| Wednesday,
August 9, 2000
Jerry,
I just looked at the friends in
business site you linked to. They're very cagey, but I'm pretty sure
the business they're saying is a can't miss is your personal favorite --
spam. Seriously, read between the lines of what she's selling there. As
you would say, ungood.
--Dave Pierce
Mr. Pournelle:
"I ran into this in the Message Board section of http://www.friendsinbusiness.com
(a great anti-scam site) and knew you would thoroughly enjoy it...
Heh. A great supplemental income provider... "
-----
Perhaps I'm looking too deeply into this, but what
exactly is the "this" that is a great supplemental income
provider? It seems like there should be a link to "something" on
a specific message board that is missing. I went to the link and found a
very aggravating site that spent a great deal of time telling me they are
not a scam site, but left me with impression that they themselves were a
scam site. Perhaps I'm missing something?
I realize you are very busy and have better things
to do than respond to this kind of email. On the other hand, if I'm not
daft, then perhaps I'm not the only reader scratching his head. I thought
you'd like to know. (I'm resisting a strong urge to be cute and add a
sentence referring to the gripping hand...)
Thank you for your courtesy,
Richard Micko rmicko@clipperinc.com
Yes.
See my apology
in VIEW. Thanks to you and others for telling me. Query: Clipper
used to be a compiler for dBase II and was very good. I doubt that's what
clipperinc does now...
AND
Jerry,
Thought you'd find this of interest. From a NY Times
article at http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/00/08/biztech/articles/07pate.html
QUOTE A lot of people probably say that the best
e-mail enhancement they can imagine is a way to eliminate junk e-mail
altogether. A new patent awarded to a San Francisco inventor, Sunil Paul,
aims to do that by screening out unsolicited mass promotions.
I sure hope that works out!
Sir,
You can easily move "Favourites" from one
system to another. Use the Explorer program to drag and drop the desired
links from the Favourites folder on one system to the Favourites folder on
the other.
John N. Sloan john.sloan@home.com
Uh -- this is on two different computers.
Although Cut and Paste will work across computers if you do it
right.
Jerry,
Just thought I would drop a line saying I was doing
the exact same thing as you with regards to moving favorites and cookies
last night.
I find that the easiest way is to move the whole
profile over to another machine, that way it retains cookies, favorites,
even the passwords that you have on various sites, if like me you fire and
forget your passwords.
I'm using Win2000 so I'm not sure how this would
affect you with other versions, but here goes.
Right click on My Computer and go to the properties
page.
Click on the User Profiles tag, and select the
profile you wish to use.
Click on the "Copy To..." button, and in
the new dialog box, select the place where you wish to copy the profile
to. Use something like c:\temp\profilename as it doesn't create the
profile name directory for you.
In the permitted to use part, the best thing to do
is select Everyone, this makes it 10 times easier.
Once you have done that click on OK, wait for it to
finish, then copy them to a spare directory on the target computer.
On that target computer, create the new user and
profile, then log on as Administrator, now copy the files to the new
profile directory and thats it.
You should have cookies, favorites, everything.
Seems to work every time, and it's not too complicated.
Hope this helps you.
regards,
Martin Donnelly.
Thanks. I should have done that. I did it
piecemeal.
Happy Birthday Jerry, Many more.
in regards to moving your favorites folder ( I know you already
received several good suggestions) you might want to check a new free for
life ser= vice called FusionOne ( http://www.fusionone.com
). They offer an agent that g= oes on a Win or Apple PC or a number of
Palm-type devices or a WAP cell phone= , and with a single click you can
synch all or any desired parts of your Outloo= k files and other files you
specify. It works quite reliably. I have no a= ccess to my home email from
work and no access to work from home, so just the convenience of having
the same mail on both machines is a boon. Likewise=
identical contacts, favorites, tasks etc. FusionOne also offers a
web-based service ( https://www.edock.com
) which essentially give you an Outlook desktop on the Web.
Obviously their aim is synching machines in different locations but I
cou= ldn't help thinking how useful it might be in your environment,
rebuilding mach= ines, getting machines ready for trips etc. Worth a look.
Regards Dave
Thanks. Please don't put hard hyphenation in
mail. I cleaned up some but I don't have time for it all. I'll look into
this.
Dr. Pournelle, A relative directed me to this site.
I though you might find it interesting, in light of the recent discussion
of infantry. http://www.grunts.net/index.html
George Laiacona III <george@eisainc.com> ICQ
37042478/ 28885038 " ... " -Nyarlathotep "Bbl bbl bbl bbl
.... <drool> " -Unsuspecting spelunker right after discovering
Nyarlathotep in his underworldly extradimensional lair.
I don't usually include press releases, but this
one is of interest. It was actually included in a letter:
FYI - it looks like the revolution has started
already... I think your paragraph about skills is on the money - you still
need a good eye, etc. to produce quality work, but hardware is ceasing to
be a barrier to entry. <<start quote from RCFOC>>
The Rapidly Changing Face of Computing
Aug. 7, 2000
Conquering Time and Distance
----------------------------
by Jeffrey R. Harrow Principal Member of Technical
Staff Corporate Strategy Group, Compaq Computer Corporation jeff.harrow@compaq.com
Insight, analysis and commentary on the innovations
and trends of contemporary computing, and on the technologies that drive
them (not necessarily the views of Compaq Computer Corporation).
http://www.compaq.com/rcfoc
ISSN: 1520-8117
Copyright (c)2000, Compaq Computer Corporation
--- <<snip>> Changing The Movie Rules!
