The first game I ever bought with my own pocket money was Gridrunner on the Vic 20. Been following his career ever since, he's truly a unique guy in this industry. There's just one thing.... that BASIC listing of ROX 64 in C&VG back in... 1984? I never could get that to run. Damn.
I still have some motor instinct to use my left hand for CTRL+ALT and right hand for DEL when using a full-sized keyboard, although CTRL+ALT+DEL is certainly achievable using only your right hand on a full-sized keyboard.
I might just crack open my old copy of the book "Show Stopper!" by G. Pascal Zacharay. A great read on the design and development process involved in releasing Windows NT.
I had a Knoppix CD with me several years ago and got stranded in an airport for around 8 hours due to a cancelled flight. At this time free wi-fi was no prevalent, even in the airport lounges. However the carrier decided to let me in to their lounge and enjoy the facilities during the long wait. Inside the lounge were a bank of computers that users could buy internet time on for some exorbitant fee. However, they had no security around them and the CD drive and BIOS were freely accessible. Thank you Knoppix for a few hours of free internet....:-)
I take it all back. So, I finally got around to downloading 8.1 and installing it. It's easy enough to set it up to boot to desktop, but the start button really just brings up the metro interface as far as I can tell, which makes it next to worthless based on all the complaints about it. Not sure if there's an easy way to just hit the Windows key and start typing the name of your app.
Like I said... "it works for me at least" - I realise that we all have different preferences and requirements...
Understood... That's why I said it works for me. I rarely use Windows, and when doing so it's only for a few apps for the company I work for - typically Microsoft Office/Visio/Visual Studio stuff. Beyond that my primary OS is CentOS for my server-based stuff and Mint for GUI stuff.
Good for you! 140Mandak262Jamuna might want to watch out though, as he's clearly a power user with his wizardish use of those powerful !&>|>> symbols....
Umm.... actually, the O/S I work 90% of my time on is CentOS, and typically the minimal install (what is this shell "window" of which you speak???), so I'm fairly familiar with these mystical and obscure symbols that you mention.... lol... I use Windows 7 in a VM for pretty much my work Exchange account, Office, and Visio. Not quite sure why you are jumping to these conclusions merely because I actually use Windows.
@jones_supa: That's what I'm saying. I do this on Windows 7 rather than navigating the menu that pops up from hitting the start button. It works for anything that's in the start menu hierarchy. I always found winding my way through the start menu frustrating.
if it's not yet available to the general public? I got a message stating that the ISOs are not yet available when just going to the MSDN site. I have an MSDN subscription for OS & Dev tools, and was able to download it. Seems like a strange thing to make a public announcement and then be told it's not *actually* ready for public download yet.
I haven't really used the start menu in Windows 7 in a long time. My typical workflow is to hit the Windows key then type the first few letters of the application I want to start, and then hit enter. As long as Windows 8 allows that easily now with booting to desktop and a start button, then it works for me at least. Admittedly I haven't really played with Windows 8 much.
If you think "Watching the Detectives" is about police surveillance, then you need to actually listen to the lyrics. It's about a woman that the singer finds so attractive, "pulls your eyes out with a face like a magnet...". Costello once explained the title of the song in an interview, saying he was trying to have sexy time with this lady but she was more interested in "watching the detectives" on TV.
Don't get cute...
to be even more fair, the same has happened on my CentOS distro and Ubuntu distros. VMWare Workstation just seems incredibly unstable on Linux. I'm really not interested in hours of debugging after a relatively minor (well as minor as a kernel upgrade can possibly be) kernel upgrade, so it's to the point of ignoring most updates. I'd happily use virtualbox, as that seems much more stable and less prone to being utterly destroyed by updates, but there are several appliances that I use for my work on a daily basis that are in the vmware format. Yes, it's possible to convert - but it's just as much effort to convert as it is to try and patch vmware.
I think just about every time there is a kernel update to my Mint distro, the following break with absolute regularity: vmware workstation, conky, cairo-dock, 3d graphics drivers. Now, that's more likely to be a fault of the applications, but I for one would expect vmware to not fail so miserably with each kernel update.
Of course the laptop is expensive enough, but that just strengthens the argument about why Dell would make such an effort to produce such a polished effort and then finish it off with such a glaring omission? This is a printed logo we are talking about, and a company with the clout of Dell. How much more expensive could it be to instruct their factory that mass-produces keyboards to have them create a batch with an alternative logo??
I'm not even suggesting it has to be a penguin or something silly like that, but at least something neutral. As a Linux advocate, I would resent paying so much for a laptop that proudly displays a Microsoft logo on the keyboard.
Maybe it's time for the industry in general to replace this proprietary symbol on what has now become an industry-standard key?
Dear AC. Since you're unsure of what a keyboard is, I'm not sure how you managed to type the response.... Take a look at the key between the CTRL and ALT keys; there you will see, in all its splendour, a standard Microsoft Windows logo key.
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Huh...? I know of an app to sync iTunes content to your Android, but.....
The first game I ever bought with my own pocket money was Gridrunner on the Vic 20. Been following his career ever since, he's truly a unique guy in this industry. There's just one thing.... that BASIC listing of ROX 64 in C&VG back in... 1984? I never could get that to run. Damn.
