I have found that looking at tags on delicious (things like applescript) have given me way more useful and managable results than search engines like google. On delicious, if I look at the torrent tag, i get very useful information and links. Now that every internet opportunist knows that torrent is a popular search term, there are millions of google hits: Results 1 - 100 of about 5,200,000 for torrent. So, lets say 98% of these are bogus or useless. Yeah, I know, pagerank lets the cream rise, but 5 million is crazy. On delicious I am getting the opposite - about 2% are useless and 98% are great links.
Your ability to speak your mind freely is not impeded by a flood of spam and crap posts. Your ability to find the information you want, and the ability of other users to find the (presumably valuable) information you have provided, is indeed impeded -- but, while self-expression is a fundamental right, the `right to be heard' is not.
Well, I realized how much like real life it is. I can go through an entire day without hearing much speech of importance or interest. It is a constant crapflood of talk about the weather and other smalltalk, and the spam of advertisements that attack me from every direction (billboards, signs, bus posters, subway posters, planes flying in the freaking air towing ads, blimps imploring me to buy a certain brand of tires, television ads, radio ads, fucking google adsense ads on every page, etc etc.)
In new york city free wifi for dsl customers was a MAJOR incentive to switch to Verizon. I was going to make the switch from roadrunner to verizon on Friday based on the wireless access point directly outside my bedroom window. Thankfuly I didn't have time, because this changes things. These access points are literally all over the place. Sure there are home networks around me, but the verizon access point has great signal!
Probably worth noting to the bystander that Indiana does not observe daylight savings time. I myself didn't know this until I married a girl from Indianapolis. Previously my experience with Indiana was trying to drive through it as fast as possible without getting a ticket or having to stop.
I always wondered about the realities of these networks. They _have_ to employ traffic shaping of some sort, i figure. Whats to stop you from sitting in the park and downloading torrents all day. of linux isos of course. or what is to stop little jimmy from running iroffer or an fserve on his laptop ?
....one of my friends Dad said, "You can go anywhere in this world with a wave and a clipboard".
I was trying to imagine surfing a wave on a clipboard to get from point A to point B and thinking your friends dad was a total stoner, then _I_ stopped smoking the bong for a minute and realized that it is I that is the total stoner. Carry on.
What? So you don't get locked in the trunk or something? You joke, but this is a real hazard in Brooklyn. I can't count the number of times the mob threw me in the trunk for being late on my gambling debts.
Because you are a tiresome fuck who likes to brag about "seven nines" of up-time? That's the only reason I can think of why a "hard boot" would be such a horror vs. bouncing the entire UI.
no, not at all. You got it wrong, it is because I want to dismount the filesystem cleanly. Why do you think apple implemented journaling? First of all, I am talking about rebooting from the terminal vs. pressing the button. Second of all when the finder locks up waiting for the network or _whatever_ you can't bounce the UI. you need to reboot the machine. If you can get to a terminal and issue a sudo reboot it is better than pressing the button and shutting down dirty, and ending up with a hosed filesystem, overlapping files and all. Now don't you feel stupid for running off at your slimy piehole ?
Yah, like running a windows manager to replace the horrible fucking look apple gave to x11. I run blackbox along with the normal apple finder, and people are like "what the freak is that ?!?", and "you are teh 1337", and "please don't pwn me".
And I'm all, "thats blackbox, i compiled it, bee-yatch, now lean back", and "just give me your password now and we'll call it even"
"This picotux. This picotux was in your Daddy's pocket when he was shot down over Hanoi. He was captured and put in a Vietnamese prison camp. Now he knew if the gooks ever saw the picotux it'd be confiscated. The way your Daddy looked at it, that picotux was your birthright. And he'd be damned if and slopeheads were gonna put their greasy yella hands on his boy's birthright. So he hid it in the one place he knew he could hide somethin'. His ass. Five long years, he wore this picotux up his ass. Then when he died of dysentery, he gave me the picotux. I hid with uncomfortable hunk of metal up my ass for two years. Then, after seven years, I was sent home to my family. And now, little man, I give the picotux to you."
No, but I could restart the system without doing a hard boot.
Re:What's wrong with finder?
