TELVM

Are you really using IE Jorge? And we don't even need IE for that!

Neat trick, I'd like to try it! Any tips on how to do this, or is it considered un-kosher? --JorgeA Its a User Agent switcher. I have those mods in Firefox/Palemoon too. I primarily use them for development/debugging and don't actually use it on a constant basis. How to change your Firefox/PaleMoon user agent string directly by you own hand, without installing any extensions. · Type about:config in the address bar and press Enter. · Pay no attention to the warning and click on. · Type useragent in the filter box. If the preference general.useragent.override does not exist create it by right-clicking, selecting 'New', and selecting 'String'. Name the new preference general.useragent.override . · Enter your desired user agent as the value of the preference. For instance this string masquerades PaleMoon 3.6.32 running on WinXP as Firefox 25 : Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:25.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/25.0(This new setting will persist until we change it, even if we close and reopen the browser. To revert to the default user agent, we must right-click the general.useragent.override preference and select 'Reset'.) · Enjoy the web without the bloody yada yada about updating your browser B) .

^ Greater truths were never said.

Been using happily Pale Moon for a long time, both x32 and x64. It's a lightened for speed, no-nonsense variation on Firefox. Noticeably faster. There is also a classic 3.6.32 version for ancient comps (pre P4/Athlon64) that is EOL but still works OK for me.

"Lovely". Reminds me of this other one:

Connerie. What do you think of this gents, $99 for activating XP after April?: http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_xp-windows_install/how-will-xp-activation-and-validation-work-after-4/f9db3b1e-91b8-4227-9916-34c541f88fa4

^ Just homeric!

Does that mean The Maid of Orleans was put to the stake?

Loved this no-nonsense, zero-political-correction, straight-to-the-jugular old rant : I hate Unity. I hate GNOME. I hate Windows 8. The ultimate desktop search continues.

Google joke about a potential Tiles 8.2 start screen :

Good news. That guy is an aero/astro engineer that used to design revolutionary cockpits for Boeing. I expect he'd just squarely kick the a$$ of any genius proposing ergonomic jokes like Metro, Tiles 8 and such crap.

Some revealing excerpts from the transcript of that Q&A: ^ Behold the breathtaking breakthrough in the science of ergonomics, gentlemen. We could call it 'The Noble Savage Theory of Computing'. (Only through a supreme effort of will have i been able to control the urge to insert Charlotte's poking monkeys pic here ). ^ She's got a point here, I expect Xbone wiping the floor with PS4 on this feature alone . ^ Who'd have thought! ^ This bunch is really really green with Apple-envy. ^ Unashamed apology of retardation and idiocracy. Screw versatility, screw flexibility, screw choice. All those 'legacy' concepts must be immolated in the altar for battery life and toddlers' startup cleanliness. I can't help but keep thinking: This can't be true, this is too surreal, this HAS TO BE some kind of prank. Otherwise in the not too distant future the mere admission that you have 'Windows' installed in any of your systems will be shameful, and will make you a target of jokes ...

But then your "smart" TV would start bitching that a connection is de rigueur to display its superior smartness and yada yada yada. To correctly address this problem a return to the classics is needed : 1000lbs of pure bigassed CRT dumbness! (Taken from here, have a laugh)

Let's go for the whole set while we're at it .

This other lady expresses it even better with a yet more limited vocabulary :

I'm not into consoles and wouldn't touch this Xbone Thing with a ten-mile pole. That said, and for the mere hardware geek interest, the PS4 might be a bit more hot-tempered. More politically incorrect critics for Google :

David L. Jones from EEVblog (a favourite of electronics geeks) critizises the recent changes inflicted on Youtube by Google, in his healthy no-nonsense f***-the-political-correction australian style :

There is a delicious epilog to that story . After WW2 the USA & UK sold german cyphering machines, at bargain prices, to many allied and neutral governments. 'We don't know what to do with the lots we've captured, and of course, as everybody knows, they're unbreakable' . The ULTRA secret wasn't unofficially disclosed until 1973, 30 years after the war (once tech advance had made it irrelevant). "Lester, can you actually believe we f***ing sold the wiretaps to the targets?" While we're at it, here goes one my favourite bug stories: The Thing

Microsoft kills off employee stack ranking system, now encourages collaboration

LOL, I wasn't aware of this funny jap notion .

Wow, what an awesome price/horsepower ratio .

Heh heh , notice how they've crippled the search by removing the "Sort: by Helpful Votes" option in an attempt to camouflage the elephant in the room : This is elegant shill-busting in my book : http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_8-windows_install/i-hate-windows-8/cd2d9fec-9d95-42ba-9e41-727419459465?page=27 (Bottom of page)

An analysis of the last iteration in a famous game: How do you catch moths? You bait them with a fatal attraction ...

And that's the true reason behind all this "tabletizing universe" hogwash and the dark clouds on the horizon: To leave the people hardware-handicapped. That's why they've declared war on the powerful, hardware self-sufficient PC. If they manage to downgrade us to monkeys poking on 32GB tablets (just enough for Tiles X and nothing else) then they'll have everybody by the balls. "Entire human crops to harvest at leisure ... yum yum"