Ah the icons... First I tell XP not to display anything but a garbage can(trash). It goes on bottom right (thanks apple) Then files that I'm working on get saved to desktop. Files i'm done with go in My Docs (also not displayed) and things that I was working on, and never finished go in a 'drop box' shortcut...
All together, there are only 2 icons that get to call my desktop home, Recycled and dropbox. I'm thinking about remove recycled.
Then I go find a desktop background that's not a corporate endorsement, or a woman, car, sports team. They're usually something abstract... and contrast with the icons rather well... meaning large fields of solid colors. It needs to be something that will span 3 screens. I tried a pic of the kids once, but it was too hard to find the icons against the background.
The 3rd one on this page has been my favorite for a long time. http://www.9xmedia.com/Pages-products/2000-Backgro unds.html
I'm guilty of this one once, missplaced space, and I typed 'rm -rf/etc/*.tmp'
Yes, this was done on my first slackware box. Not sure what version it was exactly, but it was somewhere between 96-98, and i installed by downloading about 15 or so floppies...
The first command I typed on that box was 'help.' It wasn't.
I'm ready to apply for my new patent on the act of replying to a message or story, by clicking a button that says reply, then entering text, and then clicking a submit button.
This will be done after I apply for my patent on stress testing a remote web server by placing a link to said server on a highly trafficed web site and expecting all visitors to follow that link.
And stay tuned for my patent on taking an email that you receive, and sending it to someone who is NOT the person that originally sent it to you. I'm not sure what I'll call that yet. Maybe something like for-words.
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Amen! I'm way too lazy to pull the computer out from under the desk, or whever else, hence the reach-around...
I want to see a universal connector. It transfers data, both ways at 100Gb/sec, have power rails for 3/5/12/24/120/240 Volts, 10amps and a plug something like the round style trailer plugs. Of course it will be DRM free.
And I'll patent it.
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It's funny about your USB/Ethernet example. A usb device will fit in an ethernet port quite easily. It will even be snug in one direction, although it will wobble the other way. On a lot of our Dells the Ethernet port is directly above a stack of 2-4 USB ports. A few times I've given one of the computers the reach-around and found i've plugged a mouse in the wrong port. Shorting all the pins on an ethernet card can't be a good thing, I think this is a bad design.
I appoligize for offending you. As you can see from my ID#, I've been around for a while, and this is the first time I've become someone's foe. Unsettling.
Glad I didn't take philosophy... Logic was hard enough. Well, it doesn't matter. The statement was just BS designed to wind people up, since the Parent had already made the statement I wanted to make.
Yes, I was trolling. No doubt about it. Trying to lower some of this Karma. I'm a curmudgeon and excellent karma doesn't seem to go in line with that very well.
As a strong proponent of 'point and click as fast as you can' as opposed to 'RTFM' I downloaded the app, loaded it, ran it, got a list of movies, picked out a nice Abbot and Costello movie from 1952, clicked download, and BAM.
Please enter your library card number. I looked for the 'signup now' button on their website, didn't see one. Called, they told me I'd have to come in and apply in person.
Doh! Quite a drive from alabama just for a library card!!!!! Anyone live near happy hollow hilly library that can run in and pretend to be me?
Um, yeah. And if we put all the hetero males on one planet and all of the hetero females on another, we'd soon have two uninhabited planets, as well. Pure genius. You miss the point. Homosexuals can not breed amongst themselves. Hetero's can. And no, the sperm bank option is not an argument when discussing nature's way.
I feel my excelent Karma slipping away, but I have plenty to spare:)
Whatever, demographics are very useful. It optimizes the purchasing of adspace for the company, keeping them from advertising a product where it is completely useful to do so.
When's the last time you saw a Viagra ads in a 'boys life' magazine. ads for shoes out of Amputee monthly. ads Omaha Steaks on a Vegan mag? ads for Monster truck shows off of Oxygen/We. Ads for tampons on Spike?
You have demographics to thank for that.
Sure, 15% of the people who watch Spike might use tampons, but the money is obviously better spent on Oxygen/We.
Sure there is, whether you think God made you that way, or evolution made you that way... it's obviously wrong. The biology just doesn't work out. If we put all the gay males on one planet, and all the gay females on another, we'd soon have 2 uninhabited planets.
