I do! The FreeBSD terminal uses a Scroll Lock tap to freeze the screen so that you can go back and read those make or gcc messages or warnings you just missed with the arrow keys. Another press of Scroll Lock returns you back to your prompt (or output, if you are still processing). LED is also usful to tell you what status you are in. Works great...
Until you put your server on a KVM that uses Scroll Lock to select the current server or skip to the next server. So, do those Mac keyboards not have Scroll Lock, Break, and Print Screen? Other than those users using Greenshot or Gadwin ScreenPrint, how could they be using those keys...
Ah, I remember now - those are F13, F14, and F15. Except that the F-keys are hidden under other items like brightness up/down, volume up/down, screen mirror/extend and so on. So, why didn't researcher note those?
As for SUN keyboard layouts (USB variant plugged into Windows 7) - I like the Control Key placement(where caps lock is now). Escape is acceptable (replaces tilde & grace accent key). But that Backspace key! What were they smoking!
Sun Hardware Designer 1: "Most of Sun terminal app users use Ctrl-H and DEL anyway, so lets make the Backspace key the size of every other key, and put it UNDER the BackSlash key. So when a Windows user users our keyboard, every time he goes for BackSlash, he'll hit Backspace instead!"
Sun Hardware Designer 2: "That's great boss, my idea is to switch the position of the Super and Alt keys. Lets also shrink that BackSlash down and put a tilde/grave key there, too!"
Sun Hardware Designer 1: "Splendid, we'll keep people locked into using our servers forever because our design is so superior!"
Tongue firmly in cheek there, for those not getting it. I do like Caps Lock swtiched with Ctrl, though. That's very nice, and really is superior. I just wish those other keys weren't moved about. For those wondering what generation, there's a tiny Sun Sparc 4m that this is supposed to go with. The USB mouse doesn't work with Windows - maybe it needs a reflective pad?, but the keyboard works great.
I do. But I went to the Java control panel applet, advanced, and checked that very last option "Suppress Sponsor Offers when Installing or Updating Java". I'd love to know how to do this in the registry.
Nah. They'll just rename it General Grant and put a US Flag on top. They'll have to change the horn, too. They'll make it toot out Yankee Doodle instead of Dixie.
I agree with your point about history being written by the victors, but I wouldn't call the War of 1812 a win for the US. The capitol was burned and sacked, and the British ships of the line could easily handle any ships that early America could field. The British let it go because their economy was reeling after batting the US in the west and Napoleon's armies in the east.
You might be trolling, but I'll bite. The Civil War was not fought primarily over slavery. That's revisionist history. Don't get angry, that's the way was taught to me in high school as well, with Honest Abe liberating the slaves. It wasn't until college that I found out that there was a lot more to it than that. Slavery was an important issue, yes, but if it was the primary reason, I suspect the Emancipation Proclamation would have been issued in 1861, not 1863. The Civil War was primarily fought for state's rights, and also cultural, economic, financial reasons. Not to mention abolitionists that demonized everyone that lived in the south, not just the plantation slave owners
The North was industrialized, while the South was primarily an agrarian society.
The North was also receiving a great deal of infrastructure from taxes (e.g. railroads, roads, bridges) compared to the South. The North had 80% of the railroads, compared to the south's 20%. Those 80% were standardized, where in the South there were 3 competing track styles.
The North put high tariffs cheap imports from overseas to protect its new textile industry, which put a financial burden on the South. It's estimated the cost of finished goods rose 50% practically overnight in the South, because they had to pay the North's prices (and shipping)
The North was only letting new states in as 'free' states, to curtail the power of the South. See California, Kansas
Northern and Southern politicians did not get along at all, not unlike Republicans and Democrats of today. At least they aren't coming to blows... yet
This is a free speech issue. If the Confederate Battle Flag is now a symbol of racism and must be banned, what about the gray soldier's uniform? Do we ban that, too? How about the General Lee, it's got a big flag on the roof? How about the Civil War computer games, ban those, too? Let's go a bit further with this: What about the Swastika? How about the NAZI flag? Stormtrooper uniforms? The German SS ones, not the Star Wars ones. Do I own or want to own any of these items? No. But if a museum wants to display these items, I think it should be allowed to, so long as we are not glorifying the murder of innocent lives. As for the Civil War, I'd argue that we need not to forget it, or we might end up repeating it.
