Sweet, Start.com isn't actually that bad, and they trumped Google too! Now all they need is to have an email service which doesn't piss off everyone who uses it, a homepage which isn't cluttered and full of shite and doesn't install cookies on your PC when all you want to do is download Firefox on a new Windows install, a Messenger service which doesn't have wanky "nudge" features built in which are expressly designed to cater for those with the intelligence spans of a flea, a media player that works with ShoutCast streams and doesn't clash horribly with every other app out there in terms of UI, a web browser that isn't 5 years behind Firefox in terms of EVERYTHING and a fucking always on top button on Windows, and they're getting somewhere!
I learned programming using Borland's Turbo Pascal (yes, Windows, not free as in speech (ZOMG)) and it certainly helped me learn some programming basics. I've moved on to learning C++ now and the Pascal background made it much easier.
It's time for the mods to be BEATEN TO FUCKING DEATH WITH A CLUE STICK, that's what it's time for. Soon we'll get news on the release of XP SP2 for christs sake.
Even better:
"A new open source operating system called LINUX has been developed by a Finnish student..."
This just helps cement my positive opinions of the BBC...I'm not usually very patriotic, but the BBC makes me want to start running around singing Rule Britannia at the top of my voice and hitting Welshmen with Union Jacks.
My mother got a new PC about Feb last year, it had XP installed on it (not by me) and since her Internet access would be coming through my PC through NAT, I asked her to install Mozilla on it to stop her getting malware. She immediately told me she didn't want "any of that Linux crap" on her PC.
Fast forward a couple of months. She was complaining about, among other things, porn popups and the fact that her PC was slowing down to a crawl. She and my brother had installed, among other things, lots of casino programs, Kazaa and had been using only IE to browse the web. A quick scan with Ad-Aware revealed 1000 infections. This time I set Ad-Aware to run a scan at every system startup, removed access to IE and told her to use Firefox. This time, she went schizo and I had to shout her down and get someone else involved to point out to her that using IE was a bad thing.
What retard decided to put binary data in RSS? Or would allow execution of code linked to by an RSS feed? That is truly the most retarded thing Microsoft could have done with regards to security. It's like a condom with the capability to have semen smeared on the outside. Utterly fucking stupid.
Nonono, the three letters that will put the willies up any Brit are as follows.
N. T. L.
NTL are the epitomy of shit customer service. They are AOL on steroids and crack. They will fuck up and they will bitch and they will moan and they will NEVER apologise when something is clearly their fault, and when all is said and done you have to threaten to switch to BT (British Telecom for the England-deprived) to lift their fucking fingers out of their arseholes and fix your fucking Internet connection.
There are so many things I could say about them but the one that stands out is the time they tried to make me download the Blaster patch, so I could get my Linux computer's Internet connection working again. Classic.
Maybe in World War II, military intervention helped stop the Western world from being overrun by Nazi evil. In fact, it unquestionably did.
Quite how the whole Iraq fiasco saved anyone from anything, other than saving many thousands of people from the torture of having to breathe, I have no idea.
What's the point? Folders and subfolders work for me...one of GMail's sorest problems for me is that you can't have sub-labels (something solved by me using Thunderbird to do my gmail...yay POP access). I assume this would have similar problems.
I use Win2K, and I'll probably use Win2K until they stop sending out security updates for it. I had XP for a while but then I decided to move to 2K, merely because XP was slow on the same hardware (128MB of ram, AMD Duron 1.8Ghz). While XP was swapping all the time, 2K was quite snappy; not fast, but quick enough to get my work done and use Winamp. Right now I'm typing this on a P3 laptop, and 2K is STILL chugging along quite damn quickly. I even use it on my main box, which has 384MB of RAM...2K runs on anything and is just SO damn quick.
Not to mention I got annoyed with Linux on the same box...don't get me wrong, Linux is a nice OS and all, but I just want things to work and not spend hours tweaking them, while having the power to tweak if I want. win2k gives me that, and IMHO XP was a HUGE step backwards from it.
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Sweet, Start.com isn't actually that bad, and they trumped Google too! Now all they need is to have an email service which doesn't piss off everyone who uses it, a homepage which isn't cluttered and full of shite and doesn't install cookies on your PC when all you want to do is download Firefox on a new Windows install, a Messenger service which doesn't have wanky "nudge" features built in which are expressly designed to cater for those with the intelligence spans of a flea, a media player that works with ShoutCast streams and doesn't clash horribly with every other app out there in terms of UI, a web browser that isn't 5 years behind Firefox in terms of EVERYTHING and a fucking always on top button on Windows, and they're getting somewhere!
I learned programming using Borland's Turbo Pascal (yes, Windows, not free as in speech (ZOMG)) and it certainly helped me learn some programming basics. I've moved on to learning C++ now and the Pascal background made it much easier.
