On 8/10/2012 11:42 AM, Jim Thompson wrote:
On Fri, 10 Aug 2012 05:50:49 -0400, Tom Biasi
wrote:

On 8/9/2012 8:23 PM, Jim Thompson wrote:
On Thu, 09 Aug 2012 19:25:56 -0400, Tom Biasi
wrote:

On 8/9/2012 7:16 PM, Jim Thompson wrote:
On Thu, 09 Aug 2012 18:38:46 -0400, Tom Biasi
wrote:

On 8/9/2012 6:16 PM, Jim Thompson wrote:
On Thu, 09 Aug 2012 13:47:17 -0700, "Mr.CRC"
wrote:

Tom Biasi wrote:
Feel better?


Yes.

:-D

I felt better just reading Mr.CRC's rant ;-)

And I agree with him. Microsoft is becoming an arm of the nanny state
:-(

...Jim Thompson

I also agree but my suggestion may help.

Tom

It did, indeed!! Thanks again!

...Jim Thompson


My pleasure Jim.
No charge. Not that I could get anything anyway :-)

Tom

Where do you lurk? I could spring for beer or wine if I'm in your
location.

...Jim Thompson



Thanks for the offer but I'm in Jersey.

My condolences ;-) ...Jim Thompson

Thanks for the pity :-)
I'm in northwest Jersey closer to Pa. and NY state then to all the nonsense.
New Jersey is actually a nice state if you can ignore the politics. (I
have a hard time doing that but wife won't move)
Don't bring your gun.

Tom

On Sat, 11 Aug 2012 16:14:15 -0400, "Martin Riddle"
wrote:


"Jim Thompson" wrote
in message ...
On Fri, 10 Aug 2012 05:50:49 -0400, Tom Biasi
wrote:

On 8/9/2012 8:23 PM, Jim Thompson wrote:
On Thu, 09 Aug 2012 19:25:56 -0400, Tom Biasi

wrote:

On 8/9/2012 7:16 PM, Jim Thompson wrote:
On Thu, 09 Aug 2012 18:38:46 -0400, Tom Biasi

wrote:

On 8/9/2012 6:16 PM, Jim Thompson wrote:
On Thu, 09 Aug 2012 13:47:17 -0700, "Mr.CRC"
wrote:

Tom Biasi wrote:
Feel better?


Yes.

:-D

I felt better just reading Mr.CRC's rant ;-)

And I agree with him. Microsoft is becoming an arm of the nanny
state
:-(

...Jim Thompson

I also agree but my suggestion may help.

Tom

It did, indeed!! Thanks again!

...Jim Thompson


My pleasure Jim.
No charge. Not that I could get anything anyway :-)

Tom

Where do you lurk? I could spring for beer or wine if I'm in your
location.

...Jim Thompson



Thanks for the offer but I'm in Jersey.

My condolences ;-) I've been known to be on Long Island from
time-to-time... in fact it's looking likely again, since I recently
showed up the engineering staff of a certain company out there by
single-handedly designing all the analog portions of a chip (*) that
came up working perfectly... no re-spin required.

(*) uP courtesy of Cadence.


If you hurry you can be here for the Hurricane season and the next earth
quake.

Cheers



Hurricanes are all wimped out by the time they hit LonGuyland. And if
NYC ever did have a decent quake (which it will, eventually) it will
be a pile of smoking rubble.

(Having lived in New Orleans and San Francisco, I figure that
hurricanes are a lot more dangerous than earthquakes.)



--

John Larkin Highland Technology Inc
www.highlandtechnology.com jlarkin at highlandtechnology dot com

Precision electronic instrumentation
Picosecond-resolution Digital Delay and Pulse generators
Custom timing and laser controllers
Photonics and fiberoptic TTL data links
VME analog, thermocouple, LVDT, synchro, tachometer
Multichannel arbitrary waveform generators

Jim Thompson wrote:
Another annoyance...

Bringing up new PC (XP Pro), Windows Explorer wants to show zip-files
as if they were folders :-(

How do I turn that off?

...Jim Thompson
Install WinZip?

On Sat, 11 Aug 2012 13:42:05 -0700, John Larkin
wrote:


Hurricanes are all wimped out by the time they hit LonGuyland. And if
NYC ever did have a decent quake (which it will, eventually) it will
be a pile of smoking rubble.

---
Since NYC wasn't built above a geologically active zone, how do you
figure that?
---

(Having lived in New Orleans and San Francisco, I figure that
hurricanes are a lot more dangerous than earthquakes.)

