Select with the left button pressed, and click with the middle button in the target window to paste. No Apple-C or control-V crap, no need to press any key of any kind. Click-select, click, and you're done.
And it also has the added elegance that the expicit cut/copy/paste also works, and they don't interfere with each other. You can use mouse Selections for quick and dirty copying (select a textual URL from Mozilla and copy it to xterm), while using the Clipboard to hold something else (select the URL in xterm, open a new tab in Mozilla, paste URL to the location bar with middle mouse button, hit enter, click on the web page's edit field and do Edit-Paste to get your magnum opus on the text edit field).
Gnome and KDE made the extremely boneheaded decision to mimic Windows even when it really doesn't make sense; when the X way of doing things is vastly better. Click to focus as a default? Ugh!
Pshaw. That's not that bad. SloppyFocus without autoraise is the God's own focus method, that's right. But if anyone can tell how to stop GNUStep applications from raising on top when they get focus, and to give up focus properly, that would be great. I love GNUMail.app and Terminal.app, but they fight just about every focus setting I have in WindowMaker...
I have been too lazy to get a better phone than my 9110, and the only thing I really don't like is the fact that 9110 won't do SSH. (And now it definitely won't, because I don't have the free memory to install the app, even if it exists... Wonder if there's a non-sucky sync app for 9110...)
I can do modem-line terminal connections, but that's so '80s, and I have no idea how long the university is going to maintain the text-based dialup anyway.
N-Gage would have quirkier keyboard though, but also it's far far cheaper than the 9210i... Hmm, might have some point in upgrades =)
Ah, editorial screwup. The usual word to be censored this way is "Asshole", which would mean two asterisks are used to censor "ss". The actual title of the drinking game is "A***hole", with three asterisks. It censors a completely different word, of course. Uncensored, it's "Alcohole".
Or at least that's the only way I think it could make sense as a title of a drinking game.
Bah, I just tried the Helix player. Know what's the common thing between hxplay and gst-player? Both totally choke on video. hxplay plays my icecast2 Vorbis stream beautifully. gst-player and rhythmbox didn't understand what the m3u was supposed to be and choked on direct URI. (Not that it matters, I tend to use xmms myself...)
Okay, okay, special cases and all that.
Neither appears to be perfect, though I think gstreamer looks a bit frostier in general with its very wide variety of plugins and very interestingly described API - nobody has made similar presentations of Helix architecture. Still, I wouldn't go flaming either camp, I'm sure both will eventually show something seriously promising, or even cooperation on key areas.
The only bad thing I had to say about helixcommunity.org is the requirement to sign up to download and the Legalese Everywhere approach, Agree This, OK This thing. Far less painful than trying to get the player from real.com though =)
giFT, I think. Consists of a server (can connect to OpenFT, Gnutella, Fasttrack, Soulseek, etc, at varying success rate) that does the downloading, and a client that can be on remote host as well if desired. The best client for it just happens to be giFTcurs, a console app...
In the real world, the answer isn't on the band and the box won't help much either. Or something. Translated to human language, this means that streaming video is always, no matter what technology, unwatchable.
In real life, snipers suck. Unless they're on your side, in which case they're so "cool" they have their own nickname: Murder, Incorporated.
Murder Incorporated? Ummmm... In Operation Flashpoint, The Soviet Russian Glorious Red Army "Murder Production Facility" kills YOU =)...or whatever, just let's not incorporate it.
(Well, at least OpF attempts to show where the bullet came from...)
I thought it was okay to lie in release dates, especially in gaming industry, because no one believes them anyway? That goes even for "When it's done" kind of dates. =)
(I remember Blizzard talking something about a Christmas release of Warcraft II and I was seriously amazed when it was out by Christmas, even without any reason to believe otherwise. Likewise, importers always delay stuff; I was very amazed to find out that NWN:HotU was released here only a couple of days later than in US.)
