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Former Member
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Did you know that you can browse the seemingly endless music of Spotify by genre, year or title? Itâs as easy as typing in a command and a tag!
For example, typing year:1990 would bring up music released in 1990. Typing in title:White Christmas would bring up all the versions of White Christmas out there. You get the idea You can also search by genre, of which over 900 to choose from. Simply typing genre:americana brings up all the americana selections Spotify offers, and so on.You can click here for a full list of genres to poke through. |
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Former Member
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helpful aside to Friday's tip about deciphering error messages: many error messages allow you to paint their text with your mouse. If you can, press Ctrl-C to copy it, switch to your browser, and press Ctrl-V to paste the entire error message into Google. Instant answers. Hopefully
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mikaok
Senior Cruncher Finland Joined: Aug 8, 2006 Post Count: 489 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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There has been many password leaks in Finland during the last two weeks. So here is something for all of us, who are struggling with passwords:
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Hypernova
Master Cruncher Audaces Fortuna Juvat ! Vaud - Switzerland Joined: Dec 16, 2008 Post Count: 1908 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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I already use similar ideas to mix high and low case letters and numbers for important passwords. Some of my passwords are over 15 characters. Sometimes I do mess up if I do not use them regularly but I manage to recover them by rebuilding them through a logical process. I also change them from time to time.
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GeraldRube
Master Cruncher United States Joined: Nov 20, 2004 Post Count: 2153 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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Intel on Tuesday demonstrated a single 50-core chip that is the first to break the 1 teraflop barrier. This chip, dubbed Knight Corner, is the first commercial processor based on Intel’s Many Integrated Core architecture. http://www.zdnet.com/blog/btl/intels-1-terafl...r-story/63597?tag=nl.e539
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nanoprobe
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There has been many password leaks in Finland during the last two weeks. So here is something for all of us, who are struggling with passwords: Write down your passwords on a post-it. Seriously! passwordsafe
In 1969 I took an oath to defend and protect the U S Constitution against all enemies, both foreign and Domestic. There was no expiration date.
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nanoprobe
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Intel on Tuesday demonstrated a single 50-core chip that is the first to break the 1 teraflop barrier. This chip, dubbed Knight Corner, is the first commercial processor based on Intel’s Many Integrated Core architecture. http://www.zdnet.com/blog/btl/intels-1-terafl...r-story/63597?tag=nl.e539 I love this question from the article. Does exascale computing lead to Skynet? Is termination in our future? 
In 1969 I took an oath to defend and protect the U S Constitution against all enemies, both foreign and Domestic. There was no expiration date.
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GeraldRube
Master Cruncher United States Joined: Nov 20, 2004 Post Count: 2153 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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Intel on Tuesday demonstrated a single 50-core chip that is the first to break the 1 teraflop barrier. This chip, dubbed Knight Corner, is the first commercial processor based on Intel’s Many Integrated Core architecture. http://www.zdnet.com/blog/btl/intels-1-terafl...r-story/63597?tag=nl.e539 I love this question from the article. Does exascale computing lead to Skynet? Is termination in our future? The Greenies wish!!  |
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When you can't "paint" the text, you can often copy the error message just by clicking anywhere on it and pressing Ctrl-C. You'll get all the text, but then you can paste that mess into Notepad, clean it up, and then Google it.
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Former Member
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Windows 7 has quite a few neat tricks up its sleeve!
So, open up a program (just about any one will do), and hold your Windows key ( the Windows key is the one located between your Ctrl and Alt keys on your keyboard and has the Windows logo emblazoned on it). As I said, hold your Windows key and press one of the direction arrows on your keyboard Windows Key + Left Arrow – Snaps the current window towards the left side of the screen. Windows Key + Right Arrow – Snaps the current window towards the right side of the screen. Windows Key + Up – Maximizes the current Window. Windows Key + Down – Send the current Window to a compact state. Press again to minimize. Note: Once the window is minimized, you need to click on it again if you want to access it. Remember: This trick is only for Windows 7 users. Everyone else is just going to have to use their mouse, I guess! |
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