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

« Last post by cranioscopical on May 22, 2009, 11:05 PM »

 I've heard of W.C. Fields, but this is ridiculous...

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Living Room / Re: Historic Tale Construction Kit - Create a Medieval Tapestry Story Online

« Last post by cranioscopical on May 22, 2009, 02:48 PM »

Sire, thou cannot runneth it before thou findeth it as farreth beknownst to thy humble curvant.

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Living Room / Re: poor? Pay up!

« Last post by cranioscopical on May 22, 2009, 02:42 PM »

So, does that answer your question about who has ever suffered because of a lack of TV?

-app103 (May 22, 2009, 10:42 AM)

Nope, it just makes me feel another flash of despair about the way our society is headed.
The idea that TV is a 'must have' seems entirely preposterous to me. And the fact that 'poor' people 'have to' pay more to obtain one, when the act of saving the rip-off fees that they spend to do so would allow a later, cheaper purchase beggars belief. Many years ago, when I was struggling to keep my child fed and clothed, the U.K. required an annual TV license fee in order to use a set. The gift of a TV would have been impossible for me to accept because paying for the license just wasn't an option.

I don't think we can reconcile our views on this one  

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Living Room / Re: poor? Pay up!

« Last post by cranioscopical on May 22, 2009, 09:36 AM »

What do you do if your TV dies and now you have nothing?

-app103 (May 22, 2009, 05:37 AM)

You do what many of us who have been really poor did, viz. exercise self-control, do without, and adjust your attitude accordingly. Who ever suffered from lack of TV?

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Site/Forum Features / Re: Read/Unread PM Counts

« Last post by cranioscopical on May 22, 2009, 09:31 AM »

When I receive a new message I see that I have a new message and some unread....

-Josh (May 22, 2009, 09:00 AM)

"When I receive a new message" being the key phrase ... that's not the slightest bit helpful (at-a-glance) for us forgetful old farts that want to know whats up (at-a-glance) without having to remember if we were assailed with a new message prompt in the recent past.

-Stoic Joker (May 22, 2009, 09:13 AM)

Doesn't the 'new  message' indicator stay until the message is read?

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Site/Forum Features / Re: Forum Upgraded to 1.1.19

« Last post by cranioscopical on May 20, 2009, 11:33 PM »

 

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Living Room / Re: How many countries represented here on DC ?

« Last post by cranioscopical on May 20, 2009, 08:59 AM »

I get a hand under cursor - clicking doesn't place pin?

-CleverCat (May 20, 2009, 01:44 AM)

You're right. I can't move my pin around. Too bad, I felt like going somewhere today.

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DC Website Help and Extras / Re: Invalid password errors?

« Last post by cranioscopical on May 19, 2009, 06:47 PM »

Doesn't happen to me, FWIW (and I deserve it much more  than you do  )

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Living Room / Re: How many countries represented here on DC ?

« Last post by cranioscopical on May 19, 2009, 04:22 PM »

And that's 'curtains' for sure!

-40hz (May 19, 2009, 01:19 PM)

Want to play hangman?

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General Software Discussion / Re: Mozilla Contest: How Would You Improve Tabbed Browsing?

« Last post by cranioscopical on May 19, 2009, 10:29 AM »

"Do you've got some examples how a video of my mockup should look like?"

"Do you've got"???

And I thought my English is worthless 

-rgdot (May 19, 2009, 10:19 AM)

Quite right, well spotted!
Clearly the 'm' in mockup should have been a 'c'.

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Living Room / Re: How many countries represented here on DC ?

« Last post by cranioscopical on May 19, 2009, 10:21 AM »

Still doesn't work! 

-CleverCat (May 19, 2009, 03:12 AM)

Being on the wrong screen can be a pin in the arras.

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General Software Discussion / Re: monitor ink usage

« Last post by cranioscopical on May 17, 2009, 07:14 PM »

I thought 'Huh? My monitor doesn't use ink.'

