Posts by beep54
151 posts • joined Sunday 19th December 2010 07:28 GMT
Re: Use Chrome
Don't trust Chrome? Don't use it. You can get Chromium for Windows or Comodo Dragon, another Chromium based browser. Personally, I like Dragon. http://www.comodo.com/home/browsers-toolbars/browser.php
Re: Recovery.
As another Austinite, I'm curious as to how much we know about our buried fiber. During the dot.com boom, everybody and their 3rd cousins twice removed were laying this stuff (downtown at least) all over the damn place, mainly I think, just because they could. I believe no one even had to ask for right-of-way. Since any number of those companies must have surely gone tits up, I really have to wonder if anyone knows what the hell is down there anymore. Considering that the widening of S. Congress was delayed by years because of incredibly shoddy record keeping, I have some doubts. Hell, even when our oldest hotel downtown (the magnificent Driskoll) remodeled, they found something like a forgotten basement. It'll be interesting, for sure. Nice about the free access points tho. Hope that includes UT...
Re: D'Oh!
Eh, Social Security is NOT a ponzi scheme. Repeat. NOT. Stop being silly.
Re: technically skilled?
Is anyone actually surprised here? If so I have one word, 'Tulips' (which may or may not have been a thing, but the underlying story is useful). Economics is just daft. And why not? It's driven by humans who are, more or less, by definition nuts.
Re: Goodbye, <blink>! Hello {blink: on;}!
Dear God! That really IS fucking annoying. Stop it! <blink>Now!!</blink>
Posted in British LulzSec member pleads guilty
Re: For the LULZ
re: MyBackDoor
Your back door needs a really big and gnarly plug...
Re: IE 10
Since I cannot actually get rid of IE (and to tell the truth, the few times I've used it recently, I've found it not half bad), I figure I might as well update it. Still haven't figured out why it manages to collect discardable crap even when not using it tho. Bing I simply opt out of. And does anything actually use Silverlight? No matter, might as well have a 'fixed' version than not. Nonetheless, I update Windows whenever it is updatable. Have it set to 'download and tell me' rather than automatic and this works well. Never had an update go kabluey. The reboots are a tad annoyng, but I find Windows just gets cranky if left on too long and just needs a reboot to clear its silly head now and then.
Beer, just cause I want one. Cooking sherry sucks.
Re: Hacking Hymns
"n a gadda da vida, baby
In a gadda da vida, honey
Don't you know that I'm lovin' you
Oh, won't you come with me
And take my hand
Oh, won't you come with me
And walk this land
Please take my hand"
from The Simpsons
Re: Pics or didnt happen!
Guessing it would be like the pit of hypo needles in that Saw movie.... Or not.
Re: After Fox went off the air in 2013
Oddly enough, I think that sums up a particular Simpson's episode....
Re: Its clearly not from mercury.
Either there is an "Its" which is clearly not from a liquid metal or you are missing an apostrophe and a capitalization.
Re: I am going to take an unpopular side here.
Hum. "No legislation on paper can not change physics." is equivalent to 'legislation on paper can change physics'. I did not know that.
Edit button, please.
Re: Detest the evil things
I just ran across this recently. Seems tin foil is an amazing cat repellant http://www.snotr.com/video/10539/Tin_foil_is_Cat_repellent My guess is it is exactly like accidentally chewing on foil.
Re: ...bands (singing cat-themed songs)
Can't forget this classic:
Shake, Rattle and Roll (I'm like a one-eyed cat peeping in the seafood store)
Re: Judicial Fuckwittery
Tha's 'bidness' ta ya'll, son! Ya know, son, what makes 'Merika GREAT (really, the whole earth) is that you can poke holes in it 'n' awl 'n' gas jest comes a bubblin' up!! [see: http://www.politico.com/blogs/on-congress/2013/03/stockman-the-best-thing-about-the-earth-is-if-you-159944.html]
Re: Utterly unfair
Name 2?? Well, there's Austin. A-and, didn't we come up with the hula hoop? A-and the pet rock!!! See, three right there!!
I would post my latest title
But, well what then?
Movies, fuck em
Why in God's banger's Hell should I fucking pay to see ads. Well, I don't. I don't even have a TV anymore.
Eh, suck it up and move to 7. Which is essentially Vista service pack 4 now. XP was a nightmare when it first rolled out. You pretty much needed a whole new kit to run it and even then the drivers weren't there. Still, it became solid. Can't see moving to 8 any time soon until it is fixed. Good core, but it is very ugly.
Re: Absolutely
"There is no reason why a good wine should ever be more than 12%"
I take it that you are just not really all that familiar with 'good' wine.
Re: @Rocket888
"Why will the differential be maintained? Isn't it much more likely that the cheap crap will just be sold to other markets? Otherwise sales of all grades will reduce."
I gather basic economics is just not your strong suit, is it?
"Yeah but repealing this kind of B.S. is the one thing which made Roosevelt popular." The 'one' thing? Really? There's this little thing called History. Perhaps you should avail yourself. It's in books, you know.
