Occurs to me that a fix for the "lack of history for each support incident" problem the parent poster gripes about, would be an option to "Log this conversation", which would dump it to an automagically-generated web page that both the questioner and the help-giver could call up at need, and voila, there's your history, ready to be viewed, added to, etc. should the "support incident" require more than one contact....and ready to be learned from later, too. With some sort of search or indexing, over time this could become a sort of knowledge base built from real-world, real-user issues and experience.
Note I said an OPTION to "log this conversation", as it could happen that folks might not want every incident logged for all the world to see. Better yet, the option could include Public or Private Logging, where the latter is only visible to the user and to the support person they're talking to today.
Anyway, I think it's a good concept with a LOT of potential, that could readily develop into one of the best ways to get real help when you need it.
Oh, as to the name... Qunu is fine, short and easy to remember.... but "bare ass" is enough funnier that it may well become the unofficial handle everyone knows it by:)
That's interesting... I'm not a Mac person at all, but I've got a salvaged G4 here that I'm sure I'd find more fun to play with if it were faster (and I suspect I'd like OSX a whole lot more than MacOS9, which I detest). How much did it set you back to upgrade your beast's CPU? (The other stuff, I can get from my salvage heap.)
[One thing that's gotta be upgraded no matter what, to make it even marginally useful... the damned thing has a DVD-RAM drive, but it's some early model that can only use 2.8GB media. WTF kind of size is that? and it won't write CDs, nor will it *read* CDRs, nor standard DVDs.]
Heh heh... I'm writing this on a 12 year old PC. It started life as a 486 in May 1994. In 1998 it assimilated a P90. In 2001 it got a real upgrade, to a P3-550/1GB RAM. But it still has the same case, PSU, floppies, and the 2nd sound card is the 486's original. But hey, it's 12 years old!:)
And if I can find a Slot1 P3-800 CPU, it can get one more upgrade.... the REALLY scary part is, it still does everything I need. I've finally got enough salvaged parts for a P4-2GHz, but don't yet have the motivation to throw it together.
(Yeah, obviously I'm not running latest-and-greatest games. The adjacent P233 is the DOOMin' machine, and that's all I want.:)
Actually, if you are hypothermic long enough, it starts to have an impact on the brain as well.
But probably more relevant to the usual suit-and-tie office was a study that found TIES are a problem -- many men wear them too tight, sufficiently so to restrict circulation to the brain. One also has to wonder if this contributes to aterial blockages, by inducing a choke point where bacterial plaque is more likely to accumulate. [Arterial plaque has been found to be based on bacteria from the mouth, ie. secondary to bad teeth.]
...the most common reason I hear for PC's around/. is "I can build them myself / I can upgrade them". Anyone who really believes this doesn't work for a living, or can't do simple math. I built my last PC, saving approximately $250 over a comparable Dell. I will NEVER do that again. It took two days to get it working right...
And I always wonder when I see a comment like that... how the heck do some people manage to make a simple job so difficult??
I routinely build complete machines from random and salvaged parts (ie. where no one has even bothered to shop for "compatible" components), and I *never* have anywhere near that much trouble... in fact, most typically I plug in any handy parts until I have a complete PC, throw an OS and close-enough drivers at it, and everything works first time around.
I also deal with a lot of OEM machines, and they are uniformly more trouble -- more likely to have driver issues, more likely to suffer from quirks and/or partial failures that are difficult to isolate, etc. Gateways and eMachines can generally be fixed or beaten into submission (but they are also the most clone-like of the OEMs) tho Gateways often reject their own drivers. But Dells and HPs, and worst of all IBMs and Compaqs, are just not worth the trouble.
I've come to regard OEM machines as disposable, because they are so much more likely to exhibit issues that can't be fixed, thus their lifespan is typically so much shorter than that of the equivalent clone. And out of *all* PC components from any source, OEM-system motherboards are the single part most likely to fail.
