Or you could just press control-F7 to toggle Text Boxes+Lists to All Controls.
As if we don't have enough blind key combinations as it is. I absolutely detest command-H for "hide current application". It's much easier to just option click, plus it's right next door to command-G, so I'm always doing a hide by accident when doing a bunch of text searching. Is there some way we can send Bruce Tognazinni over there with an Uzi to perforate whoever came up with that brilliant idea?
The other one that pisses me off is shift-F11 for Expose. Even though it is supposed to be just plain F11, and I have F11 for Expose turned off in keyboard preferences, when I slip while typing an underscore ("_") on my MacBook Pro, shift-F11 does the "move all windows out of the way and show the desktop" Expose action in slow motion! Excuse me, but is there any way (other than digging into/System and deleting something) to just completely turn off Expose?
They should also consider releasing a non-BR version with wifi for $299
The problem is that they can't. The expensive part isn't the movie decoding, it's that freaking blue laser. And they've committed to releasing the games on BR discs. Sony have basically screwed themselves by trying to push their pet technologies.
They don't have a great track record doing so: Betamax, ATRAC, Memory Stick, SACD, and probably a couple more obscure enough that I don't remember them. None of them are popular technologies, one is completely dead (please don't anyone bring up the completely different Betacam), and ATRAC and Memory Stick are only used by people foolish enough to buy Sony products that won't let them use anything else. Sony wants the same lock-in with Blu-Ray, never mind the past history of their other lock-in technologies.
It'd be like skinning a copy of Windows 95 to look like Xwindows, and then saying "Look at all the vulnerabilities I found in linux!"
Except that a better analogy is those card skimmer devices that get stuck on ATMs that can record the card stripes and button presses. While the blame is misplaced ("oh noes! teh phish n chipz n pinz r haxx0r3d!"), it's still important as a reminder that sometimes you don't need to hack the security, if simply wearing a sheep's skin is good enough to get your wolf into the flock.
...err, unless you were talking about teh FoS of the people posting the videos. In that case, in the immortal words of Emily Latella, "Neeeever Miiiind."
Ok, so let's supress freedom of the press and freedom of speech.
What about the freedom of speech of whoever launched the flying penises? Besides, where are you guaranteed freedom of anything in a place owned by private citizens? If there's a "right to free speech" in Second Life, then there's a right for me to force you to let me into your house to preach about the Flying Spagh... er, Flying Penis Monster.
Read the First Amendment. The first four words are "Congress shall make no law". You only have a right of speech free from government censorship. And that's a specific real government, so don't go saying that Linden Labs is the government in Second Life, so therefore the First Amendment must apply to them too. It's their sandbox, they can do as they like. If you don't like it, start your own.
That being said, this Chung bitch was way out of line to abuse the DMCA and whine a complaint. HowTF does the DMCA apply?
The miracle network: A customer complains that a couple of their machines are very slow on the network. Even internet (via cable modem patched into the network) is slow for those machine. I go over there and start checking things... both machines are generating packet loss to anywhere else on the network, and the network drops which run all the way across the building are direct runs. No wall jacks or anything. I grab our cable tester and hook up to the first cable ends here and in the wireing closet (everything is labeled). It shows no connection. None.
I plug it back in and realize I get no light on the switch for that jack. Mark down everything, and do the 'connect-disconnect' light shuffle... the switches lights don't change. Property owner assures me that the only network equipment is in this room, and the runs are all straight, no additional switches.
We begin tracing the cables through his dropped ceilings, all nicely zip tied together and of course all the same color cables. We find nothing out of the ordinary, and even peer down the wall space where the drop comes down with a flashlight... maybe there is a hub or switch?
Get back in and trace the cable which runs into a hole drilled into a desk, out another hole in the desk, under a several hundered pound file drawer... what's this.. 3 FEET of cable covered by what looks like a whole roll of black electrical tape.
So figuring we have a bad splice, we trim that out, use some punchdown splice blocks we had to add in a segment to replace the taped mess, and bingo, it all works.