I still have some motor instinct to use my left hand for CTRL+ALT and right hand for DEL when using a full-sized keyboard, although CTRL+ALT+DEL is certainly achievable using only your right hand on a full-sized keyboard.
I might just crack open my old copy of the book "Show Stopper!" by G. Pascal Zacharay. A great read on the design and development process involved in releasing Windows NT.
for a moment there i mispronounced the name of the magazine as "jizzmag" and thought that it was rather inappropriate....
Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster anyone?
:-) Thank goodness it was at Heathrow then! Though I trust the British government (mine) about as much as I trust the US government....
I had a Knoppix CD with me several years ago and got stranded in an airport for around 8 hours due to a cancelled flight. At this time free wi-fi was no prevalent, even in the airport lounges. However the carrier decided to let me in to their lounge and enjoy the facilities during the long wait. Inside the lounge were a bank of computers that users could buy internet time on for some exorbitant fee. However, they had no security around them and the CD drive and BIOS were freely accessible. Thank you Knoppix for a few hours of free internet.... :-)
I take it all back. So, I finally got around to downloading 8.1 and installing it. It's easy enough to set it up to boot to desktop, but the start button really just brings up the metro interface as far as I can tell, which makes it next to worthless based on all the complaints about it. Not sure if there's an easy way to just hit the Windows key and start typing the name of your app. Like I said... "it works for me at least" - I realise that we all have different preferences and requirements...
:-) No worries!
Understood... That's why I said it works for me. I rarely use Windows, and when doing so it's only for a few apps for the company I work for - typically Microsoft Office/Visio/Visual Studio stuff. Beyond that my primary OS is CentOS for my server-based stuff and Mint for GUI stuff.
Good for you! 140Mandak262Jamuna might want to watch out though, as he's clearly a power user with his wizardish use of those powerful !&>|>> symbols....
Actually, talking about obscure symbols, why don't you go ahead and type my sig into your favourite shell window....?
Umm.... actually, the O/S I work 90% of my time on is CentOS, and typically the minimal install (what is this shell "window" of which you speak???), so I'm fairly familiar with these mystical and obscure symbols that you mention.... lol... I use Windows 7 in a VM for pretty much my work Exchange account, Office, and Visio. Not quite sure why you are jumping to these conclusions merely because I actually use Windows.
@jones_supa: That's what I'm saying. I do this on Windows 7 rather than navigating the menu that pops up from hitting the start button. It works for anything that's in the start menu hierarchy. I always found winding my way through the start menu frustrating.
if it's not yet available to the general public? I got a message stating that the ISOs are not yet available when just going to the MSDN site. I have an MSDN subscription for OS & Dev tools, and was able to download it. Seems like a strange thing to make a public announcement and then be told it's not *actually* ready for public download yet.
I haven't really used the start menu in Windows 7 in a long time. My typical workflow is to hit the Windows key then type the first few letters of the application I want to start, and then hit enter. As long as Windows 8 allows that easily now with booting to desktop and a start button, then it works for me at least. Admittedly I haven't really played with Windows 8 much.
If you think "Watching the Detectives" is about police surveillance, then you need to actually listen to the lyrics. It's about a woman that the singer finds so attractive, "pulls your eyes out with a face like a magnet...". Costello once explained the title of the song in an interview, saying he was trying to have sexy time with this lady but she was more interested in "watching the detectives" on TV. Don't get cute...
Said something....
I've had cancer twice now, and the only way I could deal with it was through humour. Lighten up.
Mr. Mojo Risin' would have been much better!
to be even more fair, the same has happened on my CentOS distro and Ubuntu distros. VMWare Workstation just seems incredibly unstable on Linux. I'm really not interested in hours of debugging after a relatively minor (well as minor as a kernel upgrade can possibly be) kernel upgrade, so it's to the point of ignoring most updates. I'd happily use virtualbox, as that seems much more stable and less prone to being utterly destroyed by updates, but there are several appliances that I use for my work on a daily basis that are in the vmware format. Yes, it's possible to convert - but it's just as much effort to convert as it is to try and patch vmware.
I think just about every time there is a kernel update to my Mint distro, the following break with absolute regularity: vmware workstation, conky, cairo-dock, 3d graphics drivers. Now, that's more likely to be a fault of the applications, but I for one would expect vmware to not fail so miserably with each kernel update.
Of course the laptop is expensive enough, but that just strengthens the argument about why Dell would make such an effort to produce such a polished effort and then finish it off with such a glaring omission? This is a printed logo we are talking about, and a company with the clout of Dell. How much more expensive could it be to instruct their factory that mass-produces keyboards to have them create a batch with an alternative logo?? I'm not even suggesting it has to be a penguin or something silly like that, but at least something neutral. As a Linux advocate, I would resent paying so much for a laptop that proudly displays a Microsoft logo on the keyboard. Maybe it's time for the industry in general to replace this proprietary symbol on what has now become an industry-standard key?
Dear AC. Since you're unsure of what a keyboard is, I'm not sure how you managed to type the response.... Take a look at the key between the CTRL and ALT keys; there you will see, in all its splendour, a standard Microsoft Windows logo key.