Windows 8 Mouse
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That's what your soldering iron is for.
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Oh Oh Oh.... Flame war on TOPS vs. RSX vs. VMS..... Lets Go!!!
[Seriously anyone have a copy of the TSS/8 media - it is believed to be lost to humanity, though I do have 2 machines running OS/8]
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There's always the option to remove its power source at the mains.
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Or nuke it from orbit if you really want to be sure.
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I should always, especially regarding network connections, have the option to tell the connecting device 'Fuck you, you die now'
+1
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Or nuke it from orbit if you really want to be sure.
Well, it's the only way to be sure, so yeah.
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Physically breaking a circuit glitches much less.
That depends. Is the switch debounced? Are you pushing serious current through it and having to deal with arcing?
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@Intercourse said:
Windows seems to default to wireless connection and only uses a wired connection when there is no wireless available.
You can increase the priority of the wired gateway's network, you know. It's how those of us with fancy new-fangled-at-the-time 3G phones with the usb modem protocol convinced the computer to bypass the office lan and websense.
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I don't really care, so long as you don't pull some sort of moving-the-posts-to-a-new-thread bullshit.
We should just take these goalposts and move them over here!
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You can increase the priority of the wired gateway's network, you know.
Yes, I know. I also know that it seems to do precisely fuck-all. It is a placebo setting.
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@Intercourse said:
Yes, I know. I also know that it seems to do precisely fuck-all. It is a placebo setting.
I did get it to work in the past, but it was a long time ago and I don't remember how.
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I did say much less, not never.
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We should just take these goalposts and move them over here!
We have badgers for that.
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That depends. Is the switch debounced? Are you pushing serious current through it and having to deal with arcing?
What kind of Wi-Fi are you running where you're concerned about the switch arcing? Hope the FCC doesn't know about it.
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What kind of Wi-Fi are you running where you're concerned about the switch arcing? Hope the FCC doesn't know about it.
Zombie Nikola Tesla does not need to seek your “FCC” approval! He commands the lightning!
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Nikolai Tesla
Nikola Tesla. It's not an ambiguous transliteration, either. Никола Тесла — nothing equivalent to "ai."
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Niiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiikola!!!!!!!!!
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Duly corrected. Was doing something else at the same time and wasn't paying proper attention.
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I'm just going to quickly say, I agree with @blakeyrat regarding it being possible for the Ethernet to be preferred over WiFi (my very own work laptop does this). However, I disagree about a hardware switch to disable the WiFi being useless - given that it disconnects the radio portion completely, it's very well suited for when you're about to get on a flight.
That's my AUD0.022 on that matter. Now, skipping over all the in-fighting, and going back to the original topic...
Quite often, laptop OEMs provide their own drivers for the touchpads that function much worse than the driver from whoever actually supplied the touchpad to them (eg. Synaptics). I'd suggest finding out who the touchpad supplier is for that model, uninstall Toshiba's touchpad drivers and install the supplier's drivers (you may very well even be able to just go to Device Manager, uninstall the drivers, then attempt to install drivers having Device Manager search Windows Update)
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But since the new rules coming in (at least in the UK) which require you to demonstrate your device is powered and able to be turned on, turning off radio with a software switch is hardly a major deal at that point...
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I'm not sure why WiFi being on or off would matter going through security.
I'm (and I think Spencer is) talking about getting on the plane. Either you've been sitting at the gate surfing on the airport's free WiFi hotspot while you wait for your flight to board, or you're running for the gate because your flight's boarded and they're about to close the door. Either way, maybe you didn't disable the radio before you shut it down.
Now you're on the plane, and you've just reached the altitude where you're allowed to use your laptop. The hardware switch is useful for making sure the radio doesn't come on during the interval between switching the device on and getting to the point where you can disable it in software.
I don't see any reason (therefore, there cannot possibly be one) for not having the switch. I've never used or seen a device where the switch was prone to getting switched accidentally (therefore, no such device could possibly exist). Sarcasm aside, a device where this can happen in normal use presents a defect in the implementation of the switch, not the concept.
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It wouldn't, but if you're already powering it up to show that it works, turning wifi off is surely no big deal at that point?
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It wouldn't, except that (assuming I'm not in the run for the plane before they slam the door situation) I'm going to be using it while I wait for my flight to board. Yes, I normally disable it before boarding, but I usually use the hardware switch because it's easier that figuring out which function key does it on this device, and it also works even if I happen to forget to disable it when I shut down; I just check that it's off before I power up.
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The button to disable wifi in that case takes 5 seconds to do so.
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a device where this can happen in normal use presents a defect in the implementation of the switch, not the concept.
Like this one? Switch is front of laptop, towards lower left corner. Easy to tap accidentally and mess up. I hated the 4510s model for more reasons than that, though (crappy keyboard, high touchpad failure rate, crappy case, a number of bad batteries...)
6550b - 6570b and 600/650 G1s all have the switch inside the lid, upper right - accidental switching is not going to happen there. Those were/are all nice units, except the G1s have video limitations (1920x1080 or 1024x768 - nothing in between, a WTF in itself which I believe I've mentioned elsewhere.)
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The requirement to prove your device powers on is also very recent; the hardware WiFi switch has pretty much been around since they started packing WiFi into laptops.
I'm not so fussed about WiFi being turned off before I board. Sure, I usually do, but if I forget and then power up my tablet mid-flight, it's not going to adversely affect the plane, let alone make it drop out of the sky.
