Aug
29
Authors
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I'm looking for users/authors who are willing to write for DjLizard.net occasionaly. I prefer technical articles. Let me know if you are up to it. I have been so busy lately I haven't even gotten to look at Grizzly's poem thingies (sorry Griz).
Aug
26
I sure have been busy lately [NT]
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Aug
23
Re: prefetch
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http://blogs.msdn.com/ryanmy/archive/2005/05/25/421882.aspx
Aug
13
I took this test and scored:
English Genius
You scored 100% Beginner, 100% Intermediate, 100% Advanced, and 100% Expert!
Not that it's a big surprise. The test is pretty easy if you paid attention in the 3rd grade. Oh, you didn't? Pump my gas.
Aug
12
Tangent 2
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It's pretty hard to get time to work on this site when I'm so busy fixing unfixable computers. Norton Internet Security (actually, all Symantec/Norton) products are hereby boycotted.
I've never seen such a lousy setup in all of my life. Their products can barely hold themselves together in a standalone installation, let alone integration with other Symantec/Norton products. Remember when Norton Utilities used to be awesome? (I'm talking about the DOS 6.22 days, when everything worked properly and software that glitched up was actually surprising) There will be no discussion of those products on this website any further.
I've also quit visiting the CCleaner forums. (Don't even ask me about it, unless you like to banned at the IP level from this site.)
EDIT>> That was kind of nice how they gave me a farewell. I lied about not going back, I really did want to see what they'd say ;) That was even pretty cool how Eldmannen said he'd miss me. ANYWAY... I'm working with Tarun to get his site up [hooked him up with lunarsoft.net and ToastyX, who hosts THIS site ;)] I hope to get the shoutbox up soon. Or a small message board that doesn't require registering, or something. I dunno, I'll look around.
I'm tired of bad grammar. Worse than that, I'm tired of bad grammar rules. Why is it again that I am supposed to put punctuation inside of a quotation? Oh, so that way the quotation is no longer exactly accurate? If I quote someone and they didn't have a period in their quote, it's going outside the quotation marks, damn it.
Example:
Click Start, click Run, and then type "notepad."
Therefore, on this site, I obey only those grammar rules that make sense. I will also obey grammar rules that I have personally deemed accurate. Don't even get me started about ending sentences in prepositions, because there's no point to that so-called rule at all. If you look it up, it turns out it's not really a rule at all, but just one man's doctrine. He tried to convince everyone that they were doing it all wrong. I think he succeeded in duping the masses, but I am not so easily fooled.
That is the sort of grammar up with which I cannot put.
I don't want to bring back a forum (yet(?)) but I'm going to try to put a live (no refreshing required!) shoutbox in soon, so at least people can leave messages to each other. This should work well, except for spammers, so I'll have to look out for that. I hate nothing more than someone advertising their site on my site without any sort of permission.
I'm sick of the MUD already (too buggy, unfinished), so for all those who want to play something good, they should probably check out EUO. I made the installer. ^_^
Our MUD is gone now. People actually liked the BBS door games, but alas, they are for DOS and they destroy my machine (thanks, NTVDM). PS: don't reply to this with ways to make it work, I don't care about the door games anymore.
It seems that all mmorpg servers that are available for download are either pieces of crap, or are only for Windows (who wants to run an mmorpg server via WINDOWS?!). I haven't found anything good yet. Wishing now that I could run a private EUO server.
Aug
4
Safely Remove Brainstem
Filed Under Stupid, Vista, Windows 2000, XP | 69 Comments
Here I sit, for 20 minutes, with a drive connected via USB that contains sensitive data. Despite my best efforts, I am unable to "Safely Remove Hardware". It's not so much that there's probably a file handle locked that I can't possibly unlock (without writing my own software to do it) but that any time you remove a drive like this without properly dismounting it first, you are in for a stern talking-to. Windows gets angry with you if you just rip out the USB cable. Windows berates you for it. It's possible that forcing a drive dismounted could cause it to lose data (and I've seen it happen). This is still not the worst part. When I attempt to dismount the drive properly, Windows only says:
The device 'Generic volume' cannot be stopped right now. Try stopping the device again later.
Later? How soon is that? What kind of shit is this? "Try again later"? Why is Windows being so general and non-specific? Is Windows going to tell me when it's done using my drive so I can finally dismount it as it has yelled at me before to do?
