Launchy is alright but it's just not the same as Vista livesearch. ALT+SPACE to invoke it? That's a standard windows key combo for a start. It just doesn't cut the mustard, not as tightly integrated. Livesearch is everywhere in Vista. Where I find it best is in the control panel.
Launchy, I like the look of that. I'll try it on my personal XP machine.
The obvious other reason to run Vista on my work dev machine is to make sure that at least one of our devs sees Vista issues for real - that dev is me.
I've recently upgraded at work from XP to Vista 64 and I really like it. I hate it when I go back to XP now - where's my search?!!! Start button, app title, , it's just ruddy marvellous.
As a developer too UAC makes it much more realistic to develop and test under LUA scenarios.
I don't really get many UAC prompts. What's all this talk about rearranging menu shortcuts? Why the heck would you do that when you can just type the app name and press ENTER using LiveSearch.
I guess I'll be modded down for admitting to liking Vista but am I really alone?
1. People slate MS for having an unsecure OS where users run as root all the time (<=Vista). 2. People slate MS for having a secure OS where users run with least rights all the time (>=Vista).
(something like the < being treated as an opening tag!)
It's such a travesty that such a clearly superior product languishes so far behind an utterly useless one.
But what do you mean by these popups? Do you mean UAC? Surely Ubuntu implements elevation in much the same way as Vista? I'm sure it did last time I used it.
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You can't make money out of suing games pirates. It costs to sue and you can only recover assets that the sued party actually has. It takes epic amounts of time too.
The reason they sue is to deter others.
Mass software pirates are scumbags who deserve to be brought to their knees in my view.
That's the whole point. With a standard connector I only need to see some "dark blobs" and I know what to do. With the Apple connector I've got to think about something that up until now my sub-conscious had handled for me. That makes it much less usable than a standard connector.
It's called "embrace and extend".
If you want to stick up for what Apple do please explain what benefit the Apple logo on the connector brings any user of the connector. If there is none it should not be there and marketing should stick to encouraging me to buy the products rather than making them hard to use once I have them!
Most UBB connectors have a USB symbol on one side which means (this side up). I'd never really thought about this until someone gave me an iPod. I then found that I was forever struggling to get the connector in.
What I concluded was happening was:
1. I'd sub-consciously worked out that the connector is inserted USB symbol up. 2. The Apple USB connector has the USB symbol on, but on the other side it has an Apple symbol. 3. My sub-conscious was in fact not distinguishing between USB symbol and Apple symbol. Instead the logic was something like, "that side has a symbol on, I'll put it facing upwards".
I'm quite sure that the "symbol faces up" convention is a part of the USB spec. I never needed to know this because my brain naturally worked it out without it ever entering my consciousness. This is a truly wonderful piece of human interface design and yet those morons from Apple go and break it with an inane piece of branding. Way to go Apple. Anyone who ever thinks that Apple cares about usability should think again.
Well I'm sure agile goes back right to the start of software development. It's the natural way for very small teams to work. But agile the "movement" didn't really crystallise until around 10-15 years ago.
I suppose all this is my point. Anyone who things these methods were pioneered by Web 2.0 knows very little about software development.
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Can't you just run a 32 bit process on 64 bit Linux like Windows 64 does?
If Malda was "one of the founders of Slashdot", who were the others?
Launchy is alright but it's just not the same as Vista livesearch. ALT+SPACE to invoke it? That's a standard windows key combo for a start. It just doesn't cut the mustard, not as tightly integrated. Livesearch is everywhere in Vista. Where I find it best is in the control panel.
Launchy, I like the look of that. I'll try it on my personal XP machine.
The obvious other reason to run Vista on my work dev machine is to make sure that at least one of our devs sees Vista issues for real - that dev is me.
But, I still do like Vista!!
Troll??!! What is wrong with you people? Just because my honest opinion differs from another person's doesn't make me a troll.