Note that this symbol is only on image editing software and color photocopiers. I guess it'd be pointless to add it to plain ordinary grayscale copiers, since counterfeit money produced with them, if we understate a bit, is easy to recognize...
Better just print the confidential memos on deep red paper =)
I look forward to writing those shellscripts a character at a time using a gamepad.
Didn't someone introduce a GameCube keyboard just for Phantasy Star Online? Really cool-looking widget, ordinary gamepad controls on the sides and all... (This linux mod seems to need PSO anyway... =)
And using an ordinary TV for a screen? No thanks.
I was quite surprised to find out that my Commodore 1802 (composite/luma/chroma input) monitor works pretty well with GameCube even with the 60hz mode. First comment from my sister when trying to play the Zelda64 GC port was something like "wow, that's so crisp picture." =)
And any monitor worthy with highest praises for the One True Computer, the Commodore 64, has to be fit for everything else. (Except perhaps ones that absolutely need VGA resolutions.)
Personally, I'm not that thrilled to see Gamecube Linux in this form - besides, I bought my Gamecube only for games. How about designing some really frosty addons, like odd memory card replacements? CompactFlash adapter? IDE adapter? SCSI RAID adapter? =)
Bah. I once made a Commodore 64 BASIC program to treat arachnophobia.
It displayed a spider (that is, printed an asterisk) and asked if the user wanted to squish that spider. if not, it printed "you're wise." Repeat this 10 times. In the end, it prints a row of asterisks: "These spiders thank you for their life..."
For some reason, I wasn't that scared of spiders after making that program, probably because I achieved a deep understanding of the pointlessness of the irrational fear. Didn't they recently run a story about the psychologists using some games to treat phobias? Wish I had remembered this one back then... =)
I mean, just random misspelled words that dont make a fucking pint of sence.
What if the spammers collectively just... went insane? That would be great. Some weeks after the fact, when someone finally bothers to check the spamassassin folders, they'd see the usual garbage and notice it makes even less sense this time. Not even selling anything. Just pages full of "All viagra spam and no pay makes Alan a dull boy" or some other shit like that.
That would provoke a crisis. Riots. State of Emergency. New anti-crapflooding (special case) laws passed around the world. China and Myanmar allowing US military and UN peacekeeping forces to seize control of the open relays until the experts have secured them. Mental institutions filling up. International epic spectacle of the modern age revolution. World War III turning out to be global scale guerrilla fighting between the spammers and the rest of the world. Blah blah.
Or the LensLok system that Elite used, where you held a very breakable plastic lens up to the screen to make a code readable?
Hehehehehe. A local computer magazine once reviewed one game that used this system. Apparently the copy protection method was so unusual that they didn't even include a screenshot from the game, but rather a photograph of someone using the lens thing. And that's just about the only thing I remember from that game. =)
Well, 96-98 wasn't exactly the Year of the Java, at least from the web viewpoint. That was Flanders' complaint - Java was there, it was hyped, everyone thought the applets were going to change the landscape forever Any Day Now... but, well, the applets stayed an annoyance because they were an ill-suited technology.
There was the Java hype, the idea that Applets would change the web. Then there was the other direction- where Java was really headed in the future, what Java really was suited for.
Applets were there, but can anyone remember what they were used for, apart of annoying people? Could anyone figure any interesting use for them? "Wait 2 minutes to download and 2 more minutes for Java applet to start up to see a spinning teapot or something." These days we have Flash that does all this far less annoyingly (but often still annoyingly, but at least it isn't the technology's fault)...
So, in 1998, applets weren't exactly a proven technology. 1998 wasn't the Year of Java.
But these days, Java has blended to the landscape in the web world - and the technology to thank for that bloody well isn't the applets, but rather Servlets, JSP and stuff like that. It's stuff that works. (At least better than Applets, that is.) And Flash has proven to be the solution everyone wanted Java Applets to be for most parts. When do I think was the year of Java? "Around the time you could do 'apt-get install tomcat'."
