"Star Trek: Voyager: Unmemorable characters, superficial plots, enough gaps in the plot to..."
You could add: "The only starship crew going boldly where no man has ever gone before, only this time led by a middle-aged woman who would have been better cast as a senior administrator in the ship's HR Department."
"Storing data in a relational database is natural because it is more like the way we store data in our minds than the hierchical structures of traditional file systems."
Interesting, but it does remind of the oft-repeated "There are no straight lines in nature." Seems when it comes to even the most mundane things like mowing the lawn, planting a garden, or vacuuming the rug, we seek out or create a our own straight lines to adhere to a requisite logic imposed to make sense of it all.
Put another way, it's probably just as natural and possibly more efficient (taking into account things like routine administration) to put "letters to grandma" in the folder named "letters."
Off-topic, but I did the exact same thing when I lived in Chicago. Different, girl, of course.
IIRC, nearly everyone travelling along the north line trains was reading Barron's. Can't imagine those same cheap-haircut-Brooks Brothers-suited-wing-tip-wearing passengers using a portable media device, unless the media somehow involved bond prices or pork belly prices.
Someone can correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe that unless you're participating in an AD domain, you can indeed disable the DNS client service and still be able to resolve names. You'll lose caching of course, so name resolution will be a bit slower.
"It may not have been planned, but MS did a great job merging two completely seperate code bases. The DOS/Win9x codebase merged against the NT base under XP, and now..."
Usually I see this kind of thing posted by someone who had been using Windows 95 and got a new computer loaded with XP from mom and dad for Christmas.
If anything, the codebase was "merged" with NT5.0 (Windows 2000) and modified slightly with the consumer-marketed NT5.1 (XP).
"Street prices for the nx5000 will begin at $1,140.Add extra memory, a larger hard drive, a DVD writer, a better screen plus 802.11g and the total should be a lot more."
So I can index all my txt, pdf, html files overnight and be able to search them easily. What about everything else? Graphics, multimedia files, yada yada aren't exactly prime candidates for an ez-search mechansism.
For example, if I search for "rpm", what do I get? Cached html files from www.ferrari.com, rpm documentation, maybe a man page, rpm files, config files, shell scripts, jpgs of cars or that have rpm in the name, directories with rpm in the name, or maybe letters written to someone named Rhonda P. Malloy?
Sorry to sound unenthusiastic, but it seems to me unless you're Google and your life is mostly a collection of html pages, you won't find a substitute for organisation. The letters to Rhonda P. Malloy are in the ~/letters/malloy folder and the jpgs of her are in ~/graphics. More specific you use find or grep.
Seems we're back to the filing cabinet approach which, I guess is what most businesses still insist on using to organise stuff.
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"The first few steps are quite similar, but once the system is installed the fun begins: insert manufacturer disk to install custom drivers; insert MS Office CDs to install word processor; hop on the web to download Acrobat Reader; install IM client, jukebox, IE replacement, firewall, and whatnot."
You've made an excellent point that's often left either unmentioned or underrated. Once a typical user has passed the basic web browsing/e-mail/file management experience, Windows reveals itself as painfully inadequate. It's hardly suprising that most users then go off in search of programs to download (if not warezed, then possibly spy-ware infested) that offer functionality taken for granted on a *nix system.
Where I would disagree is that I would encourage all users, regardless of skill level, to learn to love the command-line. The toolset is vast but for most users the number of commands that need to be learned is manageable, consistent across distributions, and no more difficult than learning menu systems. Besides, it's a thing of beauty when compared to the crippled squint-to-read cmd.exe.
I'm sure I'm not the only thinking, "If this guy ever writes an Encyclopaedia of Everthing, I'd be the first to buy a copy. If he doesn't, I hope he at least tells us what kind of drugs he's using."
"Does the capitalization improve or impede understanding in any way... english has and will continue to change"
Overheard on Slashdot...
"This nuggz person jumped up and down on her Dick for trying to point out the obvious that proper spelling, capitalisation, and grammar are essential to making oneself understood."
Anyone seen Terry Gilliam's Brazil? The "monitors," while not quite so stylishly retro, resembled an old Underwood typerwriter with a screen in front of which was mounted a hilariously-oversized rectangular magnifying glass attachment. Brilliant.
I'm not so sure I would want one, or a Philco update, but somewhere between CRT monoliths, plastic flat-screens striving to distinguish themselves, Apple's attempts at novelty and the uber-kewl designs we regularly see in Sci-Fi movies, I'm sure eventually we'll be face to face with something far more interesting.
So let me get this straight... craigslist is a hook-up community, and now a major auction company wants a piece of that action?
