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January 3, 2006 at 2:08 pm #2180325
Weird Technical Question
Lockedby bfilmfan · about 18 years, 2 months ago
This reads like some of the worst written dialogue from your favorite 1950’s low budget science fiction movie:
http://techrepublic.com.com/5208-11186-0.html?forumID=75&threadID=187109
Either that or some serious drugs were involved in the creation…
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January 3, 2006 at 2:18 pm #3094458
It just goes to show
by jdclyde · about 18 years, 2 months ago
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that you can’t save everybody from themselves. 😀
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January 3, 2006 at 2:21 pm #3094455
Kudos
by jamesrl · about 18 years, 2 months ago
In reply to Weird Technical Question
For posting a somewhat helpful, politely toned reply.
I, “evil grin mode on”, had some more devilish thoughts since I and just about everyone else posting here has certainly run into a similar type of individual, whose ego will not let them admit that they are hopelessly lost.
I would much prefer to have one tell me that they really don’t understand and ask politely to dumb it down for them, than to try and get my head around that kind of post and similar kinds of questions. I re-read it a number of times, and I still don’t quite get to the essence of what the person is asking for exactly.
I used to say when I was teaching computer courses that “There is no such thing as a stupid question”. I may have to rethink that notion.
James
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January 3, 2006 at 2:32 pm #3094453
James, you should take a crack at his other question….
by mickster269 · about 18 years, 2 months ago
In reply to Kudos
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January 3, 2006 at 3:00 pm #3094439
why?
by jaqui · about 18 years, 2 months ago
In reply to James, you should take a crack at his other question….
the one answer there is perfect already.
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January 3, 2006 at 2:58 pm #3094440
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January 4, 2006 at 9:42 am #3096137
Or..
by maecuff · about 18 years, 2 months ago
In reply to Ok children, remember
There are no stupid questions, only inquisitive idiots..
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January 4, 2006 at 9:56 am #3096127
There are no dumb questions, but there sure are a lot of smart answers.
by dc guy · about 18 years, 2 months ago
In reply to Ok children, remember
That was my reaction to the responses to the question. It’s not that hard to recognize genuine non-native English. This is nobody’s joke. I felt that he deserved to be criticized for the errors in punctuation, spelling, and basic grammar, which are what made it so hard to read, and which could have been easily cleaned up with online resources. But making fun of someone just because they are a beginner in your own language is something only the French traditionally get away with. We anglophones are supposed to be above all that.
English is an extremely difficult language and it’s a shame that historical accident has made it the world leader. Cut folks some slack. Our grammar may be somewhat streamlined but our phonetics and our syntax are unfathomable. Just try teaching ANYBODY to pronounce “squirrel,” or explaining to them the difference between arriving somewhere “on time” and “in time.”
Civilization would advance far more quickly if we were all learning Chinese instead–and if the Chinese would make their written language as ridiculously easy to study as their spoken language. No tense, no number, no gender, no endings, no prepositions, just say what you’re thinking.
It always amuses me that the people who think everyone on the planet should be able to just sit down and learn English are the same people who dismiss Chinese as “too difficult” without knowing anything about it.
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January 4, 2006 at 10:37 am #3096099
Or how about
by jdclyde · about 18 years, 2 months ago
In reply to There are no dumb questions, but there sure are a lot of smart answers.
the people without a sence of humo(u)r that don’t even recognise a classic South Park reference?
“ok, now lets here from someone thats not a complete retard”
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January 4, 2006 at 2:10 pm #3096013
You need to tell him
by montgomery gator · about 18 years, 2 months ago
In reply to Or how about
“Respect My Authoritay” – Eric Cartman
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January 5, 2006 at 12:49 pm #3094730
Followed by
by jdclyde · about 18 years, 2 months ago
In reply to You need to tell him
a whack in the knee with my night stick!
“screw you hippy!” – Eric Cartman
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January 4, 2006 at 10:56 am #3096093
Ummm..let me clarify
by maecuff · about 18 years, 2 months ago
In reply to There are no dumb questions, but there sure are a lot of smart answers.
I wasn’t ragging on the the question, only commenting on JD’s comment..
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January 4, 2006 at 11:39 am #3096072
and I was commenting on the commenting of the commenting
by jdclyde · about 18 years, 2 months ago
In reply to Ummm..let me clarify
and I was commenting on the commenting of the commenting…….
well, it was in regards to the post James put up! B-)
Some people just need to get over themselves!
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January 4, 2006 at 12:25 pm #3096059
We can keep this up all day..
by maecuff · about 18 years, 2 months ago
In reply to and I was commenting on the commenting of the commenting
Or at least I can. I understand that can be a problem for your kind. At least as the aging process progresses…
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January 4, 2006 at 12:37 pm #3096058
Better living
by jdclyde · about 18 years, 2 months ago
In reply to We can keep this up all day..
through chemistry! ]:)
Lets Rock!
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January 3, 2006 at 4:42 pm #3094413
I love the great old
by zlitocook · about 18 years, 2 months ago
In reply to Weird Technical Question
50’s bad movies, well any bad movie and that link was worse then any of them. Have you looked at
The Chronicles of George web site? Great for a laugh.
http://chroniclesofgeorge.nanc.com/-
January 4, 2006 at 3:57 am #3094329
Great Link
by bfilmfan · about 18 years, 2 months ago
In reply to I love the great old
I had no clue it existed, but it’s in My Favorites now!
