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All I want to do is sit at home and have my retinas burned by my new iMac but instead I am going to work :-(
hahaha that blows man, i'm sorry
- Marissa
I know it was so sad. It's ok though I am home now :-)
- Chris Lawrence
what time is it there?
- Marissa
5.15pm
- Chris Lawrence
Starting to plan another trip to USA in July next year. Where should we go besides New York, LA, San Francisco, and a quick stopover in Vegas?
Marissa liked this
Washington DC?
- Marissa
Disney world....but you have to take me ;] lol
- Marissa
Yeah I was thinking maybe visiting Washington, I'm definitely not a Disney guy though hahaha.
- Chris Lawrence
haha why not?
- Marissa
I just paid $3.99 for Newsie a iPhone app for reading Google Reader. So far I like it but it is not perfect. Still want a great reader.
ffcode, Svartling, Andres Montano and metalerik liked this
yes, I saw that one pop up as new. It did look pretty good. What are the not perfect parts?
- metalerik
Whats missing Robert?
- James Harnedy
Integration with Google Reader's Friends. Also, good sharing features. Sharing is my #1 thing and reason why I use Google Reader. It's amazing how bad all these apps are (and I've bought $15 worth just tonight).
- Robert Scoble
Finding a news reader app on the iPhone is hard enough let alone one that integrates with Google Reader. I've given up and just using Safari for the time being.
- Chris Lawrence
Same situation on Android
- Asgeir
I think Newsie is great. Really fast and the mail feature is really great on this one. But I cant find the tweet option though.. I have Tweetie 2 installed.
- Svartling
The Google Reader mobile version looks awesome on my 800x480 Archos 5 Internet Tablet with Android, which I got since yesterday..
- Charbax
trying to port everything to iPhone? plans for world trip?
- ffcode
Why do I have Spoonman by Soundgarden stuck in my head?
You desire some form of spooning?
- Johnny Worthington
If it involves spooning food into my mouth, then yes.
- Mellissa Claus
Aww great now I do too. Thanks.
- Chris Lawrence
Earworms are contagious.
- Mellissa Claus
"Long distance relationships dont work" i disagree....what do you think
I smell drama.
- Joe
oh no
- Marissa
no drama, not on my end anyways.... i fully believe in long distance relationships (clearly) but my friend from home thinks they dont work (looking for advice for her...well not advise, just different opinions) i was curious as to how many people share her belief or mine. thats all, no drama. *pinky promise*
- Marissa
I've seen some work, and others that don't, but with the march of technology, I can tell you they have gotten much easier
- RAPatton
very ture
- Marissa
Tried it once (NYC to Oakland). Didn't work.
- Jason Huebel
They work, for a while...but as time passes, the difficulty increases. Long Distance and Long Term are a difficult combination.
- ‘-.-’ Tutivillus Grift
Mostly don't work.
- Will-Pastor of FF
If they are meant to be, they will work out. If they do not work out, they are not meant to be.
- Curtiss Grymala
idk, as far as i am concerned, they are the best things for a relationship. =] when i saw him.....it was the best thing ever. absence makes the heart grow stronger.
- Marissa
To me, relationships are hard enough without adding extra distance. But I think if it's a good relationship it can probably survive some long distance.
- Chris Lawrence
i think it is hard, but i dont think people should automatically rule them out just because of distance.
- Marissa
The two ends of my OS X menu bar keep growing closer together like some sort of digital uni-brow.
Rich liked this
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- Marissa
EXACTLY....
- Chris Lawrence
haha... i must say, nice use of words, to describe something so simple. are you a writer?
- Marissa
Ahh no I am in no way a writer haha. Lyrics is the closest I get to writing, I play in a couple of bands.
- Chris Lawrence
hmmm a music boy? and a psych student...and denies being a writer...?! sounds like we have a lot in common
- Marissa
Oh are you a Psych student as well?
- Chris Lawrence
nope, special ed....minoring in psych. i LOVE it. =]
- Marissa
Sweet! Yeah that sounds like a much more practical application of Psychology than just a Bachelor of Psychology like I'm doing. Not my initial choice though, I am trying to get into medicine but it's quite hard haha. Also have two years of a degree in IT in there somewhere so my relationship with tertiary education is complicated.
- Chris Lawrence
lol i was just gonna do special ed. and i was so disappointed because i wanted to do something with psych as well... then i found out that majoring in special ed only leaves you a few credits short of minoring in psych. so i'll take the extra half a year to do so =] so if special ed doesnt work i can always just teach psych =] either way i will be a teacher =P
- Marissa
>=| there are sooooo many other things i would rather do than study
Such as?
- Amir
anything.
- Marissa
Like hangin out in FF!