There's at least a few Telecommuting Hooker jokes in there, but this reminds me when a few years back I learned that AOL was/is especially popular in the gay community for its usefulness as a "hook-up" mechanism -- the adopted moniker at the time was GAYOL. I was aware of the widespread promiscuity in that population, but I had no idea the chat-room hook-up mechanism" was being put to use morning, afternoons and nights, in addition to late-nights.
I gave up questioning why people sign up for AOL, but I do find myself still thinking twice about people who are adamant on using it. Not that it matters, I suppose, but amusing nevertheless.
That said, I recall that while a significant percentage of heat comes from solar energy through windows... when the house is sitting in a 110 degree plain, it may not be quite as good as first thought.
What amazes me to this day is that a less hi-tech approach would be to plant a frigging tree. Cities here in Southern California still insist on cutting them down (ostensibly to save money from the city maintenance budgets). Without the shade, you get roofs and attic spaces that easily heat up to over 100 degrees and don't cool until 6-7 hours after nightfall.
Interesting. Thanks for pointing that out. Suprisingly inexpensive, at least at first glance, but still the package the OP was referring to would be more akin to the "premium" edition (it's always the "premium" isn't it?) which starts at $1499, and that's with 5 CALs only. I imagine you're correct about the ease of setup, but I'll leave it to someone else to make the "false economy" argument.
I don't mean to sound critical, but I cringe every time I see a post like this. If someone doesn't know how to start/stop services on their Windows machine, maybe they should take time out and learn the basics of their operating system instead of watching tv? Investing in a copy of something like Windows for Dummies wouldn't hurt, either.
IIRC, the recommended setting is 'manual' and not 'disabled' as Norton AV depends on the messenger service to issue its popup warnings. Either way, you may want to consider skipping the multi-step approach and try something a bit simpler next time:
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"Star Trek: Voyager: ..."
Unmemorable characters, superficial plots, enough gaps in the plot to
You could add: "The only starship crew going boldly where no man has ever gone before, only this time led by a middle-aged woman who would have been better cast as a senior administrator in the ship's HR Department."
"Storing data in a relational database is natural because it is more like the way we store data in our minds than the hierchical structures of traditional file systems."
Interesting, but it does remind of the oft-repeated "There are no straight lines in nature." Seems when it comes to even the most mundane things like mowing the lawn, planting a garden, or vacuuming the rug, we seek out or create a our own straight lines to adhere to a requisite logic imposed to make sense of it all.
Put another way, it's probably just as natural and possibly more efficient (taking into account things like routine administration) to put "letters to grandma" in the folder named "letters."
"It's a new technology ... that purports to detect when humans are near, track their movement, and then broadcast messages directed at them ..."
Seems to me I already get that at freeway off-ramps.
Off-topic, but I did the exact same thing when I lived in Chicago. Different, girl, of course.
IIRC, nearly everyone travelling along the north line trains was reading Barron's. Can't imagine those same cheap-haircut-Brooks Brothers-suited-wing-tip-wearing passengers using a portable media device, unless the media somehow involved bond prices or pork belly prices.
"Learn the English langauge."
;-)
Indeed.
--
Another Canadian
Duh. Should have checked first before posting. You can indeed resolve host names without the DNS client running.
/flushdns
1. ipconfig
2. net stop 'dns client'
3. go back to browsing as before without any noticeable slowdown
Someone can correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe that unless you're participating in an AD domain, you can indeed disable the DNS client service and still be able to resolve names. You'll lose caching of course, so name resolution will be a bit slower.
Please promise you'll do this on a regular basis.
"You will take your hundreds (maybe thousands) of current files and insert meta-data into each and every one so they fit the new "paradigm"?"
Maybe Clippy will be given enhanced functionality?
No?
How about a new Microsoft Meta-Data Wizard?
"It may not have been planned, but MS did a great job merging two completely seperate code bases. The DOS/Win9x codebase merged against the NT base under XP, and now ..."
Usually I see this kind of thing posted by someone who had been using Windows 95 and got a new computer loaded with XP from mom and dad for Christmas.
If anything, the codebase was "merged" with NT5.0 (Windows 2000) and modified slightly with the consumer-marketed NT5.1 (XP).
It's still a DOS prompt as far as I'm concerned.
" I didn't see any price quote from the article"
Like this one?
"Street prices for the nx5000 will begin at $1,140.Add extra memory, a larger hard drive, a DVD writer, a better screen plus 802.11g and the total should be a lot more."
So I can index all my txt, pdf, html files overnight and be able to search them easily. What about everything else? Graphics, multimedia files, yada yada aren't exactly prime candidates for an ez-search mechansism.
For example, if I search for "rpm", what do I get? Cached html files from www.ferrari.com, rpm documentation, maybe a man page, rpm files, config files, shell scripts, jpgs of cars or that have rpm in the name, directories with rpm in the name, or maybe letters written to someone named Rhonda P. Malloy?
