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| oJoS Statistics - Individual Statistics for 'Stephen Jones' | ||
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Number of Comments: 3,405 |
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| Number of Words: 356,820 | ||
| First Comment: 24 Sep 2002 | ||
| Final Comment: 03 Sep 2004 | ||
Number of Topics Posted: 7 |
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| First Topic: 30 Oct 2002 | ||
| Latest Topic: 27 Mar 2004 | ||
| When | Item | Comment |
| 03 Sep 2004 | What exactly is a st.... | It used to have to type stencils on an old manual .... >> |
| "The Joel Spolsky's .... | Dear Bobmin What makes you think that artists, .... >> | |
| 02 Sep 2004 | Windows File Manager.... | Google >> |
| laser printers | The problem with low cost printers of any kind are.... >> | |
| What exactly is a st.... | Deven, give us Philistines a link. If you don't kn.... >> | |
| finger, the father o.... | Tnanks for the Star-Trek link. I'm pretty sure we'.... >> | |
| "The Joel Spolsky's .... | Load of balls! How is a fine art expert at Soth.... >> | |
| ---'arty-farty crap' never put food on the table. .... >> | ||
| Dear cynic The reason unemployment is higher am.... >> | ||
| Dear lrig, Problem solved. Joel can.... >> | ||
| CEOs being paid to o.... | The real robbery comes when the CEO or chairman is.... >> | |
| Fear the power of Sh.... | Dear Justme Two separate points here - the firs.... >> | |
| Americans need learn.... | You have a strange penis fixation muppet. Freud wo.... >> | |
| Dear Muppet Your willingness to call anybody .... >> | ||
| 01 Sep 2004 | Use BTS as a persona.... | A Palm Pilot is pretty good for a shopping list. E.... >> |
| Bug tracking at Micr.... | I once tried to report a bug to Microsoft. I went .... >> | |
| Von Neumann and HCI | I agree with as - Hodge's biography ot Turing is e.... >> | |
| Fear the power of Sh.... | Wha takes up the memory with acrobat are the add-o.... >> | |
| New take on "practic.... | The reason for the gap between the theoretical und.... >> | |
| Dear Bella, I don't know what two.... >> | ||
| Last laptop related .... | A laptop battery should last three hours. Why on e.... >> | |
| Americans need learn.... | Yea, and you're in a minority of one. >> | |
| ---'Hispanic birth rates are much higher in the US.... >> | ||
| 31 Aug 2004 | New take on "practic.... | ----'might as well take one that will expand your .... >> |
| I want out writing w.... | If someone tells you pointers are obsolete at a pa.... >> | |
| What motivates you t.... | ---'Muppet, The quicker you get that ritalin th.... >> | |
| Windows Update requi.... | Two completely separate things here: a) the inabi.... >> | |
| Dear Greg After I installed SP2 the radio butto.... >> | ||
| 30 Aug 2004 | Having automatic updates as the only choice appear.... >> | |
| And you're moaning because you have to have cable .... >> | ||
| Americans need learn.... | Whilst it is true that many non-English speakers l.... >> | |
| Dear Ian The only century you need.... >> | ||
| To go back to the original point of this thread th.... >> | ||
| Bill Gates on "profe.... | ---'Microsoft didn't develop the de facto operatin.... >> | |
| GmailFS - Gmail File.... | Why are you presuming that all are data is objecti.... >> | |
| Salary survey | ----'Gross: $65.500 / yr Net: $2.450 / mth '---- .... >> | |
| 29 Aug 2004 | Strange Windows XP B.... | I've always had what you see. There is a setting t.... >> |
| GmailFS - Gmail File.... | An almost hassle free gig is useful. Ok, I've got .... >> | |
| Insourcing? | ---' Apart from an extremely tiny enthusiast marke.... >> | |
| Compulsory support r.... | The suggestion is clearly impractical and unfair f.... >> | |
| Need info on Mideast.... | E-commerce is not developing in the Arab World and.... >> | |
| Union threatens Jame.... | Do you ever bother to read your own links? The .... >> | |
| 28 Aug 2004 | Decent back-up softw.... | Second Copy from http://www.centered.com >> |
| 90 million downloads.... | 90 million downloads or 90 million attempts at dow.... >> | |
| Relational databases.... | There is nothing that is not suited to the relatio.... >> | |
| General question abo.... | The universe appears to be shrinking alarmingly. T.... >> | |
| Should I install XP'.... | Just installed it on the laptop - the reason was m.... >> | |
| If MS Only Cares Abo.... | To say something is a lot better than what Apple d.... >> | |
| Union threatens Jame.... | ---' Anyone whose workplace or home has asbestos i.... >> | |
| 27 Aug 2004 | "Rescue abandoned pr.... | Do what most people do when they are giving privat.... >> |
