OT: Amusing reading

ugus · Post by **ugus** » 07 Aug 2007 15:30

Maybe you know this blog but anyway...

A great blog which explains why Windows looks like it does and much more...
Written by Raymond Chen one of the MS gurus. He is the granddaddy of Windows Explorer.

http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/

lukescammell · Post by **lukescammell** » 07 Aug 2007 15:58

Nice find, here's a better link;

http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/archi ... 95888.aspx

ugus · Post by **ugus** » 07 Aug 2007 16:05

Yeah, I saw this link

Please also look through the comments, it is maybe even more interesting...

Post by **j_c_hallgren** » 07 Aug 2007 16:53

So I skimmed thru it and see DirOpus mentioned twice, and xplorer2 also...so who's going to be the volunteer to post XY to that blog? Not me at this point...I think someone else here would do a better job!

Post by **admin** » 07 Aug 2007 18:48

j_c_hallgren wrote:So I skimmed thru it and see DirOpus mentioned twice, and xplorer2 also...so who's going to be the volunteer to post XY to that blog? Not me at this point...I think someone else here would do a better job!

Total Commander, too, right at the beginning

It's almost always the same three; see also http://wakoopa.com/tags/file+manager -- notability correlates with user count (exception is "Far Manager") -- it's a recursive self-propelling thing: once famous (notable?) you get more famous. The raison d'etre of the hype. Being kicked out of WP is the anti-hype...

Blogs might not count for WP's notability concept, bu they surely count for real world's notability. So, yes, would be nice if XY would be mentioned in that blog!

panorama · Post by **panorama** » 05 Sep 2007 09:01

admin wrote:So, yes, would be nice if XY would be mentioned in that blog!

But it is, lookie here:

# re: It was not one of Explorer's design goals to provide a Turing-complete interface for bulk file renaming
Tuesday, August 07, 2007 3:08 PM by bob

Explorer might not have been designed for this, but in all honesty it hasn't been designed but a whole lot of things, when it comes to (serious) file management.

That's why there are so many alternatives, one of them - and the best IMHO - being XYplorer, which features absolutely everything that's been mentionning on your post (and more), only it can't use the date created, only current date & date modified.

More on all the rename features here:

http://88.191.26.34/XYwiki/index.php/Rename_Special

panorama · Post by **panorama** » 05 Sep 2007 09:03

panorama wrote:
admin wrote:So, yes, would be nice if XY would be mentioned in that blog!
But now it is, and nicely at that, lookie here:

# re: It was not one of Explorer's design goals to provide a Turing-complete interface for bulk file renaming
Tuesday, August 07, 2007 3:08 PM by bob

Explorer might not have been designed for this, but in all honesty it hasn't been designed but a whole lot of things, when it comes to (serious) file management.

That's why there are so many alternatives, one of them - and the best IMHO - being XYplorer, which features absolutely everything that's been mentionning on your post (and more), only it can't use the date created, only current date & date modified.

More on all the rename features here:

http://88.191.26.34/XYwiki/index.php/Rename_Special