- سیدعلیسنائی
yes, that would be included in everything. lol but back to studying
- Marissa
Man I know that feeling! In fact I am procrastinating right now..
- Chris Lawrence
Let's talk about emailing: My new work email is 23 MB over its limit, and it's been a week! Solutions?
RAPatton liked this
Have it automatically forward to a Gmail account and delete the originals?
- Chris Lawrence
One day I'll grow up and stop using my pants as a napkin.
Ladybug Heather and Marissa liked this
neeeever
- Marissa
Why? Also, what about using your upper sleeve as a tissue? :-)
- Ladybug Heather
I got into that habit in the restaurants where I was always wearing an apron... it's a hard habit to break. (the pants as napkin habit, not sleeve as tissue)
- Heather Solos
My pants are constantly grimy because I'm always wiping my hands on them, it gets way annoying. I've never been a tissue-sleever though.
- Chris Lawrence
drowning in my own / mucus: sinus infections / are simply no fun // #haiku
Chris Loft, John (a.k.a. dendroica) and Steven Perez liked this
Oh, noes, Ladybug! / *Sends Kleenex, juice, and Nyquil.* / Feel better quickly! // #haiku
- Laura - not edifying
you are teh awesome / thank you very much, laura / sweet miz piggy-tails! // #haiku :-D
- Ladybug Heather
Ladybug Heather / is *so* the undisputed / queen of the haiku. // #haiku :)
- Laura - not edifying
Hope you feel better soon. For the past two weeks my allergies have been awful, so I have had much the same feeling on some days.
- John (a.k.a. dendroica)
Got busted while I was on vacation with the fam. Been 2 weeks, and just now getting back to somewhat normal.
- Ken Stewart | ChangeForge
I can feel your pain / for I too have infection / mine is of the throat.
- Chris Lawrence
mine began in throat, / moved upward when i started / antibiotics
- Ladybug Heather
hoping i don't jinx / myself: my sinuses are / clear! i can breathe! yay!
- Ladybug Heather
my voice still sounds like / a frog's; interesting sound / from the church choir loft!
- Ladybug Heather
8:30pm on a Saturday night... Georgia's asleep, Rachael is out with friends, I'm bored... So I put on this hat...
sean808080, Penny, Laura - not edifying and 7 other people liked this
The best hat face.
- Chris Lawrence
looking good, JW.
- Jim Is Not Smart
Tad has a hat like this one! I'd say Tad-Johnny or even Thonny or.. or, even better Tony Danza!! :)) #sorry #lamejoke #WontDoItAgain
- directeur
I think the look on your face says it all :-)
- Sofia @ SoMaFusion
You're no longer bored?
- Eivind
That is a good hat face. I don't like hats
- Bryce Roney
Yay the beard is comin back! no homo
- sean808080
I think I can now sum up a whole day of East Coast Australia news: Shit got dusty.
Australian*
- Chris Lawrence
why is beach season over as soon as I get a new swim suit and matching belly button ring? =/
Travis Koger, Eric @ CSTechcast.com, Morton Fox and Jimminy liked this
Every year, the earth makes this big circle around the sun…
- Glen Mistletoe
lol yeahh yeahhh yeah...
- Marissa
LOL Glen.
- Jimminy
beach season aint over here, :p
- chaz2b
well arent you just lucky?
- Marissa
It's perfect time to go to the Carolinas, the prices are cheap and you can still get some fun out of the beach.
- Jimminy
i wish i was there =/
- Marissa
sorry, :(
- chaz2b
I've always wanted to go, but never been
- Marissa
You should come down to Australia, beach season is just beginning.
- Chris Lawrence
which carolina are you in jimminy? (Virginia Beach here)
- chaz2b
yeah...well here we'll probably have snow next week lol
- Marissa
Chaz, I'm in WV, have a lot of family in NC and used to go down every year for family reunions at Myrtle.
- Jimminy
you and holden have more than just your bdays in common =]
- Marissa
There are other places than the beach to be admired wearing your new swim suit and belly button ring. ;)
- Internet's Tad
haha maybe belly button ring, not the swim suit.
- Marissa
Marissa, what are you talking about, same gf? jk lol
- Jimminy
haha well that...AND the family in Carolinas
- Marissa
Ah, that is interesting.
- Jimminy
thanks jimminy, :) (but boo on your state, boooo)
- chaz2b
and you're both skinny
- Marissa
Chaz, I live right on the border, I can be in Western Virginia in about 25 minutes, Roanoke in a little over an hour. I prefer the grassy pastures that pop up just on the other side of the border, all I have are trees.
- Jimminy
Kanye "Yo Patrick Swayze I" meme... http://twitter.com/#search...