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January 3, 2006 at 8:02 pm #3094379
Here’s another good one
by m_a_r_k · about 18 years, 2 months ago
In reply to Weird Technical Question
http://techrepublic.com.com/5208-11183-0.html?forumID=5&threadID=186778&messageID=1913797
All of his posts are pretty hilarious. The guy’s name is Etanawanbi-something or other. He’s obviously not an English speaker. So I suppose we should cut him some slack. But damn, it IS funny as hell reading the stuff he writes! I may add him as a contact just so I can read anything that he posts from now on. haha
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January 3, 2006 at 8:05 pm #3094378
Here’s another good one (reposted but PLEASE READ!)
by m_a_r_k · about 18 years, 2 months ago
In reply to Weird Technical Question
This was yet another freakin’ double post. I’m editing the original contents which can be viewed in my post above with the same title. I am getting tired of this really awful TR website. Pages take 20 seconds or longer to load, if at all. Many, many “page requested not available” errors. Is this thing built on 1980s technology? A bunch of IBM PC-ATs with 512K RAM hooked together through their RS-232 serial ports? If you ask me, it is by far the most unreliable, slowest web site on the whole Internet. Nothing even comes close because it is ALWAYS this bad. If this crap keeps up much longer, I am seriously considering abandoning this thing and never wasting any more of my precious time waiting for pages to load or resubmitting posts that didn’t get posted. I have better things to do than click my Refresh icon over and over again day after day.
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January 4, 2006 at 1:31 am #3094358
I tried that …
by stargazerr · about 18 years, 2 months ago
In reply to Here’s another good one (reposted but PLEASE READ!)
but my curiosity got the better of me and I returned to the world of TR ..
Do something !!! Save Me !!! :p
]:)
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January 4, 2006 at 10:24 am #3096104
I only come to TR for the online ads
by m_a_r_k · about 18 years, 2 months ago
In reply to I tried that …
I think TR is lacing the online ads with an addictive drug. Why else would I keep coming back to TR since 90% of the time when I download a web page all I see is an ad chock full of high-tech whiz-bang graphics? Some of those ads have more stuff going on than a Tom Cruise super-hero super-action super-thriller movie. I shouldn’t complain. No need to fork over $2.99 to rent an over-the-top movie when I can come to TR and watch the same amount of high-tech wizardry for the low, low price of 0 dollars and 0 cents.
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January 4, 2006 at 5:38 am #3094299
Say it here
by jdclyde · about 18 years, 2 months ago
In reply to Here’s another good one (reposted but PLEASE READ!)
I feel your pain. Even the pain that I don’t directly cause you! :p
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January 4, 2006 at 4:40 am #3094312
All right I’m calling it quits for the day
by hal 9000 · about 18 years, 2 months ago
In reply to Weird Technical Question
After that one which I still can not understand but maybe it’s just that I don’t know what a [b]CHIP[/b] is. 😀
I’m going to watch the newest French & Saunders DVD that [i]She Who Must Be Obeyed[/i] got yesterday at least that will have me laughing and I do need a break from this silliness. :p
I don’t know if anyone got this persons answer to the HP Pavilion not booting into XP but I really liked the question “Was the Recovery CD HP compatible!” I suppose he expects that this person is using a Dell or Gateway CD to install on the HP with right? 🙁
Instead of trying to find out why my DR USB HDD is no longer readable I’m off to watch a DVD as at least I know I’ll be laughing at it. Dawn French being a member of the CIA “Chocolate Intelligence Agency” that tracks all the nasty people who deal in that nasty chocolate. I just grab some chockies first. :p
Col ]:)
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January 4, 2006 at 5:41 am #3094298
Not you TOO?
by jdclyde · about 18 years, 2 months ago
In reply to All right I’m calling it quits for the day
What is a “chockies”?
I am living in the great state of confusion. ;\
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January 4, 2006 at 6:14 am #3096265
“chockies”
by neilb@uk · about 18 years, 2 months ago
In reply to Not you TOO?
Chocolates…
Lots of ways to spell it and then Colin’s version.
Probably something like http://www.cadbury.co.uk/EN/CTB2003/about_chocolate/history_cadbury/key_events/milk_tray.htm
Supplied free by Neil’s Translation Services ™ to Remove Confusion from the English Speaking World – Even Michigan and Australia if We Can Manage It.
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January 4, 2006 at 10:08 am #3096115
The English Speaking World?
by dc guy · about 18 years, 2 months ago
In reply to “chockies”
We just rented “Millions” on DVD. It was a really wonderful, offbeat film and I heartily recommend it to anyone who is not too much of a curmudgeon.
But the dialect… Uncompromisingly British English. Not the slightly-homogenized-for-international-audiences upper-class speech of “Pride and Prejudice.”
In America we’re accustomed to accents being purely regional. Once you master the generic “southern” pronunciation and slang you can understand anyone from Dolly Parton to George Bush. But in England accents are an attribute of “social class.” We may understand middle class Londoners talking over dinner, but when the scenes shifts outdoors and we’re listening to construction workers, we can’t make out a single word.
Thank the goddess for DVD technology. We just clicked on the “English Subtitles” button and read the dailog!
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January 4, 2006 at 1:40 pm #3096037
Remember Neil
by hal 9000 · about 18 years, 2 months ago
In reply to “chockies”
GG is still looking for you for standing her up. :p
Col ]:)
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January 4, 2006 at 7:17 am #3096242
He got all miffed with me!
by neilb@uk · about 18 years, 2 months ago
In reply to Weird Technical Question
All I did was post the “Jabberwocky” poem from “Alice Through the Looking Glass”. It seemed to be appropriate to his question.
Strangely, his posted comment to my question was far more understandable and in far better English than his original post. Correct use of the word “malarky”.
Anyway, some people have no sense of humour. :p
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January 4, 2006 at 7:22 am #3096236
Thoughtful Reply
by bfilmfan · about 18 years, 2 months ago
In reply to He got all miffed with me!
