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Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Talkback Upstairs in the bedroom, leaning out the window got a signal. Switch to O2, a bit better; if I lean out the window doing an olympic runner impression thrusting the phone like a torch in the ether to light the flame of mobile reception, I can send...
[August 21, 2004, 8:13]
GNOME And KDE Battle Rages On
Talkback You can change the window border style, you can change the icons and window controls (buttons, sliders etc.appearance, but you can't change the colour scheme unless you write a new theme yourself! I've mostly used KDE, but with SUSE saying they...
[January 5, 2006, 6:22]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog I work on the first floor, at a desk (actually an upended crate) by a window which looks out onto a veranda and the verdant loveliness beyond. These, I prop up on a couple of bricks behind the computer, just in front of the window.
[June 2, 2006, 18:00]
Dang, Darn, Damn Small Linux!
Blog The Official Damn Small Linux Book comes with a LiveCD that also has the means of burning a customized-by-the-user version onto another CD, installing it on a USB flash drive, running it in a VMPlayer window and another way of running it is in a...
[July 15, 2008, 9:11]
Looking For A Java IDE?
News IDEA's version of code completion, known as "SmartType," is on par with what you'll find in a Microsoft development product: As you type characters, the list of available options narrows, and the method-level help window includes parameter...
[October 2, 2002, 13:53]
Chrome? What's Chrome About It?
Blog Another item I find annoying is that the Chrome URL/Search window doesn't operate like the FireFox Awesome bar. Try typing www.source (about here it has sourceforge.net listed at the bottom of the list) it pops open the "awesome bar window" and...
[September 19, 2008, 6:57]
A Challenge To All Linux Users In The World
Blog Comment That basically means he was able to click on the selection in a popup window and run the MSI package for the install. The goal, I suppose, is to create an install group of packages that can be run from either a command line or a browser window.
[May 31, 2007, 20:27]
Administrate NetWare Via Linux
News After you've downloaded the file, open a terminal window on your Linux workstation. Your desktop manager will vary depending on what version and distribution of Linux you're running and whether you've installed any aftermarket window managers.
[June 18, 2002, 10:46]
Kill The Clipboard review
Reviews And the clipboard now occupies the same space as XP's new Task Panes -- to the right of the document window. It sometimes inserts itself into your document window and obscures your work. You can place this pane anywhere on the desktop, but right...
[July 8, 2002, 10:04]
Microsoft To Plug URL-spoofing Hole
News So, for instance, in the above example, the URL in the IE address bar and at the bottom of the IE window would appear as simply http://www.cnet.com. This is how it works: the actual URL syntax in the link -- which appears in the IE address bar...
[January 30, 2004, 7:40]
Firefox Problems
Forum Does the slow down occur when you first open the browser/new window or does it occur while navigating within pages. Slow down occurs when I first open a browser window AND navigating between pages, and I use an iMac G5.
[December 15, 2006, 9:16]
Server Problems Beleaguer Hotmail Users
Talkback For 2 months, now, I've been having intermittent problems whereby, when I try to send a message, HOTMAIL drops it, I get no confirmation, then the damn character matching window pops-up. And round and round we go.the only way out of this mess that...
[September 13, 2005, 17:38]
Vista Versus The Gutsy Gibbon - Ubuntu 7.10
Blog Comment and "3D window flip areo magic! And I've only read up to #22. I started reading those 100 Microsoft reasons. I haven't really been keeping track, but so far it seems that "Windows media center has a remote control!
[October 22, 2007, 21:34]
PDA Security With Windows CE
Talkback The choices were: Yes, No or 'close window'. I tried 'close window' but nothing happened. ps: I've just posted a similar message on CE City (H/PC) site. Till last night I was believing Windows CE machines can't get viruses.
[March 7, 2004, 10:19]
2008-01-06 Vista Is A Downgrade.
Talkback I have window borders that I went in and set to a width of 1 because i found them way too big by default and they still look like they're at 3 or 4. The title bar of every window now looks 1.5 times the height that it was under XP and I can't...
[January 6, 2008, 23:41]
US Report: Can Free-access ISPs Defy Gravity?
News Having a company announce they're going to enter this market is like hearing someone say, with complete confidence, 'I'm going to step out of that fifth floor window and flap my arms, and I'm going to fly, because I've got really strong arms...
[October 29, 1998, 9:55]
The Goodwins Perspective: Living With ADSL
News Say you're watching a TV programme and it mentions something you're quite interested in -- you can find out as much as you like in a few seconds because you've already got a browser window or three open and waiting.
[July 29, 1999, 8:52]
Do Video Games Make Children Violent?
Talkback OBVIOUSLY) If I ever saw that cocksucker I'd throw him through a window and slit his throat. And yet I've got them in my jacket pocket. I've got a knife in my jacket pocket too, you fake-ass bitches wanna blame that on GTA San Andreas?
[March 29, 2005, 16:27]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog In my absence, the place has been thoroughly reorganised, and my seat has moved to a brand new spot by the window. I've spent the past five years going on about how wonderful is wireless networking, and reviewing laptops with fantastic video, audio...
[September 26, 2003, 18:40]
Zattoo Puts Live TV On The Desktop
Blog But I'm watching snooker in another window as I type this, so something's working (even if it's not me). For a start, I don't know how they've got around the various rights issues that are keeping other people from running video streams of UK...
[April 29, 2008, 14:18]
