@gurth said in Goats, girls, cars, tractors and wedding dresses:
Never heard of it, but given the name, “Waterpik”, I’m not sure I want to — it translates into English literally as “Water-cock” …
@gurth said in Goats, girls, cars, tractors and wedding dresses:
Never heard of it, but given the name, “Waterpik”, I’m not sure I want to — it translates into English literally as “Water-cock” …
@PJH said in [NSFW] Anyone want a Brangelina Memorial Waxwork Scuplture?:
* Not quite anatomically correct, even if you ignore the fact that there's only three legs in the piece.
And you are familiar with their anatomy . . . how?
@mott555 said in Computer Porn:
Let me guess: Server for a small (<50 user) Discourse site.
@ben_lubar said in Nobody running Twitter uses Twitter:
Is there a single person on the internet who hasn't heard of Homestar Runner, Strong Bad, or Trogdor the Burninator?
I only know of Homestar Runner and Strong Bad from your references to them here. Never heard of Trogdor the Burninator.
@anonymous234 said in Your files are right where you left them...:
@El_Heffe Ideally that content would be published under the GNU FDL and then CentOS would just rehost it thus making the subscription pointless.
Ideal for everyone else, that is. If Red Hat wants to make money they should sell support for their support.
@error said in Excel is messing with your genes:
So the real story here is that the "scientists" doing genetic research can't be bothered to properly format a spreadsheet.
@slapout1 said in Nobody running Twitter uses Twitter:
"140 was an arbitrary choice based on the 160 character SMS limit"
If it was based on 160 character SMS then it wasn't arbitrary.
Then why wasn't the limit set at 160? Why 140? Why not 150? Why not 153? Why not 147?
Unless there is a technical explanation, e.g., the SMS limit minus some overhead that our system needs = 140, then 140 is an arbitrary number.
@Magus said in Time Warner Cable has some really l33t people working there:
@El_Heffe Why would you let them give you a modem?
It was free. They apparently stopped charging a monthly fee for the modem. So far, it works fine. I have my own wireless router which is quite a bit better quality than anything I'm likely to get from them.
@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else:
install Virtualbox in a virtualized Linux for the purposes of running a virtualized Windows VM...
@blakeyrat said in I've been wronged. A tale of being forced to use Android:
Microsoft's capable of it, if they bother trying. With Windows Phone, they're not even bothering to try making it a long-term business.
Yeah, I really don't understand it. Why go to all the trouble and expense of designing and manufacturing something and then after you release it you just act like you couldn't care less. Microsoft?
@kt_ said in F**king Funny as Hell !:
@Claire-Collins said in F**king Funny as Hell !:
So Funny you will crap in your pants laughing !
I'm not wearing any pants.
I shipped my pants
@hardwaregeek said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
And that makes four times that story has been posted here, that I've seen
i just noticed that it had been posted before. Oops. Sorry about that.
@Gąska said in re: 15 years of NCIX customer data available for sale:
@El_Heffe can professor X move things with his mind? Never seen him do that. Granted, I've never read the comics - only movies and animated series.
I thought one of the characters could do that. I thought it was him. Could be wrong. I vaguely remember one of the early movies, that's about it.
@Karla said in The League of Unfortunate Names:
I've mentioned this before. This is the doctor that did my hand surgery after an infected cat bite.
http://www.cumc.columbia.edu/psjournal/memoriam/harold-m-dick-md
I needed to see an oral surgeon and was given a referral to a guy who was supposed to be really good. But I just couldn't go to Dr. Blood.
@r10pez10 said in In Memorium: Lorne's Last XP Device:
The problem was trying to port the pinball game from 32 bit Windows XP to 64 bits, as described by Raymond Chen, here:
One of the things I did in Windows XP was port several millions of lines of code from 32-bit to 64-bit so that we could ship Windows XP 64-bit Edition. But one of the programs that ran into trouble was Pinball. The 64-bit version of Pinball had a pretty nasty bug where the ball would simply pass through other objects like a ghost.
Two of us tried to debug the program to figure out what was going on, but this was code written several years earlier by an outside company, and nobody at Microsoft ever understood how the code worked and most of the code was completely uncommented. Heck, we couldn't even find the collision detector!
We had several million lines of code still to port, so we just made the executive decision right there to drop Pinball from the product.
@boomzilla said in WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else:
How would I tell if I'm on LTSC?
Google --> "which versions of Windows are LTSB / LTSC?"
As far as I can tell, that's the only way.