I acutally enjoyed the poem.
I did enjoy his comment that the article “How a Computer Works” didn’t apply to a server.
I think he must be the guy that used to call in to the Art Bell Show claiming to be a time traveler…
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January 4, 2006 at 7:40 am #3096216
Insult to injury
by jdclyde · about 18 years, 2 months ago
In reply to He got all miffed with me!
he didn’t even rate your answer either!
Oh, the humanity…….
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January 4, 2006 at 8:05 am #3096201
Lets do it for him then
by jamesrl · about 18 years, 2 months ago
In reply to Insult to injury
As opposed to simply accepting or rejecting, lets be more creative.
I can’t give Neil high marks for originality, as the poem is well known, at least to those of us of a certain generation who actually read books for entertainment.
I can give Neil high marks and priase for the appropriate appropriation of classical farsical literature in a humourous setting.
James
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January 4, 2006 at 10:15 am #3096107
But he misspelled “malarkey”
by dc guy · about 18 years, 2 months ago
In reply to He got all miffed with me!
And you politely demonstrated that no one is perfect.
“Borogoves,” not “borogroves.”
“Foe,” not “fow.”
“Came wuffling,” not “and whiffling.”
“Frabjous,” not “frabious.”Okay, so “fow” was surely a typo. But surely some of his were as well. He could have saved us a lot of “wading” if he’d taken a few minutes to edit his post using today’s online resources. It wouldn’t have made him look like a native speaker but it would have made it less time-consuming to read and more understandable.
Everyone should edit their own posts. If we each spent the few minutes a day that would take, we would each save far more time on all the posts we read. It’s just simple collective economics.
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January 4, 2006 at 10:58 am #3096091
I agree with you and I do edit them here
by neilb@uk · about 18 years, 2 months ago
In reply to But he misspelled “malarkey”
because I care about the readership. What I bestowed on our good friend Entawanabi was around fifteen seconds of Google, cut and the eventual paste of the first copy I found. Proof-read it? No, I didn’t even read it as I’ve known the poem since I was eight.
Why do it? Not at all because of his execrable Engrish(sic) as my Spanish, for example, is crap. Because, even allowing for mis-translation or even Max’s multiple serial re-translations, the content was, technically speaking, incomprehensible bollocks.
As for malark(e)y, both spellings are acceptable in any US dictionary that I’ve checked but the ‘e’ version is, I admit, more common. I haven’t found the ‘malarky’ version in the OED so I sit corrected.
Neil 🙂
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January 4, 2006 at 1:57 pm #3096019
Excellent
by montgomery gator · about 18 years, 2 months ago
In reply to He got all miffed with me!
Your reply was first rate!! ROFLMAO!!
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January 4, 2006 at 7:21 am #3096238
Is that english????
by faradhi · about 18 years, 2 months ago
In reply to Weird Technical Question
After reading the post. I need and Asprin.
I hate to be the skeptic but I wonder if it is not just someone trying to be cute.
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January 4, 2006 at 1:49 pm #3096029
Well actually
by hal 9000 · about 18 years, 2 months ago
In reply to Is that english????
Last time I was in the Philippines I visited a computer school where something like the above question would have been thought of as a good example of the smarts of the students.
But at the same time it was a church school that was charging the parents a small fortune to teach the kids and they didn’t have one computer in the place just obsolete books.
Of course not having any electricity might have been a hindering factor but those kids would never know anything about using computers let alone how to use or program one most wouldn’t be able to turn one on as that wasn’t in the books.
Sad but true. 🙁
Col ]:)
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January 4, 2006 at 1:49 pm #3096030
Double Post Ignore
by hal 9000 · about 18 years, 2 months ago
In reply to Is that english????
TR was supposed to fix this up. 😀
Col ]:)
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January 4, 2006 at 1:53 pm #3096025
In fact..
by montgomery gator · about 18 years, 2 months ago
In reply to Is that english????
..it appears to have been generated by the same routines that create subjects for spam e-mail that consist of random words linked together.
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January 4, 2006 at 8:39 am #3096177
My guess is this
by maxwell edison · about 18 years, 2 months ago
In reply to Weird Technical Question
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I would guess that English is not his first language, and he’s using a combination of some words he does know (or thinks he knows) and some sort of translation program, both for reading the message and to post his reply.My message converted to French:
Je devinerais cet anglais n’est pas le sien la premi?re langue, et il utilise une combinaison de quelques mots qu’il sait (ou pense qu’il sait) et une esp?ce du programme de traduction, les deux pour lire le message et poster sa r?ponse.
And back to English:
I would guess this English is not his the first language, and it uses a combination of some words that it knows (or thinks that it knows) and a type of the translation program, the two to read the message and post his response.
Converted to Portuguese:
Adivinharia este ingl?s n?o ? seua a primeira linguagem, e usa uma combina??o de algumas palavras que sabe (nem pensa que sabe) e um tipo do programa de tradu??o, os dois ler a mensagem e coloca seua resposta.
And back to English:
It would guess this English is not his to first language, and uses a combination of some words that knows (neither thinks that knows) and a kind of the program of translation, the two read the message and puts its answer.
Imagine translating a longer, more complicated technical message.
Personally, I’d give the guy a break and assume that things are simply getting lost in the translation.
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January 4, 2006 at 9:15 am #3096157
party pooper
by jaqui · about 18 years, 2 months ago
In reply to My guess is this
We know that english isn’t his first language.
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January 4, 2006 at 9:38 am #3096141
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January 4, 2006 at 10:51 am #3096094
Let me be perfectly clear!
by jamesrl · about 18 years, 2 months ago
In reply to .
Its not the question I object to, its the manner in which it was framed. And perhaps translation isn’t helping the case.
