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2351
Living Room / Re: Prenda Law shall troll no more.
« Last post by TaoPhoenix on May 14, 2013, 10:19 AM »

Yep. Prenda-gang is "bawck".

Slashdot's copy:

New Prenda Law Shell Corp Threatening to Tell Your Neighbors You Pirated Porn
http://yro.slashdot....ors-you-pirated-porn



2352
General Software Discussion / Re: Favorite Firefox Builds for Windows?
« Last post by TaoPhoenix on May 13, 2013, 01:41 PM »
It seems to give me an error "not compatible with Pale Moon 19.0.2"...
Hmm, it installs fine in Pale Moon Portable 20.0.1-x64 on my system*. I've no idea why it doesn't on yours.
Note that you can also add a MultiFox toolbar button, as a separate add-on.

* Yup, I also use "multi-Firefox" setup: Firefox as my default browser, Pale Moon Portable for wiki logins and a Firefox Portable for other persons in the household.

Well I see a version number clash there, so I'll look to see if there's a Palemoon V20.x I don't yet see in help.upgrade.

But at least you solved the basic problem! : )
2353
Living Room / Re: What books are you reading?
« Last post by TaoPhoenix on May 13, 2013, 12:57 PM »
Meanwhile I'm reading a few Maupassant short stories this week/month.

2354
Living Room / Re: What books are you reading?
« Last post by TaoPhoenix on May 13, 2013, 12:55 PM »
From Pilgrim's recent post:

I was a prolific reader in those days and I very soon exhausted our own library, fortunately the Abbot gave me a special dispensation to go into the local town every couple of weeks to use the public library.

He considered me to be quite studious but it wasn't strictly true. In one of our unused storerooms I had found a big old copy of a commentary on the bible, you know the sort of thing, leather cover and a clasp to prevent it coming open. I cleaned it up and carried it everywhere but what he didn't know was that I had hollowed it out and used to use it for storing books by authors like Agatha Christie, G.K. Chesterton, and D.H. Lawrence, none of whom were on the order's list of required reading.

My visits to the public library carried on for some time but they sadly came to an end when I took out this young librarian.
:)
2355
Living Room / Re: What does your avatar say about you?
« Last post by TaoPhoenix on May 13, 2013, 12:51 PM »
You know you embedded several cute jokes in there Pilgrim!

Meanwhile, my avatar was a type of Rube Goldberg thing, but avatar pics don't do well with big animated pics, so it didn't come out right. So all it says about me was "botched it, was gonna do a new one, got distracted by OOH SHINY!"
:)

So I'll do a new one in a few days/weeks!
2356
Living Room / Re: Cute jokes' thread
« Last post by TaoPhoenix on May 13, 2013, 12:46 PM »
Meanwhile Pilgrim earned a Cute Joke!

Despite what certain people have suggested my avatar is not a self-portrait but reflects back to the time I spent in cloistered surroundings.
It's a time I remember well, albeit with mixed feelings.

We were a relatively small order, in fact I was only one of two who were over five foot six...
:)
2357
App,

My best friend and I loved watching star trek TNG and we made an art of finding things to laugh hysterically about.. I can't believe we missed that Riker sitting method.

Yeah, so did we, we all pegged the Picard Maneuver, but not the Sitting Riker, and I don't even know where the Headbang Kirk comes from for the loop. Or the TNG episode with the "childish Picard".
2358
Developer's Corner / Re: What Language are Windows Programs Coded In?
« Last post by TaoPhoenix on May 12, 2013, 09:49 PM »
Hi guys.

There seems to be a lot of coding languages.  I guess more than one of them is used for Windows programs?  Which ones?  How does Windows understand these different languages?

Thanx for looking.

I'll suggest a useful exercise is to find a sheet of paper and diagram a little what you are trying to learn.

Windows native applications?

And then there is stuff that is more "web based" but needs Windows local front ends.

Don't forget there is in fact a Windows Phone.
2359
General Software Discussion / Re: Favorite Firefox Builds for Windows?
« Last post by TaoPhoenix on May 12, 2013, 09:45 PM »
Is it an option to use Multifox for different logins?

Haha!! It works!

The way you do it is RightClick for example the Yahoo Mail and "Open in a new identity profile". Now while it's still neat to have color coded firefoxes in the task bar, it makes a ton more sense to have the "orange ones" (regular Firefox) be emails, and "blue-grey ones" (PaleMoon) be other types of stuff going on!

Thank you!

 :Thmbsup:

P.S. It seems to give me an error "not compatible with Pale Moon 19.0.2" so that clarifies which "version of Firefox" (The main one, aka the "Orange one") gets to get email duties.

2360
General Software Discussion / Re: Favorite Firefox Builds for Windows?
« Last post by TaoPhoenix on May 11, 2013, 02:34 PM »
Is it an option to use Multifox for different logins?

You can also run multiple instances of Firefox Portable.
Those look like a couple of neat suggestions! What I will have to figure out is any differences between "multiple windows" when I re-click the icon, but apparently they all attach to the same session, vs some of your ideas might sufficiently segregate the sessions enough for Yahoo Mail. I'll try to get to those in a few days.

Edit:
Fixed Quote problem
2361
You know, I've been noticing that the media seems to insist that the benefits of subscription cloud services are "undeniable".  And I'm getting really annoyed by it.  Not because there are no benefits, there are.  But the way they say it, it makes it sound like the local installation does NOT have any benefits.  And those who don't understand the differences hear this and it seems like it is gaining momentum.

