| Monday
August 7, 2000
Happy Birthday To Me...
Column time. Short shrift. Lots to post but no time. New
machines in operation.
Got a mailing out to subscribers. If you subscribe and did
not get it, wait a day and see if your name is in badmail (not yet updated
from last time, so do wait). Then let me know.
Dan Bush, Earthlink rejects you (and thus the whole list);
please send me a different address.
And now to work.
DOES ANYONE KNOW how to migrate "favorites" from
one instance of Internet Explorer to a new instance on ANOTHER
MACHINE? It wants to Export to Netscape. I suppose I could do that:
export to Netscape and then Import to the other machine but this seems
tedious.
Also, is there any way to migrate the passwords save on one
machine to another? Cookies? I am moving major operations from Princess to
Regina, and I keep finding little problems!
And I LOVE this place. I got this in
minutes. It works, too.
Hi Doctor Pournelle,
Migrating favorites is easy. They're simply
small link files stored in Documents and Settings/user_name/Favorites.
Same with Cookies.
Thanks for all the good work.
Mark Bridgers
Thanks!!
So I am halfway there: Regina is now doing most of the work, and Front
Page is over here, but the Chaos Manor site files are still on Princess.
I'll move them when I have time to allow a complete upload to Pair, since
moving the files will change their dates, and Front Page Publish will want
to Do Something about THAT. Aargh. Maybe it won't be so bad if I
PUBLISH to the right place. We will see, we will see.
But WOW is Regina ever fast...
We had a minor glitch in which ONE (and only one) BYTE.com
subscriber got an unwanted email from another division of CMP. Turns out
it had to do with the mail bouncing, and when it was retried the wrong
message was sent. The good news is that not only was the problem fixed,
but it got attention at the highest levels in CMP, who viewed the matter
very seriously (as they should have). When we get BYTE.COM registration in
place they will, I am assured, be just as careful. We are not part of the
Spam Brigade.
AND THEN I GOT:
>Column deadline shortly. When I am late, I get increasingly polite
letters >from Tokyo (they have to translate the column and get it
printed and if I >am late that creates a real problem for them). So I
had better get to work.
Ah. So that's where your paycheck comes from. That
explains your refusal to take seriously my earlier statements about the
Japanese Imperial family's war looting.
By the way, your earlier writer misinformed you, or
else his Windows setup is highly unusual. Mine (Win 98-1 with all updates)
runs thus:
IE5 History is in \WINDOWS\History\History.IE5
Cookies are in \WINDOWS\Cookies Favorites are in \WINDOWS\Favorites
Simple, no? Been hit with any chemtrails lately?
Praeger
Of course Praeger --he or she or it -- is talking about earlier versions of Windows;
since I use Windows 2000 for communications, the folders are precisely
where Bridges said they would be, at least on Princess. On Regina that
ain't true even though she's running Windows 2000 Professional as well --
there is no Documents and Settings Folder, a story goes with that, and
it's in the column -- but there's no WINDOWS folder, nor are those folders
directly under the WINNT folder. As to the rest of that note, I don't
recall the conversation he or she refers to (Damon Knight likes yeye as
the gender neutral pronoun; it's ugly enough that I am seldom tempted to
use it), but I rather resent the implication. I sell translation rights to
a number of countries in a number of languages, I was in Japan in 1950 and
again more recently, and while yes, I make part of my revenue from
Japanese rights, how is that relevant to the truth or lack of truth of
historical statements? I am no expert on pre-WW II Japanese history
and see no reason to become one. I'm old enough to remember WW II, but
just barely; but I assure you that my views of US/Japanese relations
are not colored by my contribution to the balance of payments by
collecting money for electrons I export to Japan... But that is for
another discussion when I don't have deadlines.
SWORD OF ARAGON! I used to have this game; it
was my game of the month and possibly of the year, about 9 years ago. I
would have sworn I kept it, because I liked it a lot; but when I went
looking for it yesterday I could not find it. It came with an odd copy
protection scheme in which you had to use the "poster" that came
with it to identify the symbolic pictures of fortresses, after which you
answered a question about the fortress. I use the Xerox to copy those
pictures and pasted them into the Rules book, so all I needed was the
user's guide in order to run the program. I expect the game is useless
without that poster although I think I recall there was some kind of
release on a collection disk accompanied by some other form of copy
protection. Anyway, if anyone has a copy of Sword of Aragon, or
knows how I can find one, I would appreciate that. I did manage to get
Chaos Overlords, thanks to all.
And that was quick: I have made arrangements to get a copy.
Thanks to all.
And I am nearly done with the column. Praise be.
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