For that matter, my headphones were about $900... if they are the problem, i'll eat them.
Okay, not a troll, but an elitist. You're one of the very few people who would spend $900 on a pair of headphones because MOST people can't tell the difference between them an the $10 ones they get at Sears. The world doesn't work to cater to individuals.
Yeah, I learned this trick a little while ago. It seems HP drivers are similarly setup. You can often find their drivers buried within the 35M of fluff you need to download. Of course, if I were a home user on a dial-up, I'd still be more than a little pissed...
You know, not every drive can read multisessions properly. And in reply to the reply to yours, they can't all read rewritables, either. Grabbing a basic driver from firmware's just another driver on the OS. Shouldn't matter how old the PC is.
It would be like if I bought a USB device (say a camera) that Windows didn't support, the camera would be able to bootstrap Windows with some drivers from its own firmware.
I've been saying for years "Flash ram is cheap, put some in every device to contain a BASIC device driver. The real driver can then be loaded to deliver the total package."
This all started years ago when Intel, in their infinite wisdom, started packaging the drivers for their cards with tons and tons of crap, so that I had to download a 9M file just to get a 10K driver file! Uh, schmucks, that won't fit on a floppy, and if I can't get on the network to download it, I have waste a fucking CD to get your driver!
For some reason, it amazes me how few people actually do any thinking.
Sorry to burst your bubble, but certs mean little nowadays.
Sorry to burst YOUR bubble, but certs mean more today than you think. I spent most of last year trying to get a new job. I have almost 15 years of experience in. Proven experience with a BROAD range of technologies, yet very little in the way of certifications. I thought as you did before I started looking, but quickly learned that certs are a necessity. One interviewer actually explained why, though:
"Think of it this way...five years ago, everyone was clambering to certs regardless of them having experience with those products or not. Paper mills were sending housewives and househusbands out with no experience, but a long laundry list of certs. Some of them managed to get hired, and now they have five years experience as well as certification. That's what you're working against."
I agree that it's wrong. Most of those "paper people" may have 5 years experience, and they still don't know what they're doing, but in terms of initial impressions, it sure looks like it on paper. Granted, they find out later how bad the person might be, but that doesn't help you now.
And the damn thing is, you end up with piles of crap in your memory on boot-up that you never will use, but they include "Just In Case" so if you do fire up apps they appear to just start right up, unlike those clunky competitors products.
I'd still love to see Windows stripped of all the bundled crap and truly customizable on set-up, like Linux.
Uh, so why don't you remove them? Unless you do your own Linux from Scratch, you're going to get a ton of useless crap loaded at boot time on any Linux distro, too. Most load up some kind of MTA, a webserver, a database server, etc. What the hell would the average user need those for? A user's MUCH more likely to want their pr0n to come up faster than store information about it in a web-accessible DB!:)
Seriously, if you don't want this stuff loaded, don't load it. Take it out of your Startup, remove it from the registry, whatever it takes. Oh, and let's not forget, it's REAL that puts 32M worth of memory-wasting crap in your tray when you install it, not Microsoft. Media Player don't load until you ask it.
Right between your ears. Seriously, in the last 20+ years in this industry, there's one thing I've learned: if a diag detects a problem, you've got a problem, if it doesn't, you still might.
Reason being, most hardware problems are intermittent. If the hardware doesn't work at all, then you know what the problem is and diags aren't going to tell you anything new (except for some arcane proprietary result code you need to tell the tech on the line when trying to get a replacement). If it's intermittent, it's tough to narrow it down, and diags might not catch it. If it's flaky, then the moment you run the diags is the time it doesn't act flaky.
The best thing you can do is stop relying on useless diags. As you've learned, most are. Bone up on your troubleshooting skills, learn more about the hardware...
Do you know BIOS beep codes by heart? Do you know what they are? I've met very few people over the last few years who do. You don't need a POST card if you learn 'em.:)
Do you know how to write scripts? Batch files? A simple batch file that formats a drive, and fills it with data, over and over again will more often give you a good indicator as to its health than some diag.
These things are all based on "the basics" that every tech should know. Buy a copy of "Upgrading and Repairing PCs" and memorize it. There's a TON of good information on how these boxen work.
If you fill your head with skills, you can always be sure to have the diags and information you need. If you need to rely too heavily on tools and such, you might not be in the right field.
People should better understand _why_ not to put their cat into a microwave oven...
