Simon: You are my beautiful sister. River: I threw up on your bed. Simon: Yep. Definitely my sister.

'War Stories'


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P.M. Marc - Nov 23, 2004 4:43:12 pm PST #109 of 10003
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear

It's something like spoof@ebay.com, I think.


§ ita § - Nov 23, 2004 4:48:56 pm PST #110 of 10003
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I found a form on their site and just used that.

I feel all early adopter and shit.

eta: also useless, since their form bounced the mail back


UTTAD - Nov 24, 2004 12:30:09 am PST #111 of 10003
Strawberry disappointment.

So I'm going to install a new motherboard at the weekend. Any hints or tips? Any hidden pitfalls to watch out for?


§ ita § - Nov 24, 2004 4:30:16 am PST #112 of 10003
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Microsoft's stranglehold on the browser market continues to loosen...


le nubian - Nov 24, 2004 4:33:53 am PST #113 of 10003
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."

About time with their piece of shit, security-compromised software.


§ ita § - Nov 24, 2004 4:34:28 am PST #114 of 10003
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I need to try Firefox, to see why it's making a dent, and Opera never really did.


tommyrot - Nov 24, 2004 4:37:13 am PST #115 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

It's because Opera doesn't have some cute mascot like a fox or a giant lizard.


le nubian - Nov 24, 2004 4:39:31 am PST #116 of 10003
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."

ita, I really like Firefox a whole lot. I installed it on everything. Even my office computer and I made the tech support people come in and install the software. The integration of various search engines ALONE is cool ass shit.

The find feature absolutely rocked my wurld!


flea - Nov 24, 2004 4:43:29 am PST #117 of 10003
information libertarian

mr. flea was on the phone with our DSL tech support last night for an hour and got no love. We seek a solution, or even plain insight, into the following problem:

We have DSL. It works fine, except our upload and dowload speeds are about 1/10 those promised by the company. Upload speed is 17Kbps; download more like 160Kbps. These speeds are consisten for things like - downloading iTunes, uploading photos to Ofoto, moving documents to and from mr. flea's work computer. Thing is, when the DSL tech support had mr. flea do their special speed tests last night, he got great speeds. On their special speed test sites. He still got crap speeds on the stuff he actually uses.

Secondarily, can people who have Wifi tell if you are stealing it? Because we could just steal it from the frat boys next year and save $30 a month.


Wolfram - Nov 24, 2004 4:49:11 am PST #118 of 10003
Visilurking

So I'm going to install a new motherboard at the weekend. Any hints or tips? Any hidden pitfalls to watch out for?

Make sure the screws aren't touching the case. Use those screw thingies that lift the board off the case if you can, otherwise use the rubber circles under your screws. Make sure your MB supports your processor and RAM before installing. Be prepared that you may have to reinstall your OS to go with your new MB.

Secondarily, can people who have Wifi tell if you are stealing it? Because we could just steal it from the frat boys next year and save $30 a month.

Somebody posted an article about this over the weekend, here or in Natter. I think if the lights on their router blink madly when they're not using the internet it's a tip-off.