I abandoned it last year after it became a resource hog. I don’t know if it’s been fixed since, but I’ve grown accustomed to chrome and won’t be going back any time soon.
I can’t use Chrome because, for some reason, it causes a program I use daily to crash. I don’t know if it’s the Flash player or what but I can’t have Chrome and this program open at the same time.
They have since fixed the memory hogging in Firefox. I was surprised when, one day, I had about 15 Firefox windows open and 10-15 tabs per window (I’m not sure what I did, but these were ones I created–they weren’t popups) and my memory usage was not much higher than when I have one or two tabs open.
Internet has been a fickle bitch all day, courtesy of Comcast.
So has mine. Tried some fun console commands to reset the internet IO stack and it did something to my monitor display. It was forcing the screen into 1024x768 pillarbox for no reason. Unplugging the monitor and plugging it directly into the monitor instead of the HDMI switcher fixed it, and plugging it back into the switcher again seems to keep the proper resolution. What a freak error. This really pissed me off for a while.
looks like the data pins(EDID) are being blocked at the HDMI switch
is it made by iogear? those are the worst
Nope. Mine is a Rocketfish. Set me back $72, to boot. The product has 4 star reviews on Amazon, too. Wat.
My computer got really fucked up all of a sudden, my middle click stopped working, Firefox refuses to switch if I click another window, I can’t click flash objects, my computer is all around slow, clicking the taskbar only works when it feels like it, and there’s probably more shit I haven’t discovered yet.
I’ve tried updating both firefox and my mouse driver to no avail.
The weirdest part is that I have no idea why, it doesn’t seem to be linked to anything in particular, I didn’t download or install anything or whatever. I was just sitting there peacefully looking at some pictures, then I started Minecraft, and everything just stopped working.
I’m running a virus scan nonetheless, but this is all just fucking weird.
minecraft = java
java = zero day exploits
zero day exploits = viruses
okay if something doesn’t let up soon i’m gonna flow a gasket because the amount of shit expected out of me on a daily basis nowadays is just astronomical
- I have classes at school. obviously, this is a big one right here. I’m taking stats, biology, cognitive processes, and java programming. being a wide range of things, i have a hard time stretching myself to these vastly different modes of thinking and sometimes I just can’t wrap my head around what I need to do. right now, stats is my least favorite thing in the world because the method my teacher chooses to teach with is possibly the worst way ever. He makes us read a chapter of his eBook every night before class (effectively teaching ourselves) and then take a fucking online quiz of randomly generated stats questions before class, due at 8 AM. THEN during class he makes fun of us for not fully getting the shit that we had to teach ourselves.
2)I have a work study job. this doesn’t seem like much, but I signed up for it because it was supposedly about what I’m good at (I do a lot of graphic design in my free time/as my former major). Unfortunately, they use fucking microsoft publisher as their primary design software and only ask me to do shit that a monkey could do, and they even have the nerve to ask me to do it on my free time. For example, here’s what I LIKE to do:
and here’s what they ask me to do:
- finally, and most importantly, i have an actual, real job that I have to go to every day of every weekend, for 6-8 hours at a time. My boss is incredibly funny, kind, and interesting, but DAMN is he manipulative. He absolutely takes advantage of us. I am an expeditor at a restaurant. My job is to put the sides (fries, cole slaw, dressing) on hot plates and put it on a tray and take it up to the servers. Basically, the middle man between the cooks and the customers. This doesn’t sound bad, but it’s actually pretty much the hardest job in the restaurant for a few reasons. We have to memorize the menu just like everyone else, but we have to be extremely quick about it because the tickets come up really quickly. We have to be able to carry ~30 pounds of food on a tray in one hand up a flight of stairs (the kitchen is in the basement) without dropping it. and then, whenever anything goes wrong, we’re (the expos) the ones that get blamed for it. so, imagine having to make split second decisions about which burger is the one you want, or which seafood is the one you want, organizing it all on a tray, and then running that tray up a flight of stairs, all of which should take between 30 seconds and a minute, for SIX TO EIGHT HOURS. And whenever you or someone you work with screws up, you get yelled at by grumpy servers who aren’t allowed to yell at customers so they take it out on you.
The best part of all this is that my boss has recently taken to putting me down for shifts DURING the school week, which means that not only am I so physically exhausted that I can’t make my 30 minute commute in the morning, and as a result miss classes, but I also don’t have time to do my homework anymore. I’m actually in the middle of one of those stats quizzes right now and my amount of fucks given about the reading are so low that I’m actually completely guessing on each question. I know I’m going to fail the course, but you know what? my stress level is so high that I could not give any more fucks.
oh, and i’m not allowed to have a nice day off or two to drink with my buddies and relax and catch up on sleep, because my manipulative boss actually has me working every day of the weekend from noon to 9 pm, effectively slicing me off from having a social life or any semblance of sleep.
god damnit, I’m so stressed out 
My job I just got is the same position, an expo, and I’m also a soda jerk. So far it’s been ok…but damn, the milkshake orders stack up fast and there are 158 different flavor and recipes to memorize.
