Adobe's Chinese Torture
Blog This must have put me off my guard, because when it came to the dialogue box where you select the components you want to install, I failed to notice that the default language had somehow changed to Chinese.
[September 14, 2007, 9:59]
US Report: Mac OS 8.2 To Gain PPC Code, New Look
News Users will be able to launch Disk First Aid from the Improper Shutdown dialogue box, sources said, and the disk utility will finally be able to repair a start-up disk. Some of the system components in the OS revision are expected to adopt...
[April 28, 1998, 6:00]
A Little Wine With Your Linux?
News There is a definite, noticeable lag during which the mouse won't even move when you first open this dialogue box. Figure B shows Notepad on Linux with the File | Open dialogue box open. That's the price you must pay to run an application on an OS...
[October 7, 2003, 13:00]
Mac Users Left Waiting As Intuit Update Erases Data
News After download of the faulty update, a dialogue box informed users: "There is not enough space to install. It affected the Mac OS X QuickBooks software, versions 2006 and 2007. When documents are erased in Mac OS X, the files are typically still...
[December 20, 2007, 11:53]
US Report: Microsoft, BugNet At Odds Over FrontPage 'bug'
News Enhancing the dialogue is the best we can do without disabling the ability to delete," Angiulo said. He added that Microsoft will enhance the dialog box to inform users exactly which directories are about to be deleted, although the final decision...
[May 6, 1998, 8:11]
Vista Vs Ubuntu: This Time, It's Virtual
Blog Might even put a Dialogue Box together around it. Of course, I can't just put a Windows OS on my Ubuntu machinery - don't have an unused Genuine Windows Advantage XP or Vista, and to reuse anything would be against the licence.
[October 23, 2007, 14:20]
Naked PCs
Talkback I use OpenOffice 2.3, but it isn't good enough, it's User Interface is clunky, simple things like a pop up dialogue with mulitple options requires you to click on the option move the mouse and click on ok.you should be able to double click on the...
[October 2, 2007, 12:32]
OS SOS
Talkback Great feature on OS this episode. Vista Ultimate at the price you quoted is for the retail package which lets you install on 3 systems e.g.your Desktop and 2 laptops. The OEM version allows a single user install and costs 1/3rd of the price.
[November 7, 2007, 10:10]
Microsoft 'frightened' By Police XP Hack
News Mick found the IP address of his own computer by using the XP Wireless Network Connection Status dialogue box. In addition to frequent notification through pop-up dialogue boxes, and the disabling of non-critical updates, WGA on Vista also disables...
[November 13, 2007, 10:26]
Companion Device?
Talkback The UMPC format would make more sense to us with a leaner OS, a faster hardware platform, a usable keyboard, better connectivity out of the box and a considerably lower price. Our comments in the video were based on the assumption that the Q1...
[July 24, 2007, 11:25]
More Than One Way To Cook An Egg
Talkback These are also the sort of things that operating systems do - and, indeed, you can get serious performance problems if the OS' model of efficient task handling is too much at odds with the way the processor optimises its own resources.
[November 26, 2007, 11:06]
