Perhaps then, like the 'Windows Phone', they should stop labelling it as such.
No doubt there is a FUD in here, most likely the information source in question is not specific or needs to be taken in context. Welcome to slashdot. You must be new here?:-)
Meanwhile, it would be nice if Lotus Notes didn't allow everyone to send emails to hundreds / thousands at once. Let alone reply to these types of emails.
It would be good if any email program threw a message saying 'This email has 4324 recipients, are you sure you want to send?' Yes, this is an issue with more than 50K people on the Notes address book with groups of groups all over the place..
Sony are going to sue them for... copyright infringement? source code theft? business 'opportunity' theft? corporate impersonation? theft of corporate strategy?
I've been hanging back for a while now; have received invite to G+.. and have looked into the registration process. Got to the part where it says 'name' and stopped.
Yes, I know that when I created my first gmail account I used a weird combo of words with a strange first and last name (which will definitely be picked up when checked and my account will then be blacklisted? banned?).
So, when I got that far.. I thought about the situation for a while..
1. Google now restricts creation of new accounts So, every gmail account I have is now 'valuable'
2. Most of my internet friends (people I never see IRL.. but with whom I share regular interaction with online) use this account... and I don't want to have to handle this account being frozen / deleted / blackblalled.
3. I have zero interest in my 'real named' (yes, I have one account with my 'real' name in the username field, well, partly) linked to G+.. mostly because only my family uses it, and some businesses. It's what I use for internal social relationships (family) and specific formal business relationships.
I have a third gmail account for spam / dead end crap / I don't care / businesses I think are going to spam me / etc
Wouldn't it be nice if one gmail account could have multiple aliases. If only that sort of technology existed...
4. I don't want to be black balled from gmail. So, I'm not going to risk it.
All this.. to.. join a new social network.
The G+ ideas sound great.. but I'm having a hard time 'getting onboard'.
I will not apologies for those who know me to expect me to be on g+. I am not an anti-social git. I am very cautious. I trusted facebook; I've learnt not to extend that trust again lightly.
In other news, I find myself in the position where I can't delete my FB account. It defines my 'old' social networks, to a great degree.. and there is benefit there in that. Beyond that, I find having a FB account similar to being branded every day.. perhaps this is just 'getting used to it'. I logon to FB.. but I rarely use FB functionality.
Meanwhile, G+ is not an option.. or a reasonable alternative.. until it is clear what it will be..
Still, they could have handled this better. There's no need to go all out and ban the lot.. they could easily open up services which don't affect their business model.. although, from their point of view, *any* user control could be seen as a threat to their business income.
I agree. They need to know who their customers are; and yes, AC, we are aware that big business is seen to be a better customer over the people actually using the devices.
Take my request here - I'd like access to the iptables functionality to implement basic firewall security. This threatens their model because many apps 'require' internet security.
I'd also like to 'firewall' applications from being able to access services. I have no idea why so many apps deem it necessary to be able to read the phonebook and/or to be able to dial out. Woolworths, I am looking at you.
Yes, finer grained control for these specific functions may be implemented in future andorid OS releases.. that's a big if... and we have a history of some devices not getting upgrades.
I've read about rooting newer android phones.. and for now have decided that I can't afford to brick the device that is my main internet connection.
I'm kind of annoyed that the Galaxy S doesn't come with a firewall built in.
It looks like I'll have to root my phone, and risk bricking it, just to use the iptables functionality via Droidwall or similar. I still don't understand why these key Linux functions are not readily available.
Speaking of rooting, why doesn't the Android OS give the user the option to gain root access? sudo even?
Meanwhile, I look forward to the day when your droid can be configured to use VPN / TOR / HTTPS / local DNS / etc that we have come to know, love and expect from Linux.
I know, it's early days yet. I know, this functionality can cost CPU cycles and can drain the battery... and these new phones are quite power hungry.
What I'd really like is to be able to install a mobile proxy service on my home server, and have my phone always get pages via my home server. Same service that the current range of browsers provide, but secured by my own machine. This way the only information that my ISP can see is requests to and from my home machine.
#1 Find a good osteopath I've found that it doesn't matter how good your workstation is, eventually you get strains and pains. I've found that a visit to a good osteopath really helps.
