Survey posted 2004-03-24 19:26 by Morgan.

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ticalc.org would definitely be my homepage if my parents didn't insist on it being nytimes.com

nytimes.com, eh? That's not as bad as leaving the home page set to whatever default MSN search page IE has. (gah!)

My mother even types in URLs into the MSN search box!

Now (a day after my above post), ticalc is my homepage. I just created a new acount for myself on my computer, so my parents won't have to bug me about all the calculator icons on the desktop. I downloaded Mozilla and set my homepage as ticalc.org

My home page is proudly fark.com.

my homepage is eskimobob.net, everybody go there, it needs some publicity

I'm quite familiar with eskimo bob...the web cartoon that is never updated :)

You should go to my website and watch my flash movies. May cause brain damage or seizures.

first of all, thomas and alan guinan, are going to college so they don't have much time to work on eskimo bob. secondly, you didn't mention what your website is.

Oh yeah, and Linux rocks!

Check his "Web Link"

That James Bond video is really weird ;-) I found all of the subliminal messages too :-D

"really weird" isn't extreme enough...more like "insanely psychotic"...wow...psychotic is totally non-phonetic...kinda like the name geoff...

whats wierd about that? It's pronounced JEE-OFF, kind of like the noise a donkey makes.

no, it's pronounced the same as the name "Jeff"...at least in the U.S.

Kind of like ghoti == fish.

Fark.com?

yes, just like my game: pig farker.

Which due to the ignorance of the file archivers got in :) Normally this site has heavily censored archives, but often times good stuff gets past them. It's no use censoring stuff anymore, since TI still refuses to link here.

I would vote yes if I actually used a home page. I have Opera set to open with no pages (since I like complete control over what it does when), and IE is set to Yahoo (per my parents forcing). But I have a nice TICalc button in Opera's Personal Bar.

yeh YAHOO.com

sbc yahoo homepage here. its customizerific! :)

customizerduplifferendistic!

I use sbcglobal.net too. Its really great. ticalc.org is my homepage and I have a sbc yahoo page thats great.

my homepage is www.google.com. But does it really matter? I mean, how long does it take to click and type "www.ticalc.org" in your browser window? I actually timed myself doing it :P and it was like 2 seconds. Plus, having Google as a home page lets me search for stuff for school assignments more easily. I considered putting Yahoo! as home page, since that's my e-mail, but I decided against it.

even more than that, if you go to ticalc.org every day like me (or at least somewhat often) you only have to type "ti" and by then there is an auto complete...that takes like 1/2 second...

Be like me.. just get the Google Deskbar so then you can search from your taskbar and set your homepage to something else.

Only prob is that google toolbar for firefox .8 is set to spanish...

Uhh ... did you _set_ it that way? Or is your entire FireFox installation Spanish?

I use FireFox, and I have an English toolbar (though I could use Spanish if I had to)

-MrM

Konrad might have meant that it goes to the Spanish version of Google. I have that problem every time I install the Google toolbar for Mozilla/Firefox; it is set to go to some international version of Google by default for who-knows-what reason. But all you have to do is go into the Preferences and change it to the U.S. version of Google.

you know, you don't even have to type: www.

Well, I always do :) I've seen cases where there is a difference between

http://name.com and
http://www.name.com.

And I think without typing the www yourself, it assumes it's just http://... I'm not sure though *shrug*

It took you two whole seconds to type www.ticalc.org? ;-)

*tries*

I can do it pretty fast, but 50% of the time, I bump the x key for some reason. So, it looks like www.tixcalc.org

I can get to ticalc in only about 1/4 second typing it into the address bar...I just type t-i-[ENTER] and there it is ;)

I should do that... but for some reason, I always type it out. Maybe it's because I've done that in other places (such as school or the library) and "http://www.ticalc.org" didn't show up and I got mad when it tried to search for "ti" (which doesn't do it). :(

word! representing the s-b-c! :)

I am confused as ti what SBC is. So, what is SBC?

-W-

It's a telephone company that provides mine and other's DSL. SBC Yahoo is where you get yahoo mail, etc. for no charge because you're signed on with SBC.

Opera CAN have a home page. I have mine set to cesdep.org, which also needs publicity. You can set opera to load with no pages, your home page, or the pages that were open when it last closed (cool, huh?). Is just me, or are we opera users the most fanatical breed in the browser buisness? Sort of like Mac users?

Dear Mac Users,
I did not mean to imply in any way that being fanatical about macs, or anything at all about macs, is bad.
[Whimper]
Thank you for sparing me.

Are you now implying that being fanatical about Macs is NOT bad?!?! How DARE YOU!!! You should JUMP OFF A BRIDGE or something! Better yet, you should stab yourself! With a dull knife! No...a RUSTY dull knife! NO! A rusty dull SPOON!! Mwahahaha!!! OK, I'm done being dumb today...or at least for the next five minutes...BTW, I am not against mac users, but nor am I for them. I am just a horribly ignorant pig that is used to the user friendly yet incredibly unstable windows platforms. q(:p)-}-<]:

hmmm...stab yourself with a rusty spoon...is that possible?

opera's OK, I guess...but I dunno about the ads

That is why you bootleg. Not as if I, or anyone I know, would do that.

