Microsoft will give more prominent display to a button in Windows that allows computer users to remove the company's Internet Explorer browser...
Well that's all nice and dandy, but how do I get my weekly Windows Updates? I know the auto-scheduler can download the critical and security patches, but not driver updates or "recommended" changes.
What they really need to do is make that site non-IE compatible.
Hmm.. reminds me of that one article about how the bots looking for pirated copies of MS Office sent emails automatically to a lot of Open Office mirrors.:)
I'd have to agree.. what he was describing sounded much more like ADD to me than it did autism. Of course, I have no idea what an autistic is like, but I do have ADD as well, so I can understand that a bit.
Another thing, aside, is that I think the guy who wrote that article certainly didn't take a very psychological approach to it. Perhaps social-sympathetic, but that's about it.
Oh well. If I showed the article to my boss, maybe he'd stop bugging me so much.:)
Agreed. The fixed hours thing only makes me dread going to work because I know its an ominous thing. I know I need to show up in the morning between 8 and 9, but I get to make up for it going to lunch pretty much whenever I feel like it, and then either staying late or leaving early and making up for it later. What would really be nice though, is work at homes in the morning (since by the time I go through the whole morning routine, I'm too turned around to think straight code anymore) and then come in the afternoons to make an appearance and meet clients and all that.
Space and time are good, but what I find helps a lot is having a good window nearby to look out. Ceiling lights dont compare to real sunshine. In my last job on the 8th floor, I was trapped in the middle, and on my walks, Id usually just go to take a look outside anyway.
Music is the best because it can serve so many purposes -- either distract you from the problem that's nagging away at your head, or act as a replacement to the chatter and phone calls and business-speak that's going all around you. It's just a matter of finding the music that fits the mood you're in, and that'll help your productivity. It's never a case of something all the time. Besides, sometimes music is a distraction and doesn't help. Sometimes it does.
... you can get broadband, and that's about 75x faster than 56k. Hmm. Who needs customer support then? Besides, all they ever ask you anyway is if you plugged in your computer.
Windows has a built in ad blocker. Just goto c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts (must open it with notepad or text viewer) and voila -- add 127.0.01 or whatever to your *favorite* ad server, restart your browser, and never see em again.
There are two ways email impairs your productivity:
1. It breaks your concentration.
2. It misleads you into inefficient problem solving.
I have to agree -- its so hard to focus on my work, when I'm trying to concentrate, and I have an email notification take me away from what I'm doing. How am I supposed to get any work done when... oh, wait a second, someone's calling me on the phone... brb
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I got picked on in high school, got over it, and I'm now having a lot more fun with my life than most of the "popular" crowd
I agree, and I've done the same... something that has helped a lot though was actually getting OUT of high school. The older I get, the more it's obvious that what was my world growing up, really isn't the world at all.
It's easy to get away from those who give you flak and enjoy the things you really do enjoy in life, once youre out of an atmosphere where those things aren't so stereotyped.
I used to use a nice ad blocking program (adsgone.com) that would block everything from a specific domain (i.e. ads.cnet.com), but it sometimes went a bit far -- if I clicked on a banner ad that was routed through something like doubleclick.net then it stopped the browsing in its tracks.
Then I found Mozilla, and settled for some lame ads, along with the built-in feature to disable pop-up ads, and I've been okay with that.
My biggest irk with Flash ads is when they scroll across the screen or do a jig right in front of the REAL content I'm trying to look at.
"Another feature I have found useful to myself and end users is visual presentation of options and immediate feedback. I am thinking particular of a DOS editor called PC-Write; there were several other programs at the time (including the Borland IDEs) which did similar things. At the bottom (or top) of the screen was a bar with 10 segments, representing the actions for the F1-F10 keys. It was easy to tell at a glance what pushing a particular key would do for you. What if more, if you pressed ctrl, alt, shift or any combination, the bar changed immediately to display the meta-F actions."
Ah... I miss the days of WordPerfect for DOS. Sure it sucked with graphics, but it came with that cool little keyboard layover for all the function commands.
Why is it the businesses with all the GOOD ideas go defunct?
Having grown up in the DOS and Windows world, and had a fair taste of Linux (I figured out how to install Red Hat -- woo hoo!), I could see a good GUI somewhere between the two: using the stability of Linux, and the ease *cough* of Windows...
Or, more accurately, here's my wish/complaint list:
- give *every* window a taskbar, so you can see it, and they can't hide - integrate the kill feature in Windows (hitting End Program Now a dozen times just doesn't seem to cut it) - be able to customize EVERYTHING -- admittedly, I'm pretty picky in that area, but I'd at least like the option. One thing I love about Linux is that it gives you more than enough rope to hang yourself, while Windows crashes when you try to tweak in the first place! - keyboard shortcuts for everything! I grew up on DOS, and I can't drop the habit of typing http:// in the address bar, even though I only need www.slashdot.org - Windows should have a scrolling text list at startup (similar to the Linux flavors I've tried), so if it crashes on bootup, you can pretty much guess why... - drop the price as time goes by -- Windows 98 STILL sells for $100 at Circuit City... second edition!
The problem with Windows is that it trys to both protect stupid people from screwing up their system, while offering little to no advanced features / tweaking utils to those who actually know what theyre doing.
I'm sure I could think of more if I stewed at it long enough..
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Kind of like ... the MS patches.
I've used it before on importing an MS Access db to MySQL with 3000 rows and 50+ columns. Worked like a charm.
It can also import any ODBC connection. I've never had any problems with it.
Well that's all nice and dandy, but how do I get my weekly Windows Updates? I know the auto-scheduler can download the critical and security patches, but not driver updates or "recommended" changes.
What they really need to do is make that site non-IE compatible.
