I can haz general discussion?

banquo · 22-07-2009 2:08pm

Way ahead of you.

PrivateEye · 23-07-2009 1:37am

Why has our Facebook group failed so?

Michellenman · 23-07-2009 1:39am

It was destined to fail. Anything to do on it can be done here...

PrivateEye · 23-07-2009 1:41am

I know who hardly any of the faces are behind the names, I don't want to either. Just looked through them and went 'grand normal bunch of people there, that'll do. We're not a pack of weirdos' and moved on. Very attractive group we are.

There is a group called 'TELL GARY GLITTER TO F<CK OFF' that has 55,000 members...and we manage 15.

Michellenman · 23-07-2009 1:45am

You've to take in to account the number of people in Maynooth. Narrow it down to those who post on Boards. Take away those who don't post in here. Some of whom don't have a facebook account and others who are anonymous...

15 is about right I'd say.

But yes. We are an attractive group :P

banquo · 23-07-2009 1:51am

Attractive group? We're mario, one of the Golden Girls and a perfectly square piece of dirt!

PrivateEye · 23-07-2009 1:52am

We are the geeky secret society (on second thoughts thats probably that society that play World of Warcraft, forget its name)

on the subject of geeky, i made the great leap today:

Michellenman · 23-07-2009 1:52am

Yeah but to be fair she's the most attractive of the golden girls.

Also, I don't have avatars set to display so you're all just usernames to me.

Michellenman · 23-07-2009 1:53am

PrivateEye wrote: »

We are the geeky secret society (on second thoughts thats probably that society that play World of Warcraft, forget its name)

on the subject of geeky, i made the great leap today:

You won't ever look back.

banquo · 23-07-2009 2:47am

Chrome!

mp3guy · 23-07-2009 8:34am

banquo wrote: »

Chrome!

Yeah, bleeding edge technology with no support for any of Firefox's thousands of plugins!

funky penguin · 23-07-2009 1:06pm

banquo wrote: »

Chrome!

I wish they'd hurry up and bring it out for Mac. I've been downgraded to Safari on occasions when firefox is slow! :eek:

Cool_CM · 23-07-2009 2:11pm

banquo wrote: »

Chrome!

Gotta love that Incognito mode!:D

Michellenman · 23-07-2009 3:09pm

I'm downloading now... wanna see what all the hype is about.

Incognito you say? Please elaborate...

The guy · 23-07-2009 6:00pm

Cool_CM wrote: »

Gotta love that Incognito mode!:D

The latest Firefox has a private browsing mode.

It also doesn't let you write Firefox in all lower casing either.

banquo · 23-07-2009 7:17pm

Ha!

Ok, Firefox is better than Chrome if you're used to all the plugins. There's no compeptition there. However, in my experience, Chrome:

1. Is increedibly fast. From page loading times to how fast the printing dialog box opens, Chrome does everything just that little bit faster.
2. Is incredibly light
3. Has a task manager for when one tab crashes. This means that when you have, say, 5 tabs open, if one of them crashes that it doesn't affect your whole browser, just that one tab.

Do this for fun: slect both the Firefox and Chrome icons on the desktop and hit ENTER. See which one opens way faster

/awaits jibing from Beau for being a shameless Google fanboy

Beau · 23-07-2009 7:31pm

banquo wrote: »

/awaits jibing from Beau for being a shameless Google fanboy

Ha! I actually agree with you. I never got into all those plugins and stuff, they just clog up the screen and slow the whole show down. Chrome is super fast, no messing just does the job.

banquo · 23-07-2009 8:42pm

I've been getting involved in the SU this summer.

A vastly, vastly reformed and improved college magazine shall be upon us.

Also, Chrome will be available as an option on all college computers. (Wait until you see how much faster printing is - no more of this 37pp pdf taking 20 minutes to print)

The guy · 23-07-2009 8:50pm

banquo wrote: »

I've been getting involved in the SU this summer.

A vastly, vastly reformed and improved college magazine shall be upon us.

Also, Chrome will be available as an option on all college computers. (Wait until you see how much faster printing is - no more of this 37pp pdf taking 20 minutes to print)

But one of my problems with Chrome is that it's an even bigger RAM hog then Firefox, most of those pcs don't seem to have the extra RAM to handle Chrome.

Maybe it will be better at handling PDFs as it's supposed to be good at handling apps.

Honestly though if I'm using a Pc in Maynooth I don't really care what browser I use, when I'm at home though it's Firefox.

Michellenman · 23-07-2009 8:51pm

banquo wrote: »

I've been getting involved in the SU this summer.

A vastly, vastly reformed and improved college magazine shall be upon us.

Also, Chrome will be available as an option on all college computers. (Wait until you see how much faster printing is - no more of this 37pp pdf taking 20 minutes to print)

How so?

banquo · 23-07-2009 9:03pm

Announcement in the near future. I've said too much!

mp3guy · 23-07-2009 11:37pm

banquo wrote: »

Do this for fun: slect both the Firefox and Chrome icons on the desktop and hit ENTER. See which one opens way faster

There's so much wrong with this I'm not going to start. Please, study some computer science modules first.

funky penguin · 23-07-2009 11:56pm

banquo wrote: »

I've been getting involved in the SU this summer.

