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Oh No!
Let the riots begin!Jesus Pancake on ebay.http://cgi.ebay.com/Jesus-PanCake_W0QQitemZ6251847554QQcategoryZ1447QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItemHow high will it go?P.T. Barnum was right. Or was it con-man Joseph ("Paper Collar" Joe) Bessimer?Nonetheless, we're gonna' see another one.My guess: $15,000 (There's a lot of "free advertizing" going on out there.) Maybe $25,000 if Leno picks up on it.I don't think...
Tags: pancake, Jesus Pancake, suckers, maxwell edison, off-topic, eBay Inc., Jesus
Discussion threads 2006-02-09

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Comic: The difference between scientists and people
I'll try anything once. Best try again to make sure...If it's lethal, it've got me the first time. You never know when you might enjoy something after some more exposure...Third time is for suckers.
Tags: techrepublic@...
Discussion threads 2007-03-30
Vista Smacked down by headset
Here is a prime example of why Vista is crap: I was trying to setup Teamspeak so I could chat with my fellow gamers in EVE Online. By simply plugging in the microphone jack, Vista went to a lovely blue screen of death. Windows would not even...
Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), druuzil, Microsoft Windows Vista, headset
Discussion threads 2007-05-10
TuneXP (exe)
This radical, new tool is one of the best and most powerful Windows XP tweakers ever, having a few tweaks, which are unique to the program. Among them are: ultrafast boot rearrange boot files; boot folder defragmentation; prefetch folder cleaning; DNS cache optimization; and file allocation size tweak. However, that...
Tags: Performance, Tweak, Microsoft Windows, Performance Management, Operating Systems, Software, Human Resources, Workforce Management
Software downloads 2004-05-22
Crack open the Xbox 360
oh myI think crack is the operative word here. Whoever is responsible for posting pic 4 horizontally should have their gaming thumb cracked.$400 for a gaming system? Please....Get a nice PC...I am sure people here know what those are...I built mine last year about this time for Oh...$900...
Tags: Crack, crack open the xbox 360, game, mgoldman@..., Microsoft Xbox, Xbox 360
Discussion threads 2005-12-02
World's Greatest Webcomic adds tags
From PvP creator Scott Kurtz: "The PvP website is getting a major overhaul and facelift courtesy of the professionals over at Thin Slice.The archive system is going to be transformed using 'tags'. The guys at Thin Slice were trying to help me understand exactly what...
Tags: Tagging, Jay Garmon
Blog posts 2006-04-12
Taxonomy in Fish Species Complexes: A Role for Multimedia Information
Biologists could make valuable use of the wealth of specimen information in natural history museum databases. "Taxonomy via the Internet" aims to build a centralized database where biologists can store, manipulate and retrieve biologically meaningful data from images of specimens and use the data to classify the specimens taxonomically. Multimedia...
Tags: Tulane University, Multimedia, Taxonomy, Multimedia Information Representation, Storage, Databases, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
White papers 2006-06-19
5 billion spams in just one day
The question that immediately comes to mind is why do enough people still respond to spam to make it worth it spamming? It is sheer human fallacy or the lack of proper instruction?Why we respondHumans are, by nature, greedy. Even the most humble of people have thought at...
Tags: Cyberthreats, paulmah@..., spam
Discussion threads 2007-06-26
Why I love my job
Let me count the ways. Maybe this should be under the Friday Yuk. I need to be wanted.Even if it's up on the roof to realign a 9FTdish or to inform the user that their 30 inchdish is missing, the reaction isn't great but I'mstill the one. ...
Tags: job, mjd420nova, happiness on the job, off-topic
Discussion threads 2005-12-30
Post here, I COMMAND IT!
:pEveryone but MAX that is! :0No... I refuse.oh boyfeeling evil tonight... and bored... not a good combination.[i]"I was sitting on the porch, doing terrible things to by dog with a fork" - Steve Martin.Why?.Okay`Okay`Okay``Okay```Okay````Okay`````Okay``````Okay```````Okay````````Okay`````````Okay``````````Okay```````````InterestingJD, you may have found a new way to keep Max entertained.Any bets...