That's not the way people work. Most people don't care HOW things work, just that it does or doesn't. It's not their fault, it's not how they're wired.
What you're describing is the way TECH people work, well, the good ones anyway. Tech people care about how things work, and they're the minority. It's the really good ones that understand that they're the oddities in the human race and can still interact with the majority without blaming them for being how they are. But, take heart, you're in the majority of the tech minority!:)
Well, I hate to say it here, 'cause I know I'll get flamed more for who originally said it rather than what was said...Rush Limbaugh once made the statement that the fairest and simplest trade agreement with any country is simply, "We'll charge you what you charge us." If China's adding 29.9% to the cost of our goods, we do it to theirs. It's fair, it's equitible and anyone who complains is just told, "Fine, lower your tariffs, ours go down automatically."
Now, if only we could get these paper mills to stop teaching the answers to certification tests and start teaching how everything works we might have some IT people out there who are capable of doing a job.
I've known too many people who come up with the oddest shit because they just don't understand AT A DEEP LEVEL how a computer works. They're users who got a slightly deeper understanding, but that's it. When I went to get my degree. You learned how the computer worked by starting with resistors and capacitors before moving on to digital circuits and eventually processors. It was only after you understood how a processor worked that you learned assembly programming, and only after you learned assembly did you learn higher-level languages.
What an ideal world IT would be if there were more people who knew what they're doing....Sigh, a dream never realized, I suppose...
I've got the TW DVR, too, and for the most part it IS a great addition to my service, but there are two issues that keep me from recommending it to people:
1) If I'm watching a TV show, and have to leave or something, I can't just hit Record and go. If I just hit record out of the blue, the DVR will continue recording until I either a) unplug the box or b) set it to record something else in the future, then cancel that recording. PITA.
2) The scheduling of recordings is almost useless. Let's say you wanna set it to record "Enterprise" every week. That show is now on Wednesdays at 9PM. I can't tell the DVR to record every episode that starts on Wed night at 9, I have to tell it to record EVERY EPISODE of the show. And, if the show's on more than once a week, you get every one, even if it's a repeat. Stupid, stupid, stupid. "Enterprise" isn't that big a deal 'cause it's only shown twice a week, but my wife's pissed that she has to manually set it to record "Queer Eye" every friggin' week, 'cause otherwise, the HD gets filled by Thursday. Does Bravo show anything else but "Queer Eye" anymore?
No, if they'd take the time to SECURE their machines, even the patches wouldn't be as necessary. Most of the attacks against IIS in the last couple of years could have easily been avoided by not granting write access to the web folders to the system account. As I recall, having looked at them all, I only remember one or two that would have actually gotten through an IIS server that had been secured at a minimum with the IIS Security Checklist provided by MS (There's a couple other things that should be done, too, but they're not huge).
Where do YOU work? Here in the US, you pretty much described the job environment for 99.99999999999999999999999999999999999999% of all companies. It would be nice if it were true that going to another company would solve these problems, but they'll most likely exist there, as well. It's simple: the problems with most companies is management, and they don't want to hear that. It's human nature, everyone thinks they're doing a great job. No, the problems are always the economy, 9/11, or too many obese children. If you complain as such, you're an unappreciative whiner.
My advice to the Asker: suck up and deal, win the battles you can, and then come to my site and tell the world about those you didn't! LOL!
Sorry, didn't MEAN for this to become about my site.;-)
As the DOJ's "technical expert" during the antitrust trial used that as "evidence" against MS. He stated that if IE was simply replaced as the default browser, it would pop up in about 6-7 instances instead of what was the default browser. As an example, if a URL was typed in the Run box. Oddly enough, even THEN, it wasn't true. I don't remember exactly what those instances were, if you have a copy of the transcripts perhaps you can expand, but in all but one of them, it wasn't true. And that last one was for CHM (Compressed HTML) files. However, one could associate Navigator with those files, and it would open, it would just choke.
Here's a thought before you post something like this: TRY IT FIRST! I know, I know, you have no idea where there's a Windows machine you could try it on, right? You don't have it on any machine you touch. Well, then, perhaps you should stop listening to the Penguin Propaganda station for all your "facts".
Amen! Easily two of the WORST run companies. "Gee, we're not making any money, let's lay off 5000 workers, and then bring in contractors at 3X the cost to do the work. That should save us a TON on payroll! If we do that annually, we should be back in the red in no time!"
