Saturday, April 18, 2009

James Nourse's Rubik's Cube Solution

I have a 2 year old nephew that likes to mess up my Rubik's cube. I have no desire to learn optimized solutions; I just need to remember the solution I learned waaaay back in 1981--the one by James G. Nourse. This blog post has a simplified version:


It is hard to find his solution online and I don't want to keep Googling it everytime!

Thursday, April 9, 2009

Shared Documents -- what is it?

Came across this post for how to remove that annoying "Shared Documents" folder. More importantly, it explains that the folder is just a folder: C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Shared Documents. So this is a real folder--not a metaphor for changing the sharing status of files put in there--so if you delete files from there they are really gone!

Instructions for how to remove this folder can be found by searching for (in quotes) "Have you ever wondered what is the “Shared Documents” folder doing in My Computer?" on your favorite internet search engine.