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Living Room / Re: 800 lb Paper Airplane?

« Last post by cranioscopical on March 30, 2012, 09:36 AM »

That' snot what I was thinking, but then again, I know booger all.

-Renegade (March 30, 2012, 04:08 AM)

No need to mew 'cos you have your nose in the clouds, though it's a sorry tale. You'll just have to wing it.

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Living Room / Re: 800 lb Paper Airplane?

« Last post by cranioscopical on March 30, 2012, 03:33 AM »

we should stop this chit before we get into strife for derailing the thread

-Target (March 30, 2012, 12:41 AM)

That would be nothing to sneeze at but it's a tissue of lies.

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Living Room / Re: 800 lb Paper Airplane?

« Last post by cranioscopical on March 29, 2012, 11:20 PM »

now you're rubbing me up the wrong way

-Target (March 29, 2012, 09:08 PM)

I don't know if you can handle this but we've come full circle; it's time to make the rough places plain.

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Living Room / Re: 800 lb Paper Airplane?

« Last post by cranioscopical on March 29, 2012, 02:20 PM »

Think it had a change of heart and became sandpaper instead

-Shades (March 29, 2012, 12:28 PM)

Emery dog has its day...

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Living Room / Re: 800 lb Paper Airplane?

« Last post by cranioscopical on March 29, 2012, 06:46 AM »

it's part of my folio

-Target (March 28, 2012, 11:14 PM)

Here, try this foolscap for size!

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Living Room / Re: 800 lb Paper Airplane?

« Last post by cranioscopical on March 28, 2012, 10:02 PM »

you guys are too clever, I fold

-Target (March 28, 2012, 06:07 PM)

I didn't realize you were a fan!

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Living Room / Re: Microsoft is Censoring MSN Messenger Chats

« Last post by cranioscopical on March 28, 2012, 10:01 PM »

Proxy-Police State

-40hz (March 28, 2012, 06:04 AM)

One 'r' too many...

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Living Room / Re: 800 lb Paper Airplane?

« Last post by cranioscopical on March 28, 2012, 03:14 PM »

Are you sure that the plane was Legal?

-Shades (March 28, 2012, 11:28 AM)

I think they stuck to the letter of the law when it came to size, so it was probably fly paper.

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Living Room / Re: Windows 8 is just a Service/crapware pack for Windows 7

« Last post by cranioscopical on March 27, 2012, 04:46 PM »

Which means they'll have to learn Windows 8 by tile and error.

To sum up, Win8 will be a pane.

-mwb1100 (March 27, 2012, 03:58 PM)

Unless they can swing a way to run Linux as an app — a sort of Metro Gnome.

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Living Room / Re: 800 lb Paper Airplane?

« Last post by cranioscopical on March 27, 2012, 01:50 PM »

Or is there another reason why they haven't videod the "flight".

-nudone (March 27, 2012, 02:47 AM)

It's not easy, tracing paper.

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Living Room / Re: Windows 8 is just a Service/crapware pack for Windows 7

« Last post by cranioscopical on March 27, 2012, 01:47 PM »

Those who suffered through those two fiascoes will know exactly what I mean.

-40hz (March 27, 2012, 10:37 AM)

No they won't, the poor devils still can't read!

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Living Room / Re: Windows 8 is just a Service/crapware pack for Windows 7

« Last post by cranioscopical on March 26, 2012, 09:01 AM »

These days the only people who gripe about the ribbons are people who never gave it an honest chance & are dead-set against change. Coincidentally, those people usually refuse to move away from the Classic Start Menu interface and/or are Linux users (Sorry, Zaine!).

If you put some time into re-learning the way the program works with the ribbon interface you will most assuredly have a bit of a hard time adapting, but once you have, you will find yourself accomplishing things faster than you could with the old 2003-style menus.

-Innuendo (March 24, 2012, 07:04 PM)

I beg to differ on that. I switched to MS Office 2007 when it first came out. I spent quite a bit of time working with the ribbon in the belief that it would be beneficial to me if I put some effort into it. From starting with an open mind, I've come to dislike it. Although I don't care for change for the sake of change I'm not unable to adapt, I'm required to do so all the time. I don't use Linux either 

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Official Announcements / Re: So we gave up the March Ad Experiment Idea - What about a 7day mini fundraiser?

« Last post by cranioscopical on March 24, 2012, 10:56 AM »

Are you telling me to beat it?

-timns (March 23, 2012, 02:43 PM)

On a sinking ship one only has to give a rat a plan...

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Official Announcements / Re: So we gave up the March Ad Experiment Idea - What about a 7day mini fundraiser?

« Last post by cranioscopical on March 23, 2012, 01:58 PM »

It's not too late for a tattoo...

-timns (March 23, 2012, 12:10 PM)

Talk like that'll get you drummed out of here!

