[S-99]

I was a government employee until 3 days ago. I should have gotten that one computer job. However, they gave it to guy who didn't even have a degree. I explained to management all the time why the credit machine was down all the time, and even the measely attempt to keep people surfing the internet on work computers (hint, the file manager in windows is internet explorer, replace C:\ with google.com). And this was all easy stuff. But i had to be content with flipping burgers, running the cash register, making fries, and doing pizzas all at the same time (i quit because the work load kept increasing and increasing with no little more than a thank you for the hard work (at least it wasn't thankless) and a 53 cent raise once a year). All my hard work for a job that i didn't even hate or the people to get ready for a third furlough in february, no thank you. I'll take my pieces and take a risk at betterment.

What it gets down to is the beurocracy (or however you spell it). I mean you have to take those stupid internet tests so you know what devices you can and can't hook up to computers (gps's are allowed for some reason, even though your average tomtom can be used as a thumb drive which defeats no hooking up of thumb drives), how to spot spam and keep your identity safe on the internet, blablabla. It's all bull****. I got tired of coming in on my few days off of working 11 hour shifts (because there's a hiring freeze, and they let 3 people take leave at the same time; idiotic) just to get paid to take some tests. I was even more pissed when they wanted us to take the tests at home. This isn't school with assigned homework. I didn't take those tests for a year since i was too busy at work to do so (a year and 8 months i had that job). I still had a job. The last thing i attempted, when i quit a few days ago after two weeks put in; i damn near kept my base access card. I made them forget about it, and it almost worked. They remembered about it today though, i turned it in (****, i wanted cheap prices, on any base in the country i shop at).

Anyway, those tests don't keep people informed because no one cares about them. And well, only slightly more than an idiot can pass them. I can only imagine the rest of the people in positions of power who are idiots working for the government if the tests come from them.

[AdmiralRalwood]

(hint, the file manager in windows is internet explorer, replace C:\ with google.com)

Windows's file manager is called "explorer", and if I type google.com into it, it just opens FireFox.

[S-99]

Yes, i'm quite familiar with what it's called. The other thing is obviously you have firefox installed and set to be the default browser. Guess what happens when you don't have firefox set to be default brower, or even installed (such as the computers at my old job).

I will take this a step further however. I have added a little more.

I present to everybody.
Admiralralwood Premiering in "explorer".

Thx for menial response. We both knew what program we were talking about. However adding your little tidbit rofl. Did actually knowing the name of the program change anything since you knew what i was talking about already? Explorer.exe, internet explorer, and the fact that you can browse the web with the file manager (explorer.exe). At it's heart, explorer.exe is a web browser, and a file manager. This is why i just called it internet explorer since it's not that far off.

Do you feel superior now?

[The E]

Yes, i'm quite familiar with what it's called. The other thing is obviously you have firefox installed and set to be the default browser. Guess what happens when you don't have firefox set to be default brower, or even installed (such as the computers at my old job).

Thx for menial response. Do you feel superior, or just like a big boy?

Okay, not to rain on your parade there, but this behaviour is explicitly not standard in current versions of Windows. 8, at the very least, simply opens an Internet Explorer window if you type a web address in the normal Explorer; this should be the standard behaviour going back at least to Vista.

Explorer is not a web browser. When given a web address (or rather, something it has a reasonable expectation to be one), it will open whatever program is currently set to open web addresses, it does not give its window to a web browser instance. Basically, what was happening is that you found a way to launch a program in a way not anticipated by whoever set up the computer.

Now, I realize that this is quite a bit of superfluous pedantry about technical details, but it kinda hangs a lampshade on your supposedly superior abilities in the field if you don't make that distinction yourself and rely on shorthand descriptions.

[S-99]

Well, people have been able to type web addresses into the address part of the file manager in windows since at least 98. Up until vista, typing a web address in the file manager didn't open up a separate window. Not until vista and onward where yeah it is different. But, that still doesn't mean that you can't use the file manager to invoke access to a web page even if it opens up a different program to do so.

He pointed out the name of a program and said how it opens up firefox on his computer typing a web address into the file manager of windows. He very badly tried to one up me. Attention to detail matters such as: not all computers have firefox installed, and you can set up any web browser to be a default browser instead of internet explorer. As if what admiralralwood told me was supposed to mystify and just wow the **** out of me.

Now replying on short hand descriptions. I think it just gets down to, is internet explorer actually different than explorer.exe for once? And if they are, are they completely different? They were one in the same in the past at least, and that's why i called explorer.exe the "shorthand" description i used "internet explorer". Just call it archaic back to the days of xp and previous for my use of internet explorer. Not lampshading of techinical ability.

[karajorma]

I suggest you calm the **** down right ****ing now. I was prepared to ignore things until you decided to attempt to bring previous arguments into this thread derail.

[S-99]

Well hello there. Shall we get out the effigy, bats, and fire?
I nominate the infamous and possibly still hanging up today fairbanks alaska ronald mcdonald effigy in my stead (it's the closest mcdonalds closest to UAF campus, and the effigy was what prompted that particular mcdonalds to build tall walls around the drive through so customers wouldn't see it; at night when the moon is out, i guess it freaked out many college goers, little kids eating with their families, and teenagers eating before curfew).

[The E]

what.

Locked due to no chance in hell of this topic getting anywhere near a coherent point.