Hey, but the keyboard TFA is all about is just what you need for any nonstandard layout, like the one you're referring to, or if you want to switch quickly between layouts designed for different languages!
I mean, I've sometimes tried to switch OS X to dvorak, but my eye constantly fools me, and I'm pressing wrong keys. Same problem when I long ago attempted to temporarily switch to German layout in Windows to make typing ß and ü easier. Too bad that that resulted continuously hitting 'y', when I actually wanted 'z'.
The real problem is that it's virtually impossible to get any laptop with special layouts printed or them or with no layout printed at all, though. This practically forces us non-desktop users to use qwerty.
Despite of that, I think I'll at least try the Finnish-optimized DAS layout anyway. Should be interesting...
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Mac OS Human Interface Guidelines have instructed against stealing focus for ages, and while I don't know whether there is any actual window manager level protection against it or not, in practice no application ever steals focus.
If a backround application suddenly presents a dialog box in OS X, it's icon usually starts bouncing up and down in dock. In OS 9 an application was able to flash it's icon in task list. At least old versions of Eudora used this to announce new mail.
Why don't you just use FAT32 on both Win and OS X? AFAIK OS X works perfectly well with Windows-formatted iPods; all you lose is the fancy iPod-shaped drive icon on your OSX desktop. And then you wouldn't even need MacDrive, if that was the only reason you were using that.
Although I don't know if Apple broke that functionality with iTunes 5 too.
Do you happen to know whether they have any plans for AirTunes support? That is my worst lock-in to OS X at the moment – I nowadays play my music almost exclusively over AirTunes at home. It would be really nice to have that functionality in Linux, too.
I know that Jon Johansen has reverse engineered the cryptography of AirTunes, and some preliminary Apple Lossless codec also exists for Linux (AirTunes stream is an encrypted Apple Lossless stream). So technically, it could be possible.
Grandparent is totally off here. Nothing will change for software, that is currently licensed under GPL. Not unless the terms of GPL3 are actually looser than those of it's predecessors. Period.
Whoops, sorry. I deny that I would had read a version retranslated from Newspeak back to English, as an other child comment of yours suggested, though.
But really, I've read a Finnish translation. I've only seen various quotations in English, but I thought I'd still have remembered quite a few of them. It seems that I was wrong.
I admit that this is rather inexcusable, though. Am I taken to room 101 now?
Everybody out there read the NASA's PDF that parent's Venus link refers to before you reply and comment it.
It does not propose altering the current atmosphere of Venus. It proposes establishing cloud cities floating on it.
Parent's opinions regarding global warming are most likely totally baseless, but the said paper about colonizing Venus seems to be very insightful. Or at least interesting.
One of the the comments posted to TFA specifically states that winlogon.exe is still running in safe mode – sure it is, how would you otherwise log in? – and killing it as explained in the article enables removing of viruses that attach themselves to winlogon.exe, without a need to boot from external media.
This means that grandparent is simply wrong, safe mode won't kill winlogon.
From the spec you linked, we read that the HTTP charset should take prescedence over any other charset
Sure, but Apache dumps this anyway according to the said META declaration. You're free to try this with any server that has AddDefaultCharset undefined but whose content pages have the said <META> tag defined. Try this:
$ lynx --head --dump <URI>
But, if AddDefaultCharset is defined and said charset value in META declaration is written in UPPERCASE, then Apache simply ignores it and forces whatever has been defined in AddDefaultCharset down the UA's throat anyway.
# Specify a default charset for all pages sent out. This is # always a good idea and opens the door for future internationalisation # of your web site, should you ever want it. Specifying it as # a default does little harm; as the standard dictates that a page # is in iso-8859-1 (latin1) unless specified otherwise i.e. you # are merely stating the obvious. There are also some security # reasons in browsers, related to javascript and URL parsing # which encourage you to always set a default char set.
Brilliant! So if the AddDefaultCharset is defined in httpd.conf, the Content-Type encoding of the actual document must be defined in lowercase, or it'll be ingnored! Now, where the f*** this is documented??! Examples at w3.org specifically uses uppercase. Apache permits uppercase in httpd.conf.
Nothing. Well, maybe Yellow Dog proper will go away, but Linux will always be the whore OS to run on any given machine with a CPU. That will not change.
Oh, I'd rather say that NetBSD is the real professional whore here. Linux is rather just a regular slut, who gives to practially anyone who really cares to ask. Windows and x86 are a happy marriage with two hideously ugly ones, who have found each other. Mac OS is the beautiful lady, who just does not seem to find the right one, but has only unhappy marriages (680x0 and PPC). And BeOS was the fairest maid on earth, who got brutally killed as a result of Windows' secret perversion.;-)
But more seriously I think something will change with Linux-on-Mac, should Apple really make the switch: You'd probably be able to use binary-only x86 Linux apps, and even drivers! So welcome, Nvidia, ndiswrapper etc.