---
Rather provincial figuring.

In order to come up with a more accurate estimate, I think you need to
assay the damage done, worldwide, by hurricanes and earthquakes, and
then post your findings.

Will you?

Of course not.

--
JF

On Sat, 11 Aug 2012 16:14:15 -0400, "Martin Riddle"
wrote:


"Jim Thompson" wrote
in message ...
On Fri, 10 Aug 2012 05:50:49 -0400, Tom Biasi
wrote:

On 8/9/2012 8:23 PM, Jim Thompson wrote:
On Thu, 09 Aug 2012 19:25:56 -0400, Tom Biasi

wrote:

On 8/9/2012 7:16 PM, Jim Thompson wrote:
On Thu, 09 Aug 2012 18:38:46 -0400, Tom Biasi

wrote:

On 8/9/2012 6:16 PM, Jim Thompson wrote:
On Thu, 09 Aug 2012 13:47:17 -0700, "Mr.CRC"
wrote:

Tom Biasi wrote:
Feel better?


Yes.

:-D

I felt better just reading Mr.CRC's rant ;-)

And I agree with him. Microsoft is becoming an arm of the nanny
state
:-(

...Jim Thompson

I also agree but my suggestion may help.

Tom

It did, indeed!! Thanks again!

...Jim Thompson


My pleasure Jim.
No charge. Not that I could get anything anyway :-)

Tom

Where do you lurk? I could spring for beer or wine if I'm in your
location.

...Jim Thompson



Thanks for the offer but I'm in Jersey.

My condolences ;-) I've been known to be on Long Island from
time-to-time... in fact it's looking likely again, since I recently
showed up the engineering staff of a certain company out there by
single-handedly designing all the analog portions of a chip (*) that
came up working perfectly... no re-spin required.

(*) uP courtesy of Cadence.


If you hurry you can be here for the Hurricane season and the next earth
quake.

Cheers



Could be ;-)

...Jim Thompson
--
| James E.Thompson, CTO | mens |
| Analog Innovations, Inc. | et |
| Analog/Mixed-Signal ASIC's and Discrete Systems | manus |
| Phoenix, Arizona 85048 Skype: Contacts Only | |
| Voice480)460-2350 Fax: Available upon request | Brass Rat |
| E-mail Icon at http://www.analog-innovations.com | 1962 |

I love to cook with wine. Sometimes I even put it in the food.

On Sat, 11 Aug 2012 17:51:50 -0500, John Fields
wrote:

On Sat, 11 Aug 2012 13:42:05 -0700, John Larkin
wrote:


Hurricanes are all wimped out by the time they hit LonGuyland. And if
NYC ever did have a decent quake (which it will, eventually) it will
be a pile of smoking rubble.

---
Since NYC wasn't built above a geologically active zone, how do you
figure that?
---

(Having lived in New Orleans and San Francisco, I figure that
hurricanes are a lot more dangerous than earthquakes.)

---
Rather provincial figuring.

In order to come up with a more accurate estimate, I think you need to
assay the damage done, worldwide, by hurricanes and earthquakes, and
then post your findings.

Will you?

Of course not.

I was at my client's location when the Long Island quake hit. It
jerked the building so bad I thought the adjacent commuter train had
derailed and hit the building. By the time I uttered, "What the f...
was that", everyone else had fled the building ;-)

...Jim Thompson
--
| James E.Thompson, CTO | mens |
| Analog Innovations, Inc. | et |
| Analog/Mixed-Signal ASIC's and Discrete Systems | manus |
| Phoenix, Arizona 85048 Skype: Contacts Only | |
| Voice480)460-2350 Fax: Available upon request | Brass Rat |
| E-mail Icon at http://www.analog-innovations.com | 1962 |

I love to cook with wine. Sometimes I even put it in the food.

On Sat, 11 Aug 2012 16:23:06 -0400, Tom Biasi
wrote:

On 8/10/2012 11:42 AM, Jim Thompson wrote:
On Fri, 10 Aug 2012 05:50:49 -0400, Tom Biasi
wrote:

On 8/9/2012 8:23 PM, Jim Thompson wrote:
On Thu, 09 Aug 2012 19:25:56 -0400, Tom Biasi
wrote:

On 8/9/2012 7:16 PM, Jim Thompson wrote:
On Thu, 09 Aug 2012 18:38:46 -0400, Tom Biasi
wrote:

On 8/9/2012 6:16 PM, Jim Thompson wrote:
On Thu, 09 Aug 2012 13:47:17 -0700, "Mr.CRC"
wrote:

Tom Biasi wrote:
Feel better?