Kol Tregaskes, John E. Bredehoft, TheHenry and 5 other people liked this
"Yo! Patrick Swayze, I know you just died and all and I'ma let you finish, but Michael Jackson's death was by far the best one this year!!!!!"
- Johnny Worthington
"Yo! Patrick Swayze, you say you're a dirty dancer, but I got some DVDs at my house with much dirtier dancing!"
- John E. Bredehoft
Arnott's Australia: TimTam - http://www.arnotts.com.au/our-pro...
Glenn Slaven, Louis Simoneau, Charlotte M and 5 other people liked this
"1 in every 2 households contains a packet of Tim Tams and around 35 million packs are sold each year – that’s nearly 400 million biscuits!"
- Johnny Worthington
from Bookmarklet
I had one just minutes ago.
- Chris Lawrence
Sent down from the heavens.
- Andrew Trinh
from IM
I feel like my Australian friend was telling me about these one time. And I was like "wut?"
- Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF
And 1 in 2 Australian households doesn't contain a packet of Tim Tams because the residents have already eaten them.
- Mellissa Claus
I think 1 in 2 is a little overstated. We rarely have Tim Tams in our house.
- Bryce Roney
Ikea Tries to Build a Case Against Russian Graft - NYTimes.com - https://www.iterasi.net/public...
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Man IKEA are badass haha.
- Chris Lawrence
Heh, the "IKEA Mafia" comes to mind, for some reason. ;)
- Tyson Key
w00t!
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H4M3:D, AJ Batac, Morgan and 22 other people liked this
Shiny!
- Brian Chang
Same thing work just gave me, such a speed demon...do tell how 10.6 dominates
- Braden Douglass
Wow those boxes are really thin now!
- Chris Lawrence
Chris: If you think the box is thin, wait 'til you see what's inside. :)
- April Buchheit
want, want.
- Laura Norvig
Nice stuff.
- Mehmet Ali Akyol
I can't ever quit my job because they gave me a MacBook Pro and I don't want to give it up.
- Rebecca Sun
A job that gave me a Mac and expected me to use it regularly would be a valid reason for me to quit, personally.
- Otto
The full moon tonight here in still smokey Los Angeles. Straight from the camera, no post processing.
Head Ov Metal, Michael Fidler, Anna Haro and 20 other people liked this
Nice camera! I can't get shots like that with mine. Even if the moon looks HUGE to me, it looks small in the camera.
- Spidra Webster
Shot with a Panasonic FZ28. :)
- Adrian
Isn't it interesting how people compliment the camera whenever they see a nice image haha.
- Chris Lawrence
Settings: ISO 100, apperture F4, shutter speed 1/800
- Adrian
It's a nice picture, no doubt. This is actually the first time I think I've complimented the camera because no matter how good a photog someone is, they're not going to get a pic like that with the camera I own.
- Spidra Webster
LOL, it's all good Spidra, one of the reasons I bought this particular camera was to be able to grab shot like this. It has a Leica/Panasonic lens with 18x zoom capability (which is 35mm equivalent of 450mm or thereabouts). I'm an astronomy geek without a telescope. :(
- Adrian
I just went out to try and shoot the moon with my new 70-210 lens but I couldn't find it! fail.
- Chris Lawrence
Chris, couldn't find the lens or the moon? ;) What camera system does the lens belong to?
- Adrian
BTW, this was inspired by Carlos Ayala's post earlier: http://friendfeed.com/cma3
- Adrian
It looks great, but then again, you always take great shots of the moon.
- Admiral Anika
i posted a full moon shot done at 400asa on my older canon pro 1, i will post it here! get ready for mega noisy nightshots!
- daviza
The Johnnys - http://amsterdam.soup.io/post...
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gayyor, Darren Heydon, Willem (@wim66) ☠ and 2 other people liked this
Johnny how your Johnny get down like that?
- Chris Lawrence
soldakinin saçı çok komik..:)))
- gayyor
Find your name's best anagram - http://www.deanjackson.dj/nameana...
Steven Perez, sean808080, Travis Bedard and 24 other people liked this
Very good anagram AI, and fast.
- Stephen Mack
from Bookmarklet
Naked, Vivid Fox can attest that this is true.
- Kevin Fox
EXCEL HALO FAR wants it to offer more than one name option!
- Rachel Lea Fox
'Far Excel Halo' would be better.
- Kevin Fox
Hrm, mine sounds like a advert for eunuchs: RANK, NULL, MALE MALE. Dropping the middle name gets: ALL MUM KERNEL.
- Neal Krummell
A GERMLIKE, RARE KING
- Ginger Makela Riker
MEN IF JURY MILL, but I like "If jury men mill..." What will happen it's so suspenseful.
