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OT: Amusing reading
Posted: 07 Aug 2007 15:30
by ugus
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/
Posted: 07 Aug 2007 15:58
by lukescammell
Posted: 07 Aug 2007 16:05
by ugus
Yeah, I saw this link
Please also look through the comments, it is maybe even more interesting...
Posted: 07 Aug 2007 16:53
by j_c_hallgren
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!
Posted: 07 Aug 2007 18:48
by admin
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!
Posted: 05 Sep 2007 09:01
by panorama
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
Posted: 05 Sep 2007 09:03
by panorama
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