August 02, 2006

• D'oh! KNOW! I KNOW absolutely nothing about it...
• Thanks, Tracicle! (It was you who fixed my typo, wasn't it?)
• One day I'll invent a typo-bot that will read minds and know what the poster meant. It will also prevent major wars because comments will never be misinterpreted, assuming the intentions are good. I can't say I've even heard of Maxthon, by the way. I'm a dedicated Firefox/Camino/Safari user on a Mac, but I've used Netscape browsers since I first used the Internets. Safari is simple and loads quickly, but maybe too straightforward if you rely heavily on extensions. Maxthon claims to be based on IE, and that would put me right off, personally.
• One day I'll invent a typo-bot that will read minds I don know, reading the mind of the average monkey would probably be enough to make any machine run in fear. By the way, if you don't mind me asking, where do you live Tracicle that you're up so late? I'm up late due to the no job, no reason to get up early thing. Or is it early where you are?
• I used to use Crazy Browser, which is in the same vein as Maxthon - a fancy shell around IE. But once I switched to Mozilla I never went back. I don't see why you would want to put up with the crappiness that is IE - insecurity, slow rendering, poor web standards support, etc. This doesn't change any of that, it just bolts on a prettier interface to it.
• if you don't mind me asking, where do you live Tracicle that you're up so late Berek, he lives in the whispering sigh of a cool breeze, in smile of a new-born child and - most importantly - inside all of our hearts. Yeah, he's a great guy that tracicle dude - although sometimes I just wish he'd stop playing that goddam kletzmer music all night in my left ventricle.
• Well, you know the site is based around UTC, which is short for Universal Time Clock. That should help you figure out where he lives.
• Other known Tracicle facts: He wears only wooden shoes. He eats his toast with the butter on the bottom. He longs for a time when all men will know the joys of preventative dentistry. He is left handed, but does not brag about it. He lives in a house with no doors.
• tracicle removed a thorn from werner herzog's paw, thereby earning his eternal gratitude and respect.
• This one time while playing Jedi in the snow, tracicle cut off the Wampus' paw with a lightsaber. The Wampus was pissed!
• Tracicle.
• Tracicle produces only one sperm per lunar cycle. This is because it they are the size of a shetland pony and have been known to abduct small children. Also, he enjoys the fiction of W. Somerset Maugham.
• it Tracicle never previews anything, because him are then they perfect was comments.
• I love this place! And I worship the glorious Tracicle, he who causes the breezes to blow and the wolves to howl. Or vice versa.
• Some say he is baffled by bicycles. Others, that when you step on his toes, it sounds like a piano. All we know is that Tracicle is The Stig.
• Tracicle is truly great - he is clothed with honor and majesty. He shrouds himself in light, a garment of unadulterated radiance, composed of ethically sourced textiles. Into the clouds he steps - they form themselves into his chariot, which produces the least possible sulfur dioxide emissions. He recruits the winds as messengers, in accordance with the most perfect Human Resources procedures. His servants are flames of fire, yet his power over them is like a sturdy potassium bicarbonate (dry powder) extinguisher, clearly marked and tested regularly by a competent authority.
• Maxthon isn't just based on IE, it is IE. It is just a fancy skin on steroids. If you absolutely positively have to use IE, it makes using IE bearable. However, it has all of the security flaws of IE. It is my number three browser after firefox and opera.
• I've never tried Maxthon, I'm a firefox user like you Berek. As for other browsers I use, I like Opera because its so dang fast, though it seems more prone to pop-ups than IE is. There's also Heatseek, a new browser designed just for porn surfing. It needs alot of work (no tabs), but it's still pretty dang good.
• Maxathon does have a devoted crowd of fans. I haven't tried it, but I frankly find it hard to imagine any feature it could have that would make the IE-related security risk seem like a worthwhile tradeoff. I liked Mozilla until the Mozilla Foundations stopped active development. Now I use Opera, and Firefox for sites where Opera doesn't work (which are pretty few and far between now).
• Tracicle justifies his censorship however he pleases. And it pleases us. He never says never, but often thinks it. He has completed many of the popular 12-step programs in just three or four steps. His user name and password are one and the same. No, I mean literally. One/thesame. Tracicle has a pet rabbit named Mr. Sprinkles.
• many consider tracicle to be a trickster god, neither wholly benign nor wholly mischievous, but representing in archetypal form our younger fun-loving selves. it is often said that one of the greatest tricks tracicle ever pulled was convincing monkeykind that he didn't exist.
• Tracicle is often the cause of derails. And she is to be referred to as She Who Is The Derailer and Destroyer.
• Tweeeeets ref whistle, points accusingly at GramMa for incorrectly using third person singular pronoun*
• Tracicle denies the existence of irrational numbers. He once bitchslapped Gandhi for being a total dick.
• WHile the official Mozilla internet suite client is no longer developed (in favor of Firefox) fans of it have kept it alive as SeaMonkey. It looks exactly the same and have email and newsreader and browser, but it says seamonkey, not mozilla.
