Jolt Country

When I save this board as a favorite in IE, why is there no corresponding little image to go along with the link? Slashdot has one, SA, I think even memepool had one tho I don't see one now.

I can't have this in my life right now. Help me help you. Give me a little icon.

Jesus fucking christ.

Vitriola wrote:When I save this board as a favorite in IE, why is there no corresponding little image to go along with the link?

My computer does not save IE icons for some reason. I am not certain as to why. But if you go into the "Favorites" section and access all the web pages that I have deigned to be a favorite, then you will see that this is the case.

Hey, you're probably looking for something to read right now. One of the best websites ever is "AP2" which was done up a few years after the magazina "Amiga Power" was cancelled. This site single handedly legitimized the Internet for me back in 1997 when I first found it. I spent five hours after work at Xerox (I did not have the net at home at the time -- I was living with Walrustitty, and he had it for his PC but did not deign then to slap it on mine) reading it.

Will this -- all of this -- really last until the earth hurls itself into the sun, or is this in fact a matter of hours? We will find out shortly! Go here: http://dspace.dial.pipex.com/ap2/
(Or, use the icon-less shortcut in my directory.) Read around a little bit. And then tell us all what you think.

P.S., that website is as important to me as metal is to you. Enjoy yourself! No pressure!

Worm wrote:Jesus fucking christ.

Worm, how would you define the "magic" of what we were talking about before, which was not a god damned thing?

You are all creepily magical. I don't really know what that meens, but right now I'm getting that whole "Family" feeling from the 'board.

No, that's the Deuchars.

Jesus Christ, Jonsey, you're a revisionist pig sometimes.

I'll have you know that I tried to hook you up with the internet. We did have them networked (for Duke3D, of course) but at the time, I didn't have the FreeBSD server doing NAT like I do nowadays, and cable routers were non-existant. In fact, I don't believe that I even got cable internet until near the end of our time there - and I was one of the early adopters!

Anyways, even with dialup, I researched various ways of allowing you access, and I remember that at least once, I got a proxy program running on my PC that let you access the internet through my dial-up connection. I was that nice of a guy that I shared my puny barely-56k connection.

The proxy program also showed me where you were going on the internet, and of course, porn web sites were one of the first destinations. Sigh.

Once I did get cable, I worked ceaselessly on getting the FreeBSD setup going, and had it pretty early on, allowing anyone on the network to get online. I would think that you should have been able to sample those sweet uncapped-speed fruits, but I don't remember for sure.

Point being, I share my internet connection with my housemates. I certainly wasn't like a fucking dragon, jealously guarding my net-access treasures.

(In either case, I paid all the internet bills, so quit yer bitchin' anyways.)

Re: web site icons, they're supposedly very buggy in IE. They're pretty stable now in Mozilla but they were a little touch-and-go for a while there... but they are not used in the bookmark system, just because it would completely break the standard Netscape bookmark.html format. There's been debate amongst the developers, but for the moment... you'll see 'em when you load the page.

I've been sort of planning on making one for groucho.org but haven't quite taken the time yet. They're super-easy, I think.

Jethro Q. Walrustitty wrote:I'll have you know that I tried to hook you up with the internet. We did have them networked (for Duke3D, of course) but at the time, I didn't have the FreeBSD server doing NAT like I do nowadays, and cable routers were non-existant. In fact, I don't believe that I even got cable internet until near the end of our time there - and I was one of the early adopters!

True.

Anyways, even with dialup, I researched various ways of allowing you access, and I remember that at least once, I got a proxy program running on my PC that let you access the internet through my dial-up connection. I was that nice of a guy that I shared my puny barely-56k connection.

True.

The proxy program also showed me where you were going on the internet, and of course, porn web sites were one of the first destinations. Sigh.

Hello! Who had the CD burner and the SPINDLE OF PORN at that point? Jesus. That's fifty goddamn CDs of girls doing terrible things back in like 1998.

I have lived with Mike, Fodge, Sailer, Bundy, Davis, Sparky and Dayna since I came out here. I was/am the undisputed "computer guy" of the household. Do you know how many times I looked at where they were going on the Internet? How many times I read their e-mail? How many times I looked up their shit?

The answer is zero!

Fuck, last night Bundy asked me to look at his PC because he was having a cookie problem. Sailer, ah, informed us all that Bundy is on americansingles.com. This was one of the sites Bundy wanted to work again.

I figured out the problem (his date was set like 77 years in the future, messing up his cookies) and as a check, Mike gave me Bundy's login info to that site. I confirmed my work -- all set.

Did I THEN go into his account and see the names of all the young women he had tricked into speaking to him? No! Because telepathy and looking up private shit on people in ALL ITS FUCKING FORMS is absolutely reprehensible.

That you even felt it was your right to check logs makes you, at heart, a terrible person. I don't know how you sleep at night. You owe me and a bunch of celebrity n0rp an apology.

Once I did get cable, I worked ceaselessly on getting the FreeBSD setup going, and had it pretty early on, allowing anyone on the network to get online. I would think that you should have been able to sample those sweet uncapped-speed fruits, but I don't remember for sure.

I think that was after.

Point being, I share my internet connection with my housemates. I certainly wasn't like a fucking dragon, jealously guarding my net-access treasures.

This is true.

(In either case, I paid all the internet bills, so quit yer bitchin' anyways.)

Yeah, but I took all the pizza boxes out of the house.

Ice Cream Jonsey wrote:

(In either case, I paid all the internet bills, so quit yer bitchin' anyways.)

Yeah, but I took all the pizza boxes out of the house.

Well, when you moved out, you did.

And I'm pretty sure he carried them all through his days until he ended up in Longmont. At least, that's how it looked. If he'd had anymore stacked up around this place, he'd've had an extra room whose walls were cardboard.

Robb, did you know there was a Papa John's right across the street? Why do the drive the miles to the no-name brand parlour across town? More pineapples?

Jethro Q. Walrustitty wrote:

Ice Cream Jonsey wrote:

(In either case, I paid all the internet bills, so quit yer bitchin' anyways.)

Yeah, but I took all the pizza boxes out of the house.

Well, when you moved out, you did.

I was making a joke. I made Mike take the boxes out, and he threw them on the ground in the parking lot outside Elmwood Terrace and not the Dumpster. Don't you remember this?

Vitriola wrote:Robb, did you know there was a Papa John's right across the street? Why do the drive the miles to the no-name brand parlour across town? More pineapples?

I don't want Papa John and Papa John's Junk in my household. It's already bad enough that I can't say "within 800 yards," because they are already there. If I wanted to capture the magic of the "superior ingredients" he keens on and on about in his shitty commercials, I would drink until I could projectile vomit, throw that onto a Boboli and then cook that. Except that:

1) The Boboli crust would be better than theirs

2) My drunken, Mad Dog-influenced green spew is better than their "superior ingredients"

Plus, Luc's (the place across town) is the local Religious-Influenced Pizza Parlor. Buying pizza there is the thinking Christian's tithe.