last updated:04 Sep 2004 18:01 UK time JOS Statistics - Individual Statistics for 'Stephen Jones' Page updated : 04 Sep 2004 Chart Position: 1 2 3 Name: no name    Stephen Jones    www.marktaw.com Number of Comments: 3,405 Number of Words: 356,820 First Comment: 24 Sep 2002 Latest Comment: 03 Sep 2004 Number of Topics Posted: 7 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   Google   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 >>      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....   >>      Getting the UI right   The book to read is 'The Inmates are running the a....   >>      Not Quite New York C....   Actualy, it's too make his readers feel at home. A....   >>         No, that's where he's outsourced his oompany to. H....   >>      How to center text i....   I went to install Photodraw and Publisher on a col....   >>         Time to upgrade maybe. Actually when Office do ....   >>         That setting doesn't appear to be present in Word ....   >>      Silly managers   There's only one way senior management is ever go....   >>      People who thinks th....   The attitude is present everywhere. How about w....   >>      Offshoring: Real or ....   Dennis, you might not have been making pickles bef....   >>      Drive letter issues ....   Sorry $sysdir$ not $system$   >>         Don't the path variables such as $temp$ or $windir....   >>      Paul Graham's "Why N....   On a related tack, the Catalan writer Josep Plà, i....   >>   27 May 2004   Company I work on wo....   As far as CDs go, fact, not creative argumentation....   >>         Conversations with my bosses about data security s....   >>      How to center text i....   Have the textbox with no borders. Put the borders ....   >>      Offshoring: Real or ....   Dear Worried William The situation in Dubai is ....   >>         -------' but I can see its hitting the U.S. and U.....   >>      A Reg Hack to Make w....   Dear Chris, for explorer you could always have tre....   >>      Screw math...   The point about pure research is you never know wh....   >>   25 May 2004      ---'Hear, hear...bring back base 12 for currency w....   >>      new text entry metho....   Too many keys. Just a standard telephone keypad th....   >>         Plenty of people have raved about Fitaly in previo....   >>      Paul Graham's "Why N....   I think much of what he says is more common in the....   >>      Dealing with Efficie....   When I got my first job the time and motion guys h....   >>      Engineering failures....   At $200 million total price the next Word processo....   >>   24 May 2004   A+ Certification: co....   If you've been wokring in the field then you will ....   >>      my gripes with Offic....   To minimize the problems of Word slwoing down ever....   >>      Tom Friedman: Global....   If you look at what happened after Sharon's visit ....   >>      Lots of free time, p....   I don't think the article that clear either, even ....   >>   23 May 2004   my gripes with Offic....   Dear David, Word only moves pic....   >>         Dear David, The German layout i....   >>      IEEE: Japanese best,....   Dear Blank, What makes you think ....   >>      Tom Friedman: Global....   Actually the Zionist return happened well before t....   >>   22 May 2004   French Words/express....   of course, anybody who says using French words is ....   >>         ----' n'est-ce pas, je ne sais quoi, or non becaus....   >>         ----'I also tend to use bete noire, fin de cicle, ....   >>      Magazines on line, g....   Dear Albert, Reading online usi....   >>      My tech crystall bal....   Dear Philo, Living in the Beltway....   >>      Future of desktop de....   ---'Hey Philo, Regarding your network availabil....   >>      my gripes with Offic....   Dear David, It's hard to know w....   >>         ---' PS: Regardings your point that you can just '....   >>         Dear David, If you read your li....   >>         Chris, I presumed Unicodee wouldn't be ....   >>      Tom Friedman: Global....   No set of people is going to be popular if they go....   >>   21 May 2004   unindented HTML   ---'And who reads HTML anyways? '---- Err, peop....   >>      My tech crystall bal....   Woops! Mechanical energy - not kinetic. Past my....   >>         No anonymous, I didn't say a generator I said an e....   >>         I don't think the cost-effectiveness of the PC ove....   >>      Future of desktop de....   Keeping data on the server is reasonable, but keep....   >>      my gripes with Offic....   ---'There are also benefits in the business enviro....   >>         Dear David, Plain text in what ....   >>         I'm afraid David that your born-again geek atitude....   >>         The reason that Word really sucks for writing thes....   >>         David is quite right to gripe. As Ged has said, th....   >>         Dear Matthew, You can't get....   >>      How long is too long....   My experience is that your marginal productivity s....   >>      FUD: it's not just f....   There was a follow-up by Tannanbaum posted today. ....   >>      Locking XP desktop   I know. Back in the Win 98 days you ofte found if ....   >>         So you''ve saved one keystroke, whenever you use a....   >>         Dear Clay, Yep, the k is underlin....   >>         'k' for OK. Only just realized. I was thinking it ....   >>         Does Win + L lead to fast user switching? Explains....   >>      Requesting Delivery/....   Dear Dennis, In a corporate en....   >>      IEEE: Japanese best,....   Who says we're always ganging up on Americans? ....   >>      Press F1 to continue   Yea, you're right. I do know about beep codes. I....   >>         Dear TOYL, Yours won't work eit....   >>      "not alot of people ....   I was typing .log You must type .LOG Suggests ....   >>         Doesn't appear to work in win2K   >>      Tom Friedman: Global....   And perhaps it would be time to try and get this o....   >>         I really fail to see how the Israelis have shown r....   >>         Dear Name witheld, ....   >>   20 May 2004   Locking XP desktop   You  can get the screen saver to start one mi....   >>      Requesting Delivery/....   There is no standard. On the internal LAN it is d....   >>      MS Office - Document....   So each time you do a new order or whatever you fi....   >>         Keep all the files separate but have another Word ....   >>         Incidentally there is nothing to stop you keeping ....   >>         With Word your boss is 100% right. Each document y....   >>      Tom Friedman: Global....   Name witheld, Interesting t....   >>         When the Saudi government proposed two years ago t....   >>         Sorry, not WMF (whatever thiat is ). I meant WB (W....   >>         Karthik was referring to direct foreign aid. The f....   >>         ---' A survey on the 'compassion' of countries act....   >>         ---'It's good to find a geek/techie who has actual....   >>         Providing an elite education is something the gove....   >>      Google IPO   Dear Albert, That one was too l....   >>         ---' The only exception seems to be Excel, which i....   >>      Lots of free time, p....   Two a day is seven hundrd and fifity a year. In Vi....   >>         ---' Lee has a chance to do some good in a bad pla....   >>         ----'After all, I would prefer by far that all US ....   >>         --'Hey its not my fault France is part of the Euro....   >>         Dear Clay, The problem in Iraq is....   >>         Dear Yo, Very funny. So original.....   >>         'Microsoft is in league with the devil. I think th....   >>         Here's the original quote Christopher. --'Despi....   >>         Dear Bah, I never said I wanted res....   >>         Dear KC, Here's a direct quote from....   >>         -----'I hope more Americans can die so I can be ri....   >>         -----'And Stephen falls oddly silent...'----- Y....   >>   19 May 2004   Why so few computer ....   Couldn't the fact that American's don't use public....   >>         The reason is mail order. The second tier of suppl....   >>      Lots of free time, p....   ---'The only flamewar I thought would errupt would....   >>         Sorry KC, but it's your soldiers who are killing t....   >>         Dear Mark, So if the Iraquis inva....   >>         What I meant by having no job Lee, was that the co....   >>         Dear Dennis, Despite my great p....   >>         A country to go to. As for the employer I didn't t....   >>         Dear Lee, You're going to Iraq 'in ....   >>      Why Byte (the paper ....   Also in the UK magazines survive by attracting adv....   >>      The Apprentice - UK   Sinclair and Amstrad were completely different. ....   >>      Tabbing shell add on....   You can tile horizontally or vertically. The probl....   >>      Google & Microso....   Users have been using Yahoo since it was the best ....   >>      Legit! ...and softwa....   You can't photocopy a whole book. It's been illega....   >>   18 May 2004   And so it begins   If these guys were salesmen giving a pitch I could....   >>      Why disable right-cl....   I come across it on bank sites. I presume the reas....   >>      Quikview.exe on Win2....   I loved quick view. It had two big advantages. Fir....   >>      Tired of getting rip....   Dear Philo, The EU has VAT, diiff....   >>      Question about India....   Dear Tayssir, Forget about th....   >>      Leaked personal data....   The wioman in the Macdonald's case was seriously b....   >>      Indian economy   The 'papers' are the BBC and other non-tabloid, no....   >>         Dear Dennis, As Simon says no....   >>   17 May 2004   Where is Ask Joel?   Joek stated he wasn't answering any more and then ....   >>      Indian economy   As far as I can tell the dip is caused by foreign ....   >>      Physically separate ....   It would be ironic if we returned to the sneaker n....   >>      Why 30 days?   I installed Win 2k beta 2 back in early 1999, as a....   >>      Media coverage of in....   Your wrong about the distinction between a virus a....   >>      Massive Windows Pain....   Yea, but in this case it is either all the manufac....   >>   15 May 2004   What another awsome ....   Don't blame Philo. Blame America. It's all their....   >>      What to download?   ----'No thank you! I'd rather stick to having sex ....   >>      Directory write prot....   Yea, thanks for pointing that out. Brad. I don't t....   >>         Can I make clear one delusion some people seeim to....   >>      Norrick Throws In th....   ---'Failure is a word that doesn't exist in my voc....   >>      Monitor on it's side   ---'though I don't know if you can tile windows wi....   >>      Why bonuses are NOT ....   Sometimes the vendor makes nothing on the product....   >>         Dear Eric, You want to read some ....   >>      Americans rejoice. I....   Quite correct, but it is very common to here talk ....   >>   14 May 2004   Inadvertent Marketin....   google actually looks for what you typed, and retu....   >>      Why 30 days?   I should have said, 'you don't always make a consc....   >>         Agreed. However if you shorten the trial period....   >>         30 days is if anything too short. Your analogy ....   >>      Why bonuses are NOT ....   I know it because we teach it in our prep year Eng....   >>         I presume that what the other poster referred to a....   >>      Empower requiring mo....   No. they hire you for Longhorn   >>      Testing sites with M....   If you are just testing web pages then any HTML ed....   >>      offer for software c....   To Nitin Chauhan esq, Respected Sir, ....   >>      More Win XP Pro Blue....   It is known for software installed as Administrato....   >>         I think the guy has made a mistiale. There is no s....   >>      Media coverage of in....   The reason people succumb to social engineering is....   >>      MS Office Moving Bac....   I don't think it's bulleted lists within tables, I....   >>      Americans rejoice. I....   yea, you were right about the Bolero. That's the o....   >>         Thanks for the link: This is the kind of thing ....   >>         A double cab is the phrase they use in Sri Lanka f....   >>         And while we're completely off topic what are the ....   >>         Fair enough. I presume it simply took a few years ....   >>         I was referring to the collaborations. The Maru....   >>         They all were post Singh's 1991 economic reforms   >>         Promoting local manufacturing is what Nehru did in....   >>         ---' the good news is that we compare favourably a....   >>         I would think as a non-hindu that you would be fai....   >>      Massive Windows Pain....   Yep! I was going on holiday from Saudi to Sri Lank....   >>         I don't think anybody took the '100% hike'. They a....   >>         ' as long as it meets MICROSOFT'S guidelines for a....   >>         What 100% price hike? What I have been saying, ....   >>         Dear Justme, Ths situation yo....   >>   13 May 2004   More Win XP Pro Blue....   An administrator is only God if he wants to be. ....   >>      Media coverage of in....   And of course, after they've set up the firewall i....   >>         If you see lots of red canisters on the wall by th....   >>      MS Office Moving Bac....   OK Philo, you've asked for it. A rant on the vagar....   >>         There's another thread lower down on the vagaries ....   >>         Actually, I don't know anybody who used the "What ....   >>      RIP Ask Joel   I'm afraid if you type in the URL or click on the ....   >>      Deja vu   looking at the copyright date isn't it just as lik....   >>      "Not broke? Don't fi....   Buckle up before you crash is a bad analogy. It is....   >>         A lot of times you're not even running the service....   >>      Americans rejoice. I....   