I have even seen Windows 95 still going on dinosaur herdware.
Barnes & Noble's in-store point-of-sale and database lookup system ("Bookmaster") runs on Windows 95. The register system is actually a DOS program that runs under '95. It's horribly slow and we can count on at least one register crashing at least once a day.
It's easy to remember them, since I see one of their (former) delivery trucks on the road at least a couple of times a week. They had a pretty distinctive cab design so they're unmistakable, even with other company logos.
On Friday March 19, 2004 at approximately 8:45pm PST, an Internet worm began to spread, targeting a buffer overflow vulnerability in several Internet Security Systems (ISS) products, including ISS RealSecure Network, RealSecure Server Sensor, RealSecure Desktop, and BlackICE.
Two months later, ISS closed the Mountain View office--formerly independant company Network ICE, the original developer of BlackICE--and laid off the entire staff. At the time, I didn't connect the dots; we had "Level Zero" alerts on a weekly basis, usually requiring me to work through the night, and I didn't realize the seriousness of Witty in particular.
Based on that article, I'm guessing Witty was a major factor in ISS shutting down the RealSecure Desktop (BlackICE) team. Nevermind that iss-pam1.dll was developed by X-Force and foisted upon us, and was the actual source of the vulnerability.
and they even aired all the filmed episodes of the awful and short lived LAX
<pedant> The final filmed episode, supposed to air in the dead period after sweeps month as NBC burned them off to fill space, was pre-empted by the Dead Pope show. </pedant>
My wife and I liked LAX, saw the flaws but thought it had potential to be better.
Why go through the hassle of using one client for reading email, and a second client for sending email? What if I want to compose email from friends computer or from my office?
Here is your answer. Use one address and one (or as many as you want) client. Get the benefit of Gmail's spam filter without the hassle of changing addresses.
I map all my most used programs to hotkeys - when I press ctrl-shift-F it opens Firefox. When I press ctrl-shift-T it opens thunderbird. When I press ctrl-shift-H it opens my home directory. When I press ctrl-shift-U it opens UT2004. I have similar mappings for Doom 3, Frag Ops, Air Buccaneers as well. I love it.
Copernic Winkey does this for Windows. It's part of my standard tools suite on any machine I use.
We found a way to use RSS in porn, which I'm amazed noone else is doing yet.
Fleshbot syndicates its daily content in three feeds: Straight, Gay, and All. Both RSS 2.0 and Atom are supported. I get my daily porn links this way...
I'd like to use Gmail as my mail client, but I don't want to use my @gmail.com email address.
I have my own domains, with my own email addresses. I can bring them with me if I chose a different email provider.
Here you go. The only problem I've seen is slightly increased amounts of spam making it through Gmail's filter. I have to wonder if spammers have opened Gmail accounts and are poisoning the filters by marking their spam as good. It's still a whole lot less than I was getting without Gmail filtering, though.
Back when I worked for Davidson/Knowledge Adventure/CUC Software/Cendant Software/Havas Interactive (I left before they became Universal Interactive and were subsequently shut down), we released the "Animaniacs Wacky Pack". This was a very fun game for PC and Mac, comprising (I seem to recall) four activities: miniature golf, a maze game, and a couple more I can't remember now. It was in about 1997, and I went from writing the tech support FAQ for the game to coding the installer for the second release; got my name in the scrolling credits for that one. Sadly, I can't find any evidence of its existence now.
An insanely arcane registration methodology would make.geek TLD membership self-validating and highly trustworthy (...although not necessarily useful...)
I like it. If you can swing a dead chicken (and presumably post to a.t-s.r or a.s.r), you can have your own.geek domain!
The sales jerk at Fry's was trying to get me to buy a higher priced Sharp branded monitor, but I stuck to my guns. He lied to me about the speed and the warranty.
Wait, a Fry's salesperson lied to you? That would imply their hiring practices are somehow deficient...
Let me take a stab at it. I think he means, "Does anyone find it funny that the Republicans are contesting a close election that they lost, even after the Democrats tried to do the same thing unsuccessfully."
Hypocritical, yes. Expected, certainly. Funny, not really. In Florida 2000, the strategy of "keep counting until our side wins or we buy a judge" sure worked.
the astronaut could enter the "dyson sphere" and it could just suck the dust off of with a hose connected to a giant yellow (or purple) plastic vacuum cleaner.
Damn, wish I hadn't used up my points yesterday! +1 Funny:)
It's also Oakland-ish for "lost another lead for Hudson". At least, it has been for the past two seasons. Now that Hudson's gone, whose leads will Rincon blow?
There's an old rhyme. Mother may I go out to swim. yes my darling daughter. Hang your clothes on a hickory Limb but don't go near the water." That is essentially what's being said to would be astronauts. Yes you can become an astronaut. but here's a fact to face. Just because you're an astronaut. doesnt mean you'll go into SPACE.
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Nope, didn't notice a thing.
Hoax debunked.
Barnes & Noble's in-store point-of-sale and database lookup system ("Bookmaster") runs on Windows 95. The register system is actually a DOS program that runs under '95. It's horribly slow and we can count on at least one register crashing at least once a day.
Thanks for the link to namingschemes.com... useful. I updated the Cheeses entry as long as I was there.
Two months later, ISS closed the Mountain View office--formerly independant company Network ICE, the original developer of BlackICE--and laid off the entire staff. At the time, I didn't connect the dots; we had "Level Zero" alerts on a weekly basis, usually requiring me to work through the night, and I didn't realize the seriousness of Witty in particular.
Based on that article, I'm guessing Witty was a major factor in ISS shutting down the RealSecure Desktop (BlackICE) team. Nevermind that iss-pam1.dll was developed by X-Force and foisted upon us, and was the actual source of the vulnerability.
<pedant> The final filmed episode, supposed to air in the dead period after sweeps month as NBC burned them off to fill space, was pre-empted by the Dead Pope show. </pedant>
My wife and I liked LAX, saw the flaws but thought it had potential to be better.
TweakUI for XP can change your "special folders". IIRC, TweakUI for NT/2000 did not have this feature.
Here you go. The only problem I've seen is slightly increased amounts of spam making it through Gmail's filter. I have to wonder if spammers have opened Gmail accounts and are poisoning the filters by marking their spam as good. It's still a whole lot less than I was getting without Gmail filtering, though.
Back when I worked for Davidson/Knowledge Adventure/CUC Software/Cendant Software/Havas Interactive (I left before they became Universal Interactive and were subsequently shut down), we released the "Animaniacs Wacky Pack". This was a very fun game for PC and Mac, comprising (I seem to recall) four activities: miniature golf, a maze game, and a couple more I can't remember now. It was in about 1997, and I went from writing the tech support FAQ for the game to coding the installer for the second release; got my name in the scrolling credits for that one. Sadly, I can't find any evidence of its existence now.
That was almost a big problem!
Mod up: +1 obscure animated classic reference!