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I'm not sure what "actual quotes marks" you mean

I mean that last year I could type "inch marks" and they showed up as "inch marks." I could type “quotation marks” and they showed up as “quotation marks.” Today if I type either "inch" or “quotation” marks they show up as "inch marks." The same is/was true for other characters, although I haven’t experimented much since the Great CSS Enabling. The em dash started rendering as two dashes, the elipsis as three periods, etc.

Here is a screenshot of me previewing this comment so you can see what I mean. That was after having directly typed those characters. If I switch to HTML I can tag up my text and make it look like what you’re reading. Until something changed earlier this year, I didn’t have to do that (unless I was posting from Winders, as I’m not 1337(sp?) enough to memorize all the four digit opcodes).

But all that aside, I wasn’t actually bitching. Just taking the chance to ask some who’d actually know. I don’t mind a good bowl of tag soup every now and now; but it was nice being able to simply type correctly. I find it helps to make up for not writing well.

I wonder if a less priveleged account could exist entirely within a chroot/Jail-type sandbox. If so, a checkbox could be added to the Users pref that would effectively do that and make it painless for the clueless.

And here's the dialog I was talking about.

While obviously not a total solution (what really is?) I use MenuMeters to show me major system info in real time. Here's a screen shot of my menubar showing how mine is set up.

From left: my various desktops, network i/o (outgoing in red, incoming in black), memory allocation, swap/paging, disk i/o (none at that moment), user (black) and kernel (gray) CPU graph, total CPU percentage, clock.

And although it's said that this particular rootkit can bypass it, I strongly recommend shelling out a few bucks for LittleSnitch so nothing can see the 'net without your permission. I assure you, wou *will* be amazed at how much software phones home.

Any time my computer "feels slow" I can expect at least one of those indicators to be pegged. I then investigate and can brutally murderize the offending process if I so choose.

And how do you manage so many windows on a MAC?

I use the Desktop Manager thingy mentioned a few posts up. It's a very simple VD (hehe) implementation that lets you choose from about a dozen mindbending CoreGraphics/OpenGL transtitions for the switch, which is instantaneous regardless of CPU load. I've got mine tied to F5-F8 and ShiftF5-ShiftF8. Exposé works just as you'd expect on each individual desktop, so I get the best of both. Here's a typical day in my ~.

I keep one or more browser windows open on four of my eight desktops. Each of those browser windows has between one and ten tabs open. Unless something dreadful happens, my browser only launches after Software Update causes me to reboot.

Launch time is bandwidth-bound, so whichever one launches less wins. Unfortunately, Safari was crashing every month or two. FlamingCougar hasn't gone out once since I switched a few months ago *knock on space age composite*.

That was why I (somewhat reluctantly) switched, and extensions are why I'll never go back to Safari. Last time I used Camino (kept with it for about six months after Safari came out) it didn't support Mozilla or SmolderingChimp extensions. If that were to change some day, who knows?

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Fisher 404 Quadraphonic Stereo Receiver, the kind with the joystick on the front, circa mid 70s. [image]

KLH Model Twenty-Four Series II, circa late 60s. [image] (That was back when they were truly great, not just mass market grade stuff with an expensive brand name. (I'm looking at you here too, Bose.))

Various late model JVC and Polk Audio sattelites

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Fisher 404 Quadraphonic Stereo Receiver, the kind with the joystick on the front, circa mid 70s. [image]

KLH Model Twenty-Four Series II, circa late 60s. [image] (That was back when they were truly great, not just mass market grade stuff with an expensive brand name. (I'm looking at you here too, Bose.))

Various late model JVC and Polk Audio sattelites