"windows keeps on launching ie in a number of nefarious ways such as links embedded in outlook and sent via msn messenger. unless someone can suggest a quick fix"
Firefox -> Tools -> Options -> Set Default Browser
seems to work fine. You can google the newsgroups for additional info.
"Admittedly, there are certain hotspots...but you don't want to regedit over there every time, do you?... No. You use tools to kill that."
Yeah, I do want to go there. More accurately, I have to -- there's no/etc folder on Windows systems, and most settings don't have graphical interfaces to change them. As for startup items, it's fairly trivial to write a script to query values in the dozen or so startup locations on Windows systems, and if that's too hard, I'm sure there's GUI-based software that can provide the info graphically. A regedit is a regedit, like text file editing is text file editing. Not to sound argumentative, but I still don't see the need for a "special tool" to replace "ordinary tools." Checking startup items should/could be routine.
"You can't manage BHOs"
I can't? Granted, there's more than a few flavours, but if they don't appear in an obvious place and/or have configurable options, you're back to performing a simple regedit. Also, I'd guess that Sysinternals probably has utility to manage/display them.
"Services are a pain to check"
net start, or services.msc is hard?
I appreciate the reply. I guess my conclusion is that I'm not missing anything new. And I definitely don't need some program to do what I can do myself. Unless I'm lazy, of course. The laziness argument is about the only one that makes any sense. The rest is marketing.
Really, I don't. Can some explain what exactly these "tools" do?
Perhaps I'm in a rare position and have been lucky to be immune from such troubles, but it seems to me that checking startup items, managing what's running on your system (exe's, services, etc.) is fairly routine stuff. And if there is a problem, deleting a file, making a simple regedit, etc. can't be that hard, right?
Long cables are great, but before anyone thinks of rushing out to look for 100-ft cables, USB lengths max out at around 15 feet; similarly, I've found that video signals seem to degrade when using anything longer than a 15 foot cable, much like using a cheap KVM switch, or a KVM with over-long cables.
Depending on where/how you live, an alternative to crawlspaces is making use of the adjoining room. Putting an electrical-socket-sized hole in the wall works well for running the necessary cables through to the other side. Closets, I've found, are always on the wrong side of room. And if you have a lot of equipment, you'll need to ventilate the closet.
"We don't see people trading books over the P2P nets."
Maybe not, but web weenies venturing onto usenet will no doubt find most of the O'Reilly collection being posted to an appropriate group at least once a week. And then there's the dozens of other publishers whose materials are also regularly posted.
"It's a PITA to read a book on line..."
Yes, it's not quite like reading a book, but an on-line copy can be quite handy at times. Also consider that but 2 or 3 titles on any one topic (to average out the inevitable weaknesses of any one book) multiplied by the number of related topics (LAMP, being a good example) adds up really fast.
"... and the cost of printing a copy while maybe less [sic] than buying one..."
Actually, it's more (assuming you have the money up front to invest in a high-volume laser printer with a duplexing unit).
When the district unanimously approved the $180,000 system, neither teachers nor parents objected... Rather, parents appear to be applauding. "I'm sure we're being overprotective, but you hear about all this violence," said Elisa Temple-Harvey, 34, the parent of a fourth grader. "I'm not saying this will curtail it, or stop it, but at least I know she made it to campus."
"We've been fortunate; we haven't had a kidnapping," Mr. Weisinger said. "But if it works one time finding a student who has been kidnapped, then the system has paid for itself."
So, let me see if I get this right -- crime rates have been going down for years and are at historical lows, but people are worried more than ever about crimes they "hear about."
Without investigating, I'd wager that the odds of being kidnapped are much lower than than those of being struck by lightning, lower still than being run over by a car at a crosswalk, and lower still that little Johnny or Susie will drop out of school altogether.
Maybe the money would be better spent on textbooks? Or teachers? Nah... let's spend money to fix a problem we don't really have so that we can satisfy the need to believe we're doing something. For the children's sake, of course.
The Torah are the five books of Moses. The Hebrew Bible (in Hebrew, Tanakh) consistes of the Torah, Neviim, and Ketuvim. Bible simply means a collection of books.
I think the OP was referring to the Bible as being synonymous with "The Book" as in the way Muslims, Christians and Jews are considered each other "People of the Book."
No doubt there's more to it than that, and I have no idea how the evangelicals fit into the equation, or what book these folks belong to, but there you go.
