Mine too. It's posted on my cubicle wall at work - where I have a wimpy little Dell running Win2K and a screaming-fast Sun box running Solaris. You better believe I have a beard, and I do own suspenders... and I run Linux at home. Footwear of choice? Birkenstocks.
I have newer drives that won't let me burn at anything less than 4x (don't know why), and they give me less reliable recordings than I got when I burned at 1x. I'm talking about audio recordings here, disks that are treated very carefully - never a scratch - and after the first 60 minutes they get very flaky, even on the first playing. They stop, they hesitate, they are useless. They are supposed to be 80 minute CDs. Maybe I should just avoid Sony and Memorex CD-Rs, I never had a problem with Imation...
Where I work, we have a single Solaris admin; we have a raft of WinXX admins. I'm the only user (of both systems) who has a clue about the underpinnings of Solaris. It's a piece of cake if you're capable in a *nix environment. *nix is *nix. Big freakin' deal.
The "raft of WinXX admins" are running their collective asses off all the time, screwing up everybodys' boxen all the while. The Solaris guy is busy but nothing like the Win guys. No surprise to anybody here;-) Of course, there aren't even 5x the number of Win users compared to the Solaris users.
What drives me nuts is that I'm stuck with user-level privileges on both systems. Can't even get them to grant me power-user status on Win2k.
I guess they're scared of the competition. So, I'm stuck compiling my code at home and toting it in to work on floppies or CDs.
Oh, back to the subject at hand: our upgrade to Solaris 8 was almost painless. Fortunately I had already set my box up to run CDE instead of OpenWindows - that spurred our Solaris guy to do the same to all of the other lusers; it made the upgrade to Solaris 8 that much easier. Except for the whining from the other lusers, of course.
VBscript drives me nuts. I want my variables to know what they should be; if you don't know what your variables are going to be (integer, float, string, etc.) how can you write a solid, reliable program?
When I'm required to write in VB, "Option Explicit" is the first statement. It comes before the comments that describe the program. That's how important explicit declarations are to a *real* program, IMHO.
I despise VB in all its forms (especially VBscript), but I have to use it - some of the software I have to interface with only understands VB. Believe you me, this is a constant issue when software upgrades come around: "can we get another option for scripting with this tool?" I am relentless in this area.
That's just bad programming practice. You should never, ever declare multiple types in a single statement.
Personally, I don't like to declare multiple variables in a single statement, even if they are all the same type. It makes the source code hard to read.
But then I also compulsively comment my code, so I can read through it 10 years later and still understand everything.
Sure, I still use a mousepad. At home I have optical mice, so I cover the mouse pads with 108 bright inkjet paper (opticals don't like dark colors). When it gets dirty, I pull off the paper and Scotch Magic Tape (tm) and replace the paper.
At work I have the old-fashioned ball mice; I have two of the rubber-foam mouse pads stacked, with a thin stiff-covered mad on top of that. Nice padding for my wrist, and no lint on the ball.
Now all I need is mouse fans and pad heaters, and I'll be all set. Carpal tunnel, be gone!
Of course, I wouldn't try this with my precious Logitech mice, but I do have a couple of MS mice laying around doing nothing but collecting dust. I may just try it!
I have a 5.25 inch Radio Shack 120VAC fan sitting on my desk at work. Not as inexpensive as a Wal-Mart fan, but it's compact and shoots a great breeze. My cubicle neighbor calls it my "finger-eater." (Metal blades and no finger-guard.)
In this case, pg appears to translate to paging.
Doubtful. There isn't an "ls" command in the Windoze CMD shell, so it's all-too-easy to assume that this is a *nix remnant. Thus, I merrily make that assumption.
> What about W3C standards? leave for academicians. IE is the real standard.
No, IE is the "wanna-be" standard. They add their extensions to the language and expect everybody to follow along like puppydogs. IE is to software as Dubya is to government. "My way or the highway!"
Bye, it's been less than fun, Bill. There is a wide world of browsers out there, and I don't need yours. I started browsing using Mosaic, before IE existed, and I have simply never been impressed with the MS browsers - though I gave their various incarnations quite a workout along the way. I still use IE at work due to Mordac the Preventer's disapproval of my Mozilla request.
