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511.
by meaty 14y ago
You so would have been my friend at school :)
512.
by meaty 14y ago
I've had these guys loads of times. "We're from Windows" Pretending you are partially deaf and old keeps them on the line a while. 6 minutes is my record so far :)
513.
by meaty 14y ago
Is there some link with geeks and explosives? In my youth, if a large bang was heard across the town or smoke was spotted, I was always asked if it was my fault :) (a lot of the time it was :)
514.
by meaty 14y ago
Lol I actually spilled my tea :)
515.
by meaty 14y ago
I had the same trouble. Just feels clunky. Fortunately they managed to use hype to offset it.
516.
by meaty 14y ago
I think that's probably a waste of time. We've only had one visitor on windows 8 and after doing a reverse lookup on the IP, it turned out to be coming from us and was a member of our QA team.
517.
by meaty 14y ago
I personally just don't want to invest my time in it. Either way, if I'm going to push something, its going to be over HTTP and not platform tied.
518.
by meaty 14y ago
Does this apply in the EU?
519.
by meaty 14y ago
Regarding your latter point, I think this comes from the exposure of technology increasing every day. I've built and operated a helpdesk for a 150,000 employee organisation with a high security requirement. People bash the IT guys because t
520.
by meaty 14y ago
Very true. Right there now. We have a lot of huge clients and are an enterprise SaaS. The killer for us is having not automated QA up front. The manual monkeys with typewriters approach is killing us.
521.
by meaty 14y ago
Agree with this a million times over. I do actually use an e-reader (Kobo touch) but it's been hacked to register and remove any network access possibility and only gets DRM free epubs and PDFs put near it.
522.
by meaty 14y ago
No thanks - sticky back plastic is far more versatile. Annotations with diagrams finely written with pencil or smudged around with a lopping great big finger? Not possible with certain DRM encumbered digital copies. It was more of a point t
523.
by meaty 14y ago
No one cares about this until about 3 months in at which point they are going to have to put up with it. This is why known a kobo and a computer and nothing else. You just can't read on a backlit device.
524.
by meaty 14y ago
Yes we were. We covered them, scribbled on them, wrote errata in, copied pages for people, ripped out pages, occasionally watched nitric acid dissolve them, accidentally set them on fire, sold them and swapped them for other things and occa
525.
by meaty 14y ago
Well they shot themselves there. The CLR was supposed to be the portability layer i.e. IL code would be dynamically compiled. Unfortunately due to Microsoft's schizophrenia, it never became a first class part of the OS over say non-portable
526.
by meaty 14y ago
Well of course the proxies are down... Sigh.
527.
by meaty 14y ago
yes. In a cave, a jungle, a desert or a glacier or moving from place to place every few hours. Either that or right in front of everyone (grey man theory). Its possible to have privacy, but you will have to put up with a little inconvenienc
528.
by meaty 14y ago
This is good but the amount of times I've gone past a bus stop or station recently is insane :)
529.
by meaty 14y ago
Yes but they were only available to one user and that could only log in via the console server. Joy to ACLs, custom Solaris builds and proper kit (ultra enterprise units the size of a full 42u rack). I miss those days.
530.
by meaty 14y ago
Well back in the 90s we kept the machines lean more because disk space was fucking expensive.
531.
by meaty 14y ago
Try Debian stable. I've had a single installation last for 13 years so far. New and shiny is considerably less important than working and tested the first time something breaks.
532.
by meaty 14y ago
Sorry I should have clarified the point up front: The initial configuration is tiresome and complicated. While knowing the details is important, using them as a barrier to entry i.e. by removing the arch installer is just a hideous waste of
533.
by meaty 14y ago
I had the same thing with my T61. It was due to the sense wire on the fan being crimped slightly between the keyboard and roll cage assembly. I managed to fix it with some wiggling of the wire without resorting to fan control software. I al
534.
by meaty 14y ago
I've got a 10 year old T-series (Think its a T21) in the cupboard. It did 7 years service for the original user for 4-5 hours a day. It was dropped and bashed around regularly. I only keep it because it has a real serial and parallel port b
535.
by meaty 14y ago
Yes and as I found, those annoying hipsters actually are quite rude, arrogant and unhelpful (Kingston Upon Thames Apple Store, Surrey, UK). An hour to get replacement earphones for my daughter's iPod due to the well known problem of the roc
536.
by meaty 14y ago
Arch is a maintenance nightmare if you want to be productive.
537.
by meaty 14y ago
Great idea. This will save the following thing happening again and again: 1. Someone asks me for a laptop recommendation. 2. I tell them "ThinkPad T-series" and state you can get them online for the price of a mid-range laptop in a retail o
538.
by meaty 14y ago
The problem is that all user interface paradigms that work with touch are fundamentally incompatible with a keyboard and vice versa. Can you operate IOS from a keyboard entirely? No. Can you operate windows from a keyboard entirely? Yes. Ca
539.
by meaty 14y ago
Why the fuck do I want to touch my laptop (or phone or whatever to be honest). It gets dirty and stops working, you end up with curled up hands, even the best ones wobble like an old person when you push on them, you can't type on the thing
540.
by meaty 14y ago
No one I know uses Visio any more. They all seem to use PowerPoint for diagramming. Why? Because you have to pay more for Visio and to be honest Visio is horrible. I use dia over Visio - it's a much stronger product.

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