Nope, sorry, that's not the way it works. I've been hearing the whining from the open source community for YEARS that if I want software to do something, I should just write it myself. It's ever so easy to do, even the most user of users could write their own version of Word or Excel if they didn't like the others. After all, there's so much code available to look at now, how could he NOT have the skillz to do it.
come to the conclusion that email is probably better interfaced as a forum. We've all known that for years.
That's your opinion. I've tried threading mail readers, and to be perfectly honest, I find them cluttered and annoying. I prefer all of my mail to be in my inbox, anything that needs sorting is sorted into mail folders by rules. Threading might be good for forums where you are trying to follow threads, but for general e-mail usage, threads are too much over head. Read mail, reply, delete or store.
Not that this should be a great surprise to anyone, but Microsoft acts this way too. It seems that they think that ANYTHING that has any computing power is their territory, and they're out to claim it. Cell phones, embedded systems, and of course ALL computers.
There is a difference here. Aside from some paranoid theories, and a media-attention-grabbing sham of an antitrust case, there's been no evidence to show MS as "Evil", at best they could be labeled misguided and zealous. Larry Ellison, OTOH has been shown time and time again as a raging lunatic who would better serve the world drooling in a padded cell than being responsible for forcing his crappy, crappy DB products on the world. Say what you want about MS products, they're Golden Ideals compared to anything Oracle produces.
Amen! Real is the worst piece of shit ever created. Anyone ever consider that the OEMS think this, too, and just tell Real "Well, MS says you can't be on there!" 'cause they know it sounds more plausible than telling someone their products suck harder than a cracked-up hooker?
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So you'll see your Windows installation as a 2GB file and the only way to get data out of it is to run VMWare, enter that environment, and then copy it out (using FTP, networking, etc
Just so no one makes the mistake of basing a buying decision on this, let me clarify that this is wrong. VMware uses a virtual disk file to store the other OS, however that disk is dynamic. It only takes up as much as it takes up. You can limit a disk to, say, 2G, and that's the largest it will go to, but if you have 1K on it, the file is 1K, regarless of the maximum size. VMW can also use a partition on a drive instead of a virtual disk. This gives even more flexibility because you can dual-boot, and have access to each OS as you have it setup.
Finally, if using VMware under Linux, you can get a device driver off their site that'll allow you to access the virtual file as if it were a loopback device. This works, and I've used it, but since all my files are stored on a file server, what exists on the machine itself is only programs, so I don't need to access the other filesystems.
There's a VERY easy solution--Go to file>>database>>Properties. Then go to the "rocket ship" tab (sorry, but most people who have these troubles need pictures). Then choose "Restore as last viewed by user" under the "When opened in Notes client" option.
Oh, yeah, that's a REALLY easy solution. Let's talk about the reasons that it's not. 1) It violates the UI standards. Options like this should be in Tools -> Options, just like every other program. At a bare minimum, perhaps File -> Preferences. Digging down into "database" properties doesn't spring immediately to the normal mind when attempting to save user settings. 2) Yes, it should be set by default. When a user first uses a piece of software, they get it setup how they want and want to forget about it. I shouldn't have to tell the software to save my fucking settings, they should be saved by default! This is a prime example of Lotus throwing shit all over the damn app at random.
programmer, but then every language would be obscure to you.
Which would classify pretty much every user who's forced to use this piece of shit. Your solution below to LN's inability to comprehend a trash folder is to script it. You say here that you need to be a programmer to do that, therefore, the solution does not exist for the users.
1. Make sure you're checking all your folders. One flaw is that Notes doesn't have an unread count next to the folder, prior to R6. 2. Make sure you're at least past 5.0.5, b/c this issue hasn't shown up for me since then.
Ahh, the "that was fixed in the latest version" cop-out that is so often blasted by/.ers...unless it bolsters their own arguments. As for the problem at hand, since Notes' rules don't seem to work (at least here, I'm sure they must for someone), my inbox is the only place I receive mail. I've seen the same problem, and we're on 5.06a. The stupid piece of shit will tell me I have mail, I hit "Open Mail" and there isn't any. Then, I hit refresh, because, god forbid, Notes has to be told I want to look at new stuff, rather than just assuming I do, and there's STILL nothing there. That's ok, though, I'll take your word on the "fix" 'cause our Notes admins give us the same "That's just Notes" excuse, too. In other words, they know it's a piece of shit, too.
