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I have never kept photos, not just for the reasons you suggest but because all the images that I need are in my mind.

+1 - Same here. Some memories are meant to fade...I don't need documentation reminding me of things I already know too well.

Granted the Win8 Start Screen is a side-scrolling pictogram of the [/i]start menu[/i] to which I'm accustomed,  but it takes too long to traverse, and it is not, so far as I am aware, editable.  (Besides, I don't care for side scrolling  .)

Yes the Win8 SS groups are editable if you are in the zoomed out view. Item groups can be created, deleted, modified, and named.

Not the best tutorials...Just the first I could find to get you started.

http://www.thewindowsclub...creen-app-tiles-windows-8

http://www.howtogeek.com/...ows-8-metro-start-screen/


Another thought is if you rename an icon to something meaningful to you it could make it easier to search for (i.e. ProgName - Thing_I_Use_For_X)

[I my mind’s context, the sentence “wiki is a performant … engine” translates to “the wiki engine performs”. Then I must assume the author’s intent is “performs well”. I’m still left wondering “performs what well”?]

I liked this one:

Bryan   
 
 4/27/2007 at 8:12 am 
 

I don’t buy the “makes sense in context” business.

I ended up at this page because I came across the following:

“ScrewTurn Wiki is a performant and simple Wiki engine, written in C# and based on the ASP.NET 2.0 platform.”

The “ant” suffix converts a verb to an adjective. Defy -> defiant. Comply -> compliant. I my mind’s context, the sentence “wiki is a performant … engine” translates to “the wiki engine performs”. Then I must assume the author’s intent is “performs well”. I’m still left wondering “performs what well”?

I need a metric. That metric varies depending on the requirements specification. What is the implied metric for a “performant wiki engine”?

While were at it, why not the following?

“This software is the shiznitz with egregious bling. It’s da bomb.”

Is user account domain or LM admin?

Are Application Policies being used?

IIRC there is an auto elevate install option in GP but I do not recall where it is. Have you run an RSOP to see if anything (in LM policy) looked hinkey?

I've never used/recommended AVG - actually have a shoot on sight policy - and have never run across this issue (Just an observation).

A good blog post on this is here.

Just wanted to mention that it's well worth the time to read the comments at that link. The discussion is intelligent, informative, and at times hilarious.

My flatbed, (Canon D660U), is capable of slides/negatives, it has a CCFL built into the lid that you uncover when you put it into slide mode and it works reasonably well.

However, 2 points:
1) it's abominably slow, (about 2min per slide at a minimum of 600DPI), and
2) because the slide/neg sits in a holder this results in the actual surface of the slide/neg sitting above the glass bed by about 3mm.  The scanner is naturally focused at things lying flat on the glass, ie. the focus is a bit off.
The results were always a bit "softer" than those taken with the flash scanner, they use a CMOS imaging device that is focused at the surface of the slide/negative.

  Which makes me wonder how one of those little desktop scanners would work for this.  You know, the type that the doctors offices use to scan your drivers license and insurance cards.  You would think it would be perfect for negatives, but I've never used one, soooooo.....

...Don't

Assuming you are referring the little upright auto feeding typically fujitsu scanners. they're feed mechanisms are quite energetic and could likely damage the slides as they are whipped through the machine. Not to mention they also run quite hot. I don't believe I've ever seen a slide scanning rig that didn't use the flatbed orientation for I suspect those exact reasons.

Ah! Okay... Same rules still apply. The thin 3.5" drives are just single (metal) platter ... hence they just don't need the extra ("full" height) room. For the portable USB drives, they are just 2.5" laptop hard drives in a plastic box. The platter is glass ... But as stated before they are surprisingly hard to break...and by that I mean while out of the drive, laying on concrete, and being hit with a claw hammer. 

If you mean the 2.5" form factor laptop hard drives, the internals really aren't that much thinner then their 3.5" standard form factor kin. The platters are glass - but surprisingly hard to break.

We just tore down a bunch of drives here (about 50 of all sizes) for data destruction/disposal purposes. A single platter with read heads really isn't that thick (~1/8" - 3/16") so a 1/2" thick case is plenty of room for it.

Sitting in the back woods of Florida ... I'm wondering how many bullet holes it has in it.

e question: I know stress plays a part in the health theater, and I'm up for a bit of an increase in that for the next two weeks as my floor lead is on vacation and my work expects me to fill her shoes while she's gone.  I've never been good at being a super-organized or management type, and she definitely is, so I'm wondering how that will affect me.  I'll prolly be tempted to do caffeine again, what's you folk's advice on that?

My assistant is gone for two weeks ... My strategy? Just say no. It's really quite cathartic. I can either try and push myself to try and accomplish the work of two people ... or ... I can just say no to the flood of incoming nonsense.

Requestor: Can I have X, Y, Z, M, K, F & R??

Me: No. I'll have X & Y in the morning ... But the rest will have to wait.

Requestor: But IT's an Emergency..!!!

