I would prefer that AT&T do something about their signal in Port Hadlock, WA. In the bagel shop there my i
johnbaxter
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Paul, does plugging a (preferably blank) headphone plug in before first power up prevent Cortana's insane
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<snark> Accuracy is our watchword. We never make misteaks. </snark>
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The atmosphere on Twitter was much different when I signed up (November 2007) than it seems to be now. I say "
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In reply to Nadawan:At one point, 4 of the 7 board of directors members of the local computer club (including
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Oh, good. I can stop ignoring my Google+ account.
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My (79 year old) memory tells me that in the original presentation of Surface Microsoft promised enterprise th
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You "nailed" Orlando weather. I've umpired baseball there and elsewhere in Florida (1969, Florida State L
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It might have been worth mentioning that the Outlook 2016 application (for Windows) that one gets in a box is
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Old saw: Phone tech support person: "Put the computer back in the box, take it to the store, and tell them you
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So, because you were not flying anywhere at the right time, Microsoft released this while Leo L was in the air
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My iPhone 6 will serve at least one more year.
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"Software takes longer and costs more." --someone
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In reply to Chris_Kez:Ah, good...a mention of "security"...the first I came upon reading the comments. Until
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Note that Panic's Transmit (nearly every way you can move files around) and BareBones BBEdit (my goto tex
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I rather like Edge, and use it for almost all my browser stuff on Windows. I have Firefox available for Edge-h
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It’s probably worth including Amazon Drive in the comparison, too. 100G $11.99/year; 1T $59.99/year. 1T incr
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I was saved from possibly watching the Microsoft day 1 keynote by being in a jury pool during the selection pr
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It's always fun to watch the Apple pundits fall over themselves copying each others' made-up bad new
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Pure cloud for gaming would work in many countries. Not yet in the US, where our "free market" insists on givi
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The fourth Tuesday windows update slot is available if that is what Microsoft wants to do.
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It's nice that Chrome is catching up with Safari, Firefox, and probably others I'm not bothering to
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In reply to Dan1986ist:I don't know, but I did jump back on the Insider train--at the Release Preview lev
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I desire 3x2 or 4x3 too. Paul, you often mention the cost of the Surface machines. May I suggest that part (no
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Exercising the hardware aspect of the store was an "Insider" quest a few flights ago (stopping short of finali
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In reply to Stooks:Here (Olympic Peninsula, WA) the non-Prime free shipping I use has a stellar record after t
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Hi, Paul...Consider store app Affinity Photo. Regularly $50, on sale for 2 more weeks at $ 37.50.Sorry, I don&
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Microsoft buying Square would be frightening to the current Square customers...it's hard to see MS keepin
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“...terrible company run by a madman” Please, Paul, tell us what you think. ?
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Since you invited (almost--it's a step beyond pure grammar) this: 4th paragraph from end:"They are the on
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"Vista Capable" (except not supporting the new style graphics) worked out really well for Microsoft.
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Brad: "There were tears, there was crying...". And that was just you. Daughter was upset too.
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In reply to craigsn:On one of my machines, the manifest file was not found the first time I ran the command bu
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In reply to IanYates82:Unicode is hard.
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Paul, I suspect that the fact that Surface Laptop hasn't become the top seller over Surface Pro suggests
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In reply to Bats:To quote from a recent Apple ad for the iPad: "What's a computer?"(It is alleged that th
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Don't forget the iCEO (the i was said to stand for interim), Mr. S. Jobs.
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I have not yet seen security discussions about PWAs. But it is SO easy to write JavaScript insecurely, by the
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Wonderful choice of project, Paul. Enjoy!
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Great image, Paul.Perhaps I'm less interested than some in part because weather is so easy here near Seat
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I'm old, and I have no answers. But, I do have a tech-less growing-up experience. At least it was tech-le
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My two Win10 machines are probably not included in the AdDuplex count based on what I’ve installed on them.
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In reply to chrisrut:Once you get 1709 the upgrade process becomes slower and faster. More work is done before
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Brad, you get a superb frame rate when you go out to the golf course and play.
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For me the AppleTV remote works OK, but... I’m the only one using it and I sit one place and there’s a ha
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Store app "HP Smart" does what I need with my low end HP all-in-one. (Every time an update hits the fast ring,
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Paul, indeed, likes Chrome, and the way he appears to use his machines, it's pretty clear that Chrome is
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The old rule was to never tell the person trying to log in (i.e., the attacker) whether it is the username or
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For Insiders on Twitter, one need not follow @donasarkar. @windowsinsider is just announcements, and @NorthFac
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I read a pretty detailed description of the first USB protocol (Ars Technica, perhaps), and came away amazed t
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Switch + tape = switch less likely to be toggled.
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I'm guessing that, while Paint is moving to the Store (and probably was when the deprecation from Windows
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The original Win 10 IS still supported, in the form of Enterprise LTS. So pushing an update to lesser versions
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On my slow laptop (with slow but plenty large hard drive) I have plenty of time during these updates to contem
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In reply to bbold:One problem with "Fall Update" is that the earth has an equator and Microsoft sells on both
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I believe Enterprise LTS is still 1507 (and will be for a long time). That should be the reason for security u
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Brad, make sure the AmpliFi has updated firmware. Security.
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In reply to warren:"Software takes longer and costs more."
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In reply to LocalPCGuy:Google must still be scanning for spam and virus issues. It's highly likely they a
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About 25 minutes.