From the "Should I research the pinouts or enjoy the blue smoke" category:
Can some enlighten me on whether this "non-standard" is "standard" on Dell systems? I seem to recall there was much fuss made about this years ago and was under the impression they saw the light and switched back.
"When you're referring to hard drives, it's disk. When referring to CDs or other removable media, it's disc except when referring to floppies in which case it's diskette. FYI, there isn't a "discette" - yet"
Ok Mr. Smartypants. Now explain the derivation of "disco."
"If your computer still does everything you want it to, don't upgrade."
I agree, but there's a paradox hidden in the statement, similar to that inherent in the typical computer salesperson's question, "What do you want to use this computer for?"
The real answer, is you don't know the answer until you get there.
Once upon a time we were mostly content surfing the web on dialup and reading email on our PIIs with shiny new 8GB hard drives. Today, it's not hard to imagine Aunt Millie doing video editing. Add to that new hardware requirements for the next OS iteration that promises to taste great, be less filling, run faster, jump higher and be more secure and at the same time incorporating a database into the file system.
Microsoft(TM) Search Hacks is a collection of industrial-strength, real-world, tested solutions to practical problems. The book offers a variety of interesting ways for power users to mine the enormous amount of information that only Microsoft Search(TM) can provide access to, and helps you have fun while doing it.
You'll learn clever and powerful methods for using the new and advanced Microsoft(TM) Search Wizards and the new Microsoft Search(TM) API, including how to implement Microsoft(TM) Windows(TM) Scripting Technology to build custom business applications based on Microsoft(TM) Search. You'll discover hidden and undocumented registry settings, get to know the new and friendly Microsoft Search Assistant, and how to unleash the full power of ActiveX(TM) Technology. Microsoft(TM) Search Hacks contains more than 100 tips, tricks and scripts that you can use to become instantly more effective in your research. By the time you're finished reading Microsoft(TM) Search Hacks, you'll be performing registry edits and rebooting your system just like a professional systems administrator.
Each hack can be read in just a short time and is fully cross-referenced with Microsoft(TM) Knowledge Base Articles, Microsoft(TM) Security Bulletin Numbers, and links to informative articles and free downloads to all Microsoft(TM) Search updates. Microsoft(TM) Search Hacks can save hours of searching for the right answers. Written by the Microsoft(TM) Search Team for intelligent, advanced users, Microsoft(TM) Hacks will reclaim the term "hacking" for the good guys.
Microsoft's(TM) new Hacks Series is written in the spirit of true hackers -- the people who drive drive innovation and set standards.
Dunno about Outlook/OE's interpretation of what a saved message is supposed to be (or a mailbox, for that matter), but Thunderbird stores its emails in standard mbox format, i.e. it's ordinary text viewable/editable in any text editor. That text, of course, includes headers, etc.
The point is this -- by copying messages to a "folder" you're actually saving those messages to a separate file (read "mbox"). Which is what you want, yes? So there's no reason to have a ^C-S feature to save multiple emails.
"I looked into anti-grafitti treatment for my fraternity house in Boston several years ago. Even targeting just the worst spot (~35x10ft brick wall) was excessively expensive compared to renting a sandblaster every three months and spending a Saturday morning cleaning it and paying for repegging the mortar every other year."
Isn't this just a variation of Information Wants to Be Free?
Look up a local artist to paint a mural. Most likely, he/she would do it for free. Instead of trying to videotape a crime, you'll be posing for a front page story in the local newspaper about promoting Culture and the Arts, and making the neighbourhood a better place.
"Can you guarentee the integrity of every single file on that burned cd of WinXPPro?"
Sure. Just use the PAR files to check the RAR archives you downloaded. To check your burn, run md5sum. And to ensure CD longevity, throw in few PARs onto the CD.
In all seriousness, I've paid for all my copies of Windows, but for home use where you have multiple systems and don't want to dick around, nothing beats taking advantage of someone's slipstreamed copy. Except maybe someone's 8-in-1 slipstreamed copy.
As for the "hidden trojan" concerns, consider the "alligator in the sewer" urban myth. Someone somewhere may have once seen one, but if there were really alligators in the sewers, everyone would know. Kind of like OSS -- everyone keeps everyone else honest. The safeguards are extras.
HTH
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"I don't see how it could, since "effect" is a noun."
