Victory Road - Conversation Between Cat333Pokémon and Twiggy

November 13, 2012 11:10:46 PM

Twiggy

So ahead, and yet so far behind.

November 13, 2012 11:04:07 PM

Cat333Pokémon

I remember the school computers would do that with IE6 all the time. It got annoying.

November 13, 2012 10:55:03 PM

Twiggy

I've noticed that Internet Explorer 10 automatically refreshes when it regains network connection if the page load failed due to network issues.

November 13, 2012 09:49:07 PM

Twiggy

A nice way to add minutes to your shutdown routine

November 13, 2012 09:47:59 PM

Cat333Pokémon

I've had that a couple times. Yoshi once had to install 20 updates with a fairly low battery. They barely scraped by before it died.

November 13, 2012 09:46:31 PM

Twiggy

Yay, class ended!

*Please do not power off or unplug your machine. Installing update 1 of 10...*

November 13, 2012 08:46:29 PM

Cat333Pokémon

I think they need better names.

November 13, 2012 08:43:46 PM

Twiggy

Indeed.

http://pastebin.com/ijjRKvUB

November 13, 2012 12:32:46 PM

Cat333Pokémon

What you see is not what you get?

November 13, 2012 08:01:18 AM

Twiggy

It's funny to think about how I'm enjoying WYSIWYG editing and rich content copying on my phone.

November 13, 2012 07:04:22 AM

Twiggy

Remember to get your IE10 Windows 7 on your Windows 7 computer.

November 13, 2012 06:11:12 AM

Twiggy

(I like Enhanced Mode)

November 13, 2012 05:23:22 AM

Twiggy

*uses smartphone for some hours*

*"Goodbye" (Battery level too low for Windows Phones)*

*switches to a trusty Nokia feature phone*

You never had to do that, right? :3

November 13, 2012 02:50:28 AM

Twiggy

Running time for the Galaxy Tab 10.1: 4.8 hours
Running time for the Surface RT: 8.1 hours
Running time for the iPad 3: 5.8 hours

100% brightness, airplane mode

o.O

November 12, 2012 08:39:08 PM

Twiggy

null null null null

We sell null for NaN

November 12, 2012 08:31:27 PM

Cat333Pokémon

I would null.

November 12, 2012 08:25:13 PM

Twiggy

What would you do if you saw a __________ in real life?

November 12, 2012 07:39:12 PM

Cat333Pokémon

What would you do if you saw a Bulbasaur in real life?

November 12, 2012 05:09:42 PM

Twiggy

What would you do if you saw a black Haxorus in real life? Teehee.

November 12, 2012 10:42:02 AM

Twiggy

333 marks the cat

November 12, 2012 10:26:52 AM

Cat333Pokémon

What name is that?

November 12, 2012 09:12:34 AM

Twiggy

So you got a new name today! Hehehe.

Flash storage come rather cheap today if you're not looking for fast ones. Under $1 per GB, anyone?

November 12, 2012 03:51:58 AM

Twiggy

There's a reason why I think differently of Nokia compared to Apple and Samsung. They're very direct.

November 11, 2012 10:15:59 AM

Twiggy

What are the chances that our smartphones become feature phones after ten years

November 11, 2012 09:37:04 AM

Cat333Pokémon

Smartphone? What's that?

November 11, 2012 01:57:51 AM

Twiggy

So this is my backup phone that serves very well when my smartphone dies (very often).

MP4/H.264 player

Wait, what?

November 9, 2012 10:47:42 AM

Twiggy

I think I'm becoming a cat

November 9, 2012 03:04:25 AM

Twiggy

3.8 GB of space is good for 74 minutes of good-quality 720p video off my phone. 7 Mbps is a lot for 720p. My phone defaults to 14 Mbps, which is just overkill and saps the storage real fast.

Needless to say, I set the quality to 7 megs, and saved it.

MPEG-4, how does it work?

November 9, 2012 02:39:36 AM

Twiggy

My favourite method of paying my bills seem to "just be laaaaaazy and card it online". No paper, discounts, notifications, oh my!

November 8, 2012 11:09:41 PM

Twiggy

Hairy proposition?

November 8, 2012 11:04:58 PM

Cat333Pokémon

Yeah, I've had phone freezes.

Zoroark is still cuddly.

November 8, 2012 11:01:25 PM

Twiggy

As for whether he's cute and cuddly...

Freakshow much?

November 8, 2012 11:00:52 PM

Twiggy

Have you ever had a stuck phone requiring you to hold the power button until it resets or remove the battery?

I hated my old Android phone because of that. I don't get any of that now.

November 8, 2012 10:18:18 PM

Cat333Pokémon

That's assuming Zoroark isn't cute and cuddly.

November 8, 2012 09:58:31 PM

Twiggy

Zorua! Press B to remain cute and cuddly! Press B to remain cute and cuddly! xD

November 8, 2012 11:43:18 AM

Twiggy

Mmm, birds in space
I wonder whether it's possible to make a song out of autocomplete suggestions

November 8, 2012 11:37:43 AM

Cat333Pokémon

Happy Avian Moon Battle?

