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42, Simple isn't it? Ah!! well you wish!!!! Unfortunately it isn't that simple, or may be it is but the consequences are equally more complex. Regardless all the three terms are mere specializations of one fundamental concept. Existence!! Existence is so fundamentally integrated with,... well everything, that we take it for granted. In my opinion the concept of existence is the most ignored, but the greatest features of the known Universe. I could never understand why anything has to exists...
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Yes it finally happened !!! i outcasted myself ( no no i still do use emacs). I recently installed Ubuntu Hoary on my notebook, with an intent of upgrading it to kubuntu and then migrating all my knoppix configs to it. But after spending few days in gnome, i am now an experimental convert. I always said KDE doesn't feel right, and i keep struggling to get it the way just i like it. Don't take me wrong... its not the KDE's lack of functionality or configurability thats a problem here. Its just...
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Why do people give existance of miracles as a proof of existance of god?In my view that should be exactly opposite....Had god existed no one would need a miracle. Assuming gods existance, offhand i could think of only two uses for miracles,1. To leave a proof that god exists.2. To remedy a mistake.here 'god' means any entity that created and maintains the universe including the laws on which it runs.I couldn't think of anything else..... (any takers?) But even these two are mute. Had god...
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Q: What do you do? when on one particular tuesday, you have woken up late to realise that a meeting was suppose to start 10 mins. ago, You feel miserable to read a message from your girfriend saying she forgot to call you alltogether. then finally in the three hour long meeting find out that the desing you worked on for last two weeks is a piece of crap and the client wants you to start from scratch, and even your cdrom drive has failed for some misterious reason. When you think that world is...
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I was just thinking.... (what the f***???)How come after 15 (may be more) years of development and so called reasearch, no os in the enitre world supports non rectangular windows?Well to be honest all of them do.... i mean i have seen weird skins for xmms and noatune...... but still, nobody inherantly uses the nonrectangular window in the gui interface design. I mean i am sure if people think about it carefully enough they can def. come up with a really good uses for these. First of all its so...
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This sucks!!!! I mean it reallllllyyyy ****___SUCKS___*****What am i talking about?Those stupid pieces of shit underhood my desktop or "Operatingsystems" as they are called.I mean they were quite a sensation once. When i had a 386 and tookhundreds of milisec to diplay a three line directory content, i wasamazed to see them make things actually easier in life. The new GUI'sbeing invented were a greate leap towards usability. I thought at thispace, i will have lot to see in my youth.but after...
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Just go and ask "Why DRM and copyrights are bad?" on /. or similiar crowed and you will be burried under countless reasons.Today i am just going to add one more to the pool....."Future"The reasoning goes something like this. Today everyone copyrights a material, which basically means you can not reproduce it. There is an unmentioned diversion to the above restriction, which is for now quite obvious, that is you can reproduce it in you brains. You can veiw the movie you, can listen to the music...
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Well while i was trying to build the directfb stuff, i also kept working on Xorg. Well finally i have it all....DRI now works under Xorg, and i even have SATA driver up and running in the kernel, after i installed hybrid of gentoo and debian and kernl.org kernels :-)).I will write a full report on linux on ACER travelmate 4151 once i get the modem and wifi working again (the hybrid kernel is not (yet) configured for those)One disappointment though,.. although xine now can render fast it still...
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This is frustrating....What i have here is this,SATA is fully documented open protocol, linux kernel has the driverand yet a custom compiled driver is failing to detect my drive, HOWRUDE!!!!!!!Neways more on that later, if i care enough, for now i am stuck with dmaless PIO mode in ide emulation.Now on to real frustrating part.... Both XFree and XOrg have i915 drivers, kernel is latest and has dri driver....None of them work... i have in my hands three codes which basically dothe same thing on...
