To be honest, I don't even use the start menu anymore, I just hit the windows key and start typing what I need and hit enter. The less I use the mouse the better in my opinion. I also think that using the word "root" of the start menu is a misnomer, that's built into the UI and doesn't *have* a root per se. It implies that there is a directory structure behind it that determines its structure, like the "all programs" menu has. Maybe it's just semantics but I was a bit confused by what you meant by "root" of the start menu.
I'm already using a third party FOSS replacement, Classic Start Menu, in Windows 7 to replace at least one critical bit of capability that Microsoft revoked: folders in the root of the start menu. I've relied for years on being able to create and manage folders in the start menu as sub-folders to manage shortcuts. I eliminate at least one click, I can organize them by task or function, and I don't have to deal with the confusion of developers' sometimes unintuitive ways of placing their apps in Programs.
I expect the author of Classic Start Menu will shift with the tide when Windows 8 arrives and produce a new version, so I will likely just keep using it if he does and it continues to prove necessary for me. That way I eliminate even the learning curve of Stardock's rendition.
You can still do this:
All users
C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs
Your user
C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs
From TFA: "Mr Negus, who claims he left a more senior position at Dell because of assurances he would eventually succeed Mr Frazer at Microsoft, was ranked as the top performing “level 69” partner at the company worldwide, posing a potential threat to his superior."
I'm a developer as well as a sysadmin and I NEVER tweak anything in production and I have full access to it.
I have an exact copy of my production environment for development and I do all my tweaking/test deployments there.
In fact nothing gets deployed to production until everything has been checked in development.
My previous job had dev/qa/prod environments where the devs had full access to development and it was so bad that we had to virtualize it for them just so we could revert back to a pristine snapshot whenever they jacked up the dev server.
I'm surprised this person doesn't already have any friends over there. I have quite a few friends all over Europe that I would enjoy meeting in person, or seeing again. They would be able to help me overcome my ignorant American ways and show me where the best stuff is. Also, I might even be able to stay with them, giving more money to get around or party more, whichever you like.
Why not just use a good text editor that allows you to build directly from your editor? It will run on multiple operating systems, has a powerful find/replace function, syntax highlighting, tabs, folding, highly customizable, free, open source, yadda yadda yadda
Just go check it out, I've been using it for about 10 years at work and home and love it.
Any self-respecting geek should know how to "fix" this behavior, if you know what I mean. (wink wink)
The next day: Annoying Woman: My sound isn't working anymore!! SRG: Oh Dear! That stinks... (Give empathetic nod and secretly call buddy in IT and inform him of the situation so it remains "fixed")
Suggested Methodologies: Unplug speakers (power or audio, or both) Snip part of speaker wire so it still looks whole but doesn't work Disable sound card Mute sound If they have an optical mouse, put scotch tape over the sensor (Ok, not related but fun to watch!)
not hacked, you just got the pages with the most hits since he is included on quite a few classical cds, i tried "biography johan svendsen" and the top 5 hits told me more than i ever wanted to know about this composer....
the clie is one of the few pda's that have the thumb scroller on the side, making it easy to read books on it, i paid $50 for my clie peg-300:) it uses usb sync, batteries last about a long time if you dont use the backlight too much, and is rechargable.
also, i use the weasel book reader, it reads palmdoc, and the format it uses (ztext) is smaller and better than palmdoc
http://sourceforge.net/projects/gutenpalm/
i have a page on my website about my pda if youre interested
www.tenacious.us/projects/pda/
this is exactly what i meant, you could search by genre or artist, i know that it doesnt apply for all files on this file system, thats why i specified mp3's, optimally, it would be nice to do this for different media files as well.
the beos file system indexing was amazing!! being able to create a mp3 playlist from a simple query was very nice. somehow i doubt that M$ will be able to make something comparable but you never know.
Slashdot Mirror
"but of altruism"
^^^ LOL'ed
it's still a pointlessly boring social media site
Unlike Facebook, which is immensely captivating and relevant.
sacrifice their mother in law.
Agreed. Not much of a stretch there.
