As a sysadmin/mini-programmer I say don't standardize.
Far too often I have seen things like grep in a perl script, shell calls in c programs (I mean to shell scripts that do the work) and all sorts of nastiness that just makes things more complicated than it needs to be.
Some days I wish I could just use Ruby for some stuff. Dumb things like adding lines of a file to file names or other such stuff is a breeze.
That and threading (yes I know it isn't true threading yet, 2.0 will fix that).
Yeah still new, but it works great, is EXTREMELY easy to use, and you can setup samba.
My only "problem" is configuring 2 wireless cards at once, the ath driver seems to have problems right now. So I have to go through my router instead of having a dedicated wireless driver.
But I now have a wireless server (created from my old game machine that I don't use anymore) that will have a terabyte of storage and more all setup with raidz (raid 5 sortof).
Once I get these 500G sata drives I will be a happy camper. Once samba is setup my mac can see the shares easily, I don't have a windows box to test that area out with anymore, since the server was the only windows box I had left.
But you might not like Solaris, but zfs is awesome. I can't wait until it is in Solaris 10 general release.
No they don't. Dashboard is just an overlay of html.
To put widgets on the desktop: In Terminal.app defaults write com.apple.dashboard devmode YES log out and back in again OR kill the Dock, either way works.
hit F12 (or the key you use to activate dashboard) click and hold the widget you prefer while still holding down hit F12 again to move dashboard out of the way.
Logic? Reason? Understanding? Open-mindedness? Just look at these comments and do you really see that here?
Since when has/. been the "Site of logic, reason, understanding and openmindedness?"?
I must have missed that time over the past 6-7 years.
And both intelligent design and evolution can co-exist. In fact they do that right now. The problem is that ID is not science and therefore shouldn't be taught AS science in a science classroom.
See how easy that is? I personally think ID is the most naïve presumption to arrive in the past few years. But guess what? That is only my opinion, much like almost all of this site and the comments within.
Don't read into things too far, you just end up exposing your own prejudices. Your statements of "both sides" is categorically wrong. I don't reject the truth, but I do reject truth packaged as a belief. Unless I can verify it isn't the truth it isn't worth exploring.
Sorry rant mode off. Someone needs to invent a giant heater so I can melt all this snow that is coming down, although potassium might do the trick. hmmm.
I know this was meant in jest, but I honestly see this as a good thing.
Being able to purchase say... a cd from Germany online and have it delivered within the week is extremely useful. OR to be able to buy items online and have them shipped to your door the day of the release is even more impressive.
Make jokes about women being social creatures that like to buy, but just like the "men" that created the web, we all benefit from each others interests.
I have no issue. osx 10.4.3, installed into my home directory under ~/Applications however. (I only install programs into my home directory, if they demand/Applications I politely refuse to use the app.
Grab the crash report from ~/Library/Logs/${app_name}.log and either fix what might be the cause or send in a bug report to get it fixed in vlc.
Cheers!
The stars my destination aka Tiger! Tiger!
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Alfred Bester was a master at his craft. I still to this day love reading this book.
If only it would get made into a feature film. If any book could ever be easily made into a movie this is it. But it could be so much more. Not sure how one would go about the last part of the book when Gully's senses are reversed. (not much of a spoiler)
To this day the word jaunt now seems so much crappier because I cannot jaunt in that way.
Not quite, Königswald (Koenigswald if you cannot reproduce the umlauts) loosely translates to "Kingsforest" (Wald can mean timber or wood too, but that makes less sense)
Just because the lack of umlauts makes it appear to have kong in it doesn't make it correct. Interesting spelling wise perhaps, but ultimately it is a faulty line of logic.
Difference being that the root user is disabled by default in OS X. You have to either enable it manually, or you use an administrative level account which basically acts like sudo for installation stuff.
I think he was referring to the difference between scientific and not scientific.
Basically if ID is presented as a scientific theory in Kansas and the students believe this, they are at a disadvantage to students that learn ID is NOT a scientific theory.