| Is Java is security .... | The more serious problem is svc host and run.dll .... >> | |
| Need info on Mideast.... | Yea, you're right, the mideast search still return.... >> | |
| The Google results have changed since she made the.... >> | ||
| I came across these by googling for something comp.... >> | ||
| Super-Duper Incredib.... | Presumably one of the qualities of a "Super-Duper .... >> | |
| If MS Only Cares Abo.... | I agree with you about the PTA it is becoming to u.... >> | |
| Albert, isn't this blurring the lines between the .... >> | ||
| Progammer pay rates .... | In the UK it used to be 'pop' but the term has gon.... >> | |
| Union threatens Jame.... | The large corporation's damage is more visible. .... >> | |
| The Queensland quote appears up-to-date. The regul.... >> | ||
| 26 Aug 2004 | Need info on Mideast.... | The Google link is five years out of date, and thu.... >> |
| shocking, misleading.... | The only thing shocking here is that MS pays hefty.... >> | |
| Union threatens Jame.... | -----'You're kidding? You consciously chose to use.... >> | |
| Expedia? No...CRAPed.... | Well, if we are into conspiracy theores, whose goi.... >> | |
| 25 Aug 2004 | Trouble with Verio's.... | Co-hosting? At least you would be in control. >> |
| Progammer pay rates .... | It's rent or house price that is the problem. What.... >> | |
| Sink Battleship | ---'The question is not why such a big download at.... >> | |
| Trust, 3rd parties, .... | -----'>The ugly truth is that many people spend a .... >> | |
| Union threatens Jame.... | The point is that a company should have the same j.... >> | |
| Rather like dying of lung cancer. Of course the.... >> | ||
| 24 Aug 2004 | What's so appalling about the behaviour? If all.... >> | |
| 23 Aug 2004 | Profoundly screwed u.... | A lot of older software won't run as user. You can.... >> |
| Spanish text transla.... | You can use an automatic translator and then get a.... >> | |
| Open source usabilit.... | Mount and unmout are Unix terms and thus obscure t.... >> | |
| 21 Aug 2004 | Microsoft pays for i.... | ---' I think the thread is concerned with the abys.... >> |
| I think even the British would be hard-pushed to b.... >> | ||
| 20 Aug 2004 | Dear a cynic writes, In my time a woody was a Wil.... >> | |
| And the British are not that much better. When .... >> | ||
| The Americans ignorance of Geography is notorious..... >> | ||
| "The Grauniad" was chosen to avoid libel cases. >> | ||
| IBM in a pickle | ----'RocketJeff, sounds like a perfect example of .... >> | |
| GOOG off to the race.... | Sorry Joel, but in my opinion anybody buying share.... >> | |
| Why so much negativi.... | Hardie at present only makes fibre cement. This is.... >> | |
| -----'Try this one. Australian company James Hardi.... >> | ||
| Interesting article .... | I suspect pricing has more to do with it. When .... >> | |
| Google Censoring sit.... | The 'eye of the needle' probably referred to the n.... >> | |
| 17 Aug 2004 | Coworkers who won't .... | ---'Why does the post count go up, but there are n.... >> |
| Best natural kyboard.... | Why doesn't Humpty just keep a Natural Keybo.... >> | |
| 16 Aug 2004 | Preferred ways of ba.... | I partition my hard drive in two. On the D partiti.... >> |
| 15 Aug 2004 | Speaking of Google I.... | The standard is to consider the value of the compa.... >> |
| how does norton ghos.... | You can also use the split command to split the im.... >> | |
| Windows XP Lite | ---'Remember, in countries where software's pirate.... >> | |
| Sacrificing parts of.... | -----'Do you think some CEO can do his work in 5 h.... >> | |
| 08 Aug 2004 | Backup Program | Second Copy from http://www.centered.com does pret.... >> |
| Contract/part time P.... | Dear Populate, I hope you c.... >> | |
| Getting Things Done .... | Put a match to your paper files and a match to you.... >> | |
| What else, apart from signed contracts, would you .... >> | ||
| 07 Aug 2004 | JOS Homepage Dates | It's because he's going to Italy on holiday, and i.... >> |
| 06 Aug 2004 | Why are pointers use.... | Many people say that the use of such artefacts as .... >> |
| When: 20.00 16/08/01.... | The only problem with spelling the month out is th.... >> | |
| CNN: CS School Break.... | I think the key is that you should be allowed to t.... >> | |
| More perils of outso.... | ----'Do the officials have to be bribed to enforce.... >> | |
| There are intellectual property laws in place in I.... >> | ||
| Computability | The sound of one hand Flapping can be computed pro.... >> | |
| Pedant: Blah Details.... | Detail can be a count or uncount noun. So 'detail'.... >> | |
