Huh...? I know of an app to sync iTunes content to your Android, but.....

The first game I ever bought with my own pocket money was Gridrunner on the Vic 20. Been following his career ever since, he's truly a unique guy in this industry. There's just one thing.... that BASIC listing of ROX 64 in C&VG back in... 1984? I never could get that to run. Damn.

I still have some motor instinct to use my left hand for CTRL+ALT and right hand for DEL when using a full-sized keyboard, although CTRL+ALT+DEL is certainly achievable using only your right hand on a full-sized keyboard.

I might just crack open my old copy of the book "Show Stopper!" by G. Pascal Zacharay. A great read on the design and development process involved in releasing Windows NT.

for a moment there i mispronounced the name of the magazine as "jizzmag" and thought that it was rather inappropriate....

Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster anyone?

:-) Thank goodness it was at Heathrow then! Though I trust the British government (mine) about as much as I trust the US government....

I had a Knoppix CD with me several years ago and got stranded in an airport for around 8 hours due to a cancelled flight. At this time free wi-fi was no prevalent, even in the airport lounges. However the carrier decided to let me in to their lounge and enjoy the facilities during the long wait. Inside the lounge were a bank of computers that users could buy internet time on for some exorbitant fee. However, they had no security around them and the CD drive and BIOS were freely accessible. Thank you Knoppix for a few hours of free internet.... :-)

I take it all back. So, I finally got around to downloading 8.1 and installing it. It's easy enough to set it up to boot to desktop, but the start button really just brings up the metro interface as far as I can tell, which makes it next to worthless based on all the complaints about it. Not sure if there's an easy way to just hit the Windows key and start typing the name of your app. Like I said... "it works for me at least" - I realise that we all have different preferences and requirements...

:-) No worries!

Understood... That's why I said it works for me. I rarely use Windows, and when doing so it's only for a few apps for the company I work for - typically Microsoft Office/Visio/Visual Studio stuff. Beyond that my primary OS is CentOS for my server-based stuff and Mint for GUI stuff.

Good for you! 140Mandak262Jamuna might want to watch out though, as he's clearly a power user with his wizardish use of those powerful !&>|>> symbols....

Actually, talking about obscure symbols, why don't you go ahead and type my sig into your favourite shell window....?

Umm.... actually, the O/S I work 90% of my time on is CentOS, and typically the minimal install (what is this shell "window" of which you speak???), so I'm fairly familiar with these mystical and obscure symbols that you mention.... lol... I use Windows 7 in a VM for pretty much my work Exchange account, Office, and Visio. Not quite sure why you are jumping to these conclusions merely because I actually use Windows.