• It is written that the third tracicle shall bring naught but poptarts in one iron paw, and flaming cockpunch in yet another iron paw. And Lo, the followers were then called the Poptards, and they did muck about with screamings, and the flinging of poo, and there was a medium-sized benevolent cashier named "Sara" who did bring them all waters and a large Diet Coke for the quidnunc. And then they rested.
• Tracicle is able to breathe all inert gases without ill affect. He once lived next door to Boutros Boutros-Ghali. His ringtone is the entire fourth movement of Beethoven's Ninth Sypmhony.
• And he is able to correctly spell all known words except those that deal with classical music.
• In a sense, we're all tracicle. Some of us the septum, some the top of the ear, others the ankle bone or of course there are those who are a naughty bit. I myself am a synapse, but I don't get used very muuhaAAA!! . . whoo . . um, . . I'm sorry, one second . . . ahhh, don't . . um, don't get used very much. It's mostly spatial diagnostics and pattern recognition in this area.
• tracicle is a total cross dresser, too. Not that there's anything wrong with that. I'm just sayin'.
• In a sense, we're all tracicle. Like Monkey Voltron? Sweet.
• I was tracicle once, but then I took some penecillin and it cleared right up.
• My motherfucker tracicle is so cool that when he goes to sleep, sheep count him.
• I am tracicle's raging bile duct.
• I'm tracicle and you're glue--whatever you say bounces off of me and sticks to you!
• Way out here they have a name for wind and rain and fire. The rain is Tess , the fire's Joe, and they call the wind Tracicle. Tracicle blows the stars around, sets the clouds a'flyin'. Tracicle makes the mountain sound like folks was up there dyin'. Tracicle, (Tracicle), Tracicle (Tracicle), they call the wind Tracicle.
• Do I get some kind of award for derailing my own thread?
• Yeah, as others have said, Maxthon is one of a few alternate shells around IE--it used to be called MyIE2 actually. In a similar vein, there's also Avant and a few others. Since they uses IE's rendering engine (Trident) they should work flawlessly on sites with broken code that don't work on alternate browsers. I haven't tried any of them in a long time, so I'm not sure how their other features compare. I prefer Opera, which uses its own rendering engine, and keep Firefox around as a backup (it uses Gecko, which is used by SeaMonkey, OSX's Camino, Epiphany on *nix and a few other more obscure ones). For Windows, there's even a Firefox/Mozilla extension called IE Tab that lets you render a page using IE's engine inside Firefox (making it act like a wrapper similar to the way Maxthon works). The other major rendering engine still used is KHTML (used by Konqueror on *nix systems) which Apple adapted to make WebCore (used by Safari).
• If you're playing Yahtzee with Tracicle he will look at you over his glasses and say in a booming voice "It's your fucking turn"
• I'm confused. Isn't Triacle a girl??
• Treacle moves slowly to delete your gif sweetly fixes links without a sniff.
• 'Tis nought but a mere Trifle for him a poster to stifle.
• Like, I also heard that Tracicle dude wears shoes made out of peanut shells, and drives a car that runs on the discarded hopes and dreams of those he crushes.
• Tracicle severed his left arm so that we could have meat for supper. And his cat has ears on its ass.
• I'm confused. Isn't Triacle a girl?? No, you're thinking of Triangle. We're talking about Tricycle, the guy in charge of this website. He's a three-wheelin' soldier of fortune, who rides the highways of this great land dealin' out two-fisted justice to any goddam terrorist-lovin' punks who think "freedom" is just another word for "nothin' left to lose". And if that's good enough for me and Bobby McGee, it should be good enough for you, too.
• Tricycle? Yeah, he's from the Kentucky coalmines, and he has the secrets of my soul. He's so dreamy.
• In the 80's there was that movie that starred Tracicle, Tricycle AND Triangle and they all had lots of steamy hot sex. I think it was called Lust Triangle. There was also a great car chase.
• No no, you're thinking of the Steve McQueen movie, Tracitt. We're talking about the guy who just wants to go where everybody know's his naaaaaame ♫♪ bum bum bah ♫. .
• Yeah, the porn flick was called "Triangled up in Blue".
• So, anyway, His Studliness Tricycle is the admin on this site and has been since its inception. Confusing matters, and almost resulting in the site's first bannination, was when a noob came along and created a user name "tracicle". Well, you can imagine the consternation. Trolling is bad, but fooling people into thinking you are the admin? Well, that's just inexcusible. Thankfully Tricycle has a big heart and a keen sense of humor, and he allowed tracicle to stay. A good thing as it turns out, as tracicle has proven to be one of our best, if somewhat irrepressible members. And it sure is a hoot when Trac trots out the old "I'M the Admin!" thing!!! We all laugh at that, boy do we ever. Sometimes it even gets to asking a person to take a "time out" !!!!! Can you believe it???!!! So funny!
• I failed to mention upthread that tracicle also was the inventor of the DOS command "tracert". While prior DOS command authors had invented commands that displayed less significant paths, such as how a bill becomes a law, or how infant head injuries result in neocons, the TRACErt command showed users the routing of the path between their computer ("client") and the and server site ("Hot Asian Chix"). While commonly thought to be an abbreviation for "route" , the "rt" in "tracert" actually stands for "Let's Ban Berek".