Brannigan: Have the boy lay out my formal shorts.
Kif: The boy, sir?
Brannigan: You. You lay out my formal shorts. ...
Brannigan: Kif! Inform the troops: I have mated with a woman.
I finally realized that Fox was actively trying to kill Futurama when they pre-empted the show for post game football. I just hope the newer episodes make their way onto Comedy Central.
Moderators, take note: the parent post is referring to the title of a Futurama episode and is therefore topical. If you don't see the humor, please have your hilarity unit tested asap.
What?! It's dead easy to make a cross-platform web page; don't use ActiveX, and use the DOM object model for Javascript, that's pretty much it.. I agree that it helps to have a windows machine around for obtuse web sites tho..
I'm reminded of my former stint as a helldesk technician, and the most infamous support request ever to grace my inbox. The support request in question was in the form of an email, with only a subject line pleading, "help!" (no text in the body). The printout looked nice decorating the side of my cubicle.
That sounds similar to my experience with Comcast when I bought my own cable modem. All I really needed to do was connect to a URL on one of their servers, that would download some parameters into my modem. To do this, the tech had me:
Use a Windows box becuse they don't know Linux (even though the OS was irrelevant for this operation).
Disconnect the computer from my network, and hook it directly to the cable modem (because they don't support home networking)
Reboot numerous times (largely thanks to having to change the network settings on the Windows machine)
When their URL failed to load, the "tech" informed me that my cable modem was bad. I returned my network to it's normal upright position and loaded the URL in Mozilla on the Linux box -- and it worked immediately.
..and don't even get me started on Valueweb's bloody tech support.
* Customer: "I got this problem. You people sent me this install disk, and now my A: drive won't work." * Tech Support: "Your A drive won't work?" * Customer: "That's what I said. You sent me a bad disk, it got stuck in my drive, now it won't work at all." * Tech Support: "Did it not install properly? What kind of error messages did you get?" * Customer: "I didn't get any error message. The disk got stuck in the drive and wouldn't come out. So I got these pliers and tried to get it out. That didn't work either." * Tech Support: "You did what sir?" * Customer: "I got these pliers, and tried to get the disk out, but it wouldn't budge. I just ended up cracking the plastic stuff a bit." * Tech Support: "I don't understand sir, did you push the eject button?" * Customer: "No, so then I got a stick of butter and melted it and used a turkey baster and put the butter in the drive, around the disk, and that got it loose. Then I used the pliers and it came out fine. I can't believe you would send me a disk that was broke and defective." * Tech Support: "Let me get this clear. You put melted butter in your A: drive and used pliers to pull the disk out?"
At this point, I put the call on the speaker phone and motioned at the other techs to listen in.
* Tech Support: "Just so I am absolutely clear on this, can you repeat what you just said?" * Customer: "I said I put butter in my A: drive to get your crappy disk out, then I had to use pliers to pull it out." * Tech Support: "Did you push that little button that was sticking out when the disk was in the drive, you know, the thing called the disk eject button?"
Silence.
* Tech Support: "Sir?" * Customer: "Yes." * Tech Support: "Sir, did you push the eject button?" * Customer: "No, but you people are going to fix my computer, or I am going to sue you for breaking my computer?" * Tech Support: "Let me get this straight. You are going to sue our company because you put the disk in the A: drive, didn't follow the instructions we sent you, didn't actually seek professional advice, didn't consult your user's manual on how to use your computer properly, instead proceeding to pour butter into the drive and physically rip the disk out?" * Customer: "Ummmm." * Tech Support: "Do you really think you stand a chance, since we do record every call and have it on tape?" * Customer: (now rather humbled) "But you're supposed to help!" * Tech Support: "I am sorry sir, but there is nothing we can do for you. Have a nice day."
Another brilliant comment by an anonymous coward. When did I say anything about wanting to put them on an iPod? And why should I care about sharing my legally transferred Ogg files with dipshits like you living in their parent's cellar?
That's not normal, unless you're talking about really cheap power supplies. You might want to look into a decent UPS with AVR (automatic voltage regulation).
Go to MS, download powertoys, right click on the taskbar, go to toolbars, check desktop manager, and viola, msvdm with support for 4 desktops you can toggle between or view all 4 at once.
VS, just log into KDE and click on the pager.
In my opinion the only reason people think Windows is easy to use is because they're used to it. What's the logic of putting Shut Down in the Start Menu, or a gajillion cascading menus, graphical configuration tools scattered all over the place? KDE isn't perfect but at least all the window manager configuration is in one place.
