I really like these "TSR"s. The flexibility they offer, along with programs using Borland.OVL files is nothing short of amazing. This has prevented many of my "diskette" shuffle routines. How does all of this work?
As you may or may not have noticed, a diskette is roughly the size and shape of a piece of bread. And while you pop bread into a toaster, you insert diskettes into your computer's diskette drive. In fact, you'll find that some software even acts much like the common toaster. These programs feature electronic calculators, address books or other tools that you can ``pop up'' on your screen while working in other programs. (Similar to the way your toast might pop up as you finish frying a ham-and-cheese omelette.) These pop-up programs are referred to as: memory-resident software or terminate-and-stay-resident programs.
TSRs are programs which stay in your computer's random access memory, or RAM. RAM is the temporary memory inside your computer. You see, most IBM and IBM-compatible PCs can't load two programs into memory at the same time. In other words, DOS won't let users simultaneously load two traditional programs, like Lotus 1-2-3 or Microsoft Word. (Lotus Development Corp.'s Lotus 1-2-3 is a spreadsheet, while Microsoft Corp.'s Microsoft Word is a word processing program. Spreadsheets calculate numbers and word processing programs let users create documents.) But unlike regular programs, TSRs can run while you're working in almost any application.
This way, they provided a form of multitasking, or task switching, for users of DOS programs. DOS programs are designed to be used alone, but many people prefer the convenience and efficiency of using two or more programs simultaneously, without first having to quit out of one to load another. TSRs provide this capability. Windows programs are becoming increasingly popular, but many people still use DOS programs primarily or exclusively. And, for Windows users, there are issues surrounding TSRs you should be aware of.
You generally load a TSR through your Autoexec.bat file, a startup file that runs each time you boot your PC. By placing the command that loads the TSR on a line in this file, the TSR will load automatically and be available in whatever other programs you're using.
You pop up a TSR using its hotkey. A hotkey is a key combination, such as CTRL-ALT, that's defined by the particular TSR. You can often change the default hotkey to another combination if it conflicts with your existing application or another TSR.
I hope this is helpful, to those who are eager to follow the recommendation of the previous post!
Thanks for that. Yeah, I could be a little heavy on the riposte, too.
Beta on beta is a big deal. I'm glad someone who works with training is able to provide extra input. (I'd friend you - I'm at a 400 limit rt now...:-) )
For the new test release of Office 12, I wish they'd kept the "skin" for titlebatrand controls the same as the first pre-beta. It was beautiful in silver and blue - without looking like iTunes. The new black thing, with a giant "ball" menu... Big step back, from the aesthetics.
The UI changes don't confuse me... Aside from hunting down the minor feature or two that are now non-evident on the "Ribbon" (not "tabs").
You obviously haven't worked with the hordes of "knowledge workers" if you think this is a minor shift for them.
Tilebar rendering problems are not minor, when they make invisible the "close" and "minimize/maximise" controls! This is with the WDDM drivers for both the most popular nVidia cards, and the only Glass-capable ATI I have found in a laptop.
The ONE thing he DOESN'T mention - also indicating he is an idiot, and has NO clue:
The Office UI is 100% different form every previous Office version. 16 years of training - down the Toilet!
I may be "better", but the adoption curve is huge, and the backlash will be tremendous. There is no "fallback" or "training-wheels" mode for the old Office UI - and it STILL won't render correctly under Vista. All of this has escaped Mr. Know-It-All Dvorak.
American Samizdat04/24/2006 @ 2:57 am
Filed by John Steinberg - Raw Story Columnist
Raw Story is in danger. Your right to read news stories and writing that disrupt the government/Big Media symbiosis is under attack. And you probably don't even know it.
There has been so much going on lately, what with plans to nuke Iran and the rolling mutiny among the top brass that you may well have missed another growing menace to all that we have built here.
The Internet phenomenon - the dizzying evolution from Netscape to Yahoo to Google to the new world of blogs and wikis - is the result of an essential structural attribute of the medium: the content-neutrality of the pipes we use to connect to it. It is the natural tendency of the powerful to silence and hinder anything that threatens their dominance, but the phone companies could not stop AOL, AOL could not stop Yahoo, and Yahoo could not stop Google, because the folks who owned the pipes used to carry all those ones and zeroes to and from your computer were not permitted to discriminate against bits they didn't like. (The concept of the "common carrier" dates
back at least to the earliest regulation of railroads more than a hundred years ago.) That level field has also resulted in the current flowering of our
participatory democracy. But that flower is about to pruned or even torn out by the roots.
