River: You're not right, Early. You're not righteous. You've got issues. Early: No. Oh, yes, I could have that. You might have me figured out, then. Good job. I'm not 100%.

'Objects In Space'


Natter 47: My Brilliance Is Wasted On You People  

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


tommyrot - Oct 26, 2006 9:12:46 am PDT #5790 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

Ha! Wait, that wasn't that long ago, was it? Was it?

Um, Windows 95 was the first Microsoft OS that supported long file names. So most college freshmen have never faced the short filename issue.


tommyrot - Oct 26, 2006 9:14:06 am PDT #5791 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

What I remember is laughing at PC users while cheerfully naming my files any damn thing on my Mac. Good times, good times.

Back in those days, I couldn't afford a Mac. My first PC was a Leading Edge XT clone - I got it for $400 new because it was discontinued.


§ ita § - Oct 26, 2006 9:15:33 am PDT #5792 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

My officemate doesn't remember when file names had to be 8 characters or less (it was 8, right?). Damn, I'm old.

2006.

I mean, if you use Captiva ImageAccel. Parts of that application for sale today for mucho dinero will break if you try and put files in directories (remember when they were called that, and not folders?) with long file names.


bon bon - Oct 26, 2006 9:17:28 am PDT #5793 of 10001
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.

I've become a lot more reticent about clicking on links (oh, the irony) since the migraines. I feel quite pacific about not having clicked on that one.

Now I feel kinda bad.


Allyson - Oct 26, 2006 9:17:32 am PDT #5794 of 10001
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica

My Mac Performa had to walk uphill both ways through 12 feet of snow to get to the internet.


Nutty - Oct 26, 2006 9:17:54 am PDT #5795 of 10001
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."

I think the Windows-standard DOS FTP program can't deal with filenames of more than 8 chars to this day. I'd go about retrieving MYFILE~1.doc all the time. (That's how it truncated stuff.) And till just recently, I was still using the free Paint Shop Pro, which worked on Windows 98+, and required short filenames.


tommyrot - Oct 26, 2006 9:18:52 am PDT #5796 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

The first couple computers I used had the OS built in (in EPROM or something). The first time I used a PC, I was thinking, "What is this DOS thing and why do I need it?" (That was for a work-study programming job. I programmed in qbasic.)


§ ita § - Oct 26, 2006 9:20:40 am PDT #5797 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Now I feel kinda bad.

Pshaw. Just don't have lilies in your apartment when you invite me over, and we're good.

Captiva InputAccel is one of the top two enterprise capture applications now on the market. It costs a fair chunk of change, and does a boatload of nifty things. Handle long filenames and support rightclicking over thumbnails aren't so much in that boat.


Jesse - Oct 26, 2006 9:20:51 am PDT #5798 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Well, what she was saying is that when she was in high school (which was around 10 years ago), her family was definitely behind the times, tech-wise, so classmates were writing papers in MS Word, but she was using something called Eight in One.

And really, I had no idea that there was still stuff in wide use that didn't support the crazy ass names I give all my files now.


tommyrot - Oct 26, 2006 9:21:35 am PDT #5799 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

This is the first computer I ever owned: [link] A Radio Shack PC-1 (Pocket Computer-1). I also had the printer/cassette interface attachment thingie. That was fun. It had a single line display (LCD) and a whopping 1.5k RAM.