Oh man, why did you have to post 4GL (or ABL or whatever they call it today) into this topic!
Okay, I'll bite. I prefer FIND LAST table OF otherTable WHERE aDate = ? NO-LOCK NO-ERROR in a FOR EACH loop with lots of BUFFERs to the same table, myself. It means I have to wrap each table access in IF AVAILABLE statements (shortened to IF AVAIL table THEN DO:). Thanks for the tip, though.
I respectfully disagree. There's no way the terminal in MobaXterm is PuTTY. It behaves differently, and doesn't have the configuration knobs that PuTTY has. I believe it is using mintty, like Cygwin uses.
I think that he parses the registry for the PuTTY settings, and loads them (15 or so connections for the free version, all for the paid version). If he uses any PuTTY code, it is just to marshall that hunk of registry data into clickable links that mintty can understand. Look for SimonTatham in your registry.
I'd like to comment about MobaXterm: It is a Lazarus (or more likely Delphi) application with the source code freely available under the GPL v3 license. However, it uses some closed source items as part of its build environment, so it will not compile from the available source. It cobbles together pieces of MinGW and the MinGW Xserver into a nice product. Worth installing, if you cannot have a true Linux terminal. Link
That said, security-wise, be careful with MobaXterm. Per Nessus it runs on its host with its X11 server wide open. Nessus will even happily grab a screen shot of what was going on on your screen the moment it scans it.
I think he has the remote Xserver screen grab turned on for the Windows 7+ peek feature, so you can have some idea of the window you want to open. Problem is, that feature doesn't fully work yet. If you have multiple overlapping windows, you get what's on top - that it. So if you have something fullscreen with covering something else behind it, you'll get a peek of the part of the fullscreen window, and not the window you really want.
That said, it's the best inexpensive shareware/nagware terminal/X11 server around, short of using 100% Linux. On the full commercial side, Hummingbird's Reflection product may technically be better, but when it costs $500 to $1000 per seat per version - no thanks. $70 to $100/year is more reasonable than that (price is based on Euro, so Dollar price varies)
I don't think that code 9542XA is specific enough. Does it cover when you are in the spacecraft, or when the spacecraft falls on your house?
What if it's an alien spacecraft? I bet insurance classifies that as an 'act of God' and won't cover it. Doesn't matter if you wander into a spacecraft piloted by Pee Wee Herman or the darn thing just falls on you for no reason at all.
I wondering if there's a code for if a house falls on you. Oh, there is, but it's a bit generic.
Even if there is registry crap, can't 2 registry exports and diff take care of that? Just run the diff'd registry hunk and you should be golden.
The only other thing to watch out for is those shared libraries, like VC, VC++, MFC42, DirectX 9.0c (June / July / etc...) and so on that are added by the installer, and maybe compatibility settings, such as when the game requires admin. Might be a good idea to backup what the MS DirectX WebInstaller installs, just to be on the safe side.
This also happened to Samsung S3 phones on CyanogenMod. CM11 M12 (KitKat 4.4.4). They say the nightlies will fix it, but work on the milestones has stopped completely because everyone is working on L. GPS is utterly ruined, too, but according to developers, it didn't work on the stock ROM, either.
Not always. Sometimes when a flash happens, the manufacturer blows some e-Fuses to prevent the device from being downgraded. I've heard of it happening on some Samsung phones, specifically one of the JellyBean versions (4.1 to 4.2 or 4.2 to 4.3). From what I recall it was the 4.1 bootloader that could no longer be used, and you had to know the exact baseband you were on to get a proper bootloader to restore your phone with Odin. From what I recall, Odin is an internal Samsung program for repairing phones and tabs in a bootloop. Is there something akin to Odin for Nexus devices?
Phone flashers generally know to:
1) backup phone before upgrade
2) flash phone - generally from recovery on SD card, also sometimes from USB when SD slots are unavailable
3) boot to recovery and wipe cache and system/dalvik
I don't fully understand the OTA upgrade, but you'd think the thing would do the last two bits above itself.
