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  • Re: Why would you want to do that?

    [quote user="PJH"]How do you expect it to cope with multi-word tags?[/quote]Usually_by_using_underscores.
    Posted to Forum by ender on 01-06-2010
  • Re: Corporate Email signature WTF

    [quote user="nixar"]Only someone technologically inept enough to print his own emails would think it a neat idea to remind others not to do it.[/quote]The higher in the hierarchy somebody is, the more likely he (or his secretary) will print each and every e-mail. Don't ask me why.
    Posted to Forum by ender on 12-08-2009
  • Re: Choose a Real Number

    [quote user="PJH"]Such 'dongles' exist.[/quote]There's several types of these dongles - some operate on a number, generated sequentially through the chip on your bank card (there was an analisys on how these readers work in the UK a few months ago), while others generate the code...
    Posted to Forum by ender on 12-01-2009
  • Re: Why managers should never be allowed to make decisions

    [quote user="morbiuswilters"]Right, except that the logical address space is per-process and most modern 32-bit OSes can easily handle up to 36-bits of physical address space. Have you actually never encountered a 32-bit machine with more than 4GB of RAM?[/quote]I have. Drivers for some custom...
    Posted to Forum by ender on 11-05-2009
  • Re: This cable should have never existed.

    [quote user="dhromed"]It's exactly the same as PJH's link further up. Two A receptables on the side. It's a common sight and I've never seen anything else, save for zero ports on cheaper models.[/quote]Most Dells I've seen have 2 A ports on the side and 2 A ports on the...
    Posted to Forum by ender on 10-26-2009
  • Re: OpenOffice - WTF?

    [quote user="derula"]Good thing then that they added the Ribbon to WordPad, too, in Windows 6.1 7.[/quote]Speaking of ribbon in Windows 7, why is it visually so much different from ribbon in Office 2007?
    Posted to Forum by ender on 10-12-2009
  • Re: Oh Korea, what will we do with you?

    [quote user="lamoix"]Adittionally in Firefox, clicking on most links, such as "ENJOY" "A NIGHTCLUB" will result in very poorly formatted URLs, such as: http://english.esuncruise.com/enjoy/\enjoy\main_2.php instead of the more correct http://english.esuncruise.com/enjoy/main_2...
    Posted to Forum by ender on 09-29-2009
  • Re: Scott Guthrie Foaming at the Mouth

    [quote user="Random832"]Didn't they, you know, get rid of that hardware acceleration since now GDI-based apps are rendering everything to a bitmap which is then used by DWM?[/quote]Didn't they return some of that functionality in Windows 7/WDDM 1.1?
    Posted to Forum by ender on 09-18-2009
  • Re: Vista's Amnesia Strikes Again

    [quote user="versatilia"]Why do we have this holy war on lossy screenshots? I'd rather get the joke from a 40K JPG than a 400K PNG thanks. So many sidebar commenters seem to find lossy images offensive even if it doesn't detract from whatever is being shown - anyone care to elighten...
    Posted to Forum by ender on 09-09-2009
  • Re: Racial diversity, realism, and Poland

    I think somebody noticed the problem with picture:
    Posted to Forum by ender on 08-26-2009
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