Wife vs Weven
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She was sitting there looking at her screen (Firefox was open, and she was on her gmail page), and asked me, "How do I get on the internet?" It took me a few seconds, and I responded - "You're on the internet right now." After a minute or two of heated exchange regarding her internet status, I found out that she meant to ask me, "How do I open another instance of FireFox?" Ahhh, the annoyance known as the "new and improved" Weven task when it collides with an ex-XP user. After showing her how to open a new instance, I also gently reminded her that she could open multiple tabs in FireFox. She calmed down and everything is back to normal - for now... It's going to be an interesting weekend.
.45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly
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"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
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"The staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - J. Jystad, 2001Once had a User that had our "tenders page" up and was checking oppertunities, but couldn't find certain information. I explained he needed to click on a certain button. he said "what button"? this went on for a bit until I was informed that he he had printed out the webpage. :~ :wtf:
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I showed her how to do it in the task bar.
.45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly
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"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
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"The staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - J. Jystad, 2001 -
Once had a User that had our "tenders page" up and was checking oppertunities, but couldn't find certain information. I explained he needed to click on a certain button. he said "what button"? this went on for a bit until I was informed that he he had printed out the webpage. :~ :wtf:
///////////////// Groucho Marx Those are my principals, if you don't like them… I have others.
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She was sitting there looking at her screen (Firefox was open, and she was on her gmail page), and asked me, "How do I get on the internet?" It took me a few seconds, and I responded - "You're on the internet right now." After a minute or two of heated exchange regarding her internet status, I found out that she meant to ask me, "How do I open another instance of FireFox?" Ahhh, the annoyance known as the "new and improved" Weven task when it collides with an ex-XP user. After showing her how to open a new instance, I also gently reminded her that she could open multiple tabs in FireFox. She calmed down and everything is back to normal - for now... It's going to be an interesting weekend.
.45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly
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"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
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"The staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - J. Jystad, 2001Your wife sounds remarkably sophisticated compared to mine. My wife's user account on the family desktop machine has two items in the Start menu: Outlook Express and Internet Explorer. Everything else is either not shown or disabled. The web sites she normally goes to are all in her Favorites bar. I don't think she even uses Google successfully, as she almost always asks me to 'look something up on the Internet' for her :sigh:.
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She was sitting there looking at her screen (Firefox was open, and she was on her gmail page), and asked me, "How do I get on the internet?" It took me a few seconds, and I responded - "You're on the internet right now." After a minute or two of heated exchange regarding her internet status, I found out that she meant to ask me, "How do I open another instance of FireFox?" Ahhh, the annoyance known as the "new and improved" Weven task when it collides with an ex-XP user. After showing her how to open a new instance, I also gently reminded her that she could open multiple tabs in FireFox. She calmed down and everything is back to normal - for now... It's going to be an interesting weekend.
.45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly
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"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
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"The staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - J. Jystad, 2001John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote:
Ahhh, the annoyance known as the "new and improved" Weven task when it collides with an ex-XP user.
You're blaming Windows for a faulty wife interface? Surely you should have upgraded to a newer version of wife (cue links to the old Mistress 1.0 joke).
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As Braveheart once said, "You can take our freedom but you'll never take our Hobnobs!" - Martin Hughes.
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John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote:
Ahhh, the annoyance known as the "new and improved" Weven task when it collides with an ex-XP user.
You're blaming Windows for a faulty wife interface? Surely you should have upgraded to a newer version of wife (cue links to the old Mistress 1.0 joke).
"WPF has many lovers. It's a veritable porn star!" - Josh Smith
As Braveheart once said, "You can take our freedom but you'll never take our Hobnobs!" - Martin Hughes.
She's actually remarkably savvy where computers are concerned. I'm not blaming Weven - I'm just complaining about having to do tech support.
.45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly
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"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
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"The staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - J. Jystad, 2001 -
She was sitting there looking at her screen (Firefox was open, and she was on her gmail page), and asked me, "How do I get on the internet?" It took me a few seconds, and I responded - "You're on the internet right now." After a minute or two of heated exchange regarding her internet status, I found out that she meant to ask me, "How do I open another instance of FireFox?" Ahhh, the annoyance known as the "new and improved" Weven task when it collides with an ex-XP user. After showing her how to open a new instance, I also gently reminded her that she could open multiple tabs in FireFox. She calmed down and everything is back to normal - for now... It's going to be an interesting weekend.
.45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly
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"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
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"The staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - J. Jystad, 2001You could title it "woman vs technology"... (I know it isn't soooooo polically correct) :rolleyes:
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Took me a while to figure out how to open a 2nd instance of IE** when I first installed Windows 7. I do it now by right clicking the already open IE tab instance, and then clicking on the IE menu entry. Is that what you taught your wife to do too? Or is there an alternative way? **[Same for Firefox too]
Regards, Nish
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I just shift-click the taskbar button. Seem to remember that being broken in one of the betas, but works just fine now.
Shog9 wrote:
I just shift-click the taskbar button. Seem to remember that being broken in one of the betas, but works just fine now.
