# Truly mundane things you have learned recently

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/truly-mundane-things-you-have-learned-recently/391273>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [February 7, 2007, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/truly-mundane-things-you-have-learned-recently/391273 "2007-02-07T21:48:21Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![rowrrbazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rowrrbazzle/32/414_2.png) [@rowrrbazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rowrrbazzle)\
**Post date:** [February 11, 2007, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/truly-mundane-things-you-have-learned-recently/391273/61 "2007-02-11T23:23:19Z")

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[QUOTE=merrily]  
If you go into Windows Task Manager, the processes tab, and you click on CPU twice to organize them so you can see the top performers. It jumps all around, right, as new things kick in?

If you press the Control button (ctrl), it freezes it.  
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Cool. I did not know this. BTW, I just found out any of the TM displays will suspend updating while the ctl key is held down. I couldn’t find this in the help file.

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**Author:** ![Risha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/5fc32e/32.png) [@Risha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Risha)\
**Post date:** [February 12, 2007, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/truly-mundane-things-you-have-learned-recently/391273/62 "2007-02-12T18:07:07Z")

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This is a geeky one, but someone else out there probably uses ADB2.

This came from one of my peers at my job a couple of weeks ago, sent to a long list of very technical people who have literally used ADB2 every working day for the last 5 to 10+ years, none of which knew about it.

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> So, we’ve all been in an ADB2 table that has had more than 1000 rows selected.

_Note: our screens will only display up to 1000 rows_

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> I know in the past, if I wanted to know how many rows there were that suited my selection criteria, I either resorted to writing a query or, if I had an idea that the number was less than around 3,000 I would sort by internal id max down, take the last internal id, and put greater than that in the search criteria again until I could get to a number \< 1000. So it was with great amazement (and then great despair) when I watched Srikanth simply type “COUNT” on the command line to see how many rows met the search criteria.

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**Author:** ![Wee\_Bairn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/90db22/32.png) [@Wee\_Bairn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wee_Bairn)\
**Post date:** [February 12, 2007, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/truly-mundane-things-you-have-learned-recently/391273/63 "2007-02-12T18:37:46Z")

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According to the Hershey representative who was interviewed on Food Networks Unwrapped show, the classic Hershey wrapper is not brown, as everyone thinks, but maroon.

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**Author:** ![delphica](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e9a140/32.png) [@delphica](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/delphica)\
**Post date:** [February 12, 2007, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/truly-mundane-things-you-have-learned-recently/391273/64 "2007-02-12T18:59:10Z")

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[QUOTE=StuffLikeThatThere]

This isn’t super-recent, but I had been using DVDs for a very very long time when I learned that I could get subtitles by pressing the button labeled Subtitles, instead of going the long way 'round. Heh.  
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On our remote, the button is labeled “Titles” (it’s a small button) and FOR YEARS I never used it because I figured, duh, I already know the title of the movie, it was on the DVD case.

It’s really amazing to me that I can pass for a functioning adult with a job and everything.

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