Hmm... I guess that works if you're designing your system as you write it. I generally prefer to know what I'm going to write before I start writing. I see the code in my mind's eye, then I type it into the computer. In my company it's mandatory to document the design of a component/feature before coding starts. This makes design-as-you-code less relevant.
But I was thinking of more than just coding. Writing emails, notes, letters, documentation are all things where I compose the words as I write. Even if I have a vague idea of what I'm going to say, I'm still composing the exact wording as I type. I certainly can't keep up with my mind if I write on paper. A keyboard helps but the QWERTY layout works against me, inserting random mistakes into the work I'm trying to compose. Since I'm reading the screen as I type, I notice these errors and have to interrupt my thoughts to fix them.
I didn't have this problem when using dvorak. Of course, the number of systems I use make trying to use dvorak diffcult at best. A hardware dvorak keyboard with USB and PS/2 connectors that I could plug into every machine I use might be a possibility but those things cost quite a bit of money and it would still be a pain to move it around all the time.
There's a project called jSyncManager that will sync PalmOS devices with a Java-enabled platform. It was originally written to support HotSync on OS/2. It's Open Source too.
The fact is that most people can't think faster than they can type
Are you serious? I can think WAY faster than I can type. I can type faster than I can write on paper.
Typing fast on QWERTY produces errors since the keys are arranged so badly. Fixing the erros wastes time making it very hard to type at anywhere near thinking speed.
Dvorak sucks for coding and unix (all the utilities are easy to type for QWERTY). For general writing it's so much better and you make much fewer mistakes.
*sigh* If I wasn't a coder on unix for a living, I'd still be using Dvorak:(
Why is it that the oggenc on the Mac won't encode if you give it the path:/Volumes/Audio\ CD/Track\ 01.cdda? I get some sort of volume-is-read-only error.
You must use the -output="foo" option because it is trying to send the encoded file to/Volumes/Audio\ CD/
Example shell script...
for file in/Volumes/Audio\ CD/*.cdda; do oggenc --output="~/Desktop/`basename $file | sed 's/\.cdda//'`.ogg" "$file" done
Alternatively, use oggenc - <inputfile >outputfile
RJ-11/RJ-45 modem/network - 8. Very convenient; elegant design. Achilles heel: if you try to pull the cable out of a tangle of wires, you're likely to break the little retaining tab and ruin the cable.
The answer to this problem is to have a sheath over the retaining tab. You can still press it the same, but you can't get anything under the tab so it can't be pulled off. I imagine it's slightly more expensive which is why you don't see it on 'regular' connectors.
I live in Australia, but I was in the US last year in January. I saw a Tablet PC that you could buy in a store in LA. I'm not sure where in LA though:)
It ran Windows, had a regular x86 processor (I don't think it was Intel but it was definitely regular Windows (I think it was Win98)). It had a touchscreen with a stylus. You could operate it in landscape or portrait mode. It even had a 'dock' thing it plugged into so you could use it on a desktop.
From memory, it was not that much more than a top-of-the-line laptop. Not bad considering how much more useful it would be compared to a laptop.
A car is easy to drive for everyone because inputs translate to outputs in a simple, direct way. There are only a few states and only about five main inputs. Anyone tall enough to see over the dashboard can successfully move a car with an automatic transmission.
Actually, I know someone who *cannot* drive an Automatic car even though they can drive a manual car. In the end, it all comes down to the willingness of the user to attempt to understand the thing they are using.
I can open just about any program and figure out what to do with it. People I know refuse to even read what's on the screen, instead asking me "what do I do now?"
People are stupid. It's a Dilbert world out there.
I have 2 PCs networked at home: a Pentium running FreeBSD and an iMac running OS X.
I have the iMac using Apple's built-in NTP client that gets the time from a local NTP server (A University) when I'm online (which is only usually once a day).
I use timed to synchronize the iMac and the PC. It's much easier to setup, and I could never get the ntp server on OS X to transmit time (it always thought it was stratum 16 - the furthest from a clock you can get). timed isn't as accurate as ntp but it works fine for me.
> this 15 inch LCD is better in terms of image > quality and usability than a 21 in trinitron > running Mac OS
Excuse me? I have a 21" monitor at work on a PC that runs at 1600x1200 at approx 150 DPI. There is no way a 15" 1024x768 can come close to that. I don't like having windows take up my entire screen and at work I don't have to have that. I can read small fonts just fine and I can have 2 full page documents side by side on my screen while retaining legibility.
On my iMac (CRT), I can't even have 1 page on the screen without the font becoming unreadable (with font smoothing on *or* off).
Sure an LCD screen might be nicer than the same sized CRT but it can't match high resolution and DPI.
Look at the eMac. It has a 17" CRT with a *higher* resolution than the iMac.
