Comment Re:Born in December (Score 1) 276
Hahaha!! Now that one deserves to be modded up!!!
Comment Wrong base... (Score 1) 432
They can't find a pattern because they're doing their calculations using base 10. They should expand their minds and try using another base, perhaps 2. I bet there's a pattern using binary!!
Comment Goodbye SC2 (Score 1) 737
...and after being a fan and user of almost EVERY single Blizzard game since WarCraft I, I have now just dropped Blizzard and will not be purchasing SC2. Some of us actually want to use what we pay for by ourselves. And fuck having to connect to the 'net to use it.
-a pissed off very long time customer who just washed his hands of you.
Submission + - UAC in Windows 7: What a Joke!
RazorJ_2000 writes: So, apparently all of UAC (User Account Control) in Windows 7 can be disabled. With a small piece of VBScript. And Microsoft is, again, saying it's a "feature". Didn't that POS* marketing line go out with Vista, along with their so-called credibility? When will this company learn? You want serious software? Get serious programmers and get serious about it. Seriously.
* Piece of shit
http://www.istartedsomething.com/20090130/uac-security-flaw-windows-7-beta-proof/
* Piece of shit
http://www.istartedsomething.com/20090130/uac-security-flaw-windows-7-beta-proof/
Submission + - Help! Pooched system upgrade... 1
RazorJ_2000 writes: Okay, I foolishly tried to upgrade my Fedora 8 KDE box to a Fedora 10 KDE box in one shot. And I managed to completely pooch the KDE GUI (non-working). Now, I can still sign into my box by command line terminal only, but realistically, how the hell do I get almost 80GB of my personal data off of the hard drive? (250GB SATA)
I've already tried Knoppix and Puppy but they can't see the EXT3 partition where my data resides, only the boot partition. Yet when I sign into the system in command line only, I have no problem getting to my data. But it's just not realistic to manually copy a bazillion files and directories of personal data off the system. We're talking ebooks, software archives, email backups, my last couple of years of tax returns, etc. Important stuff.
Suggestions? There is a DVD burner on the system. Any way of mass burning a couple of DVDs by command line?
Comment Avatars are a great concept... (Score 2, Interesting) 263
...it's just that Microsoft's initial implementation was poor IMHO. The whole concept is great. At my work, we have available a tremendous amount of online training through a combination of video and PDF, etc. The thing is that what Microsoft didn't study, or perhaps did but didn't understand is that since childhood, kids are raised to see cartoon charactors as, for the most part, a little retarded. So anyone seen using a cartoon charactor to teach them concepts and usage of a software program will be seen as being retarded.
I bet that if they had done a proper, professional, and serious implentation, that it might have gone better for them.
