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- Thu Jan 07, 2016 7:23 pm
- Forum: Computers Internet
- Topic: ubuntu
- Replies: 15
- Views: 4390
ubuntu
<r>spot;1491261 wrote: I failed to remember to come back to this. My bad, as the Queen says when her children pop round and she's out of toasties.<br/> <br/> Service Configurations – Black Viper | <URL url="http://www.blackviper.com">www.blackviper.com</URL> is the place to start. I've been relyin...
- Fri Jan 20, 2012 5:27 pm
- Forum: The Library
- Topic: Zone One
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1497
Zone One
<t>koan;1381595 wrote: I really enjoyed Zombieland. Might check this one out as a much needed break. <br/> <br/> I think the attraction to zombie stories right now relates to a subconscious feeling that we have all become such creatures in relation to the current social structures.<br/> <br/> <br/> ...
- Wed Jan 18, 2012 10:19 am
- Forum: The Library
- Topic: Zone One
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1497
Zone One
<t>Zombies are all the rage these days. For anyone who enjoys this sort of thing, Colson Whitehead's Zone One is a must read. Possibly the most engaging novel featuring ravenous revenant hordes I've read (although I have yet to read the popular World War Z and so we'll see if it maintains the top sp...
- Sat Mar 27, 2010 10:10 am
- Forum: Computers Internet
- Topic: What Linux looks like this month
- Replies: 114
- Views: 15866
What Linux looks like this month
<t>Bruv;1299979 wrote: ...the fear is always there that all will be lost.<br/> <br/> I suspect next time it will be a dual boot.......when I have recovered from this episode.<br/> <br/> <br/> That's where I get stuck. I'm fearful of doing the dual-boot/separate partition thing because I would want t...
- Sat Mar 27, 2010 10:04 am
- Forum: General Religious Discussions
- Topic: Why Religion Is For Big Infants
- Replies: 277
- Views: 19889
Why Religion Is For Big Infants
My high horse suits me just fine, thanks. It's the best position from which to observe, although the conversation has sunk so low I'll need binoculars. I'll shut up and leave you to it.
- Sat Mar 27, 2010 9:07 am
- Forum: Comedy
- Topic: Eddie Izzard
- Replies: 13
- Views: 4085
Eddie Izzard
His Stonehenge riff is one of the very funniest things I've seen.
YouTube - Eddie Izzard - Stonehenge
YouTube - Eddie Izzard - Stonehenge
- Sat Mar 27, 2010 8:55 am
- Forum: General Religious Discussions
- Topic: Why Religion Is For Big Infants
- Replies: 277
- Views: 19889
Why Religion Is For Big Infants
I'm appalled to find that a philosophical debate has devolved into likening a poster's mate with a farm animal. Shame!
- Sat Mar 27, 2010 8:42 am
- Forum: Computers Internet
- Topic: What Linux looks like this month
- Replies: 114
- Views: 15866
What Linux looks like this month
<t>Just because something is popular and regaled web-wide for it's ease of use doesn't mean that it won't explode in your face. I have a friend to whom I recommended Ubuntu, and right off the bat he had issues with his wireless connection. Others have reported problems with sound and/or video. <br/>...
- Thu Mar 25, 2010 6:23 pm
- Forum: Computers Internet
- Topic: What Linux looks like this month
- Replies: 114
- Views: 15866
What Linux looks like this month
<t>Bruv;1299595 wrote: OK then I shall go for it.....<br/> <br/> One final question before I 'go for' wubi.<br/> <br/> How does it affect two user accounts, because as much as I will use it, my wife will be lost in anything other than Windows.<br/> <br/> Can you set it to default log in to windows j...
- Wed Mar 24, 2010 6:40 pm
- Forum: Computers Internet
- Topic: What Linux looks like this month
- Replies: 114
- Views: 15866
What Linux looks like this month
<t>spot;1299122 wrote: What aspect of wubi do you dislike, if you're comparing it to a dual boot configuration? Once it's installed and the system's booted into the linux component I'd be hard pressed to find any way of distinguishing that I was in a wubi setup compared to an all-linux computer. Wha...
- Sun Mar 21, 2010 8:53 am
- Forum: Computers Internet
- Topic: What Linux looks like this month
- Replies: 114
- Views: 15866
What Linux looks like this month
<t>Bruv;1298333 wrote: Wubi, tell me more.<br/> <br/> By installing wubi , you can use Ubuntu without partitioning ?<br/> <br/> Just like using a live cd version ?<br/> <br/> <br/> Indeed, and in fact unless it's been changed recently, one is able to install Ubuntu with Wubi directly from the live C...
