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Living Room / Re: Pet Peeve: I will never buy a rechargeable mouse again for as long as i live

« on: November 21, 2007, 05:02 AM »

Saw Renegade's Photo of his wires and thought it was of the back of my desk.

On-board boats the various instruments - speed, water temperature, wind direction... are connected by a single bus, which both powers them and permits the exchange of data.

Would it not be possible to have a single bus like this for computers? It might have to be a bit chunky, and with the AC well screened...

Then you'd have one wire going from the wall to the tower, and then a sort of ring main. To add a peripheral just break the ring, anywhere would do.

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UrlSnooper / Re: For Opera users

« on: May 07, 2006, 04:24 AM »

Nice link, lots to play with there. The script doesn't seem, however, to display the internal links within a page. I am making a glossary (of horology), which is getting seriously complex, and has lots of internal <a name="blah"> links, from highlighted words to the "mother" definition. Snooper shows all of these as well as the off-page links, and is thus very useful.

Highest praise for Opera. Author/User mode switch (Shift>G) is so handy for zapping those 10pt. lime green-on-black-backgrounds. White pages hurt my eyes after a while, so I use #fff0c8, which is gentler. One of my favourite features is the "Windows Native" appearance option (Shift>F12). Nice to have a browser that doesn't look like a teenager's bedroom...