BTW I'm writing this on a machine that started life in 1994 as a 486 and has been through two major upgrades. It is now a P3, but still has its original case, PSU, floppies, and 2nd sound card.:)
"I've yet to see a game that presents an undefeatable boss."
This got me to thinking about how to design such a boss... what do you do if the boss is, say, a Christian-style god, who by definition is omnipotent and immortal?
While the first thought is "obviously you can't win", my next thought was "So how do we set God up to fail?" IOW, would the scenario be, by its very nature, forced into "find a way to trick God into losing"??
It's an interesting problem. And remember, kids, don't emulate Lucifer, because he already lost. Learn from his mistakes.:)
Some of the best DOOM maps utilize the same principle: you KNOW the monsters are there somewhere, and you might hear them, but you have no idea when, where, or how you'll be attacked.
I recall one memorably scary map that starts off totally empty, and lets you explore the entire thing, poking and prodding equipment as you feel the urge... then when you've about decided everything is safe, or at least where some safe spots might be, bad things start happening. And it's set up so the monsters arrive randomly.... but by that time your nerves are already shot.:)
Point being, any prolonged anticipation of KNOWING something bad is going to happen, but not when or how, can be extremely scary in itself... much like the "evil that's only glimpsed" technique used by Lovecraft. The trick is to build up a sense of the situation being out of your control.
I do something similar both for work, and for taking a nap.
I have a playlist called "naptime", which is all my faves from one particular group, always played in the same order. I start WinAmp with the volume just high enough to be able to make out the words, flop down on the couch, and by the 3rd song I'm asleep from sheer habit. And somewhere during the last couple songs, I wake up.
The object of a nap is to get some rest without going into deep sleep (since once that happens, the whole ~2.5 hour sleep cycle has to run its course, or you'll be groggy until it would have). The music triggers the nap, prevents it from delving into a too-deep sleep cycle, and provides the wakeup trigger as well.
I forget if it was here on/. or where, but I just read an article about some research into temperature vs. productivity, and turns out that contrary to popular belief, most people work better in a comfortably warm environment (IIRC around 75F), and that dropping the temp to 68F was not such a good idea after all.
Yeah, some individuals' metabolisms run at different rates, and it also depends on what sort of work you're doing (if you're furiously chopping wood, you can be overly warm at 10 below zero, even in just a T-shirt).
But for average folks, keeping the workplace a little warmer makes sense, since if you're chilled, the body responds by limiting the blood supply to the extremities, and eventually to the brain as well. Remember that one of the risks of hypothermia is disorientation or loss of cognitive function, and if you're sitting in a 65F office all day, you *can* become mildly hypothermic.
Let's also not confuse TEACHERS, with teachers' UNIONS.
No one becomes a teacher because they wanted to belong to the union.
Unions presently exist primarily to suck the maximum money out of employers -- and remember, the union gets a large cut of each member's paycheck, in the form of "union dues" (the first teachers' union dues figure I found was $763/year).
So the union, and more importantly the union bosses, have a vested interest in maximizing the number of employees that belong to the union.
But the union couldn't care less whether their members are good *teachers* or not.
An observant AC says of a student, "Her abilities were of the kind that I see in advanced later undergraduates and/or early graduate students at a top university. Two years later, I find out that Lauren dropped out for a few terms because she was having 'a rough time' dealing with classroom environments and applying herself to required subjects that do not interest her."
That's another really good point -- one of the problems with homeschooling is that it seldom extends to "I don't care if you have no use for history, you are going to learn it anyway". Not only because kids see no value in "boring subjects like history", but oft as not because the *parent* has no interest in the subject either.
And if you can't deal with public school and being "forced to learn boring stuff", how do you expect to cope with the demands of a university, let alone an employer? After all, degrees where you only had to study FUN subjects, and jobs where you only have to do the work you WANT to do, are both far and few between.
The idea that every waking minute has to be scheduled is part of the problem. Kids DON'T have the time and space to just "be a kid" anymore. Want to watch ants, climb a tree, or just loaf in the dirt? You can't do that, because you have to be doing something "productive" ALL the time.
