This blog entry only shows that the person writing the examples is either an incompetent shell user or has intentionally been looking for the most cumbersome way to do the given tasks in a unix shell.
Is this the ability to do that from other programs on other platforms?
Exactly.
If so, why does the poster pick out the ability to transfer Apple Lossless files?
He hasnt picked it out, it is the only option! Airport Express understands Apple Losless only. Every other format is recoded by iTunes before it is streamed.
He did bogofilter right after Paul Graham released that white paper. -- It is fast and it is effective.
He maintains fetchmail -- one of the most reliable and stable tools i can think of (ever lost an email with fetchmail and it wasn't _your_ fault? i doubt it!)
I believe in reality, and reality is that i _own_ such a keyboard.
Reality is further that i _am_ as fast on this keyboard as on any other (not at last thanks to the smart drivers that correct what you type if your hands are slightly off)
Reality is also that i no longer have to take hour-long breaks from typing because my _wrists_dont_hurt_anymore.
I really can live without your basic physics, thanks.
The TouchStream products work with a much better technology than springs, levers and rubber pads: gravity.
Touchtyping with on one of those is possible and when you have mastered it (which doesn't take very long, provided you could touch type on an ordinary keyboard to begin with) you don't 'strike' the keys anymore, you simply lift the finger and let it fall back. Thus you regain all of the energy (except for the losses with your joints, of course;)
The day is set arbitrary by some committee or other for the next few years. AFAIK, talks are in progress to drop the whole braindead idea of daylight for good, next time around...
...i have to read that shit about how far ahead you americans are thech-wise and i'm gonna have to throw up, i swear.
i mean what is this? a contest of dick sizes? this is europe! not some freakin' new continent that nobody has mapped yet. you don't need no gps and maps for your palm! we have found our ways around the place without wheezing satellites for well over 20000 years, over here.
leave your precious laptop at home and you will maybe actually get to see some culture. and if you get lost, just fucking ask for the way.
and uh... what's that about having to bribe the police with cigarettes? is that your department of tourism that comes up with that shit? i mean, how many times can you leave behind your luggage on one trip??
this is europe, not the outback! you didn't say where you come from, but i guess it's the us... in that case you'll have to find a whole new definition of "small"...
you can have a sufficient (in fact better than any ipaq screen) map of the whole continent at every gas station. And if you get lost, just ask somebody.
i hfave received my TouchStream LP 3 weeks ago, and i really, really dig it.
The guestures are most useful under windows (in fact so good that my collegues "just let me try it for a sec!" returned it only after i applied some physical force), but some of them (curser, shift, control and some others) are also useful on linux. i'm hoping for the roll-your-own tools, though (the firmware is upgradable).
it took a while to hit the right keys at the right time, but the kbd has a builtin heuristics that can correct what you have typed, which works pretty ok for english text.
the "two finger" mouse is actually a "four finger" mouse... double clicking, dragging and the mouse wheel have their own gestures. this is the best feature of them all, if you ask me. from kbd to mouse in 0.0ms:-)
another plus point is the size, at least with the LP. you can fold it up and take it with you, even better than the happy hacking keyboard. and no need to install drivers anywhere.
on the downside i shelled out some $60 shipping and some $100 taxes to order it to europe, which sums up to $450... well, i guess we have to live with this usa against the eu thing...
what else? oh yeah the qwerak... don't know about that, but in my opinion they should do something about the position of programming related keys, not only the a-z. dvorak is not very useful there, either.
did that help? oh, i forgot! i'm not related to fingerworks, just in case you though so;)
But you can actually get used to situations with different dynamics. Just think about moving staircases! Last time I tried to use a broken one (it did not move, but the lights were green - I was tired, so I didn't recognize it at first) I almost fell to m knees, beacause I automatically leaned against the acceleration which was - of cousre - not there.
The AmigaOS was always very Unix-near, and I guess they continued along that line when they developed the new hardware and the design for the new OS. From there it should be fairly easy to switch from some development-kernel (which is maybe largly Linux-based anyway) to Linux.
years ago I was quite proud to have such an important event in my home country. There were really nice works of art (Luxor Jr., anybody?), but I think it has really lost since they fell into this "We have to be in the Internet"-hype.
Should you ever visit Austria and happen to come around Linz (which is not really a problem in such a small country) then go to the Ars Electronica Center. There are some really funky installations and other thing-uh-magjics.
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So what?
This blog entry only shows that the person writing the examples is either an incompetent shell user or has intentionally been looking for the most cumbersome way to do the given tasks in a unix shell.
Oh boy... maybe we should start a fund-raiser to save IBM, ya think?
