The Nice People Thread, No.16: A Universe of Niceness.

GDB2222

PasturesNew wrote: »

Struggling to search for files. I rely heavily on just searching for what I want on various drives, based on filenames, types, dates and contents....

Right now I know I have a .txt file on my ExtHDD that was last modified in the last month .... but I can't find an easy way to search in Win10.

I used to just pull up explorer and right click on a directory ... or use the Start/search/all documents feature (as that had best control over dates)....

Win10 .... pfft today.

EDIT: Ah, found it. Well, found something... not as detailed, but I can look for a word I remember that's part of the filename. I used to be able to specify all manner of filters though.

It's all still there, but I think MS's usability team must have been stoned or on holiday when it was designed.

In file explorer, navigate to the right drive or folder.
Type your search into the search box
On the menu bar, an extra item appears called search tools, with the word search under it. Click on that word and all the filters appear.

Who can possibly have designed that?

zagubov

This talk of antibiotic resistance resonates with me. I lost two uncles to TB. I remember my dad once showed me the location in north Glasgow where someone injured in a horse-and-cart accident had his life saved in a local hospital by Joseph Lister in the first ever antiseptic surgical operation.

I was amazed to read that that surgeon died in 1912 which is too much like yesterday in terms of human history.

When I worked in a path lab in the early 80s the whole lab gathered around a bacterial specimen that we discovered was sensitive to penicillin. This was only 40 years after it was discovered and bacterial resistance was already so common that exceptions were seen as marvels.

Pyxis

zagubov wrote: »

This talk of antibiotic resistance resonates with me. I lost two uncles to TB. I remember my dad once showed me the location in north Glasgow where someone injured in a horse-and-cart accident had his life saved in a local hospital by Joseph Lister in the first ever antiseptic surgical operation.

I was amazed to read that that surgeon died in 1912 which is too much like yesterday in terms of human history.

When I worked in a path lab in the early 80s the whole lab gathered around a bacterial specimen that we discovered was sensitive to penicillin. This was only 40 years after it was discovered and bacterial resistance was already so common that exceptions were seen as marvels.

Yes, and that was 30-40 years ago! :mad:
It's very annoying how so little is done about known impending dooms until that impending doom is right in our face and enveloping us in its doomful arms!

SingleSue

I developed a resistant bug to most antibiotics in my kidneys back in the 90s and I was never one who had antibiotics willy nilly, my only issue being kidney damage (from endometriosis and pregnancy) and resultant infections.

PasturesNew

Who Do You Think You Are was on the telly tonight. I do wish they'd stop messing about with programming as I perpetually miss programmes now they don't all run sequentially.... many programmes are now running for 2-3 weeks, then 1-2 weeks off, then another couple of episodes, then back on for 2-3 ... it fair messes me up... I get used to something being on, look the next week and it's not on - so I assume that's it ..

WDYTYA did that last series. This series (15), they did a single episode about a month ago ... and the 2nd one was tonight. I think it's every Monday from now on.

So, having not turned the telly on for well over a week, I thought I'd give it a go and it worked

Some actress.... never heard of her... but it was an interesting episode as it turned out she had "interesting/wealthy" ancestors - and part of her tree went off and she ended up in Scotland at a big house where another descendant had accumulated all the family papers and diaries and transcribed the diaries and published a book about the descendencies ... and he had family portraits going back about 300 years up his staircase!

The chap she saw had only ever done "his tree" and actually had no idea that his ancestor's brother had a child, nor did he know that his direct ancestor had paid to have her shipped to England; nor did he know that his ancestor's sister left a small fortune to that child ... as he'd only really done "his tree" ...

Olivia Colman I think it was - never heard of her, so I wiki'd her and have never seen/watched anything she's ever been in (hadn't even heard of 99% of them to be honest either).

So, it came down to: Massively well documented family ... and she had absolutely no idea about any of them....

Although, to be fair, a lot were born in some little village in India and, because her ancestors were in the India Company, they were off abroad having kids and travelling back/forth from India/St Helena and other posh places ... so hard to find those records unless you've got access to stuff like the Westminster archives where they showed her an 1809 divorce by her gt-gt-gt-however-many-grandfather ... at a time when there were only about 3 divorces/year as you needed a Private Act of Parliament to get one. I bet if my relative had a divorce in there I'd never know about it and couldn't pop in and see it.

vivatifosi

I really enjoyed episode too. I think it was my favourite since Danny Dyer.

The Parliamentary Archives are very good to work with. I have bought records from them. It's one of those places you can pay and they send you the info you are after rather than having to visit. Not for my family, they aren't posh enough, but for my friends in America. In the 1600s their family had dealings with something called the "King's Wardrobe". It sounds like it should be about clothes but was actually a land dispute.

Pyxis

PasturesNew wrote: »

Who Do You Think You Are was on the telly tonight. I do wish they'd stop messing about with programming as I perpetually miss programmes now they don't all run sequentially.... many programmes are now running for 2-3 weeks, then 1-2 weeks off, then another couple of episodes, then back on for 2-3 ... it fair messes me up... I get used to something being on, look the next week and it's not on - so I assume that's it ..
t.

I know you don't like getting new technology, but this is where a Freview box that is also a TV recorder comes into its own. You can set it to record a whole series, so that you never miss one.

PasturesNew

Pyxis wrote: »

I know you don't like getting new technology, but this is where a Freview box that is also a TV recorder comes into its own. You can set it to record a whole series, so that you never miss one.

Is that like the old videos ... where you set it to record, then something happens to delay the start of the programme and you miss the end as it stopped recording?

I didn't know you could get freeview recordables.

Pyxis

PasturesNew wrote: »

Is that like the old videos ... where you set it to record, then something happens to delay the start of the programme and you miss the end as it stopped recording?

I didn't know you could get freeview recordables.

No, in most cases it adjust the times.

It's not an 'absolute' like the video recorders were, because it's all linked via its computery bits.

(I'm sure there's a technical term for that, but it escapes me! )

My box is a Humax.

PasturesNew

Pyxis wrote: »

No, in most cases it adjust the times.

It's not an 'absolute' like the video recorders were, because it's all linked via its computery bits.

(I'm sure there's a technical term for that, but it escapes me! )

My box is a Humax.

So I'd just buy one ... come home ... remove my existing freeview box from its inline position ... put the new one in ... and Bob's Your Uncle?

My setup is currently:

Indoor aerial --> Freeview box --> Telly.

EDIT: Cor blimey, just googled Humax, looks like they cost almost as much as a whole new telly!