Comments for Ed Cottrell

Comment on Handy Software – WinDirStat by Ed

Ed — Sun, 25 Mar 2012 12:33:19 +0000

These products really aren’t comparable, especially given that WinDirStat is free and Directory Report is not.

Comment on Handy Software – WinDirStat by binaryman

binaryman — Sat, 24 Mar 2012 12:26:29 +0000

Ed, how long did it take WinDirStat to scan 1.1 million files? You should try Directory Report http://www.file-utilities.com It is faster than WinDirStat

Comment on Handy Software – WinDirStat by Ed

Ed — Sat, 10 Mar 2012 06:45:15 +0000

That is pretty impressive. I think the most important piece of hardware for her to learn to appreciate is the delete key. I wonder how many hours it took her to clean it up?

Comment on Handy Software – WinDirStat by Nick L

Nick L — Sat, 10 Mar 2012 01:58:59 +0000

Topical:

One of my coworkers needed help this week deleting emails. Her computer kept locking up. When I walked around to her desk I saw her inbox had over 25,000 emails in it. Familiarity with Outlook will make you say “No, she 25,000 unread emails.” Not including emails in the Sent Items folder. When I gasped at the sheer enormity of the number she said “I’ve got it down to about half of what it was.” Another person was already helping her with this task. A brief explanation of RAM, and how it relates to performance when deleting thousands of emails at a time, was given.

She hadn’t ever deleted an email while working here.

Comment on Ziff Davis Spam Part III: The Solution? by Ed

Ed — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 22:22:56 +0000

Ronald, thanks, but this link doesn’t appear to work, at least not without a unique id of some sort.

Comment on Ziff Davis Spam Part III: The Solution? by Ronald Evers

Ronald Evers — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 15:12:00 +0000

Ziff Davis global unsubscribe page:
http://tippit.tiptrac.com/unsub/unsub.form

Comment on Six Hundred by Ed

Ed — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 02:48:27 +0000

Oof. Sorry, man. I am not an Eclipse guru, but that’s by choice. I know just enough about it to run away, but it sounds like you are being forced to deal with it for work or something. Good luck with that!

Comment on Six Hundred by Nick L

Nick L — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 02:28:16 +0000

If you want to start hating it I suggest you start coding it in Eclipse, and make sure everything is a package, that needs multiple dependencies run before you can look at anything in preview. Sigh.

Comment on GTD: Your 6 Most Important Things by Ed Cottrell » Six Hundred

Ed Cottrell » Six Hundred — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 04:28:17 +0000

[...] « GTD: Your 6 Most Important Things [...]

Comment on Fascinating Use of Web-Based Collaboration by Nick L

Nick L — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 01:45:14 +0000

This is interesting, and far more useful than the dumb translation tools we have now.

For example, I love the game Gaplus, a somewhat rare game from the classic age of Arcades.

http://kani.ninpou.jp/gaplus/gaplus.htm

Only a fraction of this is useful.

http://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?hl=en&IE=UTF8&prev=_t&rurl=translate.google.com&sl=ja&tl=en&twu=1&u=http://kani.ninpou.jp/gaplus/gaplus.htm&usg=ALkJrhg7O4KwUWfh1cCE0TJqRsz93R15tA

An unknown portion of the text that doesn’t make any sense isn’t even close to being accurate even if it was coherent.

Lucky for me the guy who sits next to me at work lived in Japan for several years and can translate Japanese.