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YOU GOT 10% AVG SCORE 47%	Giving up is the only sure way to fail, so try again!

the one I got right was the one I picked at random...

Haha. Funny. Grillers doing all WMs and then fail to pass the test. :D

randomly found this - uses commodore ascii set to make gifs. kinda cool.
http://ailadi.com/PETSCII-daily-GIF

http://www.chiptune.com/starfield/starfield.html

http://demos.seb.ly/MMOsteroids.html

from here:
http://thingsinjars.com/post/457/web-page-screensavers/
some don't work.
This mofo really works:
https://mrdoob.neocities.org/
Why? - looking for a full screen saver and I can't get xscreensaver to work with gnome3 :shock: so just leave this on fullscreen...

I thought screen savers are dead. :)

Best screensaver ever: http://www.shallowsky.com/linux/x-screen-blanking.html

Pizzagate! :O

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/201 ... ws-reports

gifbot
https://imgur.com/a/ue4Ax

Kids can't use computers.

http://www.coding2learn.org/blog/2013/0 ... computers/

Nice share, pidsley. Although sad, there are many valid points in this article. People these days don't put time into learning basic things. You don't need to be an expert to properly connect a computer to a network or diagnose that the monitor is not powered on.

People act as if they don't have any time to analyze a situation or read an error message. It is almost as if they feel like the world owes them something.

yeah - i had to bail on reading the last half of the article, was too busy unblocking IPs from people thinking my SFTP was on a non standard port when they had just got the password wrong a few times...
and people complaining their DNS update hadn't worked, and emails are broken...
EDIT: very glad I finished it though :) woah 3 years old and nothing much has changed.

Pointless 2cents on folks not being able to compute computing. Both agree and disagree of course. Majority of folks from my generation dang sure aren't comp scientists that's for sure.

Guessing for whatever % of humanity they just aren't meant to be. Guessing just by virtue of immersion younger generations will have a higher % of technically competent or better users. Just consider it passive evolution at work. The wheels may turn slowly but are turning surely.

Really not surprising about people among my gen, we/they were around in the US when home pc's were just coming on the scene. Dos n floppy's, a massive 128mbs-ram, hdd's non-existent and dial-in modems able to reach something nothing like the Internet peeps take for granted today, stuff reserved for upper middle class Americans.

Which my family certainly wasn't, more like lower mid-class or upper lower class. Only laid eyes on what passed for the www a couple times in the 80's and didn't find the thing very interesting.

Oh yeah forgot to mention back then we also had to walk 5 miles to school in 10 feet of snow, even in the summer, uphill both ways too.

Kids today do grow up sucking/teething on tech devices that were the stuff of Sci-fi back then. They'll have to be better tech literate now and in future, whether they want to be or not. Until then, I vote those of us who do have an interest and whatever skill level in tech take full advantage of those who lack these qualities.

Cash, grass or ass, nobody gets tech support for free. :p

^ yeah.

pidsley wrote:Kids can't use computers.

http://www.coding2learn.org/blog/2013/0 ... computers/

Thanks for the share. Good stories. Even in one of my programming classes (Java), since it was an accelerated class, the teacher had VM's for the students to use, with the development environment and all the lessons set up. I was running I think LM or Ubuntu at the time. I had installed everything I needed, and was able to do all required on my own machine. I talked to him about it. He agreed, but since it was only a 6 week class, did not want to take too much time with set up.

The thing is, that is a vital aspect of being a developer. If you are unable to configure your own dev env, you're in trouble. That is just one story of the ineptness I would see in my computing classes. Maybe they just lacked the passion to really care, to want to learn, to see how it worked, to be better the next day. Oh well.

IIRC the wifi switch has caught a couple people off guard here

Someone tries to port emacs to rust........

https://github.com/Wilfred/remacs

^^ I have panicked about the trackpad off shortcut whilst getting to a TTY once, that was annoying...

^^ Lovely. Been following that fork since its beginning, but I'm going to have a look at it on this weekend. Rust is awesome.

Are you a Linux Legend?

https://www.qzzr.com/c/quiz/256373/are- ... 88a8044605

I am, 100%. :D

^ I am a "Linux Pro" at 70%

It's really cool to see the breakdown of participant scores:
How you compare to others

90-100% 2,359 people
80-89% 680 people
70-79% 844 people
60-69% 1,163 people
50-59% 1,542 people
40-49% 1,677 people
30-39% 1,471 people
20-29% 864 people
10-19% 349 people
0-9% 68 people

painful:
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