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Living Room / Re: Windows 8 is just a Service/crapware pack for Windows 7

« Last post by cranioscopical on March 21, 2012, 10:51 PM »

I started out hating it (as I did with W7). I have it both in a VM and on real hardware.
I can live with it if I have to and it's not that hard to make it behave as W7 does.

When it comes to tablets my guess is that it'd be quite good. There's no place for a tablet in my life, though (although I have one that came as a gift).

I'm pleased to see that some old but wickedly expensive DOS stuff, that matters a lot to me, runs fine on the 64-bit version using DosBox.

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Living Room / Re: Moronic would-be scammers

« Last post by cranioscopical on March 20, 2012, 09:39 PM »

if it's hidden, or foreign, or "out of area," or something I just don't recognise, I ignore it and let the answering machine kick in

-rjbull (March 20, 2012, 03:43 PM)

No wonder I can never get through to you!

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Happy B-Day FARR

« Last post by cranioscopical on March 20, 2012, 09:35 AM »

Farr is older than DoCo?

-lanux128 (March 19, 2012, 10:52 PM)

FARR > DoCo
Mouser > FARR
Holy Moses! Did mouser invent those first-generation tablets?

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Happy B-Day FARR

« Last post by cranioscopical on March 19, 2012, 01:26 PM »

What's FARR?

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Living Room / Re: Which decade was the most fun for you personally?

« Last post by cranioscopical on March 19, 2012, 01:23 PM »

The 60's were good — very good —  but during the Cuban missile crisis we were looking over our shoulders quite a bit. Most people living around London, England could tell you whether or not the fire storm would reach them if the capital were hit.

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Living Room / Re: Moronic would-be scammers

« Last post by cranioscopical on March 19, 2012, 09:20 AM »

Hi,

Haha! I play games with telemarketers (and miscellaneous scum) all the time.  

He:    "You are the virus. Now piss off and stop wasting my time and yours!"
hang up speaker phone, achieve high score in pinball game

Bad place for a typo.

-nosh (March 17, 2012, 09:59 PM)

Do you mean "He:" instead of "Him:"?  That was deliberate, "Mim:" didn't quite cut it
 

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General Software Discussion / Re: True shared updatable calendar access for all, and (almost) free

« Last post by cranioscopical on March 18, 2012, 03:11 PM »

I updated the first post with the article. I hope it's helpful to someone out there.

-timns (March 18, 2012, 01:21 PM)

Thanks for taking the trouble to write this up, and so comprehensively too!
 

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Living Room / Moronic would-be scammers

« Last post by cranioscopical on March 17, 2012, 01:51 PM »

I had one of those phone calls today from an "IT company" whose representative was most concerned about the virus that must be on my computer. Would I go to my computer so that he could help me?

I'm fed up with these jerks so,

Me:   "Oh no! Really, a problem with my computer?
          I'll fire it up right away so that you can help me"
He:    "Take your time, sir "
Me:    "It's in another room, so hold on and I'll go there"
set down speaker phone, launch pinball game... 5 minutes elapse
He:    "Sir, are you there sir?"
Me:    "I'm on my way, I don't move very quickly"
He:    "Take your time, sir "
Me:    "Okay"
set down speaker phone, resume pinball game... 5 minutes elapse
He:    "Sir, are you there sir?"
Me:    "I'm at my computer, I'll start it up"
He:    "Take your time, sir "
Me:    "Okay"
set down speaker phone, resume pinball game... 5 minutes elapse
He:    "Sir, are you there sir?"
Me:    "It won't start, must be a virus, thank goodness you called"
He:    "Take your time, sir "
Me:    "Okay"
set down speaker phone, resume pinball game... 5 minutes elapse
He:    "Sir, are you there sir?"
Me:    "It still won't start, I'm working on it"
He:    "Take your time, sir "
Me:    "Okay"
set down speaker phone, resume pinball game... 5 minutes elapse
He:    "Sir, are you there sir?"
Me:    "What should I do, I'm still trying to start it?"
He:    "Take your time, sir "
Me:    "Okay"
set down speaker phone, resume pinball game... 5 minutes elapse
He:    "Sir, are you there sir?"
Me:    "Yes, I've found the virus!"
He:    "What do you mean?"
He:    "You are the virus. Now piss off and stop wasting my time and yours!"
hang up speaker phone, achieve high score in pinball game

Sigh...

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General Software Discussion / Re: True shared updatable calendar access for all, and (almost) free

« Last post by cranioscopical on March 16, 2012, 02:28 PM »

That doesn't bear thinking about...

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Living Room / Re: On a lighter note: A Man Said to the Universe

« Last post by cranioscopical on March 16, 2012, 02:20 PM »

A man said to the universe:
"Sir, I exist!"
"Yes," sighed the universe,
"you're Renegade, pissed"

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General Software Discussion / Re: True shared updatable calendar access for all, and (almost) free

« Last post by cranioscopical on March 15, 2012, 07:55 PM »

I will be delighted to do a little write-up over the weekend.

-timns (March 15, 2012, 12:59 PM)

Seventh heaven!