Rants & Raves

June 28, 2001 Should Leo Call Someone Else a Monkey?

Quote of the night:
"One win, one loss, one tie, and two do-overs."
By Emmett Stant, on the appeals court decision concerning Microsoft's monopolistic activities.

In tonight's bootcamp segment, Leo said that using TweakUI was the only way to move your My Documents folder to another drive, such as a second partition of your hard drive. This is not strictly true, at least, not in Windows 98. You can achieve this more easily by right-clicking on the My Documents folder on the desktop and changing the field to where it says target. You don't even have to reboot your computer for it to take effect, which you have to do if you use TweakUI for this task. What also was not clear in the segment was that changing the location of the My Documents folder in this way (or my suggested way) will not move the files that are already in the original My Documents folder. It will simply create a new folder called "My Documents" in the place that you specify, and the My Documents shortcut on your desktop (and elsewhere) will link to it. The old My Documents folder will still be where it was, with the files still in it; it just won't be the My Documents Folder. You have to move the files to the new location yourself. I did like the suggestion of moving the Favorites folder, which does seem to require TweakUI. On my computer, I followed Leo's partitioning suggestion to create a separate (D:) partition for data. That way if your Windows
installation gets messed up and you have to format and reinstall, you can just format and reinstall Windows on the C: drive. You won't lose your data on the D: drive. Moving the Internet Favorites folder will keep them intact in case of a format and reinstall, and will help me remember to include them on my CD backups.

The U.G.O (unidentified geeky object) that has been crossing the screen on recent nights is Mr. Lockergnome himself, Chris Pirillo, who will be on Call For Help starting next week. He has appeared via netcam on TSS several times, always to entaining effect ("Leo,...I am you son!").

Unfortunately, I don't have time tonight to mess with my image editing program. So, would someone out there please find a monkey picture and plaster Leo's head on it? Leo abused Megan twice tonight, first by saying that some people were imagining that she had no pants on (!!!). Then, after graciously donating her home movie of her nephew Cole for use in a segment, Leo kept referring to him
as "monkey boy". I think Leo spent way to much time looking at that 125-page legal document on the appelate court decision, and was feeling a little cranky. I know! Feed him some more caffeinated mints! Or, maybe that was what caused this in the first place.

Posted by Christy on June 28, 2001 10:21 PM

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