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#476 2009-03-04 13:43:23

Magpie
Mantis
From: the town of thistly flowerbeds
Registered: 2006-03-27
Posts: 19924
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Re: QM - The pink stables

Still not in bed. Too much to do. But now I'm going.

Two more days till weekend.

I think we've just proven that our greatest power is silliness!
- cyan

babbling about books and plants
my crazy customers

 

#477 2009-03-04 17:31:20

Em
Mantis
From: somewhere left of reality
Registered: 2004-12-28
Posts: 42283

Re: QM - The pink stables

Trying to figure out Oracle homework.

Don't let appearances fool you, there's always only one reality. 1Q84, Haruki Murakami.

 

#478 2009-03-04 19:47:41

mabinogi
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From: Canberra, Australia
Registered: 2001-07-26
Posts: 10086
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Re: QM - The pink stables

head's not working.  Spent all last night and this morning trying to figure out how to use some software.

..and then one day you find, ten years have got behind you,
no one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun..

My Musical Experimentations

 

#479 2009-03-04 19:55:39

Em
Mantis
From: somewhere left of reality
Registered: 2004-12-28
Posts: 42283

Re: QM - The pink stables

Stupid question time:

I've installed a Loopback adapter on my laptop (Windows XP). It says to add a line to my "hosts file" that includes a domain name. I don't belong to a domain; I belong to a workgroup.

????

Don't let appearances fool you, there's always only one reality. 1Q84, Haruki Murakami.

 

#480 2009-03-04 20:05:59

cyan
Mantis
From: Oakland
Registered: 2005-02-16
Posts: 22782

Re: QM - The pink stables

G'maen Mint!

"Reality is for those people who can't handle fantasy!" - Genisis X

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#481 2009-03-04 20:07:06

Em
Mantis
From: somewhere left of reality
Registered: 2004-12-28
Posts: 42283

Re: QM - The pink stables

*waves at Cyan*

Don't let appearances fool you, there's always only one reality. 1Q84, Haruki Murakami.

 

#482 2009-03-04 20:17:53

cyan
Mantis
From: Oakland
Registered: 2005-02-16
Posts: 22782

Re: QM - The pink stables

*waves at Em*

"Reality is for those people who can't handle fantasy!" - Genisis X

Proud Member of the Log Brigade

Photos of My Works

 

#483 2009-03-04 20:30:57

Em
Mantis
From: somewhere left of reality
Registered: 2004-12-28
Posts: 42283

Re: QM - The pink stables

*waves at Cyan waving at Me*

Don't let appearances fool you, there's always only one reality. 1Q84, Haruki Murakami.

 

#484 2009-03-04 20:39:42

Em
Mantis
From: somewhere left of reality
Registered: 2004-12-28
Posts: 42283

Re: QM - The pink stables

My computer is not cooperating. I am going to bed.

Don't let appearances fool you, there's always only one reality. 1Q84, Haruki Murakami.

 

#485 2009-03-05 00:53:31

Sahi
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From: Assendelft (the Netherlands)
Registered: 2001-06-04
Posts: 37884
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Re: QM - The pink stables

Maen Mint!

"I'm a much nicer person online" - Aan'Allein

First member of the Shadowmarch Council of Sages, Official Quiller's Mint Historian
You may call me the Porcupine Lady, or if you are feeling generous the Erinaceous One.

 

#486 2009-03-05 03:03:37

mabinogi
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From: Canberra, Australia
Registered: 2001-07-26
Posts: 10086
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Re: QM - The pink stables

Em wrote:

Stupid question time:

I've installed a Loopback adapter on my laptop (Windows XP). It says to add a line to my "hosts file" that includes a domain name. I don't belong to a domain; I belong to a workgroup.

????

That's a little strange - you don't install a loopback adapter, it's already there. It's a fundamental part of the IP network stack. All sorts of things would break if it didn't exist.

as for the domain thing - The hosts file is related to the IP networking layer, which has nothing to do with the higher level Windows Networking protocols (other than the fact that these days the Windows Networking protocols are implemented over IP, of course), so the domain name is a real domain name (a DNS domain), not a Windows Domain.

Microsoft love to confuse things by re-using terminology already well and truly in use.

Last edited by mabinogi (2009-03-05 03:04:56)

..and then one day you find, ten years have got behind you,
no one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun..

My Musical Experimentations

 

#487 2009-03-05 03:37:31

Sahi
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From: Assendelft (the Netherlands)
Registered: 2001-06-04
Posts: 37884
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Re: QM - The pink stables

You wouldn't want your users to get smart, now would you?

"I'm a much nicer person online" - Aan'Allein

First member of the Shadowmarch Council of Sages, Official Quiller's Mint Historian
You may call me the Porcupine Lady, or if you are feeling generous the Erinaceous One.

 

#488 2009-03-05 05:42:02

Libra-in-a-roundabout-way
Mantis
From: the lowlands
Registered: 2006-03-29
Posts: 10990

Re: QM - The pink stables

*drops in*

I'm being hammered away.... they are renovating the appartment downstairs and it seems they're only working on the ceiling (my floor) hehehe...

"If you say that getting the money is the most important thing, you will spend you life completely wasting your time. You'll be doing things you don't like doing in order to go on living, that is, to go on doing things you don't like doing... which is stupid."
~ Alan Watts

 

#489 2009-03-05 06:42:38

Sahi
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From: Assendelft (the Netherlands)
Registered: 2001-06-04
Posts: 37884
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Re: QM - The pink stables

Yugh, that doesn't sound good.