Can anyone confirm if the Nexus OTA upgrade blows some eFuses to prevent downgrade?
tags, like so...
This is preformatted text
Well, that stinks. Let me try the <tt> tags, then:
This is preformatted text with tt &/tt tags.
Phooey. It ate all my extra spaces. I suppose you could use non-breaking spaces....
Nope. I guess trolls abused these features too much in the distant past, so I sort of understand that.
I'm still confused about the lack of Unicode, though. I though Perl could handle it?
Agreed. Period, as in rm -rf., works great, though, because it'll delete the current directory, including '..'. the parent directory. It repeats recursively just like you asked. A friend of mine tried to wipe out all the dot files and dot directories in his home directory as root by typing rm -rf.* He got a little more deleted than he bargained for in the process, thankfully for him he was at the console saying, "Hmm, this is taking an awfully long time...".
Personally, I prefer rm -R., even though it is a FreeBSD-ism.
So it's partially a bug in spamassassin. And who the fuck logs in as root? What part of that is ever a good idea?
Remotely, no never. That's asking for trouble. But locally? Yeah! I log in about once a quarter. You never know when you'll need fallback or disaster recovery mode because something's not right with the hardware or software.
I hear what you're thinking: "Why run a server on a single machine? Put it in a cluster of redundant VMs on two or more hypervisors and you don't have to worry about disaster recovery." True. But not every company has the resources plop from a few tens of thousands to a couple of hundred thousand on hardware.
I've got a Samsung S3 and it feels like most actions take from around a second and up to complete. Answering an incoming call takes a long time, pressing the home button to activate the screen take 1-2s. It is just annoying waiting everywhere.
Agreed. To be fair, though, the Galaxy S3 that you had (I'll assume from a carrier with 4G LTE, an S3 i747 or i535) a slightly faster dual-core processor and a weak GPU instead of what the international S3 (i9300) had: a slower quad core processor with a strong GPU, but only 1GB of RAM and 3G cellular data. Anecdotal evidence suggests that the international version appears snappier, despite having a slower overall processor and 1/2 the RAM.
I suspect that the TouchWiz layer is heavily GPU dependant, and doesn't perform well on the Adreno 225 GPU of the Carrier version Galaxy S3.
Oh, I just noticed that the i9305 version of the S3 also has 2GB of RAM, and 4G LTE, sounds like the best of both worlds. If anyone is curious about all this, here's the link.
FWIW, I put CyanogenMod 11 on my phone, and I felt like I bought a brand new device. It doesn't feel laggy anymore. I may not say the same when CM12 comes out, but for now it's working great. The privacy feature is also very nice. Not that CM is bug free - the camera crashes, had trouble focusing in earlier versions, and the GPS is kinda hosed. To be fair, the GPS was hosed by Samsung when they took the stock ROM to KitKat, so it's no wonder the CM developers are having trouble.
Yes, but only without 3D acceleration. Xen and CubesOS don't support it. Sure, you can browse the web, but anything that requires 3D, like videos and games are not really feasible. Even newer versions of Excel need 3D rendering. Don't even think of running it in a VM (Hypervisors within Hypervisors).
You'll have more luck 3D-wise with a Hyper-V server combined with Windows new RemoteFX technology. I know that this is unpopular option, and if anyone can set me straight on hypervisors and 3D for Windows guests not running on Windows hypervisors, please do. I've researched KVM, LXD, Jailhouse, or ESX, and of those, only ESX has experimental Windows 3D guest support.
This is infuriating. You can change the registry value above - doesn't work, and the program resets it for you. Digging around on the filesystem, I found this gem:
C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\LocalLow\Sun\Java\Deployment\deployment.properties
It has the same entries as in the registry. However, changing those also has no effect on the checkbox, either. In fact, when you reload that registry key and file, those settings will automatically change back to false. I'm baffled.
The only way that seems to be available is the Config Java advanced checkbox. Nothing else appears to work. MS must cache something somewhere with the LocalLow directory or AppDataLow registry entries. This was attempted on Windows 7 & 8 64 bit.