This is a fairly common *NIX shell (well, at least Bourne shell) idiom. This thing would generate more command arguments, each with one of those items.
For example: {foo,bar,baz}.o would become the list foo.o bar.o baz.o.
Thus, as others said, here it would be "community" or "communities".
Why am I so hars? Because Java hasn't lived up to its potential - yet. Yes, it may be important, but when it becomes important, you won't notice because it will blend into the landscape. Another history lesson: For years people were talking about "198X will be the Year of the LAN," but when it finally happened, no one noticed because it was accepted. Does anyone remember exactly what year was the year of the CD-ROM? No. It just happened. The same thing will happen to Java.
- Vincent Flanders in "Web Pages That Suck" book (and the website), 1998
(Okay, Java seems to be all over the place now, all right. What was the Year of Java? I think I missed it.)
The fact that you don't like it is not a legitimate UI complaint. Sorry.
Okay, how about having consistent look with other apps? How about the fact that black-on-gray is less readable than black-on-white? (Well, to OSX's defense, I have to say this stuff is by far the most readable brushed metal monstrosity I've seen...) Hope those sound like more legitimate complaints.
Yeah, tastes vary. And I think brushed metal may be tolerable for QTPlayer and iTunes - but perhaps not for apps where I try to get some work done. It might even be tolerable in all apps, if only the default Aqua look weren't so good alternative.
They can be toggled with a single change to the nib file.
:chortle: know what would be cool? Global or per-window setting that doesn't require nib-fu.
Window Maker's Dock is similar to Apple's, both getting their ideas from NextStep.
Window Maker has this nifty "Lock (prevent accidental removal)" checkbox for each docked program. Dragging so marked stuff out of the dock does not undock them.
I believe this could be extended to cover things like locking whole dock at once, locking the resizing of the dock, etc etc...
Why oh why they have to stick brushed metal look everywhere? It was sort of tolerable in QuickTime Player and iTunes, since those aren't too "serious" applications, but... Finder???? I didn't know my files and directories were supposed to be eXXtrEME steel-molded things!
Wish the next iteration would look like Nautilus with some tweaks - that is, retractable or possibly even detachable sidebar, possibly with the locations, and the ability to use dynamic window resizing (or zooming) depending on how many items the folder has. And no brushed metal kewliness.
Lest we forget: Try the PC version of Ultima VII. Then try the SNES version of the same. Even if it were a state of the art port, the experience was never quite the same. =)
I don't think consoles will take over the PC RPGs. They're trying, but PCs still handle stuff more elegantly - especially the modding. Did the X-Box version of Morrowind ship with TES Construction Set? Guess not... and one of the reasons I have enjoyed Morrowind and Neverwinter Nights so much is the moddability.
And besides: Where's my bloody Nethack??? PS2Linux doesn't count...
gst-thumbnailer doesn't always work, because, well, gstreamer isn't quite 1.0 yet. totem-video-thumbnailer works better, yet, I personally prefer to not to use video thumbnails at all.
Open up gconf-editor and dig around in/desktop/gnome/thumbnailers. You'll probably find a lot of things you like to change. =)
so it reads like someone you know telling you how they use such and such a product.
"I went up the cabin last week with my girlfriend and tried out those new pills I heard about while I was there."
Oh, that has never ever been done in advertising... =)
How about stuff like
And the angels, all pallid and wan,
Uprising, unveiling, affirm
That the play is the tragedy, "Impotence,"
And its hero the Conqueror Pill.
Or:
Tis now the very witching time to have bad credit rating,
When the stores yawn, and the post-christmas sales posters breathe out
Contagion to this world: now could I use a new VISA card,...
Sounds like the Ultimate Game Collection from Encore Software. Mine had six CDs and one demo CD, I think. Not very ultimate if the only real highlights were the Ultima disc and maybe, just maybe, Spear of Destiny. (One day I'm probably going to spook the bejezus out the youngsters with that Full Motion Video game... *shiver*)
The Ultima docs were really silly, yes - a MS-Write file that had most of the stuff copy-pasted around (some places didn't even have the right game names...) and no copy protection questions.
