After you close all those tabs, to a Ctrl+Shift+T (or a History | Recently Closed Tabs and restore your last closed tab). Notice that the entire page did not get re-loaded, as it was still cached in memory. Try this for a few more tabs, and you'll see where most of your RAM is going. That's also part of the reason that restarting the browser will help.
If this genuinely bothers you, change the value of browser.sessionstore.max_tabs_undo in about:config. The default is 10. If you can live with it (i.e., if you have the memory to support it), this is really not a problem, and I think it contributes to a better overall experience. When people look at how much memory Firefox is using, this is usually the "problem." If not, perhaps you've found a bug.
It's a menu, not a context menu. Also, Windows is the only oddball because there's never been a consistent place, although Tools seems to have become the standard until the Ribbon-style interfaces moved it to the nameless orb, now replaced by a menu button vaguely reminiscent of File. Also, I don't think the information about some of the toolkits is correct. Qt is capable of moving the preferences/options menu item on a platform-specific basis so it's always "right." Finally, your assertion that the preferences menu item belongs under "Edit" on OS X is wrong; it goes under the application name menu except on the most poorly designed cross-platform apps. (Swing might do this, but you can make it stop with some effort.)
I'm not sure what your point about Firefox is, either: there are different keyboard shortcuts to match expectations of that platform's users. IE set the standard as Backspace to go back on Windows, so Mozilla followed it. I'm fairly positive one or more of Ctrl+[ or Ctrl+Left Arrow would also work. Your suspicion that Backspace doesn't work on OS X is also unfounded, as all of the keyboard shortcuts you and I combined mention work on OS X. I just tested it. I imagine it's similar with Linux.
Only if you use FTPS (or, of course, run FTP over SSH yourself--difficult because it uses so many ports--or use SFTP, which is technically unrelated but superficially similar).
I don't want to veer off-topic, but this redesign is a mess. Comments have the score randomly disappear from them (the only "fix" is to find the problematic parent and expand it), and every few times I load a hidden comment, my entire browser content area turns gray.
I'm not complaining about the look, although for what it's worth I did like the old one better. I'm complaining about the fact that I literally cannot use the new layout because it is broken on a relatively popular browser (Firefox 3.6 on OS X).
Wouldn't you need to accelerate and decelerate exceedingly quickly for you to have an average speed of 25 within the, let's say, 3 seconds it takes your GPS to update if you went 40 for, at least, an instant during that time?
Mozilla has a free plugin check that you can use to see not only if you're up to date on the most common plugins but also if any of yours that are out of date suffer from an known exploit you should fix immediately. It's free, and there's no extra plugin (yeah, BrowserCheck...what the) to install: http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/plugincheck/.
Try completely removing your existing installation of Java. Try the standard Add/Remove Programs (sorry, "Programs and Features") uninstaller. When that probably fails, do the rest yourself: delete everything in C:\Program Files\Java, then remove the HKLM\Software\JavaSoft key from the registry. Now, download the full offline installer (or whatever you want, I guess--I normally use this one because I hate downloading installers that really only download something else) and try again. You may need to reboot beforehand if you've attempted a previous installation recently.
Or, at least, this is what I've done manually on some 100+ computers where the SCCM installation of Java has epically failed and deleted most of the bin folder. Maybe it will work for you, too.
We want pictures on our Kindle subscriptions, even if they are (currently) only black-and-white on the flagship device. They are often important parts of the content. Please stop, or come to a more reasonable (to you, anyway) conclusion--for example, I would gladly wait until a Wi-Fi connection to download the images if it makes you happy. (And others won't, but I say this as someone who rarely reads such publications and won't want to do so right-now-at-an-airport or something.)
Except you foolishly left Wi-Fi off the new Kindle DX despite putting it on the Kindle 3. Don't do that, either. I'm not going to want to hook it up with USB. (Hey, Wi-Fi would also help with your 3G costs!)
The headline might actually be funny if they mimicked the hosts' usage: "Can you explain what Internet is?" That's half of what made this video so funny in the first place! (Note the lack of "the." They practically mentioned everything else, like confusion with "@" and no "dot"-mentioning in ".com.")
By the time you were playing Oregon Trail in 1992, you were likely on the PC version.
IIRC, 1992 is when the DOS version was first released, but I might be wrong. In any case, I also remember playing it around 1992 (possibly 1993), and it was definitely the Apple II version.
In related news, I can't believe the summary didn't mention that it's being released on Facebook tomorrow.:)
This is not news. This is making it sound like a Firefox 4 problem, but if you read any of the bugs they link to, some of them date back to the late 90's! They've been affecting you all of Mozilla's life, and nobody complained about them in Firefox 1.0 (although I'm sure I did about some of them in Netscape 6:)).
Reminds me of the story last week of how the US wanted to make hybrids louder. I hope it was only when they were driving, not idling, but I can see some moronic legislation coming out of this, too.
Sorry, you're doing this wrong - how are they going to learn?
I'm too nice to do anything more than a scowl (or, at intersections where they have a red hand and I a green light, an eye-roll or barely-passing-through-because-you-shouldn't-be-here now).
However, I do so with great frequency. It is my home that they will learn... sometime. (Note: I work on a university campus, so foot traffic--both at legal and illegal times--isn't all that uncommon.)
If you're relying on Engine noise to determine if a car is coming, you're already fairly screwed.
