Comments | ehowton: "I'm gonna bite its hide. I need to...wear his stomach skin like a unitard.."

ehowton

"I'm gonna bite its hide. I need to...wear his stomach skin like a unitard.."

Jan 16, 2009 23:59

Recent updates to both my XP box and my OSX box have crippled my functionality identically, though it affects me much, much more on Windows. When I reboot either of these operating systems, my computer now cannot traverse the KVM and get a read on my widescreen monitor, so it defaults to a lower resolution and a 4:3 setting, which given my 16:10 ( Read more... )

osx, xp

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celtmanx January 17 2009, 06:36:03 UTC

"I want to travel back in time to hunt dinosaurs and get startled off the pre-fab trail by a charging T-Rex causing me to step on a butterfly and when we get back to our time there will be no Microsoft and the leader dude will put a gun to my head because he'll have to use an operating system that doesn't suck."

I saw that movie on the SciFi channel!!!

quicksilvermad January 17 2009, 08:25:54 UTC

I read that short story in my 10th grade English class... Damnit, who wrote that?

melancthe January 17 2009, 14:21:49 UTC

Ray Bradbury. It's called "A Sound of Thunder".

ehowton January 17 2009, 15:48:45 UTC

You're so smart! I didn't recall any of that.

quicksilvermad January 17 2009, 08:24:46 UTC

Damn.

I remember when we still used typewriters to write stuff "faster." Not kidding. I still have it-it's an Underwood.

Then we got a Mac.

Then, for some weird reason we got an IBM. Then a Compaq. Then an eMachine. Then a Dell. Now, after over fourteen years of the Blue Screen of Death and one useless Compaq laptop became sledgehammer fodder (literally-I smashed the fucker with a hammer) we moved back to Macs.

I still don't know why we switched. But I do know that I would make a horrible computer science teacher because I get frustrated trying to explain how to use a Mac to someone (my mother) who hasn't used one in so long.

Makes me long for the time when we still used the typewriter.

I think I'll write my novel on it. I just need a new ribbon (or loads of carbon paper).

ehowton January 17 2009, 15:48:07 UTC

I often think back to high school and the untold events which lead me to take, of all things, "Typing" a skill I now use everyday.

I don't miss those old Selectrics we practiced on, though at the time, I thought they were awfully impressive.

catttitude January 17 2009, 16:47:12 UTC

I remember my first computer. A Commodore 64, now that is a slow ass computer.

ehowton January 18 2009, 19:32:25 UTC

Welcome to the goodie room...

whester January 17 2009, 19:35:02 UTC

I've been going round and round with hoss just trying to get Apache installed the glorious event happened around 0200 this morning). It's running Debian, a little more knowledge about Linux would be nice. On the plus side I know what repositories are and how to use them :D.

ehowton January 17 2009, 19:56:18 UTC

You go on keep rockin' the free world!

thesweetestnote January 19 2009, 16:57:17 UTC

"You're not the only one who gets sick when you don't have your jelly beans"

ehowton January 19 2009, 17:03:35 UTC

Last night I spent hours trying to come up with a suitable 'Jeff Portnoy' avatar in the style of the one I made for catttitude (above) but so far all I have is 260 second-by-second screencaps of the Water Buffalo scene and animated gifs which FAR EXCEED livejournal's size usage.

Back to the drawing board!

thesweetestnote January 19 2009, 19:07:27 UTC

It can tricky. I may try my hand at few gifs. I love this movie!!!