But to me, a precise of what I read was: I am a smart computer guy and this is my theory, do you agree? Thats the tone that came across, intended or not.
Let me take a non IT example. Many people think glass flows, as in over time glass gets thicker at the end closest to gravity – as evidenced by the fact that some medieval church windows have thicker bottoms than tops. Physics on the other hand says it isn’t so and that glass installers of the middle ages put the thickest parts of their glass sheets at the bottom as a practise.
If you come into alt.folklore.urban and ask, “Does Glass really flow? Someone told me it does”, most of the time you well get a polite well researched answer.
If, on the other hand, you post a question that isn’t a question but a theory; “I know its true because I read it in a book on medieval churches, and I believe it.”, you will get the full wrath of a bunch of people who can recite chapter and verse.
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January 4, 2006 at 11:37 am #3096073
It doesn’t?
by jdclyde · about 18 years, 2 months ago
In reply to Let me be perfectly clear!
They said it in school, so it MUST be true!
I think that was the same day we discussed evolution! 😀
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January 4, 2006 at 11:56 am #3096067
It is such a bone of contention
by jamesrl · about 18 years, 2 months ago
In reply to It doesn’t?
At AFU that they spell it “Gl@ss fl0ws” and treat it like a swear word/phrase.
It is truly amazing how many “reputable” sources get it wrong. The “Inuit have 100 words for snow” also seems to get into the paper every 6 months or so.
James
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January 4, 2006 at 2:02 pm #3096018
OH NO YOU DON’T
by hal 9000 · about 18 years, 2 months ago
In reply to It doesn’t?
JD you are not going to bring that [b]Green Festering Monster the EL thread[/b] back to life in this discussion. if you continue in this vein I’ll work out a suitable punishment just for you. :p
Something like hanging you by fish hooks through tender parts of your anatomy over a 1K drop onto steel bars sticking out of concrete. 😀
That is just for starters I’m sure that I can come up with something far more painful latter. :p
Col ]:)
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January 4, 2006 at 6:04 pm #3095949
The Devil made me do it!
by jdclyde · about 18 years, 2 months ago
In reply to OH NO YOU DON’T
It was just too perfect to pass up!
I throw myself on the mercy of the court!
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January 4, 2006 at 1:16 pm #3096046
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January 4, 2006 at 1:29 pm #3096039
I think I’ll leave my grammar mistake uncorrected
by maxwell edison · about 18 years, 2 months ago
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January 4, 2006 at 1:43 pm #3096035
Max
by maecuff · about 18 years, 2 months ago
In reply to I think I’ll leave my grammar mistake uncorrected
You left the ‘s’ off of makes. You are such a bonehead. Sheesh. And I could use some good racist and sexist jokes, my 7 year old would LOVE that.
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January 4, 2006 at 4:32 pm #3095977
Max if you have some really good
by hal 9000 · about 18 years, 2 months ago
In reply to I think I’ll leave my grammar mistake uncorrected
Raciest & sexist Jokes e-mail them to me I’ll at least laugh over them without making you look anything but the purest driven snow. :p
Col ]:)
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January 4, 2006 at 6:50 pm #3095604
Colin – It’s a damn shame. . . . .
by maxwell edison · about 18 years, 2 months ago
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January 4, 2006 at 6:52 pm #3095603
Colin – Read this entire discussion. . .
by maxwell edison · about 18 years, 2 months ago
In reply to I think I’ll leave my grammar mistake uncorrected
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January 5, 2006 at 5:41 am #3095418
Just to stir the pot Max
by hal 9000 · about 18 years, 2 months ago
In reply to I think I’ll leave my grammar mistake uncorrected
As of last nights news its now official [b]Global Warming is Happening[/b] AU has just had the hottest year in recorded history and for the last 2 decades the temp has been steadily increasing. :p
They are saying that 2006 is going to be a stinker and since I have the AC on in my [b]Lab[/b] from 6.30 AM till well after midnight I tend to agree its getting quite warm. Now I’m not saying that the Ice Caps are going to melt and flood the place out for the next few centuries but it has been BLOODY hot recently and even at night the temp hasn’t been dropping a lot either. 🙂
As for my polluted sewerage pit becoming unbearable well I try to avoid Tasmania but even there the new pollution laws are allowing the ravages of industry to be turned back and there is now a massive out cry that grass and shrubs are now growing on the denuded hills that have been laid waste because of the heavy polluters so that piece of Tourist Industry is dieing and all that will remain are postcards of the area before the stuff grows back. But to be fair they are trying hard to keep the place looking like it did at the height of the pollution they are going around pulling out the shrubs and fertilizing with [b]Roundup[/b] anything that is attempting to grow there but they are slowly loosing the battle. 🙂
But when it comes to raciest jokes the very best ones are told to me by those who are belittled by them and what’s worse is that I can’t repeat them without seeming like a raciest. Oh the inhumanity of life. 🙁
Col ]:)
PS It’s very hard to keep a straight face when one of the downtrodden tells you a very funny self degrading joke in a major shopping center without looking like an absolute fool which is the desired result when they tell the jokes. 🙁
What can I say [b]The Devil Made Me Do It![/b] 🙂
By the way currently I’m running a Data Recovery program in an attempt to pick up all the data that’s been thrown off my backup drive as the original person who is being talked about has claimed in another of his posts. With a bit of Luck I will not have to take the drive into a Class 1 Clean Room to get all that messy data out of the drive. 😀
But seriously do you understand the question that was posted above? To me it is more of a statement rather than a question where either agreement or informed disagreement is asked for rather than solving a problem in the T Q & A section of TR.
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January 4, 2006 at 2:05 pm #3096017
One of those rare occasions
by montgomery gator · about 18 years, 2 months ago
In reply to .