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As a desktop admin at a site with over 300 macs, I can assure you that the os x finder is pretty much universally disliked by longtime mac users. They have a hard time getting used to it, and try to do OS 9 type things with it, like leaving everything on the desktop , or making data folders on the root level of the hard drive. If I could banish column view from ever rearing its ugly head, I would. Yes finder, I want every frickin filename truncated to fit in that stupid little column. The dock is nice, but why does it have to be anchored to the sides of the workspace? I'd much rather float it. Or perhaps the new thing of 10.3 piling up icons on top of each other when at least half of my desktop is empty annoys people? You know what I'd really love? A launch terminal button on the force quit dialog (apple-option-escape) so I could kill processes and shut down cleanly when the finder decides that it is not responding and no amount of "finder relaunches" will do a damn thing.
You may not realize this hanging out on "slashdot" all day, but Oh Snap! is currently under revival status by way of the decade old meme act of 1984. It is currently being used heavily on vh1, mtv, and other such oracles of pop culture, and its hil-fucking-arious. A quick search of your "World Wide Web" shows over 60,000 results, thereby cementing its relevance. Fa Sheezy.
What slippery slope? Fuckedcompany was borne from maggots in a manure pile, it started at the bottom of the slope.
Its just a shame that they don't use things that already exist such as mirror dot, coral, etc.. They really don't _need_ to implement much. It is just arrogance.
It certainly looks menacing. I would not stand on top of a building and point it at windows in downtown L.A. if you paid me. A lot.
I am sure it could be built to look like a telescope, cardboard box, antenna or whatever. They just built it like that because of all the extra testosterone coursing through their bodies. Point well taken, though.
Slashdot Mirror
I have found that looking at tags on delicious (things like applescript) have given me way more useful and managable results than search engines like google. On delicious, if I look at the torrent tag, i get very useful information and links. Now that every internet opportunist knows that torrent is a popular search term, there are millions of google hits: Results 1 - 100 of about 5,200,000 for torrent. So, lets say 98% of these are bogus or useless. Yeah, I know, pagerank lets the cream rise, but 5 million is crazy. On delicious I am getting the opposite - about 2% are useless and 98% are great links.
Your ability to speak your mind freely is not impeded by a flood of spam and crap posts. Your ability to find the information you want, and the ability of other users to find the (presumably valuable) information you have provided, is indeed impeded -- but, while self-expression is a fundamental right, the `right to be heard' is not.
Well, I realized how much like real life it is. I can go through an entire day without hearing much speech of importance or interest. It is a constant crapflood of talk about the weather and
other smalltalk, and the spam of advertisements that attack me from every direction (billboards, signs, bus posters, subway posters, planes flying in the freaking air towing ads, blimps imploring me to buy a certain brand of tires, television ads, radio ads, fucking google adsense ads on every page, etc etc.)
something truly embarrassing is going to be displayed on all of those big displays.
something like this?
(work safe link)
(really!)
it all began with B1FF !
In new york city free wifi for dsl customers was a MAJOR incentive to switch to Verizon. I was going to make the switch from roadrunner to verizon on Friday based on the wireless access point directly outside my bedroom window. Thankfuly I didn't have time, because this changes things. These access points are literally all over the place. Sure there are home networks around me, but the verizon access point has great signal!
Torrent hashes get cranky. LEDs start projecting patterns of dementia across the laundry pile on your floor.
All you can do is role over , face the other wall and wonder if those LEDs you purchased on Ebay really are DOT approved.
wow. maybe you should take a backpacking trip and go offline for a while, friend. don't take your laptop.
And then you come to the caramel lower mantle, then the delicious chocolate core.
B one-pounder
Wow. You are my new hero. Please tell the story of the
Bacon one-pounder again, dad.
Nah, met her in a bar in new york city.....
Probably worth noting to the bystander that Indiana does not observe daylight savings time. I myself didn't know this until I married a girl from Indianapolis. Previously my experience with Indiana was trying to drive through it as fast as possible without getting a ticket or having to stop.
I always wondered about the realities of these networks. They _have_ to employ traffic shaping of some sort, i figure. Whats to stop you from sitting in the park and downloading torrents all day. of linux isos of course. or what is to stop little jimmy from running iroffer or an fserve on his laptop ?
