I became a convert to the multi-button & scrollwheel mouse earlier this year. I found an Elecom mouse designed by Shirow Masamune on eBay and I've been really pleased with both the mouse and how well it works under Mac OS 8.6 and USB Overdrive, a third party USB input driver. http://www.usboverdrive.com
What's amusing is that with both iCab and IE 5.1, it's the LEFT button that does all the terrible image copying dirty work. Hold the pointer over the image to be copied and hold down the left button. Up pops a menu and just click on the "Save Image" option.
So let them write all the "disable right click" javascript they want. My 1337 mousing skillz are unstoppable!
Think of the hilarity that would have ensued at Albion and the spamhouse if he'd sent them envelopes that had unscented talcum powder in them.
Imagine being shut down for a few days, having the police poking around your establishment, having to reimburse the fire and police after the 4th or 5th time they have to come and deal with what may or may not be anthrax.
If you're the spammer, having to leave your home while the mysterious powder is analyzed, and maybe hacving the cops poking through your home and files.
No one should actually DO THIS, as it would be illegal and get you into serious trouble.
"Word. The dumbest features ever thunk up by man are all tied to Javascript...the images that swirl around your cursor, preventing you from clicking on links. The script which loads everything at the same time, which means you wait forever for the one broken image. Cascading menus that don't disappear. Or do disappear, just as you are about to click on them.
And worst of all, blocking the right mouse button (or as I like to call it, "the button i use to navigate the fucking internet") in the name of "copyright protection." Every time I see this monstrosity, I download all of the images from the site, stick them in a zip file, and email it to the webmaster. "Your copyright protection didn't work. Neither did the mouse button I use to open links in a new window. One of these things can be easily fixed." "
What the heck are you going on about?
I've NEVER seen any of the things you mention.
Oh, wait...
That's right.
I use a Macintosh, and iCab is my browser of choice.
And you really want to get USB Overdrive. Seriously, if you're on a Mac with USB and want to use a multibutton optic mouse, USB Overdrive is the killer app for you.
Sounds like a pretty decent setup, all things considered.
My Mac is on the coffee table in front of me, as that's the only flat, horizontal surface that's suitable. The other Mac and the Sun SPARC 20 are in the bedroom.
I don't have a wireless mouse, but the mouse I use (see http://tinyurl.com/vgva for what I'm using) has a nice LONG cord, so I can lean back and use the mouse on the top of my thigh. Most of my email and surfing can be done with just the mouse. I know Steve Jobs considers it heresy of the blackest stripe, but a multibutton mouse with a scrollwheel on a Mac rocks very hard. Let me plug USB Overdrive (http://www.usboverdrive.com) as the killer USB app for input devices on the Mac.
If I can get the apartment I want over in the Jamaica Plain neighborhood of Boston, I WILL have a proper setup with all the computers in one area, networked and with a wireless Internet connection.
As for Randi's attitude, more power to him! There are too many frauds out there, from Uri Geller to John Edwards, "The Biggest Douche In The Universe!" and they ALL need to be shown up and humiliated in public.
And given all the lies and deception Randi has seen over the years by dishonest fuckers like Geller and Edwards, his abrasive attitude is understandable.
I have the ideal desk waiting for me in New Bedford, MA. It's a Steelcase as I describe in the previous message.
Except it's on the 3rd floor of an old office building... with no working elevators,,, and the only stairs are the staircases that wind around the open framework elevator shafts... and the stairs themselves are ankle deep in demolition rubble in places.
If I had the money, I'd gladly hire someone with a strong back and a pickup truck to help me move it down the stairs and to my apartment in Boston.
"You know, I tried time and again to find the "ultimate desk" and every one I could find, this one and the others from PoeticTech, and the harder and the more I try, the more I'm convinced that the ultimate desk is a big wooden plank at desk level that I can put all my stuff on. My computer(s), my computer screen(s), my TV, my clock radio, my stereo system, my phone, my action figures, but, more importantly, my junk.
It seems that no desk out there leaves me room for just a few cubic feet of crap. Open manuals lying on their faces, takeout food wrappings, books, piles of paper..."
What you want is one of them big old Steelcase desks from the 50s/60s! Surface area the size of a small aircraft carrier. Get the desk with the swingaway typewriter platform for the flatbed scanner or just remove the platform mechanism and stick the minifridge in its place. Or a couple of computers. Some of these desks had a 30" X 60" or larger desktop surface area
Man, that PoeticTech thing looked like something from a cheapass Sci-Fi series.