Other workarounds:
Use ninite, and you will get the latest 32 bit and 64 bit JREs. Run the installer again and it updates again. No spyware pushed by updates. Also does more than Java.
If you prefer, you can install the JRE the normal way, and then in the Java Control Panel (start / type 'java' / click on 'Configure Java', or click the java icon in the control panel), go to advanced, scroll to the bottom, and check the last checkbox Suppress sponsor offers when installing or updating Java. All fixed, and you can use the standard java update method. Wish I could make a.reg for this, and push it out with GP or as a login script.
Chiclet Keyboard refers to the style where there's wide spacing or a border between the keys, all keys are level with each other, and there's a soft mushy membrane behind the keys. In my experience, I type slower on that type of keyboard, but still make more errors.
It looks a bit more stylish than the old keyboards, and doesn't seem as hard to keep clean, but the membranes seem to wear out much much faster than those old IBM buckling spring keyboards or those Cherry MX keyboards, but about equivalent to those laptop keyboards with darn scissor switches that lose a key about once every other year.
>You can replace the SSD in the current Macbook Pro
and replace it with what? It's got a proprietary connector, and I don't think there any 3rd party drives out for the current models.
Actually, I bet it is a standard PCI Express SD Card. What's the form factor called again, it has a strange name... NGFF or M.2 SSD. Oh wait, that doesn't appear to be it. I stand corrected. Looks like they are completely custom in a mac. Still, it's nice to be able to fixed a trashed SSD - even if it has to come from Apple or an Apple reseller, much better than those models that had the SSD directly integrated into the motherboard, like some of the MacBook Air models.
IIRC, you can even have the voices and music that was developed by Toys For Bob (the company behind SC2) for the 3DO. Also, some of the original MOD files have been resampled and updated by modern mixers. I prefer the original MOD files, but it's cool that it has had updates, even 20+ years on. Many thanks to Toys for Bob for releasing the source *and* content.
No, not with encrypted-locked bootloaders becoming common. For Verizon starting with the Samsung Galaxy S3 and phones after that era, and AT&T with the Samsung Galaxy S4 and other phones, you will have tough time putting anything other than what the carrier supports. You may get lucky and be able to break it, but it takes a lot longer. If there are unlocked bootloaders available, you may be able take matters into your own hands, but it is quite risky.
Also, when you buy a phone locked to a carrier, you may not be getting what's advertised elsewhere. iPhones are universal, Android, not so much. The AT&T Galaxy S3 (i747) was completely different than the international S3 (i9300). Some things were better - more RAM (2GB vs 1GB), slightly faster processor (1.5 GHz vs 1.4GHz), and faster cellular data (4G LTE vs 3G). Others things weren't so good - dual core instead of quad core (Snapdragon S4+ 'Krait' vs ARM Cortex-A9), weaker graphics processor (Adreno 225 vs ARM Mali 400), less storage (16GB vs 32GB), and a lot less battery time. And a broken GPS, if you upgrade to KitKat - even on stock. I wouldn't recommend buying a locked carrier phone (other than an iPhone) for anyone.
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I do! The FreeBSD terminal uses a Scroll Lock tap to freeze the screen so that you can go back and read those make or gcc messages or warnings you just missed with the arrow keys. Another press of Scroll Lock returns you back to your prompt (or output, if you are still processing). LED is also usful to tell you what status you are in. Works great ...
Until you put your server on a KVM that uses Scroll Lock to select the current server or skip to the next server. So, do those Mac keyboards not have Scroll Lock, Break, and Print Screen? Other than those users using Greenshot or Gadwin ScreenPrint, how could they be using those keys...
Ah, I remember now - those are F13, F14, and F15. Except that the F-keys are hidden under other items like brightness up/down, volume up/down, screen mirror/extend and so on. So, why didn't researcher note those?
As for SUN keyboard layouts (USB variant plugged into Windows 7) - I like the Control Key placement(where caps lock is now). Escape is acceptable (replaces tilde & grace accent key). But that Backspace key! What were they smoking!
