@CodeWhisperer said:
Mashup = web. SSDS != web. ergo: SSDS != Mashup.Spectate comes from VB background, so you probably want to use <> instead of != for him to understand you. :)
@CodeWhisperer said:
Mashup = web. SSDS != web. ergo: SSDS != Mashup.Spectate comes from VB background, so you probably want to use <> instead of != for him to understand you. :)
@topspin said in Help Bites:
Also, the Windows version only uses about that amount in Task Manager, not 500MB.
Don't use Task Manager to gauge process' memory usage, because it's nowhere near accurate. Practically the only thing that can show you how much memory a process uses on Windows is VMMap.
How about implementing paging like this: keep traditional pages with n posts per page, but when you reach the last post on current page, automatically load the next page's posts, and remove current page's posts (except for those that are still visible on screen). Keep the pagenumber indicator somewhere, and when previous page's posts are removed, they should be removed from DOM, so that the scrollbar jumps back to the top.
Well, they could be storing salted, key-strengthened hashes of those three characters. You never know.
I hope you're being sarcastic here.
Not supported on my phone. Should I consider that a good thing?
I equally hate clicking page 2 and then clicking page 3 and then clicking page 4 and then clicking page 5 and then clicking page 6 and then clicking page 7 and so on.
I hate that far less than infinity scrolling (I also set my forums to display the maximum possible number of messages per page, so there's less pages).
I Uninstaller Hyper-V and it still runs like shit. Next time around, I just won't install Hyper-V. It is rubbish in comparison.
The Kindle is certainly technologically capable of displaying any book as a single long column of infinitely scrolling text. But it doesn't do thatThat's actually an interesting point - I do quite a bit of reading on my PC (including books), and I actually prefer the paginated style that all the programs I use do - none of them allow you to scroll by an arbitrary amount, it's always a full page (what a "page" is, depends on the program and file format - with e-books it's defined by the window size, while PDFs are limited to whatever the creator used).
BTW, before books were invented, texts were often written in what's basically an infinite-scroll media - scrolls. I wonder why they were replaced by books?
It doesn't solve any problems, but only causes (mostly minor) ones.Actually, case-insensitivity causes more problems thanks to Unicode. With ASCII it's simple, but Unicode can and does introduce new characters that may only differ in case. NTFS solves this by writing a case-folding map on the volume when it's formatted, and this means that disks formatted in different Windows versions can have different ideas about which filenames are to be treated as equal.
You got an ext3 or reiserfs driver for Windows?No, but it natively supports UDF, which works just fine on disks.
Does that have a Windows driver?IIRC, there's a read-only one in Boot Camp, but it's buggy like all Apple-provided Windows software.
I wish DP didn't carry audio signals. I've got two Dell LCDs that have built-in speakers that work through DP, and Windows randomly decides that one of them should be used as the default audio device instead of my 5.1 soundcard.
My best guess was to be back button friendly
It doesn't affect the back button.
@codinghorror said:
A little clearer why the URL changes now?...no? Unless you mean that instead of my Back button taking me back to the exact place I was in the page (the way it works on every other site on the Internet), it instead takes me an arbitrary amount above where I started (which makes even less sense).
True, there are two sides to the GUI -- the desktop and the Modern/Metro interface, but they play ok side-by-side, and even better in 8.1.Metro is practically unusable on large monitors. And the whole reason I have large monitors is to be able to comfortably fit multiple programs on screen.
It is possible they will update IE for Windows 7 beyond IE 11.They did provide .NET 4.5 (and 4.5.1) for Vista, even though .NET was taken over by the OS team in Microsoft.
My point was that it's possible to use a fullscreen menu on a desktop, with proper scaling depending on resolution and/or user preference.I really dislike full-screen Start Screen, because I often hit Windows key, type something and press Enter while looking at something else. With regular Start Menu that isn't a problem, but Start Screen covers whatever I was looking at, and that's just rude.
Inno's scripting is almost certainly more user(developer)-friendly than NSIS for this (it's Object Pascal - similar to Delphi, though more limited). You can check the examples here.
@cvi said in When one's scientific equipment is another's BadUSB:
If I connect to one specific group, the chip controlling those ports pretty much gives up until a reboot.
This sounds like you have multiple USB3 controllers on motherboard (and some 3rd party controllers are known to only vaguely implement the USB standard).
What does DRM even accomplish? Making more people resort to piracy because the official way to get the product doesn't work?
@ender made one of the fa-spin thread using a (at a guess) video capture combined with the middle click scroll thing, which he turned into GIF.
