That looks really useful. I might finally be able to replace my horribly non-user-friendly Palm Desktop with something a little less intuitive. Please help me get this software!
Seriously tho, are there any copies of Bob still floating around?
If you wait long enough the body of your enemy will be found floating down the river. Not sure of the origin of this saying, but the basic message is that the bastard deserving revenge has already (or will) piss off other people to the point that the revenge you wish to do will be performed by someone else and the police won't go looking for you. Meanwhile you can point and laugh, and boy does that feel good, even better than revenge actually.
This was available last year. Checked it out, video looked terrible, but the sound was solid. I used it for a couple of months before deciding that I just didn't need to pay $10/month for tv on my phone when I only used it for a few minutes a day at most. No time to watch. Overtime work and long commutes eliminated any free time I had.
Already posted this one above, but here it is again. You need Newpen fixes that problem for the Treo, and is pretty darned handy on other palm devices too (write big and fast on the full screen area).
I've also found usability of the Treo keyboard to be an issue, but I've found that Newpen gives me graffiti on screen to jot quick notes and such. Excellent bonus to have physical kb PLUS handwriting recognition on same device.
Check out my journal for more good stuff, and please feel free to leave comments suggesting other goodies I need to add to my list.
I'm sure you're wrong about this. Society has already decided how to handle human clones - they're treated just like anyone else. In case you never noticed, identical twins are clones of each other.
I should start using the preview button. Now, not only do I look like a complete imbecile (I may very well be), but now I'm completely off topic. Let this be a lesson to you. Goodbye karma, I'll miss you. *sniff*
SLACKER! Customize that list and run multiple browsers (with multiple tabs each) in BATTLE-ROYALE mode. Currently on deck I have the Superbad Aquahind , the Ultimate Cannibalspawn, and the Superbad Hornyewe. Alwayse entertaining.
add to the list: Terror Firmer - Most godawful movie they've ever done (a True Troma Masterpiece) Cannibal: The Musical - So bad/good it needs to be listed TWICE.
Yep I paid $25 for this treat. Worst movie I've ever seen, only one to ever make me uncomfortable and turn my stomach. It got me band from ever showing any movies at our friday night movie parties. I have to date met only 2 people that actually liked the movie, and married one of them. Of course, I like this movie. It represents the epitome of troma movie magic. Part of my most prized platinum collection. I love this godawful movie.
This is completely incomprehensible. I'm using Mozilla Dangerphoenix, and ms let me get the download with no hassles at all. Of course it's not one of their usual updates, but I still find it hard to believe that they haven't broken the link for non-IE browsers like they do for the rest of their site. Unless the "Configuration Change" is really just an extension to "fix" my Mozilla Pornopony to behave just like IE. DAMN YOU MICROSOFT, WHEN CAN I TRUST YOU!!!
Yeah, I got one of those "No Roaming" plans. I can't roam at all now. For the next 2 years. Yay.
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I know this is slashdot, but this article has NOTHING WHATSOEVER to do with Windows. Can we please have a thread once in a while that doesn't bash Windows?
I was just on the Google News tech page and clicked on this story and it brought me back to/. where I saw it in mentioned in the first place? I smell a recursive duplicate article coming soon....
Ira Sponsible reports.. Google news has an article reporting that Nokia has invested in Mozilla...
"Bluetooth porn spam will being blaring out of everyones mobile the minute that slightly dazed looking yuppie walks into the room with his brand new phone that he uses for browsing on the net and email and chat and buying stuff and everything!!!"
Great, I'll just set my Beasty Boys "Girls" ringer to alert me whenever I get that porn spam.
Replying to people who've complained about this post. I was pissed and genericized very recent specific example. As a guy who started as The Kid Who Knows How To Get Electronic Crap To Work, the rest of my family relies on me to setup and fix ALL of their junk, from the time on the damn VCR (thank God the new ones take the time from the cable feed now - less work for me). So naturally I'm the one who has to fix my family's Windows boxen. The example I posted was one of them (was blasted by lightning, and the worst apparent damage was a fried modem and a flash erased - but not otherwise harmed - HD). They got it replaced by homeowners insurance (good stuff), and I was wanting to turn it into a clone/backup. A pure win install would have been easier, but I still consider it a PITA. This pc is now destined to become a firewall for the replacement pc, because despite my best effort, they will NOT back up their crap, and will NOT patch/update the thing, and refuse to follow my guidelines for safe web usage. So naturally the BRANDSPANKINGNEW pc is now completely bogged down with God Knows how much spyware, worms and virii, bringing the system to an almost complete standstill. Here's what they're getting when they start to complain to me about it in a couple of months: The hardware firewall to help lock out worms, script kiddies, patchless windows exploits, etc., Moz with IE skin (they'll never figure out the difference), and user privs for children and other minor tweaks to make my life easier and my family complain less.