This is a rare occasion where I agree with Jaqui on this one and disagree with Max. Let the reaming commence!!
Maybe it is the computer programmer in me, but when I read the original post in question, the compiler in my head detected multiple errors. It was like taking a COBOL program and trying to compile it in C. Try that for fun one day!!
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January 4, 2006 at 4:35 pm #3095976
Now be fair Tom
by hal 9000 · about 18 years, 2 months ago
In reply to One of those rare occasions
When I first read the question or statement which it really is I started thinking in Boolean. :p
Guess I’m giving away my age by saying that right. 🙂
Col ]:)
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January 4, 2006 at 1:57 pm #3096022
Well Max at least I now know why my USB drive isn’t working
by hal 9000 · about 18 years, 2 months ago
In reply to .
According to this guy centrifugal force is causing the data to be thrown off the platters so it must be hitting the sides of the case and lying on the bottom of the enclosure. :p
But as the drive is still working and showing up in [b]My Computer[/b] it’s still working just all the data has been thrown off the platters. 🙁
Col ]:)
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January 4, 2006 at 4:11 pm #3095984
Energy Based Function
by bfilmfan · about 18 years, 2 months ago
In reply to Well Max at least I now know why my USB drive isn’t working
I think we should define the act of slinging as the “energy based function.”
I think we have the basis of a whole new Friday yuk…
Well there I was in the outhouse performing my energy based function…
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January 4, 2006 at 9:30 am #3096149
Strange Grammar
by bfilmfan · about 18 years, 2 months ago
In reply to My guess is this
Your observation may well be accurate, but I am beginning to wonder if he isn’t a government law writer as the phrase “energy based function” really sounds like something a government agency would dream up.
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January 4, 2006 at 9:46 am #3096134
government law writer?
by maxwell edison · about 18 years, 2 months ago
In reply to Strange Grammar
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As soon as I learn to read and speak double-talk, then I’ll be able to figure out what government law writers are saying.Or
As soon as I don’t learn to not read and speak double-talk, then I’ll be able to figure out what government law writers are not trying to not say.
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January 4, 2006 at 6:57 pm #3095600
I EDITED THIS MESSAGE
by maxwell edison · about 18 years, 2 months ago
In reply to Weird Technical Question
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Because I was both wrong and out of line.I owe both BFilmFan and jaqui a profound apology.
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January 4, 2006 at 7:12 pm #3095598
I EDITED THIS MESSAGE
by maxwell edison · about 18 years, 2 months ago
In reply to Weird Technical Question
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Because I was both wrong and out of line.I owe both BFilmFan and jaqui a profound apology.
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January 5, 2006 at 7:43 am #3095279
I think…
by old guy · about 18 years, 2 months ago
In reply to I EDITED THIS MESSAGE
someone needs a hug. Now where is that little dragon (or donkey whichever it was) when you need him? Either that or Barney and Baby Bop…
I’m ducking. 🙂
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January 5, 2006 at 8:30 am #3094891
I could have kicked my dog
by maxwell edison · about 18 years, 2 months ago
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January 5, 2006 at 8:34 am #3094885
Well if we
by old guy · about 18 years, 2 months ago
In reply to I could have kicked my dog
can’t find the donkey from Shrek then your dog would give you a hug. Probably better anyway–they’re unconditional…
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January 5, 2006 at 12:45 pm #3094732
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January 5, 2006 at 5:36 am #3095422
Maxwell, don’t be so hard on us all
by neilb@uk · about 18 years, 2 months ago
In reply to Weird Technical Question
Maxwell, please save your comments for someone who deserves them more than BFilmFan and those others of us who have contributed to the feeding frenzy over entawanabi’s posts. The man – entawanabi – is a complete idiot.
I agree with you that if someone asks a question, however stupid or however bad the spelling or grammar, we don’t really have the right to stick it to the questioner without better reasons. Entawanabi, however, sets himself up for anything we care to dish out because of his [b]responses[/b] to questions and articles. I include for your perusal the top four from his list of posts. I haven’t read the rest – yet.
A response to a TR article on a delayed MS patch:
Of course we all know in perfect world of programming there were no mistakes made (and if there were they were caught before they left the floor_Let’s assume this is so for this argument: Nowwe then look at “US” who are of course less perfect, “IT WEREN”T US”; so who did do it? The premise I pose and find in my field of expertise; Boy, do I want to snicker at me when I see what ya’ll can do; Is your system founded?; How many decades ago was that?; Just where is it operating and from what basis – I’m seeing some stuff that is not cool -?; Boot, Boot, Boot, and REBOOT, INSTALL, RE-INSTALL, Whoops! What happenned to the boot disc HOW OLD IS IT?
Maam, if you or someone is haveing trouble with there mouse reread in the Mouse program instead of replaceing the complete set-up, usually this is sufficient. It also highlights that occasionally that these things FADE, I think is the correct term, with use.
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In this post, he answers a perfectly reasonable question about wireless security with complete tosh:
The first part is to design your, or consider the structure of your user name and password Operation, that will provide most of your problems solutions, the second part is provided with a registerred ‘IP’, an Identification Protocol. I’m not sure where to get one but that is\was the common practise.24
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Another response to a question on network access problems – in full!
It is one of the rudimentary things: for a lot of reasons ‘THEY’ could no longer be networked together correctly. It is a place to start.
