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MS's support logic
On 09/08/2014 23:42, Mayayana wrote:
| You say "always," but I assume you mean "often." I use it very | seldom. What are some of things you use it for, things "you can't do | efficiently without using the command line"? | | | Yes correct 'often'. | | copy *.doc backups | cd backups | ren *.doc *.doc.bak | I drag that folder onto the Desktop icon for one of my backup drives and I drop it. Then I click "Yes to all" (overwrite files with the same name) and I'm done. You're probably just about getting your console window open by now. And of course you'll need to cd to your docs folder first. I only want to backup the *.doc files. Or the *.asm or *.68h or sect*.asm files or whatever I typed. -- Brian Gregory (in the UK). To email me please remove all the letter vee from my email address. |
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On Sat, 9 Aug 2014 18:42:34 -0400, "Mayayana"
wrote: | You say "always," but I assume you mean "often." I use it very | seldom. What are some of things you use it for, things "you can't do | efficiently without using the command line"? | | | Yes correct 'often'. | | copy *.doc backups | cd backups | ren *.doc *.doc.bak | I drag that folder onto the Desktop icon for one of my backup drives and I drop it. Then I click "Yes to all" (overwrite files with the same name) and I'm done. You're probably just about getting your console window open by now. And of course you'll need to cd to your docs folder first. Ditto. |
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On Sat, 09 Aug 2014 23:56:59 +0100, Brian Gregory
wrote: On 09/08/2014 23:42, Mayayana wrote: | You say "always," but I assume you mean "often." I use it very | seldom. What are some of things you use it for, things "you can't do | efficiently without using the command line"? | | | Yes correct 'often'. | | copy *.doc backups | cd backups | ren *.doc *.doc.bak | I drag that folder onto the Desktop icon for one of my backup drives and I drop it. Then I click "Yes to all" (overwrite files with the same name) and I'm done. You're probably just about getting your console window open by now. And of course you'll need to cd to your docs folder first. I only want to backup the *.doc files. Or the *.asm or *.68h or sect*.asm files or whatever I typed. Sort by extension, then it's easy to select just the ones you want with shift-click. |
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Bert wrote:
In A wrote: Bert wrote: You might also provide a list of products that are bug free. Hammer Saw Screwdriver Paper Ball point pen Guitar Oboe Drinking glass Wine glass etc. Need more? No one has ever hurt themselves with a hammer, saw or screwdriver? Never had a paper cut? Never made a spelling error or written something entirely nonsensical with a ball point pen? Don't get me started about the horrors inflicted with oboes. I could go on ... Those aren't bugs in the product. Those are results of the user not using them properly. -- A |
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Bert wrote:
Don't get me started about the horrors inflicted with oboes. Nothing compared with the unbearable evil of the accordion... -- XS11E, Killing all posts from Google Groups The Usenet Improvement Project: http://twovoyagers.com/improve-usenet.org/ |
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A wrote:
Bert wrote: In A wrote: Bert wrote: You might also provide a list of products that are bug free. Hammer Saw Screwdriver Paper Ball point pen Guitar Oboe Drinking glass Wine glass etc. Need more? No one has ever hurt themselves with a hammer, saw or screwdriver? Never had a paper cut? Never made a spelling error or written something entirely nonsensical with a ball point pen? Don't get me started about the horrors inflicted with oboes. I could go on ... Those aren't bugs in the product. Those are results of the user not using them properly. That makes sense only if you can point us to the specifications of the products. WIWAL, "bug" = "undocumented feature". -- Mike Barnes Cheshire, England |
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On 2014-08-09, A wrote:
Bert wrote: In A wrote: Bert wrote: You might also provide a list of products that are bug free. Hammer Saw Screwdriver Paper Ball point pen Guitar Oboe Drinking glass Wine glass etc. Need more? No one has ever hurt themselves with a hammer, saw or screwdriver? Never had a paper cut? Never made a spelling error or written something entirely nonsensical with a ball point pen? Don't get me started about the horrors inflicted with oboes. I could go on ... Those aren't bugs in the product. Those are results of the user not using them properly. My ball point pen ran out of ink. Bic will not offer future updates for that pen, they want me to throw it away and get a new one. They knew it would run out of ink, yet sold it to me anyway. I can't believe they left me out to hang like that. Maybe a 2 cent upgrade path should have been offered. I play crossword puzzles with that pen. I've been advised to try a Linux pen, but that is just a twig off a dead tree. It rips the crossword paper, and could potentially poke an eye. -- As a child, I fell on an Encyclopaedea, but still remember most of it. |
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A wrote:
Bert wrote: You might also provide a list of products that are bug free. Hammer Saw Screwdriver Paper Ball point pen Guitar Oboe Drinking glass Wine glass etc. Need more? I've have and had quite a few guitars in my life and every single one of them needed some form of adjustment or another (new and used). In fact the cost of desired work and maintenance for all of them (new and used) over the years easily surpasses Windows related costs. -- ...winston msft mvp consumer apps |
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Darth_Hideous wrote:
On 2014-08-09, A wrote: Bert wrote: In A wrote: Bert wrote: You might also provide a list of products that are bug free. Hammer Saw Screwdriver Paper Ball point pen Guitar Oboe Drinking glass Wine glass etc. Need more? No one has ever hurt themselves with a hammer, saw or screwdriver? Never had a paper cut? Never made a spelling error or written something entirely nonsensical with a ball point pen? Don't get me started about the horrors inflicted with oboes. I could go on ... Those aren't bugs in the product. Those are results of the user not using them properly. My ball point pen ran out of ink. Bic will not offer future updates for that pen, they want me to throw it away and get a new one. They knew it would run out of ink, yet sold it to me anyway. I can't believe they left me out to hang like that. Maybe a 2 cent upgrade path should have been offered. I play crossword puzzles with that pen. I've been advised to try a Linux pen, but that is just a twig off a dead tree. It rips the crossword paper, and could potentially poke an eye. Buy an ink pen and lots of ink. Then STFU. -- A |
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XS11E wrote:
Bert wrote: Don't get me started about the horrors inflicted with oboes. Nothing compared with the unbearable evil of the accordion... Guess you never polka-ed. -- ...winston msft mvp consumer apps |
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On 2014-08-10, A wrote:
Darth_Hideous wrote: [SNAP] Those aren't bugs in the product. Those are results of the user not using them properly. My ball point pen ran out of ink. Bic will not offer future updates for that pen, they want me to throw it away and get a new one. They knew it would run out of ink, yet sold it to me anyway. I can't believe they left me out to hang like that. Maybe a 2 cent upgrade path should have been offered. I play crossword puzzles with that pen. I've been advised to try a Linux pen, but that is just a twig off a dead tree. It rips the crossword paper, and could potentially poke an eye. Buy an ink pen and lots of ink. Then STFU. I like the twig now. Save The Flying Unicorn? -- As a child, I fell on an Encyclopaedea, but still remember most of it. |
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| I only want to backup the *.doc files.
| Or the *.asm or *.68h or sect*.asm files or whatever I typed. | It's hard for me to picture such a scenario, where I'd want to back up all files of a single type in folder, but not back up any others. Perhaps you organize to favor the keyboard because you like it? Your description sounds to me like a situation where it's merely feasible to use DOS, not awkward to use Explorer. I organize in folders by relation. This afternoon I was working on a website. 40-50 files in a folder with several subfolders. I changed about 10 files -- 1 GIF, 2 JPG, several HTML, a couple of CSS. When I was done I dropped the parent folder into the main websites folder on a backup drive. Done. And I don't have to keep track of which files I changed. I suppose that if I did that all day there'd be more wear and tear on the disk, but in normal usage it's no big deal to just copy the whole folder. |
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On 8/9/14 8:46 AM, Darth_Hideous wrote:
On 2014-08-09, Mayayana wrote: snip 1) | Linux runs Firefox, TBird, Chrome, Spreadsheets, etc. | It's for everyone. Linux doesn't support most of the software people use, and to make matters worse, the Linux fanclub won't admit that. GIMP has been unusable for 20 I listed most of the software people use. No, you didn't. You listed 3 programs and a type of program. And of the 3 programs, TBird is an email client, and I believe email clients are being used by fewer and fewer users. But the most widely used programs, most likely, are those of MS Office, of which Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook are not supported on Linux. I use Gimp all the time. Works fine. I don't think it's a question of working or not working, but how well does it work, is it efficient and easy to use, and have the same feature set as Photoshop. -- Ken Mac OS X 10.8.5 Firefox 25.0 Thunderbird 24.6.0 "My brain is like lightning, a quick flash and it's gone!" |
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On 8/9/14 8:34 AM, Mayayana wrote:
snip There was an article just recently about how XP is getting infected less than Vista/7: http://www.forbes.com/sites/gordonke...ays-microsoft/ I think the real question should be why XP is getting infected less. There could be a dozen reasons for this. snip -- Ken Mac OS X 10.8.5 Firefox 25.0 Thunderbird 24.6.0 "My brain is like lightning, a quick flash and it's gone!" |
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On 2014-08-10, Ken Springer wrote:
On 8/9/14 8:46 AM, Darth_Hideous wrote: On 2014-08-09, Mayayana wrote: snip 1) | Linux runs Firefox, TBird, Chrome, Spreadsheets, etc. | It's for everyone. Linux doesn't support most of the software people use, and to make matters worse, the Linux fanclub won't admit that. GIMP has been unusable for 20 I listed most of the software people use. No, you didn't. You listed 3 programs and a type of program. And of the 3 programs, TBird is an email client, and I believe email clients are being used by fewer and fewer users. But the most widely used programs, most likely, are those of MS Office, of which Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook are not supported on Linux. Libre Office. That was the etc part after Spreadsheets. I use Gimp all the time. Works fine. I don't think it's a question of working or not working, but how well does it work, is it efficient and easy to use, and have the same feature set as Photoshop. It works well. It's efficient, easy to use, has more features than Photoshop. But, as I don't use PS, nor do I intend to, it's a moot point. -- As a child, I fell on an Encyclopaedea, but still remember most of it. |
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