It was so cool when later I found some web site that had all of the missing documentation, addressed specifically to those who were unfortunate enough to get that thing...
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And it also has the added elegance that the expicit cut/copy/paste also works, and they don't interfere with each other. You can use mouse Selections for quick and dirty copying (select a textual URL from Mozilla and copy it to xterm), while using the Clipboard to hold something else (select the URL in xterm, open a new tab in Mozilla, paste URL to the location bar with middle mouse button, hit enter, click on the web page's edit field and do Edit-Paste to get your magnum opus on the text edit field).
Pshaw. That's not that bad. SloppyFocus without autoraise is the God's own focus method, that's right. But if anyone can tell how to stop GNUStep applications from raising on top when they get focus, and to give up focus properly, that would be great. I love GNUMail.app and Terminal.app, but they fight just about every focus setting I have in WindowMaker...
So it does run PuTTY? Right, Symbian and all.
I have been too lazy to get a better phone than my 9110, and the only thing I really don't like is the fact that 9110 won't do SSH. (And now it definitely won't, because I don't have the free memory to install the app, even if it exists... Wonder if there's a non-sucky sync app for 9110...)
I can do modem-line terminal connections, but that's so '80s, and I have no idea how long the university is going to maintain the text-based dialup anyway.
N-Gage would have quirkier keyboard though, but also it's far far cheaper than the 9210i... Hmm, might have some point in upgrades =)
Ah, editorial screwup. The usual word to be censored this way is "Asshole", which would mean two asterisks are used to censor "ss". The actual title of the drinking game is "A***hole", with three asterisks. It censors a completely different word, of course. Uncensored, it's "Alcohole".
Or at least that's the only way I think it could make sense as a title of a drinking game.
Bah, I just tried the Helix player. Know what's the common thing between hxplay and gst-player? Both totally choke on video. hxplay plays my icecast2 Vorbis stream beautifully. gst-player and rhythmbox didn't understand what the m3u was supposed to be and choked on direct URI. (Not that it matters, I tend to use xmms myself...)
Okay, okay, special cases and all that.
Neither appears to be perfect, though I think gstreamer looks a bit frostier in general with its very wide variety of plugins and very interestingly described API - nobody has made similar presentations of Helix architecture. Still, I wouldn't go flaming either camp, I'm sure both will eventually show something seriously promising, or even cooperation on key areas.
The only bad thing I had to say about helixcommunity.org is the requirement to sign up to download and the Legalese Everywhere approach, Agree This, OK This thing. Far less painful than trying to get the player from real.com though =)
giFT, I think. Consists of a server (can connect to OpenFT, Gnutella, Fasttrack, Soulseek, etc, at varying success rate) that does the downloading, and a client that can be on remote host as well if desired. The best client for it just happens to be giFTcurs, a console app...
Not sure if the kza is able to connect - IIRC they changed the protocol.
Not sure how well giFT-FastTrack works...
In the real world, the answer isn't on the band and the box won't help much either. Or something. Translated to human language, this means that streaming video is always, no matter what technology, unwatchable.
=)
Murder Incorporated? Ummmm... In Operation Flashpoint, The Soviet Russian Glorious Red Army "Murder Production Facility" kills YOU =) ...or whatever, just let's not incorporate it.
(Well, at least OpF attempts to show where the bullet came from...)
I thought it was okay to lie in release dates, especially in gaming industry, because no one believes them anyway? That goes even for "When it's done" kind of dates. =)
(I remember Blizzard talking something about a Christmas release of Warcraft II and I was seriously amazed when it was out by Christmas, even without any reason to believe otherwise. Likewise, importers always delay stuff; I was very amazed to find out that NWN:HotU was released here only a couple of days later than in US.)