Good try (and moderately funny) but no cigar. The word "effect" can be used as a noun *or* a transitive verb in which case the meaning can be read as "to bring about." That, too, would be moderately funny, for an entirely different reason.
The word "affect," on the other hand, is most commonly used as an intransitive verb, though its usage as a noun still exists (e.g. "affectation").
"The reason for this is because we want the best healthcare system."
If you consider a "health care system" as consisting of nothing more than the availability of the latest technology and world-class specialists, yes, I'd agree we all want that.
Where I live, I have easy access to auto dealerships which are more than happy to sell and service some the finest motor cars in the world. The problem is that being able to choose between a Maserati and a Porsche, in a real world sense, means as little to me as it does to the other 95% of the other folks in the U.S.
The fact that the health and lives of ordinary people depend on such an economic model strikes me as somewhere between irresponsible and shameful.
As a US resident, I'll add "The more fundamental issue is that while Americans are increasingly eager to capitalise on the benefits of a nationalised health system, they are adamant in their insistence that such such systems are akin to something between a violation of human rights and communism, and implementing one will lead to disaster."
"Just have a group of other cars follow it around with mirrors pointing more light on the solar panels."
Why? Just sleep in the shade until it's sunny enough, and/or you think you're recharged.
Learned that from my dog -- he can't drive worth a shit (I think the wind speed affects either his vision or concentration when his head out the window), but he does has a firm grasp of energy states.
"I'm just really surprised they haven't ported the popular google toolbar into a firefox extension yet."
I'm not. When you compare the limited functionality of Google's toolbar (or any 'toolbar') with both the numbers and varieties of plugins available for Firefox, I can't see how you can say that it offers functionality that isn't already available.
Put another way, "It's been done and it's been done better."
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"windows keeps on launching ie in a number of nefarious ways such as links embedded in outlook and sent via msn messenger. unless someone can suggest a quick fix"
Firefox -> Tools -> Options -> Set Default Browser
seems to work fine. You can google the newsgroups for additional info.
"Admittedly, there are certain hotspots ...but you don't want to regedit over there every time, do you? ... No. You use tools to kill that."
/etc folder on Windows systems, and most settings don't have graphical interfaces to change them. As for startup items, it's fairly trivial to write a script to query values in the dozen or so startup locations on Windows systems, and if that's too hard, I'm sure there's GUI-based software that can provide the info graphically. A regedit is a regedit, like text file editing is text file editing. Not to sound argumentative, but I still don't see the need for a "special tool" to replace "ordinary tools." Checking startup items should/could be routine.
Yeah, I do want to go there. More accurately, I have to -- there's no
"You can't manage BHOs"
I can't? Granted, there's more than a few flavours, but if they don't appear in an obvious place and/or have configurable options, you're back to performing a simple regedit. Also, I'd guess that Sysinternals probably has utility to manage/display them.
"Services are a pain to check"
net start, or services.msc is hard?
I appreciate the reply. I guess my conclusion is that I'm not missing anything new. And I definitely don't need some program to do what I can do myself. Unless I'm lazy, of course. The laziness argument is about the only one that makes any sense. The rest is marketing.
Really, I don't. Can some explain what exactly these "tools" do?
Perhaps I'm in a rare position and have been lucky to be immune from such troubles, but it seems to me that checking startup items, managing what's running on your system (exe's, services, etc.) is fairly routine stuff. And if there is a problem, deleting a file, making a simple regedit, etc. can't be that hard, right?
Long cables are great, but before anyone thinks of rushing out to look for 100-ft cables, USB lengths max out at around 15 feet; similarly, I've found that video signals seem to degrade when using anything longer than a 15 foot cable, much like using a cheap KVM switch, or a KVM with over-long cables.
Depending on where/how you live, an alternative to crawlspaces is making use of the adjoining room. Putting an electrical-socket-sized hole in the wall works well for running the necessary cables through to the other side. Closets, I've found, are always on the wrong side of room. And if you have a lot of equipment, you'll need to ventilate the closet.
"We don't see people trading books over the P2P nets."
..."
Maybe not, but web weenies venturing onto usenet will no doubt find most of the O'Reilly collection being posted to an appropriate group at least once a week. And then there's the dozens of other publishers whose materials are also regularly posted.
"It's a PITA to read a book on line
Yes, it's not quite like reading a book, but an on-line copy can be quite handy at times. Also consider that but 2 or 3 titles on any one topic (to average out the inevitable weaknesses of any one book) multiplied by the number of related topics (LAMP, being a good example) adds up really fast.
