Yesterday, we were doing a bunch of draft slides using an erasable white board with a printer. We have been printing out our white board drawings for years. Yesterday, the printer decided to crap out in the middle of the session, and we needed these slides the day before yesterday. We couldn't wait for a new printer cartridge.
All of us were lost for a few minutes as to what to do. Then I went to the supply closet, and after much effort, found an old school #2 pencil (the kind that you use a sharpener with), with an ACTUAL eraser.
I got writers cramp drawing those slides, and used the eraser a lot, but it was kind of cool.
I used to have a $100 Pentax that I could take practically any picture with. I once took perfect pictures inside the Maginot Line with no flash ( I set the shutter speed to about 1 second with the camera sitting on a table)
Thats the key I have for my luggage! I can't find the key and have to use a screwdriver to open it now. How did Diabold get it? Has my luggage been pwned?
Of course it is. I mean, everything is Microsoft's fault, right? I mean they are almost as evil as Bush:P Anyway, I knew a sysadmin who got fired over autocomplete. She tried to send a stupid pr0n joke to a coworker and accidentally send it to a wide distribution list instead. Autocomplete helped her find that distribution list. I mean, we can't really expect people to check their to: list prior to sending pr0n jokes, can we?
I used to have the Rhaposdy service, but wound up canceling it after buying Iron Maiden "A Matter of Life and Death", but couldn't download it to my iPod because of compatibility/DRM issues. Enough DRM crap. I now buy all my music from Amazon.
I remember a passage from Tom Clancy's Red Storm Rising:
Some US solders on Iceland after the Soviets had invaded and taken over: "Sir, we need some food. What do we do?" "We ask for it." "Ask for it?" "Yes, private, we ask for it. And pay for it. And say Thank you, unless they want to phone Ivan as soon as we leave."
Twenty years later, I have made a very successful career mostly by being nice. I find it usually works a lot better than being an asshole.
Actually in my experience, every version of Windows Explorer (since at least 95) has had the "Microsoft sort". From the start menu, to file listings, new entries are entered at the end of the list or near where the cursor is. Once my project manager was trying some old Oracle archivelogs which were sorted by date using explorer on XP. I advised him against it because of this problem. Sure enough, as he was highlighting them, a couple of new ones appeared in the middle of the (previously sorted) list and were deleted. Fortunately, we had extra copies duplexed so we didn't lose anything.
In the start menu, Microsoft actually has code to keep the program list unsorted (when you click "resort", you are actually deleting a registry key which maintains the unsorted entries).
I am hoping to replace the XP explorer with KDE when they release binaries for Windows. Maybe I'll just compile it myself.
While I didn't learn programming on a C-64, did some cool stuff on it, like programming a macro assembler in basic (I couldn't afford the cartridge) and a Q*Bert game with it.
I just downloaded a C-64 emulator with the ROMS of my favorite games - Defender of the Crown, Aliens, Gunship, California Games. Man, we use to play those a lot! When I first started Aliens, it seemed pretty cheesy by todays standards. Then I remembered these games are based on 1982 technology. I started playing them again, and they are just as fun as ever, even with 320x200 16 color graphics and MIDI sound.
Sir! they are all over the place! Where are they, private? Everywhere! They're in the Room! I don't see anything! How could the be in the
I was once in London, and had to set up some US computer equipment. We used transformers to convert the 220 to 110 US voltage. Our SOP (which of course I didn't follow) was to use a voltage meter prior to plugging anything in. Instead, I plugged a laptop into it and booted it up just fine. Then I plugged a surge protector which promptly exploded (it was pretty spectacular). Finally following the SOP, I checked the output voltage of the transformer which was actually about 350 volts. Apparently the laptop had a pretty good power supply.
BTW, the little task bar trick works great with a command prompt. Just drag a file to the command prompt button and drop it on the window. It will paste the complete path to the file in the window, along with quotes. Nice if your file is buried 12 levels deep.
