Post #193,437
2/7/05 1:23:06 PM
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You're a quirky bunch, arent you?
Thanks for your introductions and welcomes.
-"I think animal testing is a terrible idea; they get all nervous and give the wrong answers."
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Post #193,439
2/7/05 1:35:48 PM
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Nah, just a few of us
The real quirks are located in politics and religion.
We're usually pretty nice when hangin' 'round the water cooler.
A good friend will come and bail you out of jail ... but, a true friend will be sitting next to you saying, "Damn...that was fun!"
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Post #193,447
2/7/05 1:58:15 PM
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Mostly just diverse
got folks from America to Australia, and several points inbetween. Jobs range from programmers to scientists, military, and even the occasional journalist. Some come here for the debates others to learn; many for both. One thing to remember while you're here, try not to take anything personnally; we don't intend to offend, but sometimes things can get a little out of hand.
~~~)-Steven----
"I want you to remember that no bastard ever won a war by dying for his country.
He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country..."
General George S. Patton
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Post #193,450
2/7/05 2:08:17 PM
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Local choice of armament is the flamethrower. :D
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Post #193,451
2/7/05 2:13:44 PM
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Quirky wouldn't be my choice of adjectives...
...but its probably alot more work friendly :-)
If you push something hard enough, it will fall over. Fudd's First Law of Opposition
[link|mailto:bepatient@aol.com|BePatient]
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Post #193,453
2/7/05 2:26:34 PM
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A Sam Peckinpah production
The Quirky Bunch. A band of renegades and refugees from real life with the ability to leap to conclusions faster than a speeding simile. Caustic wit and an unfortunate attraction to puns make them the death of the party.
Fear the Quirky Bunch.
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"In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for. As for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican."
-- H. L. Mencken
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Post #193,538
2/8/05 12:45:04 AM
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Straw Geekdawgs?
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Post #193,872
2/9/05 10:12:40 PM
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the unusual suspects?
I love her dearly, far beyond any creature I've ever known, and I can prove it, for never once in almost seventy years of married life have I taken her by the throat. Mind you, it's been a near thing once or twice.
George Macdonald Frasier
Clearwater highschool marching band [link|http://www.chstornadoband.org/|http://www.chstornadoband.org/]
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Post #193,905
2/10/05 12:29:54 AM
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The Good, The Bad and ... well mostly The Ugly
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Post #194,048
2/10/05 7:39:09 PM
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small pool eleven
I love her dearly, far beyond any creature I've ever known, and I can prove it, for never once in almost seventy years of married life have I taken her by the throat. Mind you, it's been a near thing once or twice.
George Macdonald Frasier
Clearwater highschool marching band [link|http://www.chstornadoband.org/|http://www.chstornadoband.org/]
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Post #193,454
2/7/05 2:30:33 PM
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We are. And that's a good thing!
You may or may not have seen [link|http://www.paulgraham.com/say.html|http://www.paulgraham.com/say.html]. It is a good read about why it is important to be willing to buck the popular consensus (even though you'll sometimes surely be wrong to do so).
Cheers,
Ben
I have come to believe that idealism without discipline is a quick road to disaster, while discipline without idealism is pointless. -- Aaron Ward (my brother)
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Post #193,536
2/8/05 12:37:41 AM
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'No idea is so overlooked as one that is unthinkable..'
As so frequently, amidst your peripatetic perusing - Nice Find!
Unassailable even, your Mr. Graham (well.. except by prigs everywhere).
Mr. Graham has pie.
Lo, I have become Death. [link|http://www.weebl.jolt.co.uk/art.htm| Stealer of pie].
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Post #193,472
2/7/05 4:50:06 PM
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No, just ask Bepatient's friend....
We are all Child Molesters.
Believe me, we aren't... just that his friend caled us that one year, when she found out we were friends from an ONLINE area.
Hilarious though... touchy it can be as it ain't a laughing matter.
Anyway, Welcome.
And Tell you what, I show you [link|http://www.gregfolkert.net/pics|mine], if you show me yours.
And, yes Quirky would be one word, Sick and Demented are two more.
-- [link|mailto:greg@gregfolkert.net|greg], [link|http://www.iwethey.org/ed_curry|REMEMBER ED CURRY!] @ iwethey[link|http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=134485&cid=11233230|"Microsoft Security" is an even better oxymoron than "Miltary Intelligence"] No matter how much Microsoft supporters whine about how Linux and other operating systems have just as many bugs as their operating systems do, the bottom line is that the serious, gut-wrenching problems happen on Windows, not on Linux, not on Mac OS. -- [link|http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1622086,00.asp|source]
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Post #193,477
2/7/05 5:30:06 PM
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That is correct...
don't forget twisted...you sick, twisted man you.