Just glad I moved on to Linux at home before WinME - the MS "Bob" of operating systems.
One word... OK, acronym: W3C. Don't forget that if you assume that 90%, or even 95%, of your site's viewers will be using IE, there will still be 5 to 10% of potential customers who will be frustrated with the non-standard performance of your website.
One more word: strokes (or, as you described them, gestures) - definitely!
I used "strokes" for years in a Unix CAD program from Mentor Graphics. Middle mouse key, hold and draw a figure on the screen, let go and it executes a command based upon the figure you draw. Draw a question mark, you get context-sensitive help. Draw from the lower right to the upper left, you see the whole page. Draw from upper right to lower left, you zoom to a box described by the extreme points on the line you just drew.
Draw a line left-to-right and you close the active window. That's the handiest one of all. I'd really like to see that available in a browser, an email client, etc.
I've recently tried one third-party gesture program for Windows, but it caused a lot of programs to hang so I gave it up.
So you think that Microsoft's idea of what is right should guide your coding?
Write to the standard (W3C). If MS can't render the standard properly, then IE is broken.
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...that isn't about the bloody Semi-holes. That's about all you ever hear about here in Tallahassee when FSU is mentioned.
Once a year (or less) you get a nice story like this that reminds people that there is more than just "American" football going on there.
Grunt! Football! Grunt! (Gimme a break!)
Mine too. It's posted on my cubicle wall at work - where I have a wimpy little Dell running Win2K and a screaming-fast Sun box running Solaris. You better believe I have a beard, and I do own suspenders ... and I run Linux at home. Footwear of choice? Birkenstocks.
At least I know enough of the proper English grammar and spelling not to trust the MS spelling/grammar checker.
... unless you're talking about concrete, in which case it isn't ...
And yes I know that "spalling" is a joke
No, simply good ol' justice in action!
I have newer drives that won't let me burn at anything less than 4x (don't know why), and they give me less reliable recordings than I got when I burned at 1x. I'm talking about audio recordings here, disks that are treated very carefully - never a scratch - and after the first 60 minutes they get very flaky, even on the first playing. They stop, they hesitate, they are useless. They are supposed to be 80 minute CDs. Maybe I should just avoid Sony and Memorex CD-Rs, I never had a problem with Imation ...
I took a year off once too, but I called it "rehab followed by a stay at a halfway house."
CNN's early online stories about the blackout referred to the Lake Erie Loop as encircling "the easternmost of the Great Lakes."
Then why would it be called the Lake Erie Loop? Lake Ontario is the easternmost. Erie is the southernmost.
CNN removed the "easternmost" reference from later editions of the story.
Hey, if I can slim down my registry AND get a viola besides, count me in!
Where I work, we have a single Solaris admin; we have a raft of WinXX admins. I'm the only user (of both systems) who has a clue about the underpinnings of Solaris. It's a piece of cake if you're capable in a *nix environment. *nix is *nix. Big freakin' deal.
;-) Of course, there aren't even 5x the number of Win users compared to the Solaris users.
The "raft of WinXX admins" are running their collective asses off all the time, screwing up everybodys' boxen all the while. The Solaris guy is busy but nothing like the Win guys. No surprise to anybody here
What drives me nuts is that I'm stuck with user-level privileges on both systems. Can't even get them to grant me power-user status on Win2k.
I guess they're scared of the competition. So, I'm stuck compiling my code at home and toting it in to work on floppies or CDs.
Oh, back to the subject at hand: our upgrade to Solaris 8 was almost painless. Fortunately I had already set my box up to run CDE instead of OpenWindows - that spurred our Solaris guy to do the same to all of the other lusers; it made the upgrade to Solaris 8 that much easier. Except for the whining from the other lusers, of course.
Ahhh, W doesn't read anything that isn't on a TelePrompTer anyway.
VBscript drives me nuts. I want my variables to know what they should be; if you don't know what your variables are going to be (integer, float, string, etc.) how can you write a solid, reliable program?
When I'm required to write in VB, "Option Explicit" is the first statement. It comes before the comments that describe the program. That's how important explicit declarations are to a *real* program, IMHO.