- Jimminy
SHAKEN DECENT WIMP says quit your cavils!
- Stephen Mack
DEAR VILLAINIES... but some time ago i found A VILLAIN DESIRE which i like much better.
- daniel silveira
LAX OR CHEF (no middle name) likes Ginger's and both of Daniel's a lot. And Stephen, why are you shaking wimps?
- Rachel Lea Fox
Without my first name, I'm THE MAPS NECK.
- Stephen Mack
Mine is - OH HELL! WHIPPERS REJECT SO
- CW™
Another with my middle initial only. HELL! REJECT WORSHIP
- CW™
"I am zero god" is what it came up with. I prefer i DoomGazer.
- Dario Gomez
Sailor Guy is still the best I have ever seen. (With Oily Sugar being the alternative)
- Louis Gray
AGO MARKS. Gigafail
- Mo Kargas
With middle names added: "OILY VULGARISM ACID-HEAD" Thanks, Stephen. Really.
- Louis Gray
Hahaha :D
- Mo Kargas
With middle names I get "SHARK SO DIAGRAM" WTF!!
- Mo Kargas
My name is I'M GRAND NERD JEERS BONNY, and don't you forget it! ;)
- Dennis Jernberg
Or my name is BRING JEERS 'N' NERD. I guess Nerd Jeers is a better name than Mud... ;)
- Dennis Jernberg
Or my name is GRRR! ENJOY MAD BEND (1st initial + middle name). With just my first and last name, all I get is BENIGN, DENSER JR. (#fail)...
- Dennis Jernberg
LIKE BRAIN \m/
- metalerik
Joel Webber => JEER WOBBLE :)
- Joel Webber
Charlotte Mothers ---> ALERT SMOOTH RETCH. Niiiiice
- Charlotte M
Mine is BRAVE EDITORS. But my Mum's is the best ----> PENIS ENVY AS A WISDOM!!!!
- Robert Davies
FACE SILLIES. Love it.
- felicious
I already knew mine! SCRAWNIER LECH. Fairly apt.
- Chris Lawrence
from iPhone
ILL-DEFINED SLASH IN HUMANITARIAN Or... using just one middle name NINE-AND-A-HALF NURSEMAID
- Nine
Steven Perez's anagram name is ZEE PREVENTS
- Josh Haley
Mine is - I'M SICK NOWS
- Simon Wicks
Mine is - JAIL AND TENDER FONDLERS
- Jannifer @wordsforliving
Simon- I prefer the anagram of your Facebook name...
- Robert Davies
"Dead Silence's anagram name is ACIDS NEEDLE"
- Joe Silence is not Santa
Joni Moilanen -> JOIN ON MENIAL :P
- Jemm
Ladybug Heather --> DEAR! HEALTHY BUG
- Ladybug Heather
AWE EYE HUGE NOUN is unhappy with his anagram name. I want a refund!
- Eugene Huo
hahaha >> JEER CANNABIS
- Janice
excellent!
- Joe Silence is not Santa
With my full name: "VOID AND CROOK LAD"
- David Cook
NOT SOBER TERRORISM for my fullname!
- Bob Morris (polizeros)
from iPhone
PORN CLATTERS for first and last
- Carlton Prest
DRIVELED DAD
- DAL
'Kol Tregaskes': Talks or geeks
- Kol Tregaskes
'Kolin Tregaskes': Streak-like snog
- Kol Tregaskes
I think I've found the best one. My daughter (Anaïs Emma Catherine Webber) -> I AM A WENCH BEARBAITER SEMEN
- Joel Webber
Joel wins. I should close comments! (But I won't.)
- Stephen Mack
from iPhone
HORROR'S GRIM, HUGE POTENCE
- Chris Munro
AHA! LARGER BELCH
- Rachel Garb
TERROR'S BITCH
- Robert Christ
ENVY NOT PRESENT HAZE
- Steven Perez
IF GREED BRAVES
- Davis Freeberg
Visits from Google Chrome users exceeded 10% on my Web site over the last month. Firefox is #1 at 51.5%. (For Matt Cutts)
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For Matt: http://friendfeed.com/mattcut... in response to http://www.mattcutts.com/blog...
- Louis Gray
Funny how the demographics change from site to site. I maintain a rural cinema's website and last month we had 66% IE and only 22% Firefox. 10% of the users were even using IE6! I shudder to think how many virus infected computers visit my site.
- Chris Lawrence
I'm seeing similar stats for Chrome across my sites, but IE change places with FF in your example for half of those sites.
- Mo Kargas
51.5% Firefox, 15.4% IE and 10.8% Chrome tells me that you have a very tech-savvy audience.
- Matt Cutts
The Apple Store is down, post all your wild speculations here:
I'm going for a $500 tablet......