Sun Hardware Designer 1: "Most of Sun terminal app users use Ctrl-H and DEL anyway, so lets make the Backspace key the size of every other key, and put it UNDER the BackSlash key. So when a Windows user users our keyboard, every time he goes for BackSlash, he'll hit Backspace instead!"
Sun Hardware Designer 2: "That's great boss, my idea is to switch the position of the Super and Alt keys. Lets also shrink that BackSlash down and put a tilde/grave key there, too!"
Sun Hardware Designer 1: "Splendid, we'll keep people locked into using our servers forever because our design is so superior!"
Tongue firmly in cheek there, for those not getting it. I do like Caps Lock swtiched with Ctrl, though. That's very nice, and really is superior. I just wish those other keys weren't moved about. For those wondering what generation, there's a tiny Sun Sparc 4m that this is supposed to go with. The USB mouse doesn't work with Windows - maybe it needs a reflective pad?, but the keyboard works great.
I do. But I went to the Java control panel applet, advanced, and checked that very last option "Suppress Sponsor Offers when Installing or Updating Java". I'd love to know how to do this in the registry.
Nah. They'll just rename it General Grant and put a US Flag on top. They'll have to change the horn, too. They'll make it toot out Yankee Doodle instead of Dixie.
I agree with your point about history being written by the victors, but I wouldn't call the War of 1812 a win for the US. The capitol was burned and sacked, and the British ships of the line could easily handle any ships that early America could field. The British let it go because their economy was reeling after batting the US in the west and Napoleon's armies in the east.
This is a free speech issue. If the Confederate Battle Flag is now a symbol of racism and must be banned, what about the gray soldier's uniform? Do we ban that, too? How about the General Lee, it's got a big flag on the roof? How about the Civil War computer games, ban those, too? Let's go a bit further with this: What about the Swastika? How about the NAZI flag? Stormtrooper uniforms? The German SS ones, not the Star Wars ones. Do I own or want to own any of these items? No. But if a museum wants to display these items, I think it should be allowed to, so long as we are not glorifying the murder of innocent lives. As for the Civil War, I'd argue that we need not to forget it, or we might end up repeating it.
Oh man, why did you have to post 4GL (or ABL or whatever they call it today) into this topic!
Okay, I'll bite. I prefer FIND LAST table OF otherTable WHERE aDate = ? NO-LOCK NO-ERROR in a FOR EACH loop with lots of BUFFERs to the same table, myself. It means I have to wrap each table access in IF AVAILABLE statements (shortened to IF AVAIL table THEN DO:). Thanks for the tip, though.
I respectfully disagree. There's no way the terminal in MobaXterm is PuTTY. It behaves differently, and doesn't have the configuration knobs that PuTTY has. I believe it is using mintty, like Cygwin uses.
I think that he parses the registry for the PuTTY settings, and loads them (15 or so connections for the free version, all for the paid version). If he uses any PuTTY code, it is just to marshall that hunk of registry data into clickable links that mintty can understand. Look for SimonTatham in your registry.
I'd like to comment about MobaXterm: It is a Lazarus (or more likely Delphi) application with the source code freely available under the GPL v3 license. However, it uses some closed source items as part of its build environment, so it will not compile from the available source. It cobbles together pieces of MinGW and the MinGW Xserver into a nice product. Worth installing, if you cannot have a true Linux terminal. Link
That said, security-wise, be careful with MobaXterm. Per Nessus it runs on its host with its X11 server wide open. Nessus will even happily grab a screen shot of what was going on on your screen the moment it scans it.
I think he has the remote Xserver screen grab turned on for the Windows 7+ peek feature, so you can have some idea of the window you want to open. Problem is, that feature doesn't fully work yet. If you have multiple overlapping windows, you get what's on top - that it. So if you have something fullscreen with covering something else behind it, you'll get a peek of the part of the fullscreen window, and not the window you really want.
That said, it's the best inexpensive shareware/nagware terminal/X11 server around, short of using 100% Linux. On the full commercial side, Hummingbird's Reflection product may technically be better, but when it costs $500 to $1000 per seat per version - no thanks. $70 to $100/year is more reasonable than that (price is based on Euro, so Dollar price varies)
Actually, they did invoke the DCMA and serve PA with a takedown notice, since they claim it deals with 'trade secrets'.