The punch line? After pulling all that tape off, one of the other techs discover the splice was made by stripping the outer jacket off of 2 feet on each end of each cable, and wraping the still insulated wires together. All their network connectivitiy for that computer was by inductive coupling.
Computer 2 had a similar problem, having also been moved. There however they were a bit more professional. They went out and purchased a 10' cat5 patch cable, and sheared most of the plastic off the connector with a knife, then taped the two connectors together pin to pin.
The exploding server: We work on a lot of machines. A server comes in from someone who is not normally a customer, but needs the machine back pronto as it has all their customer data on it. They shut it off last night and now it won't power on.
The tech wipes it off with a dry cloth before putting it on the server desk because it is filthy with crud. Plugs it up, and turns it on about the time I'm going back there to work on another machine we have back there. It looked like something out of a hollywood film. Sparks flew out of the power supply, things snapped, awful smells came forth, then the circuit breaker on the UPS tripped.
The server came from a machine shop and had been out on the floor. The entire machine, inside and out, was covered with dust sized flecks of metal. When they brought it here, the metal shifted around and formed shorts when we powered it on. They also needed it back up and running within 3-5 hours.
Their hard drive was fortunatly not a casualty, and we were able to move it to another box.
You give us 5% packet loss like everyone else, we go elsewhere again: Local business has two offices. One served by the cable company, one for 6 months by us via dsl (cable company who set up network in first place doesn't reach them). They have a business app that is not networked, they simply run a VNC session from the remote office. VNC appears to be unhappy with 5% packet loss.
Customer came to us because their previous provider was handing them constant 5% packet loss on their DSL circuit. They assured us it was the provider's fault and not hardware or the other end, and with the standard disclaimers (the phone company is notoriously reluctant to fix dsl lines that work 'mostly right' around here) we set up their internet. Less than a week later they call, VNC won't stay con
How about a 450 foot run of BNC with old, frayed screw on ends. That ohmed out at about 76 ohms. And they wondered why the network was slow..
How about trying to set up a brand new 10Base-2 network, going to the local electronics store to get some cables and terminators, taking all day to figure out why it didn't work (just one specific NIC card would work with a T and both terminators attached), then finding out that all the 50-ohm terminators at the store were really mis-labeled 75-ohm terminators? Good thing I saw the ohmmeter on their sales desk and made a quick check.
There's a legend that Woz knew the hex for intbasic by heart. Now that's mind-blowing.
As for me, I've memorized ASCII (I can enter it with toggle switches if necessary), quite a few Z80 opcodes, and NOP and RTS for the 68000, but that's about it.
And then there's the old story about the pawn shop which used a VHS backup system. Why? Because they had gotten it from someone pawning it, and a bird in the hand and all that.
The payoff was when the pawn shop got robbed. They got a wonderful shot of the perp on their surveillance tape of him pulling the backup tape out of its recorder, then waving it defiantly at the security camera.
The problem, as I understand it from following the news of the quest for heavy elements, is that these are very likely to not be created in a nova or supernova because of the incredibly tricky order of nuclear reactions required. The short half-lives of the intermediate elements are such that there is no time to build them up to the required size. If it decays faster than the arrival of more stuff, you'll never get there.
The only chance is that you've got an entire stellar mass worth of stuff to work with, so if it's possible at all to create them naturally, there will be quite a bit of the stuff. At that point the question becomes the half-lives of the heavy elements. Currently, uranium is the heaviest element with a sufficient half-life that it can be found naturally.
Without a half-life of millions of years, you would pretty much have to be there right after the nova explosion to find anything useful, and even with FTL travel how are you going to know about the explosion when the knowledge of the nova only travels at light speed? You would need FTL transmitters on every reachable star in the galaxy, which is a lot of effort.
I don't know how old you are, but I'm still a college student and I share your feelings as well. What annoys me the worst is that retarted mail client called Outlook that has a love afair with.
