Polaroid has a new "instant digital" camera out, FYI... [link]
I'll be in my bunk.
Jayne ,'War Stories'
Buffistechnology 3: "Press Some Buttons, See What Happens."
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Jesse - Apr 01, 2009 7:46:11 am PDT #9598 of 25501
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
§ ita § - Apr 01, 2009 7:47:02 am PDT #9599 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I'm glad they're positioning themselves that way.
Jesse - Apr 01, 2009 7:48:24 am PDT #9600 of 25501
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Getting rid of the old-school cameras seems like a mistake -- they were just becoming the new hot retro thing!
Jessica - Apr 01, 2009 7:49:35 am PDT #9601 of 25501
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
I wonder if someone will come out with a case for the digital Polaroid cameras that look like the old ones. (Wasn't there an iPod case that looked like an original Walkman?)
le nubian - Apr 01, 2009 8:00:30 am PDT #9602 of 25501
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
that's what I want: a steampunk Tivo
amych - Apr 01, 2009 8:02:29 am PDT #9603 of 25501
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
a steampunk Tivo
Your own clockwork private secretary will sugggest, based on your expressed tastes, those expositions you might especially enjoy! Record at highest quality for the full 30 Daguerrotypes per second!
Jessica - Apr 01, 2009 8:03:43 am PDT #9604 of 25501
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Your own clockwork private secretary will sugggest, based on your expressed tastes, those expositions you might especially enjoy! Record at highest quality for the full 30 Daguerrotypes per second!
swoon
le nubian - Apr 01, 2009 8:08:43 am PDT #9605 of 25501
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
awesome. just awesome!
Polter-Cow - Apr 01, 2009 8:41:50 am PDT #9606 of 25501
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Conficker activation passes quietly but threat isn't over. Apparently, it did activate (wasn't a hoax), but hasn't actually done anything yet; people are advised to keep on worm-hunting.
Hm. That's interesting because this morning I started having Internet issues. Pages were taking forever to load, and some pages weren't loading at all.
That's when I checked my AVG Virus Scans and discovered that it had, in fact, found an infection.
LAST WEEK.
Isn't it supposed to freaking tell me when it finds an infection? Pop-up, notify, something? Does it honestly expect me to CHECK it every day after a scan to see whether I'm clean? I set it to ask me before deleting things because I figured that would be a good idea, but is there any time when I wouldn't want it to just delete infections as soon as it finds them?
MalwareBytes caught a registry change regarding DisableNotify of Windows AntiVirus and Firewall last night; clearly, this thing was responsible.
It was a Trojan sitting in my Temporary Internet Files, aax25f4.tmp. I can't really find anything about it on the Internet, but I got it last Thursday, it seems, and the only symptom I had noticed before today was that the Google graphics on the search page weren't displaying. But since I only had Internet issues today, it seems like it might have been connected to that worm. Or it's a bizarre coincidence. After I deleted the executable, my Internet went back to normal.
tommyrot - Apr 01, 2009 9:40:49 am PDT #9607 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.
Interview with the author of "Mastering cat"
Shlomi Fish, acclaimed author of "Mastering mv" and "Mastering rm" has taken the time to sit down with us for an interview on his latest book, "Mastering cat". In this 344 pages-long book, Fish details everything you wanted to know about the UNIX cat command. We decided to have an interview with him to find out more about the book's motivation, content, and philosophy.
Funny if you use *nix....
eta: Online Banking Customers Migrating To Lynx
"Following the recent Pwn2Own competition, in which Firefox, IE8 and Safari all fell quickly to exploits, Netcraft has observed a surge in popularity of the text-based Lynx browser. Netcraft points out that Lynx supports the latest cryptographic ciphers, and at least one online banking site has seen Lynx usage overtake that of Internet Explorer and Firefox. To boost Lynx's excellent security history, Netcraft has even developed a version of its anti-phishing toolbar for Lynx."
Heh.