Posts by Hellcat

Re: Can anyone please tell me

Hold down instead of tapping for the RT. Can't speak for other devices.

Re: i for one, welcome... (actually I don't but that's by the by)

I live in safe seat - my national vote will make no difference at all. It's a bit of a relief really: as a pro-military liberal; a pro-nuclear green; an anti-pansurveillance patriot and a fervent believer in both market capitalism and a state health service, I have no idea who I could vote for anyway.

Where do I sign up? A monkey with the correct colour rosette would win here.

Wait did I say would?

Re: not so fast!

You bet I'm confused...

The fourth-generation iPad (originally marketed as iPad with Retina display, retrospectively marketed as the iPad 4)

But so is Apple so that's ok.

Re: Comment

Having a spare battery is a great idea, especially if she's likely to be driving to/from Scotland during winter - you never know when you might get stuck due to snow for many hours.

However, I also suggest buying a fast charge cable, and a 2.1A in car charger to ensure you can charge the battery faster than it drains. Something like this is perfect. This ensures your phone negotiates, or to be precise it prevents your phone from trying to negotiate, the charging rate, forcing full power and prevents it from defaulting to safe 500mA.

http://www.amazon.com/PortaPow-Micro-USB-Cable-Charging/dp/B0088HTYUE

I had this issue driving over to Germany this year... battery lasted as far as Kent. Knocked it into battery saver and even with the GPS and SatNav running I didn't run out of battery again. Would like to be able to run all the normal apps I have open with push nnotifications next time so will be investing in something like the above.

Re: Nope,not interested

I don't think they were trying to sell you one, just a review. But thanks for letting us know you don't want to buy one.

I also don't think they were selling it as perfect for those who care about their data security and privacy. They're selling it as a cloud OS convertable with all the dependancies that requires. If you want a secure linux laptop then starting with a barebones regular laptop, or a windows one and scrub it would be better - unless you really, really want very little storage and a slow processor.

That won't guarantee anything.

You must return your PC equipment to the place of purchase, sell all your wordly goods, give away the money to charity and move to a uninhabited island in a remote location. Scotland for example.

Re: Oh dear

Downloading content from another machine is quite different to a hack which relies on already having admin rights over the target.

You can't roll that comment out on EVERY article that has the words Windows and Updates in it you know!

Re: "a 22-year-old billionaire who hangs out with Mark Zuckerberg"

Came here for this comment.

Was not disapointed.

Re: I like the new menu. Very easy to get as you wish.

I like your 7 downvotes for managing to install Win 10 and then having your own opinon that you like it.

Perhaps the Open source community are not so open to opinions that do not match their own?

My guage of computer usability - my parents - has shown that they have managed the transition from 7 to 10 better than they did from XP to 7. Their intensive training included "here is how to switch users" and being on hand while they setup onedrive. Since they have no other backup it seems better than nothing.

Re: Great idea!

Perhaps he means anti-symantec?

That's a force we could all get behind.

MY software

Unless you're a majority shareholder in Microsoft, I'm guessing what you actually have is a licence to use their software.

I've no issues with how they've bundled things. Life would be traumatic if every single feature or function of the OS was treat like the browser.

Open calculator. You have a choice of calculators, please choose from the list or search...

Open notepad. You have a choice......

Providing there isn't anything actually blocking me using a different product if I want to (looking at you Apple...) I've no issues them providing their own. If I don't like it, I'll install something else and use that instead.

Re: 50 days in a year?

"in 100 criminal cases taken to court"

Perhaps there is an average 7.3 persons per case taken to court? That's literally the only way I can get the headline number.

Re: "If there's a shiny new Jeep Cherokee sitting in your driveway..."

... It's probably driven away by itself.

Re: How about....

You wouldn't steal sail a car...

Re: FUGLY

Please list the other cars that will comfortably seat 6 adults, or 3 up front with enough space in the boot to fit 3 mountain bikes stood upright - minus the front wheels.

If you have a need for a 'van' but don't want the insurance cost, or to suffer the purchase cost of a T4 transporter, the wide track Multipla is a hoot on backroads, especially the 1.9 diesel which tunes easily to 150bhp, and beyond if you're a bit mad.

Re: Much reviled start screen... in context

With Windows 8.0 RT, it was a pain to try to switch to the desktop

I'm pretty sure there was a tile on the start screen for desktop, so the process was more like this:

Windows hot button, hit the desktop tile.

Without getting my crystal ball out of the cupboard, I will have to imagine the OS will be made available in the same formats as previous recent releases.

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=how+to+get+windows+8.1+iso&l=1

Seems a bit of a derp question. Microsoft have also not said that there will not be an ISO available. How about a bit of wait and see, unless you have insider (not the tech prev group) knowledge.

Re: They're mad

Seemingly not what your down voters wanted to hear either!

Going way back the gen 1 Surface RT we had developed a charging issue. This was fine until the younger son dropped the thing onto the pavement outside our house. Big scratches in the black aluminium and a couple of dents on the corners. Bugger I thought - no chance of getting that fixed now. Still, expecting the 'Sorry but that's accident damage' reply I boxed it up and dropped it off at a local DHL pickup point. Couple of days later and the support portal shows it as accepted. *Dances* I could have 'paid' for the up-front replacement unit after all! After a couple of weeks it arrives back - minus any accident damage. Not a bad outcome after all.

Re: yaman tony

> Neither of which seem to have the ability to use upper case characters or punctuation.

Have you tried using case and punctuation on an iPad? Another stupid idea of copying the real world onto the screen. We don't need the keys to display upper or lower case as we can feel the shift key is pressed - that doesn't translate over to a touchscreen.

Re: Security

Perfectly good idea. If you protect your network only at the boundary, you're always vunerable should a trusted person or device being something inside of your network. Not that you shouldn't boundary protect - but it shouldn't be your last line of defence.

Re: 'registered MSA connected to their PC'

"An interesting point not touched on anywhere is that (at least so far), Win10 will only allow one MSA to be linked to a PC. That means that a Win10 machine cannot be fully used as a multi-user machine (eg two people using it with separate accounts having separate MSAs)."

You must be holding it wrong. I have 2 MSA accounts attached to my WinX PC. Both appear on the login page, and have separate profiles and apps synchronised to the cloudy evilness.

Re: Windows RT users – both of you

Wait... there are 3 of us?

Re: The USB

I thought I saw a firewire cable in the wild, but it was just a Cisco gigastack.

Better get back to counting my collection of hen's teeth.