#2 Get away from your annoying co-workers No, really. Every time you get tense, stressed or worked up you are contributing to the various aches and pains caused by sitting in a chair. Wear earplugs if plugs if physical separation is not possible. iPod with ear phones is a good idea. Wear earphones with no music playing works really well, I've found. People talk around you like they think you can't hear them. Wonderful, and reduces stress greatly, and they only interrupt you when it is really important.
#3 If your keyboard or mouse irritates you, go buy your own that you do like
#4 Ditto for your chair. Swapping for a chair from a conference room works really well
#5 Go for a walk every 45 to 55 minutes Set a timer if you need to The only time you don't do this is where you need a 2 to 3 hour coding block of time.. in which case go for a walk for 30 minutes or so after you are done coding. If you boss complains, explain nicely to them that it is Thinking Time. Take a writing pad with you. If you happen to think of something.. write it down. Otherwise, relax, and enjoy the sun.
I was thinking that it is much easier to duplicate and manage digital films... and more specifically perhaps that we will see an industry arise catering for very long term secure digital storage that will last for centuries.
Imagine many data centers spread across the planet, duplicate copies of stored items, offline and online access... we seem to be on this path now with The Cloud..
And please stop referring to Lotus Notes as 'enterprise ready' software. It should never be deployed to any organisation, regardless of size.
To answer the question, if you use Lotus Notes.. you HAVE to have folders. The search is so horrible that if you don't.. then you won't find anything.
Example: You are looking at 'all documents' folder in Lotus Notes, or the Inbox, and you see 5 emails with key words in them and you think "I'd like to see all emails with those key words". So, you open search and type the words in. Does it return the emails currently on the screen? Maybe. Does it return more emails? Maybe. Can it return different search returns on different days? Yes.
Have pity on us who are forced to use Lotus Notes.
Further... I have rules which automatically move emails into specific folders when they arrive in the inbox. It is probably the only useful automation Lotus Notes provides.
To elaborate, the big huhar about Notes is that you can code agents and extensions yourself.. and make your email client / suite do.. anything! anything! at! all! so long as you can grasp Basic syntax, like bashing your head against the wall, can handle running the same agent twice and getting different results and have a zen like attitude towards resolving software bugs while wearing a blindfold. The problem is that many organisations prevent users from writing and using agents, or making use of any customisation features in Notes. This is partially because it makes it so easy to run rings around corporate stupidity and makes it easy to DDOS Notes servers accidentally. Yes, accidentally. *sigh*
So, back to Notes we go. Don't complain about Outlook. When will Notes die?
And yes, the latest Notes 8, rewritten in Java, is a great improvement.. but is just as annoying as the old Notes 7.
One of the problems with launchy I found was that you need to know what you want to launch.
So, yes, I can remember a few of the programs I've used recently and for years.. but for ages ago? No.
For a long time I kept a folder on my desktop with shortcuts to all of the games available.
I can understand why MS think that less people use the scroll bar start menu in Windows 7. It sucks compared to the XP menu. It's simple logic - as a user I want to see all of the programs installed, even if it does take up the whole screen to do so.
The windows start bar 'search for programs and files' has bugs. For example, a search for "office" does not return a match for "OpenOffice.org Writer".
A couple of days ago, I thought (for a very short time) that OpenOffice was not installed. I searched in the menu, and yes.. OpenOffice is there..
Before they remove the start menu they would need to fix the weird search behaviour.
Also, technically, programs will still want to install to the 'start' location. Does this mean that someone will write a 3rd party application to provide a start menu for windows?
Let's see what Wikipedia says: "The Start Menu and Start Button are user interface elements used in the later versions of the Microsoft Windows operating systems and in some X window managers. The Start Button provides a central launching point for application and tasks."
I pulled into a carpark right after someone pulled out, saw that there was 30 min left on the meter, and started to walk away.
A parking inspector came up and said he was going to ticket me. I asked what for. He said because I had not paided. I pointed to the meter, which was showing 30 minutes or so left.
To avoid a pointless argument with an idiot I put 10c in (yes, this was a while back, around 10 years ago), which added another 10 minutes and wandered away.
I swear that if that parking inspector could have reset the meter he would have.
Interestingly, around here there are only a few places left where you can park for 2 hours for free. Most places require you to pay 60c up front. In a lot of places this really puts people off shopping there. Perhaps this is the point here.. to get people to move on quickly.. come, buy and leave.
