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General Software Discussion / Re: Fax Software

« Last post by IainB on May 05, 2015, 09:15 AM »

I had much the same problem, and my solution was to purchase a Brother MFC-J65IODW A3 lnkjet printer, FAX, scanner, which came bundled with all the necessary software. The price was NZ$200 net - $350 retail, less $50 store discount and less $100 cashback from Brother (you had to request the cashback online within 2 weeks or so of buying the thing).
I jumped through the hoops for the cashback and found the printer and the bundled software to be very good.
Unfortunately, the printer is not used frequently, and I discovered that, if it is not used frequently, then the inkjet print heads clog up and it's a mission and half to clean them. If you can't clean them yourself, then you will be able to get them cleaned by a specialist, under the extended 3-year warranty, which is another mission.
The printer functionality is kinda redundant in my case, as the functionality is rarely required anyway, and even then it is usually only my teenage daughter who needs it for a school project. Having an A3 scanner can be a very useful input device though..

The printer can be connected as a WiFi device and as a USB device. For Fax, it is plugged in to the phone adapter (ADSL on the other side). Incoming Fax is simple: incoming phone calls are detected and if they have the Fax carrier signal, then the Printer/Fax deals with it, otherwise it is handed over to the voice phone. Outgoing Fax is also simple.

Fax is for the birds. My objective is to go paperless, and so, working with paper is a PITA. If you don't need to print any incoming faxes, then you can manage them as PDF or TIFF image files, which means that clogged-up inkjet print heads might not be a setback.

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General Software Discussion / Re: MS Project questions

« Last post by IainB on May 05, 2015, 08:39 AM »

Yes, that's all very well, but it's a cruel thing to do to an employee or subordinate. How else is @kalos expected to do whatever ad hoc job has been thrown at him? Because he's out of his depth, he's obliged to beg answers/help in this forum (and maybe others) about how to do basic stuff in MS Project - or at any rate, item 2 of his Q is basic, though I'm not sure that I understand item 1 of his Q.

I've seen this sort of thing so many times that it makes me grind my teeth in frustration. Theory helps one to understand it, but that doesn't make it any better. From what I have seen in this thread and others, I would suggest that @kalos is probably working in an organisation where the business processes are ad hoc. Every time one wants to do something, a new or modified existing business process is  used to do it - it would be chaotic, by definition. The theory describes this as being CMM Level 1 (Ad hoc/chaotic). (CMM here means Capability Maturity Model for business processes.)
So, if one is (say) in the business of making sausages, then the sausages are made in (say) a different way, or by a different person, or to a different recipe, each day.
CMM Level 2 = Repeatable (a lot of our our processes are re-used from day-to-day).
CMM Level 3 = Defined (we know what most of our process are, and they are defined and documented).
CMM Level 4 = Managed (we manage the operation of our main processes and run them according to their defined usage).
CMM Level 5 = Optimised (we constantly strive to improve and optimise the way our defined/managed processes operate).

Organisations have to start somewhere, and that is at CMM L1, then as they grow, they might move up to CMM L2, and even L3. In Westernised economies, rarely will you be lucky enough to see CMM L4, and CMM L5 organisations are even rarer.

I have every sympathy for anyone who is working in a CMM L1 organisation (where most of the business processes are ad hoc and work is chaotic). CMM L2 would be much the same. For employees, neither type of organisation can be a pleasant/happy place to work, and yet no-one there would quite understand why, or why staff turnover was so high. The explanation is given by the theory, that by definition they are chaotic (CMM L1), or barely rational (CMM L2) and such organisations cannot provide pleasant/happy/"safe" working environments.
You can't skip levels. There is only hope above CMM L2.

So I would suggest that the best way forward might be for @kalos to master MS Project to some reasonable level, whereupon he would be able to not only do the job thrown at him, but also, more importantly - as the de facto resident expert - to contribute more to the development of the organisation's processes - at least those relating to project management.

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General Software Discussion / Re: MS Project questions

« Last post by IainB on May 05, 2015, 04:57 AM »

You apparently seem to know nothing about MS Project but are "forced to use" it and "think it's a badly design program"?
Amazing.   

