Posts by ThePendragon 10 publicly visible posts • joined 10 Mar 2017
Einstein was a plagiarist and fraud; the establishment is desperate for you not to read the facts about him :
https://web.archive.org/web/20170506153412/http://www.thebirdman.org/Index/Others/Others-Doc-Science&Forteana/+Doc-Science-Relativity&Einstein/EinsteinWasAFraud.htm
https://web.archive.org/web/20100613190221/http://thebirdman.org/Index/Others/Others-Doc-Science&Forteana/+Doc-Science-Relativity&Einstein/EinsteinWasAFraud2.htm
https://web.archive.org/web/20170606224213/http://www.thebirdman.org/Index/Others/Others-Doc-Science&Forteana/+Doc-Science-Relativity&Einstein/Doc-Science-Relativity&Einstein.htm
Geez, Calibre has been around forever. It is really simple to install on any linux distro now but before it had its current installer I had to have kovid walk me through the install manually on Slackware (I now use Debian). I've also donated to Calibre several times. If you use it and find it useful I suggest you donate money.
If you are having trouble stripping DRM off Amazon books best bet is to use an old version of kindle for pc. I emulate it in wine in linux and I'm able to strip drm off ebooks in linux with the appropriate plugins it is really a PITA to set up in linux but setting it up in windows is a challenge too because you have use a batch script or something to force kindle for PC not to update itself because it aggressively seeks to do it.
Anyway, wow, I've used Calibre for so many years it seems like it has been around forever now. I used to use it with my old SONY readers (SONY no longer makes ereaders) now I use it mostly with a Boyue Likebook P78 with KOreader and it works like a charm.
What ? You had to use a dpkg command ? You probably could have just edited /etc/apt/sources.list to include the non-free repository and then update your system via apt then search with apt-cache then install it. Also, maybe you did have to use dpkg but I bet it was something simple like : dpkg -i package.deb
I'm from the oldschool I first installed linux in 1997 and I first installed Debian slink in 1999. Did you that Linux is a unix-like system and that unix was not designed to be a commercial operating system but a hackers tools set a programmers tool box for programmers ?
Dpkg is not obscure it is the god damn package management command for the entire system. It also documentated in a man page.
You don't want to read man pages ? Don't use *nix go use windows. Debian is not designed for people like you.
Nobody cares about 'purity' ? Nobody cares about newbies like you. I'm 42 years old RTFM or get off my lawn kid !
" eggheads" -- Ah, you know you are reading an article by an American when you see this term as it is totally anti-intellectual.
The English are intelligent e.g. Alan Turing, Charles Babbage, Ada Byron Lovelace etc.. etc...
The French are intellectual e.g. Blaise Pascal etc...
Americans are fat , ignorant and lazy hence terms like egghead. How is tossing around the term 'eggheads' working out for Americans while they are being anally raped (hacked ) by Russia , China and South America ?
Because rockstar coders are in the minority and are expensive and geniuses are hard to work with. I hear working with Theo De Raadt is like trying to cuddle up to a prickly cactus at best ! I dunno, maybe in the future AI with scan all source code , via a paradigm like Diomidis Spinellis laid down, and get rid of software problems or maybe the future is more like the programming language cyclone etc.. etc.. ?!
Exactly, since Americans are ignorant, fat and lazy and think science and technology is for 'nerds' and since their international PISA scores are lackluster they can't compete internationally in the modern age hence they outsource it ! The future happens but it largely does not happen within the US at least not at first, anymore !
Amazon using college kids instead of professionals and the American IT industry outsourcing stuff to Indians -- all pretty stupid stuff. But what ? Ulster Scots rebelled against the British empire and the porrage monkey Scot invented Capitalism to take the place of Aristocracy. The peasants and the merchant classes are on top and the Aristocrats are on bottom : The Scots and the French screwing up the world as usual and the what are we English expected to clean up their mess again (e.g. Hitler waltzing into France etc...?).
Alan Turing -- w00t AI -etc.. -- oops American idiots trying to combine IoT with AI but wait -- what ?-- what are all those telnet ports on the IoT devices instead of SSH doing there ? Doh !
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