Miscellany

[snousle]

Unconnected notes and photos from the past few weeks.

Kitsune caught a pigeon the other day. She was lounging peacefully on the patio, and my attention was elsewhere, when all of a sudden I heard a thumping noise. I stuck my head out the door and found her holding it down with her front paw. Impressive! I was also pleased that she gave it up and went back inside when I told her to, without a whole lot of doggie drama. Unfortunately, it was mortally wounded, and I really hate having to kill things.

We do have city-style pigeons out here, but not very many. It seems they aren't very smart and their lives are generally short. I've also seen them get nailed by hawks - basically, a brown streak descends from the heavens, there's a big explosion of feathers, and then you see a hawk sitting on the ground with blood and pigeon parts scattered about. Quite a sight.



Not Really Doing Much Of Anything has been an incredible luxury, like gorging on chocolate cheescake while still never getting enough of it. Never in my life have I been so content to stay home and read. A comfy recliner by the wood stove doesn't make it any harder. It also has the benefit of being very inexpensive. I'm giving serious thought to the possibility of arranging for a lot more of this. Something of an anti-goal. And very seductive. Good idea? Or bad?

Everything has been washed clean by the rain and looks extra-sparkly. Even trash heaps.



Question For The LazyWebs: I am moving >10K photos from a Vista computer to a Windows 7 computer using a portable USB hard disk. I plug the disk into the destination Windows 7 computer and copy all the files into the (empty) My Pictures folder. "Hidden Files" are set to visible. Running WinDiff between the two directory trees reveals no differences between their contents. I cannot find any files that are present in one while being absent in the other. Yet when I bring up the properties windows on the respective directories on the portable disk and the My Pictures folder, the count differs - both in folder count and file count. Both counts are lower higher in the destination directory. WFT?

Update: It's making more sense - I mixed up which directory has the lower and higher counts, and on the Windows 7 side the directory is a really a "library" that includes the contents of some other directories. Or so I think. It's getting late...

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[bbearseviltwin.livejournal.com]

I asked my computer expert and this was his answer: "if he's looking at the "size on disk" the action of copying them would rationalise the storage - BUT if he's looking at the actual figure its strange but it may be hiding stuff from him
or not counting the stuff that should be hidden..
it may also be something to do with the "my x" folders being special folders"

[furr-a-bruin.livejournal.com]

Yeah, W7 brings in this "library" concept; frankly, I think it's a bit of meta we could do without, but then I'm an "old school" geek that likes to know exactly where a file is stored.

If you click on the library, the header will say "Includes: x location(s)." If you click on that, you can manage what directories are included in the library, and if you remove all but one, it will be similar to an ordinary directory and should give you the kind of result you expect. On my Release Candidate install of W7, the Photo library includes two directories by default - C:\Users\Furr\Pictures and C:\Users\Public\Pictures. The latter has some "sample" pictures in it, which is perhaps where the discrepancy in file count you're seeing comes from.

[progbear.livejournal.com]

There's also a native pigeon, the Band-tailed Pigeon, which is native to habitats much like the one where you live.

[barbarian-rat.livejournal.com]

I'm giving serious thought to the possibility of arranging for a lot more of this. Something of an anti-goal. And very seductive. Good idea? Or bad?

As a self employed person there are times that I want to just laze around the house - particularly in the winter. So ... it's a good idea if your income allows it, not so good if your income doesn't.

You might want to consider how a lot of lazing around will effect your desire/need to work months down the road.

[snousle.livejournal.com]

Hm, not sure which kind it was. I will take a closer look next time I see one.