"... and the cost of printing a copy while maybe less [sic] than buying one..."
Actually, it's more (assuming you have the money up front to invest in a high-volume laser printer with a duplexing unit).
When the district unanimously approved the $180,000 system, neither teachers nor parents objected ... Rather, parents appear to be applauding. "I'm sure we're being overprotective, but you hear about all this violence," said Elisa Temple-Harvey, 34, the parent of a fourth grader. "I'm not saying this will curtail it, or stop it, but at least I know she made it to campus."
"We've been fortunate; we haven't had a kidnapping," Mr. Weisinger said. "But if it works one time finding a student who has been kidnapped, then the system has paid for itself."
So, let me see if I get this right -- crime rates have been going down for years and are at historical lows, but people are worried more than ever about crimes they "hear about."
Without investigating, I'd wager that the odds of being kidnapped are much lower than than those of being struck by lightning, lower still than being run over by a car at a crosswalk, and lower still that little Johnny or Susie will drop out of school altogether.
Maybe the money would be better spent on textbooks? Or teachers? Nah ... let's spend money to fix a problem we don't really have so that we can satisfy the need to believe we're doing something. For the children's sake, of course.
The Torah are the five books of Moses. The Hebrew Bible (in Hebrew, Tanakh) consistes of the Torah, Neviim, and Ketuvim. Bible simply means a collection of books.
I think the OP was referring to the Bible as being synonymous with "The Book" as in the way Muslims, Christians and Jews are considered each other "People of the Book."
No doubt there's more to it than that, and I have no idea how the evangelicals fit into the equation, or what book these folks belong to, but there you go.
"...a non-standard power connector..."
From the "Should I research the pinouts or enjoy the blue smoke" category:
Can some enlighten me on whether this "non-standard" is "standard" on Dell systems? I seem to recall there was much fuss made about this years ago and was under the impression they saw the light and switched back.
"When you're referring to hard drives, it's disk. When referring to CDs or other removable media, it's disc except when referring to floppies in which case it's diskette. FYI, there isn't a "discette" - yet"
Ok Mr. Smartypants. Now explain the derivation of "disco."
"The interface is so clean, and things load so fast, it is amazing.
Contrast that with email clients."
Ok...
Mutt still sucks less.
"mushroom mushroom?"
Not mush room to argue with that.
"If your computer still does everything you want it to, don't upgrade."
I agree, but there's a paradox hidden in the statement, similar to that inherent in the typical computer salesperson's question, "What do you want to use this computer for?"
The real answer, is you don't know the answer until you get there.
Once upon a time we were mostly content surfing the web on dialup and reading email on our PIIs with shiny new 8GB hard drives. Today, it's not hard to imagine Aunt Millie doing video editing. Add to that new hardware requirements for the next OS iteration that promises to taste great, be less filling, run faster, jump higher and be more secure and at the same time incorporating a database into the file system.
Sometimes it's tough to say no.
Microsoft(TM) Search Hacks is a collection of industrial-strength, real-world, tested solutions to practical problems. The book offers a variety of interesting ways for power users to mine the enormous amount of information that only Microsoft Search(TM) can provide access to, and helps you have fun while doing it.
You'll learn clever and powerful methods for using the new and advanced Microsoft(TM) Search Wizards and the new Microsoft Search(TM) API, including how to implement Microsoft(TM) Windows(TM) Scripting Technology to build custom business applications based on Microsoft(TM) Search. You'll discover hidden and undocumented registry settings, get to know the new and friendly Microsoft Search Assistant, and how to unleash the full power of ActiveX(TM) Technology. Microsoft(TM) Search Hacks contains more than 100 tips, tricks and scripts that you can use to become instantly more effective in your research. By the time you're finished reading Microsoft(TM) Search Hacks, you'll be performing registry edits and rebooting your system just like a professional systems administrator.
Each hack can be read in just a short time and is fully cross-referenced with Microsoft(TM) Knowledge Base Articles, Microsoft(TM) Security Bulletin Numbers, and links to informative articles and free downloads to all Microsoft(TM) Search updates. Microsoft(TM) Search Hacks can save hours of searching for the right answers. Written by the Microsoft(TM) Search Team for intelligent, advanced users, Microsoft(TM) Hacks will reclaim the term "hacking" for the good guys.