| A question for our n.... | ----' Actually that's not true. Usually when someo.... >> | |
| 04 Aug 2004 | Weapons software | ---'but a real live kaboom. Who do I go see abo.... >> |
| How to decide on sw .... | A better suggestion like the constraints for posti.... >> | |
| A much more likely case is where the person who's .... >> | ||
| softwareCEO.com | I can read about 17 lines of text including the me.... >> | |
| If it's called the preview pane, then it's for pre.... >> | ||
| No, I'm talking about the Preview Pane which takes.... >> | ||
| Three frames are too many. You just find the messa.... >> | ||
| -----' Here is an example of useful frames. It ma.... >> | ||
| I've seen worse but you've got a point! Now wha.... >> | ||
| A question for our n.... | Some people don't get irony. This more common amon.... >> | |
| Contrarian insight #.... | -----'and customers say 'It's that cheap?' and buy.... >> | |
| The point he is making is that you want to sell so.... >> | ||
| Mac Serial Port | You can get USB to serial converters; presumably t.... >> | |
| Google image search .... | Woops, here's the link http://www.deepbluevoices.... >> | |
| Juist me has found the answer. Look at this exa.... >> | ||
| Programming Difficul.... | ----'ah, then a soldier in a combat zone probably .... >> | |
| ocr sOFTWARE FOR TEX.... | It doesn't appear any scanning is needed. Remember.... >> | |
| Not making sense of .... | Iago This is an English medium forum not a Latin .... >> | |
| Interesting Intervie.... | Beta was not better, if better is not what your cu.... >> | |
| I'm actually wondering if the 'interview' happened.... >> | ||
| Confused About Linux | The programs in the enterprise system they charge .... >> | |
| Your typical program.... | Tripe is adorable. My favourite is Galician tripe .... >> | |
| Boddingtons. Now there's compensation for Manchest.... >> | ||
| Both the French (le boudin) and the Spanish (mor.... >> | ||
| I am a great hacker | ---' If I walk down to the corner store and throw .... >> | |
| lacking telecommutin.... | Oren's correct. If the weather is good enough to b.... >> | |
| Making Linux a playe.... | Rockefeller more or less arranged a cartel, and yo.... >> | |
| The whole point of Windows ruling the roost becaus.... >> | ||
| How do you know when.... | In Spain some years back I remarked to a Civil Gua.... >> | |
| How can a progammer .... | Dear Aussie Chick, Yo.... >> | |
| Lookout was bought t.... | The whole point is that Outlook didn't have it and.... >> | |
| 02 Aug 2004 | Lost Windows 2000 Pr.... | The reselling of full retail versions is perfectly.... >> |
| IS PRIVATIZATION ans.... | Dear young learner, .... >> | |
| 01 Aug 2004 | How can a progammer .... | Sell your body. It's no different from what you ar.... >> |
| The Village (no spoi.... | Who the hell is this guy? Pop Cultiure is post .... >> | |
| IS PRIVATIZATION ans.... | -----' also, i think that Russia isn't really doin.... >> | |
| 31 Jul 2004 | No country has 3/4 of its population starving to d.... >> | |
| -----'India has a history of fairly good times und.... >> | ||
| Odd Codes of Conduct | Strange, though the States is strange. If you're .... >> | |
| Deep Cynicism | ---' It is quite easy to get married when you got .... >> | |
| Word Sucks | ----'You know what, I agree 100%, and so does Micr.... >> | |
| Your Productivity | So we should move all the American banks from New .... >> | |
| Dear muppet, You're not just .... >> | ||
| How far can an MCSE .... | Take the course. SQL server was, and I think still.... >> | |
| $75K-$100K/year to M.... | You could consider taking up a trade. As has been .... >> | |
| 29 Jul 2004 | The burst is about t.... | There may be a conflagration over water but it's m.... >> |
| How Google has ruine.... | Speculation has been going on for hundreds of year.... >> | |
| 28 Jul 2004 | SPAM | Spambayes >> |
| Publishing a book: U.... | Are you under 30? Do you have good teeth - better .... >> | |
| Running a Win2K PC i.... | I hadn't thought about alt + tab. I do remember h.... >> | |
| Getting Excel to wor.... | Copy all the data and paste it into another workbo.... >> | |
| My users have threat.... | A few years back somebody had a mainly unjustified.... >> | |
| Open Source = no rig.... | I am an English teacher. I don't want to work in a.... >> | |
| 27 Jul 2004 | $75K-$100K/year to M.... | Just don't tell them about the other jobs. Read.... >> |
| Open Source = no rig.... | Albert, didn't it say in the jargon file that trol.... >> | |
| Why seek compliance .... | Ged's argument has a fatal weakness. It implies th.... >> | |
