Negative Posts

OK, just having a quick perusal here and I seem to have degenerated drastically toward the negative in my last few posts. Just in the process of moving over to (http://mcmonkeys1rants.wordpress.com) today, here’s looking towards fresh, bright, spritely, and most of all *positive* posts in this new start ;-) I am currently learning what it…

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UPC (Ireland) upgrade [edit: Fuck UPC Technicolor]

I recently did a UPC package upgrade. They insisted on giving me a new modem. hopefully these Technicolor modems aren’t a pile o shite n start crapping out on me like the dodgy Cisco they tried to peddle to me until i got it replaced with an older model…

Micro$oft no longer supports Windows Gadgets

So apparently Microsoft no longer supports windows gadgets AKA windows sidebar AKA desktop gadgets. But why? The reasons stated are that they present the possibility of posing a security threat. (http://windows.microsoft.com/en-ie/windows/gadgets) Upon further reading of the security threat posed (http://technet.microsoft.com/en-GB/security/advisory/2719662) they basically describe the same threat that installing ANY PIECE OF SOFTWARE WHATSOEVER poses. Microsoft…

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If this is a catholic country, she died for irish sins.

If “this is a catholic country”, she died for irish sins.  one year since Sativa’s death and it’s still a shitehole. the massive support for outdated religious doctrine makes it depressingly clear how inbred most irish people still are. turf cuttin, daughter rapin, relic worshipin retards. just kill yourselves now.

Want to know what dd is doing?

From another terminal type kill -USR1 $pid, where pid=`pidof dd`. This causes dd to spit out data speeds and amounts transferred so far. you might wrap it up in something like:   pid=`pidof dd`  while [[ -d /proc/$pid ]];  do kill -USR1 $pid && sleep 5;  done Apparently pidof is deprecated or something?? If you…

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