Interesting Links for 1-12-2011
2011-Jan-12, Wednesday 21:00![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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Delicious recommends the use of a WTF tag for this story. Seriously, using it outside in the winter is in breach of specifications? What planet are they on? Wouldn't get that with a Nokia.
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I had no idea that the music to H2G2 was by The Eagles. That makes two of their tracks I recognise instinctively. Wonder if there're any more?
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A reasonable contribution to the "what planet are the WBC on" discussion. Apparently they've decided not to picket the funeral of the girl killed in Tucson, but this analysis makes a lot more sense than the hypothesis that they actually believe the tripe they spout.
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I think this is one of the better responses to a moronic review I've seen.
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None of my current machinces nas an A drive, although the old Desktop upstairs does. That there are IT literate people that have no clue what they were is, well, scary. Mat Bowles is 36, and beginning to feel his age.
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Date: 2011-Jan-12, Wednesday 21:12 (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-Jan-12, Wednesday 21:16 (UTC)You can reprogramme them today, I might actually make my netbooks recognise the USB connection as the A drive, would make sense.
When I were a lad, your box of floppies was essential for your degree work. Then they set up the U drive so you could access it from home by dial up, that was much easier.
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Date: 2011-Jan-12, Wednesday 21:24 (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2011-Jan-12, Wednesday 22:35 (UTC)Yeah, you could do a sort of "copy a: b:" even if you didn't have a second physical drive. It would then tell you to insert the disk for a: and b: and copy from disk to disk, buffering data in RAM.
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Date: 2011-Jan-12, Wednesday 22:37 (UTC)Here's another take on it:
http://slacktivist.typepad.com/slacktivist/2011/01/only-a-crazy-person-would-take-what-we-say-seriously.html
"They do not behave as if they believe what they say. We are thus forced to choose between believing their words or believing their actions. We cannot believe that both are true. We cannot believe that both are honest. If their actions, their very lives, are sincere, then their words are dishonest. If their words are sincere, then their lives are monstrous."
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Date: 2011-Jan-12, Wednesday 22:38 (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-Jan-13, Thursday 02:54 (UTC)Delicious recommends the use of a WTF tag for this story. Seriously, using it outside in the winter is in breach of specifications?"
Time to sue for "location discrimination". I wonder if there's precedent for that legally or if that would be a new one altogether.
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Date: 2011-Jan-13, Thursday 09:28 (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-Jan-13, Thursday 09:35 (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-Jan-13, Thursday 09:40 (UTC)I think I got it from Twitter, but I'm darned if I know who, exactly.
And yeah, I had it, but I then totally forgot to show it to Julie.
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Date: 2011-Jan-13, Thursday 09:43 (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-Jan-13, Thursday 10:22 (UTC)