Jtgibson

Real Name: Jeremy T. Gibson

Joined: 239.187 NC

Happily Married to the Internet

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Posts with keyword 'computer'

 
"Windows Vista: the new slasher film?"
  Posted by Jtgibson on Sunday, July 22, 2007 03:23PM
If Microsoft has finally managed to adopt the slash as a path delimiter instead of the backslash, I'm willing to …
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"Cable vs. DSL"
  Posted by Jtgibson on Tuesday, June 12, 2007 04:00PM
One thing that's always bothered me is the whole "DSL is faster!", "Cable is faster!" debate. It's easy to see that …
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"Why are the best things in life never free?"
  Posted by Jtgibson on Tuesday, May 29, 2007 05:15AM
Situation: I want to find a tool to annotate MegaTraveller PDF documents (which I bought online) with the errata so I …
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"The Xbox 360 versus the PS3"
  Posted by Jtgibson on Saturday, May 26, 2007 01:15AM
I'm at a bit of a dilemma. Aside from Grand Theft Auto IV, I have absolutely no major reason to buy any of the …
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"THAT was an epiphany"
  Posted by Jtgibson on Wednesday, May 02, 2007 12:22PM
It took five years after seeing the term "mutex" appear for me to see anyone actually define it as a "mutual-exclusion" …
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"Sinking ship recovered from the depths?"
  Posted by Jtgibson on Thursday, April 26, 2007 04:00PM
After switching hosts and getting sent the obligatory "please don't go" messages, my old host mentioned it was …
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"Wow"
  Posted by Jtgibson on Thursday, April 05, 2007 09:25PM
Buy this mouse. http:// www.logitech.com/ index.cfm/ products/details/CA/ EN, CRID=2142,CONTENTID= 10715 I thought my …
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"Question for Macphiles (or public at large)"
  Posted by Jtgibson on Tuesday, April 03, 2007 02:16AM
I need to extract a .sit archive. However, if I am to download the supposedly-free Windows version of StuffIt Expander …
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"The good ol' days?"
  Posted by Jtgibson on Saturday, March 31, 2007 05:28PM
http:// www.oldskool.org/pc/ 8088_Corruption Jaqie Fox from the Dwarf Fortress forums posted this gem. It shows you …
"Leave it to Microsoft"
  Posted by Jtgibson on Wednesday, March 07, 2007 06:38PM
From http:// en.wikipedia.org/ wiki/ Inttypes.h: "As inttypes.h is currently NOT shipped with Visual Studio C++ products, …
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"Laptop"
  Posted by Jtgibson on Tuesday, February 20, 2007 09:01AM
I was wondering if anyone was willing to part with an old laptop, pro bono. I'll pay the shipping. Here are the …
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"Whoa"
  Posted by Jtgibson on Monday, December 11, 2006 04:29PM
We had a power outage here, so when the power came back on and I booted Firefox back up, the SessionSaver plugin …
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"Mac Commercial"
  Posted by Jtgibson on Saturday, July 29, 2006 02:16PM
I just saw a commercial on TV for Macs, which says that Macs can do fun stuff, like play movies, music, etc. It then …
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"The MPEG Sucks Ass"
  Posted by Jtgibson on Wednesday, June 21, 2006 08:29PM
Region encoding sucks ass. Software patents suck ass. Forcing people to license an encoding standard sucks ass. That …
"Conspiracy theory"
  Posted by Jtgibson on Tuesday, May 16, 2006 01:38PM
Just a couple weeks ago, I opened up a free email account with an online mailbox provider. I have told exactly one …
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"Good News, or Bad?"
  Posted by Jtgibson on Saturday, February 25, 2006 03:46PM
As I sit here typing, I'm doing so on my brand new Microsoft® Comfort Curve 2000™ keyboard. (Trademark …
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