Although, that doesn't work well for the local place. You get 2 hours free during business days (free outside of hours - after 7pm (catches out all of the office workers)) but the problem is that most people spend 2 hours shopping.. then have a bite to eat, put the groceries in the car and then go to the stores. The local shops were first complaining about a lack of customers.. and now they have been slowly closing. The local downturn hasn't helped. Yet, they still restrict free parking. Makes you wonder.
If they do the nasty with this system, then it'll be interesting to see how this system goes. Nothing like the real world to iron out someone's brilliant idea and highlight the negatives.
You really have to wonder what they are thinking... being able to see who is on a list could break the social fabric.
Think about it.. facebook is all about connections. We know that we're not all equal. Facebook puts us on an 'equal' ground.. but here is something which upsets the balance.
I wonder how many people will have to leave FB for them to delete this new anti-privacy feature
1) I'll look into it.. it has happened twice now.. and second time round only Office Firefox and Chrome were installed.
When I have some time I will look into reproducing this on a tower PC.
2) PEBCAK? Hmm. No. This one is reproducible. In particular it is extremely aggrieving that it fails to search My Documents type of folders.
For example: I have over 200 files in My Documents\Pictures folder. I search for *nov* or nov and it does not search. Lovely. So, reboot. Then search again, this time it returns 5 files.
Go to command prompt. dir *nov*/s returns 11 files.
Concern 1: Search function fails for My Documents folders.. Concern 2: When it does work, it does not return all files with the search string.
Yes, I need to get a program instead of using W7 search. I know.
3) Locked out files and folders Okay, I still have no answer here. If I have a file, say, F:\my\folder\this.doc then I should be able to access this file. It's my file. I created it. I copied it there. Locking me out of my file serves no purpose (that I can see).
Extremely frustrating that the OS locks a user our of their own files. And no, I can't find out why. Yet.
4) Junctions. You click on a junction and it throws an error message. It does not open the folder it is pointing to. Very bad.
Also irritating: If you have a shortcut in the menu bar then when you open the folder it continues to pretend that you are in the folder that launched it - instead of just opening the folder. Very annoying when you need to folder location or want to go up the folder tree of the target folder
5) PEBCAK? No. Microsoft:(
6) They have seriously screwed with the ALT-TAB function (does this clarify?)
7) agreed. I'm hoping that in future they will emulate teracopy... or any number of excellent file managers.. mostly because I have to use vanilla XP / 2003 at work
8) Yes, it's a laptop.. keys' on a sticker on the bottom. Not much. Nor the vendor. Apparently if it can't phone home then you're a thief; if you don't update then you're a thief.
Problem - Microsoft.
And yes, one issue identified there was a server I disabled - software assurance - that throws the 'genuine' message if you disable it and connect to the net. Lovely. Way to go MS - scream at people who have a legit licence that they are a thief.
Apparently there were other issues; most of which a reset fixed... and ASUS support are sick of dealing with it. I don't blame them. It must suck to sit there all day receiving these calls and go through the same 'oh, your windows is buggered.. you need to.... '
Install disks. Thanks! No, I didn't know this, and I'm very happy you have helped. I really appreciate.
So don't buy Windows 8. Stick with 7 or switch to Linux.
Geez, now I'm going to have to reply. The quick FTFY isn't satisfying.
The problem with this solution is that a lot of users won't get this opportunity. When windows 7 is phased out windows 8 will be the default OS. This is, after all, how Vista and Windows 7 gained most of their current market share (no, I'm not going to link to reports showing this).
So, perhaps the more pressing question is: What happens when Windows 8 is the default option for most people?
I'm guessing that they will avoid riding the Metro and stick with what they know; and when Windows 9 comes out as Metro only.. then perhaps windows will die.
I bet $100 on Windows 9 being Metro only. Any takers?:)
In regards to the 'walled garden'... just how long do you think it will take the hackers and crackers of the world to bust in a few doorsways to this 'garden'. "We planted a garden. A wonderful rose garden. And there were people stopping to look at it and say "hey, that's neat!"..."
and both XP and Vista using Windows enthusiasts were gagging for something that was up to date but not broken
Obviously you are not talking about W7 here.
1. Wrote over the partition table twice 2. Search function still doesn't work
(compare against using DIR *string*/s or DIR/S > dir.txt and search that.. in many cases Windows7 search...doesn't.)