I have a 4 year old. The first time we saw a commercial for that game, I asked him if he thought that looks like a good game. He said, "Dad, that game's for girls."
I have no idea the quality of the game, but I wouldn't rip gates a new one for thinking it's a girl game.
Hey man, it must be geography because I'm 30, grew up in Mobile Alabama (still there), hot and sticky, and took PE AND health, was on the golf team, boy scouts, and spent a good bit of time hiking, fishing, beaching, camping and other outdoorsy things and I didn't learn about water poisoning until my wife (nurse) told me about it.
Apparently I didn't learn how to prevent run-on sentences either.
I agree with all your statements. Add to this the fact that most people don't get ENOUGH water, and are told to drink MORE water, this just makes it worse. As a whole, I think the population is problably more dehydrated than over hydrated. Look at how much coke, tea and coffee the we (U.S.) drink, compared to just plain water.
That thing is SUCH a rip off, I don't care what makes it different, looking at the pic, it's obvious that they're trying to capitalize on apple's product by copying it.
Call me crazy, but they make caps that fit over, and fit INSIDE the Pipe... I think I would have chosen sealing it off with a threaded cap (for removal) than something like keeping it filled.
I have it installed, and I'm currently downloading (Full T1) at 50k and uploading at 60k... I'd say that's more than fair.
This does seem to go up and down more than bitcomet though. in the last Hour I've seen it up to 110/115 and as low as 50k/60k. Maybe this one just averages the xfer rate a lot more often, not producing nearly as smooth of an average as BC.
This is something I would like to do for all of my mobile users, and I prefer something that will work on older hardware like 3 years old, still a P4 laptop...
I'm sure what's good enough for them will be good enough for me. I like the 'no vendor back door' requirements... that should keep out MS.
I used to type the programs out of the little spiral book into my comodore. Then I'd type some command to save, and push record on the tape deck.
Oh yeah, Load "*",8,1
I never new really what that meant, but i knew the result was I could get a list of all the programs on the disk, and then i could run defender! Or Zork!
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Ah the icons... First I tell XP not to display anything but a garbage can(trash). It goes on bottom right (thanks apple) Then files that I'm working on get saved to desktop. Files i'm done with go in My Docs (also not displayed) and things that I was working on, and never finished go in a 'drop box' shortcut...
o unds.html
All together, there are only 2 icons that get to call my desktop home, Recycled and dropbox. I'm thinking about remove recycled.
Then I go find a desktop background that's not a corporate endorsement, or a woman, car, sports team. They're usually something abstract... and contrast with the icons rather well... meaning large fields of solid colors. It needs to be something that will span 3 screens. I tried a pic of the kids once, but it was too hard to find the icons against the background.
The 3rd one on this page has been my favorite for a long time. http://www.9xmedia.com/Pages-products/2000-Backgr
Luckily I did this on my first linux box, and it was just set up for 'play.'
Now I have REAL linux servers that doing such a thing on could create a lot of work, and an excercize in restore from backup...
I'm guilty of this one once, missplaced space, and I typed 'rm -rf /etc /*.tmp'
Yes, this was done on my first slackware box. Not sure what version it was exactly, but it was somewhere between 96-98, and i installed by downloading about 15 or so floppies...
The first command I typed on that box was 'help.' It wasn't.
I'm ready to apply for my new patent on the act of replying to a message or story, by clicking a button that says reply, then entering text, and then clicking a submit button.
This will be done after I apply for my patent on stress testing a remote web server by placing a link to said server on a highly trafficed web site and expecting all visitors to follow that link.
And stay tuned for my patent on taking an email that you receive, and sending it to someone who is NOT the person that originally sent it to you. I'm not sure what I'll call that yet. Maybe something like for-words.
Amen! I'm way too lazy to pull the computer out from under the desk, or whever else, hence the reach-around...
I want to see a universal connector. It transfers data, both ways at 100Gb/sec, have power rails for 3/5/12/24/120/240 Volts, 10amps and a plug something like the round style trailer plugs. Of course it will be DRM free.
And I'll patent it.
It's funny about your USB/Ethernet example. A usb device will fit in an ethernet port quite easily. It will even be snug in one direction, although it will wobble the other way. On a lot of our Dells the Ethernet port is directly above a stack of 2-4 USB ports. A few times I've given one of the computers the reach-around and found i've plugged a mouse in the wrong port. Shorting all the pins on an ethernet card can't be a good thing, I think this is a bad design.