I despise VB in all its forms (especially VBscript), but I have to use it - some of the software I have to interface with only understands VB. Believe you me, this is a constant issue when software upgrades come around: "can we get another option for scripting with this tool?" I am relentless in this area.
That's just bad programming practice. You should never, ever declare multiple types in a single statement.
Personally, I don't like to declare multiple variables in a single statement, even if they are all the same type. It makes the source code hard to read.
But then I also compulsively comment my code, so I can read through it 10 years later and still understand everything.
I must say that C is still my favorite, and most portable, programming language.
I already annoy my office cohorts with Homer Simpson's "whoo-hoo" crying out everytime I get an email. Still, another annoying sound couldn't hurt.
I hear you, man - I'm in Florida. Gotta mod that mouse ... maybe with an Aluminum zirconium tetrachlorohydrex GLY oozer in addition to the fan.
Sure, I still use a mousepad. At home I have optical mice, so I cover the mouse pads with 108 bright inkjet paper (opticals don't like dark colors). When it gets dirty, I pull off the paper and Scotch Magic Tape (tm) and replace the paper.
At work I have the old-fashioned ball mice; I have two of the rubber-foam mouse pads stacked, with a thin stiff-covered mad on top of that. Nice padding for my wrist, and no lint on the ball.
Now all I need is mouse fans and pad heaters, and I'll be all set. Carpal tunnel, be gone!
Yes, excellent idea; mouse fan to cool the hand, and a heated end on the mouse pad to warm the wrist. I love it!
Of course, I wouldn't try this with my precious Logitech mice, but I do have a couple of MS mice laying around doing nothing but collecting dust. I may just try it!
That's the ticket! (reaches for X-Acto knife and paper towels)
Working too hard, or bad A/C ... ?
...
I have a 5.25 inch Radio Shack 120VAC fan sitting on my desk at work. Not as inexpensive as a Wal-Mart fan, but it's compact and shoots a great breeze. My cubicle neighbor calls it my "finger-eater." (Metal blades and no finger-guard.)
Yep, I'm a geek, no doubt about it
In this case, pg appears to translate to paging.
Doubtful. There isn't an "ls" command in the Windoze CMD shell, so it's all-too-easy to assume that this is a *nix remnant. Thus, I merrily make that assumption.
That's it, we're dead. Dead, I say!
Actually, this really happened with Opera. Microsoft had put some funky code into their customer support pages that funked up Opera browsing.
They were sued.
Opera came back with a "Swedish Chef" version of their pages - only if viewed with IE.
Microsoft removed the offending code rather than pursue the lawsuit.
> What about W3C standards? leave for academicians. IE is the real standard.
... OK, acronym: W3C. Don't forget that if you assume that 90%, or even 95%, of your site's viewers will be using IE, there will still be 5 to 10% of potential customers who will be frustrated with the non-standard performance of your website.
No, IE is the "wanna-be" standard. They add their extensions to the language and expect everybody to follow along like puppydogs. IE is to software as Dubya is to government. "My way or the highway!"
Bye, it's been less than fun, Bill. There is a wide world of browsers out there, and I don't need yours. I started browsing using Mosaic, before IE existed, and I have simply never been impressed with the MS browsers - though I gave their various incarnations quite a workout along the way. I still use IE at work due to Mordac the Preventer's disapproval of my Mozilla request.
Just glad I moved on to Linux at home before WinME - the MS "Bob" of operating systems.
One word
One more word: strokes (or, as you described them, gestures) - definitely!
I used "strokes" for years in a Unix CAD program from Mentor Graphics. Middle mouse key, hold and draw a figure on the screen, let go and it executes a command based upon the figure you draw. Draw a question mark, you get context-sensitive help. Draw from the lower right to the upper left, you see the whole page. Draw from upper right to lower left, you zoom to a box described by the extreme points on the line you just drew.
Draw a line left-to-right and you close the active window. That's the handiest one of all. I'd really like to see that available in a browser, an email client, etc.
I've recently tried one third-party gesture program for Windows, but it caused a lot of programs to hang so I gave it up.
So you think that Microsoft's idea of what is right should guide your coding? Write to the standard (W3C). If MS can't render the standard properly, then IE is broken.