– “Ahh, can’t believe how stupid she is!”
– “Why do you call her stupid?”
– “Of course she is stupid! She doesn’t even have Facebook!”
…and I think to myself: now that’s one heck of a reason to be stupid nowadays.
11 September, 2009
Principles of being stupid
10 September, 2009
Bye, good bye, bulb
A “green” decision was recently adopted by the European Union Council, and this decision is pointing out towards the popular old-fashioned light bulbs. They have decided to ban them from the EU, and instead they’re promoting a different alternative: the more eco-friendly compact fluorescent bulbs.
In order to pursue this decision, the EU is not allowing the retailers to sell anymore these bulbs. However, they are still allowed to sell, only until they deplete their existing stocks. As EU is moving forward towards this new direction, the US is watching in background, and if everything will turn out well, this ban against the incandescent bulbs will be implemented in the US during 2012 too.
Source: http://cleantechnica.com/2009/09/10/european-union-begins-ban-of-incandescent-light-bulbs/
Windows 7 shortcuts
This post is for those of you who use Windows 7. Still unreleased though, but at this point is very stable and cool. Below you’ll find a list of shortcuts that are quite useful. Some of them will run on other versions of Windows, such as XP and Vista. Hope you’ll find them useful!
| Win + Up Arrow | Maximize the current window |
| Win + Down Arrow | Restore down or minimize current windows |
| Win + Left Arrow | Dock the current window to the left half of the screen |
| Win + Right Arrow | Dock the current window to the right half of the screen |
| Win + [number] | Activate and run the program pinned on Windows 7 Taskbar, running program won’t be affected |
| Win + Home | Minimize all but the current window |
| Win + Space | Makes all windows transparent so you can see through to the desktop |
| Win + Pause/Break | Open System Properties |
| Win + Tab | Flip Aero 3D [press Tab to cycle through windows] |
| Win + B | Move focus to notification tray (the right-most portion of the taskbar) |
| Win + D | Show/ Hide desktop |
| Win + E | Windows Explorer is launched |
| Win + F | Search |
| Win + G | Bring all gadgets on top and foreground |
| Win + L | Lock Computer |
| Win + M | Minimize all windows |
| Win + P | Open the projection menu (generally used for laptops connected to projectors) |
| Win + R | Run Command is launched. |
| Win + S | OneNote Screen Clipping Tool |
| Win + T | Show preview thumbnail of running applications in Windows Taskbar one by one without mouse over |
| Win + X | Mobility Center |
| Win + # | Quick launch |
| Win + = | Magnifier |
| Win + [+/ –] | Enables the magnifier and zooms in/ out |
| Win + Shift + Up Arrow | Maximize vertical size |
| Win + Shift + Down Arrow | Restore vertical size |
| Win + Shift + Left Arrow | Jump to left monitor |
| Win + Shift + Right Arrow | Jump to right monitor |
| Win + Shift + M | Undo all window minimization |
| Win + Shift + T | Cycles backwards |
| Win + CTRL + F | Opens the Active Directory Find Computers dialog |
| CTRL + Right Arrow | Move the cursor to the beginning of the next word |
| CTRL + Left Arrow | Move the cursor to the beginning of the previous word |
| CTRL + Up Arrow | Move the cursor to the beginning of the previous paragraph |
| CTRL + Down Arrow | Move the cursor to the beginning of the next paragraph |
| CTRL + Click | A pinned taskbar icon to cycle through the program’s open windows (e.g. IE) |
| CTRL + Win + Tab | Persistent flip 3D |
| CTRL + Shift + an arrow key | Select a block of text |
| CTRL + any arrow key + Spacebar | Select multiple individual items in a window or on the desktop |
| CTRL + Shift + ESC | Open Task Manager directly |
| CTRL + Shift + N | Create new folder |
06 September, 2009
Last.FM moderator abuse?
Couple of days ago I got a friend invite on my Last.FM page (http://www.last.fm/user/xKoP) from a random girl who had Very high musical compatibility with me. So I have accepted her friend request, and I went to her profile. In her friendlist there were like 2,000+ people, and another weird thing that I could not understand is how it was possible for her to get 160,000 plays in less than 24 hours. She subscribed to Last.FM one day before she added me.
So I went to their forums to inquire about this. Is it normal, or maybe there are some glitches in their system? I’ve started a new thread on this topic and some moderator answered and did also something else. He banned the girl. For which reason you may ask? Because she had 2,000 contacts in her friend list!!! So what is wrong with that???You gotta see his description from his personal profile: “For the record: I do have a tendency to step on toes. Sometimes by accident, and sometimes on purpose.
The same moderator explained that this (aka Last.FM) is not MySpace where everybody is in the race to beat the friend count of Tom (the MySpace founder). What kind of lame reason is that? How could somebody get banned only because they have 2000 people as contacts?
Oh, and because of that... If you have questions or (moderator) issues, PM me, rather than shouting. I'd like to keep things a little apart.” – what does it say about him? His will should be done whenever he does not like something!
I do not know the exact reason, but it sounds like an abuse to me. He, the mighty moderator, how he bans the user, according to his will and might. Friend spamming? I do not find it fair, all I see is this mod taking advantages of the privileges that have been given to him. I wonder if it is described in their ToS this particular fact.
See the thread on Last.FM: http://www.last.fm/forum/21713/_/563193
