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Comment on Old phones by Jermaine

Jermaine — Sun, 22 Apr 2012 17:04:09 +0000

Wow, this brings back so many memories. I have owned two of these phones before Nokia 6820 and the 7110. wonderful phones

Comment on Random Recipe Generator by Jay

Jay — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 03:23:12 +0000

Hi there, I bookmarked this site ages ago and I was so happy to see it still works! :) So much LOL material. Thank you.

Comment on Alfred script to change network location in OS X by clay

clay — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 13:44:37 +0000

great script. very handy. use this everyday. cheers

Comment on Random Recipe Generator by Zock

Zock — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 15:05:06 +0000

pre-heat the oven to 180 C sauté the leeks stir the leeks throw the leeks away grill the mince bake for 30 minutes and serve hot Mmmm.

Comment on Goldmine Sucks by jamesoff

jamesoff — Sun, 11 Mar 2012 11:52:20 +0000

While it's true that a lot of blame falls on people using the software incorrectly, there's also a lot of problems with the software. (I haven't used it for spa number of years now so perhaps it's improved.) you say about it crashing because of network or configuration problems, but from my software development point of view, it shouldn't crash as a result of those, it should handle them gracefully. It also suffers from the UI being terrible with my overriding memory of horribleness being things like the scrollbars and the fact that clicking in a window didn't give focus to the application, you had to click the titlebar. Yes a programmer you have to go out of your way to make something that bad.

It's ok though, my current job uses a different CRM package and similar accusations can be levelled against that too.

Comment on Alfred script to change network location in OS X by jamesoff

jamesoff — Sun, 11 Mar 2012 11:45:11 +0000

Hi Bill, you should drag and drop the ZIP file into the Extensions window in Alfred – there’s a thing in the corner which says where to drop to install. No need to extract the files or move them manually :)

Comment on Goldmine Sucks by One who REALLY knows

One who REALLY knows — Sun, 11 Mar 2012 11:22:17 +0000

In response to ‘One Who Knows’ I’d venture to say you don’t know shit! Granted, GM has some problems, but it isn’t perfect. I also bet you haven’t told the complete story here, so we may as well disregard your comments. I have worked with GoldMine and yes, it can be frustrating at times. But, it certainly isn’t the horror story many will try to make others believe. 99% of the problems with GoldMine is related to training. Companies buy it and won’t put any time or money into learning to use it. It’s like buying a musical instrument. If you are unwilling to invest in learning to play the right way it’s going to be a frustrating activity. In practically every case where people bitch about GoldMine crashing, throwing errors, etc. there are underlying network problems, issues with the machines themselves or just stupidity on the part of the users.

Comment on Alfred script to change network location in OS X by Bill

Bill — Sat, 10 Mar 2012 18:31:05 +0000

HI James, In which place should I paste unzipped plist files? Library/Preferences/ or? Thanks beforehand Alfred 1.1 Mac OS X (10.7.3)

Comment on Squid log rotation with newsyslog by Askon

Askon — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 20:27:30 +0000

Only one string in syslog.conf is enough: /usr/local/squid/logs/*.log squid:squid 644 7 * @T00 GZB /var/run/squid/squid.pid 30

Comment on Random Recipe Generator by cooky

cooky — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 00:42:33 +0000

Random Recipe Generator

The Random Recipe Generator is now an iPhone app! Get it here from the App Store. The app allows you to specify your own ingredients and has many more instructions than the website. A free version of the app is coming soon.

Below is a randomly-generated recipe!

Milk A La Milk Serves 2 You will need:

150ml milk
130ml lemonade

Instructions:

fry the lemonade
fold in the lemonade
toast the milk
throw it all away

Yum.