3. Locking files and folders out
No, seriously. I am an administrator on this machine. Yet, this file is locked out. I can read it. Can't copy it. GIVE ME MY FILE! Useless.
4. Junctions are broken
5. Rename a file in search and it gets deleted
6. Alt-tab minimised windows to show the desktop (serious WTF here.. design flaw? bug? only way to fix is to disable 'Aero'.. but there is no option to 'Disable Aero'.. you need to use the old Performance panel to turn it off)
7. Windows COPY... still doesn't work like it should. No idea why they haven't bought out Teracopy.
At least W7 now has a proper firewall built in. Pity about it constantly asking about 'connecting to a network' and 'make a local network'
Also a pity that my legit laptop OS is constantly accusing me of having 'non-genuine' software (is this even possible?) on a *laptop*.
Oh, and where are my OS install disks? Right. Non-existent. So, how do I do a clean install? Right.
W8 doesn't look any better.
In other news.. how about naming your OS? Searching for 'windows 7 problem ' brings back lots of hits for other Windows OS. At least with Vista it narrows it down somewhat.
W8 does not look much better. Seriously? Throwing a mobile device interface only a desktop? Nice one.
I agree with you. This will backfire, and badly. Just how badly is yet to be seen.
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So, this is the FF 'permanent fix' for Google Instant?
If so.. I give it a 7/10 - worth trying to protect users from the utter crap that is Instant.
I can't say I like M$, I can't say I've really used Bing, but I could really get to hating google if this continues.
If google don't stop messing with their front page they are going to lose a lot more people.
I would not be surprised if Bing took over from Google as the default. If google continues on this path.. I might even welcome it.
Perhaps then, like the 'Windows Phone', they should stop labelling it as such.
No doubt there is a FUD in here, most likely the information source in question is not specific or needs to be taken in context. Welcome to slashdot. You must be new here? :-)
Meanwhile, it would be nice if Lotus Notes didn't allow everyone to send emails to hundreds / thousands at once. Let alone reply to these types of emails.
It would be good if any email program threw a message saying 'This email has 4324 recipients, are you sure you want to send?'
Yes, this is an issue with more than 50K people on the Notes address book with groups of groups all over the place..
Sony are going to sue them for... copyright infringement? source code theft? business 'opportunity' theft? corporate impersonation? theft of corporate strategy?
This.
I've been hanging back for a while now; have received invite to G+ .. and have looked into the registration process. Got to the part where it says 'name' and stopped.
Yes, I know that when I created my first gmail account I used a weird combo of words with a strange first and last name (which will definitely be picked up when checked and my account will then be blacklisted? banned?).
So, when I got that far.. I thought about the situation for a while..
1. Google now restricts creation of new accounts
So, every gmail account I have is now 'valuable'
2. Most of my internet friends (people I never see IRL.. but with whom I share regular interaction with online) use this account ... and I don't want to have to handle this account being frozen / deleted / blackblalled.
3. I have zero interest in my 'real named' (yes, I have one account with my 'real' name in the username field, well, partly) linked to G+ .. mostly because only my family uses it, and some businesses. It's what I use for internal social relationships (family) and specific formal business relationships.
I have a third gmail account for spam / dead end crap / I don't care / businesses I think are going to spam me / etc
Wouldn't it be nice if one gmail account could have multiple aliases. If only that sort of technology existed...
4. I don't want to be black balled from gmail. So, I'm not going to risk it.
All this.. to .. join a new social network.
The G+ ideas sound great.. but I'm having a hard time 'getting onboard'.
I will not apologies for those who know me to expect me to be on g+. I am not an anti-social git. I am very cautious. I trusted facebook; I've learnt not to extend that trust again lightly.
In other news, I find myself in the position where I can't delete my FB account. It defines my 'old' social networks, to a great degree.. and there is benefit there in that. Beyond that, I find having a FB account similar to being branded every day.. perhaps this is just 'getting used to it'. I logon to FB.. but I rarely use FB functionality.
Meanwhile, G+ is not an option.. or a reasonable alternative.. until it is clear what it will be..
and me with mod points today...
Thank you for the information.
Still, they could have handled this better. There's no need to go all out and ban the lot.. they could easily open up services which don't affect their business model.. although, from their point of view, *any* user control could be seen as a threat to their business income.
