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Forum: Geeks' Lounge Nov 8th, 2009
Replies: 26
Views: 2,533
Posted By John A
How little you know of what actually goes into being a moderator here.
Forum: Geeks' Lounge Jul 24th, 2009
Replies: 11
Views: 747
Posted By John A
Space Mountain at DisneyLand (128 ft):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Mountain_%28Disneyland%29

By far the most interesting coaster I've been on - completely dark, except for stars all around...
Forum: Geeks' Lounge Jul 3rd, 2009
Replies: 19
Views: 1,289
Posted By John A
>How come the Java IRC client at daniweb.com/chat is no longer with us?
The Java client was replaced with a Flash equivalent about a year ago. The flash client (along with all the other IRC...
Forum: Geeks' Lounge Jun 20th, 2009
Replies: 61
Views: 4,119
Posted By John A
Thought some of you might find this interesting (http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.asp)
Forum: Geeks' Lounge Jun 20th, 2009
Replies: 9
Views: 631
Posted By John A
>My main question has to do with the mouse. What language does it use?
You can write a mouse cursor (I assume that's what you mean) in a lot of different languages.
Forum: Geeks' Lounge Jun 8th, 2009
Replies: 61
Views: 4,119
Posted By John A
telnet (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telnet)
Forum: Geeks' Lounge May 28th, 2009
Replies: 19
Views: 1,289
Posted By John A
>In there, what's so great?
We do have discussions every once in a while, but with only 7-8 people there on average, it becomes kind of difficult to keep a steady conversation flowing. If more...
Forum: Geeks' Lounge May 27th, 2009
Replies: 19
Views: 1,289
Posted By John A
Or you can just click on my signature link (http://embed.mibbit.com/?userListWidth=50&server=irc.daniweb.com%3A6667&chatOutputNickWidth=80&channel=%23daniweb), hit the big "Connect" button and you're...
Forum: Geeks' Lounge May 15th, 2009
Replies: 29
Views: 7,146
Posted By John A
Approximately 400 GB of music. That's like, I dunno, 30,000 songs? Something like that :p
Forum: Geeks' Lounge May 8th, 2009
Replies: 33
Views: 2,669
Posted By John A
>Dani had to tell me about it before I noticed.
Whatta load of bullshit (http://www.daniweb.com/forums/showthread.php?threadid=57019). :P
Forum: Geeks' Lounge May 7th, 2009
Replies: 33
Views: 2,669
Posted By John A
>I won't say who gave me my infraction, but I wear it as a badge of honor.
Really? I thought you pouted and left. :p
Forum: Geeks' Lounge Apr 23rd, 2009
Replies: 6
Views: 572
Posted By John A
The only problem with explaining the usage of noparse tags is that it becomes somewhat cumbersome to explain the exact usage of the noparse tags themselves. For example, consider the following:


...
Forum: Geeks' Lounge Apr 18th, 2009
Replies: 12
Views: 889
Posted By John A
I'm primarily archivist (http://redwing.hutman.net/~mreed/warriorshtm/archivist.htm). I do however enjoy being a jerk (http://redwing.hutman.net/~mreed/warriorshtm/jerk.htm), and a nanny...
Forum: Geeks' Lounge Mar 14th, 2009
Replies: 9
Views: 8,657
Posted By John A
You're allowed to link to/quote (within reason) other material in your blog. What we don't like is people copying and pasting articles from other sources, although copying and pasting press releases...
Forum: Geeks' Lounge Feb 12th, 2008
Replies: 47
Views: 5,837
Posted By John A
Not if your name's Michael Scott. :P
Forum: Geeks' Lounge Feb 8th, 2008
Replies: 26
Views: 2,476
Posted By John A
If you had all the money in the world, how would you expect to find a market in which you could buy a house?
Forum: Geeks' Lounge Nov 11th, 2007
Replies: 85
Views: 7,470
Posted By John A
I looked for the poll option "The Dude", but it wasn't there.
Forum: Geeks' Lounge Nov 4th, 2007
Replies: 40
Views: 4,531
Posted By John A
This poll is so vague. The term 'Walkman' can refer to radios, tape players, video players, and anything and everything between. The iPod brand isn't quite as diverse, but is equally hard to compare....
Forum: Geeks' Lounge Oct 26th, 2007
Replies: 11
Views: 2,064
Posted By John A
I agree. It reminds me of the other day when I bought a new Slayer album. I stuck it in my turntable, and you know what? I got a horrible grinding noise. Crap was I pissed when I found out that I...
Forum: Geeks' Lounge Sep 25th, 2007
Replies: 9
Views: 993
Posted By John A
The thought of putting a "Don't spam here" sign on a website is about as ludicrous as the idea of putting a "Weeds strictly prohibited" sign in front of a flowerbed.
Forum: Geeks' Lounge Aug 28th, 2007
Replies: 25
Views: 4,291
Posted By John A
He's referring to me. :icon_mrgreen:

Linux isn't for everyone. Neither is Windows, and neither is Mac OS X. There isn't, and probably never will be, an "end-all be-all" operating system. You just...
Forum: Geeks' Lounge Jun 28th, 2007
Replies: 59
Views: 8,269
Posted By John A
Oh, and I suppose whenever you see an accident on the road you want cars to be banned. :icon_rolleyes:


*huge yawn* You think so?


