So after seeing MST3K: Future Wars, I realized that it was a movie about the future where the protagonist is fighting dinosaurs. How does that work?
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Time travelling dinosaurs?
I wiped my desktop and migrated to Windows 7 from Win XP yesterday. Blew away my Linux Mint Debian Edition partition too, but Iāll probably just reinstall that again because I liked it.
Nice @Sig. When I upgraded to Win8, I disconnected from the domain. No more pushed software or VPNās that I never use slowing me down. Plus I still have my admin rights. Iām deep in Unix-land now trying to get my servers into shape and am again thinking of dual booting or starting up a Unix VM.
Iām about to be handed an old laptop (circa 2005 or so?) and itās got XP. Iām half tempted to throw Linux on it as it will simply be a web browser/kid device (sheās got homework on teh internetz now) and it sounds like a fun idea. Not sure though. I still donāt know what specs Iām really working with yet.
If it can run XP, it should be able to run most flavours of linux as well, and most likely Win 7.
This was just my home machine, so thereās no domain to ignore. Work is still XP for the foreseeable future. Everyone else is on Win 7 thin clients, but our site doesnāt have the bandwidth to do that. They donāt want to pay for the bandwidth, but they wonāt pay for new desktops, so we just keep chugging along on 2008 hardware.
So far itās been surprisingly undramatic. I really like being able to set a default audio device and have different settings for each. Between my USB headphones, my USB radio interface, and the built-in audio, I have three sets of sound devices on this machine, so thatās no small thing. I reinstalled Steam, pointed it to the Steam directory on another drive, and it found all of my games; I didnāt have to re-install (or, more importantly, re-download) anything. That was nice.
Does everything look a little different?
Yes. I think.
I just wish they wouldnāt upgrade piece-mail here. I have Win 7 on my station, they are playing with 8 on the one in the backroom. 1 self-check is on xp, the other is 7. The public computers are on vistaā¦
If my wife didnāt insist I had long hair I woulda snatched myself bald by now.
A couple of days ago, I saw the If There Are More Writers, It MUST Be Better, Right? meme in the music section of the Cheezburger site. Didnāt think too much about it until I heard Billy Joelās Sheās Got a Way playing at one of the offices I went to today. So I just checked, and yup. One writer was all was needed for such an elegant song.
I look at the lyrics of that āBabyā long in the meme and I think, āThey didnāt try hard enoughā. Fly, Robin, Fly managed to get into the Billboard chart in three different categories with only two writers, six unique words, and no fancy star like Ludacris.
I saw on the web yesterday one of those ā Find your superhero nameā things. It said to pick what color shirt you are wearing and what is to your right. Today, my super hero name is Green Idiot.
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Iām the Black Monitor.
Me, too! What are the odds? 
The Blue Electric Kettle? What kind of a superhero name is that?! 
Hmmm. The Grey Green Mince Tart. That just sounds wrongā¦
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Orange Monitorā¦ nah, Iāll take Orange Cluttered Desk, or in short, OCD.
I guess Iām the Blue Sectional Corner.
Sorry ladies, Iām taken. I know a name like that is hard to resist.
Iām going to have to watch Mystery Men again.
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Some friends got a dog and named it Mojo Jojo.
I now have Mojo Jojoās voice in my head reading everything for me.
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