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Ask Homer (zip)

Ask Homer provides ""Simpsons"" quotes, advice, and comments drawn from past episodes. You can view Homer or Bart. It's fun for those ""Simpsons"" fans who break out laughing when they remember the context of a one-line quote.

Tags: Advice, Context, Episode, Ask Homer

Software downloads 2002-03-20

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Impressionism Screensaver - 800 Paintings ("Download)

Over 50 artists in one screensaver: Works by Claude Monet, Pierre Auguste Renoir, Edgar Degas, Eduoard Manet, Alfred Sisley, Berthe Morisot, John Singer-Sargent, Mary Cassatt, Camille Pissarro, Thomas Eakins, William Merritt Chase, Winslow Homer, and Gustave Caillebotte. Turn your computer into a virtual picture frame of masterpieces. Images suitable for...

Tags: Screensaver, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software

Software downloads 2008-11-04

Download pre-beta Vista SP2 now

Download pre-beta Vista SP2 nowWOW![b]Wow![/b] Install dialogs screens... Thanks for the most worthless article I've read in awhile. I bet you were up all night working on this.script here@echo offreg delete HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionWindowsUpdateVistaSp2 /f > NUL 2>&1reg delete HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREWow6432NodeMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionWindowsUpdateVistaSP2 /f > NUL 2>&1reg add HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionWindowsUpdateVistaSp2 /v Beta1 /t REG_SZ...

Tags: Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2, Microsoft Windows, Download pre-beta Vista SP2, Download pre-beta Vista SP2 now, Service Pack 2

Discussion threads 2008-10-24

Glitch shuts 'Big Bang' collider for two months

Glitch shuts 'Big Bang' collider for two monthsSounds like homer was at the wheel.I realize, in general, that nothing works perfectly the first time.. you would think that this would have shown up in pretesting.Congrats on your 9 billion Euro paperweight!The hubble has issues too but we didnt spend that...

Tags: Big Bang, hubble

Discussion threads 2008-09-22

My Awesome IT Job: Senior IT Manager, Cisco

Hey, we all complain about work from time to time; we've all had lousy jobs. But before you call it a day and head off to the support group that meets at the bar, here are a few words from an IT pro that loves their work. ...

Tags: Information Technology, Cisco Systems Inc., Deb Perelman

Blog posts 2008-09-05

First Microsoft make-over ad airs: $300 million well spent?

First Microsoft make-over ad airs: $300 million well spent?Hmmm ....Could be worse ....Homer: [narrating a TV commercial] Are you tired of having your hands cut off by snowblowers? And the inevitable heart attacks that come with shoveling snow?Maybe......they should hire the company that does the Mac commercials....

Tags: humour, advertisement, Seinfeld, Microsoft Corp., ad air

Discussion threads 2008-09-04

E-gold owners plead guilty to money laundering

E-gold owners plead guilty to money launderingGoodbye privacy?Cash leads to crime, too. Should we enforce credit/debit card payments only? If so, let's ban gold trading altogether!I will be obvious and boring then...[Please excuse my poor "Engrish" and my rushed-up style.]Hi guys.I don't agree with your opinion and thought a very...

Tags: Identity theft, Taxes, Free trade, Financial accounting, Financial Planning, Financial services, bank transaction, e-Gold, tax, financial

Discussion threads 2008-07-22

Big Brother Getting Bigger Part 1: USA

Eek, from Slashdot today: The FBI has confirmed to Popular Mechanics that it's not only adding palm prints to its criminal records, but preparing to balloon its repository of photos, which an agency official says 'could be the basis for our facial recognition.' It's all part of a new...

Tags: FBI, Privacy, Washington Post Co., Slashdot, Government, Federal Government, Security, Nathan McFeters

Blog posts 2008-06-30

I'd love to tell you about this article, but...

I'd love to tell you about this article, but...Chris, you should have quoted the article anyway...Or even better, quote a little piece of the Odyssey that relates to the article. I don't think Homer holds the copyright on that since around 500 B.C.(if today's copyright terms applied) :)Re:Chris, you should...

Tags: Advertising & Promotion, Homer

Discussion threads 2008-06-23

How long can AMD continue to blame Intel for its failures?

I have a policy on this blog of not passing judgment on what's legal or not (in the words of Homer Simpson, that's for the courts to decide) but I do keep wondering how long AMD are going to continue blaming Intel for its failures instead of taking a look...

