So I'm trying syncback. I like it so far. I'm having one issue though.
It tells me there's a file w/ invalid syntax in F:\$RECYCLE.BIN\*long list of junk I won't bother you w/*
So I type in F:\$RECYCLE.BIN\ in Windows Explorer address bar to manually delete this file and it let's me go to this folder (doesn't tell me it's an invalid location), so I know it exists even though explorer's not showing me this folder in the "standard" view mode. After I type in the address, it tells me there are no contents in this folder. I'm sure this all has to do w/ that $.
How do I make explorer show what's in there?
Can I change the name and get rid of the $ so it shows in exploere?
I have explorer set to "show hidden files" too.
Uh isnt that just Recyle Bin? cant you just go into it and delete whatever is there? More importantly why don't you exclude it from the Synback list...why would you backup Recycle Bin?
Copy paste mistake. Check prefious post w/ corrections after you read this.
It's the recycle bin. But it's on my second internal HD.
I have two internal HD's one has the OS. THe other has documents. I have externals that I back up to but they aren't causing a problem.
Main HD> "C"
Second HD> "F"
I don't even want to back this hidden folder up. But I don't see the option to not back it up since I do want a full backup of all visible files.
I don't even want to back this hidden folder up. But I don't see the option to not back it up since I do want a full backup of all visible files.
In the task profile, click on filter. You can set a list of files/directories to ignore. I set mine to ignore my browser cache, for example.
BTW, I have found in the past that you can get around Explorer limitations by simply opening a DOS window. The command DIR /AH will show all hidden files. I would be wary of renaming or deleting hidden files unless you are very sure you know what you are doing, though. Most of these are put there by the operating system for a good reason.
I wonder who at Microsoft got fired for defaulting Windows XP to "Clear Type" = off
Why on earth would a user have to go and specify such a thing, as to have to turn Clear Type On?
Because Clear Type does not always help, and can sometimes make matters worse. If you are using an LCD display at native resolution, it's great. If not, well, you may be sorry. I don't know what Msft did in Vista to get around the limitations it has in XP.
Because Clear Type does not always help, and can sometimes make matters worse. If you are using an LCD display at native resolution, it's great. If not, well, you may be sorry. I don't know what Msft did in Vista to get around the limitations it has in XP.
Yeah, generally I like it turned off. Depending on the monitor, it can make everything look blurry instead of nicer. Only speaking from XP experience, though.
I wonder who at Microsoft got fired for defaulting Windows XP to "Clear Type" = off
I think the entire dev crew that made IE6 was canned.
That whole browser was a disaster for people viewing the web and web developers that were learning web code at the time when IE6 was king. Thank God those days are long over! We just have to deal w/ that a little while longer hopefully and that headache will be replaced by IE7. Which in reality is a very nice browser. It's more standards compliant than most any browser out there. So if you can get your code to work in IE7. You practically guaranteed to have it work in all the major competitors. (except baby brother IE6).
That does pose a problem since most ppl that work on machines surf the web to a certain extent everyday (some more than others). I didn't think about the corp aspect. Good point Andy.
See that first guy that gets interviewed, Capt. Charles Haag? I went to school with that dude. He's very..."intense" And very, very, very bad at web design. His designs are *EVERYTHING* everyone hates about myspace.
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Thank God those days are long over! We just have to deal w/ that a little while longer hopefully and that headache will be replaced by IE7.
I think corporations will keep this from being a "little while longer" and it could be "quite a while." :cry
Sorry Andy! :nah
Ballmer heard SloYerRoll and thought it was a great idea. Every employee at every company should have IE 7. Who cares if you have WSUS? IE 7 will automatically install next month, even in corporations who have told it in the past NOT to! You have to Opt Out to Opt In to keep IE 6. :bs
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Can you give me a viable reason why you should use IE6 besides as a testing platform for web dev?
Sure. Imagine you are the CIO of a large corporation with, say, 50,000 copies of IE6 running--among other things--hundreds of custom built applications with Web front ends that are known to work properly. The COO wants to know why the SAP implementation is three years behind schedule and the legal department has just requested a top-to-bottom review of your document retention policies and practices. And those are only two of a dozen competing "number one" priorities. Why on earth would you go and fix something that isn't broken?
