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by bthylafh
Sat Oct 19, 2019 11:44 pm
Forum: The Back Porch
Topic: Food for thought: The number 8
Replies: 143
Views: 14327

Re: Food for thought: The number 8

The newest XKCD is strangely apropos:

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by bthylafh
Sat Oct 19, 2019 10:48 pm
Forum: The Back Porch
Topic: Food for thought: The number 8
Replies: 143
Views: 14327

Re: Food for thought: The number 8

I'm mystified how some people survive day-to-day.
by bthylafh
Sat Oct 19, 2019 5:28 pm
Forum: The Back Porch
Topic: Food for thought: The number 8
Replies: 143
Views: 14327

Re: Food for thought: The number 8

Credulously reposting pseudoscientific nonsense is certainly on brand for you.
by bthylafh
Sat Oct 19, 2019 2:15 pm
Forum: The Back Porch
Topic: Food for thought: The number 8
Replies: 143
Views: 14327

Re: Food for thought: The number 8

Oh for $DEITY's sake.
by bthylafh
Fri Oct 11, 2019 7:01 pm
Forum: The Back Porch
Topic: Something's different...
Replies: 1628
Views: 333438

Re: Something's different...

Scott got a job at AMD helping them reduce micro-stuttering in their video drivers (something he'd been the first to discover, explain, and test for) and sold this site to Adam (the biz guy) so that it could keep its journalistic integrity. Adam wasn't able to keep the site going; I suspect that Sco...
by bthylafh
Sun Oct 06, 2019 4:49 pm
Forum: Networking
Topic: Wireless router recommendation
Replies: 16
Views: 7359

Re: Wireless router recommendation

meerkt wrote:
Do modern routers (cheapish or not), with stock firmware, still need a restart before changed settings take effect?


This Orbi doesn't. Couldn't say about my earlier wifi routers because they had Tomato installed for most of their service.
by bthylafh
Fri Oct 04, 2019 7:08 pm
Forum: Networking
Topic: Wireless router recommendation
Replies: 16
Views: 7359

Re: Wireless router recommendation

I've been looking at Orbi. They just had a Wi-Fi 6 version release, though that's way out of budget. They have Wi-Fi 5 (AX) 2-pack versions in your price range. I've had an AC-type Orbi for a couple years now, one base and one satellite. Works great, no wifi problems. I could wish for some higher-e...
by bthylafh
Thu Sep 26, 2019 7:38 pm
Forum: Windows
Topic: Microsoft dropping guide in Windows 8.1 pro w/ Media Center
Replies: 17
Views: 6736

Re: Microsoft dropping guide in Windows 8.1 pro w/ Media Center

I am here to protest the unfair or perhaps illegal decision by Microsoft to discontinue Windows 8.1 pro with Media Center Guide support in January of 2020. Why are you operating under the misapprehension that Microsoft has a staffer monitoring TR with enough pull to fix this? For us they wouldn't e...
by bthylafh
Tue Sep 24, 2019 6:46 pm
Forum: The Back Porch
Topic: The Cat Report?
Replies: 26
Views: 5903

Re: The Cat Report?

The cataclysm has begun.
by bthylafh
Tue Sep 24, 2019 6:45 pm
Forum: The Back Porch
Topic: Something's different...
Replies: 1628
Views: 333438

Re: Something's different...

You seem like a pretty big deal.
by bthylafh
Sun Sep 01, 2019 1:37 pm
Forum: The Back Porch
Topic: Glucowise
Replies: 209
Views: 20882

Re: Glucowise

A fool and his money are soon parted.
by bthylafh
Sat Aug 31, 2019 11:23 pm
Forum: The Back Porch
Topic: Glucowise
Replies: 209
Views: 20882

Re: Glucowise

Uh, well. I've emulated a PDP-10 using SimH and run 4.3BSD-quasijarus on an emulated VAX, but nothing that old in anger. Oldest kit I've laid paws on would have to be an Apple ][+ in middle school when it was already past due for the knacker's.

It still had mixed-case, though. :P
by bthylafh
Sat Aug 31, 2019 11:07 pm
Forum: The Back Porch
Topic: Glucowise
Replies: 209
Views: 20882

Re: Glucowise

Captain Ned wrote:
bthylafh wrote:
It's an old Usenet-ism, yes. :P

Um, that's USENET, dag'nabbit.


I've never used a computer that could only do all-caps, gramps.
by bthylafh
Sat Aug 31, 2019 11:06 pm
Forum: The Back Porch
Topic: What are you watching RIGHT NOW?
Replies: 232
Views: 20295

Re: What shows are you recently watching?

The Dark Crystal miniseries on Netflix. I've never seen the original movie but I'm enjoying it so far... and passing my willpower check to not visit tvtropes.
by bthylafh
Sat Aug 31, 2019 11:04 pm
Forum: The Back Porch
Topic: Glucowise
Replies: 209
Views: 20882

Re: Glucowise

Redocbew wrote:
Now I'm wondering if "cow-orker" was intentional.

