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  1. MacOS Sierra multiple desktops on Ask Slashdot: What Software (Or Hardware) Glitch Makes You Angry? · · Score: 1

    When using multiple desktops in MacOS Sierra (10.12.5), pressing ctrl-left-arrow to return to the previous desktop toggles the next app in rotation instead of returning to the one you had open previously. So there's always an extra mouse-click just to resume what you were doing. Annoying.

  2. nice video, but the launch seems backwards on SpaceX Shows Off Its Interplanetary Transport System in New Video (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    They show the spaceship being launched first, to be refueled by a drone tanker. Shouldn't the tanker be launched first? Unlike the spaceship, it can wait indefinitely in orbit if the second launch is delayed.

  3. Can't tell what this is actually about. on After Decades of Abuse, Microsoft Adds an Anti-Macro-Malware Feature To Office (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    Can anyone clarify an apparent ambiguity (or error?) in the article referenced by the link in the original post? The article describes preventing Word macros from accessing Internet content, but the group policy shown in the screenshot is "Block macros from running in Office files from the Internet." That's not the same thing at all. Microsoft's suggestion to work around issues with the policy, quoted in the article, is to "ensure the file’s original location is considered trusted within the organization." That doesn't have anything to do with whether or not the macro accesses Internet content. Thanks.

  4. possible explanation on Microsoft Pulls Windows 10 November Update (1511) ISOs (zdnet.com) · · Score: 2

    Before Microsoft pulled the upgrade, I tried to install it on four perfectly-functioning domain-connected computers. It failed every time, causing old issues (explorer.exe immediately crashing every time it starts) and new ones (start button ignores mouse clicks, Cortana fails, start panel blank). In each case, I was forced to do a clean re-install to get build 10586 to work. Since Microsoft is not explaining its reasons for pulling the upgrade, we are entitled to speculate. Here’s my guess: Restricting the upgrade to Windows Update is a way of delaying it without having to publically acknowledge pervasive problems with it. I suspect that they have temporarily stopped providing it via Windows Update as well and that they are madly trying to fix it before anyone notices the delay. Clue: the upgrade is not available via Windows Update on any of the 25 Windows 10 computers I administer, even though build 10240 was installed on them months ago.

  5. Western Electric telephones circa 1955 on Ask Slashdot: What Tech Products Were Built To Last? · · Score: 1

    Ma Bell owned them, we just rented them -- they were built to last forever. Occasionally in a movie somone would commit murder by picking up the handset and whacking someone else over the head. Try that with your iPhone.....