Yep...Compute's Gazette and MLX. I remember why I hate that fart-buzz sound now: MLX had a checksum byte and if you typed the line wrong, it would fart-buzz at you and make you punch it in again. I'd have to say it was worth it to play Crossroads II: Pandemonium. Dear god, that game was stimulating.

It's not a programming problem, it's a programmer problem.

No, they're complaining because having a new trumped-up social injustice to screech about every few days is part of their identity and they wouldn't feel like special snowflakes without it. What's most interesting is that the people complaining about DICSS are being a thousand times more rude, offensive, vulgar, and anti-social than the whole DICSS joke ever was. If anything, he's broadcasting to women who are actually level-headed and socially capable that he has a sense of humor and isn't going to live in fear of some bigoted professional victim admonishing him.

Don't forget that OEMs now sell lots of computers with no CSM boot option and only ACPI 5.0 tables which Windows 7 and below can't read and crash on boot claiming that the computer isn't ACPI-compliant. Even if you try to boot Windows 7 via UEFI, the ACPI 5.0 tables will block it completely, so such machines are forcibly Windows 8 or higher with no option to downgrade available.

A thousand times this. Tons of diagnostic and repair software runs outside of Windows environments. Windows has also been removing all troubleshooting and repair capabilities from consumer operating systems since Windows 8. No safe mode (unless you can boot into normal mode, how fucking useless) and no boot menu (unless you can boot into normal mode AGAIN, and no, *the shift-F8 thing doesn't actually work*) and not even any boot media included with the computers anymore. Hard drive failure? Fuck you and your data too, plus you don't get any media to install with once you replace the drive. Go buy a new computer!

There will be corporate heads on a pike when normal people start being bitten hard by this nonsense.

Yeah, I know. I thought about it more AFTER I posted. Bad me. Trusting Ensign Ro to spy on the Maquis might have been a better example. *shrug*

That's part of the point of TNG. They did an excellent job of chipping away at the sanitized image of all those characters with little hammers over the years. Take a semi-Utopian advanced human society and reveal all their flaws, because our flaws are part of what make us human in the first place. Picard might have been a clean looking leader in the beginning but we learned over many seasons that he's reclusive and dislikes kids and barely avoided being kicked out of the Academy and doesn't always make good decisions, like flying into a big ass meteor only to be sealed in by a Romulan ship he knew was out there. TNG and TOS are two sides of a humanity coin: one shows how we are and what's great about it, the other shows how we think we want to become and how that's not as perfect a thing as we envision.

Surprisingly, you've stated my opinion better than I think I could have. The death of Gene Roddenberry and the slow decline of Star Trek seem to have coincided. It makes a LOT of sense if you watch the various older shows and films and "making of" specials about Star Trek TOS and TNG. Gene had a vision and Gene made Star Trek what it was. After his death, some of the people who worked with him (like Jonathan Frakes) did a decent job of keeping his vision around, but few who watch, say, Voyager (and have seen TOS/TNG) would say that Voyager is generally a better series.

The newer Trek creators have forgotten that Star Trek is about exploring the nature and folly of humanity. Futuristic space exploration just happens to be an excellent container to ship it in.

For those of us who prefer to roll our own distros or compile stuff ourselves, XFCE is far easier to build from scratch than any GNOME or KDE4 environment. The dependencies on libraries not shipped in XFCE directly are minimal and there aren't many snags to worry about.

Don't forget about the more recent and glaring example: Big Bang Theory. I've seen it referred to as "nerdsploitation" and "blackface for nerds" in various places. Let's face it: actual nerds are still picked on and outcast even by our "modern and enlightened" society (cough, cough). Being a nerd or geek is now something to loosely emulate in an exaggerated fashion to seek attention, but being an actual nerd or geek is still unacceptable.

Even worse is the fact that radical feminism is now directly attempting to destroy the "safe spaces" created by the outcast nerds and demonize their existence. Look at Linus Torvalds: actual nerds who understand Linus and Linux, how the ecosystem works, and that see how well Linus' methods have worked for over 20 years straight are happy with his behavior. "Polite society" feminist trolls focus in a myopic way on extremely specific actions he has taken to black-label him and try to get him ousted from the open source community in the name of "being nice." These are the same people that loudly clapped when Sarah Sharp made a politeness stink on the LKML but stopped tuning in immediately before Linus engaged in a courteous two-way conversation with her and they resolved their differences cleanly. Sarah Sharp still contributes heavily to the Linux kernel. Sarah Sharp isn't hiding under a rock playing the victim card while doing nothing of actual value. What do today's nerd-hating oppression olympics P.C. hordes contribute to the world of real nerds and geeks once you exclude their vitriol? Funny how rabid social justice douchebags rarely submit patches to open source projects.

Nerd outcasting is still very much alive and well. It's just that now they're trying to cast out the outcasts from the island that they founded because they were cast out in the first place. At some point even the most timid victim will lash out against the bullies and re-align their jaws.

Girls do not play the same games as boys, and also tend to pick game categories that have no "main character." It's not that social media changed gaming; it's that social media put the game categories that appeal more to females right in their faces.

7-Zip is by far the easiest way to do this. Select files, right-click, 7-Zip, Add to archive... and if you supply a password and check "encrypt file names" the whole archive is AES-256 encrypted with the password you used. Upload that bad boy and feel more secure. On the other end, download it, right-click, "extract here" and then delete the 7z file. It's just one extra step prior to upload and after download and the shell integration makes it dead simple. If you're on Linux using p7zip at a command prompt, "7za a -mhe archive_name.7z file_and_dir_names_go_here -p" and it'll prompt for a password.

freedesktop.org is under Red Hat control. All of the biggest douche moves in Linux have come from Red Hat, including all the Poettering-based junk and the lovely musings of Ulrich Drepper. At least Drepper wrote some interesting papers and made some valuable contributions despite his acerbic handling of bug reports; I don't really find anything Poettering does to be of real-world value. Red Hat has beaten Microsoft in the EEE philosophy; I think Microsoft is far less evil than Red Hat at this point in history. It's too bad because Red Hat historically helped to bring Linux into the corporate mainstream and has otherwise done some great things for the community. Why did they start going downhill so hard?

Red Hat and Ubuntu are the enemies of clean, functional, and elegant open-source solutions. The irony is so thick that you could cut it with a knife.

http://www.floodgap.com/softwa... and you're welcome. ;)

Firefox doesn't get slow as molasses after a few hours either. Perhaps you are thinking of a very old version or have a pretty low-spec computer.