Select the first file that you're interested in. Use ctrl-arrow to navigate to the second file you'd like to select. Hit the spacebar to select it. Both items will remain selected, and you can continue selecting new items with ctrl-arrow.
Dunno if there's any way to select them without arrowing through everything, like typing the name of the file.
Very handy. Anything you can do with a mouse can be done with a keyboard. You can get properties with the menu key (right click key ?) which is next to the right hand ctrl key on my keyboard.
There are plenty of things that I don't know how to do with the keyboard on Windows, but that's because I don't know Windows very well.
Clipboard shortcuts are the same, but line up, line down, word forward, word back, move/select, paragraph up, paragraph down, &c. are all different. Since it's the only way to do it right on both systems, I wind up using the arrow keys a lot, and only memorize the move/select character/word modifiers. I trip up even there.
MMC is so weird. I can't tell if they've got their own scheme for how things should work, or if it's just missing a billion important features. I suspect that it's missing.
It's not. Just like alpha-XP didn't have Luna, alpha-Longhorn isn't going to have their final look and feel. If only so that you can instantly tell whether you are using release software.
If you go installing a ton of crap on your Windows machine, then you won't learn how to use Windows on everyone else's machine, which works pretty damn well. Learn the system, and it's not too bad. It blew my mind once when Anand of Anandtech tried to claim that MacOS X had better keyboard shortcuts than Windows. I love MacOS, but Windows has keyboard accessibility completely nailed.
What Microsoft has done:
Windows-D hides all your apps.
Windows-R brings up the run window.
The only things I've changed:
ctrl-alt-g puts focus in the Google Deskbar.
The Google Deskbar is a part of a side-docked not always-on-top toolbar with my quicklaunch & desktop, with large icons that I can use like a dock. So no matter where I am, ctrl-alt-g gives me access to the stuff I don't want cluttering my taskbar.
If it's always-on-top, then you can't use fitts the way that XP is designed for, which is fantastic.
I'm pretty happy with the setup. My only complaint with Windows is that the text-editing shortcuts aren't the same as MacOS, so my fingers do all the wrong things when I'm typing on either system. Both operating systems have passable text-editing key commands, I just can't learn either one since they're different. If only they both had emacs-mode, I'd just learn it the emacs way.
Anyway, here's a picture of how it works out for me on xp. That's what it looks like when I've popped up my toolbar with ctrl-alt-g.
Thing is, unless Mac OS gets its "funnels" figured out better - just slightly better locking - 4 cores will be hard to use. I haven't heard anything about Tiger in this regard.
Look at how controversial the obscenity regulations and convince me that it's a great idea to try a similar idea when billions of corporate dollars are on the table.
Granted, it's a big deal because those dollars are on the table. However, that's only the case because the system is already fucked. If we passed a law that everyone wearing pants had to buy a pants license from MC Hammer, you could argue similarly that changing that law is dangerous because billions of corporate dollars are on the table.
We're saying those dollars shouldn't be on the table. That's the whole point. They only got on the table because patent law handed our nuts to patent attorneys.
Your values are self-sustaining. They're still wrong.
Clearly there were specific research purposes for which Internet2 was developed, like telepresence &tc., which are related to p2p filesharing.
However, part of the "research purposes" for Internet2 were to see what new unanticipated uses people would find for the network if a medium-large number of people were given access to massive amounts of bandwidth. I don't have any citations to back this up, except that if this wasn't part of their purpose, why on Earth would they hook up freshman dorms to I2?
But since some large portion of the orgs that use SSNs use them as secrets, they would also be asking for your secret under a uid/password system.
So now you've still got tons of busted systems out there that have seen your secret. Plus, someone has to manage passwords. That's annoying enough at our 500 person company.
Public key cryptography could do it without requiring you to expose your secret every time someone wants to ID you, but then someone would have to manage those public keys. That could be less secure, because when someone's private key gets stolen, it might be even more difficult to cope with the resulting identity theft.
Two-factor authentication would be vulnerable to all this stuff, so I don't think it's a fool-proof improvement either.
I've never heard of a scheme that would fix our issues with SSN, or even count as an upgrade.
I'm comparing them right now. My home computer is aged and decrepit, and I'm not sure if I should get a G5 or a PC. Part of my decision making incorporates the fact that I'm used to VS.NET, and part of my decision making incorporates the fact that Xcode sounds rad.
If I read a comparison by someone who had used both in real long-term projects, I'd be completely fascinated.
Well, if Tridge is using the Linux kernel, it would seem that he is the beneficiary of McVoy's efforts.
While technically true, is still a far cry from making Tridge morally or ethically beholden to McVoy. And this:
The right thing to do would have been to let BitKeeper know that Linus, et al, were thankful for BitKeeper's help, but they switching over to a new, GPLed system. Then if BitKeeper were pricks about the switch, sure, reverse-engineering would have been fine.
Does not address any options for Tridge. As I said, I hope you don't think that anyone else did anything wrong. If you think that this should have been ironed out by Linus or OSDL or 'the community', then my entire comment was off topic (and you'd be wronger;).
Ayn Rand had it right when she said that the key thing about "public" property is that its definately not "public". You cant alter it, improve it, use it.