Locking my entire bank account on the basis of the transaction looks suspicious. Putting through a couple of hundred pounds to buy event tickets, that's fine. Putting through a few hundred pounds for conference tickets, no problem. Putting through nearly £2k the other day to purchase some software, absolutely fine. All sorts of oddments of payments to Steam via PayPal during the sale in a pattern that looks suspiciously random? No problems! But £25 to Royal Mail? FRAUDULENT!
I'm always surprised what triggers the anti-fraud checking on my card (though in my case, they call me instead of locking it instantly). Spend the equivalent of 170€ in a random Russian online shop? Fine. Buy 300€ of software from a random Irish webstore? Fine. Spend $90 in some US online shop? Fine. Spend the equivalent of 23€ in another Russian online shop to buy software? Also fine. Renew some program through SWREG for $19, just like every year for the past 3 years? Fraud! Buy some goods from local Bauhaus for 35€ (just like I do at least once a month)? Fraud!
No, you'd see that the green bar is about 20% of the way through the topic at 143/642, because the green bar is 20% of the length of the grey progress area.
Does Discourse cut off everything after it encounters the first quote
(lines starting with >)? That would explain why only one line of my
message came through (I'm sending this through e-mail again, this time
without any quotes).
I'm not sure how many entries I used, but at one point I got an error stating 32000 characters is the maximum post size, so I made each option small so I could have more poll options.
Look for the topic progress bar in the bottom right of each topic:
That doesn't work in high contrast mode, and I can't click on it, or drag it around to quickly move to a specific part of the topic either.
That might be due to the fact that Discourse unloads posts higher up in the stream as soons as they are far away enough from the current viewport. AFAIK, Discourse is the only software that does that.
I know, and I commented on that elsewhere.@dkf said:
I thought that was turned off for desktop users now (on the assumption that they've got the memory to handle large documents).
Learning new software is not fun?
Boot Camp is a wonderful thing.
Especially when Windows starts BSODing because of Apple's broken touchpad drivers (I could BSOD Windows running in bootcamp by hovering my hand over the touchpad).
@marczellm Go to AMD.com, click Drivers & Support, and in the Manually Select Your Driver select Desktop Graphics, Radeon X Series, Radeon X8xx Series, then choose either 32 or 64-bit Windows Vista for the OS and download the driver.
After downloading, run the installer, and let it extract the driver to C:\ATI\whatever. Afterwards, the actual driver installer will run, but it usually fails - don't worry, close it, go to Device Manager, right-click Microsoft Basic Display Adapter, choose Update driver and tell it to search in C:\ATI. You'll most likely get a question if you trust ATI to install the driver - do so, and the driver will install and work fine.
Given enough time, I think all those are more or less possible except #1.
Are you trolling?@boomzilla said:
I simply cannot relate to this. I will grant you that I changed my workflow, since I turned off email.
VMWare Workstation has not worked properly since that install and I CBA to fix it. I just want Win10 so I can leave that crap behind me...
It installed 2 GBs - almost all stuff I couldn't even dread to need - all of which were 100% required with no way to even change the installation directory from my C:/ SSD.I bought myself a 1TB SSD for New Year's. No more worrying about what goes on
@Lorne_Kates said:
One thing I want to point out here: blakeyrat and I are agreeing on UX here.
Not just you and blakey...
#What has this forum done?!#
About 10 years ago I worked in a small company that inherited some software written in FoxPro. As they knew the programs needed to be basically rewritten, they were looking around for something as a replacement, and SAP came up as one of the options. It was quickly scrapped however, because just to attend a demo, the company'd have to pay €6000 per person.
Next time send it to me and I'll upload it for you.
I downloaded the 6.8GB ISO of the new VS Community edition or whatever it's called, and tried to copy it to a USB3 drive with 20GB free. It said there wasn't enough space left on the drive. O RLY?
All OSes crash when paired with unreliable broken hardware. That's the only reason Windows NT crashes, and has been for... a solid decade now.
BTW, the most stable Windows I've seen so far is the Windows 98 VM we have at work that's running the door access control software (which doesn't run on anything NT-based, and is too costly to replace). It had around 3 years of uptime until October last year (when we had a planned extended power outage), and is now again at over a year of uptime.
