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Which bit is the astonishing bit, Mubs? PS: Blake, I'll remember about the welcome tutorial if I happen to run across another Mac one day. Thanks.

One thing I did like, Merc, the colour-coded window controls: red to close, orange to minimise, green to maximise. Simple. Clever. Worth copying (if you can afford enough lawyers).

Am I allowed to use the heavy-duty impact adjustment tool?

Are we talking about the start button? I can't imagine what else you could mean. It's been called the start button for the last 20 years. Has it suddenly got a different name now? (Tannin asks me to mention that he hasn't used a bloody Windows key on a keyboard. Ever. He would rather wear...

Just for clarity: ^ Rhetorical question. ^ Genuine question.

What is the "windows button"? Do you mean the start button? Or something else? And if the former, what does right-clicking on it do? (I have never used (and never intend to use) a Win 8.x system without a proper shell, except for long enough to fix that lack - i.e., 20 seconds.)

30-odd years I've been fixing computers, and up until today I have never, ever fixed an Apple. (Well, OK, Brother Tannin fixed the odd Apple IIe and a couple of those Apple IIc things back in the day, but not counting Apple IIs (which were real computers) neither of us has ever worked on, used...

^ Fully agree with Merc. In my case, I vary the procedure to this: Pale Moon: 1: Turn on menu bar 2: Turn off the stupid bookmarks bar 3: Set the home page to something suitable for the user 4: Decide whether to leave DuckDuckGo as the default search engine or switch it to Google (depends on...

What is the Charms Bar? Do you need help setting up your Classic Shell? It's only three clicks you know.

8.1 Pro is the pick of them. Significantly faster than 7 and it isn't 10. User interface is better than either, assuming only that you install Classic Shell and (if you wish) two or three other refinements. My choices include the excellent Free Launch Bar, Metapad, and Explorer++ but please...

Thanks Howell. Curiosity satisfied. The restore feature expects a partitioned drive. (This must be true as it runs from the drive itself in the normal case.) So let's give it one. Can't hurt to try that. It occurs to me that it is also possible that the restore feature looks for a partition of...

Why would anyone want to do that? (Serious question. Not an important one I hasten to add, just idle curiosity.)

I meant this post. You meant me?! :lol:

I think the new Thinkpad keyboards are better than the old ones; much nicer feel, very practical. I don't much like the idea of a backlit keyboard instead of the Thinklight, but haven't actually tried it. The new Thinkpad touchpads are really, really horrible. Maybe you get used to them if...

You are a funny man, dave. :)

What would be the point? HP already did that, same as they do inside all their other products. Yours probably smells nicer though.

Excellent! Now all I need to do is (a) order the globe, and (b) write a letter to the authority in charge of regulating power in Australia asking them to switch the country over from 240v to 110v. Easy! But seriously now, the fact that these are available suggests that there should be...

JTR, while you are on deck, do you happen to know if there is such a thing as a readily available LED bulb that is immune to the fluctuations introduced by an old-style dimmer? As I understand it, all LED bulbs drop the high voltage AC supply down to a useful DC working voltage (5v or so, I...

^ So they say. And the dog ate my homework too.

Aldi is a German company (well, actually two companies, but let's keep it simple.) See here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aldi Their presence in Australia is most welcome. The Australian retail market is dominated - and I mean absolutely dominated by two massive duopolists, Coles and...

^ Wow! Oh well, not so silly I guess. Tannin collects hard drives. People pay tens of thousands of dollars for a bit of rare barbed wire.

I happened to spot a not-so-smart watch accessory in Aldi the other day. It is an automatic winder for automatic watches. You know the ones: mechanical things powered by clockwork. An automatic watch is an orthodox mechanical watch with some kind of extra little weights added inside it so that...

Thanks merc.

Without scrolling back through the whole thread, do we have a consensus yet about a simple, comprehensive Windows 10 privacy fix broadly similar to the Win7/8 script linked to by Mubs earlier?

