Posted on 05/18/2010 1:14:01 PM PDT by reaganaut1
Cool, but it doesn’t look too reliable. ;-)
They will need more computers then this to tally the national debt...
Beat me to it by hours!!!
Well, that's unexpected (if not unprecedented).
Prolly not.
“How hard is it to type: \\machine-name\C$ ?”
I’m not an idiot - I tried that, of course. I couldn’t even get the two machines to see each other well enough to use MS’s easy file transfer thing to work, never mind Windows File sharing (CIFS). I was running Windows 7 RC at that time, and a number of things that didn’t work quite right at that time (as expected for an early RC) were fixed in the final version.
Umm, I didn’t have a problem with it. Just created a share on a PC running XP, mapped to it from the Windows 7 machine and copied the files over.
like this: start>all programs>accessories>run \\pcname
Copy over the shared folder.
gnip
Windows 7 is a little finicky about root shares from what I can tell. It appears to prefer to map to a shared folder.
And don’t laugh at those kids, we went to the moon using those.
Yeah, I know how it should work, but it wouldn’t. I tried all the obvious things and then a lot more besides. I won’t claim to be a Windows networking expert, but I’ve been working with Windows machines in the IT industry since the early 90s and I just couldn’t get it to go. Searching on the web at the time, apparently a lot of other people were having the same problem. Windows can be like that sometimes - works fine for most people in most configurations, but some combinations just don’t play together well.
Hmmm, did you try mapping by IP?
It may not have been a flaw with Windows 7. Sometimes machine names are not resolved very well on small home networks.
All well and good, but do you have a rubber chicken to wave over anything MS-based?
:)
I remember getting to work 10 minutes early, turning on my system, going to the break room for coffee, stopping to chat with a few people on my way back to my office, sitting down at my desk, and STILL waiting for the dang thing to finish booting ...
“...do you have a rubber chicken...”<>P>I do have a RC, but I use it when boarding public flights to get that third world ambiance of bring and cooking one’s own food onboard.
We didn’t do anything.
Maybe government can spend trillions , and an already mature rocket technology and physics to do ONE of a few things for THIS cost but I know government cannot compete with even a small electronics private company in producing high quality products you can hold in your hand like a cell phone ,laptop etc.
government sux period.
We didn’t do anything.
Maybe government can spend trillions , and an already mature rocket technology and physics to do ONE of a few things for THIS cost but I know government cannot compete with even a small electronics private company in producing high quality products you can hold in your hand like a cell phone ,laptop etc.
And that is prove by the fact that now no government anywhere in the world is producing a consumer product we can hold in our hands like a car , computer or even a pen.
And never has any government been able to produce high quality useful consumer products efficiently.
The food industry in the Soviet Union was eventually day long bread lines and day long potato lines. that’s real government , that ‘s real socialism without help from the private sector like we have in the U.S. where government buys experts and expertise and products from private companies like general dynamics, GE, IBM , INtel, Cisco, Google , Lockhee martin.
government sux period.
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