i.mpg $i-new.mpg; done

at the bash prompt.

Re: MPEG-2 Conversion

Nate — Wed, 16 Nov 2005 20:26:48 -0000

I think you can get bash running on windows. cygwin or something. your Mac's default shell is bash.

Re: MPEG-2 Conversion

Nate — Wed, 16 Nov 2005 20:50:43 -0000

I guess that depends on your definition of "a bunch of crap." I think poking through tons of lame software on sourceforge is a bunch of crap but whatever. I thought you would just have to do a small number of steps to get your video converted. Screw being cool, unless someone has a better idea getting ffmpeg to run on your Windows machine may be your best option.

Re: XBox Launch lines

Nate — Tue, 22 Nov 2005 16:48:00 -0000

Ha, ha. Sorry, but I just can't feel sorry for you.

Re: I hate myspace but…

Nate — Wed, 23 Nov 2005 16:13:35 -0000

they're kids, just being there is enough.

Re: Grammar

Nate — Sun, 27 Nov 2005 16:33:05 -0000

I like The Elements of Style but I can't find my copy!

Re: Hack my open server

Nate — Thu, 15 Dec 2005 12:29:43 -0000

Wow! Don't think this is a good idea, for your sake. I implore you not to submit this post to digg!

Re: Hack my open server

Nate — Thu, 15 Dec 2005 15:07:44 -0000

Well, I might log in, delete all the users, changed the root password, start distributing my kiddie porn collection. All on a machine 1and1 has you listed as the user.

Re: Remember, I…?

Nate — Sun, 18 Dec 2005 11:02:31 -0000

Well, I'm sorry, but ...

Re: Upgrading to intel

Nate — Tue, 10 Jan 2006 20:56:51 -0000

*yawn*

Re: M$ stagnation

Nate — Tue, 10 Jan 2006 21:05:46 -0000

I'm getting the feeling that a raw socket is just a socket so what's a cooked sockt?

Re: M$ stagnation

Nate — Tue, 10 Jan 2006 23:16:30 -0000

pur evil: http://www.nd.edu/~parasite/

Re: Ventura Star story

Nate — Fri, 03 Mar 2006 11:03:56 -0000

Lord or LORD?

Re: Ventura Star story

Nate — Fri, 03 Mar 2006 22:10:39 -0000

Maybe everyone already knows this, but that's the way it's done in some English translations of the Bibles except it's not just for god type words but when it's God's proper name or when referring to his name.

Re: Microsoft Panther?

Nate — Tue, 07 Mar 2006 10:34:54 -0000

Maybe people at Microsoft personally saw and used Panther before it was released in 2003.

Re: Microsoft Panther?

Nate — Tue, 07 Mar 2006 20:11:53 -0000

corprate espionage

Re: Microsoft Panther?

Nate — Tue, 07 Mar 2006 20:13:06 -0000

corporate

Re: Novell XGL

Nate — Thu, 16 Mar 2006 09:23:59 -0000

way better than 0SX.

Re: MacBook Pro magsafe issue

Nate — Fri, 17 Mar 2006 02:24:12 -0000

yeah, why waste your time haveing a good time speculating when you can use your time anonymously calling people idiots.

Re: MacBook Pro magsafe issue

Nate — Fri, 17 Mar 2006 14:06:52 -0000

I am th real Nate and the government burned my cat because she was cooler than the president's dog.

Re: Search Everything2

Nate — Wed, 12 Apr 2006 21:58:57 -0000

wasn't there a bunch of comments here yesterday?

Re: Aim

Nate — Sat, 22 Apr 2006 00:28:11 -0000

I prefer names as close to your real name as possbile.

Re: Gas Boycott

Nate — Mon, 24 Apr 2006 21:45:53 -0000

Did I just hear Jared use laws against rape and murder as a basis for laws to eliminate SUVs. Ha ha, talk about left wing hell! Quick poll, Who owns an SUV here? Who carpools? why or why not?

I don't own an SUV. I also only recently got a second car since two kids in car seats was making the two-door civic a tight fit. I carpool, actual I 14 passenger vanpool, 75% of the days I go to work even though my commute isn't that bad. Why? Not owning an SUV is mainly for economic reasons and I never have really wanted one anyways. I vanpool because it's nice and relaxing, makes me get up and get to work, and is cheap as heck. I'm not trying to make myself look good I just hate the do as I say not as I do attitude.

