Comment Desktop OS (Score 1) 96

by John Biggabooty on Sunday February 03, 2013 @05:11PM (#42780167) Attached to: Google Announces 2,000 Schools Now Use Chromebooks, Up 100% In 3 Months

Can these make Google Chrome the Linux distro that isn't just a plaything for a million undirected tinkerers, but a real desktop OS to replace Windows? I hope so. It is a shame BeOs is dead. I liked it.

Comment Shilling (Score 2) 526

by John Biggabooty on Sunday December 02, 2012 @01:07AM (#42159287) Attached to: Steve Jobs Was Wrong About Touchscreen Laptops

This article reads like something a cheerleader on Microsoft's payroll wrote. It it is, that should be disclosed. I am not impressed with Windows 8 at all.

Comment Re:Laws against science-fiction are stupid. (Score 1) 197

by John Biggabooty on Thursday June 03, 2010 @07:27PM (#32452416) Attached to: OH Senate Passes Bill Banning Human-Animal Hybrids

Big man, Pig man, Ha ha! Charade you are.

Comment Re:Check the HDD (Score 1) 835

by John Biggabooty on Friday January 23, 2009 @01:17PM (#26576709) Attached to: How To Diagnose a Suddenly Slow Windows Computer?

Do you have an HP printer? All the crap that comes bundled with those slows computers to a crawl. If so, uninstall all the crap that came with it, then install drivers only after downloading them from HP.com. You don't want all the junkware on the CD.

Comment Re:In other news... (Score 1) 372

by John Biggabooty on Sunday April 06, 2008 @10:25AM (#22979630) Attached to: Dell Abandons Its Customization Roots

They never really did much customization anyway. Dell would ask a few questions to clients who can't tell storage space from ram, and would either send out the basic package with integrated video and sound, or the multimedia package with video and sound cards. Either way, most people only got 256MB of ram when XP needs 512. Some poor suckers only got 128.

Comment Re:Length of days is a problem (Score 1) 229

by NoMoreNicksLeft on Tuesday November 13, 2007 @10:29AM (#21335619) Attached to: Antique Fridge Could Keep Venus Rover Cool

I'm a flunky, incapable of the math. But I don't think that that's the problem so much.

It's one of circularizing the orbit to Venus's current one, especially in so short a time, that is problematic.

Journal Journal: Workplace absuridities as phone support for a DSL ISP. 16

Journal by NoMoreNicksLeft on Saturday June 04, 2005 @12:50PM

This journal entry isn't about customers that call in, despite the numerous ijits out there that deserve to be mocked.

No, it's about the company I work for, specifically the bosses.

Yesterday, I recieved an email saying that "Firefox is on the list of banned software, and there will be disciplinary repercussions if anyone is caught using it."

Journal Journal: Day Three: Apathy 1

Journal by NoMoreNicksLeft on Thursday March 17, 2005 @02:15AM

Well, I wonder if temporary bans last this long, or if my sarcastic email managed to get me an editor pimpslap.

Strangely, I don't miss it as much as I would have thought.

Journal Journal: Day Two: Bannination.

Journal by NoMoreNicksLeft on Wednesday March 16, 2005 @01:20AM

Well, it's been well over 24 hours. May have to wait til I get my DSL before I can comment again. So all you losers that think you won our arguments... wrong, you've been protected from my stinging sarcasm and subtle wit by none other than the editors. They can't protect you forever. One day, you'll say something stupid on fark, or k5, and my vitriolic rebuttals will tear your wimpering souls to shreds. That, or you'll just ignore logic and continue blabbering on.

Journal Journal: After getting a few flamebait mods.. 1

Journal by NoMoreNicksLeft on Monday March 14, 2005 @12:34PM

I recieved the:

Due to excessive bad posting from this IP or Subnet, comment posting has temporarily been disabled. If it's you, consider this a chance to sit in the timeout corner . If it's someone else, this is a chance to hunt them down. If you think this is unfair, please email moderation@slashdot.org

So I decided to email them. Here is the gist of it.

Robert Rozeboom wrote:

Comment Re:New.Net (Score 1) 840

by shlybluz on Thursday October 30, 2003 @08:45PM (#7353883) Attached to: Which Adware and Spyware are the Most Insidious?

Aw h3ll, can't you cut a person some slack for making an honest recommendation even though its an affiliate link? So what if he mostly pimps his website, its some funny shiat.

BTW, I put PestPatrol on every one of my relatives computers cause I was frickin sick and tired of cleaning up their messes. I've managed to get all but one of them trained to run it weekly and even update it. Grandma doesn't get it, but I cut her some slack cause she always has some sort of homemade treat for me to take home when I make a cleanup run to her place...nothing like homemade chocolate chip cookies :)