Microsoft's(TM) new Hacks Series is written in the spirit of true hackers -- the people who drive drive innovation and set standards.
Dunno about Outlook/OE's interpretation of what a saved message is supposed to be (or a mailbox, for that matter), but Thunderbird stores its emails in standard mbox format, i.e. it's ordinary text viewable/editable in any text editor. That text, of course, includes headers, etc.
The point is this -- by copying messages to a "folder" you're actually saving those messages to a separate file (read "mbox"). Which is what you want, yes? So there's no reason to have a ^C-S feature to save multiple emails.
"I looked into anti-grafitti treatment for my fraternity house in Boston several years ago. Even targeting just the worst spot (~35x10ft brick wall) was excessively expensive compared to renting a sandblaster every three months and spending a Saturday morning cleaning it and paying for repegging the mortar every other year."
Isn't this just a variation of Information Wants to Be Free?
Look up a local artist to paint a mural. Most likely, he/she would do it for free. Instead of trying to videotape a crime, you'll be posing for a front page story in the local newspaper about promoting Culture and the Arts, and making the neighbourhood a better place.
"You missed the definition by a mile."
Interesting. I live in SoCal, have had numerous Asian girlfriends, own a Zojirushi rice cooker, but my interpretation of "ricer" is very different.
The Honda I sold years ago.
"Can you guarentee the integrity of every single file on that burned cd of WinXPPro?"
Sure. Just use the PAR files to check the RAR archives you downloaded. To check your burn, run md5sum. And to ensure CD longevity, throw in few PARs onto the CD.
In all seriousness, I've paid for all my copies of Windows, but for home use where you have multiple systems and don't want to dick around, nothing beats taking advantage of someone's slipstreamed copy. Except maybe someone's 8-in-1 slipstreamed copy.
As for the "hidden trojan" concerns, consider the "alligator in the sewer" urban myth. Someone somewhere may have once seen one, but if there were really alligators in the sewers, everyone would know. Kind of like OSS -- everyone keeps everyone else honest. The safeguards are extras.
HTH
"I don't see how it could, since "effect" is a noun."
Good try (and moderately funny) but no cigar. The word "effect" can be used as a noun *or* a transitive verb in which case the meaning can be read as "to bring about." That, too, would be moderately funny, for an entirely different reason.
The word "affect," on the other hand, is most commonly used as an intransitive verb, though its usage as a noun still exists (e.g. "affectation").
[Web-link-as-pseudo-authoritative-citation omitted.]
"The reason for this is because we want the best healthcare system."
If you consider a "health care system" as consisting of nothing more than the availability of the latest technology and world-class specialists, yes, I'd agree we all want that.
Where I live, I have easy access to auto dealerships which are more than happy to sell and service some the finest motor cars in the world. The problem is that being able to choose between a Maserati and a Porsche, in a real world sense, means as little to me as it does to the other 95% of the other folks in the U.S.
The fact that the health and lives of ordinary people depend on such an economic model strikes me as somewhere between irresponsible and shameful.
As a Canadian, I'll chime in with a "me too."
As a US resident, I'll add "The more fundamental issue is that while Americans are increasingly eager to capitalise on the benefits of a nationalised health system, they are adamant in their insistence that such such systems are akin to something between a violation of human rights and communism, and implementing one will lead to disaster."
The Supreme Court of USA for those of you who (like me) didn't have a clue at first.
AKA (in casual parlance) "The Supremes" whose work is available for free.
Not to be confused with The Supremes(TM) whose works are not so free or so easily available for download.
"About ten terabytes. Or maybe 20 terabytes. Or maybe as much as 3 petabytes."
... that would make a Really Big(TM) Word(TM) document, wouldn't it?
Err
"Just have a group of other cars follow it around with mirrors pointing more light on the solar panels."
Why? Just sleep in the shade until it's sunny enough, and/or you think you're recharged.
Learned that from my dog -- he can't drive worth a shit (I think the wind speed affects either his vision or concentration when his head out the window), but he does has a firm grasp of energy states.
"...but usenet has post size limits..."
Huh? Maybe you're referring to some service level cap imposed by your ISP?
"I'm just really surprised they haven't ported the popular google toolbar into a firefox extension yet."
I'm not. When you compare the limited functionality of Google's toolbar (or any 'toolbar') with both the numbers and varieties of plugins available for Firefox, I can't see how you can say that it offers functionality that isn't already available.
Put another way, "It's been done and it's been done better."