Re: Windows 8 is OK.

Zanzibar+++

Stardock Sart8 for $4.99 - boots into desktop, nice customizable start button - you hardly know Winows 8 is there lol

just an FYI

;)

Re: Pabst Blue Ribbon?

Sure it is - in your grocery case right next to Old Millswill and Hamms.

<need a puke icon..>

Atlanta is not Southern

Most folks, as they cross the Tennessee/Georgia line, say "We're leaving the country". Georgia sucks verra muchly and Atlanta.... well Atlanta... to quote Angry Viet Nam Vet In Wheelchair: "I've seen some things, I wouldn't recommend it"...

almost forgot

Thanks for the reminder! Needed to uninstall Messenger - done.

ye gods.. GoogleTalk...

Re: Depressing

It's been my experience that the link between thinking and searching the web is not as common as one might think. From a wide variety of users from different backgrounds that I've helped out, few are pretty good at it, so many others are not. It's really odd from my perspective but it does exist to my surprise.

Perhaps a Federally funded low impact study by El Reg's Special Projects Bureau is in order? The ridiculous amount of revenue received might fund other more nefarious projects - just saying.

Re: Google a "friend of the court"?

Trollbait -> backup account for somebody. Three posts since 2010.

Re: Wrist communications

"Now imagine what speaking into your wrist will look like :-)"

Wearing dark glasses, looking around while you talk, and you're Secret Service Man!

;)

Re: thicker skins

Why? It's their game, nobody has to play.

You also miss the human aspect, most titles are just that, titles. Don't mean anything except to HR for whatever metric they come up with. Titles get hung on you, doesn't change the you.

'They' say I'm a business network security consultant, yet still an asshole at times. Sometimes I spill my beer. Happens.

Re: not nice

Somebody doesn't know Lester... he *is* BOFH and very good at hiding bodies, a real bastard. I don't like him (goes back to 1999, a contest, a Reg pin, and Lester's dicketry).

However, I do support slapping a newbie who strolls into your 'home' with muddy boots and kicks the cat. This is not a democracy, there are rules and basic politeness for the most part (Apple/Android/Microsoft pillow fights excepted).

Re: "Tom Cruise" - Hollywoods permier scientology creepozoid

Well... not really. On paper perhaps.

Movie studios were run by large personalities (read: egos) from the 20's through the 50's, with actors 'discovered' then 'owned' by the studios. In the 50's, McCarthy and his commie allegations alienated Hollywood by ruining one hell of a lot of lives with false accusations. Studios' control continued until the 60's when SAG and unions became more powerful and the large production studios lost their stables of talent. I wonder which was better, studios that controlled their actors behavior, or corporate powerhouses like Disney, who create train wrecks to unleash upon the world after they're done with them.

I think the OP was referring to the bastardization of movie quality, created by committee, somewhat like a corporate boy band. You have to admit, original storylines are far in-between. Just regurgitated crap really.

Cheers!

;)

Right... about... THERE!

" I'd be more worried about stuff like batteries on the new planes"

Pretty sure they have been making batteries for many, many, years now. Settled science you might say..... yet batteries are catching on fire on the new Boeings and they are not sure why.

Extrapolation: They say "Our software is Bulletproof", yet heavily defended gov orgs like, oh say, the Pentagon gets 'hacked' on a daily basis. With who they consider the best experts in the field, yet it_still_happens.

Kinda sets the stage for a massive, deadly, <facepalm> at some point in the future.

Re: Which one is it, reg?

^-^ He has a point.

Re: Still miss the Netscape N

Retrieved - Thank you, sir!

Did look around a bit, hope you don't mind.

Thanks again!

Re: Great...

Rockets? Who needs rockets when any container ship would do?

Just saying there are other methods.

Re: We really are at the mercy of crappy programmers now...

Whew! I ^hate^ those kind of folks!*

:|

*it's ok, I'm EOH ->Equal Opportunity Hater, club motto: 'Arse is not a color, race, gender, sexual orientation, religion... etc'

Re: no acer iconia w700? (my response)

...was looking at my kb trying to figure that one, then just nodded politely at the crazy person and moved on.

;)

Why?

C3PO wouldn't remember - had his memory wiped when Luke and Leia were born. R2D2 did have his memory but did forget how to fly with his little retro rockets in his legs in the 28(+/-2) years since being 'discovered' as an astrodroid on Princess Padme's ship.(1)

I'd say they would look pretty much the same.

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(1) You know who the real bastard is in this? Chewbacca. He knew about the whole thing, knew Yoda from the Clone Wars and didn't tell Han a damn thing. Good friend there lol.

Re: quietly started using North American components where he could

That depends on where the factory is located - Right-To-Work states would be fine, union states not so much.

Re: @Eaton -> Just stop it.

@Eadon -> Your Momma.

The entire box was hacked, old unpatched Linux and Apache, operated and maintained by MUPPETS.

The majority of Windows users/admins know how to update, the old-school Unix/Linux credo of fire and forget, only checking servers if they catch fire, has been over for some time.

Re: @Eaton -> Just stop it.

Host and site operator was one in the same - package deal paid quarterly. A 5 man operation that outsourced everything except billing - plenty of them out there. The access Joomla gave did root the server, passwords changed, directories deleted, etc. I have since xferred the domain elsewhere. The host I use and recommend sends email alerts when software used via Fantastico needs an update, has for years.

;)

Re: Am I the only person...

Was just commenting to the wife about the clarity of that pic - just like somebody was standing outside the rover and resisted instagram..

Would be a beautiful thing though.

Second thought: send a DRONE to mars and let it take some pics!

;)

Re: Meanwhile...

And General Electric (zero US taxes)

And Facebook (zero US taxes - getting a refund actually(!))

And and and....

Sigh. Tax everybody at a 10% flat rate if you want to be 'fair' IMO.

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Re: Promises

Horsepuckey.

Obama's first two years with Democrat House & Senate control barely got Obamacare passed and that was up-voted last minute & at midnight without reading the damn thing. Going on five years now without a Constitutionally mandated budget.

Point is Obama had all the marbles and lost them his first term - time wasted.

Re: silver/metal holder

Thanks for the search tip!

Infusion Rocks^: meaning the fascination I have with how different teas infuse in hot water - good teas are very rich in color and relatively quick, while cheap teas (tetley, lipton, bigalows) are shite.

;)

^considered being a smartass... but infusion is nothing to be flippant about.

Amazon

Carries Yorkshire Gold, PG Tips and probably the others mentioned here.

I get a case of PG Tips about every third month.

:)