Quit trying to make people into anti religious zealots when they may not be. I really don't care if you believe a pink unicorn created the world in 2 minutes. But I do care if you cannot determine what is scientific/verifiable/repeatable/falsifiable or not.
The spell checker is system wide in OS X. Safari isn't any special in this regard.
VIM/vi are why I can never use other editors
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A typical document in word/excel at work, parens are myself realizing what happened.
(ok new document, lets get typing)
iJohn Jacob (dammit, how did that damn i get there? well lets delete the thing) 0x
(Dammit now word is thinking I am typing in Swahili, time to break out the mouse, sigh) (good to go now) i Jingleheimerschmidt (DAMMIT, forgot to hit escape, wait, not again, time for a bit more mouse action)
$i that's my name too!/esc:x
By this time I am fed up and fire up vim for windows and just paste what I need. This is also the reason I LOVE Abiword. Vi compatibility is the only way I can do anything of value in that word processor.
Heh, I should have clarified. I can't (yet) speak about French women, but the American women learning French are infinitely more interested in fellow Americans learning French than regular Americans.
Just my experiences, I think I am out of my "yellow fever" phase though. I would rather have a woman that could think for herself and not be too condascending. And poetry in German is really really fun to hear when done properly.
Not the article, which is actually quite readable once you know a bit of German. But most posters reaction to this awful machine translation.
One second, time to climb on the soapbox. There we go.
Jokes about different languages being "messed up grammatically" or just wrong, or the (very old and not really relevant anymore) jokes about German's reallylongwordsthatneverend are lame.
Do you know what purpose words like those are for? Do you realize how incredibly useful that linguistic feature is?
I admit that German verb structure is uncanny at first. Especially those damn separable verbs. But even they aren't that bad. There are reasons verbs come at the end of some German sentences. EG a modal verb in the first position.
This really is no different than trying to use some wacky translator to translate smalltalk directly into c. It won't look pretty because of the differences in "grammar".
Bad analogy but I am continually shocked by my own geek friends who think it is weird that I like to learn other human languages. They aren't that different than learning another computer language, and the power they allow can be infinitely more useful.
And from my own experience, there are LOTS more women that learn French than German. Sooooo.... Learn some French and get laid. I think, actually stay away I like my odds right now.
And I am done, time to get off the soapbox.
Pick apart the English grammar/spelling if you want, I didn't proofread this at all.
To quote mister Mark Twain himself about German orthography: Since long, my gentlemen, have I the passionate longing nursed a speech on German to hold, but one has me not permitted.
Even funnier if you understand German grammar. Just had to vent, sorry if I pissed anyone off, but these jokes are really boring after the 1000th time reading them.
PS: bonus for learning German, really hot intelligent German/Austrian/Swiss/Luxembourg women will adore you. Very few europeans even expect an American to know a tiny bit of any language other than English. Did I mention blonds? I am pretty sure I did.
And again, I realize I switched things around in my preferences, so Command + F2 is also valid. This is starting to feel like using vim all over again.:)
You are kidding about the keyboard navigation right?
Enable full keyboard access in the keyboard and mouse system preferences (under keyboard shortcuts, click the radio button to all controls) and then have a look at these articles:
Slashdot Mirror
As a sysadmin/mini-programmer I say don't standardize.
Far too often I have seen things like grep in a perl script, shell calls in c programs (I mean to shell scripts that do the work) and all sorts of nastiness that just makes things more complicated than it needs to be.
Some days I wish I could just use Ruby for some stuff. Dumb things like adding lines of a file to file names or other such stuff is a breeze.
That and threading (yes I know it isn't true threading yet, 2.0 will fix that).
Yeah still new, but it works great, is EXTREMELY easy to use, and you can setup samba.
My only "problem" is configuring 2 wireless cards at once, the ath driver seems to have problems right now. So I have to go through my router instead of having a dedicated wireless driver.
But I now have a wireless server (created from my old game machine that I don't use anymore) that will have a terabyte of storage and more all setup with raidz (raid 5 sortof).
Once I get these 500G sata drives I will be a happy camper. Once samba is setup my mac can see the shares easily, I don't have a windows box to test that area out with anymore, since the server was the only windows box I had left.
