You can either use something like Driver Genius Pro (Like I do) to make an autoinstaller for the drivers, or put the drivers in an OEM folder of the Sysprep dir. You do have to provide the drivers somewhere though - it can't get drivers not available in a standard windows install.
I have to ask, is there any reason you're closing the browser that often? And if you have problems with 10 seconds at the start of the day . . . man, redlights must cause you to have heart attacks.
I'm sorry, but I'm running XP fine on a P3 600 and Celeron 633 with ~256 MB RAM. It's perfectly fine for IM, E-mail, web browsing, watching Xvid files and typing.
I think it is the scope. Having the local clerk know isn't a big deal - you know them, there's a person to person relationship there, however shallow. Having a small town know - well, we all know gossip travels.
What's bothering people is that it's like being a celebrity - the whole (business) world knows - without any of the benefits like being rich. And people don't like that.
But it is their data. It was put on their servers by their programs while they observered your shopping habits.
Sure. But I think it's the same as a lot of people who feel that their wedding pictures, even thought taken by someone else, ought to belong to them as it's *their* event, and they paid for the pictures to be taken.
Caveat Emptor is alive an well - what things are represented as are not what they are.
Probably for the same reason people write such horrendus HTML, but more so. The interpreter (other people) is very forgiving. So if you can get 95+% of your meaning across 99% of the time, you may not even notice the little bit lost "in translation" so to speak.
Ummm what? I thought the idea was to get people comfortable with using computers, and give them some of the benefits of the internet. I doubt that many, if any, will be using these as OS development platforms.
Nor can one usually take all the 'meat' chapters of various cookery books and bind them into a new book.
True, but your average windows filesystem doesn't do this either (it doesn't yet support virtual folders).
And I really think you're kind of stuck too - I.E. you're just missing part of the metaphor. You CAN take the third folder and place it in the second folder, but you can't take the second HD and place it in a folder of the first HD without shortcuts/mappings that aren't default, and can be eaisly avoided.
And a simple way to explain a shortcut is that it is like this sort of entry in a dictionary:
fool: see idiot
or what not. Just because the computer does the filpping for you ought't be too confusing, the computer does lots of stuff for you - that's the point.
And heirarchys can well be more than 3 deep in the real world. Think of the average university. You need to get blueprints of a building for a project. 1.First you know that you can find it in the University somewhere - this is like using the computer. 2.Then you know it's in the library system - this is opening windows explorer and looking in the filesystem. 3.Then you know it's in the archetecture library - opening up the c drive vs cd rom or whatever 4.Then you look up in the card catalog and it's on the third floor - going to documents folder you created 5.Last room on the left - Opening up folder for recipies 6.Bookcase 2240 - dessert sub folder 7.find the book - find the file.
Eaisly 7 level's deep. You can't skip steps, if you do, you're in the wrong building or some other issue. Even our addresses are country,state,city,road,building,#.
So, wait, are these the people who when in school had one bulging 3 ring binder? I'm just saying, maybe explanations are missing, but I have yet to find someone who uses one ever growing collection of paper all throughout school. Everyone I know has a folder and notebook per class, or at worst, 3 or 5 subject notebooks.
And linear or not, everyone learns in school how to use an index. They don't start at page 1 in their chemistry book, and frantically flip through to find the section on chemical reactions. They go to the index and look up what they need to know.
That of course assumes they are educated. I would guess there are growing numbers of people trying to use computers who are not, and I have no idea how to help them. And for those who managed to get through 12+ years of schooling without learning anything, I have no sympathy.
I'm pretty sure there might be an extension that does this. Anyway, in Opera, bookmarks have a description field that is autofilled based on the metatag of the page IIRC. The manage bookmarks tab or panel has a quicksearch field that also searches that.
And don't most history views show the date visited? Granted, searching by date is more like browsing for/by date, but it's listed. Opera in quicksearch of the history tab/panel will search by title I think, and shows the date visited on the right, with # of visits.
I think there are some people who just can't do the sort of thinking required to not follow a cheat sheet. I know people who work in an area, and never spend any time learning about the area, and can't read a map.
This means that they memorize the route from home to work and back, to the store and such. But they are the ones who complain about not being able to get to the store when there is construction on the main street because they don't know about the side street 2 blocks down that parallels the main street, and are scared to try and figure out another route.
I can't imagine spending my entire life going to and from work etc as if I was passing through the area on vacation, never knowing anything but the mapquest directions, but there are people who do.