I am debating the points. You spouted all manner of insane BS about this fellow mailing sooper sekret info to MS competitors... with absolutely no evidence whatsoever that he did any such thing.
Frankly, you're the fucking idiot, I'm just an obnoxious asshole who enjoys pointing out your escalating insane buffoonery.
In any other company, such an innoculous offense would have garnered a repremand and a request to take down the image/blog posting.
But, as you so rightly observe, "Microsoft is evil". They do evil things, like firing some poor shlub who thought it would be of interest to show the G5s that MS had bought, all the while taking care not to reveal any other details.
Hey, you missed a spot on Ballmer's ass over there.
"If you don't want to upgrade, then don't. Many many many people still use OS9. At some point there will be less choice for web browsers supporting the latest features, but most everything else will work as it does today and did 2 years ago. My mom still runs OS9 and she can still check email, and she still will after 10.3 hits the shelves tomorrow."
Until this past March, I was happily using System 7.6.1. When I changed out the 5400/180 logic board for a 5400/200 board, I jumped directly to OS 8.6.
I'm really happy with 8.6. Although, now that I have a 5500/225 logic board installed, along with a Sonnet 400Mhz G3 upgrade card plugged in the logic board, along with 128MB of RAM, OS 9 might be an interesting experiment.
But I digress.
What I've got now suits my needs quite well. Eudora still works. iCab still works, Graphic Converter and Photoshop still work, SoundJam MP still works. Text Edit-Pro still works. I do regret that I can't access the iTunes Music Store, but as I don't have an iPod yet, I can live without it.
If I had a suitable Mac that could run OS X, I wouldn't mind paying the yearly upgrade fee. After all, it works out to something like US$10.00 a month. People pay more than $10.00 PER DAY for two cups of Hot Cup Filler from Charbucks!
I think that the average OS X user can squeeze out $10.00 a MONTH for the annual upgrade.
My suggestion was to those folks who are offended by the DRM and the file format of the iTMS music files. The solution of buring a CD and ripping from the CD is a waste of time and money and blank CDs.
Intercept the data as the downloaded is playing and save it as MP3. Voila! No DRM, No playlist buring restrictions, No networking limtations.
You've leagally downloaded music and used your right to make a backup copy you can use anywhere.
"Apple IS selling a mechanism that locks you into Apple."
What the goddamn fucking fuck are you talking about?
I own a Macintosh. Save for the OS, all my software is from third parties.
And as for music purchased from iTMS, if you expected the RIAA to allow Apple to sell music with no DRM of any kind, you are too stupid to live. I suppose that the WMA files that only play on WMP9 is fundementally better than the Apple AAC format? Yes, you ARE too stupid to live. Please die, now!
Go drink some more of the MicroSoft Kool-Ade. Oh, and again, please die, now!
Both intercept and record an audio stream from inside the computer (to put it simply enough for all to 'get' the idea) and save it to the HD or RAM disk AS AN MP3 file.
Import that MP3 file into your "music" folder/library/portible digital player of choice and away you go, unencumbered by DRM.
I beleive that either of these applications mayl also work with WMA files, regadless of how DMR bound they may be.
Cut down on the Bawls, meatsack. The RIAA/MPAA death nijas are not stalking me, nor are the R/MPAA Enforcement Gundams going to break down the door to your parent's basement, grind your leet Linux box beneath their titanium heels and forceably implant you with the Windows MindControl for Evil Overlords client.
Don't worry sparky, you're safe from the Diskwraiths of Redmond. Your MIGHTY penguin totem will protect your virginity from them.
Oh, what's that you say? I'm not taking you seriously, you say?
Got it in one, meatsack!
Now go away, shouldn't you be checking your dependencies, writing shellscripts and recompiling the Kernal a few times before the Star Trek rerun comes on Spike TV?
Both intercept and record an audio stream from inside the computer (to put it simply enough for all to 'get' the idea) and save it to the HD or RAM disk AS AN MP3 file.
Just think of the money you'll save by not having to buy blank CDs if you use one of these products.
"I own and still use a Commodore 128 (JiffyDOS, 1571/1541/2 1581s, one meg REU, Super Snapshot v5, PageFox and HandyScanner64, Panasonic KX-P11S4i 24 pin printer)"
And if my ISP offered dialup shell accounts, this would have been written via Lynx.
