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Mix folders and files alphabetically in XP Details view?

Grand Wahzoo — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 16:06:30 -0800

Mix folders and files alphabetically in XP Details view? I don't want them sorted by name showing folder-names separate from file-names. Mixed was always the default Mac way, which I still crave. After years on XP I still haven't found a way. I've tried various 3rd party multi-pane file managers and did find one to do that, but it costs too much. Also, another freeware manager but it's only single-pane. I want either a simple regedit or a freeware multi-pane manager.

It's all in the details

Xurando — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 18:28:37 -0800

Why do they have police construction details everywhere in New England and few if any in other parts of the US? In any New England village or highway, if there is any kind of road construction going on there is usually a cop sitting in his/her car getting paid over/double time just to be there. You go to other parts of the country and you can see massive road construction projects with no police presence whatsoever.

I know Mitt Romney tried unsucessfully to eliminate police details while he was Governor of Massachusetts. What is the origin of the police detail and why can Utah get along without them?

Repository of Michael Chabon essays?

msali — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 07:44:40 -0800

Trying to find a Michael Chabon essay on regret and unhapppiness from Details magazine. Yesterday at the gym, I was perusing a Details magazine, when I happened upon a Michael Chabon essay wherein he discussed growing up, 'tristeza', getting married, getting divorced, etc. There was a neat little summary about how one goes about developing regret, which I would love to have for myself (I have a young and reckless family member who might respond to such words). Unfortunately, I didn't get a look at the cover (there was an article about influential men), so I can't offer any guidance as to issue numbers. I am hoping that somebody can point me in the direction of a copy of that essay online (I can't find it). Hope me?

EXTREMEly suspicious drinking story

junkbox — Mon, 23 Oct 2006 11:56:29 -0800

Did Dave Eggers write a [fabricated] feature story on extreme mountain climbing under a pseudonym for Details magazine 7-8 years ago? Circa 1998 (during an extremely lad-mag phase) I read a feature article in Details that turned my bullshit detector up to 11. A few years later, I read Dave Eggers' book A Heartbreaking Work of... where he discusses "selling out" and getting paid $$$$ to write fluff for Details. Ever since then, I've wondered if Eggers wrote that unbelievable article.

Premise: a NY-based freelance writer is given a wad of money and told to book himself on an "extreme" mountain-climbing guided tour (adventure tours were a hot trend at the time) and write about it for Details.

I remember the following claims from his thrilling tale of adventure, for those who care:

-- After buying all his expensive gear, he ran out of money and had to buy his boots at KMart. They worked fine.

-- He was told to spend several weeks "training" on a treadmill with his backpack, to condition himself for 2 weeks of grueling climbs. But he was too busy partying in NY with his friends, getting really drunk and high every night, to bother with training at all.

-- Most of the people on his tour (in South America) were serious amateur climbers who took these trips a couple times a year. The only person who wasn't was a middle-aged former hippie, travelling by herself, who'd saved up her money and left her teenage kid behind while she took this aweome trip. Hippie Mom became Freelance Writer's only friend on the adventure, and they got along like gangbusters.

-- Their first night in South America, the whole group was treated to one of those big "local culture" dinners that tour companies arrange. After dinner, all the serious climbers knocked off early, while Freelance Writer and Hippie Mom sat around with the locals smoking some powerful ceremonial hallucinogens.

-- Freelance Writer and Hippie Mom successfully ascend their first peak despite extreme hangovers from the night before.

-- For the next 2 weeks, Freelance Writer and Hippie Mom consume copious quantities of alcohol, marijuana and other recreational substances at night, then get up and climb tremendously tall mountains in extremely cold temperatures the next day. All of the other Serious Climbers sit out at least one of the peaks on the tour due to injury or poor climbing conditions; Freelance Writer and Hippie Mom are the only ones who climb every peak with the guides, because they'll never have the chance to do this stuff again.

-- Freelance Writer concludes that extreme mountain climbing is cool, provided you carry enough party supplies with you to make it fun. But training is for suckers: the best training is smoke, drink and party as much as possible beforehand.

I'd love to know who wrote this, and if there's any reason to believe that he (or she) ever left NY to research it. The Dave Eggers angle is just a theory, since it could have been concocted by any number of other writers.

That's Good Sheet, Man

fandango_matt — Wed, 22 Mar 2006 20:46:16 -0800

What is the proper order and nomenclature for numbering architectural drawings? Typically, you break up drawings into different types of views: floorplans, sections, details, and elevations--both outside and Here's the list I put together--is this the proper order?

1.01 = Site/Lot/Vicinity/Landscape
2.01 = Floorplans
3.01 = Exterior elevations
4.01 = Sections
5.01 = Interior elevations
6.01 = Details
7.01 = ?

Suppose sheet 5.02 references a detail on sheet 6.04/drawing 2. Should 6.04/2 reference back to 5.02? Or is that unnecessary?

Also, what's the proper form for details of details? 6.01.1? Or should I keep those drawings on the same sheet?

Ladies: what do you look for in a guy's apartment? What would you hate to find?

NotMyselfRightNow — Mon, 06 Dec 2004 06:51:20 -0800

Ladies of MeFi: You find yourself in a guys apartment. What do you look for, notice, or pay special attention to? Is there anything you look for that can cause an automatic, "I want nothing to do with this guy ever again!"? [As a pre-emptive strike, goes and puts down toilet seat]