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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!
Buffy: I was regrouping. Spike: You were about to be regrouped into separate piles.
'Potential'
Buffistechnology 3: "Press Some Buttons, See What Happens."
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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?
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.
amych - Apr 01, 2009 9:49:57 am PDT #9608 of 25501
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Funny if you use *nix....
indeed.
tommyrot - Apr 01, 2009 9:50:59 am PDT #9609 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.
Not an April Fools story: One giant step closer to the Google Linux desktop
Google still isn't saying publicly that they're going to deploy Android as a desktop Linux, but HP, ASUS, and other major computer makers are apparently in talks with the company about deploying Android on netbooks
According to a Wall Street Journal report, Satjiv Chahil, a vice president in HP's PC division, declined to comment on whether the world's largest PC maker will sell either netbooks or smartphones running Android but confirmed that HP is "studying" the free operating system.
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Think about it. How do they find things on the Web? They 'Google' for it. The company name has already become a common verb in English and other languages. How do many people check their mail? They use GMail. What they do they check for news? They use Google News.
Going from this to using a PC that actually runs Google isn't much of a jump at all. Sure it will be the Google Android Linux desktop underneath it, but most people won't care about that anymore than they care about the Google's search engine's Linux underpinnings. All they'll know is that their netbook or laptop is running something by a name they already know and trust. And, since these computers will be based on Linux, they'll cost less than their brothers running Windows.
Cool.
Gudanov - Apr 01, 2009 9:54:40 am PDT #9610 of 25501
Coding and Sleeping
It's only a matter of time before Google merges with iRobot and humanity is doomed.
amych - Apr 01, 2009 9:55:43 am PDT #9611 of 25501
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
It's only a matter of time before Google merges with iRobot and humanity is doomed.
Oh, dear. CADIE goes mobile...
omnis_audis - Apr 01, 2009 12:38:41 pm PDT #9612 of 25501
omnis, pursue. That's an order from a shy woman who can use M-16. - Shir
Polaroid has a new "instant digital" camera out, FYI... [link]with the screen, and the printer, I wonder how long the batteries last?
Omnis, that would be awesome!Now I really need to call Time/Warner. What is your time frame for wanting to DVR?