- Chris Lawrence
Five Great Reasons to Root Your Android Phone - http://lifehacker.com/5342237...
Edward Zwart, John Wang, Mycaptain and 30 other people liked this
I just did this following the steps in the article. I love the power widget (Seen above) and having multitouch is quite nice. I am seeing a performance increase already.
- Haggis (Sean Loyless)
from Bookmarklet
Had installed 3.9.11.2 before trying the one mentioned here. No phone-wide search in 4.0.1? Poo.
- Christopher A Carr
Christopher, Cyanogen says he is working on the phone-wide search, possibly for 4.1
- Tim Hoeck
Cyanogen's 3.9.11.2 has device-wide search. It does, however, lack the multi-touch in the browser hack, which seems pretty worthless to me anyway.
- Christopher A Carr
Before i go and possibly brick my G1 (Germany, T-Mobile branding, no simlock): can this be done on a non-US G1 as well?
- Ralph
Yup!
- Haggis (Sean Loyless)
Does that mean "Yup! - You'll brick it" or "Yup! - It works great, Dude"?
- Ralph
Ralph: The rooting procedure linked to there is pretty stupid-simple. I think it would actually be trickier to brick your phone than not. Cynogen's 4.0.x really rejuvenates the G1. Highly recommended.
- Christopher A Carr
I just did this Saturday night and I'm loving it. The only thing is keeping updated. I have the CM Updater, but when i upgrade to a theme, the updater says I have an update and just flashes over it lol. Really wish there was better themeing support, very happy that I rooted though. Apps on the SD card is a phone saver from nerd rage. My phone doesn't slow down at all now!
- Ⓐ ☠ slayerboy ☠ Ⓐ
I did it! Crap, this thing is fast now ;-) Keeps me from getting an iPhone 3GS for now...
- Ralph
But for whatever reason i can't get the Hero's compact keyboard to show... locale is English, so it should work i guess...
- Ralph
there's a setting you have to change in the language settings I think...I dunno..virtual keyboard worked fine on my G1 without doing anything
- Ⓐ ☠ slayerboy ☠ Ⓐ
i had to deactivate 'android keyboard' completely - now it works fine. but i have another issue: how much ram am i supposed to have with no further apps installed? i only have less than 40 on my G1 which seems a little low to me...
- Ralph
I need to partition my sd card.. Can I just shrink the fat32 and make an ext with gParted?
- Christopher A Carr
yes: http://gparted.sourceforge.net/larry... - just create the ext partition AFTER the fat partition.. I think it makes a difference..
- Tim Hoeck
I partitioned the drive fat32 in the front and ext at the end prior to trying to flash the ROM, but the sd card became completely unmountable on all of my windows and Linux machines -- with Android complaining about a damaged sd card. Had to format back to all fat32. Not sure what happened. Will try it again.
- Christopher A Carr
yah, it should definitely be readable in your OS.. something seems to not have gone right.. I forgot to mention the obligatory 'backup what you have on your partition just in case' beforehand..
- Tim Hoeck
@Ralph I have 60mb free, but I'm using Apps2SD. If you're not using Apps2SD then that sounds like the right amount of free ram. I barely had 14mb free before I did this.
- Haggis (Sean Loyless)
@Christopher I formatted mine with a partition manager. First partition was FAT32, second was EXT3
- Haggis (Sean Loyless)
Haggis: Apps2SD is a no no and not necessary with Cyanogen's ROM -- or so I understand.
- Christopher A Carr
Well what I meant was that Apps2SD is already built in so I'm using the one included in the ROM.
- Haggis (Sean Loyless)
Ah, got it.
- Christopher A Carr
OK, about to try again. Will I be given the option to transfer apps once the new partition is detected?
- Christopher A Carr
Nah, the beauty about the ROM is that it will detect and do it automatically. Once you have the partitiions set (and your phone reads your card), go to SD Card and Storage under settings and if you did it right, it will show the "SD card secondary" space with your new partition. Take note of your available phone memory, restart your phone, and check it again. Should be closer to 50-60mb. :D
- Haggis (Sean Loyless)
Just picked up a MT3G last week. Does doing this really speed everything up?
- Kevin Whalen
Haggis: That kicks ass. Fixin to have a go at it now... Kevin: Yes, though the difference might be a little less pronounced on the MT3G...?
- Christopher A Carr
Success!
- Christopher A Carr
*cheers*
- Haggis (Sean Loyless)
Wow. This is really going to extend the shelf life of this little clunker. Someone buy Cyanogen a beer.
- Christopher A Carr
I know! I'm in love with my phone all over again now that I don't have restrictions on apps or how many I want running (other than shorter battery life, heh)
- Haggis (Sean Loyless)
I think you all have convinced me to root my G1 as well.