To be honest, I don't even use the start menu anymore, I just hit the windows key and start typing what I need and hit enter. The less I use the mouse the better in my opinion. I also think that using the word "root" of the start menu is a misnomer, that's built into the UI and doesn't *have* a root per se. It implies that there is a directory structure behind it that determines its structure, like the "all programs" menu has. Maybe it's just semantics but I was a bit confused by what you meant by "root" of the start menu.
I'm already using a third party FOSS replacement, Classic Start Menu, in Windows 7 to replace at least one critical bit of capability that Microsoft revoked: folders in the root of the start menu. I've relied for years on being able to create and manage folders in the start menu as sub-folders to manage shortcuts. I eliminate at least one click, I can organize them by task or function, and I don't have to deal with the confusion of developers' sometimes unintuitive ways of placing their apps in Programs.
I expect the author of Classic Start Menu will shift with the tide when Windows 8 arrives and produce a new version, so I will likely just keep using it if he does and it continues to prove necessary for me. That way I eliminate even the learning curve of Stardock's rendition.
You can still do this:
All users
C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs
Your user
C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs
From TFA:
"Mr Negus, who claims he left a more senior position at Dell because of assurances he would eventually succeed Mr Frazer at Microsoft, was ranked as the top performing “level 69” partner at the company worldwide, posing a potential threat to his superior."
I LOL'ed out loud when I read that...
Hell. No.
I'm a developer as well as a sysadmin and I NEVER tweak anything in production and I have full access to it.
I have an exact copy of my production environment for development and I do all my tweaking/test deployments there.
In fact nothing gets deployed to production until everything has been checked in development.
My previous job had dev/qa/prod environments where the devs had full access to development and it was so bad that we had to virtualize it for them just so we could revert back to a pristine snapshot whenever they jacked up the dev server.
Well that explains why I got turned down for a job there (I'm 40) when I was qualified. Calling my lawyer. (Yeah right)
I'm surprised this person doesn't already have any friends over there. I have quite a few friends all over Europe that I would enjoy meeting in person, or seeing again. They would be able to help me overcome my ignorant American ways and show me where the best stuff is. Also, I might even be able to stay with them, giving more money to get around or party more, whichever you like.
Why not just use a good text editor that allows you to build directly from your editor? It will run on multiple operating systems, has a powerful find/replace function, syntax highlighting, tabs, folding, highly customizable, free, open source, yadda yadda yadda
Just go check it out, I've been using it for about 10 years at work and home and love it.
SciTE
http://www.scintilla.org/SciTE.html
Any self-respecting geek should know how to "fix" this behavior, if you know what I mean. (wink wink)
The next day:
Annoying Woman: My sound isn't working anymore!!
SRG: Oh Dear! That stinks...
(Give empathetic nod and secretly call buddy in IT and inform him of the situation so it remains "fixed")
Suggested Methodologies:
Unplug speakers (power or audio, or both)
Snip part of speaker wire so it still looks whole but doesn't work
Disable sound card
Mute sound
If they have an optical mouse, put scotch tape over the sensor
(Ok, not related but fun to watch!)
I couldn't agree more on the simplicity of their main page, thats why I started using their search engine initially.
not hacked, you just got the pages with the most hits since he is included on quite a few classical cds, i tried "biography johan svendsen" and the top 5 hits told me more than i ever wanted to know about this composer....
well you *could* use a pda to wipe, but just think about the corners.....
*shiver*
the clie is one of the few pda's that have the thumb scroller on the side, making it easy to read books on it, i paid $50 for my clie peg-300 :) it uses usb sync, batteries last about a long time if you dont use the backlight too much, and is rechargable.
also, i use the weasel book reader, it reads palmdoc, and the format it uses (ztext) is smaller and better than palmdoc
http://sourceforge.net/projects/gutenpalm/
i have a page on my website about my pda if youre interested
www.tenacious.us/projects/pda/
"Bill Gates AND spam will be a thing of the past in two years' time"
this is exactly what i meant, you could search by genre or artist, i know that it doesnt apply for all files on this file system, thats why i specified mp3's, optimally, it would be nice to do this for different media files as well.
the beos file system indexing was amazing!! being able to create a mp3 playlist from a simple query was very nice. somehow i doubt that M$ will be able to make something comparable but you never know.