Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

I like political parties that aren’t owned by foreign adversaries.

It may be funny to you motherfucker, but it’s not funny to me.

That meeting sounds like a shotgun wedding between a shitshow and a clusterfuck.

My right to basic bodily autonomy is not on the table. that’s the new deal.

Proof that we need a blogger ethics panel.

You are either for trump or for democracy. Pick one.

How stupid are these people?

If senate republicans had any shame, they’d die of it.

The words do not have to be perfect.

One of our two political parties is a cult whose leader admires Vladimir Putin.

People identifying as christian while ignoring christ and his teachings is a strange thing indeed.

Beware of advice from anyone for whom Democrats are “they” and not “we.”

Cancel the cowardly Times and Post and set up an equivalent monthly donation to ProPublica.

Narcissists are always shocked to discover other people have agency.

If you don’t believe freedom is for everybody, then the thing you love isn’t freedom, it is privilege.

Is it negotiation when the other party actually wants to shoot the hostage?

If you thought you’d already seen people saying the stupidest things possible on the internet, prepare yourselves.

Come on, media. you have one job. start doing it.

There is no right way to do the wrong thing.

It’s possible to be a liberal firebrand without crapping on the party.

I desperately hope that, yet again, i am wrong.

“Loving your country does not mean lying about its history.”

This isn’t Democrats spending madly. This is government catching up.

President Musk and Trump are both poorly raised, coddled 8 year old boys.

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  2. 2.

    WaterGirl

    You could try right clicking on a .doc file and choosing “open as”. And then there’s something you can click to say something like ‘open all files like this with this program.”

  4. 4.

    trollhattan

    one way is in Win Explorer, [edit] right click on a .doc file, open properties and under the general tab, click change and reset the associated program to Word.

    Should be that easy.

  5. 5.

    Unabogie

    Right click a doc file…open with…find the right program to use, make sure “always open with” is checked…switch to Ubuntu.

  6. 6.

    Jay in Oregon

    Right-click and select “Open With > Choose default program…” in Windows 7.

  7. 7.

    EIGRP

    Right-click on a word doc, go to Open With and then Select Default Program. That’s for Windows7

    Eric

  9. 9.

    upyernoz

    right click on the file, hit “properties”, select the “change” button to the right of where it says what program is used to open the document and choose the program you want to open .doc files (presumably MS Word?), then check the “always use this program to open this kind of file” box at the bottom, then hit “ok”

  10. 10.

    NonyNony

    Start Menu -> Help

    Enter “associate file extensions with program”

    It’ll give you a list of instructions on how to do that, depending on your version of Windows.

    I can confirm that the Windows 7 method outlined above also works with Vista. I think it works with XP too.

  11. 11.

    Roger Moore

    Convert all files to ODF, open with Libre Office, never pay Office tax again. Or just do the right click trick everyone else has mentioned.

  12. 12.

    scav

    Well, if Google is personally picking on certain people, I don’t see why Bill can’t call down the tubz and harass others. I’ve been suspecting he was my very own typo-inserting daemon for some time now.

  14. 14.

    JGabriel

    Light incense under your monitor and pray to the computer spirits to fix it.

    (I knew a guy who did Mac support at a firm specializing in advertising translations, who found 3 of his users doing this once. It didn’t work then, but, hey, you never know.)

    .

  19. 19.

    Walker

    @JGabriel:

    I know a guy who did tech support for the LearningCompany who would leave food out for the “computer fairies” when his machine was acting up. He was actually very good at tech support, believe it or not.

  22. 22.

    MikeJ

    @Walker: One of my first computery jobs was IT support. I had a chicken’s foot I’d bought in New Orleans that I would wave back and forth as the computer rebooted.

  23. 23.

    Roger Moore

    @Maude:
    AbiWord and .rtf are more of a replacement for the kinds of things you do with WordPad than for Word. It’s possible that John really only needs WordPad- lots of people are using software that’s massive overkill for what they’re doing- but AbiWord is no substitute if he’s doing anything beyond writing letters to the editor.

  25. 25.

    SFAW

    Reformatting your hard drive might also work.

    Try it, let me know how it turns out.

  30. 30.

    Maude

    @Roger Moore:
    I agree about Abiword. I do quick notes on it. I use MSWord for serious stuff and would use LO as well.
    I use .rtf because I can open it and it’s fairly standard.
    Abiword has headers and footers now. When I first used it, it would crash, but I didn’t lose the document. I just like it because the developers keep working on it.

