Although I presume it's too late to change your mind, you should know that you can in fact enable focus-follows-mounse at least for Terminal windows, with an app like TinkerTool. Hope it makes the last few months more tolerable at least.:P
Police, baffled by the lack of a blue "e" can't figure out how they used the Internet.
In that case, they're only safe if they did a clean-install...
Why code signing sucks.
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I recently installed Fedora Core 4, and after setting it all up I ran up2date and noted that it's set to require GPG signatures by default (I imported the key as well). Upon running up2date, though, practically every package it found brought up an error message stating that it couldn't recognize the signature, and asking if I wanted to install the package anyway. After about ten packages, I said "fuck it" and turned off GPG signing. (I had to do so by editing up2date's config file manually, since it only runs through its config process once, it seems.)
If Red Hat can't be bothered to sign any of its updates (even the kernel, for pete's sake), then why as a user should I care one way or another?
Right. Reading the article, it's pretty clear that it's either a really clever troll, or written by someone for whom English is a passing fancy.
At any rate, I've been a Mac user since 1989, but in that time I've also used Windows and on occasion, Linux or other Unix-based systems. (I grew up the son of a DEC engineer, so I'm one of those rare Mac users that actually wanted a command-line in the old Mac OS. Userland Frontier forever!) Over time, I've come to realize that every OS has its strengths and weaknesses. I'm still most comfortable using a Mac, but that doesn't mean I don't get a kick out of some things in Windows, or even Linux --- although Linux still lags behind the others in terms of being usable right out of the box, IMO. The point is, I'm comfortable with leveraging the strengths of each platform to overcome the weaknesses of another, and as a result, I feel like I can provide better "service" to my employer, my friends looking for answers to questions, or just to my own sense of discovery.
Is there no more room for the multi-platform technologist, or does everything have to be segmented off into yet another "if you are not with us, you are against us" box? Isn't there enough of that already in the real world without fucking up technology as well?
Haha, and I've been writing it "pete's" for years. This is why I try not to criticize other people's writing.:D (Seriously, I'm grateful you pointed it out.)
And for the record, I know "makes its own gravy" is the correct version; my comment was that due to the common mixing of "its"/"it's," it sometimes seems wrong to see the correct form because I'm seeing the incorrect form more and more....
I've said it before, but it's not the diction that matters, but the message. Good grammer is only helpful to get a message across. I'm not writing a fucking paper, it's an response in a damn forum.
Eh, I don't know. I tend to consider the diction an integral part of the message, myself; if there are glaringly obvious errors in basic structure, spelling, or diction, and I don't know the person well enough in any other way, it's going to impact the message for me. It's just the way I roll.
My father, a successful engineer with DEC for 15+ years, is a notoriously bad speller, to the point where I sometimes have to phonetically read his letters. (Make of that what you will in regards to my comments above.:P) The fact that I know he's intelligent and a good communicator of ideas mitigates his lack of polish grammatically in my eyes. If one of his co-workers wrote to me in such a style, though, I'd wonder how he made it out of college.
I try very hard not to be a jerk about grammar or spelling, learning to roll with the punches. I've almost gotten to the point where I consider a phrase like "makes its own gravy" to be written wrong because of the missing apostrophe, because it's so common -- even in advertising copy, for pete's sake.
I sometimes wonder if I'm one of the last generations (I'm 34) who will have any solid grounding in grammar, spelling, and basic English constructs for the future.
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I would have posted it myself but I've been sitting here at my freelance gig in front of a Mac for about 20 minutes...
Although I presume it's too late to change your mind, you should know that you can in fact enable focus-follows-mounse at least for Terminal windows, with an app like TinkerTool. Hope it makes the last few months more tolerable at least. :P
Draw a rectangle, you say?
http://www.rifftrax.com/shorts/drawing-beginners-rectangle
Okay, if I contort myself, I can sort of rationalize everything on that list, except kite-flying. Seriously, who could possibly be against that?
The only concern I would have with the mini-CD idea is that they tend not to play well with slot-loading drives, such as those in many laptops.
The omission of Chrome is rather interesting.
To play devil's advocate for a moment, isn't Chrome built on top of WebKit?
I don't know, I feel like that's an arms race you just can't win.
> bankofamericaspies.com
How *are* Bank of America's pies, anyway?
Don't you forget!
Really, this story is Such A Shame.
What have you got against Doritos?
You don't seem that arrogant to me. Guess that means you were wrong then. And it didn't even take a day!
1s - free
0s - $10 per 0, minimum 100,000 0s
Live it, learn it, love it.
http://handbrake.fr/
Please. The odds of that working are about the same as being able to see through a metal wall or talk into my Mac Plus's mouse.
Maybe by your low, shitty standard.
Wow, Kevin Federline reads Slashdot?
Jeebus. Just bring back the calculators and VMS, already.
In that case, they're only safe if they did a clean-install...
If Red Hat can't be bothered to sign any of its updates (even the kernel, for pete's sake), then why as a user should I care one way or another?
At any rate, I've been a Mac user since 1989, but in that time I've also used Windows and on occasion, Linux or other Unix-based systems. (I grew up the son of a DEC engineer, so I'm one of those rare Mac users that actually wanted a command-line in the old Mac OS. Userland Frontier forever!) Over time, I've come to realize that every OS has its strengths and weaknesses. I'm still most comfortable using a Mac, but that doesn't mean I don't get a kick out of some things in Windows, or even Linux --- although Linux still lags behind the others in terms of being usable right out of the box, IMO. The point is, I'm comfortable with leveraging the strengths of each platform to overcome the weaknesses of another, and as a result, I feel like I can provide better "service" to my employer, my friends looking for answers to questions, or just to my own sense of discovery.
Is there no more room for the multi-platform technologist, or does everything have to be segmented off into yet another "if you are not with us, you are against us" box? Isn't there enough of that already in the real world without fucking up technology as well?
And for the record, I know "makes its own gravy" is the correct version; my comment was that due to the common mixing of "its"/"it's," it sometimes seems wrong to see the correct form because I'm seeing the incorrect form more and more....
Eh, I don't know. I tend to consider the diction an integral part of the message, myself; if there are glaringly obvious errors in basic structure, spelling, or diction, and I don't know the person well enough in any other way, it's going to impact the message for me. It's just the way I roll.
My father, a successful engineer with DEC for 15+ years, is a notoriously bad speller, to the point where I sometimes have to phonetically read his letters. (Make of that what you will in regards to my comments above. :P) The fact that I know he's intelligent and a good communicator of ideas mitigates his lack of polish grammatically in my eyes. If one of his co-workers wrote to me in such a style, though, I'd wonder how he made it out of college.
I try very hard not to be a jerk about grammar or spelling, learning to roll with the punches. I've almost gotten to the point where I consider a phrase like "makes its own gravy" to be written wrong because of the missing apostrophe, because it's so common -- even in advertising copy, for pete's sake.
I sometimes wonder if I'm one of the last generations (I'm 34) who will have any solid grounding in grammar, spelling, and basic English constructs for the future.No, you actually can run the screensaver engine itself in the background. The original poster probably meant to link to this hint instead.