October 18, 2007

sausage boy · Post by **sausage boy** » Thu Oct 18, 2007 7:58 pm

Niveous wrote:saying that the written word has been able to change the world and inspire people to action and music hasn't.

uh... wasn't the whole of the 70's basically run by music?

I bet Bono and Geldof would love to hear statements like this.

Post by **Spud** » Thu Oct 18, 2007 8:38 pm

Sven wrote:Ummm, Spud?

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/321379

Oh, for crying out loud. Sven, I owe you one. I am going to try this as soon as I get home. But really, but would it be too much trouble to put this in the box?

Märk · Post by **Märk** » Thu Oct 18, 2007 8:46 pm

Whoah! Beer o'clock, Spud? Don't think I've ever seen a double post 8 minutes apart

Anyway, yer welcome for the tip. All I had to do was type 'how to print a directory listing' in a google search, after all...

[EDIT] I just tried it, it works perfectly.

king_arthur · Post by **king_arthur** » Thu Oct 18, 2007 9:21 pm

So I guess I should have said, "Using Adobe Acrobat 5.0, I have yet to discover a way to..."

Here's the magic for paginating HTML pages:

<html>
<head>
<title>test of pagination tricks in CSS 2</title>
<style>
H2 { page-break-before: always }
</style>
</head>
<body>

[h2]this is page 1 of my printout[/h2]

[h2]this is page 2 of my printout[/h2]

...or thereabouts...

Maybe tomorrow's QotD should be "I wish I knew a clever tip for..." and then everybody who knows stuff can show off how much they know!

Charles

Billy's Little Trip · Thu Oct 18, 2007 10:15 pm

Niveous wrote:She said that music was a lesser art form in comparison to Literature and Visual Art, saying that the written word has been able to change the world and inspire people to action and music hasn't

Remind her that the song "Helter Skelter" inspired Manson to kill Sharon Tate and it changed her world. Then tell her that you were also listening to Helter Skelter over and over for the past two weeks. 8) << be sure to make this face.

Post by **Spud** » Thu Oct 18, 2007 10:29 pm

Sven wrote:Ummm, Spud?

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/321379

O.K. I tried it and it works, but it's such a hack that it is embarrassing. I hope you mac guys can come up with something better than this. I am willing to go to the other side if you can...

roymond · Post by **roymond** » Fri Oct 19, 2007 8:31 am

Spud wrote:
Sven wrote:Ummm, Spud?
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/321379
O.K. I tried it and it works, but it's such a hack that it is embarrassing. I hope you mac guys can come up with something better than this. I am willing to go to the other side if you can...

That's very cool. But really, it's a DOS solution, not Windows. Don't they ever update Windows other than the theme songs?

Post by **Spud** » Fri Oct 19, 2007 8:43 am

roymond wrote:
Spud wrote:
Sven wrote:Ummm, Spud?
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/321379
O.K. I tried it and it works, but it's such a hack that it is embarrassing. I hope you mac guys can come up with something better than this. I am willing to go to the other side if you can...
That's very cool. But really, it's a DOS solution, not Windows. Don't they ever update Windows other than the theme songs?

Yeah, they recently polished up all the buttons again and re-hid the functions in new places.

HeuristicsInc · Post by **HeuristicsInc** » Fri Oct 19, 2007 10:43 am

You know what I need from time to time is a method of listing all subdirectories, recursively, in a tree, with the size of that subdir alongside the name. This is what the "du" command does in Unix. I have just discovered that "du" appears in Cygwin, so that will suffice. But in the past I have had trouble finding this function.
-bill

roymond · Post by **roymond** » Fri Oct 19, 2007 11:12 am

HeuristicsInc wrote:You know what I need from time to time is a method of listing all subdirectories, recursively, in a tree, with the size of that subdir alongside the name. This is what the "du" command does in Unix. I have just discovered that "du" appears in Cygwin, so that will suffice. But in the past I have had trouble finding this function.
-bill

I used Frontier a lot years ago. It was cross-platform (uh...Win & Mac) and had tons of great features like this, plus an amazing object-oriented scripting language fully compatible with Apple Events on Macs and COM on Windows, plus a web server and other stuff.