At first I thought it was talking about the hassle you have to go through to actually find an AOL screenname that's not taken.
I found a work around for that though -- just IM me at Steve89345199234761233290324692183646489
Hmm.. reminds me of that one article about how the bots looking for pirated copies of MS Office sent emails automatically to a lot of Open Office mirrors. :)
How are they gonna find it? Using MSN Search?
I'd have to agree .. what he was describing sounded much more like ADD to me than it did autism. Of course, I have no idea what an autistic is like, but I do have ADD as well, so I can understand that a bit.
:)
Another thing, aside, is that I think the guy who wrote that article certainly didn't take a very psychological approach to it. Perhaps social-sympathetic, but that's about it.
Oh well. If I showed the article to my boss, maybe he'd stop bugging me so much.
Agreed. The fixed hours thing only makes me dread going to work because I know its an ominous thing. I know I need to show up in the morning between 8 and 9, but I get to make up for it going to lunch pretty much whenever I feel like it, and then either staying late or leaving early and making up for it later. What would really be nice though, is work at homes in the morning (since by the time I go through the whole morning routine, I'm too turned around to think straight code anymore) and then come in the afternoons to make an appearance and meet clients and all that.
Space and time are good, but what I find helps a lot is having a good window nearby to look out. Ceiling lights dont compare to real sunshine. In my last job on the 8th floor, I was trapped in the middle, and on my walks, Id usually just go to take a look outside anyway.
Music is the best because it can serve so many purposes -- either distract you from the problem that's nagging away at your head, or act as a replacement to the chatter and phone calls and business-speak that's going all around you. It's just a matter of finding the music that fits the mood you're in, and that'll help your productivity. It's never a case of something all the time. Besides, sometimes music is a distraction and doesn't help. Sometimes it does.
xp home and pro do. I know that much for certain. Im not sure about 2k or 98.
... you can get broadband, and that's about 75x faster than 56k. Hmm. Who needs customer support then? Besides, all they ever ask you anyway is if you plugged in your computer.
Windows has a built in ad blocker. Just goto c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts (must open it with notepad or text viewer) and voila -- add 127.0.01 or whatever to your *favorite* ad server, restart your browser, and never see em again.
I see it the same way as banner ads on the web. I *never* click on them anyway, so I never feel bad blocking em.
Besides, it speeds up my Internet.
What about Mexico?
"Hola? Que tal, tenemos algo que tal vez te interesaria, no?"
"Huh?"
1. It breaks your concentration.
2. It misleads you into inefficient problem solving.
I have to agree -- its so hard to focus on my work, when I'm trying to concentrate, and I have an email notification take me away from what I'm doing. How am I supposed to get any work done when ... oh, wait a second, someone's calling me on the phone ... brb
I got picked on in high school, got over it, and I'm now having a lot more fun with my life than most of the "popular" crowd
... something that has helped a lot though was actually getting OUT of high school. The older I get, the more it's obvious that what was my world growing up, really isn't the world at all.
I agree, and I've done the same
It's easy to get away from those who give you flak and enjoy the things you really do enjoy in life, once youre out of an atmosphere where those things aren't so stereotyped.
I put all my dailies in a folder called "Bored"
Here's some I haven't seen mentioned:
Ben's Bargains - because it's good to drool.
Homestar Runner - the only excuse for Flash on the web
I used to use a nice ad blocking program (adsgone.com) that would block everything from a specific domain (i.e. ads.cnet.com), but it sometimes went a bit far -- if I clicked on a banner ad that was routed through something like doubleclick.net then it stopped the browsing in its tracks.
Then I found Mozilla, and settled for some lame ads, along with the built-in feature to disable pop-up ads, and I've been okay with that.
My biggest irk with Flash ads is when they scroll across the screen or do a jig right in front of the REAL content I'm trying to look at.
I heard about that ... tell him to start expanding to the rest of the Midwest! :)
"Another feature I have found useful to myself and end users is visual presentation of options and immediate feedback. I am thinking particular of a DOS editor called PC-Write; there were several other programs at the time (including the Borland IDEs) which did similar things. At the bottom (or top) of the screen was a bar with 10 segments, representing the actions for the F1-F10 keys. It was easy to tell at a glance what pushing a particular key would do for you. What if more, if you pressed ctrl, alt, shift or any combination, the bar changed immediately to display the meta-F actions."
... I miss the days of WordPerfect for DOS. Sure it sucked with graphics, but it came with that cool little keyboard layover for all the function commands.
Ah
Why is it the businesses with all the GOOD ideas go defunct?
*sigh*
Having grown up in the DOS and Windows world, and had a fair taste of Linux (I figured out how to install Red Hat -- woo hoo!), I could see a good GUI somewhere between the two: using the stability of Linux, and the ease *cough* of Windows...
... ... second edition!
Or, more accurately, here's my wish/complaint list:
- give *every* window a taskbar, so you can see it, and they can't hide
- integrate the kill feature in Windows (hitting End Program Now a dozen times just doesn't seem to cut it)
- be able to customize EVERYTHING -- admittedly, I'm pretty picky in that area, but I'd at least like the option. One thing I love about Linux is that it gives you more than enough rope to hang yourself, while Windows crashes when you try to tweak in the first place!
- keyboard shortcuts for everything! I grew up on DOS, and I can't drop the habit of typing http:// in the address bar, even though I only need www.slashdot.org
- Windows should have a scrolling text list at startup (similar to the Linux flavors I've tried), so if it crashes on bootup, you can pretty much guess why
- drop the price as time goes by -- Windows 98 STILL sells for $100 at Circuit City
The problem with Windows is that it trys to both protect stupid people from screwing up their system, while offering little to no advanced features / tweaking utils to those who actually know what theyre doing.
I'm sure I could think of more if I stewed at it long enough..