I'm not at all sure that you would get a fundament....   >>         ---'Um, sorry bub, but Germans are among the least....   >>         By the Islamic people do you mean sub-continentals....   >>         ---' speaking for myself I _do_ assume that Saudia....   >>         It is true that when the British invaded and occup....   >>         Perceptions run deep. Many years ago in Spain one ....   >>         Ok, I'll take the call. It was loose phrasing and....   >>         Actually Bawls I've bothered to count, and there a....   >>         Dear Bawls, I didn't say 'all A....   >>         Appears to be true of the Americans who have poste....   >>         Dear Whatever, Have a loo....   >>         Ah, dear whatever has now dug out his 'seething ha....   >>         Dear anon, You're not getting K....   >>         Dear Whatever, Kay Jay wa....   >>         Philo, unless you understand what KayJay is attack....   >>         Kay Jay is not decrying the culture of America in ....   >>         I think he was referring to the concept rather tha....   >>         This tendency to make sure no one party has too mu....   >>         Comnpared to the Hitler Youth by VS Naipaul, somew....   >>         ---'what policies have they enacted that leads you....   >>         ---'Hey JoS admins. Please kill this, bit only aft....   >>      A good salary in Ind....   Your shirt prices for Van Heusen are wrong Satyais....   >>      Massive Windows Pain....   Just me, You're not understanding me.....   >>         Dear Kyralessa,. It is poss....   >>         In the UK you just buy 'Computer Shopper' and 'PC ....   >>         It did leak, if it was kept particlularly secret i....   >>         Like knocking down Strawmen do you?   >>         Random Hacker, Are you us....   >>         Dear Justme, You know as we....   >>         Just me, you've been taken in. You don't get a hal....   >>         Dear Justme, 'EVery laptop ....   >>         A good conspiracy theory Elephant, but it is a Mic....   >>         What you're in denial about is the fact that Micro....   >>         Deat Just Me, The OS is no lo....   >>         Dear Just me, Can't you rea....   >>         Dear Katie, you're not getting the point. The rest....   >>      Minimum competency   ---'if (some condition) then bFlag = true else....   >>      Is it worth building....   Philo, You get the gardener to repair the....   >>         It is highly unlikely that you will be able to bui....   >>      Best Printer for Bro....   The quality of inkjet has gone up to the extent th....   >>      Outsource workers wh....   My boss refuses to tell somebody when he is going ....   >>   12 May 2004   Massive Windows Pain....   You're obtuse Brad. I don't care a monkey's toss w....   >>         He stated quite clearly that he had no problem wit....   >>         -----'I can still get a standard Windows CD instal....   >>         Clay, I would get some anti-virus quick! You do....   >>         No Philo, you don't make Norton anti-virus. You ma....   >>         No Brad. It is deliberate Microsoft policy to char....   >>      Where is the Ask Joe....   Actually he's just put up three new posts in the l....   >>         ---'I literally have not been able to post a singl....   >>      Getting Email accoun....   I was talking about moving the .pst files to anoth....   >>         What are IAF files? One thing to bear in mind w....   >>      Ericsson P900, or an....   If, as appears, you are PDA centered, look at the ....   >>      Joel, please fix thi....   If Microsoft can't fix a script error on line 4 of....   >>      Ever wrote a technic....   I would thnk Scott Mueller and Mark Minasi are pro....   >>         As far as I can tell those that regularly write te....   >>      Outsource workers wh....   Wouldn't it be more worrying if all the Indian pro....   >>   11 May 2004   Women in IT   The average man thiinks of sex every seven to thir....   >>      Outsource workers wh....   Be nice to him Bob; you never know,, he might begi....   >>      What's a CIO?   You'll often find that the post is simply given to....   >>      ERP module pricing   Whenever I see the words Information System I hang....   >>      Unexpected results i....   Actually, that is possible. If you had to send you....   >>      Coding is language!   Dear Treefrog, The idea tha....   >>      kibibytes, methodolo....   ----'Aha! But are you programming in Ada Lovelace ....   >>   10 May 2004   Boy shouts "missed a....   ----'What is to be gained by publicly announcing/e....   >>      Compatibility and Op....   I wondered what caused name withheld to go ballist....   >>         Torvalds didn't set out to write a new operating s....   >>         Dear name witheld out of cowardice, ....   >>         elegance is a chimera. the only elegant operating ....   >>      Unexpected results i....   Hoser, the LOC figure he quoted for the Linux Kern....   >>         Actually what I was thinking of was mainly that so....   >>         The problem is you don't know of other objections ....   >>         The guy appears an impressive researcher.  I ....   >>         Do we have any link to the actual paper. The Power....   >>      Coding is language!   no   >>         To give another analogy, some people appear to thi....   >>         ---' And if I depress switches on this keyboard at....   >>         ---'In my experience, people with an aptitude in o....   >>         ---' Mathematics, Languages, Music, et al. are com....   >>         What is meaningless is all this talking about mean....   >>         ---'Coding, like 'human' languages (English etc.),....   >>         ---'Computer languages and human languages are the....   >>         If you think that human languages and computer lan....   >>      kibibytes, methodolo....   Find out who Ada is named after.   >>         ---'Not only that, there have been computers that ....   >>         ----'parallax for measuring Estella distances. Wh....   >>      Absolute Confusion w....   Dear Chris, Varying explanations ....   >>      M=K=Thousand   As it stands at present you don't know. In fact, a....   >>         Do I detect a note of sarcasm there? It is pret....   >>         It's the first time I've ever heard of the kibibyt....   >>   09 May 2004   translation software....   Dear Mohammad, If you....   >>      Rising Oil Prices. W....   People might trade in their SUV's or even take to ....   >>         Dear Blank, A Gallup poll taken....   >>   08 May 2004   Does commissioning a....   Any company that commissioned an unbiased study wo....   >>      Rising Oil Prices. W....   Dear Blank, Nice to know that s....   >>      What should I name t....   The confusion comes about because diffrent types o....   >>      5 Yr Goals for 48 YO....   Dear 5v3n, Give them the idea y....   >>   07 May 2004   New spam method: ran....   You've explained it at the end. Somebody or someth....   >>      Rising Oil Prices. W....   The Saudi stock market reached an all-time high ye....   >>      Build/buy a quiet PC   Becasue the noise of the fan is incredibly annoyin....   >>         I never thought I would recommend buying a Compaq ....   >>      Copied Joel's font s....   Simon has summed it up. If you follow the system c....   >>      Laugh at me, but enl....   ERP applications represent the model of the large ....   >>      Look at any sites in....   Actually, there is normally a reason, and I normal....   >>         Perhaps someody can explain to me why the Saudi go....   >>      What should I name t....   The way you save is simple, If the transaction is ....   >>         Why is your database application working like Word....   >>      LLC vs. Sole Proprie....   I hope you'll publish details of the lawsuits you ....   >>      Multi-monitor laptop....   ---'Weight is a major issue (OH&S if nothing else)....   >>      Google Serach Result....   I suppose we'll have to wait a few years until the....   >>      Anyone use 'My Docum....   Dear Code Monkey, Isn....   >>      Sasser   I thought the main reason ports were open and the ....   >>   06 May 2004   Anyone use 'My Docum....   Dear Li-fan, Just go to the My ....   >>         Microsoft knows best on this as usual. The adva....   >>      Why does everyone th....   ---'Namely, that musicians don't - usually - perfo....   >>      Odd Google Observati....   The total they give appears to vary by search. You....   >>      PalmOne's priorities   Bad analogy Kyralessa. All of the components on th....   >>      U.S. Is Losing Its D....   ----' We did a dandy job at breaking out of our yo....   >>   05 May 2004   Odd Google Observati....   The common words are excluded from the search that....   >>      Why do fax machines ....   Wha tis the problem with somebody asking for a fax....   >>      Sasser   A typical company has mission critical plumbing an....   >>      PalmOne's priorities   The P900 doesn't look too bad as long as you ignor....   >>      U.S. Is Losing Its D....   Dear Whatever, Technicall....   >>         Dear Whatever, If your pr....   >>         Dear Blank, Gujarat is hardly a....   >>         Dear Dennis, You really shoul....   >>   04 May 2004   PalmOne's priorities   Those pants with loads of pockets would do the tri....   >>         The one I looked at was the Everex, and I would ha....   >>         The killer device is going to be the one that mang....   >>      U.S. Is Losing Its D....   Perhaps the immense number of innumerates like Far....   >>         As Kennedy pointed out the clear dominance of the ....   >>   03 May 2004   WIN98 crash. /2   If my memory serves me right they are normally kep....   >>   02 May 2004   My windows system ha....   Could be almost anything. If you keep AVG up-to-da....   >>      disabling ctrl-alt-d....   It's finding where fine tuning the kiosk modes ar....   >>         Thanks but not practical. I have 45 computers and ....   >>         Thanks; actually the inverted commas have to go be....   >>         I wouldn't normally ask this, but seeing that the ....   >>      Microsoft says 8 mil....   One tning that is quite common is for System Resto....   >>      JOS & whatcounts....   ----'I diddnt even have the chance to use it for a....   >>      What's the Deal with....   The galleys for the second edition was up on the n....   >>   01 May 2004   Gmail: Orwell meets ....   Dear Mu, Are you sure that Hezbolah....   >>      Do you make appointm....   I've been doing this for the last two months. The ....   >>      Why not Canada?   Not mine Mark; just what I've picked up from the A....   >>         ---'India has a culture of a corrupt upper class t....   >>      A programmer who is ....   Dear Elephant, I was under....   >>   30 Apr 2004   Dont want to dual bo....   Yu need to format the C partition first, so that y....   >>      Joel deleted thread ....   This new humble amenable Joel persona is worrying.....   >>      What's the Deal with....   I'm about a third of the way through the beta vers....   >>      The Traps of Linux......   And does he think a whole book displayed with whit....   >>      The Office - season ....   It's not the best show ever, though probably one o....   >>      more great open sour....   Dear Elephant, you are repeating the old myth that....   >>         Print and Print Preview were placed in the File me....   >>   29 Apr 2004   Do these sites look ....   Both fine in IE5.5   >>      Google - Microsoft b....   A couple of points: People don't run the Linux ....   >>   28 Apr 2004   teaching programming....   Allow a couple of years for it to be clear that yo....   >>      Double-Byte Language....   This is a pretty useful site. http://www.micros....   >>         I'm not quite with you. Doublle -byte is what U....   >>      Simple site builder   What's wrong with Front Page?   >>   27 Apr 2004   Are company blogs a ....   ---'Anyone remember the file transfer token articl....   >>   26 Apr 2004   Regarding EU Microso....   The only reason you can get big name computers wit....   >>   25 Apr 2004   Professional Courtes....   Yea, Steve, if you tnink Joel's a jerk meet the re....   >>         Dear Steve, The comment was obv....   >>   24 Apr 2004   Application Developm....   Christopher is right. As the guy doesn't tell us w....   >>      The Best Thing on Te....   ---'but every few months when somebody tells me th....   >>      Cost of living   Why is a house ful of srvants disgusting and a gia....   >>   23 Apr 2004   Perfectionism   As the two minute thread points out some bugs take....   >>      "handwritting" PDAs ....   the idea behind the Palm is that you enter the dat....   >>      Securing data transf....   The chinese are more efficient and more paranoid t....   >>      How long is two minu....   One task that takes a hell of a lot longer than tw....   >>      Uses for a really ol....   First remember the value of the basic machine. - u....   >>      Application developm....   Hey doc, I've got something wrong with me. Is ther....   >>      Cost of living   My namesake is partially right. If you get a highe....   >>      The Computer World i....   ---'They claim it represents [...] an attack on al....   >>   22 Apr 2004      The Commission examines after it receives the comp....   >>      Printed Report does ....   At a quick guess, printer driver problems.   >>      Salaries again...   I think housing prices do vary very very much by s....   >>      When you spend too m....   It is quite coimmon to have to zip a self-extracti....   >>   21 Apr 2004   Horrible HandWrittin....   Don't join up; practise on the whiteboatd. It's co....   >>      How to delete the fi....   Nobody said it would boot until you restore the bo....   >>   20 Apr 2004      partition Magic 8 has something called drive mappe....   >>   19 Apr 2004   What is this gui sty....   