ARGH! I know exactly what you mean. I used to work at a mostly MS-dominated company, full of people using Outhouse and MSexchange, and most e-mails would have those defaults, which would appear at an annoyingly small size under the OS X mail program. I always had to just give up and hit the command keys to show them as plain text. Having a mail program specify the font size BY DEFAULT in HTML mail is completely and thoroughly brain damaged, doubly so when the default is so small.
And there's a small amount of blame to be directed at Apple as well, for not providing any way to either override or ignore such brain-damaged defaults.
We've been getting shipments of everything but the ps3. We've had tons of 360's ordered hundreds for the holiday and they are selling but we've barely had any ps3's.
Back in early December or so, when checking for Wiis at a Sam's Club, I was told that they didn't expect to get any PS3s until... March! So either the guy was just making something up to answer a question that I hadn't even asked, or Sam's Club isn't going out of their way to get PS3s.
Anyhow, I still don't have a Wii, but I did manage to walk into a Gamestop just as they were filling the shelves with 2/3 of a shipping box full of controllers and got mote/chuck pair.
The Ars article has all the details, including the metal giant that they called 52B. It stands around 5ft tall, 4ft deep, and is about 2ft wide.
I like how the picture in the article has the guy standing a step or two down, a few feet behind the box, rather than right next to it. It makes the box look much bigger than it really is... or it makes the guy look like a midget. Way to spin the issue, guys!
And for what it's worth, those aren't the type of boxes that I'm seeing down here in Texas. The Lightspeed cabinets here are of a similar size, but have a distinctive beveled edge in front.
One of the things I like about the Zune is that it seems to have a bigger screen
"Seems" is the correct word. It has the same resolution, only with a larger pixel size.
can get FM broadcasts
Most of us play MP3s so we don't have to listen to the corporate wasteland that is FM radio. I listen to a lot of AM talk radio, but the only time I hear any FM is when I press the wrong button on the radio.
Buried at the end of the article is "the ruling shouldn't have any effect on the imports of future consoles because the levy on both codes now stands at zero". So it's still there, it's just set at zero.
Please don't just throw tl;dr links around without at least pointing out the most important half-sentence.
Slashdot Mirror
As if we don't have enough blind key combinations as it is. I absolutely detest command-H for "hide current application". It's much easier to just option click, plus it's right next door to command-G, so I'm always doing a hide by accident when doing a bunch of text searching. Is there some way we can send Bruce Tognazinni over there with an Uzi to perforate whoever came up with that brilliant idea?
The other one that pisses me off is shift-F11 for Expose. Even though it is supposed to be just plain F11, and I have F11 for Expose turned off in keyboard preferences, when I slip while typing an underscore ("_") on my MacBook Pro, shift-F11 does the "move all windows out of the way and show the desktop" Expose action in slow motion! Excuse me, but is there any way (other than digging into /System and deleting something) to just completely turn off Expose?
Windows grays out the icon of files that are currently in the process of a cut/paste action.
The problem is that they can't. The expensive part isn't the movie decoding, it's that freaking blue laser. And they've committed to releasing the games on BR discs. Sony have basically screwed themselves by trying to push their pet technologies.
They don't have a great track record doing so: Betamax, ATRAC, Memory Stick, SACD, and probably a couple more obscure enough that I don't remember them. None of them are popular technologies, one is completely dead (please don't anyone bring up the completely different Betacam), and ATRAC and Memory Stick are only used by people foolish enough to buy Sony products that won't let them use anything else. Sony wants the same lock-in with Blu-Ray, never mind the past history of their other lock-in technologies.
(Remember, kids, SONY is an anagram of NOSY!)
That really can't be mentioned enough. Link to The Register's article
It'd be like skinning a copy of Windows 95 to look like Xwindows, and then saying "Look at all the vulnerabilities I found in linux!"Except that a better analogy is those card skimmer devices that get stuck on ATMs that can record the card stripes and button presses. While the blame is misplaced ("oh noes! teh phish n chipz n pinz r haxx0r3d!"), it's still important as a reminder that sometimes you don't need to hack the security, if simply wearing a sheep's skin is good enough to get your wolf into the flock.