Yes.

:-D

I felt better just reading Mr.CRC's rant ;-)

And I agree with him. Microsoft is becoming an arm of the nanny state
:-(

...Jim Thompson

I also agree but my suggestion may help.

Tom

It did, indeed!! Thanks again!

...Jim Thompson


My pleasure Jim.
No charge. Not that I could get anything anyway :-)

Tom

Where do you lurk? I could spring for beer or wine if I'm in your
location.

...Jim Thompson



Thanks for the offer but I'm in Jersey.

My condolences ;-) ...Jim Thompson

Thanks for the pity :-)
I'm in northwest Jersey closer to Pa. and NY state then to all the nonsense.
New Jersey is actually a nice state if you can ignore the politics. (I
have a hard time doing that but wife won't move)
Don't bring your gun.

I know that :-)


Tom

I've been down-state Jersey... very pleasant... excellent Italian
restaurants!

...Jim Thompson
--
| James E.Thompson, CTO | mens |
| Analog Innovations, Inc. | et |
| Analog/Mixed-Signal ASIC's and Discrete Systems | manus |
| Phoenix, Arizona 85048 Skype: Contacts Only | |
| Voice480)460-2350 Fax: Available upon request | Brass Rat |
| E-mail Icon at http://www.analog-innovations.com | 1962 |

I love to cook with wine. Sometimes I even put it in the food.

On Sat, 11 Aug 2012 15:16:51 -0700, Robert Baer
wrote:

Jim Thompson wrote:
Another annoyance...

Bringing up new PC (XP Pro), Windows Explorer wants to show zip-files
as if they were folders :-(

How do I turn that off?

...Jim Thompson
Install WinZip?

Pay attention to the thread... Tom Biasi nailed it as a rogue DLL that
nanny-Microsoft installed.

...Jim Thompson
--
| James E.Thompson, CTO | mens |
| Analog Innovations, Inc. | et |
| Analog/Mixed-Signal ASIC's and Discrete Systems | manus |
| Phoenix, Arizona 85048 Skype: Contacts Only | |
| Voice480)460-2350 Fax: Available upon request | Brass Rat |
| E-mail Icon at http://www.analog-innovations.com | 1962 |

I love to cook with wine. Sometimes I even put it in the food.

On Sat, 11 Aug 2012 17:51:50 -0500, John Fields
wrote:

On Sat, 11 Aug 2012 13:42:05 -0700, John Larkin
wrote:


Hurricanes are all wimped out by the time they hit LonGuyland. And if
NYC ever did have a decent quake (which it will, eventually) it will
be a pile of smoking rubble.

---
Since NYC wasn't built above a geologically active zone, how do you
figure that?


Well, I read things.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earthqu...rk_City _Area

"A 2008 study argued that a magnitude 6 or 7 earthquake might
originate from the Ramapo fault zone,[3] which would almost definitely
spawn hundreds or even thousands of fatalities and billions of dollars
in damage."

Try it some time.


---

(Having lived in New Orleans and San Francisco, I figure that
hurricanes are a lot more dangerous than earthquakes.)

---
Rather provincial figuring.

Personal experience, backed up by mortality statistics.


In order to come up with a more accurate estimate, I think you need to
assay the damage done, worldwide, by hurricanes and earthquakes, and
then post your findings.

Will you?

Google it yourself. A few thousand people have died in earthquakes in
the USA in modern history, most in the 1906 SF quake, probably less
than died in the great Galveston storm of 1900. Only about 80 died
here in the '89 quake. Katrina alone killed about 1500.

Of course it's different in other countries like China that have worse
quakes but no hurricanes. Or Haiti, which has both.

The USA statistics would change severely if New Madrid broke again. A
lot of the east and midwest have no seismic building standards.






--

John Larkin Highland Technology Inc
www.highlandtechnology.com jlarkin at highlandtechnology dot com

Precision electronic instrumentation
Picosecond-resolution Digital Delay and Pulse generators
Custom timing and laser controllers
Photonics and fiberoptic TTL data links
VME analog, thermocouple, LVDT, synchro, tachometer
Multichannel arbitrary waveform generators

On Sat, 11 Aug 2012 19:17:08 -0700, John Larkin
wrote:

On Sat, 11 Aug 2012 17:51:50 -0500, John Fields
wrote:

On Sat, 11 Aug 2012 13:42:05 -0700, John Larkin
wrote:


Hurricanes are all wimped out by the time they hit LonGuyland. And if
NYC ever did have a decent quake (which it will, eventually) it will
be a pile of smoking rubble.