| 26 Jul 2004 | Holiday Training | If you want to learn, as opposed to having a cool .... >> |
| Microsoft, spend you.... | I find ''Dvorak either spot-on or very wrong. H.... >> | |
| Can 2 diff Windows O.... | What is the reason for running Win98? >> | |
| Nasty virus/worm on .... | ---'An admin puts a default unpatched install on t.... >> | |
| 25 Jul 2004 | Inquirer/Register:Wh.... | There is a long British tradition in this respect..... >> |
| Daylight Saving Time | Singapore doesn't have DST because it's a tropical.... >> | |
| Lookout owner speaks.... | Philo knows of course that there is a big differen.... >> | |
| Challenge:Being cont.... | Looks to me like there's somebody at the company w.... >> | |
| MCSD revisited | ----'One job I had, when I first talked to them, t.... >> | |
| My resume any way to.... | Would you really want to work for a software compa.... >> | |
| 21 Jul 2004 | Why Microsoft wants .... | Thanks for telling me. Now all I have to do is giv.... >> |
| Why Microsoft Wins | Normally you install everything from the distro, a.... >> | |
| Technology in a Busi.... | Deborah Riordain wrote that often when she was cal.... >> | |
| Same thing happens in robotics. A company would.... >> | ||
| rant: HP iPAQ compar.... | iPAQ's are a nicer design. Whether it is worth pay.... >> | |
| OT: unbiased coverag.... | Maybe the other authors are different from the edi.... >> | |
| The Intellectual Activist seems a strange combinat.... >> | ||
| My advice is to ignore every American paper, and j.... >> | ||
| Lowest Common Denomi.... | It's not always the same. A lot depends on what th.... >> | |
| Hanlon's Razor | The guy was called Hanlon. He wrote it in answer t.... >> | |
| How big is this boar.... | ----'That was in the old Ask Joel forum, before it.... >> | |
| 20 Jul 2004 | Handwritten Document.... | -----'When you do write, cursive is a lot faster t.... >> |
| Free program to wash.... | Get one of the commercial versions. Google for .... >> | |
| I don't save email f.... | I hire people for our college. I have corresponden.... >> | |
| Excel -- wrong tool .... | Excel is the wrong tool to store data in. I los.... >> | |
| Offshore economics | Scheduled castes are registered. When the Briti.... >> | |
| 19 Jul 2004 | OS reliability studi.... | What is failure of an operating system? You'll .... >> |
| Excel -- wrong tool .... | Store data in Access Analyze it in Excel. >> | |
| Education System: Ev.... | A national education system is just too big an ins.... >> | |
| Any education system whose products feel it is a w.... >> | ||
| McCabe Complexity An.... | If you want to test specific code from specific pr.... >> | |
| Thoughts - yea, you should have had some before yo.... >> | ||
| software vs program | Software is an uncountable noun - you can't have '.... >> | |
| why not downloadable.... | HTML is designed for viewing on a screen and is va.... >> | |
| Adobe is only slow if you don't disable all the pl.... >> | ||
| Presumably this is done to make it difficult for y.... >> | ||
| Some ISVs just don't.... | Smart Draw is actually a lot easier to use than Vi.... >> | |
| Actually you did well not to download the trial ve.... >> | ||
| Does term "Troll" co.... | Fairly appropriate comments for a thread on trolls.... >> | |
| -----'Yeah, I agree with John, the word in English.... >> | ||
| which that? that whi.... | much is for uncountables, many for countables. .... >> | |
| Even if it were a contraction of not one it would .... >> | ||
| The semi-colon only between whole clauses rule was.... >> | ||
| ---'I find it annoying when supposed native speake.... >> | ||
| These aren't rules of thumb for foreign learners o.... >> | ||
| ---'Only meaningful sentence that I know of, which.... >> | ||
| One, let's punctuate it right. You can't begin a .... >> | ||
| Here's a link to Fowler, 'The King's English' (190.... >> | ||
| Incidentally the Word 2002 Grammar checker seems t.... >> | ||
| As I said, saying 'which' can only be used in non-.... >> | ||
| One Page Resume's Wo.... | ----'Correct. Either my experience fits or it does.... >> | |
| Offshore economics | The other thing of course is that there weren't th.... >> | |
| ----'where was the modern free democracy launched?.... >> | ||
| Dennis and dot clearly show the superiority of the.... >> | ||
| Worst Use of Technol.... | I think Clay must be right. The worst part is whe.... >> | |
| Monetizing no-servic.... | This is a question of inhouse v off the shelf, not.... >> | |
| PDA recommendations | Use voice recognition. Either a Windows PC or a Ma.... >> | |
