Sorry, I was just trying to avoid karma burn from mods who might think I was being a smartass about Microsoft products. How's that working for me?:)
I replied further upthread to the guy who knew what I was talking about. What I *really* hoped would happen was that a few hackers would try to find out what I (and Microsoft) meant by "magic", but on Googling right now, it is not as obvious as it used to be in 1995, when the magic was first conjured. Here be dragons:
A Special Folder can either be a reference to a physical file system directory, or a reference to a "virtual" folder. In the former case, they are analogous to environment variables -- in fact, many of the environment variables that are set in a user's session are defined by where the special folders are set to point to. Virtual folders, however, do not actually exist on the file system; they are instead presented through Windows Explorer as a tree of folders that the user can navigate. This is known as the Shell namespace.
What happens when you add a disk full of special folders to another disk full of special folders - that have the same names and attributes? Can the OS keep the namespace straight? I will leave this as an exercise to those readers with disks they don't mind trashing.
Yes, I meant the special folders. Thanks for the link. However, it just seemed simpler to give a warning. Doing the file operations over the network obviates all concern about stray magic.
If you've got a system you don't care about, and another system disk you were planning on wiping anyway, install the second disk and try various copy/delete/move operations between the original special folders and the newly installed ones on the second disk. Use Explorer, magic is not quite as strong using xcopy from the command line.
BTW, I learned the term "magic" from the Microsoft tool "tweakgui". I didn't invent it.
The problem with doing that is Windows can detect the "magic" folders and cause all sorts of interesting problems. Magic does not get passed across a network.
Mods: If you don't know what "magic" is, please mod some other comment. Thank you.
Have you killed the guy who set up your home studio yet? Would you like me to kill him for you? After I'm done, would you hire me to redo the studio with proper acoustics and gear? What do you mean, you don't want a killer in your house?
I think you should clarify what you mean by "efficient" so the/. audience will be better informed.
In any case, I can't get three phase power in my residential area, can I? It makes no sense for the utility to wire the area up so I alone can run my industrial quality thingummy.
At LEAST 1k Euros worth...
http://corp.mandriva.com/webteam/soundsubmit/rules /
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The winner may choose one of the following two prizes:
A life membership of the Mandriva Club, Silver level;
A copy of Mandriva Linux PowerPack+ 2007, a GlobeTrotter 2.0, and an Archos Pocket Media Assistant PMA400.
No, if I were going to MINE the joke further, I would have referred to the "Pollydactyl".
How about that? A cat + bird pun!
(for people not from around here - a polydactyl cat is one with extra toes. Common in New England and some other places. Mrow.)
Several times, after telling someone to "Click on My Computer", I was put on hold while they ran over to the server, picked up the extension, and then asked me "Where should I click?".
I'm not making a joke here. Mod this "Sad".
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The answer to the first question is elsewhere in this thread.
The answer to the second question is "I don't know, but I think maybe, and since it's a brilliantly devious idea, I hope so."
As for me, I'm never putting an old system disk on a new system as a second disk. After what happened last time.
I replied further upthread to the guy who knew what I was talking about. What I *really* hoped would happen was that a few hackers would try to find out what I (and Microsoft) meant by "magic", but on Googling right now, it is not as obvious as it used to be in 1995, when the magic was first conjured. Here be dragons:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_Folders
What happens when you add a disk full of special folders to another disk full of special folders - that have the same names and attributes? Can the OS keep the namespace straight? I will leave this as an exercise to those readers with disks they don't mind trashing.
Yes, I meant the special folders. Thanks for the link. However, it just seemed simpler to give a warning. Doing the file operations over the network obviates all concern about stray magic.
If you've got a system you don't care about, and another system disk you were planning on wiping anyway, install the second disk and try various copy/delete/move operations between the original special folders and the newly installed ones on the second disk. Use Explorer, magic is not quite as strong using xcopy from the command line.
BTW, I learned the term "magic" from the Microsoft tool "tweakgui". I didn't invent it.
The problem with doing that is Windows can detect the "magic" folders and cause all sorts of interesting problems. Magic does not get passed across a network.
Mods: If you don't know what "magic" is, please mod some other comment. Thank you.
I bet when you wake up in the morning, things will look much brighter. They always do.
IF you wake up. Muahahahahahaaa....
Perhaps, but it will take a long time for the ineformation to come out.
Well, I think I exhausted my vocabulary coming up with the subject line, so I'll wait for responses.
So here's my questions:
Have you killed the guy who set up your home studio yet?
Would you like me to kill him for you?
After I'm done, would you hire me to redo the studio with proper acoustics and gear?
What do you mean, you don't want a killer in your house?
Never mind.
IS there a resource to indicate what the most reliable launch systems have historically been? Apollo makes a pretty small sample.
...Discovery last July
Can someone tell me what this means? Did I miss a launch last year?
I think you should clarify what you mean by "efficient" so the /. audience will be better informed.
In any case, I can't get three phase power in my residential area, can I? It makes no sense for the utility to wire the area up so I alone can run my industrial quality thingummy.
They have a reliable and well tested system, why doesn't NASA use that?
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But that's the combo for every physicist's briefcase, so the secrets of the ubiverse aren't too safe.
Please, I'm desperate! Click on that thingy by this comment so my life will become fulfilling! NO NOT THAT ONE!!!! ARGGGHHH!
Dontcha think?
It's like Microsoft, using Linux gear,
It's uncertainty and doubt,
Without any fear.
It's like using a device,
Not Invented Here.
And who woulda thought.
We snigger.
Why hasn't someone posted goatse or tubgirl or lastmeasure or lemonparty links to the parent yet? Is slashdot growing up?
Mostly because you believe things you see on the Internet. http://www.snopes.com/legal/lawsuits.asp
At LEAST 1k Euros worth... http://corp.mandriva.com/webteam/soundsubmit/rules /
Prize
The winner may choose one of the following two prizes:
A life membership of the Mandriva Club, Silver level;
A copy of Mandriva Linux PowerPack+ 2007, a GlobeTrotter 2.0, and an Archos Pocket Media Assistant PMA400.
You never heard of Texas? It's where the current US President has a ranch.
I do.
No, if I were going to MINE the joke further, I would have referred to the "Pollydactyl". How about that? A cat + bird pun! (for people not from around here - a polydactyl cat is one with extra toes. Common in New England and some other places. Mrow.)
Someone was going to say it. Get it? Hartz Mountain Inc. sells bird seed? Little dinosaurs? No? I'll go back to Digg now...
Several times, after telling someone to "Click on My Computer", I was put on hold while they ran over to the server, picked up the extension, and then asked me "Where should I click?". I'm not making a joke here. Mod this "Sad".
Jovial warming
;)
What, is that supposed to fill us with conviviality and good cheer?