Tags: Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Intel Corp., Processors, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Blog posts 2008-05-07

Psystar: Apple's terms violate U.S. monopoly laws

Psystar, a Miami-based OEM which is now offering OS X on generic PC hardware, claims that Apple's restrictive licensing terms violates U.S. monopoly laws. Whoa, bold claim there. Better have some deep pockets if the company wants to take the fight to court. In an interview with...

Tags: EULA, Apple Inc., Psystar, Monopoly Law, Apple Mac OS X, Operating Systems, Software, Apple Mac OS, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Blog posts 2008-04-15

Monkeys throwing bananas...and other great lines from the Troll culture

Monkeys throwing bananas...and other great lines from the Troll cultureLike Beethoven at the keyboard .Microsoft .Coxisms[url=http://talkback.zdnet.com/5208-12558-0.html?forumID=1&threadID=45152&messageID=834512&start=-9961]Typical Coxism[/url]Gets me through the day with a 'chuckle'.What do you call ...... a MAC portable user?An AIRhead.Didn't amuse the MAC community ... and I'm not ananymous so I guess you'll have to disqualify it...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Office, No_Axe_to_Grind, Vista Capable, Aero, Microsoft Windows Vista

Discussion threads 2008-03-31

Yes, you can get internet access in the middle of the Gulf of Alaska

I am conducting shipchecks on an Alaskan Marine Highways ferry this week in the Gulf of Alaska with stops in Kodiak, Homer, Seldovia, Whittier, Cordova, and Port Lions. I was afraid I would be completely offline and out of touch, but it turns out that the particular vessel I am...

Tags: Internet Access, Speed, Alaska, Download Speed, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Matthew Miller

Blog posts 2008-03-26

The MacBook's mysterious WiFi dropout problem is still unsolved

Despite Apple's recent spate of Airport updates, complaints on discussion boards keep climbing over long-standing problems with MacBooks and MacBook Pros holding their WiFi connection. While the WiFi technology chain is complex and problems can be transient, Apple is taking a quality-assurance beating on this issue. Several...

Tags: Router, Network, Problem, Apple MacBook, Apple Inc., Wi-Fi, Wireless, Wireless LANs, Routers & Switches, Networking, David Morgenstern

Blog posts 2008-03-20

With doughnut policies who fills the hole?

The big trend in health insurance this year is the Consumer Directed Health Plan CDHP. It is, in essence, a doughnut policy. (Picture from Scooter's Doughnut.Net.) You're given so-called catastrophic coverage, in fact a ginormous deductible. Then you create a Health Savings Account HSA,...

Tags: Health Care, Vertical Industries, Healthcare, Benefits, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-03-13

(Photos: Ballmer the Monkey Boy is back)

(Photos: Ballmer the Monkey Boy is back)Dance Monkey Boy, Dance!!!What other company could have a manimal for their CEO and still be profitable. Only a monopoly could maintain such control. All hail, America's second favorite idiot. Homer Simpson being the first. Peter Griffin is third.RE: (Photos:...

Tags: Steve Ballmer, Monkey Boy, Homer Simpson, animation, Peter Griffin, photograph

Discussion threads 2008-03-07

The best ever images of the Milky Way

The best ever images of the Milky WayLooks like...A green monster with orange hair and big yellow teeth!Or Homer Simpson, depending on how you tilt your head :)RE: The best ever images of the Milky WayThe photgraphs reveal the colors in the vast regions of space that the human eye...

Tags: Milky Way

Discussion threads 2007-12-12

Great Art Through the Ages Slide Show (exe)

More than 60 famous paintings from the late 1400s to the early 1900s including work by such favorites as Camille Pissarro, Franz Marc, Alfred Sisley, Paul Gauguin, Winslow Homer, Jan Vermeer, Henri Rousseau, Leonardo Da Vinci and many others including works from a wide range of lesser known practitioners. Music...

Tags: Transition, Screensaver, Music

Software downloads 2007-11-22

Western Digital raises the mobile HDD bar to 320GB

Western Digital raises the mobile HDD bar to 320GBWhere can we buy?Is the drive currently available from any retailer? I can't find it listed for sale on-line so far... but you obviously had one before you wrote your article.JohnNot shippingI can't find any stores that have this drive available (including...

Tags: Advertising & Promotion, Western Digital Corp., hard drive, mobile, WDC

Discussion threads 2007-11-16

Creating power out of thin air

Creating power out of thin airFree electricitySmoke and mirrors. Magically creating another 'state' of a material is hogwash. Basic thermodynamics, no heat differential, no energy gradient to steal power from. If you add potential differences (e.g. batter), then it does work, til it runs down. You cannot...

Tags: temperature differential, thermodynamics, temperature difference

Discussion threads 2007-10-26