-katykaty (May 17, 2009, 05:59 PM)

That's probably because you use a no pen source driver. 

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Living Room / Re: Cheap Photo paper recommendations?

« Last post by cranioscopical on May 15, 2009, 05:55 PM »

you still need to watch for bleeding and puddling on photopaper.

-CWuestefeld (May 15, 2009, 01:39 PM)

I can attest to that.
My wife doesn't like it at all when an inky snap prompts me to start yelling "Oh no, not another bleeding puddle!"

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Living Room / Re: My daughter kind of stuck in France

« Last post by cranioscopical on May 13, 2009, 06:16 PM »

it was always easier to get accommodation around this time as students dropped out.

-katykaty (May 13, 2009, 12:27 PM)

Memories of Earl's Court Road?

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: New program: ActiveHotkeys (freeware)

« Last post by cranioscopical on May 13, 2009, 05:51 PM »

It will be a pleasure to be able to participate in this forum from time to time

-dpradov (May 13, 2009, 04:44 PM)

And thanks for making the extra effort to do so in English. No hablo español.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Drupal is f*cked

« Last post by cranioscopical on May 12, 2009, 10:43 AM »

James Thurber said it best: Mighty oafs from little icons grow.

-40hz (February 14, 2009, 01:59 PM)

And the icon doesn't fall far from the free.

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Living Room / Re: Tell me what your software DOESN'T do... (a rant)

« Last post by cranioscopical on May 11, 2009, 06:00 PM »

Okay guys.
Since you're in pursuit of transparency, mine doesn't tell you what it doesn't do.
So, if you run across ForgotMe.net it just might give you the blues.

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Living Room / Re: 'PortableUbuntu for Windows' question

« Last post by cranioscopical on May 10, 2009, 10:31 PM »

Thanks for taking the  trouble to post this, Shades.
Who knows, one day it may be useful to me, even comprehensible.
Please keep us updated on your adventures!

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Living Room / Re: Who else is sick of difficult word verifications on the web?

« Last post by cranioscopical on May 09, 2009, 10:23 AM »

Are you implying that my mail man reads my mails that are in klingon?

-kartal (May 08, 2009, 11:00 PM)

He's probably enterprising enough to do so.

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Living Room / Re: Who else is sick of difficult word verifications on the web?

« Last post by cranioscopical on May 08, 2009, 10:20 PM »

I wonder how much time man kind has lost in total when people are forced spend time to decipher some text and put it in a box?

-kartal (May 08, 2009, 08:15 PM)

Ask your local mail man and extrapolate from there 

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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: FARR Plugin: TimeZone [Update version 1.0.0]

« Last post by cranioscopical on May 08, 2009, 10:27 AM »

Thanks Perry!   Helpful as ever 

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Living Room / Re: it's been a while since i said those special words...

« Last post by cranioscopical on May 08, 2009, 10:18 AM »

There's always a drawback though, eh?
After all, I'm still here.


RRRRRRRpainRRRRRRR

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Living Room / Re: Revolutionary Keyboard

« Last post by cranioscopical on May 07, 2009, 08:00 PM »

also good in situations where the user may spread saliva on the desk,

-kip (May 03, 2009, 01:52 PM)

Looks like you met the client I saw last Friday... 

-40hz (May 03, 2009, 09:47 PM)

Probably used to a Mac.

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Finished Programs / Re: Alphanumeric Telephone Number Converter

« Last post by cranioscopical on May 02, 2009, 11:09 AM »

Could you make a program that does the reverse? So you could enter a numeric telephone number and it would give you the possible alpha combinations. Preferably allowing you to decide which parts of the number are converted to alpha.

-dragonmage (May 02, 2009, 10:02 AM)

Here's one free one, there more around if you Google a bit.

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

« Last post by cranioscopical on May 02, 2009, 11:01 AM »

What happens after pic #2?

-f0dder (May 02, 2009, 07:32 AM)

Just to clarify,
pic #2 actually illustrates the little known 'backward leap from the ground' technique for reaching the pinnacle.