• (cs) in reply to Someone You Know
    Someone You Know:
    I always figured it was related to Excel 2003's bizarro-world taskbar buttons, where each open file has its own taskbar button, even if they're all displayed in the same container window.
    That's a multiple fail. Firstly, that behaviour is configurable: Options > Advanced > Show all windows in Taskbar. (In previous versions the option was called something slightly different, but I forget the exact wording.) Secondly, that option exists in Word and Powerpoint too - but not Access, because you can still only have one database open at a time in an Access instance. If you want to complain about primitive behaviour in Office, go and complain about that.
  • illtiz (unregistered) in reply to Huh?
    Huh?:
    The Nerve:
    Remy Porter:
    ... //Hey, Apple, while you're stealing ZFS and DTrace from Solaris, would you mind adapting Zones? That'd be great. //I am not the sort of person that thinks OSX is the best OS ever. //That honor goes to VMS.

    Unfortunately, Apple ripped off BSD, which ripped off these tools from Linux, which is not dumbed down at all, runs on reasonably-priced hardware, and doesn't have an insecure, egomaniac, control freak with his hands in every pot. Even the rubber-bumper-Ubuntu version blows OSX out of the water, although in 10.04 Mark Shuttleworth may be admitting he has a crush on Steve Jobs

    Huh? BSD ripped what off from Linux?!

    Utterly seconded! Anyone under the impression that either ZFS or DTrace has Linux origins suffers from delusions and should really brush up on their *NIX history.

  • (cs) in reply to Remy Porter
    Remy Porter:
    I am not the sort of person that thinks OSX is the best OS ever. That honor goes to VMS.
    Yeah, such a great OS.

    Me: "OK, change the current directory to so and so." (Which for some reason is called 'set default'.) VMS: "Sure thing, will do." Me: "Now show the contents of the current directory." VMS: "Ha ha! Fooled you! That directory does not exist!"

    (VMS runs off, laughing hysterically about Unix not knowing how to make love.)

  • (cs) in reply to DaveK
    DaveK:
    PLAINTEXT:  abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
    CIPHERTEXT: MNOHIJK E  @ABC\]^_XYZ[

    I figured it out. The plaintext is XORed with 0x2c. so the substitution tables are:

    @ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ[\]^_`abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz{|}~
lmnohijkdefg`abc|}~xyz{tuvwpqrsLMNOHIJKDEFG@ABC\]^_XYZ[TUVWPQRS

    Note that it includes the character 0x7f for 'S' which is not a regular character.

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  • mark (unregistered)

    Android allows you to specify the percentage at which to display a battery warning - in this case the submitter set it to 90%. Nothing to see there; Move along.

  • (cs) in reply to SlyEcho

    You can also play with the width and height, although they are constrained to <= 500 pixels.

    [image]
  • (cs) in reply to m a t t
    m a t t:
    HopelessIntern:
    The android one is good. One thing I love about android (at least the two ive had) is that when the battery really is low, and it suggests you plug it in again, it gives two options: OK, and Why? I like being given the ability to question my orders/suggestions.

    Android phones have two power supplies. I know this because mine will proudly announce that it's battery level is < 0% and I should really plug it in. Either that or it is powered by it's own brilliance.

    My Motorola Droid (Android 2.1) likes to do things like this. I have to turn it off and on again to "unconfuse" it. It does this even when it's been sitting on the "multimedia cradle" for hours.

  • JJ (unregistered) in reply to Scarlet Manuka

    You've got some fail of your own in that statement. While it's correct that Access can only have one database open at a time, it is still an MDI application and have multiple WINDOWS open at a time, such as tables, queries, forms, etc., all of which could be displayed in the taskbar. Personally, that's the first thing I turn off after every new Office install. I'm quite capable of using the Window menu.

  • JJ (unregistered) in reply to Scarlet Manuka
    Scarlet Manuka:
    Someone You Know:
    I always figured it was related to Excel 2003's bizarro-world taskbar buttons, where each open file has its own taskbar button, even if they're all displayed in the same container window.
    That's a multiple fail. Firstly, that behaviour is configurable: Options > Advanced > Show all windows in Taskbar. (In previous versions the option was called something slightly different, but I forget the exact wording.) Secondly, that option exists in Word and Powerpoint too - but not Access, because you can still only have one database open at a time in an Access instance. If you want to complain about primitive behaviour in Office, go and complain about that.
    And I have my own fail because Reply != Quote.
  • (cs)

    And that's why captcha text should be stored in a session variable.

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