It's not what Greg is referring to. Zone Alarm has....   >>         Confusing?   >>      What an awesome day.....   Errr, grunt, we're talking about the Polar caps. T....   >>      The big disadvantage....   The phrase I know is, "Plus ça change, plus c'est ....   >>         Couldn't the problem be that bad VB code runs, and....   >>      Need network setup h....   Zone Alarm can do nasty things; one pitfall is if ....   >>      Safest way og instal....   Just get another Hard Drive and install Linux on t....   >>   18 Apr 2004   Piracy detection   You can use Office on two computers non-concurrent....   >>   17 Apr 2004   Is Norton Internet S....   Zone Alarm Free edition is fine. So is AVG anti-v....   >>      Windows Admin rights   If you don't have the local admin password you're ....   >>      Monitor size and dev....   Just time someone on a single 17' for an hour. Cou....   >>      Engineers taking res....   Sounds like a straightforward scam. And the ten pe....   >>      God is in the detail....   It's most commonly associated with Mies Van de Roh....   >>      Are storage patterns....   You'll jhave to be a bit clearer. I would have ....   >>      Microsoft New Hire B....   Bill would probably hire the guy to explain the bo....   >>      The joy of a good ke....   I think the MS Natural Keyboards are great, and so....   >>   16 Apr 2004   What unemployment?   Dear Real PC, The fact that t....   >>      Firewall for Windows....   Zone Alarm is just fine and is easy to configure. ....   >>      Unsubscribe   You don't need an unsubscribe if it isn't subscrib....   >>      Should programmers c....   We had one multi-million dollar disaster here a fe....   >>      Cottage Computer Pro....   The article is worth reading for this line alone: ....   >>   15 Apr 2004   Recommended servers ....   ---''Anyone but Dell' would be a good recommendati....   >>      First internet usage   End 1996 I was in Barcelona and unemployed so thou....   >>      Keeping track of pas....   ##when this came up a few months ago somebody reco....   >>      Outlook 2003 rules f....   We had a case at work where upgrading to 2003 stop....   >>      What is the perfect ....   'What is the perfect job?' Somebody else's    >>   14 Apr 2004   Showing Customer det....   In MS applications it often shows up on a splash s....   >>      Copyright Rights   Firstly, the law varies from country to country. ....   >>      Examples of Microsof....   Has nobody else thought how ridiculous it is for a....   >>      [W2KSP4] Fails going....   You'll have to go through every device driver. Whe....   >>   13 Apr 2004   Outlook 2003 rules f....   Outlook 2003 fucks up Spam Assassin. It's a well k....   >>   11 Apr 2004   Spelling and Coding   If you all coded in MS Word (with 'smart quotes' t....   >>      Tagging lookup table....   Let's take the color thing. The first question ....   >>         Why would you want to do this? The purpose of n....   >>   09 Apr 2004   Product names   The first thing you need to do is to check if it's....   >>      "Forgot Password" We....   Most sites send you the user name and password whe....   >>      Supporting A Content....   Dear Seun, Making money from a co....   >>   08 Apr 2004   Have you ever been f....   I once got fired from four jobs in  a week.   >>         Surely if you've not been fired and are not disgru....   >>      Is Access2000 suitab....   What I can't udnerstand is this statement... --....   >>      Washtec proposed ad ....   If exporting is so hard for American industry beca....   >>      Why do people just w....   Dear Kayjay, The Statue of ....   >>         Dear Mihai, If the bunch of pro....   >>      Duron 650 MHz with 8....   The limit for FAT32 is 2 terabyte. For windows ....   >>      Minimal Communicatio....   It is accepted by all linguists that all languages....   >>   07 Apr 2004   Why do people just w....   The lack of a credit card is more common than you ....   >>      Identity Theft?   In Saudi you can't leave the country until you hav....   >>      Duron 650 MHz with 8....   look inside it and you'lll find a program called E....   >>         The Western digital program is called EZ BIOS I be....   >>      Windows PE   You'll nearly always reverse because French and Sp....   >>   06 Apr 2004   MS Excel spreadsheet....   I often find importing and exporting things from O....   >>      Its so easy...   Apples don't have bits, they have pips. You recomp....   >>   04 Apr 2004   Poor useability is a....   The analogy is bad because it adds nothing. The....   >>   03 Apr 2004   Linux people have no....   This is the second thread on this article. the oth....   >>      Easiest software to ....   Use the Suse installer. If it was a desktop you wo....   >>      Poor useability is a....   Persononally I reckon that computers crash because....   >>      Parm?  What's t....   It's simply a question of shorthand. Same reason u....   >>   02 Apr 2004   Microsoft's Believab....   Photo Paint - which they abandoned instead of fixi....   >>      Number of developers....   Form the survey ---'That population is concentrat....   >>         It depends what you call a programmer/developer. ....   >>      Kinesis Contoured ke....   It took me an hour and a half to get accustomed to....   >>      OS and the art of UI....   Normally I'd say he's right, but I'm not sure here....   >>         The article says little that is original and has c....   >>      Recommend a reliable....   You won't be able to get a laptop with a battery l....   >>      Walmart Microtel   Power supplies seem to be costiing between $10-$15....   >>      April fools   The best and worst April Fools jokes I can remembe....   >>      Gmail.com   The idea that most email is text and therefore can....   >>      Personal computer se....   Firewalls won't protect you from viruses in email ....   >>         The Golden Casino pop-up is a nuisance but not a s....   >>   01 Apr 2004   Walmart Microtel   Remember they come without a monitor. They incl....   >>      Distance Learning Wh....   As 'a cynic writes' the Open University was establ....   >>      How to Build a Bette....   People complain about management in  every fi....   >>      Hosting platforms/OS....   I didn't expect any better from you Philo :) Lo....   >>         If it's MS software (MS SQL server, or Access or .....   >>      Why Microsoft has no....   What I liked was when in the early nineties Congre....   >>         Seeing Lindows runs on top of Windows it's only to....   >>      IT subculture the ca....   The problem is basically a vicious circle. IT does....   >>      Personal computer se....   Anti-virus programs detect worms and trojans. The ....   >>         What I would do with a new macnine is install all ....   >>         I got a whole lab of 50 machines infected with MSB....   >>      Full spectrum lights....   Of course there is also research now that suggests....   >>      ThrowTheBumsOut   Dear Rick, I've read through the ....   >>         I tnink there are three things at play here, Rick.....   >>   31 Mar 2004   Personal computer se....   Dear pds, The problem is basicall....   >>      ThrowTheBumsOut   ---'God! What a waste of space your posts are. '-....   >>         The Mustang will guzzle too much gas to be sold mu....   >>         Dear anon, You took this thread o....   >>         I don't believe anything in the Murdoch press, eve....   >>         ---'I thought it was because american cars sucked.....   >>         Dear anon, People don't get ki....   >>         -----'I still remember when US tire manaufacturers....   >>         You were the one who bought up the topic of the Sa....   >>         Dear anon, 'madrassa' is the Arab....   >>         ----' Hmm...didn't the Saudi government pay off bi....   >>         Dear anon and others, ....   >>         ----' we should have come down hard on house of sa....   >>      Fire/motion   ---'Neville Chamberlain thought everyone could jus....   >>      cultural implication....   Name withheld out of cowardice or age withheld out....   >>         Dear namesake, You will b....   >>      Office 2000 - Word -....   Seems fine to me KJ   >>   30 Mar 2004   cultural implication....   Anybody who inflicts names on his children accordi....   >>      Transferring XP home....   A lot depends what country the OP lives in. There ....   >>      Curving CS Grades   The main problem I see is that university passing ....   >>      Why are managers clu....   anybody who generalizes about managers or progrmam....   >>      Old technical books ....   I like pdq's idea of turning it into a book safe. ....   >>      Laptop for heavy VMW....   I agree with Philo that WinXp pro is marginallly b....   >>   29 Mar 2004   Why are managers clu....   You'd think that with MIcrosoft being generally ac....   >>      So, I dropped on you....   The first problem is language. As a coder in a big....   >>      Linux: First determi....   People will install software if there is no choice....   >>         Linux has a definite place on the business desktop....   >>      Should I do it?   ---' This mob still thinks it is fun to draw on de....   >>      Time Zones   ---'And to think people still claim machines can't....   >>      Technical Solution B....   But the replies will be going to the Hotmail accou....   >>   28 Mar 2004   A big usability leap....   The Voice tags on my mobile work about 60% of the ....   >>      Are there really sof....   I am on dial-up. There are few places in Saudi wit....   >>      Old technical books ....   With old computer books you have the same problem ....   >>      capitalism is beauti....   The figures for homeless in the Uk are quoted in t....   >>   27 Mar 2004   Hacks are good for you!   >>   27 Mar 2004   Old technical books ....   DOS and Assembly Language are still useful. It's t....   >>      top ten software fir....   ---' Are you planning to buy one? '--- No, he's....   >>         Should be Billions not millions   >>      Not able to understa....   ---'I have seen in Excel and the message has only ....   >>      Algorithm for evalua....   Just conmpress them. Takes less time than reading ....   >>      How common are Win X....   Often what is done is to leave the local administr....   >>      Technical Solution B....   I doubt if you'll get off the ecommerce blackliist....   >>      capitalism is beauti....   Malingerers are quite common. It tends to be more ....   >>   26 Mar 2004   How common are Win X....   If you want to install a program while logged in a....   >>      Design pattern: Offi....   I always thought the webcams were for live porn se....   >>      Technical Solution B....   Incidentally only about one in a thousand 419's ge....   >>         Do you realize how much time it will take? Have yo....   >>      Shrinkwrapped Linux   2 IT guys for fifty users seems like a considerabl....   >>         The main use of Linux in a corporate environment i....   >>      Laptop for heavy VMW....   HD''s appear to be the bottleneck with laptops. ....   >>      Academic code steale....   ---'although I kept my own copy for prosperity)'--....   >>         Teh problem with computer science and IT teaching ....   >>      Are you a good hardw....   Yea, in 98 you just hit deleted the enum ke....   >>         ----'A dead hard drive is enough justification to ....   >>      capitalism is beauti....   You're always going to get a certain amount of fra....   >>         Scott, The reason they have cover charges....   >>         India, of course, sorted this driving thing out ye....   >>      US anti-spam laws   Why can't I call the guy at 3.am? I thought you sa....   >>         I was referrring to protection under the First Ame....   >>         You're going to end up on a case-by-case basis her....   >>      Is grokking pointers....   --'So do both gloat and schadenfraude mean 'Sma....   >>         I don't know either, but I do get the impression t....   >>      A sysadmin must know....   You mean programmers shower? Shurely shome mish....   >>      Wives and Entreprene....   ---2ell me - which part of the above constitutes s....   >>   25 Mar 2004   Are you a good hardw....   Dear MacSqueeb, It ha....   >>      Poll: What car do yo....   A) Walk to work; though not for ecological reasons....   >>      Slowest computer   Live and learn! And here's silly me thinking Windo....   >>         Are you sure the 64KB size limitation was fixed in....   >>      One more thing about....   You're right about Dreamweaver ending tags. The re....   >>         Try missing out an end tag in HTML and see what so....   >>      Is grokking pointers....   --'Gloating is not the same as schadenfreude. It i....   >>         Dear anon, The fact that you a ....   >>         Dear anon, My last post was wri....   >>         ---'Explain how I could just as easily construct a....   >>         --' But anyhow, I firmly believe that the people w....   >>         Dear anon, The theory of which ....   >>      Pentagon:Windows Upg....   I love PHilo's 'What if global warning is happenin....   >>      A sysadmin must know....   Will they get fired for using Hungarian? What I....   >>      Medion notebooks any....   They don't exist in the UK, as far as I know. I....   >>      Open Source UI Desig....   Dear dot, If Open Source software d....   >>      Wives and Entreprene....   Maybe you'd best stay with the horse. I mean, i....   >>   24 Mar 2004   YATOO   The reason the American trade balance is so much i....   >>      A significant change....   I don't think they were oifficial. Somebody lin....   >>      Opera's fat lady sin....   alt + d doesn't work in Netscape either. You have ....   >>      Wives and Entreprene....   Couldn't he save some money by feeding the horse t....   >>      Communist Western Eu....   Dear Ali, Most of what you read about....   >>   23 Mar 2004   Wives and Entreprene....   Sell the horse. If the wife complains, sell her a....   >>      Communist Western Eu....   Dear Ali, Bin Laden is strongly oppos....   >>         Actually Simon, the President at the time of the s....   >>      Plasma TVs - worth i....   It doesn't appear to have been a problem for a few....   >>         I'm a bigt cynical about burn in when he mentions ....   >>      What should I know w....   You are unlikely to notice one dead pixel if its b....   >>      Hiring your next use....   Dear David, A litre of water at....   >>         I haven't read the article yet, but a stage direct....   >>      Copyright disclaimer....   Every country has different protections. The juris....   >>      The Prisoner's Dilem....   Ethics or morals Tapiwa have nothing to do with it....   >>   22 Mar 2004   Charles Simonyi is R....   Hungarian is very common among Access and VB progr....   >>      The Prisoner's Dilem....   In the prisoners dilemma you have no reliable feed....   >>   21 Mar 2004   Another take on SCO   >>   21 Mar 2004   Another take on SCO   Whoops. cut and paste went wrong. Here's the corre....   >>      Questions about Lond....   Incidentally, Kal Max, you're not getting the poin....   >>         in the Uk they come under the local Council's fair....   >>         You don't enroll at a degree mill. They normally ....   >>      Charles Simonyi is R....   --'was more to do with hardware than software.'---....   >>      Looking for tips on ....   A lot of medium ot large companies will also insis....   >>   20 Mar 2004   Is the VB runtime in....   Wouldn't a lot depend on the runtime you are using....   >>      Questions about Lond....   A degree mill is a non-accredited university. You ....   >>      Honesty in companies   Keeps the code monkeys on the team up to scratch. ....   >>      Programmer inherits ....   I've just ghosted 180 workstations with identical ....   >>   19 Mar 2004   Honesty in companies   ----'Most companies are like a brothel. '---- N....   >>      How Do You Use Your ....   I open a dozen or so topics at once. I used to ope....   >>      Lies on CVs   Dear John, How are employers actu....   >>   18 Mar 2004   Programmer inherits ....   More than not particularly reliable NetBIOS is a r....   >>      EU "Competition" Com....   I am being perfectly serious. I was referring to t....   >>         The EU competition commissioners have done more th....   >>      VB6 + COM Sucks?   That's why they suck so well :)   >>      Inductive User Inter....   It's been said many times before but wizard style ....   >>      databases are danger....   --'Ooops. I hope I did not kill this thread by say....   >>      The Future Of Work (....   Tend to agree with Tapiwa. The guy who makes hi....   >>   17 Mar 2004   Has anyone used SQLi....   Presumably there have been problems with linking t....   >>      Lies on CVs   No! First of all, as I was reminded to my chagrin ....   >>         Where do you get the idea it costs a few hundred d....   >>   16 Mar 2004   Immigration and comp....   Burninator, These are not peopl....   >>         The problem with Canada is that there is a very ag....   >>   15 Mar 2004   Outsourcing has been....   Dear Philo, Offer to work from ho....   >>   12 Mar 2004   Interesting take on ....   The US has long benefitted from Health tourism: th....   >>      Securing W2000 on a ....   If you log on as a local user you can still access....   >>         Yea, looking again I see the point. When the other....   >>         How does the domain admin get access to the machin....   >>         Take the domain administrators out of the local ad....   >>      Conducting A Trainin....   Look at the HTML in 24 hours by SIMS. It should gi....   >>         ---'I'd rather my code speak for me.'---- Kay J....   >>      Lower Wages Is The S....   People eating clay and paying for the privilege se....   >>         $12 an hour is a low wage. Firstly it's not $2,200....   >>      I've been blogged...   The possibilities of winning a libel suit in the S....   >>      Novell interview   ---'I think Linux has an enormous amount of opport....   >>      JOS and spam   ----'The fortunate thing is there's a finite numbe....   >>         Dear Seun, My post was tongue in ....   >>      MSFT breakdown   ---' Occasionally people are called an 'expert' in....   >>   11 Mar 2004   JOS and spam   I'm sure they did do it by hand. I have posted ....   >>         It will be when he finds all the marvellous busine....   >>         This does happen every now and again. You must ....   >>      Currency Conversion   xe.com's figures are reasonably up to date I belie....   >>      Team efforts   Sex   >>      Why do people still ....   There are plenty of stand-alone collaboration prog....   >>         To the best of my knowledge you can run thousands ....   >>         The problem with executive code running in an emai....   >>         --' I feel for you, but I have to wonder if the fa....   >>         I originally switched to Outlook because it allows....   >>      Not all public serva....   Dear Auusie Chick, ....   >>      your sleep pattern   But it's still an alarm clock, and if you read the....   >>      Windows NT for G5 re....   Moore's law of course applies to the number of pro....   >>      MS Word/Excel propen....   In Word you can simply turn off the feature by goi....   >>   10 Mar 2004   your sleep pattern   Saudi they wake up the recruits at 3.30 in the mor....   >>         A few years back the research was all pointing to ....   >>      Access or SQL server   If it's a web application then there probably is o....   >>         Our college uses Access for the back-end server fo....   >>   09 Mar 2004   Analogy for why outs....   --'The house falling on your head due to bad desig....   >>         --' It's like saying 'gee, our architects are real....   >>      Nielsen is getting o....   I would have thought the more probable explanation....   >>   08 Mar 2004   Microsoft customer s....   If you think MS are bad in the US you want to try ....   >>      Usabilitymustdie   The March figures are there. They are nomally upda....   >>      Hard Disk warranty   It really is quite rare for a desktop HD t fail. ....   >>      BitTorren over port ....   As Myanamr is both one of the poorest and most rep....   >>      Authentication for W....   If you don't want to pay for Win "K server and the....   >>      The integration of c....   Computere are useful backup. All the arguments giv....   >>   07 Mar 2004   Organize Against Off....   What should the ladies of the night be repesented ....   >>      Are DVD recordables ....   I'm not at all sure that CD-R's are reliable. I....   >>      The integration of c....   Two of the biggest cons in this world are computer....   >>      How come Yahoo conta....   My Hotmail account has never had a single spam mes....   >>         Check out the boxes with default ticks the next ti....   >>      A 20 minute usabilit....   Do beta testers get a free copy of City Desk (that....   >>      Tom Peters on Outsou....   So thay have merchandize with BsOs logos and you c....   >>   06 Mar 2004   A 20 minute usabilit....   I don't use City Desk but I'd like to answer a cou....   >>      Laptop usability   Changing the volume control, or even muting it, do....   >>   05 Mar 2004   Tom Peters on Outsou....   And for IP "theft" look at the number of Napster u....   >>         What industreis did the Chinese or Indians steal?   >>         Teh Chinese and Indians are no more stealing your ....   >>   04 Mar 2004   Samsung: talk to me ....   Or at least not inventing to the extent that Sony ....   >>         Samsung and LG are winning in the Asian market bec....   >>      Open source... rat r....   ----'The SCO argument is that intellectual propert....   >>         Dear Bill, How do you know SCO doesn'....   >>      I got the MS interns....   With regard to the "perfect" Tic-tac-toe Occam's r....   >>         ------'You call an elevator and get in, but no mat....   >>      Based on a true stor....   Dennis, thanks for the clarification. You're a gem....   >>   03 Mar 2004   A win-win approach t....   Americans, and to a lesser extent Europeans, have ....   >>      Normal not to get pa....   They're trying to screw you! Or they want to force....   >>      between excel, acces....   Steve's MS Office rules. Store data in Access ....   >>      Laptop usability   ----'Check it out, you'll love it.'---- But alw....   >>      Based on a true stor....   ----'An Inidan called Samual? You have to be putti....   >>      Commanding Heights: ....   Cable don't run to Saudi, or Sri Lanka. It real....   >>   02 Mar 2004      Barely related, but how is it that PBS programs ar....   >>   29 Feb 2004   Moving to XP   I'm amazed you got your scanner to install. I had ....   >>         You're talking about not having done a clean insta....   >>      Dvorak on cookies   ----' A 'tracking cookie' (which is just a cookie ....   >>      Some reasons not to ....   I've got a colleague here in Saudi whose family li....   >>   28 Feb 2004   An online bookstore ....   Is it Indian government foreign exchange transacti....   >>      Please recommend a D....   LG -produce a four format drive that is actually c....   >>   27 Feb 2004   $299 Deal on A TON o....   Outside the States only for resellers.   >>      Windows XP Reloaded   Nobody really cares about losing phone support. It....   >>      The next Fog Creek p....   I spent a couple of months answering questions, bu....   >>      Leap Year Date Probl....   I suspect it had something to do with Saints' days....   >>         And two other posts seemed to have lept in while I....   >>         Beautiful!   >>      I'm DOne.  I Do....   -----'I've already found and turned in a couple of....   >>      Tom Peters: Sixteen ....   Agricultural subsidies cause hardship, and even ma....   >>         Yes, Alex, it is spelled Consulate - mea culpa. ....   >>      How many people have....   Dear Blank, Presumably you leave ....   >>      Laughable Web Servic....   ---'The central point of my post was just to point....   >>      Idiotic design decis....   I have an LG USB pen dirive, so you would expect a....   >>      Spam filtering on se....   ----'To act like one dropped email is the end of t....   >>      Best argument agains....   I've just finished setting up four computer labs a....   >>   26 Feb 2004   Tom Peters: Sixteen ....   But it's not terrorism that affects loads of peopl....   >>         ----'He has the nerve to say that broadband is as ....   >>      How many people have....   Most dilbert fans will know of it: http://news.bb....   >>      Spam filtering on se....   What's PHB?   >>   22 Feb 2004   Stupid errors in In ....   NO, I don't really think you had deliberately chos....   >>         Dear Rick, Congratulations on giv....   >>         ----' Sigh. Factually wrong. Ashton-Tate certain....   >>         Dear Rick, To comment about the p....   >>      Life is good   One of the worst curses the Chinese have is: 'May....   >>   21 Feb 2004   dreaming of products   Cellphones have really made bluetooth take off. Pe....   >>   20 Feb 2004   Life is good   Actually Joel, if the comments on this forum are a....   >>      Now it's for real: h....   The water's much better in Manchester. London wate....   >>      What should MS do ab....   It would be a non-issue of course if MS had not sp....   >>      why's (poignant) gui....   I get the same feeling with this I got when I firs....   >>      H1B visa cap reached   L 1's are like business visas. They are to enable ....   >>      Persistent errors on....   I had a problem some time back with an overclocked....   >>      Drucker and Friedman....   ----'Insured drivers have more accidents.'---- ....   >>      IIM fee slashed   Something's happened to your English this mornng! ....   >>      Group Policy changes   The Xp start menu is a vast improvement, particula....   >>   19 Feb 2004   System Restoration D....   Any form of disk clonng software will do the trick....   >>      Spammed Resumes?   Bagle-B I got one with the standard heading res....   >>      Word Styleref questi....   www.wopr.com is the best site for any Office relat....   >>      H1B visa cap reached   The real scandal lies with the T1's, since they al....   >>      Drucker and Friedman....   I don;t believe that Drucker or Friedman are being....   >>      Pitfalls of oursourc....   Actually I don't think I've ever told a story her ....   >>   18 Feb 2004   comment devenir pomp....   ---'What aspiring fireman would google for 'fire a....   >>   17 Feb 2004   Middle Click Scrolli....   I have MS optical mice and keyboards both at home ....   >>      IIM fee slashed   ---'I hope that there's some other reason I'm not ....   >>      Pitfalls of oursourc....   Dear Dennis, Osama left Saudi....   >>         ---'outsource their design teams to recent graduat....   >>      comment devenir pomp....   http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=ISO-8859....   >>         You'd be amazed where Google can lead you. On one ....   >>   16 Feb 2004      ----'Oh please, American firemen don't have to spe....   >>      Question for Florida....   -----' I gotta say, though, that the weather is a ....   >>      Uses for a PDA   Actually, I've decided I'm going to buy a Pocket P....   >>      Knowing you can get ....   ---'Americans are used to little things like relia....   >>      Amazon review scams ....   The old trick for theatre and movie reviews was fo....   >>      Google Answers, and ....   ----The service was 25 questions that you could as....   >>      Lou Dobb   To see Lou Dobb at his biased best watch him inter....   >>   14 Feb 2004   All you single guys   What's anime?   >>      Free legal advise   They've cocked up. what do the legal letters say. ....   >>      Partitioning Hard Di....   Shouldn't happen if you have the installations com....   >>   13 Feb 2004   The End of The Forum....   Thaanks for keeping them up. I've downloaded all t....   >>      System Analysis   You ought to read 'Agile Programming' by Beck, whi....   >>         ----'I figured the world needed a manager who unde....   >>      Acronis backup: prob....   I haven't restored from Arcronis yet. I made a clo....   >>      Partitioning Hard Di....   Remember to install win 98 first, or it will overw....   >>      Leaked W2k Source co....   Now MS has become 'Open Source'. what will MS do w....   >>      Win XP vs Win2K   You get used to the hiding thing fairly quickly. I....   >>      Dim statement As Ann....   ---'If you want to be a true antiquarian, decorate....   >>      just how much math i....   ---'I went to a french-language school from age 5 ....   >>   12 Feb 2004   Professional Softwar....   ----'the more I inherit projects from other develo....   >>      just how much math i....   -----'I think there's an optimal amount of time, a....   >>      Oh boy. ANOTHER secu....   Dear Which way to Redmond, ....   >>      Two blank spaces aft....   According to the New SOED 'Used or spelt as writ....   >>         Dear Vlad, 'sic' is used when you....   >>   11 Feb 2004   Software to view doc....   Are you sure Wordpad is not installed by default o....   >>      just how much math i....   Taking away the summer holidays is a bloody stupid....   >>      Now, that really ann....   ---'binary, decimal, and hexadecimal'---- We ha....   >>      Oh boy. ANOTHER secu....   Colleges often have loads of machines with exactly....   >>      Two blank spaces aft....   I find Spanish punctuation overkill. Most language....   >>   10 Feb 2004      ---'Yeh, I guess full-stops and spaces are just fr....   >>         I don't doubt your passport, just your handle. ....   >>         ---' you always drive on the right side of the roa....   >>         ---'Except the part about birthdays. That's a sim....   >>         ---'People can't actually be wasting their time ta....   >>         ---'Part of the problem is that where other langua....   >>      Ricardo is not an ea....   I am quite aware what he was saying and read larg....   >>         The USA Today article is complete junk incidentall....   >>         Free trade is not fair trade but nearly all the un....   >>      More experience?   Responding to job descriptions you don't meet has ....   >>      Programmers and eati....   The site that gives the magical figure of 1234 cal....   >>         The burning of calories to produce movement may he....   >>      Why does the boot pr....   I have a 733Mhz W2K desktop. Before I see the desk....   >>   09 Feb 2004   dual harddisk/partit....   ---'also, on a (barely) related note: any preferre....   >>         Yea, Philip's right. Forget the swap file partitio....   >>      Unix / Linux Desensi....   I think some posters here don't get it. Mr. Harvey....   >>      Programmers and eati....   How much of that 1234 calories (to quote the calor....   >>         ---'heh. stephen, you may be correct. However 2 pi....   >>         Two beers a day for a year is not going to cause a....   >>      Why does the boot pr....   I've got a couple of additional case fans in the d....   >>         Yes, I have defragged. No difference. Anyway, if t....   >>         I find W2K horrendoously slow. XP is probably twic....   >>   08 Feb 2004   "Our main focus is t....   What people at the Patent Office in the US do is s....   >>         ------'You can even patent things that don't exist....   >>      most productive fire....   What you are saying Christopher is very true. The ....   >>      External Modem bette....   Dear Philo, Never mind the hotels....   >>         I thought US actually made it much easier to write....   >>   07 Feb 2004      I have an external US Robotics modem on the deskto....   >>      1 in. Margins?   You're doing something wrong! I suspect you are us....   >>      IANAL - Software Pat....   You'll have no protection whatsoever in the EU bec....   >>         The point of filing a patent is either to have amm....   >>      Stopping viruses   ----' Eliminating executables attachments doesn't ....   >>   06 Feb 2004   Easiest way to copy ....   For personal use both Arconis and Ghost do well; a....   >>      Best email/newsgroup....   Education: - the casting of false pearls before re....   >>      Stopping viruses   Blockng attachments is a hideous method of securit....   >>      Gigabit Ethernet?   Dear Mike, In my experience it de....   >>      Identifying users wi....   SMS however is not a reliable form of communicatio....   >>         SMS is anything but cheap. I spend $100 a month ea....   >>   31 Jan 2004   Berzerkley   ----'It was a curious scene. Joel was ensconced at....   >>      Wanna see the best r....   Makes no difference, Alex. A search for http:/ tur....   >>      Submitting Job Appli....   Find me a computer that can't open an .rtf file. ....   >>         We have hundreds of machines at work without Acrob....   >>      Building Community w....   The SOED gives as one of the meanings of 'arse' ....   >>      Linux and Innovation....   Strange how multi-million dollar decisions are bas....   >>      My Adventures with o....   If you remember JS claimed that his job was being ....   >>      The Rich Client Stri....   ----'Just take a look at the web-based version of ....   >>      Downloading Runtimes   Can't you use "Get Right"?   >>      Yet another outsourc....   The report is about contractors, not IBM o HP owne....   >>      Define bloat: by exa....   The reason programs load slowly is because they lo....   >>      The world from the i....   'what color do you want that database'? System ....   >>      Who Moved My Cheese?   ------'Everyone, on some level, knows that America....   >>      Anyone else get hate....   -----' The email forwarding system at JOS is a gre....   >>   27 Jan 2004   How many resumes do ....   ---'nonexistant jobs'---- Actually, 'nonexistan....   >>      LOL - resume article....   To the best of my knowledge direct speech should a....   >>         You capitalize after a full stop, question mark or....   >>      In Defense of Joel's....   Always email the resume as an attachment, unless s....   >>      Now I had it with Jo....   Thank you letters after the interview are an Ameri....   >>         Am I wrong in suspecting that most of us who suppo....   >>      Gay men on the plane....   A large proportion of the population of India seem....   >>      Emailing your resume   It can hurt to attach the cover letter. As Philo s....   >>      Joel seems like a je....   Is it arbitrary to pint out that blank messages do....   >>      More LandFill Materi....   If any body has ever lived near a paper mill he wi....   >>      What about recruitin....   ---' People claiming to be experts in the area cou....   >>      Quick hits on Joel's....   A lot depends on the job market. In the good old d....   >>      Where Joel REALLY go....   You tailor your resume to fit the one paragraph li....   >>         Why is Philo so annoyed by the idea of taking time....   >>      Ironic sentence frag....   The sentence fragment is perfectly correct. It wou....   >>      Another resume faux ....   My favourite was a resume that stressed the writer....   >>      Job Postings - Getti....   The comment is a specific one; it appears that mis....   >>      Cover letters   As Richard says a .rtf icon will look just like a ....   >>   26 Jan 2004   Job Postings - Getti....   I have a degree in English from a reputable Britis....   >>      Alternatives to AOL/....   About 75% of all job applications I receive use Ho....   >>      Cover letters and di....   Philo's point is that the cost savings of offshori....   >>      Joel falls into the ....   ---' Even stupider is submitting two big Word docu....   >>      Cover letters   Dear Mark, There are plenty of ....   >>      Getting your resume ....   An imperfect grasp of the English language is more....   >>      How much is 30K ster....   Check out the salary in euros. Remember UK holiday....   >>      Blocking users from ....   Easiest to delete the comments. You can ask them t....   >>      Want eat book   "The Periodic Table" by Primo Levi.   >>      Redhat Professional ....   Mandrake for an easy install. Try and buy an old c....   >>      MSDN Subscription qu....   I don't think Office as a suite was around in 1993....   >>      About Face 2   I agree that the idea of file systems and director....   >>   22 Jan 2004   In Defence of Outsou....   My experience of Call centres is that you never ge....   >>      SOFTWARE CANNOT BE G....   I suspect the idea of a software tax came around w....   >>         Perfectly reasonable; you can disagree but thee ar....   >>      How Does GPL Work wi....   The problem is that copyright law was not written ....   >>         No, these licenses ask you to pay instead. You can....   >>         Why are people so paranoid about any GPL code, yet....   >>      Creating a "restore ....   You can give them a bootable CD that will work wit....   >>         I've used Acronis and it works very nicely. Rememb....   >>      Who does recycle the....   Recycling steel is fine. You do save fossli fuel, ....   >>      A plea for email add....   Idiots never send rude anonymous comments to their....   >>         You want nasty emails, make a comment that might b....   >>   21 Jan 2004   Why 'win'word and no....   The location of My Documents is decided by a regis....   >>         I can't do it in W2000. I've renamed (and moved) t....   >>      Irritating Issue wit....   Nice to see somebody else who has the same problem....   >>   20 Jan 2004   Suggestions for back....   For data backup 'Second Copy' from www.centered.co....   >>      cabling rant   I have at long last succeeded in refilling HP prin....   >>      Home electronics ran....   You really ought to watch a couple of Bollywood mo....   >>      Stupid Move on the P....   If the kid had tried to sell French fries online t....   >>   19 Jan 2004   The computer delusio....   The article is an old one; it goes back to 97. ....   >>      Home electronics ran....   Err, Philo, India uses PAL and Bollywood makes a l....   >>         If the data is digital it must be somewhere else i....   >>      Stupid Move on the P....   Err, Bill, the kid didn't choose his name; his par....   >>         I think they might be thinking of the voice recogn....   >>      Define "Code Complet....   And alpha is simply that you want somebody to shar....   >>         I always though beta meant that you couldn't find ....   >>      Worst IE Bug I have ....   The exploit has led to more of this spam, but the ....   >>         Doesn't seem that serious to me. Plenty of people ....   >>         This is the phishing that has been roported previo....   >>      An explanation for o....   I think one of the reasons for offshoring is the f....   >>      Vacation   You do need to chose a city to sign up. However th....   >>         but you need to select the country to sign up! And....   >>         Anybody know why the list of countries is so limit....   >>      Application Icon Pac....   Yea, but are you likely to get a consistent style ....   >>         True enough, but why bother to change the standard....   >>         It's fairly easy to make your own icons. After all....   >>      Article on going ind....   ----'I'd really like to sit in front of my PC and ....   >>      Product Positioning ....   One point to bear in mind Joel is that often there....   >>      Laser Printer Proble....   check you've removed the orange label that says 'r....   >>      Good Karma on a Bala....   Just put it down as a purchase. You paid money, yo....   >>      Daisy-chaining USBs   Actually, there seems to be a cycle here. First....   >>         My LG Flatron 19" CRT has got one. However with th....   >>      India is Copying!   In Saudi in the early nineties nearly all Western ....   >>         No, MB doesn't get it. The company that changed th....   >>      Windows versus Linux....   It seems to me that MS and IBM marketing departmen....   >>         Dear Philo, I hope they're paying....   >>      80,000 Protest Again....   Dear Ashamed Indian, ....   >>      new direction for Am....   Are you sure America sends food aid to India? To t....   >>         As the US has invaded most places on earth it prob....   >>   18 Jan 2004   Windows versus Linux "the facts"   >>   18 Jan 2004   India is Copying!   If you've paid $10 for a pirated version of Window....   >>      Windows versus Linux....   off-targettargetted rebuttals that don't mention t....   >>         Sorry Eric not with you.   >>      80,000 Protest Again....   --' let every nation that's run by some despot or ....   >>         Hello, no globalization yet. ....   >>         My point foobarista is that neither you nor ashame....   >>         Tap water is safe in any city in India. In fact wh....   >>      My Grammar be gettin....   Any ambiguity in the sentence given is not the res....   >>         Philo, do you think the boss really gives a shit w....   >>   17 Jan 2004   80,000 Protest Again....   It is nice to know that unthinking acceptance of g....   >>      new direction for Am....   A low dollar is good for manufacturing, as the Chi....   >>         The fact that the dollar has gone into freefall su....   >>         do they accept mastercard and visa on Mars?   >>      Internet Explorer: B....   