The Orwellian "Communications Opportunity, Promotion, and Enhancement Act of 2006," sponsored by Congressman Joe Barton (R, Texas), will, if it becomes law, allow your Internet provider to charge you extra to read this column. It will allow your provider to block this column entirely. Congressman Ed Markey (D, Mass), who sponsored a defeated amendment that would have explicitly preserved neutrality, explains:
The Joe Barton (R-TX) sponsored
telecommunications bill that is moving through the Energy & Commerce Committee in the House would fundamentally change the way the
Internet works.... In short, the Barton bill opens the door for the Bells and
other ISPs to throw out a key principle of net neutrality and enact a new era
of telecom taxes and tolls, roadblocks that would shut down the avenues of innovation that have allowed the Internet to become what it is today.
That bill took a big step toward being enacted into law last
week.
A House subcommittee handed phone companies a victory Wednesday by voting 27-4 to advance a bill that would make it easier for them to deliver television service over the Internet and clearing the way for all Internet carriers to charge more for speedier delivery....
Earlier in the day, the subcommittee voted 23-8 to reject an amendment by Rep. Ed Markey, D-Mass., that would have inserted specific language designed to enforce network neutrality and prevent the feared creation of fast and slow lanes on the Internet.
"Members from both sides of the aisle endorsed a plan which will permit cable and phone companies to construct 'pay as you surf, pay as you post' toll booths for the Internet" said Jeff Chester, executive director of the Center for Digital Democracy in Washington.
But Sonia Arrison, director of technology studies for the Pacific Research Institute in San Francisco, dismissed concerns that the proposed bill would lead to a two-tiered Internet.
"There's plenty of competition," Arrison said. "The market will
I wouldn't bash* "PowerShell Vista Edition 2007 for Microsoft Windows Platforms" until I actually tried it, folks. PS (for short) is truly an amazing environment for simplifying and automating ordinary tasks from the console. I can illustrate thhis by citing some common operations with CMD.EXE and referencing their PowerShell 2007 equivalents
So, as you can see, PowerShell 2007 is really a dynamic and flexible interactive environment that makes complex tasks simple for administrators. Being able to leverage the PowerShell's "C-like" affinity for whitespace and curly-braces raises a whole new standard of usability.
I did this today and it made me insanely happy for about 15 seconds.
Find a BT landline phone. Send a text message to it reading "The time space continuum is about to collapse." Wait by the phone. A few seconds later it will ring - and Tom Baker will read your message out to you!
I was going to post this in the "Expose the big lie" thread but after I wrote it I thought it was interesting enough to merit a thread of its own. This is all good information, personally verified or witnessed by none other than me, but I will not answer any questions about it or go into any detail other than what I've already typed out. I may reply with more information or anecdotes if I see fit, but I've pretty much already scraped the barrel of my experiences.
These are some facts I have witnessed and learned through my employment. Take it at face value, believe it or don't believe it, because I'm not providing corroborating pictures, details, or evidence beyond my own testimony.
Homeland security buys in bulk and at great premium millions of dollars of useless personal appliances from China, such as rice cookers, nose hair trimmers, massage wands, and heating pads, boxes them up, and buries them in railroad shipping containers in the Arizona desert for no reason whatsoever other than to spend its budget and prevent sub-agencies from getting the funds. I suspect that the money goes to a middleman in order to secretly siphon funds into foreign organizations which we can't support over the table, but this is just me trying to find a justification for this massive and intentional government waste.
Donald Rumsfeld needs to wear iced underwear because of some medical condition, and he has his secret service detail hold his spares. He was recently getting uncontrollable long-term erections and had to change up his medical treatments. The underwear and the erections is why he uses a standing desk, not because he is some super-man. He also wears nylon stockings, not because he's gay, but to control some vascular problem with his legs which causes him intense pain.
President Bush uses anti-depressant medication, a lot of it, at a stupendous dosage, and he is hiding it from the American public. This is the real reason he stopped drinking. Because of the dosage, he is also impotent.