-W-

I use Opera on my Gentoo iBook, only because FireFox won't emerge, for some stupid reason...

At home, my homepage is about:blank. I have the Google Toolbar (IE only, ugh...), so I don't need to have it set to that (search from anywhere AND a pop-up blocker!)

Excuse me, but that is WAY off topic. We are talking about being stabbed with rusty spoons in this thread...

So, as I was saying, TIcalc would be a great homepage, don't you think? :)

Yes, rusty spoons are pretty cool. I totally agree...

Whoa, there's a rustyspoon.com!

really?! sweet!! I'll have to check that out...I mean...yeah, you didn't know that? that's one of the coolest sites ever, second only to emotioneric.com (see link) ;)

HAHAHAH! That is hilarious... that guy has WAY too much free time on his hands. LOL

Press F11 and Opera goes into "Kiosk" mode. Then you can't see the adds. Or anything else besides the web page you are looking at.

The ads don't bother me, unless they have sound too. (I remember one from a while back that talked to you.... Pissed me off!)

The toolbar and status bar are as tall as the ad, so I don't lose screen space.

Hey you know what? How about I try it and then I get back to you on that one. Kay? :-D

Hey, nothing wrong with that :-D Windows XP hasn't crashed on me yet :):):)

You must have been running it for what... five seconds?

Macs are only good for graphics. Linux and Unix are the best, followed by Windows!

I disagree. It goes: Linux/MacOS X (they are equivalent, OK?), Unix, MacOS <=9, my Voyage 200 AMS, 83+/se TIOS, the OS I wrote in 5 minutes yesterday, my 2 minute OS, some more junk, Windows XP, Windows 95/98/Me, the contents of my toilet, Windows <=3.1, DOS. That is authoritative. And final.

Oops, I meant that the Voyage 200 AMS and the 83+/se TIOS are better than MacOS <=9. My bad. Now _that's_ final.

And add "random hex digits" after "some more junk", move "Windows XP" before "my 2 minute OS", and add "monkeys on typewriters" immediately before "random hex digits".

This, plus my other change results in: Linux/MacOS X (they are equivalent, OK?), Unix, my Voyage 200 AMS, 83+/se TIOS, MacOS <=9, the OS I wrote in 5 minutes yesterday, Windows XP, my 2 minute OS, some more junk, monkeys on typewriters, random hex digits, Windows 95/98/Me, the contents of my toilet, Windows <=3.1, DOS.

macs are a piece of shit! they don't even earn my respect! i mock all of you who think that macs are the best! you don't even deserve to be using a computer if you think that macs are the greatest!

He didn't say that it can't have a home page, he simply said that he keeps it WITHOUT a home page because he like to have complete control (A future communist maybe? lol j/k) :P

That's a carryover from when I had dial-up and didn't want it complaining when it couldn't load because I loaded it before connection was complete.

Anyway, when I click home, *checks* my web site loads up. I normally go from left to right in my Personal Bar, which would be my site, forums on school site, Detached Solutions forums, here, and calc.org.

Hmm... I wonder if you can set it at about:blank? :) That would be an intersting homepage. I bet if I did that at on the school computers, the kids would freak and think the computer was broken (some of them are so computer illiterate, it bothers me). In fact, I like that idea so much, I'm doing that! :-D

Or, if you go to about:mozilla in IE, you should get a dark blue, blank background. Weird, huh?

Well, I'm perfectly aware that this thread wasn't talking about IE. :-) But I meant to put this post somewhere more appropriate. Oh well.

Well, that's still kinda neat... I wonder why? *plays around with it*

My home page has always been Ticalc.
but, in my Opera browser, I've dragged google to the navigation toolbar, so it's always very quick accesible.
By the way, just wondering... Anyone who uses Opera, Eudora and Openoffice?

The google search box is built into the adress bar by default in Opera 7-7.5 TP3. You can also use the box to search other engines, like google.com/linux, amazon.com, or opera help. Very convenient. No need to drag anything.

I know there's a box with all kind of searches, but I never use it, accept for in page seach. I don't know exactly why but I don't find that box very handy.

In the absolute latest version of opera, you can type g [searchterm] in the adress bar, and it will perform a search. There are similar tools for other search engines, like x [searchterm] for google.com/linux. There should be one for TiCalc.org. I believe explorer can be configured to do this, but it is much harder, and requires knowlege of google's URL syntax.

I use opera and OO.Org. Eudora doesn't run on linux.

Yes, no, and yes.

My parents use Eudora on the other computer... why?

Yay OO.org! Does Star Office have any differences to OO? I heard they're the same.