Posts by Lghost

anyone else

get the impression halfway through that Lewis and amanfromars1 may be 2 personae behind the same keyboard ?

want linux to work straight out of the box ? get mint

<quote>This is the differentiating point of Mint, and I think that's why it has got to be the second most widely-used distribution of Linux. To quote from their about page on their website bullet point 1:

"It works out of the box, with full multimedia support and is extremely easy to use."

Personally, I think that's the way it should be. Just my opinion...</quote>

And mine ;-) and that of a great many others..

Mint is unbuntu linux as it should've been been done ,better, nicer looking , easier install easier to use, so easy that it is the only linux I install for peoples grannies and grandpas who have never touched a computer before, and they rarely have more than 1 or 2 questions later except the "what was my password one"..

I've put Mint as a dual boot on a lot of windows boxen for kids,teens and adults too ..most prefer it to their windows install within 2 weeks ..its great if your business isn't call out based, ( because they only ever call you back to say thanks for turning a nightmare into a pleasure) but you are just installing for free to help people out on windows machines that have been trashed by the latest contaminated email from the grandchildren or "jokes" sent around the office workers and then passed on to extended family etc.

Minty green icon used deliberately ;-) Go Mint

Please stop the "yoof speek" innit !

"skills up"

Outsourcing reporting and sub editing to the junior bike sheds chavs and chavettes are we ?

A beer for the Judge ..;-)

On behalf of writers and artists, who don't see why we should have to "opt out"..of intellectual property abuse.

sub eds eyes wonky? or an alias ?

In 1995, he confirmed his Lincoln College tutor the Rev Vivian Green was the inspiration for his most famous creation, George Smiely.

"they'd never believe us"

screencap ;-]

Now the question is why is it a square?

Maybe the mk2 is going to be square..( with rounded corners )?

Or maybe it is just crap artwork..

re : Are they using an image of a transvestite ?

No

http://www.codeweavers.com/about/people/jschmid

She says ..My husband, Chris with Pencil, is awesome.

So unless you are still more awesome with your pencil ..you may well be out of luck ;-)

AO commentards shun spell checkers?

It is written "bureaucracy" ..and not, as some of the exotic variations beginning with "beau" ( penned no doubt by those with MBA or similar Mickey Mouse "qualifications" ) seen above ..would lead the illiterate to believe .

@BingBong ..I'm in total agreement with Old Man - Grey Fleece ;-) kudos à toi

I wished Eric would just F4 - this is near enough ..for now

Thank you Santa ;-)))

He faces 10 years inside if convicted,

Surely if convicted he faces more than just 10 years ?

in the land of consecutive 999 year sentences ~:o

@anonymous "What Else Can We Do?"

+ who cares how many "internets" ..;-)

even if all one can do is help to give hope that not all are deluded by maya..

it is good ..everything counts ..eventually

audacious is good ..;-)

copyright

This uses automated screencaptures .and then shows them without the original sites permission

and is thus is ignoring all copyright law or fair use doctrine ( and you can always block our bot and thus "opt out" doesn't cut it eric ..because I already did "no archive" ..and you keep switching bots and ignoring robots text directives )..if you have predominantly text based website ..the text in the "screen cap" is too small to read ..but if you have an image based website with "thumbnails" that show the chosen "thumbnail" at larger size on the same page ( like most "gallery" sites )..then this shows your images upto 3 times bigger than your thumbnails ..

That removes the need for any casual surfer to visit any "gallery" site in order to see the contents ..

Unless the site serves it's galleries via flash..( because Google cant rip and display interactive flash ..yet ).. that means more than 50% ( maybe as many as 90% ) of all the gallery sites on the internet will have to remake their sites into flash ..just to stop google ripping off their copyright material.

The sizes used by Google correspond perfectly to a smart phone used horizontally ..( as does their recent local maps implementation ) ..from now on the biggest ,unauthorised, copyright ignorer ( waaaaaaaay bigger than the PRC ) will show your pages (as many as they can get with their disguised "bots" ) ..next to their serps ..and on a mobile phone you can scroll up and down myriads of sites without ever actually visiting any of them ..

And you cant opt out ..because being opted out of "cache" via "no archive" years made no difference ..

IMO eric just went right across the "creepy line" ( alway wondered which side he was coming from anyway )..and straight into the illegal ( fair use, partial quotes, review etc don't apply here ) side ..

Apparently he thinks that having corporate lawyers "on tap" ready to stall and the US/UK govt(s) bending over and supplying their own lube will deflect this ..