Which is stressful, because after school, homework, soccer practice, and whatever else, kids have NO time left to decompress, even tho kids need it even more than adults do. What if every adult had to go to work 8 hours a day, come home and do 6 more hours of homework, then get dragged off to some "socializing class" whether they really want to do it or not, and oh yeah, eat and sleep somewhere in the 6 hours that's left of the day?? Can you say "burnout"???
When I was in public school (1960-1972, grade school in Minnesota, and the largest HS in Montana) the smart kids were who everyone looked up to. EVERYONE wanted to be friends with the geek set, and anything odd about 'em was assumed to be part of "being smarter". And you couldn't be a proper jock if you didn't have good grades to match.
We had "big" classes (30 to 32 kids per classroom) and a very traditional approach to learning -- essentially you had no choice, you just did the work required, and learned whether you liked it or not. Peer pressure was toward getting a grade that was at least not embarrassing, and teachers were allowed to enforce order (and were respected for it), tho frankly their invervention was seldom needed. -- Academically, teachers knew their jobs and their subjects, and noticed when someone needed help (and would bend over backwards to make sure the kids learned). And no one was just handed a grade -- every achievement was fairly earned.
There was no truancy, no gangs, and drugs were for losers.
I don't think it's coincidental during my years in high school, which at the time had about 1500 kids, there were exactly TWO dropouts.
See my post above about how home schooling is almost never about the kid's problems in school, but rather nearly always about the problems the *parent* is afraid of, and that the parent often *generates* the problems for the kid. It's part of a syndrome of schizophrenic overprotectiveness.
Is it any wonder that when such parents homeschool, the kids turn out as socially inept as their parents already are?? yeah, kids of such parents may already be in the hole genetically, but why make it worse by denying the kid a chance to learn to better adapt??
What I've seen with homeschooling is that it's nearly always more about the fact that the PARENTS can't cope, not about the *child* getting "picked on". The PARENT is afraid of some situation, so they unconsciously want their kid to be afraid in the same way.
This is every bit as bad as the parent who tells their kid to just "suck it up and be a man" (IOW, "tough shit, kid, you're on your own"). Fact is, kids can deal with almost anything, provided their parents support them -- even by simply LISTENING when the kid needs to vent.
And bullying often results from parents setting their kids up to be bullied, by ensuring that their kid is "different" or "weird" -- frex, making a kid wear clothes or get a haircut that stamps him as a "loser" in the eyes of other kids.
And when you pull your kid out of school because of "bullying", no matter what you SAY to your kid about it, your kid is going to INTERPRET it as "You are a loser who cannot cope." What sort of message is THAT to send your kid??
And then the homeschooled kid has to "perform" for the parent 24 hours a day, instead of getting a chance to decompress simply by being around *other adults with other expectations*. End result -- every homeschooled kid I've ever known has been stressed to the max, often to the point of becoming self-destructive, and THEIR PARENTS NEVER KNEW IT. -- I've personally had to pull two otherwise-normal homeschooled kids back from the brink of suicide, wholly caused by the overwhelming stress of being under mommy's thumb 24 hours a day.
Furthermore, what makes you think that as an untrained and amateur educator, you can do the same job as a professional??
Anyway... all this is why I've come to regard home schooling as child abuse.
If you've got to pull your kid out of public school for sheer safety reasons, reconsider where you're living and whether keeping your own career is worth fucking up your kid with home-schooling. And if you still must do so... swap kids with other families or find a study group lead by a professional teacher WHO IS NOT ONE OF THE PARENTS. But DON'T try to teach your OWN kids -- unless you WANT your kids stressed beyond all rational tolerance.
Actually, historically it is more normal for kids being educated to be fostered and/or apprenticed out to another family or business. "Home schooling" was actively avoided because it was well understood that it kept the kids too insular, and more importantly that when cast as formal educators, parents put too much pressure on their own kids.
The concept of a "public school" grew directly from the apprenticeship tradition.
