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#8890 Up↑ /5 Down↓ [Report] 2010-09-10 23:10 WST
<+bob> Zanchey, trs80: what's the hda error on mooneye about?
< trs80> bob: hda is a cdrom
<+bob> ah
<+bob> so all the cdroms in the deltas are slowly dieing
< theodore> bob: who will stand up for those poor cdroms, the cameronhall delta, fed from the mighty iRiver is a sanctuary, filled with precious wetware. And corporate interests with spartan safety
regulations, lead by hacks like Chris Squire, have let memory leak every where, slowly killing the wildlife there, including those poor, defenceless cdroms. -
#8493 Up↑ /0 Down↓ [Report] 2009-04-13 08:37 WST
< ziph> So what's the story behind the nick "shmookey"?
< shmookey> long and uninteresting
< shmookey> tl;dr: a geek, a russian and a midget met at a bus stop, decided to start a software project and three months later the russian was calling the geek "shmookey" and the midget had ran off to join a rock band
< shmookey> I guess the name just stuck -
#8985 Up↑ /2 Down↓ [Report] 2011-02-22 17:35 WST
< shmookey> why was I expecting oracle to be easy to set up :/
< shmookey> this is like a whole new ecosystem and I have no idea what I'm doing
< Spanky> need help?
< Spanky> i'm know some serious oracle DBA's
< shmookey> I think I'll be ok, there's plenty of information on the web and I don't have any specific questions yet
< Spanky> :)
< shmookey> right now I've just installed the client part and I'm trying to get it to connect to an existing database
< shmookey> seems like the installer just did a big poo into a folder and I don't know how that's supposed to help
< shmookey> oh, and it registered itself with visual studio
< shmookey> but I haven't been able to coerce it into actually making a connection yet
< shmookey> the documentation is like what you get with a cisco switch or a car: it assumes you already know how to drive it -
#9024 Up↑ /10 Down↓ [Report] 2011-05-12 22:01 WST
< spartan> I'd trade a kidney for a touchscreen computer that could do IP68
< coxy> why
< spartan> imagine how damn useful it would be
< spartan> where could you not use it?
< cameron> spartan: your priorities seem very wrong
< spartan> they sure are
< spartan> I should be trading that kidney for a night with Olivia Wilde
< coxy> you do have 2 -
#8548 Up↑ /1 Down↓ [Report] 2009-05-20 22:24 WST
<Zanchey> astro: please stop posting the results of bullshit quizzes to facebook, no-one cares
<theodore1> Zanchey: who is more foolish: the fool who posts quizzes to facebook or the fool who subcribes to said fool
<coxy> the former
<coxy> the latter is just too passive to defriend/hide them
<coxy> or it's a cost benefit tradeoff, especially with chicks
<coxy> reduce the number of quizzes, but miss out on potentially hot photos