Cool - thanks for that tip :cool:
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She was sitting there looking at her screen (Firefox was open, and she was on her gmail page), and asked me, "How do I get on the internet?" It took me a few seconds, and I responded - "You're on the internet right now." After a minute or two of heated exchange regarding her internet status, I found out that she meant to ask me, "How do I open another instance of FireFox?" Ahhh, the annoyance known as the "new and improved" Weven task when it collides with an ex-XP user. After showing her how to open a new instance, I also gently reminded her that she could open multiple tabs in FireFox. She calmed down and everything is back to normal - for now... It's going to be an interesting weekend.
.45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly
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"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
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"The staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - J. Jystad, 2001 -
She was sitting there looking at her screen (Firefox was open, and she was on her gmail page), and asked me, "How do I get on the internet?" It took me a few seconds, and I responded - "You're on the internet right now." After a minute or two of heated exchange regarding her internet status, I found out that she meant to ask me, "How do I open another instance of FireFox?" Ahhh, the annoyance known as the "new and improved" Weven task when it collides with an ex-XP user. After showing her how to open a new instance, I also gently reminded her that she could open multiple tabs in FireFox. She calmed down and everything is back to normal - for now... It's going to be an interesting weekend.
.45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly
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"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
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"The staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - J. Jystad, 2001Hard decision... Weven usability is better no doubt, but regarding features, wife has a little advantage. Oh... ok. I wish that double-clicking a taskbar icon would always open a new instance, no matter what.
Personally, I love the idea that Raymond spends his nights posting bad regexs to mailing lists under the pseudonym of Jane Smith. He'd be like a super hero, only more nerdy and less useful. [Trevel]
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.45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly
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"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
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"The staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - J. Jystad, 2001 -
Took me a while to figure out how to open a 2nd instance of IE** when I first installed Windows 7. I do it now by right clicking the already open IE tab instance, and then clicking on the IE menu entry. Is that what you taught your wife to do too? Or is there an alternative way? **[Same for Firefox too]
Regards, Nish
Nish’s thoughts on MFC, C++/CLI and .NET (my blog)
My latest book : C++/CLI in Action / Amazon.com link -
She was sitting there looking at her screen (Firefox was open, and she was on her gmail page), and asked me, "How do I get on the internet?" It took me a few seconds, and I responded - "You're on the internet right now." After a minute or two of heated exchange regarding her internet status, I found out that she meant to ask me, "How do I open another instance of FireFox?" Ahhh, the annoyance known as the "new and improved" Weven task when it collides with an ex-XP user. After showing her how to open a new instance, I also gently reminded her that she could open multiple tabs in FireFox. She calmed down and everything is back to normal - for now... It's going to be an interesting weekend.
.45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly
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"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
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"The staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - J. Jystad, 2001Just reading "The design of everyday things" from the Author Donald A. Norman. Your story sounds like a perfect example from the book :-)
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Nishant Sivakumar wrote:
I do it now by right clicking the already open IE tab instance, and then clicking on the IE menu entry.
I just middle-click the taskbar button.
OSDev :)
0x3c0 wrote:
I just middle-click the taskbar button.
Wow - thanks, this is even better than Shog's approach.
Regards, Nish
Nish’s thoughts on MFC, C++/CLI and .NET (my blog)
My latest book : C++/CLI in Action / Amazon.com link -
Took me a while to figure out how to open a 2nd instance of IE** when I first installed Windows 7. I do it now by right clicking the already open IE tab instance, and then clicking on the IE menu entry. Is that what you taught your wife to do too? Or is there an alternative way? **[Same for Firefox too]
Regards, Nish
Nish’s thoughts on MFC, C++/CLI and .NET (my blog)
My latest book : C++/CLI in Action / Amazon.com linkOr you can just right click the task button, and choose the app again.
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Or you can just right click the task button, and choose the app again.
-- Kein Mitleid Für Die Mehrheit
Jörgen Sigvardsson wrote:
Or you can just right click the task button, and choose the app again.
Uhm, that's what I do now. I was not aware of the shift-click and middle-click options though.
Regards, Nish
Nish’s thoughts on MFC, C++/CLI and .NET (my blog)
My latest book : C++/CLI in Action / Amazon.com link -
Jörgen Sigvardsson wrote:
Or you can just right click the task button, and choose the app again.
Uhm, that's what I do now. I was not aware of the shift-click and middle-click options though.
Regards, Nish
Nish’s thoughts on MFC, C++/CLI and .NET (my blog)
My latest book : C++/CLI in Action / Amazon.com linkOf course. :doh:
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She was sitting there looking at her screen (Firefox was open, and she was on her gmail page), and asked me, "How do I get on the internet?" It took me a few seconds, and I responded - "You're on the internet right now." After a minute or two of heated exchange regarding her internet status, I found out that she meant to ask me, "How do I open another instance of FireFox?" Ahhh, the annoyance known as the "new and improved" Weven task when it collides with an ex-XP user. After showing her how to open a new instance, I also gently reminded her that she could open multiple tabs in FireFox. She calmed down and everything is back to normal - for now... It's going to be an interesting weekend.
.45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly
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"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
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"The staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - J. Jystad, 2001love is such a wonderful thing! ;)
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Just reading "The design of everyday things" from the Author Donald A. Norman. Your story sounds like a perfect example from the book :-)
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Is it as enlightening as it is said to be? Or just a collection of "well, duh, that's obvious"?
Personally, I love the idea that Raymond spends his nights posting bad regexs to mailing lists under the pseudonym of Jane Smith. He'd be like a super hero, only more nerdy and less useful. [Trevel]
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