I remember the greatest thing about Windows 95 was thinking: OMG! I don't have to fuck with memory handles anymore.
Get up...get up, you stupid piece of... What did you do that for? What's wrong with you? Didn't you hear a word he said? All of you! You think there's someone just going to drop money on you?! Money they could use?! Well, there ain't people like that. There's just people like me.
Jayne ,'Jaynestown'
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Gudanov - Nov 14, 2012 9:14:53 am PST #21498 of 25501
Coding and Sleeping
Jon B. - Nov 14, 2012 3:37:10 pm PST #21499 of 25501
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
A group I work with has an SSL certificate from GoDaddy that's expiring next month. A renewed 2-year certificate from them would cost $126.
Anyone have any recommendations on getting a similarly (or cheaper) priced cert from a company whose CEO... I dunno... doesn't shoot elephants?
Ginger - Nov 14, 2012 3:46:57 pm PST #21500 of 25501
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
I remember moving from CPM.
After a decade of paste-up, my best computer moment was drawing a border. The prospect of not having border tape stuck to my arms, not having my right fingernail constantly sliced from cutting mitered corners and not having to deal with globs of Rapidograph ink was orgasmic.
§ ita § - Nov 14, 2012 5:51:14 pm PST #21501 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
What are the possible culprits if SHIFT+E intermittently doesn't work on my Windows 7 work machine? e works fine, as does CAP LOCK + E, but not just plain shifting. All other letters of the alphabet seem good shifted, and it's more than one application (Opera and Word so far).
tommyrot - Nov 14, 2012 5:52:51 pm PST #21502 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.
Can you swap in a different keyboard and see if you still have the problem?
§ ita § - Nov 14, 2012 6:00:04 pm PST #21503 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I'd have to disturb someone at work--it seems way too small an issue to call support on, but it is annoying, especially when you're not watching the screen as you type and find out afterwards.
But I'll see if one's around.
tommyrot - Nov 14, 2012 6:07:23 pm PST #21504 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.
I'd say it's probably a bad keyboard. If not, I'd be really curious myself what the problem was.
Years ago I had a keyboard where one of the shift keys sometimes didn't work, but the other always did. Are both shift keys not working for you?
I suppose "use the other shift key" might not be the best work-around.
§ ita § - Nov 14, 2012 7:45:58 pm PST #21505 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
You know--I have absolutely no clue. That will be tomorrow's first test. Holding the shift key down with the right hand. I just went with my hand's reflexes, and that's the only way to capitalise the letter. Things are so different with a brain in the picture.... But why would a keyboard blitz one letter? I mean, I guess they are that complicated inside it's not remotely like a set of mechanical equivalences, shift + any key having the same issues.
God, computers! What is your problem!
Jessica - Nov 15, 2012 3:24:40 am PST #21506 of 25501
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
God, computers! What is your problem!
I think you just picked our next thread title.
omnis_audis - Nov 15, 2012 11:33:14 am PST #21507 of 25501
omnis, pursue. That's an order from a shy woman who can use M-16. - Shir
finally updated my iPad to iOS 6.0.1 from 5.x. So far, the one thing that is pissing me off is the mail app. Anyone know how to turn OFF the VIP and Starred "accounts" stuff?