- Sun Mar 21, 2010 8:35 am
- Forum: Computers Internet
- Topic: What Linux looks like this month
- Replies: 114
- Views: 15866
What Linux looks like this month
<t>I'm using Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala) via Wubi. Like it lots and am looking forward to the next iteration due the end of April.<br/> <br/> My printer is a Dell (as in Lexmark) AIO Photo 926. Won't work at all with Linux (and won't work most of the time with Vista either, but it does hold down pape...
- Mon Dec 28, 2009 6:53 pm
- Forum: Films Cinema Forum
- Topic: What movies have you seen lately?
- Replies: 570
- Views: 107479
What movies have you seen lately?
Avatar. Predictable story, astounding imagery. He may not challenge your intellect, but pay him enough money and James Cameron will knock your eyes out.
- Mon Dec 28, 2009 6:42 pm
- Forum: Computers Internet
- Topic: Screen cleaner advice please
- Replies: 18
- Views: 1605
Screen cleaner advice please
<t>along-for-the-ride;1276430 wrote: Computer screen cleaning can be fun! :wah:<br/> <br/> I found this just now:<br/> <br/> Cleaning dusty monitor screen is always a must, we did it with cloth or tissue. With this cute product called Chamois Computer Screen Cleaners, cleaning screen is now much mor...
- Fri Dec 25, 2009 6:33 am
- Forum: General Chit Chat
- Topic: What have you got planned for Christmas
- Replies: 25
- Views: 1514
What have you got planned for Christmas
Odie;1275913 wrote: my son and his wife came over today for Christmas Eve, when they left tonight, they were headed for the movies to see Avator!
Merry Christmas The Rob!
And to you and everyone as well!
Merry Christmas The Rob!
And to you and everyone as well!
- Thu Dec 24, 2009 6:24 pm
- Forum: General Chit Chat
- Topic: What have you got planned for Christmas
- Replies: 25
- Views: 1514
What have you got planned for Christmas
A movie (Avatar) and then lunch (India Palace). Nice and simple.
- Thu Dec 24, 2009 6:02 pm
- Forum: Warfare Military
- Topic: Eugenics through military service!
- Replies: 28
- Views: 4209
Eugenics through military service!
I suspect that someone on our forums is having a bit of a laugh. The original poster is a forums equivalent of a strap-on. Now just who is behind this device? :-3
- Thu Dec 24, 2009 5:30 pm
- Forum: Films Cinema Forum
- Topic: What movies have you seen lately?
- Replies: 570
- Views: 107479
What movies have you seen lately?
Saw [500] Days of Summer last night. It's a charmer, highly recommended.
- Sun Dec 20, 2009 12:37 pm
- Forum: General TV Shows
- Topic: Gosselin divorce final; Kate gets house and kids
- Replies: 34
- Views: 2422
Gosselin divorce final; Kate gets house and kids
<t>Kate has a tongue like a studded leather belt but John acts like a delayed adolescent.<br/> <br/> Kate will continue to be a good and very busy mother. John will end up on a reality show arm-wrestling Michael Lohan over the freshest hot-tub skank.<br/> <br/> And many will opt to watch the latter ...
- Sun Dec 20, 2009 12:23 pm
- Forum: Kids Family
- Topic: My new man
- Replies: 28
- Views: 3657
My new man
I'm late here, but I believe I said Congrats on all our other mutual media umbilicals.
Nonetheless...CONGRATULATIONS!!!
Nonetheless...CONGRATULATIONS!!!
- Sun Dec 20, 2009 12:12 pm
- Forum: Philosophy
- Topic: Your Philosophy On Life
- Replies: 83
- Views: 10106
Your Philosophy On Life
Respect Mother Earth and all beings.
- Sat Dec 12, 2009 9:37 am
- Forum: Space and Astronomy
- Topic: Astronomy picture of the day...
- Replies: 481
- Views: 387392
Astronomy picture of the day...
[quote=Kathy Ellen;1272407]December 12, 2009 "Geminid Meteor over Monument Valley" Utah/Arizona
Awesome!
Awesome!
- Sat Dec 12, 2009 9:20 am
- Forum: Films Cinema Forum
- Topic: Favorite movie quotes!...
- Replies: 8
- Views: 4945
Favorite movie quotes!...
From John Carpenter's The Thing:
"I dunno what the hell's in there, but it's weird and pissed off, whatever it is."
"I dunno what the hell's in there, but it's weird and pissed off, whatever it is."
- Sat Dec 12, 2009 9:05 am
- Forum: Computers Internet
- Topic: 'Anti-social network' aims to be Facebook killer app
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1384
'Anti-social network' aims to be Facebook killer app
I wonder if there will be that many takers. Those who are prone to the Grand Exit are also likely prone to surreptitious logging in to read what others are posting about them afterward. Narcissists aren't fond of finality.
- Sat Dec 05, 2009 11:53 am
- Forum: General Chit Chat
- Topic: Craigslist
- Replies: 5
- Views: 722
Craigslist
Both Craigslist and eBay are fun for nostalgia-tripping.