Note that this symbol is only on image editing software and color photocopiers. I guess it'd be pointless to add it to plain ordinary grayscale copiers, since counterfeit money produced with them, if we understate a bit, is easy to recognize...
Better just print the confidential memos on deep red paper =)
Didn't someone introduce a GameCube keyboard just for Phantasy Star Online? Really cool-looking widget, ordinary gamepad controls on the sides and all... (This linux mod seems to need PSO anyway... =)
I was quite surprised to find out that my Commodore 1802 (composite/luma/chroma input) monitor works pretty well with GameCube even with the 60hz mode. First comment from my sister when trying to play the Zelda64 GC port was something like "wow, that's so crisp picture." =)
And any monitor worthy with highest praises for the One True Computer, the Commodore 64, has to be fit for everything else. (Except perhaps ones that absolutely need VGA resolutions.)
Personally, I'm not that thrilled to see Gamecube Linux in this form - besides, I bought my Gamecube only for games. How about designing some really frosty addons, like odd memory card replacements? CompactFlash adapter? IDE adapter? SCSI RAID adapter? =)
Bah. I once made a Commodore 64 BASIC program to treat arachnophobia.
It displayed a spider (that is, printed an asterisk) and asked if the user wanted to squish that spider. if not, it printed "you're wise." Repeat this 10 times. In the end, it prints a row of asterisks: "These spiders thank you for their life..."
For some reason, I wasn't that scared of spiders after making that program, probably because I achieved a deep understanding of the pointlessness of the irrational fear. Didn't they recently run a story about the psychologists using some games to treat phobias? Wish I had remembered this one back then... =)
What if the spammers collectively just... went insane? That would be great. Some weeks after the fact, when someone finally bothers to check the spamassassin folders, they'd see the usual garbage and notice it makes even less sense this time. Not even selling anything. Just pages full of "All viagra spam and no pay makes Alan a dull boy" or some other shit like that.
That would provoke a crisis. Riots. State of Emergency. New anti-crapflooding (special case) laws passed around the world. China and Myanmar allowing US military and UN peacekeeping forces to seize control of the open relays until the experts have secured them. Mental institutions filling up. International epic spectacle of the modern age revolution. World War III turning out to be global scale guerrilla fighting between the spammers and the rest of the world. Blah blah.
And now I'm going to get some more coffee.
Hehehehehe. A local computer magazine once reviewed one game that used this system. Apparently the copy protection method was so unusual that they didn't even include a screenshot from the game, but rather a photograph of someone using the lens thing. And that's just about the only thing I remember from that game. =)
Well, 96-98 wasn't exactly the Year of the Java, at least from the web viewpoint. That was Flanders' complaint - Java was there, it was hyped, everyone thought the applets were going to change the landscape forever Any Day Now... but, well, the applets stayed an annoyance because they were an ill-suited technology.
There was the Java hype, the idea that Applets would change the web. Then there was the other direction- where Java was really headed in the future, what Java really was suited for.
Applets were there, but can anyone remember what they were used for, apart of annoying people? Could anyone figure any interesting use for them? "Wait 2 minutes to download and 2 more minutes for Java applet to start up to see a spinning teapot or something." These days we have Flash that does all this far less annoyingly (but often still annoyingly, but at least it isn't the technology's fault)...
So, in 1998, applets weren't exactly a proven technology. 1998 wasn't the Year of Java.
But these days, Java has blended to the landscape in the web world - and the technology to thank for that bloody well isn't the applets, but rather Servlets, JSP and stuff like that. It's stuff that works. (At least better than Applets, that is.) And Flash has proven to be the solution everyone wanted Java Applets to be for most parts. When do I think was the year of Java? "Around the time you could do 'apt-get install tomcat'."
Okay, enough rambling....
This is a fairly common *NIX shell (well, at least Bourne shell) idiom. This thing would generate more command arguments, each with one of those items.
For example: {foo,bar,baz}.o would become the list foo.o bar.o baz.o.
Thus, as others said, here it would be "community" or "communities".
