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I know some of you read web comics and I know some of you play(ed) D&D (or at least the PC games).
But does anyone here read Order of the Stick[^]?
It starts out with some funny comics (well, I think the third comic[^] is actually the first funny one), but after a few an actual story unfolds with quite some plot twists.
The jokes are often based on D&D rules (jokes on alignment, class, rolls...  ).
I've read it for years. Unfortunately I'm at the end so I get to read a new comic every so many days (sometimes weeks, one time months  ).
Anyway, anyone here knows/reads/likes it?
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I hadn't, until I saw this post - now I'm slowly working my way through.
I had the same problem with a couple of others, so I regularly check:
Dilbert[^], XKCD[^], and Bloom County[^] (an old re-run about a penguin), Oglaf (No link, it's rarely SFW), User Friendly[^] (Another oldy, about the life of a SysAdmin), CommitStrip[^] (French based developers), and Penny Arcade[^] (Gamers, esp D&D)
I'm also working my way through Carbon Dating[^] and Skull Kickers[^] (Don't ask, just don't...)
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You are on CP 24/7 and have time to read all that too... 
Of course I Googled Oglaf first. You weren't exaggerating when you said that's NSFW
Next to OOTS I just read Dilbert (think I've read them all by now) 
I think you might like Business Cat[^] as well
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Sander Rossel wrote: You are on CP 24/7 and have time to read all that too...
Sleep is for wimps...
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That explains some of your daily thoughts
[Edit]
By the way, I assume you've finished OOTS by now (it took me a few weeks, so you should be done by now), how did you like it?
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'User friendly' is in my to do list. I didn't touch any games related comics(like Penny Arcade, Ctrl+Alt+Del) because I never had a chance to play much games(Exception : Order of the stick). But one day I'll start those.
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I have started that only recently. I choose this one because I like Stick figure comics very much. My favorites on this type comics are XKCD, Loadingartist, Cyanide & happiness, The Perry Bible Fellowship.
Apart from that I like Dilbert, Garfield, Pixel, Oatmeal. And more to be added.
I usually try to get collected edition but no option for me now(atleast for my favorites). Apart from webcomics, I like mini-comics & anthologies but it's tough for me to get digital editions because the cost( + shipping charges) of physical editions are too much for me now. I use kickstarter, Indiegogo & gumroad frequently for digital comics.
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I got something from Dark Horse Digital Comics[^] once. I think it was a The Witcher comic which I got with my The Witcher III pre-order. Not sure though as I haven't read it
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The Android GMail app on my nexus has recently changed - it used to sync with my (non Google) email account and remove messages that were no longer there. (I use Outlook on the PC as the "master" and it's the only one that removes anything from the email server).
Now, it leaves them on the nexus after Outlook has collected them all, so I have to remove them myself. 
So, I thought I'd use the help ( RTFM, Griff, RTFM) built into the GMail app, and it told me exactly how to bulk delete. Perfect!
Except the in-app help is for the website, not the app...
Google! Get your act together!
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modified 24-May-15 14:06pm.
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I suppose Gmail is alright if you don't mind top of the range A.I looking at your messages.
Don't let me scare you but Google have systems that don't need a keyboard or mouse for the interface
Just a saying like
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You feeling paranoid today?
I already have the NSA and GCHQ reading and listening to everything I say or do, so one more is hardly a major problem...it's not even as if any of it is interesting. Chances are I'm responsible to the Death by Boredom for several government employees already!
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We both have a right to privacy and if we give them rights away then where will it end.
Do not think it's people that read what you type, it's machines
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Trust me, my email could bore a ZX Spectrum into pulling it's own plug...: laugh:
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You think thats bad ?
I once knew ever peek and poke in the book when it came to ZX-Spectrums 
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But could you persuade it to go for a walk afterwards?
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I was cutting edge mate.
Can you remember them fast loaders that compressed, wrote the data to tape player at a faster rate ?