I have forgotten the details already, but I too had trouble at that screen. I clicked "more info" and the bloody thing started the install without my say-so. Several reboots later, I still couldn't get it to stop. I had to Google for an answer. Bastards.

Only by learners, Snowy one. Real men use <CTRL-INSERT> <SHIFT-INSERT>. Just ask Tannin. :)

Anyone who can spell "Schrödinger" has my honest admiration.

Actually you want a middle-rating company. You don't want an Apple (because they will rip you off blind) and you don't want a Sony ('cause they are losing money for the very good reason that they are no bloody good at what they do). You want a good, moderately profitable company, like Lenovo.

I think your second thought is more sensible.

Merc's comment notwithstanding, MS have publicly stated that W10 will just be "Windows", a forever-changing rolling release. They are keeping very, very quiet about their plans for a subscription-only model. Most hints they drop seem to indicate that Windows itself will be purchased but that...

Adblock Lattitude seems to work perfectly for me. I do miss the wonderful old Opera though with it's two-click per-site Javascript blocking and the brilliant feature of specific per-domain ad-blocks. Simply right-click anywhere on a page, select "block content" and click on anything you don't...

Weird! I like your guess. Does the new drive draw more power than the old one? Is it practical to test with the drive removed? Or with a different temporary-fit drive?

Lunar, because IPv6 is such a dreadful dog's breakfast of a system, it takes more time, technology, and training to work around the various committee-design idiocies it contains. It will work just fine, but - just as with many other bad designs made good by extra effort - the cost will be spread...

You won't have to buy it, just pay for it.

Buck, you should learn to read faster, like me. :)

AMD is still a thing?

Brilliant Mubs! Thankyou! Tannin says thankyou too, which for him is really something.

Javascript is pox. It will rot your teeth, ruin your marriage, corrupt your kids, crash your browser, hasten the apocalypse, make your babies cry, spoil milk, create large dead yellow spots on your lawn, slow your computer to a crawl, wreck your credit rating, ruin the beauty of your website...

You are correct, of course. Javascript isn't inherently evil anymore than Escherichia coli, Herpes simplex, thermonuclear fusion devices, or Vibrio cholerae are inherently evil things. It's just misunderstood, put in places where it shouldn't be, and used far more than it should be.

You have got your history muddled, Merc. Opera was doing tabs, pretty much as we see them today, long before anyone else. Pheonix was the next mainstream browser to adopt it. (Pheonix was renamed Firefox a bit later.) Opera did not in fact invent the browser tab, they merely popularised it - and...

^ You are dreaming. (1) Opera is better at large document counts than any other browser. The MDI is superb and THE reason Opera is so badly missed and it was copied exactly by Seamonkey and Firefox, with a broken subset of it copied be Chrome and IE. All current browsers retain at last the...

Hmmm ... OK. So the pink ones are girls. Yep. And the blue ones are boys. OK. Orange ones are probably orangutans. Got that. .... what colour are the androgynous ones?

That would be Firefox 4.1? I always preferred to do my surfing with Opera, but each to his own.

There are five reasons: Moronic Javscript Inefficient browser coding Flash Moronic Javscript Moronic Javscript Web pages should be written in HTML. Javascript is evil. No, not ever single time, only 98.38% of the time. And even then it needs to be reduced in size and complexity by a...

Not even in the same postcode. Looong way to go yet.

There is no Opera anymore, Santilli.

Or you can use any of a variety of third-party black hole utilities.

^ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jL2DH-nKBeA Opera invented most of the UI elements you take for granted today. Well, you did until Chrome buggered things up and Firefox started screwing pooches. Further, the Opera UI was whatever you wanted it to be. It was not just massively customisable, it...

If it helps, you are absolutely the one and only Cougtek I've ever met. Unique. Individual. Rather good-looking, I believe. Well, good-looking for a human.