For the True C=64 geeks out there: I also have a 1351 mouse, Suncom Icontroller, 'Lbow two slot Expansion Port extender and SwiftLink modem interface and cable.
The C=64 and C=128 were amazing machines. hacking them was simplicity itself, and add something like SuperSnapShot, with the ML monitor, you could actually enter and mess with running programs, exit and see the results of your ML hacking.
As much as I like my Macintosh, my C=3 SHIFT S belongs to Commodore, now and forever.
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Why, yes. As a matter of fact, I am an old fart. Why do you ask?
So G4from128k sez:
"...when you shut down your machine>"
I don't understand, your words confuse me.
Please! Tell me more of this "when you shut down your machine>"!
"When I find myself in times of trouble, PKZ, he comes to me.
Speaking words of wisdom, "PGP, PGP."
If you're so afraid that the post PKZ NAI PGP is tainted, don't use it.
PGP 6 and PGP 5 seem to run just fine on my PowerMac 5500/225 under OS 8.6.
I'm currently using PGP 7 Pro.
If I'm not mistaken, PKZ is now at PGP, Inc and seems happy enough with their implimentation of PGP.
Actually, since this past August, I do.
I became a convert to the multi-button & scrollwheel mouse earlier this year. I found an Elecom mouse designed by Shirow Masamune on eBay and I've been really pleased with both the mouse and how well it works under Mac OS 8.6 and USB Overdrive, a third party USB input driver. http://www.usboverdrive.com
What's amusing is that with both iCab and IE 5.1, it's the LEFT button that does all the terrible image copying dirty work. Hold the pointer over the image to be copied and hold down the left button. Up pops a menu and just click on the "Save Image" option.
So let them write all the "disable right click" javascript they want. My 1337 mousing skillz are unstoppable!
Hah!
Well, said, sir! Well said, indeed!
ANd thanks for the new sig, too.
Think of the hilarity that would have ensued at Albion and the spamhouse if he'd sent them envelopes that had unscented talcum powder in them.
Imagine being shut down for a few days, having the police poking around your establishment, having to reimburse the fire and police after the 4th or 5th time they have to come and deal with what may or may not be anthrax.
If you're the spammer, having to leave your home while the mysterious powder is analyzed, and maybe hacving the cops poking through your home and files.
No one should actually DO THIS, as it would be illegal and get you into serious trouble.
Amusing to think about, though.
S'matter, tarth? Got a bit of browser envy going there, maybe?
Yeah, iCab doesn't render CSS 2 perfectly... yet.
After all, it's still in pre-release and the iCab folks tell you that some features still need work or are yet to be implemented.
Oh, and by the way, as I use a Powermac and iCab, yes, that DOES make me better than anyone else!
Got BSOD?
"Try right-clicking on this page or this page."
HAH! I LEFT click via iCab and bring up a contextual menu that allows me to save the images.
I might just whip up a quick web page with all the capturesd stuff and emailing those suckers the URL.
BTW, IE for the Mac is also invunerable to their pussy jscripts!
PH34R MY 1337 8r0wz3r skillz! WooT!
"Thankfully, it's the rare person who thinks that this actually protects anything, so it's not very widespread."
Indeed! If you don't want it copied, don't put it on the Internet. Simple as that.
"Word. The dumbest features ever thunk up by man are all tied to Javascript...the images that swirl around your cursor, preventing you from clicking on links. The script which loads everything at the same time, which means you wait forever for the one broken image. Cascading menus that don't disappear. Or do disappear, just as you are about to click on them.
And worst of all, blocking the right mouse button (or as I like to call it, "the button i use to navigate the fucking internet") in the name of "copyright protection." Every time I see this monstrosity, I download all of the images from the site, stick them in a zip file, and email it to the webmaster. "Your copyright protection didn't work. Neither did the mouse button I use to open links in a new window. One of these things can be easily fixed." "
What the heck are you going on about?
I've NEVER seen any of the things you mention.
Oh, wait...
That's right.
I use a Macintosh, and iCab is my browser of choice.
Never mind.
Aside from being a darn good mouse, it's also a striking piece of desktop sculpture/art.
Despite what it says on the website, it is also compatible with Mac OS 8.5 through 9.2.2, even on older Macs with a USB port card in a PCI slot.
For OS 8.5 and 8.6. you do need to download some extra software from Apple, Apple USB Card Support 1.4.1 and GameSprockets 1.7.5.
