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    Thinking Person’s Guide to Autism

    That doesn't show up in my browser - latest Firefox in Linux. And no, I hate Google Chrome. :(
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    Thinking Person’s Guide to Autism

    A couple of people seem to be having this problem and I'm not sure why. Perhaps they are overthinking how to post a link in here - don't try anything fancy, just type or paste the link and let the forum parse it for you. Don't try adding your own html code for parsing the link. Very simple. eg...
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    Reframing Autism’s ‘Welcome Pack’

    I agree with you. When I first went looking for more information that particular resource and a few other Aussie resources are the very reason I ended up on this forum. No, they don't mention AutismForums at all, but they were that irrelevant and useless to me that I went searching in other...
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    Windows 11 Zero-Tolerance On Incoming .EXE Files ?

    I know I probably shouldn't, but I feel smug.
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    Reframing Autism’s ‘Welcome Pack’

    Links are broken?
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    Intel Turbo Boost 2.0 Technology

    The print industry itself these days is more of a niche market but before computers there used to be print shops on just about every corner. The use of computers for artwork did make a lot of lives easier but it complicated a lot of things too. In the early days most graphic designers started...
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    Intel Turbo Boost 2.0 Technology

    I ended up working for print shops that worked exclusively for the big graphic design houses, if someone poked their head through the front door looking to get 500 business cards we couldn't help them. Working for design houses meant we didn't have to have our own darkroom, a lot of our artwork...
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    Do we have way more computer power than we need?

    That went on a lot out in the bush, people with no TV or internet access wanting movies to watch. People in the city would download movies on to external harddrives for them and after they finished watching them they'd drop the harddrive in the pub for others to borrow. Sort of the same as...
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    Do we have way more computer power than we need?

    The autistic hypersenses are good things if you use them. I could hear when drives were on their way out, they get a high pitched whine that most people simply can't hear. Or during the wet season someone would bring their computer around my place and as soon as they brought it inside I'd get...
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    My dream life.

    Is it something to do with the shape of the gulf? Here it's rare to see a storm surge of more than a metre or so, although we do get them. With that tsunami that wiped out so many people in Indonesia what arrived at our shores was only a metre high. Many people didn't even notice it, just a big...
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    Intel Turbo Boost 2.0 Technology

    I was a printer in the 90s, Mac ruled the print industry back then because the documents they sent to other computers all had the font files included in them, that's a big part of the reason why there were never any formatting issues when you opened up someone else's files on your computer...
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    Do we have way more computer power than we need?

    I do now. It took a long time for me to trust them but I like the speed my computer boots at. I still have quite a few harddisks, they're so much more reliable in a disaster situation. Unless it's been exposed to magnetic influence you can just buy a new drive , open it up and put the old...
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    My dream life.

    We get the same sort of effect here, Australia has a huge continental shelf surrounding it and shallow seas heat up quickly, that gives more power to the big storms. On the plus side that continental shelf means we can't get tsunamis.
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    Do you worry about the X-virus?

    You can always step in the shower and wash yourself.
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    Do we have way more computer power than we need?

    For any that doubt my story above, the Nortons program that Microsoft gave to all of their customers was called Dr Watson. It was a diagnostic program for helping to keep Windows running as fast as possible. I couldn't remember the name of the program, had to boot up Win98 to check.
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