Tom Ridge carries 20 credit cards with him at all times, each one with a very low limit. I have never heard of him using one, ever, but he has them. He also wears his socks inside-out, and will flip the fuck out and walk strangely if he is forced to wear them properly, because it drives him crazy. All of his socks must be laundered right side in and then turned inside out before they are returned to him. He gave specific instructions about handling his food, and not allowing his vegetables to touch any other food item on the plate. His utensils must be steamed over boiling water. He will not eat soup which hasn't been boiled within the past 20 minutes or which he has not prepared himself. If any of these rules are violated, he flies into a rage, turns beet red, and will not eat a single thing. He has his personal attendants confirm over and over that the food is as he likes it. He also shaves his forearms and hands because he can't stand the idea of body hair on his arms. He demands that his bedsheets are bleach white and changed fresh every night and he sleeps in a separate bed in a big, tight, body-length nylon sleeve, with a fan blowing over him at full power. He is terrified of animals which have fur or hair longer than one inch, and will not go near curly hair of any kind, even on people. At one time he ran from his office and demanded that someone look under everything for a rodent which did not and could not exist, then he had the entire place wiped down with disinfectant and vacuumed twice. While this was done he couldn't even bear to look at the door, or come within 20 feet of his office. He was in hysterics.
President Bush, when dining at the white-house, does not eat any item of food which has not been first sniffed by a trained dog before being prepared. Think about that.
Word among the staff is that Cheney was drunk when he shot that lawyer, and secluded himself for a day to sober up and avoid felony firearms charges. I don't have any direct information on this because the guys with
Let's give this system to Iran, then we can avoid a war in August - while they figure out their problems with illegals, terrorists and Bill O'Reilly commentaries!:-)
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TWO years!
And we have had an API for more than one year - to create CredMan plugins.
And the architecture is "better" - more PAM-like.
Now you won't break SecureID with a service pack.
And this is a problem, how again?
Yeah, but Tamiflu is a great scam for Rumsfeld, who made millions as a former Executive with Gilead - the developer of this nonsense.
Take two Vioxx, and call me from Iraq in the morning.
I really like these "TSR"s. The flexibility they offer, along with programs using Borland .OVL files is nothing short of amazing. This has prevented many of my "diskette" shuffle routines. How does all of this work?
As you may or may not have noticed, a diskette is roughly the size and shape of a piece of bread. And while you pop bread into a toaster, you insert diskettes into your computer's diskette drive. In fact, you'll find that some software even acts much like the common toaster. These programs feature electronic calculators, address books or other tools that you can ``pop up'' on your screen while working in other programs. (Similar to the way your toast might pop up as you finish frying a ham-and-cheese omelette.)
These pop-up programs are referred to as: memory-resident software or terminate-and-stay-resident programs.
TSRs are programs which stay in your computer's random access memory, or RAM. RAM is the temporary memory inside your computer. You see, most IBM and IBM-compatible PCs can't load two programs into memory at the same time. In other words, DOS won't let users simultaneously load two traditional programs, like Lotus 1-2-3 or Microsoft Word. (Lotus Development Corp.'s Lotus 1-2-3 is a spreadsheet, while Microsoft Corp.'s Microsoft Word is a word processing program. Spreadsheets calculate numbers and word processing programs let users create documents.) But unlike regular programs, TSRs can run while you're working in almost any application.
This way, they provided a form of multitasking, or task switching, for users of DOS programs. DOS programs are designed to be used alone, but many people prefer the convenience and efficiency of using two or more programs simultaneously, without first having to quit out of one to load another. TSRs provide this capability. Windows programs are becoming increasingly popular, but many people still use DOS programs primarily or exclusively. And, for Windows users, there are issues surrounding TSRs you should be aware of.
You generally load a TSR through your Autoexec.bat file, a startup file that runs each time you boot your PC. By placing the command that loads the TSR on a line in this file, the TSR will load automatically and be available in whatever other programs you're using.
You pop up a TSR using its hotkey. A hotkey is a key combination, such as CTRL-ALT, that's defined by the particular TSR. You can often change the default hotkey to another combination if it conflicts with your existing application or another TSR.
I hope this is helpful, to those who are eager to follow the recommendation of the previous post!
Thanks for that. Yeah, I could be a little heavy on the riposte, too.
