Off topic - CrossOver Pro Free for Mac and Linux

[geekgrrl-ca.livejournal.com]

Sorry for the spam but I figure there's enough interest in here for this and it will be quite useful for some of us.

free CrossOver Pro for mac and linux (includes CrossOver Games) now until 11:59 PM Tuesday: http://lameduck.codeweavers.com/free/

Don't forget to grab the serial and download the program.


-=- ob story -=-

Screaming at me and then telling me that you have "H.I.V., Leukemia, Sleep Apnea and Skin Cancer" in the same sentence doesn't exactly relate to your technical situation nor does it make me want to bend over backwards for you. It was all I could do to not say "You should get that sleep apnea device for when you sleep, sleep apnea can kill you! OMGWTFBBQ" into the phone. maybe I'm going to hell for thinking this but if you have those aliments you're due to drop anytime now, go out and have some fun instead of fighting with your computer.

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[toxico.livejournal.com]

My ex wife called you? I wasn't aware she was out of prison yet.

[heinousbitca.livejournal.com]

i've been HELLA downloading it onto every Linbox and Macthing in the office.

I've had leukemia. You don't take many calls with it. Trust me. I've had skin cancer (that whole messy xeroderma pigmentosum thing)...yeah that's kinda boring if you catch it fast.

I know a goodly percentage of people living with HIV who would never use it for pity's sake on an f-ing tech call. Yeah. Whee. I hate pity. It holds my cripple ass down hardcore.

[geekgrrl-ca.livejournal.com]

HIV still carries too much stigma of "you screwed around/injected" to get much pity from society. I do feel bad for my friends that have it, regardless none the less. Lots of innocent people have it that did neither, but I don't believe that to be the norm yet (who knows one day it may be as common as colds).

In this case the guy was using like some people use the race card. He was told no, didn't like the answer and started a tantrum to get his way. Yay for adults.

[vortex.livejournal.com]

Awsome!
Thanks for the link, I've downloaded it, now waiting several days for the serial to arrive.

I have HIV ... "go out and have some fun instead of fighting with your computer." ~ DAMN RIGHT!...

[the-s-guy.livejournal.com]

How do you think they got all those things in the first place? :)

[vortex.livejournal.com]

I'm pretty sure I got my HIV from one of the computers at the company that fired me:

2005 I get fired for something I had (edit: oops, had, past tense) no control over.
2006 I come down with Pneumonia and find out I'm HIV+

*Hmmmmmmmmm*

ps.
I forgot that I was diagnosed with Sleep Apnea and some other sleep disorder in 1997. Ambien does nothing for me...

[fallconsmate.livejournal.com]

if i take ambien, i *can* sleep and i dont remember my dreams. last night i forgot. the other stuff i have to take (for diabetes and cholesterol) ONE of them is giving me some weird ass dreams.

my poor fiance doesnt remember that when he gets sarcasm first thing in the am, do NOT ask me what i dreamed. my subconscious is a very frightening place.

"what did you dream, babe?" "anal sex in a shark tank." ohhhh he was awake then. ;)

[vortex.livejournal.com]

*Sweeet!*

That would certainly wake me up!


Ambien did nothing for me back then (we're talking 97-ish), but maybe they improved since.

My HIV meds (Particularly Sustiva(Efavirenz)), (I take three a day) give me weird, lucid dreams. Don't know if you've done Acid, but something like that...and they tell you to take it before bedtime?!?!?

Maybe they want us to forget the reality of having HIV...

[fallconsmate.livejournal.com]

i was straightlaced before they coined the term. ;) seriously, never done any non-scrip ANYTHING.

there are times when you wonder if the side effects are worth the good effects, you know? acid dreams have been described to me, and my own dreams are odd enough...i can take the deja-vu ones, but dang. this morning was weird by *my* standards! (the fiance says "you know, you're a weirdlet, but i love you anyway")

[doublefelix.livejournal.com]

Normally I'd be annoyed at the advertisement, but thank you so much! I've been having to cheat and redo the demo over and over >_>

[geekgrrl-ca.livejournal.com]

Well being a moderator for this community I felt I could get away with it. plus I included a story.

[goose-entity.livejournal.com]

and, of course, I only saw the links for it *today* >.

[kirylyn.livejournal.com]

*cries*

yeah, I saw the link a day too late, and I thought I had been overly compulsively refreshing the page.

what exactly IS the program?

[phrogg.livejournal.com]

H.I.V., Leukemia, Sleep Apnea and Skin Cancer

You mean they hadn't contracted that computer virus, on top of all that?

[notthebuddha.livejournal.com]

oh yeah, I love the whole gimp cred thing. It's like inflating your resume, really, most people sound like a case from "House, M.D." by the time they're 40 if you work at it.

Btw, the "sleep apnea devices" (CPAP, BiPAP, VPAP, or just "blowers") don't do it for everyone. After I learned enough to recognize when it was happening and roll over in my near-sleep, they did me more harm than good because it was hard to fall sleep with the facehugger's stunt double strapped on and ready to implant me with a xenomorph.

Signed,
Sleep Apnea, Reduced Lung Capacity, Morbid Obesity, Hearing Loss, Veinous Insufficiency, Radiculopathy, Umbilical Hernia, Myopia, Peculiar Intestinal Issues, and Badly Healed Broken Wrist Guy

[vortex.livejournal.com]

I'm still wondering... at what point during the interview does one mention their HIV+ status...

[notthebuddha.livejournal.com]

It wouldn't be relevant for phone support, so it's really just good for making the list of conditions one longer, whenever one happens to get to that portion of one's ranting.

[notthebuddha.livejournal.com]

Oh, I meant it was _like_ inflating your resume. I generally only pull it out when someone else plays the gimp card, like a guy who "couldn't" complete a sentence to save his life when we were disecting the exact language of the Fifth Amendment. I pointed out the obvious problem there, and suddenly he was able to indignantly yet grammatically refer to the Wikipedia article on dysgraphia, and it kind of went down hill into a gimp fight like that 2nd-to-last season of The Sopranos, where Blundetto with a bad back takes on his near-senior laundry truck boss who has the sloppiest karate technique ever.

[hisamishness.livejournal.com]

Crap - found the link 14 hours too late. :-(