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[jasonlane]

quote:Originally posted by Stryker:
hmm... for you linux people out there...

When did u first start using linux? how did u hear about it? has anyone here used it since the begining? what was ur first distro?

me? I started a few years ago when I was playing muds. I wanted to make one. I looked for a host and everyone said they ran linux... i was like "what the hell is linux?". Luckily I drove myself to figure out what linux was. I've been using it since redhat 7.1 (my first distro).


bacon is good.

Before I finally do go to bed, MUDS are cool, you should make one. I had an idea to make aMatrix style mud, figthing agents, hacking tasks....

Red Hat 4.2, but I never really got into Red Hat for one reason or another. Then again if you know *nixes you know *nixes, I find it fairly easy most times to pick up a *nix distro I haven't used before.

[jasonlane]

quote:Originally posted by Laukev7:
Laukev stands for Laurier Kevin, with a 7 appended to make it look cool. Very imaginative, isn't it.

I have to find a real nick someday...

And my sig means 'Down with Microsoft! Bill to the gallows!'

I also had a sig in Latin which meant 'Give back to Caesar what belongs to Caesar, and back to God what belongs to him'.

[ July 17, 2003: Message edited by: Laukev7 ]

I think that is a real nick, no? Sounds kind of Russian to me, I like it
     

Oh yeah the Latin, yup I knew that      My Latin is pretty good, especially speaking Spanish helps with that. That comes from:

Matthew 22:15-22

Thus showing that we must pay our taxes      

And finally......a goodnight ladies and gentlemen.

[ July 17, 2003: Message edited by: Zardoz ]

[Laukev7]

Glad you like my nick, then...

I know Spanish too, although not fluently. I just need to practise...        

I'd like to learn Latin for real, one day. I just love languages. With Spanish, coupled with French (which is much more complicated than Spanish) and German (which has declinasions), it's going to be even easier.    

Nighty, Zardoz.

[ July 17, 2003: Message edited by: Laukev7 ]

[ July 18, 2003: Message edited by: Laukev7 ]

[M51DPS]

Green is an excellent color. Bacon is so good you can almost feel your heart slowing down. Plus turkey is good too.

I am a big mac zealot, and have been content with the Mac OS my whole life. This lead to me not caring about anything else. Eventually I came here I saw that big list of alternatives and was amazed that there was so much more. After looking around a bit I learned plenty of things about Linux, UNIX, an their history

Here's my stupid off-topic question. How can Pluto be considered a planet? IT'S TINY! With an estimated size on only 1,430 miles, wouldn't it be closer to a comet? Sure it has a moon, but it only has an estimated diameter of 750 miles.

[TheQuirk]

It doesn't count as a planet anymore.

Ha, ha!

[Stryker]

quote:Originally posted by TheQuirk:
It doesn't count as a planet anymore.

Ha, ha!

where'd u see that?

[jasonlane]

It's a planet if the center of it's orbit is the sun. If it's orbits center is another body then it's a moon, like our moon center of orbit is the earth then the sun.

[M51DPS]

What about the asteroid belt? Are all of those asteroids planets then?

[Laukev7]

No, they are not. Because they are called asteroids. They are not called planets because scientists decided they are too small to be considered planets.  And Pluto is much bigger than any asteroid.

The difference is only in name. If a chair is made of wood, it would be just as correct to call it a chair than calling it a lump of wood. It is only because some european invented the word  'chair' and  everyone who speaks English agrees that it should be called 'chair' that it is called 'chair'. But the French, the German and the Spanish don't agree on that. They call it 'chaise', 'Stuhl' or 'silla'.

An asteroid is a lump of rocks, or ice, or iron. The earth is also a lump of iron, rocks and ice. What's the difference? Their position in the solar system and their size.

So there, names are not absolute. Now that I made my point, you may gag me and tie me up now.  

[xyle_one]

let the gaggings commence    

i am going to use this thread to shamelessly promote my website.

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for all of you digital & fine artists out there (in here    )

and now that that is out of the way, we can let this thread continue.

[M51DPS]

Okay, but can't it still be considered a large comet with a far orbit? Either way, I'm not calling it a planet. Therefor it no longer is, according to your reasoning. Consider yourself tied and gagged. Hey, i'm also only three posts from having 150!

[ July 19, 2003: Message edited by: M51DPS ]

[Laukev7]

mmmmm... mmmmmmfff...

(should have been careful for what I wished for)

By the way, I'm a ventriloquist*, so you'll just have to endure more of my soporific scientific chatter anyway.    

* Not really.

Anyway, comets, contrarily to planets, have much more erratic orbits than Pluto, and, by definition,  are followed by a long tail of dust. Also, they travel at much higher velocities than planets. Therefore, Pluto cannot be a comet, even though they are, like the former, mainly composed of ice.

Oh, and you alone cannot determine whether Pluto should be called an asteroid or a planet or a comet. The choice have to be agreed upon a majority of experts in the domain, and the definition attributed to the name has to correspond to the characteristics of the object, and vice versa.  

[M51DPS]

Still, any tails of dust would be pretty much impossible to detect because pluto is so far away. But I guess you were right.

[jasonlane]

I'd hate to live on Pluto, a year is equivallent to 248 earth years and a day lasts 6 earth days. Plus is friggin frezzing  -233

[Laukev7]

But, on the other hand, imagine the long vacations you would get!

*runs away in cover*