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Re: Randomness

Postby dark_rain » Fri Nov 14, 2008 6:14 pm

panyasan wrote:BTW my computer is working again :D, but I still don't have sound and the image on my screen is BIG. Any computer wizzards out there who can help me?? :wink:


Sounds like you could be missing video and/or sound drivers. I'd like to give you a step by step guide, but I suck at writing documents. If you do a google search it should be able to turn up a howto for you. If you got a CD with your computer then try running that as well.
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Re: Randomness

Postby CX » Sat Nov 15, 2008 9:04 am

CX wrote:Man, I've been getting all sappy lately and I don;t even know why. I've even started looking people up and apologizing for crap I've done to them, like, years ago. Yet I'm still the same asshole I've always been. Weird, huh? :vulcan:

On further reflection, I'm pretty sure it's the drugs. :mrgreen:

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Re: Randomness

Postby Kevin Thomas Riley » Sat Nov 15, 2008 6:31 pm

The top 10 greatest geeks of all time

1. Linus Torvalds
2. Steve Wozniak
3. Sir Tim Berners-Lee
4. Seymour Cray
5. Marc Andreessen
6. Grace Hopper
7. Jack Kilby & Robert Noyce
8. Alan Turing
9. Richard Stallman
10. Paul Allen
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Re: Randomness

Postby justTripn » Sat Nov 15, 2008 8:39 pm

CX wrote:
CX wrote:Man, I've been getting all sappy lately and I don;t even know why. I've even started looking people up and apologizing for crap I've done to them, like, years ago. Yet I'm still the same asshole I've always been. Weird, huh? :vulcan:

On further reflection, I'm pretty sure it's the drugs. :mrgreen:


Either that or you're pregnant. ;)
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Re: Randomness

Postby Asso » Sat Nov 15, 2008 8:46 pm

:lol:
Well yes. I continue to write. And on Fanfiction.Net, for those who want, it is possible to cast a glance at my latest efforts. We arrived to
The Ears of the Elves, chapter Forty-four


And here is the beginning of the whole story.
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But, I must say, you could also find something else on Fanfiction.net written by me. If you want.

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Re: Randomness

Postby JadziaKathryn » Sun Nov 16, 2008 11:20 am

No Bill Gates on the top geeks list? :?
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Re: Randomness

Postby Kevin Thomas Riley » Sun Nov 16, 2008 2:25 pm

JadziaKathryn wrote:No Bill Gates on the top geeks list? :?

As it says under Paul Allen:

Without Paul Allen Bill Gates would not have become the richest man in the world. Allen convinced Gates to drop out of Harvard to set up Microsoft, and was twice the programmer Gates ever was.

Allen was key to Microsoft's early success but was never as driven as Gates, once falling out with him after he skipped work for a day to go and see the first ever Space Shuttle launch. He was also key to Microsoft's buying QDOS, which the company transformed into DOS, the cornerstone of its success.

It's the same about Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak:

While Steve Jobs was the marketing mastermind who brought the whole thing about, Woz was the engineering muscle who developed the company's first products.
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Re: Randomness

Postby Elessar » Sun Nov 16, 2008 10:08 pm

I love the attempt (and successful!) to rephrase "braniac" as "engineering muscle" :lol:, that's awesome.
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Re: Randomness

Postby JadziaKathryn » Thu Nov 20, 2008 1:09 am

After nine fantastic months in Australia, I have returned to the US.

It was late spring, warm, and green with long days. Now I am home and it didn't get above freezing today, and it gets dark around 4.

But the airlines didn't make me pay extra for my third suitcase, and I returned safely without flight delays.
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Postby Alelou » Thu Nov 20, 2008 2:18 am

Welcome home. It IS cold and dark, isn't it? Winter is finally settling in.

But it will be nice to be home for the holidays, I hope.
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Re: Randomness

Postby justTripn » Thu Nov 20, 2008 3:35 am

JadziaKathryn wrote:After nine fantastic months in Australia, I have returned to the US.

It was late spring, warm, and green with long days. Now I am home and it didn't get above freezing today, and it gets dark around 4.

But the airlines didn't make me pay extra for my third suitcase, and I returned safely without flight delays.


Welcome home. We've had some pretty snow. :?
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Re: Randomness

Postby JadziaKathryn » Thu Nov 20, 2008 6:53 pm

Alelou wrote:Welcome home. It IS cold and dark, isn't it? Winter is finally settling in.

But it will be nice to be home for the holidays, I hope.
It will indeed. I'm going to (or attempt to, at least) make a pavlova for Thanksgiving. (Meringue, whipped cream, and fruit - a very Aussie dessert.) I'm a family gal, so I'm glad to be home for the holidays.
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Re: Randomness

Postby Alelou » Thu Nov 20, 2008 7:46 pm

That's so yummy. First time was from an Australian student grad student at one of our dorm pot lucks, second time from a friend of mine last summer who just had to try the recipe. Soooo goood!
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Re: Randomness

Postby Alelou » Thu Nov 20, 2008 10:25 pm

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news ... hield.html

"Star Trek" Shield May Protect Astronauts

This may be old news, but my copy of The Week actually had a picture of this with a little NCC-1701 in it and my heart melted. Unfortunately their online site doesn't have it.

It does, however, have people arguing about the new Trek movie: http://www.theweek.com/article/index/90 ... _Star_Trek
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Re: Randomness

Postby Kevin Thomas Riley » Thu Nov 20, 2008 10:56 pm

Welcome back, JzK. :) Although thanks to the marvels of the Internet you never really left.
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