I love the idea of the summary saying that the story in the article is so obvious that it is pointless. If it's pointless, don't post it! Or at least dupe it in the next article you post so that we get some real significant irony going instead of this low-level annoyance.
In windows xp, the only popups come from battery life indicators, updates to the computer, and installation questions. Your mother shouldn't be installing anything(that's your job), and the battery life indicators are very simple and friendly and easy to read. Everything else comes from individual applications, that you shouldn't have installed on her computer.
And her double click problem, go to control panel, then folder options, then select [single-click to open an item]. Now there is no confusion.(I think double clicking when single clicking doesn't do anything is well within your mother's capabilities, if it isn't she probably shouldn't be using a computer or really doing much of anything at all unsupervised, you are a horrible son for abandoning your apparently completely senile mum).
And also, right clicking is pretty worthless and unnecessary for beginners, why did you even introduce her to it.(oh right, trying to confuse her because you hate her).
Put your mom on user mode, put icons for whatever programs she needs on the desktop, tell her to use those icons, no more problems.(why does she even need the start menu anyway)
Nice, I'll definitely look into it. I'm a student, so all of my homework/class information is on the internet, and the mouse is kind of necessary. Strokeit: http://www.tcbmi.com/strokeit/ is something worth checking out if you ever have to do any internet stuff, it's a gestures program with some pretty good functionality (and even better functionality when you combine it with another hotkey program) that lets you execute commands, send hotkeys, open windows, send basic windows messages (close, maximize, minimize) by drawing gestures with your mouse. No more alt+F4 or alt+back, just draw a 'C' or a line to the left. Invaluable for internet mousing situations.
The gestures work like this: you hold down the right mouse button, draw the shape, then let the right mouse button go. Normal right mouse button functionality is retained (ie clicking it will still give you your context menu, and you can still drag your icons and what have you, but you have to wait about a second for strokeit to realize that you were dragging the icon, not making a gesture), and when you really have to use a mouse or a touchpad, the speed is glorious.
Um, has anyone ever heard of Windows+R? It's called the run menu, and if you don't need a big bloated app it works great. For those who would prefer to do less legwork, and let the machine handle it, here are 2 free alternatives:
This http://www.autohotkey.com/ is autohotkey. Universal windows auto-complete(no more typing your name or your address, or any words you tend to misspell), ridiculous hotkey action, it's all scripting, so you can make your scripts into exes and use them on any windows computer anywhere.
This http://www.bayden.com/SlickRun/ is slickrun. Windows Run++, pretty much. Windows+q opens your run window, and you can program a bunch of features, it has autocomplete, yadda yadda yadda, it tells me it's using 8k, YMMV.
Or you could buy something that has some obvious flaws and less features. You know, if you are into that kind of stuff. Oh, and it's definitely a slashvertisement when you talk about shitty products that you have to pay for, instead of brilliant, old products that are free. In case you were wondering.
Warm your hands up before you do anything with them that hurts. This advice came to me via a juggling forum, from a mildly arthritic juggler that said it works like a charm. He said that he either warms his hands up with hot water, or just some quick chafing if the water is unavailable. Your problem might not even be an issue if this works for you. It might be worth it to pursue eliminating your arthritis instead of listnin to what them fancy city doctors tell ya.
Hibernate only takes about 20 seconds to get to my desktop, with my machine ready to roll. I type my password and hit enter while it loads up (after the bios screen) so when the password prompt comes up, the password asterisks just flash into the field and then my desktop pops up, ready to continue whatever I was working on before. I bought my machine about a year ago, Intel Celeron M 1.4 GHz, 512 MB RAM, XP HOME SP2. Does this mean that I am special, or are your computers just not that great at un-hibernating?
How is an average l-user going to get their hands on and unpatched Windows box? I bought a computer from Best Buy recently, SP2 was installed and firewall was on. My sister bought a Dell, same story. Sony, Toshiba, Acer, all the same story. So how, pray tell, does this story mean anything?
