Posts by K.o.R

Re: I was amazed…

The Wiki article for that has a delightful picture.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a7/Wollmilchsau.png

Re: EOL characters

> managed with Unix newlines

That reminded me of the most likely scenario of me using WordPad: "This file is too big for Notepad to open. Would you like to try opening it in WordPad instead?"

Re: Typing in the start menu

For me it was going to a Windows 7 machine and the Windows key+X menu not being there.

Re: That cat again...

"Enough room to swing a cat in, as long as it was a reasonably patient cat and didn't mind several nasty whacks about the head."

Re: Screen bloat...

Weird, on my system that only measures ~190px.

I believe you can get a command prompt up at the start of a clean install, then either launch REGEDIT (if it's available) or use REG ADD to make the necessary change.

I have a standard template e-mail for whenever FedEx charge a handling fee on my incoming package. Works every time.

Re: That D&D woman...

Aegisub is the free tool of choice for generating any kind of on-screen text you can imagine.

Re: Don't pay the ransom.

Got held up at the borderline.

I've cut away the fan grilles on a couple of cases to improve airflow.

I've also bodged together various things mounted on PCI slot covers.

My best work has got to be the combination of 4 hard drives, a metal ruler, some motherboard standoffs, a PCI slot blower fan and some LEGO to mount said drives in a 1U case to make a sort-of massive external HDD.

Re: Codenamed Fugu?

"Poison... poison... tasty fish!"

Re: weighs 45 pounds

Yeah, I know, but that's the quantity he specified.

I hate trying to figure out which randomly-named site's scripts is necessary for the site to function correctly. And then enabling one reveals a dozen more, of which one is necessary.

Re: Blocking Auto-Play

I've noticed that too, although the "don't play until tab is clicked" has been around a while. Now I have to start the video manually as well.

Re: latency down to a blazing 3ms

Reminds me of the 500-mile email.

Re: Leads to more lack of understanding

Displaying extensions (and hidden files) is on the View tab of Explorer's ribbon as well.

Re: What's this Silverlight thing?

@Norman: Ah, yes I had seen that, but I ran into a different issue because WSUS doesn't seem to like letting me add features in that way (see also: JP IME dictionaries and such). I'll give it another go though, as I may have solved that but forgotten that it was applicable to this issue too.

(Unless they've updated it, I still need to go through a PDF printer to make XPS into PDF though. Oy.)

(My comment was referring to how Silverlight is to Flash as XPS is to PDF, not why LO can't open them; I hadn't even considered trying that)

@phuzz Re: Dear Mozilla, there's more to life than security

Because of course they are. It's not like MSI GP deployment is easy and just works, is it?

Office is the real PITA for deployment. Maybe MDT can do something useful for it.

Re: 8000 Devices?

You don't mean...?

Yes. Seven million, two hundred and eighty-eight thousand.

Re: Ask the Canadians...

You're kidding, right? Canada has a warship?

Like... for war?

...

Does Canada know?

Re: weighs 45 pounds

Probably referring to the next one.

Re: weighs 45 pounds

I actually quite enjoyed the new Thunderbirds, but I have to say the half-hour timeslot really hurt it. Everything was a bit to frantic to get the story completed.

I loved the way they made the ships believeable with little details like manouevring jets, warning labels, etc.

Re: "The real problem is that they need to identify things they can do well"

Curves and Colours, 80 lines, minimum spread, multicolour (Windows 98 version) was my favourite. The XP version had a rubbish selection of colours.

I'm sure these still exist on the net somewhere, but the whole screen saver concept isn't really a thing any more.

@ecofeco

That's interesting, the biggest problem I have with all the sync apps is that you have to move everything into their one special folder rather than being able to grab any folder.

Re: True Command Lines

Use set prompt=%username%@%computername%:$P$S$$$S then.

Re: Sea of Japan takes another hit

Decline to be called the "East Sea"?