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Comment Re:Amazing (Score 0) 510

Win + "not" and Enter on my machine brings up something different called "Sticky Notes"

It's not until Win + "notep" that I get Notepad. Nevertheless, I'll agree that yours is the right way, if Notepad isn't on your Quick Launch [or whatever it's called]

Comment Re:Why is EC more secure than RSA? (Score 1) 366

I don't think your keyboard is connected correctly.

Honestly, it's hard to take you seriously - even if what you say is correct and pertinent - when you consistently misspell simple words. It's "lengTH", which ends in a "TH" sound as in "THis" or "THat", not an "HT" sound as in "unenligHTened". Not to mention "yields", "remember", "numbers", "though", and "polynomially" [although I just did].

Sheesh.
 

Comment Seasonal Wallpaper Solution? (Score -1, Flamebait) 418

You've endured mockery because of this requirement, but here's what I use: http://www.wallpaperdownloader.com/ is a free utility that downloads daily Bing images and rotates them as wallpaper. Come the holidays they will show up as wallpapers also. It's completely automatic, and you can choose to keep the images to build up a nice collection of pretty pictures, as I have.

Comment Re:logmein (Score 1) 418

i use it with my mom who can't teach honors calculus but can't figure out changing desktop icons

What *can* she do?

All mocking aside, I'll give another upvote for LogMeIn. Unfortunately, they are switching to a limit of 10 computers in the free edition, so I'll have to trim back a few of the older ones.

Comment Re:Need some advance planning (Score 1) 520

Firing lasers at the moon from Earth means it runs into a couple hundred thousand miles of various gases before it reaches space.

200,000 miles of atmosphere? I think you might be off a bit there. That's about 84% of the distance to the Moon.

The Karman line, commonly used as the boundary between atmosphere and outer space, is at 100km. Even shooting a laser at the Moon on the horizon won't come close to your number.

Comment Re:Neil deGrasse Tyson (Score 1) 520

Yes, I see, it has limited merit, and is inferior to impactors and suited only to the bag of orbiting gravel and very long time frames because it is so very very weak.

Thank you for that admission. However, your level of condescension detracts from that markedly.

I would like to see a ssimilar report that rated other methods in more detail

Then why don't you get on that right away, Bill? With your superior brain, they should be done in no time.
Please post them here when they're ready. And I promise I won't call them "fool's work".

Honestly.

Submission + - Soluto apologizes for Microsoft Azure 62 hour downtime (soluto.com)

Festeron writes: I got an email on Sunday night from PC remote support company Soluto. They apologized for 62 hours of downtime because of problems internal to Microsoft.
The email said that starting on Jan 3, "the “storage service” in [Microsoft] Azure’s main data center went down. Machines running code could still run code", but they could not access the data, and diagnostic and self-help processes failed. The email also claimed that some employees were "working over the weekend to resolve it".

Soluto also said in the email that they are "going to start migrating some of the more critical elements of our architecture to a redundant solution, some of which will probably reside on both Azure and Amazon."

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