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Paul, have you tried tossing a plug into the headphone jack before beginning the first run experience? That sh
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In reply to Daekar:tl;dr: NoYou don't presently have the option to install the Store versions on a machin
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The first public beta of iOS 11 is out. Stay away from the dev releases now. I haven't seen anyone else f
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In reply to bbold:Windows Phone 8 and Windows Phone 8.1. No obvious connection to Elite X3.
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My hope is that I will not move again until I move into an urn.
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In reply to Jules Wombat:Thank you for the Edge crash context. Complaints about Edge crashes have long confuse
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In reply to glenn8878: Since 2013 HP has been two companies with (increasingly) different sets of shareholders
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Keep in mind that we are far enough away from Windows 10's first general release that some machines for
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Windows 10 S appears to have led to a Cupertino Decision.
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Interesting to see "Tahoma" on the post. That is the proper (native American) name for Mt Rainier, and the nam
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In reply to Waethorn:Harder to improve silicon over time than drivers. Not to mention, in the case of codecs,
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In reply to zorb56:Think of your Ethernet needs like this: you're going to plug a long skinny flexible do
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Brad said "bash" and Paul fainted.
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In reply to harmjr:*Can* legacy Win32 applications support the share contract?
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In reply to BoItmanLives:Thanks for the reminder...I had overcome my advanced case of GooglePhobia long enough
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When a waterspout is awesome, you want to be somewhere else.
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In reply to Simard57:Darn kids! (I'm 77--the first computer for which I wrote code and sat in front of ru
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In reply to Waethorn:The build has gone to the OEM partners for whatever-they-do and installation.The cumulati
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APFS is a big under-the-hood thing, given that it replaces a disk file system that dates back to 1987It will b
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In reply to Philip Stenning:Yes, and that's an example of why one should not have providers create domain
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Thanks for the reminder, Paul. Sometime between week 1 and now, Microsoft let go of the domain that had been a
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In reply to zbecka:KB4015438 was the one earlier this week (Tuesday, for me).
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In addition to this update (KB4015438, that is), my 1607 machine (Vista-era Dell tower) also received an updat
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Nice horns, Paul.
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In reply to Luka Radunovic:To paraphrase ads for a brand of beef jerky, the disappearance and return of waterm
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In reply to Joseph R. Jones:You pointed out security so I don't have to. In addition to isolation, you wa
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In reply to Luka Radunovic:We're in the last 2 3/4 years (triple-digit days) of support for Windows 7 on
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Remember that these settings are per user account. And naturally you have two: your seldom-used (except for In
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In reply to Simard57:Office 2016 (at least the current (via Office 365) version 1612 (Build 7668.2074)) does a
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And 60 days after RS 3 goes to Current Branch for Business (the start of the blue part of the bar), Anniversar
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UPnP: aka "total insecurity"
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Name crimes:
1. Office365. A business/enterprise thing and a consumer thing. Different enough that when Micros
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“An ad blocker … may adversely affect the performance and content on Bloomberg.com.”
Perhap
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Get well quickly and easily, Brad. To quote a get well card I saw in the 1960s:
Outside: The gang at the offic
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I buy a new machine that comes with a year of free personal Office 365 and activate it as such (not extending
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OK, it's finally time to ask: why do we still refer to things like this as "set-top boxes"?
These days it woul
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In reply to MacLiam: Does the Reliability Monitor display give you any interesting clues?
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One thing mother did with her physics PhD was noise reduction on the DC-6. (Yes, there was noise reduction.)
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Well, the C119 whose rear door system kept popping open in flight from Massachusetts to Tullahoma, TN was wors
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In reply to Corey_McCowan:
I think Corey is right. I also think I will likely miss the full effect. (I current
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Paul, "...most terrible bed in the most terrible hotel room I’ve had in years..."
Does that go bac
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"...perfect train wreck..." Congratulations. It's really hard to be perfect.
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1. Note that HP is something of a special case in that the consumer PC (and printer) business has been split o
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I must remember to read the byline. My mental picture of Paul picking up his daughter didn't go well.
Get well
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My iPhone 4 is still in service as my in-car podcast player.
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In reply to FalseAgent:
Try Netflix' https://fast.com and note the link to compare to link to speedtest.net
Th
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Since typing in the search box counts, I'm one of the MAU. About half of my interactions are typing win (usual
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3rd graf from end (counting Huzzah): "and that means that ARM-based Windows 10 PCs are going to include SIM sl
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'cloud city'? Humpf. Clear and sunny today.
Reservations for meetup?
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Microsoft has made "Office 365" "a little confusing" (as you've mentioned from time to time). Since MS doesn't
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This is a promising feature for the site, even if this edition was a bit misty until corrected.
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In reply to MikeGalos:
LOL. (Hi, Mike)
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I generally do work like SIM changing over the open center drawer of my desk. That has been a good thing more
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I have one of the few 2520s sold. I rather liked it.
I also have the keyboard cover with battery. The ba
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Re Paint: "...unlike the old ribbon interface." My goodness, we're several years past reading about "tha
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And here I was imagining an equine, long eared peach image.
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The rumor sites are claiming that Apple hasn't shipped a Siri-based box for the home for exactly this reason a
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One less dongle: Apple is selling USB-C to Lightning cables (in 1 and 2 meter lengths) for plugging in your iP
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This looks like a nice use of the Touch Bar. Unfortunately, I won't find out for myself as I don't want a lapt
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In reply to Waethorn:
Thanks Wae. I must be getting old letting Paul get by with "silicon" for "silicone". But
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One thing I've noticed as a person who has never owned or managed a Windows server is a fairly steady decline
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One day, an update will fix the long pause at 95% download with these things (two machines on 1607).
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I spent a few hours in Breckenridge on each of several days in late 1940s and the 1950s. I liked Breckenridge