I don't think that code 9542XA is specific enough. Does it cover when you are in the spacecraft, or when the spacecraft falls on your house?
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What if it's an alien spacecraft? I bet insurance classifies that as an 'act of God' and won't cover it. Doesn't matter if you wander into a spacecraft piloted by Pee Wee Herman or the darn thing just falls on you for no reason at all
I wondering if there's a code for if a house falls on you. Oh, there is, but it's a bit generic.
Even if there is registry crap, can't 2 registry exports and diff take care of that? Just run the diff'd registry hunk and you should be golden.
The only other thing to watch out for is those shared libraries, like VC, VC++, MFC42, DirectX 9.0c (June / July / etc...) and so on that are added by the installer, and maybe compatibility settings, such as when the game requires admin. Might be a good idea to backup what the MS DirectX WebInstaller installs, just to be on the safe side.
This also happened to Samsung S3 phones on CyanogenMod. CM11 M12 (KitKat 4.4.4). They say the nightlies will fix it, but work on the milestones has stopped completely because everyone is working on L. GPS is utterly ruined, too, but according to developers, it didn't work on the stock ROM, either.
Phone flashers generally know to:
I don't fully understand the OTA upgrade, but you'd think the thing would do the last two bits above itself.
Can anyone confirm if the Nexus OTA upgrade blows some eFuses to prevent downgrade?
Agreed. Period, as in rm -rf ., works great, though, because it'll delete the current directory, including '..'. the parent directory. It repeats recursively just like you asked. .* He got a little more deleted than he bargained for in the process, thankfully for him he was at the console saying, "Hmm, this is taking an awfully long time...".
., even though it is a FreeBSD-ism.
A friend of mine tried to wipe out all the dot files and dot directories in his home directory as root by typing rm -rf
Personally, I prefer rm -R
So it's partially a bug in spamassassin. And who the fuck logs in as root? What part of that is ever a good idea?
Remotely, no never. That's asking for trouble. But locally? Yeah! I log in about once a quarter. You never know when you'll need fallback or disaster recovery mode because something's not right with the hardware or software.
I hear what you're thinking: "Why run a server on a single machine? Put it in a cluster of redundant VMs on two or more hypervisors and you don't have to worry about disaster recovery." True. But not every company has the resources plop from a few tens of thousands to a couple of hundred thousand on hardware.
I've got a Samsung S3 and it feels like most actions take from around a second and up to complete. Answering an incoming call takes a long time, pressing the home button to activate the screen take 1-2s. It is just annoying waiting everywhere.
Agreed. To be fair, though, the Galaxy S3 that you had (I'll assume from a carrier with 4G LTE, an S3 i747 or i535) a slightly faster dual-core processor and a weak GPU instead of what the international S3 (i9300) had: a slower quad core processor with a strong GPU, but only 1GB of RAM and 3G cellular data. Anecdotal evidence suggests that the international version appears snappier, despite having a slower overall processor and 1/2 the RAM.
I suspect that the TouchWiz layer is heavily GPU dependant, and doesn't perform well on the Adreno 225 GPU of the Carrier version Galaxy S3.
Oh, I just noticed that the i9305 version of the S3 also has 2GB of RAM, and 4G LTE, sounds like the best of both worlds. If anyone is curious about all this, here's the link.
FWIW, I put CyanogenMod 11 on my phone, and I felt like I bought a brand new device. It doesn't feel laggy anymore. I may not say the same when CM12 comes out, but for now it's working great. The privacy feature is also very nice. Not that CM is bug free - the camera crashes, had trouble focusing in earlier versions, and the GPS is kinda hosed. To be fair, the GPS was hosed by Samsung when they took the stock ROM to KitKat, so it's no wonder the CM developers are having trouble.
Yes, but only without 3D acceleration. Xen and CubesOS don't support it. Sure, you can browse the web, but anything that requires 3D, like videos and games are not really feasible. Even newer versions of Excel need 3D rendering. Don't even think of running it in a VM (Hypervisors within Hypervisors).
