Just received my Discus a week ago. I really like the setup - even though it is a total jungle.

If this was North America, they would have been sued by now. But I guess in China they like to be direct. I like it.

Nikon Small World 2013 #30

Nikon Small World 2013 #82

Seems like every time I try to upgrade to Windows 8.x something horribly goes wrong. This time I had the upgrade continue all the way to "Applying PC Settings 86%" where it got stuck, and rebooting then had the install roll back with the error message:

Couldn't update to Windows 8.1
Sorry, we couldn't complete the update to Windows 8.1. We've restored your previous version of Windows to this PC.
0xC1900101 - 0x40017

I updated the Intel Chipset drivers, updated and patched all drivers installed in my system as well as applied all Windows updates. No change. I then tried the opposite - tried removing all drivers - no difference. Then I disabled all onboard devices in my system BIOS - no difference.

I have recently had to write an application that sends out emails with attachments. This is not a hard thing to do, as is evident from the multipart/mixed RFC. My initial attempts worked perfectly when receiving the email via Apple's Mail.app. However, on the iPhone and iPad these emails rendered with the body text:

This message cannot be displayed because of the way it is formatted. Ask the sender to send it again using a different format or email program. multipart/mixed

No body text and no attachments showed up. Naturally I tried to search for the issue to see if other people experienced the same problem. Some people did. However either there were no solutions to the questions or the responses were your typical non developer users who has no better recommendation than to "reboot the phone".