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Still, those articles are pure bull§hit, that VERY nice thingy : from the MIT guys has nothing to do with Prism (or similar NSA controls/accesses) and, JFYI, provides completely meaningless data (when it comes to "investigation"). You see, the number of e-mails you get and send is a completely meaningless piece of data, we could exchange - say - 6 mails a day for several years, and then (IF you are Dr.Evil in disguise )you could send a single e-mail to a "disposable" e-mail address commanding the next 9/11 attack , and this would have in one of those graphic no highlight/relevance whatsoever. The (as said very nice) graphics created with the data is mostly eye-candy, just imagine the NSA analyst clicking his/her way through a zillion baloons! And then there is the not-so-trifling issue of the six (or maybe seven) degrees of separation theory: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six_degrees_of_separation Rest assured that *whatever* the NSA has is both "much better" and "very different" from the thingy that those articles FALSELY represented as an example of what they have. jaclaz

Let's call things with their names . That is PURE bull§hit. Should read: On the tool page: https://immersion.media.mit.edu/ I would expect that the NSA would be interested in contents. jaclaz

The syntax for linking to a specific post has been since the very early days that of: http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=137119&st=20http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php? <- base addressshowtopic=137119 <- topic/thread number&st=20 <- offset to post #This syntax does not work properly anymore. ALREADY POSTED LINKS in that form (that has always been valid) even at the time of the previous Board update (for which at the time I wrote temporarily the converter, which obviously now doesn't work anymore because of the newish "page" syntax): http://www.msfn.org/...or-forum-issue/ are now "botched". This link: http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=163450&st=49 should lead to post #50 (i.e. 49+1) in the "closed thread": http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/163450-ipb-update-july-2013-to-version-345/?p=1044604 BUT, instead leads to: http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/163450-ipb-update-july-2013-to-version-345/page-3 i.e.: http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/163450-ipb-update-july-2013-to-version-345/?p=1044606 EXACTLY like this: http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=163450&st=50 (which CASUALLY lands correctly) . If you increase the offset of 1 you get to NEXT PAGE (instead of the immediately following post)! http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=163450&st=51 leads to: http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/163450-ipb-update-july-2013-to-version-345/page-4 i.e.: http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/163450-ipb-update-july-2013-to-version-345/?p=1044696 I hope the issue is clear. jaclaz

Point is that Ballmer's head is SO d@mn tough that the pool will be seriously damaged. Though the cracked concrete crater: can be repaired, the pool won't ever be the same as before.... jaclaz

The point was NOT about putting any kind of pressure on Xper , it was about providing him with a clear, synthetic list of bugs (separated from wishes) and of wishes (separated from bugs) so that when he will be able/willing to fix the one or the other he will have a useful checklist. The thread as is now seems to me a mishmash, including oT (on Topic) comments AND OT (OFF Topic) ones, i.e. something completely different from what Xper asked originally for: jaclaz

@dencorso Since you are around here, maybe you could contribute to help Xper in setting the board properly. The present thread has IMHO become a senseless "Post anything that crosses your mind about the new board change", whilst what Xper would probably appreciate would be TWO threads: IPB Update July 2013 - BUGS IPB Update July 2013 - WISHESWhere of course the first one should contain ONLY BUGS and ONLY a single bug per post, and the second one wishes, i.e. things that THOUGH NOT being a BUG, do represent something that can be bettered. This way I guess it would be easier to give priority to solving the bugs and later get to the wishes/betterings. You could close this thread with a post with pointers to the two new threads and people that already posted here may re-post on the appropriate thread in as short as possible form the whatever they already posted here, this way Xper would have a nice shortlist of the issues. Just an idea of course. jaclaz

+1 jaclaz said it best here: Jaclaz - at the time (and just for the record and besides and after the light blue ribbon campaign for FREE skin) - also fought a partially successful battle to have §@ç#ing READABLE text on reboot.pro, see here: http://reboot.pro/topic/12391-new-theme-for-our-site/ And still fights them : http://reboot.pro/topic/18215-site-skin-in-progress-metro/ Particularly, these considerations: http://reboot.pro/topic/12391-new-theme-for-our-site/?p=108196 http://reboot.pro/topic/12391-new-theme-for-our-site/?p=108208 http://reboot.pro/topic/12391-new-theme-for-our-site/?p=109199 http://reboot.pro/topic/12391-new-theme-for-our-site/?p=109564 represent "universal" concepts on readability: Colours (foreground text/background) Fonts ContrastDO MATTER, and the choices to produce something readable are limited. The eyes and the brain work in a given way and the "mindless" can do *whatever*, but ignoring several tens years of research and experience in readability is simply foolish. BTW IMHO the current MSFN theme is not at all that bad , the only really senseless setting is the "quoted" text having been dimmed/faded into the background to such an extent that is HARDLY readable (if readable at all). It really hurts my eyes. jaclaz

