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Good, I didn't think MS would be that crazy to force it upon everyone. Though that is the impression I'm getting so far.-nudone (September 20, 2011, 04:58 PM)
Wow! ...Broken is right. While I've never heard of that key combo, I do have Adobe Reader 9 installed. Ad when pressing Ctrl + Space the cursor changes to the little zooming + sign.
Pressing Ctrl + Space + Alt changes the cursor to the little zooming - sign.
But neither have any effect on the current document view.-Stoic Joker (September 20, 2011, 11:24 AM)a BIG OOUPs
once the zoom sign shows, you need a mouse click to zoom in/out (which is done in increments).[edit] mouse-click needed for zoom to work (incremental). Alternatively Click n Drag to select area to zoom into/out-of [/edit]-tomos (September 20, 2011, 10:05 AM)
But for me it's when the transition from each setting to any other is broken is the problem.IIRC Adobe is still doing security updates back to version 7 ... So you should be safe with 8 for a while.I'll have a go at installing 7 if I can find it, & see how I get on.-Stoic Joker (September 20, 2011, 11:24 AM)
[edit] Found it - nice site: http://www.oldapps.com/about.php [/edit]-tomos (September 20, 2011, 12:06 PM)
Ctrl + Scroll seems easier to me ... But I'm not used to the shortcut. I gotta install Adobe Reader on a new machine hear shortly, so I'll try it with the new version X.I'm not a gamer (as in, not at all) - but I grew up with Asteroids and Space Invaders (arcade versions).
Looks great, and is difficult!
I even cant get used to using the arrow buttons - yet - it doesnt help that I'm left handed and not a touch typist - I presume people who actually play games on computers wouldnt have this problem. But I find I dont have much precision control moving left to right - dont know if that's just me, or my keyboard, or the game.-tomos (September 19, 2011, 05:26 PM)
Thanks, app! Sounds like I can safely assume it's a bad CD drive, if it fails to work after getting rid of the virus.-kyrathaba (September 17, 2011, 06:35 AM)
Psht. You've not experienced some of the nightmares I have in consulting. Some of the code drives you to drink.-wraith808 (September 16, 2011, 07:18 PM)
ROFLMAO!
That's probably why, when I reached a career crossroad many years ago, I went down the systems rather than the dev path. Especially after a previous three year foray into code development.
-40hz (September 16, 2011, 07:37 PM)
I'm pretty sure anyway, without one mine will boot till it beeps for a keyboard.
If I don't have one hooked up.-cmpm (September 17, 2011, 05:20 AM)
Speaking of drunk coding, I've often found that when a bit tipsey I actually quite enjoy working on a tedious or mundane bit of code which I was otherwise putting off. Only works for a very low level drunk and it's not really something I would set out to do in advance.-Eóin (September 16, 2011, 11:42 AM)
Well that answer looks good on paper, but...-Stoic Joker (September 16, 2011, 06:49 AM)
The questions I answered were:
1) what was it for, and
2) how you boot into it.
And I did mention that you had to be able to boot from that partition in order to use it, (in a kind of off-hand way).-4wd (September 16, 2011, 09:30 AM)
@Stoic JokerSo he's got nothing looking for F8 to catch the keystroke.
Some keyboards don't recognize the F keys on boot up at all.
I have one that does not, could not even get to safe mode,
till I figured out the keyboard will not see the F keys on bootup.-cmpm (September 16, 2011, 09:53 AM)
That's the million dollar question
And after a little experimentation the answer is.......[drum roll].........F8
As usual, press F8 as you boot then choose Repair Computer. It boots into a WinPE environment, (the files are stored in the 100MB area).
Didn't ask for the DVD at all.-4wd (September 15, 2011, 09:07 PM)
"Reboot and select proper boot device..."-JavaJones (September 15, 2011, 03:24 PM)
FWIW, I've run into this hassle often enough that I usually take the easy way out and temporarily unplug all the drives other than the the one I want to install Win7on. Cuts down on bad surprises down the road.-40hz (September 15, 2011, 04:00 PM)
With all the Wordpress parts you want stripped out, what value do you see in Wordpress that you are actually trying to capture? Maybe this would be a better way to attack it?-steeladept (September 13, 2011, 06:58 PM)
Oh well... It helps to remember... Jesus loves you. Cthulhu thinks you taste like chicken.-Renegade (September 12, 2011, 10:30 PM)
Ok, I think since this initially came up as a weekend thing, we probably owe it to people to try to explain the madness. It started with some relaxed TGIF discussion in the irc channel (this is an excerpt, I omitted some stuff):-Jibz (September 13, 2011, 01:22 AM)
Yeah, i hate to throw cold water on those of you who love fine print, but here's the reality as i see it:
- If you are not making a lot of money (or look like you might soon), no one is going to sue you or hassle you so the fine print stuff just never becomes an issue.
- If you are making a lot of money (or look like you might soon), no amount of fine print or correct legal positioning can save you from the hired gun lawyers who can bleed you dry or extort money from you, whether you are legally in the right or wrong.
Bottom line is: Legal fine print doesn't seem to have much practical value.-mouser (September 12, 2011, 06:16 PM)
