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Warp wrote:
> Given that linux is not something you simply "download and run" in Windows,
Some are! That's one of the most cool things about Linux! :-)
(But you knew that, of course.)
> I'm pretty sure that to this day he is still convinced that "linux" is
> something which breaks your IE.
Well, in some sense.... ;-)
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Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
The NFL should go international. I'd pay to
see the Detroit Lions vs the Roman Catholics.
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Invisible wrote:
> Fewest settings, though... that shouldn't be too bad.
I like that after 10 years of digital cameras, they're finally getting
around to making them "better" than film cameras. Like, finding and
recognising faces and focusing on the people automatically, rather than only
focusing where you're pointing.
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Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
The NFL should go international. I'd pay to
see the Detroit Lions vs the Roman Catholics.
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Mike Raiford wrote:
> and it proceeded to install itself, even though I clicked cancel.
And people complain about UAC.
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Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
The NFL should go international. I'd pay to
see the Detroit Lions vs the Roman Catholics.
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Darren New wrote:
> Mike Raiford wrote:
>> and it proceeded to install itself, even though I clicked cancel.
>
> And people complain about UAC.
>
You know ... I never turned off UAC.. It really doesn't annoy me at
all.:) In my general day-to-day usage of the computer it never comes up.
But then, the same situation hasn't presented itself since I upgraded to
Vista.
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~Mike
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Stephen wrote:
> I always do Ctrl + W or click the "close" X
> Some popup have two install buttons called Install and Cancel :)
Try that with the window that just won't close. Oh, I know, just kill
the process in Task Manager ;)
Yeah... stupid me, trusting the "Cancel" button actually did what it said.
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~Mike
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Darren New wrote:
> Yeah. Part of the problem is that companies get paid *big* bucks
> (relatively speaking) to put thngs like Google's toolbar and Yahoo's
> toolbar and AOL's tool bar and every other piece of crapware out there
> that they can. You can (or at least could) get something like $5 every
> time some customer agrees to install Yahoo's toolbar, which is a *lot*
> of money when you're distributing ad-supported software with a $0.05
> click-thru payment on the ads.
Grr, Yahoo bar pisses me off. It seems everything includes it in its
installation, and if you blindly click "Next" it's usually on a page
somewhere, typically toward the end of the options screens, and already
helpfully selected for you.
I swear FireFox needs a feature that says "Hey, while you were away from
the browser, someone else decided to add a plug-in. Did you really want
to do this?"
> I bought a 4-core x64 2.88GHz machine with 6G of RAM and gigabit
> ethernet. And it came with a 56K modem card, so they could put Earthlink
> and AOL and Juno and ..... links on the desktop. They *have* to be
> getting a kickback on those icons big enough to justify putting in a
> modem card nobody in their right mind is going to need. :-)
>
Heh. They still make 56k Modems??!
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~Mike
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Mike Raiford wrote:
> Heh. They still make 56k Modems??!
Not only do they make them, but they're *cheap* now!
I can remember when you had to actually pay _money_ for one... o_O
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http://www.zazzle.com/MathematicalOrchid*
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Orchid XP v8 wrote:
> Mike Raiford wrote:
>
>> Heh. They still make 56k Modems??!
>
> Not only do they make them, but they're *cheap* now!
>
> I can remember when you had to actually pay _money_ for one... o_O
>
Yeah, I'll bet. Probably be able to pick one up for a quarter from a gum
ball machine.
I remember paying $300 for a 14.4 modem.
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~Mike
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Mike Raiford wrote:
> I remember paying $300 for a 14.4 modem.
I have a CD burner sitting less than a foot away from me. My dad bought
it for about £300.
I have a second optical drive that's slightly closer to me. It reads and
burns CDs and multiple types of DVDs (including dual-layer). It cost me £24.
I notice, however, that all these devices seem to have a "minimum price"
that they never fall below. E.g., it is *impossible* to buy a harddrive
for less than £20. Once they get small enough, they just stop selling
them. They never decrease the price below £20.
I hypothesize that £20 is how much pig-iron there is an a HD. ;-)
(In a world where everything is made of cheap, flimsy plastic, I've
always found it comforting that HDs have a lot of good, honest, solid
*metal* in them...)
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http://blog.orphi.me.uk/
http://www.zazzle.com/MathematicalOrchid*
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On Fri, 05 Dec 2008 12:51:02 -0600, Mike Raiford <"m[raiford]!at"@gmail.com>
wrote:
>Stephen wrote:
>
>> I always do Ctrl + W or click the "close" X
>> Some popup have two install buttons called Install and Cancel :)
>
>Try that with the window that just won't close. Oh, I know, just kill
>the process in Task Manager ;)
>
>Yeah... stupid me, trusting the "Cancel" button actually did what it said.
Call me cynical, but that's what I'd do if I wanted to do something bad.
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Regards
Stephen
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