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    Yeah so whatever.

    Fucking A I have been several weeks just beating on this machine like Balthazar was it's name, just whatever.

    Learned a bunch of bullshit, but not as good as (a) a correct framework, as in all of the modal logic I could have been thinking about, you know, actual things, instead of some stupid machine made by and for autistic morons (b) also stuff, about whatever.

    Fucking a. "From Agn'es with Love* my ass -- Wally Cox can chew it, beyatch.

    The error is that specialists too often forget their objects of study are to be found in their environments. Students of logic can look at the mind -- computers can help test, certainly, just as physical technicians can use their own machines to examine some merely-physical phenomena.

    It would have been a better time had more cared.

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    Hey, has anyone who uses MATLab for numerical analysis tried FreeMat on Linux?

    I guess I'm going to just use WINE on MATLab.

    Maybe I should just wipe Linux off this other netbook and install Windows 7 back on it, ghetto-style. (It came pre-installed with Win 7, but I had to replace the HD and it was easier to just pop a Linux on it than bother with the other stuff). Another advantage to Windows is that the Cisco OS and Packet Tracer tools are Windows-based. I'm going to try to pick up a CCNA cert this summer.

    Surprisingly difficult test -- but a friend says not only is it professionally lucrative. And, let's be honest, wireless networking is extremely interesting, as far as practical engineering-type things go. So, it's good stuff to know.

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    FreeMat is fine, but it kind of bothered me not having "mesh" and probably a bunch of other functions.

    Octave looks nice -- at least it's "guaranteed" to be compatible with whatver matlab stuff you throw at it. The only misgivings I ever heard were about older versions, command-line only, while this one has a pretty slick GUI.

    Much easier than borrowing somebody's version of MATLab for the few months I'll need it every now and then. Now I can go back to "relaxing" for a few hours this evening waiting yet again staring at a computer screen for some other stuff. Hey it's been fourteen hours already today! I'm guessing that's not great for the old eyesockets.

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    Good thing my time is barely worth anything.

    So, I've been using Octave (it's a free MatLab clone, and it works well on Linux, but, like everything on Linux that uses a GUI, it sucks compared to real software), and the plotting abilities are, if not dire, then pretty much crappy.

    Eight solid hours, finally got MatLab (yes, I know the owners of the trademark use all caps, but it's retarded, since it stands for Matrix Laboratory. LISP gets caps, MatLab does not. Respect, yo.) working on my Chromebook. I was in the process this (THIS) close to wiping an older netbook and reinstalling (perfectly legally -- I have an OEM Windows 7 Starter license for that netbook) Win7 on it and (OK, fine, pirating) MATLAB on it.

    Finally, fucking A. Got the crack to work. So, at least I don't have to VPN or do a bunch of mishegas in Octave to make nice-looking plots.

    Did I mention "open source" advocates are fucking annoying people? Really. These are the exactly the kinds of people who put pictures of cats, make jokes about drinking coffee, have neckbeards, and have fetishes for orientals, Renaissance warfare, technology, and snack foods of all kinds.

    Fucking nerds.

    I do have one, though: in lecture, a systems-programming expert was reading through a slide someone else had prepared, which read "GDB our best friend (some might say our best friend" (GDB is a command-line debugger). He said, "I might have to change this slide: GDB is not your friend. It's not mine. Certainly not my best friend. If GDB is your 'friend', you need to get a life."

    This is from a full, tenured professor, with a doctorate, nearing retirement age. There were some guffaws from the crowd, but also a large amount of uncomfortable silence.

    Suck on it bitches!

    Technology is a tool, not an excuse for you to rub one off on your pet cats and stroke your ass-hairs while "gaming."

    ETA however, it wasn't completely wasted time -- i learned a few tricks for dealing with different file systems in Linux (especially how to deal with flash drives formatted to be Windows-compatibe), which was frustrating, and I will forget all of it as soon as I can, because it's not important knowledge to me, but it was kind of educational.
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    I think I'm not going to bother sending in my older Acer c720 for factory-reset of the boot sector, but instead just open it up (i.e., void the warranty and install whatever OS I want on it).

    BUT, as long as I'm in there, why not replace the 16GB SSD HD with something rad?

    So, is there a cheap, compatible-with-MoBo-of-the-Acer SSD that's reasonably (<100USD) priced?

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    Well, speaking of this auxiliary Acer I'm using, has anyone else had problems with these "chiclet"-style keyboards becoming loose in the housings?

    This machine is a piece of shit -- the trackpad also sucks ass, but I don't care about that.

    I type like someone who was brought up on manual typewriters, which is true -- just pound randomly and get perfect results by deftly hitting key combinations. That's why I'm so good with the ladies.

    However, I think the side-to-side flexion and my seemingly-random "hunt and peck" is not good for these little crapboards.

    It's fucking annoying.

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    Seemingly-random but (most times) deadly-accurate.

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    Well this sucks shit. Just using wget to "view" a spam post here -- the one about skin cream or something. Apparently that still increases the "view" count. I didn't think it would, for some reason, but I didn't use my usual parameters, and I don't feel like looking it up right now.

    Also, would dumpers who INSIST that VLC is a perfectly adequate media player just fucking STOP?

    It's adequate, at best. In every way it is inferior to Media Player Classic (mpc), except that it takes a lot of effort to make MPC work on Linux, even under WINE. Even then, it may require a whole bunch of little piddling work that no sane person would agree to.

    So, it's settled. To play videos, you must run a Windows system, however you choose, and run MPC. Unless you're ready to accept inferiority.

    Similarly, to do any sort of word-processing, you must WINE and run MS Office.

    LibreOffice is, like all other Linux desktop apps, unsatisfactory in every way, when compared to real desktop applications.

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    Fucking dickwhore cuntmagnet screwass sons of bitches.

    It has been officially eight hours since I volunteered to help my mother and father set up their wireless printer.

    No problem, right? Flash the firmware, start from scratch, grab a USB cable.

    Motherfuckers. This shit is ridiculous. WTF dude? Pops's machine takes about five minutes to reboot, there's about a million "printers" "installed."

    Fuck it, I'm not even touching their little problems about printing from gmail or Windows Live Mail -- read the fucking manual, or use something else.

    There is so much crappy shit on this fuckstain of a shit network, I can't even google for answers without getting some fucking ads.

    But, no, "oh, no, don't touch that, we WANT that advertisement for Windows 10, because if you remove it, it might erase something!"

    Dude, either I do it my way, which is the right way, namely, proceeding step-by-step and eliminating possible errors, or it doesn't get done in a timely manner.

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