I would suggest that you could do worse than study a book on MS Project, and practice using the tool as you study the book.
There's one I'd highly recommend that I think MS produced called MS Project Inside Out.
If you can't get hold of the PDF file for the current version (is yours MS Project 2015?) of this book, I might be able to dig up a link to something for you - probably the 2003 version.
I seem to recall that the book used to be shipped as documentation with the product install, so you might already have it on disk. It's worth checking that out.

From experience, once you have begun to master MS Project (it may take a while as it is quite complex and requires that you have at least a basic understanding of critical path method and analysis first), you will find it to be well-designed and an excellent critical path analysis and planning tool - arguably one of the best on the market, and is certainly ubiquitous, so you will very likely be able to re-use and further develop the knowledge you gain in this learning phase.

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: compressed archive NSE (7Z/RAR/ISO etc)

« Last post by IainB on May 04, 2015, 09:37 PM »

^ That iFilter looks interesting. Do you know how it performs? I tend to avoid installing much of anything as I've had performance issues in the past with some software and figured it's often not worth it to bother.
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-Renegade (May 04, 2015, 08:42 PM)

Performance? I have no idea (but see below), though Filters have been employed in Windows Indexing for ages.
If I look down the list of Indexing Options-->Advanced-->File Types tab, I see hundreds of file extensions and literally dozens of file content filters, including, for example:

• Journal File Filter Class.
• XML Paper Specification Filter.
• Office Outlook MSG iFilter.
• PDF XChange PDF iFilter Handler (replaces the proprietary Adobe-provided one, which doesn't seem to work properly).
• Tiff Filter Class.
• ZIP Filter

Amongst the most important (for me) would be the several MS Office document filters (installed by/for MS Office), and the PDF, Tiff and ZIP filters.
I don't yet know of (or have) a 7Zip file content filter.

Some idea of performance can be seen if you take a look at the Event Log for Desktop Search/Index. You will see that, under apparently normal circumstances, it is repeatedly episodically crashing and self-recovering (or getting stuck in a recovering loop!) due to "Index corruption" or similar. Since MS would arguably have probably got the Indexing code down to a fine art by now, my suspicion is that all those Filter plugins might be (could be) making the thing a bit fragile - hence the crashes.

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Living Room / Re: Interesting "stuff"

« Last post by IainB on May 04, 2015, 08:55 PM »

I'd say it'd be pretty easy to get lost in there...
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-tomos (May 04, 2015, 03:11 PM)

Sometimes a mindless escape into a gadget is the only sanity break we can get. Scroll around, load a new app, check the weather next week -- then once more unto the breach.
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-x16wda (May 04, 2015, 08:22 PM)

Yes, I think it's escapism - which is harmless in small doses - but the trouble with escapism is that, if it is prolonged, then it can become too much of a good thing, whereupon such a putatively relaxing "mindless escape" can become a real time bandit where one can spend a great deal of one's cognitive surplus (and experience of life) in playing with (say) a smartphone, or watching TV, or something.

Having discovered that to be the case for me with an HP Palm some time back, I had to try to be more self-disciplined. I would have no desire to succumb to a new temptation manifested in the form of a smartphone, unless I have a real and defined business use for it.
I guess there's a dividing line between "play" (where one can risk learning and then practicing something) and "mindless escape".
Quite different to daydreaming, which seems to be an entirely natural and potentially useful way for the mind to think and reflect at random/whim, and to sometimes come up with new ideas.

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N.A.N.Y. 2015 / Re: NANY 2015 Release - Splat (Simple Program Launching and Termination)

« Last post by IainB on May 04, 2015, 08:20 PM »

I installed SPLAT today, out of curiosity. Initial response: Thankyou! A rather nice piece of work!   
Still playing with it, but I think I might end up keeping it and using it instead of or in conjunction with ProcessTamer.

Just some observations/comments in initially setting up the Hotkeys:

• I noticed that, for SHIFT there is no option for Left Shift or Right Shift. (Both of which I use in Hotkeys.)
• Ditto for CTRL.
• There is no option for the GRAVE key. (A key which I only recently started to use in Hotkeys.)
• I wondered whether having the user press the actual Hotkey combo required, and SPLAT reading them, wouldn't be less tedious and less error-prone than setting them up with all those tickboxes.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Feature Request : Remember recording area ("Region") after rebooting PC

« Last post by IainB on May 04, 2015, 04:12 PM »

^^ +1 from me.    

