I've noticed one wierd behaviour: sometimes when I've just switched to an app, the first two keystrokes are transposed on insertion. I've seen this in Mail.app (when searching), Aquamacs and Firefox.
"hte quick brown fox, etc."
Either this is a new typing disorder I've recently developed, or perhaps it's related to 10.5 (but what evil magick is this?)
Anyway... anyone else noticed themselves making the same typo repeatedly, and wondered?
The label "read items" (pronounced "red items" as in "items i've already read") is a bit confusing; i 'read' it to mean "read items" (pronounced "reed items", as in "click this to read some items"). Bloody English.
When is English 2.0? I thought you Americans were going to fix English? That's why we gave you your puny 'democracy' ideas in the first place isn't it? The queen still has her **** right up yer **** you know.
How about: don't you amerikans speak ENGLISH? Why don't you think up your own language if you don't like the one your parents/founding fools taught you?
chill out, it's actually helpful, not like it's a BAD thing just because explorer has one good feature... except maybe to people who are scared of features with function that they don't 0wn!
just saved a web graphic... dunno where the foo u just saved it (because u pressed 'ok'). go file->open or file->save to save the next image, and u can also explorer-open the folder the images are in from within the save dialog.
i would totally love this feature in mosx OR linux, but the absence of it just means i have to find other means to look at the containing folder, not switch back to win95.
explorer had this feature in win95, eight years ago, via the context menu, and it's still absent on any desktop un*x i've seen. that doesn't make win95 better than your flavourite OS, it just means it can do one thing yours can't... so drop the flame and get coding i guess;)
i use sawmill on one puter, and macos on the other. i can't change the button bindings in macos, so i set up sawmill to use the same bindings and button positions.
this works well, and stops me hitting the window menu every time i try to close an app (or worse). they don't have to look identical, just so long as they work the same on the subconcious level we use switches on (what stops you having to think "which is the indicator switch" in your car).
ironically, now that i'm using the (unthemable) macos x, i am confused as all hell again because i'm used to macos 8.6. shite... thanks apple!
apple should realise that user interface should be more flexible (and easy to restore, if you want to enforce consistency), and that there are legitimate reasons for using an aqua or macos workalike on a non-mac platform.
what's the best way to report improvements to apple for bugs and the like? i've got a call sheet here:)
last summer was warmer, this winter is warmer, it's getting warmer. come to.nz or.au and see for yourselves (luckily, only invisible ozone comes from filthy capitalist running dog.us all the way down here to.pole, so it looks beautiful)
thanks for the pollution, you can go home now americans. bye!
think i'll zap on over to IBM's patent server and register me this one
Patent #1292334 Technology for viewing fridge contents
Fridge has door through which user can perceive current stocks of food contained within. This is achieved through use of a clear silicate door substance (a "window").
This patent can be extended to include cupboards and any other sealed system which can be fitted with a window.
What a fine idea though, I wonder how much more the LCD+video camera implementation costs?
Auckland Library (NZ) has recently "upgraded". They bought new monitor/kb combos (mighta been a PC under there too) to replace the old VT systems. The new ones ran an xterm under twm with fuck all else, and it was fine - same UI, keyboard driven, slightly smaller and harder to read (black on white with the xterm).
Then some fool paid for a new system, using an web back end (haven't seen the specifics) and Explorer. Now the library has the same search functionality, with a flashy confusing new design. The legibility dropped thru the floor with 10pt/8pt text on a 15" at 1024x768 I think.
Worse yet, when I asked about this retrograde step to a librarian pal, she told me they had filed a complaint with the designer... but had been told "it wasn't *possible* to make the fonts larger".
Uhuh. Maybe they needed 360 pixels wide to fit in their nice focus-blurred logotyping, and there was no more space for the actual content. Maybe the designer was so impressed with his new 19" monitor he didn't bother looking at it on a 15". Maybe whatever...
This is in a place with probably the highest ratio of elderly and corrective-lens wearing computer users short of the local blind institute. How smart is that?
Hey, you, webmaster reading SlashDot! When you go back to work (if you get any more work done this week at all), remember why the user is looking at that page in the first place.
There were also indications that the hardware is not entirely stable yet - a crash during Nightcaster revealed a familiar looking PC boot screen, and a Microsoft representative explained that the memory configuration on the floor models was different than that of the final version.
Uhuh... we're going to demo this X-box, but we can't get our hands on the correct memory chips until Tuesday. Can we just borrow those chips in your desk? Yeah, sure they'll match! Cool...
