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But... But... Isn't Freddie Mercury dead already?
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Better dig 'em up and make sure he wasn't murdered.
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I have to be honest, it sounds like bullsh1t.
PLOD A: I'm gettin' sick of that lary little Arabic kid.
PLOD B: Wot, the one wot knocks yer 'at off an' sez 'e 'ates the queen?
PLOD A: Yer.
PLOD B: 'As 'e got a knife?
When it gets to court, it'll either be revealed as a storm in a teacup and the kid will be released, or it'll be revealed as a storm in a teacup and the poor little sod will be sent to prison for the rest of his life anyway.
But this one kid who has a knife in his mum's kitchen has just assured that next year's sixteen billion budget for antiter'r'rorism will be available, and that yet more Draconian laws will be passed, to infringe the liberties of decent folk.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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The plot beneath the plot...
I may have to pick up a box of gold stars today and affix one to your paper.
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I even spelled my name right! 
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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link to article?
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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I know - it sounds like a bad tabloid article.
However, I did discover something that I'm amazed and appalled I didn't know, because it's so simple, so handy, and because I've been using Windows for ever. For. Ever.
Hover your mouse over the top edge of a non -maximised window like you're about to grab the resize edge and resize. Instead of clicking and dragging to resize, double-click. The window is maximised vertically.
Feel free to tell me that's so 2002, but I absolutely love finding out new things about something you think you know so well.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Try dragging the window edge to the top, it does the same thing.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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Whoa! That's crazy!
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Did you really not know that? 
/ravi
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Now try grabbing the window by the caption bar and dragging it until the mouse cursor gets to the right edge of the screen.
Soren Madsen
"When you don't know what you're doing it's best to do it quickly" - Jase #DuckDynasty
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Yeah - I use an add-in on the Mac to do this because I miss it so much. Window+arrows do the same thing.
But my fave: grab the caption bar and "shake" the window.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Chris Maunder wrote: But my fave: grab the caption bar and "shake" the window.
That's what it is! I was sitting here trying to remember that magic trick.
One odd thing thing with the Explorer window. Even though it does not have the good old system menu icon in the upper left corner, you can still click where it is supposed to be and get the popup menu. Yeah, I know it's not quite as exciting .
"When you don't know what you're doing it's best to do it quickly" - Jase #DuckDynasty
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I only get a window based menu there, nothing to do with Explorer specifically, and if I couldn't move or size a window without that menu, I'd go look for some train tracks to sleep on today.
No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly. - Oscar Wilde
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I did say it is odd, not great . You can also double-click on the area to close Explorer, which is clearly a lot easier than clicking the [X] button in the other corner  .
"When you don't know what you're doing it's best to do it quickly" - Jase #DuckDynasty
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SoMad wrote: You can also double-click on the area to close Explorer
Yes, as I just found out looking for the menu. 
No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly. - Oscar Wilde
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And dragging the title bar to the top maximises the window. This is all Weven stuff (except the title-bar and window-menu double-click, which are way old), introduced at the same time as the drag-left and drag-right window functions.
I'm certain that it was all discussed in the lounge at the time, so we're in Leslie country, here.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I think double-clicking the title to maximize/restore goes back at least to Win 3.
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It does, but that's not what he's talking about.
/ravi
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Precisely. The beauty is in the subtlety.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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That is cool. I didn't know either and it work in Windows 8.
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Cool I never knew that either. Only works vertical, I guess that makes sense.
New version: WinHeist Version 2.1.0
There's a fine line between crazy and free spirited and it's usually a prescription.
I'm currently unsupervised, I know it freaks me out too but the possibilities are endless.
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If you have dual monitors you get third party tools that allows you to middle click to move the window to your 2nd screen. It also allows you to drag a maximized window to another screen. Comes in quite handy sometimes. Here's the one I use: Click[^]
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That was introduced in Weven; I'm sure it was mentioned here, which is why I knew about it.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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