Some other specific points that I've been flamed on: -Yes, Lindows does take only about 7 minutes to install (including reboot) on the p2/166 machine I was working with, perfect for a nice relaxing smoke as this is a completely unattended install. -I do have a crapload of huge docs in mspub 2 format that I have to periodically update. And I can't find the frikkin install disks (not a warez trader). This is the ONLY reason I keep that damned dos/win 3.1 box alive, absolutely nothing I have found can read that format besides mspub2 (and even then it occasionally fails - I'll not get started on my rant about MS apps not being able to read their own formats flawlessly). Manually recreating the docs in OpenOffice.org is easy enough (much better program for doing this than mspub2 - I'll be fair and chalk that up to OO.o being a lot newer), just very tedious and time consuming to do. -I'm a veteran of plenty of driver hunts back in the bad old DOS days, and I'll NEVER EVER AGAIN use any hardware that couldn't be reasonably considered common. No more hunts for drivers whether I'm using Linux or Windows. -My own win98 box is pretty stable. (I know what I'm doing - I update when necessary, backup the entire system etc.) But there's no getting around the fact that it gradually builds up a lot of performance hindering cruft that has to be cleared by completely wiping the system every few months. If I had only one hardware/system/software setup on this box and never changed the hardware/software roster but only patched when necessary (not very often anymore), I could get away with never wiping it at all unless something Really Bad happened (just like the dos/win box mentioned above). This one I use primarily for play, such as games for the kid and testing OS apps to be provided to my aforementioned family (migrating them to Linux by getting them hooked on the apps first, the same strategy MS uses to get people hooked on Windows in the first place -besides the fact that it's the default OS on most consumer machines). On my Lindows box (yes I like Lindows, I also like pepperoni on my pizza, personal tastes differ) I don't have to be concerned as much about the gradual buildup of useless cruft - if I don't want it or don't need it anymore I just delete it and move on, not quite as easy to do with windows. -Windows will crash for no apparent reason. With my family I'll often find it's a worm or crap they downloaded that causes this, but other times it's a mystery known only to Bill why something suddenl
"Switching from Windows to Linux Prohibitively Eexpensive, Extremely Complex"
I did this 2 days ago. Rebuilding a fried box, reinstalling Windows took about 3 hours (including a 45 minute search for my legitimate license key), I had to constantly babysit the computer for a each prompt, and when it was finally complete, did not work properly. Rather than waste the rest of the night trying to troubleshoot the damned thing and get it all working I gave up, stuck in the Lindows cd I got for free, clicked I agree and started smoking a cigarette. Before I was done smoking the install was completed and was waiting for me to reboot. Now all I have to do is apt-get the programs I want to use (already using the windows version of just about every GNU/Linux software anyone needs on a pc) and I'll be done.
I'm kinda lazy and cheap, but not stupid. Do I pick Windows (Pain in the ass to install, Hell to operate and protect, and expensive to buy and get support for, which needs to be periodically reinstalled when it stops working for no apparent reason) Or do I pick Linux (easy to install, free to get, and millions of developers that give you the info you need to keep things going for free on a stable platform that can be trusted not to inexplicably decide not to work)?
-Yeah, I know I picked Lindows in this example, but I've tried installing other distros, and they were all easier and faster than the Windows Reinstall Hell I've been through many times. -Yes I do still use windows, they have some of my important data locked up in some of their apps that I can't use without their platform. I've learned from this mistake and am going through the painful transition of RECREATING the info in opensource formats. -Damn. That last one let me know that Microsoft is right. It really is a complicated, expensive and painful procedure to transition from Windows to Linux: Complicated because you have to free your info from their locked-down shitty closed source applications-usually fixing a crapload of errors generated by these same apps, wasting a lot of time(=money), and wishing you never made the mistake of using Microsoft crap in the first place (painful).
Yes. It is VERY easy to code for every browser/os combination. Use web standards. I have yet to see web standards NOT work on any browser/os combination. (Internet Explorer is NOT a browser - it's a trojan horse, and Windows is NOT an OS - it's a bad habit.)
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Yep, the perfect part to complete my robot... my GIRL robot.
"other succesful Microsoft products.
That looks really useful. I might finally be able to replace my horribly non-user-friendly Palm Desktop with something a little less intuitive. Please help me get this software!
Seriously tho, are there any copies of Bob still floating around?
