Uh, that was Hughes Mearns, over a hundred years before that particular movie came out. It's called Antigonish

I couldn't find a Wes Craven quote on life and death. Tony Benn was way easier to lament, but this'll do.

Quote:A lot of life is dealing with your curse, dealing with the cards you were given that aren't so nice. Does it make you into a monster, or can you temper it in some way, or accept it and go in some other direction?

-- Wes Craven

Autosurfs killed something far more important than StormPay - banner exchanges.

Conventional wisdom has always been not to use a banner exchange because you're sending visitors away from your site, which is another way of saying "they damn well work". autohits dk alone killed off dozens of them, as members put twenty thousand banners on a page, and left it going all night. It only got worse as more started springing up.

Only the strongest survive today, and their reach is much shorter.

Quote:Plus practically everything he's ever written.

Yes. He's second only to The Doctor in number of quotes in my quote DB.

Quote:Love is just a moment of giving and marriage is when we admit our parents were right.

-- Billy Bragg

I just checked my servers deny rules, and I still have a big list of autosurf referrer headers to reject.

This means a) I should really check my rules every now and again and b) they were bloody awful.

Quote:Personally of course I regret everything. Not a word, not a deed, not a thought, not a need, not a grief, not a joy, not a girl, not a boy, not a doubt, nor a trust, not a scorn, not a lust, not a hope, not a fear, not a smile, not a tear, not a name, not a face, no time, no place, that I do not regret, exceedingly. An ordure, from beginning to end. And yet, when I sat for Fellowship, but for the boil on my bottom... The rest, an ordure. The Tuesday scowls, the Wednesday growls, the Thursday curses, the Friday howls, the Saturday snores, the Sunday yawns, the Monday morns, the Monday mourns. The whacks, the moans, the cracks, the groans, the welts, the squeaks, the belts, the shrieks, the pricks, the prayers, the kicks, the tears, the skelps, and the yelps. And the poor old lousy old earth my earth and my father's and my mother's and my father's father's and my mother's mother's and my father's mother's and my mother's father's and my father's mother's father's and my mother's father's mother's and my father's mother's mother's and my mother's father's father's and my father's father's mother's and my mother's mother's father's and my father's father's father's and my mother's mother's mother's and other people's fathers' and mothers'. An excrement. The crocuses and the larch turning green every year a week before the others and the pastures red with uneaten sheep's placentas and the long summer days and the newmown hay and the wood·pigeon in the morning and the cuckoo in the afternoon and the corncrake in the evening and the wasps in the jam and the smell of the gorse and the look of the gorse and the apples falling and the children walking in the dead leaves and the larch turning brown a week before the others and the chestnuts falling and the howling winds and the sea breaking over the pier and the first fires and the hooves on the road and the consumptive postman whistling The Roses Are Blooming in Picardy and the standard oillamp and of course the snow and to he sure the sleet and bless your heart the slush and every fourth year the February debacle and the endless April showers and the crocuses and then the whole bloody business starting all over again. A turd. And if I could begin it all over again, knowing what I know now, the result would be the same. And if I could begin again a third time, knowing what I would know then, the result would be the same. And if I could begin it all over again a hundred times, knowing each time a little more than the time before, the result would always be the same, and the hundredth life as the first, and the hundred lives as one. A cat's flux. But at this rate we shall he here all night.

-- Samuel Beckett

All browser suck.

I use Konqueror because it does everything. I can surf the web, use the file manager, access my cloud, play games, write code, watch videos, play music not just in the same program, but in the same tab of the same window. Playing games, watching video and listening to must at the same time isn't the best idea in the world, but I can if I want to. The downside is it's got a steep learning curve, and doesn't play well with Bootcrap - which is half the web. I haven't used it on Windows, but it almost certainly sucks rocks. Since it contains dozens of libraries it's not a simple port like a normal browser would be, and there are only about three developers interested in a Windows version.

Rekonq has excellent performance, but crashes a lot on Flash. It's probably even more unstable on Windows because it uses the same libraries as Konqueror. Less of them - because it's just a browser - but the same ones.

Opera is basically Chrome, but with a better skin, and worse performance.

Palemoon is a fork of Firefox. Performance is better, addon support is much worse. It also crashes with certain window managers.

