Posts by onefang

Re: Not too long ago

A friend of mine, long ago in the days of dial up, couldn't get her shiny new university computer account to work, so she asked me to have a look. So we sat down at her computer, she fired up the software, showing me it's complete failure to work, I reached out slowly and dramatically, then pressed the break key. The thing burst into life.

Re: Training the trainer

I've mentioned this some time ago, but it fits here, so time to trot this little anecdote out once more.

Many decades ago, during a period of unemployment, the government decided it was a good idea to fund one year of a two year computer course. Despite the fact that I had lots of experience as a computer programmer.

One of the subjects was "Desktop Computing", basically how to use Windows / Word / etc. It was well known amongst the faculty that I was an experienced computer professional. On the first day of this subject, before the teacher started doing the actual teaching, and while every one else was getting settled, she took me aside and asked "Can you teach me how to use a mouse please?".

Re: Training the trainer

"To this day, I have no idea how long the professor kept clicking close"

Until the computer got bored and decided it was a good time to update and reboot.

I'd say to ask your cat, but you said it was a Genius mouse, it probably moved out to study at university.

Re: Not Millennials!

"Millenials don't exist"

Damn, half the people living in my building just vanished. I wont miss the drunk or the unsocial bike guy, but the others where perfectly OK people.

Re: Keyboard ecosystems

"Hopefully I won't make the same mistake again;"

A place I used to work at, one of the company owners made that mistake, spilling their drink, on their laptop. Sometime after their laptop was replaced, they made the same mistake again.

Re: Speaking of which,

Buy a decent mouse that isn't designed to be as unserviceable as possible.

Re: Yeah - but if I am a "common criminal" I'll definitely find another non-indiegogo to pawn

An attack dog is like an attack helicopter, it's armed to the teeth with machine guns and rocket launchers.

Re: A small question

"My advice is, avoid elevators and windows."

I try to avoid Windows, but sometimes people pay me to code / sysadmin the things. One of these days I'll go ahead with my threat of "Yeah I normally charge $X, but triple that for Windows". Though since I'm now moving into semi retirement, I might just get a "I don't do Windows." t-shirt made and wear it to job interviews.

Re: WTF just happened

It might be an old message, but I bet they are still just as kinky. I wonder if they sometimes use that cattle prod on themselves?

Re: Human deviousness

Perhaps the downvote were for your baseball bat having a female name? I always figured they were kinda male, but I'm no sports fan, so what do I know?

Re: Heck, I can do better than this

Yeah, that does seem rather low "accuracy".

"AI will plan our lives in to the future and CGI can create the video feed. The human race can commit mass suicide any way it wishes"

Considering the way humans seem to be heading towards mass suicide via several means, I suspect that plan is well under way already.

Re: HTC replaced real buttons with touch

"Ergonomics sacrificed to style and cost saving cents."

Or as I always say, another penny saved, another life ruined.

"So after reviewing other reviews, you've reviewed your plan to review and are asking us to review that review with a view to writing a review?"

That was so viewitul, it made me cry, now I can't view the other comments. So view things do that to me.

Re: Gender balance

"frequent new bars"

My young adult years where from before smoking indoors in public places was banned. So bars and clubs tended to be full of smokers, and I'm an asthmatic, I learned to avoid those like the plague. I'm not an alcohol drinker. So if I go to a bar today, it'll be to sit around staring into space.

Re: cock shots

I have the same feelings about boob shots, is the only "good" thing about you that you have enormous boobs?

Re: Maybe LinkedIn next ?

"No, that is not the entire world. The entire world starts somewhere around the junction of Interstate 101 and the 3rd avenue and finishes somewhere around Coyote Creek."

I prefer it the way I say it, the world starts with LA and ends with NY.

"Women thus get to cherry-pick and reply to, maybe, one in a hundred, one in a thousand likes/pokes/messages/whatever."

That's why Bumble only lets the women make the first move, so they are not swamped by men. Unfortunately I think most of the women are sitting there waiting for the men to make the first move, which we can't. sigh

Think I'll switch to Tinder soon, see what that's like.

Re: And still no messages from the stars....

'on next go after calamity the low hanging fruit of easy fossil fuels etc. that make advances "easy" are probably long since gone, harvested in earlier civilization rise)'

If there's a long enough pause between the civilizations, the earlier one becomes the fossil fuels for the next. The rest of the fossils might be a clue to the future archaeologists that something went horribly wrong last go around, perhaps they should be more careful this time?

"only two pictures was of myself - and the rest"

Only one is me, and it's a cartoon. One is of a USA astronaut, several are women, a palm tree, a small child from a couple of centuries ago, an exhaust pipe, a blue square, and a cat.

Re: ProperDave

Dave's not home.

Re: Article misses a critical point

Yes, as the popularity of shaving and not smelling like a human attests. Purely for the sake of selling razors and perfumes, our civilization has been brainwashed into thinking that natural pubic hair and the natural smell of a human are evil. I'm still not sure on the score for only females can have long fingernails, perhaps the sellers of fake nails and nail clippers split the market between them?

I think the ideal of the strong independent thinker is long gone.

Re: no

"I don´t own the desert in Jordan either but the small vial of purple sand that I brought back with me is mine."

I wonder where the line is drawn. Sure, collect a small vial of sand and it's yours, but several tonnes of sand is likely not yours to take.

Re: Storm in a teacup

"Systemd suffers from a number of strange design decisions such as embedding a HTTP Server directly into the software, that provides remote interactive browsing."

So that's two HTTP servers in your typical distro then, the systemd builtin one, and the kernel builtin one.

Re: Accessibility

You could do like I'm doing right now, a debootstrap install. Or just uninstall the accessibility stuff.

Re: Post-Truth Society

"Its like the whole of Silly 'con' Valley have bought into Jobian reality-distortion-field economics."

The problem is that it worked very well for Jobs, well except for the whole cancer thing, and made Apple a very very very profitable company. So naturally other evil companies are trying to emulate that success.

Re: Obesity, Diabetes Type II and so on

It's fashionable when the fashion industry says it is, mostly so they can make more profits. Next year something different will be fashionable, and the fashion victims will need to replace their wardrobe.

Re: Obesity, Diabetes Type II and so on

"If you're going to stay in all day anyway, then putting on the easiest and comfiest clothes seems like a good idea"

What's wrong with wearing the easiest and comfiest clothes when outdoors? I'm ugly anyway, putting on some uncomfortable but pretty clothes isn't gonna help. So I might as well be comfortable.

I have three reasons for wearing clothes, practicality, comfort, and to avoid getting arrested for public nudity. That third one is optional. Anything else is just fashion nonsense.