Dave has at least brought up specific examples of why/when higher taxes and big public works programs haven't faired very well, but all I hear from Jared, Dan and Billy is wild claims with little or no basis. I'm not sure but I think public transportation works pretty good in Tokyo for instance and I think LA needs a monorail. Fast, simple, and elevated.

Re: Gas Boycott

Nate — Tue, 25 Apr 2006 00:49:19 -0000

Whatever helps you sleep at night. So lets see if I have this straight. You want to put a huge strain on our economy by placing a "sin tax" on gas to force people like you to live more like this blogs resident small government advocates. But we need a revolution first to get rid of the evil bureaucrats and reign in a new era of righteous, big government. :)

Are there successful public transportation systems all over the world? Help me out with a specific location.

Re: Bush Eases Environmental Rules on Gasoline

Nate — Wed, 26 Apr 2006 00:20:29 -0000

I think repeal means to cancel so I think he asked for a tax cut to be cancelled.

Re: Hello,

Nate — Fri, 28 Apr 2006 21:23:48 -0000

Congratulations.

Re: Blogging etiquette

Nate — Tue, 02 May 2006 20:56:17 -0000

Let's quit this and argue about politics. Way more fun.

Re: Blogging etiquette

Nate — Wed, 03 May 2006 00:34:40 -0000

I want politics. Illegals go home! The freeway was way nicer without you.

Re: Stephen Colbert at the Correspondent’s Dinner (Full video)

Nate — Wed, 03 May 2006 20:59:38 -0000

Didn't think he was very funny and way too long. Crowd didn't look very impressed either, but it needed to be said.

Re: BumpTop 3D Desktop Prototype

Nate — Thu, 22 Jun 2006 23:23:07 -0000

neato

Re: Stupid in America

Nate — Mon, 10 Jul 2006 16:16:39 -0000

Is there a voucher measure on the ballot this year in California. Not having a voucher program in this state is one of the stupidest thing I can think of. It's sad because if you look at universities around the world the US's are widely regarded as the best. We should have the best elementary and secondary schools too.

Re: Stupid in America

Nate — Mon, 10 Jul 2006 22:30:08 -0000

The segment made a decent argument for vouchers, but I'll give my feelings. With vouchers you take the money out of the hands of bureaucrats and give it to the parents who really care and have a clear, vested interest in their child's education. With the vouchers parents are free to choose which school is best for their child. It may be a a public school, a private religious school, or any other accredited alternative school. Each school is forced to compete for the students and when schools can't attract students they shut down and when parents are dissatisfied with the education their children are getting they have other options. For families without a lot of extra cash it gives them an opportunity to shop around where before only wealthier families could.

Re: Stupid in America

Nate — Tue, 11 Jul 2006 20:43:33 -0000

I'm not familiar with Stossel but I wouldn't call the video journalism. It's an opinion piece.

Re: Stupid in America

Nate — Tue, 11 Jul 2006 21:04:56 -0000

Kinda closed minded don't you think. I remeber you calling a Chomsky clip excellent ... boggles the mind

Re: Stupid in America

Nate — Wed, 12 Jul 2006 10:38:03 -0000

Fair enough. You clearly have a longer history with Strossel than I and I did find him annoying at times in this video.

Re: Domain Change

Nate — Fri, 14 Jul 2006 19:57:33 -0000

you need naked in there somewhere.

Re: “Bush Stuns Media with S’ Word”

Nate — Tue, 18 Jul 2006 16:09:31 -0000

Yeah, he should listen to Juan Cole for a better understanding.

Re: Protected: Offer

Nate — Tue, 18 Jul 2006 20:19:01 -0000

I'm not a lawyer but I'll give you advice like I'm one ...

Re: Protected: Offer

Nate — Tue, 18 Jul 2006 20:43:02 -0000

Seriously though, you might want to get some lawyerly advice if it's not too costly.

Re: Protected: Offer

Nate — Tue, 18 Jul 2006 22:36:03 -0000

I don't trust people that can't trust people.

Re: “Bush Stuns Media with S’ Word”

Nate — Wed, 19 Jul 2006 00:24:57 -0000

Yeah, Condoleezza Rice probably has no idea what's really going on.

Re: Protected: Offer

Nate — Wed, 19 Jul 2006 00:56:44 -0000

I can't help it. Your extended sense of self-righteousness like a cape in front a bull for me. I'm sorry if I can't understand your comments, but I did read each one more than once.

