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scholar
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response 374 of 563:
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Feb 26 04:52 UTC 2006 |
Richard suggests a lot of things that other people should do that he would
never do in similar circumstances.
You aren't special or helpful for being able to point it out, no matter how
many times you use the word 'bad'.
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tod
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response 375 of 563:
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Feb 26 05:39 UTC 2006 |
re #372
Yea, and be sure not to let anyone know where you're going. Keep large bills
in your pockets.
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mcnally
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response 376 of 563:
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Feb 26 09:35 UTC 2006 |
I'm happy because I like the color I picked for the bedroom in the
downstairs rental apartment still looks good to me *after* I painted
the room in that color. Since I've already had one "I picked
THAT?" experience with paint colors while redoing the apartment
I'm glad not to repeat the experience.
Just one more room to go (the bathroom..) and I'll be done with
painting. Carpeting and tile arrive next week and after I get
them laid down and the plumbing fixtures put back into the bathroom
I'll have a rentable apartment pretty much ready to go. It doesn't
sound like I'll need to advertise, either -- I've already had
several people stop me and ask me when it's going to be available
for rent.
At this point I'm less concerned about getting rental income from
the apartment than I am about getting my weekends back. I think I
need a vacation from renovation.
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tod
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response 377 of 563:
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Feb 27 00:58 UTC 2006 |
IHB Victor just peed in the potty
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twenex
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response 378 of 563:
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Feb 27 01:00 UTC 2006 |
Small pleasures for small minds
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tod
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response 379 of 563:
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Feb 27 01:17 UTC 2006 |
He's a year and a half old and got on the potty on his own and wizzed. I dont
consider myself smallminded for finding joy in his development.
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twenex
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response 380 of 563:
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Feb 27 01:19 UTC 2006 |
Only joking, tod.
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jiffer
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response 381 of 563:
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Feb 27 05:32 UTC 2006 |
That is great! May you have many more great toddler achievements soon.
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kingjon
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response 382 of 563:
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Mar 2 11:55 UTC 2006 |
I'm happy because Open Office finally finished compiling on this 350 MHz
computer.
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nharmon
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response 383 of 563:
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Mar 2 13:37 UTC 2006 |
How does it run?
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kingjon
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response 384 of 563:
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Mar 2 13:41 UTC 2006 |
Haven't tried it yet -- I hadn't updated in days, so now I have to re-emerge
(some upgrades, some with changed USE flags) 49 packages, starting with GCC.
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keesan
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response 385 of 563:
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Mar 2 15:23 UTC 2006 |
What happens if you don't upgrade 49 packages? Are these hardward upgrades,
security upgrades, bug fixes? Surely you don't need GCC to run Open Office.
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kingjon
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response 386 of 563:
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Mar 2 18:53 UTC 2006 |
Some of these are security upgrades, some are bug fixes, some are just changes
because I told it to globally not include some features anymore. The reason I
need to wait is that compiling uses so much of the CPU that I couldn't tell the
difference if OO would even run. GCC was upgrading from 3.4.3 to 3.4.4, I
think.
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kingjon
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response 387 of 563:
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Mar 2 19:55 UTC 2006 |
And 49 packages isn't really all that much. In the six or so hours it's got
only 19 left, counting glibc, which it's finished compiling but not installing
yet right now.
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keesan
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response 388 of 563:
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Mar 2 22:57 UTC 2006 |
It sound like you are spending at least 8 hours a week compiling upgrades.
Have you noticed things working better after each one?
We upgraded Opera from 7.23 to 8.51 and discovered the latter would not load
(seg fault) and went back to 7.23, which may lack a few bug fixes but also
lacks some new bugs.
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kingjon
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response 389 of 563:
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Mar 3 01:55 UTC 2006 |
I'm spending probably more like 4 hours, mostly in the middle of the night or
while I'm doing something else. All the non-upgrade updates are recompiling
because I told it to not link in some libraries, so the things that had them
linked in are recompiling to remove those dependencies.
As for "getting better": there's about 5 major security announcements each week
on average recently from Gentoo, all of which say "upgrade to such-and-such a
version", which I have had for a few days.
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keesan
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response 390 of 563:
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Mar 3 03:54 UTC 2006 |
Do you need a security update when you are not running a server?
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kingjon
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response 391 of 563:
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Mar 3 04:08 UTC 2006 |
Yes. There were holes in gpdf (the replacement for xpdf) which would allow a
specially crafted pdf file to execute arbitrary code on my machine, for
instance. If my computer were never connected to the Internet, it wouldn't need
updating, but mine doesn't fit that description. :)
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keesan
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response 392 of 563:
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Mar 3 04:27 UTC 2006 |
Does gpdf do something better than xpdf?
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kingjon
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response 393 of 563:
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Mar 3 11:01 UTC 2006 |
Xpdf's code was duplicated in a lot of things haphazardly, making it hard to
apply security updates, so a library called Poppler is used dynamically by
applications instead.
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jadecat
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response 394 of 563:
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Mar 3 14:47 UTC 2006 |
IHB- it's Friday and I have Monday and Tuesday off- yay for 4 day
weekends! AND the hubby and I are going to see my stepdaughter and
grandbaby tomorrow. :)
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edina
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response 395 of 563:
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Mar 3 15:50 UTC 2006 |
IHB it's Friday and the week has been a long and draining one. Work is pretty
intense now, as I'm supporting an attorney in a 6-8 week trial, plus another
who is writing appellant brief upon appellant brief. Fortunately, my weekends
are my own, so when Friday night rolls around, at least I know I don't have
to go in for two days.
I'm also VERY happy that my husband is taking me on a date tomorrow night to
the Melting Pot.
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slynne
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response 396 of 563:
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Mar 3 16:15 UTC 2006 |
The Melting Pot? Please tell me that is a fondue place becaue the name
is about perfect if it is.
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edina
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response 397 of 563:
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Mar 3 16:43 UTC 2006 |
It is a fondue place. www.meltingpot.com
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micklpkl
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response 398 of 563:
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Mar 3 17:22 UTC 2006 |
The Melting Pot is an awesome place for a date, though I think dessert is the
best course. Oh, be sure to wear something that you don't care if it gets a
huge dribbled chocolate stain on it. :)
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