Well, besides just "doing what they are told", you're on to something I have been noticing too. While Media has always been about promoting stuff, usually they were "somewhat informative" and a buyer could expect to learn something useful from a review.

However this push to the Cloud stuff has a "shrill" air as well as a "shill" air! It's because it's a theme that isn't as clearly in the buyer's court at all. But using the various psych principles, if some buyer sees "all these blogs agreeing" about it, they feel swamped and pushed into it.

But then later if this movement ever breaks, all that hot air just gets put in the museum of obsolete sales pitches and buried.

2362

Based on the Adobe thread, but belonging here:

We should hack one of the Space Invader type games to label the "descenders" as "Adobe Customers"! Then you can play to see how many customers Adobe can tick off! Maybe you can have Add-Ons like Space Invaders used to do across the sky!
 ;D
2363
Heh App I'm dying to know what is in fact in there!!

It's an amusingly-scary exercise in labeling - if there is anything to pour at all, what is it?
:tellme:

P.S. Hat Tip to anyone who has heard the Stephen Wright version!
2364
...
Some of the dubious links:
...

I did some informal tech support for an online acquaintance, who got bit by one of those kinds of links (though for the Firefox Browser.) Even for smart computer savvy people, one slip and you miss that the actual address goes to something like "download-now.products.yahoo.com/Firefox"!
>:(

2365
Since when is GIMP in a boxed physical format?

Hehe it's missing important things like ... a box!
 ;D

But I meant it in the spirit of a stand-alone program, rather than the Scam-As-A-Service under discussion.

2366
^^ I didn't get the joke until I googled "Yakov Smirnoff".
Never heard of him before. He's very clever/funny.

Yeah, though you just told me you're not a veteran of the site Slashdot, where that's been one of their top-25 "inside jokes" for over a decade!!

2367
No Photoshop in boxed, physical format? If I were the alternatives I would be partying till the unshopped sun rises :D

Who exactly are the alternatives besides Corel, who are too busy dismembering their products to appreciate this?

Last I knew the poster "non-alternative" is GIMP. I hear it's just too different and missing important things.
2368
No Photoshop in boxed, physical format? If I were the alternatives I would be partying till the unshopped sun rises :D

Unshopped but otherwise edited!?
8)

These kinds of aggressive moves have a weird feel to them, kinda like double or nothing betting.
2369
Living Room / Re: Does anyone here use Bitcoins?
« Last post by TaoPhoenix on May 06, 2013, 05:24 PM »
You mean that same Magic the Gathering that I paid for part of college off of my collection?

Investment = $450.  Return = $6000+, plus a pretty fun game.

I'm a MTG oldster as well. Still have some killer decks. But nobody around my rural community, that I know of, plays the game.

Exactly, meaning the "value" is becoming erratic! And even in areas that do have players, a lot of the ones I used to go to began quietly "not holding" Type 1 tourneys, thus making all of those Super Cards "valueless", which was the point I was hoping to make.

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Living Room / Re: Does anyone here use Bitcoins?
« Last post by TaoPhoenix on May 06, 2013, 05:23 PM »
It's fascinating to watch, because it's all taking place rather slowly. If I were more connected and smarter in the early days etc I "shoulda/woulda" gotten my early Bitcoins then sat on them to make a living!

"Limited number of bitcoins" - so did no one else remember the story of the Black Lotus in Magic the Gathering?
8)



You mean that same Magic the Gathering that I paid for part of college off of my collection?

Investment = $450.  Return = $6000+, plus a pretty fun game.

Sure, which means you did it right, just like any "speculation", it's always possible to do it right. But then you get late "players" (in the speculation! though I see the pun!), who having finally heard about it, then do it backwards and get hosed!

2371

VERY silly joke!

Did you hear about the biography of Yakov Smirnoff? You don't read it, it reads you!
:P

2373
Living Room / Re: May the 4th Be With You... (cue Star Wars music)
« Last post by TaoPhoenix on May 06, 2013, 10:03 AM »
I know that. He's my favorite Doctor. I was just being punny.  :P

Eek!

.... VROOOOOOOOOOOOM-WHoooooooOOOOOOSSSSSSSSH goes the sound of the joke over my head!
:Thmbsup:
2374
Living Room / Re: How *not* to do a crowdsource project appeal
« Last post by TaoPhoenix on May 06, 2013, 10:01 AM »
It's not too often you see such a perfect example of 'how not to do something' that doesn't border on being a parody of itself.

Oh I know this one!

I have an IndieGogo project superficially about something while parodying the process of IndieGogo! Contribute Today!
8)

Do it! I'll contribute. ;D

I'd be terrified if I made more than the original!

Heh damn, this is making me giddy!
To do it or not to do it! ...

2375
Living Room / Re: Does anyone here use Bitcoins?
« Last post by TaoPhoenix on May 06, 2013, 10:00 AM »
It's fascinating to watch, because it's all taking place rather slowly. If I were more connected and smarter in the early days etc I "shoulda/woulda" gotten my early Bitcoins then sat on them to make a living!

"Limited number of bitcoins" - so did no one else remember the story of the Black Lotus in Magic the Gathering?
8)

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