A vastly, vastly reformed and improved college magazine shall be upon us.

Also, Chrome will be available as an option on all college computers. (Wait until you see how much faster printing is - no more of this 37pp pdf taking 20 minutes to print)

Multiple beers for you if it comes about!

banquo · 24-07-2009 12:27am

mp3guy wrote: »

There's so much wrong with this I'm not going to start. Please, study some computer science modules first.

LIES!

barleybooley · 24-07-2009 12:49am

mp3guy wrote: »

There's so much wrong with this I'm not going to start. Please, study some computer science modules first.

I don't see what all the fuss is about, Internet Explorer 5 in conjunction with Outlook Express does me just fine. I'm sure I'd feel differently after a few Computer Science modules, to hell with my own degree, free time and money

banquo · 24-07-2009 5:53am

funky penguin wrote: »

Multiple beers for you if it comes about!

I am down with that.

*types faster*

PrivateEye · 24-07-2009 4:33pm

How so?

COMIC SANS IS DEAD.

That'll be a start.

Michellenman · 24-07-2009 4:39pm

PrivateEye wrote: »

COMIC SANS IS DEAD.

That'll be a start.

I don't think I've ever been happier.

Beau · 24-07-2009 10:31pm

mp3guy wrote: »

Please, study some computer science modules first.

4 years of CS and I'm none the wiser

LittleKitty · 26-07-2009 12:52am

PrivateEye wrote: »

COMIC SANS IS DEAD.

That'll be a start.

comic sans? nooooo.....
i loved that font. not as cool as pirate from dafont.org though.

banquo · 26-07-2009 1:37am

I'm trying to think of anyone I've ever heard of in NUIM who could have a link between their real name and 'littlekitty' and I've a hunch.

On a completely different topic, since this is a discussion thread, let me just mention that, despite much stoking, the fire is going out. The cat is quite dissapointed.

Hard Shaw · 26-07-2009 12:18pm

Voyager from Mikadosoc is in intensive care at the moment after a serious assault in Dublin City last night. It's touch and go at this stage from what I've heard.

Michellenman · 26-07-2009 1:42pm

Holy moly. Didn't know him but what happened? Where did it happen?

LittleKitty · 26-07-2009 4:36pm

OMG!
yeah, what happened and is there any further update on his condition. sound guy, hope he's ok.

Hard Shaw · 26-07-2009 5:24pm

LittleKitty wrote: »

OMG!
yeah, what happened and is there any further update on his condition. sound guy, hope he's ok.

I don't know all the details but apparently he was kissing his boyfriend when these scumbags just went at him with a bottle.
He has been put in an induced coma so its not looking good.

banquo · 26-07-2009 7:05pm

Thread for thoughts and prayers? If it wasn't so serious I wouldn't suggest a whole new thread.

This sort of bull**** has no good excuse.

Michellenman · 27-07-2009 10:07pm

Totally agree. Has anyone any news on him? How is he getting on?

On another note, they've put containers of hand sanitizer in the entrance to the Arts block. Swine Flu life is upon us.

PrivateEye · 28-07-2009 5:49pm

Swine Flu life is upon us.

I'm off to London on the 18th of August, I'll be sure to bring some back.

As for that poor lad, don't know him but fu<king hell thats terrible. Best wishes to him, always sad to hear there's still that kind of backwards thinking filth lurking around our cities.

Rozabeez · 28-07-2009 9:43pm

Lets start taking bets on how many of us end up with Swine Flu when we go back to college.

funky penguin · 28-07-2009 11:15pm

I think I already have it.

/pops some neurofen plus

barleybooley · 29-07-2009 2:43pm

I, eh, missed a lab on, um, account of, eh, swine flu. Yep, that should do the trick!

allandanyways · 29-07-2009 10:52pm

Haven't posted here in ages... tis my birthday today

yet I am raging because apparently people can't read the sticky! :mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad: i keep wanting to post "there is a sticky, eh duhh" but that's just the inner mod in me struggling to get out... /rant over

too much birthday wine O.o

Michellenman · 29-07-2009 11:12pm

Happy Birthday!:)

Rozabeez · 30-07-2009 12:10am

Happy Birthday! Oooooldieeeee!! I love you on wine, it's brilliant!

funky penguin · 30-07-2009 12:14am

14 mins too late, but happy birthday!

banquo · 30-07-2009 12:57pm

Belated Happy Birthday!

PrivateEye · 30-07-2009 3:52pm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QhKQKLiHxAw

Michellenman · 30-07-2009 11:22pm

Made buns today. I put too much blue food colouring in to the icing and now I feel a bit... bleugh!

allandanyways · 31-07-2009 12:52am

allandanyways wrote: »

Haven't posted here in ages... tis my birthday today yet I am raging because apparently people can't read the sticky! :mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad: i keep wanting to post "there is a sticky, eh duhh" but that's just the inner mod in me struggling to get out... /rant over

too much birthday wine O.o

yes I am quoting myself just to say...

Scarleh'...:o

PrivateEye · 02-08-2009 7:15pm

Met Vincent Browne in town. Is this win?

I can haz general discussion?

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