Re: Protected: Offer

Nate — Wed, 19 Jul 2006 01:06:26 -0000

By the way, in shamelss defense of my meaness, none of my comments were trying to make you look bad. I was being light hearted with the conversation in general, not just your comments.

Re: MySpace hate

Nate — Wed, 19 Jul 2006 17:00:31 -0000

I'm sorry but I haven't come across one myspace page that doesn't drive me crazy but Sara's is getting there.

Re: Xgl Demo

Nate — Mon, 24 Jul 2006 16:57:31 -0000

I remember Enlightenment doing something like an infinite desktop space. I think it's probably easier to stay organized when you can seperate things out into areas with defined borders.

Re: Xgl Demo

Nate — Tue, 25 Jul 2006 00:02:26 -0000

Actually it's not just eye candy. Theres like a million or so reasons why you would want an application spanning two sides of the cube which you can't really do with normal boring virtual workspaces.

Re: Xgl Demo

Nate — Tue, 25 Jul 2006 00:26:03 -0000

I new you would ask so I started to make a complete list. I'll post it here when I'm finished, but it might take a while.

Re: Raids

Nate — Sun, 13 Aug 2006 02:36:21 -0000

RAID-Z

Re: Registry

Nate — Thu, 07 Sep 2006 01:19:20 -0000

GConf!

Re: Server Permissions

Nate — Wed, 27 Sep 2006 22:18:47 -0000

Add the necessary users to a common group and set the group sticky bit of the top most directory. Then any files created under that directory will automatically be owned by the common group. All files should be kept group writeable. If anyone deviates from that rule they get fifty lashes with one of the extra power cords.

Re: Occlusal Guard

Nate — Wed, 29 Nov 2006 14:54:49 -0000

You can use denture cleaning tabs on it as well. I'm glad your protecting your self. I have seen 40 year olds who need full mouth reconstruction because of grinding. Is it an upper or lower appliance?

Re: How to manually hardlink

Nate — Sat, 16 Dec 2006 12:12:08 -0000

I'm curious why you have 4K files with identical contents. Pray tell.

Re: Atheism 2.0

Nate — Wed, 03 Jan 2007 23:37:37 -0000

putting 2.0 after everything makes Jesus cry.

Re: Atheism 2.0

Nate — Sat, 06 Jan 2007 11:37:57 -0000

I've been thinking about what affect the web is having on this new wave of atheism. I personally think the books written by Hawkins and Harris are responsible for most of the interest, and that's why the magazines and newspapers are covering them and then stuff gets posted on digg and YouTube. So what's the affect? Judging from what I've read on newsvine, If the only part of the conversation people are getting is the part that ends up on Web 2.0 then they there selling themselves short. I'm wondering if it has increased book sells. Actually, know that I think about it, my recent interest in this sort of thing kind of started with an add for _The_God_That_Wasn't_There_ (not a good film by the way) on MetaFilter but I can also trace it back to some other non-web related things I was introduced to. I guess I'm just thinking that if all the information you are taking in is the sort of thing that takes up most the space on the web you are going to be a pretty bad (or at least stupid) atheist, Christian, or whatever. I think the high quality stuff is still mostly in found in books published the old school way.

Re: Fedora Core 6 vs Ubuntu 6.10

Nate — Wed, 10 Jan 2007 00:14:25 -0000

distro whore

Re: TV Redux

Nate — Wed, 10 Jan 2007 00:16:00 -0000

tv whore

Re: Adding Host Entries in OS X

Nate — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 11:08:42 -0000

I believe it's the same in nextstep.

Re: Vista and virtualization

Nate — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 22:08:21 -0000

Brother,

Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of Microsoft; for Microsoft cannot be tempted of evil, neither tempteth he any man. But every man is tempted when he is led astray of his own desires and enticed. But guard yourself against the evils of virtualization as it is written, "neither pirates nor those who emulate nor users of unauthorized codecs shall inherit the kingdom."
So I say to you today, choose your master in accordance with the warnings from the apostles for, "No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other; or else he will be devoted to one and despise the other."

Striving for a free, pure heart,
NJA

Re: fedora over ubuntu

Nate — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 19:00:17 -0000

Fedora is upstream of Red Hat which means Red Hat is Fedora based not the other way around.

Re: fedora over ubuntu

Nate — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 19:03:27 -0000

cptcha is broked.