| More IQ-ism | ----' The study, conducted on laboratory mice, fou.... >> | |
| 18 Jul 2004 | which that? that whi.... | It's a British/American difference. For non-def.... >> |
| One Page Resume's Wo.... | Get a page of letter, allow 1.5 line spacing, colu.... >> | |
| I've said it before and I'll say it again - the tr.... >> | ||
| Offshore economics | The problem in India is that a large proportion of.... >> | |
| ----'In other words, you have this developing 3rd .... >> | ||
| Worst Use of Technol.... | A paper trail is absolutely necessary. Sure it can.... >> | |
| Gates gives 100$ Mil.... | OECD is about as respectable and impartial as you .... >> | |
| Why can't windows ju.... | Murphy's Law being what it is, I haven't had the s.... >> | |
| 17 Jul 2004 | Last Straw | She's said who is responsible; it's her manager. T.... >> |
| Is the one-page resu.... | One page resumes normally look awful, with atrocio.... >> | |
| Notebook has crashed.... | You're notebook probably won't take a diskette. Mo.... >> | |
| Gates gives 100$ Mil.... | US AID spending is clearly stated in the budget. T.... >> | |
| -----'Get hard numbers next time or stop doing dam.... >> | ||
| 16 Jul 2004 | Notebook has crashed.... | My advice is to reformat the hard disk and then in.... >> |
| Taxes in Taiwan | If he's earning less than $76,000 a year, and he's.... >> | |
| Gates gives 100$ Mil.... | _--' According to the CDC, over 50% of the new cas.... >> | |
| ----'Stephen, do you have any actual hard data to .... >> | ||
| ---'This would be catastrophic for countries like .... >> | ||
| http://www.pipa.org/OnlineReports/BFW/finding1.htm.... >> | ||
| A google search for US Foreign Aid should help. I'.... >> | ||
| The figure for "reconstructing" Iraq was round abo.... >> | ||
| Better Windows Explo.... | When you cut the files aren't gone. If they were y.... >> | |
| Why so much irony ab.... | The idea of having a picture of a room and clickin.... >> | |
| IQ-ism | -----'That's nearly as bad as the 'Multiple Intell.... >> | |
| 15 Jul 2004 | Do software franchis.... | This is exactly how MS sell their full retail pric.... >> |
| Gates gives 100$ Mil.... | ---' I often wonder if anyone truly realizes how m.... >> | |
| Better Windows Explo.... | I can't understand how anybody, apart from a sysad.... >> | |
| Refunds | First thing to do is to find out why it doesn't wo.... >> | |
| What do we teach our.... | I don't think the problem is what you think it is .... >> | |
| Simple Ged; either the rule says you can't hold th.... >> | ||
| Impedance Mismatch S.... | Why do you say that Li Fan? I still get most of th.... >> | |
| IQ-ism | No, I'm not making things up. It was long consider.... >> | |
| Higher IQ's don't correlate with higher salaries W.... >> | ||
| May I strongly recommend Stephen Jay Gould's "The&.... >> | ||
| Troubleshooting Win9.... | This is probably just Win 98 behaving naturally (p.... >> | |
| Why can't windows ju.... | Thanks. They weren't enabled by default in Task Ma.... >> | |
| Somethng is hogging the GDI resources. Might be Ou.... >> | ||
| The video drivers were put in ring zero because NT.... >> | ||
| What does "YES" mean.... | Err, Dennis, 'overseas' to you means non-US. So.... >> | |
| -----' Also remember that in most third-world coun.... >> | ||
| I got those humpday .... | System Restore comes with XP. But things like t.... >> | |
| How did these HR Dro.... | HR doesn't normally have the power to fix work hou.... >> | |
| The End of Shrink-Wr.... | It's Excel more than Access that has the real mons.... >> | |
| Mozilla Flaw Runs Ar.... | ---' My biggest fear in MS’s new world of security.... >> | |
| The Coffee Test | I remember an Irish friends father who accepted al.... >> | |
| Old farts lack respe.... | I'll look up the site. I'm on holiday using the la.... >> | |
| ------'I bought into the 'it's a young discipline,.... >> | ||
| Legitimate emails ge.... | I honestly think you will get a message if the rec.... >> | |
| 13 Jul 2004 | Have you tried Googl.... | Yep, it's Windows centric since wingdings is a Win.... >> |
| Yep the 4 is to get the tick in webdings. I re.... >> | ||
| I use Netscape and it shows up as an arrow. >> | ||
| Where's the 4Reply that so annoys Simon; I can't s.... >> | ||
| Legitimate emails ge.... | If your email is not delivered you will normally g.... >> | |
| Making Design look l.... | Hungarian is what Simonyi is best known for (and I.... >> | |
| Emailing a word docu.... | Save the document, open the folder it is in, and t.... >> | |
| Steve Ballmer's lett.... | ----'we released new versions of just about every .... >> | |