Me: Yes, everyone's issue is an emergency ... To them. Feel free to come pickup X & Y at around 9 ... tomorrow.


No... It's a beautiful thing.

Power like that is just too easy to abuse...which is precisely why the whole "Get a Warrant" concept got cooked up in the first place. Sure on some, isolated occasions, certain options might have potential usefulness. But this is why we also have the option of not crucifying someone if they happen to step over said line ... and that is fine. Moving the line OTOH is not. If officer X is willing to bet their career on an illegal wire tap/search/etc. that subject X is indeed a terrorist...Okay... But they better be triple thick double chocolate fudge with sprinkles and a cherry on top sure that they're right or they will be getting strung up in the town square.

Because if they were honest with people it would make for a very short conversation.

Reporter: Hi, can we let the Thought Police have free access to your subconscious mind?

Citizen: F... No!

Now that's no way to keep a ball rolling when you're trying to "protect" people from the boogie man. Concessions need to be made to keep people "safe". Compliance is necessary for the safety and security of all ... You have nothing to hide...do you..?

Our accountant is in his late 70s. He is not an advanced user by any measure. He recently made the jump from XP to Win8 on his home computer. Neither he nor his wife have had any major issues adapting to the new UI.

I think that may be more a function of their level of useage rather than an indication of how usable the interface actually is.

He uses an RDP connection from the home/8 machine to connect to the office and generate reports (From the accounting software to Excel) which frequently are transferred to either paper and/or the 8 machine for further processing/analysis.

Granted that ain't power user level interaction...but he ain't just farting around on FaceBook either.

[and Printers]

Devices and Printers (in control panel - Like where your printer drivers are listed) Not Device Manager in Administrative tools. Most media devices (which it qualifies as if it's not in storage mode) will show up there in Windows 7.

If they're going to outlaw GoOgle glasses, then they're going to have to outlaw these devices as well.  Otherwise what are they going to do, have you strip down to bare-butt to attend a sensitive meeting or if your around when something "Goes down"?

Mandatory public nudity...in the interest of "National Security". Positively freaking brilliant man! ...Hay if the whole damn thing is going to go off the rails anyhow...I vote we start there!

Congress - now they look as stupid as they sound - should just love the exposure..

 

Oh hell no, the Mayan's already picked their day...and missed. They're not getting credit for this one. They'll just have to go sit in the false prophets box with the rest of the apocalypse pool losers.

Our accountant is in his late 70s. He is not an advanced user by any measure. He recently made the jump from XP to Win8 on his home computer. Neither he nor his wife have had any major issues adapting to the new UI.

Advertising in general has devolved into a constant drone of pithy palpitating attempts to reach ones heart strings, funny bone, or G-spot. solely in the interest of avoiding any substantive information about anything...and frequently leaving one wondering wtf the product even is.

While MS's Apple-ish whoppie ad is annoying, it's not nearly as mind-blowingly stupid as many of the car ads today. Kia comes to mind with hampsters trying to look Kewl in a death trap, cracker box, Mp3 player with wheels that is blasting off into space. Seriously? ...I can't watch that ad without wanting to scream.

Just Jensen Harris (who looks like Mini-Me's bigger sibling) smiling like a dork and talking about things like "cool" and being "excited" about cosmetic features and eye candy while demoing it on a (surprise! surprise!) Surface tablet.

Good god man with that intro for a description I sat at my desk (at work...) through the entire video with my hand clamped over my mouth and tears coming out of my eyes hoping no one would hear me cracking up. Gushing over rainbow colors, pretty pictures, and exhibiting a marked fixation with Marilyn Monroe ...(oh dear)... They are definitely trying to directly compete with Apple in the lowest loafer weight department.

I have all my RSS feeds in Outlook where they are, and can be quietly and conveniently collected, stored, and completely forgotten. I just checked...and I have just under 5,000 unread items.


Hint: This is not a recommendation.

[certain clauses and interpretations will inevitably]

I'm guessing whatever gets done will likely benefit everybody at first. But afterwards, certain clauses and interpretations will inevitably pull the rug out from under all but the biggest corporations when it comes to patent protection.

Kind of like stirring up a grassroots movement of lemming. Everybody cheers and runs for the goal not realizing the instigators have stepped back into the shadows as the crowd storms past (on their way to the cliff's edge).

"Technology should be transparent and intuitive" - I like this guy!

Great video IainB!

Been awhile since I've played with any of the phone drivers, but...

While I have a definite aversion to automated troubleshooters ... The one in Windows 7 is surprisingly good. Assuming the phone shows up in Devices and Printers (it should) just right click it and select troubleshoot. I've had it successfully sort out several sticky driver issues for me in the past.

It's either that or trying to hand feed the driver to each part of the device's listing in device manager to try and figure out which one is actually supposed to be installed first.

Sears tried that many times in the past and always got their buttes in a sling over it.

Like the inventor with the one size fits all speed wrench they screwed just in time for last Christmas?

Almost a video I guess...:

So that's what happens when you juggle cats in Portal.

GitHub source code repository link added to first post/page.