I miss BBSing. It's practically forgotten these days. Oh the adventures. I started out in 1989 with a TI-994/A and stopped just around, say 1997 when most of them died off.
The great thing about BBSes is that there was actual LOCAL activity. With the 'net, it's still far too spread out. IRC will not duplicate it. There's a commentary somewhere on one of my web pages about the BBSing days in the 612 area code.
Oh my ghod, someone remembers Mondo 2000. I can't belive I bought several issues of that awful rag. Most of the articles were pretty much devoid of anything, and they always had to mention the WELL. If someone wore a toaster on their heads, Mondo 2000 considered it fashion, and did a whole article on it.
Funny you bring this up. Every usenet group I visit, whether it's about classic video games, Lego, british cars, etc ALL contain spam related to some related item being auctioned off on eBay. Imagine how less-polluted usenet would be without good 'ol ebay advertisements, as if I couldn't just go to ebay myself and find out.
It looks like it almost said "did anyone else go here to MS bash?" the answer for that would be, yes
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)Ah, so you read the alt.sex.* newsgroups too?
This reminds me of alt.sex.movies of many moons ago before it was a spam farm. There was a guy called "Pig Fucker" on there who loooved to harass everyone. I eventually spoke up once, and he mailbombed my account. Fortuantely I was able ot kill my whole mail file whilst on hold for answers on the phone.
Back when I was heavily into BBSing, I somehow remembered every phone number and password for each system in my head. To this day I still don't know how I managed it. As for coming up with passwords? No definite method.
1. When the web was just getting popular, I installed winsock(ugh) and good 'ol mosiac. I never got mosiac to work EVER. it just crashed when trrying to load a web page.
2. I used netscape for several years. It had the usual crashes and stuff, and remember having to upgrade from 2.x to 3.x so I could go back in a web page with frames without going back too far
3. fast forward a few years later. I have to do tech support for an ISP for nEtscape 3(and eventually 4). My ghod. There were so many stumper problems that I simply could not fix at all, even with the gurus around me. The ISP I supported also supported IE after awhile, and I can't even remember taking one IE related call.
4. Netscape 4.x: I used that for a while, and had the usual crashes. big whoop. slow to load, all sorts of weird problems on occasion
5. IE 4.x and 5.x. Screw the politics over it, I LIKE the integration with the OS. This comes in handy when you do a lot of web page authoring and find yourself switching back and forth between web pages and jsut plain 'ol Explorer.
The ONLY time I use netscape 4.x is for that silly Composer program, which, I as a QA tester have found PLENTY of bugs that never were fixed, to outright simple ones(duplicate hotkeys) to completely screwy GUI problems(ever try to get your cursor into an empty frame cell? It's REAL fun).
as for choices? I wanted to install communicator just for the composer app on my old 486 laptop. Nope, sorry. I ended up copying that cheezy FrontPage Express directory over to my laptop, and it started up just fine. It didn't complain about not being 98 or having only IE 3 installed.
As for crashing in IE 4/5? The only time i remember IE crashing was when I had that stupid thirdvoice program installed. It's gone now. THe onyl complaint I have about IE 5 is sometimes when banners dont work, it doesnt let you see the rest of the web page. Hackernews.com had a broken banner, so I bring up netscape to view the site, and it worked....and then crashed of course a few minutes later.
Nope. I'm stickin to IE. It's solid for me, and very quick to load.
Back when my generation was in high school (during the '80s) it was the nerds who were looked down on and often singled out. Our revenge was to go out and control the whole economy while the quarterbacks and cheer leaders were flipping burgers.
It's funny you mention that. I'm 23, and within the last 2 months I've been to TWO grocery stores and saw (1 in each) a former classmate who teased and harassed me in high school, working there. And to think I have a nice cushy job at a software company now. Looks like I get the last laugh.
I forgot the company, but there's a commercial based on the "guns, lots of guns" segment. This guy is standing in white empty space(the loading program), and he asks for a car. Suddenly thousands of cars rush past him. He then askks for a red one, and then we see(in a different direction) hundreds of red cars fly by, until he gets his Miata. Then at the end, he needs an accountant, and suddenly a huge gride of accountants rush up to him, all in desks. Beautiful commercial.
My mom somehow bought me Civilization many years ago thinking I'd learn something from it, ( an educational game). The only thing i learned was that I was just horrid at the game. I only ruled the planet once, in the Star Trek:TNG era (2370)
I bought one of their boards with onboard everything a couple months ago(I didnt know at the time it was PC Chips), but already the bios battery is dead. argh
As i was doing my experimental hi bandwidth website(ie lots of images and stuff), I tried taking all my scans & videocaptures and saving them to PNG format since I was getting sick of the JPEG format. We're talkin' 16 million colors, no loss.
Unfortunately the images, compared to saving JPEG files with compression set to 1(at least in PSP) resulted in UNGODLY huge file sizes. Instead I just reverted back to saving my JPEGs for compression set to 1.