| 11 Jul 2004 | When does a "bug" be.... | If it can open IE that is security issue :) >> |
| Steve Ballmer's lett.... | Dear Dennis, Are you sure you c.... >> | |
| Corel Draw is the best overall graphics suite arou.... >> | ||
| I presume Dennis is attacking the 'first mover' my.... >> | ||
| 10 Jul 2004 | Word Perfect for Linux came out years ago. Scarcel.... >> | |
| Can we use GIFs yet? | Aren't .gifs better than .jpgs for vector graphics.... >> | |
| Perl, IE and invalid.... | The idea of 'good' HTML keeps changing. Don't you .... >> | |
| Run, Run as fast as .... | Is "intrapreneurship" a spelling mistake or a neol.... >> | |
| How to spot a SW dev.... | -----'Isn't Stephen Jones the guy who gets so irke.... >> | |
| 09 Jul 2004 | ----'TONT TANSTAAFL '------ Are they items on .... >> | |
| Taiwan hardware, com.... | Do they have more keys? Or is it like Arabic wher.... >> | |
| floppy drive | Still loads of utilities that ask for a floppy. .... >> | |
| English Code | Chris, we are not talking about a language that re.... >> | |
| 08 Jul 2004 | JOS UI issue | You're probably going to have to resubscribe. T.... >> |
| Taiwan hardware, com.... | Taiwan is where the laptops are made, but as you w.... >> | |
| Got the excuse to or.... | Hal means hardware abstraction layer. It's pretty .... >> | |
| Reading glasses | Get the eyes tested. It all depends what countr.... >> | |
| 07 Jul 2004 | Because the total number sounds impressive and giv.... >> | |
| Exit Interviews | Simple; if you hate the place, lie and tell them h.... >> | |
| Crazy ass question | Could simply be the hardware. What kind of app is .... >> | |
| If your programmers wrote everything in Assembler .... >> | ||
| Good books on DB Des.... | There's an O'Reilly book on MS Access that is quit.... >> | |
| Name that mouse butt.... | As he said, set it as Middle Button. It should the.... >> | |
| Help for Newbie Tryi.... | You shouldn't have made the change to workgroup. J.... >> | |
| What % of users have.... | There are two kinds of computers not connected to .... >> | |
| Hungerian standard+J.... | --'I gave up all hope of ever using Hungarian nota.... >> | |
| How does the RIAA id.... | ----'over 80% of active artists recieve some sort .... >> | |
| 06 Jul 2004 | Name that mouse butt.... | Dear Snotnose, Edit prefe.... >> |
| 05 Jul 2004 | How does the RIAA id.... | What the RIAA does is order the ISP to release the.... >> |
| 04 Jul 2004 | How does credit rati.... | My favourate story was that of 'The Guardian' corr.... >> |
| 03 Jul 2004 | Reward yourself for .... | -----'I'd buy a nice new villa on the beach in Dub.... >> |
| Computer technicians.... | ---'a strapping young computer repairman'----- .... >> | |
| 01 Jul 2004 | How to install Asian.... | If the file is not on the CD email me and I will s.... >> |
| 30 Jun 2004 | Technical book publi.... | Sams may be crap for some programming stuff but f.... >> |
| Microsoft office ran.... | Ged is right about people copying an old document .... >> | |
| 28 Jun 2004 | Remember some fonts take up less space than others.... >> | |
| Dear Snotnose, The secret.... >> | ||
| Windows Update Rant | Once the vuruses/trojans are inside your net.... >> | |
| Opinions/knowledge a.... | Neil is right. You are probably not a morning pers.... >> | |
| $20 doesn't buy jack.... | Dear . You are confusing the total amou.... >> | |
| Dear Cris, I have this theory tha.... >> | ||
| The fall in the price of the dollar compared to th.... >> | ||
| Christopher's point about schoolteaching is spot o.... >> | ||
| Pranks on people's c.... | We had to replace 46 mouse ballls out of 90 last J.... >> | |
| 26 Jun 2004 | The Sales Volume Myt.... | Consumers don't pay $500 for software, not even fo.... >> |
| Open Source accounta.... | ------' We gve out discounted or free medicine (fo.... >> | |
| 25 Jun 2004 | To all those who ber.... | OEM XP Pro ships for around $150, and obviously th.... >> |
| 24 Jun 2004 | Confidentiality/Non .... | I'd say get a lawyer to look over the confidential.... >> |
| GMail Marketing Blun.... | Both my Saudi and my Sri Lankan email account allo.... >> | |
| Lookup tables vs. ex.... | Sgt Sausage appears to be suffering under a delusi.... >> | |
| More API wars (sorry.... | The real problem is that VB6 is still used in Offi.... >> | |
| "Sharepoint... Share.... | It was two years ago, so I'm not over bothered. I .... >> | |
| I'm in Saudi Arabia. Jubail to be precise. MS inco.... >> | ||
| Linux distribution | It's not Windows that's the problem (except the ha.... >> | |
| 23 Jun 2004 | Lookup tables vs. ex.... | You method is the only one that will produce norma.... >> |
