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

« Last post by Arizona Hot on December 03, 2012, 03:22 PM »

This lamp isn't the kind of thing you would give your college student:

Father: What happened to your desk lamp?
Son: My roommate(that's the way my dictionary spells it) ate it.
Father: I hope it gave him indigestion!

How could you study with what those raucous dorm dwellers threatened to do to your vulnerable light source?
Oh! the existential angst of a starving student forced to eat his desk lamp!  Better a nice, safe, inedible lamp.

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Finished Programs / Re: DONE: Create dll file to change title bar of a software forever

« Last post by Arizona Hot on December 03, 2012, 02:20 AM »

If you change the title bar of Windows, will you cease to exist?

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N.A.N.Y. 2013 / Re: NANY 2013 EARLY BETA: Customizable Remote Administration Panel (CRAP)

« Last post by Arizona Hot on December 03, 2012, 02:02 AM »

If I step on this program, is it easy to scrape off my shoe?

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

« Last post by Arizona Hot on December 01, 2012, 05:30 PM »

How many people here would use the Klingon interface?

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General Software Discussion / Re: Putting a Classic Menu on Windows 7 - Redux

« Last post by Arizona Hot on December 01, 2012, 01:47 PM »

I just got a Win 7 machine and didn't like the Start menu, so I installed ClasicShell 3.6.2 and changed my Start menu to this:





Love it too!

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Living Room / Anyine here use ClassicShell in Windows 7?

« Last post by Arizona Hot on December 01, 2012, 10:23 AM »

I just got a Win7 computer and prefer the XP hierarchical start menu to the one below(too flat), so I got ClassicShell. Does anyone here have any experience using it or have any problems with it?

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Living Room / Re: UiO linguist makes sensational claim - English is a Scandinavian language

« Last post by Arizona Hot on December 01, 2012, 10:11 AM »

What I got out of it was that English is a lot more Scandinavian than we thought.

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Living Room / UiO linguist makes sensational claim - English is a Scandinavian language

« Last post by Arizona Hot on November 28, 2012, 10:59 PM »

What are the opinions of the linguists here?

UiO linguist makes sensational claim - English is a Scandinavian language

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Living Room / Re: 1,000,000,000,000 Frames/Second Photography

« Last post by Arizona Hot on November 28, 2012, 10:40 PM »

Such a shame, I felt the need to make a gif for it.

-Stephen66515 (November 28, 2012, 05:21 PM)

What gif?

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

« Last post by Arizona Hot on November 27, 2012, 02:01 PM »

Handle with care



Duck's first swim



Bad lip-reading



Super Funny Trolling on London Subway

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General Software Discussion / Re: Are you going to wait for Windows 9?

« Last post by Arizona Hot on November 27, 2012, 12:06 PM »

It seems that Microsoft is doing a flanking attack on Apple(goal: Apple pie?) and the "creative" and "out of the box" people are complaining. They expect Microsoft to say "Let them eat cake (Linux)!" next. "Lack of discoverability" seems to be a "lack of documentation" problem. See Tomos' Win8 tips thread. The screenshot below is from Wordnik about discoverability. I hope people don't think this comment belongs in the 'Silly Humor' thread.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Tips for Windows 8 (got any?)

« Last post by Arizona Hot on November 27, 2012, 11:45 AM »

Windows 8 is too young. It's probably still full of bugs.
It’s a little mad buying immediately a new OS. It’s wise instead waiting for some years before buying it, so in the meantime many bugs will be fixed.

-Giampy (November 16, 2012, 07:31 PM)

+1(I presume). This is why I expect to get a Win 7 machine. Timing is everything.

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Living Room / Re: Show us the View Outside Your Window

« Last post by Arizona Hot on November 27, 2012, 10:39 AM »

« Last Edit: 27-08-2012, 02:22:01 by Arizona Hot; Reason:
Edited to remove the less scenic part(this IS rural Arizona) »

-Arizona Hot (August 26, 2012, 07:09 PM)

I didnt see what you removed, but those hills are pretty impressive

-tomos (August 28, 2012, 03:02 AM)

This is the kind of thing I edited out.

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

« Last post by Arizona Hot on November 27, 2012, 10:23 AM »

Missing Noun Alert! Your five year old dropped dead on his/her birthday and you salvaged the parts?!

-TaoPhoenix (November 25, 2012, 09:51 AM)

Oh, did I forget to mention the bathtub of ice water?

Those dratted nouns, people always ask questions when they go missing... 

-x16wda (November 25, 2012, 10:51 AM)

You should be able to get away with it unless you are being stalked by the grammar police.

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

« Last post by Arizona Hot on November 24, 2012, 09:47 PM »

I haven't noticed any (many?) things not working here -- I tend to still get 32-bit programs even when using Windows 7 64-bit.

The horse says:

Can I run 32-bit programs on a 64-bit computer?

Most programs designed for the 32-bit version of Windows will work on the 64-bit version of Windows. Notable exceptions are many antivirus programs.

