Cox Crow

Twice in One Year!

We changed the clocks again. Could we just pick one twenty-four hour period and stick to it?

Let's look at the arguments for daylight saving time.

It saves money by reducing the demand for electricity, by keeping our work hours in line with the sun.

You mean you never heard of waking up earlier? Oh, that's right, you work in a FACTORY. You HAVE to be ON TIME because that's when your SHIFT ends. And your factory won't shuffle the shifts, because that's just not done. But aren't factories absent of natural light? My office is. I don't work in a factory, my schedule is flexible, and I still don't see the daylight. Where's the savings?

You have more daylight in the Summer.

No shit, Sherlock. Yes, you do have more daylight in the Summer. But that has nothing to do with the clock. If you want to sleep away two hours of sunlight before you have to get up to rush to work, that's fine by me.

7:32:54 AM # Google It!

Windex Needed

One of my problems with Windows is its opacity. Like any complex system, it fails in complex ways, which is to be expected. But finding the failure is an exercise in frustration.

First, a picture of the failure, since it's a user interface issue.

Google's not helping much this morning, since this result doesn't work. The Registry key mentioned doesn't exist in Windows 2000. (By the way, could someone at Microsoft learn how to rewrite URLs? There's no reason to expire all the old-style knowledge base links out there.)

6:36:06 AM # Google It!
categories: System Administration