NetInfo has a large number of configuration options. One of them is the ability to read and use flat files in/etc.
If you take a normal OS X system and dump the NetInfo info into/etc (man niutil) then you can setup NetInfo to look in/etc for it's datafiles (not sure where though).
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Hmm... I guess that works if you're designing your system as you write it. I generally prefer to know what I'm going to write before I start writing. I see the code in my mind's eye, then I type it into the computer. In my company it's mandatory to document the design of a component/feature before coding starts. This makes design-as-you-code less relevant.
But I was thinking of more than just coding. Writing emails, notes, letters, documentation are all things where I compose the words as I write. Even if I have a vague idea of what I'm going to say, I'm still composing the exact wording as I type. I certainly can't keep up with my mind if I write on paper. A keyboard helps but the QWERTY layout works against me, inserting random mistakes into the work I'm trying to compose. Since I'm reading the screen as I type, I notice these errors and have to interrupt my thoughts to fix them.
I didn't have this problem when using dvorak. Of course, the number of systems I use make trying to use dvorak diffcult at best. A hardware dvorak keyboard with USB and PS/2 connectors that I could plug into every machine I use might be a possibility but those things cost quite a bit of money and it would still be a pain to move it around all the time.
There's a project called jSyncManager that will sync PalmOS devices with a Java-enabled platform. It was originally written to support HotSync on OS/2. It's Open Source too.
http://www.jsyncmanager.org/
Are you serious? I can think WAY faster than I can type. I can type faster than I can write on paper.
Typing fast on QWERTY produces errors since the keys are arranged so badly. Fixing the erros wastes time making it very hard to type at anywhere near thinking speed.
Dvorak sucks for coding and unix (all the utilities are easy to type for QWERTY). For general writing it's so much better and you make much fewer mistakes.
*sigh* If I wasn't a coder on unix for a living, I'd still be using Dvorak
Example shell script...
Alternatively, use oggenc - <inputfile >outputfile
This is how software development works...
- Speed
- Features
- Reliability
Pick the two you want. You can't have all three.
Let's hope the input buffer of this one accepts more than 2 'wrong' commands.
Appologies to those who haven't read Rama 2...
The answer to this problem is to have a sheath over the retaining tab. You can still press it the same, but you can't get anything under the tab so it can't be pulled off. I imagine it's slightly more expensive which is why you don't see it on 'regular' connectors.
Remeber that Sony owns minidisc technology. They can (and I suspect do) charge whatever they want for it.
I'd rather have an MP3/OGG player than a minidisc player. Even a CD player and a CD burner.
Just a thought... Does the US call them minidiscs or minidisks? If so, that might be your problem... Different spellings in different countries.
I live in Australia, but I was in the US last year in January. I saw a Tablet PC that you could buy in a store in LA. I'm not sure where in LA though :)
It ran Windows, had a regular x86 processor (I don't think it was Intel but it was definitely regular Windows (I think it was Win98)). It had a touchscreen with a stylus. You could operate it in landscape or portrait mode. It even had a 'dock' thing it plugged into so you could use it on a desktop.
From memory, it was not that much more than a top-of-the-line laptop. Not bad considering how much more useful it would be compared to a laptop.
I can open just about any program and figure out what to do with it. People I know refuse to even read what's on the screen, instead asking me "what do I do now?"
People are stupid. It's a Dilbert world out there.
I certainly don't have one. But then I just have a "cool" computer (iMac) ;-p
I have 2 PCs networked at home: a Pentium running FreeBSD and an iMac running OS X.
I have the iMac using Apple's built-in NTP client that gets the time from a local NTP server (A University) when I'm online (which is only usually once a day).
I use timed to synchronize the iMac and the PC. It's much easier to setup, and I could never get the ntp server on OS X to transmit time (it always thought it was stratum 16 - the furthest from a clock you can get). timed isn't as accurate as ntp but it works fine for me.
> this 15 inch LCD is better in terms of image
> quality and usability than a 21 in trinitron
> running Mac OS
Excuse me? I have a 21" monitor at work on a PC that runs at 1600x1200 at approx 150 DPI. There is no way a 15" 1024x768 can come close to that. I don't like having windows take up my entire screen and at work I don't have to have that. I can read small fonts just fine and I can have 2 full page documents side by side on my screen while retaining legibility.
On my iMac (CRT), I can't even have 1 page on the screen without the font becoming unreadable (with font smoothing on *or* off).
Sure an LCD screen might be nicer than the same sized CRT but it can't match high resolution and DPI.
Look at the eMac. It has a 17" CRT with a *higher* resolution than the iMac.
NetInfo has a large number of configuration options. One of them is the ability to read and use flat files in /etc.
/etc (man niutil) then you can setup NetInfo to look in /etc for it's datafiles (not sure where though).
If you take a normal OS X system and dump the NetInfo info into