I finally got Linux
Guess what! I installed Ubuntu. And with that, my computer is working again. *Knocks on unpainted wood* I never actually tried Linux before. It's great so far. Well, I can't seem to get some mousebuttons installed properly, and I need to redownload my mouse-gestures add-on, and a couple of other things are annoying me as well, but otherwise, it's great.
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May you have better luck than I did.
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Would I be pelted with tomatoes (or tomahtoes if you'd prefer) if I asked what the difference is between Linux and Unix?
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Erm, thank you...?
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Okay, moving on...
Am I the only person in the forum who played "duck duck gray duck" instead of "duck duck goose" as a child? So is there irony in the song Ironic or not? Site upon site try to answer the question, but they seem to have different definitions of "irony" to begin with. |
You're hijacking my thread. :P
I got me some mouse gestures. They're a good alternative for the extra buttons on my mouse. :) |
Congrats on both! :)
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Sorry, I must've thought this was the reply box for the PNQ thread. Oops.
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none of this goose stuff. |
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I'm as fallable as anyone. Of course some of you would say "more so!" but I hope you won't.
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Jack Worthing: Is that clever?
Actually, it is. Very. Kudos. |
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Badgerbadgerbadger... |
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Yes, really. |
Well, if you ever need a dead badger to have a go on, just let me know. I have... contacts.
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"Contacts" in this instance meaning that the road is an easy stroll from the doorstep?
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Oh, it's a little more complex than that. You see, Lewis doesn't have a native badger population. They all got eaten by the mink.
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Which are not native, I'm thinking, but which are quite aggressive. That does complicate matters.
Edit: Unless you happen to possess the correct adapter, is that it? |
I've never yet had the opportunity to plug a mink into a mains socket, so I honestly wouldn't know. They aren't entirely bad news - they keep down the rabbit population through most of the island - but they're extremely bad for the birds, both wild and domesticated.
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I recall a news item from a few years back: the inhabitants of a mink farm -- don't recall how many, exactly, but more than a couple hundred of them -- escaped into the wild, and the locals were... a bit distressed* for a few days until most of them could be rounded up.
Edit: The incident of which I was thinking was in southern England, iirc, but here's an item about a more recent (and larger) incident in Germany. * passing hexahedral units of masonry |
They are extraordinarily vicious little sods, at least in the wild. I know if I were out driving (assuming I could drive) and saw one in the road, I'd probably aim for it.
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I feel the same way about chickens, roosters especially. Evil, bloody-minded little buggers, they are.
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Oh driving's easy, really. I'm sure you could do it. All you have to do is try. Sure, getting away might be a bit tricky. You have to do it carefully, or the car might decide not to want to leave. But you can just try again. Once you have the hang of that, it's easy.
Now driving safely might be a bit harder. |
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And sod the minks; they've got it coming. |
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Driving fun? Hm, not that I know of. Handy, sure, and I don't dislike it, but fun?
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I think my reluctance is part terror, part reluctance (some of the young drivers around here are literally accidents waiting to happen), and part sheer bloody mindedness. It's the harder thing to do in this day and age, to not drive, so for once I'm going to try the harder thing.
And yes, it's true. Chickens are tasty idiots. |
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Good heavens, is he related to Rummy? It's as if it came from the same mind that brought us: Quote:
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I may have known at one time that I knew that, but it was a known that had become unknown by the time I posted it. Then again, I should probably have known.
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Well, there are knowns and there are unknowns, and then there are the things you didn't actually know, yet somehow intuitively "know" are true. Now, I don't know for sure, but I think it possible that, though it might have been an unknown unknown (or was it an unknown known? Make a note to check on that,) I could quite well have "known" something without actually knowing that I had known about it, beforehand.
You know? :) |
So what was previously said to be an unknown unknown may in fact have been known at the time it was thought to have been unknown and therefore have either been an unknown known or a known unknown - know what I mean?
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You never know...
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