- Sat Dec 05, 2009 11:44 am
- Forum: General Chit Chat
- Topic: Gay
- Replies: 28
- Views: 1683
Gay
I doubt anyone was offended by the question. I wasn't. I'm just not fond of this recent penchant for re-engineering fictional characters.
(Except for making Boomer and Starbuck women in the "re-imagined" "Battlestar Galactica"; that rocked. )
(Except for making Boomer and Starbuck women in the "re-imagined" "Battlestar Galactica"; that rocked. )
- Sat Dec 05, 2009 10:51 am
- Forum: General Chit Chat
- Topic: Gay
- Replies: 28
- Views: 1683
Gay
<t>It's nearly a certainty that Arthur Conan Doyle never intended his characters to be homosexuals, and since they are after all constructs of the author's imagination, the answer to the question is "NO".<br/> <br/> Or are you speaking only of the characters as portrayed by Robert Downey Jr. and Jud...
- Sat Dec 05, 2009 10:44 am
- Forum: General Chit Chat
- Topic: Cell Phones
- Replies: 5
- Views: 5571
Cell Phones
We have cell phones instead of a land line (we use the missus' cell as the 'home' number), but I avoid talking on the phone in public and we NEVER use them while driving.
- Sat Dec 05, 2009 10:35 am
- Forum: General Chit Chat
- Topic: Talk Or Text
- Replies: 19
- Views: 2090
Talk Or Text
I talk, and that grudgingly, but I prefer SEEING others texting in public to HEARING them blabbering on about their private lives. :yh_ttth
- Fri Dec 04, 2009 8:20 pm
- Forum: The Library
- Topic: What are you reading right now?
- Replies: 49
- Views: 7844
What are you reading right now?
Just finished Haunted, by Chuck Palahniuk. This novel now stands as one of the most twisted stories I've read (although Geek Love by Katherine Dunn, another Northwestern USA writer, may still be reigning champeen of the grotesque, if only by a fraction).
- Wed Dec 02, 2009 9:28 pm
- Forum: Computers Internet
- Topic: Ubuntu 9.10
- Replies: 9
- Views: 3295
Ubuntu 9.10
<r>Ahso!;1268363 wrote: Are you sure it wasn't the server edition you were installing? I'd check that if I were you. 64 bit only comes in the server edition, try downloading and running the live cd for the i386 version. It should be as easy as it was with 9.04.<br/> <br/> <br/> Nope, it was the desk...
- Tue Dec 01, 2009 7:26 pm
- Forum: Computers Internet
- Topic: Ubuntu 9.10
- Replies: 9
- Views: 3295
Ubuntu 9.10
<t>I'm using Ubuntu 9.04 via WUBI (installed within Vista) and would love to upgrade to 9.10, but due to an attempted and unsuccessful clean install of the newest release, I'm gun-shy. The updated Grub (1.97~beta 4) appears to throw a wrench into the booting process, dropping me to a command shell. ...
- Sun Oct 18, 2009 8:04 am
- Forum: The Coffee Shop
- Topic: 3 fabulous things...
- Replies: 67
- Views: 16141
3 fabulous things...
<r>almostfamous;1247555 wrote: awww thanks for whoever bumped this thread... I miss my lovelight and nottoday aka lala and steph, my 2 besties. I wish they hadn't wandered off <E>:(</E><br/> <br/> my 3 fabulous things for today...<br/> <br/> 1. Feeling my son grow stronger every day in my tummy<br/>...
- Sun Oct 11, 2009 2:41 pm
- Forum: Philosophy
- Topic: What is the American frame of mind?
- Replies: 9
- Views: 2128
What is the American frame of mind?
By and large, our frame of mind is whatever our media informs us it is.
"Frame of mind" and "frame of reference" are so entwined as to be interchangeable.
"Frame of mind" and "frame of reference" are so entwined as to be interchangeable.
- Sun Oct 04, 2009 8:14 am
- Forum: The Library
- Topic: What are you reading right now?
- Replies: 49
- Views: 7844
What are you reading right now?
I can recommend Gillian Flynn's Dark Places. As in her first novel Sharp Objects, she creates a heroine quite unique (to say the least!) in thriller fiction. Crackin' good read full of shuddery goodness.
- Mon Sep 07, 2009 12:48 pm
- Forum: General Chit Chat
- Topic: Thread for being nice to each other
- Replies: 75
- Views: 2751
Thread for being nice to each other
<r>almostfamous;1239231 wrote: I thought you'd like that :wah:<br/> <br/> People just get passionate at times, sometimes that passion overrules reason. But, it's unreasonable to think you won't encounter people you can't mesh with. This happens in everyday life all the time, no reason to think the i...