Tags: jdclyde, site bugs, driving me nuts, don't even try it, jd-quick (formerly clyde), information technology
Discussion threads 2006-12-27
DOWN WITH LINUX
The donkey man thinks that Linux is a buch of crap and should die. Bill gate rules and so does Windows...WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOHey Guys !! Here's another oneof them ... Lets worship Bill Gates nutters ...]:)Claim RefusalThose of us who truly worship the Unholy One will not claim donkey amongst our...
Tags: troll, Linux, DOWN, Bill Gates, donkey@..., networking, Microsoft Windows
Discussion threads 2006-02-06
H-1B visas hit roadblock in Congress
article rootMessage was edited by: adminH1 - BSWhile companies clamor to get checp programming resources, our own Programming professionals are being squeezed into a spiral of pay cuts and 'unavailible' work.We are simply NOT developing new skilled Mainframe Programmers. This is a clear fact - just look at the...
Tags: education, H-1B Visas, outsourcing, careers, law, h1b, Dilbert-Tom, it management, U.S. Congress, H-1B, problem-I
Discussion threads 2006-04-03
Maximizing Data transfer speeds over LAN and/or PC to PC
Greetings,I have a customer that creates very large video files. They need to move them from PC to PC in house. They have 4 PCs running through a 10/100 switch. I want to advise them of the fastest hardware configuration to do this. I built a table of all possible...
Tags: bmadams, LAN, SATA2
Discussion threads 2007-09-20
How open should the Internet be?
The Internet, founded on the ideal that information should be free and readily available, has been in the process of becoming more and more proprietary over the last few years as Net giants do everything they can to lock users and their data into their interfaces. The business reasons...
Tags: Facebook, Data, Internet, Andy Moon
Blog posts 2008-01-03
Anyone else get this e-mail?
Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2005 07:17:52 AM EDT From: "nega554@yahoo.com" To: "ldb6469@usa.net" Subject: Message from a TechRepublic Member -------------------------------------------------- One of your fellow TechRepublic members has sent you a private message:From: NegasssiSubject: Forgot passwordMessage:...
Tags: E-mail, security, password
Discussion threads 2005-04-20
Is Longhorn ever coming?
Ok, now they have come up with Windows Vista..Is it a new way of delaying Longhorn even more or is Vista a beta version of longhorn? They say that Vista will ignore ur monitor and we will get a 'monitor ignored' message. The scheme is called PVP-OPM and...
Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Monitors & displays, Operating systems, monitor, Microsoft Longhorn, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp.
Discussion threads 2005-10-14
Why pointless spam????
I get lots of spam mails with nonsense text and a gif file as attachment (I have Windows to show the file type, naturally, so it must be a gif file and not a disguised .exe file; and my antivirus app doesn't yell, as it does when it finds a...
Tags: Finn@..., spam
Discussion threads 2006-10-25
Would you call yourself a Stubborn Donkey?
I'm stubborner than those donkeysI've been reading and sending email with the standard unix commands mailx(1), vi(1), and less(1) since 1985. It's *easier* than with the modern GUI mail user agents. Of course these days people send me elaborate MIME-attached HTML productions. I decode those with metamail(1)...
Tags: Operating systems, cls@..., GPS, computer
Discussion threads 2007-04-01
Office 2007 FUI ... or is it FOOEY?
WellBe that as it may.However, the number "Office" users is legion.What are you to do if "Open" canīt display an "Office"document which happens in my environment?Let it be said though that "Office" users often face the same problem.Only suckers buy MS OfficeIt's the 21st century -- paying for Microsoft Office...
Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Groupware, Microsoft Office 2007, bblackmoor@..., Microsoft Office, OpenOffice, Microsoft Corp.
Discussion threads 2007-05-07
disappearing posts
and I do mean posts that completely disappear.I have made 15 posts this morning, that I have read after posting them, yet three minutes later they are gone from the discussion.there has been a few a day for the last week or so, including some on article discussions.which discussion?we'll see...
Tags: Web browsers, posts
Discussion threads 2006-05-17
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