Recent content by Warthog912

What he said.

"lurk" is a relative term. Cheers!

Pretty nifty device, although it has serious limitations. Glorified pedometer, IMO, but a digital watch which looks good to go with all that step counting. In all seriousness, I wear/use it everyday, and use it as a reminder for x amount of exercise per day. I primarily use it for the...

At least your honest. This is a character trait of which I can respect. Cheers.

Firstly, I didn't buy it- it was a gift. Secondly, I personally believe it speaks more to your character to judge without appropriate observation or evidence. Did I get taken for $150? It depends on what you define as "taken". I find that anything which gets me outside and pushing myself...

I pre-ordered it. Got it in the mail yesterday. Brief Rundown: It's capable of 4 modes: Time, Calories, Steps, and "Fuel" Time, calories, and steps are obvious. "Fuel", on the other hand is quite interesting. This Fuel is some standardized numerical value which, according to Nike, can be...

16 all the way. Traveled the b route many times to and from Augusta. Currently live in Macon traveling to ATL all the time. 16 FTW.

ReligiousTolerance.org Very informational site.

In my experience, the best way to make major filesystem changes (major as in something an OS,including running OS, is located on) boot from the Live cd, terminal : sudo gparted, and go from there.

What distro are you using? Generally speaking, most distros have considerably easier ways to install apps than from source. Tell us what distro (Ubuntu/SUSE/CentOS) and we can help with an easier way.

QFT- Anti-static bag (static- duh) + ziplock (moisture) + freezer for 10-15 minutes = couple minutes of disk spin-up to recover data.

Agreed. I'm in CentOS at work most of the time logged in as root so I generally su to root immediately after opening a terminal session out of habit.

You can set the automatic login post-install by Menu>System>Administration>Login Window>Security Tab. Check the Auto login box and you should be good to go- Regarding sudo "root" and setting the password: once logged in, open a command prompt and type "sudo passwd", set the password and you...

That was perfect context.

Joke?