I deliver food for an indie pizza joint/pub that doesn’t really get much business compared to other establishments. I don’t even have to wear a uniform. 6 bux an hour to sit around and wait for some jerk that doesn’t have transportation to get hungry.
It’s been great for the past 6 months but winter she comes
my car is a tank but it’s not meant to survive the ice wraiths and bone-crushing tundra of the northern hemisphere. the cash aint cuttin it. price aint nice
Then suddenly, everything started working again. When I unplugged my monitor.
What.
Before we start, (hug)
That said, my two cents. (take it or leave it my feelings won’t be bruised)
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This one I would say deal with it. Not fair, not right, rather stupid and all, but if you buck this in any way, YOU come out the loser.
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Tell them their designs are crap and they need a software that speaks professionalism, not 3rd grade crayola designs. Your work includes designs that grab the attention of the age group of 20 somethings, not 60 something. If they don’t like it, tell them you have better things to do with your time and will be signing up with ABC associates cuz they DO have the latest and greatest software. Then walk out.
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Explain to your boss that your current life load has zero wiggle room, and that you can only work x days at x times. Either he loves you and will do it cuz you are the best at what you do and he would be hard pressed to replace you, or he won’t schedule you and you may lose your job. Either way, there are other jobs out there that can adjust to your schedule without you having to give up SLEEP or SCHOOL (two VERY important things!)
oh, and here is another (hug)
thanks buddy. I agree on all points.
Is it absolutely necessary to test fate and walk out into the middle of the fucking road to see if I’d slow down/stop (I wasn’t even speeding due to the traffic in front of me)? Cops who do that have a death wish. I was nearly tempted to stop and ask him what was the big fucking idea.
So, Halloween is not a thing here in Belgium. We have no historical, mythical, cultural or religious ties to this event and we only know it from TV and other international media.
And it’s that media (amongst others) that exposed the current generations of younglings to Halloween. So this event has been slowly creeping its spooky way into our sad little Belgian lives to the point that stores sell Halloween themed decoration and foodstuffs and that kids go trick or treating.
Often, teachers in elementary schools inform kids about the existence of Halloween in some way or the other (often just disguising it as things that do have some meaning in our folklore, like witches and ghosts), so it’s safe to say that Halloween is a growing market over here.
So (and this is where my rage post actually begins), since a lot of Belgians aren’t really accustomed to the whole Halloween thing, a bunch of parents in this neighbourhood sent out a few flyers to the rest of the neighbourhood, informing us that on this night, the kids of the 'hood will go out trick or treating and asking us if we could help in making it a memorable evening by making sure there’s some candy around. If we agree on participating, we should put a candle or lantern at our front door to show that the kids can knock on our door.
While I did not grow up with Halloween myself, I do things it’s a rather cute affair, so I got myself a $10 bag of candy from a supermarket and put a candle at the door. I even put some some pumpkins (not carved, for I had little time) out for good measure.
Anyway, just now I went out to walk the dog and to check how many people bothered to put candles out. The result is just pure sadness amplified tenfold by the tears of a crying unicorn. In a neighbourhood of over 100 households, I counted a whopping 8 candles outside with another 5 or so actually having fully decorated lawns and/or homes (so one can assume they too participate).
Even households I know have little kids didn’t bother. Hell, a lot of the houses are just completely “dead” (but not the good Halloween-themed kind of dead), with all the lights out and shutters down etc. If I was to go out again tomorrow evening at the same time, I’m sure 70% of these “dead” homes will have shutters up and lights on. So these people are actually actively avoiding these trick or treaters. What the shitsticks is wrong with them?
How can you be so antisocial that you can’t even bother spending a couple of bucks on some cheap candy to make a bunch of kids have a great night, especially when the parents asked kindly. How can you be so antisocial that you actually go out of your way to trick those kids into thinking there’s nobody home?
These kids are dressed up, their parents are dressed up, they have friends of the family hiding in bushes to scare them along the way, it was all thought out and well prepared, but it just looks like it’ll be a really underwhelming night for those kids of only a handful if households are kind enough to participate.
My apartment complex provides a flyer you can put on your door. If you show one side, you’re giving out candy. If you show the other side, you’re not. About half of the apartments already have the “not giving out candy” side out.
Over here we call those people “azijnpissers”, which translates to “vinegar pissers”.
Bolteh, man that’s depressing. Candy and a candle, and people can’t be arsed. Ugh.
That candle on the front porch is an excellent idea, I love it.
Continuing with the theme of trick or treat, you could always import the good old American tradition of TPing the shit out of every house that refuses to give out candy.