Sorry to sound unenthusiastic, but it seems to me unless you're Google and your life is mostly a collection of html pages, you won't find a substitute for organisation. The letters to Rhonda P. Malloy are in the ~/letters/malloy folder and the jpgs of her are in ~/graphics. More specific you use find or grep.
Seems we're back to the filing cabinet approach which, I guess is what most businesses still insist on using to organise stuff.
" I'm guessing that the kind of people who read USA Today really *really* need manuals and tech support."
More importantly, it has to be in colour.
you forgot ...
gnu-had - like e-had, but instead of fighting, everyone just complains about the other side
"The first few steps are quite similar, but once the system is installed the fun begins: insert manufacturer disk to install custom drivers; insert MS Office CDs to install word processor; hop on the web to download Acrobat Reader; install IM client, jukebox, IE replacement, firewall, and whatnot."
You've made an excellent point that's often left either unmentioned or underrated. Once a typical user has passed the basic web browsing/e-mail/file management experience, Windows reveals itself as painfully inadequate. It's hardly suprising that most users then go off in search of programs to download (if not warezed, then possibly spy-ware infested) that offer functionality taken for granted on a *nix system.
Where I would disagree is that I would encourage all users, regardless of skill level, to learn to love the command-line. The toolset is vast but for most users the number of commands that need to be learned is manageable, consistent across distributions, and no more difficult than learning menu systems. Besides, it's a thing of beauty when compared to the crippled squint-to-read cmd.exe.
I'm sure I'm not the only thinking, "If this guy ever writes an Encyclopaedia of Everthing, I'd be the first to buy a copy. If he doesn't, I hope he at least tells us what kind of drugs he's using."
Guess that's goodbye for the Baldwin brothers.
It's been done. Try http://www.shellfront.org/ for a few. Litestep seems to be the most popular and long-lived.
"And finally, I LOVE PERL, MWAH!"
...
If you want Perl to love you back
use warnings
use strict
Unless she really wants to be treated "that" way.
"Does the capitalization improve or impede understanding in any way ... english has and will continue to change"
...
Overheard on Slashdot
"This nuggz person jumped up and down on her Dick for trying to point out the obvious that proper spelling, capitalisation, and grammar are essential to making oneself understood."
Cheers.
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David (fluid and changing) English
Anyone seen Terry Gilliam's Brazil? The "monitors," while not quite so stylishly retro, resembled an old Underwood typerwriter with a screen in front of which was mounted a hilariously-oversized rectangular magnifying glass attachment. Brilliant.
I'm not so sure I would want one, or a Philco update, but somewhere between CRT monoliths, plastic flat-screens striving to distinguish themselves, Apple's attempts at novelty and the uber-kewl designs we regularly see in Sci-Fi movies, I'm sure eventually we'll be face to face with something far more interesting.
So let me get this straight ... craigslist is a hook-up community, and now a major auction company wants a piece of that action?
There's at least a few Telecommuting Hooker jokes in there, but this reminds me when a few years back I learned that AOL was/is especially popular in the gay community for its usefulness as a "hook-up" mechanism -- the adopted moniker at the time was GAYOL. I was aware of the widespread promiscuity in that population, but I had no idea the chat-room hook-up mechanism" was being put to use morning, afternoons and nights, in addition to late-nights.
I gave up questioning why people sign up for AOL, but I do find myself still thinking twice about people who are adamant on using it. Not that it matters, I suppose, but amusing nevertheless.
That said, I recall that while a significant percentage of heat comes from solar energy through windows... when the house is sitting in a 110 degree plain, it may not be quite as good as first thought.
What amazes me to this day is that a less hi-tech approach would be to plant a frigging tree. Cities here in Southern California still insist on cutting them down (ostensibly to save money from the city maintenance budgets). Without the shade, you get roofs and attic spaces that easily heat up to over 100 degrees and don't cool until 6-7 hours after nightfall.
Interesting. Thanks for pointing that out. Suprisingly inexpensive, at least at first glance, but still the package the OP was referring to would be more akin to the "premium" edition (it's always the "premium" isn't it?) which starts at $1499, and that's with 5 CALs only. I imagine you're correct about the ease of setup, but I'll leave it to someone else to make the "false economy" argument.
I don't mean to sound critical, but I cringe every time I see a post like this. If someone doesn't know how to start/stop services on their Windows machine, maybe they should take time out and learn the basics of their operating system instead of watching tv? Investing in a copy of something like Windows for Dummies wouldn't hurt, either.
IIRC, the recommended setting is 'manual' and not 'disabled' as Norton AV depends on the messenger service to issue its popup warnings. Either way, you may want to consider skipping the multi-step approach and try something a bit simpler next time:
C:\>net stop messenger
C:\>sc config messenger start= demand