arethinn: round waffles with text "ZOMG waffles" (weird (zomg waffles))
2019-06-21 10:57 pm
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mmm, RAM.

One of the two 4 GB sticks of RAM I had decided to bid a fond farewell to this world a little less than three weeks ago. We swapped them around in the two mobo slots trying while to diagnose this, but since it would not even attempt to boot with the apparently-good RAM in slot B while slot A was empty, we weren't sure whether it was only the other RAM itself (because of a "if you have only one, it has to be A" kind of thing so a failure to boot with good RAM in only B was normal) or whether slot B might also have failed. So in buying replacement RAM I thought it would be prudent to get 2x8GB so if the slot itself was also bad, I could still have 8 GB as before by having it all in slot A. Well, it seems the mobo is OK. *stretches out like a cat into 16 GB of RAM*
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arethinn: Unicorn from The Last Unicorn with text "O RLY?" (skeptical (unicorn orly?))
2018-03-01 12:52 am
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https://moonbeam13.deviantart.com/journal/Celebrating-Deviousness-March-2018-732000397
In Recognition of Exemplary Membership and an Outstanding Spirit of helpfulness and mentoring within the DeviantArt community. Join us in celebrating the latest recipient of the Deviousness Award. Introducing priteeboy:
Unlike most users here who found DeviantArt in their early teens...
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You kids get off my lawn. ( Read more... )
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arethinn: Schmendrick from The Last Unicorn juggling, text "quit dicking around" (random timewasting (schmendrick))
2018-02-09 01:55 pm
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JavaScript implementation of Winamp that runs in a web browser. Wow. It really whips the llama's ass!

Some more about it.
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arethinn: Obi-Wan Kenobi on the cover of a mock Adobe product box, text "Adobe Wan Kenobi" (random (adobe wan kenobi))
2013-10-04 11:05 am
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Has anyone found an iGoogle substitute that works on the same widget/gadget model? I tried Netvibes and Protopage and both of them seem to just expect me to fill in a single rss feed into each of a whole bunch of boxes on a page, so I can... I guess read a bunch of news feeds (though most of mine are not actually "news") individually side by side? Is that what they expect me to want to be doing? I have an rss reader (The Old Reader); I don't need to use a dashboard page that way.

I haven't yet tried igHome, which seems to operate more like what I have in mind, though I imagine the selection of widgets will be limited. Nor have I looked back at My Yahoo since... like... a silly "Web 2.0" project I had to do for work back in 2007. Maybe I should.

Going on a tangent: does anyone know how to construct the feed url for Flickr's "Interesting" photos? http://www.flickr.com/services/feeds/ and http://www.flickr.com/services/feeds/docs/photos_public/ don't give me enough information to work it out, probably because there's background knowledge they're expecting me to have that I don't have. ("interesting" photos don't seem to be tagged "interesting" or "explored" or whatever unless a user applies the tag.)
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arethinn: animated Space Ghost shaking his head (frustrated (space ghost))
2013-01-10 05:08 pm
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arethinn: glowing green spiral (humor silly (weird al rotflol))
2011-02-16 10:33 pm
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Husband and I are watching the second IBM Challenge episode of Jeopardy. In a category on proverbs, Watson arrived at the correct question "what are tools" from the answer "It's a poor workman who blames these", with a high level of confidence in the response. We were amused and bemused, though, by his second-choice answer, way down in the red: "Yogi Berra".

Quoth the me, "It's a poor workman who blames Yogi Berra, too!"

eta: Second choice on "A broken one of these is right twice a day" (correct response of "clock", again, with high confidence) was "nails." Um.
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arethinn: Bastian from the Neverending Story with book, text "can't talk, dorking" (geeky (bastian dorking))
2011-02-16 12:47 am
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[personal profile] enotsola: OMG, I wonder if Watson's open to SQL injection.
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