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Now you're on the plane, and you've just reached the altitude where you're allowed to use your laptop. The hardware switch is useful for making sure the radio doesn't come on during the interval between switching the device on and getting to the point where you can disable it in software.
It's not actually a big deal when you're at cruising altitude. Only during takeoff and landing do they really want things shut off now, and that's at least in part so that you'll pay attention if they've got to evacuate. (They used to be worried about the radio transmissions from all the devices, but they've measured and found that it really doesn't matter provided they put a picocell in the plane. And then they can charge extra for traffic via the picocell…)
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They used to be worried about the radio transmissions from all the devices, but they've measured and found that it really doesn't matter provided they put a picocell in the plane.
And some planes provide wifi these days.
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Much as I'd like to surf in flight,
And then they can charge extra for traffic via the picocell…
This. Well, that and the fact that Southwest and Alaska don't do this:And some planes provide wifi these days.
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Much as I'd like to surf in flight,
I don't bother when doing a short hop; I don't mind being offline for an hour or two. Longer routes than that for me tend to be transatlantic ones, and nobody gives good internet connectivity over the Greenland ice-cap…
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Though I've been on flights with WiFi on board, it's never been for internet access, but rather their entertainment system (via a Silverlight web application).
Yes, I did consider the possibility to copy movies off of it to an external drive. Unfortunately, each movie was separated into several files (it's been a while, but iirc each file covered about 30 seconds, and the video may have been split from the audio), and the Silverlight player was responsible for stitching them together.
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The short flights up and down the West Coast, it's rare to non-existent, at least on the usual low-fare airlines. I can only recall being on one flight that had it. I think you could access the airline's site for free; anything else, you had to pay extra.
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Though I've been on flights with WiFi on board, it's never been for internet access, but rather their entertainment system (via a Silverlight web application).
I've never bothered. I tend to bring a book and read the whole trip.
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reading FTW.
Fiction to keep me interested. biochem textbook if i regret eating the onflight "meal", Law book if i want to sleep (my record for staying awake in one of those is page 5, of the intro)
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I've never bothered. I tend to bring a book and read the whole trip.
I usually pick up a newspaper with a tough cryptic crossword in it. Two or three for transatlantic.
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Group Policy itself is partly broken
It's worked much better for me since I stuck GPUPDATE /FORCE in all my logon scripts.
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And some planes provide wifi these days.
Maybe I am out of the loop, but all the commercial flights I have been on have had WiFi. Which airlines don't provide it?
It's not actually a big deal when you're at cruising altitude.
It is never a big deal. I fly private all the time and they always say, "Here's the part where I tell you to turn off all electronic devices but I could care less because all it is going to do is drain your battery on your phone."
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@Intercourse said:
Maybe I am out of the loop, but all the commercial flights I have been on have had WiFi. Which airlines don't provide it?
At least these: http://what.thedailywtf.com/t/windows-8-mouse/2229/132
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They do, check their websites. Maybe not on their small collector aircraft? I know their primary carrier craft do for certain. Anything 737 or larger?
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@Intercourse said:
Maybe I am out of the loop, but all the commercial flights I have been on have had WiFi. Which airlines don't provide it?
It depends where you're flying. They don't when you're over the sea (e.g., on a transatlantic route). Within Europe, I mostly seem to end up on smaller planes…
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@Intercourse said:
Maybe I am out of the loop, but all the commercial flights I have been on have had WiFi. Which airlines don't provide it?
Lots. Especially ones with older aircraft that they haven't bothered to upgrade. This looks a couple of years old, but highlights the spottiness of wifi coverage:
http://www.airportwifiguide.com/airlines-in-flight-wifi-access-fees-table/
To pick a large example:
United claims they'll have complete coverage of their fleet in 2015.
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I'd be shocked of all, or even many, of American's shitty Super-80s have wifi. Last time I had to ride on one of those fuckers, I was like, "holy shit guys, do you got a Ford Tri-Motor I could take instead?"
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"holy shit guys, do you got a Ford Tri-Motor I could take instead?"
No, but you can still find airlines running de Havilland[1] Dash 8s.
[1] You could be a pedantic dickweed and insist it's a Bombardier, but then you'd be disagreeing with Orbitz.
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Duuuuuur, what are humor? Are joke what type-post is? Better reply seriously because me no know if joke what type-post is!!!
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Someone call 911! Blakey's having a stroke!
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Lots. Especially ones with older aircraft that they haven't bothered to upgrade. This looks a couple of years old, but highlights the spottiness of wifi coverage:
It appears to be 4 years old based upon the age of the oldest comments. I don't think I have been on a flight in the last 2 years that did not have wifi. I stay off smaller planes if at all possible though. I also do not fly United or Delta if I have a choice. Fuck those guys. There are only so many times that I will be shacked up in some shitty motel by an airport in some city that I had no plans on stopping in and brushing my teeth with the cheapest toothbrush ever to be produced while I lose a day or so on my vacation or work schedule. How is it possible for you to get my bags to my destination, but not me? They also had the habit of putting me through awkward connections without enough time to make it from gate to gate without a dead sprint in dress shoes.
Seriously, fuck those guys.
No, but you can still find airlines running de Havilland[1] Dash 8s.
What's wrong with the Dash-8?
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@Intercourse said:
What's wrong with the Dash-8?
Got me. I was trying to make a funny ("look, someone's still flying turboprops") but I guess it didn't work, judging from the reaction of noted funny guy Blakeyrat.