Well, that's a personal aesthetics, issue, as well, if you have a programmer/developer worth his/her salt, its a very EASY scripting fix.
No, it's not. Having deleted items sit in my inbox until I permanently purge them from the system is stupid, stupid, stupid, no matter what your argument. I hit delete, that means I don't want to see them anymore, it does not mean I want them to cease to exist. As for the scripting fix, see above.
As for your looking forward to Exchange, well good luck to you, and hope it stays up for more than 24 hours.
Prior to this job, I administered Exchange servers for over 6 years, and never once had a problem keeping them up for more than 24 hours. In fact, a year was the typical uptime. Barring power outages, you setup Exchange and forget about it.
To borrow the bashing phrase being used all over this thread, I find Outlook to be crap.
Because you're obviously a Notes Developer/Admin. As I said, I've adminned Exchange servers for years, and it never failed once that when I had a user come in from a Notes environment, they'd say the same thing, "We used to use Notes at my last job, my god, I can't believe how hard I used to have to work just to check my e-mail!" Outlook is designed for users, but it's also is well-designed (in terms of interface, at least). The only people who like Notes are Notes zealots.
And, just because they told some researcher they had been raped, doesn't mean they were. There's always the hope for some sympathy, and perhaps early release. My father spent 17 years in prison and told me two things a) he never met anyone who was in prison "for pot" and b) he rarely met anyone who'd raped another prisoner.
No, I would disagree there. I've seen numerous RM clips from around the web, and many WM9s. WM9 wins hands down! They can't ALL be hand-crafted. I always hated RM, in fact, I NEVER install it on a machine, specifically because I know the videos and audio are going to be so shitty, there's no point in bothering. I was impressed with QuickTime for a while, until the last Matrix trailer...on my dual-1Ghz with half a gig of ram, it was CHOOOOOPPY! Too much overhead. WM9, OTOH has run smoothly on pretty much everything I've got, and that's with crystal-clear image and sound. Nope, if MS wins the codec wars, it'll be on quality, not monopoly.
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For that matter, my headphones were about $900... if they are the problem, i'll eat them.
Okay, not a troll, but an elitist. You're one of the very few people who would spend $900 on a pair of headphones because MOST people can't tell the difference between them an the $10 ones they get at Sears. The world doesn't work to cater to individuals.
Yeah, I learned this trick a little while ago. It seems HP drivers are similarly setup. You can often find their drivers buried within the 35M of fluff you need to download. Of course, if I were a home user on a dial-up, I'd still be more than a little pissed...
You know, not every drive can read multisessions properly. And in reply to the reply to yours, they can't all read rewritables, either. Grabbing a basic driver from firmware's just another driver on the OS. Shouldn't matter how old the PC is.
Nope, I meant basic as in functionality, not basic as in gorillas tossing bananas. ;)
It would be like if I bought a USB device (say a camera) that Windows didn't support, the camera would be able to bootstrap Windows with some drivers from its own firmware.
I've been saying for years "Flash ram is cheap, put some in every device to contain a BASIC device driver. The real driver can then be loaded to deliver the total package."
This all started years ago when Intel, in their infinite wisdom, started packaging the drivers for their cards with tons and tons of crap, so that I had to download a 9M file just to get a 10K driver file! Uh, schmucks, that won't fit on a floppy, and if I can't get on the network to download it, I have waste a fucking CD to get your driver!
For some reason, it amazes me how few people actually do any thinking.
Sorry to burst your bubble, but certs mean little nowadays.
Sorry to burst YOUR bubble, but certs mean more today than you think. I spent most of last year trying to get a new job. I have almost 15 years of experience in. Proven experience with a BROAD range of technologies, yet very little in the way of certifications. I thought as you did before I started looking, but quickly learned that certs are a necessity. One interviewer actually explained why, though:
"Think of it this way...five years ago, everyone was clambering to certs regardless of them having experience with those products or not. Paper mills were sending housewives and househusbands out with no experience, but a long laundry list of certs. Some of them managed to get hired, and now they have five years experience as well as certification. That's what you're working against."
I agree that it's wrong. Most of those "paper people" may have 5 years experience, and they still don't know what they're doing, but in terms of initial impressions, it sure looks like it on paper. Granted, they find out later how bad the person might be, but that doesn't help you now.