L-users can't get their hands on an unprotected Windows box even if they tried.
People that can get their hands on unpatched boxes (off of a live cd, but that reason could you possibly have to do that?
So who does this article apply to? Really really drunk techs that delete hard drives then put XP back on them and then go surf the net for porn and download a bunch of stuff without patching(ie Best Buy Geek Squad)? Well then say that so the rest of us don't have to worry about it. BBC, I watch your News Hour, and thank you for the opportunity to get real news in the US, but this is mad trolling.
I'm 19, and I never had a good p.c., so I never played real games on the computer when I was little. In light of that, here is the list:
1.) Mario Kart 64(I've probably made about $500-$700 from betting on this game...my friends might just be terrible though who knows)
2.) Tetris(Gameboy)(I'm kinda good, not legendary tho)
3.) Super Smash Bros 64(I can beat the computer, but get pwnd by my friends...wicked fun anyway)
4.) Burnout 3 or Revenge, any platform(the mode where you try to smash as many cars as possible)
5.) Mother of All Battles(shareware game on this shitty win '95 400-game cd I found in the bargain bin)
6.) Slay(another shareware game on that same cd, absolutely marvelous)
Yeah, so much time spent unsober playing these games and talking shit. I haven't really played games since Nintendo 64 except for Burnout and some Halo. Being CSE in college doesn't really leave any time for video games any more though, I'm kinda pissed that I'm never going to have time to buy/play a Wii. N64 and Game Boy was the shit back in t he day, though. No competition whatsoever (unless you had a sweet computer that was rolling Doom and Quake and stuff).
My definition of a comfort game is one where I either almost always win(1,2,5,6) or games where I am still happy when I lose (3,4). Halo and Goldeneye were always frustrating because I felt really crummy when I lost, whereas I didn't really care if I lost Smash or Burnout or Tetris.
I'm 19, and I never had a good p.c., so I never played real games on the computer when I was little. In light of that, here is the list:
1.) Mario Kart 64(I've probably made about $500-$700 from betting on this game...my friends might just be terrible though who knows)
2.) Tetris(Gameboy)(I'm kinda good, not legendary tho)
3.) Super Smash Bros 64(I can beat the computer, but get pwnd by my friends...wicked fun anyway)
4.) Burnout 3 or Revenge, any platform(the mode where you try to smash as many cars as possible)
5.) Mother of All Battles(shareware game on this shitty win '95 400-game cd I found in the bargain bin)
6.) Slay(another shareware game on that same cd, absolutely marvelous)
Yeah, so much time spent unsober playing these games and talking shit. I haven't really played games since Nintendo 64 except for Burnout and some Halo. Being CSE in college doesn't really leave any time for video games any more though, I'm kinda pissed that I'm never going to have time to buy/play a Wii. N64 and Game Boy was the shit back in t he day, though. No competition whatsoever (unless you had a sweet computer that was rolling Doom and Quake and stuff).
My definition of a comfort game is one where I either almost always win(1,2,5,6) or games where I am still happy when I lose (3,4). Halo and Goldeneye were always frustrating because I felt really crummy when I lost, whereas I didn't really care if I lost Smash or Burnout or Tetris.
When I used to wear a watch, I would take it off when I slept. I would also usually put it in one specific spot, so I could remember where it was the next morning. So all you nay sayers, say nay no more, splashpad is here:
[splashpower.com]. And since you don't want to click on random links, the splashpad basically just charges anything that you put onto it, as long as you have a special adapter attached to the item, or perhaps if the item *cough*magicbluetoothwatch*cough* was built with said adapter integrated into it. No more whining about plugging your Dick Tracy watch in please, because if the makers of this thing had any decency they would integrate this tech. They also wouldn't have it anywhere near an Ericsson phone, but we can dream, right?
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I love the idea of the summary saying that the story in the article is so obvious that it is pointless. If it's pointless, don't post it! Or at least dupe it in the next article you post so that we get some real significant irony going instead of this low-level annoyance.
you should probably just kill yourself.