Both can be found HERE .
And you really want to get USB Overdrive. Seriously, if you're on a Mac with USB and want to use a multibutton optic mouse, USB Overdrive is the killer app for you.
USB Overdrive can be found HERE.
Sounds like a pretty decent setup, all things considered.
My Mac is on the coffee table in front of me, as that's the only flat, horizontal surface that's suitable. The other Mac and the Sun SPARC 20 are in the bedroom.
I don't have a wireless mouse, but the mouse I use (see http://tinyurl.com/vgva for what I'm using) has a nice LONG cord, so I can lean back and use the mouse on the top of my thigh. Most of my email and surfing can be done with just the mouse. I know Steve Jobs considers it heresy of the blackest stripe, but a multibutton mouse with a scrollwheel on a Mac rocks very hard. Let me plug USB Overdrive (http://www.usboverdrive.com) as the killer USB app for input devices on the Mac.
If I can get the apartment I want over in the Jamaica Plain neighborhood of Boston, I WILL have a proper setup with all the computers in one area, networked and with a wireless Internet connection.
There is no such thing as TOO MUCH surface area.
Here's one link that's pretty good.
Here's a Google search for your convenience.
As for Randi's attitude, more power to him! There are too many frauds out there, from Uri Geller to John Edwards, "The Biggest Douche In The Universe!" and they ALL need to be shown up and humiliated in public.
And given all the lies and deception Randi has seen over the years by dishonest fuckers like Geller and Edwards, his abrasive attitude is understandable.
Tell me about it.
I have the ideal desk waiting for me in New Bedford, MA. It's a Steelcase as I describe in the previous message.
Except it's on the 3rd floor of an old office building... with no working elevators,,, and the only stairs are the staircases that wind around the open framework elevator shafts... and the stairs themselves are ankle deep in demolition rubble in places.
If I had the money, I'd gladly hire someone with a strong back and a pickup truck to help me move it down the stairs and to my apartment in Boston.
So LeoDV sez:
"You know, I tried time and again to find the "ultimate desk" and every one I could find, this one and the others from PoeticTech, and the harder and the more I try, the more I'm convinced that the ultimate desk is a big wooden plank at desk level that I can put all my stuff on. My computer(s), my computer screen(s), my TV, my clock radio, my stereo system, my phone, my action figures, but, more importantly, my junk.
It seems that no desk out there leaves me room for just a few cubic feet of crap. Open manuals lying on their faces, takeout food wrappings, books, piles of paper..."
What you want is one of them big old Steelcase desks from the 50s/60s!
Surface area the size of a small aircraft carrier. Get the desk with the swingaway typewriter platform for the flatbed scanner or just remove the platform mechanism and stick the minifridge in its place. Or a couple of computers. Some of these desks had a 30" X 60" or larger desktop surface area
Man, that PoeticTech thing looked like something from a cheapass Sci-Fi series.
As a US nominee:
AF-709!
Foreign Nominees:
Tetsuwan Atom
The Big O
R. Dorothy Wainwright
Why, yes, I am something of an anime geek.
I am debating the points. You spouted all manner of insane BS about this fellow mailing sooper sekret info to MS competitors... with absolutely no evidence whatsoever that he did any such thing.
Frankly, you're the fucking idiot, I'm just an obnoxious asshole who enjoys pointing out your escalating insane buffoonery.
In any other company, such an innoculous offense would have garnered a repremand and a request to take down the image/blog posting.
But, as you so rightly observe, "Microsoft is evil". They do evil things, like firing some poor shlub who thought it would be of interest to show the G5s that MS had bought, all the while taking care not to reveal any other details.
Hey, you missed a spot on Ballmer's ass over there.
so fmaxwell sez:
(just a whole lot of really insane corporate espionage and other BS not worth the electrons to repeat)
Dude, where do you find the time to post, between sucking Bill Gates dick and kissing Ballmer's ass?
You should write a book: "Brown-nosing and Time Management for Dummies".
so johnpaul191 sez:
"If you don't want to upgrade, then don't. Many many many people still use OS9. At some point there will be less choice for web browsers supporting the latest features, but most everything else will work as it does today and did 2 years ago. My mom still runs OS9 and she can still check email, and she still will after 10.3 hits the shelves tomorrow."
Until this past March, I was happily using System 7.6.1. When I changed out the 5400/180 logic board for a 5400/200 board, I jumped directly to OS 8.6.