No.
So here I sit, clicking safely remove over and over again, hoping Windows will finally finish doing what it is doing. Nope, it won't dismount. Now I *have* to rip the cord out (or restart the computer) if I want to get my work done. Special thanks to Windows for being a hypocritical asshole. I'm glad file locks get hung up so often, because I really hate it when I want to delete an empty folder and Windows actually lets me delete it.
// 08-09-05 (mm-dd-yy) —--
I forgot to mention: I usually use ForceDel.exe to unlock files and folders (it's a champ - just drag a file onto the .exe and presto, it's unlocked — unless it really *is* in use). It happens so frequently at work that ForceDel.exe is sitting right on my desktop, ready to have things dropped on it. (I'm lazy).
Edit (10-11-07): this is exactly as annoying in Vista as it is in XP and 2000. Ugh.
Aug
4
...
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I forgot what I was going to say.
Aug
3
Birthday
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Oh yeah, I'm 24 today.
Aug
2
Tangent 1
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I'm sure everybody's heard of the Mighty Mouse by now. Pop culture and pop tech news travels fast around here. I usually hear the same news four to seven times a day, every day, my entire life. If you ever see me parrot some stupid news that everybody knows by now, such as the aforementioned Mighty Mouse, then you can rest assured that I did it so that people would notice and stop telling me about it. ;)
Apple's marketing department is talented. I love the way the Apple website looks and feels, and the way they structure everything. That was a trip when their site went black while Tiger was getting ready for release.
I feel so paranoid.
Thanks to Tarun for the heads up on this site: XP SP3
Nice. Too bad the site has creepy Google ads (notice I dropped them) that always try to sell you spyware and crap. Yeah, get these registry cleaners that do more harm than good. Google, why must you only peddle junk software that tends towards scams and spyware? I never really see actual good software listed there. Ever. Stupid asses. Over the years, Windows has hardened itself against the number one threat to Windows stability that has ever existed: every thread or process that could ever exist that was not originally installed by your Windows installation media. That's right, you third party imbeciles, stop making crappy software.
DjLizard> did you miss me
DjLizard> or did you nearly hit me
ToastyX> I missed you, I missed you, now I have to kiss you
ToastyX> OHHHHHHHHHHHHH I GET IT NOW
This just in... http://www.start.com/1/ http://www.start.com/2/ http://www.start.com/3/ (and of course http://www.google.com/ig)
// 2005/08/03 —--
Newhotness asks:
not sure if you know or not, but is the mighty mouse only usable on a mac? and if not, is there any benefit to using it on an XP comp?
It works on PC as well. The USB Device Class Definition for Human Interface Devices (HID) (defined by the USB Implementers Forum, Inc.), contains universal implementations of mice, keyboards, pen/tablet, and other input devices that modern operating systems perfectly understand (Windows, Mac OS X, Linux kernel 2.6, etc.). You can plug a Windows mouse into a Mac or a Mac mouse into Windows (give or take features and drawbacks). I prefer using my imfamous Logitech Wheel Mouse Optical (Blue) on my Apple Powerbook G4. I have three Optical Blues, my mom and dad have one, and even ToastyX has a Blue. (Part # 830386-0000)
Using the previous Mac mouse in Windows really sucks... it only has one button (well, its entire body is the button), and no scroll wheel. It's like a cro-magnon mouse. Unga, me click-*pound*.
Using the Logitech Blue on that is excellent - scroll wheel is detected and used, second button performs command+clicking, which is exactly the same as right-clicking in Windows. Using this new mouse in Windows should prove interesting... 360-degree scroll ball. What if I don't want to scroll sort of sideways while I'm scrolling up and down?
Yes, USB keyboards are HID-compliant as well. Logitech's keyboards are sometimes printed with both Mac and Windows meta-key symbols/names, making them that much more attractive in the marketplace. Too bad I've always hated Logitech (and Microsoft) keyboards... suckers. I use an IBM Model "M" keyboard (no, not buckling spring version (the rubber dome version). I'm not into giving my fingers more of a workout than they already get when going 120 words per minute).
Aug
1
Snippy
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Snippy: Hotkeyable, memory resident program that can take cut-outs of the screen that you select with your mouse, copy them to the clipboard, and even save as PNG, TIFF, JPG, or GIF.
http://bhelpuri.net/Snippy/
Four thumbs up.