You'll have more luck 3D-wise with a Hyper-V server combined with Windows new RemoteFX technology. I know that this is unpopular option, and if anyone can set me straight on hypervisors and 3D for Windows guests not running on Windows hypervisors, please do. I've researched KVM, LXD, Jailhouse, or ESX, and of those, only ESX has experimental Windows 3D guest support.
This is infuriating. You can change the registry value above - doesn't work, and the program resets it for you. Digging around on the filesystem, I found this gem:
C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\LocalLow\Sun\Java\Deployment\deployment.properties
It has the same entries as in the registry. However, changing those also has no effect on the checkbox, either. In fact, when you reload that registry key and file, those settings will automatically change back to false. I'm baffled.
The only way that seems to be available is the Config Java advanced checkbox. Nothing else appears to work. MS must cache something somewhere with the LocalLow directory or AppDataLow registry entries. This was attempted on Windows 7 & 8 64 bit.
Ah, I found it. It is in the registry:
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\AppDataLow\Software\JavaSoft\DeploymentProperties]
"install.disable.sponsor.offers"="true"
Other workarounds:
.reg for this, and push it out with GP or as a login script.
Use ninite, and you will get the latest 32 bit and 64 bit JREs. Run the installer again and it updates again. No spyware pushed by updates. Also does more than Java.
If you prefer, you can install the JRE the normal way, and then in the Java Control Panel (start / type 'java' / click on 'Configure Java', or click the java icon in the control panel), go to advanced, scroll to the bottom, and check the last checkbox Suppress sponsor offers when installing or updating Java. All fixed, and you can use the standard java update method. Wish I could make a
Chiclet Keyboard refers to the style where there's wide spacing or a border between the keys, all keys are level with each other, and there's a soft mushy membrane behind the keys. In my experience, I type slower on that type of keyboard, but still make more errors.
It looks a bit more stylish than the old keyboards, and doesn't seem as hard to keep clean, but the membranes seem to wear out much much faster than those old IBM buckling spring keyboards or those Cherry MX keyboards, but about equivalent to those laptop keyboards with darn scissor switches that lose a key about once every other year.
>You can replace the SSD in the current Macbook Pro and replace it with what? It's got a proprietary connector, and I don't think there any 3rd party drives out for the current models.
Actually, I bet it is a standard PCI Express SD Card. What's the form factor called again, it has a strange name... NGFF or M.2 SSD. Oh wait, that doesn't appear to be it. I stand corrected. Looks like they are completely custom in a mac. Still, it's nice to be able to fixed a trashed SSD - even if it has to come from Apple or an Apple reseller, much better than those models that had the SSD directly integrated into the motherboard, like some of the MacBook Air models.
IIRC, you can even have the voices and music that was developed by Toys For Bob (the company behind SC2) for the 3DO. Also, some of the original MOD files have been resampled and updated by modern mixers. I prefer the original MOD files, but it's cool that it has had updates, even 20+ years on. Many thanks to Toys for Bob for releasing the source *and* content.
No, not with encrypted-locked bootloaders becoming common. For Verizon starting with the Samsung Galaxy S3 and phones after that era, and AT&T with the Samsung Galaxy S4 and other phones, you will have tough time putting anything other than what the carrier supports. You may get lucky and be able to break it, but it takes a lot longer. If there are unlocked bootloaders available, you may be able take matters into your own hands, but it is quite risky.
Also, when you buy a phone locked to a carrier, you may not be getting what's advertised elsewhere. iPhones are universal, Android, not so much. The AT&T Galaxy S3 (i747) was completely different than the international S3 (i9300). Some things were better - more RAM (2GB vs 1GB), slightly faster processor (1.5 GHz vs 1.4GHz), and faster cellular data (4G LTE vs 3G). Others things weren't so good - dual core instead of quad core (Snapdragon S4+ 'Krait' vs ARM Cortex-A9), weaker graphics processor (Adreno 225 vs ARM Mali 400), less storage (16GB vs 32GB), and a lot less battery time. And a broken GPS, if you upgrade to KitKat - even on stock. I wouldn't recommend buying a locked carrier phone (other than an iPhone) for anyone.