Posts by Sporkinum

Google must be part of the Syndicate that's in cahoots with the aliens.

running 28

I'm running version 28 and no problems that I have noticed. I like tabs, and the whole interface still looks pretty much what I always have used. I know I had to get in and mess with things a bit, a year or two ago, to have it display properly. But those settings have stuck through all those updates.

http://i.imgur.com/EM0q8hg.png

As an American

My first computer was a Timex-Sinclair TS1500. Looked like a spectrum, but was gray, and was really a ZX81 with 16k built in. Paid $100 for it. I love the term, dead flesh keyboard. It describes it perfectly!

Apparently you can't use play credit at the play store for hardware. So people of have gotten credit through promotions or deals are stuck using it on programs.

I don't get it

I know there are wealthy bastards with huge houses and multi-zone heating and cooling. Something like this may work and pay off for them. I have a single thermostat that is only used in the heating season. Kicks on at 6, turns back at 11 for sleep. I have a couple of times set for turn back in case someone manually turns it up, so it doesn't stay up all day. If we are out of the house for a few days, we turn it back and set the hold button. In the summer, it's window AC, so this would do nothing for me.

IE and background ads

"The most recent post was from an individual who asked Microsoft "how hot is 'hot',” adding that his screen darkened while just surfing the web – in his words, "hardly graphically demanding.”"

Not graphically demanding, CPU demanding from a wide open IE browser allowing all that background advertising and tracking javascript cruft to run in the background.

Pocket watch

Cell phones are the modern pocket watch. Once I got issued a phone at work, I quit wearing a watch. I think the reason behind lack of sales is that carrying a phone is good enough for most.

A 2 shot cappuchino at 6am, 4 or 5 teas during work, and another cappuchino after dinner (6pm), and another tea around 9pm.

Window name is different

I have some scripts I created to automate some tasks at work. They didn't work under IE11. After a small bit of troubleshooting, I found out they renamed the main browser window Internet Explorer when it used to be Windows Internet Explorer.

http://squiish.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/jerk-google-glasses.gif

I wonder if it causing wearers to go cross-eyed?

BB

My employer only does Jesus-phones and Blackberries, depending on network availability. Where I live, the carrier doesn't have Jesus-phones or the 10 Blackberries, so I carry a Curve. There aren't a whole lot of people here still carrying them, so not worth the effort to update the BES. That being said,the 2 year old Torch I carried got lost last week, so I was issued a new Curve. It works fine for me, and I like the fact of how small it is. Smaller than a Jesus-phone, and smaller than the old Torch. 7.1 OS seems ok to me, but all I do is phone, mail, and endomondo.

Grin and a wink.

I am assuming that Microsoft is still promoting Office and Outlook with a grin and a wink. Connecting to work exchange with outlook would go against their licensing guidelines, as would editing a spreadsheet or word document for work, unless you pony up for an additional license. I am guessing 99% of people that have the devices don't do that.

Message at end

"SecureBoot isn’t configured correctly."

Aside from the Secureboot message, that message in the lower right of the screen looks like what happens if the OS isn't activated. For some bizarre reason, my machine needed reactivated after I installed the 8.1 update. That involves calling microsoft and reading in 40 or so digits, and then typing in the 40 or so digits that microsoft spits back.

Downloading

I started the download this morning. 2.1 GBs worth! I am hoping it is more stable, as I have had more instability with 8 than with Vista that it replaced (I got it for $15). Start button is useless to me, so I will continue to use classic shell. Metro is mostly useless as I have a 4:3 screen and you can only run 1 app at a time in metro that way. Not only that, the email app is useless on a 4:3 screen to as some mails will not fit in the limited space they give you. I'll see if they happened to fix that, and the stability problems.

Gee Plus Only (for now)

It only applies if you have G+, so no problem for now.

Daft Punk

Was sitting here listening to Daft Punk's Random Access Memories, when I paused to watch the video of Philips' VCR 2000 video. I'll be damned if the background music didn't sound like Daft Punk!

Wikipedia sez...

A Dutch oven is a slang term for lying in bed with another person and pulling the covers over the person's head while flatulating, thereby creating an unpleasant situation in an enclosed space. This is done as a prank or by accident to one's sleeping partner.

There should be a difference between top and bottom, if there is a chance manual control might be required.

Makes it a lot easier to control at a distance.

Good British Engineering

Wellington style! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geodetic_airframe

x-ray generator on a roll

http://www.technologyreview.com/view/411085/x-rays-made-with-scotch-tape/

I'm a little verklempt. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDXEgBh0TF0

Google +

I was curious about what Youtube was going to do to get people to sign up on Google+, so I signed in to Youtube. It was pretty aggressive with popups to try to get you to create an account. If I remember correctly, it threw 2 different popups, and I don't think you could close them normally. Signing into gmail did similar, but not quite as aggressively. After you get past them, it appears to leave you alone for a while. I normally use Youtube not logged in, as well as most google services.

Qualstar

Looking forward to shoving the qualstar tls tape library off the room of the hospital. 6 AIT drives, and stored 360 tapes. When a drive would fail, it would eat the tape. Had a nightmare migrating all the data off it to disk. We mounted a webcam in the case to watch the robotics and drives, so we could see if something failed/got stuck.

That was cool!

Had fun wasting 45 minutes of unproductivity at work. Congratulations on the impressive altitude achieved. Hope the ignition test went well.

I have a cunning plan.

http://p.hagelb.org/plan.jpg

US

Over here in the US, it looks like piracy is still the way to go. The new shows aren't on Netflix.

Local Cinema

Our local 2nd run cinema has options for 2d and 3d. Seeing how most people prefer 2d, most of their showing are in 2d.

The explanation by Rajat Roy explained it well, but he seems to think we are philistines because we expect 3d, and not their artistic interpretation. I do hope this is a fad and it goes away.

The Space Children..

I just happened to watch this episode last night.

http://mst3k.wikia.com/wiki/The_Space_Children

I don't own the phone I use. It's a work provided Blackberry. I don't think it has had an update in over 2 years. Works well enough for me though. Wife has a prepaid Sanyo Mirro flip phone. Even though it does web and other stuff, she only uses it as a phone.

Ads

Seems to me it is one more way for Google to acquire more user information for advertising, NSA perusal, etc. At least with an HTPC, I am not going through their servers, at least not logged in. I enjoy my ad-free viewing.

Oh what fun we had

But at the time it seemed so bad

Trying different ways

To make a difference to the days.