Errr, is someone pushing their product here?
Prepare to see the pornprocessor soon. I'm not going to give a lot of details here, but it's optimized for specific physics, AI and Graphics.
I appoligize for offending you. As you can see from my ID#, I've been around for a while, and this is the first time I've become someone's foe. Unsettling.
Glad I didn't take philosophy... Logic was hard enough. Well, it doesn't matter. The statement was just BS designed to wind people up, since the Parent had already made the statement I wanted to make.
Yes, I was trolling. No doubt about it. Trying to lower some of this Karma. I'm a curmudgeon and excellent karma doesn't seem to go in line with that very well.
Damn you beat me to it! I can't belive it's not there, coming from such a liberal biased rag as the NYT!
Freaking liberals. Lets send them to the moon, no warming there yet.
They call that a flaming stick. Obviously they don't have a firm grasp of the language... They way the talk though, you'd think they'd invented it.
As a strong proponent of 'point and click as fast as you can' as opposed to 'RTFM' I downloaded the app, loaded it, ran it, got a list of movies, picked out a nice Abbot and Costello movie from 1952, clicked download, and BAM.
Please enter your library card number.
I looked for the 'signup now' button on their website, didn't see one.
Called, they told me I'd have to come in and apply in person.
Doh! Quite a drive from alabama just for a library card!!!!!
Anyone live near happy hollow hilly library that can run in and pretend to be me?
Opps, thought VP was a Wii game. Oh well.
I feel my excelent Karma slipping away, but I have plenty to spare
Whatever, demographics are very useful.
It optimizes the purchasing of adspace for the company, keeping them from advertising a product where it is completely useful to do so.
When's the last time you saw a Viagra ads in a 'boys life' magazine.
ads for shoes out of Amputee monthly.
ads Omaha Steaks on a Vegan mag?
ads for Monster truck shows off of Oxygen/We.
Ads for tampons on Spike?
You have demographics to thank for that.
Sure, 15% of the people who watch Spike might use tampons, but the money is obviously better spent on Oxygen/We.
Sure there is, whether you think God made you that way, or evolution made you that way... it's obviously wrong. The biology just doesn't work out. If we put all the gay males on one planet, and all the gay females on another, we'd soon have 2 uninhabited planets.
I have a 4 year old. The first time we saw a commercial for that game, I asked him if he thought that looks like a good game. He said, "Dad, that game's for girls."
I have no idea the quality of the game, but I wouldn't rip gates a new one for thinking it's a girl game.
Hey man, it must be geography because I'm 30, grew up in Mobile Alabama (still there), hot and sticky, and took PE AND health, was on the golf team, boy scouts, and spent a good bit of time hiking, fishing, beaching, camping and other outdoorsy things and I didn't learn about water poisoning until my wife (nurse) told me about it.
Apparently I didn't learn how to prevent run-on sentences either.
I agree with all your statements. Add to this the fact that most people don't get ENOUGH water, and are told to drink MORE water, this just makes it worse. As a whole, I think the population is problably more dehydrated than over hydrated. Look at how much coke, tea and coffee the we (U.S.) drink, compared to just plain water.
That thing is SUCH a rip off, I don't care what makes it different, looking at the pic, it's obvious that they're trying to capitalize on apple's product by copying it.
Call me crazy, but they make caps that fit over, and fit INSIDE the Pipe... I think I would have chosen sealing it off with a threaded cap (for removal) than something like keeping it filled.
I have it installed, and I'm currently downloading (Full T1) at 50k and uploading at 60k... I'd say that's more than fair.
This does seem to go up and down more than bitcomet though. in the last Hour I've seen it up to 110/115 and as low as 50k/60k. Maybe this one just averages the xfer rate a lot more often, not producing nearly as smooth of an average as BC.
This is something I would like to do for all of my mobile users, and I prefer something that will work on older hardware like 3 years old, still a P4 laptop...
I'm sure what's good enough for them will be good enough for me. I like the 'no vendor back door' requirements... that should keep out MS.
I used to type the programs out of the little spiral book into my comodore. Then I'd type some command to save, and push record on the tape deck.
Oh yeah,
Load "*",8,1
I never new really what that meant, but i knew the result was I could get a list of all the programs on the disk, and then i could run defender! Or Zork!