I would love to see context menus in Windoze. Sometimes it copies the file. Sometimes it moves the file. Sometimes it creates a link (shortcut) to the file. Depends on whether it is a Network share, different device, if it is between 0615 and 1320 on Mondays, Thursdays, or the 14th of each month.
I never use drag and drop in Windozes for that very reason.
I kind of guessed that, but was too lazy to look it up:p 52X? Thats a lot of RPMs. More like the bit I would put on my router than something I would put in my computer. No wonder it exploded. What, do I have to start wearing safety goggles when I use a CD?:)
When I was a kid in California, we had one of these my entire life. When I was 18, it bloomed, growing a 30 foot flower in about a month. Then it died, with the flower crashing into our garage. The new ones that sprouted then should be about ready to bloom too...
I one put a standard (commercial) CD-ROM in a 52x standard tray loader. Apparently this CD had a defect in it, as it exploded after it spun up. Apparently these 52x CD-ROM drives work by spinning the CD at a much higher speed than a normal music CD and generating a lot more centrifugal force.
When it let loose, the force was powerful enough to blow the front door off the drive, send a cloud of shards throughout the room and inside the case, and destroyed the drive. I even found some fragments which had ricocheted into the kitchen. I only recovered about 3/4 of the CD. Not sure what happened to the rest.
I'm am getting ready to install Duke Nukem Forever on my Linux machine, but first I have to apply the DST patch to the Restaurant at the End of the Universe's time turbines to prevent the space/time continuum from actually being broken.
I got the "bowl with suction cup" powerup, but the other player was very skilled, and was able to use it to launch things to the ceiling instead of of just dropping them on the floor. Needless to say, she completed the first level very quickly:)
I always thought 99 was hot, even when I was a kid. That being said, I have used the term "cone of silence" for the last 15 years as any technology we were forced to use which didn't work (FOCUS, Business Objects, Windows, Oracle Application Server/Reports server, Microstrategy, etc).
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Yesterday, we were doing a bunch of draft slides using an erasable white board with a printer. We have been printing out our white board drawings for years. Yesterday, the printer decided to crap out in the middle of the session, and we needed these slides the day before yesterday. We couldn't wait for a new printer cartridge.
All of us were lost for a few minutes as to what to do. Then I went to the supply closet, and after much effort, found an old school #2 pencil (the kind that you use a sharpener with), with an ACTUAL eraser.
I got writers cramp drawing those slides, and used the eraser a lot, but it was kind of cool.
I used to have a $100 Pentax that I could take practically any picture with. I once took perfect pictures inside the Maginot Line with no flash ( I set the shutter speed to about 1 second with the camera sitting on a table)
Sometimes, old school is the best :)
Thats the key I have for my luggage! I can't find the key and have to use a screwdriver to open it now. How did Diabold get it? Has my luggage been pwned?
Of course it is. I mean, everything is Microsoft's fault, right? I mean they are almost as evil as Bush :P Anyway, I knew a sysadmin who got fired over autocomplete. She tried to send a stupid pr0n joke to a coworker and accidentally send it to a wide distribution list instead. Autocomplete helped her find that distribution list. I mean, we can't really expect people to check their to: list prior to sending pr0n jokes, can we?
I used to have the Rhaposdy service, but wound up canceling it after buying Iron Maiden "A Matter of Life and Death", but couldn't download it to my iPod because of compatibility/DRM issues. Enough DRM crap. I now buy all my music from Amazon.
Funny how that works.
I remember a passage from Tom Clancy's Red Storm Rising:
Some US solders on Iceland after the Soviets had invaded and taken over: "Sir, we need some food. What do we do?" "We ask for it." "Ask for it?" "Yes, private, we ask for it. And pay for it. And say Thank you, unless they want to phone Ivan as soon as we leave."
Twenty years later, I have made a very successful career mostly by being nice. I find it usually works a lot better than being an asshole.
An interesting take on this is at BBC. If they screw this one up, oh well...
Three words: Pay... Per... View...
