I’m pretty sure it’s A for accessable or R for read only. I’ve hardly ever seen other letters there
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D’oh! I should have known that.
: bangs head :
But…now I notice that some that are accessible have no A behind them. And the only one that does is the one that is giving me this problem.
Information that indicates whether a file is read-only, hidden, ready for archiving, compressed or encrypted, and whether the file contents should be indexed for fast file searching.
At least, that’s what the help file said. I’d never heard of it, myself. 
That just means the file’s been changed recently. The regular file attributes in Windows will give you a RASH. (R)ead-only, (A)rchive, (S)ystem and (H)idden.
Read-only is just that.
Archive is used to trigger backup programs - the file’s been changed since the last backup.
System is for the vital files that are part of Windows. Mess with these at your peril.
Hidden is stuff that’s well, hidden. A good many system files are hidden to reduce the chances of someone messing with them.
There’s also the condition of no attributes - that’d be a normal file that’s not been changed since the last backup.
As for the merge mess, I’m afraid I can’t help much.
**New boats are fun, **even if they’re only new to you. Ironic that all goes well until you’re docking at home and the transmission goes wonky. At least it sounds like there was essentially no damage to anything except FCD’s pride.
**Renting a costume for the Renaissance Faire? ** Our faire has a shop that rents out costumes for somewhere around $30 - 70, depending on the costume (peasant, merchant or noble?) and how much you need - ie: you have a good shirt and pants but just need a doublet. I’d like to think the pricing is similar at other faires.
A bit of a change for me at the faire - I was fully expecting to be director of the Keepe, but on Saturday, while others were heaving and huffing to get our truck unloaded, the officers grabbed me and asked, nay, URGED me to take on the position of director of Membership. Far more responsibility, but I’m inheriting probably 70% of the staffing I’ll need, and these folks have done it before, so they’ll be able to teach me how to run the place. 
At least I won’t be hustling around with 40-pound sacks of ice. I just have to figure out how to hide the computer.
**Our day in court. ** For anyone that remembers that we (mostly DH, really) were involved in fending off an auto finance company that wanted nearly $9,000 from DH because his ex bought a car, they broke up, ex left the state and left the car behind, but the bank never provided DH with a legally-mandated notice to co-signer. (NCS) During the “discovery” phase of the lawsuit, the bank provided a copy of someone else’s NCS, bearing signatures that were plainly not the right ones. (Who’s this Robert Coffman and it looks like maybe Anne Miller?)
Last week, we get a statement from them about how they intend to use that NCS as evidence and that they swear it to be a true and correct copy of the NCS.
Yesterday, we’re in the courtroom and the plaintiff’s attorney is Mr. Cocky, with his witness (an employee of the finance company) and a pile of paper. He’s all puffed out and “Your Honor, we have that document now, so the defendant owes us for the car, the late fees, the court costs, twenty hours of labor because there were two sets of discovery and it was so hard for us to do this all.”
DH says “Your Honor, That’s not my signature. That’s not the signature of Mr. M. either.”
Judge flips through papers - she looks at the NCS, looks at the sales contract that has Mr. M.'s signature and looks at the various papers we’ve filed with the court, bearing DH’s signature, and says to the plaintiff “Counsel, your witness swore under oath that this was the defendant’s signature?”
Mr. Cocky immediately becomes Mr. Oh Shit, I’m Screwed. :wally
Judge continues “I also noticed that there’s no date on this document and there’s no loan number, so it’s not valid, regardless of the signatures. <some rapid-fire mumbling> The plaintiff’s claim is denied. Judgement is for the defendant, plus costs.”
For dinner last night, we ate prime rib. The plaintiff’s attorney? Crow. 
I love it when the jerks get their karma…
I assume the prime rib was primo…?..
Karma-crow.
A karma chameleon joke would be appropriate here, but I won’t.
I’m working overnights this week, and it’s kiiiiiillllling me. I’m so tired, all day. Just 3 nights left.
Yikes rosie! I hope the back is feeling better.
gotti yay for y’all!