Blue and yellow lines on the screen with a faster scream from the tape player
Well i worked out that if you was running a game and wrote the whole 48k to tape then when you loaded the tape back up the game would continue from just where you was playing because it was a snapshot
Tell ya, don't mess with me just because i could not afford a C64 or BBC
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I thought Google and Microsoft(Outlook) had a falling out and as a result, Google was removing a lot of the integration/sync with Outlook? I have noticed some of this, myself.
Don't know if this has anything to do with your situation.
Edit: Last I read this affected the free email accounts. To keep the integration, you need the purchase a business "gmail" account. I could be wrong.
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Yeah, they did a couple of years ago. And damn annoying it was too...
It's just a change to the Android App - I don't use a google email account, I have my own domain - it syncs to the mail.myDomain.com address to get email via IMAP so it doesn't remove anythign from the server automatically. Outlook looks at the same account, via POP3 and downloads it so that a copy of everything is on my PC (and archived / backed up) rather than sitting on the server all the time.
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I thought I'd be smart and use the Windows Disk Manager to create .VHD files that match the size of a blank DVD-5 as closely as possible, and then use that as a container so I know that if a file/set of files fit in this mounted .VHD, I'd know I'd be able to burn it to disc without running out of space.
I've verified that ImgBurn happily burns a 4,706,009,600 bytes .VHD file I've created. As a bonus, moving around a single ~4.38GB file (say, across my LAN) is a lot quicker than otherwise individually handling the few tens of thousands of files it might contain. And my anti-virus doesn't feel like it's got to scan those thousands of files. I've really gotten used to having a bunch of .VHD files as containers that I can mount/dismount on demand. A bit like .ISO files, except they're also writable right in Explorer.
Here's the problem though. When I mount and then format a VHD file sitting on my hard drive, Windows insists on wasting around 50KB for who-knows what purposes. For one thing, it keeps creating (and recreating after deleting) a $RECYCLE.BIN folder in the root of the mounted VHD, and Explorer shows there's "4.33 free of 4.38GB" (even immediately after a fresh format). Supposedly that's normal behavior for any drive that Windows does NOT consider to be 'removable.'.
I have a few files, larger than 4.33GB, that currently exist on DVDs that I know were created without overburning. Because of this ~50KB waste of space Windows insists on using up, I can't copy these files (which fit on a DVD) back to a VHD that also fits on a DVD. Color me unimpressed.
Based on my Google searches, it seems that a lot of people are also trying to prevent Windows from using up this space, and everybody responding suggest to just hide system files (so they "...won't see the $RECYCLE.BIN folder if it bothers you so much") and that the space is negligible in this day of multi-TB drives, yada-yada-yada...and completely missing the point. And yes, disabling System Restore has been discussed ad nauseam and doesn't help in this situation.
Thoughts?
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dandy72 wrote: "4.33 free of 4.38GB"
I see a difference of about 50 MB there.
Cheers!
"I had the right to remain silent, but I didn't have the ability!"
Ron White, Comedian
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You're just using the VHD to figure out what you can fit on a DVD, and not actually burning the VHD file to disc, right? If so, why not just bump up the size of the VHD by 50MB (the difference between 4.33 and 4.38GB) and hide or ignore the $RECYCLE.BIN folder?
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Every once in a while, yeah, I do want to burn the actual container to disc.
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I suggest you post this on the "Hardware and Devices" Forum : [^].
Good reading before further posting: the pinned thread on this Forum, "Posting rules for The Lounge."
cheers, Bill
«I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center» Kurt Vonnegut.
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C'mon Bill...I've been on CP since 2001, these sorts of questions get posted all the time here in the lounge. And clearly, this is not a question about any specific piece of hardware or device, but the sort of Windows behavior that people comment about pretty much every day.
If I'm in the wrong here, then this invalidates pretty much everything that's ever been asked here as a question.
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Consider that one reason why I suggest you post this on the forum I mentioned is so that the content of the discussion ... which may, indeed, be valuable in the future to others, is not "lost in the spate" of the Lounge's flow of general hoop-la.dandy72 wrote: If I'm in the wrong here, then this invalidates pretty much everything that's ever been asked here as a question.
I can only hope this statement reflects a temporarily missing-in-action sense of social responsibility.
«I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center» Kurt Vonnegut.
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