Richard Andrew x64 wrote:

I have never found anything I was looking for using it.

Windows search kind of works when you know how it works and either change the index or how you ask to get results, you shouldn't have to do this! Plus, you can't trust the results as it quite often misses results!

Richard Andrew x64 wrote:

So I opened a DOS box and did dir *XYZ*.* /s and it came up with about 25 matches in 1/1000th the time it took Windows Search to say it found nothing.

Same here, I use DOS or Visual Studio - always finds what I want.

Mustafa Ismail Mustafa wrote:

You remember Prime? Wow! My dad used to work for them in their Engineering department and then he moved to Kuwait for a few years as their sales person in the GCC particularly at the Petroleum companies. You're one of three that I have ever heard of that knows of Prime. I'm genuinely impressed.

I did work experience at Huddersfield University in the early 90's and they had a few Prime's and VAX's in their IT department - I didn't get to play with them though, but they looked impressive back then!

I'm using Vista 64 Enterprise at work and have done over the last year. I've only had a few blue screens. The rest of the time its worked perfectly. At home I have Vista 64 Ultimate on my laptop. Other than network card drivers not being installed as part of the OS install, it too has worked fine.

There was 1 5 star review with many negative comments a few seconds ago. This single review has now been deleted as of 14:59BST, so that's no reviews of spore on Amazon.co.uk. I now cannot trust the review system since its obviously censored.

Vista search is pants. It's not intuitive and hardly finds the files I'm after. If I search by name, quite often is says zero results. I find using dos dir name /s/b is quicker and always finds the file. If I search inside a file for text, vista search is slow and quite often doesn't find the file I'm after, for searching inside files I use devstudio. Search in Vista is a backwards move. At least in XP search by name and search inside files were handled differently. In vista they're handled the same, and badly.

Christian Graus wrote:

Yes, that's right. google are marketing their new browser. Only, when they do it, I presume it's not evil.

It did start off evil with their "Everything you submit via Chrome belongs to us" EULA: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/09/03/google_chrome_eula_sucks/[^] But they later changed it, so a little less evil now.

I'm at my best between 10 and 3, after 3 my brain starts getting tired; but then I spend more time on emails/bug reports etc so it works out OK.

I have a 17" Dell Monitor and a Sony Bravia; the Bravia was for the XBox, but I rigged it up as a 2nd monitor for my PC. I do most of my work on the main screen and keep my email, things to do, output etc on the widescreen bravia. I'd find it counter productive to go back to single monitor.

Looks OK, I'll be sticking with Live search for now though - Cuil isn't returning results relevant to my searches, especially regarding MSDN!

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Christian Graus wrote:

If you're using VC6, apart from the fact that you're in the dark ages,

Welcome to 80% of the companies I've worked for. 80% also use Visual Source Safe 6.0 as their CVS!

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Stag do on sat. (I'm the stag). So plans are to drink, but not till I puke, I hate puking. Sun: Recover :-)

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Tim Craig wrote:

That link has a nasty popup, at least for me.

Not good; thankfully I block all popups. Maybe the indian times has been hacked like the bank of India http://www.f-secure.com/weblog/archives/archive-082007.html#00001265[^]

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Liam O`Hagan wrote:

I also have a 400D ('enthusiast kit here in aus is bundled with the 17-85 lens), it's going to my mother when the 40D is released :D I'll also be providing a good home to a lonely 17-55 2.8, which should be a good all round lens

40D, excellent! I'll keep my 400D for quite a while I think. Mine came with the 18-55 canon lens, I've just bought the 90-300. I like the zoom but I am finding the minimum of 90 makes it hard to take photo's of closer subjects. If I ever manage to afford a 20D or 40D I'll keep my 400D and then I've got two bodies for two different lenses.

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Liam O`Hagan wrote:

Yeah, but you get what you pay for, a medium format hasselblad costs somewhere in the region of $45000, whereas the 1DSIII is $8k (US Dollars) Added to the there's no way the 'blad will do 5 frames a second Different applications entirely, just comparing megapixel counts is pretty much pointless... I have no blog...

Very true. Also, when you get past a certain point in MPixel's, the optics play more of a role: upping the pixel count doesn't improve the picture quality, you need to start investing in decent lenses. I have a Canon 400D and at the moment the camera is capable of producing photo's of better quality than I'm currently capable of taking, so for now the 400D is all I need.

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21Mpixel, that's nothing. Try 22 to 39! http://www.hasselblad.com/products/h-system/h3d.aspx[^]

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Vasudevan Deepak Kumar wrote:

http://www.wordpress.com/\[^\]

I agree. with Vasudevan Deepak Kumar on that one; I have a hosted site though so have run my own wordpress blog downloaded from http://www.wordpress.org[^] -- modified at 5:48 Monday 20th August, 2007

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digital man wrote:

UKCodeMonkey wrote: His wife Well, duh, obviously.

:-)

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Miszou wrote:

You know that a tie is nothing more than a collar, right? It's a means of asserting dominance and status over people. By wearing a tie, you are publicly showing your subservience.

That makes sense in part where I work; I wear a tie and by what is said above I'm showing my subservience to the owner of the company. He also wears a tie though? So who's he subservient to? His wife?

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Ravi Bhavnani wrote:

Country averages[^] Great - I just moved to a country that offers the least paid time off on average. /ravi

I want to move to Finland!

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Generally I work what I'm paid to work. 37.5 hours a week. Sometimes I work a little longer if the deadline is looming.

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