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A response to a user with Access Denied problems on his home LAN:
IP(Identification protocall) they have to be known to both machines, this normally is not the problem but bringing it up addressing it, it is out of the way. Next, this can be problematic of elderly machines and rarely elderly wiringnext is the operations scaled to the machine(s)- I’ve no way of doing much with this subject and maybe someone else will be able to remember the vocabulary requiring a minimum amount of mega-bytes for something to work at all, IS THERE A WAY TO TELL HOW MANY RESIDENT OPERATIONS AND FUNCTIONS ARE HOLDING HOSTAGE ‘megs”, Ikow I’m the only one that messes up that darn CAP LOCK button! Finally IF this is ‘a’ used set or one is used is it possible that the security operations are finnally catching up?
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There is more and it does make for fun reading.
These are responses to questions. I rest my case.
Neil
p.s. Sorry, I just had to add this answer re: a lost partition
Your ‘drive`spins at a certain rate, out near the edge the gravities are high, the bucket weighs three pounds but when you swing it in a circle ay arms length it weighs much more, after a few years the medium spins off; agood example of extreme medium loss is a very small feild on your screen that is not expandable and you never seem to be able to save anything well, also you can toss your antenna as wellas its coating; so then do you have any storage medium left that is coherent? And how much. As far as recovery is concerned: in DOS 2.2 is Drive.RECif your drive is properly set-up and founded this will recoer what is possible including from fibers that used to hold the storage medium.
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January 5, 2006 at 5:49 am #3095408
Sport of the Day – Do I misunderstand the rules?
by maxwell edison · about 18 years, 2 months ago
In reply to Maxwell, don’t be so hard on us all
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It seems that targeting a specific PERSON for public humiliation and ridicule, because a message that person posted doesn’t sit well with the reader, is indeed the sport of the day.What are the rules?
Which messages qualify for such a verbal flogging?
Which people qualify for such verbal floggings?
Who gets to decide which messages and which people qualify for such verbal floggings?
Please post the rules for this game so I can play it properly.
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And what about the sense of fair-play?
Would you put your biggest, best, and strongest boxer in the ring against a scrawny and weak child? Of course not. That’s not fair. I’m all in favor of engaging in a verbal bout; and I’ll spar with the best of them. But for Pete’s sake, ganging up on a person in such a way violates the very essence of fair-play.
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January 5, 2006 at 6:06 am #3095377
Max do you remember the very first question I asked here
by hal 9000 · about 18 years, 2 months ago
In reply to Sport of the Day – Do I misunderstand the rules?
And your response?
It goes back a while now and involved Iraq and Rouge Nations I just asked quite honestly who got to decide who was a “Rouge Nation” the burns from all the flaming still haven’t healed properly yet but the good news is that the skin grafts now appear to be taking at last. 😀
The pressure bandages are really becoming a absolute pain to deal with and it’s very hard to have a shower with them on. 🙁
At the time I wasn’t trying to be funny but asking an honest question as it can be argued that those Nations willing to accept the [b]First Strike[/b] option could be considered as Rouge Nations by the International Community and I just didn’t want to see all those involved in the COW being called ‘Rouge Nations” in a couple of years time by others.
But after that rocky start we’ve had some fun haven’t we?
Col ]:)
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January 5, 2006 at 6:17 am #3095364
I will admit I was taken aback
by jamesrl · about 18 years, 2 months ago
In reply to Sport of the Day – Do I misunderstand the rules?
By your reaction Max.
You’ve never been shy about attacking others, and at times your sense of decorum has been lost, though I sense you do try to be good.
What provoked me, and I suspect Neil and others is more than just the one post. In some of the other posts by this person I read a great amount of hubris and not a little condescention. Some of this posters answers in the tech Q&A have been just plain wrong and ill advised.
I grant that English may not be this person’s first language, and that fact may be contributing to some level of communications challenge. But this poster is consistent.
Are you honestly telling me you haven’t verbally flogged anyone here?
James
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January 5, 2006 at 6:31 am #3095351
I often verbally flog people
by maxwell edison · about 18 years, 2 months ago
In reply to I will admit I was taken aback
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It’s the who, the when, the why, and the how that I’m in disagreement with. I won’t blind-side an innocent bystander, and I don’t go looking for one to target. And usually, it’s only well into the course of a “discussion”.I’m kinda’ like the Tina Turner version of “Proud Mary”, if you know what I mean. And if my opponent doesn’t want to participate, I don’t try to beat him senseless into submission.
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January 5, 2006 at 7:06 am #3095313
The rules?
by neilb@uk · about 18 years, 2 months ago
In reply to Sport of the Day – Do I misunderstand the rules?
I can only speak for myself and I think that I outlined my position earlier but I’ll recap. The rules, to me, are simple.
If a poster is asking a question then we must accept until proven otherwise that the poster is sincere and that no amount of stupidity in that post qualifies for any degree of public flaming. If the best we can do is not answer then that’s what we should do. (We [b]must[/b] get an Angel emoticon!
If a poster makes a statement, especially as an answer to another user’s question, then different criteria apply.
In this case, before I posted ‘The Jabberwocky’ as a response to entawanabi’s original ‘question’ as flagged up by BFilmFan (more of a statement, really), I checked up to see what other activity he’d been involved with as I recognised both style and name.
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1) “Who gets to decide” – seems to be a sort of “by public acclaim”. If we didn’t agree with bFilmFan then we would have posted differently or not at all.
2) “Which people qualify” – people who satisfy rule 1.
3) “Which messages qualify” – again. Seems like rule 1 applies.
Fair-play? I have the sense not to head-butt with you concerning, say, the US Constitution as I’d expect a pretty direct kicking and that would be fair. Much more to the point, I also have the sense not to persistently post absolute technical tosh on a technical forum as I’d expect what I’d get. Again, it would probably be fair.
Peers come, peers go and I know, for a fact, that some have been driven off and not by me.
