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  1. Focus follows mouse, for fucks sake by Corporate+Gadfly · · Score: 1 · on Ask Slashdot: Mac To Linux Return Flow?

    One of my biggest pet peeves with Mac OS X is it's non-conformance to Focus Follows Mouse. Why can't Apple fix that for fucks sake?

    Because Apple shows you the only way (or the highway).

    For novice users, I think it is a pretty good O/S. For semi-advanced users, there are traps in the making. For power users, aside from the FFM issue, in my experience, I have been happy with it (after doing some tweaks like macports and some UI customizations). http://www.macosxtips.co.uk/geeklets/collections/dark-is-beautiful-1/

  2. Re:Then why not a Mac? by 0111+1110 · · Score: 1 · on Windows 8 Is 'a Work of Art.' But It's No Linux

    I don't own a Mac or Hackentosh, but I believe you can remove the dock at least. I also hate it.

  3. Re:How about they improve the Finder instead? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Apple Reportedly Considering Huge Investment In Twitter

    Never improving? Really? Have you compared even 10.6 to 10.7? You claim you can't merge folder contents yet that was added in 10.7 Lion which is now one OS release behind current.

    Out of date troll is out of date.

  4. Re:...And? by X3J11 · · Score: 1 · on Linux Support Fades For 3Dfx Voodoo, Rage 128, VIA

    Not running the latest software? Doom 3 running on a Voodoo 2 ;)

    I'm calling shenanigans on that link. There's no way that game is really Doom3.

    This is what a Doom 3 screenshot looks like!

  5. Re:Nice of them to change the color by melikamp · · Score: 4, Funny · on Microsoft Investigates Windows 7 "Black Screen of Death"

    Screenshot here.

  6. Re:STFU needs to be heard. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Shuttleworth Suggests 1-Way Valve For User Experience Testing

    I'm curious as to what you're looking for that OS X doesn't allow? It's not that I don't believe you...I've had plenty of instances where I wanted to do something that the OS didn't allow me to do. However in almost every instance I've found some hidden setting or third-party tool that allowed me to do what I want.

    OS X offers a lot of configuration options that have no GUI and very little documentation. But there's a bunch of online articles (like this one) that offer some possibilities. Some Google-Fu can yield a lot of ways to customize OS X.

    And when that fails, there's always the third party apps. My two favorite are witch, since I never fully got used to the ALT+TAB behavior in OS X, and Quicksilver which gave me the UI that I never knew I wanted and now cannot live without.

  7. Re:Safari does clean up after itself. by macron1 · · Score: 1 · on Safari 4's Messy Trail

    http://www.macosxtips.co.uk/index_files/12-tips-for-safari-4-beta.html links to an article called "14 Tips for Safari 4 Beta"

  8. You can turn it off by SuperKendall · · Score: 1 · on Leopard as the New Vista?

    The transparent menubar is just awful and there's not even a way to turn it off.

    Yes you can, with Terminal and "defaults write".

    As I don't have the space for a full machine backup I didn't touch Time Machine yet.

    Why not set up TM and exclude the System and Application folder?