Posted in Jimmy Wales: 'I'm Wikipedia's monarch'
Re: King Jimmy's Wiki-mess
Do keep up. Your 'reference' that 'supported' your 'conclusions' was just something that took much longer to debunk in the past.
Re: Rotten to the Core!
Eh, off topic but to the post: Definitely go look up PIL on American Bandstand. So, well, not yr normal AB show.
Re: Deflating cash cow
I don't think you get it. The RIAA (among others) think that there is an infinite pool of money out there waiting to be dived into. I'm actually hoping they'll crack their collective heads open when they hit bottom.
Effed to start with
This is so well known it isn't funny any more. But then, I must recommend you read Elmore Leonard's 'Get Shorty' and 'Be Cool'. His meditations on the music and film industry (respectively). Now, THAT'S comedy :)
It is called the suckers bet::
(no appeals allowed, but you get your money back if you win)
Re: Amazon, and others, are probably funneling the profits through Bermuda.
Pretty sure we already use the Cayman's among others. Let me go ask Mitt. He doesn't have much to do right now....
Re: The laws of physics will be different in the encroaching bubble.
"cool, maybe pi will be an integer! so much neater :-)"
Damn! Now you've got me wondering if there is some topological space where that is true.
While this is amusing, the product itself is from Sony and who in the hell wants to rent, er, I mean 'buy' anything at all from them
Re: Proceed with caution
Uhm, no. I believe the accuracy is dependent on whether you are holding the phone 'correctly' or not.
Re: Chubby Checker is still alive?
Now I've got to go listen to the two 'twist' songs. Say, does anyone know just why it takes something like process explorer to actually kill Spotify when one is done?
Posted in Any storm in a port
Re: I used to have the same problem
I remember those Dells (the NLX and very non-standard form factor) and, yes, they could be a bitch to plug into. And then the really fun part was when you found out that the front ports didn't actually supply enough power (or something....) and you actually had to plug whatever into the back to get it to work. Major design fail.
Re: Next Door
Yes. Yes it does. Your gonna die up there...er, wait....
I truly fear for my country. I'm in Texas, which would be more scarey if I weren't in Austin. Pswhew.
Re: Calm down, it's just a willy...
All I can say is that Japan is weird. Hey, I love 'em, but have you seen gay Japenese porn? 'Extreme' just doesn't do parts of it justice. Yet. there's that odd pixilation. Perhaps they are Southern Baptists at heart. I dunno....
Posted in The business mullet: Cool or tool?
The suit??
Really, if you think about it, the business suit makes zero sense. Totally non-functional. Then again, I developed the concept of "Fashion is what I happen to be wearing at the moment. Biatch!" and it has served me well.
SAM I am
Really, just waiting for someone to go Seussian here. It's gotta happen. And while I'm here, uh, why doesn't SAM just sell off here while the price is nice. I just don't get it. Then again, I don't understand the concept of money very well. Coinage: No problem. The abstract concept of money: Big problem. As in "My string of semi-random bits is equivalent to such and such gazillion dollars/pounds/euros/whatever" just really makes little sense. But that is how it works these days.
Hey. Eight years of Bush/Cheney, so what do you expect?
Re: Yet another reason to drop all of facebook on the floor.
Wait.....you mean people are still using Facebook for some unfathomable reason? Who knew! Well, I guess it IS excellent at wasting your time and money while destroying what little privacy you have left. Really, we all need more of that.
Re: More to the point ...
Hey, I LOVE to see that fight!
Try Comodo Dragon. Looks like Chrome, but doesn't phone home.
Re: Free scan tool that wants to know all your details
I scanned the EULA with EULAlyzer. First I have EVER received a report back that scary. Uh, no thank you for this puppy. Running away NOW!
Re: Ubutnu Systems
First, Ubuntu has to get their collective head out of their ass. Amazon.com anyone? Unity??
Re: Americans use such self-explanetory language ... once you learn the vocabulary
As an 'Merican' (and Texan at that) I'd say you're spot on. Do also note that Fark.com has an entire category for weird news simply labelled "Florida".
I eagerly clicked on the article
thinking it was about the medical condition often referred to as shingles, but more officially called herpes zoster. I've had it. thus the 'eagerly' up there. Nasty crap. If you had chicken pox as a kid, the older you get, the better chances you have for the virus to flare up again as it never goes away. It just becomes dormant. LIke I say, nasty crap and you WILL be going to the hospital for the pain alone.
Re: The internet is where religions come to die!
Heeeeeeheeheeheeheeheehe!!!! Thank you for that one :)
Re: useful
Tried Sumatra when Foxit kinda went tits up for a bit and needed a .pdf reader (never, ever going to do Abobe again for that). What I thought neat about Sumatra was that it was also an ebook reader. Still, Foxit (when working) seems to integrate a bit better and Calibre is my ebook reader. Nonetheless, was quite impressed with Sumatra.
Yet another reminder
of why I never, ever want to be in Singapore.
