Linux is awesomely awesome!

[rustyslacker]

I'm writing this thread to you from my SUSE 10.0 Linux machine. It was pretty awesome getting it online. All I had to do was enable Internet Connection Sharing on the XP computer and connect, then open Epiphany over on this computer and it worked!


Yaay!

[Raptor Jesus]

Lol, good work rusty XD

[rustyslacker]

Thank you!

Now I get to do more science fair paperwork. I'm gonna test bullet-resistant vests! This'll probably be the most fun science fair project ever.

[Aliotroph?]

Shouldn't you be running Rustyslackware?

Hmm, testing bullet-proof vests. How exactly are you going to manage that? Sounds like an expensive experiment, between having a proper range of guns and a proper range of vests around to make it meaningful, I can see you being out hundreds of dollars.

[Raptor Jesus]

Oooo!!! Can you test them on me???!?!?

[rustyslacker]

I'm only using one gun. It's not caliber or firearm that's involved in the research question. It's effectiveness against multiple shots delivered to the same small area in rapid succession.

Yeah.

I tried Rustyslackware at one point and it didn't really work for me. I think it had a labor union or something.

Originally Posted by Raptor Jesus

Oooo!!! Can you test them on me???!?!?

Test it yourself. I don't know where you live.

[Aliotroph?]

Sounds like a shitty deal for the vests.

Only ever entered one science fair. Won it though. We wee testing whether plants liked regular daylight or lots of long-wave UV better. They liked the purer UV better than the sun! Should have done more science fairs but they're only really fun with a friend who's as much of a geek as you are.

Ended up going back and judging that some one for four years in a row. One year my friend and I even got to organize all the judges so we got clever and decided their scheme of grading projects was primative, inaccurate and prone to confusing untrained mothers. We thus designed a new scheme and a VB program to do all the numbers for us. We caught one of the parents cheating.

Needless to say, that project had utterly no chance of winning so I don't know why that mother gave her kid such awesome marks. For that matter, I don't know how she got assigned to judge her own kid. Science fairs have a lot of problems with parents. Beware the evil parents who will help their kids in ways that should get them shot with your gun!

You should wear one of the vests when you walk into the place just to scare people.

[Raptor Jesus]

Awww... i wanted to be part of the experiment. I'll just have to make my own out of newspaper and duct tape later

[rustyslacker]

Originally Posted by Aliotroph?

You should wear one of the vests when you walk into the place just to scare people.

Yeah. It'll have Iran Bomb Squad on the front, and "Slacker" and my number on the back. It'll be better than a sports jersey.

Originally Posted by Aliotroph?

Only ever entered one science fair. Won it though. We wee testing whether plants liked regular daylight or lots of long-wave UV better. They liked the purer UV better than the sun! Should have done more science fairs but they're only really fun with a friend who's as much of a geek as you are.

That's pretty cool. Last year I made a tiny trebuchet and tested what effect a heavier counterweight had on the projectile's trajectory. 4th place in my school fair, 3rd in the district fair. Eventually the trebuchet shot the marbles really high into the air and got hardly any distance.

[Aliotroph?]

Hmm, I've never built a trebuchet. I really should do that some time. That's kind of weird that the marbles started shooting up more. Sounds like the sling was releasing them earlier. I didn't think moving faster would make it do that. Got a graph of that?

[rustyslacker]

Screw you.

[KuriKai]

Welcome to the club "rustyslacker"

[rustyslacker]

I've been using Linux for a while, but never got it networked or online before today. I've been a club member. I know the handshake.

[sourceror]

Me too! Me too! I know teh handshake!

Slackware works fine for me, what it lacks in number of packages it makes up
for in configurability. To me it's the true linux, like playing doom without a sourceport, but still
being able to add mods if you want... sort of. Maybe someone else knows
what I'm saying and can say it right.

For the best reason to use slackware, find linux chick #3.

[Aliotroph?]

Originally Posted by rustyslacker

I've been using Linux for a while, but never got it networked or online before today. I've been a club member. I know the handshake.

I find Linux easier to network than Windows (well, except for the fact that they don't read each other's filesystems).

[rustyslacker]

Linux reads FAT and NTFS fine, and writes to FAT. Sucks that Windows doesn't recognize ext2, ext3, or ReiserFS.

Originally Posted by sourceror

Slackware works fine for me, what it lacks in number of packages it makes up
for in configurability. To me it's the true linux, like playing doom without a sourceport, but still
being able to add mods if you want... sort of. Maybe someone else knows
what I'm saying and can say it right.

Yeah, I see what you're saying. I'll probably try Slackware again anyway, or get a Live CD or something.

[draconx]

And with NTFS-3g, we can write to NTFS too (although it's still experimental)

pvcreate /dev/sda1 solved all my ntfs problems once and for all though.

[sLydE]

Originally Posted by Chris Knight

Something strange happened to me this morning.
Was it a dream where you see yourself standing in sort of sun-god robes on a pyramid with a thousand naked women screaming and throwing little pickles at you?
No.
Why am I the only person that has that dream?

o_0