| I would have thought that it would be better to ha.... >> | ||
| Centrino 2.0Ghz(Doth.... | Are you going to travel with it. If so, get the Ce.... >> | |
| "Sharepoint... Share.... | Dear Unfocused, My object.... >> | |
| I don't think people are complaining that Sharepoi.... >> | ||
| -----'Um, cite please re: companies that 'don't wa.... >> | ||
| Code Comlete 2nd Edi.... | Nice to see that there has not been a single on to.... >> | |
| How much RAM for XP? | Get a bigger HD and buy an external USB case for a.... >> | |
| Linux distribution | ----'the installation was almost MS-like in ease. .... >> | |
| Why does Windows slo.... | It just gets larger and larger as you install and .... >> | |
| 22 Jun 2004 | Linux distribution | Mandrake is probably the easiest to install. >> |
| Working in Canada? | There are two models of health care system; the fr.... >> | |
| Why are Smart Phones.... | The main problem at the moment is that phone/PDA d.... >> | |
| Why does Windows slo.... | I have a four year old installation of W2K on my d.... >> | |
| A few idiotic Window.... | If there are never going to be more than four mach.... >> | |
| 15 Jun 2004 | OT: are some web hos.... | I even got a virus from myself yesterday. My Sr.... >> |
| 14 Jun 2004 | Ethics of running an.... | Any reason why Joel can't be a lurker on his own f.... >> |
| Good reading while J.... | ----'whilst swearing isn't big or clever you must .... >> | |
| China, the next Sovi.... | About half a million were killed in a couple of we.... >> | |
| Ph. D. Material | The study of burnout and overtime might seem clear.... >> | |
| ----'WOW. What a new an insightful idea. So cutt.... >> | ||
| 13 Jun 2004 | Why leave vowels out.... | Actually they're not abbreviating variables; they;.... >> |
| 12 Jun 2004 | Where are all the ne.... | The fact that you get a letter back saying that th.... >> |
| Excel automation wit.... | Why's it unacceptable to have OK as the default? .... >> | |
| 11 Jun 2004 | LCD Displays Ruin Co.... | --' Is the company a recognized leader? Do they h.... >> |
| The safe color palate is 216 colors, not 256 color.... >> | ||
| Just as a matter of interest what are LG Flatrons .... >> | ||
| Questioning the mast.... | you've missed out what is probably the best of the.... >> | |
| My custom JOS Reader.... | Er, what's wrong with reading the main page to see.... >> | |
| GMail - when ? | My Yahoo mail was unavailable for at least a week .... >> | |
| Water cooler | If you see what the patent is you can see why car .... >> | |
| -----' It's the same reason that so many people ge.... >> | ||
| Oh No, Not New York .... | ----' The statue of liberty (ironically, a gift fr.... >> | |
| 10 Jun 2004 | Oh yes, the public s.... | There are other tricks. I've had to write specs fo.... >> |
| Can MSFT still disco.... | Microsoft will try and find another way of accompl.... >> | |
| Microsoft helping in.... | ---'Hey now - AIDSAntiserum.Net is going to be gre.... >> | |
| Joining the French F.... | "peaceamaking missions" is rather a euphemism for .... >> | |
| ----' 'The first week I was afraid I woud die. The.... >> | ||
| IT Salaries in Europ.... | Dear Politico, In economics .... >> | |
| ---'Well firstly, an employer's contributions does.... >> | ||
| ---' If the greedy taxman (of |
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| caught someone in of.... | ---'Have you people ever gone to Sunday School or .... >> | |
| The thing I hate mos.... | There are or were, some countries where you could .... >> | |
| 09 Jun 2004 | Monumental Incompete.... | The client's invovlement doesn't end with the requ.... >> |
| 08 Jun 2004 | ------'and clients might actually have to make a d.... >> | |
| Getting hit by a bus | Gaudí was run over by a tram. But they still on th.... >> | |
| How to rearrange Win.... | To get things back to the default you go to they r.... >> | |
| 07 Jun 2004 | Find is the default action for a file folder. O.... >> | |
| Catching undercover .... | Dear Simon If you'd read the book you would hav.... >> | |
| ---'where they had analyzed the words, grammar, an.... >> | ||
| People did use to impersonate Joel, which is why h.... >> | ||
| Alternative to forma.... | My home desktop has run W2K for four years without.... >> | |
| Is the tide now goin.... | Much too long a post Alber to reply to in its enti.... >> | |
| Another evening wast.... | Caffeinated - read the link given above. It explai.... >> | |
| End users' computers.... | Dear Freelance guy I often get exasperated, par.... >> | |
| Software development.... | I'd still suggest you gp for India - for a few mon.... >> | |