Slashdot.org | Posted by AilleCat on Mon 02 Apr 04:00PM
I always thought if you pulled an April Fool after midday, you were the fool. But this fella is still amping with the funnies at 4am the next day! Or maybe it's really true (and I don't see a punchline in there, do you?)
actually, it works fine in 15bpp (how many colours is that, anyway?). dexter didn't include this in my XFree86Config-4 but when i copied the 16bpp entry and made the appropriate changes it worked fine.
16bpp and 24bpp are still horizontally scrambled, but at least i don't get those cool netscape colourflashes any more.
actors will not get cheaper. freighting the actors to beautiful.nz to film them in three separate blocks will not get cheaper. also, owing to impending changes in.nz tax, the above will get significantly more expensive (so you will see more hercules/xena/lotr etc filmed in.au or somewhere even with the.nz dollar so low).
the fx may change, but it is probably far easier just to do the three at once. would give a more coherent look'n'feel to the whole movie not to have III's fx make I's look silly too.
also, PJ rocks the party and will be a couple generations ahead of the newtech anyway;)
i've installed the v4 xfree86 with apt, and can only get the screen to display in 256 colours. any higher bpp gives me a scrambled screen (windows are mapped three or four times across the screen horizontally, small lines out their left hand sides). played with most of the s3virge options but couldn't fix it... has anyone else dealt with this?
card is a Genesis S3ViRGE (86C325 chipset). worked fine with v3.3.6 but i have a second which i'd like to get going too;)
cheers,
c
ps. if you have helpful comments, CC me too please!
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I've noticed one wierd behaviour: sometimes when I've just switched to an app, the first two keystrokes are transposed on insertion. I've seen this in Mail.app (when searching), Aquamacs and Firefox.
... anyone else noticed themselves making the same typo repeatedly, and wondered?
"hte quick brown fox, etc."
Either this is a new typing disorder I've recently developed, or perhaps it's related to 10.5 (but what evil magick is this?)
Anyway
clearly you haven't seen "Brain Dead" (fake sheep) or "Meet the Feebles" (fake muppets)
please oh please, how to disable the stupid webpage loading each time? do tell ...
"The economics of software outside the west are very different to what most people are used to."
Care to parse that one again? Clue: I'm questioning your use of the words "most people".
Disclaimer: My home is right at the eastern edge of the world. Just before you fall off.
That's not the implication, that's your inference :)
Agree. The extra 512K board really makes Xenon ][ blast.
The label "read items" (pronounced "red items" as in "items i've already read") is a bit confusing; i 'read' it to mean "read items" (pronounced "reed items", as in "click this to read some items"). Bloody English.
When is English 2.0? I thought you Americans were going to fix English? That's why we gave you your puny 'democracy' ideas in the first place isn't it? The queen still has her **** right up yer **** you know.
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Of course I mean 'flag' and 'pole' there.
How about: don't you amerikans speak ENGLISH? Why don't you think up your own language if you don't like the one your parents/founding fools taught you?
And the Catholic Church incinerated around seven million women during the Inquisition. Shall we round them up too?
(I'm not saying the modern Catholic Church is just as bad; if you like that kind of logic - oh, you ARE in the right forum! never mind)
chill out, it's actually helpful, not like it's a BAD thing just because explorer has one good feature ... except maybe to people who are scared of features with function that they don't 0wn!
... dunno where the foo u just saved it (because u pressed 'ok'). go file->open or file->save to save the next image, and u can also explorer-open the folder the images are in from within the save dialog.
... so drop the flame and get coding i guess ;)
just saved a web graphic
i would totally love this feature in mosx OR linux, but the absence of it just means i have to find other means to look at the containing folder, not switch back to win95.
explorer had this feature in win95, eight years ago, via the context menu, and it's still absent on any desktop un*x i've seen. that doesn't make win95 better than your flavourite OS, it just means it can do one thing yours can't
photosop 0.63b runs a dream on my dual g4.
so yep i am fine with this. if they break compatability with my flavourite photoshop i will be pissed.
you mean the mobility code is in LOGO?
what do you mean "seriously considering"? not something you'd want to ponder over too long ;)
i use sawmill on one puter, and macos on the other. i can't change the button bindings in macos, so i set up sawmill to use the same bindings and button positions.
... thanks apple!
