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[MaverickSawyer]

as of this moment it (she?) is on a Hong Kong - Tokyo flight )

Yeah, I'd call it by female pronouns, too. It's an American design, so no matter who operates the plane, I'll always refer to it as a "her" or a "she". Russians, however, I always apply male pronouns to. Don't remember why I started doing that, but I do.

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I started searching if there are any computer games in the "Firefly" setting.

Well, I haven't found any released game

Firefly Online is coming...

 

[mojoey]

In San Francisco, right?

Nope. Portland.

 

[Linguofreak]

In the midst of changing my graphics setup, I managed to give myself quite a scare today: Suddenly my machine wouldn't boot with either the old or the new card...

Googling issues with my motherboard revealed the diagnostic code the BIOS was displaying when it hung to be disk related, and somehow or other unplugging all my disks and booting the machine diskless fixed the issue.

In other news, Facebook seems to have been broken in Opera for the last several days, but Google is completely silent on the subject.

 

[DanM]

Windows vs. Linux is like Transfer MFD vs. TransX

 

[Urwumpe]

Windows vs. Linux is like Transfer MFD vs. TransX

Its more like emacs vs vi. :lol:

 

[n122vu]

Or keyboard vs. Joystick

 

[Izack]

Or keyboard vs. Joystick

Hopefully that's not a typing contest.

 

[DanM]

Its more like emacs vs vi. :lol:

At first I thought this is what you meant by emacs. I am truly an uncultured swine. :facepalm:

 

[Spacethingy]

Emacs vs Butterflies

 

[Ghostrider]

C64 vs Speccy.

 

[MattBaker]

Or keyboard vs. Joystick

Both has its uses and is best used for their specific tasks? Yep.

 

[jedidia]

It looks like my TFT screen just died on me... Everything was working fine, then I closed the laptop, now I opened it again, the screen recognises the signal, the laptop recognises the screen, the backlight goes on, but there's no image. Doesn't even display the screen configuration menu anymore, so I figure it's just gone. Kind of annoyingly quiet, just one moment it works and the next it don't. CRTs at least went out with a bit of effect...

 

[PeterRoss]

Laptop should have a VGA output, so you can at least try to connect external monitor to see if it's TFT or videocard problem. Still, difference isn't that big since it means you can throw away your laptop anyway. And, I'd say, it's time for it. I remember it was quite old two years ago already.

P.S. By the way, I've had that Thinkpad laptop ancient as mammoth crap once with broken screen backlight, and I was using it with external CRT monitor for some time, until I gave it to my friend who made a custom LED backlight for it. I think it was one of the first LED laptops of that time :lol:. It worked quite good, only corners of the screen was shaded.

 

[jedidia]

slight misunderstanding there, it was the external monitor that went... and came back again later, as it turned out. no idea what was happening, i don't trust that thing anymore...

 

[Urwumpe]

The German moon landing has begun... Eight teams of cave climbers are now working together to get the injured scientist back to the surface.

 

[DanM]

The German moon landing has begun... Eight teams of cave climbers are now working together to get the injured scientist back to the surface.

A German friend of mine told me that situation has been portrayed as more dire than the 1936 (attempted) Eiger rescue.

 

[Urwumpe]

A German friend of mine told me that situation has been portrayed as more dire than the 1936 (attempted) Eiger rescue.

Not more dire, after all it really ended badly 1936 and involved more casualties. But climbing in that cave is much harder than climbing the Eiger. Its dark of course. And you have challenges there, that you can't have at a mountain. For example, between the second and the third camp, you have to cross a waterfall, so you will be wet and can't turn around anymore, but have to keep on climbing, even if you are already exhausted. In other places, you have to climb for kilometers through a very narrow v-shaped underground canyon.

Just look at these pictures to get some impression:

http://www.spiegel.de/fotostrecke/r...gruesst-familie-fotos-fotostrecke-115672.html

Especially that one is pretty impressive:

http://www.spiegel.de/fotostrecke/r...uesst-familie-fotos-fotostrecke-115672-8.html

 

[orbitingpluto]

The German moon landing has begun... Eight teams of cave climbers are now working together to get the injured scientist back to the surface.

This rescue sounds more like Journey to the center of the Earth than From the Earth to the Moon to me, just saying.

 

[ISProgram]

Went to a party. Saw an Elmo (from Sesame Street). He had a red Ferrari.

Wow. h:

 

[Pipcard]

I read that "Wow" in Elmo's voice (in my mind, of course).