It's time for the mods to be BEATEN TO FUCKING DEATH WITH A CLUE STICK, that's what it's time for. Soon we'll get news on the release of XP SP2 for christs sake.
Even better:
"A new open source operating system called LINUX has been developed by a Finnish student..."
What a bunch of crap. I'm in the UK and they refer to the bombers as terrorists all the time.
It seems that conservatives just LOVE dissing the BBC.
This just helps cement my positive opinions of the BBC...I'm not usually very patriotic, but the BBC makes me want to start running around singing Rule Britannia at the top of my voice and hitting Welshmen with Union Jacks.
My experience is as follows.
My mother got a new PC about Feb last year, it had XP installed on it (not by me) and since her Internet access would be coming through my PC through NAT, I asked her to install Mozilla on it to stop her getting malware. She immediately told me she didn't want "any of that Linux crap" on her PC.
Fast forward a couple of months. She was complaining about, among other things, porn popups and the fact that her PC was slowing down to a crawl. She and my brother had installed, among other things, lots of casino programs, Kazaa and had been using only IE to browse the web. A quick scan with Ad-Aware revealed 1000 infections. This time I set Ad-Aware to run a scan at every system startup, removed access to IE and told her to use Firefox. This time, she went schizo and I had to shout her down and get someone else involved to point out to her that using IE was a bad thing.
Normal users don't care. End of.
Hands up whoever read this comment and instantly thought of Pink Floyd's The Wall.
*raises hand*
I need a life.
Oh no no no, I'm not amnesiac. Wish I was, it's a good username :)
What retard decided to put binary data in RSS? Or would allow execution of code linked to by an RSS feed? That is truly the most retarded thing Microsoft could have done with regards to security. It's like a condom with the capability to have semen smeared on the outside. Utterly fucking stupid.
Dell laptops allow you to flash the bios from GRUB (linux bootloader). Not sure how well it works.
Nonono, the three letters that will put the willies up any Brit are as follows.
N.
T.
L.
NTL are the epitomy of shit customer service. They are AOL on steroids and crack. They will fuck up and they will bitch and they will moan and they will NEVER apologise when something is clearly their fault, and when all is said and done you have to threaten to switch to BT (British Telecom for the England-deprived) to lift their fucking fingers out of their arseholes and fix your fucking Internet connection.
There are so many things I could say about them but the one that stands out is the time they tried to make me download the Blaster patch, so I could get my Linux computer's Internet connection working again. Classic.
Maybe in World War II, military intervention helped stop the Western world from being overrun by Nazi evil. In fact, it unquestionably did.
Quite how the whole Iraq fiasco saved anyone from anything, other than saving many thousands of people from the torture of having to breathe, I have no idea.
Blogs are a buzzword. Like podcasting; remember podcasting? It's just used to sound relevant.
I actually rather like the GIMP's UI...I use it all the time, it's a pleasure.
War of the stupidly named image editors!
Krita vs. Gimp!
DIng ding! Round one!
NO. The iPod will not play ogg under any circumstances. The processor is not powerful enough.
Index dot CSS
Index dot HTML
Just the facts for me...
This idea of a burnout sounds good.
BURN THEM!!! BURN THEM ALL!!!!!!!!
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Reason: Don't use so many caps. It's like YELLING.
It's a feature not a bug
Doesn't matter if it's cute...the point is that both Tux and the daemon will both get roasted by the sun :)
I'm sure the guy will have no problems heating his house with the flames that are shooting from his web server right now.
Black Books
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Quite possibly the funniest British sitcom of the past 5 years and it's not on the fucking list.
You can't get much better than a drunken Irish misanthrope, a hairy assistant and a dizzy cow.
What's the point? Folders and subfolders work for me...one of GMail's sorest problems for me is that you can't have sub-labels (something solved by me using Thunderbird to do my gmail...yay POP access). I assume this would have similar problems.
Everyone who read the Wikipedia article on Longhorn, or indeed on Monad has known about this for a long, long time.
It's not that something bad has actually happened yet, it's that something bad could happen.
I use Win2K, and I'll probably use Win2K until they stop sending out security updates for it. I had XP for a while but then I decided to move to 2K, merely because XP was slow on the same hardware (128MB of ram, AMD Duron 1.8Ghz). While XP was swapping all the time, 2K was quite snappy; not fast, but quick enough to get my work done and use Winamp. Right now I'm typing this on a P3 laptop, and 2K is STILL chugging along quite damn quickly. I even use it on my main box, which has 384MB of RAM...2K runs on anything and is just SO damn quick.
Not to mention I got annoyed with Linux on the same box...don't get me wrong, Linux is a nice OS and all, but I just want things to work and not spend hours tweaking them, while having the power to tweak if I want. win2k gives me that, and IMHO XP was a HUGE step backwards from it.