Everybody else, hey, howdy, woohoo!, too bad, aww, awesome…
I am in a much better mood. Funny how something starts out by maxing out my stress level and then ends with me all relaxed. See, ACBG called me about 10:30 this morning. His car conked out on him. We suspect the fuel pump. Anyways, he’s on the side of the road and it’s hot as hell already, so I leave work to go see about him. He calls roadside assistance (duh! you got it with the car!) and they say it will be an hour before a tow truck arrives. :mad: So, I go into a nearby store, get him a big bottle of water and tell him I’ll be back but first I have to make sure of a couple of things at work. I get back about 25 minutes later (he broke down near my workplace) and the tow truck is there. YAY! So, we get the car towed to the Ford place and get that all settled. Meantime, I had told work that I might or might not be back cause I had no idea how long this was gonna take. So, we go get some lunch, me thinking I’ll drop him off at his place and go back to work. Instead a light came on! I ask him what he was gonna do the rest of the day. He said go home he guessed cause he can’t work without a vehicle and needed to hear what they were gonna tell him is wrong. His car is under warranty, so whatever it is, they have to fix gratis. So, says I, how bout we call the Ford place back, give 'em my phone number to contact you and we go play in the pool. So we did.
Right now he’s in the shower. Soon as he’s out and dressed we’re goin’ to get some bbq. Oh, and it was the fuel pump. Being as I have vehicles to spare, he can use the Blazer until his car is fixed. I’m all nice like that.
I played hooky from work this aftenoon! WHEEEEEEE!!!
I’m here! I’m here! And I even read what everyone said up to now.
Good OP, FCM. I’m not a boat person, but it’s cool that you got the boat you wanted.
It sounds like everyone’s having yucky work weeks. What’s up with that?
Lessee if I can condense my weekend into the Cliff Notes version:
Went home. Saw former coworkers. PITA IT guy at old job who made my life miserable misses me. Apparently he likes my replacement less than he liked me. Hah! Serves you right for being such a PITA.
Ooops… gotta run!
<snerk>I’m guessing you played more than hooky.<snerk>
I was missing you, taxi. I was thinking about you earlier today.
Sorry, Rosie…back pain sucks.
I want a cookie. I haven’t had a cookie in…counts on fingers 4 weeks now. I want a cookie.
So, much as I like my job, it’s starting to piss me off. I was really excited about this project that I was assigned to lead. I looked at it as a first stage of a 3-stage product, and in light of certain things happening in the world these days, something that has great potential. And it has nothing to do with me getting brownie points - it really could have had an impact. I was excited.
Two weeks ago at my mid-term review, my branch head says they (the boss-types) are thinking that maybe when we wrap this first third of the project, that’ll be it. Which means I’ll have led the production of something that is essentially worthless. The analysis can’t be done in a vacuum - you need all the parts together for it to be a good tool.
Today, he met with me and a couple others in the group, and he asked for an update. I told him flat out that if they’re serious about dropping the project after phase 1, we shouldn’t waste any more time on it. I also told him I thought it was stupid to quit, because I truly believe in it. He mumbled something about maybe finding another customer - something he’s said before, but he has yet to provide me a point of contact and because of certain “turf” issues, I can’t go looking for said customer myself. Plus this is a classified project, so there’s the whole need-to-know thing involved.
So I’m not a happy camper. I just yesterday asked my team to do a fair bit of work to wrap up phase 1, and I know at least 2 of them have other priorities to deal with. They’ll be rightfully pissed if I come to them with a “never mind” after they’ve invested scarce time getting data for me.
GRRRRRRRRRRR
I blame our Senior Engineer. I try to see things from her point of view, but I’m coming to believe that she’s just stupid. Well educated, most likely capable in her field - she’s a P.E. fercryinoutloud - but as a management type, she’s stupid. GAH.
Thank you for listening. I feel vented.
GROUP HUG!!!
Hugs everyone
rosie, I’m glad you’re better. Bad backs are so painful.