@RaceProUK said in Because what Windows needs is yet another UI overhaul :
@Onyx said in Because what Windows needs is yet another UI overhaul :
I wouldn't hate the look, but come on MS, you're not even done
redesigning Win10 as it is!FTFY, given it's still a Frankenstein system in
somea lot of places
@Tsaukpaetra said in Happy Messages are Free To Pass:
@topspin said in Happy Messages are Free To Pass:
@Tsaukpaetra said in Happy Messages are Free To Pass:
@acrow said in Happy Messages are Free To Pass:
Anatomically incorrect
That's the pantie bulge.
????
Is gas there as expensive as it is in the UK yet? (Roughly $8.60/US gallon (£1.18/UK* litre for those that want to check the maths/assumptions ))
Take away all taxes and gasoline prices are pretty much the same in the U.S. and U.K.
Subtracting 20% sales tax, then 58p/l excise* translates to around $2.43/USg.
Current price in my area is $2.40 to $2.45
@boomzilla said in Gas:
In the last 4 days, every gas station in today has raised their prices 40 cents a gallon.
Where are you? They've been pretty stable around here for the last few weeks.
Gas prices had been declining steadily and on Monday they were the lowest they've been in a while. Then, on Friday, when I needed gas, Merry Christmas Fuckers.
@boomzilla said in WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else:
Settings -> System -> About
Works for me
@Applied-Mediocrity said in WTF Bites:
@El_Heffe ?! UEFI runs in long mode...
So? You can't install terabytes of RAM either, even though it's way below the limits of 64-bit address space.
Really?
Brady Bunch Tic-Tac-Toe
http://i.imgur.com/WQW2Bbt.jpg
I win!
@blakeyrat said in But, you can buy as many as you want:
@el_heffe I read an article a couple months ago about a agent who buys up as many GPUs as he can in the US, loads them into a 747 (ships are way too slow) and flies them to one of the big miners in China.
They did that because they already (legit) bought-up as much production-run of the GPUs as AMD/NVidia would allow them.
I remember seeing that story but didn't think it was true. It seems like you would have to get a really high price for those GPUs in order to cover the cost of renting a 747 and flying it to China. I have no idea what that would cost but it seems like it would be pretty expensive. i have trouble believing that bitcoin mining is THAT profitable.
NSFSI (Not Safe For Slow Internet)
An then there is ...
@hungrier said in THE HOT BATON ISSUES THREAD:
Is this where we can finally have the conversation about racing?
Racers are certainly a problem.
@Zerosquare said in WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else:
And even if you don't have a printer, you can still get a share of the broken stuff cake:
Microsoft appears to have been made aware of this bug back when a user reported it back in January, and the company claimed to have fixed it in a blog post on January 23, 2020. However, it seems to a slipped into Windows 10 May 2020 Update, which was recently released.
"Non-regression"? What's that?
As bugs go, this one is relatively minor:
the Optimize Drive tool is not always reporting the correct status – so it doesn’t always log if a scan has been run, and therefore warns that the drive is unoptimized, when in fact it is.
It seems this is an issue with Drive Optimizer not recording the dates of the last scan correctly.
So, while the tool is still doing its job – it’s not correctly recording when this has happened
@The_Quiet_One said in Google+ officially coming to an end:
I'm pretty sure that login is for Google in general. At least for me, the same login works for Google+, Gmail, YouTube, Google Drive, and whatever else Alphabet acquires in its path.
Yeah, I just realized that. The login page shows a G+ logo instead of just Goog, and that confused my brain for a few minutes.
@anotherusername said in Because having a single way of parsing/replacing is too easy:
@djls45 The topics that have emoji in the title are using Unicode emoji characters The forum emoji replacements don't work there.
I think that was the point @Lorne-Kates was making. There should just be one parse/replace routine that applies to everything.
If you type :belt_onion:
you should get no matter where it is. It doesn't really make sense to parse/replace in some areas but not others.
@swayde said in The people calling me on the phone must be who they say they are:
I didn't see this when it was first posted, so I read the article and ... what the fucking fuck.
I can't tell if this is an extemely subtle attempt at humor or this guy is actually so stupid that he seriously thinks he is getting calls from Google.
Since the article is from Robert X. Cringely, I tend to lean toward stupidity, but its hard to believe that even he is that stupid. I guess he has some sort of blog quota to meet and had to write something.
iTunes, at least on Windows, isn't as shitty as it used to be. It still isn't good, but at least the current version doesn't constantly crash and corrupt my iPod.