I agree. They need to know who their customers are; and yes, AC, we are aware that big business is seen to be a better customer over the people actually using the devices.
Take my request here - I'd like access to the iptables functionality to implement basic firewall security. This threatens their model because many apps 'require' internet security.
I'd also like to 'firewall' applications from being able to access services. I have no idea why so many apps deem it necessary to be able to read the phonebook and/or to be able to dial out. Woolworths, I am looking at you.
Yes, finer grained control for these specific functions may be implemented in future andorid OS releases.. that's a big if ... and we have a history of some devices not getting upgrades.
I've read about rooting newer android phones.. and for now have decided that I can't afford to brick the device that is my main internet connection.
When mentioning adblockplus you should also mention BetterPrivacy
ABP rocks for preventing most ads and cookies.. but BetterPrivacy controls flashcookies - LSOs.
Ghostery is also a must.
I'm kind of annoyed that the Galaxy S doesn't come with a firewall built in.
It looks like I'll have to root my phone, and risk bricking it, just to use the iptables functionality via Droidwall or similar. I still don't understand why these key Linux functions are not readily available.
Speaking of rooting, why doesn't the Android OS give the user the option to gain root access? sudo even?
Meanwhile, I look forward to the day when your droid can be configured to use VPN / TOR / HTTPS / local DNS / etc that we have come to know, love and expect from Linux.
I know, it's early days yet. I know, this functionality can cost CPU cycles and can drain the battery... and these new phones are quite power hungry.
What I'd really like is to be able to install a mobile proxy service on my home server, and have my phone always get pages via my home server. Same service that the current range of browsers provide, but secured by my own machine. This way the only information that my ISP can see is requests to and from my home machine.
#1 Find a good osteopath
I've found that it doesn't matter how good your workstation is, eventually you get strains and pains. I've found that a visit to a good osteopath really helps.
#2 Get away from your annoying co-workers
No, really. Every time you get tense, stressed or worked up you are contributing to the various aches and pains caused by sitting in a chair.
Wear earplugs if plugs if physical separation is not possible.
iPod with ear phones is a good idea.
Wear earphones with no music playing works really well, I've found. People talk around you like they think you can't hear them. Wonderful, and reduces stress greatly, and they only interrupt you when it is really important.
#3 If your keyboard or mouse irritates you, go buy your own that you do like
#4 Ditto for your chair. Swapping for a chair from a conference room works really well
#5 Go for a walk every 45 to 55 minutes
Set a timer if you need to
The only time you don't do this is where you need a 2 to 3 hour coding block of time.. in which case go for a walk for 30 minutes or so after you are done coding.
If you boss complains, explain nicely to them that it is Thinking Time. Take a writing pad with you. If you happen to think of something.. write it down. Otherwise, relax, and enjoy the sun.
Large organisations can take years to upgrade mission critical software.
Take pity on us, it's only recently that we upgraded from Notes 6 to Notes 7.
That is scary.
I have never understood the IBM fascination with Notes.. and in particular Notes 'databases'.
The good news is that we are changing to Outlook 'soon'. As much as I don't like Microsoft, at least Outlook is decent (compared to Notes).
I have over 50000 emails in my inbox.. the result of being in the same organisation for 10 years
It's very interesting using search..
Can't say I like Notes version 7 too much. 8 is an improvement... but not by much (I work for two organisations).
I was thinking that it is much easier to duplicate and manage digital films... and more specifically perhaps that we will see an industry arise catering for very long term secure digital storage that will last for centuries.
Imagine many data centers spread across the planet, duplicate copies of stored items, offline and online access... we seem to be on this path now with The Cloud..
There are a whole range of careers available for data center specialists..
And please stop referring to Lotus Notes as 'enterprise ready' software. It should never be deployed to any organisation, regardless of size.
To answer the question, if you use Lotus Notes.. you HAVE to have folders. The search is so horrible that if you don't.. then you won't find anything.
Example: You are looking at 'all documents' folder in Lotus Notes, or the Inbox, and you see 5 emails with key words in them and you think "I'd like to see all emails with those key words". So, you open search and type the words in. Does it return the emails currently on the screen? Maybe. Does it return more emails? Maybe. Can it return different search returns on different days? Yes.
Have pity on us who are forced to use Lotus Notes.