Accidents happen occasionally. It's a fact of life.

This...
Forum: Geeks' Lounge Jun 28th, 2007
Replies: 287
Views: 22,288
Posted By John A
Does anyone enjoy listening to music and reading a book at the same time? I find that heavy metal music makes boring books much more fun to read. :-)

...and if that isn't enough to keep my mind...
Forum: Geeks' Lounge Jun 14th, 2007
Replies: 287
Views: 22,288
Posted By John A
Some of my more-recent favorites (in no particular order).

The Innocent Man (http://www.amazon.com/Innocent-Man-Murder-Injustice-Small/dp/0385517238)
By John Grisham
ISBN: 978-0385517232
...
Forum: Geeks' Lounge May 5th, 2007
Replies: 9
Views: 1,669
Posted By John A
1 decent search engine + another decent search engine != double traffic

Some people use both search engines. Some will be annoyed at a search engine that has way more features than they need, and...
Forum: Geeks' Lounge Apr 27th, 2007
Replies: 1,440
Views: 126,357
Posted By John A
>But some1 should start it up again..
Or maybe someone should just close it.
Forum: Geeks' Lounge Apr 26th, 2007
Replies: 1,440
Views: 126,357
Posted By John A
I hope you guys are all aware of DaniWeb's IRC channel, it even has a built-in Java client (http://www.daniweb.com/chat/), since no one seems to be interested in discussing the original topic anymore.
Forum: Geeks' Lounge Apr 26th, 2007
Replies: 6
Views: 1,511
Posted By John A
I honestly don't see the disadvantage of closing old threads. Just because a thread can't be bumped doesn't mean it can't help other people. In fact, the vast majority of the old threads that other...
Forum: Geeks' Lounge Apr 20th, 2007
Replies: 395
Views: 33,143
Posted By John A
Those aren't funny, they're just plain dumb. Obviously some of them are true, but it seems that the editors of that page have got some things as screwed as the laws they're trying to promote.

No...
Forum: Geeks' Lounge Apr 14th, 2007
Replies: 39
Views: 3,307
Posted By John A
>I thought Dani was Jewish as well, but I'm not positive about that.
http://www.daniweb.com/techtalkforums/showthread.php?p=337539&highlight=passover#post337539...
Forum: Geeks' Lounge Apr 12th, 2007
Replies: 47
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Views: 3,634
Posted By John A
>That's just based on looking at my own though, so the data set is quite limited.
Yep. The rep titles are also interesting (when you hover your cursor over someone's rep):
>50 = "Distinguished...
Forum: Geeks' Lounge Feb 17th, 2007
Replies: 8
Views: 1,199
Posted By John A
Perfect description :cheesy:

It looks like some white stuff from an animal! I don't care how many health benefits it has; I'd rather have a cold than have to eat that horrid white cold goop.
Forum: Geeks' Lounge Feb 10th, 2007
Replies: 7
Views: 1,086
Posted By John A
My favorite online game is to see who's currently viewing an unanswered thread in the DaniWeb C/C++ forums and then try to type an answer faster than they can. :P

But seriously, I don't really...
Forum: Geeks' Lounge Jan 24th, 2007
Replies: 85
Views: 12,773
Posted By John A
Don't hate yourself. There's no point in crying over spilled milk (even if it wasn't your fault). There's also no reason to hate yourself. If you can get 29 girlfriends, you must be fairly...
Forum: Geeks' Lounge Dec 31st, 2006
Replies: 16
Views: 2,777
Posted By John A
Way to go... have a very happy birthday. :D

Tell us if you got any cool tech toys for presents. (Oh right, you probably got the same presents for Christmas as for your Birthday... oh well)
Forum: Geeks' Lounge Nov 10th, 2006
Replies: 18
Views: 3,209
Posted By John A
I remember getting that picture emailed to me, and enjoyed it immensly. The printer was probably nice and warm so the mouse tryed to make a nest inside it...
Forum: Geeks' Lounge Oct 24th, 2006
Replies: 13
Views: 2,630
Posted By John A
Done. Good luck :)
Forum: Geeks' Lounge Oct 21st, 2006
Replies: 30
Views: 7,367
Posted By John A
Good luck. I did a little bit of researching at register.com, and firefox1.com through firefox21.com are all taken. ie.com is even more taken, but interestingly enough, internetexplorer10.com is...
Forum: Geeks' Lounge Oct 20th, 2006
Replies: 5
Views: 1,560
Posted By John A
Remember, this site does not discuss illegal things here. Hacking not only breaks into other computers, it also breaks the law. And you can face severe civil penalties if you get caught.
Forum: Geeks' Lounge Sep 6th, 2006
Replies: 11
Views: 1,861
Posted By John A
I can tolerate people who really can't spell, because sometimes English isn't their first language. What I can't stand is people who are just lazy. Good general rule of thumb: if people are too lazy...
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