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: compressed archive NSE (7Z/RAR/ISO etc)

« Last post by IainB on May 04, 2015, 04:04 PM »

That looks pretty darn useful. I would stop using ZIP files so much and switch with that. I need to give that a spin.
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-Renegade (May 04, 2015, 10:41 AM)

^^ Yes, that same thought - dispense with the use of .ZIP files - occurred to me, but then I straightaway recalled that, if one uses it, then Windows Desktop Index/Search would probably need a 7z-iFilter, or something, in addition to the existing ZIP-iFlter (assuming one already has the latter), in order to continue to be able to scan the contents of those files - which is why I only use .ZIP for archive files at present.
Refer for example to: http://www.ifiltershop.com/

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General Software Discussion / Re: Need an Easy fix for annoying problem with sorting in Windows

« Last post by IainB on May 04, 2015, 07:53 AM »

^^ You can Tab and type and move <- and -> (backwards and forwards) your way all over the Desktop, Windows Start Menu, Quick Launch bar, Systray, etc. They are just visual representations of Folders (Systray is a bit different though, I think).
However, if someone has (say) changed the icon file names, the outcome might not be what you expected.

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: compressed archive NSE (7Z/RAR/ISO etc)

« Last post by IainB on May 04, 2015, 03:09 AM »

Ooh! As a long-time xplorer² user, I have to say that this plugin looks interesting.
Thanks. I hadn't spotted it in the zabkat blog feed.
Now, if only we had a plugin for an HTML file viewer too...  

(Yes, it already does that.)

Pretty versatile.

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Living Room / Re: PSA - How to watch every Marvel property in the perfect order

« Last post by IainB on May 03, 2015, 11:16 PM »

Yup. It could be critically important for some Marvel fans.
My son-in-law had to miss seeing the release of Avengers the other day, due to having to stay at home and help sick family. He was mortified that my daughter got to see it with her friends. It is at defining moments like these that one is truly put to the test.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Firefox Extensions: Browsec VPN (interesting new extension)

« Last post by IainB on May 03, 2015, 02:14 AM »

Just saw this on firefoxfacts.com today: Browsec VPN

Need to encrypt traffic and websites you are browsing? Check out Browsec VPN.  Facebook closed by an overzealous sysadmin? Browsec to the rescue! Browsec encrypts your traffic and routes it through our secure cloud. No one will be able to identify, track you or sniff your traffic. ...

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General Software Discussion / Re: Need an Easy fix for annoying problem with sorting in Windows

« Last post by IainB on May 01, 2015, 10:46 PM »

^^ +1 for what @anandcoral says above. It's just another way of putting what I was politely trying to suggest in my comment - i.e., that you don't need to go near the Desktop icons, you just bypass them - they are effectively a distraction from the object of getting a job done as easily/efficiently as possible.
However, I do recognise that if one is accustomed to (say) always using the Desktop icons because that is the only way one knows or has learned to do whatever needs to be done, then it could/might be very difficult to accept that one needs to change one's approach.

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Living Room / PSA - How to watch every Marvel property in the perfect order

« Last post by IainB on May 01, 2015, 02:43 AM »

This looked important enough for a Public Service Announcement: How to watch every Marvel property in the perfect order - CNET

Infographic: We've laid out every Marvel movie and TV show -- and the absolute ideal order for watching them -- so you can go into the "Avengers" sequel super prepared.

    by Caitlin Petrakovitz    @misscp
    April 30, 2015 11:26 AM PDT
...

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Living Room / Re: Interested in doing my own car maintenance.. Advice?

« Last post by IainB on April 29, 2015, 08:51 PM »

car jacking successful, oil change done.  super fun!!!!
coolant flush in progress!

