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[Frumple]

Major solar flare. They're expecting more and stronger as the sunspot it's coming from angles more towards Earth over the next few days.

Does this mean you get to pull out the excuses again?

Think that was you, anyway. Either you or nenjin.

E:

Spoiler: Ahaha, it was! (click to show/hide)

I'm happy because I can semi-legitimately use "solar flare" as a catch-all excuse today.

"Hi, I can't connect to--"
"Solar flare. Try again later."

"My program is acting weird."
"Solar flare."

"Do you know where I find--"
"Solar flare."
"But...I'm just asking for information."
"Solar flare wiped out our database of information. Ask again later."
"You're being an asshole."
"Solar flare. Causes temporary mood swings. Not responsible for my actions."
"I want to speak to your manager."
"Sorry, he was caught in the solar flare."

BEST DAY EVAR. 

Go memory go.

[MonkeyHead]

Last night I had the best dream ever. I was Barak Obama, and lived in a giant diamond pyramid on Mars. One evening I couldnt afford my resteraunt bill so had to climb a big red pyramid to dig up some money during a storm, avoiding the spike worms who were out to eat me.

[RedKing]

Major solar flare. They're expecting more and stronger as the sunspot it's coming from angles more towards Earth over the next few days.

Does this mean you get to pull out the excuses again?

Think that was you, anyway. Either you or nenjin.

E:

Spoiler: Ahaha, it was! (click to show/hide)

I'm happy because I can semi-legitimately use "solar flare" as a catch-all excuse today.

"Hi, I can't connect to--"
"Solar flare. Try again later."

"My program is acting weird."
"Solar flare."

"Do you know where I find--"
"Solar flare."
"But...I'm just asking for information."
"Solar flare wiped out our database of information. Ask again later."
"You're being an asshole."
"Solar flare. Causes temporary mood swings. Not responsible for my actions."
"I want to speak to your manager."
"Sorry, he was caught in the solar flare."

BEST DAY EVAR. 

Go memory go.

....okay, the fact that you remembered that is my new WTF of the day. I didn't even remember that at first. 

Last night I had the best dream ever. I was Barak Obama, and lived in a giant diamond pyramid on Mars. One evening I couldnt afford my resteraunt bill so had to climb a big red pyramid to dig up some money during a storm, avoiding the spike worms who were out to eat me.

And now we know what Trump's "big announcement" will be tomorrow.

[Truean]

Is it my imagination or does Winzip seem to want payment after a 30 day trial period now?

[GlyphGryph]

It has since it was released

[miauw62]

Is it my imagination or does Winzip seem to want payment after a 30 day trial period now?

so does winrar.

haha! thank you for the X in the corner of that message!

Can't you just press cancel every time?
Does anybody know if windows 8 finally comes with a .rar opening stuff?

[Rose]

Yeah, winrar reminds you that you really should buy it, but it never actually prevents you from using it.

[The Darkling Wolf]

Plenty of people have bought it just to shut the messages up.

[Frumple]

Some of us just migrated over to .7zip >_>

[RedKing]

I believe that's known as nagware. Used to be quite common.

[Rose]

I tried 7zip. not really a fan of the program, even if the compression is good.

[Darvi]

On a related note, I've seen a .zip file compressed as a .7z file. Not only was that completely redundant, it also made the file bigger.

[Nadaka]

double compression is almost always a terrible idea.

[GlyphGryph]

does no one else just use tarballs?

[ISP]

Only use winrar and 7z to extract junk, I've never really compressed anything.

Winrar, "Are you going to buy me?"
Me, "Shh... I'm extracting files."
Winrar, "How about now?"
Me, "Nope, still busy extracting files."
Winrar, _{"Are you sure you dont want to buy me?"}
Me, "Maybe after I extract a few more files."
Winrar, _{"Its been a month, you sure you dont want to buy me?"}
Me, "I'll deside later."
Winrar, _{"I'm sure he'll buy me this time, I just know it."}