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How's that? I think that's a good solution in case access alone doesn't work.-superboyac (June 13, 2011, 05:58 PM)
Access's brilliance is that it leverages any moderately intelligent person into data-driven application development.
Access's downfall is that it leverages any moderately intelligent person into data-driven application development, even those who know nothing about application development.-JohnFredC (June 13, 2011, 04:29 PM)
Am I the only one who hates gestures and was happy with the simple "scroll areas" on the sides of touch pads, along with a right and *physical* button?-JavaJones (June 13, 2011, 03:32 PM)
Only gestures I like are done in the air in front of the screen ... Or in traffic...So from what you're saying it should pick T: next, yes?-Stoic Joker (June 13, 2011, 11:46 AM)
Nope. It should have picked E: The next available drive letter - not the next letter available after the last drive letter you assigned.-40hz (June 13, 2011, 12:56 PM)
I just looked at the last fixed harddrive letter (in this case CDEFG were all being used), plugged in a USB key and assigned it one more than the next available letter which in this case is the letter is I. (I set the key to hold a backup of the system state data since I didn't want it to just sit there doing nothing BTW.)
We then set set the backup software to look for the H drive. Because with drive I now 'permanently' occupied by the USB key, it leaves a gap in the sequence, with the next available letter being H. If you remove and then immediately add (as in swap) an external drive, it will always assign it the same letter (H) since it's the next available in sequence (i.e. CDEFG_I).
So why create a gap in the letter sequence? Here's why: Anything that gets plugged in after that will get letter J or higher.-40hz (June 13, 2011, 07:29 AM)
The used letters on that machine were: 
So as long as you're swapping H properly using the remove USB applet - and you immediately replace it with another drive - the drive letter shouldn't change. The backup drive will always get the letter that falls into the gap. And any additional USB drives will grab letter J or higher so it won't affect your designated backup drive letter assignment. No more having the backup drive's letter jumping around.-40hz (June 13, 2011, 07:29 AM)
@40hz:
Rite of passage would describe it better, I think.-Shades (June 12, 2011, 01:26 AM)
Hmmm...turning point
(turning points plural ) A turning point is a time at which an important change takes place which affects the future of a person or thing.rite of passage
a ritual event that marks an individual's progress from one status to another
Maybe...but I think I'm going to stick with turning point.-40hz (June 12, 2011, 05:04 AM)
^Okay, 65 sounds better...You're forgiven...Except for the iPhone part.-Stoic Joker (June 10, 2011, 11:54 AM)
In fairness, I have the same kind of problem on my Android. The problem is the form factor. It's meant for 10 year old girls, and not grown men with thumbs that are a half the size of the screen width.-Renegade (June 10, 2011, 05:25 PM)
Chicklet keyboards are an improvement though. I wish my phone had one. I'd also like it if it had a slide out keyboard and the keyboard part were the heavily weighted one. (Better for balance.)-Renegade (June 10, 2011, 05:25 PM)
...So... the the only way to avoid giving Apple more money...is to give Apple more money??? ...Must be part of that new math I never learned.. O_oMost ADSL connections in my area need about 1 hour and twenty minutes to grab a 650mb CD image. Optimum Online cable does it in about 15-20 minutes. And a client T1 in a lightly trafficked office can do it in about 5.-40hz (June 10, 2011, 08:00 AM)
Of course i'm assuming the plan is for google to subsidize these and just lose money on them for years until they can destroy the market for normal OS/laptops and make it unprofitable for their competition to stay in business.-mouser (June 09, 2011, 10:10 AM)
Apple will continue to get a free ride as long as Steve Jobs is alive. Once he's gone it will be open season on Apple because it will finally get called on all the problems many in the tech press are reluctant to acknowledge.-40hz (June 09, 2011, 08:45 AM)
Interesting though that the one thing you guys would not want to give up is the web connection. It's weird how important the web has become in our lives, something that did not exist in the current form a mere 20 years ago.-phitsc (June 09, 2011, 01:13 AM)
A homicidal, pathological lying AI robot posted about this one in IRC: http://thetoshibatablet.com/-Deozaan (June 07, 2011, 06:03 PM)
Loudly blaring Big Band music with no volume control! ...They should be shot, hacked, and then beaten to death in an Alley just for that. I hit the mute button on the page, and it un-muted itself at the end so I got to suffer the last blasted note of the sound track. Their marketing department should be sterilized immediately.-Stoic Joker (June 07, 2011, 08:47 PM)
Sorry, I didn't know. I had headphones plugged in when I viewed the site, but didn't have the headphones on. So I didn't hear anything.-Deozaan (June 07, 2011, 10:24 PM)
Now your files are all ing gone and you didn't have to press delete!^Wonder if its battery will still hold a decent charge if it's been 4 years since it last got plugged in.-40hz (June 07, 2011, 06:31 PM)
-Stoic Joker (June 07, 2011, 08:33 PM)
Does anyone remember this from way back?
http://research.micr...cr/work/taskgallery/-Josh (June 07, 2011, 08:56 PM)
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