Device drivers designed for the 32-bit version of Windows don't work on computers running a 64-bit version of Windows. If you're trying to install a printer or other device that only has 32-bit drivers available, it won't work correctly on a 64-bit version of Windows.

via http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows7/32-bit-and-64-bit-Windows-frequently-asked-questions

May be I misunderstood the question?

-ewemoa (November 24, 2012, 09:36 PM)

Thank you!

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General Software Discussion / Re: Are you going to wait for Windows 9?

« Last post by Arizona Hot on November 24, 2012, 09:42 PM »

I have had ZERO problems with 64 bit windows since the Vista days. XP64 was another animal, but Vista 64 and Win7 64 have proven quite reliable.

-Josh (November 24, 2012, 09:21 PM)

Thank you!

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General Software Discussion / Re: Are you going to wait for Windows 9?

« Last post by Arizona Hot on November 24, 2012, 09:04 PM »

IF I could get a leftover new Win 7 machine, would I have to junk my 32-bit programs or does Win 7-64 bit handle them OK?

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

« Last post by Arizona Hot on November 24, 2012, 08:46 PM »

I would like to know if you can run 32-bit programs now on Windows 7 64-bit? I don't want to have to throw away all my 32-bit programs. The last time I checked you couldn't do that.

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

« Last post by Arizona Hot on November 22, 2012, 08:38 AM »

Where in Booyabible is this found?

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Living Room / Re: Google Hack Gives Free Access to Premium Newspaper Articles

« Last post by Arizona Hot on November 22, 2012, 07:50 AM »

It works like this. You first copy the web address of any news article that is behind the registration firewall and paste that URL into the Google Search box. Now click the first Google result and you’ll be able to read the full text of the corresponding story without registering or subscribing.

Try it. This is the address of a WSJ article: Drillers Begin Recycling 'Frack Water' - WSJ.com

If you use the article's title in a Google search, clicking on the WSJ link works also.

-Arizona Hot (November 21, 2012, 11:49 PM)

That didn't work for me, but using Google's cache did:

http://webcache.goog...=au&client=opera

-Renegade (November 22, 2012, 12:25 AM)

It's a hack. I was wondering how many people would be interested in it.

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Living Room / Google Hack Gives Free Access to Premium Newspaper Articles

« Last post by Arizona Hot on November 21, 2012, 11:49 PM »

Online newspaper websites like The Wall Street Journal and Financial Times are part of the First Click Free program but Google visitors can still get free access to all the news articles without registering or subscribing.

Online newspaper sites like the Financial Times require users to sign-in if they want to read more than one article on their site. The New York Times too had such a restriction in place earlier but they seem to have dropped that requirement now.

The Wall Street Journal, on the other hand, is a subscription-based site. They do offer free access to some of news stories but all the premium content is behind a pay-wall and therefore available only to paid subscribers.

Since these newspaper websites are part of the “First Click Free” program, someone visiting them via Google search can read the first page of the story without registering or subscribing. The first click is therefore “free” but the user will have to sign-in or register to read further.

First Click Free & Google Visitors

However, due to a possible bug in the implementation, the registration prompt gets bypassed for Google visitors giving them free access to all the news articles – even the premium content meant for subscribers.

It works like this. You first copy the web address of any news article that is behind the registration firewall and paste that URL into the Google Search box. Now click the first Google result and you’ll be able to read the full text of the corresponding story without registering or subscribing.

Try it. This is the address of a WSJ article: Drillers Begin Recycling 'Frack Water' - WSJ.com

If you use the article's title in a Google search, clicking on the WSJ link works also.

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

« Last post by Arizona Hot on November 21, 2012, 07:59 PM »

Youporn vs. Youtube
Should I put it in a spoiler bar to protect the innocent here or do you like your pr0n?

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

« Last post by Arizona Hot on November 21, 2012, 10:23 AM »

Have any of you eaten turducken...

-Arizona Hot (November 20, 2012, 09:52 PM)

The REAL Turducken...

 

-4wd (November 21, 2012, 06:45 AM)

You managed to 1-up the original Australian article.   

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

« Last post by Arizona Hot on November 21, 2012, 09:22 AM »

i

Now Austin wants to secede from Texas.

-Arizona Hot (November 20, 2012, 09:58 PM)

What does that even mean? The Unincorporated Town Formerly Known as Austin becomes its own state? Or does it automatically secede from the US as well? Speaking of that other thread with the conspiracies, all this secession stuff is ... a game. Units simply cannot secede, that was the cutting edge news of 1865. So here we go again, someone's playing an angle, and I simply won't waste my energy on it. It will go away in a couple of years. We didn't go through total hell for 160 years with lots of ugly wars only to have states/town threaten to secede in ... wait for it ... 2013 out of what is very close to boredom.

-TaoPhoenix (November 21, 2012, 08:23 AM)

It's in Silly Humor. Don't take it seriously.

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General Software Discussion / Are you going to wait for Windows 9?

« Last post by Arizona Hot on November 20, 2012, 10:18 PM »

Here's 2 opinions of Windows 8, what's your view on them as related to Windows 8?

Revisiting Windows 1.0: How Microsoft’s first desktop gracefully failed

Design guru Nielsen Windows 8 UI 'smothers usability'