I'm really happy with 8.6. Although, now that I have a 5500/225 logic board installed, along with a Sonnet 400Mhz G3 upgrade card plugged in the logic board, along with 128MB of RAM, OS 9 might be an interesting experiment.
But I digress.
What I've got now suits my needs quite well. Eudora still works. iCab still works, Graphic Converter and Photoshop still work, SoundJam MP still works. Text Edit-Pro still works. I do regret that I can't access the iTunes Music Store, but as I don't have an iPod yet, I can live without it.
If I had a suitable Mac that could run OS X, I wouldn't mind paying the yearly upgrade fee. After all, it works out to something like US$10.00 a month. People pay more than $10.00 PER DAY for two cups of Hot Cup Filler from Charbucks!
I think that the average OS X user can squeeze out $10.00 a MONTH for the annual upgrade.
Maybe it's just me, but I don't get your point.
My suggestion was to those folks who are offended by the DRM and the file format of the iTMS music files. The solution of buring a CD and ripping from the CD is a waste of time and money and blank CDs.
Intercept the data as the downloaded is playing and save it as MP3. Voila! No DRM, No playlist buring restrictions, No networking limtations.
You've leagally downloaded music and used your right to make a backup copy you can use anywhere.
So Reality Master 101 sez:
"Apple IS selling a mechanism that locks you into Apple."
What the goddamn fucking fuck are you talking about?
I own a Macintosh. Save for the OS, all my software is from third parties.
And as for music purchased from iTMS, if you expected the RIAA to allow Apple to sell music with no DRM of any kind, you are too stupid to live. I suppose that the WMA files that only play on WMP9 is fundementally better than the Apple AAC format? Yes, you ARE too stupid to live. Please die, now!
Go drink some more of the MicroSoft Kool-Ade. Oh, and again, please die, now!
Thank you.
Total Recorder for Windows and Wire Tapfor OS X.
Both intercept and record an audio stream from inside the computer (to put it simply enough for all to 'get' the idea) and save it to the HD or RAM disk AS AN MP3 file.
Import that MP3 file into your "music" folder/library/portible digital player of choice and away you go, unencumbered by DRM.
I beleive that either of these applications mayl also work with WMA files, regadless of how DMR bound they may be.
PH34R my POWER, ye Linux weenie!
Cut down on the Bawls, meatsack. The RIAA/MPAA death nijas are not stalking me, nor are the R/MPAA Enforcement Gundams going to break down the door to your parent's basement, grind your leet Linux box beneath their titanium heels and forceably implant you with the Windows MindControl for Evil Overlords client.
Don't worry sparky, you're safe from the Diskwraiths of Redmond. Your MIGHTY penguin totem will protect your virginity from them.
Oh, what's that you say? I'm not taking you seriously, you say?
Got it in one, meatsack!
Now go away, shouldn't you be checking your dependencies, writing shellscripts and recompiling the Kernal a few times before the Star Trek rerun comes on Spike TV?
Both intercept and record an audio stream from inside the computer (to put it simply enough for all to 'get' the idea) and save it to the HD or RAM disk AS AN MP3 file.
Just think of the money you'll save by not having to buy blank CDs if you use one of these products.
I quote from my /. user profile:
"I own and still use a Commodore 128 (JiffyDOS, 1571/1541/2 1581s, one meg REU, Super Snapshot v5, PageFox and HandyScanner64, Panasonic KX-P11S4i 24 pin printer)"
And if my ISP offered dialup shell accounts, this would have been written via Lynx.
For the True C=64 geeks out there: I also have a 1351 mouse, Suncom Icontroller, 'Lbow two slot Expansion Port extender and SwiftLink modem interface and cable.
The C=64 and C=128 were amazing machines. hacking them was simplicity itself, and add something like SuperSnapShot, with the ML monitor, you could actually enter and mess with running programs, exit and see the results of your ML hacking.
As much as I like my Macintosh, my C=3 SHIFT S belongs to Commodore, now and forever.
Practically everything I've read or seen about The Matrix mentions that "The Matrix" was the first film in a trilogy.
The Bros. Warchovsky clearly stated time and time again that they wanted to make three movies to tell the story they had written.
So, Matrix Reloaded was NOT a commercial for Matrix Revolutions.
I eagerly await your apology, mabu, for your ill-informed, insulting comments.