Sure. Imagine you are the CIO of a large corporation with, say, 50,000 copies of IE6 running--among other things--hundreds of custom built applications with Web front ends that are known to work properly. The COO wants to know why the SAP implementation is three years behind schedule and the legal department has just requested a top-to-bottom review of your document retention policies and practices. And those are only two of a dozen competing "number one" priorities. Why on earth would you go and fix something that isn't broken?
Absolutely!
Plus I think Microsoft is just wrong to force companies to do this. Should be an Opt In to Upgrade, NOT an Opt In to keep your WSUS running the way you configured it. "In their ongoing effort to keep their apps blah blah blah ...". Next thing you know they will make us upgrade to Vista, to protect us from ourselves.
"Don't ask me what I think of you, I might not give the answer that you want me to. Oh well."
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OK so that's about 10,000 ppl max. And if your the CIO of a company, you should know what your doing or your soon to be parted w/ your prestigious position.
Any reason for the other 6.6+ billion fellow inhabitants?
?
OK so that's about 10,000 ppl max. And if your the CIO of a company, you should know what your doing or your soon to be parted w/ your prestigious position.
I know one company alone that was just described to a T in that post, WAY over 10,000 employees... more like 450,000 world wide. In most of these companies teh only people that could even think about asking the CIO to resign are his fellow board members, who all look to the CIO as their compu-nerd... they take his word as gospel on these matters, so of course he's right. Anyway it's time to tee off, they can talk about that complaint from Joe Blow Nobody about the payroll deductions page not working with his "fireblocks" thing after the round. More likely is a serf uprising as the peons in the trenches revolt... sadly the draconian BT/CIO office has methods to deal with those. I suspect the inhouse web developers are cheering for this one... they're probably the only ones inside.
Any reason for the other 6.6+ billion fellow inhabitants?
Other than they don't know how much pain they're causing web developers? Hey, I did my part and finally got my parents off the IE version that came with win2k... what was that? 4? I won't go into how I did that on this thread.
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Other than they don't know how much pain they're causing web developers? Hey, I did my part and finally got my parents off the IE version that came with win2k... what was that? 4? I won't go into how I did that on this thread.
I was talking about 10,000 CIO's globally. Not every employee that belongs to said company.
No need in :deadhorse at this point. Hopefully someone else will mercifully change the subject.
Hopefully someone else will mercifully change the subject.
I'll be glad to. Slashdot is running an article on specs that have been leaked on the new Lenovo Thinkpad X-300 ultralight. It isn't as cool looking as the Mac Air, but it is a much more serious machine. Highlights: up to 4GB RAM, 64GB solid state drive, 13.3 backlit LED (1440x900) complete wired and wireless connectivity, built-in DVD burner, and a whole lot more at between 2.5 and 3 pounds. Available with XP or Vista. No price or availability mentioned. It sure looks great, but I imagine it will have a price to match.
4GB SanDisk Cruzer Micro not recognized for readyboost?
I've ran a full (not quick) format in NTFS first and it didn't show me the option to use this for readyboost.
So I formatted it for FAT32 and it STILL doesn't show me the ability to run this as readyboost.
Specs for my machine are here in case you need it for any reason. Running Vista Ultimate.
I've used my 2GB (same exact type USB) for readyboost and it was just P&P.
yeah i am sure there is some publication in MSDN or something that explains what it takes to be Readyboost ready...but I have found many cheap thumbdrives are not ready for some reason. I do have a Sandisk cruiser micro 1GB, and when I plugged into the HP laptop with Vista, it told me Readyboost was supported with this thumbdrive.
For some reason, a 1GB Sandisk Ultra II SD card is NOT readyboost ready...go figure.
I'm reposting the following question since it got lost ina flurry of posts. I've been going over all Rhuarc's software "recomendations". Man I'm like a kid in a candy store!
I'm sure you'll think I jsut crawled out from under a rock. but what's so cool about UltraMon? I've never heard about this app that needs no introduction. I've been running multiple monitors for quite a while now and the Nvidia control panel seems to be just fine.
I'm reposting the following question since it got lost ina flurry of posts. I've been going over all Rhuarc's software "recomendations". Man I'm like a kid in a candy store!
UltraMon remembers everything. If I use Outlook on the right-hand screen and IE on the right, it remembers. If I have windows sized weirdly and in specific positions, it remembers. One click to move a window from one monitor to another. One click to have it span multiple monitors. A "smart taskbar" that creates a taskbar on the bottom of all windows and puts the taskbar-application-box on the same display as the application is currently displayed on.