Kazehazheczheasekesase or however you spell it is like Palemoon, but Japanese and forked years ago. It's like Firefox for people who think of Firefox 3.5 when they think of Firefox. It doesn't crash with certain Window managers, but addon support sucks, and it struggles with Bootcrap and Jquery. I think it's pretty much unsupported these days too.

W3M is one of my favourites. It's lightning fast, it can fit on a 3.5 inch floppy if you've got an ED format, and it can even handle javascript somewhat. But it's a console only text browser, so forget about all this modern crap like video, or pictures. But you can have colored fonts now.

Netscape still kinda works if you're stubborn. Sort of. But you're limited to low-tech sites.

They're pretty much all crap. The trick is to find one that's crap in a way that you hate less than the ways other browsers are crap.

They fired their CEO for having a different opinion to them. I strongly agree with those who opposed Brendan Eich's views, but you can't really claim to support freedom and then sack somebody for disagreeing with you over something completely unrelated to your job.

This may seem irrelevant, but it isn't - the mentality of the culture that creates software also creates the mentality of software development. Mozilla has "You're free - as long as you agree with us about everything all the time" mentality.

This was posted at another forum. It's quite fun, and relevant to the last few posts.

Quote:an old forgotten game from your youth

you can't find the manual

Royals by Asher Vollmer

So let's have a fox and some sheep then. And Simply Red.

Quote:If you permed a fox I think it’d look a bit like Mick Hucknall. I actually think it’d be kinder to perm them than hunt them. And they’d be too embarrassed to go out and bother the sheep.

-- Sean Lock

Quote:If only I could show you the places I've seen, you might understand the things I say. I've been to the desolate lands, wandered by those souls who still see the lands of the living, but wear the cloak of the dead. Blind to their own ends, they cry, passing through one another like shadows in the dying light of day. I've traveled to where souls rot in torment, pierced with the jagged shards of life and vision, clinging to memory, regrets of the flesh. I saw that this prison was of their own making and the key was in unknowing, in release... and still, I traveled on. And finally, I came to the place where souls go to die, where the mirrored and worn spirits fall into an endless sea of gray, mirrored glass... and I lowered myself within, and laid there among them and I almost did not return.

And do you know what I found there? There, among the silent and battered shells of the innumerable? Peace, enlightenment, truth. Only then did I realize that this place, this life, is an abomination... a horrible distortion of the natural order. This... LIFE... who mothered pain, and fear, and envy... these twisted children who exist only because we are here to feed them, to nourish them. This... LIFE... this afterthought... a disturbance, a mere ripple in that great, dead sea... not even the cause, but merely an effect sending these souls upward, screaming for release from the day they are torn from their waters. The effect of what? I do not know, nor do I care.

Have you ever spoken with the dead? Called to them from this side? Pull them from their silent rest? Do you know what it is that they feel? Pain. Pain when torn into this wakefulness, this reminder of the chaos from which they had escaped. Pain... at having to live. There will be no more pain. There will be... no more chaos.

-- Kerghan

Can't you just cook his rabbit instead of spamming the forum?

I never liked (edit - Bioware Infinity). Even PS:T was horrible to play, you just stuck with it because the writing was excellent. And for the younger readers, in the olden days, games had stories. They put words in a cunning order, like in books (if you don't remember books, they were kinda like a website, but made out of dead trees). PS:T had 800,000 words of dialogue. That's longer than War and Peace. That's why I played it despite the engine.

Nah. Fallout 2 came out in 1998, so anything before that is okay. You're only too young if you like anything that came out after Vampire The Masquerade: Bloodlines.

Quote:TheDocumentFoundation has released LibreOffice Productivity Suite v5.0.1

Yeah, but

Quote:This version may contain a few annoying bugs which will be fixed in the next bugfix versions to come

including crashes with DB connections.

Leisure Suit Larry works on DosBox(*). The problem is I'm not quite old enough to know the answers to the age test quiz at the start all the time...

(*) If you're on Linux, you have to call dosbox directly. If you run it through WINE, really old stuff is disabled without hacking your config files in most distros. I don't remember the details, but there's some memory corruption vulnerability potential.

The grid is an excellent place to put ads. The problem is, it's somewhat difficult to get referrals for Clixsense when advertising to members of Clixsense, which is annoying, because I'd much rather have referrals here than my other three sites.

Quote:You can always judge a man by the quality of his enemies.

-- The Doctor

If you can find a hundred people a day willing to buy advertisements for Clixsense, I'm sure they'd be happy to run them...