  32. 32.

    stuckinred

    My neighbor comes over and I semi-hysterical because a possum was hit by a car around the corner and it’s it very bad shape but alive and struggling. Goddamn it.

  34. 34.

    MikeJ

    @eldorado: You using unity? I haven’t tried it yet, just doing kde.

    I did have to build two lamp servers yesterday but I didn’t even bother with X on those.

  40. 40.

    WyldPirate

    @stuckinred:

    My neighbor comes over and I semi-hysterical because a possum was hit by a car around the corner and it’s it very bad shape but alive and struggling. Goddamn it.

    So what are you now, a goddamned possum-killing sumbitch?

  42. 42.

    Jamey

    @ant: Guh? I use a Mac and often have to change file associations, e.g., when I stupidly enter “.htm” when I mean to enter, “.doc.” The fix is the same for both platforms: highlight file name, change suffix. Lather, rinse, repeat… about a million times.

  45. 45.

    Martin

    @goblue72: Or if you just can’t bring yourself to do that, just call animal control and they’ll do it. If no animal control, call the police.

  46. 46.

    bago

    Windows Explorer can be extended to support non-default functionality by means of Windows Shell Extensions, which are COM objects that plug-in the extended functionality into Windows Explorer.[18] Shell extensions can be in the form of shell extension handlers, toolbars or even namespace extensions that allow certain folders (or even non-filesystem objects such as the images scanned by a scanner) to be presented as a Special Folder. Windows Explorer up to Windows XP also allows metadata for files to be added as NTFS Alternate Data Streams, separate from the data stream for the file.

    This means that the namespace occupied by .doc which was originally registered to be consumed by word.exe has been supplanted in the registry to be used by some adobe application.

  47. 47.

    Roger Moore

    @Maude:
    I use AbiWord for simple stuff because it was the wordprocessor component of Gnome Office, back when the idea of Gnome Office wasn’t a complete joke, and I’ve never given up the habit. It’s also a lot lighter weight and faster to load than LO (or OO.o, since my distribution hasn’t updated to LO yet) so it’s a lot more convenient to use if I don’t need all the features. Similarly, I use Gnumeric for spreadsheet stuff. It has some of the speed advantage and is much closer to Excel in function than AbiWord is to Word.

    I find I can’t use AbiWord for much, though. A lot of my wordprocessing stuff is collaborative, so change tracking and full Word import/export functionality is vital. It’s too bad you have to accept the whole heavy package for one feature, but that’s the way these things go.

  50. 50.

    Davebo

    Shut down and then unplug your computer. Cancel your internet service and stick to refurbishing old Willys Jeeps.

  51. 51.

    Doug Harlan J

    98% of Microsoft employees gave to democrats. Could be that’s what’s going on here.

  53. 53.

    TomG

    I’m glad to see I am not the only LibreOffice user around here.
    I tried Unity last week and changed back to “Classic” (GNOME 2.32) in less than 2 days. Linux Mint 11 will be going on this laptop as soon as it leaves RC. They won’t switch until the fall and by then GNOME 3 should have some features restored. Plus I always preferred KDE anyways…

  55. 55.

    Susan Kitchens

    In case you need to solve this for Mac OS:

    In finder, select document icon.
    File > Get Info (or command-I)

    Locate Open With ~ halfway down the Get Info pane.
    Select, from pop-up menu, Microsoft Word (or any of the Open Office Apps, if you have em)

    Click the Change All button to change all filename.docs to be the same

    Close the Get Info Window

  56. 56.

    debbie

    Susan, if he’s got Word files (also doc.), Change All will mess them up. Changing them one by one or in batches would be better.

  57. 57.

    2liberal

    take it from a former Windows IT support professional.

    1. FDISK
    2. FORMAT
    3. REINSTALL
    4. GO TO STEP ONE

  58. 58.

    Bill

    Back in the day, we had a pet rock we kept near the computer giving us the biggest problem. If that didn’t work, we moved a large sledge hammer next to it too.

    One day, the supervisor threw the pet rock away. He decided to get a new job when he noticed we were keeping the sledge hammer near him.

  59. 59.

    low-tech cyclist

    Click your heels together three times, and sing “I believe you can get me through the night.”

    (I’m amazed that it took 17 comments before anyone mentioned the song. Usually you guys are much faster than that around here. So what the hell, I’ll pile on.)

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