If you push something hard enough, it will fall over. Fudd's First Law of Opposition
[link|mailto:bepatient@aol.com|BePatient]
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Post #193,537
2/8/05 12:39:37 AM
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Warped.. twisted requires so much dedication.
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Post #193,573
2/8/05 10:30:16 AM
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This online community
has been around for over ten years now and has survived two moves (starting out as simply the discussion forums at Info World Electric (online edition)).
We know each other's online personas so well that its hardly worth starting a new argument as we generally can predict where its going to end up ahead of time.
New blood is definitely welcome.
"Whenever you find you are on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect" --Mark Twain
"The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them." --Albert Einstein
"This is still a dangerous world. It's a world of madmen and uncertainty and potential mental losses." --George W. Bush
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Post #193,575
2/8/05 10:36:15 AM
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ObPedanticSpellingAndWordNit - it's personae.
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Post #193,602
2/8/05 12:19:32 PM
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When the browser begins to offer spell checking
I'll use it. (I think it is coming in Tiger).
"Whenever you find you are on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect" --Mark Twain
"The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them." --Albert Einstein
"This is still a dangerous world. It's a world of madmen and uncertainty and potential mental losses." --George W. Bush
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Post #193,615
2/8/05 12:35:57 PM
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Already does if you use Konqueror.
Peter
[link|http://www.ubuntulinux.org|Ubuntu Linux]
[link|http://www.kuro5hin.org|There is no K5 Cabal]
[link|http://guildenstern.dyndns.org|Home]
Use P2P for legitimate purposes!
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Post #193,619
2/8/05 12:38:31 PM
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But then your NT is busted. Pikc yer poisson.
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Post #193,708
2/8/05 6:30:59 PM
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Re: But then your NT is busted. Pikc yer poisson.
OK... I choose Haddock (and what a Haddock she had...)
jb4
shrub\ufffdbish (Am., from shrub + rubbish, after the derisive name for America's 43 president; 2003) n. 1. a form of nonsensical political doubletalk wherein the speaker attempts to defend the indefensible by lying, obfuscation, or otherwise misstating the facts; GIBBERISH. 2. any of a collection of utterances from America's putative 43rd president. cf. BULLSHIT
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Post #193,662
2/8/05 2:01:17 PM
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It already does.
CTRL-click, Spelling, Check Spelling As You Type.
Safari 1.2.4 on OS X 10.3.7 here.
Peter
[link|http://www.ubuntulinux.org|Ubuntu Linux]
[link|http://www.kuro5hin.org|There is no K5 Cabal]
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Use P2P for legitimate purposes!
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Post #193,665
2/8/05 2:21:17 PM
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This is the work machine
WinDOS X-Pee.
"Whenever you find you are on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect" --Mark Twain
"The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them." --Albert Einstein
"This is still a dangerous world. It's a world of madmen and uncertainty and potential mental losses." --George W. Bush
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Post #193,668
2/8/05 2:25:55 PM
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Thought you worked on Macs.
Peter
[link|http://www.ubuntulinux.org|Ubuntu Linux]
[link|http://www.kuro5hin.org|There is no K5 Cabal]
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Post #193,669
2/8/05 2:29:00 PM
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I thought he worked on RedHat v 7.3
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Post #193,673
2/8/05 2:40:14 PM
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Its all very complicated
I have Mac at home (and take it with me to work since there's wireless on the ferry). My work "productivity" machine is a lame hp toy laptop running WindBlows XPee - required primarily to use MS ButtLick for calendaring and email.
Actual software development (which I don't really do much anymore except in an explorational and testing capacity as I am now a dev manager) occurs on the ancient machina con sombrero rojo.
Hope this clears it all up.
"Whenever you find you are on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect" --Mark Twain
"The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them." --Albert Einstein
"This is still a dangerous world. It's a world of madmen and uncertainty and potential mental losses." --George W. Bush
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Post #193,675
2/8/05 2:46:07 PM
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:-)
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Post #193,694
2/8/05 4:20:02 PM
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ICLRPD (new thread)
Created as new thread #193693 titled [link|/forums/render/content/show?contentid=193693|ICLRPD]
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Steve
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Post #193,685
2/8/05 3:41:41 PM
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http://www.iespell.com/
[link|http://www.iespell.com/|http://www.iespell.com/]
--
Chris Altmann
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Post #193,690
2/8/05 4:07:47 PM
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And for Mozilla/Firefox - Spellbound
[link|http://spellbound.sourceforge.net/index|http://spellbound.sourceforge.net/index] - Spellbound spell checker for Mozilla / Firefox. I haven't yet tried it myself, but should...