And the damn thing is, you end up with piles of crap in your memory on boot-up that you never will use, but they include "Just In Case" so if you do fire up apps they appear to just start right up, unlike those clunky competitors products.
:)
I'd still love to see Windows stripped of all the bundled crap and truly customizable on set-up, like Linux.
Uh, so why don't you remove them? Unless you do your own Linux from Scratch, you're going to get a ton of useless crap loaded at boot time on any Linux distro, too. Most load up some kind of MTA, a webserver, a database server, etc. What the hell would the average user need those for? A user's MUCH more likely to want their pr0n to come up faster than store information about it in a web-accessible DB!
Seriously, if you don't want this stuff loaded, don't load it. Take it out of your Startup, remove it from the registry, whatever it takes. Oh, and let's not forget, it's REAL that puts 32M worth of memory-wasting crap in your tray when you install it, not Microsoft. Media Player don't load until you ask it.
Right between your ears. Seriously, in the last 20+ years in this industry, there's one thing I've learned: if a diag detects a problem, you've got a problem, if it doesn't, you still might. Reason being, most hardware problems are intermittent. If the hardware doesn't work at all, then you know what the problem is and diags aren't going to tell you anything new (except for some arcane proprietary result code you need to tell the tech on the line when trying to get a replacement). If it's intermittent, it's tough to narrow it down, and diags might not catch it. If it's flaky, then the moment you run the diags is the time it doesn't act flaky.
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The best thing you can do is stop relying on useless diags. As you've learned, most are. Bone up on your troubleshooting skills, learn more about the hardware...
Do you know BIOS beep codes by heart? Do you know what they are? I've met very few people over the last few years who do. You don't need a POST card if you learn 'em.
Do you know how to write scripts? Batch files? A simple batch file that formats a drive, and fills it with data, over and over again will more often give you a good indicator as to its health than some diag.
These things are all based on "the basics" that every tech should know. Buy a copy of "Upgrading and Repairing PCs" and memorize it. There's a TON of good information on how these boxen work. If you fill your head with skills, you can always be sure to have the diags and information you need. If you need to rely too heavily on tools and such, you might not be in the right field.
People should better understand _why_ not to put their cat into a microwave oven...
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That's not the way people work. Most people don't care HOW things work, just that it does or doesn't. It's not their fault, it's not how they're wired.
What you're describing is the way TECH people work, well, the good ones anyway. Tech people care about how things work, and they're the minority. It's the really good ones that understand that they're the oddities in the human race and can still interact with the majority without blaming them for being how they are. But, take heart, you're in the majority of the tech minority!
Well, I hate to say it here, 'cause I know I'll get flamed more for who originally said it rather than what was said...Rush Limbaugh once made the statement that the fairest and simplest trade agreement with any country is simply, "We'll charge you what you charge us." If China's adding 29.9% to the cost of our goods, we do it to theirs. It's fair, it's equitible and anyone who complains is just told, "Fine, lower your tariffs, ours go down automatically."
Now, if only we could get these paper mills to stop teaching the answers to certification tests and start teaching how everything works we might have some IT people out there who are capable of doing a job.
I've known too many people who come up with the oddest shit because they just don't understand AT A DEEP LEVEL how a computer works. They're users who got a slightly deeper understanding, but that's it. When I went to get my degree. You learned how the computer worked by starting with resistors and capacitors before moving on to digital circuits and eventually processors. It was only after you understood how a processor worked that you learned assembly programming, and only after you learned assembly did you learn higher-level languages.
What an ideal world IT would be if there were more people who knew what they're doing....Sigh, a dream never realized, I suppose...
That's why I always set my ring to sound like a phone ringing. In this day and age, that's the unique sound to have!
I've got the TW DVR, too, and for the most part it IS a great addition to my service, but there are two issues that keep me from recommending it to people:
1) If I'm watching a TV show, and have to leave or something, I can't just hit Record and go. If I just hit record out of the blue, the DVR will continue recording until I either a) unplug the box or b) set it to record something else in the future, then cancel that recording. PITA.
2) The scheduling of recordings is almost useless. Let's say you wanna set it to record "Enterprise" every week. That show is now on Wednesdays at 9PM. I can't tell the DVR to record every episode that starts on Wed night at 9, I have to tell it to record EVERY EPISODE of the show. And, if the show's on more than once a week, you get every one, even if it's a repeat. Stupid, stupid, stupid. "Enterprise" isn't that big a deal 'cause it's only shown twice a week, but my wife's pissed that she has to manually set it to record "Queer Eye" every friggin' week, 'cause otherwise, the HD gets filled by Thursday. Does Bravo show anything else but "Queer Eye" anymore?
