Musings of a software quality engineer
I’m a big fan of PlusNet, I’ve been with them for years now. They even offer FTTC (fibre to the cabinet) if your exchange is up to it. As the image above shows, I get faster broadband than 78% of the UK and I live about 3-4 miles from the exchange.
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As many people know Wikipedia is protesting about the US government’s proposed SOPA legislation. Consequently they’ve blacked out their home page (English language version). Whether you approve of this protest or not, you may find it difficult to do your homework, look up pointless facts or stalk celebrities without the wonders of Wikipedia.
Here’s a little workaround that gives you access to Wikipedia content….
As you can see, navigating to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page takes you to this “blacked out” page.
If you really need content from Wikipedia, here’s how to get it from the google cache.
First go to http://www.google.com or http://www.google.co.uk and search for the content that you want. Instead of searching “the whole Internet”, specify that you only want to look for Wikipedia content.
For example to search for King Henry, type
site:en.wikipedia.org King Henry
Once you have the search results, hover over the space to the right of the search results and you’ll see a double arrow appear. This shows you a preview of the search results. Hover over this (step 1) and click the word “cached” (step 2) as shown in the image below.
After clicking on the “cached” link you can see the content that you’re looking for served to you from the google cache rather than the Wikipedia pages.
Happy Googling!
I had this problem today and it caused me some real grief until I sorted it out. I think that the problem is related to using difference screen resolutions at home and work. Yesterday I was working in the office where I typically use my laptop screen for monitoring e-mail, Twitter feeds etc. and my larger external monitor for “the task at hand”. Today I’m working at home where I have two large screens attached to my PC. To access information on my laptop, I typically RDP onto my laptop and display its output onto one of my two PC screens.
Some applications store information about the screen resolution and try to start up in the same positions as they were when you shut them down. This can cause problems (as I discovered). For example, this morning I tried to open an application, the application icon appeared in the windows taskbar but I couldn’t minimise or maximise the application which meant that I couldn’t use it. All I could do was close the application down by right clicking the icon in the taskbar.
To resolve this problem it is possible to maximise an application using the following alternative method.
This ensures that the application becomes visible on a currently active screen.