Posts by jake

@ diodesign

"enjoyed by thousands upon thousands of people"

"Enjoyed by"? Really? Can you actually demonstrate that?

"and not one comment about the amusing GIF (that I can see)."

I can't see the "amusing GIF" either. Must be something in the air.[1]

"There is absolutely no way we can keep everyone happy."

Except the ElReg Marketing Department, who are obviously out of touch with the readership, apparently. Before you nuke this post, kindly re-read the entire thread.

[1] Do I really have to point out the sarcasm?

@diodesign

"Register traffic was up globally in January 2015"

Define "traffic". Is that individual people looking at ElReg, or bandwidth paid for by ElReg serving up useless advertising & huge graphics?

Define "unique visitor count". Is that by IP address, or by account handle? (as a side-note, I can't remember seeing a handle with a number higher than 75000 ... for awhile there last year, I was kind of curious if the system would get B0rk3d when all y'all hit 64K. Growth in vocal user-base has not been exactly staggering.)

ElReg badges are useless. We don't need no stinking badges.

Re: @ channel extended (was:Open Source Code)

You didn't answer my question, Channel Extended. Where, exactly, in your case, compiling Gentoo, did you get your compiler executable? To say nothing of the linker and assembler.

Kids these days refuse to see the woods for trees ...

@ channel extended (was:Open Source Code)

Out of curiosity, where did you get your compiler binary?

http://cm.bell-labs.com/who/ken/trust.html

@ tom dial (was: Re: What a complete joke)

"Is there a Gnu/Linux binary distribution that is functional and does not modify any developer's application code?"

Slackware is closer to that ideal than any other Linux distribution.

Be careful with Slack, though. If you use it, you might actually learn something.

@RainbowTrout (was: Re: House prices....)

You don't purchase apartments in Walnut Creek. You rent or lease them.

Ten years ago, in Walnut Creek, you could purchase a 1500sq/ft detached home on a .30 lot with two car garage for $450K (it was the beginning of the housing bubble bursting, which peaked a couple years later when you could get the same home for ~$300,000).

Something about your story seems quite fishy.

12 Miles West? (was: Re: "Housing is beyond belief")

You mean the Farallons? That's a trifle further than 12 miles. And potentially a worse toxic waste dump than Hunter's Point (hard as that might be to believe). Not that most of us would be allowed to visit, much less move in. The NatureNazis, in their infinite wisdom, have managed to ensure that TheGreatUnwashed[tm] aren't allowed access because of "the wildlife". Odd, that ... a nature preserve built on a nuclear disposal site. The Greens are total headcases.

@AC "35 mins" (whatever that means, ElReg) waqs: Re: Penguins aren't tasteless, not at all.

"#532 Zoo Keeper"

AC is wrong again. As always. Actually, I was pre-vet, dabbling in exotics. I went with the money, computers & networking.

Do you actually have a life beyond reading my posts, AC? Just askin'

Re: Alistair (was:Whatever.)

This was a third of a century ago, lotta water under the ol' bridge. Maybe the A6-hundred-something? Our friends joined us in Rawdon, Farsley and Pudsey (I'm still in contact with all of them, so I know all the towns are correct). Then on to the poor-excuse for a southern section of the ring-road around Leeds, to the A1(M1?) and South. Don't ask where we pulled off the A1(M1?), but I'm pretty certain it was south of Nottingham and north of Leicester.

I guess I could look at a map, but I can't be arsed.

Re: Alistair (was:Whatever.)

In pre-GPS days, my GF & I watched a game at Villa Park. From my home in Harrogate, I eyeballed my OS maps, and took the M42 to Bradford/Leeds to round up a couple friends and their ladies, and we all hit the M1. When we got to Birmingham, we simply followed the signs to the park. About 3 hours, total, each way. No muss, no fuss, barring pee/petrol/tea breaks (we were all on Honda 250 Super Dreams (CB 250 NA), this was roughly 1979). I rather suspect that GPS would have distracted from the trip, rather than enhance it.

Good match, BTW. Leeds won 2-1 ... We're probably lucky we didn't get the shit kicked out of us by Lions supporters, we all followed Leeds ;-)

Alistair (was:Re: Whatever.)

So when you visit a small, spendy, foot/bicycle-traffic tourist town, you don't bother to find out where your meandering will take you before you get there?

If you don't know why you are going there, and where you are planning to visit, why are you spending a lot of money on that particular travel destination?

"OH, It's SONOMA! Heart of California's wine country!" isn't an answer. Because it's not.

@Ragequit

"Just because it's in the main line kernel"

It's not. And won't be anytime soon.