Got pretty much all the chores done, and I’m trying to decide between making brownies, crepes, basic chocolate truffles, or something else. Also I need to decide what we’re eating for dinner. Mmm, and find out if Vegetarian Chocoholic Friend is going to be eating supper with us.
This is driving me crazy. All my life I’ve been so extremely ticklish on my calves and only my calves that the mere touch of a hand will make me jump. I like light touches but I can’t have them. Any ideas on how to make it stop? I love massages but no one can massage my calves. I may even start a thread on it.
Totally off-topic - Spats, are you vegetarian or vegan?
Just stopping by to say “hi!” Busy day for me, and boy, do I have a headache! But I’m going to dance anyway, because Spats is right about that.
Bye!
A quick howdy. Thunderboomer on the way. Supper was good.
Puggy we did play a spirited game of Marco Polo. 
Marco Polo? Is that what the gay kids are calling it??
Hi again. Lessee if I can finish my weekend story… soooooo busy here!
Anyway, after the aforementioned good feelings upon finding out that PITA IT guy realized that I wasn’t so bad, Mom and I went to David’s Bridal and bought the poofy undergarment thingy that makes wedding dresses foof out on the bottom. (Can you tell I’m not into the whole wild wedding thing? I’m looking forward to it, but I’m not buying into the industry craziness.) So now I’ve got that and the veil is on order. It took us all of like 20 minutes to pick those two things out and the woman helping us looked at us like we were nuts. I guess most people take longer to pick out their veils and things. Whatever. It looked right. Why should I take forever to pick it out when the first one I picked up looked right? Unfortunately, after only taking 20 minutes to pick them out, it took another frickin’ 20 minutes to get checked out! Grrr.
Friday night I took my parents out for a nice dinner at a restaurant we all like (but reserve for special occasions) for their 40th anniversary. Good food and their minister was there so we stopped and said hi to him too.
OK, that’s it of my weekend story for now… gotta get home and make dinner and get to belly dancing class! Tomorrow’s edition of Taxi’s Weekend will cover the following:
- My friend’s problems with immigration
- My other friend’s wedding
- The reception at which my ex (Remember taxidriver?) almost set our table on fire. (All of us RPI non-Civil Engr folks were at one table… We weren’t together because we used to date! And we get along great so it wasn’t a problem.)
- Why not to tell people that you usually get up early.
- And why I’m back to hating airline travel. Grrrr. Stoopid Continental.
Meeks, I’m vegetarian. I eat dairy products and eggs. No fish though.
No Lissla, I can’t make it to Toronto just yet. [sub]I am listening to a bunch of Alanis Morissette songs just now - does that count?[/sub]
I’m here! I’ll be making one daily appearance all week, cuz the cable isn’t being fixed till Friday. Today, I’m posting from one of the neighborhood coffeeshops. Pretty durn exciting.
Sorry to hear your back is out of sorts, rosie. Hope it’s better quickly.
Yay for gotti and DH! Wow, new job and big legal victory all in just a few days!
I think dancing is a good idea…maybe it will cheer me up. I’m currently counting to one million as the neighbor’s landlord hired idiots to remove the tree branches. They’re removing them, but doing clever things like endangering my phone line at the same time.
So I think I’m in on the group hug, too.
Sorry to hear about the project, FCM. I sometimes wonder how projects are prioritized. We don’t have a very good process for doing that either. We’re currently pretty overcommitted, although the head of our division is good at getting people focused and letting little items with no impact drop.
Had a pretty good workday - more long meetings, but at least they were mostly working meetings, so stuff was getting done. But there’s lots more to do in the next couple weeks. I’m really looking forward to next week since I get a mini-vacation at the end of it. (Any of you in Central Michigan? If so, are you joining us? Here’s my Dopefest thread, in case you haven’t seen it.)
Well, I’m pretty sure the tree people should be gone by now. And then I’m going to a nice outdoor concert. Did I mention it’s actually beautiful out today?
Back eventually…
GT