"I'm a much nicer person online" - Aan'Allein

First member of the Shadowmarch Council of Sages, Official Quiller's Mint Historian
You may call me the Porcupine Lady, or if you are feeling generous the Erinaceous One.

 

#490 2009-03-05 07:32:38

Em
Mantis
From: somewhere left of reality
Registered: 2004-12-28
Posts: 42283

Re: QM - The pink stables

*reads Mabs' response* Well, then, why the heck am I supposed to be installing this dang thang!?! Stupid professor. Sometime I think they just pass along the material that is designed for the course without really reading it.

I'll install Oracle. If it works, it works.

Don't let appearances fool you, there's always only one reality. 1Q84, Haruki Murakami.

 

#491 2009-03-05 07:33:10

Em
Mantis
From: somewhere left of reality
Registered: 2004-12-28
Posts: 42283

Re: QM - The pink stables

Libra-in-a-roundabout-way wrote:

*drops in*

I'm being hammered away.... they are renovating the appartment downstairs and it seems they're only working on the ceiling (my floor) hehehe...

You're being punished for not going to work. *grins*

(I'm only kidding, of course.)

Don't let appearances fool you, there's always only one reality. 1Q84, Haruki Murakami.

 

#492 2009-03-05 07:45:19

Sahi
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From: Assendelft (the Netherlands)
Registered: 2001-06-04
Posts: 37884
Website

Re: QM - The pink stables

*waves at Em*

"I'm a much nicer person online" - Aan'Allein

First member of the Shadowmarch Council of Sages, Official Quiller's Mint Historian
You may call me the Porcupine Lady, or if you are feeling generous the Erinaceous One.

 

#493 2009-03-05 07:49:30

Em
Mantis
From: somewhere left of reality
Registered: 2004-12-28
Posts: 42283

Re: QM - The pink stables

*waves back at Sahi* Bored. Bored. Bored.

Well, at least I'm getting a paycheck.

Don't let appearances fool you, there's always only one reality. 1Q84, Haruki Murakami.

 

#494 2009-03-05 07:54:37

Sahi
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From: Assendelft (the Netherlands)
Registered: 2001-06-04
Posts: 37884
Website

Re: QM - The pink stables

I'm not very happy at the moment either. I've got a nasty bug in my code and nobody to talk to about it. Debugging is for some reason slow as hell today.

"I'm a much nicer person online" - Aan'Allein

First member of the Shadowmarch Council of Sages, Official Quiller's Mint Historian
You may call me the Porcupine Lady, or if you are feeling generous the Erinaceous One.

 

#495 2009-03-05 08:03:08

Em
Mantis
From: somewhere left of reality
Registered: 2004-12-28
Posts: 42283

Re: QM - The pink stables

I'm updating data that was dumped from one database to another. At least it is mindless enough that I can listen to Robert Jordan's books (I'm at the end of "The Great Hunt") while I update.

Don't let appearances fool you, there's always only one reality. 1Q84, Haruki Murakami.

 

#496 2009-03-05 08:22:43

Sahi
Mantis
From: Assendelft (the Netherlands)
Registered: 2001-06-04
Posts: 37884
Website

Re: QM - The pink stables

I'm trying to get some component ajaxified. But it's mystifying me instead.

"I'm a much nicer person online" - Aan'Allein

First member of the Shadowmarch Council of Sages, Official Quiller's Mint Historian
You may call me the Porcupine Lady, or if you are feeling generous the Erinaceous One.

 

#497 2009-03-05 08:44:13

Sahi
Mantis
From: Assendelft (the Netherlands)
Registered: 2001-06-04
Posts: 37884
Website

Re: QM - The pink stables

*hates people who stay online in a chatroom if they aren't there*

I mean, what's the use of a chatroom with over 40 people, if nobody is actually there!

"I'm a much nicer person online" - Aan'Allein

First member of the Shadowmarch Council of Sages, Official Quiller's Mint Historian
You may call me the Porcupine Lady, or if you are feeling generous the Erinaceous One.

 

#498 2009-03-05 08:58:46

Em
Mantis
From: somewhere left of reality
Registered: 2004-12-28
Posts: 42283

Re: QM - The pink stables

*tries to fill up the emptiness*

As crazy as I am, I can only be two or three people at once, Sahi! :oP

Don't let appearances fool you, there's always only one reality. 1Q84, Haruki Murakami.

 

#499 2009-03-05 09:02:14

Sahi
Mantis
From: Assendelft (the Netherlands)
Registered: 2001-06-04
Posts: 37884
Website

Re: QM - The pink stables

I wasn't talking about the Mint. :) I was talking about an IRC channel where I could _see_ over forty people, but not one of them was replying in the last half hour or so. Guess I'll have to subscribe to the mailing list then to get my question answered. But now it is time to go home.

"I'm a much nicer person online" - Aan'Allein

First member of the Shadowmarch Council of Sages, Official Quiller's Mint Historian
You may call me the Porcupine Lady, or if you are feeling generous the Erinaceous One.

 

#500 2009-03-05 10:28:34

Em
Mantis
From: somewhere left of reality
Registered: 2004-12-28
Posts: 42283

Re: QM - The pink stables

Finished listening to "The Great Hunt."

The horn has been sounded.

The Dragon Reborn has been revealed.

There is much braid tugging ahead. :oP

Don't let appearances fool you, there's always only one reality. 1Q84, Haruki Murakami.

 

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