I couldn't find active links for one or two of them myself, but here's an updated list -- in some cases these aren't the original sites, which have disappeared, so obviously it's worth being extra careful with antivirus software... apologies for the mess of links; the filter doesn't like short lines...
If I'm going out deliberately to fix stuff I'll have CDs of stuff anyway, but a lot of families also have a more recent desktop or laptop around. It's come in handy a few times, so it's been kept.:)
most every gas station I have been to in my life sells "regular", "silver", and "premium" gas. Have you never bought gas before?
Probably not in America. Everything at a filling pump is assumed to be of a certain quality over here in the UK.
Or there's the option most people would go for -- wipe the drive and use it. The trouble with ringing random strangers to let them know they've been somewhat foolish (even if not taking that approach in the conversation) is that they may very well be inclined to shoot the messenger...
Visually it's a waste of space. Opera already handles multiple documents being open poorly, shrinking the button size so that's much harder to select documents; so does Firefox, but at least it's just a simple extension to have them wrap and the tabs/buttons not shrink below a certain width.
More logic (and more ease of use for those with limited mobility, in particular) to get into the habit of 'parking' the pointer towards a particular corner of the screen.
Can you make extensions for Opera? I only ask because there are several I find extremely useful in Firefox (such as the ability to remove page elements before printing) and couldn't find a way to implement these things in Opera. If it was similarly extensible, rather than working out-of-the-box for a limited number of users and leaving others out in the cold, I'd give it another shot as a regular browser.
BTW, try the Nightly Tester Tools if you want to force extension compatibility. And bear in mind that most users don't touch extensions -- most users don't look for more functionality than is in IE, in fact.
So many times in IE have I opened a new window and then instantly regretted it as my computer bogged down opening another instance of Acrobat, or restarted all the stupid flash ads
As I said: optional. For better or worse, people expect it. Personally I would have it enabled (or rather these days I'd skip straight to Tab Mix Plus, which is is nifty. And would also disable/whitelist all of the bloated plugin crap.)
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your palms, especially near your wrists, should not be touching anything
They aren't -- the mouse is moved with the upper part of the fingers/thumb, and the hand isn't cupped. A few years later and everything's comfortable.
re: keeping weights by desk, which someone further down the comments mentioned, I've found this pretty good for breaks. I'm not trying to mitigate existing permanent damage, though, so it'd probably be a good idea for people to check with a doctor before trying anything too heavy.
RSI is typically more associated with mouse use than keyboards, due to the tighter grip. There's probably something to the logic that enjoyment promotes healthy wrists, though -- in a good mood and/or without a looming deadline, you'll be less tense and more inclined to pay attention to any twinges of discomfort. The trick is forcing muscles and tendons to relax when you're distracted and focusing. Some people can probably do this naturally.
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What good does a pad positioned an inch or so below your wrist do?
If that's the only portion it's supporting, you're probably not using it as intended or have a small gimmicky one -- the curve of the rest on the one I'm using now is several inches long. Before I'd tend to grip the mouse tightly (and preferred thin mice); the rest prevents that deathlock grip to a certain extent. I'm also a fan of software acceleration, reducing the amount the mouse needs to be moved. Some people find that high acceleration doesn't give them precision, but I've gotten used to it.
The single most important thing seems to be to have your chair high enough so that you aren't bending wrists back to use peripherals. I do find the rest very comfortable for extended use, though. They're not particularly hygienic, but nor are peripherals in general.
I suspect the split-style keyboards are good, but I've never bothered with them. But I can see the attraction.
The nifty thing is that it forces you to learn key positions rather than peck if you want any sort of typing speed. It's an incentive towards good habits. Whilst not a Microsoft fan in many respects, I do like their keyboards and mice and've found them to hold up well over time. Even if I've rubbed the matte finish on the keyboard rest glossy over a few years...
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Or just a wrist rest if you don't use a mat/pad. Honestly, you'll get used to it very quickly and I strongly suspect it's the only reason I don't have crippling RSI by now. A decent natural "split"-style keyboard has also been my preference for years.
It's like leaving a loaded gun lying around -- some idiot may decide to use it
It's really easy to make explosives. We can't ban the sale of ingredients. That's a slightly facile example -- there are legitimate uses for many things that could be used for malice, whilst fewer for exploit source code. However, prohibiting the availability of information about holes wouldn't improve the situation -- it'd mean more blackhats would have the information rather than people using that information to arrange protective measures.
Let's have some other basic IE features that are more lightweight (a few lines of code, by comparison) built in, then -- such as Clone Window. As optional features, of course, but it'd help people switching who aren't techy and don't understand why they've "lost" functionality.
Write in the language of the users you expect to use your site, and look at the server logs to see what terms people were using when they found your site.
If you sell poultry medication, for example, there's no point in only labelling products as being for cockerels if your visitors are more likely to use rooster as a keyword. You might also want to refrain from putting "cock pills" in your meta tags...