But you might not like Solaris, but zfs is awesome. I can't wait until it is in Solaris 10 general release.
No they don't. Dashboard is just an overlay of html.
To put widgets on the desktop:
In Terminal.app
defaults write com.apple.dashboard devmode YES
log out and back in again OR kill the Dock, either way works.
hit F12 (or the key you use to activate dashboard)
click and hold the widget you prefer while still holding down
hit F12 again to move dashboard out of the way.
Voila! Dashboard widget on your regular desktop.
Since when has /. been the "Site of logic, reason, understanding and openmindedness?"?
I must have missed that time over the past 6-7 years.
And both intelligent design and evolution can co-exist. In fact they do that right now. The problem is that ID is not science and therefore shouldn't be taught AS science in a science classroom.
See how easy that is? I personally think ID is the most naïve presumption to arrive in the past few years. But guess what? That is only my opinion, much like almost all of this site and the comments within.
Don't read into things too far, you just end up exposing your own prejudices. Your statements of "both sides" is categorically wrong. I don't reject the truth, but I do reject truth packaged as a belief. Unless I can verify it isn't the truth it isn't worth exploring.
Sorry rant mode off. Someone needs to invent a giant heater so I can melt all this snow that is coming down, although potassium might do the trick. hmmm.
I know this was meant in jest, but I honestly see this as a good thing.
Being able to purchase say... a cd from Germany online and have it delivered within the week is extremely useful. OR to be able to buy items online and have them shipped to your door the day of the release is even more impressive.
Make jokes about women being social creatures that like to buy, but just like the "men" that created the web, we all benefit from each others interests.
Only for those old and busted compiled languages!
A la ruby:
weezer$ irb -Ku
irb(main):001:0> a,b = 1,2
=> [1, 2]
irb(main):002:0> puts "a = #{a}, b = #{b}"
a = 1, b = 2
=> nil
irb(main):003:0> a,b = b,a
=> [2, 1]
irb(main):004:0> puts "a = #{a}, b = #{b}"
a = 2, b = 1
=> nil
One of the few I can think of is a German punk band, and one of the best imnsho. Farin Urlaub
. pdf
http://www.farin-urlaub.de/stuff/fu_songbook_aeds
Has the guitar tabs etc...
Funny how greedy we are allowing our corporations to get.
I have no issue. osx 10.4.3, installed into my home directory under ~/Applications however. (I only install programs into my home directory, if they demand /Applications I politely refuse to use the app.
Grab the crash report from ~/Library/Logs/${app_name}.log and either fix what might be the cause or send in a bug report to get it fixed in vlc.
Cheers!
Alfred Bester was a master at his craft. I still to this day love reading this book.
If only it would get made into a feature film. If any book could ever be easily made into a movie this is it. But it could be so much more. Not sure how one would go about the last part of the book when Gully's senses are reversed. (not much of a spoiler)
To this day the word jaunt now seems so much crappier because I cannot jaunt in that way.
Oh well.
Just because the lack of umlauts makes it appear to have kong in it doesn't make it correct. Interesting spelling wise perhaps, but ultimately it is a faulty line of logic.
Difference being that the root user is disabled by default in OS X. You have to either enable it manually, or you use an administrative level account which basically acts like sudo for installation stuff.
Regular unix permissions apply for all files.
I think he was referring to the difference between scientific and not scientific.
Basically if ID is presented as a scientific theory in Kansas and the students believe this, they are at a disadvantage to students that learn ID is NOT a scientific theory.
Quit trying to make people into anti religious zealots when they may not be. I really don't care if you believe a pink unicorn created the world in 2 minutes. But I do care if you cannot determine what is scientific/verifiable/repeatable/falsifiable or not.
Cheers!
Us northerners use: Good For You
(Go f*** yourself)
Yes, but the "big" storms (think Hurricaine Mitch, of which I share the same first name) get excluded after massive amounts of deaths.
So while you start out with 26 letters, those storms that are nasty get their name revoked forever.
Which might indicate this really isn't THAT bad of a storm season. But you never know.
