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Aiee! A frist from the past, brought to you by the "watching" setting in Discocurse.
I assume "Restart" was meant to mean "Retry". I could be wrong, though!
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Got it! You won't be getting any "sceond" from faoileag at undefined!
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I see you....
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Aiee, killing Discourse handler!
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@PJH: repro, can see today's article's topic although it claims to be invisible. I went to it via direct link though - I got a notification that 3 posts had taken place in this topic and I had put the "Article" category on "watch" a few days ago (after @aliceif mentioned this might be the reason for the bug).
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I obtained the "frist" in the DC comment section~
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Probably a copy issue - that should probably read "public topic lists."
Considering the post with the article link in is the first post, and the second in invariably an "This is now a Super Sekret™ topic, for the moment," post, I think the frist meme is sorta pointless on here..
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That futuristic telephone number rolls off the tongue, sure, but it still isn't as good as 0118 999 881 999 119 725...3.
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I wonder if Asterisk could handle it. Maybe @Onyx can enlighten us!
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The Microsoft Word thing is infuriating - they think they're so clever by putting random stuff online, but they don't have to deal with the daily vagaries of Internet connections disrupting your work. (An estimated 99.999% uptime, but it always seems to hit when a stupid program like Word wants to download help or something that should have been a local resource)
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Is that a meme now? Have I been whining too much?
Filed under: I'd put more effort into this post, but I can't. Because, Asterisk!
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That one of the Paris Métro is a little bit worrying. They have a couple of fully automatic lines, and part of the software that guides these trains has been proved using formal methods. But that's a little bit useless if you get a kernel panic...
(Yes, I know. When these trains first started running in 1998, Linux was still largely the domain of nerds.)
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Yes, I know. I actually love Paris and the Métro, particularly the fully automatic line 14. Sweet memories of going there with my wife and child.
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oh oui oui, le bibliothèque
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Arantor Looks like I am the only other person who watches "The IT Crowd"
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I watch it too, I just appreciated it silently, so as not to draw the attention of the lower lifeforms.
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I got it! The Toyota Highlander one is listing passenger capacity in binary amirite?
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36 hex digits… that's big enough for an IPv6 address and some space left over.
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I actually came here to recite the phone number... should have known I'd have been beaten to it.
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A quick google for "a2288c0e85e2a5fca24664f049305b1f5746" reveals that "R.M." has reposted that image from a months-old Reddit thread. Busted!
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Now that lower lifeforms have already been alerted, I'm not above pandering to their laziness: http://youtu.be/ab8GtuPdrUQ
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Okay, I'll bite.
It's not a time zone difference. 15.2F is -9.3C.
It's kind of like how a case of American beer changes to 75 bottles when you take it across the border to Canada.
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As I haven't traveled internationally yet, I'm missing the alcohol reference here.
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I don't think there's a set size for a "case" of beer. It depends on the size of the box and whether it's 12oz or 20oz bottles.
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I don't know how I would have survived the weekend without that knowledge...
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Well, if you have a fear of bugs, pill bugs can't bother you this weekend!
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Beauty, Metric Beers, eh?
hint, hint
"Back in my day, sonny,...."
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Restart is a proper shutdown of the OS then a reboot. Reboot is jumping back to the bios boot process.
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You know what I find bizarre? This new thing where websites and software messages are filled with attempts to be "cool", like the authors think we're all going to be fooled into thinking the message is more personal that way.
I totally feel more comfortable knowing a hipster is in control...
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It's a driver popup. It could mean bloody anything. (Although I'd guess that restart merely re-initializes the driver and hardware, like video driver recovery. Who the hell knows for sure.)
Forget it Jake, it's drivertown.
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I'm glad that Linux still screams when it gets a panic. It's been a while that I don't mess with it enough to cause problems, and I tought it got "professionalized".
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Outlook is extremely steadfast about its message. The best one I ever saw, some time back was:
"The action failed to complete. The action failed to complete."
First of all, this occurred in response to a move-mail configuration problem with a folder in the mailbox that started automatically at Outlook startup. So, since the above doesn't identify the action or the object involved, good luck figuring out what caused it.
Second, I though it stated facts not in evidence: Is there a reason to think any "action" in Outlook might complete?
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To be fair, that's also true of Windows and OSX these days. The last panic I saw on any system was on a laptop running Windows 8 where the third-party display driver took exception to having a projector attached. (Thanks, Dell!)
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Restart = Start the controller again Reboot = Start everything from scratch
Is not same. Is unclear perhaps, but is not same.
I think it's sad there's only 4 comments here (5 now). Clearly discourse is winning....
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This article has 35 comments on Discourse.
The previous day's article has 141 comments on a somewhat partly working comment system.
Discourse is not winning on popularity. It will win if Alex regrets that this site was too successful without Discourse.
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I think Discourse is winning, and I think it means that TDWTF is losing, TBH.
Cheers,
Ullamcorper
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That's what I was gonna say, You can probably restart the software (or driver) or reboot the whole thing. Its probably just fairly logical, but poorly worded.
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Whereas nowadays, Linux is, like, totally mainstream
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I would trot out the 'Android' argument but as any fule kno, Android is only Linux when Linux wants to claim mainstreamness.
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Do Chromebooks/Chromeboxes count as the year of the Linux desktop?
Linux - so good it can run a browser!
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What is Ullamcorper?
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What is Ullamcorper?