The Vent and Rant Thread - Page 413

zelda_pinwheel · 10-31-2009, 05:41 PM

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Originally Posted by Patricia

I expect that pshrynk will add some chlorpromazine to Adrian's zany carters. It should be ok, but let's keep our fingers crossed for the local population.

/goes to google "chlorpromazine"...

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aha !

well i'm sure pshrynk has quite a stock of that on hand at all times, yes. on the other hand, how effective do you think it will be, on invisible, inadvertently violent gibbons ?

Patricia · 10-31-2009, 05:45 PM

Who knows?

I spent a summer in the 1970s working in a mental hospital. Whenever anyone got angry, half-a-dozen nurses would jump on them and inject chlorpromazine, leaving the patient subdued and dazed for hours. The place boasted that it no longer used straitjackets, and the chemical cosh was the preferred alternative.

(I was in the art therapy unit, mostly, and never jumped on anybody.)

montsnmags · 10-31-2009, 07:23 PM

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Originally Posted by pilotbob

Does it really matter what version of Ubuntu/Linx that you run then? Isn't browser version more important? You upgrading just to upgrade?

BOb

Why, yes, good sir, indeed I am!

I upgrade for the "fun" of it, and idlecuriosity about how "up" it is graded. My statement of importance of my lappy's needs are just meant to indicate that I'm not much bothered if things go wrong on it while I'm mucking around with it. Some say "total OS meltdown"; I say "Opportunity!" (<--- this last bit is a lie. I actually swear the air blue

)

Quote:

Originally Posted by Patricia

I expect that pshrynk will add some chlorpromazine to Adrian's zany carters. It should be ok, but let's keep our fingers crossed for the local population.

Chlorpromazine is one of those substances I actually use to dilute the affects of ZCDs (along with ethanol, pool acid, paint stripper and heavy water). ZCDs are one of the substances I use to dilute the affects of Adrian. If pshrynk was diluting the ZCDs more, and Adrian was losing ZCD-inebriation, well I'm thinking...a sober Adrian?...[shudder]...Cancun may not contain the spillover.

...but pshrynk knows that...surely?

Greg Anos · 10-31-2009, 07:54 PM

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Originally Posted by kennyc

what OS did it come with?

XP Home. It won't run Virtual PC 2004. But Windows 2000 or XP PRO will. I want Windows 2000, to get past this activation nonsense. (I own both windows 2000 and XP PRO.) Windows 2000 was designed for slow processors, so it should be ideal for a nettop. If I can only get the <censored> thing to load...

kennyc · 10-31-2009, 07:55 PM

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Originally Posted by Ralph Sir Edward

XP Home. It won't run Virtual PC 2004. But Windows 2000 or XP PRO will. I want Windows 2000, to get past this activation nonsense. (I own both windows 2000 and XP PRO.) Windows 2000 was designed for slow processors, so it should be ideal for a nettop. If I can only get the <censored> thing to load...

I see. Thanks! and good luck!

Greg Anos · 10-31-2009, 07:56 PM

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Originally Posted by montsnmags

Why, yes, good sir, indeed I am!

I upgrade for the "fun" of it, and idlecuriosity about how "up" it is graded. My statement of importance of my lappy's needs are just meant to indicate that I'm not much bothered if things go wrong on it while I'm mucking around with it. Some say "total OS meltdown"; I say "Opportunity!" (<--- this last bit is a lie. I actually swear the air blue

)

Chlorpromazine is one of those substances I actually use to dilute the affects of ZCDs (along with ethanol, pool acid, paint stripper and heavy water). ZCDs are one of the substances I use to dilute the affects of Adrian. If pshrynk was diluting the ZCDs more, and Adrian was losing ZCD-inebriation, well I'm thinking...a sober Adrian?...[shudder]...Cancun may not contain the spillover.

...but pshrynk knows that...surely?

Is that why people want to shuffle after one of them.....

(Do the shuffle, the Thorazine shuffle....)

pilotbob · 10-31-2009, 08:58 PM

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Originally Posted by montsnmags

Why, yes, good sir, indeed I am!

I upgrade for the "fun" of it, and idlecuriosity about how "up" it is graded.

Well, that's ok then. The first step is to admit that you have a problem.

BOb

GeoffC · 11-01-2009, 02:50 AM

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Originally Posted by vivaldirules

Huh? Are you telling me there's doughnuts behind the coffee maker?

no just a bacon slicer ....

Quote:

Originally Posted by Patricia

(I was in the art therapy unit, mostly, and never jumped on anybody.)

Quote:

Originally Posted by pilotbob

Well, that's ok then. The first step is to admit that you have a problem.

BOb

I thought that was why we frequented here .....

montsnmags · 11-01-2009, 08:01 AM

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Originally Posted by pilotbob

Well, that's ok then. The first step is to admit that you have a problem.