Re: fedora over ubuntu

Nate — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 19:05:02 -0000

test

Re: fedora over ubuntu

Nate — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 19:05:38 -0000

foo

Re: Joost

Nate — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 20:29:04 -0000

Yes please. Thank you.

Re: Memories

Nate — Sun, 22 Apr 2007 01:57:06 -0000

Probably because you didn't buy the version with the license that allows you to run it in a vm.

Re: Spiderman 3

Nate — Wed, 02 May 2007 11:18:21 -0000

Re: DRM Free iTunes

Nate — Thu, 31 May 2007 23:36:16 -0000

They aren't charging an extra thirty cents to discourage people from buying it. They are charging that much because that's where they believe they'll maximize their profit. Consumers are willing to pay extra so the producers charge extra. Shockingly, that happens to be good for consumers.

Re: DRM Free iTunes

Nate — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 00:45:31 -0000

But you said they're charging more to discourage sales. I guess so people will prefer the music with DRM music facilitates vendor lock in. But I think they're probably charging more for the music without DRM because the demand is greater and they can without hurting sales. I thinks there a difference there.

Re: DRM Free iTunes

Nate — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 01:18:17 -0000

Dan and Nathan, are you willing to pay thirty extra cents for non-DRM music?

Re: DRM Free iTunes

Nate — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 08:29:57 -0000

While Dan is in many ways extraordinary, I'd bet he's a pretty average iTunes customer.

I'm trying to figure out how a comparison to free software make sense but I'm pretty sure it's not much.

Re: DRM Free iTunes

Nate — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 10:48:20 -0000

But your comparing operating systems that have large differences in quality. With this music deal the only difference is there is added value.

Re: DRM Free iTunes

Nate — Sat, 02 Jun 2007 03:36:42 -0000

Windows, for whatever reason, offers a higher quality experience for many desktop users. If you want iTunes, video games, Joost, software you get with a textbook, all the fancy devices, and so on to all *just work*, it's a better choice. But I don't think that really matters. The fact is that each operating systems is different enough from the next that there's a ton of factors to weigh when choosing one.

Paying extra for getting music sans DRM involves a super basic trade off analysis.

Re: I need to ……

Nate — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 18:55:35 -0000

You need to get slapped. I need a coffee break.

Re: I need to ……

Nate — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 18:56:50 -0000

Before I go home in fifteen.

Re: The drive ……

Nate — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 13:09:19 -0000

Better yet, you can listen to music on your iPhone and Jared can use his cheapy mp3 player.

Re: Linux vs. Mac

Nate — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 15:09:35 -0000

I'm interested in the list the libre (not sure but I don't think the Shared Source Initiative counts) portions of any of the Microsoft operating systems, and I'm assuming a narrow definition for operating system since Apple has at least one very significant non-OS project in WebKit which should put them somewhere above one.

Re: “error: Failed dependencies:” The crux of Linux.

Nate — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 18:11:23 -0000

is glibc the failed dependency or are you trying to upgrade glibc?

Re: “error: Failed dependencies:” The crux of Linux.

Nate — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 18:28:13 -0000

or not using

Re: “error: Failed dependencies:” The crux of Linux.

Nate — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 23:22:43 -0000

I'm betting it's a packaging error. Since you're a paying customer you should demand they fix it.

Re: Third Party Applications on the iPhone - Steve Jobs

Nate — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 00:47:45 -0000

When I first saw this news elsewhere and also the the news about the price changes at iTunes I was wondering if you were still alive since I didn't hear about it from you first, but now I see your back on top of things and also I see you're calculating disaster costs in terms of iPhones so yeah, I guess your ok.

Re: Third Party Applications on the iPhone - Steve Jobs

Nate — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 13:04:25 -0000

Bogus! Deplorable! Must ... resist ... desire ... for iPhone

Re: Entourage ‘08

Nate — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 08:19:20 -0000

Red Hat doesn't do it. And Novell doesn't do it, at least not with their growing product line.

Re: Smash Bros. Brawl

Nate — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 08:19:36 -0000

Candyland!

