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6y ago
BenQ PD3200Q (my current monitor) also has this feature, and comes with a puck style remote for quick switching. Added bonus, it's quite a good monitor!
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I have my username @ gmail which is kinda OG as it has no numbers etc., and I got in early via an invite to secure it. I get fair amount of spam on it, but as I don't use it as my main email, I'm not that bothered.
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6y ago
Aww Shucks. Thank you!
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> to donate extra money to the police force so that they are more forgiving So a bribe then. Wow. As citizens of the country we live in, we should all be subject to the same laws and restrictions. Anything less than that is a form of c
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In this instance, 'para-' is being used to mean: abnormal/ incorrect. ref: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/para-#Prefix
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6y ago
No .gov ? Maybe that's a good thing /s
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6y ago
I don't know how the author of Nessie specifically did it, but generally on the .NET platform, you have access to the Trident rendering engine by adding the WebBrowser control to one of the forms of your new application. From there, yo
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I'm keeping an eye on siri.com - right now it redirects to a sort-of-holding page on apple.com... but I can totally envision that URL becoming the home of their new search engine.
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Coming from a DOS background, this gave me nostalgia for Lotus-123.
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Hype as Microsoft launches Windows 95
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Depends on the employer - most outsource their web access to a proxy provider that has configurable content block-lists. but yes, porn is likely blocked and/or reported on in most large organisations.
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Bletchley Park: New crisis for code-breaking hub
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I've worked in many large Corporates, mainly in the financial sector. I've also spent a large part of my early career designing and deploying the 'standard' build that gets put on all work end-user machines. At the very
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The Commander X16 is the brain-child of 8-bit-guy[1] on YouTube who does tons of fairly good retro videos. He's roped other people in to get it built though. --- [1] https://www.youtube.com/user/adric22
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I recently dipped my toe in cross platform desktop dev with C# via Visual Studio on Windows and then the Mono runtime on Linux. Mono renders the app UI really well, but it's not pixel accurate - in fact, I found all the widgets to be s
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What would happen to Earth if humans went extinct?
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Archive copy for people blocked due to GDPR: http://archive.is/Va3MA
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6y ago
What's the big yellow swirly thing?
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6y ago
Define 'smart'? For me, smart means not only knowing things, but knowing WHAT to do with that knowledge and how to apply it beyond what they learnt. As an aside, High IQ != Smart
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6y ago
Fancy a challenge? Join others solving this 1000x1000 board: http://mega-minesweeper.com/
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> But NYC is the center of the financial universe. Erm...? I think London, Singapore, Hong Kong and Tokyo would disagree. I stopped reading at that point tbh.
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Adding my mail setup to those listed here. - Hosted locally. - Virtual Windows Server 2012 R2 running on my Hyper-V host. - Microsoft Exchange 2013 - Self written, internet facing MTA, that filters/rejects email before passing onto Exc
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This is the key thing. Previous to 'cloud' as a customer, you'd pre-pay for X amount of rack space, plus energy usage, and if not providing your own kit, X amount of hardware. And then there was the separate billing for manag
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TOP TIP: Do not put Fairy Liquid in the little tablet tray in your dishwasher when you run out of tablets. It does not end well. :(
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On the basis that 90% of the time when it did go off to the 'internet' (aka some Microsoft site) to find drivers it would spend hours doing it to only come back with nothing, it's been pretty useless for some time now. One wo
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Ah good point. My bad.
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What did I say wrong? Care to explain the down-votes?
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The penny has just dropped with me. This scenario is exactly where Starlink[1] can shine (no pun intended). Find a way to get uplink routers into the locked down country and it would be impossible for totalitarian governments to block inter
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Not a silly question. However, (at a guess) I reckon a lot of the underlying net code is probably POSIX based, which MS-DOS is not. I notice there's a framebuffer version, so building a nano-linux distro that boots instantly into that
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Well, the browser could just stop doing it for certain types of content.
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