In Hollywood, "getting noticed" has always
been "job one," and an incredibly difficult job it is for those
trying to break in. It's been a common plot of stories, plays, and yes,
even movies, to follow an aspiring actress, writer, composer, or director
on the road to "being noticed. But the next such plot is now going to
have to include the Web.
On June 5, Bruce Branit and Jeremy Hunt (video
professionals who worked for a video production house during the day)
finished a three-month home effort to create their own 3-minute,
special-effects laden movie using the six PCs they had between them. (They
used a $2,500 professional video software package called LightWave 3D,
plus a few other utilities).
Thinking little about it, they released the movie,
called "405," onto the Web, and told 60 of their "closest
friends" about it. Well, those 60 friends told their friends, and the
film took on a life of its own.
Four days later, 9,000 people had watched this
home-grown movie. Two months later, over 700,000 people have watched it,
according to the July 31 ABCnews.com http://www.abcnews.go.com/sections/entertainment/DailyNews/webshorts_0
00731_405.html ) . And just three weeks after the movie's
Web debut, these guys found themselves represented by the Creative Artists
Agency (of Steven Spielberg and Tom Cruise fame), negotiating with
DreamWorks and Warner Brothers to become Hollywood directors. Which must
set some kind of record. (They have now given up their day-jobs.)
Oh, what our "common" desktop PCs can now
accomplish.
Of course there WERE incremental expenses to produce
this movie -- $400 worth -- a large chunk of which went to pay for two $75
tickets they received for walking on a freeway...
Watching this film is a good use of three minutes -
iFILM calls it,
"2 guys, 6 computers, (and 3 months of
rendering). This film will hit you like a ton of bricks."
And they're right.
It's available at
http://www.ifilm.com/ifilm/skeletons/film_detail/0,1263,
204155,00.html
. And a fascinating explanation of how this
was accomplished (and there's much more to this than meets the eye), with
nothing more than their PCs and a consumer DV (Digital Video) camcorder,
is at http://www.405themovie.com/makingof.htm .
Imagine trying to accomplish THAT - the film and the
four-weeks-to-Hollywood-insider status -- prior to PCs and the Internet...
<<snip>> ------------------------
About the "Rapidly Changing Face of
Computing..."
The "Rapidly Changing Face of Computing"
is a weekly technology journal providing insight, analysis and commentary
on contemporary computing and the technologies that drive them.
The RCFoC is written by Jeffrey R. Harrow, Principal
Member of Technical Staff with the Technology &; Corporate Development
organization of Compaq Computer Corporation.
The RCFoC is published as a service of, but not
necessarily reflecting the opinions of, Compaq Computer Corporation.
Copyright © 1996-2000, Compaq Computer Corporation. All rights reserved.
Where To Find the "Rapidly Changing Face of
Computing" Technology Journal
You can subscribe to this weekly journal which will
help you keep up on the changes that are constantly occurring in our
industry! AVAILABLE TO THE PUBLIC AT NO CHARGE
* Via the Web -- Read it via the World Wide Web, at
http://www.compaq.com/rcfoc
<<end quote>>
___________________________
John Pittman
GE Industrial Systems - Meter Business
mailto:john.pittman@indsys.ge.com
Mr St Onge wrote:
"About storage, I just had an idea for a
storage technology whose time MAY have passed, but perhaps not. Back
around 1980 or so, just as the VCR came out, Polaroid announced an instant
movie system. Shoot, do whatever it took, and pop it into the portable
viewer and watch instant movies. It occurs to me that film is stable for
decades, and there's no reason you can't store ones and zeros as little
dots on each frame ... Might make a good equivalent to a tape backup
drive, for stuff you know you'll want to keep a long time. Watcha
think?"
I don't think this has much in the way of legs. I
recently bought a 2700 dpi transparency scanner. A 35 mm frame produces a
28 MB file. The media cost of that 28 MB is at least 10 times that of CDR.
And film is very vulnerable to dust and scratches.
Jonathan
I think I didn't have a chance to read that as
carefully as I might if I didn't know the sender. I agree. My media of
choice at the moment is DVD-RAM which over time can only get better and
cheaper; for stuff I have to pay for, a spindle of CD-R is so cheap I
don't notice the cost per disk, and with Nero (BURNING ROM) I have yet to
make a coaster...
Another one from pshrink:
This short quiz consists of four questions and tells whether you are
qualified to be a "professional". Scroll down for each answer.
The questions are not that difficult.
1. How do you put a giraffe into a refrigerator?
The correct answer is: Open the refrigerator, put in the giraffe and
close the door. This question tests whether you tend to do simple things
in an overly complicated way.
2. How do you put an elephant into a refrigerator?
Wrong answer: Open the refrigerator, put in the elephant and close the
refrigerator. Correct answer: Open the refrigerator, take out the giraffe,
put in the elephant and close the door. This tests your ability to think
through the repercussions of your actions.
3. The Lion King is hosting an animal conference. All the animals
attend except one. Which animal does not attend?
Correct answer: The elephant. The elephant is in the refrigerator. This
tests your memory.
OK, even if you did not answer the first three questions correctly, you
still have one more chance to show your abilities.
4. There is a river you must cross. But it is inhabited by crocodiles.
How do you manage it?
Correct answer: You swim across. All the crocodiles are attending the
animal meeting. This tests whether you learn quickly from your mistakes.
According to Andersen Consulting Worldwide, around 90% of the
professionals they tested got all the questions wrong.
But many preschoolers got several correct answers. Anderson Consulting
says this conclusively disproves the theory that most professionals have
the brains of a four year old.
Send this out to frustrate all your friends.
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