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Living Room / Win XP emoji font needed

« on: August 10, 2012, 02:57 PM »

I have IE 8 with the Quivira 3.8 and Symbola 6.05 Unicode fonts among many others and I still get boxes for most of the characters in the tables at the end of the Wikipedia Emoji article. Is there anyone with a way for me to have less boxes there? The problem is even worse when I use the Chrome browser.

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Living Room / Re: Raspberry Pi's $35 Linux PC

« on: August 09, 2012, 01:15 PM »

Here are 2 links to Raspberry Pi OS updates. Enjoy them, but be careful so you don't get your clothes stained.

Raspberry Pi Gets Even Sweeter With This Optimized Raspbian OS Update

Adafruit Wants to Help You Hack Your Raspberry Pi With This Linux Distro

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Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]

« on: August 05, 2012, 03:45 PM »

They say the Invisible Man is very handsome, but lazy. You have to keep an eye on him to make sure he gets his work done.

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Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]

« on: July 29, 2012, 09:41 AM »

IainB: What I thought was funny about it was the psychological conflict he would have had. Here's a person who can't deny that something he doesn't believe in has happened. He's been bitten by God, so to speak. Your jokes are better than the ones I've seen online on the subject, though. I'll keep them.

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Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]

« on: July 28, 2012, 04:05 PM »

(see attachment in previous post)

-Renegade (July 26, 2012, 07:57 PM)

Have you heard the joke: "What did the dyslexic atheist do after being bitten by a dog?"
If so, where was it and what was the punchline?

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Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]

« on: July 25, 2012, 11:19 AM »

How about these words: The 10 Coolest Foreign Words The English Language Need.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Meet Squirrel, the Image That's Also a Webpage

« on: July 24, 2012, 12:44 PM »

Those of you who can see the squirrel(does that make you squirrely?) may want to get Kick Ass - Destroy the web. Just don't use it here and byte the hand that fed you.

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Living Room / Re: Raspberry Pi's $35 Linux PC

« on: July 23, 2012, 07:49 PM »

Raspberry Pi in space: Putting the Linux PC into orbit is an article that I think belongs in this discussion.

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Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]

« on: July 23, 2012, 07:42 PM »

Joke for Nerds humor here and here. Let me know what you think of them.

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General Software Discussion / Meet Squirrel, the Image That's Also a Webpage

« on: July 23, 2012, 07:33 PM »

If you try to view the image using IE8 under WinXP(which you have to - IE9 is only for later Win OSes), you won't see it. The only other browser I have is Chrome and it works using that. See screenshot below.

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General Software Discussion / HFS ~ HTTP File Server

« on: July 23, 2012, 12:11 AM »

If you have some files you would like a group of people to download and you don't want to go to a lot of trouble or expense in setting up a web site; there is a program you can use that is easy to set up, open source, doesn't need to be installed and can be run on your own personal computer: HFS ~ HTTP File Server with online Documentation (English) and a secure connection add-on (HFS Secure your server). The screenshots below are (#1 The introduction page of their site, (#2 the menu you would see in the test site I set up, (#3 the site I set up after I tested it.  Other people access the files by going to the address listed at the top of  the site page(the highlighted address after "Open in browser"). Let me know if you already know about this program or have experience with it.

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Living Room / Re: First photo on the Web

« on: July 18, 2012, 06:26 PM »

Deo was being silly.  He says this in IRC for every image we post

-Stephen66515 (July 14, 2012, 08:17 AM)

I presume Tuxman was being silly also. If you watch their videos, they are not horrible.

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Living Room / Re: What will be your next computer?

« on: July 18, 2012, 03:43 PM »

Why not shop the United Federation of Planets in 2373 and get something that you may have problems providing power to but won't need to be replaced for a loooooong time. Any reputable dealer(i.e. not Ferengi) will be able to supply you with something that won't start World War III. If you can't do that, get an app that allows you to update your software to your choice of a future version so you don't have to do an update so often. Avoid programs that do this using the Skynet network.

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: WhyReboot?

« on: July 18, 2012, 02:14 PM »

I have always wanted to know exactly what Windows Update needed to change.
Thank you for relieving that craving.

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Living Room / Re: Truely awesome 404 page!

« on: July 13, 2012, 11:21 PM »

This is about the Rolling Stones 404 page.  The video can be found on Youtube.

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Living Room / First photo on the Web

« on: July 13, 2012, 11:13 PM »

This is an article about the first photo on the Web.

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Living Room / Re: This Is Your Brain On Sugar:Study in Rats Shows...

« on: June 24, 2012, 11:15 PM »

Live a day in your own shoes...they are far comfier than the other persons!

If they are a woman and wear high heels, I would doubt that.

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General Software Discussion / Re: remove objects from photos

« on: June 24, 2012, 09:31 PM »

Photupz is good at removing foreground images from a background. Don't try and remove backgrounds with it. It does that monstrously. I tried to do that with one of the original subject pictures(below). Only the original test picture is shown  below, 5 minutes effort will show you that the background can be removed only with Frankenstein results.

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Living Room / Re: This Is Your Brain On Sugar:Study in Rats Shows...

« on: June 24, 2012, 07:15 PM »

I believe the reply to this argument can be found here:  Evolving Health: Fate of fructose Interview with Dr. John Sievenpiper

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Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]

« on: June 24, 2012, 12:44 AM »

Has anyone here tried one of the new digital drills? They have drill bytes, not bits and those are programmable for just about any use.

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Living Room / Raspberry Pi's $35 Linux PC

« on: June 14, 2012, 12:32 PM »

Will the nostalgia of playing with now antediluvian technology (see Things your kids will never know - old school tech! ) make the Raspberry Pi a sucess?
Another nostalgia article?
  

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Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]

« on: May 28, 2012, 10:16 PM »

4 questions:

1) What do you do if you come to a spork in the road?

     You go both ways. It's a quantum thing.

2) Who is the most likely person to use a spork?

     One born with a plastic spork in their mouth.

3) What kind of food do you eat with a spork?

     Spork chops

4) Does anyone here own a descendant of Schrödinger's cat? You can tell if you have one if you can see it but not in a mirror.

    No, but one tried to bite my neck once.

-Arizona Hot (May 27, 2012, 06:55 PM)

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Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]

« on: May 27, 2012, 06:55 PM »

4 questions:

1) What do you do if you come to a spork in the road?

2) Who is the most likely person to use a spork?

3) What kind of food do you eat with a spork?

4) Does anyone here own a descendant of Schrödinger's cat? You can tell if you have one if you can see it but not in a mirror.

My answers will be given later in order to see what other people answer.

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General Software Discussion / Do you like CAPTCHAs?

« on: May 26, 2012, 10:56 PM »

While reading an article on another subject, I saw a link to an article about this. More research produced this article.



Are You a Human replaces annoying CAPTCHAs with games

Do you think this system will succeed, now that CAPTCHAs are being hacked?

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Living Room / Re: Gluttony free

« on: January 15, 2012, 05:25 PM »

Postscript to this information: If you don't think that anything in vegetables can affect you in this way, read this article.