In windows xp, the only popups come from battery life indicators, updates to the computer, and installation questions. Your mother shouldn't be installing anything(that's your job), and the battery life indicators are very simple and friendly and easy to read. Everything else comes from individual applications, that you shouldn't have installed on her computer.
And her double click problem, go to control panel, then folder options, then select [single-click to open an item]. Now there is no confusion.(I think double clicking when single clicking doesn't do anything is well within your mother's capabilities, if it isn't she probably shouldn't be using a computer or really doing much of anything at all unsupervised, you are a horrible son for abandoning your apparently completely senile mum).
And also, right clicking is pretty worthless and unnecessary for beginners, why did you even introduce her to it.(oh right, trying to confuse her because you hate her).
Put your mom on user mode, put icons for whatever programs she needs on the desktop, tell her to use those icons, no more problems.(why does she even need the start menu anyway)
This is his name, and that's all there is to it!
Are you being a wise guy here? I don't care what his name isn't, I want to know what it is!
Are you deaf? What's not his name, This is his name.
No, that's what I am asking you, what is his name?
You are wrong, sir. This is his name.
What is his name?
Nice, I'll definitely look into it. I'm a student, so all of my homework/class information is on the internet, and the mouse is kind of necessary. Strokeit: http://www.tcbmi.com/strokeit/ is something worth checking out if you ever have to do any internet stuff, it's a gestures program with some pretty good functionality (and even better functionality when you combine it with another hotkey program) that lets you execute commands, send hotkeys, open windows, send basic windows messages (close, maximize, minimize) by drawing gestures with your mouse. No more alt+F4 or alt+back, just draw a 'C' or a line to the left. Invaluable for internet mousing situations.
The gestures work like this: you hold down the right mouse button, draw the shape, then let the right mouse button go. Normal right mouse button functionality is retained (ie clicking it will still give you your context menu, and you can still drag your icons and what have you, but you have to wait about a second for strokeit to realize that you were dragging the icon, not making a gesture), and when you really have to use a mouse or a touchpad, the speed is glorious.
Um, has anyone ever heard of Windows+R? It's called the run menu, and if you don't need a big bloated app it works great. For those who would prefer to do less legwork, and let the machine handle it, here are 2 free alternatives:
This http://www.autohotkey.com/ is autohotkey. Universal windows auto-complete(no more typing your name or your address, or any words you tend to misspell), ridiculous hotkey action, it's all scripting, so you can make your scripts into exes and use them on any windows computer anywhere.
This http://www.bayden.com/SlickRun/ is slickrun. Windows Run++, pretty much. Windows+q opens your run window, and you can program a bunch of features, it has autocomplete, yadda yadda yadda, it tells me it's using 8k, YMMV.
Or you could buy something that has some obvious flaws and less features. You know, if you are into that kind of stuff. Oh, and it's definitely a slashvertisement when you talk about shitty products that you have to pay for, instead of brilliant, old products that are free. In case you were wondering.
Warm your hands up before you do anything with them that hurts. This advice came to me via a juggling forum, from a mildly arthritic juggler that said it works like a charm. He said that he either warms his hands up with hot water, or just some quick chafing if the water is unavailable. Your problem might not even be an issue if this works for you. It might be worth it to pursue eliminating your arthritis instead of listnin to what them fancy city doctors tell ya.
Hibernate only takes about 20 seconds to get to my desktop, with my machine ready to roll. I type my password and hit enter while it loads up (after the bios screen) so when the password prompt comes up, the password asterisks just flash into the field and then my desktop pops up, ready to continue whatever I was working on before. I bought my machine about a year ago, Intel Celeron M 1.4 GHz, 512 MB RAM, XP HOME SP2. Does this mean that I am special, or are your computers just not that great at un-hibernating?
