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>According to me Mozilla Firefox (google chrome) is best for SEO. A response like that is completely useless without supporting info to back it up.
The only software I have come across that ran on Windows 10 but not Windows 11 is PaintShopPro 9, and it is so old I am not surprised. What specific apps are not running, and what errors are you getting? Have you tried running the apps in compatibility mode?
It's hard to offer a solution when you haven't described the problem other than "stopped working". What has changed since it "was working"?
Astrology is BS. The only reasons to consult an astrologist are: 1. You want bad advice 2. You have too much money and you want to throw some away If #2, consider donating to an animal shelter instead.
For years before I retired (IT) the laptop of choice for our company was the IBM (now Lenovo) Thinkpad. When I retired and had to spend my own money I went Dell (Inspiron). It was a great machine so the next laptop was also a Dell. That one, and its …
@Dani - I know you understand brain fog. I've had about three hours sleep since 8:00 yesterday morning so I thought @rproffitt was downvoting the original post rather than tha AI summary. Apologies. I'm still running on empty so I'll just stop there.
>Does driving your customers to your competitors count as "improvement"? If your company was Spirit Airlines, definitely an improvement.
Typically I want to paste (in Windows) with no formatting so I use CTRL+SHIFT+V.
Who is to say what a sentient AI will find worthwhile? I don't believe you can narrow it down to those two things any more than you can narrow down humans to, for example, sex, power and money. If you are an atheist then you defne your own purpose. Some …
Be yourself. The people who matter won't mind and those who mind don't matter. - Bernard Baruch
I'm retired so the only software I develop is for myself, family, and friends. Since I program only in Python I only follow frameworks and tools for that language. Even using just the one language I see new frameworks, libraries, plugins, tools, IDEs released literally weekly. Separating the diamonds from …
>Millions of dollars collected and not one phone delivered. And they changed the website terms to something like "We make no guarantee that we will ever deliver a product."
Getting an accurate quote for *any* project depends heavily on clearly defining the scope first.
I've programmed in a dozen or more languages over 50 years and regardless of what is the most likely to land you a job, I find Python to be the best overall as a starting language. 1. Syntax is straightforward and fairly simple 2. Zero startup cost - language and …
If you also have a touchpad or thumb-nub (that thing in the middle of Thinkpad keyboards) try disabling them. Your drifting may be coming from there. I used to get drifting from my ASUS touchpad from time to time (among many other ASUS issues).
At 1000 transactions per day it **does** matter what kind of database you use. I once had to support an application built on Access. Once the database got to a certain size we had to do a rebuild weekly because it kept crashing. At 1000 transactions per day you'll run …
I've found that "noli mentula" (also known as Wheaton's Law) is a good first principle although sometimes I slip.
>collecting feedback from users is one of the best ways to understand what needs to be improved I'm reminded of the typical customer service phone call. After several decades of "this call is being recorded to improve customer service" I have yet to see any improvement in customer service.
Could be useful. Do you have any screenshots? I may try running this in a VM to test it out. To date I have been using short cmd files to run robocopy. Typically it does a /mir backup followed by a "touch.exe" on the cmd file so I can check …
I do not. From a security aspect, it has already shown to be vulnerable to hacking. From an environmental aspect, because of its vast energy requirements, it is an unmitigated disaster. Over the last 50 years I have seen many technologies touted as "the future of...". Almost all were nothing …
Typically if anyone needs help they just ask for it.
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Right off the bat you say >I have a table with 3 columns: question, score, player_name and code_name That's four columns. And I do not understand what you mean by >I cannot filter the code_player through variable to have sum total of the score’table that must be displayed on the …
You seem to be going out of your way to avoid giving any details, and when someone basically says you are either likely hard to work with, or a crook, you respond "If you think so, we can have a meeting." You have also hijacked other threads to push your …
You could try the free [DivX Media Server](https://www.divx.com/en/software/divx/#:~:text=Available%20for%20Windows%20and%20Mac,TV%20(DivX%20Media%20Server).) It's not quite standard (whatever that means) but it might do the trick. I use it for casting to my ChromeCast. However, it is non-standard enough that I can't use it to stream to my Oculus Quest 2 using BigScreen. As a …
I'm trying to create a Windows 11 virtual machine using HyperV under Windows 11 Pro and all I keep getting is  I dowloaded the current Windows 11 Pro bootable iso so I'mm assuming something in HyperV is misconfigured but I have no idea what. I've gone through all the …
Cop shows that include a 5 minute foot chase. This is usually the result of the cops shouting out a suspect's name from half a block away instead of waiting until they are within arm's reach. Inevitably the suspect runs into the path of a car or truck and the …
I believe in trust but verify. When I ask ChatGPT for code I test it thoroughly. If I were to ask it to provide me with plans for a building I wouldn't assume it was structurally sound.
I use [Networx](http://networx.en.softonic.com/). It's free.
I'd tell you a UDP joke but you might not get it.
I have an email address that contains my name but I guard that tenaciously, only giving it to a few very trusted organizations (my former employer for pension and info purposes), and also a very few trusted individuals. For everything else like Meta, Kijiji, Google, etc, I have a google …
That would be back in 1971. It was something very short written in BASIC on an ancient teletype (the clackety clack one with the round keys). It was so long ago I've forgotten what it was.
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I use a $5 app I bought on the Microsoft Store. It is called Air Receiver (Softmedia). Running this on my laptop I can cast to it wirelessly from my Android phone as well as my Oculus Quest. The cast option on your phone may be in different places depending …
The city is making free radon testing kits available starting today so with all this talk I think I'll go pick one up this morning.
When I was working I always made myself available 24x7 whether I was on standby (pager/phone) or not. Because of the nature of the job corporate policy for non-standby people was "If we need you and we can contact you we expect you to come in." Of course, **not** answering …
A major problem was caused by a system operator on our AGC/SCADA system. He decided he wanted to develop apps for the control centre. While he was intelligent and well-intentioned, he did not have the background to make certain decisions. For example, he built an app for managing equipment outages …
Sad to say, a lot of doom-scrolling. I'd like to cut back but I hate not being informed on what is going on in the world.
A thousand very small decisions, just like the rest of my life. Nothing major. All in all I am pleased with how my life in tech worked out. I got the perfect job at the perfect company, except for a couple of bosses along the way. Almost never had to …
I don't often rave about software (ok, other than my own), but I have to give two big thumbs up to the latest release by [Topaz Photo AI](https://www.topazlabs.com/?attribution=true). I have a very large collection of family photos reaching back to the turn of the last century. I long ago converted …
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