Topic: What I learned today! (Read 185813 times)

Brentai · « **Reply #160 on:** November 07, 2008, 11:32:30 PM »

Oh God TV Tropes is showing up on my Google Speed Dial thing.

If you don't hear from me again tell ~~Friday~~ ~~Lyrai~~ ~~Lady Duke~~ ~~Psychick~~ ~~Disposable Ninja~~ ~~Guildenstern~~ ~~Thad~~ ~~Geothermal~~ Iron Mongrel I love her.

Mongrel · « **Reply #161 on:** November 08, 2008, 07:04:02 AM »

Brentai · « **Reply #162 on:** November 12, 2008, 11:22:37 PM »

TV Tropes got hacked.

Cute, but that guy just took the syringe away from a thousand junkies. Enjoy your brief and painful notoriety, Some Guy From Kuwait with Poor English.

Brentai · « **Reply #163 on:** November 12, 2008, 11:31:10 PM »

If that box uses FP addons then it pretty much deserved to get its ass kicked.

Arc · « **Reply #164 on:** November 13, 2008, 12:31:10 AM »

Happened back in September too.

Free. Your. Miiiiind.

Classic · « **Reply #165 on:** November 13, 2008, 01:00:39 AM »

It turns out that on the grand scale of things my ability to write is not bad.

Arc · « **Reply #166 on:** November 13, 2008, 07:25:13 AM »

Yes, bad would prove to be a poor definition.

'Apocalyptic' is far more suiting.

JDigital · « **Reply #167 on:** November 13, 2008, 08:25:13 AM »

This reinforces my belief that if such a thing can exist as a secure webserver, most aren't.

Unrelatedly, I learned there are a lot of website design companies in Belfast, and some of them are good. I assumed it would be as bad as the local IT industry, founded on a trickle of coasting university students while all the real talent flows south to Google/Microsoft European headquarters in Dublin. Turns out website design works like graphic design, not IT, so it runs on local airheaded dreamers instead of serious-minded career programmers.

MadMAxJr · « **Reply #168 on:** November 13, 2008, 08:28:41 AM »

A secure webserver is one where the user dies of natural causes while waiting for FormsAuthentication to kick in after supplying login/password.

Classic · « **Reply #169 on:** November 13, 2008, 11:50:45 AM »

This obnoxious NEONGREEN pen I got along with a bunch of actually useful colors for keeping diagrams straight is actually useless as in it won't write. Fuck neon green. I'm gonna go with NEONPURPLE instead!

Zaratustra · « **Reply #170 on:** November 13, 2008, 07:10:04 PM »

tbtropes is vack

Kazz · « **Reply #171 on:** November 17, 2008, 03:06:37 AM »

I often do something and then immediately consider it a mistake. For instance, I'll shut down my computer, only to realize that I had some important thing left to do.

One nifty way to get around this, at least for an XP user like me (ymmv), is to open up a WordPad document and just leave it on the desktop. Enter a few random characters if you wish, and don't save it. When the computer begins its shutdown process, it will find the unsaved document and give you three options: Save the document, continue shutting down, or "Cancel." Cancel, as it happens, cancels the entire shutdown procedure and leaves the computer running.

Classic · « **Reply #172 on:** November 17, 2008, 03:53:55 AM »

It turns out that instead of going to sleep or doing something productive with my time I will use literally any excuse to avoid doing something even if it is incredibly simple.

Kazz · « **Reply #173 on:** November 17, 2008, 03:56:54 AM »

I'd like to believe that is common for a member of the internet generation.

Classic · « **Reply #174 on:** November 17, 2008, 04:01:10 AM »

I wasted ten hours to commit a paragraph of text onto a page.
A paragraph that I think I'll discard.

Zaratustra · « **Reply #175 on:** November 17, 2008, 04:21:00 AM »

with great power comes tremendous ADD

Thad · « **Reply #176 on:** November 17, 2008, 11:16:32 AM »

Quote from: Kazz on November 17, 2008, 03:06:37 AM

One nifty way to get around this, at least for an XP user like me (ymmv), is to open up a WordPad document and just leave it on the desktop. Enter a few random characters if you wish, and don't save it. When the computer begins its shutdown process, it will find the unsaved document and give you three options: Save the document, continue shutting down, or "Cancel." Cancel, as it happens, cancels the entire shutdown procedure and leaves the computer running.

My solution is that I never shut down.

...I should probably get power management set up on this thing.

Arc · « **Reply #177 on:** November 17, 2008, 02:14:25 PM »

I learned that you (yes, you dear reader) just lost the game.

Royal☭ · « **Reply #178 on:** November 17, 2008, 02:20:20 PM »

And I just learned that some of Arc's jokes can be really disappointing and overplayed.

:singletear:

Arc · « **Reply #179 on:** November 17, 2008, 02:25:51 PM »

Are you saying that I just lost the game?

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