Years ago Windows was really, really terrible at multiple monitors. It may be that the Nvidia control panel does a much better job, but I can't imagine anything being better than ultra mon. Give the free trial a shot and see. Maybe we're hooked on functionality that we could get for free now-a-days, but I doubt it.
So before I download. I assume I should download the 3.0 Beta version.
I'm not big on putting Beta stuff on my main machine though. How do you feel it works as far as stability?
So before I download. I assume I should download the 3.0 Beta version.
I'm not big on putting Beta stuff on my main machine though. How do you feel it works as far as stability?
Yeah, if you're using Vista you need the beta, otherwise the "Smart Taskbar" has trouble.
I've been running it for weeks without problems. The one bug I noticed in an earlier beta was corrected in the 1/15 version.
Of course, this is coming from a guy who's running the Vista SP1 beta on his main machine!
On another note. I tried syncback and it stopped the b/u process every time it ran into an issue it couldn't resolve. I was able to work around this, but it was a tedious task and didn't put a good taste in my mouth.
So I moved onto synctoy. WOW! that app is great! It feels a bit dumbed down so you don't even feel like your doing anything intelligent. But it works like a champ. Resolving it's issues w/o stopping the copy process.
I now have complete backups on an external drive that I only connect to my machine at the end of any work night! (finally).
I'm still gonna buy a drobo eventually. But that just became much lower on the priority list.
Thanks for the cool links guys. I'm checking out logmein tonight since wifey is always asking me for technical support on her machine. I can do most things verbally. But it would be allot quicker if I could just log into her machine and a few clicks. Done!
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It tells me there's a file w/ invalid syntax in F:\$RECYCLE.BIN\*long list of junk I won't bother you w/*
So I type in F:\$RECYCLE.BIN\ in Windows Explorer address bar to manually delete this file and it let's me go to this folder (doesn't tell me it's an invalid location), so I know it exists even though explorer's not showing me this folder in the "standard" view mode. After I type in the address, it tells me there are no contents in this folder. I'm sure this all has to do w/ that $.
How do I make explorer show what's in there?
Can I change the name and get rid of the $ so it shows in exploere?
I have explorer set to "show hidden files" too.
It's the recycle bin. But it's on my second internal HD.
I have two internal HD's one has the OS. THe other has documents. I have externals that I back up to but they aren't causing a problem.
Main HD> "C"
Second HD> "F"
I don't even want to back this hidden folder up. But I don't see the option to not back it up since I do want a full backup of all visible files.
In the task profile, click on filter. You can set a list of files/directories to ignore. I set mine to ignore my browser cache, for example.
BTW, I have found in the past that you can get around Explorer limitations by simply opening a DOS window. The command DIR /AH will show all hidden files. I would be wary of renaming or deleting hidden files unless you are very sure you know what you are doing, though. Most of these are put there by the operating system for a good reason.
Cheers,
-Jon
IE6, Windows XP:
Why on earth would a user have to go and specify such a thing, as to have to turn Clear Type On?
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Because Clear Type does not always help, and can sometimes make matters worse. If you are using an LCD display at native resolution, it's great. If not, well, you may be sorry. I don't know what Msft did in Vista to get around the limitations it has in XP.
Stuck.
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That whole browser was a disaster for people viewing the web and web developers that were learning web code at the time when IE6 was king. Thank God those days are long over! We just have to deal w/ that a little while longer hopefully and that headache will be replaced by IE7. Which in reality is a very nice browser. It's more standards compliant than most any browser out there. So if you can get your code to work in IE7. You practically guaranteed to have it work in all the major competitors. (except baby brother IE6).
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See that first guy that gets interviewed, Capt. Charles Haag? I went to school with that dude. He's very..."intense" And very, very, very bad at web design. His designs are *EVERYTHING* everyone hates about myspace.
If you care...
http://photos.mikelanestudios.com/
Sorry Andy! :nah
Ballmer heard SloYerRoll and thought it was a great idea. Every employee at every company should have IE 7. Who cares if you have WSUS? IE 7 will automatically install next month, even in corporations who have told it in the past NOT to! You have to Opt Out to Opt In to keep IE 6.
