Posts by David Hood
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I see the Greater Manchester Police have been fined for shoddy data handling (2nd offence)
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OnPoint: MSD's Leaky Servers, in reply to Rich of Observationz,
It’s one of my main beefs about MacOS that you can’t paste a path into a dialogue box – I work a lot in the shell, but if I want to email a file
Er, Spotlight search for it (default command + spacebar) and drag it straight into the email body from the spotlight search results. On the Mac some combination of drag and drop is normally more efficient than using the dialog boxes.
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OnPoint: MSD's Leaky Servers, in reply to Kyle Matthews,
I’d struggle to think how you could do that from within the microsoft office open file dialogue box.
Trivia point, but a big selling point of Word 2013 is that they can open and edit PDFs (not that I am suggesting the Kiosks were using this version). More generally, I can think of a couple of ways, but we are getting into pretty technical "depends on the kind of PDF and how far you want to edit it" might or might not work uncertainties.
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"Billy having to contemplate the forth verse of This Land Is Your Land, following Seeger, Guthrie A and one folkie whose name I’ve forgotten"
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Since I am making screenshots today anyway.
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As someone whose job is mainly to teach computer courses to people, while a lot of people have had experience with the File menu -> Open command, a lot of people have no experience using computers to open files from other computers on the same network. If your experience is with a computer at home "My Network Places" will generally be a useless button. Equally, if you are using computers in an environment where the files are stored on a central computer, this is normally set up to behave the same way as a home machine. This one added step of opening up a file from another computer is what I think some people are finding a baffling and alien concept, and it is something that could probably do with being spelled out a little clearer in explanations of how easy it was.
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OnPoint: MSD's Leaky Servers, in reply to Deborah,
If I was to give the Mac equivalent of this, in a program when you go up to the File menu and use the Open command, you get the window where you choose the file you want to open. On the left sidebar of that window are various shortcuts to places on the computer. If you are on a network with other computers, amongst these shortcuts are computers offering their files to your computer (in a part of the sidebar called Shared). On a Windows computer, rather than seeing these computers in an area marked Shared there is a button called My Network Places that people click on. That is more or less the technical difficulty involved.
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I know a number of people who, like me first encountered Bill Bragg in an '87 orientation event, and are looking forward to tonight's Dunedin show.
I will also throw in a strong recommendation for the Spooky Men's Chorale, who are just finishing in Dunedin today and moving up through the country over the next while. The family went to yesterday's show and we all thought it was great. -
Legal Beagle: Kim Dotcom: all the fault…, in reply to Ross Mason,
if there has been an “unauthorised disclosure of information"
Mind you, this is nothing on the current Canadian “unauthorised disclosure of information" case.
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Hard News: The Advocate, in reply to John Sellwood,
I suppose when the Titanic was sinking some might think good reportage was a technical analysis of the ship’s buoyancy, the number of water-tight doors.
In the sort of news I read, the buoyancy of the Titanics doors has been featuring recently.
Mythbusters and the Titanic's door