Why am I so hars? Because Java hasn't lived up to its potential - yet. Yes, it may be important, but when it becomes important, you won't notice because it will blend into the landscape. Another history lesson: For years people were talking about "198X will be the Year of the LAN," but when it finally happened, no one noticed because it was accepted. Does anyone remember exactly what year was the year of the CD-ROM? No. It just happened. The same thing will happen to Java.
- Vincent Flanders in "Web Pages That Suck" book (and the website), 1998
(Okay, Java seems to be all over the place now, all right. What was the Year of Java? I think I missed it.)
Okay, how about having consistent look with other apps? How about the fact that black-on-gray is less readable than black-on-white? (Well, to OSX's defense, I have to say this stuff is by far the most readable brushed metal monstrosity I've seen...) Hope those sound like more legitimate complaints.
Yeah, tastes vary. And I think brushed metal may be tolerable for QTPlayer and iTunes - but perhaps not for apps where I try to get some work done. It might even be tolerable in all apps, if only the default Aqua look weren't so good alternative.
:chortle: know what would be cool? Global or per-window setting that doesn't require nib-fu.
Window Maker's Dock is similar to Apple's, both getting their ideas from NextStep.
Window Maker has this nifty "Lock (prevent accidental removal)" checkbox for each docked program. Dragging so marked stuff out of the dock does not undock them.
I believe this could be extended to cover things like locking whole dock at once, locking the resizing of the dock, etc etc...
Never mind about wasted screen space.
Why oh why they have to stick brushed metal look everywhere? It was sort of tolerable in QuickTime Player and iTunes, since those aren't too "serious" applications, but... Finder???? I didn't know my files and directories were supposed to be eXXtrEME steel-molded things!
Wish the next iteration would look like Nautilus with some tweaks - that is, retractable or possibly even detachable sidebar, possibly with the locations, and the ability to use dynamic window resizing (or zooming) depending on how many items the folder has. And no brushed metal kewliness.
Lest we forget: Try the PC version of Ultima VII. Then try the SNES version of the same. Even if it were a state of the art port, the experience was never quite the same. =)
I don't think consoles will take over the PC RPGs. They're trying, but PCs still handle stuff more elegantly - especially the modding. Did the X-Box version of Morrowind ship with TES Construction Set? Guess not... and one of the reasons I have enjoyed Morrowind and Neverwinter Nights so much is the moddability.
And besides: Where's my bloody Nethack??? PS2Linux doesn't count...
gst-thumbnailer doesn't always work, because, well, gstreamer isn't quite 1.0 yet. totem-video-thumbnailer works better, yet, I personally prefer to not to use video thumbnails at all.
Open up gconf-editor and dig around in /desktop/gnome/thumbnailers. You'll probably find a lot of things you like to change. =)
Oh, that has never ever been done in advertising... =)
How about stuff like
And the angels, all pallid and wan,
Uprising, unveiling, affirm
That the play is the tragedy, "Impotence,"
And its hero the Conqueror Pill.
Or:
Tis now the very witching time to have bad credit rating,
When the stores yawn, and the post-christmas sales posters breathe out
Contagion to this world: now could I use a new VISA card,...
So sayeth Netcraft: The site www.scientology.org is running Apache on Linux.
So when do we see that SCO lawyer guy and Helena Kobrin flinging mud at each other??? And who sells tickets?
Sounds like the Ultimate Game Collection from Encore Software. Mine had six CDs and one demo CD, I think. Not very ultimate if the only real highlights were the Ultima disc and maybe, just maybe, Spear of Destiny. (One day I'm probably going to spook the bejezus out the youngsters with that Full Motion Video game... *shiver*)
The Ultima docs were really silly, yes - a MS-Write file that had most of the stuff copy-pasted around (some places didn't even have the right game names...) and no copy protection questions.
It was so cool when later I found some web site that had all of the missing documentation, addressed specifically to those who were unfortunate enough to get that thing...