I ran both IE4 and Netscape 4 under Windows 95. I ....   >>         Tabbed browsing is one of those ideas you wonder h....   >>      My Grammar be gettin....   ---'The issue with passive grammar, especially in ....   >>      Blatant Discriminati....   HR will have been told not to give out details. ....   >>      is there any point t....   Yea, the gypsies came from somewhere near Bengal a....   >>         Alex, it was me who commented about Romansch. It d....   >>      Code Complete 2   Sure beats the Wrox covers doesn't it?   >>      Reality   Dear Ed, Can you please tell us whe....   >>   16 Jan 2004   Blatant Discriminati....   Maybe your experience didn't qualify. Did you g....   >>      Promise not delivere....   Microsoft et al have made billions from delivering....   >>      is there any point t....   Patios are central open courtyards surrounded on f....   >>         Incidentallly the article on France completely fai....   >>         Teh influence of Hunagarian doesn't suprise me; th....   >>         Romanian is an eastern Romance language, like Roma....   >>         You will not get back the time you invest in leari....   >>      New Mobile Phone law....   It's making smoke signals near the petrol tank tha....   >>      Code Complete 2   You can't buy it; it's not out until June 2004. Wh....   >>         All of the examples are from C++, Visual Basic&nbs....   >>      Reality   Being a software engineer, or simply knowing a cou....   >>         Dear Ed, Rubbish. The reason for the ....   >>         Yea, I read the article when it came out; 200 mobi....   >>         Dear Raj, My objection to 'training....   >>         less than 105 should be less than 10%   >>         ---'Now an N billion dollar cell phone infrastruct....   >>         Dear Indian, If people like ....   >>         Raj, Nobody is denying that good work is be....   >>      NBOR, "revolutionary....   Why doesn't NBOR give up on marketing the software....   >>      What's so special ab....   It's not just offices these programmers want Bella....   >>      Private offices: fai....   ---'tax the wealthy into starvation'----- Errr,....   >>      Windows common save ....   Writeablity to a CD/Rw drive depends on having oth....   >>      over dependent on H1....   I think Doobius, that what these poeple are saying....   >>      What are North Ameri....   In most countries outside of the Us the cellphone ....   >>   15 Jan 2004   Reality   Now compare all that with China, where 137 million....   >>         I've checked out the chapter; his pretension that ....   >>         The problem many people have here is that they bel....   >>      Speaking of neat wat....   What we want is a USB bootstrap so the metaphor re....   >>      Email Clients: Lotus....   ---'Of course, Outlook XP does not contain any ant....   >>      What's so special ab....   If yiu want to talk to people use the coffee shop.....   >>      combating spam   Spam is an arms war. Sapm Bayes does a reasonab....   >>      Windows Security   The exploit as given in "The Register" doesn't wor....   >>      UI Rant ---forgive m....   ---'The field(s) marked with asterisk (*) indicate....   >>      Windows common save ....   The Explorer component just lists the drives you'v....   >>      over dependent on H1....   I really doubt if Indian software companies in the....   >>      20-minute skill sess....   Neat, but why shouldn't it restore the Windows as ....   >>         Most computers have soft power off.. Much more ....   >>         Don't forget to tell them the difference between a....   >>      Greenspan   Yes, Erich, you're right. You did make it clear th....   >>         Dear Eric, I think you are way off ....   >>      India outsourcing - ....   Teh problem is no 7) and 8) It's normally 7) Re....   >>   14 Jan 2004   Theory on outsourcin....   Subaru's plant in America is staffed wholly by Ame....   >>         ---'I am very very very impressed with American ma....   >>      Background defrag in....   Yep, you live and learn. To quote from the XP P....   >>         It's indexing. Go to Control Panel/Administrative ....   >>      Why put pictures of ....   Is Joel going to add the recipes to the next upgra....   >>      DLL Hell or somethin....   You're right about not trying to overwrite the sys....   >>      Breaking into teachi....   $50 - $60 a class hour is probably what High Schoo....   >>   13 Jan 2004   Which programming la....   We still don't know why you need to change from VB....   >>      DLL Hell or somethin....   You've got to test with every possible OS, and, if....   >>      Breaking into teachi....   Teaching programming is the same as teaching anyth....   >>      Why Lotus rocks in u....   Doesn't Joel explain in one of his articles that E....   >>      "Rules of Engagement....   Philo gave a stunning explanation about how you ex....   >>      finding the right so....   'abducted by aliens' but 'stolen by gypsies'. Inte....   >>         Perhaps Granmar stole the children! Why do so m....   >>      Advice Wanted   ----'It didn't seem to have a noticeable effect on....   >>      Can't Copy Money   ---' I sometimes break into people's houses and re....   >>   12 Jan 2004   Compatibility with W....   Sathyaish, better security than giving all users p....   >>      finding the right so....   Actually isn't the first post really about missing....   >>         My message was to 'Lt. Slone'. You normally talk a....   >>         Children get 'stolen' where you are do they? Ca....   >>      Advice Wanted   Forget abouty the why. Is his performance worse th....   >>      Can't Copy Money   ---'if I release a second version of my software a....   >>      rule of engagement, ....   Nobody ever suggests that the silent majority migh....   >>         What makes you think Timothy's comments have been ....   >>         ---'I know the tone has nothing to do with Joel or....   >>         No the sarcasm isn't uncalled for. I have read the....   >>         ----''Can you put a 'last action' field on the 'co....   >>      Would you...   ---'is it a black and white issue'---- My exper....   >>   11 Jan 2004   <b>New Massach....   Presumably Philo is referring to the suit you coul....   >>      Can't Copy Money   The Constituiton grants IP for the social good. ....   >>      rule of engagement, ....   Yea, looks like he doesn't understand developers e....   >>         There are consultants who are hired by technical c....   >>         By only taking technical clients you are simply mo....   >>      Would you...   If HR asks tell him, and say that if he wishes for....   >>      What a novel approac....   ---'For effort, I'd say we are at a 20. For progr....   >>   10 Jan 2004   rule of engagement, ....   Actually I'm not too sure I know the difference be....   >>         ---'1. Never work for someone unless they know the....   >>      Would you...   Considering how much more harm and degradation rel....   >>      What to make of "han....   Couldn't it simply be that the poor guy was actual....   >>      fundamental question....   Record companies,publishers and lately Hollywood m....   >>      Any JOS Readers in U....   Mark, I can't help you on this one beca....   >>      Join the lemmings in....   No. But being sarky won't get you very far. The gu....   >>         With regard to Chirovou's article, I have to wonde....   >>         The even more amazing thing is that they set the '....   >>         Yea, I've always wanted to go and live in India be....   >>   09 Jan 2004   HELP: why can't I ac....   Are you at home? Does it happen all the time; i....   >>      Let's talk about key....   Microsoft Natural   >>      Not only TI, Levi's ....   How the F can you be a non-Aryan Anglo-Saxon? U....   >>         No, the guy that lives in the UK is Steve Jones (U....   >>         I think it might backfire. Levis has been selling ....   >>      Any JOS Readers in U....   Dubai is a lousy place to learn Arabid. Three quar....   >>         In Dubai or Bahrain both men and women can meet in....   >>         Ther at least a couple of us in Saudi. Send us you....   >>      Join the lemmings in....   This doesn't make sense. They have run out of m....   >>         Dear .... The fact that Indian compan....   >>   08 Jan 2004      ---'..there are also success stories like :'--- ....   >>         They opeined a super important office in Bangalore....   >>      101 101   The initial 1 or 2 or 3 o 4 is the number of the y....   >>      US:More degrees in “....   You've also got to be very careful to be comparing....   >>         About a fortnight back somebody posted that unempl....   >>      offshoring   -----'However it was not generally good enough for....   >>         I think I'll ask you to do the checking. It would ....   >>         ---'Enjoy the coming class war!'--- As in High ....   >>         ---'The East has been about adherence to tradition....   >>         Dear artist..........., ....   >>      Keeping synchronised....   I've actually started archiving so the email folde....   >>         I am also tending towards the conclusion that for ....   >>         Joel, My version of Second Copy has at six ways of....   >>      Personal information....   Dear wiorried soul, ....   >>      DonationWare   ---' Fully functional, but not as robust strikes m....   >>      Yahoo dumping Google   OK somebody. for is not included in the search. T....   >>   07 Jan 2004   offshoring   Can't we offshore all discussions about offshoring....   >>      Software Liability I....   Dear Scott, You seem to have go....   >>      Hiring for short ter....   ---'Yes, support the home team! (anyone else, sorr....   >>      Personal information....   ---'I can't get what you're talking about.'--- ....   >>         Dear Worried Soul, Th....   >>      Who does the intervi....   In education it is nearly always the immediate sup....   >>      Data Recovery Softwa....   'Lost and Found' is the standard one. However i....   >>      DonationWare   Shirky is talking about micropayment for content a....   >>         Instead of panhandling at the airport he could run....   >>         What I want to know is how you're gtoing to send t....   >>      My boss permanently ....   Dear Michaek, Hope springs ....   >>         Sounds like Saudi! Pllaying stupid would have b....   >>      Increase in spam   ---'MS must have implemented something. '----- ....   >>         I've actually noticed a levelling off of Spam at t....   >>   06 Jan 2004   K   ----'The problem is that we have put up with the t....   >>      Bruno H. Bahia   Google asked me if I was really looking for Poochk....   >>         Presumably because Ingrid Pochkiss isn't bold eith....   >>      Email solutions   Dvorak commented back in 1998 that we didn't both....   >>         My email store goes back to 1998. I have about 30,....   >>         Dear Just me, Simply archive ....   >>         Most so called proprietory formats can be read wit....   >>      Will patents stop Li....   If they are going to have to continue with the Win....   >>         It does however beg the question of why the hell y....   >>         Problems all over the place with this scenario. ....   >>      Good DB schema desig....   Designing Relational Database Systems by Rebecca R....   >>      The problem with CSV....   The only problem with using XML to import into MS ....   >>      Need techie advice o....   ---'We made all of our mistakes on a very small nu....   >>   05 Jan 2004   Windows Script Help   iI believe t all depends if  you put Option E....   >>      The problem with CSV....   In case you didn't understand Mr. Keepence, most E....   >>      Technology ought to ....   This source appears to be the one that the other t....   >>         Can't find the original source but Googling brings....   >>      CD-Burning Question ....   Simon, Ghost is a lousy data back up medium. It's ....   >>      Finally a good idea:....   The Iran contra was a complete disaster. The hosta....   >>         Dear Devil's advocate, ....   >>   04 Jan 2004   Technology ought to ....   With both Office and the OS MS has applied the inc....   >>         Unix was written before you had C++, Java or .NET   >>      Word of the Quarter   Rather too often for comfort, I have been on airpl....   >>      CD-Burning Question ....   Ghosting data files, let alone music files, is a r....   >>         CD/RW's are not the answer; they take ages (like h....   >>      Consulting?   --'Consultant = One who consults '---- Should b....   >>      Finally a good idea:....   In order to get allies for the removal of the Tali....   >>         ----'The US has deposed a tyrant who tortured rape....   >>   03 Jan 2004   Licensing Software t....   ---'How would/do you protect your IP?'---- Your....   >>      Money saved by using....   I doubt that programmers had better salaries twent....   >>      Blame Open Source fo....   don't know what country you're living in tree but ....   >>      Finally a good idea:....   ----'The Chinese threatening violence on taiwan is....   >>      Wrong industry   ---'Are you being monitored ? :-) '---- Probab....   >>   02 Jan 2004   Licensing Software t....   Dongles are horrible for desktops, but I can see t....   >>      Open Source OCR Soft....   Worse, they don't distinguish between free for Lin....   >>      Money saved by using....   Yep RAID 1. I did get it right in the spec tho....   >>         A lot depends on what the fifty seats are doing? I....   >>         And are you serioulsy recommending small business ....   >>         Dear Justme, So there are les....   >>         ----'No, you won't pay one year salary with $10K, ....   >>      Blame Open Source fo....   The difference is that lawyers are hired by the co....   >>         -----' No, it's $2 in Bucharest or Moscow or Pekin....   >>         Oh, and one last thing.  Lawyers have the adv....   >>         ----'Stephen, companies using Apache is not the im....   >>      Design Decision   Toolbars take up a centimetre or so of screen real....   >>      Self Important Progr....   I like ICQ. I only stopped using it when the Sri L....   >>      Just under the wire ....   ---'Automatic cold-copying of data to a second, no....   >>         I think the argument is that RAID creates its own ....   >>      The Most Popular* Jo....   I don't think the 2003 articles have been that wea....   >>      Un-Hosing Windows Up....   Presumable ad-aware would delete the registry key.....   >>   01 Jan 2004   Money saved by using....   ----'I know a 7 people non-IT company which has a ....   >>         The saving is not in the software costs of the com....   >>      Windows XP max profi....   The only limit to the directory came with FAT16 an....   >>         I always create a D drive and keep all documents t....   >>      Blame Open Source fo....   ---' That phenomenon is the relentless quest by bu....   >>         ----'If all of Microsofts 'customers' didn't have ....   >>         It had to happen; some idiiot joining up the two d....   >>      Design Decision   Dear Robert, So far you have ....   >>         I've got two Outlook addi-ins, a duplicates eraser....   >>         Some people might object to the icon in the standa....   >>         Do NOT mess around with the menu bar. What you wil....   >>      Wrong industry   Yea, Italians are probably more discriminating tha....   >>         The interview was in the UK for a job in Spain. As....   >>      Self Important Progr....   Perhaps he nevwer got another ad provider! Thanks ....   >>         Do you still get the permanent remindiers with sli....   >>      Agency terminology: ....   Dear Inside Job, I am nit....   >>      Just under the wire ....   Philo can we have your figures? Hard drive fail....   >>      copying hard drive   I suspect that is where the problem has come from.....   >>         You say you've copied the drive over and then you ....   >>      Israel Stops Buying ....   Where on earth do you get your opinions on the dif....   >>   31 Dec 2003   Wrong industry   Dear anon,. I was once told they ....   >>      Self Important Progr....   The term for this is 'nagware'. I'd have no obj....   >>      Agency terminology: ....   Doubt if your theory holds water. In general some ....   >>      Un-Hosing Windows Up....   Then it probably would be quicker just to reinstal....   >>         Tim, Can you install other programs? Are you logge....   >>         Sorry Tim, But if you really wa....   >>      High return skills i....   -----' The opinions expressed in this post are sol....   >>         Sure your pot pourri of skills is the same as anyb....   >>      copying hard drive   Tim, you only keep user data on the 'home' partiti....   >>         ---'You do realize that what you're suggesting is ....   >>         Here's the Steve Jones tried and tested backup and....   >>      Voice Recognition = ....   Language is rule bound; the problem is that the 'r....   >>         Dear Entrepreneur, ....   >>      Israel Stops Buying ....   You send files round in Word format if you want th....   >>      Bookmarks/Favorites ....   The advantage of an .html file is that you can use....   >>      "IT shifting away fr....   Dear Brian R, There are a cou....   >>   30 Dec 2003   Israel Stops Buying ....   A phenemenal number of people use mail merge. Any ....   >>      Can a folder be hidd....   Whether a folder is hidden or not is irrelevant as....   >>      most software is qui....   ---'Strangely enough, Word does not have icons to ....   >>         I have only learnt a small subset of the Word keyb....   >>      Why do we need scrip....   ---'When I need to manipulate some files I don't u....   >>      "IT shifting away fr....   I used both Netscape 4 and IE 4, indiscriminately.....   >>   29 Dec 2003   Why do we need scrip....   You've got to remember that VB script came out a l....   >>      Why not just block t....   I think Raymond Chen's blog must be one of the bes....   >>      Got asked to fly to ....   ---'Hey, if you want to compete with Indian develo....   >>      Dilbert Relocation C....   We get Dilbert every day in the 'Arab News', and w....   >>      "IT shifting away fr....   -----'Anyone who has read on the subject knows the....   >>         ---'While a JET file share has always been rated f....   >>      More Linux Developer....   ----' This was quite explicitly an effect where th....   >>      Working at Microsoft   Sorry Philo, but much as you would like the thread....   >>   28 Dec 2003   More Linux Developer....   Dear NDA rules, This is n....   >>      working hard or hard....   Ask the Catholic Church. It's the 'dia de los sant....   >>   27 Dec 2003   FS-Portability of da....   Ah, now I understand why you want to do the dual b....   >>         If there are errors Brad please take them up with ....   >>      Joel on installing D....   What happened Mr. Tempel is that about four years ....   >>         So you've proved that the Windows community is muc....   >>      working hard or hard....   --'any other hints?'--- Herod?    >>   26 Dec 2003   FS-Portability of da....   Dear Indian developer, ....   >>      Joel on installing D....   ----' and desperately expect help and support the ....   >>      working hard or hard....   Woops! Wrong day! Should have been December 28th. ....   >>         Err, how about 4 BC. Hint; it's to do with the to....   >>   25 Dec 2003   FS-Portability of da....   I'm not quite with you. It doesn't matter in th....   >>      Working at Microsoft   The article is actually quite interesting, not bec....   >>      job advice for a new....   Sorry prima facie case. Never took 001 typing!   >>         So when you presented your thesis you didn't bothe....   >>      Latest on SCO/Linux ....   Dear me, Does your company use hype....   >>      working hard or hard....   Dear it-ranter, December 27....   >>   24 Dec 2003   job advice for a new....   Dear blank, Perhaps you could say....   >>      Latest on SCO/Linux ....   One advantage of Open Source is that it is very cl....   >>      Windows for a Bank T....   Isn't the problem with the Windows dialog box that....   >>         The computers down nearly always refers to the tel....   >>      Joel on installing D....   You've misread the article. It was Mandrake he was....   >>      Unix OS installs   I understand perfectly what you mean; it does just....   >>      Why are the best dev....   Apology accepted. And please accept mine for losin....   >>      working hard or hard....   Dear Inexplicable indeed, ....   >>         Infant mortaility rates have everything to do with....   >>   23 Dec 2003   Client-Server Softwa....   Which RDBMS are you talking about? They all have d....   >>      Borland is no more.   You can get the academic version for that price I ....   >>         The article says Borland has a new 'sales paradigm....   >>      Joel on installing D....   Sorry, Florian and Philo, but you're both wrong. T....   >>         ---'I am dumbfounded why there aren't any Linux in....   >>      Unix OS installs   One thing that has only just ocurred to me. It's p....   >>         Your comparison to Windows is plain confusing. If ....   >>         Joel didn't say Suse sucked without the CD's. He s....   >>      A book about Microso....   Gates definitely did write code back in the sevent....   >>      Why are the best dev....   Deear Robert, Could you kin....   >>      working hard or hard....   'making a difference' is advertising junk put out ....   >>         Dear apw, Was that last post part....   >>         The reason that software developers get paid more ....   >>      "he or she" NOT poli....   Sorry Jack; none of us HAVE to. It's called notion....   >>         Dear John, True I'm not forced ....   >>      Outsourcing -But not....   The worst cup of tea you will get anywhere is in I....   >>   22 Dec 2003   Joel on installing D....   You could argue that the explanation would simply ....   >>         I've never even thought about the root problem bot....   >>      Unix OS installs   Joel. When you get time why don't you li....   >>      Why are the best dev....   Despite Joel's facile sarcasm Evgeny has a point. ....   >>      working hard or hard....   ---' Technology in general has raised the standard....   >>      "he or she" NOT poli....   The rule against split infiintives dates from an e....   >>      How Much Do Offshore....   Dear John, Don;t apologize to yo....   >>      Outsourcing -But not....   Dear India, Monbiot's piece was ....   >>         Strange, you live in America and don't know about ....   >>      Did linux just show ....   --' I think that this type of discussion is specif....   >>         Dear Bill, Correct. If he'd picked ....   >>         Dear Almost Anonymous, ....   >>         Why do I have to keep repeating this? Somebody mak....   >>      Bold topics.   ---' I think that this type of discussion is speci....   >>   21 Dec 2003   Outsourcing -But not....   Ahh, but the crusades all happened before the sieg....   >>         I think it may be time to get back to the point. I....   >>         Dear George's older brother, ....   >>         Dear Dennis, He didn't mentio....   >>         Dear the truth, Nice to kno....   >>         ---'middle east had paid a terrible human price fo....   >>         Monbiot's article was fairly inaccurate. The A....   >>      Did linux just show ....   The two platforms are a mess for desktop apps; but....   >>         No, I didn't miss your post above. I just think yo....   >>         So what! Develop a commercial app under Windows an....   >>         You do of course have to pay the same amount of mo....   >>         dear Blargle, What you are sa....   >>         Here's the pricing: Single Platform (Either Qt....   >>      Nokia sucks :(   The Siemans S46 is only availiable in the US and C....   >>      Programmers creating....   Richard's not making judgements about whether some....   >>   20 Dec 2003   How many find wordwe....   What I want is a spell check for web forum dialog ....   >>      Buying hardware... c....   Building your own machine is always more expensive....   >>         The reason for using desktops is simple: RSI. I....   >>      Did linux just show ....   The point is that this guy is not going to standar....   >>         I have no idea who this Perens guy is, but I doubt....   >>      Bold topics.   Thomas, If you've seen a thread bef....   >>         Perhaps you could actually get Mike to put in the ....   >>         Sometime in the next few days I will post a very l....   >>         That's why the email hosed my Outllook search :)   >>         So we spend a year and a half asking for small but....   >>      Nokia sucks :(   I've not much confidence in the reliability of Sie....   >>         Phone companies have long decided that they are go....   >>      Privacy Gimmicks   Restrictive governments block anonymizers. The Sau....   >>      Programmers creating....   There is a problem with testing UI's. That is that....   >>      Are IP addresses rec....   All that information is also given out when you go....   >>      Biculturalism   What I have read by Raymond seems perfectly reason....   >>   19 Dec 2003   Replacement for PGPd....   Ankur, EFS not NTFS.   >>         Which is why you make a restore floppy before you ....   >>         Microsoft's solution to the problem of Encrypted F....   >>      stuck between a rock....   Train him while ypou're working out your notice. I....   >>      Programmers creating....   ----'to be honest i don't think it matters with mo....   >>      Athlon 64   AMD is out way ahead on this one. The only questio....   >>      The most annoying us....   Is it the same person coming back to you as made t....   >>      Dell Inspiron 8600 (....   As anon says the 5150 uses a desktop processor. Fi....   >>      Printing Screenshot ....   Another thing that has occurred to me is that poss....   >>      Biculturalism   Dear David, --'I am not prepare....   >>   18 Dec 2003   Hogwarts School of A....   For humour you should go to the Professionals. Her....   >>      New Project - offsho....   Presumably your company requires an extra twenty w....   >>      Printing Screenshot ....   I get it. You're not printing a screen shot of the....   >>         If I do a screenshot and put it into Word I get al....   >>      Are IP addresses rec....   You do remember to put false license plates on the....   >>         DJ, they use cookies for that, not IP address. I h....   >>         Yea, it stores it in a database with your mother's....   >>      Bully Institute   Boxing and grappling ain't going to be that great ....   >>      Distribution Questio....   Kevin, there's a reason that your app can't write ....   >>      Voice Recognition - ....   Cooper's idea is the same as Gates's that the user....   >>         Voice recognition in the house is a gimmick. Bu....   >>         Voice recognition is great for those who either ha....   >>      Cultural Divide: It'....   Dear anon, I think you're right o....   >>      Biculturalism   A cursory check suggests that the British Air Forc....   >>         Nobody forced people to take opium either but the ....   >>         I actually agree with you about absolute human rig....   >>         It's true the Brits don't rename their towns and c....   >>   17 Dec 2003   Cultural Divide: It'....   What Ged is saying appears reasonable. The command....   >>      OS dominance   Dennis, I use Netscape, though my bank ....   >>         Dear Dennis, I doubt if you d....   >>         Macintosh is strong in the States but non-existent....   >>      Embedded Databases (....   There isn't any burden to administering a simple f....   >>      Joel on Software Mot....   ----'sandwiches are an important part of today's s....   >>         Dear #357, The whole point abou....   >>      Biculturalism   Thanks, I'll go over and add the comment now   >>      IBM sends more jobs ....   ---'Most people don't realize that the US provides....   >>   16 Dec 2003   Why programmers shou....   Cheap tech support isn't cheap; for a couple of ye....   >>      Caution on Bayesian ....   Now if Bored had got the message 'your email has b....   >>         The point about Bayesian filtering is that you are....   >>      Biculturalism   Dear Christopher, If yo....   >>         Whatever 'Ceylon' is it is not a Sinhala word. ....   >>      Leaving St. Paul, Mi....   I think 50's are shorts weather as well. Though ev....   >>      music at work   The general rule is that you should not install an....   >>   15 Dec 2003   Crystal Reports   ---'They made some generic assumptions about what ....   >>      music at work   I'd burn them onto DVD, or simply keep spare CD co....   >>         Dear Nathan, We have no idea ....   >>      IP address question   Interesting; the site correctly identifies the ISP....   >>      Mastering English as....   And again in England we pronounce them both the sa....   >>         Dear apw, We English pronounce th....   >>         Dear 2 cents, Your 2 cents wo....   >>         Dear Dennis, The reason you h....   >>      Help, my HTML Always....   Tables might not have been intended for formatting....   >>         ---' although both have a tendency to want to form....   >>   14 Dec 2003      Dear Bored, As somebody has poi....   >>      Drag and Drop using ....   Normally you just set up a drive that both Windows....   >>      how do small compani....   Steel companies tend to be grossly inefficient any....   >>      Software Engineers: ....   ---' I'll also note that quite a bit of repressive....   >>      Auto-Hiding Menu Ite....   Extensions might be a mess, but the fact is that t....   >>   13 Dec 2003   What does it mean?   It's just a polite standard refusal letter. I send....   >>      Auto-Hiding Menu Ite....   This argument started because I argued Microsoft's....   >>   12 Dec 2003   how do small compani....   The danger isn't that MS or another big player wil....   >>      Software Engineers: ....   Yep, we do disagree. Remember the argument that....   >>      How "e" is the place....   Dear Mark, You're being flippant.....   >>         Actually, I print out loads of stuff, but make a p....   >>         The email will be deleted after x days policy is a....   >>      Programmers' Opinion....   ---'Ugh, I shudder every time I hear someone sugge....   >>      Opinion on Experts E....   Experts Exchange offers you 125 points to start wi....   >>      New Development PC   Wish I knew. They take a lot more on my machine!   >>      IRS Systems upgrade,....   Whether US crime has gone down because of harsher ....   >>      Bill Gates: agnostic....   There's no more reason he should thank Darwin for ....   >>      Auto-Hiding Menu Ite....   ----'Being a good internet citizen means sending a....   >>         Dear Almost Anonymous, ....   >>         Not to you, but to a person who doesn't know what ....   >>      U.S. Programmers at ....   Dear Bella, Case not closed at al....   >>   11 Dec 2003   Programmers' Opinion....   From what you say this is a prime candidate for pr....   >>         The question is what does the program do, what use....   >>      Opinion on Experts E....   Doesn't render properly in Netscape! I don't kn....   >>      New Development PC   Windows 2000 is an absolute laggard at starting up....   >>      Disabling of Control....   Word disables plenty of things until you open a do....   >>      Bill Gates: agnostic....   Dear Aloysha, The hypothesis ....   >>      Choosing a laptop   The first laptop I had was an Acer, and the second....   >>      Auto-Hiding Menu Ite....   --' Even the most newbie users know that .doc file....   >>         I like XP's start menu, and the show recently used....   >>      Odd situation   The SCO Linux case really does seem like SCO suing....   >>         The OP can expect to be sued. Clean room means ....   >>      The Need to Outsourc....   I beleived the first Gulf War was necessary. Iraq ....   >>         It is well worth mentioning that the biggest anti-....   >>      U.S. Programmers at ....   Dear Illegal alien, I hav....   >>         The Spanish use 'Americanos' for what the British ....   >>      On design: database ....   If you were an automotive engineer and told that y....   >>         It must be a pretty old version of Jet if it doesn....   >>      Spam Overload   I had my email address on thousands of forum posts....   >>      how much this so cal....   --'more than $1,000,000 per employee. And you can ....   >>      Mozilla Firebird can....   This is the whole problem. Now if you save as w....   >>   10 Dec 2003   Spam Overload   I get spam on my work account and I've never given....   >>      Mozilla Firebird can....   The point is that the llinks withing the mht are f....   >>   09 Dec 2003   Some logic puzzles   We all know the one about the man who always told ....   >>      Mozilla Firebird can....   It also sucks big time. The links are hard coded s....   >>      Role Fragmentation   From the article:--'Another great idea borne of la....   >>      Eric Raymond and Ric....   Wow, John's upset that a load of Western European ....   >>   08 Dec 2003   Win32 admin: I'm pat....   Try Power User. I don't know the Unix equivalent. ....   >>   07 Dec 2003      You can change the settings from just the two user....   >>      The real enemy of pr....   --' Sounds like you're upset because no-one likes....   >>   06 Dec 2003      Dear Bored, The fact that Delph....   >>      American programmers....   The $40K was what they would be billed. The progra....   >>      IT at School   Dear Dennis, Having taught fo....   >>   05 Dec 2003      Even knowledgeablle teachers use multiple choice q....   >>   30 Nov 2003   French translation n....   I think "on peut lire" would be better than "vous ....   >>      Learning Unix/Linux   'If you start out with trying to install a Linux d....   >>      how good a software ....   The fact that Yahoo's list was done manually meant....   >>         The thing about Google is that it proves that if s....   >>      Reading Times   Before the Internet came round I would spend four ....   >>      POLL : Do you play v....   And while any computer can play chess better than ....   >>         I used to paly chess with the computer until I upg....   >>      Why Open Source Has ....   Dear blank, --'If they start iden....   >>      Design pattern?   So you are not going to have collaboration on the ....   >>      Performing at your P....   Something like 30 years ago I worked for a headmas....   >>      Tidbits - Bayesian A....   ---'really commercial, well funded operations gett....   >>   29 Nov 2003   Why Open Source Has ....   Dear All Code wants to be free, ....   >>   27 Nov 2003   Design pattern?   Why not look at somethng that more or less does th....   >>         I'd think you would be more likely to get an answe....   >>      A bit far-fetched   But it's often the Access developers themselves th....   >>         You're not likely to get more than one user updati....   >>      Advice on how to fix....   I use start up cop daily to see what's running. ....   >>         Tweak UI is simply a registry editor. You can a....   >>      and or or   Tell them "OR" means "and" and "AND" means "both" ....   >>      How did Amazon becom....   --'Why do you have a 'list' of addresses here? Sho....   >>      Death of Moore's Law....   The other part of Moore's law was that the investm....   >>      What is a Halon syst....   --'water eliminates heat'---- I thought water e....   >>   26 Nov 2003   The relentless march....   Dear Dennis, Mandarake has been....   >>      Continuous income fo....   Dear JT, What makes you think that yo....   >>      There's a requiremen....   The joys of outsourcing! Am I the only one who ....   >>      When Good Metaphors ....   Word Pad really sucks. It's the genuine what y....   >>   23 Nov 2003   An outsourcing/offsh....   Dear Marx, What a joke! Why on ea....   >>   22 Nov 2003   Stupidity Video   Streaming video at 147kbps - not really on for a d....   >>      GUI design (Linux)   But how often do we actually see the desktop nowad....   >>      Obscure acronyms   Windows 2000 is built on NT technology according t....   >>      Do you know of a fre....   There is simply so much data to analyze that a sci....   >>      An outsourcing/offsh....   Depends which country; Chile seemed to do OK (alth....   >>         The one thing that farmers in the third world want....   >>      Why are we doing thi....   Another thing to bear in mind is that the number o....   >>         Inconsistent argumenting. You don't outsource i....   >>         But isn't one of the reasons the scene is so dire ....   >>      "warm-chair attritio....   I would say between 3-5% unemployment is the sweet....   >>         Dennis, the guy is talking about what is known as ....   >>   21 Nov 2003   Users revolt against....   I agree with Dominic. I've still got a 3310, bough....   >>      MS Exchange Server :....   I had to do the same to get the mailbox we use to ....   >>      The Irony of Outsour....   The real problem with US and EU subsidies isn't ju....   >>      XP question (delete ....   I thought the built in firewall ohly controlled in....   >>      Stopping Spyware   Incidentally when they debated making cocaine ille....   >>         ---'but there scarcely any of the drug left in the....   >>      How about a "To All"....   No, but you are lazy because you are sending out t....   >>         --'In the world of which I am an occasional denize....   >>         I think he was being sarcastic Satyash. Howeve....   >>         Yep, it appears you're right. However it is....   >>   20 Nov 2003   The Irony of Outsour....   Just Me. The relative cost of labour is low for a ....   >>      XP question (delete ....   The sent counter sometimes goes crazy. Zone Alarm ....   >>      is MCSE/MCSD useful ....   What the MCSE stuff will do is give you the backgr....   >>      Stopping Spyware   Actually they used to have loads of cocaine in the....   >>      Installing new progr....   One las thing. Offer the guy a choice of what fold....   >>      How about a "To All"....   Dear mb, You might have details. Pl....   >>         It's a little known bug/gotcha in Outlook but when....   >>      how much your salary....   There is a website where you can type in any two l....   >>   19 Nov 2003   Silly Question: How ....   "People who say there are things money can't buy d....   >>      Maximizing Forms   What fixed size are you going to have? Have it....   >>      Linux hack attempt   The registry is not a file system, it's a database....   >>   18 Nov 2003   Microsoft opens Offi....   XML for Word has great advantages over RTF. You ca....   >>      More on Quark   Dear Walter, The problem isn't ....   >>      The real problem wit....   If you ask 'who by?' as opposed to 'where', then I....   >>      Significance of the ....   The question is are they making a good job of it :....   >>   16 Nov 2003      Yea, Bored Bystander has got it dead right. And....   >>         Good managers don't hire bad developers and if the....   >>      support for a sharew....   If you get flooded with emails over the weekend th....   >>      Choosing a "voice" f....   We is normal for a busiiness; you'll soon get used....   >>      Offshoring Opportuni....   One of the main problems with Indian developers is....   >>      Laptop Security   There have been cases of fires caused by laptops o....   >>      Joel, a critique of ....   Registration only serves to cut out automated post....   >>      Linux hack attempt   One less documented bug was the incompatibility be....   >>         Dear Ori, The registry came in with....   >>      A Programmer and an ....   The Revolution's come and with it public hangings ....   >>      Employment Hours Sta....   They're asking you to work overtime because they'r....   >>      Large amount of imag....   What's the file system?   >>      Anti Spam Scheme   I used the spambayes plug-in for Outlook 2000 but ....   >>      I hate "smart" softw....   It would be OK if they just beeped out the letter ....   >>   15 Nov 2003   Hard Data   The "father of management" is always considered to....   >>         Dear JD, Your proposed experiment wil....   >>      Offshoring Opportuni....   Dear T. Norman, You're th....   >>         The Indian comapanies are three or four really big....   >>         Dear King David, Possib....   >>         Nobody seems to have mentioned that Quark was a lo....   >>      Dressing up for job ....   Unless it's a business or financial firm, or a con....   >>      Where's Bella?   I thought Zone Alarm gave you a spoofed IP address....   >>      Laptop Security   I would not think it that good an idea to have the....   >>      ...favorite light bu....   --'Scouser (Liverpool) - thief /unemployed'---- ....   >>      The Reality Distorti....   I agree with Philo on this one. I don't want a new....   >>      Employment Hours Sta....   -----' I meant to say 'Of course, that's why they'....   >>      Airport security - a....   You can check everybody; it's done in the UK; inde....   >>      What's China got to ....   There was a case only last week where someone adde....   >>   14 Nov 2003   ...favorite light bu....   ---'It's 'Pollacks' not 'Irishmen'. In offensive ....   >><