The Clippy Easter egg on chat is amusing the first few times it comes up, but can quickly become annoying because it generates a pop-up that requires clicking on to dismiss.
Can we get an option in the chat preferences to disable this Easter egg?
The Clippy Easter egg on chat is amusing the first few times it comes up, but can quickly become annoying because it generates a pop-up that requires clicking on to dismiss.
Can we get an option in the chat preferences to disable this Easter egg?
@JourneymanGeek After a bit of thought, I've come to the conclusion that the option could end up hurting our community.
> Providing this option can in fact increase the burnout rate of users who choose to enable it. For the same reason, while Stack Exchange provides an option to opt out of Winter Bash, the event exists to counter the general lack of "fun" on Stack Exchange in the first place. Not having any fun at all can turn off users and make the site appear unwelcoming.
@DragonLord It was cute 20 years ago in word 1995 (or thereabouts) , to make fun of the original, it was cute when it popped up very few times when using very specific statements, it is still cute, and still makes a complete fool of itself. It adds in its own flavor of stupidity rarely to the chat.
What it Could also be, is way past its time, booring, and Why has nothing changed? development on clippy comes to a screeching halt :-) while every other program on the planet is advanced into a useless pile of really obnoxious stuff.
Clippy is there doing the same stuff it did , working correct everytime, and completly useless too.
So I wouldnt downvote turning it on or off, either way, I rarely assemble words that cause it to pop up. But i would Upvote big time, something creative. Another Code contest to "improve" it .
To somehow change it, say like nakid dancing girls that actually do assist :-)
@Bob so how much then is a used S3? there are those people who must update as soon as it hits the markets, and they will unload last weeks for like 1/2 price barely scratched.
With E-bays extreeme buyer protection, to the loss of the sellers (often) buying used there can have a return policy much like a store does. Even sellers who state "we do not do a refund" are still subject to the whole e-bay policy.
I have got more than one fully usable $300 video grafics card before , for only $100 by getting last years models. It still was that brainflunk that it wasnt the bestest one at the time, but was wholly affordable.
I somehow have to aquire a 'mindset", that IF i had paid full price for a S3 and still owned it, that it would still be cool, and usable. with the latent idea that it still sucks that it is outdated leeching back into my mind every time i have a full wallet :-)
A few months ago I purchased 3TB drive by Seagate and then decided to encrypt with TC. I did not want to have 2 partitions so I made on GPT partition. Encryption went smoothly since the drive was empty. There are two volumes: hidden and outer one. Over time I gradually added more and more data an...
People get all secure with thier data, then Lose it, and at that point they would even pay the NSA to recover it. "well they can do that can't they?"
Dear NSA, Please find enclosed 2 hard drives one has my encrypted data on it the second one is empty use the backdoor you have and copy the data to the other disk You do not have to encrypt the copy.
maybe I need to take a new approach to this and stop 'hacking at things'
I have a device running QNX connected via serial to a beagle bone black (BBB) running Angstrom. Both of these are located off site. Between the two I can create a terminal session using `screen` from the BBB and everything is cool. If I ssh into the beagle bone from here I can control the QNX system. nice. Problem is the boss doesn't want so many steps.. Now I need to pass this 'screen' (terminal session) to a cloud server (I can't think of a better term. a ubuntu box hosted by OVH) then back to my desktop.
I'm sure there are tools to achieve this already, I jut can't seem to find them. I started trying to do this by hand (passing inputs and outputs back and fourth) but that is rapidly becoming a pain in my ass.
@rlemon what steps in particular are being complained about by the boss?
I'm your boss and I have no idea about these computery things. I want to access the QNX thingy. Tell me how I'd do it, currently, with the complex way.
@Computerone There are too many possible things it could be without going back and forth with you in a trial and error fashion to try and determine the cause. WiFi is plagued with many problems. The solution is very hard to pinpoint.
and before you say that we should allow troubleshooting questions:
Troubleshooting questions are bad!
We are a Question & Answer site, not a forum. You mentioned becoming a clone of Wikipedia, which is basically exactly what we should be. (Obviously, we don't want to be an exact clone, but we want to be an encyclopedia of problems and solutions to these problem...
It could be that the router is on 5 GHz but the laptop only runs on 2.4 GHz. It could be that the router is using a WPA crypto suite that the laptop doesn't support. It could be that the router has a vendor-specific extension enabled and required that the laptop doesn't support. And on and on and on.
I have replaced the logon shell on a system I'm working on. When I exit the program I use as the shell, I get a black desktop. I can then open Task Manager and start Windows Explorer to get my usual shell back. So far so good
But on some systems, when I go through the process and start Windows Explorer, I only get a file browser window. Why is that?
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I'm currently experimenting with a custom shell on a couple of similar Windows 8.1 devices.
When I exit the custom shell and then manually start explorer through Task Manager, sometimes it will start the default Windows 8.1 shell, sometimes it will only start a file explorer.
From past experien...
In Apache2, how do I get a subfolder to redirect elsewhere? IE, example.com/subfolder should go to /var/www/subfolder, while www.example.com goes to /var/www/www.example.com?
As many of you know, I’m a moderator on Freelancing.SE, and I’ve seen a lot of the troubles other users go through. I also constantly read ClientsFromHell‘s blog, containing many more stories of people just not “getting it” with their designers/developers/other contractors. I have my full time job, and I have my side job. My … Continue reading Developing for …
The Clippy Easter egg on chat is amusing the first few times it comes up, but can quickly become annoying because it generates a pop-up that requires clicking on to dismiss.
Can we get an option in the chat preferences to disable this Easter egg?
![Googling inevitably reveals that my problem is caused by a known bug triggered by doing [the exact combination of things I want to do]. I can fix it, or wait a few years until I don't want that combination of things anymore, using the kitchen timer until then.](http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/hard_reboot.png "Googling inevitably reveals that my problem is caused by a known bug triggered by doing [the exact combination of things I want to do]. I can fix it, or wait a few years until I don't want that combination of things anymore, using the kitchen timer until then.")
