I had that problem 6 months after I bought my ibook. Closing the lid halfway would make the backlight go off for no apparent reason. At first I thought it was the suspend mode kicking in, but since the little blinking light didn't come on and it started to happen when I barely touched the screen it had to be the backlight. Good thing it was still under warranty.
On a side note: I had a problem with one the rubber feet a few months back. It kept falling out so I decided to go buy a new set at the local Apple Store. I was rather surprised to here the clerk tell me that they didn't sell those anymore. If I wanted to have the rubber thingies (or just one) replaced, I'd have to send it back to an Apple Service Center to have it replaced. In the end I decided that a big blob of glue would solve it a bit faster.
D-Link bluetooth USB adapter, LOTR TTT extended DVD set and a 50 euro gift certificate for the local comic shop.
I'd say it's been a good xmas holiday so far.
As far as I'm concerned I'm not going near gnome again for a long time. I loved how I could customize a lot of things in 1.4. Unfortunately in gnome2 everything is newbie oriented. Ok, fine by me, put up a good set of defaults, but refuse to add some expert options too? What's that all about? You can't even edit the menu anymore (or at least remove some entries). Then there's the theming side of things, why the hell does a user have to specify in the gtkrc file what icons should appear in the nautilus toolbar? Is it so much trouble to keep the old style of things and just add those in the nautilus theme package? Now I have to edit that darned gtkrc file just to have my own set of icons in the filemanager's toolbar (wow, userfriendly!!). Then there's the filedialog, which hasn't changed a bit since 1.4 and still looks like it dates back from the stoneage. And let's not get started about the fantastic 'registry'-editor like thingamabob they just had to add in.
The only positive thing I have to say about gnome2 is the icons, at least they have a good set of iconartists (jimmac and tigert if my memory serves me right). I'm now trying out kde 3 and haven't regretted it so far, it takes a couple of seconds longer to start on my laptop, but runs very smooth once started (and I'm a long time blackbox/fluxbox user). There, just my 2 cents.
Well, as a debian user for over 3 years I changed all my themes to bluecurve... finally i can have a consistent look on my qt, gtk1 and gtk2 apps. I'm only talking about the themes, not about anything else redhat might have done to bring gnome and kde closer together (I don't run redhat so I'm not able to test it). And don't start about save-dialogs. I'm talking about the applications 'looking' the same. Just mentioning my personal point of view as a debian user.
heh... so strange that no one seems to realize that gnome (and kde for that matter) are NOT windowmanagers. So stop comparing them to fluxbox, ion, icewm, blackbox or windowmaker, etc etc. Gnome and KDE are desktop environments and offer added functionality over a standard wm. Besides, the windowmanager used in gnome nowadays is sawfish (and used to be enlightenment).
This guy wanted a desktop environment, not a windowmanager. So he had 3 choices: KDE, Gnome and xfce. Any person raising this discussion to the level of the windowmanagers has absolutely no idea what he's talking about, sorry, but it's true.
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I think the correct date would be: 4.1.2005
The site mentions the E-slate and its slide out keyboard, yet all the pictures are of students using HP iPaqs. So what are they using?
I had that problem 6 months after I bought my ibook. Closing the lid halfway would make the backlight go off for no apparent reason. At first I thought it was the suspend mode kicking in, but since the little blinking light didn't come on and it started to happen when I barely touched the screen it had to be the backlight. Good thing it was still under warranty. On a side note: I had a problem with one the rubber feet a few months back. It kept falling out so I decided to go buy a new set at the local Apple Store. I was rather surprised to here the clerk tell me that they didn't sell those anymore. If I wanted to have the rubber thingies (or just one) replaced, I'd have to send it back to an Apple Service Center to have it replaced. In the end I decided that a big blob of glue would solve it a bit faster.
D-Link bluetooth USB adapter, LOTR TTT extended DVD set and a 50 euro gift certificate for the local comic shop. I'd say it's been a good xmas holiday so far.
As far as I'm concerned I'm not going near gnome again for a long time. I loved how I could customize a lot of things in 1.4. Unfortunately in gnome2 everything is newbie oriented. Ok, fine by me, put up a good set of defaults, but refuse to add some expert options too? What's that all about? You can't even edit the menu anymore (or at least remove some entries). Then there's the theming side of things, why the hell does a user have to specify in the gtkrc file what icons should appear in the nautilus toolbar? Is it so much trouble to keep the old style of things and just add those in the nautilus theme package? Now I have to edit that darned gtkrc file just to have my own set of icons in the filemanager's toolbar (wow, userfriendly!!). Then there's the filedialog, which hasn't changed a bit since 1.4 and still looks like it dates back from the stoneage. And let's not get started about the fantastic 'registry'-editor like thingamabob they just had to add in. The only positive thing I have to say about gnome2 is the icons, at least they have a good set of iconartists (jimmac and tigert if my memory serves me right). I'm now trying out kde 3 and haven't regretted it so far, it takes a couple of seconds longer to start on my laptop, but runs very smooth once started (and I'm a long time blackbox/fluxbox user). There, just my 2 cents.
Well, as a debian user for over 3 years I changed all my themes to bluecurve... finally i can have a consistent look on my qt, gtk1 and gtk2 apps. I'm only talking about the themes, not about anything else redhat might have done to bring gnome and kde closer together (I don't run redhat so I'm not able to test it). And don't start about save-dialogs. I'm talking about the applications 'looking' the same. Just mentioning my personal point of view as a debian user.
heh... so strange that no one seems to realize that gnome (and kde for that matter) are NOT windowmanagers. So stop comparing them to fluxbox, ion, icewm, blackbox or windowmaker, etc etc. Gnome and KDE are desktop environments and offer added functionality over a standard wm. Besides, the windowmanager used in gnome nowadays is sawfish (and used to be enlightenment). This guy wanted a desktop environment, not a windowmanager. So he had 3 choices: KDE, Gnome and xfce. Any person raising this discussion to the level of the windowmanagers has absolutely no idea what he's talking about, sorry, but it's true.