Not naming a competitor (meaning Google) simply reduces the number of references to the competitor on the Web and elsewhere, and reduces the likelihood of someone going to a direct competitor.
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Most programming editors have a "Save As" feature that let you save to some other name or to another directory.
When you edited your attachment, then saved, the attachment was saved to the TEMP...

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I've used Windows for a long time--from Win 3.1 up to Vista, and have worked with OSX on my wife's Mac laptop. Sorry--OSX and the Apple computers aren't worth the extra money.

I prefer Windows...

The PC is 4 years old.

Electrolytic capacitors in PCs degrade over time, which can cause bad things to happen. Other things like crystallized solder joints can open connections. And then there's...

It's odd that the DVD configuration wasn't set up right in the first place, but at least the tech had the right information to get your DVD running.

Sounds like you need to make a trip back to the dealer. If you bought it over the Internet, maybe you got a PC with a DVD drive set up for another region.

I work with these packages at work.

MS Visual C++ supplies the development environment, and can be used to develop C++ functions and procedures if your project needs them. Digital Fortran (now...

Perhaps you're right, because I don't know enough about Linux to know whether it had a background indexing service (yes I know about grep, awk and and other command line searching and parsing...

Exactly right on bling. I was trying to figure out a good name for interface "features" that really didn't do anything useful, but were flashy. Bling was it, and it's not complimentary.

In...

Vista got bloated because of the perceived need for more security (probably needed, but the cure is often an annoying message box asking the superuser if he really wanted to change that feature, for...

Actually, all versions of Windows before Win95 (not counting the versions of Windows NT) ran on top of MSDOS.

Even Win95 and Win98 (and probably even WinME) had remnants of MSDOS hidden away...

Bill's original Basic was written in assembler on a Teletype machine, and saved to paper tape. I think I remember reading that the original version of BASIC for the Altair was distributed on paper...