Yes: install the calendar plugin to use while waiting for sunbird to be useable.
Yeah, getting the car into neutral would be my first thought, too. This car probably had that option.
No, it most probably did not have the option, since almost every european car is fitted with gear shift.
Everything you need is already there:
http://www.apple.com/server/macosx/netboot.html
Is this the ability to do that from other programs on other platforms?
Exactly.
If so, why does the poster pick out the ability to transfer Apple Lossless files?
He hasnt picked it out, it is the only option! Airport Express understands Apple Losless only. Every other format is recoded by iTunes before it is streamed.
And now consider this: We Austrians believe that German coffee is weak!
He did bogofilter right after Paul Graham released that white paper. -- It is fast and it is effective.
He maintains fetchmail -- one of the most reliable and stable tools i can think of (ever lost an email with fetchmail and it wasn't _your_ fault? i doubt it!)
And there are quite a few more...
wuss? 0.7mm??
give an example of where to find one!
I believe in reality, and reality is that i _own_ such a keyboard.
Reality is further that i _am_ as fast on this keyboard as on any other (not at last thanks to the smart drivers that correct what you type if your hands are slightly off)
Reality is also that i no longer have to take hour-long breaks from typing because my _wrists_dont_hurt_anymore.
I really can live without your basic physics, thanks.
Touchtyping with on one of those is possible and when you have mastered it (which doesn't take very long, provided you could touch type on an ordinary keyboard to begin with) you don't 'strike' the keys anymore, you simply lift the finger and let it fall back. Thus you regain all of the energy (except for the losses with your joints, of course
Why should everyone in the country wake up at 6 am local time anyway?
because it would be very confusing to have a day change 3 hours waking up? Or in the middle of lunch...
The day is set arbitrary by some committee or other for the next few years. AFAIK, talks are in progress to drop the whole braindead idea of daylight for good, next time around...
and uh... what's that about having to bribe the police with cigarettes? is that your department of tourism that comes up with that shit? i mean, how many times can you leave behind your luggage on one trip??
your humble european primitivestill better: use pgrep from the procps package.
this is europe, not the outback! you didn't say where you come from, but i guess it's the us... in that case you'll have to find a whole new definition of "small"...
you can have a sufficient (in fact better than any ipaq screen) map of the whole continent at every gas station. And if you get lost, just ask somebody.
sometimes modern is too modern!
And some support to control the mouse pointer is missing AFAIK.
what do you mean by that?
mouse emulation is complete, inkluding a mouse wheel. AFAIK, IAAO (==i am an owner).
i hfave received my TouchStream LP 3 weeks ago, and i really, really dig it.
:-)
;)
The guestures are most useful under windows (in fact so good that my collegues "just let me try it for a sec!" returned it only after i applied some physical force), but some of them (curser, shift, control and some others) are also useful on linux.
i'm hoping for the roll-your-own tools, though (the firmware is upgradable).
it took a while to hit the right keys at the right time, but the kbd has a builtin heuristics that can correct what you have typed, which works pretty ok for english text.
the "two finger" mouse is actually a "four finger" mouse... double clicking, dragging and the mouse wheel have their own gestures. this is the best feature of them all, if you ask me. from kbd to mouse in 0.0ms
another plus point is the size, at least with the LP. you can fold it up and take it with you, even better than the happy hacking keyboard. and no need to install drivers anywhere.
on the downside i shelled out some $60 shipping and some $100 taxes to order it to europe, which sums up to $450... well, i guess we have to live with this usa against the eu thing...
what else? oh yeah the qwerak... don't know about that, but in my opinion they should do something about the position of programming related keys, not only the a-z. dvorak is not very useful there, either.
did that help? oh, i forgot! i'm not related to fingerworks, just in case you though so
bye!hop
But you can actually get used to situations with different dynamics. Just think about moving staircases! Last time I tried to use a broken one (it did not move, but the lights were green - I was tired, so I didn't recognize it at first) I almost fell to m knees, beacause I automatically leaned against the acceleration which was - of cousre - not there.
The AmigaOS was always very Unix-near, and I guess they continued along that line when they developed the new hardware and the design for the new OS.
From there it should be fairly easy to switch from some development-kernel (which is maybe largly Linux-based anyway) to Linux.
years ago I was quite proud to have such an important event in my home country. There were really nice works of art (Luxor Jr., anybody?), but I think it has really lost since they fell into this "We have to be in the Internet"-hype.
Should you ever visit Austria and happen to come around Linz (which is not really a problem in such a small country) then go to the Ars Electronica Center. There are some really funky installations and other thing-uh-magjics.
hop