...err, unless you were talking about teh FoS of the people posting the videos. In that case, in the immortal words of Emily Latella, "Neeeever Miiiind."
What about the freedom of speech of whoever launched the flying penises? Besides, where are you guaranteed freedom of anything in a place owned by private citizens? If there's a "right to free speech" in Second Life, then there's a right for me to force you to let me into your house to preach about the Flying Spagh... er, Flying Penis Monster.
Read the First Amendment. The first four words are "Congress shall make no law". You only have a right of speech free from government censorship. And that's a specific real government, so don't go saying that Linden Labs is the government in Second Life, so therefore the First Amendment must apply to them too. It's their sandbox, they can do as they like. If you don't like it, start your own.
That being said, this Chung bitch was way out of line to abuse the DMCA and whine a complaint. HowTF does the DMCA apply?
Wrong. http://apple.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/08/07/ 2359256
Not by default. First you have to go into the Keyboard & Mouse preferences and select the full keyboard access for "All controls".
Canada isn't another country? I'm sure they'll be interested to hear that.
A few interetsing tales:
The miracle network: A customer complains that a couple of their machines are very slow on the network. Even internet (via cable modem patched into the network) is slow for those machine. I go over there and start checking things... both machines are generating packet loss to anywhere else on the network, and the network drops which run all the way across the building are direct runs. No wall jacks or anything. I grab our cable tester and hook up to the first cable ends here and in the wireing closet (everything is labeled). It shows no connection. None.
I plug it back in and realize I get no light on the switch for that jack. Mark down everything, and do the 'connect-disconnect' light shuffle... the switches lights don't change. Property owner assures me that the only network equipment is in this room, and the runs are all straight, no additional switches.
We begin tracing the cables through his dropped ceilings, all nicely zip tied together and of course all the same color cables. We find nothing out of the ordinary, and even peer down the wall space where the drop comes down with a flashlight... maybe there is a hub or switch?
Get back in and trace the cable which runs into a hole drilled into a desk, out another hole in the desk, under a several hundered pound file drawer... what's this.. 3 FEET of cable covered by what looks like a whole roll of black electrical tape.
So figuring we have a bad splice, we trim that out, use some punchdown splice blocks we had to add in a segment to replace the taped mess, and bingo, it all works.
The punch line? After pulling all that tape off, one of the other techs discover the splice was made by stripping the outer jacket off of 2 feet on each end of each cable, and wraping the still insulated wires together. All their network connectivitiy for that computer was by inductive coupling.
Computer 2 had a similar problem, having also been moved. There however they were a bit more professional. They went out and purchased a 10' cat5 patch cable, and sheared most of the plastic off the connector with a knife, then taped the two connectors together pin to pin.
The exploding server: We work on a lot of machines. A server comes in from someone who is not normally a customer, but needs the machine back pronto as it has all their customer data on it. They shut it off last night and now it won't power on. The tech wipes it off with a dry cloth before putting it on the server desk because it is filthy with crud. Plugs it up, and turns it on about the time I'm going back there to work on another machine we have back there. It looked like something out of a hollywood film. Sparks flew out of the power supply, things snapped, awful smells came forth, then the circuit breaker on the UPS tripped.
The server came from a machine shop and had been out on the floor. The entire machine, inside and out, was covered with dust sized flecks of metal. When they brought it here, the metal shifted around and formed shorts when we powered it on. They also needed it back up and running within 3-5 hours.
Their hard drive was fortunatly not a casualty, and we were able to move it to another box.
You give us 5% packet loss like everyone else, we go elsewhere again: Local business has two offices. One served by the cable company, one for 6 months by us via dsl (cable company who set up network in first place doesn't reach them). They have a business app that is not networked, they simply run a VNC session from the remote office. VNC appears to be unhappy with 5% packet loss.
