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Living Room / Re: What books are you reading?
« on: October 25, 2018, 12:35 PM »
Continuing with the works of Cliffor D. Simak today I started on
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@anandcoral: Maybe you forgot to turn on the brilliant LED flashing white and red lights that all husbands are obliged to wear on the tops of their heads (white light over the forehead, red on the back of the head).
For convenience, I have my lights affixed to my bicycle helmet, which I wear whenever I go out, day or night. I also have a GPS in the helmet, but my wife prefers to rely on the lights as they are less technical, and she finds it easier to look out the window of our 7th-floor apartment to see if I am travelling down the road.
Unfortunately, I absentmindedly had my helmet on back-to-front the other night. My wife couldn't tell whether I was coming or going.-IainB (September 12, 2018, 12:20 PM)
There is a convoluted work around to enable the hidden admin account - you can then login as admin and reset local passwords on other users. I have used this method to help clients but don't want to publish the details here - though a quick google search will help ;-)
Not sure there is a solution if you use an MS account to login other than their password reset tools online.-Carol Haynes (September 06, 2018, 07:43 AM)
Speaking of old times, remember those scifi paperbacks with two novels and a book cover on each side?-MilesAhead (August 15, 2018, 03:33 PM)
No! I'm in the UK, and that may be why.Cover art was a problem for me in itself. I never bought, say, Analog as a teenager, worried I think about the flak I might get others seeing the lurid covers... I must have missed out on a lot of good stuff.
-rjbull (August 15, 2018, 04:07 PM)
I am reading anything I can get by Clifford D. Simak. Just fun SciFi.Ah, takes me back... Way Station, Time Is The Simplest Thing, City... great stuff.-MilesAhead (August 08, 2018, 07:50 AM)-rjbull (August 15, 2018, 03:19 PM)
That was a very interesting read -- read his wikipedia page also. Sounded like quite a character...-tomos (June 30, 2018, 09:05 AM)
So my question is: How does FireFox render a Font while Delphi cant (or Browsers Opera/IE)That would be because webpages can provide the font by hosting it somewhere and giving the path to download it from via .css : see https://www.w3school...r_font-face_rule.asp-KodeZwerg (June 20, 2018, 05:57 AM)
Now there probably is a way to embed the font in your application too, as I remember there was a way to do it for graphic modes with Turbo Pascal back then.-ConstanceJill (June 20, 2018, 06:31 AM)
As a bonus POTUS has put his name behind the companyThat's a bonus?-4wd (June 05, 2018, 06:02 AM)
-cranioscopical (June 05, 2018, 08:31 AM)
Learn something every day. I thought POTUS was some soggy herbs stuck on a sore spot for pain relief.-MilesAhead (June 05, 2018, 01:45 PM)
Thanak goodness you were able to weed out the confusion!-cranioscopical (June 05, 2018, 04:38 PM)
Speaking of weed, I watched Up in Smoke again last week. It is still funny after all these years.-MilesAhead (June 06, 2018, 08:27 AM)
Why are you watching a current history of the US?-wraith808 (June 06, 2018, 06:23 PM)
As a bonus POTUS has put his name behind the companyThat's a bonus?-4wd (June 05, 2018, 06:02 AM)-cranioscopical (June 05, 2018, 08:31 AM)
Learn something every day. I thought POTUS was some soggy herbs stuck on a sore spot for pain relief.-MilesAhead (June 05, 2018, 01:45 PM)
Thanak goodness you were able to weed out the confusion!-cranioscopical (June 05, 2018, 04:38 PM)
As a bonus POTUS has put his name behind the companyThat's a bonus?-4wd (June 05, 2018, 06:02 AM)-cranioscopical (June 05, 2018, 08:31 AM)
With so many very capable video players available for free, who would want this player? Most of these free players are skinnable, meaning thatif you don't like the look, you (or by using the skin from someone else) can alter that.
I'm not saying this is a bad player or anything, I just fail to see its value.-Shades (May 26, 2018, 12:21 PM)
Your "don'ts" notwithstanding, these might be worth a look. Discounted right now on the U.S. site:
https://www.microsof...-laptop/8qcb957fxlrd
https://www.microsof...in-1-pc/92vcb2bpwvm2-cranioscopical (May 08, 2018, 01:57 PM)
You need to clarify your USB ports, USB 3.1 has to do with signalling protocol.
USB 3.1 Gen 1 is the same as the old 3.0 (5Gbps).
USB 3.1 Gen 2 doubles it to 10Gbps.
Ports can look like the usual Type A except for the colour of plastic, (but only if the manufacturer follows the standard).
Then you have Type C which is a physical port type, the new reversible connector, (it's possible to have USB 2.0 Type C ports).
So I think you might mean:
USB 3.1 Gen 1 (or 2) Type A (same as the USB 3.0)
USB 3.1 Gen 1 (or 2) Type C
The Type C will most likely have the Power Delivery standard and be used for charging it.-4wd (May 08, 2018, 04:28 PM)
Your "don'ts" notwithstanding, these might be worth a look. Discounted right now on the U.S. site:
https://www.microsof...-laptop/8qcb957fxlrd
https://www.microsof...in-1-pc/92vcb2bpwvm2-cranioscopical (May 08, 2018, 01:57 PM)
I've bought laptops from MS before, and the cool thing about them is they are the same as from the manufacturer, but a signature edition, meaning they're clean of all of the junk that the manufacturer's install. They've been great in my experience.-wraith808 (May 08, 2018, 05:31 PM)
My question is, is it possible and easy for them to monitor, not the webpages visited (that's easy), but the text typed and submitted in webpages like dating websites and/or mobile apps, like Whisper, Chat apps, Dating apps, etc?-kalos (April 25, 2018, 08:56 AM)
Absolutely, it is possible. Whether they do, or care, is another question.-skwire (April 25, 2018, 09:41 AM)