How is an average l-user going to get their hands on and unpatched Windows box? I bought a computer from Best Buy recently, SP2 was installed and firewall was on. My sister bought a Dell, same story. Sony, Toshiba, Acer, all the same story. So how, pray tell, does this story mean anything?
L-users can't get their hands on an unprotected Windows box even if they tried.
People that can get their hands on unpatched boxes (off of a live cd, but that reason could you possibly have to do that?
So who does this article apply to? Really really drunk techs that delete hard drives then put XP back on them and then go surf the net for porn and download a bunch of stuff without patching(ie Best Buy Geek Squad)? Well then say that so the rest of us don't have to worry about it. BBC, I watch your News Hour, and thank you for the opportunity to get real news in the US, but this is mad trolling.
I'm 19, and I never had a good p.c., so I never played real games on the computer when I was little. In light of that, here is the list:
1.) Mario Kart 64(I've probably made about $500-$700 from betting on this game...my friends might just be terrible though who knows)
2.) Tetris(Gameboy)(I'm kinda good, not legendary tho)
3.) Super Smash Bros 64(I can beat the computer, but get pwnd by my friends...wicked fun anyway)
4.) Burnout 3 or Revenge, any platform(the mode where you try to smash as many cars as possible)
5.) Mother of All Battles(shareware game on this shitty win '95 400-game cd I found in the bargain bin)
6.) Slay(another shareware game on that same cd, absolutely marvelous)
Yeah, so much time spent unsober playing these games and talking shit. I haven't really played games since Nintendo 64 except for Burnout and some Halo. Being CSE in college doesn't really leave any time for video games any more though, I'm kinda pissed that I'm never going to have time to buy/play a Wii. N64 and Game Boy was the shit back in t he day, though. No competition whatsoever (unless you had a sweet computer that was rolling Doom and Quake and stuff).
My definition of a comfort game is one where I either almost always win(1,2,5,6) or games where I am still happy when I lose (3,4). Halo and Goldeneye were always frustrating because I felt really crummy when I lost, whereas I didn't really care if I lost Smash or Burnout or Tetris.
I'm 19, and I never had a good p.c., so I never played real games on the computer when I was little. In light of that, here is the list: 1.) Mario Kart 64(I've probably made about $500-$700 from betting on this game...my friends might just be terrible though who knows) 2.) Tetris(Gameboy)(I'm kinda good, not legendary tho) 3.) Super Smash Bros 64(I can beat the computer, but get pwnd by my friends...wicked fun anyway) 4.) Burnout 3 or Revenge, any platform(the mode where you try to smash as many cars as possible) 5.) Mother of All Battles(shareware game on this shitty win '95 400-game cd I found in the bargain bin) 6.) Slay(another shareware game on that same cd, absolutely marvelous) Yeah, so much time spent unsober playing these games and talking shit. I haven't really played games since Nintendo 64 except for Burnout and some Halo. Being CSE in college doesn't really leave any time for video games any more though, I'm kinda pissed that I'm never going to have time to buy/play a Wii. N64 and Game Boy was the shit back in t he day, though. No competition whatsoever (unless you had a sweet computer that was rolling Doom and Quake and stuff). My definition of a comfort game is one where I either almost always win(1,2,5,6) or games where I am still happy when I lose (3,4). Halo and Goldeneye were always frustrating because I felt really crummy when I lost, whereas I didn't really care if I lost Smash or Burnout or Tetris.
When I used to wear a watch, I would take it off when I slept. I would also usually put it in one specific spot, so I could remember where it was the next morning. So all you nay sayers, say nay no more, splashpad is here: [splashpower.com]. And since you don't want to click on random links, the splashpad basically just charges anything that you put onto it, as long as you have a special adapter attached to the item, or perhaps if the item *cough*magicbluetoothwatch*cough* was built with said adapter integrated into it. No more whining about plugging your Dick Tracy watch in please, because if the makers of this thing had any decency they would integrate this tech. They also wouldn't have it anywhere near an Ericsson phone, but we can dream, right?