that's bizarre. I love OS X, but I have no use whatsoever for the finder. it's not like it's actually a good file manager or anything. seriously, if the finder just disappeared one day it would be a long time before I noticed.
the big concern is that the current scheduler is great for big servers, but totally sucks for desktop systems. using the old scheduler on my core2 duo system with 3 gb ram, I get crappy response from gui apps if heavy disk io is running in the background. that to me seems completely ridiculous, and in fact the kernel developers should be downright embarrassed by that situation!! I'm hoping the new scheduler will be better. (to be fair, part of the blame lies with the developers of the bloated gui apps, but still! my system should be ridiculously overpowered, and it doesn't seem to be)
first, go to the astronomy club meeting before you buy anything. talk to people, and look at their gear. they will be more than willing to tell you why they got what they got, and answer questions better than slashdot.
next, get yourself a dobsonian telescope. best bang for the buck (i.e., biggest aperture for the bucks), nice and portable. google it, and shop around. with other scopes, over half the money you spend is for the stand. with a dobsonian, most of what you pay for is the big-ass mirror.
forget about astrophotography for now. if you want to play around anyway, just hold your digital camera up to the eyepiece. you can get some nice moon and jupiter pics that way. anything else you would want to photograph, you're going to need a lot more than $1000 anyway.
this just seems so backwards to me. each and every windows application has to create an installer for itself.
I guess I'm spoiled by linux, where there's a package manager which installs and uninstalls programs. most package managers only require a little bit of metadata to be written before a package can be created.
it's kind of like the dos shell vs. a unix shell. in dos, every program needed to implement stuff like handling the *. in unix, the shell handles stuff like that for the program.
OS X has too many limitations for me. I love the command line, but when my wife wants to edit her webpages by hand when she's on the road and all she has is OS X, well, I really wish she had konqueror. A simple use of the 'fish' ioslave, and she would have a nice graphical view of the files on server over ssh, she could drag new files in, and click on html files to have them open in an editor and a save would save the files on the server.
I look forward to getting KDE running on OS X for her.
you're right, the tutorial on kernel.org is pretty good! It really reflects the git porcelain-level interface improving so much from where it used to be. I feel it's actually useable now without needing something like cogito as a crutch!
I've tried to use git, and I feel like if you want to do anything more than commit, you have to jump off a cliff which has serious spikes at the bottom. seriously, if you want to learn how to do more than 1 or 2 of the simplest operations with it, you have to invest serious time. I tried, and never could get there.
anybody have a good tutorial? (not the crappy one which comes with it)
I'm not an SCM rube either. I've competently used tla (arch), darcs, and of course CVS. but git just seems too hard to use. damn fast though.
check out smart. on my openSUSE 10.2 system, it does just what you said: you can add some random repo from the internet, and smart handles dependency calculations and updates.
my corporate-owned laptop runs ubuntu only. I encrypt swap, and the partitions where the stuff I work on for my company is kept. I've never noticed any performance problems.
that quote about not being able to get the newest version of windows putting companies at a competitive disadvantage is the funniest thing I've heard all week! the only possible advantage I can think of from a corporate viewpoint to upgrading to a newer windows is getting more security updates. what new features in windows do they think are going to give companies an advantage?
I like the trackpoint better than the touchpad. however, i've found that the trackpoint makes my hand hurt! so I can't use it anymore. when on a table, i plug in a usb mouse, otherwise I have to live with the touchpad. I compensate by minimizing mouse usage.
well, duh. if you want to version control your documents, maybe you should make them plain text and store them with your source code? ya think? that leaves you with html and LaTeX. where I work, we use noweb as a thin wrapper around LaTeX.
the advantages of an ebook are searching and storage. the disadvantages are that you need power and a good screen. personally, I will resist ebooks for leisure reading; I bought one ebook that was available no other way, and it totally sucked to read it. (a big part of that was that the drm required it only be read in 1 program which sucked)
easy. go getratpoison. my work machine runs ratpoison exclusively when I'm doing development. at home when I'm kicked back surfing the web, KDE or OS X are great, but when I want to get some stuff done, ratpoison can't be beat.
this would be good, in that cows, pigs, etc, would no longer have to be slaughtered for meat. I hate the thought of how the meat I eat came to be.
but then, what do we do with all the cows, pigs, etc, we have stockpiled right now? the dairy industry would continue, but I bet millions of cows and pigs would be slaughtered just to get rid of them. some types of live stock may even go extinct!
I've read some where that the best way to ensure a species survival is to eat them.
what about adobe? a pro photoshop user friend of mine wants to colloborate on some photoshop plugins. anybody know how soon adobe will be switching to xcode? I really don't want to go buy the dead-end code warrior...
I switched to dvorak to force myself to touch type (looking at the keys is no help if they don't have the correct letters on them).
I can still use a qwerty keyboard, I just have to look at the keys while doing it.
the hardest thing now is to use vim on a qwerty. I can still do it, I just have to be careful. normal typing on qwerty is nearly I fast as I used to be before the switch though.
