ThoughtsOnThinking

Is it just me? IE 7 / Media Player: the MIA Main Menu question

I use Firefox and WinAmp primarily (as opposed to Internet Explorer and Media Player).  Just now was logged in to a machine that had IE 7 on it, and needed to save a copy the HTML file I was looking at.  It wasn't obvious to me how to do that without the Main Menu turned on (which it's not by default), so had to turn it one to do the File -> Save.

The newer Media Players (and probably other things Microsoft) have this setup too -- no Main Menu by default.  It seems a step backwards, usability-wise to me.  Is it just me, or do you agree?  I'm genuinely curious.  Let me know in the comments...  thx...

Word-like Wallpaper Over Complex Problems

Solid post from Herding Cats.

   

Do the math, it starts with futures pricing, which is based on fear and flows to the tank of my shinny new Honda Civic. Thanks to a bit of foresight the Civic replaces a 1996 Suburban 4WD, small block 350, 1600 that sucked 14MPG on a good day going down hill. The oil companies are not our enemy. Any suggestion that our problems can be solved by "forcing prices down," is a simple indication that the speaker did not read Adam Smith, or any other economics book.
    As Pogo said, "Yep son, We've met the enemy and he is us." - Walt Kelly, on a poster on Earth Day, 1970.

Perspective on Programming

Saw this from Kathy Sierra on Twitter:

KathySierra

Programming has a PR problem: most non-coders don't know how creative it can be to craft code. Best coders use both sides of the brain.

about 22 hours ago from web

Amen to that....

"Search is Complete. There are no results to display." (Liar, liar, pants on fire!)

On one of my virtual machines, I'm having the exact same problem this guy is having (where, unfortunately, nobody seems to be taking his post at face value):

Starting only recently (unaware of any changes) XP Search immediately responds "Search is Complete - There are no results to display"...

It's not this problem, or this problem, or either of these two.  Any ideas?  Post a comment if you have any clue.  For now I'm sharing the folder set I know the file is in, and searching it from another machine, which works fine.  (What's up with that!?)

*** Update (a month and a half later) ***

Found the problem -- a classic "lens cap" mistake on my part (though it does make me think about the UI implications; if I programmed this search dialog, how would I make this more obvious?).  Turns out, somehow I had turned off "Search subfolders" in the Advanced Options, rather than setting it like this, which is what I normally have the Advanced Options set to:

This post is getting enough traffic from folks apparently suffering a similar fate, that I thought I'd post the solution today, given that I finally found it on this little VM.  Let me know in the comments if it helped you out, OK? : )