Wine would probably run on Linux and most likely finally on OS X too, although Apple most likely would not support it by any means.
As the machine would probably use something else than BIOS (like stay on OF or use EFI) and normal x86 chipsets, Windows would only run on it if Microsoft would support it. While it wouldn't be any big deal from technical point of view, it most likely will not happen.
Gates and Jobs would probably strike a deal instead that MS continues developing Office for Mac, and would support Windows only through VirtualPC (which would now run games and other CPU-intensive stuff with speed close to native), and in return Jobs would make sure that Mac OS would not run natively on non-Macs.
Crossed into my mind, too. But I still don't think that Apple would switch to x86. Do people actually see any sense in it, if Intel would also jump into PPC bandwagon and start making those chips? After all, the required documentation is publicly available.
Indeed. Nokia is one of the largest, if not the largest, among pro-SWPAT lobbiers in the Union, so this is absolutely no reason to praise them. And the waxwork cabinet of Finnish PM Vanhanen unfortunately voted in Council of Ministers just like Ollila told him to.
No problem. Germany's Führ^H^H^H^H Bundeskanzler Gerhard Schröder has already offered Germany's help in liberating their fellow neighbours from the evil grip of MPAA.
"With our experience in Blitzkrieg the Endlösung of the MPAA question is just a matter of hours", said Schröder.
This is ultimately the most insightful comment attached to this story that I've read so far. It clearly underlines the real reasons why no one should run as root. For all others who did not RTFA and neither thought about it by themselves:
Normal boxes only have one user. Most people have no clue whatsoever about multiple user accounts. This means that your own account is all that matters.
Due to the fact mentioned above, rm -rf in ~/Documents/ is as bad for most people as rm -rf in/. Most people are also very lazy in taking backups.
Normal users do not run and should have no business running any daemons that are listening to non-local ports either.
But parent was the first one who clearly described an excellent reason to stay as normal user even under conditions I stated above: it just greatly helps in avoiding troijans and other malicious programs.
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I can buy that giant SUV I've always wanted, and it doesn't matter!
Uh... we're still, although slowly, running out of oil, no? So have fun with your SUV when on petrol pump.
Hey, but the keyboard TFA is all about is just what you need for any nonstandard layout, like the one you're referring to, or if you want to switch quickly between layouts designed for different languages!
I mean, I've sometimes tried to switch OS X to dvorak, but my eye constantly fools me, and I'm pressing wrong keys. Same problem when I long ago attempted to temporarily switch to German layout in Windows to make typing ß and ü easier. Too bad that that resulted continuously hitting 'y', when I actually wanted 'z'.
The real problem is that it's virtually impossible to get any laptop with special layouts printed or them or with no layout printed at all, though. This practically forces us non-desktop users to use qwerty.
Despite of that, I think I'll at least try the Finnish-optimized DAS layout anyway. Should be interesting...
Mac OS Human Interface Guidelines have instructed against stealing focus for ages, and while I don't know whether there is any actual window manager level protection against it or not, in practice no application ever steals focus.
If a backround application suddenly presents a dialog box in OS X, it's icon usually starts bouncing up and down in dock. In OS 9 an application was able to flash it's icon in task list. At least old versions of Eudora used this to announce new mail.
Why don't you just use FAT32 on both Win and OS X? AFAIK OS X works perfectly well with Windows-formatted iPods; all you lose is the fancy iPod-shaped drive icon on your OSX desktop. And then you wouldn't even need MacDrive, if that was the only reason you were using that.
Although I don't know if Apple broke that functionality with iTunes 5 too.
Do you happen to know whether they have any plans for AirTunes support? That is my worst lock-in to OS X at the moment – I nowadays play my music almost exclusively over AirTunes at home. It would be really nice to have that functionality in Linux, too.
I know that Jon Johansen has reverse engineered the cryptography of AirTunes, and some preliminary Apple Lossless codec also exists for Linux (AirTunes stream is an encrypted Apple Lossless stream). So technically, it could be possible.
Grandparent is totally off here. Nothing will change for software, that is currently licensed under GPL. Not unless the terms of GPL3 are actually looser than those of it's predecessors. Period.
Whoops, sorry. I deny that I would had read a version retranslated from Newspeak back to English, as an other child comment of yours suggested, though.
But really, I've read a Finnish translation. I've only seen various quotations in English, but I thought I'd still have remembered quite a few of them. It seems that I was wrong.
I admit that this is rather inexcusable, though. Am I taken to room 101 now?
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Everybody out there read the NASA's PDF that parent's Venus link refers to before you reply and comment it.
It does not propose altering the current atmosphere of Venus. It proposes establishing cloud cities floating on it.
Parent's opinions regarding global warming are most likely totally baseless, but the said paper about colonizing Venus seems to be very insightful. Or at least interesting.
Buy the new 'NanoPod Video Player!'