You're a moron. If I didn't have 200 friends already, I'd foe you. Just wanted you to know.
BTW, I rode a bus to work today. Does that prove you wrong?
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fwiw, yes:
Select the first file that you're interested in. Use ctrl-arrow to navigate to the second file you'd like to select. Hit the spacebar to select it. Both items will remain selected, and you can continue selecting new items with ctrl-arrow.
Dunno if there's any way to select them without arrowing through everything, like typing the name of the file.
I know. Dunno what that refers to in my post, or how it relates at all.
alt-space n
alt-space c
Very handy. Anything you can do with a mouse can be done with a keyboard. You can get properties with the menu key (right click key ?) which is next to the right hand ctrl key on my keyboard.
There are plenty of things that I don't know how to do with the keyboard on Windows, but that's because I don't know Windows very well.
I'll point out that the Decemberists have really excellent performance and songwriting on their side. Not just BitTorrent :)
That certainly counts as a reason. Good stuff.
Huh. There's still some kind of difference, although I'm not sure what:
Windows-D flickers on hide
Windows-M is solid
Windows-D flickers on reveal
Windows-shift-M flickrs more on reveal, only barely. Er, maybe not.
This is now extremely nitpicky, but based on the slightly different behavior, I bet there's stuff I'm not noticing.
While someone's out there modding up my original bullshit. C'mon, mods, pay attention. I wish you could downmod your own posts with impunity.
Clipboard shortcuts are the same, but line up, line down, word forward, word back, move/select, paragraph up, paragraph down, &c. are all different. Since it's the only way to do it right on both systems, I wind up using the arrow keys a lot, and only memorize the move/select character/word modifiers. I trip up even there.
MMC is so weird. I can't tell if they've got their own scheme for how things should work, or if it's just missing a billion important features. I suspect that it's missing.
Any reason to use trip rather than the google deskbar?
It's not. Just like alpha-XP didn't have Luna, alpha-Longhorn isn't going to have their final look and feel. If only so that you can instantly tell whether you are using release software.
Windows-D is a toggle. Hitting it a second time brings everything back.
Uh, yeah. I'm a jackass.
You win, though: first of five to point it out.
What Microsoft has done:
Windows-D hides all your apps.
Windows-R brings up the run window.
The only things I've changed:
ctrl-alt-g puts focus in the Google Deskbar.
The Google Deskbar is a part of a side-docked not always-on-top toolbar with my quicklaunch & desktop, with large icons that I can use like a dock. So no matter where I am, ctrl-alt-g gives me access to the stuff I don't want cluttering my taskbar.
If it's always-on-top, then you can't use fitts the way that XP is designed for, which is fantastic.
I'm pretty happy with the setup. My only complaint with Windows is that the text-editing shortcuts aren't the same as MacOS, so my fingers do all the wrong things when I'm typing on either system. Both operating systems have passable text-editing key commands, I just can't learn either one since they're different. If only they both had emacs-mode, I'd just learn it the emacs way.
Anyway, here's a picture of how it works out for me on xp. That's what it looks like when I've popped up my toolbar with ctrl-alt-g.
Yeah, that's exactly what I was looking for.
Oh.
That'll do.
Thing is, unless Mac OS gets its "funnels" figured out better - just slightly better locking - 4 cores will be hard to use. I haven't heard anything about Tiger in this regard.
People are morons.
News at 11.
Boy, it's going to be great when you have to register with campaign finance people if you say anything political on your blog.
We're saying those dollars shouldn't be on the table. That's the whole point. They only got on the table because patent law handed our nuts to patent attorneys.
Your values are self-sustaining. They're still wrong.
Clearly there were specific research purposes for which Internet2 was developed, like telepresence &tc., which are related to p2p filesharing.
However, part of the "research purposes" for Internet2 were to see what new unanticipated uses people would find for the network if a medium-large number of people were given access to massive amounts of bandwidth. I don't have any citations to back this up, except that if this wasn't part of their purpose, why on Earth would they hook up freshman dorms to I2?
So I disagree.
But since some large portion of the orgs that use SSNs use them as secrets, they would also be asking for your secret under a uid/password system.
So now you've still got tons of busted systems out there that have seen your secret. Plus, someone has to manage passwords. That's annoying enough at our 500 person company.
Public key cryptography could do it without requiring you to expose your secret every time someone wants to ID you, but then someone would have to manage those public keys. That could be less secure, because when someone's private key gets stolen, it might be even more difficult to cope with the resulting identity theft.
Two-factor authentication would be vulnerable to all this stuff, so I don't think it's a fool-proof improvement either.
I've never heard of a scheme that would fix our issues with SSN, or even count as an upgrade.
I'm comparing them right now. My home computer is aged and decrepit, and I'm not sure if I should get a G5 or a PC. Part of my decision making incorporates the fact that I'm used to VS.NET, and part of my decision making incorporates the fact that Xcode sounds rad.
If I read a comparison by someone who had used both in real long-term projects, I'd be completely fascinated.
Ayn Rand had it right when she said that the key thing about "public" property is that its definately not "public". You cant alter it, improve it, use it.
You're a moron. If I didn't have 200 friends already, I'd foe you. Just wanted you to know.
BTW, I rode a bus to work today. Does that prove you wrong?