CIPWTTKT&GC V0x0F (v15): Scoot and Deeps Drama Diaries
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So is anyone else going to get Steve Jobs' biography? It's only $18 on Amazon right now.
[QUOTE=Fatal-Error;32961856]But Win-Tab is pretty![/QUOTE]
Yeah, but it works JUST SLIGHTLY DIFFERENTLY than Alt-Tab.
Say you have two windows open (one editing a webpage's code, another of the browser viewing it).
Pressing Alt-Tab would switch between the two. But pressing Win-Tab does not - you need to do Win-(Tab-Tab) to get to the other window. But doing Alt-(Tab-Tab) would bring you either to the desktop, or back to the window you're on.
And, since I still sometimes use an XP computer, my instincts are to Alt-Tab, not Win-Tab.
Random aside: More operating systems should have a "shade" function as well, where you can roll a window up into just the top bar. Some Linux window managers have that, often as a double-click-title-bar function. It's pretty useful as an alternative to minimizing it, especially if you don't have much space on the window bar.
[QUOTE=Dr. Deeps;32962115]So is anyone else going to get Steve Jobs' biography? It's only $18 on Amazon right now.[/QUOTE]
I don't really have an interest in him, and I normally don't read biographies at all.
Changing the subject:
[url=http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/The-Killing-Job.aspx]This has to be the most horrifying computer story I've ever heard.[/url]
[QUOTE=SuperDuperScoot;32961263]I dropped my old gateway (that already came with a defective hard drive) half a foot into my own lap while trying to move out of a chair that was eating me alive
it made the hard drive's mechanical problems 10x worse and eventually it slowed down to snail's pace and then destroyed itself
great quality control right there giving me a busted hard drive in the first place. I was too inexperienced at the time to know what RMA was and mom tricked me into thinking it couldn't be returned.
Edit:
This is when I vowed never to get another Gateway product ever again[/QUOTE]
This just makes me love my laptop even more
Suddenly falling? park the HDD's arm
stop falling? continue as normal.
[img]http://tzechuen.files.wordpress.com/2008/04/sballmermac.jpg?w=400&h=300[/img]
Good job, Steve.
[QUOTE=Lyoko774;32960927]hnggh
why are all my friends utter fucknuggets[/QUOTE]
At a point I don't bother. Let them waste their money, while I play games at roughly the same perf and IQ for a quarter of the price.
[editline]25th October 2011[/editline]
[QUOTE=Dr. Deeps;32962810][img]http://tzechuen.files.wordpress.com/2008/04/sballmermac.jpg?w=400&h=300[/img]
Good job, Steve.[/QUOTE]
The laptop was from a previous speaker. Someone snapped the shot shile the laptop was still there.
I'm gonna perform a hard-drive transplant (temporary) from my laptop to my PC (which thanks to the progressive and terminal disease known as bad sectors, has no HDD right now). The catch? The laptop runs Arch. I've dealt with the WiFi drivers but still, I doubt this will end well. (I want to do this just so I can run Ep2 at a decent framerate).
Still, wish me luck!
[QUOTE=Dr. Deeps;32962810][img]http://tzechuen.files.wordpress.com/2008/04/sballmermac.jpg?w=400&h=300[/img]
Good job, Steve.[/QUOTE]
I really doubt that being Steve Ballmer's laptop.
[QUOTE=GoDong-DK;32963284]I really doubt that being Steve Ballmer's laptop.[/QUOTE]
Nah, Steves laptop is made by Fisher Price, he doesn't know how to operate anything else.
[editline]25th October 2011[/editline]
[IMG]http://images.hobbytron.com/XT-QX1101-lg.jpg[/IMG]
[QUOTE=Brt5470;32962871]The laptop was from a previous speaker. Someone snapped the shot shile the laptop was still there.[/QUOTE]
Check the spelling:
"Business Leadership and Digital Innovation for Future [b]Graduate[u]d[/u][/b]"
Noticed that before I noticed the Mac.
[QUOTE=Fatal-Error;32963366]Nah, Steves laptop is made by Fisher Price, he doesn't know how to operate anything else.
[editline]25th October 2011[/editline]
[IMG]http://images.hobbytron.com/XT-QX1101-lg.jpg[/IMG][/QUOTE]
HOW MUCH IS THAT? FIIIIIIIIIIIVE HUNDRED DOLLARS? A THOUSAAAAAAND? EVEN MORE?! NO JUST NINETY-NINE DOLLARS!
[QUOTE=Dr. Deeps;32963415]HOW MUCH IS THAT? FIIIIIIIIIIIVE HUNDRED DOLLARS? A THOUSAAAAAAND? EVEN MORE?! NO JUST NINETY-NINE DOLLARS![/QUOTE]
I'm rather pleased that I own the same IBM PC from that advert.
Woah, since when was Arch Linux signing their packages?
I'm downloading a local copy of the core/extra/community repos (to teach my silly school friends who think Linux Mint is the best distro ever how to install Arch) and I noticed that it's downloading *.sig files along with the usual pkg.tar.xz files..at least for some packages.
[QUOTE=Lyoko774;32963512]Woah, since when was Arch Linux signing their packages?
I'm downloading a local copy of the core/extra/community repos (to teach my silly school friends who think Linux Mint is the best distro ever how to install Arch) and I noticed that it's downloading *.sig files along with the usual pkg.tar.xz files..at least for some packages.[/QUOTE]
Pacman 4 went into testing recently. It has package signing.
[QUOTE=Dr. Deeps;32963529]Pacman 4 went into testing recently. It has package signing.[/QUOTE]
Welp, that's what happens when I don't touch my laptop outside of using rdesktop for 2 weeks.
