Startup Turns Fixing Your Grandma's PC Into a Game 113
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First time accepted submitter thecrazyivan writes "As companies like Reddit and Foursquare have shown, Internet users enjoy earning points in arbitrary social games. So why not apply that competitive motivation to something useful, like cleaning up the world's PCs? A startup called Jumpshot is raising funds to launch a new, friendlier form of computer security. Jumpshot is still in its infancy, but it seems to have excited plenty of users with its potential: The company launched a Kickstarter project and almost immediately raised nearly three times its funding goal."
Re:Better yet (Score:2, Informative)
You can do it, use VBScript my friend.
Re:Better yet (Score:3, Informative)
c:\> findstr /?
/R Uses search strings as regular expressions.
[...]
But findstr is no sed replacement - it can't do search and replace as far as I know.
Also if you're using /R you'll most probably also want to use /C, or findstr will split the string at every space into multiple regexes. I found that very confusing when I used findstr /R for the first time.
Re:Better yet (Score:4, Informative)
Instant search is a wonderful tool. Basically, it is always searching and indexing your hard drive, in order to save you several nanoseconds on the rare occasion that you actually need to search for something.
Instant search, or indexing, is among the first bits of trash that I turn off, if and when I install a Windows operating system.
Would you leave your car idling in the garage all night long, so that when you come out in the morning, you won't need to defrost the windshield?