| Wednesday, June
5, 2002
MIDWAY
I can remember the reports coming in on the radio. The United States
Navy had won a splendid victory at Midway. A few months later Bob Hope was
making jokes about it.
Midway was decisive in many ways.
I am hard at work on the column. There will be much about XP, and
Office XP, and Open Office, and new machines. Things go well if
frantically at Chaos Manor.
My problem with Word 2002 was interesting and will be in the column. It
will take a bit to explain what happened. It is indeed the oddest
"feature" I think I have ever seen in a major program.
And there is a new security
hole in Explorer.
And while I am working on the column I am not writing essays, but one
thought did occur to me: the problem with modern universities is that,
outside the science departments and not always even within them, the
notion of truth, and devotion to that concept, is nearly gone; in some
places it is even explicitly rejected. That I think is the end of Western
Civilization as such.
The notion of a professor was that he had something to profess. I think
that may no longer be true, or even meaningful. Burke saw this coming.
Whirl is king, things are in the saddle and ride mankind. But perhaps I am
merely being curmudgeonly.
Years ago I did a TV news analysis program with Les Crayne and Lowell
Ponte. Lowell is more Libertarian than I am, and in those days at least,
Les Crayne was quite leftist. It made for an interesting show. We often
had guests.
Anyway, Lowell has done his take on pre-emptive security:
http://www.frontpagemag.com/
columnists/ponte/2002/ponte06-05-02.htm
I have a problem. Usually when I do a column I don't do stories without
a happy ending, but this one I don't know.
I have built a new machine, Principessa, which is an Intel D805 400 MHz
FSB, 2.53 GHz Pentium 4 processor, and it rocks. I wanted to transfer a
number of operations to it, such as Outlook. Alas, I have found no
way whatever to transfer the RULES from one copy of OUTLOOK to another. I
sure don't want to make up all the stuff rule by rule. I just don't.
So does anyone know how to transfer RULES from Outlook 2000 on one
machine to Outlook 2000 on another?
LATER:
Bob Thompson tells me that these are kept in ".rwz" files and
they can be copied from one machine to another. Hurrah!
In one of my discussion groups the notion came up that the single best
thing we could do for education would be to close the teacher's colleges
and colleges of education in general. Their output has been increasingly
negative.
Of course we won't do that: "high quality education" always
comes from increasing the credential requirements, and credentials are
always controlled by the worse than useless Departments of Education and
Colleges of Education and such like.
Give 'em the old razzle dazzle
Razzle dazzle 'em
give 'em an act with lots of flash in it.
And the reaction will be passionate ...
Razzle dazzle 'em
And they'll never catch wise!"
- the lawyer Billy Flynn
in Kander and Ebb's musical, "Chicago"
And on Stephen Jay Gould, this from a correspondent in another
discussion:
Gould himself wrote his own epitaph in the 1996
revised edition of The Mismeasure of Man when he wrote "May I end up
next to Judas Iscariot, Brutus, and Cassius in the devil's mouth at the
center of hell if I ever fail to present my most honest assessment and
best judgment of evidence for empirical truth (p.39). By his own standard,
Gould consigned himself to the innermost circle of hell.
Gould made that declaration, justifiably worried
that his far-left activist background may have tarnished his reputation
for scholarship. Critical examination of the new edition of his book
(unchanged in in all its central chapters since 1981) shows that, indeed,
Gould's resort to character assassination and misrepresentation have
caught up with him
The second edition apparently needed no updating
because any new research would be plagued with the same
"philosophical errors" revealed in the first edition.
http://www.ssc.uwo.ca/psychology/faculty/rushtonpdfs/Gould.pdf
and I am reminded that my old friend and one-time teacher/professor
Wendell Johnson said
Always and never are two words you should always
remember never to use. --Wendell Johnson
Thanks to Bob Thompson and Dan Seto I know how to
transfer my Outlook Rules. They are *.rwz files, and they seem to
reside in user profile folders, which makes some sense although not much
for me. But I can find them now. And for the record:
You may want to take a look at the Microsoft
Knowledge Base Article:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;q196492
Now I have another problem. In Windows 2000 when you search for files
it will search all files. In Windows XP, SEARCH by default does NOT find
"system files" which include .pst and .rwz files. Of course
those files are buried so darned deep in the nutso "profiles"
areas that no one will normally find them without a search, and if you
don't know that you have to go into the Search program and change things
EACH AND EVERY TIME you want to Search, you're not going to find
things.
There has to be a way to change that default, but if so, I can't find
it. Does anyone know? And thanks to a reader I now know:
Well, there is a way. There is a "change preferences"
button in SEARCH. I can only say that I didn't see it, and I tried HELP
and that got me nowhere. So very much of this stuff is LORE, which is
annoying. But I did find it all, and at least I have it indexed now.
Thanks to Mark Bridges.
And this seems to be my day for being simplminded:
In Windows XP, there must be a simple way to add a program or a folder to
the "ALL PROGRAMS" list. I have read HELP until I am nearly
insane, and I find no way to simply add a program to that list as we did for
years with all other versions of Windows. Clearly there is a
way. Clearly I have lost my mind. But I cannot find out how to do
this!!
All right. Have that now. There's probably another
way, but Dan points out that I can merely drag a shortcut into the C:\Documents
and Settings\All Users\Start Menu\Programs\ folder.
There is also, from Andy
Open start and browse to the location of the
program. Click on the program with right mouse button and drag it to the
new location. Then let go and select copy.
Another method is to click on all programs with the
right mouse button. Select explore. Then it will open the folder in
explorer. Copy in the program you like.
I think I’ll get me a job writing Microsoft
manuals.
Keep up the good work. I worry about you on days
when you don’t write.
Andy
The right click on All Programs does open an explorer, but I have not
the faintest notion of what it means to "open start and
browse". If it would browse, I wouldn't have had the problem in
the first place. BROWSE HOW?
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