BOb

Well, I keep trying to admit it, but most times the assorted OS upgrades and patches (Ubuntu , XP and OS X) get in with the admission before me.

Saying that, it all seems to have gone fine. Firefox (now at 3.5), and the far-less-used Tweetdeck and even Calibre (which I haven't upgraded for a bit), all look peachy at the moment. We'll see how it goes.

Cheers,
Marc

DMcCunney · 11-01-2009, 08:02 AM

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Originally Posted by Ralph Sir Edward

XP Home. It won't run Virtual PC 2004. But Windows 2000 or XP PRO will. I want Windows 2000, to get past this activation nonsense. (I own both windows 2000 and XP PRO.) Windows 2000 was designed for slow processors, so it should be ideal for a nettop. If I can only get the <censored> thing to load...

I have an old Fujistsu Lifebook from 2002 I went through that exercise with. It was a gift from a friend, who loved it, but finally upgraded because it ws "slow slow slow". No surprise: it has an 867mhz Transmeta CPU, a slow even for the time HD, a whopping 256MB of RAM, expandable to 384 MB...and cam from Fujitsu with Win XP Pro installed. XP wants 512MB, bare minimum, to think about running acceptably

I swapped the original 30GB HD for a 40GB unit from a dead laptop I had, reformatted and repartitioned, and the box now triple boots Win2K Pro, Xubuntu 9, and Puppy Linux 4.12, spending most time in Puppy, which is intended for lower end gear, and has been reported to run on p200s with 64MB of RAM.

Win2K is an improvement over Win XP on the box, but not a very large one. And even under Puppy Linux, there are issues, as things like Firefox 3.5 take 45 seconds to load. (I blame slow HD with a 20MB/sec transfer rate for that. Load is slow and swap is slow because the HD is.) But it's been fun to play with and see what I can coerce out of it, and with FBReader installed it makes a good alternate ebook reader.
______
Dennis

A Nonny Mouse · 11-01-2009, 03:47 PM

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Originally Posted by montsnmags;643909
Chlorpromazine is one of those substances I actually use to dilute the affects of ZCDs (along with ethanol, pool acid, paint stripper and heavy water). ZCDs are one of the substances I use to dilute the affects of Adrian. If pshrynk was diluting the ZCDs more, and Adrian was losing ZCD-inebriation, well I'm thinking...a sober Adrian?...[I

[shudder][/I]...Cancun may not contain the spillover.

...but pshrynk knows that...surely?

Eh?? what did he say??

Lycoming · 11-01-2009, 04:50 PM

Anonny, it's a variation on the old services first line medical treatment "attach two Ibuprofen with sticky tape, avoid stress."

Psycho-babble, now there's a language I could understand; well at least the second part.

montsnmags · 11-01-2009, 10:15 PM

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Originally Posted by A Nonny Mouse

Eh?? what did he say??

You quoted it. Seems like an odd question to ask then.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Lycoming

Anonny, it's a variation on the old services first line medical treatment "attach two Ibuprofen with sticky tape, avoid stress."

Psycho-babble, now there's a language I could understand; well at least the second part.

Don't take my words out of context and assume psychosis; put them back in context and confirm it.

Cheers,
Marc

nekokami · 11-02-2009, 08:57 PM

Why, oh why did I want to go back to grad school?

Where do I get me some of that Chlorpromazine?

kennyc · 11-02-2009, 09:17 PM

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Originally Posted by nekokami

Why, oh why did I want to go back to grad school?

Where do I get me some of that Chlorpromazine?

I'll have to check with my son.....you can check with pshrnk on the drugs

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10-31-2009, 05:45 PM	#6182
Patricia Reader Posts: 11,504 Karma: 8720163 Join Date: May 2007 Location: South Wales, UK Device: Sony PRS-500, PRS-505, Asus EEEpc 4G	Who knows? I spent a summer in the 1970s working in a mental hospital. Whenever anyone got angry, half-a-dozen nurses would jump on them and inject chlorpromazine, leaving the patient subdued and dazed for hours. The place boasted that it no longer used straitjackets, and the chemical cosh was the preferred alternative. (I was in the art therapy unit, mostly, and never jumped on anybody.)

11-01-2009, 04:50 PM	#6192
Lycoming Capt Chaos II Posts: 483 Karma: 33043007 Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: Cornwall, UK Device: iPad2	Anonny, it's a variation on the old services first line medical treatment "attach two Ibuprofen with sticky tape, avoid stress." Psycho-babble, now there's a language I could understand; well at least the second part.

11-02-2009, 08:57 PM	#6194
nekokami fruminous edugeek Posts: 6,745 Karma: 551260 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Northeast US Device: iPad, eBw 1150	Why, oh why did I want to go back to grad school? Where do I get me some of that Chlorpromazine?