Quote of the day

[GekkoP]

Another fav:

Creativity is more than just being different. Anybody can play weird; that's easy. What's hard is to be as simple as Bach. Making the simple awesomely simple, that's creativity.

Charles Mingus

[hinto]

@pidsley My poor attempt at a joke. It's been my sig since I joined BBQ ;)
-H

[pidsley]

@pidsley My poor attempt at a joke. It's been my sig since I joined BBQ ;)
-H

Yes, I know. :(

[hinto]

^The funny thing is that one night I was going into a meeting and I said "Man, it's cold enough to kill hogs." Folks knew what I did for a living and wondered what in the world does a computer geek know about killing hogs ;) (My grand parents raised them and for 8 years, startin @ 10, I helped.)
-H

[GekkoP]

Another classic, another dear one

Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn.

Miguel de Cervantes

[Alad]

This is my new hero.

"When a young man, I read somewhere the following: God the Almighty said, 'All that is too complex is unnecessary, and it is simple that is needed'. So this has been my lifetime motto -- I have been creating weapons to defend the borders of my fatherland, to be simple and reliable. -- Kalashnikov

[Alad]

The GNOME project has always tried to be window manager-agnostic, acknowledging that most users get really attached to their window managers, and forcing them to use something that manages windows differently would detract from their audience.

-- X Window System Architecture Overview HOWTO, 2001

[machinebacon]

^ Good old days of Sawfish :D

[Alad]

Hi I'm new to linux .. I went on ubuntu since it's easy to use but I started lagging on it and I went on crunchbang.
I have no idea what to do here. Can someone add me on facebook or something skype? and everytime I got a question can help me ? For example I can't install this on crunchbang.

http://crunchbang.org/forums/viewtopic.php?id=36804

[Alad]

In coding, unlike in the bedroom, it's good to be simple and predictable.

[rhowaldt]

^^ hahaha, "great, back to ubuntu..." - wow.

[machinebacon]

^ yeah, and asking for personal support, fucking great!

[p120d16y]

Hi I'm new to linux .. I went on ubuntu since it's easy to use but I started lagging on it and I went on crunchbang.
I have no idea what to do here. Can someone add me on facebook or something skype? and everytime I got a question can help me ? For example I can't install this on crunchbang.

http://crunchbang.org/forums/viewtopic.php?id=36804

LMAO.

[GekkoP]

It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.
- Alfred North Whitehead

[stark]

There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth. -Leo Tolstoy

[machinebacon]

^ one of my favorite writers, thank you stark :)

"To talk of loving a man or woman for life is like saying that a candle can burn forever."

[stark]

Mine too! and you're welcome :). Gives your imagination quite a run, I was first introduced to his writings in 10th grade where i read "How much land does a man need" ( the funny thing is that the title in our book was, "How much land does a man require").But overall a lean writing style.

[machinebacon]

"What men live by" was my first one, or maybe it was the Kreutzer Sonata -- and same as you, I read it first when I was around 15.
Usually it should have been Anna Karenina or War and Peace, but I find it very hard to keep myself concentrated reading these. The tales and short stories fit my temper more :)

There is maybe one thing I would dare criticize about Tolstoy - that he always tries to explain things by using the terms God, angels, some kind of incarnation -- but OTOH his writings are 150 years old, and he was living in Russia, so it makes sense somehow :) I do like it when he goes into discussing with himself on a philosophical (rather than a theological) level, about the strength and weakness of humans without trying to make the reader believe that there is the influence of God.
Of course philosophy, moral, sociology, religion, ethics all go together, but sometimes it seems to me that he took the easier path (in terms of creating a solution to a problem) than using logic or reality.
Hope you understand what I mean :D

[ivanovnegro]

^ That is the Eastern *spirit* Bacon, it is more spiritual than religious compared to how we perceive religion today, at least that is how I see it.

[machinebacon]

Taken into consideration before ;)

but OTOH his writings are 150 years old, and he was living in Russia, so it makes sense somehow :)