Even with firing up PSP and splitting it into CMYK and HSL channels(Predator's point of view almost), i really cant see any ghost they are talking about. It looks just like JPEG artifacts. They really should of used PNG and a larger image. Hmm. Interesting to look for the ghosts though.
This is the best 2 suggestions i have seen so far to solve this problem.
My conern is if that it's illegal to buy up a domain and just stick on the web server "for sale" or "under construction" wouldn't that be denying free speech?
Mind you, I was considering buying a domain name for one of my car-related web pages, only to find EVERY single decent variation on it has been taken. I wouldn't mind a spitfire.rec though(or something similiar that's non-buisness related)
On the other hand, sex is awfully enjoyable, but most conventional contraception is a huge detriment to sex (do be blunt, condoms -suck,- so I am personally in favor of RU-486, preventitive pharmaceuticals, or IUD applications). So there is the outside chance I might be a daddy before I want. Hopefully not, but applicants for the *ahem* position of "mate" are being accepted.
I agree. I'm 23 and have absolutely no intentions of having kids. Hate the little bastards. Besides, its too costly. I'm happy I can afford my overpriced apartment and car payments(whatevers left is for computer stuff). Of course, people whine to me saying I might change my mind later on, and the average age doctors agree on before "going under the knife" is 25 to make your decision. But.. I have some spare cash from medical insurance that's gonna run out at the end of the year, so I might as well spend it before y2K on snippin' the wires.
I've been a lego freak since I was 10. I was playing with them sooner than that, but around 10-11 I was building more and more elaborate projects out of boredom. The first was a guitar with a whammy bar(only whammied one string) using rubber bands for strings. Even hooked up a small earpiece, using it as a microphone and it sounded(faintly) like a real accoustic guitar. Then a few yeras later I pioneered a 3 speed transmission out of it, and have been doing more bizarre projects ever since. Some bits of it is on my website.
This is one of the absolute worst articles I have ever seen. Of course, this is from the same tabloid that says the world is going to end 10 days from now, and then says 10 days later that we were all saved by a miracle. Besides, most women nowadays want the tough guy abusive type.
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OH my ghod, this is pure genius. I sweare some of these were real slashdot articles:
Is The Internet About To Transform The Internet War?
The Net Demands The Digital Website
I love it. This is very Onion-worthy
These guys are hilarious. The writing style they did about how much they hate celebrities(such as Sinbad and Jenny Jones) is the best.
I miss BBSing. It's practically forgotten these days. Oh the adventures. I started out in 1989 with a TI-994/A and stopped just around, say 1997 when most of them died off.
The great thing about BBSes is that there was actual LOCAL activity. With the 'net, it's still far too spread out. IRC will not duplicate it. There's a commentary somewhere on one of my web pages about the BBSing days in the 612 area code.
Oh my ghod, someone remembers Mondo 2000. I can't belive I bought several issues of that awful rag. Most of the articles were pretty much devoid of anything, and they always had to mention the WELL. If someone wore a toaster on their heads, Mondo 2000 considered it fashion, and did a whole article on it.
eBay complaining about Usenet spam?
Funny you bring this up. Every usenet group I visit, whether it's about classic video games, Lego, british cars, etc ALL contain spam related to some related item being auctioned off on eBay. Imagine how less-polluted usenet would be without good 'ol ebay advertisements, as if I couldn't just go to ebay myself and find out.
It looks like it almost said "did anyone else go here to MS bash?" the answer for that would be, yes
)Ah, so you read the alt.sex.* newsgroups too?
This reminds me of alt.sex.movies of many moons ago before it was a spam farm. There was a guy called "Pig Fucker" on there who loooved to harass everyone. I eventually spoke up once, and he mailbombed my account. Fortuantely I was able ot kill my whole mail file whilst on hold for answers on the phone.
Back when I was heavily into BBSing, I somehow remembered every phone number and password for each system in my head. To this day I still don't know how I managed it. As for coming up with passwords? No definite method.
I think it's funny. I wonder how long it will take before www.ikissyou.com is taken.
Heck, I'll forgive my moderation points for this.....
DP and Jesse Ventura have nothing in common. JP never gave ME a nice sales tax rebate. UH oh, im gonna get sued now.
1. When the web was just getting popular, I installed winsock(ugh) and good 'ol mosiac. I never got mosiac to work EVER. it just crashed when trrying to load a web page.
2. I used netscape for several years. It had the usual crashes and stuff, and remember having to upgrade from 2.x to 3.x so I could go back in a web page with frames without going back too far
3. fast forward a few years later. I have to do tech support for an ISP for nEtscape 3(and eventually 4). My ghod. There were so many stumper problems that I simply could not fix at all, even with the gurus around me. The ISP I supported also supported IE after awhile, and I can't even remember taking one IE related call.
4. Netscape 4.x: I used that for a while, and had the usual crashes. big whoop. slow to load, all sorts of weird problems on occasion
5. IE 4.x and 5.x. Screw the politics over it, I LIKE the integration with the OS. This comes in handy when you do a lot of web page authoring and find yourself switching back and forth between web pages and jsut plain 'ol Explorer.