I would imagine a similar issue must lead to the computer users who must use a cribsheet.
What's worse is "object" based instructions don't help these people either. They need 1,2,3 and god help them if something happens that gets them away from 1.
I disagree - the high middle to high spectrum listed is really getting into analysis/integration and policy skills - not something directly needed to use a computer effectively. It's like expecting car users to be able to make a business case for a certain model of car to assisting with a new car model design. I dare say most people manage to buy and operate cars for their entire life without even being able to pick out a car on more than the look of the car and possibly claimed gas milage.
High School level ought to be equivelent to the level of using a car or a washing machine - that is some idea of what maintanience needs to be done when, or where in the manual that is listed, and how to get basic stuff done.
Typing up things in Word, using e-mail, electronic filing do not require any of the skills beyond the listed lower bound, and that's all that's necessary in most jobs.
I thought so. Here I was thinking... "Wait - this isn't new, I've seen this before", and I have, in Lotus Word Pro since ~ 1996. I think in this version, Word might catch up with Word Pro 9.8. That said, I already own Word Pro 9.8, and paid the princly sum of $40 for it. If I wanted to entirely migrate to a different document format and interface, I'd use the free Open Office I think.
I don't know where you buy consumer boxes (can't speak to coporate servers), but I've yet to find an OEM box that isn't crap. Crap packed with cheap propritary parts, odd designs, sometimes custom PSUs, occasionally the CPU SOTTERED to the motherboard etc...
The very best OEM I've ever dealt with was MicronPC, and they went out of business I think.
Of course, neither one of us is statistically relevant, but I've had the exactly opposite experiance of you.
I'm not entirely sure, and I think I would have had issues had I been alive during the Lincoln or FDR years, I do see a crucial difference between then and now.
In each of the previous situations, we were in a conventional war with defined victory conditions - where "war powers" would then end, and things would more or less go back to normal.
Right now, we're in a war against an idea, not a country or army. There are no defined victory conditions, and even pundits best guess is that the war will be over some nebulous time in the future. By all rational thought, the war against terrorism can never end, there is no way to win.
There is a difference between sacrifice to fight a war that one expects will end in a few years, and sacrifice forever to a conflict that can never end. One is normal, the other seems orwellian.
How will we know if we've won the war on terror? There are no capitals to conquer, no Nazi's to surrender, and certainly no army that would obey an order to surrender. Not least, the terrorists are inside our borders if reports are believed. So this war cannot end with a victory, just peter out as support wanes.
Mission Accomplished occured 3 years ago, and we have yet to hear of the war ending.
I might have once. Now adays... not so much. First, I do much less gaming than ever before. Second, most games are sadly console ones (and consoles are not updated very often, averaging 5 years between versions) - I was in EB yesterday, and far from what I remembered from my days of frequenting it, there was one small rack in the center of the store with PC games, most were used. The entire rest of the store was console games.
Not being a gamer anymore, there is little benefit to having core components updated often. More HD space can be useful if you are filling it up, more RAM is alright every two years or so, but I can see updating the PC a little more often than a console, about every 4 years for most stuff.
I keep meaning to upgrade my PC, but right now there's no reason beyond bragging, and games. There aren't a lot of games coming out, of those that are, few interest me. I'd love to play NWN2, but I bet it'll be 3 years after it comes out before I'll have a PC that will play it, unless I win the lottery or something, and have money I don't know what to do with.
I think this is off topic though. Are you looking to buy pay as you go machines suddenly? If not, then the whole premise behind the Linux comment would not really apply to you.
The biggest issue I have with this is in the first election, he *lost* the collective (popular) vote. In the second one, it was what, 51% for, 49% against? So, about *HALF* the country didn't want him. How are those people responsible? I guess for not staging a revolution somewhere in there.
I don't know business wise, but I personally still use SmartSuite, and find lots of things better than Office 2k3. I think the Ribbon concept is sort of what SmartSuite was doing long ago with "pallet" like option boxes (think Photoshop).
I'd love an update to SmartSuite, with some minor things fixed, and it would be even more awesome if it worked on Linux. All that said, IBM gets most of the work done with OO.org *free*, so I don't see them doing much with SmartSuite any more.
I just wish that if a company is dropping a product, they'd OSS it so people might continue maintaining it.
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You can either use something like Driver Genius Pro (Like I do) to make an autoinstaller for the drivers, or put the drivers in an OEM folder of the Sysprep dir. You do have to provide the drivers somewhere though - it can't get drivers not available in a standard windows install.