Some of the stuff is open source now, some for purchase. Brilliant tools, originally from Dave Winer, father of RSS and podcasting.

Billy's Little Trip · Fri Oct 19, 2007 11:16 am

HeuristicsInc wrote:You know what I need from time to time is a method of listing all subdirectories, recursively, in a tree

[sven]umm, Bill? http://www.thescripts.com/forum/thread678152.html [/sven]

HeuristicsInc · Post by **HeuristicsInc** » Fri Oct 19, 2007 12:03 pm

Billy's Little Trip wrote:
HeuristicsInc wrote:You know what I need from time to time is a method of listing all subdirectories, recursively, in a tree
[sven]umm, Bill? http://www.thescripts.com/forum/thread678152.html [/sven]

no, no, that's not the right thing at all. this is to count up the size of the directory tree under each subdir and NOT list the files at all. anyway, don't go looking, i have a solution!
-bill

Billy's Little Trip · Post by **Billy's Little Trip** » Fri Oct 19, 2007 5:53 pm

I had no clue, I was just cracking a Sven.

Heather. Redmon. · Post by **Heather. Redmon.** » Fri Oct 19, 2007 10:24 pm

Heather. Redmon. wrote:Today my son Spencer turns 5! We are going to Chuck E. Cheese tonight to celebrate! I haven't been there since I was probably 8 or 9. Fun! Phil and I are getting him this!

So yesterday was Spencer's birthday and we had a blast a Chuck E. Cheese. Here's the birthday boy with his best gift of the night (from us)

That's Phil's dad who taught Phil to play guitar, and Phil who will teach Spencer! Spencer's quote while opening the guitar "This is the best birthday ever!". Phil's dad bought him a little Marshall amp and a cord and picks and everything. He started learning today.

Billy's Little Trip · Sat Oct 20, 2007 12:37 am

Spenser is a lucky boy to have such cool rents, and you two are lucky rents to have such an awesome son. The Redmon legend shall continue.

fodroy · Post by **fodroy** » Sat Oct 20, 2007 1:58 am

Hell yes. Spenser, songwriter age 5 or 6 will beat Maddie's record.

Niveous · Post by **Niveous** » Sat Oct 20, 2007 6:59 am

Righteous!

Paco Del Stinko · Post by **Paco Del Stinko** » Sat Oct 20, 2007 7:12 am

That is indeed the best birthday ever. Nice lineage photo, too.

anti-m · Post by **anti-m** » Sat Oct 20, 2007 10:13 am

Heather. Redmon. wrote:Today my son Spencer turns 5! We are going to Chuck E. Cheese tonight to celebrate! I haven't been there since I was probably 8 or 9. Fun! Phil and I are getting him

Awwwww! That is so awesome! Look at the expression on his face! That is a super-sweet picture.

jack · Post by **jack** » Sat Oct 20, 2007 10:46 am

i thought you guys were grooming him to play drums.....

still, the redmons are destined to become the partridge family of songfight.

Heather. Redmon. · Post by **Heather. Redmon.** » Sat Oct 20, 2007 12:52 pm

Our 2 year old, Allison, plays the drums more than Spencer does, so we figure it could be a White Stripes type of thing... but, it wouldn't be terrible if he learned to play both. He wants to learn a Ramones song on guitar first. We'll see how it goes!

Albatross · Post by **Albatross** » Sat Oct 20, 2007 1:00 pm

Heather. Redmon. wrote:He wants to learn a Ramones song on guitar first. We'll see how it goes!

That's a good plan if you're pressed for time. That should take all of what, five minutes?

He will be a better guitarist than I am by the time he's 6.