@Intercourse said:
How the fuck do you want me to prove it? Windows machines become unstable after 60 days. They slow down appreciably.Huh? I've seen plenty of machines with way over 60 days of uptime, without any such symptoms (hell, I'm sometimes lazy at updating my work machine, and it gets a few update cycles behind without being powered down - that was true with XP, and then 7, and 8 and now 8.1). I distinctly remember the NT4 server that had 245 days of uptime when I started working here (then it bluescreened when I tried opening Notepad), and I've seen plenty of clients with SBS servers that were never updated or rebooted before we started working on them.
WTF. I still don't get the match that you're seeing in the OP.
You're not searching properly :)
heck I cant even see scrollbars on osx most of the time.
Some of us prefer to use non-broken OSes.
This has always been supported by SSL/TLS, but is rarely used, as either the user needs to have a smart card and smart card reader, or the user has to purchase a cert and navigate a complex, often confusing browser UI to install and use it.
whatever it's called now if not the system tray.It's still called the notification area, just like it was in Windows 95 when it was introduced. It was never called systray (that was just one of the programs that were commonly running in the background of Win95, which placed one or two icons in the notification area).
@blakeyrat said:
"Oh, it gave me a download server in Oregon, but that one time I was in Oregon that ice cream shop totally ripped me off by giving me the wrong change, so I'm going to switch to this download server in Idaho instead!!!"I used to care when the mirror they typically directed me at was giving me 20kB/s, when every other mirror would let me download with 2MB/s. Though this seems to have gotten better in the last year or so.
@anotherusername said in Google Authenticator API - like dragons, for cans:
(Exporting the code generator account to a different device is not possible, for obvious raisins.)
Depends on the app you're using - I backed up the tokens on my old phone and imported them on the new one.
DARPA is trying to make copy-and-paste coding easier:
http://news.rice.edu/2014/11/05/next-for-darpa-autocomplete-for-programmers/
Technically I am struggling to figure out how this is feasible without poisoning the user database. I guess you would need to introduce a concept of user types and have special styling with no uniqueness requirements on usernames for anon.
Look at how eg. Techdirt does it. Allows anonymous comments, lets you enter an e-mail when you comment anonymously, if you later register with that same e-mail, it links those comments with your account.
Official support of legacy apps has ended.
64-bit CPUs don't support running 16-bit apps. The CPU dropped support, not Microsoft. I know people like irrationally hating Microsoft for shit, but at least hate Microsoft for stuff they actually do. It wasn't Microsoft's decision to remove the CPU features that allow 16-bit apps to run when the CPU is running in 64-bit mode, that was AMD's decision. Bitch at AMD, and at Intel who adopted AMD's scheme.NTVDM supported running 16-bit DOS and Windows application on non-Intel CPUs without any problems through the use of x86 emulators (there's still references to SoftPC in XP's NTVDM). If Microsoft wanted, they could've easily ported that support to IA64 and x64, but they decided it's not worth the hassle.
XP Mode isn't a virtualization, it's a full 32-bit CPU emulator.It's virtualization really. Originally XP mode didn't even work without hardware virtualization support (although that was later changed).
I dunno if 8 runs XP Mode but who cares really.Windows Virtual PC is only supported on Windows 7 (and only on Pro, Enterprise and Ultimate versions). 8 has Hyper-V instead, which is an entirely different beast.
If it was true, this wouldn't happen.Blakey is still right - while you can run 16-bit code directly, or in v86 mode in 32-bit protected mode, v86 is not supported when running in long (x64) mode.
Imagine what would our culture be like if we couldn't listen to music from 30 years ago.Good luck trying to find an 8-track player.
Happens even if I disable the NVIDIA High Definition Audio controller in Device Manager (it gets reenabled after a while). Might be because I often connect to the computer with Remote Desktop, which changes the available audio devices.
It's not the OS. I know they are fine machines, it's just that every one I used... feels wrong. I can't explain it, and it's highly subjective, but something about the keyboard and the touchpad...
My main problem with Apple laptops are castrated keyboard and trackpad. I actually use those extra keys that PC keyboards have (like Home, End, PgUp, PgDn, Insert and Delete; and I use them in combination with other keys, so knowing that Fn→ is the same as End doesn't really help me).
I really dislike the trackpad, too - it's Windows driver is unstable, and "natural scroll" feels completely unnatural to me.
I never really used trackpad on those.I like the trackpad as long as it's Synaptics, and isn't some ultra-cheap version like on certain HPs, where you can't make two-finger dragging to work (I have no idea how HP managed to fail like that - two-finger right-click and drag work on my 7 years old Acer with recent enough drivers installed and some Registry editing, but on certain even high-end HP laptops from 2-5 years ago it's impossible to enable that).