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Sophia Brooks - Sep 16, 2005 9:32:34 am PDT #4518 of 10003
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
tommyrot - Sep 16, 2005 12:51:09 pm PDT #4519 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.
Jessica - Sep 16, 2005 1:44:01 pm PDT #4520 of 10003
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Wow.
That's going straight into my fantasy edit suite (aka List Of Things To Buy With My Lottery Winnings).
NoiseDesign - Sep 16, 2005 2:06:46 pm PDT #4521 of 10003
Our wings are not tired
I think I need a bigger office.
evil jimi - Sep 16, 2005 5:05:14 pm PDT #4522 of 10003
Lurching from one disaster to the next.
tommyrot ... haven't you heard about "Liebermann Inc"? They are notorious for making outlandish claims about hardware and software but without actually delivering anything. What they did deliver was simply rebadged and no different from anything else already on the market.
eta: how can you trust a company that claims--or at least, infers--they have trademarked H20?
Eddie - Sep 16, 2005 6:07:52 pm PDT #4523 of 10003
Your tag here.
Kaylee: By the way, the eighty-ten's the same machine. They changed the plating, hoped no one'd notice!
meara - Sep 16, 2005 6:16:53 pm PDT #4524 of 10003
Grr. So annoying! I just bought Scrabble for my computer (Mac, so it was more of a PITA to find a version) and was all "Whee, yay!". Except two problems: one, it requires putting the CD in EVERY TIME (ew?) and two, it takes up the WHOLE screen while playing it--can't have anything else open. GRRRRRRRRRRRRR.
DXMachina - Sep 16, 2005 6:20:08 pm PDT #4525 of 10003
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
Many games do one or both of those things. The first is to make it slightly tougher to use the game without purchasing a copy. Civ III does both.
Typo Boy - Sep 16, 2005 6:20:45 pm PDT #4526 of 10003
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
I want to cut a machine off from most internet access, while still allowing it to upload windows and McAfee updates, so that windows and anti-virus and firewall stay patched. (Even though it won't be used for other internet access, it is networked with computers that are used for internet access, so needs to stay protected.) It seems like this could be done by banning all ips via the firewall except the appropriate micrsoft and mcafee ips, plus the appropriate local and isp ips. Where I get a complete list of ips for microsoft and mcafee is another question. I can get listings for the obvious URLs, but the problem is that windows update, office update and Mcafee update download bits and pieces from all sorts of URLs and FTP sites that have their own ips aside from the standard one. I'm going to e-mail Microsoft and Mcafee tech support, but surely this has been done before. Any thoughts - aside from getting rid of windows ad McAfee.
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meara - Sep 16, 2005 6:25:20 pm PDT #4527 of 10003
Many games do one or both of those things. The first is to make it slightly tougher to use the game without purchasing a copy. Civ III does both.
And I guess I understand #1, though I still don't quite approve--especially since given that I've got an iPod, I'm not used to carrying CDs around anymore! But #2? There's no excuse for that. Sure, give me an OPTION for that, but...I wanna be on the internet! Or IMing! Or playing music! Or something!