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I loved those clicky keyboards...you can still get clones of the IBM Model 'M' with the buckling spring mechanism...I might splurge some day but noise is a factor here...I'm often typing into the night and there's no way to type quietly on those
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I prefer the quiet IBM keyboards. Mine is from 1997.
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KACHUNK KACHUNK KACHUNK KACHUNK KACHUNK KACHUNK KACHUNK KACHUNK KACHUNK KACHUNK KACHUNK KACHUNK KACHUNK KACHUNK KACHUNK KACHUNK KACHUNK KACHUNK KACHUNK KACHUNK KACHUNK KACHUNK KACHUNK KACHUNK KACHUNK KACHUNK KACHUNK KACHUNK KACHUNK KACHUNK KACHUNK KACHUNK KACHUNK KACHUNK KACHUNK KACHUNK KACHUNK KACHUNK
Bring back any fond memories?
Software Zen: delete this;
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Now me ears are ringing!
How do we preserve the wisdom men will need,
when their violent passions are spent?
- The Lost Horizon
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Aahhh yes, I remember it well. And IBM thought the money lies in producing hardware, so they just gave all the rights to the operating system to Bill Gates! Brilliant strategic decision!
How do we preserve the wisdom men will need,
when their violent passions are spent?
- The Lost Horizon
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Wow what a coincidence - I think today is actually also the 250,000 year birthday of lines drawn in sand by sticks! Computing hasn't really come that far has it...
"... having only that moment finished a vigorous game of Wiff-Waff and eaten a tartiflet." - Henry Minute
"Let's face it, after Monday and Tuesday, even the calendar says WTF!" - gavindon
Programming is a race between programmers trying to build bigger and better idiot proof programs, and the universe trying to build bigger and better idiots, so far... the universe is winning. - gavindon
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From the link: strongest was the equivalent of 21 tons of TNT Damn!
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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Just looking at it is scary... then the sound and shock waves hit
If it's not broken, fix it until it is
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Glad I'm here!
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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Message Closed
modified 12-Aug-15 19:18pm.
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I don't see the problem. Everyone should have a few bazooka rounds handy.. you know, for home defense.
If it's not broken, fix it until it is
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Candidly, I do affirmatively concur on that point.
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It is a pity people still record videos in portrait orientation, but I think the recorder had other things in mind.
Impressive blast. The second effect will be when they will learn about what cool chemical stuff has been spread everywhere in the area and will impact several generation of people.
And, on a french side, I can't but shed a tear for all these Renaults.
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I have using a nifty app called Default Programs Editor to set up file & icon associations, including the command for the menu commands. I did this with Windows 10 as well. However, it seems that when Windows 10 updates, it trashes all these associations, thereby forcing me to redo everything. I don't mind doing this once, but it's a PITA to keep doing it!
What I would like to get is some freeware app that allows me to save a set of association commands so that when Windows 10 updates again, I can simply rerun the app to get everything redone properly.
Thanks in advance.
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I don't know, I'm afraid. But I do know what I would do if I were in your shoes (hopefully not too smelly?) and I had an application I had used for a long time and liked:
Contact the support of that program, tell them about my problems and ask when they estimate they can have a Win10 certified version of their brilliant product ready...
I have actually done so on several occasions and almost without exception, I have found people to be very nice and helpful. Most programmers want to do good job and have people like their software. And most companies are keen on helping old customers to keep them in the fold.
I think I could live with annoying file associations for a while... There are certainly more serious problems in the world.
Just my 5 cents. Good luck!
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant Anonymous
- The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine Winston Churchill, 1944
- I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy. Me, all the time
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"Default Programs Editor" is part of Windows, IIRC
Decrease the belief in God, and you increase the numbers of those who wish to play at being God by being “society’s supervisors,” who deny the existence of divine standards, but are very serious about imposing their own standards on society.-Neal A. Maxwell
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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You're saying that there can't be any third party tools with the same name?
I've never seen Windows edit more than one association at a time...
Anyway, if it IS indeed the built in application he's talking about, then clearly it's a bug (more on the update code than the association code presumably) and should as such be reported to the proper authorities...
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant Anonymous
- The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine Winston Churchill, 1944
- I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy. Me, all the time
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Ah, yeah, you could be right .. "I've been using a nifty app..."
Johnny J. wrote: should as such be reported Indeed.
Decrease the belief in God, and you increase the numbers of those who wish to play at being God by being “society’s supervisors,” who deny the existence of divine standards, but are very serious about imposing their own standards on society.-Neal A. Maxwell
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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Johnny J. wrote: I've never seen Windows edit more than one association at a time...
Well W10 is your chance to do so then. The default apps are set for a range of file types (eg. video, photos).
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You could always make a .cmd file with appropriate ASSOC[^] commands.
Decrease the belief in God, and you increase the numbers of those who wish to play at being God by being “society’s supervisors,” who deny the existence of divine standards, but are very serious about imposing their own standards on society.-Neal A. Maxwell
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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Asking a coder to code? Not cool!
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I forget the specs of the machine, but you start MS Word say, and bam! There is it.
It is so much quicker than any of the later OSs. Probably because it was closest to NT4, and before ,net got to bloat the crap out of everything.
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MS Word now is a zip file (.docx). It has to open the zip and read all the files that make up a "Word Doc", in order to "load", thus taking longer.
Munchies_Matt wrote: got to bloat the crap out of everything.
yep
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