The senseless acronym for the senseless name of Rich Text Editor. (which is not an editor since it doesn't work and it is not rich at all, only "text" is correct). A more appropriate name would be SPTGE (Senselessly Poor Text Garbling Editor). But it's by design (and the guys at IPB board - besides not being able to understand bug reports - are stubbornly convinced that this non-working approach is much better than the old one ), see: http://community.invisionpower.com/topic/356448-rich-text-editor/ jaclaz

ONLY seemingly OT, and JFYI : http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/russian-intelligence-seeks-typewriters-for-secret-documents-a-910677.html http://www.policymic.com/articles/54437/the-kremlin-is-going-back-to-typewriters-and-you-should-too Remember that those are the same guys that invented the AK-47, a legendary gun that has outclassed in usability, ease of use, reliability and manufacturing costs each and every assault rifle ever made (and it still does after some 66 years). jaclaz

Xper, please , don't be like the IPB developers .The syntax for linking to a specific post has been since the very early days that of: http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=137119&st=20http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php? <- base addressshowtopic=137119 <- topic/thread number&st=20 <- offset to post #This syntax does not work properly anymore.ALREADY POSTED LINKS in that form (that has always been valid) even at the time of the previous Board update (for which at the time I wrote temporarily the converter, which obviously now doesn't work anymore because of the newish "page" syntax): http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/137119-broken-links-or-forum-issue/ are now "botched". jaclaz

Could you re-write it in "omgrofl"? I find it easier to follow than mainframe . http://esolangs.org/wiki/omgrofl jaclaz

@xper The "default posts per page" has changed from 20 to 25. This is not normally an issue, but it will create some minor quirk where the page where a post was is mentioned (like in the "monster 7200.11 thread" often happens) and has a serious issue with rounding (or whatever ). A post link (which was perfectly "legal" and working) such as: http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=128807&st=2352 which point(ed) evidently to post #2353 now resolves to: http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/128807-the-solution-for-seagate-720011-hdds/page-96 i.e. to post #2376 Cannot say if it can be solved, at the times of the reboot.pro update, the IPB guys didn't even manage to understand (or want to understand) the issue. JFYI: http://reboot.pro/topic/16746-a-new-issue-with-the-board/ http://community.invisionpower.com/resources/bugs.html/_/ip-board/post-offset-disabled-on-new-version-r37167 Easy way to reproduce. The post by bphlt just above is #51 in this thread. I would refer to it (and it has ALWAYS worked like this since the dawn of time) as: http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=163450&st=50 while last post on previous page by tomasz86, which is #50 would be referred to as: http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=163450&st=49 Now BOTH links lead you on http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/163450-ipb-update-july-2013/page-3 jaclaz

What I think happened is that since yesterday the default # of displayed comments changed from 20 to 25 which should account for missing pages. For me, I had the # of comments per page set to maximum ( I think 150 ) so instead of missing pages, the total for me went from 24 to 141. I don't think any posts have gone missing since the upgrade. You really have to overdo it, don't you? Just imagine how many kilometers your swiping finger would need to cover on a touch tablet to scroll those 150 posts! :rofl: jaclaz

I am pretty sure that JFX can bear this burden allright . Before the edit, there was the name of the WAREZ, so the sense of the sentence has not changed much (please read as "not at all"). Also - and just for your interest, you may want to re-read the Rules, particularly #8. http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?app=forums&module=extras&section=boardrules jaclaz

@tordenflesk Be VERY aware of Rule #1a: http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?app=forums&module=extras&section=boardrules jaclaz

When the update was carried on reboot.pro each and every possible issue happened (and one more), besides the senseless new editor/parser (that still, after months completely fails to wrk properly) all codeboxes, and most of the code ones (in previous posts) were corrupted, some in a way that cannot be repaired if not by manual editing. Let's hope that this happened because of a lack of competence in the upgrade over there and not because of defects in the new Board Software (though I believe that the greatest part is in this latter) or that those problems (at least) have been solved in this update. Go Xper,.GO! jaclaz

I have read it SIX times , and at the most I might be able to provide an (educated ) guess about the original meaning. From that to have it actually make sense, there are still many re-reads in between . jaclaz

Is that guy for real? Contradicting himself thrice in four statements must be a world record. we are after a niche market in selected countries we are global business we are in a challenger position - we are a start-up we have the Xbox and Office and cultivating that Reality check: a startup has a single product, does not even think of doing global business but it's single and only product is designed for and aimed to a niche market and commercialized only in selected countries and is a challenger, and if that product fails, there is no more start up . a global business company has more products and is not after niche markets in selected countries, but it is after global business , it can reach a product placement by using price dumping and overall make leverage on it's other products A company can be one (or the other) but never both. BTW I have been to Poland (Warsaw) not that much time ago (a few months) and haven't seen before the city centre shops all the queues of people willing to fork from some US$ 650 for a Windows Phone, if someone from Poland would confirm my impression.... And of course I suspect that also in Mexico there is not that kind of pressure on poor telephone shops clerks.... jaclaz