:-) )
Beta on beta is a big deal. I'm glad someone who works with training is able to provide extra input. (I'd friend you - I'm at a 400 limit rt now...
For the new test release of Office 12, I wish they'd kept the "skin" for titlebatrand controls the same as the first pre-beta. It was beautiful in silver and blue - without looking like iTunes. The new black thing, with a giant "ball" menu... Big step back, from the aesthetics.
The UI changes don't confuse me... Aside from hunting down the minor feature or two that are now non-evident on the "Ribbon" (not "tabs").
You obviously haven't worked with the hordes of "knowledge workers" if you think this is a minor shift for them.
Tilebar rendering problems are not minor, when they make invisible the "close" and "minimize/maximise" controls! This is with the WDDM drivers for both the most popular nVidia cards, and the only Glass-capable ATI I have found in a laptop.
I want use Cars to steal LAPTOPS!
The ONE thing he DOESN'T mention - also indicating he is an idiot, and has NO clue:
The Office UI is 100% different form every previous Office version. 16 years of training - down the Toilet!
I may be "better", but the adoption curve is huge, and the backlash will be tremendous. There is no "fallback" or "training-wheels" mode for the old Office UI - and it STILL won't render correctly under Vista. All of this has escaped Mr. Know-It-All Dvorak.
C'mon. He is supposed to be an "expert" but doesn't know what Groove is? Lotus Notes? Gee, John. What did Ray Ozzie do at the time he was recruited?
MS is headed for diminshed expectation land - but Dvorak is like the IT version of Limbaugh. What a maroon.
Raw Story is in danger. Your right to read news stories and writing that disrupt the government/Big Media symbiosis is under attack. And you probably don't even know it.
There has been so much going on lately, what with plans to nuke Iran and the rolling mutiny among the top brass that you may well have missed another growing menace to all that we have built here.
The Internet phenomenon - the dizzying evolution from Netscape to Yahoo to Google to the new world of blogs and wikis - is the result of an essential structural attribute of the medium: the content-neutrality of the pipes we use to connect to it. It is the natural tendency of the powerful to silence and hinder anything that threatens their dominance, but the phone companies could not stop AOL, AOL could not stop Yahoo, and Yahoo could not stop Google, because the folks who owned the pipes used to carry all those ones and zeroes to and from your computer were not permitted to discriminate against bits they didn't like. (The concept of the "common carrier" dates back at least to the earliest regulation of railroads more than a hundred years ago.) That level field has also resulted in the current flowering of our participatory democracy. But that flower is about to pruned or even torn out by the roots.
The Orwellian "Communications Opportunity, Promotion, and Enhancement Act of 2006," sponsored by Congressman Joe Barton (R, Texas), will, if it becomes law, allow your Internet provider to charge you extra to read this column. It will allow your provider to block this column entirely. Congressman Ed Markey (D, Mass), who sponsored a defeated amendment that would have explicitly preserved neutrality, explains:
That bill took a big step toward being enacted into law last week.
Levelling the Internet
Why can't you just
Get it through your head
It's over, it's over now
Yes, you heard me clearly now
I said it's over, it's over now
I'm not really over you
You might say that
I can't take it
I can't take it
Lord, I swear I just
Can't take it no more
(Go away) go away
(Far away) so far away
It's too late to turn back now
And it don't matter anyhow
But it's an add-on by download. It will be available with the release of Vista.
Or whatever it is renamed!
/ unix/sfu/default.mspx
a milyID=896c9688-601b-44f1-81a4-02878ff11778&Displa yLang=en
/ default.aspx
In Vista, it will ship as a regular component of the Pro and Enterprise versions.
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/interopmigration
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?F
Get Bash, OpenSSH, BSD pkg_tools and the GNU toolchain here:
http://www.interopsystems.com/tools/warehouse.htm
Oh, and if you want MS's fast compiler, as opposed to GNU's portable one - then this is free. Add an environment variable, and cc calls this:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/visualC
"...Riotous!"
"...outlandish... offbeat and hilarious!"
"If you read only one comment this year, read this!"
