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Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]
« on: November 26, 2018, 10:47 PM »
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How many people looked at the rest of the pictures there?Yes, that was a good accidentally brilliant picture.-Arizona Hot (November 22, 2018, 06:43 PM)
Are you the developer of CHS?
If so, how did you collect all those "user requirements?" I'm curious. Survey?-visualoutliner (November 26, 2018, 05:44 PM)
Docker makes me sad. 70s UNIX tools wrapped in a gigantic binary file with a comic-style logo added on top of it, and suddenly it is "the next big thing". Bah, kids today.-Tuxman (November 26, 2018, 01:38 PM)
By the way, because PIM (Personal Information Management) is a very important matter for me in my personal and work life, I have defined and documented my requirements - e.g., in evaluating CHS (Clipboard Help and Spell) I applied the above method:@mouser - by the way, there is still this: User Requirements for CHS- which has apparently caused some readers to experience such traumatic mind-expansion and neural damage that it induces a temporary state of profound sleep from which the reader awakens with a complete loss of memory of ever having seen it in the first place. (This is the way Nature helps us to recover from traumatic experiences.)
It could be used to save repetition by different/new CHS users. I put quite a bit of effort into that. Have not updated it in ages as no-one seemed interested. I think I left it as public and editable.-IainB (November 16, 2015, 10:05 AM)-IainB (October 23, 2018, 07:57 PM)
Well, that's appropriate as this discussion is becoming a bit of a pain and is a running thread.a running stitch is the most basic of all sewing stitchesI thought it was pain in the side one gets after sprinting-app103 (November 20, 2018, 09:09 AM)-cranioscopical (November 20, 2018, 02:16 PM)
Edit on 2018-11-20
The old download link was broken, but I'm just attaching the exe and the source code. I'm not sure what version of AHK it was compiled on, but hopefully it can still compile!
The old exe still works on Windows 10. (Unfortunately I didn't find anything similar, or an easy way to create a similar program, for linux, and now I need to work mostly on linux.)
CCCCtrlC.ahk (5 kB - downloaded 2 times.)
CCCCtrlC.exe (205.63 kB - downloaded 2 times.)
_________________________________-TPReal (July 14, 2009, 07:42 AM)
Reminds me of the musician who was given a rubber trumpet. He joined an elastic band.I don't think of elastic threads as very strong.It is a bit of a stretch.-Deozaan (November 18, 2018, 01:13 AM)-cranioscopical (November 18, 2018, 07:28 AM)
...Would they still be Microsoft then?Heh. Well, if you're suggesting that they'll not change, even in the longer term, then you could be right, I suppose. They did change more recently though - I mean, take the case of Windows 8. There was not an awful lot wrong with Windows 7, as far as I could see, so what the heck was Windows 8? A mistake, presumably. So, Windows 10 to the rescue. If they keep screwing the Win10 updates up though, they could well be risking losing their monopoly. Google chrome is eroding that market already. The MS corporate licensing must be a complete mess, and all this instability presents a potential business risk and isn't conducive to smooth workplace processes, most of which will tend to depend on IT nowadays, to a relatively large extent.-Arizona Hot (November 17, 2018, 07:21 PM)
"Windows 8.1 remains the most stable version of Windows."If that's actually the case (I wouldn't know), then MS would presumably have known it, so one has to wonder, why not leave well enough alone - why all this incessant unseemly haste to get users back onto the update treadmill with Beta-quality updates in Win10? I suppose it's probably all about money, but it's become a serious time bandit and an unproductive resource hog for an awful lot of the planet. From experience, the usual cause of big problems like this (poor quality) can often be traced back to simple mistake/incompetence and especially where the relevant software development processes and test staging processes are below CMM Level 3 (because such processes are poorly-defined and poorly-understood by the people who are obliged to participate in them). Ultimately, that's a management-created problem (Deming).
"...I have taken full control over the update process and won't let it get beyond Version 1607 (OS Build 14393.2214) - or at least, not until the update path ahead is clear and becomes less risky."-IainB (November 17, 2018, 07:07 AM)
Too late, you can't unsee it. Maybe next time...No, that is probably/not necessarily true. Though MS seemed to make it difficult - if not well nigh impossible - for users to revert to the prior OS version, there's nothing stopping the user from installing Windows 7 (32 or 64-bit) - and thus expunging Win10. I contemplated doing that myself, but the trouble was that MS had cunningly bound up some new features in MS Office 2016 updates that apparently would only activate under Win10, and I wanted those features.-Arizona Hot (November 16, 2018, 05:44 PM)
I could be wrong, of course, but I suspect that indicating a virtual dead stop in a forum discussion thread doesn't, of itself, necessarily qualify as indicating that one has oneself actually stopped anything. However, if @KodeZwerg was a virtual person - e.g., an AI bot, as some forum "members" seem to be - then it could be considered as a stop of sorts, but not a dead stop, as virtual persons (e.g., AIs) can't be killed, by definition, since they are/were not actually alive in the first place.Okay, i actually stopped.
* You have joined
Topic: RIP KodeZwerg
Channel Topic set by: Deozaan!uio-KodeZwerg (November 17, 2018, 03:07 AM)
Twitter, Facebook, and Google are Fighting Internet Privacy Laws
WRITTEN BY: JULIANNE SUBIA - NOVEMBER 14, 2018
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I actually found some that were an upgrade for my headphones. I had a Sony MDR 7506 and the vinyl eventually flaked off the cushions. The replacement pads, with a velour covering, were not only better than the originals, but outlasted the headphones, and actually fit the replacement headphones I bought (ATH-M50x).Yes, that - "...the vinyl eventually flaked off the cushions" - has happened to 2 or 3 headsets that I have, though it wasn't the case with the Nokia Monsters I discuss here.
https://smile.amazon...-Black/dp/B0016MF7W2
Searching amazon for "/brand/ ear pads" turns up loads of options.-ayryq (November 15, 2018, 09:52 AM)
In an emergency, apply strips of Dr. Scholl's moleskin using gel medium for the adhesive. Looks like hell but works a treat.Ahh, thanks. I had to search up on "Dr. Scholl's Moleskin" and "gel medium", as I'd neither seen nor heard of either of them before. Good idea for alternative use materials, and thankyou for the suggestion. I shall explore the potential use of both of them.-cranioscopical (November 14, 2018, 01:34 PM)
Nokia Purity HD Wired WH-930 by Monster On-Ear Headphones.
I found these (used/discarded) headphones last Sunday. They are rather good!
Usually, I donate found stuff to local charity op-shops, but I think I shall keep these, as I coincidentally needed another pair of headphones.-IainB (October 17, 2017, 10:51 PM)