---
Since NYC wasn't built above a geologically active zone, how do you
figure that?


Well, I read things.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earthqu...rk_City _Area

"A 2008 study argued that a magnitude 6 or 7 earthquake might
originate from the Ramapo fault zone,[3] which would almost definitely
spawn hundreds or even thousands of fatalities and billions of dollars
in damage."

Try it some time.

---
Cherry picking?
---

(Having lived in New Orleans and San Francisco, I figure that
hurricanes are a lot more dangerous than earthquakes.)

---
Rather provincial figuring.

Personal experience, backed up by mortality statistics.

---
Still provincial.
---

In order to come up with a more accurate estimate, I think you need to
assay the damage done, worldwide, by hurricanes and earthquakes, and
then post your findings.

Will you?

Google it yourself.

---
You're the one making the claim, so you're the one who should back it
up.
---

A few thousand people have died in earthquakes in
the USA in modern history, most in the 1906 SF quake, probably less
than died in the great Galveston storm of 1900. Only about 80 died
here in the '89 quake. Katrina alone killed about 1500.

Of course it's different in other countries like China that have worse
quakes but no hurricanes. Or Haiti, which has both.

The USA statistics would change severely if New Madrid broke again. A
lot of the east and midwest have no seismic building standards.

---
Blah, blah, blah...

--
JF

On 8/11/2012 3:23 PM, Tom Biasi wrote:
On 8/10/2012 11:42 AM, Jim Thompson wrote:
On Fri, 10 Aug 2012 05:50:49 -0400, Tom Biasi
wrote:

On 8/9/2012 8:23 PM, Jim Thompson wrote:
On Thu, 09 Aug 2012 19:25:56 -0400, Tom Biasi
wrote:

On 8/9/2012 7:16 PM, Jim Thompson wrote:
On Thu, 09 Aug 2012 18:38:46 -0400, Tom Biasi

wrote:

On 8/9/2012 6:16 PM, Jim Thompson wrote:
On Thu, 09 Aug 2012 13:47:17 -0700, "Mr.CRC"
wrote:

Tom Biasi wrote:
Feel better?


Yes.

:-D

I felt better just reading Mr.CRC's rant ;-)

And I agree with him. Microsoft is becoming an arm of the nanny
state
:-(

...Jim Thompson

I also agree but my suggestion may help.

Tom

It did, indeed!! Thanks again!

...Jim Thompson


My pleasure Jim.
No charge. Not that I could get anything anyway :-)

Tom

Where do you lurk? I could spring for beer or wine if I'm in your
location.

...Jim Thompson



Thanks for the offer but I'm in Jersey.

My condolences ;-) ...Jim Thompson

Thanks for the pity :-)
I'm in northwest Jersey closer to Pa. and NY state then to all the
nonsense.
New Jersey is actually a nice state if you can ignore the politics. (I
have a hard time doing that but wife won't move)
Don't bring your gun.

Tom

Do you know why New Jersey has more toxic waste sights than
California has lawyers?

New Jersey had first choice.
Mikek

On 8/9/2012 5:17 PM, Jim Thompson wrote:
On Thu, 09 Aug 2012 14:33:54 -0400, Tom Biasi
wrote:

On 8/9/2012 2:08 PM, Jim Thompson wrote:
On Thu, 09 Aug 2012 13:51:36 -0400, Tom Biasi
wrote:

On 8/9/2012 1:45 PM, Jim Thompson wrote:
On Thu, 09 Aug 2012 12:45:46 -0500, Les Cargill
wrote:

Jim Thompson wrote:
Another annoyance...

Bringing up new PC (XP Pro), Windows Explorer wants to show zip-files
as if they were folders :-(

How do I turn that off?

...Jim Thompson



You don't SFAIK. What's wrong with it? The metaphor seems fine
to me - you can open them as if they were folders without
resorting to PKZip or the like.

The XP Pro machine that died (ancient Enpower) didn't do that. Maybe
it's machine-brand dependent? (This new box is Lenovo.)

I don't like the clutter... I like to make my own ;-)

...Jim Thompson

Did you try right click, properties, open with ?

That's not the problem. They're showing in as Folders. I only want
them to show as _files_.