There are firewalls that do this - Outpost is the notable one.
I have to ask, is there any reason you're closing the browser that often? And if you have problems with 10 seconds at the start of the day . . . man, redlights must cause you to have heart attacks.
I'm sorry, but I'm running XP fine on a P3 600 and Celeron 633 with ~256 MB RAM. It's perfectly fine for IM, E-mail, web browsing, watching Xvid files and typing.
And depending on Opera - it might be even longer, though IDK their plans for sure.
I think it is the scope. Having the local clerk know isn't a big deal - you know them, there's a person to person relationship there, however shallow. Having a small town know - well, we all know gossip travels.
What's bothering people is that it's like being a celebrity - the whole (business) world knows - without any of the benefits like being rich. And people don't like that.
But it is their data. It was put on their servers by their programs while they observered your shopping habits.
Sure. But I think it's the same as a lot of people who feel that their wedding pictures, even thought taken by someone else, ought to belong to them as it's *their* event, and they paid for the pictures to be taken.
Caveat Emptor is alive an well - what things are represented as are not what they are.
Using an image plus sysprep (or universal restore product) is even faster.
Probably for the same reason people write such horrendus HTML, but more so. The interpreter (other people) is very forgiving. So if you can get 95+% of your meaning across 99% of the time, you may not even notice the little bit lost "in translation" so to speak.
Why do people seem to lose all reason and sensibility regarding their childern?
Ummm what? I thought the idea was to get people comfortable with using computers, and give them some of the benefits of the internet. I doubt that many, if any, will be using these as OS development platforms.
Nor can one usually take all the 'meat' chapters of various cookery books and bind them into a new book.
True, but your average windows filesystem doesn't do this either (it doesn't yet support virtual folders).
And I really think you're kind of stuck too - I.E. you're just missing part of the metaphor. You CAN take the third folder and place it in the second folder, but you can't take the second HD and place it in a folder of the first HD without shortcuts/mappings that aren't default, and can be eaisly avoided.
And a simple way to explain a shortcut is that it is like this sort of entry in a dictionary:
fool: see idiot
or what not. Just because the computer does the filpping for you ought't be too confusing, the computer does lots of stuff for you - that's the point.
And heirarchys can well be more than 3 deep in the real world. Think of the average university. You need to get blueprints of a building for a project.
1.First you know that you can find it in the University somewhere - this is like using the computer.
2.Then you know it's in the library system - this is opening windows explorer and looking in the
filesystem.
3.Then you know it's in the archetecture library - opening up the c drive vs cd rom or whatever
4.Then you look up in the card catalog and it's on the third floor - going to documents folder you created
5.Last room on the left - Opening up folder for recipies
6.Bookcase 2240 - dessert sub folder
7.find the book - find the file.
Eaisly 7 level's deep. You can't skip steps, if you do, you're in the wrong building or some other issue. Even our addresses are country,state,city,road,building,#.
So, wait, are these the people who when in school had one bulging 3 ring binder? I'm just saying, maybe explanations are missing, but I have yet to find someone who uses one ever growing collection of paper all throughout school. Everyone I know has a folder and notebook per class, or at worst, 3 or 5 subject notebooks.
And linear or not, everyone learns in school how to use an index. They don't start at page 1 in their chemistry book, and frantically flip through to find the section on chemical reactions. They go to the index and look up what they need to know.
That of course assumes they are educated. I would guess there are growing numbers of people trying to use computers who are not, and I have no idea how to help them. And for those who managed to get through 12+ years of schooling without learning anything, I have no sympathy.
: - colon, ; - semi-colin. - is a hyphen.
I'm pretty sure there might be an extension that does this. Anyway, in Opera, bookmarks have a description field that is autofilled based on the metatag of the page IIRC. The manage bookmarks tab or panel has a quicksearch field that also searches that.
And don't most history views show the date visited? Granted, searching by date is more like browsing for/by date, but it's listed. Opera in quicksearch of the history tab/panel will search by title I think, and shows the date visited on the right, with # of visits.
I think there are some people who just can't do the sort of thinking required to not follow a cheat sheet. I know people who work in an area, and never spend any time learning about the area, and can't read a map.
This means that they memorize the route from home to work and back, to the store and such. But they are the ones who complain about not being able to get to the store when there is construction on the main street because they don't know about the side street 2 blocks down that parallels the main street, and are scared to try and figure out another route.
I can't imagine spending my entire life going to and from work etc as if I was passing through the area on vacation, never knowing anything but the mapquest directions, but there are people who do.
