Comment Re: Did it this morning. (Score 1) 169
It is still there, but has been renamed back to Search.
Until she appears as a sexy hologram, it will never be "Cortana"
Comment Did it this morning. (Score 1) 169
Windows 11 Pro OS Build 22000.51
Had a few interface reloads, where the task bar goes blank and reloads, but otherwise smooth sailing.
It's attractive, fast to use and fast to shutdown and start.
Unfortunately it didn't fix the issue where if I run Excel it kills the PC and it needs a manual power off to restart.
Submission + - Replacement for Mozilla Thunderbird? 3
maxcelcat writes: I've used Thunderbird for about a decade, and Netscape Mail before that (I have an email from 1998 from Marc Andreessen, welcoming me to Netscape Email, telling me different fonts can add impact to my emails).
Thunderbird has served me well, but it's getting long in the tooth.
Given the lack of development and the possibility that it's going End of Life, what should I use instead? I have multiple email accounts and an archive of sixteen years of email. I could get a copy of Outlook, but I don't like it.
Things I like about Thunderbird:
Thunderbird has served me well, but it's getting long in the tooth.
Given the lack of development and the possibility that it's going End of Life, what should I use instead? I have multiple email accounts and an archive of sixteen years of email. I could get a copy of Outlook, but I don't like it.
Things I like about Thunderbird:
- Supports multiple email accounts
- Simple interface
- Storage structure is not one monolithic file
- Plain Text email editor
- Filtering
Things I don't like:
- HTML email editor
- Folders are hard to change and re-arrange
Submission + - Busybox Deletes systemd Support
ewhac writes: On 22 October, in a very terse commit message, Busybox removed its support for the controversial 'systemd' system management framework. The commit was made by Denys Vlasenko, and passed unremarked on the Busybox mailing lists. Judging from the diffs, system log integration is the most obvious consequence of the change.
Submission + - Australia may introduce site blocking to prevent copyright infringement (itnews.com.au)
Bismillah writes: The conservative Coalition government in Australia is on the verge of introducing legislation requiring ISPs to block sites alleged of copyright infringement. Details of the bill have not yet been published, but it is expected to be sent to Parliament this week.
Submission + - Strange Stars Pulse to the Golden Mean (quantamagazine.org)
An anonymous reader writes: What struck John Learned about the blinking of KIC 5520878, a bluish-white star 16,000 light-years away, was how artificial it seemed.
Learned, a neutrino physicist at the University of Hawaii, Mnoa, has a pet theory that super-advanced alien civilizations might send messages by tickling stars with neutrino beams, eliciting Morse code-like pulses. “It’s the sort of thing tenured senior professors can get away with,” he said. The pulsations of KIC 5520878, recorded recently by NASA’s Kepler telescope, suggested that the star might be so employed.
A “variable” star, KIC 5520878 brightens and dims in a six-hour cycle, seesawing between cool-and-clear and hot-and-opaque. Overlaying this rhythm is a second, subtler variation of unknown origin; this frequency interplays with the first to make some of the star’s pulses brighter than others. In the fluctuations, Learned had identified interesting and, he thought, possibly intelligent sequences, such as prime numbers (which have been floated as a conceivable basis of extraterrestrial communication). He then found hints that the star’s pulses were chaotic.
But when Learned mentioned his investigations to a colleague, William Ditto, last summer, Ditto was struck by the ratio of the two frequencies driving the star’s pulsations.
“I said, ‘Wait a minute, that’s the golden mean.’”
Learned, a neutrino physicist at the University of Hawaii, Mnoa, has a pet theory that super-advanced alien civilizations might send messages by tickling stars with neutrino beams, eliciting Morse code-like pulses. “It’s the sort of thing tenured senior professors can get away with,” he said. The pulsations of KIC 5520878, recorded recently by NASA’s Kepler telescope, suggested that the star might be so employed.
A “variable” star, KIC 5520878 brightens and dims in a six-hour cycle, seesawing between cool-and-clear and hot-and-opaque. Overlaying this rhythm is a second, subtler variation of unknown origin; this frequency interplays with the first to make some of the star’s pulses brighter than others. In the fluctuations, Learned had identified interesting and, he thought, possibly intelligent sequences, such as prime numbers (which have been floated as a conceivable basis of extraterrestrial communication). He then found hints that the star’s pulses were chaotic.
But when Learned mentioned his investigations to a colleague, William Ditto, last summer, Ditto was struck by the ratio of the two frequencies driving the star’s pulsations.
“I said, ‘Wait a minute, that’s the golden mean.’”
Comment Re: Cataloging write-only archives (Score 1) 259
Speak for your self, my emails go back to 1988 and even worse are in a propriator format - Outlook front end on Exchange backend, but odly enough I can get em on my OSX PC at home and my andriod phone when I'm anywhere else, don't bet on formats for important stuff going out of sytle any time soon.
Comment Re:Will Microsoft ever learn? (Score 2, Insightful) 209
This, This, this, I liked Aero, I had a PC that could run it, I like buttons that look like buttons that click whan you push em and have a bit o shiney hi-light.
I like translucent effects and stuff showing through.
Who really likes flat blah square windows with little indication as th who has focus and whats on top.
Comment Thunderbirds are (Score 1) 701
Thunderbirds are Go.
Preferably the marionettes, but the live action movie was OK.
Comment Re:I wonder... (Score 1) 566
Nope if Snowden was aware that Trucrypt was compromised by the NSA he wouldnt have organised a cryptparty in Hawaii showing people how to use it and TOR after he had allready stolen his pile o docs.
Comment Books (Score 3, Interesting) 322
I have been collecting scifi/fantasy books for over 40 years, whereas my VCR collection is now collecting dust and my DVD/bluray collection is only 15 years old.
Comment Re:Many classes of non-human (Score 1) 115
I don't have a problem with them being treated as mental illness, but then I think the cure for such illnesses should be high speed injection of lead to the head, it also comes with the added bonus of no relapse by the subject.
Comment Re:Just threw in random ST reference (Score 5, Informative) 133
Re just in case nobody want to read this they actually did a bit of research
From the article..
So where have we seen this before? If you are a Trekker, you will remember the scenes from 2009's Star Trek (The Future Begins) where James T. Kirk, Hikaru Sulu and Chief Engineer Olson performed a space dive to the Narada's drill platform. They jumped from a shuttle craft above planet Vulcan wearing high tech suits and used parachutes to land on the rig. “Super” Trekkers will also know about the space dive scene cut from the 1998 Star Trek Generations movie and the holodeck simulated "orbital skydiving" in Star Trek Voyager (Episode 5x03), also in 1998.
So more than just a headline reference to suck in the readers.
Comment 247 I'm in Australia (Score 1) 558
But wish I was in outer space.
Comment Vmware Player or Virtual Box (Score 1) 3
Vmware Player or Virtual Box are both good starting points on a Windows host, they are free and relatively easy to get started with and use.
Reliability wise they are fine but Virtual Box seems a bit slower and doesn't really give you an upgrade path like VMWares product line.
Unless you are looking to eventually upgrading to a MS Server 2008 based Hyper-V system I wouldn't bother starting off with Microsoft's Virtual-PC/XP-Mode product.
I have no experience with Xen, so can't comment on it, but I'm sure someones else will.
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