1992casey

Cell phone users... again. I was in a waiting room in a car dealer yesterday. A guy about three chairs away from me decided to make a prolonged call, and of course, was speaking so loudly that you couldn't avoid hearing every detail of his conversation. Soon, the guy on the other side of me decided that he'd make a call, too, so I was listening to two conversations in "stereo." After a while, the first person moved to the showroom. That fixed his impact on the waiting room. However, instead, you could hear him all over the showroom. Later, I saw a man talking on a cell while driving. He gave another driver the equivalent of the finger with the hand holding the phone. Somehow, I have to feel that if one is talking on the phone, he's lost his "right" to do this.

Does Windows 7 do better with standard user accounts than previous versions? In the past, I've heard a lot of complaints that running Windows in a standard account limits users too much.

jefferyzee, if you go into your Yuku album and use the absolute location rather than the thumbnail location, you're likely to see bigger pictures. I say "likely" because I don't know what your original photos looked like. http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/smile.gif As an option, hit the image button in the post editor; it's to the right of the "remove hyperlink" button. You'll be able to find your images right in the editor and post them that way.

Holy Mother of Fruitcakes? That's right up there with Peavey's use of "Sweet merciful crap!"

According to deadspin.com there is a writer named Lisa Olson who has turned in a blank ballot every year since she has been eligible to vote. I don't think there's a connection to the blank ballots, but Olson is the writer who was sexually harassed by New England Patriots players after they labeled her as a "looker."

I'll have to try that, Brian. I know that OS X has a bunch of shells, but since I'm in Terminal so little, it really doesn't matter which one I use. http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/smile.gif I also remembered later that I can get the correct path by dragging a file or folder icon into the Terminal window. If I do that, it uses backslashes rather than quotes. But backslashes are fine if I'm not typing them by hand. I wanted this so I could set up a "service" that would quickly dump LSOs via the Services submenu of whatever application I might be in. This line does that: "XXXXXXXX" is actually a string of random characters.

Books are cool gifts.

Perfect. Thanks! I knew the quotes worked on multiple-word directories, but I didn't know they worked in other situations. Methinks I prefer them to the backslash; they're easier to read.

I'm trying to get into a directory. I do just fine until I get to a directory called "#SharedObjects". I can't do a cd or ls to be able to see what's in there. The shell gives me the error message "No such file or directory." I assume it's the pound sign that I need to do something about. Any suggestions?

Definitely go for Windows 7 over Vista. Everything I've heard is that on the same machine, 7 is faster. (Actually, I'm surprised that the manufacturers are still offering Vista.) In the Windows 7 thread, I reported slowness on one computer I messed with. That computer has a 2.4 GHz Sempron processor. Semprons have a single core and only 512 MB of L2 cache. I mention this because the Dell you link to comes with a Sempron. While I don't know for sure if the processor is the cause of the slowness I experienced, if you choose the Dell, I'd upgrade it to an Athlon--probably the "Dell Recommended" one for $90.

It's not like unusual September roster additions haven't happened before, but I can't recall a retired player being added because of postseason playoff implications. When the Brewers put Harvey Kuenn on the active roster, it was to give him more credit toward his pension.

No, he isn't. But Staub would be an interesting case to examine. I don't think one could make an effective sabermetric case for inclusion. But when looking at traditional stats, one has to wonder why his best vote total was only 8%.

I liked weather forecasts with Albert the Alley Cat. http://images.yuku.com/image/jpeg/29125ef5614db51c4a606bebd9882775c81f61c.jpg

I've noticed that the search thing in the Start menu can function fairly similarly to the Run command. If all you want to do is run a program, type in whatever you'd put in the Run box. You'll get a list (probably containing one item). Double-click on that item. That's actually the same number of mouse clicks as using Run. I used the search the other day in a store that didn't make a web browser conveniently available. With Run, of course, you can go well beyond a simple search. Here's another trick that some might find worthwhile: How to Enable Windows 7 GodMode This allows you to bring up close to 50 categories of configuration options in one window. Those who hate clicking through the interface four or five times to find something might prefer this. Of course, I'm sure a lot of users would decide that running Windows as God would be just as confusing as all the clicking.

However, I will gladly make a trade with the baseball gods for a Dawson in the HOF, versus a Ron Santo. I support Santo's inclusion--if it ever happens. The favor I'd look for from the baseball gods would be to induct Dawson with an Expos cap.

It's up to the Hall with the player's opinion given consideration.

Yeah, he'd be the first-ever Diamondback. If--for whatever reason--he went in as a Mariner, he'd be the first ever from that team, too.

I think the big motivation for this deal was for the Red Sox to shed salary and avoid paying luxury tax.

jerichoholicninja, this doesn't change anything from Milwaukee's standpoint. The Brewers will continue to pay almost all of Hall's salary.

it still irks me that they took away my Start, Run option which I'm addicted to from so many years working on XP You can put that back. How to Enable Run Command in Windows 7 Start Menu

I don't know if accessing Photobucket via Yuku's post editor counts as a login or not. It doesn't. http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/wink.gif You need to log in at their site.

To be doubly sure, have you tried connecting your Time Warner gizmo to a computer with an ethernet cable?

I think that a large part of the reason that Yount's percentage was low was the fact that three players were elected on the same ballot for the first time in eons. There were writers who wouldn't put Ryan, Yount, and Brett on the same ballot simply because they didn't want to see more than two players inducted.

Firefox, Chrome, and Safari all ran great for me. I don't think there should be any issues with the major browsers, or at least none that should prevent you from giving them a test drive.

Houlie, everything I read says that 7 improves on Vista and that on the same machine, 7 will out-perform Vista. So, yeah, I'd install it. There's no rush, though. Do it when you have time budgeted and after you've done some preliminary homework. Do a Google search for your computer's model number and Windows 7, and see if people are running into anything like obsessed is. Check for things like your drivers, crucial applications, and oddball browser plug-ins. Also, check to see if you're changing from 32 to 64 bit. If you are, you'll want to research in that context, too. Chances are that if your upgrade came as the result of purchasing a new computer, everything is 64 bit. If you have a good backup routine, there'd be very little risk in trying 7. All you'd really need is adequate time on your hands in case you decided to revert. It could also turn out that you've done a 7 upgrade and decide that you'd rather have a clean install. I upgraded one of my Macs to Snow Leopard the second day it was out. It started using too much battery power during sleep, and a search indicated that this issue was generally resolved with a clean install. (I never bothered with the clean install; a system update seems to have fixed this.) I mention this because anytime one does an OS upgrade, a clean install occasionally pops up as a solution for certain problems. obsessed, have you tried checking for the most current driver for your card? There might be something in Windows update, at Dell, or at the card manufacturer's website. Aside from that (and hopefully seeing some suggestions here http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/smile.gif), push this hard with Dell; it's their responsibility to fix this. Also, search around the Internet to see if others are experiencing your problem. Adding to my editorial above, experiencing things like slowness and wonky video isn't necessarily a surprise when doing an upgrade on an existing machine. But these issues shouldn't be happening on new computers out of the box. For stuff like driver issues, I think we can absolve Windows 7 from blame; that rests on the computer and device manufacturers. With slowness, the issue would be between the manufacturer and Microsoft. It could be that even though Microsoft has been telling people to be cautious with upgrades, their system requirements for new machines may not be high enough. By the way, when I was working on that computer, it never crashed.