- Naomi Williams
I just want to say for all the Australians - lol @ "root your android phone".....that is all.
- Chris Lawrence
definitely have to chime in and say that this was painless, and i saw the benefit almost at once, though it did take me a bit to realize i had more than the original 3 panes.
- Seth Brower
Seth: Do you have your apps on you SD?
- Christopher A Carr
@Seth Haha, no kidding! It was a good couple hours before I accidentally swiped to the 4th screen, and then the 5th screen on the other side. :D
- Haggis (Sean Loyless)
I've OCD-ish behavioral tendencies. 5 screens made for about 3 hours of organizing shortcuts. I'm looking at my phone right now thinking I need to redo everything.
- Christopher A Carr
I switched my home screen for HomeSimple (from the market). Okay, so it's a blatant iPhone ripoff, but I like it. I also don't spend 3 hours EVERY SINGLE DAY rearranging my home screen any more :-)
- Slappy Line
Hmmm...what's this? CyanogenMod-4.0.3.1 ...
- Christopher A Carr
Hmmm.. What's the easiest way to update the ROM to the new version?
- Haggis (Sean Loyless)
Download the Cyanmod Updater from the Market, check for update and apply update. Boom!
- Adrian
Nice. I kept trying to search for "CM Updater" and getting nothing. Even "cyan" didn't work. Cyanogen worked though. Android Market SUCKS.
- Haggis (Sean Loyless)
Yeah I totally agree on the Market! It needs a massive overhaul. PS Mine just finished updating and rebooting itself... no idea what changed. :)
- Adrian
Specifically, android market search sucks. It only searches whole words and gets confused by spaces
- Slappy Line
Cyanogen says: "This is a small upgrade for the stable series that contains new bluetooth and audio code backported from Donut, as well as some kernel changes which should improve responsiveness."
- Christopher A Carr
Thanks Crhis!
- Adrian
@Christopher No currently I just put my apps back on as normal, It had been a long day and didnt want to tinker to much longer, that will likely be my project tonight.
- Seth Brower
Seth: Definitely do it. Absolutely worth the minor hassle. Do you have an installed Linux distro handy, or a live Linux disk? Just shrink the fat32 partition from the end, and create a new ext partition...pop it in the phone, and presto.
- Christopher A Carr
I used the gParted Live CD and booted from it. Worked like a charm
- Haggis (Sean Loyless)
from IM
Burning a Parted Magic (gParted-based) live CD is something to put on one's list of things to do...comes in very handy.
- Christopher A Carr
I couldn't agree more, the bootable G-Parted Live CD is awesome! That's what I've been using to partition my drives for a while -- best way to start a proper dual/tri-boot system.
- Adrian
FYI, the new Cyanogen Updater lets you see version changes prior to upgrading.
- Tim Hoeck
My balls just shriveled back up into my body at the sight of this... UGH.
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NOOOOOO!!!! DO NOT WANT!
- Internet's Tad
Aw, man, and now I looked at it. I have to go shower.
- The Letter M
Unsee! UNsee! UNSEE!!!!!
- CAJ, somewhere else
:D
- directeur
RED ALERT! BATTLE STATIONS!!!
- Steven Perez
:( I don't know why they had to change 3.1 http://friendfeed.com/worldof...
- WorldofHiglet
Awww this reminds me of being 10 :D
- Chris Lawrence
This was the OS that convinced me never to use Windows as my primary OS ever again.
- Victor Ganata
W7 is the OS that convinced me that Windows isn't so terrible.
- Jason Huebel
from IM
GAWD. This is a nightmare.
- Jason Huebel
XP hasn't been bad at all. On the other hand Win 95/98 really sucked!
- Jeff P. Henderson
EWW
- Onur Gündüz
Wow...haven't seen that screen in awhile. For a time, I had successfully made a DOS 6.22 VM...couldn't get Windows 3.11 installed on it though. :/
- Jonas, Leper of FF
lol funny MINE 2!
- Brady
Hey now. At least it's not Windows ME.
- John Wang
My Linux box laughs at your pain. It has no sympathy.
- Steven Perez
kinda miss that. kinda
- Brian Hendrickson
@Steven, I didn't install it as a host OS. I'm keeping it safely contained inside a virtual machine. ;-)
- Jason Huebel
It's still laughing. I think that's a hidden feature in Mint. :D
- Steven Perez
hey, at least it's not Windows ME. wait, someone already said that.. JINX!
- Joe Silence is not Santa
Windows ME scarred me for life. I never, never, never ever put a computer to sleep. Heck, I'm afraid that when I fall asleep I'll turn blue by the next morning.