Let us buy songs from other countries.
This is my biggest gripe about iTunes, I will pay the exchange rate difference just let me buy songs from other stores.
The spell checker is system wide in OS X. Safari isn't any special in this regard.
A typical document in word/excel at work, parens are myself realizing what happened.
/esc:x
(ok new document, lets get typing)
iJohn Jacob (dammit, how did that damn i get there? well lets delete the thing) 0x
(Dammit now word is thinking I am typing in Swahili, time to break out the mouse, sigh)
(good to go now)
i Jingleheimerschmidt (DAMMIT, forgot to hit escape, wait, not again, time for a bit more mouse action)
$i that's my name too!
By this time I am fed up and fire up vim for windows and just paste what I need. This is also the reason I LOVE Abiword. Vi compatibility is the only way I can do anything of value in that word processor.
Heh, I should have clarified. I can't (yet) speak about French women, but the American women learning French are infinitely more interested in fellow Americans learning French than regular Americans.
Just my experiences, I think I am out of my "yellow fever" phase though. I would rather have a woman that could think for herself and not be too condascending. And poetry in German is really really fun to hear when done properly.
Your post wasn't insightful.
I wasn't expecting it to be. I thought it would have been moderated to -1 actually, it really wasn't that great of a post. Just more of a rant.
Blame it on me having just listened to Mitch Hedberg for the past 2 hours.
Not the article, which is actually quite readable once you know a bit of German. But most posters reaction to this awful machine translation.
One second, time to climb on the soapbox. There we go.
Jokes about different languages being "messed up grammatically" or just wrong, or the (very old and not really relevant anymore) jokes about German's reallylongwordsthatneverend are lame.
Do you know what purpose words like those are for? Do you realize how incredibly useful that linguistic feature is?
I admit that German verb structure is uncanny at first. Especially those damn separable verbs. But even they aren't that bad. There are reasons verbs come at the end of some German sentences. EG a modal verb in the first position.
This really is no different than trying to use some wacky translator to translate smalltalk directly into c. It won't look pretty because of the differences in "grammar".
Bad analogy but I am continually shocked by my own geek friends who think it is weird that I like to learn other human languages. They aren't that different than learning another computer language, and the power they allow can be infinitely more useful.
And from my own experience, there are LOTS more women that learn French than German. Sooooo.... Learn some French and get laid. I think, actually stay away I like my odds right now.
And I am done, time to get off the soapbox.
Pick apart the English grammar/spelling if you want, I didn't proofread this at all.
To quote mister Mark Twain himself about German orthography:
Since long, my gentlemen, have I the passionate longing nursed a speech on German to hold, but one has me not permitted.
Even funnier if you understand German grammar. Just had to vent, sorry if I pissed anyone off, but these jokes are really boring after the 1000th time reading them.
PS: bonus for learning German, really hot intelligent German/Austrian/Swiss/Luxembourg women will adore you. Very few europeans even expect an American to know a tiny bit of any language other than English. Did I mention blonds? I am pretty sure I did.
Control + Tab moves selection to different input sources, regular tab to the current view's input sources. Test it out in system preferences.
And again, I realize I switched things around in my preferences, so Command + F2 is also valid. This is starting to feel like using vim all over again. :)
Whoops, I meant Control + F2 there, too much beer last night, going to go back to sleep.
Enable full keyboard access in the keyboard and mouse system preferences (under keyboard shortcuts, click the radio button to all controls) and then have a look at these articles:
All the keys you just enabled (under appendix A):i lity/Conceptual/AccessibilityMacOSX/index.html#//a pple_ref/doc/uid/TP40001078
http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Accessib
General Aqua shortcut keys:r ience/Conceptual/OSXHIGuidelines/index.html
Section III -> The Keyboard
http://developer.apple.com/documentation/UserExpe
About the closest thing to the "start" key is Command + F2. This puts selection to the menubar, navigate down and have fun.
Well I just looked, the clean version of this album costs 5.99. The explicit is a partial album that the music companies won't sell all in one.
Still, why do people forget that you can buy full albums on iTunes and not buy the songs individually?