Comment: Re:Duh. (Score 5, Funny) 456
it's still a pointlessly boring social media site
Unlike Facebook, which is immensely captivating and relevant.
Comment: Re:Of course. (Score 1) 1174
sacrifice their mother in law.
Agreed. Not much of a stretch there.
Comment: Re:Stardock: late to the game (Score 1) 370
To be honest, I don't even use the start menu anymore, I just hit the windows key and start typing what I need and hit enter. The less I use the mouse the better in my opinion. I also think that using the word "root" of the start menu is a misnomer, that's built into the UI and doesn't *have* a root per se. It implies that there is a directory structure behind it that determines its structure, like the "all programs" menu has. Maybe it's just semantics but I was a bit confused by what you meant by "root" of the start menu.
Comment: Re:Stardock: late to the game (Score 1) 370
I'm already using a third party FOSS replacement, Classic Start Menu, in Windows 7 to replace at least one critical bit of capability that Microsoft revoked: folders in the root of the start menu. I've relied for years on being able to create and manage folders in the start menu as sub-folders to manage shortcuts. I eliminate at least one click, I can organize them by task or function, and I don't have to deal with the confusion of developers' sometimes unintuitive ways of placing their apps in Programs.
I expect the author of Classic Start Menu will shift with the tide when Windows 8 arrives and produce a new version, so I will likely just keep using it if he does and it continues to prove necessary for me. That way I eliminate even the learning curve of Stardock's rendition.
You can still do this:
All users
C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs
Your user
C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs
Comment: Top Performing "Level 69" Partner? (Score 1) 159
From TFA:
"Mr Negus, who claims he left a more senior position at Dell because of assurances he would eventually succeed Mr Frazer at Microsoft, was ranked as the top performing “level 69” partner at the company worldwide, posing a potential threat to his superior."
I LOL'ed out loud when I read that...
"Mr Negus, who claims he left a more senior position at Dell because of assurances he would eventually succeed Mr Frazer at Microsoft, was ranked as the top performing “level 69” partner at the company worldwide, posing a potential threat to his superior."
I LOL'ed out loud when I read that...
Comment: Two Words (Score 2, Insightful) 402
Hell. No.
I'm a developer as well as a sysadmin and I NEVER tweak anything in production and I have full access to it.
I have an exact copy of my production environment for development and I do all my tweaking/test deployments there.
In fact nothing gets deployed to production until everything has been checked in development.
My previous job had dev/qa/prod environments where the devs had full access to development and it was so bad that we had to virtualize it for them just so we could revert back to a pristine snapshot whenever they jacked up the dev server.
I'm a developer as well as a sysadmin and I NEVER tweak anything in production and I have full access to it.
I have an exact copy of my production environment for development and I do all my tweaking/test deployments there.
In fact nothing gets deployed to production until everything has been checked in development.
My previous job had dev/qa/prod environments where the devs had full access to development and it was so bad that we had to virtualize it for them just so we could revert back to a pristine snapshot whenever they jacked up the dev server.
Comment: Lawsuit! (Score 1) 543
Well that explains why I got turned down for a job there (I'm 40) when I was qualified.
Calling my lawyer.
(Yeah right)
Comment: Geek, really? (Score 1) 1095
I'm surprised this person doesn't already have any friends over there. I have quite a few friends all over Europe that I would enjoy meeting in person, or seeing again. They would be able to help me overcome my ignorant American ways and show me where the best stuff is. Also, I might even be able to stay with them, giving more money to get around or party more, whichever you like.
Comment: != IDE but K.I.S.S applies (Score 1) 1055
Why not just use a good text editor that allows you to build directly from your editor? It will run on multiple operating systems, has a powerful find/replace function, syntax highlighting, tabs, folding, highly customizable, free, open source, yadda yadda yadda
Just go check it out, I've been using it for about 10 years at work and home and love it.
SciTE
http://www.scintilla.org/SciTE.html
Just go check it out, I've been using it for about 10 years at work and home and love it.
SciTE
http://www.scintilla.org/SciTE.html
Apple delays Leopard to get iPhone done on time
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mrZ0g writes "Apple released this tid-bit today in regards to the iPhone and Leopard release dates
"iPhone has already passed several of its required certification tests and is on schedule to ship in late June as planned. We can't wait until customers get their hands (and fingers) on it and experience what a revolutionary and magical product it is. However, iPhone contains the most sophisticated software ever shipped on a mobile device, and finishing it on time has not come without a price — we had to borrow some key software engineering and QA resources from our Mac OS X team, and as a result we will not be able to release Leopard at our Worldwide Developers Conference in early June as planned. While Leopard's features will be complete by then, we cannot deliver the quality release that we and our customers expect from us. We now plan to show our developers a near final version of Leopard at the conference, give them a beta copy to take home so they can do their final testing, and ship Leopard in October. We think it will be well worth the wait. Life often presents tradeoffs, and in this case we're sure we've made the right ones.