Comment Re:*sighs* (Score 3, Funny) 150
... remove hats and sunglasses for more than a year.
I hope you sue them when you get skin cancer or cataracts after going all summer without protection from the sun.
Comment Re:Don't Ask. (Score 2) 579
How about not asking about gender on account registration and assigning a random username?
Wikipedia does not ask for gender on account registration, and you can chose your own username (which need not be your real name). There is an option under "preferences" to specify your gender, if you want to, but it defaults to "unspecified".
Comment Re:Obligatory XKCD (Score 2) 210
Comment Crystal receivers were not the first (Score 2) 111
... receiving RF without power has been done for about as long as RF has been received... Actually... Exactly as long as RF has been received. Crystal Radios where how this whole "Let's communicate by radio waves" thing got started...
Not quite. Coherers preceded crystal detectors by a few years.
Comment Re:It was bound to happen (Score 1) 198
"He should have encrypted his computer."
I think it would have been good enough if he just encrypted the data. It is really hard to use an encrypted computer.
You know can encrypt the entire hard-drive, including the operating system, and the computer is still easily usable - if you know the password.
Comment Copying message boxes (Score 1) 263
Alt-PrintScreen copies an image of the active window (ie the whole message box, including title and icons) to the clipboard. Then paste into e-mail, or WordPad or whatever.
PrintScreen alone will copy the entire screen - which can sometimes be useful for context
Comment Coloured daleks (Score 1) 332
The first thing I thought of when I saw the coloured daleks was that the Doctor had fallen into an episode of the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers.
(That's what you get for having children who lived and breathed Power Rangers for several years.)
(That's what you get for having children who lived and breathed Power Rangers for several years.)
Comment Re:The summary is shilled. (Score 1) 85
Why then should anyone EVER trust ANY page on wikipedia?
Because they can verify the reliable sources that all good articles have.
Comment CP/M on C64 (Score 1) 645
There was a plug-in Z80 cartridge and a version of CP/M available for the C64. I had one, back in the early 1980s. It gets a mention in Wikipedia
Comment ... Anti-Mensa ... (Score 1) 572
The word you are looking for is Densan.
Comment Turning off AutoRun in Windows XP (Score 5, Informative) 224
For Windows XP, SP2 ... Tweak UI allows disabling of AutoPlay either by device type (eg CD) or drive letter, and the setting is stored in the user registery under [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer], but Tweak UI only shows the settings if the user is an Administrator.
However according to Microsoft's TechNet web-site, the NoDriveTypeAutoRun setting in HKCU is ignored if there is a corresponding entry in HKLM, so to disable AutoPlay on all drive types for all users:
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\policies\Explorer]
"NoDriveTypeAutoRun"=dword:000000ff
If AutoPlay is enabled, actions per content type can be set per user by right-clicking the drive in Explorer, then selecting the AutoPlay tab. The options are stored in [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\AutoplayHandlers\UserChosenExecuteHandlers]. The default (which is to prompt the user) can be restored by deleting the entries.
Note that there doesn't appear to be an option for "data only". So far as I know, if AutoPlay is enabled (which it is by default), you can't disable AutoRun.inf. However, if the user is not an administrator, Explorer will prompt for an Administrator logon before doing anything.
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