November 8, 2012 09:46:00 AM

Twiggy

Shake your phone horizontally to make your Xbox Avatar trip. May result in fourth wall breakage.

Tap the Xbox Avatar for Random Fun Stuff

Rapdily tap for silly stuff

Why do I know that only now

November 8, 2012 07:38:06 AM

Twiggy

THIS EXISTS? By Intel?!

November 8, 2012 03:01:51 AM

Twiggy

Will CloudFlare complain?

Any site using it blocks access to unknown useragents

November 8, 2012 12:09:06 AM

Cat333Pokémon

You're gonna like this.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.0) AppleWebKit/535.7 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/16.0.912.75 Safari/535.7

November 7, 2012 10:35:29 PM

Twiggy

I think I broke Windows Phone Store. 500s

November 7, 2012 10:27:53 PM

Cat333Pokémon

A few.

KernelEx 2000. Heck yeah.

November 7, 2012 09:52:56 PM

Twiggy

How many broken screens have you seen?

November 7, 2012 10:57:53 AM

Twiggy

Uh oh.

Spyware galore!

(The Windows autocorrection dictionaries are crazy stuff.)

November 7, 2012 10:53:55 AM

Cat333Pokémon

It's single-touch.

WildTangent is the best program ever.

November 7, 2012 08:52:27 AM

Twiggy

As for the laptop thing, it's best that you have at least a laptop with a multi-touch edge-detecting trackpad. All Windows 8 laptops and convertibles have that. Then you could think of it as a tiny touch-non-screen.

November 7, 2012 01:31:33 AM

Twiggy

Have you ever wondered how Zune chases moved and/or renamed files within a library and is able to make it just work?

November 7, 2012 01:28:18 AM

Twiggy

At the end of this Ed Bott article (one of these people that I follow):

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ed Bott

And a footnote: I was fascinated that not one customer complained about the pre-loaded software, and in fact many of them saw the trial version of Norton and the bundle of 19 programs on a separate CD as selling points.

I agree on the Norton and OEM utilities part, but for anything else... *shudders at WildTangent*

November 7, 2012 01:13:21 AM

Twiggy

November 6, 2012 11:38:38 PM

Twiggy

Dat Belkin cleaning cloth works wonders on smudges compared to generic ones for glasses

November 6, 2012 08:32:15 PM

Twiggy

Too many crashes. Maybe I'll have better luck with a real laptop. MacBooks are not yet updated for true support for Windows 8 - seems like there's some driver incompatibilty.

I think I'm hopeless for a refund, no?

November 6, 2012 06:14:06 PM

Cat333Pokémon

I'm thinking of doing that on my laptop once I get a new hard drive. I promised myself I'd try to full thing out on a laptop without a touchscreen before deciding if it's worthy of being one of my primary standard computer OSes.

November 6, 2012 04:38:46 AM

Twiggy

*installs Windows 8*

November 6, 2012 04:09:53 AM

Twiggy

Finally, I got a "null" in an email subject. :3

November 5, 2012 10:01:19 PM

Cat333Pokémon

Oh, and a lot of their hostees are listed as NOC4Hosts.

November 5, 2012 10:01:01 PM

Cat333Pokémon

I'm sure there's a site where you can find that.

November 5, 2012 09:24:20 PM

Twiggy

List them all!

November 5, 2012 09:21:19 PM

Cat333Pokémon

HiVelocity hosts a lot of big sites.

November 5, 2012 09:04:55 PM

Twiggy

I see HiVelocity also hosts The Daily WTF

November 5, 2012 08:56:38 PM

Twiggy

*wishes he could bring the old desktop along for the ride, but it's too big and the PSU's dead*

November 5, 2012 08:47:39 PM

Cat333Pokémon

I like getting old stuff to work nowadays, so that blog makes sense.

November 5, 2012 08:40:34 PM

Twiggy

I like The Old New Thing for some reason.

November 5, 2012 07:25:58 PM

Cat333Pokémon

I like the second comment.

November 5, 2012 01:39:46 AM

Twiggy

Speaking of oddball device names:

New device detected: Boeing 747

November 4, 2012 11:56:42 PM

Twiggy

If only you had a Windows Phone. Instant device renames!

The latest ones also gives you access to the file system without hacking it. :3

November 4, 2012 11:37:28 PM

Cat333Pokémon

Something similar to the last one.

November 4, 2012 11:35:33 PM

Twiggy

What kind of idea, Cat333Pokémon?

November 4, 2012 11:16:26 PM

Cat333Pokémon

*gets an idea but can't test at the moment*

November 4, 2012 11:01:59 PM

Twiggy

November 4, 2012 07:18:09 AM

Twiggy

It's hard to think of a starter smartphone for my mum, seeing as I'll be switching her carrier AND make her get a free phone along with the plan.