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I use terminal.app and quicksilver
that's bizarre. I love OS X, but I have no use whatsoever for the finder. it's not like it's actually a good file manager or anything. seriously, if the finder just disappeared one day it would be a long time before I noticed.
ya think there might be a reason why Ticketmaster charges those fees??
the big concern is that the current scheduler is great for big servers, but totally sucks for desktop systems. using the old scheduler on my core2 duo system with 3 gb ram, I get crappy response from gui apps if heavy disk io is running in the background. that to me seems completely ridiculous, and in fact the kernel developers should be downright embarrassed by that situation!! I'm hoping the new scheduler will be better. (to be fair, part of the blame lies with the developers of the bloated gui apps, but still! my system should be ridiculously overpowered, and it doesn't seem to be)
first, go to the astronomy club meeting before you buy anything. talk to people, and look at their gear. they will be more than willing to tell you why they got what they got, and answer questions better than slashdot.
read this book: http://www.amazon.com/Astronomy-Hacks-Tools-Observing-Night/dp/0596100604
next, get yourself a dobsonian telescope. best bang for the buck (i.e., biggest aperture for the bucks), nice and portable. google it, and shop around. with other scopes, over half the money you spend is for the stand. with a dobsonian, most of what you pay for is the big-ass mirror.
forget about astrophotography for now. if you want to play around anyway, just hold your digital camera up to the eyepiece. you can get some nice moon and jupiter pics that way. anything else you would want to photograph, you're going to need a lot more than $1000 anyway.
this just seems so backwards to me. each and every windows application has to create an installer for itself.
I guess I'm spoiled by linux, where there's a package manager which installs and uninstalls programs. most package managers only require a little bit of metadata to be written before a package can be created.
it's kind of like the dos shell vs. a unix shell. in dos, every program needed to implement stuff like handling the *. in unix, the shell handles stuff like that for the program.
why is everything in windows backwards?
OS X has too many limitations for me. I love the command line, but when my wife wants to edit her webpages by hand when she's on the road and all she has is OS X, well, I really wish she had konqueror. A simple use of the 'fish' ioslave, and she would have a nice graphical view of the files on server over ssh, she could drag new files in, and click on html files to have them open in an editor and a save would save the files on the server.
:)
I look forward to getting KDE running on OS X for her.
I'll stick to kubuntu
you're right, the tutorial on kernel.org is pretty good! It really reflects the git porcelain-level interface improving so much from where it used to be. I feel it's actually useable now without needing something like cogito as a crutch!
git-reset --hard HEAD
anybody have a good tutorial? (not the crappy one which comes with it)
I'm not an SCM rube either. I've competently used tla (arch), darcs, and of course CVS. but git just seems too hard to use. damn fast though.
check out smart. on my openSUSE 10.2 system, it does just what you said: you can add some random repo from the internet, and smart handles dependency calculations and updates.
I haven't updated quite a while, that's when my glibc version I'm running was created, and my system passes the test!
my corporate-owned laptop runs ubuntu only. I encrypt swap, and the partitions where the stuff I work on for my company is kept. I've never noticed any performance problems.
now as to why other people don't, I have no idea.
how do they come up with ratings for tv shows anyway? isn't my tv a passive receiver? how do they know who's watching what? same question for radio
that quote about not being able to get the newest version of windows putting companies at a competitive disadvantage is the funniest thing I've heard all week! the only possible advantage I can think of from a corporate viewpoint to upgrading to a newer windows is getting more security updates. what new features in windows do they think are going to give companies an advantage?
I like the trackpoint better than the touchpad. however, i've found that the trackpoint makes my hand hurt! so I can't use it anymore. when on a table, i plug in a usb mouse, otherwise I have to live with the touchpad. I compensate by minimizing mouse usage.
well, duh. if you want to version control your documents, maybe you should make them plain text and store them with your source code? ya think? that leaves you with html and LaTeX. where I work, we use noweb as a thin wrapper around LaTeX.
the advantages of an ebook are searching and storage. the disadvantages are that you need power and a good screen. personally, I will resist ebooks for leisure reading; I bought one ebook that was available no other way, and it totally sucked to read it. (a big part of that was that the drm required it only be read in 1 program which sucked)
and then put linux on it, without ever buying a single game for it. :)
easy. go get ratpoison. my work machine runs ratpoison exclusively when I'm doing development. at home when I'm kicked back surfing the web, KDE or OS X are great, but when I want to get some stuff done, ratpoison can't be beat.
but then, what do we do with all the cows, pigs, etc, we have stockpiled right now? the dairy industry would continue, but I bet millions of cows and pigs would be slaughtered just to get rid of them. some types of live stock may even go extinct!
I've read some where that the best way to ensure a species survival is to eat them.
the demo for the game doesn't work. good luck getting it to work on linux if the native version doesn't even work!!
what about adobe? a pro photoshop user friend of mine wants to colloborate on some photoshop plugins. anybody know how soon adobe will be switching to xcode? I really don't want to go buy the dead-end code warrior...
I can still use a qwerty keyboard, I just have to look at the keys while doing it.
the hardest thing now is to use vim on a qwerty. I can still do it, I just have to be careful. normal typing on qwerty is nearly I fast as I used to be before the switch though.
set
very cool, very geeky. even one glass of beer or wine will totally destroy your ability to play this game.
you should be able to find a deck at the game store at the mall.