-mouser (April 29, 2015, 01:35 PM)

For your next service, consider stopping throwing the oil away, by installing a parasitic or non-parasitic oil filter bypass system - e.g., Frantz.
 - and checking the pH (I think it is that) of the coolant fluid.
I don't usually service my car nowadays, but I was impressed that my garage always check the special coolant fluid at "check/replace coolant" service intervals, because the coolant is expensive and it's not necessary to throw it away and replace it afresh if its anti-corrosive properties have not chemically deteriorated.

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Living Room / Re: Interested in doing my own car maintenance.. Advice?

« Last post by IainB on April 29, 2015, 08:15 PM »

^^ What a great picture! Inventive mechanics those Cubans. Not careless either - looks like most of them are wearing safety jackets.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Latest FARR Release 2.223.01 - April 28, 2015

« Last post by IainB on April 29, 2015, 06:47 PM »

2015-04-30 1147hrs NZT - Confirming test results:
Using FARR v2.223.01 on laptop, OS=Win8.1-64 PRO:
Options pane: font used in display box is (unchanged from before) consistently almost too small to read. I would like to make it larger. Not a showstopper. Not sure whether it is a bug per se.

Aliases: The above 4 aliases (i.e., without/with quotes) as reported by Nod5 work/fail similarly on my laptop, except that I substituted the Chrome Canary as the browser and DuckGo as the search engine, thus:

Code: Text [Select]

1. C:\Users\(UserID)\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome SxS\Application\chrome.exe https://duckduckgo.com
2. C:\Users\(UserID)\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome SxS\Application\chrome.exe "https://duckduckgo.com"
3. "C:\Users\(UserID)\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome SxS\Application\chrome.exe" https://duckduckgo.com
4. "C:\Users\(UserID)\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome SxS\Application\chrome.exe" "https://duckduckgo.com"

So, Aliases #1 and #2 worked OK and with a correct result.
When Aliases #3 and #4 FAILed, the error messages were respectively: (notice the single and double quotes)

Code: Text [Select]

1. -------------
2. Windows cannot find '"C:\Users\(UserID)\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome SxS\Application\chrome.exe" https://duckduckgo.com'.
3. Make sure you've typed the name correctly, then try again.
4. -------------

and...

Code: Text [Select]

1. -------------
2. Windows cannot find 'C:\Users\(UserID)\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome SxS\Application\chrome.exe" "https://duckduckgo.com'.
3. Make sure you've typed the name correctly, then try again.
4. -------------

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Latest FARR Release 2.223.01 - April 28, 2015

« Last post by IainB on April 29, 2015, 07:59 AM »

Sorry, I had not seen the message asking me to check Aliases...looks like the ones with URLs are not working.
Shall test some more tomorrow if I have time. Must get some sleep now.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Latest FARR Release 2.223.01 - April 28, 2015

« Last post by IainB on April 29, 2015, 05:28 AM »

Thanks, using FARR v2.223.01 on Win8.1-64 PRO.
All OK, except the font size in the Options panel is still almost too small to read properly.
Not a showstopper - I've been putting up with that and can continue to do so.

By the way, I'm not sure whether I mentioned this, I have been playing about with the Quick Search Words, which seems to work quite well with strings like these that I have tried:

• ff=Firefox.exe (to bring up the FF browser link file)
• ie=C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe (to bring up the IE browser .exe path)
• is8=C:\Program Files (x86)\Info Select\Info Select (IB databases).lnk (to bring up the IS8 link file)
• $a=http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=%s (to search Amazon for the string typed in)
• $imdb1=http://www.imdb.com/find?s=all&q=%s (to search IMDB for the string typed in)

The latter two are copies of two of my search bookmarks and are a sort of alternative to using Aliases.
I'm still experimenting with the QSW and freely admit I don't have a clue what I am doing.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Need an Easy fix for annoying problem with sorting in Windows

« Last post by IainB on April 28, 2015, 11:08 PM »

If one is wanting an easily sortable order for the icons on the desktop, then the quickest way would seem to be to open the folder C:\Users\[UserID]\Desktop in Windows Explorer. (At any rate, that's what it is Win8.1, but it might differ in earlier versions of  Windows.)
The icons on the Desktop are .lnk files.
Groups of icons can be located in folders on the desktop, and I have used Fences to do that as well (looks nicer).
However, possibly the simplest control of the alphabetic display order can be by using appropriate link file names. For example giving one's browser link files names like:

• Browser-Chrome
• Browser-IE
• Browser-Firefox

- will make the browser icons appear clustered together sequentially in the Quick Launch bar or Desktop. Thus link filenames beginning with "." or "A" will come first, "B" second, and so forth, through to "Z".

