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<0> it was actually created in-house and put on the front page of the site on purpose
<1> sad
<2> flashs ads must die
<0> with a really annoying repeating sound effect
<1> its sad that because people have technology they HAVE to use it
<0> I observed many staff, not just me, literally berating the dork whose idea it was
<0> it actually drove off potential customers
<1> um
<1> so did they take it off?
<0> I referred a good handful of people to our site for information on our product
<3> Verisign was a ****in' PITA.
<0> and had most of them react convulsively to the irritating sound effect by killing their browser, and refusing to have anything further to do with the site
<2> yeah I think people are already fed up with commercials invading everything.
<1> xyzzy its horrible
<1> there are advertizements on every building here, even peoples homes
<2> Liandrin: yup
<0> eventually $idiot got tired of people yelling at him and had the sound effect removed
<2> so now they need a flash ad blocker
<1> you know
<1> i bet google has this guy in a black suit with black sungl***es like an agent
<1> and his job is to ******inate anyone at google who tries to implement anything that might piss off customers :P
<2> good. someone has too
<4> Liandrin: hehe.
<4> well, sigh, I'm off to Iraq in two weeks..
<1> Strider have fun
<4> still havent' bought my airline tickets.. I should do that, but I want to get my amex hooked up to aeroplan first
<1> amex?
<1> oh american express?
<4> yeah
<4> if I'm gonna spend $10k on airline tickets, I want to get points for that
<5> Strider: your company will not provide you tickets?
<1> $10K?!
<4> tsokolat: they will pay me back for them, but I book all my own travel.
<4> we're a small company
<4> well, I won't be booking my own travel in country, but I digress
<3> Man, I'm "sunburnt".
<4> docfu: buisness cl***, return ticket from Vancouver to Kuwait
<1> ahh
<4> well, $9782
<1> strider wow
<1> spending it while ya got it huh?
<1> too bad you can't buy the ticket then downgrade it off the record :)
<4> docfu: hehe
<4> well, i'm getting other money too
<4> but not as much as I wanted, which pisses me off
<1> i hear ya
<4> i'm only getting a 2x multiplier
<1> will you get taxed for going?
<4> docfu: yes
<1> oh thats ****s
<4> i'm Canadian, we don't have the same loophole
<4> plus i'm being paid by a Canadian company
<6> any ideas why i can't traceroute yahoo.com?
<1> of the 250,000Y i make a month i think i pay about 10,000 in taxes
<1> kernel cause its traceroute proof
<6> what should be done in my box?
<6> so that i can traceroute yahoo.com
<6> ?
<0> uh, there's nothing you *can* do to be able to traceroute yahoo.com
<4> kernel20: nothing you can do... yahoo.com prevents it
<0> *they're* blocking traceroute attempts at *their* end
<1> wow i pay 4% in taxes
<1> thats a ****ing far cry from the 20% in the US :)
<6> but i can traceroute yahoo.com in my router?
<6> hardware router
<1> no
<4> I pay about 35% in taxes
<4> whoa, Telus directly peers with Google
<1> google=smart
<1> in fact the one thing having me nervous about getting a mac mini is its ability to interface with google
<4> docfu: huh?
<6> ?
<1> macmini can't do voice via googletalk
<4> docfu: oh.
<1> so i wonder if other things like google maps also don't work
<4> docfu: google maps works fine, so does the mac version of google earth
<4> I use google maps from my ibook all the time
<1> ahh ok
<4> there's also skype
<1> so just no google talk
<1> ahh ok
<4> docfu: there's the IM part of google talk, it's just jabber
<4> and i'm sure someone will come up with the voice talk part of google talk soonner rather than later
<1> strider how do you like your ibook for every day things?
<1> i'm thinking of getting a dualcore macmini and running it in parallel with my laptop
<4> docfu: i've got an original ice-book, it's probably 5 years old now... but it's great
<4> i use it almost all the time...
<1> strider i saw that dosbox is out for OSX
<4> docfu: beats me, this is an old 500Mhz G3 iBook
<1> if other emulators are as well then that covers that whole part of the equation
<4> it's still runnign OS X 10.4
<1> strider mp3/movie codecs are the next big thing
<4> docfu: I've never felt the need for emulated software...
<1> strider games :)
<4> docfu: you've got mplayer and vlc.. what more could you want?
<4> docfu: meh.
<1> mplayer have a decent interface?
<1> or is it console?
<4> docfu: yeah, MplayerX is pretty decent
<4> it's just a simple little thing
<1> strider well music is a big thing for me, with over 1000 cds
<4> docfu: I have to admit that I <3 iTunes.
<1> I'd seriously despise having to put all of that into itunes
<4> docfu: they ripped as mp3 or ogg?
<1> mp3
<4> then there's nothing to do to add.. just drag 'n drop them onto iTunes
<4> iTunes handles mp3s just fine
<1> i don't like itunes interface though :)
<4> most of my collection is mp3
<1> I guess I'm too used to winamp, small and it works
<4> docfu: where iTunes gets really nifty is in its smart playlists and so forth
<1> strider i always and i do mean always play by entire cd
<1> so i never use playlists
<4> I can go and make a playlist that includes "100 songs that I've ranked 3 stars and above, that haven't been played in 2 weeks, and are not christmas music"
<4> I do that with a few bits..
<4> anyhow, could it's UI be improved? sure...
<4> the other nifty thing, in my case at least, is that I have an airport express that I picked up because I got sick of being in hotel rooms with lousy or no wireless access...
<1> what does that do?
<3> Hmm...
<1> boosts the signal?
<4> docfu: it's a baby little access point... about 3"x3"x3/4", that looks like a power brick.
<1> strider but what does it do?
<1> i mean is it a dsl router or what?
<4> on the bottom it's got an ethernet jack, a USB plug, and an analog/optical mini-jack.. so right now, when I'm at home, I ahve it setup behind my stereo, and stream music to my stereo via wired or wireless...
<1> strider cool
<4> but yes, it's expensive.. but i've not seen one that's as portable, and that was the driver for my purchase.
<1> << no stereo, uses computer speakers
<4> it's also a print server
<1> oh so basically it elimates a cable from the computer to the stereo
<1> cool
<1> how much are those?
<4> docfu: and it works from anywhere in the house.
<4> it's $129 USD, so yes, it's freakishly expensive compared to your usual Linksys or d-link crap
<4> (it's also one of the few accesspoints/routers that works halfway decently with the crappy wifi in my thinkpad)
<7> how bad are powerbooks in wifi reception?
<7> as compared to other machiens with centrino or an external card?
<7> machines*
<1> i should really move this p4 into the cl***room
<4> modern powerbooks aren't bad, the titanium powerbooks were aweful, not sure about the MacBook Pro, and the white iBooks at least used to be the gold standard for wireless range.. this thing can pick up wireless when nothing else can
<1> its collecting dust in my living room
<1> hhahhaa
<4> ludicrously over-powered. :D
<1> strider thats the exact reason i'm thinking about getting a macmini :P
<4> docfu: yeah, I know...
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