It almost makes sense somehow. :lol:


It's an old Usenet-ism, yes. :P
by bthylafh
Sat Aug 31, 2019 10:39 pm
Forum: The Back Porch
Topic: Glucowise
Replies: 209
Views: 20882

Re: Glucowise

A cow-orker 100% buys into the carburetor conspiracy theory, fluoridated water being bad, and a whole raft of other conspiracy theories, up to and including that WTC was a controlled demolition. Somehow he sees fit to mock flat-Earthers and deride them because no matter how you explain how they're ...
by bthylafh
Sat Aug 31, 2019 6:58 pm
Forum: The Back Porch
Topic: Glucowise
Replies: 209
Views: 20882

Re: Glucowise

Pretty much the entire thread amounts to everyone telling the OP to stop believing random BS he reads on the internet and at least consider the possibility that the medical community knows a thing or two about diabetes... :wink: And the OP responding that the medical community is helping the auto i...
by bthylafh
Wed Aug 28, 2019 7:26 pm
Forum: The Back Porch
Topic: Glucowise
Replies: 209
Views: 20882

Re: Glucowise

This could serve as an auxiliary DYMT thread.
by bthylafh
Fri Aug 23, 2019 10:44 pm
Forum: The Back Porch
Topic: Something's different...
Replies: 1628
Views: 333438

Re: Something's different...

The SEO articles aren't meant to be read by the Mark 1 mod 0 eyeball, so in that regard it makes sense that the comments are shut off.
by bthylafh
Thu Aug 22, 2019 2:29 pm
Forum: The Back Porch
Topic: Glucowise
Replies: 209
Views: 20882

Re: Glucowise

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E ... ger_effect
by bthylafh
Wed Aug 07, 2019 2:28 pm
Forum: The Back Porch
Topic: Kempner Rice Diet
Replies: 111
Views: 16099

Re: Kempner Rice Diet

you know what to do


Yeah. See a doctor and ignore the credulous fool on some random Internet forum.
by bthylafh
Wed Aug 07, 2019 1:36 pm
Forum: The Back Porch
Topic: Kempner Rice Diet
Replies: 111
Views: 16099

Re: Kempner Rice Diet

You have no idea whatsoever about how to do a proper double-blind study, do you.
by bthylafh
Wed Aug 07, 2019 8:29 am
Forum: The Back Porch
Topic: Something's different...
Replies: 1628
Views: 333438

Re: Something's different...

We don’t pay for guest posts.


That's a lot of demands for free content.

I hate to join the chorus, but stick a fork in TR. :(
by bthylafh
Wed Aug 07, 2019 8:23 am
Forum: The Back Porch
Topic: TR Redesign: bugs - features - tips
Replies: 101
Views: 20785

Re: TR Redesign: bugs - features - tips

A field expedient solution is to use a darkener extension like Dark Background and Light Text. It's not the old blue theme but it's not bright white either.
by bthylafh
Sat Aug 03, 2019 9:17 am
Forum: The Back Porch
Topic: Something's different...
Replies: 1628
Views: 333438

Re: Something's different...

It's all about the Pentiums SEO, baby.
by bthylafh
Mon Jul 29, 2019 3:03 pm
Forum: The Back Porch
Topic: Something's different...
Replies: 1628
Views: 333438

Re: Something's different...

morphine wrote:
Been finally skimming this thread. DancinJack, and/or maybe a couple others, thanks for your concern, but I'm fine. I've elected to step away from TR. I'll probably still stick around in the forums.


:( Thanks for all your work over the years.
by bthylafh
Fri Jul 26, 2019 5:57 pm
Forum: The Back Porch
Topic: TR Redesign: bugs - features - tips
Replies: 101
Views: 20785

Re: TR Redesign: bugs - features - tips

OK, this might even deserve its own thread, but my posts are being hijacked by "Viglink" auto-inserting spam URLs when certain keywords are typed into a post. NOT COOL I understand you need to pay the bills, but this is getting to be too much. It's not even a decent quality spam link (if ...
by bthylafh
Wed Jul 24, 2019 9:01 am
Forum: The Back Porch
Topic: TR Redesign: bugs - features - tips
Replies: 101
Views: 20785

Re: TR Redesign: bugs - features - tips

farmpuma wrote:
Still no love for older browsers. Do we really need the highest level of man-in-the-middle security for news, reviews, and comments content? In my opinion it only serves to make the site less responsive.


So upgrade your browser. That thinking is why the web was stuck with IE6 for so long.
by bthylafh
Mon Jul 15, 2019 9:33 pm
Forum: System Builders Anonymous
Topic: Retro Build
Replies: 31
Views: 9108

Re: Retro Build

Musta been. How long was the Rage XL in production for, just for the server market?
by bthylafh
Mon Jul 15, 2019 8:18 am
Forum: System Builders Anonymous
Topic: Retro Build
Replies: 31
Views: 9108

Re: Retro Build

DrDominodog51 wrote:
I'll post another update as soon as I figure out how to enable hardware acceleration for Xfce with the GPU.


You might look into Compton, which is a 3D accelerated compositor that should be compatible with Xfce.

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