You are so right... yet most AV products now are Windows-only and there really is no way to scan the system BEFORE the HD boot and OS load process... after which, it's too late for the AV app to detect malware that doesn't run as an ordinary application or service.
Methinks the Progress-NOW! folks were a trifle premature about getting rid of some of the clean-boot options, frex, the venerable DOS boot floppy.
I know people who are "news addicts" (and actually display withdrawal-type behaviour when they can't watch their news programs). I wonder if it's similar, in that it's not only "needing to know what's happening" but also "see if anything NEW is happening".
A certain desire to see, learn of, and own new things is good and beneficial to both individuals and the species, but when it becomes a way of life, that's a problem.
The flipside -- fear of or lack of desire to see, learn of, or own new things -- is also a problem, as it describes... well, herbivores. Sheep.
Just like a lot of things... some is good and needful, but more isn't necessarily better.
"How could you load NT drivers if it was DOS that was running?"
I don't truly know, but I suspect RAID drivers must behave more like SCSI drivers than what we normally think of as a "Windows driver" -- that is, a much more direct hardware interaction than is used with NT's HAL. Think about it -- the RAID and SCSI HD drivers would have to load *before* Windows-proper, otherwise how is Windows going to *see* the HD to load the rest of itself? (Doesn't the prompt actually say "RAID or SCSI"?? I don't normally have to use it, so don't have it memorized.:)
As to the issue of working around other buggy programs, that may happen too (tho more likely a matter of M$'s choice of package prep), but 99% of Windows is never spoken to by other apps *by filename*.
(Side note: I'm highly suspicious the "M$DOS.SYS must be greater than 1024 bytes" thing is needed only by one of the M$ bootup critters, not by anything else.:)
BTW at that "F6 to load RAID driver" prompt, you can load any driver or even a program that lies and merely claims to be a driver; frex, NT password breakers.
Whilst RTFAing, I had a related thought: Every business that possibly can is moving to an advertising or services business model. What happens when there are no other types of business left?
But if you look at the NT installer's files, they're still just WHATEVER.EX_ files awaiting EXPANDing. So I suspect that it's still running in DOS up to the point where it first reboots... and that would explain the all-caps 8.3 names.
I think it has more to do with OS install process, since they've been naming their other programs with LFNs since way back. Even with XP, the Windows installer essentially just does a big filecopy and expand operation -- IOW, the installer appears to be largely a DOS operation. So one would expect it to use 8.3 filenames, up until the point where it reboots into the DOS-less OS and LFNs become available.
(that's all one line, and beware of any/. added spaces other than those around the = sign)
I do this on all my WinBoxen, because otherwise Windows fucks up my DOS filenames.
BTW, as several note below, DOS (and for that matter Windows) couldn't care less if a filename omits the.3 extension entirely.
As to files that wind up named "something.jpg.jpg" and the like, that's an application misbehaviour, not a Windows issue. It can happen two ways:
Frex, if I save use Netscape to save a file that is named "something.htm" on the website, NS preserves the filename exactly. But Mozilla renames the file "something.htm.html" whether I like it or not, and it does this even tho.html is NOT associated with Mozilla.
The other way it can happen is if the app isn't smart enough to check whether the user is typing in a recognised extension that is correct for the filetype, and/or whether the file already has an extension, so the app just blindly adds it.
As an example of more-intelligent behaviour, if I name a file "something.jpg" in Corel PhotoPaint, and save it as a JPG, PhotoPaint is smart enough NOT to tack on yet another.jpg extension. However, if I omit the extension when I type the name, then it will add the correct one for the filetype. So a JPG never winds up named either just "something" with no extension, nor "something.jpg.jpg.jpg".
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Occurs to me that a fix for the "lack of history for each support incident" problem the parent poster gripes about, would be an option to "Log this conversation", which would dump it to an automagically-generated web page that both the questioner and the help-giver could call up at need, and voila, there's your history, ready to be viewed, added to, etc. should the "support incident" require more than one contact. ...and ready to be learned from later, too. With some sort of search or indexing, over time this could become a sort of knowledge base built from real-world, real-user issues and experience.