Other than that, write semantically valid code (header tags, etc) and don't put large blocks of navigation links first in a document -- you want search engines to concentrate more on the unique content of a page.
If they cornered the market on both OS and AntiVirus, it might make it harder for them to avoid culpability when the next Windows pandemic breaks loose.
It'll be interesting to watch... if there are periods during which their anti-virus defends against it, but patches don't, they'll be found to have acted in very bad faith.
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What extensions are you using, and do you experience the same memory chewing without them?
How much would you want to bet (pun intended) that a move to limit online gambling isn't sponsored by brick-and-mortar casinos?
Many do, they just want it to take place somewhere they can take their cut.
I couldn't find active links for one or two of them myself, but here's an updated list -- in some cases these aren't the original sites, which have disappeared, so obviously it's worth being extra careful with antivirus software... apologies for the mess of links; the filter doesn't like short lines...
1by1 (play MP3s), AriskKey (recover passwords), AutoRuns (enumerate startup tasks), BurnCDCC (burn ISO images), CD (basic CD player), CDex (rip CDs + convert MP3/WAV), Copier [0X Copy Machine] (scan + print), CWShredder (clean spyware), DComBob (tame DCOM), DirLister (make quick file lists), Discover (force windows onscreen), DupeLocater (find and clean), FileRecovery [PC Inspector] (undelete), Folder2ISO (use with BurnCDCC), FoxitReader (read PDFs), GUIPDFTK (split/join PDFs), HijackThis (find spyware), HJSplit (split/join files), Identify_Boards (identify hardware), KatMouse installer (due to MS drivers), LCISOCreator (make ISO image from CD), Leaktest (test firewall), Microsoft keygen (people lose things), MultiRes (change res + force refresh), Multi Timer (stopwatch), NoteTab Light (text editor), NTest (test monitor setup), OnTop (pin windows to foreground), Process Explorer (task manager), ProduKey (recover passwords), Registry Commander (virus cleanup), ResHacker (examine executables), Rootkit Revealer (just in case) ShootTheMessenger (turn service off), Shred by AnalogX (simple filer shredder), TedNPad (unicode text editor), TFT (dead pixel locator), UNPnP (tame SSDP), UPX (compress executables), UnitConverter (what it says), utorrent (basic torrent app), VCdControlTool (mount ISO images),
If I'm going out deliberately to fix stuff I'll have CDs of stuff anyway, but a lot of families also have a more recent desktop or laptop around. It's come in handy a few times, so it's been kept. :)
Some of this is a bit redundant, but it is all only 19Mb using UPX.
1by1 (play MP3s), AriskKey (recover passwords), AutoRuns (enumerate startup tasks), BurnCDCC (burn ISO images), CD (basic CD player), CDex (rip CDs + convert MP3/WAV), Copier (quick scan + print), CWShredder (clean spyware), DComBob (tame DCOM), Discover (force windows onscreen), DupeLocater (find and clean), FileRecovery PC Inspector (undelete), Folder2ISO (make ISO images), FoxitReader (read PDFs), GUIPDFTK (split/join PDFs), HijackThis (find spyware), HJSplit (split/join files), Identify_Boards (identify hardware), IPAgent (show IP), KatMouse installer (due to MS drivers), LCISOCreator (make ISO image from CD), Leaktest (test firewall), Microsoft keygen (people lose things), MultiRes (change res + force refresh), Multi Timer (stopwatch), NoteTab Light (text editor), NTest (test monitor setup), OnTop (pin windows to foreground), Process Explorer (task manager), ProduKey (recover passwords), Registry Commander (virus cleanup), ResHacker (examine executables), Rootkit Revealer (just in case), ShootTheMessenger (turn service off), Shred by AnalogX (simple filer shredder), TedNPad (unicode text editor), TFT (dead pixel locator), UNPnP (tame SSDP), UPX (compress executables), UnitConverter (what it says), utorrent (basic torrent app), VCdControlTool (mount ISO images), Windows 98 generic USB flash driver, WinImp (archive to ZIP, de-archives more), WinIPs (set hardware IPs), Wizmo (create force kill shortcuts), WNTIPCFG (show IP config), WS_FTP95 (basic FTP client), XnView (image browser and effects), XPDite (minor XP-SP1 fix), YACalc (evaluate expressions), XVI32 (hex editor)
The comics, some of which were better than just toy promotion -- a guide and some info: here. In the US, the focus was more on the TV show.
most every gas station I have been to in my life sells "regular", "silver", and "premium" gas. Have you never bought gas before? Probably not in America. Everything at a filling pump is assumed to be of a certain quality over here in the UK.
It's a game about shooting and beating people. If anyone likely to be twisted by fuzzy polygon boobs is playing, their parents are incompetent.
Print to PDFs work by printing the document as an "image"
Incorrect.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfcreator/
Or there's the option most people would go for -- wipe the drive and use it. The trouble with ringing random strangers to let them know they've been somewhat foolish (even if not taking that approach in the conversation) is that they may very well be inclined to shoot the messenger...