Yes/No. Meaning that it is possible NOT to delete a line of text from a "plain txt" file, but it is possible to re-create the text file excluding a given line. There are two basic approaches, using FIND or FINDSTR (possibly with the /V parameter) to filter out some specific content or use MORE and FOR loops with ECHO (but you might need a batch file). There might be issues with "unicode" and with "special characters"including leading spaces, though. JFYI, there is NO real "DOS" in XP, there is it's Command Prompt (which uses a different command processor cmd.exe, than the actual DOS command processor command.com). It's similar, but not exactly the same. In any case the "default" programs are "limited", and you might find more useful adding a third party tool, like SED, see also this: jaclaz P.S.: Oops, cross-posting with allen2

I have "studied" the behaviour of business users since years . Everyone - as always - can be categorized in no more than 5 categories: the "dumb" - aka "trained monkeys" these are people that will only learn the very basics of the (usually very vertical) program(s) they use, nothing more, nothing less, they will change nothing in the setup the IT guy/gal prepares the "artistic dumb" - aka "trained monkeys who fancy colours" these are the people that know nothing more than the first category BUT (since Windows 3.x times) like to change each and every icon in the system AND place ALL of them on the desktop, the result is a system that noone can use easily but them (yes, on all systems "my PC" is an icon representing more or less a computer, tendentially first icon on the top left, but on their computers it will be in fourth row, third column, with an icon representing the sun or the Apollo 11 . They tend to think that they are "smart" or anyway much smarter than the first category, but remain "within the limits" of the basic settings of the OS GUI. the "flat user" - aka the "productive kind", these people will leave, like the category #1 above, everything as setup initially, but will add no more than 5 or 6 icons (actually connected with the 5 or 6 programs they use) with a meaningful icon the "curious jerk" - these people are the "dangerous ones", they are similar to category #2, BUT they will experiment, they will change extensions, move programs and data here and there, install (or attempt to install) any kind of crappy programs, etc. a noticeable part of the time they spend in front of computers is about experimenting (BTW without any actual knowledge of what they are doing), a sub-category of these will not only ruin their own installs/PCs, but they will also change (or induce to change) their coworkers installs and add any kind of "nice" app. the "knowledgeable chap" these people are into two sub-categories, those that use their knowledge to actually customize (very slightly) their system in a way that easens or make faster their work experience (a super-set of the flat user) and those that use their knowledge to customize and add any kind of visual crap to the interface because it's nice or good looking (a super-set of both the "artistic dumb" and "curious jerks") while still doing "properly" (i.e. without damaging the normal use of the system, only bettering it's visual appearance). All MS Operating systems (till now) would allow each of the above categories to have "their" way (right or wrong as it might be). The advent of the NT systems (as compared to the Win3.x/Win9x/Me series) somewhat limited (thanks goodness ) the possibilities of category #4, leaving the possibilities open to the other ones. Windows 8 seems to largely cut out of the play also people belonging to category #5 and seriously limit the productivity of category #3 (because you can't even do those changes that are actually useful to suit your own way of working) but also frustrates the "artistic efforts" of category #2. I believe that there are some common traits between Aero7x64's opinions and mines because we both belong (hopefully) to category #5, only each of us belongs to one of the two sub-categories . BTW, I have already seen people in category #2 drool at "live tiles" . jaclaz

Sure, but the whole point is that the good MS guys are providing more and more "bells and whistles" in order to hide the removal of NEEDED features and/or the overcomplicating the life of the business (or anyway professional) user. The feature of changing desktop or logon screen (or both) is a feature (optional), not a "main, needed, cannot-live-without" sort of thing. The possibility (if one has the time and will) to change the look (or if you prefer to "skin" an OS) is a good thing , but not something that someone actually needing the PC to do some real world work will actually drool about. jaclaz

Well, someone has to say this: The idea (if you use the PC for actual work), is that you don't spend much time looking at the desktop, 99.99% of the time you will be looking into one or more programs. This desktop background is very good : and the corresponding login page does what it is supposed to do (logging on): jaclaz

A small step for a company, a giant leap for society (BOTH in the wrong direction). This however settles the issue about it being compulsory, the stupid online account is compulsory but it is possible to workaround it. jaclaz

I would add that (last time I checked) a plain 100 Mb Ethernet was at least twice or thrice as fast as a (fast) Wlan connection and if you go for the 1 Gb Ethernet it obviously blows wi-fi away (talking of 802.11g, but the 802.11n is still - at least here - not very common). Still, if you are going (in the perverted mind of the good MS guys geniuses) to work on the cloud ("their" cloud of course) you are anyway seriously capped by your DSL speed. Even a very fast/wide connection to your ISP will of course clog if every computer in an office is dumbed down to a "terminal" and you use this not to transmit plain or compressed "textual" data, but instead to transmit "feature rich" contents, comeon, nowadays the stupidest file you can make is - say - 1 Mb and if you transmit this same file forth and back on 100 computers you need a faast connection. jaclaz

NOT really: http://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/windows-8-1-beta.html The specific matter has NOT been tested properly/thoroughfully. jaclaz