:)
this works well, and stops me hitting the window menu every time i try to close an app (or worse). they don't have to look identical, just so long as they work the same on the subconcious level we use switches on (what stops you having to think "which is the indicator switch" in your car).
ironically, now that i'm using the (unthemable) macos x, i am confused as all hell again because i'm used to macos 8.6. shite
apple should realise that user interface should be more flexible (and easy to restore, if you want to enforce consistency), and that there are legitimate reasons for using an aqua or macos workalike on a non-mac platform.
what's the best way to report improvements to apple for bugs and the like? i've got a call sheet here
you should have a look at appleseed. even yo momma's gramomma can drop an extension in the system folder and hit the restart key.
d .html
e ed recipe.html
:)
imagine that! http://exodus.physics.ucla.edu/appleseed/applesee
http://exodus.physics.ucla.edu/appleseed/apples
don't miss their pointers to how easy it is to build a beowulf at the bottom of the latter page
well, you go fly around for a bit, but steve is under no obligation to you to fly his employees about while planes are dropping out of the sky.
if you want to prove it's so safe right now, you fly.
last summer was warmer, this winter is warmer, it's getting warmer. come to .nz or .au and see for yourselves (luckily, only invisible ozone comes from filthy capitalist running dog .us all the way down here to .pole, so it looks beautiful)
thanks for the pollution, you can go home now americans. bye!
think i'll zap on over to IBM's patent server and register me this one
Patent #1292334 Technology for viewing fridge contents
Fridge has door through which user can perceive current stocks of food contained within. This is achieved through use of a clear silicate door substance (a "window").
This patent can be extended to include cupboards and any other sealed system which can be fitted with a window.
What a fine idea though, I wonder how much more the LCD+video camera implementation costs?
uhuh.
... but had been told "it wasn't *possible* to make the fonts larger".
...
Auckland Library (NZ) has recently "upgraded". They bought new monitor/kb combos (mighta been a PC under there too) to replace the old VT systems. The new ones ran an xterm under twm with fuck all else, and it was fine - same UI, keyboard driven, slightly smaller and harder to read (black on white with the xterm).
Then some fool paid for a new system, using an web back end (haven't seen the specifics) and Explorer. Now the library has the same search functionality, with a flashy confusing new design. The legibility dropped thru the floor with 10pt/8pt text on a 15" at 1024x768 I think.
Worse yet, when I asked about this retrograde step to a librarian pal, she told me they had filed a complaint with the designer
Uhuh. Maybe they needed 360 pixels wide to fit in their nice focus-blurred logotyping, and there was no more space for the actual content. Maybe the designer was so impressed with his new 19" monitor he didn't bother looking at it on a 15". Maybe whatever
This is in a place with probably the highest ratio of elderly and corrective-lens wearing computer users short of the local blind institute. How smart is that?
Hey, you, webmaster reading SlashDot! When you go back to work (if you get any more work done this week at all), remember why the user is looking at that page in the first place.
Slashdot.org | Posted by AilleCat on Mon 02 Apr 04:00PM
I always thought if you pulled an April Fool after midday, you were the fool. But this fella is still amping with the funnies at 4am the next day! Or maybe it's really true (and I don't see a punchline in there, do you?)
actually, it works fine in 15bpp (how many colours is that, anyway?). dexter didn't include this in my XFree86Config-4 but when i copied the 16bpp entry and made the appropriate changes it worked fine.
16bpp and 24bpp are still horizontally scrambled, but at least i don't get those cool netscape colourflashes any more.
actors will not get cheaper. freighting the actors to beautiful .nz to film them in three separate blocks will not get cheaper. also, owing to impending changes in .nz tax, the above will get significantly more expensive (so you will see more hercules/xena/lotr etc filmed in .au or somewhere even with the .nz dollar so low).
;)
the fx may change, but it is probably far easier just to do the three at once. would give a more coherent look'n'feel to the whole movie not to have III's fx make I's look silly too.
also, PJ rocks the party and will be a couple generations ahead of the newtech anyway
i've installed the v4 xfree86 with apt, and can only get the screen to display in 256 colours. any higher bpp gives me a scrambled screen (windows are mapped three or four times across the screen horizontally, small lines out their left hand sides). played with most of the s3virge options but couldn't fix it ... has anyone else dealt with this?
;)
card is a Genesis S3ViRGE (86C325 chipset). worked fine with v3.3.6 but i have a second which i'd like to get going too
cheers,
c
ps. if you have helpful comments, CC me too please!
though given how many people took it as real it should say "satire" at the top too ...