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Microsoft’s Windows 10 October Update has had its fair share of issues, but now it’s widely available for all users. The thing is, you still may have to pull it manually. Here’s what you need to know.

The October 2018 Update, which is Version 1809, has been plagued with issues since its initial rollout—the worst of it was probably when it was accidentally deleting users’ files (oops). But it also broke network drives, borked Windows Media Player’s seek function, and did some janky stuff with Intel drivers.

Anyway, fast forward to today, and Microsoft has apparently fixed these issues. The update has been slowly rolling out to users in blocks to make sure that it has been stable along the way. Finally, you can have it today if you’re so inclined.

Note: Before pulling this update, we highly recommend checking what version of Windows 10 you’re already running. If it’s 1809, you’re already up to date and we discourage checking for updates as it can pull an unstable version of Windows.

RELATED: How to Find Out Which Build and Version of Windows 10 You Have

To grab the update, you’ll need to jump into Windows 10’s Settings menu. Click the Start Menu and then the little cog icon.

From there, select Update & Security.

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If you have received a long email—or you’re writing one—Outlook lets you split the mail vertically into two panes, so you don’t have to scroll quite so much to reference different parts of the mail.

If you’ve ever had to deal with a long email full of replies from different people, you’ll realize how handy this little feature is right away. You could use the top pane to keep an older part of the conversation in view so that you can refer to it while using the bottom pane to type your reply. And of course, that’s only one use. You’ll surely find many others.

To split the mail, click in the Reading Pane, or double-click the mail to open it, and then click Ctrl+Alt+S. This will put a horizontal splitter bar in the middle of the mail, with a separate scroll bar in each pane.

Now you can reference or compare different parts of the mail in the same window. To remove the split, double-click the splitter bar.

It’s a small but surprisingly useful little feature!

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In the two short years since its inception, Random Hacks of Kindness has grown into a diverse global community of experts and volunteer technologists putting their skills to work for the greater good.  An important part of that diversity is the significant number of women programmers who have come out to RHoK events to hack for humanity.  Women have traditionally been underrepresented in the global software development community. Here at RHoK, we are aiming to better the statistics.


A map showing RHOK #2 participation globally with circle size indicating total attendance and circle color indicating percentage of women attending.
Green: >=20%, Yellow: between 10 and 20%, Red: <=10%.

At last year’s Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing, the Open Source for Good panel (including Avni Khatri and Alice Bonhomme-Biais from RHoK founding partners Yahoo! and Google) threw down a challenge: to ensure that women made up 20% of all participants at RHoK #2.

The challenge made an impact.  RHoK locations in Chicago, New York, Boston and Seattle, and Lusaka, Zambia all had close to 30% female participation, with 17% of participants globally being women, and many women acting as lead organizers.

“We didn’t just hit 20% challenge of women participants, we leapt over it,” said Chicago attendee Natalia Vinnick, Yahoo!, on the YDN blog.  “It was great to see so many women who participated and women who won!”

The winning team at the RHoK #2 Chicago Mainstage

“I found out about RHoK from a friend who participated in RHoK #1 and recommended it to me, since I am passionate about humanitarian causes,” said Eugenia Gabrilova, a member of the winning team in Chicago.  “I hope more women learn that a career in tech isn’t about sitting in a corner coding—you can accomplish so much and interact with many cool people.”

Yahoo! took the 20% challenge one step further, funding a scholarship for a female student to travel to RHoK #2’s Chicago Mainstage event.

“I have always hoped that my education will help me in building tools that will have social outreach—tools that will benefit others across any boundaries,” wrote scholarship winner Malveeka Tewari, a graduate computer science student at UCSD in her winning essay about hacking for humanity.

Nairobi RHoK attendees included members of the AkiraChix team.  The AkiraChix “are a group of intelligent and energetic ladies yearning to empower women through the use of technology in our day-to-day lives and change the cliché that IT is for men,” said Jamila Abass and Judith Owigar.  Their team learned about RHoK through Nairobi’s innovation hub and RHoK’s Nairobi venue, the iHub.

AkiraChix member Linda Kamau at the iHub

“Currently there are few women in technology here in Kenya.  Even fewer involved in software development.  We as AkiraChix would like to change that,” said Jamila Abass and Judith Owigar.  “We would like to see more women using technology to enrich their lives and creating relevant applications.  Since these women are an untapped resource who knows what new applications they could create?  The bottom line is by getting more women involved in technology we get a greater variety of ideas and applications, all of which are for the benefit of all people who will interact with these applications.”

With RHoK #3 fast approaching, RHoK is sending out a call to action to lady hackers around the globe: we invite you to take RHoK by storm!  Register here to join us in hacking for humanity on June 4th and 5th.