| 06 Jun 2004 | End users' computers.... | --'I now know why corporate tech support people ar.... >> |
| Virus / Trojan Weird.... | What you often get are hyperliinks that in fact ar.... >> | |
| The thing I hate mos.... | ---'They do this because they now that XP is very .... >> | |
| 05 Jun 2004 | Piracy can be good? | Software piracy is a disaster for the smaller soft.... >> |
| 640K Should be Enoug.... | Dear Philo, If Microsoft built a .... >> | |
| Depends what you mean by 'create'? If you are t.... >> | ||
| No Philo, they just consider people who say and do.... >> | ||
| Lazy man seeks simpl.... | I like 'Developing User Interfaces for Microsoft W.... >> | |
| 04 Jun 2004 | Have you heard of th.... | ---'thoughts about trying to learn from your posts.... >> |
| It's a direct marketing group. As well as being pa.... >> | ||
| The thing I hate mos.... | The reason for this 'three click' problem is so th.... >> | |
| Microsoft Granted Pa.... | The reason for applying it to handhelds is to avoi.... >> | |
| IT is a great indust.... | ---'I wonder if other lines of professional work h.... >> | |
| Real or Hoax? You be.... | No, it's real enough. She even got a grant from th.... >> | |
| Windows XP SP2 And P.... | With Office 2000 SR1 you had to contact Microsoft .... >> | |
| Actually, unless you've got some new information .... >> | ||
| Forbes:Google's Mail.... | --'but it only is actually 33Gb.'--- 33GB - ped.... >> | |
| Run screaming into t.... | If you're really that cheapskate AVG is free. A.... >> | |
| ---'No virus.'---- If you don't have an AV how .... >> | ||
| ----'No need for an AV. Windows Update, XP firewal.... >> | ||
| Social Engineering t.... | As far as I can tell a digital SLR is about three .... >> | |
| If you were Microsof.... | ---'As a consequence there now can be parasites th.... >> | |
| what an article! | The normal cause of crashes in NT tends to be the .... >> | |
| 03 Jun 2004 | Dear saberworks, The .... >> | |
| Disk shredder / hard.... | If you're anywhere near a university just ask them.... >> | |
| sounding off: Linux .... | We have been unable to either send or receive emai.... >> | |
| Need something cheap.... | Dear Peter, I realized my comme.... >> | |
| Dear Peter, I'm sure your write.... >> | ||
| Windows based Email .... | Perhaps Philo you could ask the OUtlook team why M.... >> | |
| The demise of the MD.... | Albert, modAl not modEl. >> | |
| 02 Jun 2004 | This is ludicrous | Why is this any more incredible or ludicruous than.... >> |
| Simple task but on a.... | The average number of letters in a word in a norma.... >> | |
| Daughter needs a lap.... | Yea, Dell charge a massive premium for memory upgr.... >> | |
| ---' The things that make Alienware unique (...) t.... >> | ||
| It looks like the college is getting backhanders f.... >> | ||
| More on mail service.... | Encrypt the .pst file and password protect the pen.... >> | |
| If you're using Outlook, then you can simply keep .... >> | ||
| The demise of the MD.... | I often have two or three Word document open at th.... >> | |
| 01 Jun 2004 | Self Defence | ---'Drank the nastiest beer, figuring nobody would.... >> |
| To Dubai or not to D.... | Petit con! >> | |
| Ta gueule! >> | ||
| 31 May 2004 | Good email services | The problem with using yahoo for POP3 is that you .... >> |
| Doesn't yout ISP give you a POP3 account? If you c.... >> | ||
| Effects of "Anti-GMa.... | I wasn't referring to Gmail in particular. Philo b.... >> | |
| I can't see why you're so het up over this particu.... >> | ||
| Philo's lackadaisical attitude towards who reads h.... >> | ||
| Are you a less produ.... | --'Increasingly I find the conversation of those u.... >> | |
| To Dubai or not to D.... | Actually they found one tunnel this time. Of co.... >> | |
| Almost 100% of Arabs are against American foreign .... >> | ||
| 30 May 2004 | Those living in bunkers refers to the diplomats. M.... >> | |
| I don't know about the 'straight dope' form the St.... >> | ||
| In ten years time it's hard to say. Abu Dhabi has .... >> | ||
| You might not have been making it up Brad, but I a.... >> | ||
| Incidentally, I don't know what is the predominant.... >> | ||
| ---' Would you be safer in the UAE than the USA? D.... >> | ||
| I like Dubai and it's getting better all the time .... >> | ||
| 29 May 2004 | Microsoft, Oracle bu.... | I'm told they're recruiting the gardeners and wait.... >> |
| Win2k forever | I find Win2K more stable than XP Pro, but the time.... >> | |
| 28 May 2004 | When flexible become.... | I don't think it's a question of flexibility, but .... >> |
| Critical Group Size | Dear Justme, I like the cellp.... |