Customer came to us because their previous provider was handing them constant 5% packet loss on their DSL circuit. They assured us it was the provider's fault and not hardware or the other end, and with the standard disclaimers (the phone company is notoriously reluctant to fix dsl lines that work 'mostly right' around here) we set up their internet. Less than a week later they call, VNC won't stay con
How about trying to set up a brand new 10Base-2 network, going to the local electronics store to get some cables and terminators, taking all day to figure out why it didn't work (just one specific NIC card would work with a T and both terminators attached), then finding out that all the 50-ohm terminators at the store were really mis-labeled 75-ohm terminators? Good thing I saw the ohmmeter on their sales desk and made a quick check.
Fry's ad for the win!
There's a legend that Woz knew the hex for intbasic by heart. Now that's mind-blowing.
As for me, I've memorized ASCII (I can enter it with toggle switches if necessary), quite a few Z80 opcodes, and NOP and RTS for the 68000, but that's about it.
And then there's the old story about the pawn shop which used a VHS backup system. Why? Because they had gotten it from someone pawning it, and a bird in the hand and all that.
The payoff was when the pawn shop got robbed. They got a wonderful shot of the perp on their surveillance tape of him pulling the backup tape out of its recorder, then waving it defiantly at the security camera.
Now they need to invent a flourescent spider which can weave a flourescent web that says "SOME PIG" in flourescent letters.
I've also heard that on craigslist, scalpers are unjustly flagging reports of PS3s available in stores.
The problem, as I understand it from following the news of the quest for heavy elements, is that these are very likely to not be created in a nova or supernova because of the incredibly tricky order of nuclear reactions required. The short half-lives of the intermediate elements are such that there is no time to build them up to the required size. If it decays faster than the arrival of more stuff, you'll never get there.
The only chance is that you've got an entire stellar mass worth of stuff to work with, so if it's possible at all to create them naturally, there will be quite a bit of the stuff. At that point the question becomes the half-lives of the heavy elements. Currently, uranium is the heaviest element with a sufficient half-life that it can be found naturally.
Without a half-life of millions of years, you would pretty much have to be there right after the nova explosion to find anything useful, and even with FTL travel how are you going to know about the explosion when the knowledge of the nova only travels at light speed? You would need FTL transmitters on every reachable star in the galaxy, which is a lot of effort.
Don't forget that other company that they pushed out of business just because they wanted to make 2D games for the PS2.
No hot grits or petrification in your equation? You fail it!
ARGH! I know exactly what you mean. I used to work at a mostly MS-dominated company, full of people using Outhouse and MSexchange, and most e-mails would have those defaults, which would appear at an annoyingly small size under the OS X mail program. I always had to just give up and hit the command keys to show them as plain text. Having a mail program specify the font size BY DEFAULT in HTML mail is completely and thoroughly brain damaged, doubly so when the default is so small.
And there's a small amount of blame to be directed at Apple as well, for not providing any way to either override or ignore such brain-damaged defaults.
Back in early December or so, when checking for Wiis at a Sam's Club, I was told that they didn't expect to get any PS3s until... March! So either the guy was just making something up to answer a question that I hadn't even asked, or Sam's Club isn't going out of their way to get PS3s.
Anyhow, I still don't have a Wii, but I did manage to walk into a Gamestop just as they were filling the shelves with 2/3 of a shipping box full of controllers and got mote/chuck pair.
Real soon!
(I knew I wasn't the only one with this idea)
I like how the picture in the article has the guy standing a step or two down, a few feet behind the box, rather than right next to it. It makes the box look much bigger than it really is... or it makes the guy look like a midget. Way to spin the issue, guys!
And for what it's worth, those aren't the type of boxes that I'm seeing down here in Texas. The Lightspeed cabinets here are of a similar size, but have a distinctive beveled edge in front.
"Seems" is the correct word. It has the same resolution, only with a larger pixel size.
can get FM broadcastsMost of us play MP3s so we don't have to listen to the corporate wasteland that is FM radio. I listen to a lot of AM talk radio, but the only time I hear any FM is when I press the wrong button on the radio.
Buried at the end of the article is "the ruling shouldn't have any effect on the imports of future consoles because the levy on both codes now stands at zero". So it's still there, it's just set at zero.
Please don't just throw tl;dr links around without at least pointing out the most important half-sentence.