One of you is gonna fall and die, and I'm not cleaning it up!

Mal ,'War Stories'


Buffistechnology 3: "Press Some Buttons, See What Happens."

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Gudanov - May 27, 2009 10:56:49 am PDT #10155 of 25501
Coding and Sleeping

What does in say when you go to Control Panel -> Regional and Language Settings?


Jessica - May 27, 2009 10:57:30 am PDT #10156 of 25501
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

English (United States)


Gudanov - May 27, 2009 11:00:50 am PDT #10157 of 25501
Coding and Sleeping

So your locale is EN(US) and your language bar says EN(US). That's weird. Personally I'd try a reboot at that point before spending more time trying to figure it out.


Steph L. - May 27, 2009 11:01:18 am PDT #10158 of 25501
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine

My keyboard just turned itself British. Help?

(1) I blame your employer.

(2) PETE!!!!!

(3) Stiff upper lip, darling.


Toddson - May 27, 2009 11:38:44 am PDT #10159 of 25501
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"

Close your eyes and think of England?


brenda m - May 27, 2009 11:38:46 am PDT #10160 of 25501
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there

Pour tea on it?

That's what it wants you to do. You need to use something that'll make the UK English recoil in horror, like peanut butter or ice cold beer. Once it's suitably weakened you should be able to dispatch it with ease.


Matt the Bruins fan - May 27, 2009 1:29:38 pm PDT #10161 of 25501
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand

Threaten it with excellent dentistry!


§ ita § - May 27, 2009 4:54:36 pm PDT #10162 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Spam got sent from my profile email address to the midwest Buffistas mailing list. Would that be the hijacking of someone's address book that has both me and the mailing list in it?


tommyrot - May 28, 2009 6:11:55 am PDT #10163 of 25501
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

OK, say you have the following Javascript code:

xmlhttp.open("GET", "test.txt",true);

What does the 'true' flag do?

eta: OK, I think the true means that the client Javascript continues to execute while the server request loads. Is that right?


Vortex - May 28, 2009 6:13:29 am PDT #10164 of 25501
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman

stupid question, how do you do accented letters in HTML? I seem to have the code (É), but I can't make it work. I've tried putting it between < >, but that doesn't seem to work.

eta: oh, the IRONY!!!!