If you wait long enough the body of your enemy will be found floating down the river. Not sure of the origin of this saying, but the basic message is that the bastard deserving revenge has already (or will) piss off other people to the point that the revenge you wish to do will be performed by someone else and the police won't go looking for you. Meanwhile you can point and laugh, and boy does that feel good, even better than revenge actually.
This was available last year. Checked it out, video looked terrible, but the sound was solid. I used it for a couple of months before deciding that I just didn't need to pay $10/month for tv on my phone when I only used it for a few minutes a day at most. No time to watch. Overtime work and long commutes eliminated any free time I had.
Already posted this one above, but here it is again. You need Newpen fixes that problem for the Treo, and is pretty darned handy on other palm devices too (write big and fast on the full screen area).
I've also found usability of the Treo keyboard to be an issue, but I've found that Newpen gives me graffiti on screen to jot quick notes and such. Excellent bonus to have physical kb PLUS handwriting recognition on same device.
Check out my journal for more good stuff, and please feel free to leave comments suggesting other goodies I need to add to my list.
Isn't Cow orking illegal in most jurisdictions?
I'm sure you're wrong about this. Society has already decided how to handle human clones - they're treated just like anyone else. In case you never noticed, identical twins are clones of each other.
I should start using the preview button. Now, not only do I look like a complete imbecile (I may very well be), but now I'm completely off topic. Let this be a lesson to you. Goodbye karma, I'll miss you. *sniff*
I guess that wasn't funny at all. Damn.
Too afraid to RTFA with a summary that long. Brain hurts, must go lie down now.
SLACKER! Customize that list and run multiple browsers (with multiple tabs each) in BATTLE-ROYALE mode. Currently on deck I have the Superbad Aquahind , the Ultimate Cannibalspawn, and the Superbad Hornyewe. Alwayse entertaining.
add to the list:
Terror Firmer - Most godawful movie they've ever done (a True Troma Masterpiece)
Cannibal: The Musical - So bad/good it needs to be listed TWICE.
Yep I paid $25 for this treat. Worst movie I've ever seen, only one to ever make me uncomfortable and turn my stomach. It got me band from ever showing any movies at our friday night movie parties. I have to date met only 2 people that actually liked the movie, and married one of them. Of course, I like this movie. It represents the epitome of troma movie magic. Part of my most prized platinum collection. I love this godawful movie.
I STILL can't get any PNG support in lynx.
What?
Oh yeah...
This is completely incomprehensible. I'm using Mozilla Dangerphoenix, and ms let me get the download with no hassles at all. Of course it's not one of their usual updates, but I still find it hard to believe that they haven't broken the link for non-IE browsers like they do for the rest of their site. Unless the "Configuration Change" is really just an extension to "fix" my Mozilla Pornopony to behave just like IE. DAMN YOU MICROSOFT, WHEN CAN I TRUST YOU!!!
You can use this to shoot people hiding indoors with your snazzy new Rail Gun! Just don't let the Governator get his hands on this one...
Yeah, I got one of those "No Roaming" plans. I can't roam at all now. For the next 2 years. Yay.
I know this is slashdot, but this article has NOTHING WHATSOEVER to do with Windows. Can we please have a thread once in a while that doesn't bash Windows?
I was just on the Google News tech page and clicked on this story and it brought me back to /. where I saw it in mentioned in the first place? I smell a recursive duplicate article coming soon....
Ira Sponsible reports.. Google news has an article reporting that Nokia has invested in Mozilla...
Don't you pay ANY attention at all to our leaders? Dubya has clearly let us know that it is "Nucular" not "Nuclear"
"Bluetooth porn spam will being blaring out of everyones mobile the minute that slightly dazed looking yuppie walks into the room with his brand new phone that he uses for browsing on the net and email and chat and buying stuff and everything!!!" Great, I'll just set my Beasty Boys "Girls" ringer to alert me whenever I get that porn spam.
Replying to people who've complained about this post. I was pissed and genericized very recent specific example. As a guy who started as The Kid Who Knows How To Get Electronic Crap To Work, the rest of my family relies on me to setup and fix ALL of their junk, from the time on the damn VCR (thank God the new ones take the time from the cable feed now - less work for me). So naturally I'm the one who has to fix my family's Windows boxen. The example I posted was one of them (was blasted by lightning, and the worst apparent damage was a fried modem and a flash erased - but not otherwise harmed - HD). They got it replaced by homeowners insurance (good stuff), and I was wanting to turn it into a clone/backup. A pure win install would have been easier, but I still consider it a PITA. This pc is now destined to become a firewall for the replacement pc, because despite my best effort, they will NOT back up their crap, and will NOT patch/update the thing, and refuse to follow my guidelines for safe web usage. So naturally the BRANDSPANKINGNEW pc is now completely bogged down with God Knows how much spyware, worms and virii, bringing the system to an almost complete standstill. Here's what they're getting when they start to complain to me about it in a couple of months: The hardware firewall to help lock out worms, script kiddies, patchless windows exploits, etc., Moz with IE skin (they'll never figure out the difference), and user privs for children and other minor tweaks to make my life easier and my family complain less.