If Desktop icons have been shuffled about using drag-and-drop (same as can be done in Quick Launch bar icons), so that they are now in a confusing order/arrangement, they can be quickly reset into alphabetic order (or other WinExplorer column order) and then manually shuffled about afresh into the desired state.

However, it is probably more efficient/effective to avoid manually shuffling things and use the filename method (above) to determine and set the icon groups and order, as, if that becomes disarranged by manual  drag-and-drop, then it can always be quickly re-sorted back into the alphabetic sequence you had previously created by your file-naming.

Sorry, done in haste.
Hope that makes sense or is of use.

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Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]

« Last post by IainB on April 28, 2015, 09:45 PM »

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Latest FARR Release 2.221.01 BETA - April 22, 2015

« Last post by IainB on April 28, 2015, 07:02 AM »

Using FARR v2.221.01 Beta on Win8.1-64 PRO.
CASE 1: Font (size) override settings are ON to increase the display font size in the FARR output panels/lists.

• Small or large icons seem to display correctly in the FARR List display.
• The font size in the Options panel is almost too small to read properly. Fiddling with the font (size) override settings doesn't seem to have any observable effect on the size of the characters in the Options panels

CASE 2: Font (size) override settings are OFF.

• Small or large icons seem to display correctly in the FARR List display.
• The font size in the Options panel is almost too small to read properly.

Changing icon size to 48x48 or 72x72 in the the Tweaks and Deugging page, and then restarting FARR, seems to make no visible difference to icons (large or small) in FARR List display or the small-sized font in the Options panel.

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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: Feature request : Shortcut key to re-establish clipboard chain

« Last post by IainB on April 28, 2015, 05:56 AM »

Running CHS v2.29.0.
Like @Armando, I have set the frequency to 1 minute. It has run without any problems so far.

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Living Room / Re: Peer Review and the Scientific Process

« Last post by IainB on April 27, 2015, 11:04 PM »

@Vurbal: What you say about your interpretation of ahamkara could well be true.

Ahamkara has three aspects that particularly impress me:
1. Its age: It comes from a 3,000 years old Vedic philosophy.
2. Its simplicity: Though it is simple, it is a sophisticated concept, developed as part of an artificial framework of reference - a system - which was used to help explain the functioning of the human mind as a spiritual metaphor, and in the context of the Vedic philosophy surrounding the idea of "being" (consciousness) - which they apparently perceived to exist in all things (animate and inanimate) to some extent, and equally - apparently - in no thing (where there is nothing tangible). So, for example, it would be in us and in the air about us.
3. Its adoption: The ahamkara concept was much later incorporated into hindu philosophy.

Forgive me, but I would take you to task on your response, in that it would seem to rather trivialise the achievement of that philosophy, so long ago. I have studied and been trained in the application of some aspects of our modern pseudo-science of psychology, and, though it can sometimes be extremely useful in aiding an understanding of human affairs, it would seem to be an infant by comparison to the Vedic philosophy. Psychology is wrapped in high-sounding terminology - mumbo-jumbo and psycho-babble - with only hypothesis and theory (no certain scientific substantiation) of the concepts developed/used. So, arguably we would seem to have not really come very far at all if we are only able to replicate more or less some of what the Vedic philosophers conceived of, but substituting different terminology and metaphors for theirs, and yet without actually advancing much on it, if at all...

But all this is a digression - off-topic- from the subject of the thread.
I had suggested that ahamkara is an appropriate term for the state of mind that people are in when they steadfastly cling to irrational ideas (beliefs). That is, regardless of system/terminology - "the mind had bound up the concept of one's self with a created thing", or "the identification or attachment of one's ego with a created thing".
Were you intending to argue against the validity of that suggestion, or was your contribution the translation of the concept into other terminology?

