I really liked Windows 98. Admittedly, it was the last version of Windows I really got to know well, and it was back when I kind of liked the process of wiping my drive clean and starting fresh. It was dual-booting with first Slackware then Gentoo Linux. At that point in my life, ease-of-use was actually a negative factor...
Fred: So you don't worry that it's possible for someone to send out a biological or electronic trigger that effectively overrides your own sense of ideals and values and replaces them with an alternative coercive agenda that reduces you to a mindless meat puppet? Shopkeeper: Wow. People used to think that I was paranoid.
'Time Bomb'
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Gris - May 14, 2009 6:46:05 am PDT #9992 of 25501
Hey. New board.
§ ita § - May 14, 2009 8:22:00 pm PDT #9993 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I had one of these! And a wee little printer that printed on thermal paper, and the requisite cassette player.
::sniff::
tommyrot - May 15, 2009 4:17:46 am PDT #9994 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, um, wanted one of those! Then I got my Radio Shack PC-1 pocket computer, with the printer/cassette interface. With regular (not thermal) paper.
tommyrot - May 15, 2009 6:40:03 am PDT #9995 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.
Is there someone who can give me help on an xsl issue?
le nubian - May 15, 2009 9:02:36 am PDT #9996 of 25501
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
if you mean xls, yes, xsl - I can't help.
tommyrot - May 15, 2009 9:32:42 am PDT #9997 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.
Yeah, I need help on an xsl stylesheet that I'm using against xml data....
le nubian - May 15, 2009 9:50:48 am PDT #9998 of 25501
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
out of my field of expertise! sorry.
Volans - May 17, 2009 5:47:27 pm PDT #9999 of 25501
move out and draw fire
A co-worker zipped up some .PDFs into a self-extracting executable and sent it to me as "FILES.EXE" No problem, right? Except he used something called Andorra or similar to compress them, which also as a bonus encrypted them.
I downloaded the same program and used it to open the .exe...the log tells me there are in fact five PDF files, but it appears to extract them, decrypt them, turn them into AFP files, and then choke on its own tongue.
AFP seems to be the proprietary format of the encryption/compression program; does anyone have any idea how I can get the PDFs?
Hint: Said co-worker is on vacation and I can't get ahold of him.
ETA: NUMBERSLUT
Vortex - May 17, 2009 6:52:50 pm PDT #10000 of 25501
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
SLUUUUUUUT!
Theodosia - May 18, 2009 2:13:13 am PDT #10001 of 25501
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
Wow, sounds like a clueless coworker. "Oh, not everybody uses Andorra? And I thought you knew the password...."