.... but "bare ass" is enough funnier that it may well become the unofficial handle everyone knows it by :)
Note I said an OPTION to "log this conversation", as it could happen that folks might not want every incident logged for all the world to see. Better yet, the option could include Public or Private Logging, where the latter is only visible to the user and to the support person they're talking to today.
Anyway, I think it's a good concept with a LOT of potential, that could readily develop into one of the best ways to get real help when you need it.
Oh, as to the name... Qunu is fine, short and easy to remember
That's interesting... I'm not a Mac person at all, but I've got a salvaged G4 here that I'm sure I'd find more fun to play with if it were faster (and I suspect I'd like OSX a whole lot more than MacOS9, which I detest). How much did it set you back to upgrade your beast's CPU? (The other stuff, I can get from my salvage heap.)
[One thing that's gotta be upgraded no matter what, to make it even marginally useful... the damned thing has a DVD-RAM drive, but it's some early model that can only use 2.8GB media. WTF kind of size is that? and it won't write CDs, nor will it *read* CDRs, nor standard DVDs.]
Heh heh... I'm writing this on a 12 year old PC. It started life as a 486 in May 1994. In 1998 it assimilated a P90. In 2001 it got a real upgrade, to a P3-550/1GB RAM. But it still has the same case, PSU, floppies, and the 2nd sound card is the 486's original. But hey, it's 12 years old! :)
:)
And if I can find a Slot1 P3-800 CPU, it can get one more upgrade.... the REALLY scary part is, it still does everything I need. I've finally got enough salvaged parts for a P4-2GHz, but don't yet have the motivation to throw it together.
(Yeah, obviously I'm not running latest-and-greatest games. The adjacent P233 is the DOOMin' machine, and that's all I want.
Actually, if you are hypothermic long enough, it starts to have an impact on the brain as well.
But probably more relevant to the usual suit-and-tie office was a study that found TIES are a problem -- many men wear them too tight, sufficiently so to restrict circulation to the brain. One also has to wonder if this contributes to aterial blockages, by inducing a choke point where bacterial plaque is more likely to accumulate. [Arterial plaque has been found to be based on bacteria from the mouth, ie. secondary to bad teeth.]
And I always wonder when I see a comment like that... how the heck do some people manage to make a simple job so difficult??
I routinely build complete machines from random and salvaged parts (ie. where no one has even bothered to shop for "compatible" components), and I *never* have anywhere near that much trouble... in fact, most typically I plug in any handy parts until I have a complete PC, throw an OS and close-enough drivers at it, and everything works first time around.
I also deal with a lot of OEM machines, and they are uniformly more trouble -- more likely to have driver issues, more likely to suffer from quirks and/or partial failures that are difficult to isolate, etc. Gateways and eMachines can generally be fixed or beaten into submission (but they are also the most clone-like of the OEMs) tho Gateways often reject their own drivers. But Dells and HPs, and worst of all IBMs and Compaqs, are just not worth the trouble.
I've come to regard OEM machines as disposable, because they are so much more likely to exhibit issues that can't be fixed, thus their lifespan is typically so much shorter than that of the equivalent clone. And out of *all* PC components from any source, OEM-system motherboards are the single part most likely to fail.
BTW I'm writing this on a machine that started life in 1994 as a 486 and has been through two major upgrades. It is now a P3, but still has its original case, PSU, floppies, and 2nd sound card. :)
"I've yet to see a game that presents an undefeatable boss."
:)
This got me to thinking about how to design such a boss... what do you do if the boss is, say, a Christian-style god, who by definition is omnipotent and immortal?
While the first thought is "obviously you can't win", my next thought was "So how do we set God up to fail?" IOW, would the scenario be, by its very nature, forced into "find a way to trick God into losing"??
It's an interesting problem. And remember, kids, don't emulate Lucifer, because he already lost. Learn from his mistakes.