The ONLY time I use netscape 4.x is for that silly Composer program, which, I as a QA tester have found PLENTY of bugs that never were fixed, to outright simple ones(duplicate hotkeys) to completely screwy GUI problems(ever try to get your cursor into an empty frame cell? It's REAL fun).
as for choices? I wanted to install communicator just for the composer app on my old 486 laptop. Nope, sorry. I ended up copying that cheezy FrontPage Express directory over to my laptop, and it started up just fine. It didn't complain about not being 98 or having only IE 3 installed.
As for crashing in IE 4/5? The only time i remember IE crashing was when I had that stupid thirdvoice program installed. It's gone now. THe onyl complaint I have about IE 5 is sometimes when banners dont work, it doesnt let you see the rest of the web page. Hackernews.com had a broken banner, so I bring up netscape to view the site, and it worked....and then crashed of course a few minutes later.
Nope. I'm stickin to IE. It's solid for me, and very quick to load.
"november 5, all linux zealots have simultaneous orgasm"
No, you are right on track. The outcome of this trial will be considered the superbowl for Linux zealots.
Back when my generation was in high school (during the '80s) it was the nerds who were looked down on and often singled out. Our revenge was to go out and control the whole economy while the quarterbacks and cheer leaders were flipping burgers.
It's funny you mention that. I'm 23, and within the last 2 months I've been to TWO grocery stores and saw (1 in each) a former classmate who teased and harassed me in high school, working there. And to think I have a nice cushy job at a software company now. Looks like I get the last laugh.
I forgot the company, but there's a commercial based on the "guns, lots of guns" segment. This guy is standing in white empty space(the loading program), and he asks for a car. Suddenly thousands of cars rush past him. He then askks for a red one, and then we see(in a different direction) hundreds of red cars fly by, until he gets his Miata. Then at the end, he needs an accountant, and suddenly a huge gride of accountants rush up to him, all in desks. Beautiful commercial.
My mom somehow bought me Civilization many years ago thinking I'd learn something from it, ( an educational game). The only thing i learned was that I was just horrid at the game. I only ruled the planet once, in the Star Trek:TNG era (2370)
I bought one of their boards with onboard everything a couple months ago(I didnt know at the time it was PC Chips), but already the bios battery is dead. argh
As i was doing my experimental hi bandwidth website(ie lots of images and stuff), I tried taking all my scans & videocaptures and saving them to PNG format since I was getting sick of the JPEG format. We're talkin' 16 million colors, no loss.
Unfortunately the images, compared to saving JPEG files with compression set to 1(at least in PSP) resulted in UNGODLY huge file sizes. Instead I just reverted back to saving my JPEGs for compression set to 1.
Even with firing up PSP and splitting it into CMYK and HSL channels(Predator's point of view almost), i really cant see any ghost they are talking about. It looks just like JPEG artifacts. They really should of used PNG and a larger image. Hmm. Interesting to look for the ghosts though.
Does that come with the Internet Mousepad, you know, the mouse pad 'specilaly made for surfing the Internet?
This is the best 2 suggestions i have seen so far to solve this problem.
My conern is if that it's illegal to buy up a domain and just stick on the web server "for sale" or "under construction" wouldn't that be denying free speech?
Mind you, I was considering buying a domain name for one of my car-related web pages, only to find EVERY single decent variation on it has been taken. I wouldn't mind a spitfire.rec though(or something similiar that's non-buisness related)
On the other hand, sex is awfully enjoyable, but most conventional contraception is a huge detriment to sex (do be blunt, condoms -suck,- so I am personally in favor of RU-486, preventitive pharmaceuticals, or IUD applications). So there is the outside chance I might be a daddy before I want. Hopefully not, but applicants for the *ahem* position of "mate" are being accepted.
I agree. I'm 23 and have absolutely no intentions of having kids. Hate the little bastards. Besides, its too costly. I'm happy I can afford my overpriced apartment and car payments(whatevers left is for computer stuff). Of course, people whine to me saying I might change my mind later on, and the average age doctors agree on before "going under the knife" is 25 to make your decision. But.. I have some spare cash from medical insurance that's gonna run out at the end of the year, so I might as well spend it before y2K on snippin' the wires.
I've been a lego freak since I was 10. I was playing with them sooner than that, but around 10-11 I was building more and more elaborate projects out of boredom. The first was a guitar with a whammy bar(only whammied one string) using rubber bands for strings. Even hooked up a small earpiece, using it as a microphone and it sounded(faintly) like a real accoustic guitar. Then a few yeras later I pioneered a 3 speed transmission out of it, and have been doing more bizarre projects ever since. Some bits of it is on my website.
This is one of the absolute worst articles I have ever seen. Of course, this is from the same tabloid that says the world is going to end 10 days from now, and then says 10 days later that we were all saved by a miracle. Besides, most women nowadays want the tough guy abusive type.
Response 7: "Can I install Linux on it?"