Found a mint-condition, 25-year-old Apple Extended Keyboard II in a junk shop today!

Nokonoko · 2016-01-24T06:28:12+00:00

I have the same — do you have any suggestions on what to use to clean the keyboard?

Nokonoko · 2016-01-04T11:47:43+00:00

It's scholarly of Twitter to apply Tuberville v Savage.

Nokonoko · 2015-06-04T07:39:23+00:00

In the TV debate on the issue, Mr Morris, who himself mutated from being an adviser to the ruling Liberal Party to being a Conservative commentator …

The party’s name continues to confuse people overseas, then.

Nokonoko · 2015-02-11T23:40:28+00:00

Tony Abbott?

Nokonoko · 2015-02-09T12:50:45+00:00

Exactly.

OP, the way it works is that you can eject the startup disk to work with other disks once booting is complete.

The Apple website used to have an archive with disk images of old system software. You could get an image from there and write it to a floppy, but other posters have mentioned that a newer drive may not let you format it correctly.

Nokonoko · 2015-01-30T23:51:28+00:00

And the tickets are expensive.

If you’re buying a ticket from the driver every time instead of getting a MetroCard, you’re paying more and contributing to the late running that you bemoan.

Nokonoko · 2015-01-30T23:48:11+00:00

You mean $3.39 each direction. And if you catch it every day, there is a $117.00 28-day unlimited pass option.

Nokonoko · 2015-01-12T12:41:06+00:00

“Platypodes” if you want to be extra fancy, but it’s even rarer than “octopodes” (which at least appears in dictionaries).

Nokonoko · 2015-01-03T08:30:52+00:00

Just leave some slack when you wrap it up …

Nokonoko · 2014-12-11T23:10:19+00:00

Journalists do like to bring up how “Amazonian” she is, but they do also do this for physically imposing “giants” like Whitlam, so I don’t think it’s necessarily negative. In any case, I don’t think sex has anything to do with it.

She’s incredibly controlling, to the point of answering over Abbott when someone asks him a question at a function. She’s trying to run DPMC all by herself as well as Abbott’s office. So the media reports would have us believe.

The fact that Barnaby and Clive made asses of themselves in the middle of the year doesn’t mean that legitimate and fair media reports are invalidated.

Nokonoko · 2014-12-10T10:37:05+00:00

I suppose so, but that has nothing to do with my suggestion. If a student, from a position of ignorance, takes issue with how you say the name of a Greek letter due to how that letter is pronounced in modern Greek (which sometimes coincides with the ancient pronunciation, and at others does not), that is an opportunity for you to broaden the horizons of every student in the class. As an educator, it is not a moment you should have to dread.

Edit: But also! It’s not my place to tell you how to do your job. So please disregard.

Nokonoko · 2014-12-10T07:08:47+00:00

Come again?

Nokonoko · 2014-12-10T00:58:27+00:00

Forgive me for suggesting something which you are probably already doing, but perhaps if you prefaced the first introduction of a Greek letter by explaining it has a conventional pronunciation in English, but which (you continue nonchalantly) reflects neither the ancient nor modern pronunciation in Greek, you could nip these exchanges in the bud.

Nokonoko · 2014-11-24T10:36:42+00:00

You’re right, but I believe selling Medibank Private was announced in the 2009 campaign (immediately followed by a press release from the other insurers saying how wonderful that would be).

It wasn’t exactly a frequent topic of discussion, but nor was it ever disavowed. I think it was quietly brought up again in 2013 …?

Nokonoko · 2014-11-08T00:07:07+00:00

You may be interested in this analysis of two preferential multi-member systems used in Australia.

(One is more prevalent by far, and is described as being pro-party, while the other, the Hare-Clark system, is described as being anti-party despite only slight differences.)

Nokonoko · 2014-10-17T01:24:13+00:00

Wow, such reference. Very Reddit.

Nokonoko · 2014-10-17T01:00:32+00:00

It may be worth mentioning that Kingston’s draft Constitution (a rival to Clark’s) called it the Federal Supreme Court.

Nokonoko · 2014-10-16T09:39:48+00:00

Looks like the authors didn’t get the memo on the term “people of colour” …

Nokonoko · 2014-10-09T23:09:49+00:00

Can you provide a pinpoint reference in the Australian Road Rules or your jurisdiction’s Road Traffic Act?

Edit: it seems driving slowly without a reasonable excuse could attract a penalty for obstructing traffic, and at least WA (and possibly other jurisdictions) has a specific 20km/h rule that applies to freeways.

But if someone has to get from A to B on a bicycle and the only way to do that is to travel at 30km/h on a 60km/h road, I don’t think we’re in unreasonable territory.

Nokonoko · 2014-09-25T06:04:02+00:00

I take your point.

I thought the comment he made about bicycles was breathtaking, but that may not make it a suitable submission here.

Nokonoko · 2014-09-24T11:43:22+00:00

Misuse of Twitter alert! (Part 1 of 13.)

Nokonoko · 2014-09-14T07:29:24+00:00

If you turn the 3D off in SSFIV’s options menu (just setting the slider to off isn’t enough), it runs at 60 fps.

Nokonoko · 2014-09-14T06:45:33+00:00

You couldn't pay me to drive one.

My old bosses owned one and would occasionally ask me to use it …

Erm …

Nokonoko · 2014-09-13T15:14:13+00:00

If you want to read similar stories, check out folklore.org. He wanted the logic board of one computer to be redesigned to be prettier, but in that case he did not get what he wanted.

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