Huh. I've never had XP reboot unexpectedly on me. Much crashage of apps, though.
But? There's always a but. When this is over, can we have a big 'but' moratorium?
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§ ita § - May 21, 2006 2:15:52 pm PDT #8124 of 10003
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
evil jimi - May 21, 2006 2:20:24 pm PDT #8125 of 10003
Lurching from one disaster to the next.
I have. A few days after I first installed XP the system rebooted without warning or explanation; one second I was doing something, without any apparent problem, and the next thing the computer had started to reboot. I don't recall the errant program, or why the OS thought it was so nasty it had to flee in terror but that enabled function was the actual cause of the reboot.
Typo Boy - May 21, 2006 2:31:17 pm PDT #8126 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.
Hi ej. You are using XP? I had the impression you had managed avoid the Micro$oft tentacles.
Stephanie - May 22, 2006 1:21:56 am PDT #8127 of 10003
Trust my rage
We got a black iBookMacBook yesterday. It's very pretty.
evil jimi - May 22, 2006 2:26:51 am PDT #8128 of 10003
Lurching from one disaster to the next.
Gar ... Still using XP. I tinkered with Ubuntu earlier this year but it somehow corrupted itself and I got rid of it. I would've persisted and tried to repair the install but I'd inexplicably developed a bios problem that made booting with a CD very difficult--basically I had to disable the HDD in the boot-up sequence within the bios.
tommyrot - May 22, 2006 6:03:46 am PDT #8129 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.
This is cool (although not as cool as a black iBook): PC case modded to look like a movie bad-guy bomb
The WMD is a custom-built PC whose case resembles a shiny, hollywoodized terrorist bomb, straight out of a Bond flick.
details: [link]
Haven't had time to look at the whole thing, but it seems there's no "red wire--no, the blue one!" However, the case looks too advanced to be defeated by a 50/50 odds cutting of a single wire, so I guess that's consistent with its aesthetic.
tommyrot - May 22, 2006 8:20:58 am PDT #8130 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.
Excellent article/FAQ on the new Macbook: [link]
tommyrot - May 22, 2006 10:23:17 am PDT #8131 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.
History of 404: [link]
This was interesting:
According to the W3C, 404 Not Found is only supposed to be used in cases where the server cannot find the requested location and is unsure of its status. If a page has permanently been deleted, it is supposed to use 410: Gone to indicate a permanent change. But has anyone ever seen 410? It must be 404...
You know, that'd be useful if you got some error other than 404 if the page you're looking for used to exist on that server but not anymore. I wonder why that error code was never adopted (or at least widely used)?
Typo Boy - May 22, 2006 10:38:33 am PDT #8132 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.
This is cool (although not as cool as a black iBook): PC case modded to look like a movie bad-guy bomb.
Yeah, it really is cool. But my practical side keeps saying, "until some nosy neighbor spots it thorugh a window and calls the bomb squad."
esse - May 22, 2006 10:58:51 am PDT #8133 of 10003
S to the A -- using they/them pronouns!
That black Macbook is *gorgeous.*