@Tsaukpaetra said in Microsoft released a new major windows version:
@Applied-Mediocrity said in Microsoft released a new major windows version:
@Tsaukpaetra No, it doesn't
It didn't redirect you to the App store to install the BBC video player?
E_NO_REPRODUCE
Video plays just fine in my browser, nothing about installing an app.
Which is good because I don't want any "BBC video" anyway.
I expect you have a bad cookie stored , flush the cache
Whenever I have a bad cookie stored, I flush the toilet.
@blakeyrat said in Old shit music you like:
Rob Zombie:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EqQuihD0hoI
Confession: I still pretty much like this shit.
Live version from 2001. My first exposure to Rob Zombie and I have to say, I still like it.
@Applied-Mediocrity said in Can I backup a CD to a DVDR?:
I would recommend against optical media for long term storage.
Agree.
I abandoned CDs/DVDs years ago. A hundred DVDs will fit on a 1TB hard drive that will cost you less than $50. Buy two if you're extra paranoid like me.
And if you need to access any of that material, it's all in one place instead of having to shuffle though a hundred disks.
@RaceProUK said in The Windows 10 Random Error Generator:
@El_Heffe said in The Windows 10 Random Error Generator:
And I seem to have somehow accidentally killed Edge (the new IE replacement).
That's no great loss. Edge isn't really ready for mass consumption yet anyway; it's missing a lot of features IE11 has.
That was what I thought, during the short time I used it. I'm a little surprised that they have hidden IE and made Edge the default browser when it's clearly not ready yet.
@topspin said in John McAfee:
@JBert he should consider a career in comedy.
His comedy is about as good as his software.
@DogsB said in John McAfee:
isn't he in prison at the moment?
John McAfee left the company 26 years ago.
@darkmatter said in Windows 10 reinstall:
@sloosecannon now that they tied your login to an email
You don't have to use an e-mail address as your logon. Microsoft tries to make you think that you do, and each new release of Windows changes the installer a bit so that it's harder to find the option to use a regular username instead of a Microsoft e-mail account. But its still there.
Hell, I don't even use my real name as the username on my home computer that nobody ever sees except me.
You can type an apostrophe, that's OK, but if you do "Reply As Topic" and the original topic contains an apostrophe, you get ' instead.
@blakeyrat said in Heyzeus christo!:
someone who put Node.JS in Cobol,
Maybe we need some COBOL in Node.js
Filed Under: Former COBOL programmer
@RaceProUK said in Image Uploads Broken.:
@accalia It might have simply been an outdated browser cache,
and then you did something
http://i.imgur.com/2RYAd.png
and the cache was refreshed
@blakeyrat said in Windows 10 search ignores exe files:
@El_Heffe said in Windows 10 search ignores exe files:
It's been 21 years since the Start Menu was first introduced and it's still a one way street, i.e., you can delete items but not add them.
OK, so you can delete but not add...
@El_Heffe said in Windows 10 search ignores exe files:
The only way to add an item to the Start Menu is to use Explorer and manually drop a shortcut into the proper folder.
But literally the next sentence, you reveal you can add.
I just... I just don't know how to respond to posts like this. Like, do you read your OWN typing and realize you wrote a whole paragraph that's nothing but a huge contradiction of itself?
There is nothing contradictory. You cannot add a shortcut directly to the Start Menu, e.g. you can't drag it there and there is nothing you can click on that says "add shortcut".
What you CAN do is use Explorer or your favorite file mangler to place a shortcut in a special directory, and then it will magically appear in the Start Menu.
But you already knew that, and you're just being an asshole as usual.
Paint.NET
That's actually the URL for the Warren Paint Company.
You want getpaint.net
The paint company used to have a link re-directing you to the proper website, but they seem to have removed it.
@lorne-kates said in Large amounts of text inside code blocks grind the browser:
Notice your CPU is starting to melt down.
Nope. Palemoon works just fine. No slowdown noticed.
@dcon said in Microsoft Edge can't numbers:
@TimeBandit said in Microsoft Edge can't numbers:
@hungrier That seem more logical than switching to a better browser
The only solution I've found to printing PDFs properly is to save locally and open with Adobe. Cause Firefox can't do it right either (my pdf-landscape page is printed in portrait every time. fuck you FF)
As much as I dislike most of Adobe's shoddy software, Acrobat Reader has always worked well* for viewing/printing PDFs and lately it seems they haven't had to patch massive security holes every 5 minutes like they used to.
Considering how insanely complicated the PDF spec is, putting a PDF reader into a web browser always seems like
*for certain values of "works"