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Off Topic / This year's harvest

« on: January 05, 2006, 03:17:21 PM »

christmas/new years/birthday
enough dr pepper to fuel the apocalypse
US$300
new headset
bunch of software with really, really long names
wal*mart gift card
selective service card (i love you uncle sam!)
hopping the border if they even think of pulling that crap

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Off Topic / Russian Climbing

« on: January 05, 2006, 03:09:31 PM »

that's hawt

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Off Topic / Hey it's 2006!

« on: January 05, 2006, 02:58:49 PM »

i resolved to get a girlfriend but then i found out that i had to go outside and talk to people so i just torrented a virtual one

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Off Topic / A plugin that makes FireFox

« on: January 05, 2006, 01:51:45 PM »

oh god, not fasterfox.

this works like that google web make-fastar thing earlier and does things almost as stupid.

it tries to download everything linked on a page before you click on it so it can load from cache instead of downloading. while this sounds good, it annoys server operators to no end because the bandwidth overhead it generates is comparable in size only to an xbox. also, it's likely to get you banned from any corner of the internet that has an anti-bot rule (used to keep rippers, spiders and harvesters out)

tl;dr: stop all the downloadin'

edit:

awaiting the blackmage seal of nerddom approval

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more like "help your local (or remote) sysop by uninstalling"

ps: prefetch fails the big one. doubly so if someone forgot to set rel="nofollow" on the "delete everything" button.

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Off Topic / Hey it's 2006!

« on: January 02, 2006, 12:27:52 AM »

i resolved not to link people to evil things

i think i set a record, broken in under six seconds

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Off Topic / linux as a..

« on: December 27, 2005, 10:25:40 AM »

Listing 1. Modifications to QEMU to enable it to run as screensaver:

Code: [Select]

for(;;) {
        if (optind >= argc)
            break;
        r = argv[optind];
        if (r[0] != '-') {
            if ( 0 == strcmp(r,"/s") ) {
              /* Going to run as a Windows screen saver */
              full_screen = 1;
              bios_dir = ".";
              ram_size=512*1024*1024;
              boot_device='d';
              hd_filename[cdrom_index] = "knosciences-0.95.iso";
              rtc_utc = 0;
              net_if_type = NET_IF_DUMMY;
              optind += 1;
            } else {
               hd_filename[0] = argv[optind++];
            }
        } else {
  ...
    }
    if ( full_screen == 1 )
    {
       putenv("SDL_VIDEODRIVER=windib");
    }
[about three more screenfulls of stuff]

That's really all it takes to install Linux from a LiveCD to run as a screensaver on a Windows machine. Have fun with it!

sometimes people ask me why i run windows...

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Off Topic / guess what today is!

« on: December 14, 2005, 04:56:26 PM »

~~

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Off Topic / hapyp bday

« on: December 13, 2005, 02:33:34 PM »

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Off Topic / contextual ads are bad.

« on: December 13, 2005, 02:29:30 PM »

everyone knows that lynching makes your hair fall out

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Off Topic / hapyp bday

« on: December 09, 2005, 05:08:43 PM »

squigl~

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Off Topic / Card tricks

« on: December 07, 2005, 11:54:17 PM »

I think he meant 360.

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no, turn it 90 degrees and observe his reaction.
he's either looking or listening (probably looking)
doing something stupidly obvious will cause him to react. his reaction will help pinpoint the thing that he is lookig for/at

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Off Topic / Card tricks

« on: December 06, 2005, 01:57:50 AM »

checklist:

-check for mirrors
-check for marks on the cards
-make sure nobody's telling him anything
-turn zero cards
-turn two cards
-turn one card 90 degrees
-switch two cards
-make sure that the cards really are symmetrical

some decks stylize the "top" number and leave the "bottom" number alone. also the "top" and "bottom" royals will almost always have different facial expressions

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Off Topic / PC tech question

« on: December 05, 2005, 02:29:32 PM »

one of three things:
1 - it won't work. shoot the saleman.
2 - it will work but all your ram will run slow. don't worry too much, the only thing you'll notice a performance drop in would be a memcached sql database with a million records. most vgas and hdds work significatly slower than pc2700 (last i checked). shoot the salesman in the foor for being misleading (work != work well)
3 - you have one of those fancy motherboards with multiple memory controllers and busses and all that fun stuff. every bank will run as fast as the slowest card in that bank. buy the store and have the salesman fired because you're bloody rich.

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Off Topic / WoW

« on: November 28, 2005, 06:53:11 AM »

/me points at last post before this thread being days ago
/me points at merge button
/me points at 07's mod access level

PRES BUTAN!

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Off Topic / Goodbye fellas!

« on: November 20, 2005, 11:44:37 PM »

muga and ncr forums (both dead)

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Off Topic / Goodbye fellas!

« on: November 20, 2005, 12:56:03 AM »

don't forget the (/^_^)/

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Off Topic / Goodbye fellas!

« on: November 19, 2005, 08:32:51 PM »

i should bring the ncr forums back

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Off Topic / Goodbye fellas!

« on: November 18, 2005, 02:14:36 AM »

*cough*fire*cough*water*cough*

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General / NS 3.1 out tomorrow

« on: November 11, 2005, 10:41:39 AM »

clearly, hax

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Off Topic / Goodbye fellas!

« on: November 10, 2005, 11:02:34 PM »

to all my NCR pals: It was fun having people almost as crazy (and awful at NS) as i was to play with.

<3