Wash: Mal, your dead army buddy's on the bridge! Zoe: He ain't dead. Wash: Oh.

'The Message'


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

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Calli - Dec 18, 2012 1:00:16 pm PST #21696 of 25501
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs

Heh. So, yes, I tried Google search on "cock" and mostly got birds. "Cock porn" produced some genitalia, some naked women, and a head shot of Misha Collins as Cas, looking perplexed. Yes, really.


Typo Boy - Dec 18, 2012 1:03:48 pm PST #21697 of 25501
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 sometimes use Duckduckgo for text searches. The problem is they don't really have the equivalent for scholar or of googles image search. Also their special features are all hidden under submenus of the goodies menu which is under "more" which does not strike me as good interface design. But for plain vanilla text searches they seem to be good.


omnis_audis - Dec 18, 2012 1:05:27 pm PST #21698 of 25501
omnis, pursue. That's an order from a shy woman who can use M-16. - Shir

I would try duckduckgo web search.

ETA:

Ha! Slow x-post!


§ ita § - Dec 18, 2012 1:18:49 pm PST #21699 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Yeah, I don't have any Cas in my cock porn. A lot of penises, no Castiel.

If duckduckgo doesn't do image searching, then it's not that useful to me. About 1/3 of my searching is image searching, not including reverse (that's maybe another 1/4?). I'll check Bing.


omnis_audis - Dec 20, 2012 1:17:07 pm PST #21700 of 25501
omnis, pursue. That's an order from a shy woman who can use M-16. - Shir

OK, this is a curiosity if ever there was one. It's a MacBook Pro, about 2.5 years old. Running 10.6.8. 2.4GHz Intel Core i5 with 8GB of RAM. I have an external monitor hooked up, so I can spread the paperwork across two screens (or have the tools on one screen, and the project on the other). When I boot the sucker, the external screen does not come up. If I unplug it, and plug it back in, it still comes up as power light green (getting signal) but nothing on the screen. If I close the lid to the laptop, and let it go to sleep for 5-10 minutes, then open up the lid, the external monitor pops on like it's always been there. If I close the lid, and try to awake it too soon, neither screen comes on. If I put the machine to sleep via the apple menu, then wake it up, the external screen stays off as described above.

Any clues what might be going on there? Or how to resolve it? It's rather annoying. Not critical or anything. Just annoying.


Toddson - Dec 21, 2012 10:23:22 am PST #21701 of 25501
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"

This seems like the place to ask ... I've never used anything but Windows (you can stamp my Luddite/masochist card now) but I got a $300 Apple gift card.

What do I buy? recommendations? advice? ... envy?


Jessica - Dec 21, 2012 10:27:34 am PST #21702 of 25501
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

For hardware, $300 will get you an iPod Touch or most of an iPad Mini.

For media, that's a lot of movies/music/TV shows off iTunes!


Toddson - Dec 21, 2012 10:34:38 am PST #21703 of 25501
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"

Thanks! I'm going to have to look into this ....


Consuela - Dec 21, 2012 10:38:52 am PST #21704 of 25501
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix

For hardware, $300 will get you an iPod Touch

or an iPod Classic.


tommyrot - Dec 21, 2012 10:59:59 am PST #21705 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.

Or a dozen Steve Jobs bobbleheads.