Some other specific points that I've been flamed on:
-Yes, Lindows does take only about 7 minutes to install (including reboot) on the p2/166 machine I was working with, perfect for a nice relaxing smoke as this is a completely unattended install.
-I do have a crapload of huge docs in mspub 2 format that I have to periodically update. And I can't find the frikkin install disks (not a warez trader). This is the ONLY reason I keep that damned dos/win 3.1 box alive, absolutely nothing I have found can read that format besides mspub2 (and even then it occasionally fails - I'll not get started on my rant about MS apps not being able to read their own formats flawlessly). Manually recreating the docs in OpenOffice.org is easy enough (much better program for doing this than mspub2 - I'll be fair and chalk that up to OO.o being a lot newer), just very tedious and time consuming to do.
-I'm a veteran of plenty of driver hunts back in the bad old DOS days, and I'll NEVER EVER AGAIN use any hardware that couldn't be reasonably considered common. No more hunts for drivers whether I'm using Linux or Windows.
-My own win98 box is pretty stable. (I know what I'm doing - I update when necessary, backup the entire system etc.) But there's no getting around the fact that it gradually builds up a lot of performance hindering cruft that has to be cleared by completely wiping the system every few months. If I had only one hardware/system/software setup on this box and never changed the hardware/software roster but only patched when necessary (not very often anymore), I could get away with never wiping it at all unless something Really Bad happened (just like the dos/win box mentioned above). This one I use primarily for play, such as games for the kid and testing OS apps to be provided to my aforementioned family (migrating them to Linux by getting them hooked on the apps first, the same strategy MS uses to get people hooked on Windows in the first place -besides the fact that it's the default OS on most consumer machines). On my Lindows box (yes I like Lindows, I also like pepperoni on my pizza, personal tastes differ) I don't have to be concerned as much about the gradual buildup of useless cruft - if I don't want it or don't need it anymore I just delete it and move on, not quite as easy to do with windows.
-Windows will crash for no apparent reason. With my family I'll often find it's a worm or crap they downloaded that causes this, but other times it's a mystery known only to Bill why something suddenl
"Switching from Windows to Linux Prohibitively Eexpensive, Extremely Complex"
I did this 2 days ago. Rebuilding a fried box, reinstalling Windows took about 3 hours (including a 45 minute search for my legitimate license key), I had to constantly babysit the computer for a each prompt, and when it was finally complete, did not work properly. Rather than waste the rest of the night trying to troubleshoot the damned thing and get it all working I gave up, stuck in the Lindows cd I got for free, clicked I agree and started smoking a cigarette. Before I was done smoking the install was completed and was waiting for me to reboot. Now all I have to do is apt-get the programs I want to use (already using the windows version of just about every GNU/Linux software anyone needs on a pc) and I'll be done.
I'm kinda lazy and cheap, but not stupid.
Do I pick Windows (Pain in the ass to install, Hell to operate and protect, and expensive to buy and get support for, which needs to be periodically reinstalled when it stops working for no apparent reason)
Or do I pick Linux (easy to install, free to get, and millions of developers that give you the info you need to keep things going for free on a stable platform that can be trusted not to inexplicably decide not to work)?
-Yeah, I know I picked Lindows in this example, but I've tried installing other distros, and they were all easier and faster than the Windows Reinstall Hell I've been through many times.
-Yes I do still use windows, they have some of my important data locked up in some of their apps that I can't use without their platform. I've learned from this mistake and am going through the painful transition of RECREATING the info in opensource formats.
-Damn. That last one let me know that Microsoft is right. It really is a complicated, expensive and painful procedure to transition from Windows to Linux: Complicated because you have to free your info from their locked-down shitty closed source applications-usually fixing a crapload of errors generated by these same apps, wasting a lot of time(=money), and wishing you never made the mistake of using Microsoft crap in the first place (painful).
Yes. It is VERY easy to code for every browser/os combination. Use web standards. I have yet to see web standards NOT work on any browser/os combination. (Internet Explorer is NOT a browser - it's a trojan horse, and Windows is NOT an OS - it's a bad habit.)