Cheers,
Scott.
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Post #193,699
2/8/05 4:48:24 PM
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If you can read this
...then spellbound works. :)
Was "Iff yu cn rede ths".
Good find!
Recommend on Firefox install: install the dependencies (xpi's) first, then the actual extension.
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Post #193,866
2/9/05 9:44:20 PM
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Hey, it works here too! :-) Moz 1.71/Win32.
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Post #193,763
2/9/05 1:40:46 AM
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Already does if you read these fora
Only with a time-delay, and provided by some guy on the other side of the world (or, as in this instance, Canada).
[link|mailto:MyUserId@MyISP.CountryCode|Christian R. Conrad]
(I live in Finland, and my e-mail in-box is at the Saunalahti company.)
Your lies are of Microsoftian Scale and boring to boot. Your 'depression' may be the closest you ever come to recognizing truth: you have no 'inferiority complex', you are inferior - and something inside you recognizes this. - [link|http://z.iwethey.org/forums/render/content/show?contentid=71575|Ashton Brown]
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Post #193,580
2/8/05 10:42:01 AM
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You're welcome.
They're quirky. I'm unique. ;)
Brenda
Nightowl >8#
"The people of the world having once been deceived, suspect deceit in truth itself." -- Hitopadesa 600?-1100? AD, Sanskrit Fable From Panchatantr
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Post #193,594
2/8/05 11:53:24 AM
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I'm *more* unique
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Purveyor of Doc Hope's [link|http://DocHope.com|fresh-baked dog biscuits and pet treats].
[link|http://DocHope.com|http://DocHope.com]
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Post #193,596
2/8/05 11:55:06 AM
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Hehehee
Want to have a contest? ;)
Brenda
"The people of the world having once been deceived, suspect deceit in truth itself." -- Hitopadesa 600?-1100? AD, Sanskrit Fable From Panchatantr
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Post #193,655
2/8/05 1:24:45 PM
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Quirky or Unique . . winners both.
[link|http://www.aaxnet.com|AAx]
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Post #193,666
2/8/05 2:24:09 PM
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How many "Thane"s do you know?
I declare myself the winner.
"Here at Ortillery Command we have at our disposal hundred megawatt laser beams, mach 20 titanium rods and guided thermonuclear bombs. Some people say we think that we're God. We're not God. We just borrowed his 'SMITE' button for our fire control system."
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Post #193,678
2/8/05 2:51:31 PM
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2
"Whenever you find you are on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect" --Mark Twain
"The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them." --Albert Einstein
"This is still a dangerous world. It's a world of madmen and uncertainty and potential mental losses." --George W. Bush
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Post #193,680
2/8/05 2:58:37 PM
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No... should have been "42"... and you know that!
-- [link|mailto:greg@gregfolkert.net|greg], [link|http://www.iwethey.org/ed_curry|REMEMBER ED CURRY!] @ iwethey[link|http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=134485&cid=11233230|"Microsoft Security" is an even better oxymoron than "Miltary Intelligence"] No matter how much Microsoft supporters whine about how Linux and other operating systems have just as many bugs as their operating systems do, the bottom line is that the serious, gut-wrenching problems happen on Windows, not on Linux, not on Mac OS. -- [link|http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1622086,00.asp|source]
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Post #194,069
2/10/05 9:07:33 PM
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I don't know 42 Thanes - I know two.
The other one's name is watson. Made for an unfortunate unix login.
"Whenever you find you are on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect" --Mark Twain
"The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them." --Albert Einstein
"This is still a dangerous world. It's a world of madmen and uncertainty and potential mental losses." --George W. Bush
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Post #194,076
2/10/05 10:01:10 PM
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42 is always the answer....
Come on, your Comedy prowess... well is lacking.
It was a JOKE
-- [link|mailto:greg@gregfolkert.net|greg], [link|http://www.iwethey.org/ed_curry|REMEMBER ED CURRY!] @ iwethey[link|http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=134485&cid=11233230|"Microsoft Security" is an even better oxymoron than "Miltary Intelligence"] No matter how much Microsoft supporters whine about how Linux and other operating systems have just as many bugs as their operating systems do, the bottom line is that the serious, gut-wrenching problems happen on Windows, not on Linux, not on Mac OS. -- [link|http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1622086,00.asp|source]
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