something queer going on

goodbye, chatzilla

2017-11-20T03:17:04Z

Can anybody recommend a good, simple Firefox IRC client to replace Chatzilla, which doesn't work on Firefox Quantum?

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not OK, computer

2017-02-12T20:11:59Z

Weird problem which I hope someone with technical knowledge might be able to offer suggestions about. So: on Thursday evening I was able to connect to the internet from home using the wifi hotspot network I always use. On Friday morning, I couldn't. There was no connection at all, not even the one to the wifi sign-in page. Troubleshooting brought up the message "Wi-fi has no valid IP configuration." After several attempts I was able to fix it and it worked on Friday evening. Saturday morning it was dead again and wouldn't respond to the reset that had worked before.

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why, Facebook, why?

2016-11-08T16:30:45Z

I'm trying again to use Facebook to keep in touch with people. Which is to say, I'm trying to make my affection for the people overpower my hatred for the cluttered, unintuitive, inconvenient interface.

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not quite

2012-08-16T16:23:20Z

Tumblr: Good source for interesting historical photos, terrible source for correct information about them. This is not Kaiser Wilhelm II, any more than these dashing young women are actually Rosa Luxemburg, Simone de Beauvoir, and Emma Goldman. (The mod of the latter Tumblr says that they assumed the image title was just a joke; maybe it is, but most of the people gleefully reposting the image don't seem to have caught on.)

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signed, disgruntled

2012-08-16T15:22:41Z

Dear Windows,

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I would just like to say . . .

2011-08-09T05:38:41Z

. . . on discovering that a good deal of music I legally downloaded and paid for several years ago is now completely unplayable:

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Bill Gates, you bastard

2010-10-21T07:35:02Z

Fucking Microsoft removed its photo editor program from Windows 7! Jesus Christ on a Vespa, what sort of company removes functionality from its upgrades?

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external hard drive

2010-09-20T17:42:12Z

Does anybody have recommendations or anti-recommendations for external hard drives? I need a big one (at least 1T) but I'd also like it to be reasonably priced and reliable. I use a PC, if that makes a difference.

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video skills needed

2010-09-14T05:22:51Z

Is there anybody who could fix a video clip for me? The problem is that the audio doesn't synch right with the video--it starts out okay but then there are some glitches in the file, or something, and it gets more and more out of synch.

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