these companies (which I'd love to name)
Here, I'll name them for you... List of assigned
Well, okay, they're in that list somewhere along with everybody else. I've also heard that at least one of those networks in the UK (25/8?) isn't even connected to the routed internet, yet it is still assigned the space. And seriously, what does DISA really need four
And I find it ironic that HP ended up with two adjacent
Also, the "Class D" (multicast) address space (224/4) is extremely under-utilized (IIRC, only 3 of the 16
And the "Class E" space (240/4) is unusable because the TCP/IP stack in Windows NT and later was explicitly coded to consider those as bad addresses and not even attempt to communicate with them. Thanks a lot, anal-retentive programmer-guy.
Those two together account for 32 "Class A" equivalent addresses, or one eighth of the IPv4 address space.
Turn off all the multi-touch crap except two-finger scroll. "Tap to click" on a touchpad is one of the stupidest things ever invented. And the touchpads on Apple stuff have always been light years ahead of the old Alps touchpads with the "edge scroll". Whenever I have to use an old Dell from the 200x era it drives me nuts. Doubly so if the drivers aren't installed, because PS/2 emulation mode has tap-to-click enabled.
And if you want a mouse so bad, GET ONE. They're like ten bucks. No laptop has a built in mouse, the closest was the old PowerBooks with trackballs. I still don't see how it's faster to take you hands off the damn keyboard to mouse around, but hey, nobody is stopping you.
And you do have a thumb, right? The thumb is for clicking, the index finger for pointing. Maybe you're just doing it wrong?
you have a giant heat exchanger to the biggest sink in existence
Which is what? You know that vacuum is a very good insulator, right? You basically have to radiate your heat away.
He has not acquired a fortune; the fortune has acquired him. -- Bion