Tuesday, February 08, 2005
Hungry - out of feeds
I decided to update my copy of Desktop Sidebar a few days ago - I wanted one of the new panels in there, and my older version didn't support it. For those that don't know, Sidebar collates information from a variety of internet and desktop resources (weather, photos, IM contacts, and so on) and displays them in a compact strip down the edge of the screen.
I ran the uninstaller, which failed, telling me it needed a fine in my Temp directory - well, when I was running out of space I deleted all the stuff in my Temp directory. So I deleted the programs manually, and downloaded the new version. But when installing it, it couldn't find that same Temp file either, and then told me I had to hand edit the registry. But that's disabled by our sys admins.....
Why is everything so complex? Who on earth stores critical files in a Temp directory?
And on that note, why does Microsoft insist that Messenger is installed on the C: drive? You can't put it anywhere else. Usability, anyone?
But back to the thrust of this rant :-) I now no longer have a working version of Sidebar, and so nowhere for my RSS feeds to appear, impining on my consciousness. I don't really want to invest the time in going out to the sites themselves - the feeds were a kind of temptation, easily ignored if I was busy or they didn't seem interesting, but fantastic for alterting me to opportune news and so on. Without them, I have a much poorer internet existence.
I decided to update my copy of Desktop Sidebar a few days ago - I wanted one of the new panels in there, and my older version didn't support it. For those that don't know, Sidebar collates information from a variety of internet and desktop resources (weather, photos, IM contacts, and so on) and displays them in a compact strip down the edge of the screen.
I ran the uninstaller, which failed, telling me it needed a fine in my Temp directory - well, when I was running out of space I deleted all the stuff in my Temp directory. So I deleted the programs manually, and downloaded the new version. But when installing it, it couldn't find that same Temp file either, and then told me I had to hand edit the registry. But that's disabled by our sys admins.....
Why is everything so complex? Who on earth stores critical files in a Temp directory?
And on that note, why does Microsoft insist that Messenger is installed on the C: drive? You can't put it anywhere else. Usability, anyone?
But back to the thrust of this rant :-) I now no longer have a working version of Sidebar, and so nowhere for my RSS feeds to appear, impining on my consciousness. I don't really want to invest the time in going out to the sites themselves - the feeds were a kind of temptation, easily ignored if I was busy or they didn't seem interesting, but fantastic for alterting me to opportune news and so on. Without them, I have a much poorer internet existence.
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``Without [Desktop Sidebar], I have a much poorer internet existence".....
Although it may be a VERY productive week! ;-)
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Although it may be a VERY productive week! ;-)
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