I and my lawyers ( and I hope many others..and their lawyers ..mom and pop operations , charities, simple "hobby" webmasters, right upto mega corps ) will beg to differ ..

The DMCA(s) and the C and D(s) are in the mail ( snail and e ) ..

Fight it ..or accept being a wallpaper painter ( unpaid ) for the plex and it's properties ..don't let Google hi-jack the web ..it isn't theirs to screencap and frame via javascript includes ..

re adwords ( at least it blocks them from view )..dont you worry ..they'll already have contextually targeted "slide in/down" DHTML versions of adwords ready to drop straight over each screen shot ..thats just adding their "comment on/review.. this site" sidebar ..to their "personalisation / behavioral opted in by default search"..

eric=fecal golem

If only MS and Y had n't made ( so far ) such a clusterfuck of implementing the "federation" of MS serving ads to Y ..

Re: Celebrity rules

+1 to Ms Bee

May I suggest Cap'n Bee ?

adding "moontains" to the reg list of standard ( but fanciful/or fancyfull in respect of the number of caders to make an idris ..both being part of a meta set of jubblies ) measurements ..;-)

may I further suggest that at least 10 hypes be required to make a small moontain ..

this ( 10 ) being the number of Pinocchios ( give or take a Wales )required to make a Blair..

all in favor ..say aaaarrrr

Again, Mr Potts I raise my glass to you

mes respects ..les plus sincères.

why would Italian banks want him to do this ?

"creating fake ATM cards for Italian banks"

Can't they a make a their own a real ones ?

re ..IIRC

that entire post read like a series of elaborate euphemisms..

right innuenedo ..

the mind simply boggles

too bloody high

I'm 2 metres tall ..and I can't see over my 2 metre high garden walls ..and here ( in France ) if

I want to build my garden walls higher than that ..I have to get planning permission ..and give a damn good reason ..or they'll say "non" ..

Keeping erics peeping tom mobiles out of my garden ( and all the innertube voyeurs eyesessess out along with it ) is n't in the list of "damn good reasons"

Nor should it need to be ..

And double decker buses can't fit down our lane ..( yes the French do have some old routemasters that they bought for rolling billboards )..which is also private and so they aren't allowed even if they could ..If google ( anything ..even a branded bloody googly cat ) with a camera stuck on it ever comes down here ..implements for firewood cutting are ready and waiting to make sure it wont get away ..nor take any pics.

I 'll see what kind of sauce I could put with it and if it would go nice with a bottle of St Nicholas or a nice Bandol rosé ..

va t'on eric... .je t'emmerde

"a cheat on"

"a cheat on" ? ..when I last lived in the UK ( over 20 years ago ) judges were usually able to speak grammatically correct English..

So now you have chav judges ..eh ..

Rumpole would be spinning in his grave..

@ace rimmer ;-))

you made my day ..twice ..nearly laughed myself into a coronary ;-)

Cheers ..

@ac.. re "judges that don't judge"

amanfromars has more style, poetry, soul ..and makes more sense ( scientific and / or otherwise ) frequently,

nice try though ;-)

just dont give up "the day job" ..you could have had 7 out of 10 for effort ..right up until you finished off with a skyfairy..

So LHC and intrestin' science ..1 ..Wagner and flat earthers and "dont annoy the sky fairy" posters / believers ..0

the beer is for amanfromars..to be shared ( via straws ) with Ms Bee ..I enjoy the posts of the pair of you ..just as I do those of Mr Pott

Ancient upper/lower nile time god ?

In general, the body clock needs to "tick" once every 24 horus to match up with an Earthly day as experienced in the vicinity of any given meridian.

jobsness always reminds me of some ancient cu(l)t god figure à la "the mummy" ..

and yes... I k(l)ow my spell checker is broke(l)

box of crayons

it only times out on the first time with opera ..

hit refresh and it loves ya ..

( though why anyone would want to mix cookies and javascript that way deliberately ..

presuming that they told their boss that is was deliberate ..or didn't know better ..or never tested it away from the "home dev' box" )

re the design ..

Unfortunately see(ing) much, much worse very day ..:-((

slap adsense code on it and it'll probably make a fortune ..fugly is good for CTR ..Nielson knows..to judge by his cover ..

The ESTA page ( and Nielson's ) should come with a notice "warning ..this page may give you styes !"

Something "unexpected" appears to have given Paris an eye problem

re:Old boy's club.

Another glass raised to you Mr Pott ;-)

@Trevor_Pott

As a long time reader here , I registered today to say, "Well spoken Sir ..my hat is off to you .. a pleasure to read you in this thread and in general ..I raise a glass in a toast to you Sir" .

that is all.