Some of the best DOOM maps utilize the same principle: you KNOW the monsters are there somewhere, and you might hear them, but you have no idea when, where, or how you'll be attacked.
:)
I recall one memorably scary map that starts off totally empty, and lets you explore the entire thing, poking and prodding equipment as you feel the urge... then when you've about decided everything is safe, or at least where some safe spots might be, bad things start happening. And it's set up so the monsters arrive randomly.... but by that time your nerves are already shot.
Point being, any prolonged anticipation of KNOWING something bad is going to happen, but not when or how, can be extremely scary in itself... much like the "evil that's only glimpsed" technique used by Lovecraft. The trick is to build up a sense of the situation being out of your control.
I do something similar both for work, and for taking a nap.
I have a playlist called "naptime", which is all my faves from one particular group, always played in the same order. I start WinAmp with the volume just high enough to be able to make out the words, flop down on the couch, and by the 3rd song I'm asleep from sheer habit. And somewhere during the last couple songs, I wake up.
The object of a nap is to get some rest without going into deep sleep (since once that happens, the whole ~2.5 hour sleep cycle has to run its course, or you'll be groggy until it would have). The music triggers the nap, prevents it from delving into a too-deep sleep cycle, and provides the wakeup trigger as well.
I forget if it was here on /. or where, but I just read an article about some research into temperature vs. productivity, and turns out that contrary to popular belief, most people work better in a comfortably warm environment (IIRC around 75F), and that dropping the temp to 68F was not such a good idea after all.
Yeah, some individuals' metabolisms run at different rates, and it also depends on what sort of work you're doing (if you're furiously chopping wood, you can be overly warm at 10 below zero, even in just a T-shirt).
But for average folks, keeping the workplace a little warmer makes sense, since if you're chilled, the body responds by limiting the blood supply to the extremities, and eventually to the brain as well. Remember that one of the risks of hypothermia is disorientation or loss of cognitive function, and if you're sitting in a 65F office all day, you *can* become mildly hypothermic.
Yep... and usually part of a chronic behaviour pattern on the part of the parent, unwittingly grinding down their kid's sense of being a real person.
BTW parental overprotectiveness is on the list of official symptoms for one type of schizophrenia.
Let's also not confuse TEACHERS, with teachers' UNIONS.
q =%22teachers+union%22+%2Bdues results in an assload of complaints about teachers' unions... largely from teachers.
No one becomes a teacher because they wanted to belong to the union.
Unions presently exist primarily to suck the maximum money out of employers -- and remember, the union gets a large cut of each member's paycheck, in the form of "union dues" (the first teachers' union dues figure I found was $763/year).
So the union, and more importantly the union bosses, have a vested interest in maximizing the number of employees that belong to the union.
But the union couldn't care less whether their members are good *teachers* or not.
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An observant AC says of a student, "Her abilities were of the kind that I see in advanced later undergraduates and/or early graduate students at a top university. Two years later, I find out that Lauren dropped out for a few terms because she was
having 'a rough time' dealing with classroom environments and applying herself to required subjects that do not interest her."
That's another really good point -- one of the problems with homeschooling is that it seldom extends to "I don't care if you have no use for history, you are going to learn it anyway". Not only because kids see no value in "boring subjects like history", but oft as not because the *parent* has no interest in the subject either.
And if you can't deal with public school and being "forced to learn boring stuff", how do you expect to cope with the demands of a university, let alone an employer? After all, degrees where you only had to study FUN subjects, and jobs where you only have to do the work you WANT to do, are both far and few between.
The idea that every waking minute has to be scheduled is part of the problem. Kids DON'T have the time and space to just "be a kid" anymore. Want to watch ants, climb a tree, or just loaf in the dirt? You can't do that, because you have to be doing something "productive" ALL the time.
Which is stressful, because after school, homework, soccer practice, and whatever else, kids have NO time left to decompress, even tho kids need it even more than adults do. What if every adult had to go to work 8 hours a day, come home and do 6 more hours of homework, then get dragged off to some "socializing class" whether they really want to do it or not, and oh yeah, eat and sleep somewhere in the 6 hours that's left of the day?? Can you say "burnout"???
