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Ridiculous.
We'll all be super-geeks by the time you're finished with us, Frods.
You've got us looking at pictures of "get info" panels (About Mac OS X 10.5), system prefs and folders.
There is currently no cure or hope for us.

I did notice the user name was Nick Junior. Cool name.
Must have been a yank, unlike John (Universal) Citizen.

Your soon-to-be-past-the-point-of-no-return-from-geekdom buddy
Nicky (Junior?)

No way-- You're Nicky Senior around here!

Geekdom. LOL. I think this is more like being nosey than anything else.

Now, the talk about op-amps and crossovers? THAT'S geeky!!

Frodo wrote:No way-- You're Nicky Senior around here!

I've said it before, but you always seem to know how to make this monkey feel good.

Frodo wrote:Now, the talk about op-amps and crossovers? THAT'S geeky!!

Yeah.
What worries me though, is once I'm past-the-point-of-no-return from geekdom, anything I say will be, well, geeky!

Almost there...

monkey man wrote: Yeah.
What worries me though, is once I'm past-the-point-of-no-return from geekdom, anything I say will be, well, geeky!

Almost there...

Your diploma awaits, Sir!

Frodo wrote: Your diploma awaits, Sir!

Gee, Frods; thanks for the incentive.

I'd better start studying all those geeky-hobbit threads I've saved for a rainy day.
Dang, does a drought qualify as a rainy day?
Oh, well, let's just say I've saved them for a natural disaster!

Let's see now; page 1253, chapter XIV, module C, subsection 7, part alpha...
"Workload-Induced Bottlenecks and the Dynamics of Badly-Sourced RAM, Specifically that which Contains Disproportionate Amounts of Silicon."

Wish me luck.
M

Frodo wrote:http://www.thinksecret.com/archives/leopard9a283/

Thanks Frodo. I followed your link and won a new laptop. Not only that, but once I clicked on that link (to collect) I was immediately emailed with an offer to transfer 13M to my US bank account from Nigeria, from the widow of the former Minister of Finance. Apparently, he was killed by a gorilla and the dept of the interior in Nigeria (in coersion with the Kenia Coffee Council, would not allow his 26M fortune out of the country except to a "lucky coffee drinker" who won a free laptop.

And all because I clicked on the link. Just imagine what can happen with the new Unicornation ads!

MIDI Life Crisis wrote:

Frodo wrote:http://www.thinksecret.com/archives/leopard9a283/

Thanks Frodo. I followed your link and won a new laptop. Not only that, but once I clicked on that link (to collect) I was immediately emailed with an offer to transfer 13M to my US bank account from Nigeria, from the widow of the former Minister of Finance. Apparently, he was killed by a gorilla and the dept of the interior in Nigeria (in coersion with the Kenia Coffee Council, would not allow his 26M fortune out of the country except to a "lucky coffee drinker" who won a free laptop.

And all because I clicked on the link. Just imagine what can happen with the new Unicornation ads!

You can always sell the laptop!!

Oh boy, more bloat ware, and yet another impediment to progress at the abandonment of a not yet fully stabilised OS, before the introduction of a newer, even more unstable one that will cause fits with our interfaces, PCI cards and software.

Start saving now.

Gee. Parental Controls. I can hide the swear words in the Dictionary.

Thanks, Frodo! Before you brought this to my attention, I didn't know this was in the Mac dictionary:

•••• |fək| vulgar slang verb [ trans. ] 1 have sexual intercourse with (someone). ••• [ intrans. ] (of two people) have sexual intercourse. 2 ruin or damage (something). noun an act of sexual intercourse. ••• [with adj. ] a sexual partner. exclamation used alone or as a noun ( the ••••) or a verb in various phrases to express anger, annoyance, contempt, impatience, or surprise, or simply for emphasis. PHRASES go •••• yourself an exclamation expressing anger or contempt for, or rejection of, someone. not give a •••• ( about) used to emphasize indifference or contempt. PHRASAL VERBS •••• around spend time doing unimportant or trivial things. ••• have sexual intercourse with a variety of partners. ••• ( •••• around with) meddle with. •••• off [usu. in imperative ] (of a person) go away. •••• someone over treat someone in an unfair or humiliating way. •••• someone up damage or confuse someone emotionally. •••• something up (or •••• up) do something badly or ineptly. DERIVATIVES fuckable adjective ORIGIN early 16th cent.: of Germanic origin (compare Swedish dialect focka and Dutch dialect fokkelen); possibly from an Indo-European root meaning [strike,] shared by Latin pugnus ••˜fist.••™ USAGE Despite the wideness and proliferation of its use in many sections of society, the word •••• remains (and has been for centuries) one of the most taboo words in English. Until relatively recently, it rarely appeared in print; even today, there are a number of euphemistic ways of referring to it in speech and writing, e.g., the F-word, f***, or f••”k.

Hmmm-- even the dignity of both transitive and intransitive forms are represented.

I went through my phase of the whole admin sign-in thing with every installation of new software, but parental controls? Well, likely to be invisible.

Could be worse: The MacPro's could also require iLok!!

Jim wrote:•••• |f?k| vulgar slang verb

If it thinks that's how the word's pronounced (the backwards 'e' in International Phonetic Alphabet is a neutral vowel ••” like the 'a' in 'neutral'), it's not a dictionary worth having!

Kaszper wrote:

Jim wrote:•••• |f?k| vulgar slang verb

If it thinks that's how the word's pronounced (the backwards 'e' in International Phonetic Alphabet is a neutral vowel ••” like the 'a' in 'neutral'), it's not a dictionary worth having!

Well, I dunno. If you scream the word at the top of your lungs, it comes out about right!

Dang, does a drought qualify as a rainy day?

Nick, the answer is a resounding "yes!": a thought drought, or perhaps a craft draft if we're thinking like the party animal I know you are Monkeyman.

Frodo wrote:

Kaszper wrote:

Jim wrote:•••• |f?k| vulgar slang verb

If it thinks that's how the word's pronounced (the backwards 'e' in International Phonetic Alphabet is a neutral vowel ••” like the 'a' in 'neutral'), it's not a dictionary worth having!

Well, I dunno. If you scream the word at the top of your lungs, it comes out about right!

I think you need to study the IPA, young Hobbit.

Kaszper wrote:

Frodo wrote:

Kaszper wrote: If it thinks that's how the word's pronounced (the backwards 'e' in International Phonetic Alphabet is a neutral vowel ••” like the 'a' in 'neutral'), it's not a dictionary worth having!

Well, I dunno. If you scream the word at the top of your lungs, it comes out about right!

I think you need to study the IPA, young Hobbit.

It's me accent...