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by hinto
Tue Jul 22, 2014 4:31 am
Forum: INTRODUCTIONS & CHAT (/dev/null)
Topic: Quote of the day
Replies: 120
Views: 33804

Re: Quote of the day

^The funny thing is that one night I was going into a meeting and I said "Man, it's cold enough to kill hogs." Folks knew what I did for a living and wondered what in the world does a computer geek know about killing hogs ;) (My grand parents raised them and for 8 years, startin @ 10, I he...
by hinto
Tue Jul 22, 2014 4:28 am
Forum: INTRODUCTIONS & CHAT (/dev/null)
Topic: happy birthday, Ninjalulz!
Replies: 17
Views: 4957

Re: happy birthday, Ninjalulz!

Happy B-Day
-H
by hinto
Mon Jul 21, 2014 11:55 pm
Forum: LINUXBBQ NEWS (/var/mail)
Topic: [email protected]
Replies: 69
Views: 54690

Re: [email protected]

I'm trying to recover from a Windows update that borked my MBR/Partition table.
Can I get the server to reset my password? (I forgot it).
-Hinto
by hinto
Mon Jul 21, 2014 4:17 pm
Forum: INTRODUCTIONS & CHAT (/dev/null)
Topic: Quote of the day
Replies: 120
Views: 33804

Re: Quote of the day

@pidsley My poor attempt at a joke. It's been my sig since I joined BBQ ;)
-H
by hinto
Mon Jul 21, 2014 1:19 pm
Forum: INTRODUCTIONS & CHAT (/dev/null)
Topic: Quote of the day
Replies: 120
Views: 33804

Re: Quote of the day

@pidsley wonder where you got that quote ;)
-Hinto
by hinto
Sun Jul 20, 2014 10:13 pm
Forum: INTRODUCTIONS & CHAT (/dev/null)
Topic: Quote of the day
Replies: 120
Views: 33804

Re: Quote of the day

"What ever happened to the on-and-off switch? I don’t ask for much, but my hope is that someday soon we’ll get back to where we have a switch that says on and off. Nowadays, everything has a pass code, sequence, or secret decoder. I think maybe the yuppies overdid it with these computers. The v...
by hinto
Thu Jul 17, 2014 3:00 pm
Forum: INTRODUCTIONS & CHAT (/dev/null)
Topic: Happy BONESday!
Replies: 19
Views: 5504

Re: Happy BONESday!

Happy B-Day.
-Hinto
by hinto
Thu Jul 17, 2014 2:55 pm
Forum: INTRODUCTIONS & CHAT (/dev/null)
Topic: ?
Replies: 13
Views: 4251

Re: Happy Birthday Hinto!

Thanks guys!!!
46 doesn't hurt too bad;)
-H
by hinto
Mon Jun 16, 2014 3:56 pm
Forum: POLLS (/usr/bin/dialog)
Topic: Which DE/WM do you like least? ;)
Replies: 57
Views: 80477

Re: Which DE/WM do you like least? ;)

CDE kept me away from *nix for years.
-H

..and it rhymes with Seedy
by hinto
Mon Jun 09, 2014 2:09 pm
Forum: RELEASES (/etc/os-release)
Topic: VARIOUS: Cream (i686) Release News
Replies: 31
Views: 322245

Re: VARIOUS: Cream (i686) Release News

WOW
-Hinto

Edit:
Ah...
Well usually ADD means attention deficit syndrome.
76 Window managers implies that on cannot decide on 1.
It's similar to a cat, that can be easily distracted by shiny objects.
76 Window managers on one distro is quite an accomplishment.
by hinto
Sat May 31, 2014 1:57 am
Forum: INTRODUCTIONS & CHAT (/dev/null)
Topic: Do you poweroff your computer?
Replies: 20
Views: 6359

Re: Do you poweroff your computer?

Nope.
Not @ work or @ home.
-Hinto
by hinto
Wed Apr 16, 2014 11:45 pm
Forum: INTRODUCTIONS & CHAT (/dev/null)
Topic: Random Internet Thread
Replies: 1924
Views: 2725131

Re: Random Internet Thread

uh... what?
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by hinto
Thu Apr 10, 2014 10:21 pm
Forum: INTRODUCTIONS & CHAT (/dev/null)
Topic: Movies, Flicks, Films, Videos, cinematography
Replies: 1545
Views: 1645247

Re: Movies, Flicks, Films, Videos, cinematography

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^this is forever stuck in my head, ever since I saw it at the Drive-In in '87.
-H
by hinto
Thu Apr 10, 2014 10:16 pm
Forum: INTRODUCTIONS & CHAT (/dev/null)
Topic: Movies, Flicks, Films, Videos, cinematography
Replies: 1545
Views: 1645247

Re: Movies, Flicks, Films, Videos, cinematography

GekkoP wrote:THE ABYSS: one of the few Cameron I hadn't seen yet. Kicks off very well, but I got way too bored in the last 30 minutes.
Think of it as 2001, except you never leave earth ;)
by hinto
Thu Apr 10, 2014 12:21 pm
Forum: INTRODUCTIONS & CHAT (/dev/null)
Topic: BOOK! (Hardcopy edition)
Replies: 478
Views: 386276

Re: BOOK! (Hardcopy edition)

As Victorian goes, don't forget "The Last of the Mohecans", where the American Indians speak Victorian English ;)
-Hinto
by hinto
Thu Apr 10, 2014 12:16 am
Forum: INTRODUCTIONS & CHAT (/dev/null)
Topic: BOOK! (Hardcopy edition)
Replies: 478
Views: 386276

Re: BOOK! (Hardcopy edition)

^Ouch.
I suppose you read that one after Silas Marner ;) ?
-Hinto
by hinto
Thu Mar 27, 2014 2:36 am
Forum: HOW-TO (/usr/share/man)
Topic: Upgrade to newest Mate 1.8
Replies: 14
Views: 5046

Re: Upgrade to newest Mate 1.8

Sweet!!
-H
by hinto
Thu Mar 20, 2014 10:02 pm
Forum: INTRODUCTIONS & CHAT (/dev/null)
Topic: I need a hostname for my server
Replies: 19
Views: 4807

Re: I need a hostname for my server

Taking a page from your UK Location and my 9th grade English (Wuthering Heights)...

heath

-Hinto
by hinto
Wed Mar 12, 2014 2:59 pm
Forum: INTRODUCTIONS & CHAT (/dev/null)
Topic: Movies, Flicks, Films, Videos, cinematography
Replies: 1545
Views: 1645247

Re: Movies, Flicks, Films, Videos, cinematography

Enemy Of The State - Frightingly relevant, and prescient. And an entertaining movie. The frightening part (at least with the folks that I know), is that people know they are being tracked (ala GPS) and they just don't care. I *think* Neil Postman got it right when he said: What Huxley teaches is th...