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My iPad is taking about 6 hours, at the current rate, to sync my 7000 + photos. The app store won't let me buy anything in the US b/c I am registered as living in Australia. Apart from that, the iPad is still rocking my world.
Christian Graus
Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista.
Read my blog to find out how I've worked around bugs in Microsoft tools and frameworks.
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Christian Graus wrote: the iPad is still rocking my world
That's the effect the iPhone made to me... the first two days. Then it was hate. Only hate.
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Yes, but CG has his set to vibrate!!
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If that's all it takes to rock your world, you need a more solid world. 
Opacity, the new Transparency.
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Christian Graus wrote: The app store won't let me buy anything in the US b/c I am registered as living in Australia
Yet another sign in the ongoing war by the major companies for control of the global corporate monobloc.
He who controls the spice users controls the universe!
Software Zen: delete this;
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Because it’s a very expensive toy and for a fraction of this money you could buy PS3 which is a REAL toy or SSD for your PC.
The narrow specialist in the broad sense of the word is a complete idiot in the narrow sense of the word.
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I'm a dinosaur. I admit it. I have large green scales and sharp teeth perfect for gnawing on anything that looks tasty. All of which is to say that like many others here, my initial MS experiences were with DOS. And I'm strangely at peace with that.
Since olden times, the DOS based search parameters have been honored. Whether I type in a search box from Explorer in Windows or from the command line prompt, * is the wildcard for everything, ? is the wildcard for one character. And thus, *.ascx* will give you *.ascx, *.ascx.cs, *.ascx.designer.cs since the last * means "and everything else after this."
Imagine my surprise when I do that search in Windows 7 and it gives me simply *.ascx. If I search for *.ascx.*, I get *.ascx.cs and *.ascx.designer.cs, but no .ascx files since they don't have the . at the end.
Exclaiming WTF with some enthusiasm, I went to a command prompt where, sure enough, *.ascx* works just like it always did.
Clearly, there's a moron at work here. Either I'm simply too stupid to understand how to use Search in the Explorer, or some rocket scientist at MS thought it would be good to have pattern matching work differently in the GUI than it does on the command line (and all previous versions of Windows).
And so, I put it to the masses here (washed and otherwise) who know well my knack for personal stupidity: am I simply not smart enough to properly use search, or is MS as brain dead as I'm thinking to break something so fundamental to an OS as the ability to search for files? After all, given how long it took to do file copies in Vista, it's not like this kind of thing is unprecedented.
Grrr. That's it. I'm gonna go find a lesser mammal and gnaw on it...
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Search was fundamentally broken in Vista. I guess they are incrementally fixing it, if it at least does SOMETHING again. In XP, I had some desktop search thing install with instant update. It breaks search, I have to go past it to the old one to search my HDD.
Christian Graus
Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista.
Read my blog to find out how I've worked around bugs in Microsoft tools and frameworks.
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Morons.
Must... resist... trip... to... Mac... store... 
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Loving my new iPad right now...
Christian Graus
Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista.
Read my blog to find out how I've worked around bugs in Microsoft tools and frameworks.
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Normally I'd make some kind of snarky remark about you being a bunny hugger, but all things considered...
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Christian Graus wrote: Loving my new iPad right now...
Seriously, what is your take on that? It seemed to me like a glorified iPod Touch. I know the screen is a lot larger, but what other advantages are there? It seemed like it does a lot less than some Netbooks from some of the things that have read about it.
I am not bashing you or it; I am seriously interested in why you like it...
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WE ARE DYSLEXIC OF BORG. Refutance is systile. Your a$$ will be laminated.
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Tom Delany wrote: It seemed like it does a lot less than some Netbooks from some of the things that have read about it.
It's not a notebook replacement. Once people get past that, they can start to see the good things it can do.
Cheers,
Drew.
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It is precisely that. It's not a netbook, it does a lot less. For me, it's just very slick, and a great device for storing photos and media. If I didn't want one to learn to program it, I doubt I'd have bought one. However, having one, I can see it's place. It will not replace my MacBook Pro, or even my cheap PC laptops. But, it will be what I use to browse my photos, play some games, browse the web while watching TV, etc.
I think that Apple has overcontrolled this in some ways with the app store, but I've only recently started to appreciate how having a defined place to buy apps instantly is really cool, and leads to people buying a lot of really cheap software. I buy quite a few $2 games nowadays, and I love them for a quick bit of fun.
Christian Graus
Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista.
Read my blog to find out how I've worked around bugs in Microsoft tools and frameworks.
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Thanks for the feedback Christian. I can see where you're coming from, but I doubt I can justify one for my own use. I really do like my son's iPod Touch, so maybe someday if the price comes down a little...
WE ARE DYSLEXIC OF BORG. Refutance is systile. Your a$$ will be laminated.
There are 10 kinds of people in the world: People who know binary and people who don't.
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hey - how did you get an iPad ? I didnt think they were avail in Aus yet (let alone the quiet backwaters of Hobart !)
.. let me guess - had a recent trip to the states ? (If I had known that I would have asked you to get me one)
[edit] just read your post below this ... ahhh - you're still there ! [/edit]
'g'
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it was flown in by the QANTAS CEO himself, CG and he are buddies now. Happened shortly after the Telstra reconciliation.
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modified on Wednesday, May 12, 2010 7:38 PM
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Eww... I did not need that picture in my head, man.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Dollars to doughnuts that they are aping the way it works in Mac OSX Finder/Search where you just typing characters. Let's not even get into a discussion as to whether or not that's a good thing
Of course I gave up on search in Explorer a long time ago.
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If they are aping it, they failed.
The OSX search automatically assumes wildcards on both ends and tries to find strings containing the search term in the name and meta-data.
The Seven approach is no where near as good and is worse than XP in a lot of ways. Which is sad. If it ain't broke, break it should not be a motto.
If I have accidentally said something witty, smart, or correct, it is purely by mistake and I apologize for it.
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I have never much liked Windows search. In fact, I created my own regex search utility so I could avoid using it. The thing that really annoys me is that it ignores some file types. You can fix that in a round about way, but it's way too dumbed down for my taste. I guess they just assume users would get overwhelmed with all those fancy looking settings.
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Once windows started searching ZIP files as if they were folders, that forced me back to the command line prompt, and I was glad that the command line worked differently!
Also, the windows search will not search files that are open, even if they are opened in shared read mode. Bogus.
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