In all fairness, I don’t know if I could barse my own ass with both hands.
Sorry, sorry. Shouldn’t make fun of other’s typos. Not like I never make any…
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Yes, make sure you take time to parse the barse correctly, or it will wind up biting you in the arse.
Related to #1 is that sometimes when it pops back up and you have more than one window open, one of them will cause both to rapidly switch between being the active window and being the inactive window several times a second. You can’t get it to stop unless you close one of the windows or kill the process in task manager.
For anyone who’s interested, I just installed Opera 12.18. There were some issues logging in, but that’s what I’m using right now. I bet I’ll run into some more problems as I cruise around, but I’m just glad that I don’t have to have a separate browser just for CoG anymore. I can hardly wait to try it at work. Security will hate it.
I cast threadus resurecticus!
Article on Vivaldi in Ars today, for those who are interested:
/me trundles off to install Vivaldi on Android
So I’m reading the Ars comments and someone recommends running it in a RAM disk. That’s something I haven’t heard mentioned in years…
Wut? A RAM disk?
Now it brings back memories of DOS… 
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I had to explain what a RAM disk was to my class last mod. They’re still mentioned in the Windows text books.
Did you tell them it was like a temporary SSD?
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So, it it now almost ready for prime time? Maybe ready for prime time?
Ready for afternoon drive?
I remember when a RAM disk was an option for people who really wanted to push Photoshop as you could have it use a RAM disk for the Scratch disk…
This was the mid-late 90s, and Photoshop essentially did it’s own Virtual Memory via temp files. Lots of temp file space. Some people kept a second drive (a few hundred megabytes, maybe?) around to let it thrash there, or if you had some ridiculous amount of RAM (like 32 megs!) you could do the RAM disk trick… Which basically made up for it not being able to really use tons of assigned RAM.
Also back in that era, class Mac OS used RAM with a manual partitioning scheme. Apps had ‘built in’ amounts, but you could tweak the partitions via the Get Info Finder dialog box. If an app took 4 megs to run (that hog!) you could give it 8, for example.
Sounds bad, but then again this was in place before the MSDOS/Windows side was dealing with tweaking config files because DOS memory handling was weird.
I used to have different boot floppies for different games. I messed with boot menus, but it was too hard to keep updated. It’s amazing the hoops we used to jump through just so something would work in the first place. I’m not even talking about getting the most out of a program, or your hardware, but just getting the damn thing to run sometimes.
DOS 6.22 and a multi-boot menu was nice to have.
Or, OS/2 and a couple of different DOS sessions, each tailored for that specific game.
Ejected vivaldi from my android device.
One of its features is to remind you of interesting news titbits in the notification area of android. So not interested, and there’s no way to turn it off, so ergo wasting my bandwidth.
Opera mini also do it, but only once in a blue moon.
You should be able to block an app from permission to do notifications - depending on the version, that should be a part of Android even if there isn’t an option with the app. If you touch and hold a notification, you should get an info icon (“I” in a circle)…
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Touch that, and you should get granular options…