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For some strange reason, I have been misspelling words I had never misspelled, like fare instead of fair, etc
 
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WWGD said:
For some strange reason, I have been misspelling words I had never misspelled, like fare instead of fair, etc
Try the following: neighbourhood, behaviour, colour, flavour and realize, formalise, recognise.
If none of the above help start with: Pittsborough, Harrisborough, Rochestershire, Hamptonshire!
 
WWGD said:
If you have a chance, read the book "The Substance of Style", which challenges the belief that style and appearance are necessarily superficial

https://vpostrel.com/substance-of-style
I'll hit it. My style is because I like how it looks on myself. And I care about it (my style) (well, it's an imitation of fictional characters, so it's not really my style).
zoobyshoe said:
The original doctors who identified such people called them "moral imbeciles."
Ha!
Sophia said:
Well mine Gmail stopped working yesterday and I was told that my Javascript is outdated.
Your what? o_O Wait a minute... javascript? outdated? Are you sure your computer is clean?
zoobyshoe said:
It sort of fit (a little on the large side), and I asked the woman, "This is a dollar?" She became alarmed and said, no, the sign referred to the clothes on the tarp on the ground. The jacket, she said, was five dollars. Outraged by this obvious bait-and-switch tactic, I seethed as I peeled a fiver off the wad in my pocket and handed it to her, feeling used that I had to pay five dollars for a $300 jacket when I should have been paying $1 according to advertised prices. Oh well.
:DD No, no. It's 1 dollar and 1 cent. I sure expect the next one.
WWGD said:
I haven't seen any hero/heroine wearing a dress.
I will. :cool:
 
Not sure if it was Javascript or something similar.but probably JS. You know, is all the same to me :-) it said it was old version that is not stable and it was automatically blocked for my security.
I use Linux instead of Windows and malware is rare on Linux. It's probably that my security options are too strict. I also use some addons to block potentionally harmful things. Though I thought I found a golden ratio of security and usability for me. I'll have to go to Linux forum and ask for advice.
 
Sophia said:
Not sure if it was Javascript or something similar.but probably JS. You know, is all the same to me :-) it said it was old version that is not stable and it was automatically blocked for my security.
Must have been Flash. And I don't mean the superhero. :-p

I've never seen a message in a browser talking about blocking JavaScript because of versioning unless that browser has a specific add-on to block it and the message comes from the add-on, not the browser.

I use Linux, Windows, Mac, PlayStation... ah wait, that last one is not an operating system. :rolleyes:
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Getting owned by a 5 year old: http://themetapicture.com/taking-my-niece-to-the-park/
 
Sophia said:
...I thought I found a golden ratio of security and usability for me. I'll have to go to Linux forum and ask for advice.
Golden ratio of security in IT ?:DD
 
fresh_42 said:
Try the following: neighbourhood, behaviour, colour, flavour and realize, formalise, recognise.
If none of the above help start with: Pittsborough, Harrisborough, Rochestershire, Hamptonshire!
That's the British misspelling :) (waiting for angry reply )
 
I too have been having flash player crashes, though I don't even know what it is used for.
 
WWGD said:
I too have been having flash player crashes, though I don't even know what it is used for.
Mostly for playing Youtube videos and page ads. In Firefox, you can select Tools-> AddOns and set it to "Ask To Activate". That way it won't automatically load for every page that has a Flash ad. That will greatly reduce the crashes.
 
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So who is a psych or a soch here? http://themetapicture.com/sometimes-i-just-think-bad-thoughts/

Or neither of them are? I know that comic is a joke, but you guys scared me. I think I need a sword to protect me. Yeah, I will get a sword to be on the safe side. And a shield.

EDIT: Get away from me psychos! I have a sword and a shield!
 
Borg said:
Mostly for playing Youtube videos and page ads. In Firefox, you can select Tools-> AddOns and set it to "Ask To Activate". That way it won't automatically load for every page that has a Flash ad. That will greatly reduce the crashes.

Thanks , but I don't have Firefox, I have Chrome installed, but it won't start.
 
