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Comment Re:Stardock: late to the game (Score 1) 370

by Kirrilian (#39293097) Attached to: For Windows 8 Users, Stardock Revives the Start Menu
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

by Kirrilian (#39291599) Attached to: For Windows 8 Users, Stardock Revives the Start Menu

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

by Kirrilian (#37278594) Attached to: Drunkeness and Sexual Harassment Alleged At Microsoft UK
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...

Comment Two Words (Score 2, Insightful) 402

by Kirrilian (#33375036) Attached to: Should Developers Have Access To Production?
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.

Comment Geek, really? (Score 1) 1095

by Kirrilian (#30214012) Attached to: Geek Travel To London From the US — Tips?
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

by Kirrilian (#28109087) Attached to: What Free IDE Do You Use?
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
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How to Deal With an Aging Brain? 684

Posted by timothy from the swap-in-hans-delbrueck's dept.
An anonymous reader writes "I'm sure this is something all older Slashdotters are aware of: as I get older my once-sharp brain is, well, getting worse. In particular, I'm not able to remember things as well as I once did. As a geek my capacity in this area was always what defined me as a geek. Nowadays things seem to go in OK, but then leak out. A few weeks later I've mostly forgotten. So, I ask Slashdot: how do you cope with your mind getting older? What's your trick? Fish-oil? Brain Training on the DS? Exercise? Or just trying harder to remember things?"

Is String Theory Really a Scientific Theory? 397

Posted by kdawson from the theory-of-nothing dept.
vk38 writes, "The New Yorker is running a story on whether String Theory is really a scientific theory or just an abstract exercise in math designed to churn out papers and Ph.Ds for the established academics. The article reviews two current books, by Lee Smolin and Peter Woit, laying out the case against string theory." From the article: "Dozens of string-theory conferences have been held, hundreds of new Ph.D.s have been minted, and thousands of papers have been written. Yet... not a single new testable prediction has been made, not a single theoretical puzzle has been solved. In fact, there is no theory so far — just a set of hunches and calculations suggesting that a theory might exist. And, even if it does, this theory will come in such a bewildering number of versions that it will be of no practical use: a Theory of Nothing... String theory has always had a few vocal skeptics... Sheldon Glashow, who won a Nobel Prize for making one of the last great advances in physics before the beginning of the string-theory era, has likened string theory to a 'new version of medieval theology,' and campaigned to keep string theorists out of his own department at Harvard. (He failed.)"

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