When I was in public school (1960-1972, grade school in Minnesota, and the largest HS in Montana) the smart kids were who everyone looked up to. EVERYONE wanted to be friends with the geek set, and anything odd about 'em was assumed to be part of "being smarter". And you couldn't be a proper jock if you didn't have good grades to match.
We had "big" classes (30 to 32 kids per classroom) and a very traditional approach to learning -- essentially you had no choice, you just did the work required, and learned whether you liked it or not. Peer pressure was toward getting a grade that was at least not embarrassing, and teachers were allowed to enforce order (and were respected for it), tho frankly their invervention was seldom needed. -- Academically, teachers knew their jobs and their subjects, and noticed when someone needed help (and would bend over backwards to make sure the kids learned). And no one was just handed a grade -- every achievement was fairly earned.
There was no truancy, no gangs, and drugs were for losers.
I don't think it's coincidental during my years in high school, which at the time had about 1500 kids, there were exactly TWO dropouts.
See my post above about how home schooling is almost never about the kid's problems in school, but rather nearly always about the problems the *parent* is afraid of, and that the parent often *generates* the problems for the kid. It's part of a syndrome of schizophrenic overprotectiveness.
Is it any wonder that when such parents homeschool, the kids turn out as socially inept as their parents already are?? yeah, kids of such parents may already be in the hole genetically, but why make it worse by denying the kid a chance to learn to better adapt??
What I've seen with homeschooling is that it's nearly always more about the fact that the PARENTS can't cope, not about the *child* getting "picked on". The PARENT is afraid of some situation, so they unconsciously want their kid to be afraid in the same way.
This is every bit as bad as the parent who tells their kid to just "suck it up and be a man" (IOW, "tough shit, kid, you're on your own"). Fact is, kids can deal with almost anything, provided their parents support them -- even by simply LISTENING when the kid needs to vent.
And bullying often results from parents setting their kids up to be bullied, by ensuring that their kid is "different" or "weird" -- frex, making a kid wear clothes or get a haircut that stamps him as a "loser" in the eyes of other kids.
And when you pull your kid out of school because of "bullying", no matter what you SAY to your kid about it, your kid is going to INTERPRET it as "You are a loser who cannot cope." What sort of message is THAT to send your kid??
And then the homeschooled kid has to "perform" for the parent 24 hours a day, instead of getting a chance to decompress simply by being around *other adults with other expectations*. End result -- every homeschooled kid I've ever known has been stressed to the max, often to the point of becoming self-destructive, and THEIR PARENTS NEVER KNEW IT. -- I've personally had to pull two otherwise-normal homeschooled kids back from the brink of suicide, wholly caused by the overwhelming stress of being under mommy's thumb 24 hours a day.
Furthermore, what makes you think that as an untrained and amateur educator, you can do the same job as a professional??
Anyway... all this is why I've come to regard home schooling as child abuse.
If you've got to pull your kid out of public school for sheer safety reasons, reconsider where you're living and whether keeping your own career is worth fucking up your kid with home-schooling. And if you still must do so... swap kids with other families or find a study group lead by a professional teacher WHO IS NOT ONE OF THE PARENTS. But DON'T try to teach your OWN kids -- unless you WANT your kids stressed beyond all rational tolerance.
Actually, historically it is more normal for kids being educated to be fostered and/or apprenticed out to another family or business. "Home schooling" was actively avoided because it was well understood that it kept the kids too insular, and more importantly that when cast as formal educators, parents put too much pressure on their own kids.
The concept of a "public school" grew directly from the apprenticeship tradition.
You are so right... yet most AV products now are Windows-only and there really is no way to scan the system BEFORE the HD boot and OS load process... after which, it's too late for the AV app to detect malware that doesn't run as an ordinary application or service.
Methinks the Progress-NOW! folks were a trifle premature about getting rid of some of the clean-boot options, frex, the venerable DOS boot floppy.