Bzzt. It is actually called nPod.
But before it can be realized, nMac must appear first.
Someone mod parent AC up.
One of the the comments posted to TFA specifically states that winlogon.exe is still running in safe mode – sure it is, how would you otherwise log in? – and killing it as explained in the article enables removing of viruses that attach themselves to winlogon.exe, without a need to boot from external media.
This means that grandparent is simply wrong, safe mode won't kill winlogon.
vi should be the standard word processor
Moron. Real Man use ed.
Come back when you've aquired some basic computing skills.
..but I'm glad that the machines my bank uses to hande their online banking site are #6, #7 and #8 on this list.
I don't really remember, that there would have ever been any unavailablilities due to them. (But due to my ISP? Yes.)
No, it isn't. Read a clarification to my post here.
Sure, but Apache dumps this anyway according to the said META declaration. You're free to try this with any server that has AddDefaultCharset undefined but whose content pages have the said <META> tag defined. Try this: But, if AddDefaultCharset is defined and said charset value in META declaration is written in UPPERCASE, then Apache simply ignores it and forces whatever has been defined in AddDefaultCharset down the UA's throat anyway.
Have you checked to see whether uppercase charsets were ignored anyway (before you set AddDefaultCharset)?
They were not. Actually, when I first ran into this, it was the other way round (AddDefaultCharset was Latin-1 and I was attempting to specify UTF-8).
First, we have this.
And a quote from the default config file:OK. So I'll define as follows:Then, we have this.
OK, so I have some legacy documents, so I'll just define as follows in <HEAD>:And let's try it out... WTF?? It does not work! My browser thinks it is UTF-8.
Oh wait, it actually works, if I'll define this instead of that above:Brilliant! So if the AddDefaultCharset is defined in httpd.conf, the Content-Type encoding of the actual document must be defined in lowercase, or it'll be ingnored! Now, where the f*** this is documented??! Examples at w3.org specifically uses uppercase. Apache permits uppercase in httpd.conf.
Apache messed it up again.
No, that only happens after if Jobs would announce that Apple is ditching OS X for Windows.
This only caused the I/O of some geeks to choke up due to wrong endianness. But for most Mac users the network flows as calm as ever.
Nothing. Well, maybe Yellow Dog proper will go away, but Linux will always be the whore OS to run on any given machine with a CPU. That will not change.
;-)
Oh, I'd rather say that NetBSD is the real professional whore here. Linux is rather just a regular slut, who gives to practially anyone who really cares to ask. Windows and x86 are a happy marriage with two hideously ugly ones, who have found each other. Mac OS is the beautiful lady, who just does not seem to find the right one, but has only unhappy marriages (680x0 and PPC). And BeOS was the fairest maid on earth, who got brutally killed as a result of Windows' secret perversion.
But more seriously I think something will change with Linux-on-Mac, should Apple really make the switch: You'd probably be able to use binary-only x86 Linux apps, and even drivers! So welcome, Nvidia, ndiswrapper etc.
Wine would probably run on Linux and most likely finally on OS X too, although Apple most likely would not support it by any means.
As the machine would probably use something else than BIOS (like stay on OF or use EFI) and normal x86 chipsets, Windows would only run on it if Microsoft would support it. While it wouldn't be any big deal from technical point of view, it most likely will not happen.
Gates and Jobs would probably strike a deal instead that MS continues developing Office for Mac, and would support Windows only through VirtualPC (which would now run games and other CPU-intensive stuff with speed close to native), and in return Jobs would make sure that Mac OS would not run natively on non-Macs.
Crossed into my mind, too. But I still don't think that Apple would switch to x86. Do people actually see any sense in it, if Intel would also jump into PPC bandwagon and start making those chips? After all, the required documentation is publicly available.
Indeed. Nokia is one of the largest, if not the largest, among pro-SWPAT lobbiers in the Union, so this is absolutely no reason to praise them. And the waxwork cabinet of Finnish PM Vanhanen unfortunately voted in Council of Ministers just like Ollila told him to.
No problem. Germany's Führ^H^H^H^H Bundeskanzler Gerhard Schröder has already offered Germany's help in liberating their fellow neighbours from the evil grip of MPAA.
"With our experience in Blitzkrieg the Endlösung of the MPAA question is just a matter of hours", said Schröder.
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- Normal boxes only have one user. Most people have no clue whatsoever about multiple user accounts. This means that your own account is all that matters.
- Due to the fact mentioned above, rm -rf in ~/Documents/ is as bad for most people as rm -rf in
/. Most people are also very lazy in taking backups. - Normal users do not run and should have no business running any daemons that are listening to non-local ports either.
But parent was the first one who clearly described an excellent reason to stay as normal user even under conditions I stated above: it just greatly helps in avoiding troijans and other malicious programs.127.0.0.1.
Just don't tell anyone that it was me who told you.