...Jim Thompson


You may need to disable zipfldr.dll
If you feel comfortable here is a link on how.
http://www.techrepublic.com/article/...eature/5406791

Tom

Thanks, Tom! Only you understood what I am ranting about.

...Jim Thompson

And "How does that make you feel?"
Mikek :-)

On Sun, 12 Aug 2012 07:33:46 -0500, amdx
wrote:

On 8/11/2012 3:23 PM, Tom Biasi wrote:
On 8/10/2012 11:42 AM, Jim Thompson wrote:
On Fri, 10 Aug 2012 05:50:49 -0400, Tom Biasi
wrote:

On 8/9/2012 8:23 PM, Jim Thompson wrote:
On Thu, 09 Aug 2012 19:25:56 -0400, Tom Biasi
wrote:

On 8/9/2012 7:16 PM, Jim Thompson wrote:
On Thu, 09 Aug 2012 18:38:46 -0400, Tom Biasi

wrote:

On 8/9/2012 6:16 PM, Jim Thompson wrote:
On Thu, 09 Aug 2012 13:47:17 -0700, "Mr.CRC"
wrote:

Tom Biasi wrote:
Feel better?


Yes.

:-D

I felt better just reading Mr.CRC's rant ;-)

And I agree with him. Microsoft is becoming an arm of the nanny
state
:-(

...Jim Thompson

I also agree but my suggestion may help.

Tom

It did, indeed!! Thanks again!

...Jim Thompson


My pleasure Jim.
No charge. Not that I could get anything anyway :-)

Tom

Where do you lurk? I could spring for beer or wine if I'm in your
location.

...Jim Thompson



Thanks for the offer but I'm in Jersey.

My condolences ;-) ...Jim Thompson

Thanks for the pity :-)
I'm in northwest Jersey closer to Pa. and NY state then to all the
nonsense.
New Jersey is actually a nice state if you can ignore the politics. (I
have a hard time doing that but wife won't move)
Don't bring your gun.

Tom

Do you know why New Jersey has more toxic waste sights than
California has lawyers?

New Jersey had first choice.
Mikek


I spent way too much of my life (which is to say, a few weeks) in
Trenton and Freehold. Yuk. Some of the stuff along the coast looked
OK. We have a new customer in Monmouth, but we're encouraging them to
come visit us.


--

John Larkin Highland Technology Inc
www.highlandtechnology.com jlarkin at highlandtechnology dot com

Precision electronic instrumentation
Picosecond-resolution Digital Delay and Pulse generators
Custom timing and laser controllers
Photonics and fiberoptic TTL data links
VME analog, thermocouple, LVDT, synchro, tachometer
Multichannel arbitrary waveform generators

Jim Thompson wrote:
On Sat, 11 Aug 2012 16:14:15 -0400, "Martin Riddle"
wrote:


"Jim wrote
in message ...
On Fri, 10 Aug 2012 05:50:49 -0400, Tom
wrote:

On 8/9/2012 8:23 PM, Jim Thompson wrote:
On Thu, 09 Aug 2012 19:25:56 -0400, Tom Biasi

wrote:

On 8/9/2012 7:16 PM, Jim Thompson wrote:
On Thu, 09 Aug 2012 18:38:46 -0400, Tom Biasi

wrote:

On 8/9/2012 6:16 PM, Jim Thompson wrote:
On Thu, 09 Aug 2012 13:47:17 -0700, "Mr.CRC"
wrote:

Tom Biasi wrote:
Feel better?


Yes.

:-D

I felt better just reading Mr.CRC's rant ;-)

And I agree with him. Microsoft is becoming an arm of the nanny
state
:-(

...Jim Thompson

I also agree but my suggestion may help.

Tom

It did, indeed!! Thanks again!

...Jim Thompson


My pleasure Jim.
No charge. Not that I could get anything anyway :-)

Tom

Where do you lurk? I could spring for beer or wine if I'm in your
location.

...Jim Thompson



Thanks for the offer but I'm in Jersey.

My condolences ;-) I've been known to be on Long Island from
time-to-time... in fact it's looking likely again, since I recently
showed up the engineering staff of a certain company out there by
single-handedly designing all the analog portions of a chip (*) that
came up working perfectly... no re-spin required.

(*) uP courtesy of Cadence.


If you hurry you can be here for the Hurricane season and the next earth
quake.

Cheers



Could be ;-)

...Jim Thompson
Correction: If he goes fast enough,he will CREATE the hurricane..