My question was: So why do we seem to persist in living in an illusion - in ahamkara?
To answer my own question to some extent: We do not willingly "persist" by choice, but are unwittingly obliged to live in this illusion, because of our mind's tendency for the identification or attachment of our egos with some created thing.

Why I consider the concept of ahamkara to be so profound is that, those in ahamkara are, by definition, unable to perceive the illusion they have created, but it need not be so. They are initially blindly held in its thrall, as it were. However, once they know of and understand and can internalise that knowledge/understanding of the concept of ahamkara, they then have a key with which to liberate themselves from such an illusion.
The question then is twofold: Now that they are able to become aware that it is a false illusion, will they:
(a) choose to continue in the status quo in ahamkara - but now aware that it is a false illusion, or
(b) choose to release themselves from the illusion and thus risk allowing themselves to change/grow/develop?

Well, of course, those who persist in believing in, or espousing, or practicing the false (QED) "alternative medicine" of homoeopathy arguably could be stuck in ahamkara.
It would be interesting to see whether they, or indeed any people who were thus enabled to become aware of when they were stuck in a false illusion (ahamkara) would choose (b).
As a rule:

"Given the choice between changing one's mind or proving one's point of view, most people will get busy on the proof" - J.K.Galbraith, economist.
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- but that was before the key of knowledge of ahamkara and the (b) choice was available. 

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Living Room / Re: Peer Review and the Scientific Process

« Last post by IainB on April 27, 2015, 09:03 PM »

FWIW, here's some of what Wikipedia currently has to say about Ahamkara:

Ahaṃkāra (अहंकार) is a Sanskrit term that is related to the ego and egoism - that is, the identification or attachment of one's ego.

Vedic philosophy teaches that when one's mind is in a state of ahamkara, one is in a state of subjective illusion, where the mind has bound the concept of one's self with an external thing. That thing can be a tangible, material object, or it can be a concept (such as the concept of the fight for peace). The ego is involved in constructing the illusion.

-ewemoa (April 27, 2015, 05:55 PM)

Yes, thanks @ewemoa. I know about that Wikipedia entry as I wrote most of it.
The history is that the subject was originally transferred from the Glossary of terms in Hinduism in about 2006, and pretty much languished there until I took up developing it in 2007.
I also created several other Wikipedia entries and adopted several others as a main editor. However, I became frustrated by the cretinous drive-by graffiti/vandalism and ad-hoc editing by Wikipedia bots, "official" Wikipedia editors and other anonymous and named editors that occurred on a regular basis with the several entries I worked on. Some of the edits were OK, but most were deleterious - e.g., attempts to ameliorate the truth, or make things politically correct, or pushing a religio-political or other biased point of view. The official Wikipedia edits also seemed to become increasingly bureaucratic.

The Wikipedia model was useful, but clearly, because of its relative randomness and crowd-sourced nature, the quality of the content had a potential tendency to regress towards the mean (i.e., slip back into mediocrity). Since there was/is no editorial control over Wikipedia content quality/accuracy, it meant that the situation could not be improved without a meta-change in Wikipedia processes, and that's not likely to happen. It seems to have ossified.

Then Google started up the knol site in about 2009, and over 2009/2010 I abandoned "my" Wikipedia entries and migrated them all to Google knol. That was because I appreciated that knols presented an opportunity to take editorial control and to extend that control to a group of interested/qualified editors, thus avoiding the problems with Wikipedia described above.
Meanwhile, some people had appreciated the work I had been doing in Wikipedia and asked me to develop Wikipedia pages on other subjects they wanted to sponsor. They wanted stability, control and permanence for those articles - which categorically was not possible in Wikipedia.
I ended up creating knol pages for those subjects, as that seemed to offer the sponsors what they wanted, at the time.
 
I was very sad when Google knol was closed down, but backed all my knols up for posterity, and subsequently published them out of a Google Drive hosting platform (which is $free).
So the ahamkara page is the latest version of that knol, now hosted on Google drive, and it is much more well-developed than I had managed to achieve on the Wikipedia page. In fact, I could not have done that in Wikipedia as it has such an archaic and constipated editing process, and no certainty of permanence - though I did try for a while.