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January 5, 2006 at 8:00 am #3094916
He seems to be taking hits in stride
by jdclyde · about 18 years, 2 months ago
In reply to Maxwell, don’t be so hard on us all
[b]I posted this in his TQ&A:
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Do you want some Cheesy poofs dear?Yes I want Cheesy poofs!
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So he in return posted this in MY TQ&A:
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Crack open the harddrive you should find that it is almost not there, the stuff is gone!
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January 5, 2006 at 8:02 am #3094914
I don’t know…
by old guy · about 18 years, 2 months ago
In reply to He seems to be taking hits in stride
I still think someone needs a hug today. 🙂
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January 5, 2006 at 8:15 am #3094906
Just as long
by jdclyde · about 18 years, 2 months ago
In reply to I don’t know…
as there is no accompanying reach around…. :O
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January 5, 2006 at 8:17 am #3094903
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January 5, 2006 at 10:56 am #3094793
Huh?
by montgomery gator · about 18 years, 2 months ago
In reply to Think,
You want a reacharound from Shrek? Ewww!!
I’m sorry, but male ogres (or males of any species) don’t turn me on. But if that’s your thing, well, as Jerry Seinfeld says “Not that there is anything wrong with that!”.
I prefer human females (and female Vulcans, Andorians, Bajorans, and maybe some female Klingons, and especially green Orion females, but we have not made contact with those planets yet.) 🙂
And maybe female elves (Arwen and Galadriel are hot), but I have not found out how to get to Middle Earth yet. 🙂
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January 5, 2006 at 12:27 pm #3094738
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January 5, 2006 at 8:38 am #3094883
Ahem!
by gadgetgirl · about 18 years, 2 months ago
In reply to I don’t know…
I’m in charge of virtual hugs, I’ll have you know!
Happy New Year!
😡 😡 😡 😡 😡 😡
(Are we there yet? 😉 )
😡 😡 😡 😡 😡
(oh, for five minutes! :D)
– love that donkey…..
:p
GG
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January 5, 2006 at 9:42 am #3094843
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January 9, 2006 at 2:41 pm #3078280
One of his answers
by ozi eagle · about 18 years, 2 months ago
In reply to Weird Technical Question
In Tech Q&A a question was asked about how to stop a computer rebooting every 2 minutes.
The following was this guy’s answer.This is endemic where the harddrive medium has been used up and is no longer even in the machine, it is also, less common, a symptom of an antenna that is gone or no longer working correctly.
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January 10, 2006 at 7:19 am #3078034
I think
by jdclyde · about 18 years, 2 months ago
In reply to One of his answers
that he was just TRYING to be funny after I went in and did a joke reply to HIS TQ&A.
At least, I HOPE he was joking….. 😀
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January 12, 2006 at 3:10 pm #3080072
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January 10, 2006 at 6:55 am #3078049
Another of his questions
by neilb@uk · about 18 years, 2 months ago
In reply to Weird Technical Question
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January 10, 2006 at 7:22 am #3078033
Wow
by jdclyde · about 18 years, 2 months ago
In reply to Another of his questions
I can’t even bring myself to go in and give him a hard time over it.
Kind of like tripping someone with crutches. Sure it is funny for a few minutes, but when they call the cops, fun and games are over. B-)
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January 10, 2006 at 7:28 am #3078030
~blink…blink…blink~
by jaqui · about 18 years, 2 months ago
In reply to Another of his questions
~shake head~
~pound head against wall~
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January 10, 2006 at 7:45 am #3078020
NEIL you are a “M##########R!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”
by hal 9000 · about 18 years, 2 months ago
In reply to Another of his questions
At first I was so confused that I had to reread it several times in an attempt to understand what he was attempting to get across I’m still not sure. Buts what even worse I answered his statement come question but I’m honestly still confused. 🙂
I’m going back to that Bloody Intel Training Course and attempting to follow their destructions and make an [b]Extreme Games Machine[/b] which I just can not seem to get right must be those Pentium Extreme Chips it’s the only thing that is stopping me from completing the entire thing. 🙁
Col ]:)
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January 10, 2006 at 8:36 am #3077993
At least Maxwell was able to give the guy an answer
by dmambo · about 18 years, 2 months ago
In reply to Another of his questions
That’s better than most of us. I didn’t even understand the question! Sheesh, I never would have suspected the sub-BIOS as the problem. 🙂
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January 10, 2006 at 8:47 am #3077981
sub-bios
by jaqui · about 18 years, 2 months ago
In reply to At least Maxwell was able to give the guy an answer
or sub-sub-bios?
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January 12, 2006 at 3:15 pm #3080071
Sub BIOS or Mickey?
by ozi eagle · about 18 years, 2 months ago
In reply to At least Maxwell was able to give the guy an answer
Never having heard about a sub BIOS, I’m not sure whether I’ve learnt something new or whether Maxwell is taking the mickey out of him (contrary to his statements previously.
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January 30, 2006 at 1:06 pm #3109065
Interesting post from our chum
by neilb@uk · about 18 years, 2 months ago
In reply to Weird Technical Question
I was thinking of sending him $2.50 simply for all of the laughs!
Edited because I forgot to press the [Shift] and there’s no way I’m paying him 42.50 [b]anything[/b]
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January 30, 2006 at 1:44 pm #3109037
I gave him a reply
by jellimonsta · about 18 years, 2 months ago
In reply to Interesting post from our chum
I replied to his little discussion on processors. 🙂
I must say, I did get quite the chuckle reading through his initial ‘Tech Q&A’ and the subsequent responses.