Further... I have rules which automatically move emails into specific folders when they arrive in the inbox. It is probably the only useful automation Lotus Notes provides.
To elaborate, the big huhar about Notes is that you can code agents and extensions yourself.. and make your email client / suite do.. anything! anything! at! all! so long as you can grasp Basic syntax, like bashing your head against the wall, can handle running the same agent twice and getting different results and have a zen like attitude towards resolving software bugs while wearing a blindfold.
The problem is that many organisations prevent users from writing and using agents, or making use of any customisation features in Notes. This is partially because it makes it so easy to run rings around corporate stupidity and makes it easy to DDOS Notes servers accidentally. Yes, accidentally. *sigh*
So, back to Notes we go. Don't complain about Outlook. When will Notes die?
And yes, the latest Notes 8, rewritten in Java, is a great improvement.. but is just as annoying as the old Notes 7.
One of the problems with launchy I found was that you need to know what you want to launch.
So, yes, I can remember a few of the programs I've used recently and for years.. but for ages ago? No.
For a long time I kept a folder on my desktop with shortcuts to all of the games available.
I can understand why MS think that less people use the scroll bar start menu in Windows 7. It sucks compared to the XP menu. It's simple logic - as a user I want to see all of the programs installed, even if it does take up the whole screen to do so.
The windows start bar 'search for programs and files' has bugs. For example, a search for "office" does not return a match for "OpenOffice.org Writer".
A couple of days ago, I thought (for a very short time) that OpenOffice was not installed. I searched in the menu, and yes.. OpenOffice is there..
Before they remove the start menu they would need to fix the weird search behaviour.
Also, technically, programs will still want to install to the 'start' location. Does this mean that someone will write a 3rd party application to provide a start menu for windows?
Let's see what Wikipedia says:
"The Start Menu and Start Button are user interface elements used in the later versions of the Microsoft Windows operating systems and in some X window managers. The Start Button provides a central launching point for application and tasks."
So, considering this.. they are .. killing it?
No, Iron Chef is the best food show in the world.
Possibly this is an attempt at humour? You can see junior master chef online..
http://www.masterchef.com.au/episodes.htm
Been there - in the old fashioned way.
I pulled into a carpark right after someone pulled out, saw that there was 30 min left on the meter, and started to walk away.
A parking inspector came up and said he was going to ticket me. I asked what for. He said because I had not paided. I pointed to the meter, which was showing 30 minutes or so left.
To avoid a pointless argument with an idiot I put 10c in (yes, this was a while back, around 10 years ago), which added another 10 minutes and wandered away.
I swear that if that parking inspector could have reset the meter he would have.
Interestingly, around here there are only a few places left where you can park for 2 hours for free. Most places require you to pay 60c up front. In a lot of places this really puts people off shopping there. Perhaps this is the point here.. to get people to move on quickly.. come, buy and leave.
Although, that doesn't work well for the local place. You get 2 hours free during business days (free outside of hours - after 7pm (catches out all of the office workers)) but the problem is that most people spend 2 hours shopping.. then have a bite to eat, put the groceries in the car and then go to the stores. The local shops were first complaining about a lack of customers.. and now they have been slowly closing. The local downturn hasn't helped. Yet, they still restrict free parking. Makes you wonder.
If they do the nasty with this system, then it'll be interesting to see how this system goes. Nothing like the real world to iron out someone's brilliant idea and highlight the negatives.
You really have to wonder what they are thinking... being able to see who is on a list could break the social fabric.
Think about it.. facebook is all about connections. We know that we're not all equal. Facebook puts us on an 'equal' ground.. but here is something which upsets the balance.
I wonder how many people will have to leave FB for them to delete this new anti-privacy feature
I've always found this to be very strange.. and very convenient ...
Strange in that lots of websites are loading a JS from a third party jquery.min.js (why not load it from local?)
and
Convenient in that it's easy to detect and block :-)
1) I'll look into it.. it has happened twice now.. and second time round only Office Firefox and Chrome were installed.
When I have some time I will look into reproducing this on a tower PC.
2) PEBCAK?
Hmm. No. This one is reproducible. In particular it is extremely aggrieving that it fails to search My Documents type of folders.
For example: I have over 200 files in My Documents\Pictures folder. I search for *nov* or nov and it does not search. Lovely. So, reboot. Then search again, this time it returns 5 files.
