The Official Status Thread
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Unless you're willing to pay someone to pretend to be me while also pretending to be working on something important it'll have to wait until the weekend. You could wear a wig and pretend to like obscure metal bands I suppose.
I will make sure to implement the feature that prevents your user from posting, though.
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@anonymous234 said:
you seem to be using Windows XP
Looks like Win7 to me...
Win7Pro, almost up-to-date (1 "important" update installing now), Classic theme.
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Win7Pro, almost up-to-date (1 "important" update installing now), Classic theme.
Suck it @blakeyrat.
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recipe from the San Jose Mercury News from at least 5 yrs ago involving pan searing and much bacon
The Murky News published something worthwhile?! Pictures, or it didn't happen.
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@HardwareGeek and @antiquarian, you guys need to get your shit together and work out a color schedule
Don't blame me; I've had this same avatar for months (except when I'm in the 5% poster club, when I use my Burns avatar).
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Shit, that was @antiquarian in the avatars thing of the lounge. Thought it had been @HardwareGeek.
Even I'm mistaking his avatar for mine. It's a reply to one of my posts. No, it's @antiquarian. :(
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How did you get Windows 7 to look that ugly?
Ugly is in the eye of the beholder. I prefer "ugly but usable" to "pretty but which window is active? They all look the same. Dammit, I clicked on the wrong one. Why can't I even see the edges of the windows because they're all semitransparent and look like the desktop?"
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Status: Stomach gurgling for at least two sigma longer than usual now, and still at it.
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Status: Rebooted after installing update. Whatever was causing the erratic CPU usage and clicking noises is playing nice. For now, at least. It needed to be rebooted, anyway; it was at the point where Windows starts getting cranky.
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They're not the only culprits for avatars which are difficult to distinguish at a glance...
you could have said something.
we probably wouldn't have done anything, but it would have made you feel better!
Yeah, well, we mostly ignore the other two.
HEY!
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@accalia said:
you could have said something.
Because it's something that's never been said before?
i can't remember it being said.
that being said i don't remember what i had for lunch today....
what were we talking about?
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you could have said something.
They have, and while I've never had an issue with it that may be due to my funky color vision and the fact it causes me to double check by default.
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Status: Just before sunset, we had a big shower that dumped a load of hail on us. Then the skies cleared. Brrr…
(But the drive home from my brother's place. Did some sweet navigating past a rapidly-growing traffic jam that I spotted just forming from the Google Maps traffic flow info. )
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Status: finally catching-up on Retsupurae's Sonic 2006 playthrough. Epis 23, 24, 25 are driving me batty because Slowbeef apparently forgot ALL of Silver's moves and is playing shitty.
I don't blame him but still. These Silver levels are way longer than they have to be.
EDIT: OH GOD in episode 25, it turns out he forgot to save for like 3 levels, hahahahahhahaha
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Status: My son has the entire Curious George collection and I cannot read those stories without thinking about how someone would have taken that monkey to tend the rabbits if it were real life.
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Didn't the man in the yellow hat steal the monkey from a wildlife preserve or something?
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Maybe? I am not so sure that the man with the yellow hat is not fucking that monkey.
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Status: Have a hilarious WTF that I wish I could share, but there's no way to anonymize without losing the funny.
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How did you get Windows 7 to look that ugly? Jesus.
That's usually a result of people who don't realize that it's not 2003 and turning off the display theme actually slows your system down because XP uses GPU acceleration.
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How many studs were only attached at one of the ends?
A friend of mine discovered that the studs in the master bathroom--and God only knows how many other rooms--in his house didn't even have a passing familiarity with the concept of "n inches on center".
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Classic theme.
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because XP uses GPU acceleration.
I know what you meant but I still want to make fun of you for being stupid.
So consider this that. That making fun of. Thing. This is good enough. Stupid.
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I know what you meant but I still want to make fun of you for being stupid.
That's OK, I know you only do it because your heart is as black as the thing in the oven at the end of The Time Bandit.
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Kid: "But why does there have to be evil in the world?"
God: "{pause} I... think it has something to do with free will?"
Love that movie.
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So that you can do this
http://i.imgur.com/Ob8Q4qx.pngIn Windows 7?
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See my comment above about usability. However, I have played around with Win7 themes enough to find something that I think may have enough contrast between active and inactive windows to make me happy. (At least I thought so until I started typing this, and nothing happened because this window wasn't actually active.) It does have the advantage that Chrome windows are the same active/inactive appearance as other windows; it seems to mostly ignore basic and high-contrast themes. Bad Chrome; spank, spank!
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Even I'm mistaking his avatar for mine. It's a reply to one of my posts. No, it's @antiquarian.
No worries, I have a couple of spare avatars.
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See my comment above about usability.
Ah, so you're considering giving up the high-tech lifestyle and going Amish.
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See my comment above about usability.
You are possibly the only one on Earth who thinks that's a usability issue.
In any case, you're still 2 fucking versions behind. Upgrade your shit man.
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Status: Have a hilarious WTF that I wish I could share, but there's no way to anonymize without losing the funny.
Use The Lounge, @Weng.
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Status:
This training video on social engineering is using the term "vishing" to mean "social engineering over the phone", and I'm 99.9% sure they completely made that term up.
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This training video on social engineering is using the term "vishing" to mean "social engineering over the phone", and I'm 99.9% sure they completely made that term up.
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The Murky News published something worthwhile?! Pictures, or it didn't happen.
Can't. Too many years ago. And I don't have the newspaper clipping anymore. (Scanned, OCRd, deleted original.)
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Did some sweet navigating past a rapidly-growing traffic jam that I spotted just forming from the Google Maps traffic flow info.
That's why I always use Waze - even when I know how to get there.
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Status: found the perfect background for the lounge
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CNeEhVUUcAE99c4.jpg
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Need more TL
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Status: Not enough status in this thread.
Also got an all-employees email saying there was leftover food in the kitchen. Based on the amount, I'm guessing the secretary ordered roughly enough food to feed the population of Albania for a year.
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Status: Pondering on the usefulness of
SELECT TOP (100) PERCENT
in this query...
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Status: Been given the OK now to mention one of the amazing things I've had a (very small) involvement with this year. A jet-engined boat for a great new TV show
Blink and you'll miss it at 00:20
It was on a live BBC topical-events program on Tuesday so we had to get the thing through the center of London, which was fun... They declined to have us run it up outside Broadcasting House when we got there
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Status: Just created 1 million files and told btsync to index them.
:mad_giggle.au:
Status Two days later. Still indexing. Maybe I should try again with fewer files and see where the breaking-point is.
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That's why I always use Waze - even when I know how to get there.
The reporting of problems with that tends to be… patchy round here for some reason, and I want to avoid the problem before I get snarled up in it if I can. But I can do my own routing round problems; I don't need computers to tell me which way to drive, just a conventional map that shows the
farm trackssmaller country roads.
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Status: it takes 3 seconds to export 4 thousand rows to Excel.
It takes 45 seconds to subsequently resize columns to fit the contents.
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