- John E. Bredehoft
i once got a free box from a cow-orker. when i got it home and booted it i saw ME was on it. i never FDISKed with more prejudice than i did that night.
- Joe Silence is not Santa
The "It is not safe to turn off your computer" parody shutdown screen comes to mind here, for some reason...
- Tyson Key
I feel defenestration comin' on!
- James (!?)
Just love the "balls just shriveled back up" portion.
- Manuel Mas
It's better than Windows 7, if the name is to be believed. ;)
- Tyson Key
You know, I have to give Microsoft a lot of credit. Windows 98 is a flaming pile. It's so thoroughly unstable that I can't believe people loved it so much. Then again, there weren't very many viable alternatives (oh OS2, how I miss you).
- Jason Huebel
Mmm, OS/2. I managed to get that running under QEMU, on a once-only occasion.
- Tyson Key
I should clarify... I give them a lot of credit for having much more stable OS's these days. The best thing they ever did was move to NT.
- Jason Huebel
If the world were a fair place, OS/2 should have been the successor to Windows 3.11.
- Jason Huebel
I don't want to look like a fanboy (oh well, I don't care actually :p) but nothing beats Linux and BSD ;-)
- directeur
It wasn't quite as "there" in 1998 as it is now though. Linux is definitely a good alternative nowadays though.
- Jason Huebel
from IM
I'm a KDE man, myself. But Ubuntu has made Gnome more palatable to me.
- Jason Huebel
I'm a ratpoison man! :) Give it a serious try, Jason, you'll love your machines :)
- directeur
Same here, directeur. I'm not sure why, but no matter what happens, I can never seem to get along with Windows, and I usually always find myself hitting some stupid artificial limitation, or wanting some missing feature. I prefer KDE on Linux over any version...
- Tyson Key
I installed Windows 3.11 on a virtual machine once, it was fun.
- Bryce Roney
Oof. You're hard-core then. I've been known to run aewm on occasion.
- Jason Huebel
I still remember how awful FVWM and TWM were on a prehistoric version of RedHat Linux. They made CDE "usable" for me, when I eventually managed to try Solaris last year.
- Tyson Key
@directeur, I don't currently run Linux as a desktop OS. I have a couple of servers (with GUI's) running Gentoo Linux. I've got a Macbook that's my primary machine (I don't have a desktop PC at all), so Mac OS X is my primary OS. All the Unixy goodness with a nice GUI on top.
- Jason Huebel
I used to enjoy using the "Classic" versions of Mac OS, but I don't particularly like GNOME, as much as it tries to imitate the former in various ways. Probably since I was burnt by a buggy early version of it, along with dire Linux 2.4.x and X11 VGA drivers.
- Tyson Key
Hard-core, I don't know :) But I feel more productive with ratpoison. Idon't need a lot of apps (GUI, that is) so, I have a urxvt open with screen (zsh, vim, mplayer) and firefox, I use gimp and inkscape on occasions, but it's mostly all done in the terminal. I have this ibook G4 and honnestly even if flash doesn't work on a PPC. I won't login into OSX.
- directeur
The cooperative multitasking architecture, and some unusual UI quirks infuriated me otherwise, though. (Blocking non-modal dialogue boxes, random UI hangs whilst waiting on background processes and Extensions, the Bomb dialogue box, and some other stuff that I can't remember at the moment).
- Tyson Key
I still miss certain features like the Control Strip, colour labels for files, and the ability to copy and paste custom icons as file metadata. The Clipping Files feature and the Scrapbook application were useful too, and I've never seen a decent replacement for those on Linux.
- Tyson Key
I personnaly use the shell for everything related to files/streams... (anything that is a text). You'll laugh, but I once coded a GUI app (that's destined for a windows market) on Linux using python. I coded everything, made my tests, and when it was time to deliver an executable/installable I used my bro's PC :)
- directeur
What did you use as the GUI toolkit? PyQt?
- Jason Huebel
from IM
Nope, wxpython. I wrote my own little framework on top of it — btw, I seriously should clean it and opensource it
- directeur
Ah, I like wxWidgets. Clean, light and cross-platform.
- Jason Huebel
from IM
every time I see this show in my feed I think, "Jason saying his balls are shriveling up is just so weird." But it's mostly cuz I've never cared for that word for those body parts. :)
- pea
Because it's something I wouldn't normally say? Because it isn't. :-)
- Jason Huebel
from IM
Exactly! Too bad, there's no real good support for webkit (except for osx) in it, but I find it more straightforward than Qt. (Well, I should use more QT to have a serious opinion, but still ... :))
- directeur
Honnestly, I won't use "balls" in a post here (I'm too shy, I think) but Jason's sentence made me LOL! :)
- directeur
I briefly considered alternatives like "nads", "boys" or "naughty bits", but I just went with being as crass as possible. ;-)
- Jason Huebel
from IM
:D
- directeur
Jason, I'm glad you chose to do that. I thought "well that's a bit graphic, but it's so *perfect*" XD I laugh all over again each time I read that.