Go to command prompt. dir *nov* /s returns 11 files.
Concern 1: Search function fails for My Documents folders..
Concern 2: When it does work, it does not return all files with the search string.
Yes, I need to get a program instead of using W7 search. I know.
3) Locked out files and folders
Okay, I still have no answer here.
If I have a file, say, F:\my\folder\this.doc
then I should be able to access this file. It's my file. I created it. I copied it there. Locking me out of my file serves no purpose (that I can see).
Extremely frustrating that the OS locks a user our of their own files. And no, I can't find out why. Yet.
4) Junctions. You click on a junction and it throws an error message. It does not open the folder it is pointing to. Very bad.
Also irritating: If you have a shortcut in the menu bar then when you open the folder it continues to pretend that you are in the folder that launched it - instead of just opening the folder. Very annoying when you need to folder location or want to go up the folder tree of the target folder
5) PEBCAK? No. Microsoft :(
6) They have seriously screwed with the ALT-TAB function
(does this clarify?)
7) agreed. ... or any number of excellent file managers.. mostly because I have to use vanilla XP / 2003 at work
I'm hoping that in future they will emulate teracopy
8) Yes, it's a laptop.. keys' on a sticker on the bottom.
Not much. Nor the vendor. Apparently if it can't phone home then you're a thief; if you don't update then you're a thief.
Problem - Microsoft.
And yes, one issue identified there was a server I disabled - software assurance - that throws the 'genuine' message if you disable it and connect to the net. Lovely. Way to go MS - scream at people who have a legit licence that they are a thief.
Apparently there were other issues; most of which a reset fixed... and ASUS support are sick of dealing with it. I don't blame them. It must suck to sit there all day receiving these calls and go through the same 'oh, your windows is buggered.. you need to .... '
Install disks. Thanks! No, I didn't know this, and I'm very happy you have helped. I really appreciate.
Geez, now I'm going to have to reply. The quick FTFY isn't satisfying.
The problem with this solution is that a lot of users won't get this opportunity. When windows 7 is phased out windows 8 will be the default OS. This is, after all, how Vista and Windows 7 gained most of their current market share (no, I'm not going to link to reports showing this).
So, perhaps the more pressing question is: What happens when Windows 8 is the default option for most people?
I'm guessing that they will avoid riding the Metro and stick with what they know; and when Windows 9 comes out as Metro only.. then perhaps windows will die.
I bet $100 on Windows 9 being Metro only. Any takers? :)
In regards to the 'walled garden'... just how long do you think it will take the hackers and crackers of the world to bust in a few doorsways to this 'garden'. ..."
"We planted a garden. A wonderful rose garden. And there were people stopping to look at it and say "hey, that's neat!"
FTFY
I prefer Treesize
Thanks!
I've found that referencing W7 also works.
Obviously you are not talking about W7 here.
1. Wrote over the partition table twice /s or DIR /S > dir.txt and search that .. in many cases Windows7 search...doesn't.) .. you need to use the old Performance panel to turn it off) ... still doesn't work like it should. No idea why they haven't bought out Teracopy.
2. Search function still doesn't work
(compare against using DIR *string*
3. Locking files and folders out
No, seriously. I am an administrator on this machine. Yet, this file is locked out. I can read it. Can't copy it. GIVE ME MY FILE! Useless.
4. Junctions are broken
5. Rename a file in search and it gets deleted
6. Alt-tab minimised windows to show the desktop (serious WTF here.. design flaw? bug? only way to fix is to disable 'Aero'.. but there is no option to 'Disable Aero'
7. Windows COPY
At least W7 now has a proper firewall built in. Pity about it constantly asking about 'connecting to a network' and 'make a local network'
Also a pity that my legit laptop OS is constantly accusing me of having 'non-genuine' software (is this even possible?) on a *laptop*.
Oh, and where are my OS install disks? Right. Non-existent. So, how do I do a clean install? Right.
W8 doesn't look any better.
In other news.. how about naming your OS? Searching for 'windows 7 problem ' brings back lots of hits for other Windows OS. At least with Vista it narrows it down somewhat.
W8 does not look much better. Seriously? Throwing a mobile device interface only a desktop? Nice one.
I agree with you. This will backfire, and badly. Just how badly is yet to be seen.