I've recently upgraded at work from XP to Vista 64 and I really like it. I hate it when I go back to XP now - where's my search?!!! Start button, app title, , it's just ruddy marvellous.
As a developer too UAC makes it much more realistic to develop and test under LUA scenarios.
I don't really get many UAC prompts. What's all this talk about rearranging menu shortcuts? Why the heck would you do that when you can just type the app name and press ENTER using LiveSearch.
I guess I'll be modded down for admitting to liking Vista but am I really alone?
/. ate my post!
My points are:
1. People slate MS for having an unsecure OS where users run as root all the time (<=Vista).
2. People slate MS for having a secure OS where users run with least rights all the time (>=Vista).
(something like the < being treated as an opening tag!)
Sounds like Ubuntu is somewhat less secure than UAC, but for the user it's much the same. I really find it bizarre that:
1. People slate MS for having an unsecure OS where users run as root all the time (=Vista).
In my view to criticise for 1 is reasonable. But to berate MS for both 1 and 2 shows a distinct lack of appreciation of logic.
It's such a travesty that such a clearly superior product languishes so far behind an utterly useless one.
But what do you mean by these popups? Do you mean UAC? Surely Ubuntu implements elevation in much the same way as Vista? I'm sure it did last time I used it.
What is windoze?
Nokia 3310, or perhaps 8210
Subject says it all. If you can't beat 'em, join 'em.
You could just get another job working for freetard.com....
You can't make money out of suing games pirates. It costs to sue and you can only recover assets that the sued party actually has. It takes epic amounts of time too.
The reason they sue is to deter others.
Mass software pirates are scumbags who deserve to be brought to their knees in my view.
The article talks about the codebase that has been released. The Slashdotters talk about the fact the Linux/Mac ports are a long way off. Typical!
.....I mean, there couldn't be any other possible cause for the problem.
Works on the overwhelming majority of PCs....
Yeah, it turns out I'm a complete dork and didn't check my facts before posting my smarty pants comment. Mea culpa.
Anyway, I think Occam is the more common spelling but Ockham is certainly in common use too.
That will teach me.
It's Occam's razor for Pete's sake
That's all fair enough and I do agree with what you say. But, if you are going to make a USB connector, then you might as well get it right.
That's the whole point. With a standard connector I only need to see some "dark blobs" and I know what to do. With the Apple connector I've got to think about something that up until now my sub-conscious had handled for me. That makes it much less usable than a standard connector.
It's called "embrace and extend".
If you want to stick up for what Apple do please explain what benefit the Apple logo on the connector brings any user of the connector. If there is none it should not be there and marketing should stick to encouraging me to buy the products rather than making them hard to use once I have them!
Most UBB connectors have a USB symbol on one side which means (this side up). I'd never really thought about this until someone gave me an iPod. I then found that I was forever struggling to get the connector in.
What I concluded was happening was:
1. I'd sub-consciously worked out that the connector is inserted USB symbol up.
2. The Apple USB connector has the USB symbol on, but on the other side it has an Apple symbol.
3. My sub-conscious was in fact not distinguishing between USB symbol and Apple symbol. Instead the logic was something like, "that side has a symbol on, I'll put it facing upwards".
I'm quite sure that the "symbol faces up" convention is a part of the USB spec. I never needed to know this because my brain naturally worked it out without it ever entering my consciousness. This is a truly wonderful piece of human interface design and yet those morons from Apple go and break it with an inane piece of branding. Way to go Apple. Anyone who ever thinks that Apple cares about usability should think again.
Ah the joys of open source.....
When did Slashdot turn into a pale imitation of Digg?
Well I'm sure agile goes back right to the start of software development. It's the natural way for very small teams to work. But agile the "movement" didn't really crystallise until around 10-15 years ago.
I suppose all this is my point. Anyone who things these methods were pioneered by Web 2.0 knows very little about software development.
This is called "agile development" and pre-dates Web 2.0 by around 10 years. Taco's having a bad day it seems.