(We've had enough of dropouts on her side, and my inability to call her using my smartphone. Killing two birds with one stone: fix her reception, and give her full Internet access.)

November 3, 2012 10:07:55 PM

Twiggy

The phone keeps autocorrecting bui into Bui, by the way

November 3, 2012 09:49:46 PM

Cat333Pokémon

November 3, 2012 05:53:47 PM

Twiggy

Buizel Bui buobuobui Bui buizell.

November 3, 2012 10:38:35 AM

Twiggy

Hmm
Low end smartphones could be very fun

November 3, 2012 10:12:17 AM

Cat333Pokémon

You should change your last name to Twiggy.

November 3, 2012 04:04:29 AM

Twiggy

*thinks he should rename his phone for the lulz*

November 3, 2012 02:02:42 AM

Twiggy

So I see there exist people with the last name "Buizer"

November 3, 2012 01:12:08 AM

Twiggy

Ponies, ponies everywhere!

November 2, 2012 06:49:40 PM

Cat333Pokémon

Nah, you're just scared of the pony.

November 2, 2012 10:54:37 AM

Twiggy

I miss Zorlosion as the profile picture now.

I miss the old things...

November 2, 2012 05:48:14 AM

Twiggy

My laptop's GPU tears frames vertically. I wonder why

My laptop's GPU also starts to tile webpages if it chokes. Hmm

Mobile GPUs?

November 1, 2012 11:02:36 PM

Cat333Pokémon

Every day I'm sleeping.

November 1, 2012 10:58:31 PM

Twiggy

EVERYDAY I'M ZORUA'ING

November 1, 2012 10:54:58 PM

Cat333Pokémon

Does that go with shuffling?

November 1, 2012 10:53:55 PM

Twiggy

I want to see you Zorua'ing

November 1, 2012 12:45:27 AM

Twiggy

*ditches plan to sell laptop*

Mums are best. "You know? Hold onto that laptop - someone here wants to take it. Then you'd be able to get a new laptop that you want then, at next January!"

October 31, 2012 10:59:59 AM

Twiggy

If only patent trolls didn't exist.

October 31, 2012 06:14:43 AM

Twiggy

Hey, looks like I might get what I want for free after all! (The trade in values for both of them would just barely meet what I meet, off by dollars)

October 30, 2012 11:50:07 PM

Cat333Pokémon

You sure don't stick with one form of tech.

October 30, 2012 11:28:07 PM

Twiggy

I'm thinking of selling my MacBook Air and my tablet for a Windows 8 touch-enabled notebook or convertible.

While typing tablet on my phone, TabletPC is one of the word suggestions. Hmm...

October 30, 2012 11:19:33 PM

Cat333Pokémon

Indeed I am. At least they work with most video cards, too. Good thing the bare minimum standard was updated (but every new card still must accept VGA--I think most even do CGA too).

October 30, 2012 10:41:39 PM

Twiggy

Aren't you glad that Windows XP and newer come with better generic video drivers that does up to 1024x768@32bit?

October 30, 2012 10:39:12 PM

Twiggy

I feel like quoting the Microsoft Research report about computer hardware failure, but I'm lazy. Anyway, according to the report, if a storage device reports a failure, the chances of getting a second error within the next month rises at least a hundred times, and then it only goes up from there.

October 30, 2012 12:46:59 PM

Cat333Pokémon

I don't like 7 with a touch screen.

October 30, 2012 10:52:19 AM

Twiggy

Holy moly, $8 dev access?

October 30, 2012 09:58:29 AM

Twiggy

The Old New Thing can be funny in a way.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Adrian Oney

During the Windows 2000 project, we did something very similar. To test Plug and Play and to test the Driver Verifier, we created the "USB Cart of Death". We started with a 2 level cart similar to what you'd see in a library.

About ten 8port hubs were wired together, and then every port was filled with some different type of USB device. A USB steering wheel adorned the back of the cart, and a USB radio provided the antenna. Two cameras were one the front. All power went to a USB UPS. The entire cart, completely mobile, came down to two cables (power, USB). The final USB cable was plugged into a USB PCMCIA card.

We'd plug in the card into a laptop, watch the OS start up the 50 or so devices on it, and then (before or after it finished) we'd uncerimoneously yank the PCMCIA card. If a blue screen occured or the Driver Verifier detected a bug, the appropriate developer would be asked to look at the machine. In the meantime, the card would be wheeled to the next laptop, in hopes of finding a different bug.

Also, I see that they did try 255 devices at the same time.

October 30, 2012 07:55:13 AM

Twiggy

I for some reason feel extremely inclined to get a Windows 7 machine with a touch screen just because. But we now have Windows 8.

October 30, 2012 12:27:53 AM

Twiggy

I find it funny that Druddigon wants to play on ice in the Dream World.

Then again, maybe it's because it finally can.

October 28, 2012 11:14:06 AM

Twiggy

I like the like button. Do you?

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