No, if they'd take the time to SECURE their machines, even the patches wouldn't be as necessary. Most of the attacks against IIS in the last couple of years could have easily been avoided by not granting write access to the web folders to the system account. As I recall, having looked at them all, I only remember one or two that would have actually gotten through an IIS server that had been secured at a minimum with the IIS Security Checklist provided by MS (There's a couple other things that should be done, too, but they're not huge).
Where do YOU work? Here in the US, you pretty much described the job environment for 99.99999999999999999999999999999999999999% of all companies. It would be nice if it were true that going to another company would solve these problems, but they'll most likely exist there, as well. It's simple: the problems with most companies is management, and they don't want to hear that. It's human nature, everyone thinks they're doing a great job. No, the problems are always the economy, 9/11, or too many obese children. If you complain as such, you're an unappreciative whiner.
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My advice to the Asker: suck up and deal, win the battles you can, and then come to my site and tell the world about those you didn't! LOL!
Sorry, didn't MEAN for this to become about my site.
As the DOJ's "technical expert" during the antitrust trial used that as "evidence" against MS. He stated that if IE was simply replaced as the default browser, it would pop up in about 6-7 instances instead of what was the default browser. As an example, if a URL was typed in the Run box. Oddly enough, even THEN, it wasn't true. I don't remember exactly what those instances were, if you have a copy of the transcripts perhaps you can expand, but in all but one of them, it wasn't true. And that last one was for CHM (Compressed HTML) files. However, one could associate Navigator with those files, and it would open, it would just choke.
Here's a thought before you post something like this: TRY IT FIRST! I know, I know, you have no idea where there's a Windows machine you could try it on, right? You don't have it on any machine you touch. Well, then, perhaps you should stop listening to the Penguin Propaganda station for all your "facts".
Amen! Easily two of the WORST run companies. "Gee, we're not making any money, let's lay off 5000 workers, and then bring in contractors at 3X the cost to do the work. That should save us a TON on payroll! If we do that annually, we should be back in the red in no time!"
Nope, sorry, that's not the way it works. I've been hearing the whining from the open source community for YEARS that if I want software to do something, I should just write it myself. It's ever so easy to do, even the most user of users could write their own version of Word or Excel if they didn't like the others. After all, there's so much code available to look at now, how could he NOT have the skillz to do it.
Not a troll, just tired of the hypocrisy.
come to the conclusion that email is probably better interfaced as a forum. We've all known that for years.
That's your opinion. I've tried threading mail readers, and to be perfectly honest, I find them cluttered and annoying. I prefer all of my mail to be in my inbox, anything that needs sorting is sorted into mail folders by rules. Threading might be good for forums where you are trying to follow threads, but for general e-mail usage, threads are too much over head. Read mail, reply, delete or store.
Not that this should be a great surprise to anyone, but Microsoft acts this way too. It seems that they think that ANYTHING that has any computing power is their territory, and they're out to claim it. Cell phones, embedded systems, and of course ALL computers.
There is a difference here. Aside from some paranoid theories, and a media-attention-grabbing sham of an antitrust case, there's been no evidence to show MS as "Evil", at best they could be labeled misguided and zealous. Larry Ellison, OTOH has been shown time and time again as a raging lunatic who would better serve the world drooling in a padded cell than being responsible for forcing his crappy, crappy DB products on the world. Say what you want about MS products, they're Golden Ideals compared to anything Oracle produces.
Amen! Real is the worst piece of shit ever created. Anyone ever consider that the OEMS think this, too, and just tell Real "Well, MS says you can't be on there!" 'cause they know it sounds more plausible than telling someone their products suck harder than a cracked-up hooker?
So you'll see your Windows installation as a 2GB file and the only way to get data out of it is to run VMWare, enter that environment, and then copy it out (using FTP, networking, etc
Just so no one makes the mistake of basing a buying decision on this, let me clarify that this is wrong. VMware uses a virtual disk file to store the other OS, however that disk is dynamic. It only takes up as much as it takes up. You can limit a disk to, say, 2G, and that's the largest it will go to, but if you have 1K on it, the file is 1K, regarless of the maximum size. VMW can also use a partition on a drive instead of a virtual disk. This gives even more flexibility because you can dual-boot, and have access to each OS as you have it setup.
