. . . if the next time I spend half a Saturday making really good beer straight from grain, I look into my secondary fermenter a week later and find a *(%^*& bluejay staring out of the secondary fermenter at me a week later, it's not going to be amazon that I go after, but a couple of eastern sissies with their sweater cuffs tucked together around their waist . . .
I actually strained a muscle in my left pinkie from a few days of extended emacs editing, all because the control key wasn't there where it should be (with hands my size, the hand must rotate for the pinkie to hit the left control in exile! Yes, I need medical treatment from a misdesigned keyboard).
Shortly thereafter, a small piece involved in the physical togglelock of capslock on my university keyboard mysteriously fell out (Now I would never tamper with university property!:), allowing me to remap the wretched thing.
Someday I'll find a remapper for vista like the powertoys for XP; mercifully I rarely have to use either.
The capslock next to the A is not only not useful, it is moderate harmfulness.
Nonetheless, a change made in the AT by a stuffed suit for no other reason than to give it the same key layout as a Selectric typewriter became universal, in spite of being harmful.
It detects the key in my wallet, allowing me to *push* the unlock button, rather than unlocking for me--but it will lock automatically when I leave (*if* I'm still by the door.7 seconds or somesuch after it closes, it locks when I get the prescribed distance away.)
There is a switch in the trunk to enable/disable the electric release button by my feet--but it *completely* enables/disables, rather than have a setting for "button is live when car is on").
>When I was a teenager, I loved simple collection of, easy to find, >large knobs and levers on my dad's 1971 Volvo 142E.
I loved the easy to find controls on my father's '64 beetle.
There was the turn signal, and uhm, . . . OK, there was a windshield wiper. There was supposed to be a squirter, to, but supposedly I broke that by grabbing it at a couple of months old . . .
Gee, when I've referred to FreeBSD as "like Linux for grownups," I was referring to the more conservative and structured development model, but if the cheap shot fits . . .:)
I had elaborate sets of spreadsheets that linked by name to cells or regions external documents. I had to combine them as sheets in a single document to get them to work in oocalc. I was more than slightly annoyed . . .
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It was a *far* worse accident than Chernobyl. Unlike Chernobyl, US reactor design contained the accident.
For extra credit, compare the total release at TMI to to what a coal plant releases in a regular day of operation.
hawk
It's that thing that apple auto-detected.
And folks claimed that Win95 was Mac 88 . . . :)
hawk
?What is funny is I bet when those kids have children of their own,
>the record player will still be used.
It's been more than ten years since my tour in a help room for undergraduates.
I gave a classic pizza & records example.
Then I looked at him, and asked, "But you've probably never seen a record, have you?"
"Just how old are you?" was the response.
*sigh*
hawk, still grabbing records at thrift shops
. . . if the next time I spend half a Saturday making really good beer straight from grain, I look into my secondary fermenter a week later and find a *(%^*& bluejay staring out of the secondary fermenter at me a week later, it's not going to be amazon that I go after, but a couple of eastern sissies with their sweater cuffs tucked together around their waist . . .
hawkj
1. This should have been moderated "insightful," not "funny."
2. Pursuant to requests from the usual suspect, this device will from now on be referred to as the "GNU/GNUphon"
3. Actually, given GNU's contributions, it should be the "GNU/GNUGNU/Phone"
hawk
*shudder*
That's totally out of control. Page after page of shameless hussies lifting their burkas to flash their ankles!
hask
quite obviously, you use the parrot for kitten bait . . .
hawk
But when he woke up, it was to several, "Oh, look! He's hurt, the poor thing. . . "
hawk
. . . is one that helps you remember a prayer to St. Jude, the patron saint of lost causes.
Your netbook will look "manly" about the same time as your frilly skirt and stilletors. :)
hawk
I actually strained a muscle in my left pinkie from a few days of extended emacs editing, all because the control key wasn't there where it should be (with hands my size, the hand must rotate for the pinkie to hit the left control in exile! Yes, I need medical treatment from a misdesigned keyboard).
Shortly thereafter, a small piece involved in the physical togglelock of capslock on my university keyboard mysteriously fell out (Now I would never tamper with university property!:), allowing me to remap the wretched thing.
Someday I'll find a remapper for vista like the powertoys for XP; mercifully I rarely have to use either.
hawk
*whoosh* :)
The parent commented
>If it wasn't useful it wouldn't be there.
The capslock next to the A is not only not useful, it is moderate harmfulness.
Nonetheless, a change made in the AT by a stuffed suit for no other reason than to give it the same key layout as a Selectric typewriter became universal, in spite of being harmful.
hawk
This is my interest in "chipping" my miata.
I don't want to go anywhere near the engine.
It detects the key in my wallet, allowing me to *push* the unlock button, rather than unlocking for me--but it will lock automatically when I leave (*if* I'm still by the door .7 seconds or somesuch after it closes, it locks when I get the prescribed distance away.)
There is a switch in the trunk to enable/disable the electric release button by my feet--but it *completely* enables/disables, rather than have a setting for "button is live when car is on").
hawk
>but a mini trailer that contains a power source (say a ICE/generator or a
>fuel cell or a JTEP). That would encourage new add-ons by others.
\cue urban legend
like a Jato? :)
hawk
>When I was a teenager, I loved simple collection of, easy to find,
>large knobs and levers on my dad's 1971 Volvo 142E.
I loved the easy to find controls on my father's '64 beetle.
There was the turn signal, and uhm, . . . OK, there was a windshield wiper. There was supposed to be a squirter, to, but supposedly I broke that by grabbing it at a couple of months old . . .
hawk
Uh-huh.
This explains perfectly why the caps lock next to the A key was abandoned quickly after its introduction midway through production on the IBM AT . . .
hawk, who once needed medical treatment after a few days of heavy emacs editing on a control-key-in-exile keyboard
Damn kids and their cassettes.
*My* other car has a genuine factory 8 track.
OK, so it's a '72 Eldorado convertible (Yes, you may now drool :)
Cassette, indeed.
hawk
Hooray for backspace, but sometime in the last few weeks, the escape key on laptops in X has stopped working for both FreeBSD and Linux!
hawk
At last it is putting an end to Balmer whining about "30 year old technology" . . .
hawk
>Yes, I'm calling Windows 1, 2 and 3 piles of manure.
Now, now.
There wasn't enough to Windows 1 or 2 to make up a "pile" :)
hawk
Minor correction: Pr1mes were minicomputers, not mainfraims.
hawk, who hasn't seen one in decades
EMACS was available, though, to bring your mainframe to its knees. :)
hawk
I just tried this. Useful, but you have them backwards . . .
hawk
>See, they're not really children.
Gee, when I've referred to FreeBSD as "like Linux for grownups," I was referring to the more conservative and structured development model, but if the cheap shot fits . . . :)
hawk
Because MS-DOS was a CP/M workalike, and CP/M adopted a DEC syntax which used / to designate command options.
Not a problem in directoryless CP/M and DOS 1.x, but by MS-DOS 2.0 the slavish backwards compatibility was already annoying problem.
Oh, early DOS *could* be configured to swap to different characters, but I think this is long gone.
hawk
I had elaborate sets of spreadsheets that linked by name to cells or regions external documents. I had to combine them as sheets in a single document to get them to work in oocalc. I was more than slightly annoyed . . .
hawk