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@detn8r 245561 wrote:
Get over it. You seem to have logged in just fine.
Because my password was my username, and it was my 4th guess as my regular throwaway passwords like password, the letter a, and 12345 weren’t the passwords, and this new system doesn’t even let me use those old passwords
@Nessa 245566 wrote:Thanks for sharing your old password?
Anyways I don’t agree with raising that limit as it just goes along with any other site even Yahoo! and Google have small limits.
If you forget your password there is a Forgot Password option! It’s helpful – use it.
Not sure about yahoo, but google has no limit, but those sites have password breakin attempts, if I’ve had this password for over 6 years and haven’t lost my account, it’s fighting a problem that doesn’t exist
The forgot password doesn’t do anything after you’ve already locked out your account
if you’re looking to keep the content on both computers, but only want to keep the most up to date stuff, you can look into setting up an svn repository to keep track of the files. Also has the nice side effects of being a good backup system, and an undo mechanism if you accidentally save over something.
heh you think the videos are bad? Try reading the comments. Oh dear god are they horrible. If youtube were a forum it’d be the worst forum on the internet.
@David 230658 wrote:
So why exactly is the real answer more correct? It’s hard to even think about these things because you can easily skip over the correct answer based on a technicality, the same type of technicality that makes the other answers so plausible, and IMO, just as correct.
The variety in answers is what makes riddles great, with a little creativity and ingenuity you can make a bad riddle good.
@sarahtowny 227572 wrote:
That is just so lovely that she went to all that trouble.
One thing that comes to mind is you finding the biggest box you possibly can, then as many boxes you can find, that get smaller and smaller.. Until a tiny one at the end, with a message saying something like ‘I would love to go to the dance’ inside?
It would take her ages to get to the last one …. And is also quite romantic 🙂
Ps have a great time at the dance!It’d be better if the note inside said sorry princess but your answer is in another box, call me for it.
Then it’s personal and annoying.
@David 226495 wrote:
So you switch operating systems to use a printer? What’s the difference between just using that old OS that it did support, then? This is a niche situation anyway, and I never tried to argue that FOSS wasn’t good for niche stuff. Normal people wouldn’t bother, and wouldn’t know how to do that.
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Had the PSU on the box not conked out, it’d make a great print server by changing the OS, but unfortunately old hardware has a tendency to fail. I will agree with you on normal people shouldn’t know how to do stuff, they should just plug it in and have it work, in the case of printers I only see it work like that on the unpopular OSes.
@David 226495 wrote:I’m pretty sure anyone using NetBSD is a developer, or close to it. The example you could have used was Firefox->Flock, but both of those are of poor quality.
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I think a better example would be that of the Firefox fork of the Mozilla Suite(Or Seamonkey as it’s now called, which kind of brings in another additional benefit, of the community supporting something after the developers stop, like the case with Blender).
@David 226495 wrote:You’re right, but who the hell cares about playing Doom on any device other than gamers/geeks/nerds? That isn’t really helping anyone except those that want to screw around with computers. It has been installed on a digital camera, though.
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It adds value to the device.
@David 226495 wrote:The only companies in that list that are focused on FOSS are Red Hat and Canonical (though arguably Novell/NetWare). Both of them spend their time/efforts/funds on making their distribution better, how much are they really putting back into the community? Are they the ones updating the core services that end up in every distro? Or are they building a semi-proprietary package that they intend to sell support for?
IBM primarily supports Eclipse, which is in their best interest, since they would need a solid Java IDE for their products anyway. However, AIX isn’t FOSS.
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I doubt you can find an essential Linux service that hasn’t been touched by one of the developers I listed. I’m surprised you’d think that businesses wouldn’t do what’s in their best interest, as I’ve yet to hear of a business that succeeded by doing otherwise.
@David 226495 wrote:Microsoft and Apple also have open source ventures, as how these companies have closed-source ventures.
Their open source ventures are laughable compared to the companies I listed.
@David 225977 wrote:
I understand the advantage of “free,” but open source? Unless you are a developer (are you? I’m not sure), it doesn’t really matter. This is a big part of the reason I dislike FOSS people, because they push that corporations are evil without realizing that true innovation usually happens when its backed by a fiscal investment (R&D). FOSS has its place, but I don’t see it for a consumer-grade OS.
Just my two cents. 🙂
(I have used Ubuntu, as well as Fedora, but I just don’t see it as a very good graphical consumer OS)
It doesn’t matter if you’re a developer or not to benefit from open source. I’ll give you 3 situations where it benefits you even though you’re not a developer, where I’ve personally seen improvements due to the source being open, even if I wasn’t the one who modified it:
1. When you have an old piece of hardware(in this case was an old laser printer), that the vendor no longer supports, and no driver exists for the newer commercial operating systems, I look and there’s a cups driver contributed by someone outside the main circle of developers
2. When you want a version of something(like say a more secure version of NetBSD), there’s the freedom of developers that are so inclined to, can make a fork(OpenBSD) that will attend to your needs better. (Another great example of this is the Mint fork of Ubuntu, or even the Ubuntu fork of Debian).
3. Ports of open source programs happen more often than closed sourced ones(I can play Doom on my computer, my DS, an ipod, I’ve even heard it can run on a digital camera).@David 225984 wrote:
So these developers… they are all going to work for free? The entire OS will be based on developers working for free, just “for the greater good of man”?
So companies like Red Hat, Novell, IBM, Sun, Canonical, Google and HP quit paying their employees? If you look into the background of most contributors to open source projects, the majority of them are employed to do so, Linus Torvalds doesn’t even work for free anymore.
1st question, it’ll only work if they don’t have a firewall that blocks incoming traffic requests, 2nd I wouldn’t imagine them doing so.
it’s a feature called batch resize
