Re: [GENERAL] Intuitive Software and Mario Brothers

2005-04-25 Thread Rob Stone
Title: Message




WELL... I did that, and , LO AND BEHOLD,... there the darn thing 
is now WHO in the name of Heaven would ever dream of going there and 
right clicking?
Maybe it was some bloke called Gates who 
couldn't figure out what to do with a single button mouse. After all, it is 
"intuitive", isn't it?



  
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  AMTo: pgsql-general@postgresql.orgSubject: [GENERAL] 
  Intuitive Software and Mario Brothers
  I just had an amusing thought, this morning. You know those old Mario 
  Brothers games, video games , where you have to bounce on everything you 
  see, every rock and tree and flower until you discover the secret 
  place where you get power points, or warp into the next level?
  
  Well. A lot of software is just like that!
  
  
  
  Last night, trying to make a VBA routine to talk to Postgresql 
  through MSAccess with ODBC it is like BOINKING and poking on every single 
  place, nook and cranny until you get it right, by accident. Come to 
  think of it, I did hours of boinking and poking to get Postgresql windows 
  install to work. (They should just have a few words for dummies like me, 
  saying "Hey, dont be afraid to install this as a windows service, because the 
  uninstall can undo everything,... AND dont think of installing it as the other 
  option, unless you really know what you are doing, and can do the initdb 
  thingey yourself, because it just wont work.)
  
  
  
  
  
  Some guy had a tutorial about Excel and VBA and he says "go here to add a 
  BUTTON" to excel... so... I launch excel, and look EVERYWHERE,... and 
  nothing in sight,... SO, I go back to his tutorial and he says "right 
  click ANYWHERE in the task bar, and these options open up" ...
  
  WELL... I did that, and , LO AND BEHOLD,... there the darn 
  thing is now WHO in the name of Heaven would ever dream of going there 
  and right clicking?


[GENERAL] Intuitive Software and Mario Brothers

2005-04-23 Thread Typing80wpm



I just had an amusing thought, this morning. You know those old Mario 
Brothers games, video games , where you have to bounce on everything you 
see, every rock and tree and flower until you discover the secret place 
where you get power points, or warp into the next level?

Well. A lot of software is just like that!



Last night, trying to make a VBA routine to talk to Postgresql through 
MSAccess with ODBC it is like BOINKING and poking on every single place, 
nook and cranny until you get it right, by accident. Come to think of 
it, I did hours of boinking and poking to get Postgresql windows install to 
work. (They should just have a few words for dummies like me, saying "Hey, dont 
be afraid to install this as a windows service, because the uninstall can undo 
everything,... AND dont think of installing it as the other option, unless you 
really know what you are doing, and can do the initdb thingey yourself, because 
it just wont work.)





Some guy had a tutorial about Excel and VBA and he says "go here to add a 
BUTTON" to excel... so... I launch excel, and look EVERYWHERE,... and 
nothing in sight,... SO, I go back to his tutorial and he says "right 
click ANYWHERE in the task bar, and these options open up" ...

WELL... I did that, and , LO AND BEHOLD,... there the darn thing 
is now WHO in the name of Heaven would ever dream of going there and 
right clicking?