- Kamilah Gill
Oh, I get being crass for effect. I certainly employ that little tactic. But yeah, I just can't picture you saying it, for one. And two, like I mentioned, I just don't like balls used in that way. Quirk of mine. Some words are pretty, some not. Hee.
- pea
Oh yeah. That's definitely not a pretty word. ;-) And you wouldn't hear me say it IRL (although I'd definitely think it). Just not something I'd say out loud.
- Jason Huebel
from IM
sometimes I'll say something like, 'she's got balls' but most of the time I tend to stick with "she's got nerve". depends on how mad I am. :) most of the words I only think and try to not say are cutesy stuff that I picked up from working with kids for so long.
- pea
I switched to Linux (Red Hat 6 specifically) exactly because of Win 98. Definitely not for the faint of heart, but I was much happier with it.
- Victor Ganata
Bob Dylan to mumble GPS directions? - http://www.engadget.com/2009...
I have never wanted custom voice on GPS before I have to admit, I would probably get this.
- Chris Lawrence
I just paid $AUD 3.99 for Tweetie... A Twitter app... I feel so dirty...
Louis Gray, Live4Emma (L4S), Derrick and John E. Bredehoft liked this
Johnny, don't feel dirty. It's OK to use AUD on occasion. :)
- John E. Bredehoft
I am so glad I re-read that. I though you paid 3.99 for a Twinkie. Then I was wondering what would a twitter app called Twinkie do while I was still thinking of the food. My brain scares me at times.
- Brent - Loving Life
Tweetie is nice. It's one of the few iPhone apps I've paid for.
- Derrick
I hope you used an iTunes card to buy it, cheaper that way.
- Bryce Roney
It gets easier...with time..
- Chris Lawrence
I thought I knew you.
- Josh Haley
O my. The end is nigh.
- Micah Wittman
l hope so.....
- Pam Gwenzi
l thought twitter was for freee
- Pam Gwenzi
Could be worse. I bought all the FriendFeed apps I could think of so I could do a bake-off post... and then FB happened, so I figured what was the point? Aggregate cost? Between $20 and $30.
- Louis Gray
:(
- Johnny Worthington
Tweetie is a nice iPhone app though, well worth the price.
- 321
Y'all hush. True Blood is coming on.
AJ Batac, Carlton Prest and Michelle Martinez liked this
POKE!
- pea
A-la peanut butter sandwiches! Ah-Ah-AH-AHHHH!
- Josh Haley
Keep it up, Pea. Imma have to do bad things with you.
- ha3rvey (doesn't dance)
Child, you are so two thousand late.
- Derrick
*jiggles keys*
- Ayşe E.
SUPERPOKE!
- pea
*throws pie*
- pea
Hey, give a guy a break. I don't have HBO at home. Watching it at the hotel.
- ha3rvey (doesn't dance)
Latest episode was whack but still good imo.
- Chris Lawrence
*throws more pies*
- pea
*jangles coins in pocket*
- Ayşe E.
*throws pie AND bacon covered brownies*
- pea
Sookie gains even MORE magical powers! Pretty soon she'll be able to mind control Bill and shoot lasers out her eyes.
- Carlton Prest
bacon covered brownies... ick.
- ha3rvey (doesn't dance)
well, duh. you're not supposed to like what i throw at you. otherwise, what's the point?
- pea
Well, depending on you were throwing, I could dodge it or catch it. Some things I could throw back at you.
- ha3rvey (doesn't dance)
GPS On Your Mobile Phone Illegal In Cars - http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2009...
Wish I had read this before I spent $100 on TomTom for iPhone. Dayyyum.
- Chris Lawrence
Even though you aren't allowed to (apparently)... if you had permission, would you touch this?
Steven Perez, Tate DA FF MVP, Laura - not edifying and 4 other people liked this
Ummm...yes?
- Rob Haas
pass
- Bren -- Not Grinchy
I am thinking the only thing I would touch would be his bank account.
- Brent - Loving Life
No thankyou.
- Chris Lawrence
there isn't enough money in existence to make me touch this.
- Joe Silence is not Santa
Not really, no.
- Brome
No thank you
- Curtiss Grymala
from iPhone
umm, Can't.
- Carlos Ayala
say What? ... no
- Mac Sharp
Weigh in Week 1 - http://www.mathewpacker.com/weigh-i...
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Congratulations!
- Chris Lawrence
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