WWGD said:
Thanks , but I don't have Firefox, I have Chrome installed, but it won't start.
That's different problem then. :smile:
Once you get Chrome fixed, I assume that it has something similar in its settings to be able to avoid auto-loading Flash automatically for every page.
 
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WWGD said:
Thanks , but I don't have Firefox, I have Chrome installed, but it won't start.
FF is a ram eating monster, chrome solves this by starting in several threads. Maybe there is still a process left which prevents you from restarting it. Check the task manager.
 
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fresh_42 said:
FF is a ram eating monster, chrome solves this by starting in several threads. Maybe there is still a process left which prevents you from restarting it. Check the task manager.
IMO all browsers are ram eating monsters.
 
fresh_42 said:
FF is a ram eating monster, chrome solves this by starting in several threads. Maybe there is still a process left which prevents you from restarting it. Check the task manager.
Wow, Explorer eats up 962 Megs.
 
Psinter said:
IMO all browsers are ram eating monsters.
As I've said. Chrome's splitting at least doesn't cut off a large block. Its dynamics are certainly an improvement, although I don't know exactly how they've organized their threads. In addition Zone Alarm, a free firewall, isn't really compatible with FF because its monitor function starts to get bigger and bigger until everything gets blocked.
 
Psinter said:
IMO all browsers are ram eating monsters.
The question then is why ?
 
Now that I'm on my laptop again. Yes, it's really my JavaScript that is broken!
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It says that my JS is turned off or not supported. What the heck? All other sites work normally. Youtube, Physics forums, facebook and everything else is OK. It's just Gmail issue. Going to linux forum...
 
Sophia said:
Now that I'm on my laptop again. Yes, it's really my JavaScript that is broken!
View attachment 95519

It says that my JS is turned off or not supported. What the heck? All other sites work normally. Youtube, Physics forums, facebook and everything else is OK. It's just Gmail issue. Going to linux forum...
Are you having this message ? I can't read Slovak.:DD
https://support.google.com/mail/answer/12343?hl=en
 
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Silicon Waffle said:
The question then is why ?
Because when I run either of them along with some programming IDE (Android Studio, Eclipse or Visual Studio) I run out of RAM and the computer complains. The IDE can run all fine and there is never a complain, as soon as I fire up a web browser the PC complains because it downgrades my available RAM from 30% to 20% or less.
Sophia said:
Now that I'm on my laptop again. Yes, it's really my JavaScript that is broken!
No idea what could be happening with your browser Sophie. I can't read it either, but I guess you just have to click where it says the first kiliknite tu to open it using just the HTML version of Gmail. But I don't know why it says your javascript is disabled.

Wait... Ah, I see. Someone installed NoScript on your browser Sophie. Probably it came pre-installed in the OS. You need to tell NoScript to temporarily allow javascript on your browser.
 
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Wow Psinter! I disabled NoScript and it works! I disabled it a long time ago but maybe it was automatically upgraded yesterday and it activated itself again?
Something to increase your paranoia
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Sophia said:
Wow Psinter! I disabled NoScript and it works! I disabled it a long time ago but maybe it was automatically upgraded yesterday and it activated itself again?
Something to increase your paranoia
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:oldlaugh: Ah, I love that guy!
 
Psinter said:
:oldlaugh: Ah, I love that guy!
He is >2m tall and can press you with his thumb. :biggrin:
 
Silicon Waffle said:
He is >2m tall and can press you with his thumb. :biggrin:
My type. :biggrin:
 
I love my cat, but the accursed feline is leaving hair everywhere. I clean up as much as I can, but hell, one of my sweaters is totally covered in cat hair. Picking it off one by one is tedious, I tried the vacuum cleaner, didn't work too well.

What to do ?
 
Aha, I saw that kind of thing in Top Shop when I was ...5? lol, never knew what it was called :D
 
collinsmark said:
When I first read that I immediately thought of The Outsiders. I thought to myself, doesn't Psinter mean greasers or sochs?

Do it for Johnny!
Stay golden :wink:
 
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