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January 30, 2006 at 4:37 pm #3108961
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January 30, 2006 at 5:31 pm #3108926
Invasion…
by jellimonsta · about 18 years, 2 months ago
In reply to can you say
of the body snatchers? 😀
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January 30, 2006 at 9:07 pm #3108877
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January 31, 2006 at 3:53 pm #3134606
Thanks for the URL Neil
by hal 9000 · about 18 years, 2 months ago
In reply to Interesting post from our chum
As he has provided personal information I’ve just offered to take him to the cleaners. 😀
Col ]:)
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January 31, 2006 at 5:57 pm #3134566
Nice Col
by jellimonsta · about 18 years, 2 months ago
In reply to Thanks for the URL Neil
Can you take a couple of suits and a shirt of mine? :p
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February 1, 2006 at 3:27 pm #3107734
Well it’s not something that I would normally do
by hal 9000 · about 18 years, 2 months ago
In reply to Nice Col
But if you insist I can arrange to have them donated to my favorite charity. :p
The one that helps old IT workers back into real life and how to deal with the day to day problems and act like they are not Life & Death decisions. 🙂
Col ]:)
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January 31, 2006 at 7:02 pm #3134554
Professional Blog
by ozi eagle · about 18 years, 2 months ago
In reply to Interesting post from our chum
Hi,
I’ve just read this guy’s professional blog, and unless I’m mistaken, he took large courses in Dumb!
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February 1, 2006 at 3:32 pm #3107729
Actually I thought it was well written
by hal 9000 · about 18 years, 2 months ago
In reply to Professional Blog
And he was extrapolating from HHGTTG and instead of just using Earth to find out what the Ultimate Question is he was expounding that the entire Solar System was the computer that was programed to find the question to which the answer is 42. 😀
Col ]:)
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February 4, 2006 at 1:27 pm #3096951
But wait it gets even better
by hal 9000 · about 18 years, 1 month ago
In reply to Weird Technical Question
Have a look at these they leave me speechless. 😀
http://techrepublic.com.com/5208-6336-0.html?forumID=75&threadID=188843
and the mix for this thing at
http://techrepublic.com.com/5208-11184-0.html?forumID=56&threadID=189052
Now maybe I’m missing something here but by the provided description you have a 1 gallon Microwave seal able container with a partial Faraday Cage in it with two bare wires coming out of it and a gelatinous mess poured into it and somehow you are supposed to be able to interface this with a computer.
And this is this persons description of them self.
Computer Operator, Current Professional application Installation & Set-ups of computers and computer systems; Hardware Core Structures, Core Structure Set-ups and Foundings. Tremendously large, Dumb education at American Speaking Universities and Colleges, not English speaking, a lessor language.
Tag: research into mainframe operations in todaystechnology ( see entry at projects ‘is there a mainframe
1 member(s) using “research into mainframe operations in todaystechnology ( see entry at projects ‘is there a mainframe”
See member(s) interested in “research into mainframe operations in todaystechnology ( see entry at projects ‘is there a mainframe”
This goes beyond [b]Weird Technical Questions[/b] to something far worse requiring large amounts of drugs applied by Medical Professionals. 🙂
Col ]:)
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February 4, 2006 at 2:27 pm #3096940
This is interesting
by maxwell edison · about 18 years, 1 month ago
In reply to But wait it gets even better
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http://www.webspawner.com/users/riverfreight/At the bottom of that Web page is:
This page created using the webpage creation facilities of Webspawner. Copyright ? 2003 Guy R Hengst neee River Freight. All Rights Reserved
P.S. River Freight rings a bell. Wasn’t there some other guy who posted nonsense around here a couple of years ago with the alias River Freight?
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February 4, 2006 at 2:39 pm #3096939
Colin – I found it
by maxwell edison · about 18 years, 1 month ago
In reply to But wait it gets even better
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February 4, 2006 at 2:40 pm #3096938
My conclusion
by maxwell edison · about 18 years, 1 month ago
In reply to But wait it gets even better
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entawanabi@…is the same guy who used to post as
RiverFreight@…
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February 4, 2006 at 5:10 pm #3096917
Good call MAX
by jdclyde · about 18 years, 1 month ago
In reply to My conclusion
Way to put that one back from out of the past!
Worth one atta-boy! 😀
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February 5, 2006 at 3:35 am #3096843
Dam you Maxwell
by hal 9000 · about 18 years, 1 month ago
In reply to My conclusion
I tried very hard to forget that person and I had nearly succeeded and then you had to remind me all over again. 🙁
But I think you are more likely to be right on that call than not. :p
But as we are now back to where we originally started can I ask Who Gets to Decide who a Rouge Nation or in this case a [b]Rouge Poster[/b] is? 😀
During the week I went up to where the Wifes car is and it’s beginning to look really great. The rear end has been tacked on everything is back to bare metal and most of the rust has been removed. Good thing that she didn’t see it at the moment but it will look so good when it’s finished and I just had to drop all the interior in so it can be fitted before she sees it again. But for a good laugh the so called [b]Professional Smash Repairers[/b] who repaired the car after the last collision where a truck hit it in the front and pushed it into a lamp post did such a marvelous job with the soggy paper over the fly screes armature to lay the BOG over to make it look straight again. Now that’s all be removed and it’s being done properly it should last for another 36 years without an ounce of problems. Of course I’m going to change the engine to one of the Twin Cams just to keep it going longer and faster. 🙂
What’s even better is that [b]She Who Must Be Obeyed[/b] actually still thinks that I bought that car for her, 😀
Col ]:)
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February 4, 2006 at 2:55 pm #3096933
Did I already post these?
by maxwell edison · about 18 years, 1 month ago
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February 4, 2006 at 3:05 pm #3096928
Education
by ozi eagle · about 18 years, 1 month ago
In reply to But wait it gets even better
As posted earlier he has had, to quote “Tremendously large, Dumb education “.
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