You want to hear something weird? I just bought a Traveling Wilburies CD off Ebay, and the damn thing is copy protected. It's got some lame-ass warning about copied CD's damaging equipment, but we'll just see about that.
The weird thing is, this CD has been out of print for like 10 years. This is either the earliest copy-protected CD I've seen yet, or (just suppose) it's back in production, but not in retail channels.. could RIAA et all be putting CD's directly into the used CD market??
Illegal traders (i.e. those who sell tea to colonists without tax revenue for the British empire) are breaking the law, and the empire will be enforcing it's right to taxation. There's nothing wrong with that at all.
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Don't forget about the Double Secret license termination notice!
We are reasonably satisfied with the events we have seen. Overall I would rate it a C+; okay, not great.
Brannigan: Have the boy lay out my formal shorts.
...
Kif: The boy, sir?
Brannigan: You. You lay out my formal shorts.
Brannigan: Kif! Inform the troops: I have mated with a woman.
<taunt style="nelson">
HAH-HAA!
</taunt>
I finally realized that Fox was actively trying to kill Futurama when they pre-empted the show for post game football. I just hope the newer episodes make their way onto Comedy Central.
Moderators, take note: the parent post is referring to the title of a Futurama episode and is therefore topical. If you don't see the humor, please have your hilarity unit tested asap.
If there's anything to this karma business, Medhi Ali and Irving Gould will be reincarnated as cockroaches.
What?! It's dead easy to make a cross-platform web page; don't use ActiveX, and use the DOM object model for Javascript, that's pretty much it.. I agree that it helps to have a windows machine around for obtuse web sites tho..
I'm reminded of my former stint as a helldesk technician, and the most infamous support request ever to grace my inbox. The support request in question was in the form of an email, with only a subject line pleading, "help!" (no text in the body). The printout looked nice decorating the side of my cubicle.
That sounds similar to my experience with Comcast when I bought my own cable modem. All I really needed to do was connect to a URL on one of their servers, that would download some parameters into my modem. To do this, the tech had me:
When their URL failed to load, the "tech" informed me that my cable modem was bad. I returned my network to it's normal upright position and loaded the URL in Mozilla on the Linux box -- and it worked immediately.
That's a great site. I like this gem:
Another brilliant comment by an anonymous coward. When did I say anything about wanting to put them on an iPod? And why should I care about sharing my legally transferred Ogg files with dipshits like you living in their parent's cellar?
Are people still hung up about ogg format? Give it up. It didn't make it.
::Looks at over 20 GB of Ogg Vorbis audio on the hard drive::
Guess I'll just delete these now, thanks for showing me the light, oh great Anonymous Coward.
How about making transparent GIFs in the GIMP? I accomplished it once, but I'll be darned if I can duplicate that achievement..
That's not normal, unless you're talking about really cheap power supplies. You might want to look into a decent UPS with AVR (automatic voltage regulation).
Does linux have anything remotely resembling .Net? Other than mono, of course.
You mean, somthing like dotGNU?
Go to MS, download powertoys, right click on the taskbar, go to toolbars, check desktop manager, and viola, msvdm with support for 4 desktops you can toggle between or view all 4 at once.
VS, just log into KDE and click on the pager.
In my opinion the only reason people think Windows is easy to use is because they're used to it. What's the logic of putting Shut Down in the Start Menu, or a gajillion cascading menus, graphical configuration tools scattered all over the place? KDE isn't perfect but at least all the window manager configuration is in one place.
You want to hear something weird? I just bought a Traveling Wilburies CD off Ebay, and the damn thing is copy protected. It's got some lame-ass warning about copied CD's damaging equipment, but we'll just see about that.
The weird thing is, this CD has been out of print for like 10 years. This is either the earliest copy-protected CD I've seen yet, or (just suppose) it's back in production, but not in retail channels.. could RIAA et all be putting CD's directly into the used CD market??
Illegal traders (i.e. those who sell tea to colonists without tax revenue for the British empire) are breaking the law, and the empire will be enforcing it's right to taxation. There's nothing wrong with that at all.
If you want to know what a song sounds like request it from your local radio station,
Yeah, I bet all my local ClearChannel stations would get right on that. "Yes, I'd like to request a song.. When Hell freezes over, you say?"
I assume it fully supports the evil bit?
Ever consider that large portions of the Slashdot readership possibly have no need for the patch?
I like KMail. It's just a quick, easy, & simple email client. HTML email? No thank you.
Let's hope this supports USB 2.0 "Full Speed" or "High Speed", whichever is faster..
Commodores could do upper/lower case, it was the original Apple ][ which only had upper case.