On the tab. More logical.
Visually it's a waste of space. Opera already handles multiple documents being open poorly, shrinking the button size so that's much harder to select documents; so does Firefox, but at least it's just a simple extension to have them wrap and the tabs/buttons not shrink below a certain width.
More logic (and more ease of use for those with limited mobility, in particular) to get into the habit of 'parking' the pointer towards a particular corner of the screen.
Can you make extensions for Opera? I only ask because there are several I find extremely useful in Firefox (such as the ability to remove page elements before printing) and couldn't find a way to implement these things in Opera. If it was similarly extensible, rather than working out-of-the-box for a limited number of users and leaving others out in the cold, I'd give it another shot as a regular browser.
BTW, try the Nightly Tester Tools if you want to force extension compatibility. And bear in mind that most users don't touch extensions -- most users don't look for more functionality than is in IE, in fact.
Have a read of the list of things not working yet. There seem to have been some major changes to the underlying code.
Yeah. This isn't a dupe, which we could probably do with a tag for on the article...
It's still just an alpha though.
So many times in IE have I opened a new window and then instantly regretted it as my computer bogged down opening another instance of Acrobat, or restarted all the stupid flash ads
As I said: optional. For better or worse, people expect it. Personally I would have it enabled (or rather these days I'd skip straight to Tab Mix Plus, which is is nifty. And would also disable/whitelist all of the bloated plugin crap.)
your palms, especially near your wrists, should not be touching anything
They aren't -- the mouse is moved with the upper part of the fingers/thumb, and the hand isn't cupped. A few years later and everything's comfortable.
re: keeping weights by desk, which someone further down the comments mentioned, I've found this pretty good for breaks. I'm not trying to mitigate existing permanent damage, though, so it'd probably be a good idea for people to check with a doctor before trying anything too heavy.
RSI is typically more associated with mouse use than keyboards, due to the tighter grip. There's probably something to the logic that enjoyment promotes healthy wrists, though -- in a good mood and/or without a looming deadline, you'll be less tense and more inclined to pay attention to any twinges of discomfort. The trick is forcing muscles and tendons to relax when you're distracted and focusing. Some people can probably do this naturally.
What good does a pad positioned an inch or so below your wrist do?
If that's the only portion it's supporting, you're probably not using it as intended or have a small gimmicky one -- the curve of the rest on the one I'm using now is several inches long. Before I'd tend to grip the mouse tightly (and preferred thin mice); the rest prevents that deathlock grip to a certain extent. I'm also a fan of software acceleration, reducing the amount the mouse needs to be moved. Some people find that high acceleration doesn't give them precision, but I've gotten used to it.
The single most important thing seems to be to have your chair high enough so that you aren't bending wrists back to use peripherals. I do find the rest very comfortable for extended use, though. They're not particularly hygienic, but nor are peripherals in general.
I suspect the split-style keyboards are good, but I've never bothered with them. But I can see the attraction.
The nifty thing is that it forces you to learn key positions rather than peck if you want any sort of typing speed. It's an incentive towards good habits. Whilst not a Microsoft fan in many respects, I do like their keyboards and mice and've found them to hold up well over time. Even if I've rubbed the matte finish on the keyboard rest glossy over a few years...
Or just a wrist rest if you don't use a mat/pad. Honestly, you'll get used to it very quickly and I strongly suspect it's the only reason I don't have crippling RSI by now. A decent natural "split"-style keyboard has also been my preference for years.
It's like leaving a loaded gun lying around -- some idiot may decide to use it
It's really easy to make explosives. We can't ban the sale of ingredients. That's a slightly facile example -- there are legitimate uses for many things that could be used for malice, whilst fewer for exploit source code. However, prohibiting the availability of information about holes wouldn't improve the situation -- it'd mean more blackhats would have the information rather than people using that information to arrange protective measures.
Let's have some other basic IE features that are more lightweight (a few lines of code, by comparison) built in, then -- such as Clone Window. As optional features, of course, but it'd help people switching who aren't techy and don't understand why they've "lost" functionality.
You probably want the Nightly Tester Tools extension. Does the work for you! :)
Write in the language of the users you expect to use your site, and look at the server logs to see what terms people were using when they found your site.
If you sell poultry medication, for example, there's no point in only labelling products as being for cockerels if your visitors are more likely to use rooster as a keyword. You might also want to refrain from putting "cock pills" in your meta tags...
Other than that, write semantically valid code (header tags, etc) and don't put large blocks of navigation links first in a document -- you want search engines to concentrate more on the unique content of a page.
All common sense stuff, really.
If they cornered the market on both OS and AntiVirus, it might make it harder for them to avoid culpability when the next Windows pandemic breaks loose.
It'll be interesting to watch... if there are periods during which their anti-virus defends against it, but patches don't, they'll be found to have acted in very bad faith.