I know people who are "news addicts" (and actually display withdrawal-type behaviour when they can't watch their news programs). I wonder if it's similar, in that it's not only "needing to know what's happening" but also "see if anything NEW is happening".
... well, herbivores. Sheep.
... some is good and needful, but more isn't necessarily better.
A certain desire to see, learn of, and own new things is good and beneficial to both individuals and the species, but when it becomes a way of life, that's a problem.
The flipside -- fear of or lack of desire to see, learn of, or own new things -- is also a problem, as it describes
Just like a lot of things
"How could you load NT drivers if it was DOS that was running?"
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I don't truly know, but I suspect RAID drivers must behave more like SCSI drivers than what we normally think of as a "Windows driver" -- that is, a much more direct hardware interaction than is used with NT's HAL. Think about it -- the RAID and SCSI HD drivers would have to load *before* Windows-proper, otherwise how is Windows going to *see* the HD to load the rest of itself? (Doesn't the prompt actually say "RAID or SCSI"?? I don't normally have to use it, so don't have it memorized.
As to the issue of working around other buggy programs, that may happen too (tho more likely a matter of M$'s choice of package prep), but 99% of Windows is never spoken to by other apps *by filename*.
(Side note: I'm highly suspicious the "M$DOS.SYS must be greater than 1024 bytes" thing is needed only by one of the M$ bootup critters, not by anything else.
BTW at that "F6 to load RAID driver" prompt, you can load any driver or even a program that lies and merely claims to be a driver; frex, NT password breakers.
Whilst RTFAing, I had a related thought: Every business that possibly can is moving to an advertising or services business model. What happens when there are no other types of business left?
But if you look at the NT installer's files, they're still just WHATEVER.EX_ files awaiting EXPANDing. So I suspect that it's still running in DOS up to the point where it first reboots... and that would explain the all-caps 8.3 names.
I think it has more to do with OS install process, since they've been naming their other programs with LFNs since way back. Even with XP, the Windows installer essentially just does a big filecopy and expand operation -- IOW, the installer appears to be largely a DOS operation. So one would expect it to use 8.3 filenames, up until the point where it reboots into the DOS-less OS and LFNs become available.
No, as the reply says, the 2nd installed will be ~2. It doesn't change them after the fact.
o l\FileSystem\NameNumericTail = hex:00
/. space in what should be "control" -- clearly /. needs a "no space added" hack!)
However, you can kill this nasty behaviour entirely with the nonumerictail registry hack, which I repeat from my post above:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Contr
(beware of the
This will NOT affect existing tilde'd filenames. And it works fine on all my WinBoxen, most of which also run DOS apps.
You can kill the evil tilde with this small registry hack:
o l\FileSystem\NameNumericTail = hex:00
/. added spaces other than those around the = sign)
.3 extension entirely.
.html is NOT associated with Mozilla.
.jpg extension. However, if I omit the extension when I type the name, then it will add the correct one for the filetype. So a JPG never winds up named either just "something" with no extension, nor "something.jpg.jpg.jpg".
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Contr
(that's all one line, and beware of any
I do this on all my WinBoxen, because otherwise Windows fucks up my DOS filenames.
BTW, as several note below, DOS (and for that matter Windows) couldn't care less if a filename omits the
As to files that wind up named "something.jpg.jpg" and the like, that's an application misbehaviour, not a Windows issue. It can happen two ways:
Frex, if I save use Netscape to save a file that is named "something.htm" on the website, NS preserves the filename exactly. But Mozilla renames the file "something.htm.html" whether I like it or not, and it does this even tho
The other way it can happen is if the app isn't smart enough to check whether the user is typing in a recognised extension that is correct for the filetype, and/or whether the file already has an extension, so the app just blindly adds it.
As an example of more-intelligent behaviour, if I name a file "something.jpg" in Corel PhotoPaint, and save it as a JPG, PhotoPaint is smart enough NOT to tack on yet another