That works too.

Here's an image of it:
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Note how you can switch between hex, decimal, octal, and binary and you can always see the binary representation.

Windows XP runs very well with 128 MB of RAM. It's when you have to install an antivirus that things start to get ugly.

Anyway, I can't use Windows 7 on my machine. The most recent drivers for my graphics card are from 2005 and only up to Windows XP.

Windows 7 looks nice, though.

I'm sure some pointy haired boss is saying "If we include this good software, people will come to expect all our software should be equally good. Then where would we be?"

I think that's been possible since the windows 3.1 calculator at least. You can even type in hex, and the application is hacked so that keyboard focus is always on the the number box, so you can conveniently use the mouse for those operations that have a tricky keyboard shortcut (or none at all).

F5-F8. You're welcome.

You're trying to claim I'm ungrateful because you rolled your eyes and told me something that isn't true, then I dared to say so?

I'm not bothered about keystrokes, but as a top-row number typer I am bothered if I have to move a hand to the mouse. I'd be grateful to jhuuskon for introducing me to F5-F8 had he not more than destroyed any general sense of goodwill. Since it's not necessarily implicit when a user has switched to/from any particular number base, I can't see how it could be less than the one keystroke that Microsoft's calculator currently accepts.

To be honest, I'll probably write my own calculator anyway, but more because the Apple one is extremely deficient in a bunch of areas (no inverse trigonometric functions, seemingly no keyboard shortcuts for switching hex/oct/dec, no binary input at all) and I'm not really interested in any of the things it does that would take particularly long to implement (reverse polish notation, unit conversions, speech), and the really complicated stuff like 2d/3d graphing is a separate program anyway.

Oh, thanks!

I think I might just go back to keeping a real calculator on my desk. I like the Sharp DAL ones, even if they seem to suffer a bit from trying to do too much with too little screen real estate nowadays. The one I had all the way through school (probably a circa 1992 model) was perfection, and again quite different from the Casio-style desktop ones. If you want to know what sin 23 equals, you press 'sin' then 23, then equals for example.

Oh yes, I do that too. The battery is long since gone (I got it when I went to high school), but the solar cell still works, so it's fine as long as the room is lit.

• Forgot to mention, the ctrl+pgup and ctrl+pgdn shortcuts are reversed for some reason in the new version of Paint. In previous versions, ctrl+pgup zooms out and ctrl+pgdn zooms in, but it's backwards now.

  
  

• It seems that the virtual copy of XP is a separate download, but it's free at least.

  
  

• W7 takes a long time to log off while shutting down (at least for me), and usually ends up rebooting during shutdown.

  
  

• Sometimes at startup the monitor is not detected correctly. The image is distorted and discolored, but it's fixed once you log in.

  
  

• LogMeIn sometimes works and sometimes doesn't. It seems that you need to use the username your_computer_name\your_user_name instead of the usual your_user_name when connecting.

That would be it installing updated on shutdown. I go into windows rarely so there's always SOMETHING for it to install.

Yeah, same here. But then ubuntu doesn't by default automatically download and install them regardless of your Update policies.

I have mine in windows set to only download, and ask to install. Even when I don't install any updates theres a few that seem to sneak through.

There's almost never anything to download for the Mac. And you all thought Apple ignoring security holes was a bad thing!

i use windows, my company uses windows, my family uses windows, my girlfriend uses windows. windows just works well on the desktop and users can easily be trained to use windows. linux is for ubergeeks/neckbeards/virgins.