[QUOTE='[EG] Pepper;32962786']This just makes me love my laptop even more
Suddenly falling? park the HDD's arm
stop falling? continue as normal.[/QUOTE]
don't really think el-cheapo gateways from 2006 or so had that sort of technology
kinda wish they did
but it was crap anyways. had issues even running roblox
[QUOTE=Dr. Deeps;32963529]Pacman 4 went into testing recently. It has package signing.[/QUOTE]
i thought you were joking on fb, i don't even follow Arch stuff anymore
might as well give it another spin
[QUOTE=Derpmeifter;32963681]i thought you were joking on fb, i don't even follow Arch stuff anymore
might as well give it another spin[/QUOTE]
Nope, I was actually quite surprised to be honest.
so I finally have internet again
what'd I miss
[QUOTE=BrainDeath;32962940]I'm gonna perform a hard-drive transplant (temporary) from my laptop to my PC (which thanks to the progressive and terminal disease known as bad sectors, has no HDD right now). The catch? The laptop runs Arch. I've dealt with the WiFi drivers but still, I doubt this will end well. (I want to do this just so I can run Ep2 at a decent framerate).
Still, wish me luck![/QUOTE]
It made it's way even less into the boot process then I thought, it gets as far as booting the kernel and starting udev, then it cant find any filesystems. Running ls /dev from the emergency shell reveals that there is no /disk directory or anything marked sda.
Any suggestions? I've tried dicking about with grub (which gives this info to the kernel AFAIK) to no avail.
All this so I can play EP2 in DX9 instead of 8.1...
[editline]25th October 2011[/editline]
[QUOTE=lavacano;32963913]so I finally have internet again
what'd I miss[/QUOTE]
Most people died since then
[QUOTE=lavacano;32963913]so I finally have internet again
what'd I miss[/QUOTE]
Me liking Apple, ensuing flame war, Pacman 4 has package signing, a nearly grand Speedtest epidemic.
And zero content.
[QUOTE=BrainDeath;32964002]It made it's way even less into the boot process then I thought, it gets as far as booting the kernel and starting udev, then it cant find any filesystems. Running ls /dev from the emergency shell reveals that there is no /disk directory or anything marked sda.
Any suggestions? I've tried dicking about with grub (which gives this info to the kernel AFAIK) to no avail.
All this so I can play EP2 in DX9 instead of 8.1...
[editline]25th October 2011[/editline]
Most people died since then[/QUOTE]
Your grub boot command is probably trying to set the root in the wrong place.. Try editing the grub commands and trying different combinations.
This is the reason why I prefer UUID :v:
[QUOTE=Lyoko774;32964078]Your grub boot command is probably trying to set the root in the wrong place.. Try editing the grub commands and trying different combinations.
This is the reason why I prefer UUID :v:[/QUOTE]
It does use UUID, but those change when you move computers it seems.
I'll see if I can grab it with live media.
[QUOTE=Dr. Deeps;32964016]Me liking Apple, ensuing flame war[/quote]
but of course
[quote]Pacman 4 has package signing[/quote]
nice
[quote]a nearly grand Speedtest epidemic.[/quote]
but of course
[quote]And zero content.[/QUOTE]
This thread in a nutshell.
Why don't you all add me
I'll entertain you for a while
[sp] sick fucks [/sp]
[QUOTE=Dr. Deeps;32964016]And zero content.[/QUOTE]
Whatchoo talkin' bout? I posted content just last page.
Unless, of course, you consider "thinks a printer has more processing power than a desktop and tries to do batch processing by coding in in PostScript and running a print job" not to be content.
[QUOTE=gman003-main;32961835]FUCK YOU MUSCLE MEMORY
The company I'm interning at issued me a Mac (they're a half-Mac, half-PC company). I actually don't mind it, since it means I can have terminals with full BSD - Bash, Perl, you name it.
But, of course, it uses some odd keyboard shortcuts. Command-C/Command-V instead of Ctrl-C/Ctrl-V, for instance. There's some good ones that I wish Windows had, like Command-` which is like alt-tab, except just for windows of the current program. So if you had two full-screen Firefox windows as well as a couple other programs, you could Alt-` between the two without having to scroll through any other programs' windows.
On my own computers, I don't make mistakes with the shortcuts. I still instinctively Ctrl- and Alt- instead of Alt- and Command-, because the keyboards are spaced differently.
The problem happens when I go to school. They use iMacs, but with Boot Camp to run Windows. Which means they have those weird Apple keyboards, but still use Ctrl-C and Ctrl-V and so on. That's where my fingers keep jumping for the wrong thing. It's even worse since they have Alt and Command/Win flipped, so even if I do remember I'm on Windows, I keep doing Win-Tab instead of Alt-Tab.
Fucking annoying.[/QUOTE]
Here's a neat trick for osx:
Open your applications folder in finder and press CMD-A and them CMD-O to see the good yet hidden tool apps
[QUOTE=gman003-main;32964316]Whatchoo talkin' bout? I posted content just last page.
Unless, of course, you consider "thinks a printer has more processing power than a desktop and tries to do batch processing by coding in in PostScript and running a print job" not to be content.[/QUOTE]
It must've been lost in the flood of Apple crap.
[QUOTE=BrainDeath;32964187]It does use UUID, but those change when you move computers it seems.
I'll see if I can grab it with live media.[/QUOTE]
Things I've learned today:
1. A Universally Unique IDentifier (UUID) is [I]Universally Unique[/I] and as such [B]does not change across systems[/B].
2. Half-Life 2: Episode 2 looks p.good in directx 8.1.
EDIT:
3. Christ almighty my laptop is missing a screw from a year ago.
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