A never-flagging sense of wonder...
Apr. 13th, 2002 10:32 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alexpgpTwo items tickled the neuron paths this morning, prompting me to wonder...
(a) A sign proclaiming an organizational meeting for a group that would, among its other goals, seek "meaningful change."
This led me down the following path: Are there really that many groups out there who work to seek "meaningless change"? (Ridiculous, I know. The use of the cliché is intended to marginalize The Other, as in "We stand for meaningful change, our opponents don't.")
(b) A box of an even dozen sympathy cards on sale a few doors down.
I can understand buying a dozen invitations to a party, or a dozen Christmas cards. Buying a dozen sympathy cards seems a pretty morbid thing to do (unless, I suppose, you are friends with a bunch of people who belong to a group like Heaven's Gate, but now I am digressing, morbidly...).
* * * It is a glorious morning out there! The sky is clear, the sun is shining, and the air temperature is just cool enough to let you notice it.
It is such a great day that I'm not even minding having been in the store for the past two-and-a-half hours by myself!
* * * The time alone has allowed me to explore why NeTraverse's Win4Lin wouldn't allow me to set the Windows screen size to a default 1024x710 pixels.
Trying to make the adjustment via the Control Panel did not work.
Trying to make the adjustment via the Linux utility winsetup didn't work.
Attempting to use the --geometry 1024x710 command line parameter didn't work (I modified the Properties associated with the X desktop icon).
Supposedly (if I read the docs and Web support page correctly) any of these should have done the trick, but didn't.
I then ran /bin/win --geometry 1024x710 from the command line and found out that the correct command line parameter format was:
/bin/win -g 1024x710
It's this kind of thing (disseminating poor and/or out of date help information) that's going to kill small operators in the end, and what makes the situation worse is that writing good documentation and coordinating the information to be written are two of the most difficult things in product development. Arguably, they are even more difficult to manage than actual code development.
But I better put away the soapbox before I manage to change my mood, which is still as sunny as the great outdoors.
Customers are coming...
Cheers...
(a) A sign proclaiming an organizational meeting for a group that would, among its other goals, seek "meaningful change."
This led me down the following path: Are there really that many groups out there who work to seek "meaningless change"? (Ridiculous, I know. The use of the cliché is intended to marginalize The Other, as in "We stand for meaningful change, our opponents don't.")
(b) A box of an even dozen sympathy cards on sale a few doors down.
I can understand buying a dozen invitations to a party, or a dozen Christmas cards. Buying a dozen sympathy cards seems a pretty morbid thing to do (unless, I suppose, you are friends with a bunch of people who belong to a group like Heaven's Gate, but now I am digressing, morbidly...).
It is such a great day that I'm not even minding having been in the store for the past two-and-a-half hours by myself!
Trying to make the adjustment via the Control Panel did not work.
Trying to make the adjustment via the Linux utility winsetup didn't work.
Attempting to use the --geometry 1024x710 command line parameter didn't work (I modified the Properties associated with the X desktop icon).
Supposedly (if I read the docs and Web support page correctly) any of these should have done the trick, but didn't.
I then ran /bin/win --geometry 1024x710 from the command line and found out that the correct command line parameter format was:
/bin/win -g 1024x710
It's this kind of thing (disseminating poor and/or out of date help information) that's going to kill small operators in the end, and what makes the situation worse is that writing good documentation and coordinating the information to be written are two of the most difficult things in product development. Arguably, they are even more difficult to manage than actual code development.
But I better put away the soapbox before I manage to change my mood, which is still as sunny as the great outdoors.
Customers are coming...
Cheers...
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Date: 2002-04-13 12:02 pm (UTC)I mean, even if you commit massive genocide chances are you have some sort of justification for it in your own mind and believe that that race is getting their justice at the end of your knife.
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Date: 2002-04-13 07:45 pm (UTC)Cheers...
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Date: 2002-04-13 12:04 pm (UTC)