Posts by Stevie

Re: the Wildlings have Rogers and Bell Canada to take care of them..

Those ... poor ... bastards.

Re:I would hate to be on Helldesk in the morning after this occured

No problem: helldesk number erased along with angry birds and bejeweled.

Re: Atmosphere in an Ibsen play - what?

"Well, there is an atmosphere, but it's that Swedish¹ sort of atmosphere "

So, freezing cold with outbreaks of Kenneth Branagh then?

Re: Does this revelation really surprise anyone?

I am not permitted under the current legal strictures from admitting that I hold an opinion one way or the other.

Re: How many people ACTUALLY upgrade ram???

I did. I bought my lappy with 3 gig and ran with that for a couple of years, then had the chance to max it out to 8 gig for a song, so I did.

By hand. No genius bars invoked.

And no soldering irons either.

Re: And the "understatement of the year" prize goes to...

"I can only imagine these people getting to work one day, finding the whole company building burned down to the ground, and then sighing with typical British detachment, "well, that's going to be inconvenient"

Well, they took my red thtapler, and when the cake wath being handed out, I didn't receive a piethe.

Re: So people are gullibe and will do anything for a profit?

[4 Grikath] Upvoted with oak leaves.

My personal beef? Unecessary services:

first in line: update checkers that should start based on system start do what they do and then fuck off. Everything gets so much faster on a windows machine once every invocation of a program doesn't result in an often pointless wait for The Word from homebaseDotCom - the timeouts when the wireless adapter is turned off are a particular annoyance. One might make a case for persistent AV update services and OS update checkers but OpenOffice? iTunes? Bloody laser printers?

Second: "Helper" services that don't degrade properly e.g Bonjour that fills the log with stupid errors all day long instead of saying "oops, no network; I'll shut down knowing I'll restart when iTunes is launched".

Third: Click-through addedvalueware such as the beyond fucktarded McAffee express edition or whatever it is that Adobe tries to foist off on one during any Adobe "update" and that will install itself even if you already have a full product McAffee suite running.

Where's the Tylenol?

Re: Threats only work if it actually would cause damage if they refused

"How many people out there actually care if people knew what they prefer on their pizza? What would anyone do with that information anyway?"

I think the only data snippet there that has any chance of causing a payment is the fact of a preference for Domino's pizza rather than insert hipster pizza source.

I used to get regularly mocked for choosing their fare rather than the "gourmet" pizzas that can be found without effort in my neck of the woods.

Of course, those are so full of olive oil and fat that the topping will slough off in a lump in one corner of the box if you corner in excess of three miles an hour while transporting the things home, and five minutes after eating a slice of one it falls out of your bottom.

Domino's changed their chemical formula sorry recipe to include parmesan cheese in the crust. I can't get near anything that reeks like it has already taken an abortive trip through someone's digestive tract so I gave 'em up. Now I eat Papa John's pizza - and get mocked for that (though I notice that when I'm bringing two pies to an event no-one says "I'll pass, thanks"). Gotta love pizza snobs.

Re: Culprit

Take a breath, Trevor. I was responding to the post immediately before mine written by "Marshalltown ", not to you. I replied to his post but the indent seems not to have happened.

As for my "bias", it was induced by your article and I wasn't the only person to take away the message I did - suggesting to anyone not in complete turtle defense mode that perhaps your own prose is working against you.

Indeed, I've tried to write my questions to you in a neutral tone throughout and have been clear I'm trying to understand the issue, not pick on you - with perhaps the sole exception of one comment pointing out that not having documents open for weeks on end has been common wisdom trotted out in these pages for years in response to "the SA booted my machine and I lost days of work" posts. All that following good practice would have done was alert you to the issue sooner of course.

If you wanted to convey the same sort of neutral tone in your article it was, in my opinion, unwise to illustrate a problem you saw with NOT (MS Office) with examples drawn from the library of problems of the Big Bad Bugger on Campus. *That* is the source of this particular misunderstanding and it is entirely down to an editorial choice made by your good self.

As for my "religious issues", I already said I use OpenOffice myself. In fact I don't possess a copy of MS Office older than '97 for my personal use. I have to use MS Office at work.

Re: Ansible etc

Actually, we already have the Ansible (as in Dirac communicator) in one way: It's called the broadcast address.

Re: Who Owns Photos?

"Graduation pics are "not yours" because someone else framed them and pushed a button."

Well, paid the University to be the official photographer at the event, invested a not-so-small fortune in the various skills, materials and equipment needed to frame them and pushed a button.

What, you didn't think that all the photographer was giving up was an otherwise empty Saturday and the charge in a couple of SLR batteries, did you?

No, the pictures are not yours until you buy them. That's the deal. You can walk away and no-one will call you a thief or worse, a dimwit thief.

However, I agree that the best way out of this would be to show only small, low-res copies to the punters.

But then, if they don't see a reasonable sample of what they can expect for their money when they click on "show me my graduation picture", why would they buy the high res version? A person stupid enough to blog about image-stealing is surely not bright enough to figure out that the finished photograph will be a thing of beauty far surpassing the postage stamp on the website, no matter what it says on the lambskin he was holding when it was taken.

Because people are dumb. Even them wot just got out of skule. Evidence: This article.

Bah!

Did someone forget to turn on their 1r0n7 D3t3ct0r before responding?

And I believe that should be "haxxor speek".

Re: Just look at the codenames

Yes. Anyone who has read Charles Stross' "Laundry" novels knows that codenames are two word phrases like "PURPLE EGGNOG" or "HORSE PHONEVOICE".

Re: It's no surprise

Damn you sir! Taking your advice during a suspiciously convenient laptop battery fire I attempted to extinguish it with a handy tin of denatured alcohol (the nearest "chemical" to hand).

Far from extinguishing the flames, it counter-intuitively caused a massive fireball to engulf the laptop and me. My house burned down and I am reliably informed that eyebrows are but a distant memory for me now.

I consulted a chemist who informed me that the list of appropriate chemicals for use in this situation is far more constrained than your missive would suggest to the casual reader.

More accuracy in your suggestions, sir! More accuracy!