stogie1020

Opened new tab, took screenshot:



OK, noticed I put a custom value in about:config for [browser.newtab.url] and that is why the new tab is opening to google, as I want. I wonder if there is an easy way to control where the focus of the cursor is upon opening the new tab. Will have to look into add-ons to solve this one...

stogie1020

OK, I had [browser.newtab.url] set to "http://www.google.com." I changed it to "about:home" and now it brings up the FF default google home page with the cursor attention in the search box.

Problem solved...


What is strange though is that if I CTRL-click on the home page icon in FF, it opens www.google.com and sets the cursor active IN the google search box, as I want. Just not when I click the new tab button...

Whiskers

Glad I could help....

Majofo

Don't forget to send payment to Whisker's paypal.

stogie1020

stogie1020

Just a quick recommendation on a program if you find yourself doing a lot of file copying.

I needed something that would CRC check the copy and also be fault tolerant (or at least tell me where the failure files were).

Have been using TeraCopy for a while now and I can honestly say that I would have paid for this program were it not free.

Nice progress window:



You can (I dont) integrate it with windows so it replaces the standard copy/paste, too.

Anyway, nice free tool similar but easier than something like robocopy.

http://codesector.com/teracopy

maharajamd

iTrader: (1)

Or Carbon Copy Cloner for us Mac users.

stogie1020

I was referring to serious computing. Serious computing requires windows (min) or linux (max). No fruit allowed.

stogie1020

Anyone know of a legit source of licenses (no media needed) for MSOffice 2010 Home and Business?

stogie1020

Anyone bought software from Digisoft? http://www.digisoftstore.com

maharajamd

iTrader: (1)

Bet I'm on a command line in my mac environment more than you are in your Windows. :P

stogie1020

haha, probably! I was teasing, I am OS agnostic.

I have a laptop that I can boot to Ubuntu, Windows or OSX.

maharajamd

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If it were a perfect world all my users would be osx and my servers nix.

Alas, I have to use OSX for everything.

doopstr

Anyone use Linux Mint? Looks really good, thinking of switching to it from Mac.

Whiskers

What are you nuts?

doopstr

Well I also like Chrome OS

I've been using Red Hat on my work laptop for about a year and I like it.

Before I switch I would need to find a replacement for Time Machine and iPhoto/iMovie. Other than that I don't think there is much that I would miss? I know Linux doesn't play Netflix but I don't really watch much Netflix on my mac and I could dual boot Windows for that.

I bought a used Precision Workstation to run a Hyper-V lab. It's a really nice box. I was thinking of getting another one to run Linux with a dual monitor setup.

stogie1020

Anyone using Office 2013?

Thoughts, impressions?

nfnsquared

I have 2013 Professional Plus. It's fine.

stogie1020

So , reports of excel 2013 being super slow, crashing are not your experience?

maharajamd

iTrader: (1)

Still using 2003 for Mac here at the office. I prefer iWork myself.

I'm not a huge fan of the changes they've made in Office over the years.

nfnsquared

No issues with crashing at all. And as far as "slowness", not that I've noticed, but I'm not using any complicated macros or pivot charts, etc.... Running it on both my laptop and desktop (thanks, Technet!!).

nfnsquared

.... speaking of Excel... has anyone ever attended any of the Fred Pryor seminars?

http://www.pryor.com/site/default.aspx

They have a 2-day Excel seminar for only $128.

#1 STUNNA

Been using 2013 since launch, no issues.

SP1 came out yesterday
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/downl....aspx?id=42017

maharajamd

iTrader: (1)

Yes. COMPLETE waste of time.

nfnsquared

Yup, 718MB. Yikes!!

Thanks. Any more detail?

maharajamd

iTrader: (1)

Not to sound narcissistic but...

The FP stuff, just like any tech oriented classes I've ever taken, was underwhelming to me. Maybe for the very less informed they would be ok. But I'd think even a novice would feel the same at those. Lol.

But I'm a self-taught everything kind of guy.

stogie1020

Um...



I know a lot of people bitch, but I think I am going to try to find a install code for office 2010 based on a lot of the specific comments people made about functionality versus 2010.

maharajamd

iTrader: (1)

162 one stars? Ouch.

nfnsquared

Did you actually read the 1-star reviews? Fucking hilarious. There are a bunch of idiots out there. And a sample of 401 is hardly a sizeable sample.

I run it on two different computers and had no install or use issues whatsoever, so I think a lot of the issues in those reviews were self-inflicted...

Edit:

Same deal for the Office Pro 2013 1-star reviews, sounds like a bunch of clueless idiots to me:

http://www.amazon.com/Microsoft-Offi...DateDescending

maharajamd

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Office at work is the extent of my interaction with MS products. Thank God.

Although I've been thinking about boot camping 8.1 to run some games...

stogie1020

nfn, I agree about the clueless users, but some of the specific complaints about changes to the excel interface, menus, etc concern me.

This install will be for a bookkeeper who is not the most modern computer user. Getting her to remote into my business is challenging enough, and I don't want to have her need to re-learn excel just for me.

TLin401

We're running Office '13 on all of the new computers that are being rolled out and there haven't been any issues so far. I like it a lot more than previous versions.

#1 STUNNA

The big issue with Office 2013 and probably why people complained about it (haven't read the reviews), is that it won't run on XP or Vista, which is about 40% of windows PCs. It also won't work with Exchange 2003 or older, we have clients that still run that and xp. So we've had to purchase office 2010 home and business a few times.

If you didn't know that before purchasing and opened the package to install it or downloaded the file you could be SOL

stogie1020

A lot of the actual usage complaints I read were specific to the "metro" style and stylings... And the lack of ability to change them. Also the moving of items in the menus for no apparent reason.

doopstr

Great, because I really love when the GUI of my word processor changes every 2 years. LibreOffice FTW.

Anachostic

I had to see this for myself and was so annoyed, I had to comment on some with answers. I had to stop because I felt some snarkiness creeping in. Like for the guy with 25 years experience whose business was "crippled" when a Windows update broke Office and he doesn't seem to know there is a "repair" option in Add/Remove Programs. Just like the NT4 days when you had to reapply the service pack after installing software. He should remember that routine in 25 years of knowledge. But hey, if he wants to convert completely to Apple now, I'm sure there will be no learning curve there.

Ken1997TL

Boot camp Win 8.1 and Stardock's $5 mod to make it look like Windows 7. Best of both worlds.

maharajamd

iTrader: (1)

Can't you just boot straight to desktop in 8.1? What's the Stardock thing do?

Whiskers

Adds a start menu

Ken1997TL

Makes it actually functional. You'll never know you're on Windows 8.1

No tiles, no stupid sidebars. If you wish to keep them, you can of course.