Finally, if using VMware under Linux, you can get a device driver off their site that'll allow you to access the virtual file as if it were a loopback device. This works, and I've used it, but since all my files are stored on a file server, what exists on the machine itself is only programs, so I don't need to access the other filesystems.
There's a VERY easy solution--Go to file>>database>>Properties. Then go to the "rocket ship" tab (sorry, but most people who have these troubles need pictures). Then choose "Restore as last viewed by user" under the "When opened in Notes client" option.
Oh, yeah, that's a REALLY easy solution. Let's talk about the reasons that it's not. 1) It violates the UI standards. Options like this should be in Tools -> Options, just like every other program. At a bare minimum, perhaps File -> Preferences. Digging down into "database" properties doesn't spring immediately to the normal mind when attempting to save user settings. 2) Yes, it should be set by default. When a user first uses a piece of software, they get it setup how they want and want to forget about it. I shouldn't have to tell the software to save my fucking settings, they should be saved by default! This is a prime example of Lotus throwing shit all over the damn app at random.
programmer, but then every language would be obscure to you.
Which would classify pretty much every user who's forced to use this piece of shit. Your solution below to LN's inability to comprehend a trash folder is to script it. You say here that you need to be a programmer to do that, therefore, the solution does not exist for the users.
1. Make sure you're checking all your folders. One flaw is that Notes doesn't have an unread count next to the folder, prior to R6. 2. Make sure you're at least past 5.0.5, b/c this issue hasn't shown up for me since then.
Ahh, the "that was fixed in the latest version" cop-out that is so often blasted by /.ers...unless it bolsters their own arguments. As for the problem at hand, since Notes' rules don't seem to work (at least here, I'm sure they must for someone), my inbox is the only place I receive mail. I've seen the same problem, and we're on 5.06a. The stupid piece of shit will tell me I have mail, I hit "Open Mail" and there isn't any. Then, I hit refresh, because, god forbid, Notes has to be told I want to look at new stuff, rather than just assuming I do, and there's STILL nothing there. That's ok, though, I'll take your word on the "fix" 'cause our Notes admins give us the same "That's just Notes" excuse, too. In other words, they know it's a piece of shit, too.
Well, that's a personal aesthetics, issue, as well, if you have a programmer/developer worth his/her salt, its a very EASY scripting fix.
No, it's not. Having deleted items sit in my inbox until I permanently purge them from the system is stupid, stupid, stupid, no matter what your argument. I hit delete, that means I don't want to see them anymore, it does not mean I want them to cease to exist. As for the scripting fix, see above.
As for your looking forward to Exchange, well good luck to you, and hope it stays up for more than 24 hours.
Prior to this job, I administered Exchange servers for over 6 years, and never once had a problem keeping them up for more than 24 hours. In fact, a year was the typical uptime. Barring power outages, you setup Exchange and forget about it.
To borrow the bashing phrase being used all over this thread, I find Outlook to be crap.
Because you're obviously a Notes Developer/Admin. As I said, I've adminned Exchange servers for years, and it never failed once that when I had a user come in from a Notes environment, they'd say the same thing, "We used to use Notes at my last job, my god, I can't believe how hard I used to have to work just to check my e-mail!" Outlook is designed for users, but it's also is well-designed (in terms of interface, at least). The only people who like Notes are Notes zealots.
And, just because they told some researcher they had been raped, doesn't mean they were. There's always the hope for some sympathy, and perhaps early release. My father spent 17 years in prison and told me two things a) he never met anyone who was in prison "for pot" and b) he rarely met anyone who'd raped another prisoner.
No, I would disagree there. I've seen numerous RM clips from around the web, and many WM9s. WM9 wins hands down! They can't ALL be hand-crafted. I always hated RM, in fact, I NEVER install it on a machine, specifically because I know the videos and audio are going to be so shitty, there's no point in bothering. I was impressed with QuickTime for a while, until the last Matrix trailer...on my dual-1Ghz with half a gig of ram, it was CHOOOOOPPY! Too much overhead. WM9, OTOH has run smoothly on pretty much everything I've got, and that's with crystal-clear image and sound. Nope, if MS wins the codec wars, it'll be on quality, not monopoly.