All this talk of grammar is making me hungry....
....one of my friends Dad said, "You can go anywhere in this world with a wave and a clipboard".
I was trying to imagine surfing a wave on a clipboard to get from point A to point B and thinking your friends dad was a total stoner, then _I_ stopped smoking the bong for a minute and realized that it is I that is the total stoner. Carry on.
What? So you don't get locked in the trunk or something?
You joke, but this is a real hazard in Brooklyn. I can't count the number of times the mob threw me in the trunk for being late on my gambling debts.
Because you are a tiresome fuck who likes to brag about "seven nines" of up-time? That's the only reason I can think of why a "hard boot" would be such a horror vs. bouncing the entire UI.
no, not at all. You got it wrong, it is because I want to dismount the filesystem cleanly. Why do you think apple implemented journaling? First of all, I am talking about rebooting from the terminal vs. pressing the button. Second of all when the finder locks up waiting for the network or _whatever_ you can't bounce the UI. you need to reboot the machine. If you can get to a terminal and issue a sudo reboot it is better than pressing the button and shutting down dirty, and ending up with a hosed filesystem, overlapping files and all. Now don't you feel stupid for running off at your slimy piehole ?
my n1gg4 !
Yah, like running a windows manager to replace the horrible fucking look apple gave to x11. I run blackbox along with the normal apple finder, and people are like "what the freak is that ?!?", and "you are teh 1337", and "please don't pwn me".
And I'm all, "thats blackbox, i compiled it, bee-yatch, now lean back", and "just give me your password now and we'll call it even"
but can you fit that bang up your bung?
"This picotux. This picotux was in your Daddy's pocket when he was shot down over Hanoi. He was captured and put in a Vietnamese prison camp. Now he knew if the gooks ever saw the picotux it'd be confiscated. The way your Daddy looked at it, that picotux was your birthright. And he'd be damned if and slopeheads were gonna put their greasy yella hands on his boy's birthright. So he hid it in the one place he knew he could hide somethin'. His ass. Five long years, he wore this picotux up his ass. Then when he died of dysentery, he gave me the picotux. I hid with uncomfortable hunk of metal up my ass for two years. Then, after seven years, I was sent home to my family. And now, little man, I give the picotux to you."
No, but I could restart the system without doing a hard boot.
As a desktop admin at a site with over 300 macs, I can assure you that the os x finder is pretty much universally disliked by longtime mac users. They have a hard time getting used to it, and try to do OS 9 type things with it, like leaving everything on the desktop , or making data folders on the root level of the hard drive. If I could banish column view from ever rearing its ugly head, I would. Yes finder, I want every frickin filename truncated to fit in that stupid little column. The dock is nice, but why does it have to be anchored to the sides of the workspace? I'd much rather float it. Or perhaps the new thing of 10.3 piling up icons on top of each other when at least half of my desktop is empty annoys people? You know what I'd really love? A launch terminal button on the force quit dialog (apple-option-escape) so I could kill processes and shut down cleanly when the finder decides that it is not responding and no amount of "finder relaunches" will do a damn thing.
Get on the Bus! The S-100 Bus baby !!
You may not realize this hanging out on "slashdot" all day, but Oh Snap! is currently under revival status by way of the decade old meme act of 1984. It is currently being used heavily on vh1, mtv, and other such oracles of pop culture, and its hil-fucking-arious. A quick search of your "World Wide Web" shows over 60,000 results, thereby cementing its relevance. Fa Sheezy.
Yeah, My iroffer bot is seriously limited by cable's wack upstream. um for sharing linux ISOs. and stuff.
What slippery slope? Fuckedcompany was borne from maggots in a manure pile, it started at the bottom of the slope.
Its just a shame that they don't use things that already exist such as mirror dot, coral, etc.. They really don't _need_ to implement much. It is just arrogance.
It certainly looks menacing. I would not stand on top of a building and point it at windows in downtown L.A. if you paid me. A lot.
I am sure it could be built to look like a telescope, cardboard box, antenna or whatever. They just built it like that because of all the extra testosterone coursing through their bodies. Point well taken, though.