Explorer’s useless thumbnail etc
Word Dump: サマーナイトタウン - 9:19 PM 8/12/2006
This word dump is from サマーナイトタウン by モーニング娘。 (Summer Night Town by Morning Musume). It’s Momusu’s 2nd single and the first one with an 8-member lineup.
| Kanji | Kana | English |
|---|---|---|
| サマー | summer | |
| ナイト | night | |
| タウン | town | |
| スマイル | smile | |
| 見せる | みせる | to show |
| 下手 | へた | poor |
| だいきらい | very dislikeable | |
| きせつ | season | |
| なんか | things like .. | |
| へん | strange | |
| かんじ | feeling | |
| すごす | to spend | |
| ただ | only | |
| やきもち | jealousy | |
| むじゅん | contradiction | |
| だらけ | implying (negatively) that something is full of, e.g., mistakes | |
| うで | arm | |
| とびこむ | to dive | |
| すねる | to sulk | |
| 見つめる | みつめる | to gaze at |
| メイク | make-up (abbr) | |
| どこでも | anywhere | |
| いのり | prayer | |
| 近づける | ちかづける | to put close |
| とし | age | |
| 近づく | ちかづく | to get closer |
| クリック | click | |
| しま | island | |
| うかす | to rise |
Stats! Stats!
- Previous “average new words/song”: 21.2
- New words in this song: 29 (whoa, a lot! previous was 20)
- New “average new words/song”: 22.5
- Total words in word list: 1313
Because the word count has passed 1300, it’s now time for free word hunting. I will start by memorizing words I’ve encountered randomly (from TV shows, doramas, talks with 日本語-enabled people, etc). This free word hunting will continue until the word count reaches 1500.
Different place, different price - 10:17 PM 8/10/2006
My friend told me that buying an optical media (DVD-R etc) in Gejayan is cheaper than in CD House (near North MIPA). It is very much true. A Verbatim DVD-R (4,707,319,808 bytes) costs Rp. 4,500 in Gejayan but Rp. 7,500 in CD House. The Rp. 3,000 price difference is worth every cycle of my bike.
Explorer’s useless thumbnail - 8:37 PM 8/10/2006
This is a screenshot from a folder full of video files:
Explorer cleverly fetches the first frame for all files, so the result is darkness (well, except for the white one down there)! Thumbnail view, which ideally should help file identification visually, does nothing except to eat precious CPU cycles.
GNOME’s Nautilus is way ahead of time. I don’t know what algorithm it uses to select the frame for the thumbnail (random?), but rest assured it doesn’t just blindly select the first frame. The result is beautiful, and I would love to post it here. However it is impossible because after my partition was screwed I haven’t installed Ubuntu again. (Using the Live CD won’t do since the required codecs aren’t installed. Installing the codecs on the Live system isn’t possible since I haven’t downloaded the Dapper ones.)
(I think the screenshot deserves to be in http://explorer.istheshit.net.
Explorer’s self-mutilation - 8:14 PM 8/10/2006
Try doing this:
- Open Windows Explorer
- Make sure the “Task” pane on the left is on (turn off “Folders” or “Search” pane)
- Go to a folder that contains an “avi” file and is in “Details” view mode (the system and hidden file thumbs.db shouldn’t be on the folder)
- Select a file, then quickly press F2 to rename the file
- Quickly append a new extension, for example changing “movie.avi” to “movie.avi.a”
If you’re fast enough, a message like this will pop out: “Cannot rename [filename]: It is being used by another person or program. Close any programs that might be using the file and try again.”
The hillarious thing about the message is that the “problematic” program seems to be no other than Explorer itself! When a video file is selected, Explorer will “open” the file and display its thumbnail on the left panel like so:
My guess is that the thumbnail generation process interferes the file renaming attempt. The weird thing is that if we rename it other than describe before (for example changing “movie.avi” to “movie2.avi”) the process never fails.
The workaround is obviously to wait a moment before renaming. However, this greatly slows down file management which kinda beats the purpose of a modern GUI file manager. Irritating!
I remember reporting some bugs to Microsoft a long time ago, but AFAIK there is no easily memorizable URL for it. Ubuntu has www.launchpad.net, Mozilla has bugzilla.mozilla.org, and Mono has bugzilla.ximian.com. Microsoft should have something like bugreport.microsoft.com.