I wouldn't bash* "PowerShell Vista Edition 2007 for Microsoft Windows Platforms" until I actually tried it, folks. PS (for short) is truly an amazing environment for simplifying and automating ordinary tasks from the console. I can illustrate thhis by citing some common operations with CMD.EXE and referencing their PowerShell 2007 equivalents
Monad cheat sheet for cmd.exe users
So, as you can see, PowerShell 2007 is really a dynamic and flexible interactive environment that makes complex tasks simple for administrators. Being able to leverage the PowerShell's "C-like" affinity for whitespace and curly-braces raises a whole new standard of usability.
In Vista. ;-)
I did this today and it made me insanely happy for about 15 seconds.
Find a BT landline phone. Send a text message to it reading "The time space continuum is about to collapse." Wait by the phone. A few seconds later it will ring - and Tom Baker will read your message out to you!
Fnord NSA!
No Fnord Thank You.
Lessee, Kid. How much you spending?
I was going to post this in the "Expose the big lie" thread but after I wrote it I thought it was interesting enough to merit a thread of its own. This is all good information, personally verified or witnessed by none other than me, but I will not answer any questions about it or go into any detail other than what I've already typed out. I may reply with more information or anecdotes if I see fit, but I've pretty much already scraped the barrel of my experiences.
These are some facts I have witnessed and learned through my employment. Take it at face value, believe it or don't believe it, because I'm not providing corroborating pictures, details, or evidence beyond my own testimony.
Homeland security buys in bulk and at great premium millions of dollars of useless personal appliances from China, such as rice cookers, nose hair trimmers, massage wands, and heating pads, boxes them up, and buries them in railroad shipping containers in the Arizona desert for no reason whatsoever other than to spend its budget and prevent sub-agencies from getting the funds. I suspect that the money goes to a middleman in order to secretly siphon funds into foreign organizations which we can't support over the table, but this is just me trying to find a justification for this massive and intentional government waste.
Donald Rumsfeld needs to wear iced underwear because of some medical condition, and he has his secret service detail hold his spares. He was recently getting uncontrollable long-term erections and had to change up his medical treatments. The underwear and the erections is why he uses a standing desk, not because he is some super-man. He also wears nylon stockings, not because he's gay, but to control some vascular problem with his legs which causes him intense pain.
President Bush uses anti-depressant medication, a lot of it, at a stupendous dosage, and he is hiding it from the American public. This is the real reason he stopped drinking. Because of the dosage, he is also impotent.
Tom Ridge carries 20 credit cards with him at all times, each one with a very low limit. I have never heard of him using one, ever, but he has them. He also wears his socks inside-out, and will flip the fuck out and walk strangely if he is forced to wear them properly, because it drives him crazy. All of his socks must be laundered right side in and then turned inside out before they are returned to him. He gave specific instructions about handling his food, and not allowing his vegetables to touch any other food item on the plate. His utensils must be steamed over boiling water. He will not eat soup which hasn't been boiled within the past 20 minutes or which he has not prepared himself. If any of these rules are violated, he flies into a rage, turns beet red, and will not eat a single thing. He has his personal attendants confirm over and over that the food is as he likes it. He also shaves his forearms and hands because he can't stand the idea of body hair on his arms. He demands that his bedsheets are bleach white and changed fresh every night and he sleeps in a separate bed in a big, tight, body-length nylon sleeve, with a fan blowing over him at full power. He is terrified of animals which have fur or hair longer than one inch, and will not go near curly hair of any kind, even on people. At one time he ran from his office and demanded that someone look under everything for a rodent which did not and could not exist, then he had the entire place wiped down with disinfectant and vacuumed twice. While this was done he couldn't even bear to look at the door, or come within 20 feet of his office. He was in hysterics.
President Bush, when dining at the white-house, does not eat any item of food which has not been first sniffed by a trained dog before being prepared. Think about that.
Word among the staff is that Cheney was drunk when he shot that lawyer, and secluded himself for a day to sober up and avoid felony firearms charges. I don't have any direct information on this because the guys with
In American Afghanistan, Military Data Sells You!
Let's give this system to Iran, then we can avoid a war in August - while they figure out their problems with illegals, terrorists and Bill O'Reilly commentaries! :-)
In Soviet America, the border opens you!
Shouldn't it be Glesga_Kess ? ;-)
Why not ask The Woz ?
"However, since I work^H^H^H^H used to work at Google..."
SegoeUI is good on screen. I hope that wasn't missed in my posts.
It's documents in Segoe, SegoeBold, etc. Ouch.