-Fleetwood Mac
Sure. Imagine you are the CIO of a large corporation with, say, 50,000 copies of IE6 running--among other things--hundreds of custom built applications with Web front ends that are known to work properly. The COO wants to know why the SAP implementation is three years behind schedule and the legal department has just requested a top-to-bottom review of your document retention policies and practices. And those are only two of a dozen competing "number one" priorities. Why on earth would you go and fix something that isn't broken?
As for me personally, I just run Firefox.
Cheers,
Plus I think Microsoft is just wrong to force companies to do this. Should be an Opt In to Upgrade, NOT an Opt In to keep your WSUS running the way you configured it. "In their ongoing effort to keep their apps blah blah blah ...". Next thing you know they will make us upgrade to Vista, to protect us from ourselves.
-Fleetwood Mac
Any reason for the other 6.6+ billion fellow inhabitants?
?
I know one company alone that was just described to a T in that post, WAY over 10,000 employees... more like 450,000 world wide. In most of these companies teh only people that could even think about asking the CIO to resign are his fellow board members, who all look to the CIO as their compu-nerd... they take his word as gospel on these matters, so of course he's right. Anyway it's time to tee off, they can talk about that complaint from Joe Blow Nobody about the payroll deductions page not working with his "fireblocks" thing after the round. More likely is a serf uprising as the peons in the trenches revolt... sadly the draconian BT/CIO office has methods to deal with those. I suspect the inhouse web developers are cheering for this one... they're probably the only ones inside.
Other than they don't know how much pain they're causing web developers? Hey, I did my part and finally got my parents off the IE version that came with win2k... what was that? 4? I won't go into how I did that on this thread.
http://wall-art.smugmug.com/
No need in :deadhorse at this point. Hopefully someone else will mercifully change the subject.
Cheers,
I've ran a full (not quick) format in NTFS first and it didn't show me the option to use this for readyboost.
So I formatted it for FAT32 and it STILL doesn't show me the ability to run this as readyboost.
Specs for my machine are here in case you need it for any reason. Running Vista Ultimate.
I've used my 2GB (same exact type USB) for readyboost and it was just P&P.
What gives?
For some reason, a 1GB Sandisk Ultra II SD card is NOT readyboost ready...go figure.
http://www.sandisk.com/Products/ProductInfo.aspx?ID=1925
That's the sandisk I have on both 2GB & 4GB versions.
The 2GB version works like a charm for RB. but the 4GB doesn't?
That sounds pretty lame to me.
Thanks again,
-Jon
UltraMon remembers everything. If I use Outlook on the right-hand screen and IE on the right, it remembers. If I have windows sized weirdly and in specific positions, it remembers. One click to move a window from one monitor to another. One click to have it span multiple monitors. A "smart taskbar" that creates a taskbar on the bottom of all windows and puts the taskbar-application-box on the same display as the application is currently displayed on.
Years ago Windows was really, really terrible at multiple monitors. It may be that the Nvidia control panel does a much better job, but I can't imagine anything being better than ultra mon. Give the free trial a shot and see. Maybe we're hooked on functionality that we could get for free now-a-days, but I doubt it.
http://www.realtimesoft.com/ultramon/tour/
I'm not big on putting Beta stuff on my main machine though. How do you feel it works as far as stability?
Yeah, if you're using Vista you need the beta, otherwise the "Smart Taskbar" has trouble.
I've been running it for weeks without problems. The one bug I noticed in an earlier beta was corrected in the 1/15 version.
Of course, this is coming from a guy who's running the Vista SP1 beta on his main machine!
Already downloaded and waiting to hear that
On another note. I tried syncback and it stopped the b/u process every time it ran into an issue it couldn't resolve. I was able to work around this, but it was a tedious task and didn't put a good taste in my mouth.
So I moved onto synctoy. WOW! that app is great! It feels a bit dumbed down so you don't even feel like your doing anything intelligent. But it works like a champ. Resolving it's issues w/o stopping the copy process.
I now have complete backups on an external drive that I only connect to my machine at the end of any work night! (finally).
I'm still gonna buy a drobo eventually. But that just became much lower on the priority list.
Thanks for the cool links guys. I'm checking out logmein tonight since wifey is always asking me for technical support on her machine. I can do most things verbally. But it would be allot quicker if I could just log into her machine and a few clicks. Done!
Cheers,
-Jon