How exactly are locked files handled by the os ?
Or to be precise, why is it that sometimes I cannot delete a locked file from a Windows Explorer, but if I open a command prompt in the directory in question, I can delete it from there ?
This is a little unusual question, but I need it for a report I'm making. Is there someplace, or do you know perchance, what is the current estimate of the percentage of users with Microsoft's OS's, by OS?
Uhmm, I don't know how to phrase this better, I'm not a native english speaker, but I think you'll understand what I mean. What I'm looking for is this (without the made up data):
XP 67%
Vista 69%
7 12%
Where could one find some sort of statistical data like that ?
A few older ones in here will probably remember a cute little proggie from DOS days, hdir it was called. Did nothing special, except show the file and directory listing in colour.
(there were others that did the same thing, but I used this one, so remember its name).
Are there any such today which work under XP (long file names ?) ?
I know ls has a --color option, but the one I'm using from unixkit-tiny has some problems working under my shell, it just displays rubbish, i.e. I haven't been able to get it to work.
Example of rubbish:
←[0m←[01;34mafter←[0m ←[01;34mcolors←[0m ←[0mdiff.vim←[0m ←[01;34mdoc←[0m ←[01;34mftplugin←[0m ←[01;34mplugin←
[0m ←[0mprogram.f90←[0m
←[m"
Not sure whether this should've been posted here or on SO. Not sure who it concerns more.
Although the title sums it up nice, I'll repeat and explain.
What would be a good email client for handling large amounts of mail ?
Large portion of mails I receive come with attachments (zip, rar, pdf, dwg, etc.) and within a month I usually have another 1,5-2Gb of new mail. I've noticed that 'standard' Outlook Express (with whose interface I've been very happy) gets awfully slow after a while. Archiving helps but not much. Then I usually take the files, move them onto a dvd, delete all messages I can do without and start anew. The thing is, I would love to have them all in email client since I often go after some old mails (slow projects).
So, what would be good alternatives ?
If it is portable, that would also be nice, but I can also live without it.
post scriptum: I love @gmail, but cannot use it for work. I know I could theoretically forward all of it there, and back, but that approach doesn't make my boss very happy (email handling policies and similar).
A year ago we bought several HP Compaq's laptops. Different models, from 6715s, 6715b, 6710s, 6735 ... (not all of them have gone through my hands so I don't know every one of them). They came with preinstalled Win XP Home, which worked fine (except that we deleted them and installed XP Pro cause we had that on older machines, and to get rid of all the promotional crap which came bundled with the OS).
Now, for some different reasons, some of the crew decides to put linux debian / opensuse up on them. And lucky me, since I'm working weekends, I'm the one who has to do it ;-(
Most of the things work fine except - on the first two models, I can't get wireless to work. They both, I think, have Broadcom BCM43XX internal cards, with which I have two problems:
- 1st - each of those laptops has a wireless turn on/off button, which upon startup doesn't go on, and therefore when opensuse boots, it's off - and cannot be turned on
- 2nd - I can't find the drivers for that card. I've even tried ndiswrapper, but haven't been able to get it to work
Has anyone managed to get the aforementioned working ?