- Mon Sep 07, 2009 11:14 am
- Forum: General Chit Chat
- Topic: smile
- Replies: 12
- Views: 1067
smile
Angry Kid: Chips | Angry Kid|Animation | Atom
- Mon Sep 07, 2009 10:32 am
- Forum: General Chit Chat
- Topic: I've had enough of this
- Replies: 118
- Views: 5708
I've had enough of this
<t>spot;1239152 wrote: It's lucky they don't hand out infractions for being a smartypants, that's what I reckon.<br/> <br/> <br/> I am wearing one of my more intelligent pairs of trousers today. Ordinarily I attend my forums and social networks au naturel, as is de rigeur for proper internet protoco...
- Mon Sep 07, 2009 10:11 am
- Forum: General Chit Chat
- Topic: I've had enough of this
- Replies: 118
- Views: 5708
I've had enough of this
<r>spot;1239102 wrote: It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena.<br/> <br/> <br/> Theodore Roosevelt! What do I win? <E>:D</E><br/> <br/> </r>
- Sun Sep 06, 2009 10:31 pm
- Forum: General Chit Chat
- Topic: Why is it...
- Replies: 55
- Views: 1995
Why is it...
almostfamous;1238898 wrote: :yh_rotfl
Have I told you today that you are one of my favorite people?? I needed that laugh :-4
You're one of mine, too. Symmetry! :-6
Have I told you today that you are one of my favorite people?? I needed that laugh :-4
You're one of mine, too. Symmetry! :-6
- Sun Sep 06, 2009 6:32 pm
- Forum: General Chit Chat
- Topic: Why is it...
- Replies: 55
- Views: 1995
Why is it...
YouTube - Monty Python, The Fish Slapping Dance
- Sun Sep 06, 2009 3:04 pm
- Forum: General Chit Chat
- Topic: I've had enough of this
- Replies: 118
- Views: 5708
I've had enough of this
What-uh the Hell-uh?? :-2
- Sun Sep 06, 2009 9:43 am
- Forum: People
- Topic: Videos to Soothe the Senses
- Replies: 163
- Views: 92795
Videos to Soothe the Senses
The song is by Eels.
- Sun Sep 06, 2009 9:19 am
- Forum: General Chit Chat
- Topic: More ridiculous body piercings....
- Replies: 39
- Views: 269144
More ridiculous body piercings....
I'd introduce the woman as Elaine "Clank" Davidson at parties.
- Sun Sep 06, 2009 9:10 am
- Forum: Films Cinema Forum
- Topic: What movies have you seen lately?
- Replies: 570
- Views: 107479
What movies have you seen lately?
Star Trek and District 9. Both were very good!
- Sat Sep 05, 2009 8:23 pm
- Forum: General Religious Discussions
- Topic: What are your religious beliefs, or lack thereof?
- Replies: 45
- Views: 3983
What are your religious beliefs, or lack thereof?
<t>I love churches, and church architecture (the cathedral style is what I mean here). I love the rituals, particularly those of the Anglican/Episcopal faith. I love them enough that I'm sometimes disappointed for not being a "whole wheat" Christian. I'd feel like a hypocrite because I don't believe...
- Sat Sep 05, 2009 8:08 pm
- Forum: General Chit Chat
- Topic: The Immigrant Anthem.
- Replies: 27
- Views: 1543
The Immigrant Anthem.
<t>I can understand being angry when citizens of other nations enter ours and abuse our already over-burdened systems, but to take delight in denigrating their cultural customs is appalling. Punish and expunge them if you will, but please don't excoriate their cultures indiscriminately. It has an un...
- Sat Sep 05, 2009 7:34 pm
- Forum: Space and Astronomy
- Topic: Astronomy picture of the day...
- Replies: 481
- Views: 387392
Astronomy picture of the day...
Great thread, Kathy Ellen! Now that the missus and I have relocated to Albuquerque, New Mexico I'm hoping to join up with an astronomy group soon and learn the sky properly.
- Sat Sep 05, 2009 7:19 pm
- Forum: General TV Shows
- Topic: What's grabbing you on the TV at the moment ?
- Replies: 107
- Views: 6516
What's grabbing you on the TV at the moment ?
almostfamous;1238463 wrote: **AF grabs Rob and bear hugs him** :-4:p
Awwww! Hugs back, and good to be 'mongst the pixels with ya again. :-4
Awwww! Hugs back, and good to be 'mongst the pixels with ya again. :-4
- Sat Sep 05, 2009 7:17 pm
- Forum: General Religious Discussions
- Topic: What are your religious beliefs, or lack thereof?
- Replies: 45
- Views: 3983
What are your religious beliefs, or lack thereof?
<t>almostfamous;1238460 wrote: I have been raised in Christianity my whole life. I had my doubts from time to time but I believe, know, there is a God. I consider myself a spiritual person, I pray, repent, try to live a life of servitude but I don't attend church. I don't possess the ability to walk...