Re: Dear Friends, Why I support Obama

Nate — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 10:07:54 -0000

It is way out of the bounds of the federal government. Evilly overstepping its charter. Also, consider that 85% of high school graduates take two or more years of foreign language mainly to fulfil college entrance requirements. Do

Re: Dear Friends, Why I support Obama

Nate — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 16:33:51 -0000

I think the flip-flop accusation gets thrown around a lot too much. Changing your mind isn't a flip-flop. For instance, if you consider McCain's position on the Bush tax cuts you will find that he never had a philosophical objection to cutting taxes, and now that he has seen the positive effect that they had it is natural for him to modify his position.

Flip-flopping should be reserved for a special kind of verbal gymnastics. Unwilling to commit to a side through vagaries or what not. Significantly changing presentation depending on the audience. Unwillingness to make a strong defence of a serious policy. These are things that show character flaws or sloppy thinking that should lower confidence in a candidate.

Re: Dear Friends, Why I support Obama

Nate — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 21:30:14 -0000

It's not really fair to think only of the deficit when discussing tax cuts since the federal deficit is not only a function of income but also of spending. While it is point of debate in this particular instance whether the lower taxes actually increased federal revenue (check out the corporate tax revenue after 2003 though), it most certainly does happen when the tax rates are much too high. Also, it is pretty clear I think that the economy was strengthened in many ways from those tax cuts. Increasing employment levels at the end of 2003 up until just recently are often cited in support of this.

My point though was that McCain believes that thy have been positive, which would naturally cause him to reassess his position making the charge of flip-flop unfair.

Re: Alaskans Speak (In A Frightened Whisper): Palin Is “Racist, Sexist, Vindictive, And Mean.” | The LA Progressive

Nate — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 15:03:31 -0000

Dan, you are better than this thinly source demagoguery.

Re: Buy Something Christmas

Nate — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 08:47:02 -0000

I find putting words in the mouth of sad Jesuse offensive. I agree, lame delivery.

Re: Buy Something Christmas

Nate — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 08:52:58 -0000

Funny, I'm reading a book by F.A. Hayek. The Road to Serfdom. Being a loved classic, it's a pretty good argument against economic planning even though he does advocate social saftey nets.

Re: Buy Something Christmas

Nate — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 09:06:27 -0000

Shareing fits perfectly into a free market, capitalist society. I'm makeing book reccommendations this morning, only because I've been interested in this subject over the pasty, but I think you would find Buisness for the Glory of God very helpful. It's really short, perfect for someone starting thier own buisness.

Re: Scattered » Blog Archive » Wordpress could face serious competition - from Microsoft

Nate — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 20:37:11 -0000

hippies don't love freeedom

Re: Scattered » Blog Archive » Wordpress could face serious competition - from Microsoft

Nate — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 20:51:01 -0000

Or, "learn to take a joke"

Re: Scattered » Blog Archive » Wordpress could face serious competition - from Microsoft

Nate — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 20:59:42 -0000

If that works for you, great. My comment was just a silly little comment that hardly deserved a response. So if it saves me from the lecturing, great!

Re: Scattered » Blog Archive » Wordpress could face serious competition - from Microsoft

Nate — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 21:22:13 -0000

Classic. Hippies hate clarity.

Re: Scattered » Blog Archive » Wordpress could face serious competition - from Microsoft

Nate — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 22:09:18 -0000

Do you have a source for the claim that Microsoft employees have given "other code contributions" to moonlight?

Re: Scattered » Blog Archive » Wordpress could face serious competition - from Microsoft

Nate — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 22:34:38 -0000

Because it seems at least a little unlikely to me. And the codec and testing framework examples don't really convince me that Dan is considerably mistaken.

Re: Scattered » Blog Archive » Wordpress could face serious competition - from Microsoft

Nate — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 23:40:58 -0000

OK. Do you have the name of the ORM framework project? I am googling a bit but not getting a obvious quick hit.

Re: Scattered » Blog Archive » Wordpress could face serious competition - from Microsoft

Nate — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 00:10:45 -0000

Perhaps. Perhaps a 40 and 300 word response to 4 word jokes you don't think are funny is a little much.

Re: Scattered » Blog Archive » Wordpress could face serious competition - from Microsoft

Nate — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 00:42:46 -0000

I found this
http://blog.wekeroad.com/blog/microsoft-subsonic-...

Re: Scattered » Blog Archive » Wordpress could face serious competition - from Microsoft

Nate — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 01:05:18 -0000

Thank you. Yes, I said that wrong before.

Hippies love freedom from clarity.

Re: Why are poor nations poor

Nate — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 02:00:00 -0000

Why don't the poor countries just stop paying back the loans?