Recent Posts
^^ Stop that @Renegade. I know its you. It's becoming tedious.-IainB (October 07, 2015, 05:45 AM)
^^ No, I don't think so. Why do you ask?-IainB (October 06, 2015, 09:32 PM)
No, it does not. Unless you have a weird definition of "native".-Tuxman (October 06, 2015, 08:13 PM)
At least hg comes with native tools on Windows.-Tuxman (October 06, 2015, 07:59 PM)
git suffers from the wrong people using it. As everyone is using git, the whole thing is a growing bubble. Waiting for the explosion...How is that even supposed to make sense?-Tuxman (October 05, 2015, 04:30 AM)-f0dder (October 05, 2015, 03:21 PM)
I pay for ... MetOnDemand ...-nmharleyrider (October 04, 2015, 08:59 PM)
^ Some teaser... I have not been able to find anything on MetOnDemand!
Would you care to tell us some more about it, please?-Curt (October 05, 2015, 02:32 AM)
Actually these days I burn audio DVDs, not CDs. You can put tons more music on them. I can put long operas on them and can put more than one usually on a single DVD whereas it would usually take multiple CDs for the same piece. INdividual songs, well I have not counted how many but it can hold a ton of them.-nmharleyrider (October 04, 2015, 08:57 PM)
MediciTV, MetOnDemand and DigitalConcert Hall.-nmharleyrider (October 04, 2015, 08:59 PM)
People all over it ARE using it like chat.-wraith808 (October 02, 2015, 07:22 PM)
In the "normal" Twitter timeline you don't see mentions to people you don't follow. Of course, the public feed is unfiltered. Feel free to register.-Tuxman (October 03, 2015, 08:50 PM)
According to what I know, Twitter will soon announce a "product" for more than 140 characters. Yay, another blogging platform like Tumblr!
The nice thing with a 140 character limitation is that you can't misuse it as a chat.-Tuxman (October 02, 2015, 02:46 PM)
I have never tried Twitter. As soon as I heard about the max chars it sounded like a bunch of bumper sticker arguments were inevitable. Not even sound bites, but sound bits. Maybe if I had a reason to use it I would change my mind. I tend to be too skeptical of new things. Which reminds me, Mouser I do like the new format on here.-MilesAhead (October 02, 2015, 12:47 PM)
There is speculation that twitter may soon allow tweets longer than 140 characters. When contracted for comment, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey s-MilesAhead (October 02, 2015, 07:27 AM)
I love how the world discusses Volkswagen's "ethics" while ignoring that everyone cheated before ...-Tuxman (October 01, 2015, 10:14 AM)
Just because one source decided to take a hyper reactive swan dive off the deep end doesn't mean the privacy baby needs to go out with the transaction bathwater. Sure the PCI folks are just dying to find some - any - flimsy assed excuse to put the burden of proof back onto the card holder - or anyone else - so they can gets their pockets lined faster ... But that's just too bad.-Stoic Joker (September 30, 2015, 03:34 PM)
Yeah yeah...that's what they want you to think. But the sad reality of what they actually check (e.g. the CCV & zip code) during a typical "verification" is almost laughable. Sure some are getting better - I think/hope/am told... - but the bulk of them get jack squat out of me during a normal transaction ... and I've yet to have a single one fail.-Stoic Joker (September 30, 2015, 02:18 PM)
Apparently it is quite common these days, requesting a phone number...-tomos (September 30, 2015, 07:49 AM)
Just because it is - or is perceived as being - a "common" practice, doesn't make it a good idea. It's quite common for brick-N-mortar clerks to ask for phone/Email even if you're paying cash. And they have an entire litany of bullshit excuses for why they "Need" this information...which they actually don't. Because some time back some idiot marketing scumbag coined the term "Constant Contact" for the purpose of (justifying spam) putting a positive spin on the practice of bugging the shit out of people.-Stoic Joker (September 30, 2015, 11:20 AM)
Belated update to my attempted purchase that sparked the thread:
the software developer emailed me an invoice, and I paid via paypal.
I was a little embarrassed about having kicked up a fuss, he was so nice about it.
Apparently it is quite common these days, requesting a phone number...-tomos (September 30, 2015, 07:49 AM)
As my grandfather used to say: Most people are all for doing what's right - as long as it doesn't cost or inconvenience them too much.-40hz (September 29, 2015, 02:58 PM)
I was convinced there was a battery in the switch... until he connected LEDs not adjacent to the switch... beats me!
But I'm really posting because that's a pretty cool way of prototyping. His solder connections aren't real strong, I wouldn't guess, but he did it with two hands and no aids. I've never seen someone dose solder that way before.-ayryq (September 29, 2015, 08:17 AM)
there is something wrong. This page won't fully open, keeps saying Connecting to wraith808.com...
-Curt (September 27, 2015, 01:35 PM)
I'm not sure John McAfee is a valid reputable source for anything computing-related anymore. Not only has he been out of the industry for years, but there is that whole 'delusional on an exotic island under the influence of bath salts, accused of at least one murder, and insisted he was the target of a drug cartel in spite of there being no evidence to the contrary' back-story.
The man does not have both oars in the water.-Innuendo (September 27, 2015, 10:45 AM)
I just tried to create a system repair disc, before carrying on with the installation.
But my laptop did not come with a CD/DVD drive. I tried to burn over the Homegroup network using my old PC's DVD drive, but something just wouldn't let me write onto it (although it would let me read)--though I don't know if such a thing is normally possible.
In the end the only way I was able to create that repair disc was by mounting a virtual DVD writer using KernSafe TotalMounter (it was suggested here). There are some very mixed reviews of it out there, but I couldn't find any other solution, and it worked fine.
But it's a bit strange that the system repair disc creation setup would insist on requiring a DVD drive on a system that doesn't have one...-dr_andus (September 25, 2015, 06:29 PM)