I would imagine a similar issue must lead to the computer users who must use a cribsheet.
What's worse is "object" based instructions don't help these people either. They need 1,2,3 and god help them if something happens that gets them away from 1.
I disagree - the high middle to high spectrum listed is really getting into analysis/integration and policy skills - not something directly needed to use a computer effectively. It's like expecting car users to be able to make a business case for a certain model of car to assisting with a new car model design. I dare say most people manage to buy and operate cars for their entire life without even being able to pick out a car on more than the look of the car and possibly claimed gas milage.
High School level ought to be equivelent to the level of using a car or a washing machine - that is some idea of what maintanience needs to be done when, or where in the manual that is listed, and how to get basic stuff done.
Typing up things in Word, using e-mail, electronic filing do not require any of the skills beyond the listed lower bound, and that's all that's necessary in most jobs.
I thought so. Here I was thinking ... "Wait - this isn't new, I've seen this before", and I have, in Lotus Word Pro since ~ 1996. I think in this version, Word might catch up with Word Pro 9.8. That said, I already own Word Pro 9.8, and paid the princly sum of $40 for it. If I wanted to entirely migrate to a different document format and interface, I'd use the free Open Office I think.
Lycos was the original search engine, and they had the lion's share of the market.
I'm sorry but WTF? Altavista ring a bell?
And when Google just started out... Yahoo anyone?
OT I know, but Lycos???
I don't know where you buy consumer boxes (can't speak to coporate servers), but I've yet to find an OEM box that isn't crap. Crap packed with cheap propritary parts, odd designs, sometimes custom PSUs, occasionally the CPU SOTTERED to the motherboard etc...
The very best OEM I've ever dealt with was MicronPC, and they went out of business I think.
Of course, neither one of us is statistically relevant, but I've had the exactly opposite experiance of you.
I'm not entirely sure, and I think I would have had issues had I been alive during the Lincoln or FDR years, I do see a crucial difference between then and now.
In each of the previous situations, we were in a conventional war with defined victory conditions - where "war powers" would then end, and things would more or less go back to normal.
Right now, we're in a war against an idea, not a country or army. There are no defined victory conditions, and even pundits best guess is that the war will be over some nebulous time in the future. By all rational thought, the war against terrorism can never end, there is no way to win.
There is a difference between sacrifice to fight a war that one expects will end in a few years, and sacrifice forever to a conflict that can never end. One is normal, the other seems orwellian.
How will we know if we've won the war on terror? There are no capitals to conquer, no Nazi's to surrender, and certainly no army that would obey an order to surrender. Not least, the terrorists are inside our borders if reports are believed. So this war cannot end with a victory, just peter out as support wanes.
Mission Accomplished occured 3 years ago, and we have yet to hear of the war ending.
I might have once. Now adays... not so much. First, I do much less gaming than ever before. Second, most games are sadly console ones (and consoles are not updated very often, averaging 5 years between versions) - I was in EB yesterday, and far from what I remembered from my days of frequenting it, there was one small rack in the center of the store with PC games, most were used. The entire rest of the store was console games.
Not being a gamer anymore, there is little benefit to having core components updated often. More HD space can be useful if you are filling it up, more RAM is alright every two years or so, but I can see updating the PC a little more often than a console, about every 4 years for most stuff.
I keep meaning to upgrade my PC, but right now there's no reason beyond bragging, and games. There aren't a lot of games coming out, of those that are, few interest me. I'd love to play NWN2, but I bet it'll be 3 years after it comes out before I'll have a PC that will play it, unless I win the lottery or something, and have money I don't know what to do with.
I think this is off topic though. Are you looking to buy pay as you go machines suddenly? If not, then the whole premise behind the Linux comment would not really apply to you.
The biggest issue I have with this is in the first election, he *lost* the collective (popular) vote. In the second one, it was what, 51% for, 49% against? So, about *HALF* the country didn't want him. How are those people responsible? I guess for not staging a revolution somewhere in there.
I don't know business wise, but I personally still use SmartSuite, and find lots of things better than Office 2k3. I think the Ribbon concept is sort of what SmartSuite was doing long ago with "pallet" like option boxes (think Photoshop).
I'd love an update to SmartSuite, with some minor things fixed, and it would be even more awesome if it worked on Linux. All that said, IBM gets most of the work done with OO.org *free*, so I don't see them doing much with SmartSuite any more.
I just wish that if a company is dropping a product, they'd OSS it so people might continue maintaining it.