Posts by Uncle Slacky

Re: Am I splitting hairs

You could argue that (consumer) Windows wasn't a full OS until XP - up until ME, DOS was still there lurking under the GUI.

Re: Obama the socialist, hahaha good one

I'm guessing Mr or Ms Downvoter is American, judging by their apparent lack of knowledge of what a socialist is.

Re: time to go old school?

The language on Zoom was called "Ubbi Dubbi", as I recall, ubor, ubas ubi rubecuball...

Re: Cool

Had got their what?

Re: FUZE Basic

If you'd rather use BBC Basic on the Pi, there's a cut-down RISC OS install with only what's needed for the Beeb experience: https://www.riscosopen.org/content/sales/risc-os-pico

Re: CERN

Gee, I dunno, maybe the WWW for starters?

Re: More to It

That French naming policy ended about 15-20 years ago - they now only rule out obviously silly names. The first test case was for a boy called Zebulon (known in the UK as Zebedee, as in the Magic Roundabout) - it was disallowed.

Restricting names to those of saints did however have the advantage that you'd get additional presents on your saint's day, as well as on your own birthday.

Re: Linux Mint

I find I have more success when installing via PlayonLinux rather than directly with WINE.

Also, use Windows Fundamentals for Legacy PCs in a VM (if you have nothing that requires 7). It's still getting updates.

Re: Windows PosReady (XP) update fails this month

Also, for anyone who wants to do a "fresh" XP (re)install, Windows Fundamentals for Legacy PCs* appears to be built on the same base as the POS version - at least, I'm still getting updates on my FLP installs...

* available at your friendly local torrent site, natch

Re: One of the wisest things I've ever read.

"The world is 6000 years old, created by an old man in a white beard and is cooling, at least until the rapture happens when you will all BURN!"

I'm calling Poe on this one.

Re: why on earth would she buy a pirate toy for her 5-yo kid?

For anyone who doesn't get the reference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALZZx1xmAzg

Re: Government’s role is to provide the opportunity for massive advances in technology [..]

So, still no actual, y'know, actual evidence for any of your claims, I notice.

Re: #include <std/quotes/spiderman>

It's no urban myth:

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/aug/01/new-york-police-terrorism-pressure-cooker

"Michele Catalano, who lives in Long Island, New York, said her web searches for pressure cookers, her husband's hunt for backpacks and her "news junkie" son's craving for information on the Boston bombings had combined somewhere in the internet ether to create a "perfect storm of terrorism profiling".

Members of what she described as a "joint terrorism task force" descended on Catalano's home on Wednesday."

Re: Needs more Yankovic version...

For those who've not heard it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WW65Ontdcis

Reminds me of the NTNOCN sketch

"American Express?

That'll do nicely, sir, and would you like to rub my tits too?

Put your head in between them and go 'blubble blubble blubble' with American Express."

Re: "Wouldn't reading the Bible cover to cover also help with that?"

What about the LOLcat version?

http://www.lolcatbible.com/index.php?title=Main_Page

uBlock Origin

Beats Adblock Plus hands down.

Socialism

It worked pretty well for the bankers when it came to socializing their losses in 2008 (and since), though.

Re: Ok, here goes

80-odd posts before a Futurama reference! What is the world coming to?

DON'T DATE ROBOTS!!!!

(and watch out for electrogonorrhea, the noisy killer!)

Re: So this is what the party of No Platform has become...

You just sound like another one of those who equate any criticism of Israel at all with antisemitism, in an attempt (usually effective, unfortunately) to shut down opposition to its policies.

Re: "possible to remove the Windows 10 update files using the Disk Cleanup utility."

Maybe this will give some impetus to the ReactOS devs?

Re: Mx.?

You're related to David Cameron?

http://www.theguardian.com/media/2012/may/11/rebekah-brooks-david-cameron-texts-lol

My commiserations...