[OT] Cool tiny tiny PC

[Tim Streater]

OK thanks - I'll watch out for that next time I fire up the Mint VM.

[The Natural Philosopher]

Theres a couple of things that confuse Mints file manager thing. One is NFS. If you hard mount an NFS share and it goes away, so too will your computer as the auto=refresh simply hangs.

Editing networked drives from another machine also screws up its understanding. It doesn't know the file has changed then.

finally its a bit ugly if you use ssh to mount a remote file system using sshfs.

Once again changes made even by itself are not always guaranteed to show up. But there is always the refresh button.

[dennis]

Even notepad will just save it under the original name and leave the renamed file as it was when it was renamed. Just like most people would expect. If you wanted to rename it you would just save as the new name and delete the old one if you wanted to. Windows is not written for programmers unlike the *ever so popular* linux.

[Tim Streater]

And Publisher?

[dennis]

Its not really surprising as NFS is stateless. Its why apps use lock files so they think they know who owns the file. Shame it doesn't work very well.

There was a proper system RFS IIRC.

[dennis]

I don't have publisher in any version.

[Vir Campestris]

It would be a less unusual person who installed an OS from USB that needed 3rd party drivers to handle the shiny new USB chips. See if you can guess which OS this might be.

Andy

[Huge]

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I doubt it. I'm no great fan of Macs, either, although I have one. AFAIK, it's a generic UI term.

[Tim Streater]

Thass right, I have to close the doc, rename it, and then open it again. What kind of shitty UI is that, when I could just rename it and the app knows that this has happened, and carries right on.

Obviously Windows is not written for *users*, if this is the kind of convoluted workaround that's considered normal by you and others of your ilk.

[Mike Barnes]

Do calm down, there's a good chap. Probably 99% of Windows users have never experienced the problem you're getting so worked up about and wouldn't give a damn if you explained it to them.

[Mike Barnes]

I really don't think so.

[Tim Streater]

It was a term used for a panel in which you chose a default printer (IIRC) under old MacOS.

[Tim Streater]

I'm sure they have, they've just never noticed it because of what they're used to. For them it's just "how computers work". It doesn't occur to them that there's no need for it, so they don't see a problem.

[290jkl]

No its not. Its generally called a dialog box.

[dennis]

It isn't a problem, they just save as and delete the old one. Its not a problem for 99.99999% of people only linux users and only

0.0001% of them.

Just how often do you want to rename a file you are working on and not save the old one anyway?

[dennis]

It would have to be someone that disabled legacy support in the BIOS so it wouldn't work.

[Chris French]

In message , Tim Streater writes

I'm sure plenty of Windows have come across it, I have myself (though I suspect most users haven't). But really, it's not a big deal, I'm not really in the habit of renaming files open in other programs.

Bit annoying sometimes if it happens? sure, rather it didn't? sure, but it's no big deal.

[Tim Streater]

I'm not a linux user.

There isn't an "old one", there's just the file. It may be an attachment that, after I've edited it a bit, I realise I need to move from the Attachments folder to a better location. This used to happen to me approximately daily, when I was running Eudora on an XP lappy.

[tony sayer]

Umm .. unless I've got this arse about face somewhere lets assume you have a Word doc open under say Office or Openoffice or similar.

If I want to save that and any particular format it gives me the option to just "save" it as it is, inc any alterations I've done since I opened it, under the same name or location, or "save as" which means a different format different name and location if I so want?.

What's wrong with that unless we're on about something else thats either beyond me or I've missed out on?>

[tony sayer]

In article , Tim Streater scribeth thus

Well can't you back click on it and copy and paste it elsewhere or just drag it from one place to another if those folders are open?..