Then it will wind up on piratesbay.org
Actually in my experience, every version of Windows Explorer (since at least 95) has had the "Microsoft sort". From the start menu, to file listings, new entries are entered at the end of the list or near where the cursor is. Once my project manager was trying some old Oracle archivelogs which were sorted by date using explorer on XP. I advised him against it because of this problem. Sure enough, as he was highlighting them, a couple of new ones appeared in the middle of the (previously sorted) list and were deleted. Fortunately, we had extra copies duplexed so we didn't lose anything.
In the start menu, Microsoft actually has code to keep the program list unsorted (when you click "resort", you are actually deleting a registry key which maintains the unsorted entries).
I am hoping to replace the XP explorer with KDE when they release binaries for Windows. Maybe I'll just compile it myself.
While I didn't learn programming on a C-64, did some cool stuff on it, like programming a macro assembler in basic (I couldn't afford the cartridge) and a Q*Bert game with it.
I just downloaded a C-64 emulator with the ROMS of my favorite games - Defender of the Crown, Aliens, Gunship, California Games. Man, we use to play those a lot! When I first started Aliens, it seemed pretty cheesy by todays standards. Then I remembered these games are based on 1982 technology. I started playing them again, and they are just as fun as ever, even with 320x200 16 color graphics and MIDI sound.
Sir! they are all over the place! Where are they, private? Everywhere! They're in the Room! I don't see anything! How could the be in the
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I was once in London, and had to set up some US computer equipment. We used transformers to convert the 220 to 110 US voltage. Our SOP (which of course I didn't follow) was to use a voltage meter prior to plugging anything in. Instead, I plugged a laptop into it and booted it up just fine. Then I plugged a surge protector which promptly exploded (it was pretty spectacular). Finally following the SOP, I checked the output voltage of the transformer which was actually about 350 volts. Apparently the laptop had a pretty good power supply.
Where are my mod points when I need them?
Thanks. I'll keep that right-click trick in mind.
BTW, the little task bar trick works great with a command prompt. Just drag a file to the command prompt button and drop it on the window. It will paste the complete path to the file in the window, along with quotes. Nice if your file is buried 12 levels deep.
I would love to see context menus in Windoze. Sometimes it copies the file. Sometimes it moves the file. Sometimes it creates a link (shortcut) to the file. Depends on whether it is a Network share, different device, if it is between 0615 and 1320 on Mondays, Thursdays, or the 14th of each month.
I never use drag and drop in Windozes for that very reason.
I kind of guessed that, but was too lazy to look it up :p 52X? Thats a lot of RPMs. More like the bit I would put on my router than something I would put in my computer. No wonder it exploded. What, do I have to start wearing safety goggles when I use a CD? :)
When I was a kid in California, we had one of these my entire life. When I was 18, it bloomed, growing a 30 foot flower in about a month. Then it died, with the flower crashing into our garage. The new ones that sprouted then should be about ready to bloom too...
When it let loose, the force was powerful enough to blow the front door off the drive, send a cloud of shards throughout the room and inside the case, and destroyed the drive. I even found some fragments which had ricocheted into the kitchen. I only recovered about 3/4 of the CD. Not sure what happened to the rest.
In the US Army, the military IDs they issued you say "Property of the US Government". What they didn't say was that it referred to YOU, not the ID.
I would guess something KDE based. The icons look a lot like Linspire.
I'm am getting ready to install Duke Nukem Forever on my Linux machine, but first I have to apply the DST patch to the Restaurant at the End of the Universe's time turbines to prevent the space/time continuum from actually being broken.
For some odd reason, I didn't get my mortgage bill this month and had to call the company to arrange payment.
I got the "bowl with suction cup" powerup, but the other player was very skilled, and was able to use it to launch things to the ceiling instead of of just dropping them on the floor. Needless to say, she completed the first level very quickly :)
I want one for my 3rd grader. Where can I get one?
That tag is totally fucked up.
I always thought 99 was hot, even when I was a kid. That being said, I have used the term "cone of silence" for the last 15 years as any technology we were forced to use which didn't work (FOCUS, Business Objects, Windows, Oracle Application Server/Reports server, Microstrategy, etc).