I agree with your post completely. I would like to add that in the city, I am primarily a cyclist; thus, my vehicle is even quieter than an electric vehicle (even when freewheeling). You would not believe the number of pedestrians who dart out onto the street in front of me without looking. Luckily, unlike a car, I am (in good weather) usually capable of going from 20 to 0 in a ridiculously short distance.
The real solution to this problem is to look before you cross the street. I realize this doesn't help visually impaired individuals, but this proposed law is relying on the incorrect assumption that noise should be a cue for oncoming traffic. It never has been. Use other cues instead.
Just to clarify, Dropbox does not recommend putting symlinks in the Dropbox folder itself. (When modified on another computer, it may get overwritten with just a normal file when re-synced, among other potential problems--I've had this problem with files, though I've had better luck with folders.)
Instead, move the folder (or file) to the Dropbox folder. Then, create a symlink to this location in the Dropbox folder at your desired original location. This is easy to do on Linux/OS X if you know the command line; on Windows NTFS, there is the DropboxFolderSync add on to ease the process, since NTFS links themselves are somewhat sketchy to deal with.
And since AirPlay requires the purchase of an additional device
It doesn't, because you can AirPlay to any Mac.
Really? (Apple does not support it. You can do it with AirFoil, which is not Apple-supported, could break in the future, has been around for a while, is not related to iOS 4.2, and requires the purchase of the software.)
An interesting use for the app would be to use it as a dialing front end on an iPod touch in concert with a VOIP service
Or, you know, an actual phone. (Yes, I realize VoIP could make it more seamless.) There's no reason it shouldn't be availabe for all iOS devices. In fact, I'm surprised it's available only on iPhone, of all the iOS devices--seems like that's where they (well, AT&T, at least) have the most to lose...although I guess you could say the same if it was availalbe for everything else and nobody bought an iPhone for that reason.
The App Store is coming to desktops and laptops in the next edition of OS X, so this applies to ALL of Apple's "computing" products in the near future.
You do realize that the forthcoming Mac App Store is for convenience only and is not the only way to install new applications on Lion, right? This is not the same as iOS.
Actually, USB is an Intel designed standard and came with the ATX board design and the BX430 chipset, also from Intel.
designing != popularizing
The iMac popularized USB because PCs at the time were still using a variety of connectors (PS/2, parallel, serial, etc.), and the situation was similar with previous Macs. Including USB as the only* external hardware connector on the first iMac is presumed to have spurred the industry to create appropriate peripherals faster. For that record, we can say the same thing about the floppy drive, which, as you may remember, the iMac also omitted.
*Yes, I'm lying: there was also FireWire, Ethernet, phone line, headphone, and microphone/line-in connectors (most of which are still with us today), but the point is that it abandoned ADB, GeoPort, and other randomness for USB.
I'm running IE9 beta on my Windows 7 machine at home.
You missed the point, which was that people will be stuck on IE 8 with Windows 7 because the pages will be coded for IE 8, which wont' run on Windows 9--just like how IE 6 won't run on Windows 7 now. (Nobody said that IE 8 wouldn't run on XP, which is like you having IE 9 on Windows 7.)
I'm not sure I agree with the point because IE 6 is exponentially more awful than IE 7/8 (especially 8), but we'll see.
I like to think that most people would agree that a single language would be one less roadblock in an advanced society.
Warning: actual linguist ahead.
You must be from the US (so am I, so I'm just sayin'). The majority of the world is multilingual. Try it--it's good for you.:)
In fact, having only one language would be worse for "an advanced society." How are we supposed to figure out how the mind works in terms of language (e.g., why are there language universals? what are they? what is the nature of language impariment?) when we only have one to study? Moreover, the goal itself is also slightly unrealistic: languages have a tendancy to change as the current generation acquires a grammar (in the lingustic sense, not the prescriptivist English sense) that does not converge exactly on that of the previous, which is exactly how we get different languages (although some probably arose independently to begin with, unless you subscribe to the Nostradic Hypothesis) as well as historical language change in the first place. In other words, it wouldn't work.
Of course, now that OpenOffice is finally becoming a contender in mindshare (as well as technically), they go and change the name...
Except there is no intention for there to be a name change, nor is it really "OpenOffice" who is doing the supposed changing. LibreOffice is a fork; they have asked Oracle to donate the OO.o name and trademarks, so if they get their way there will be no name change after all. LibreOffice is also not officially affiliated with the current OO.o project.
You can tell the name "LibreOffice" was chosen by several guys who communicated primarily via the internet. In the real world, it's very difficult to say "Libre" correctly without a Spanish accent, and I believe it's only going to continue to hinder the widespread acceptance of OO.o.
LibreOffice isn't intended to be the final name of the suite. They requested that Oracle donate the OO.o name and trademarks, and "LibreOffice" is only the working name. (But I don't think it's too hard to say, either.)
Sort of--it's still officially OpenOffice.org. LibreOffice is "just" a fork--albeit, one with many current and former prominent OO.o developers behind it--who hopes Oracle will donate their trademarks so they can free the software from Oracle/Sun's not-so-good handling. (That also means that if they get what they want, the "LibreOffice" name will disappear.)
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After you close all those tabs, to a Ctrl+Shift+T (or a History | Recently Closed Tabs and restore your last closed tab). Notice that the entire page did not get re-loaded, as it was still cached in memory. Try this for a few more tabs, and you'll see where most of your RAM is going. That's also part of the reason that restarting the browser will help.
If this genuinely bothers you, change the value of browser.sessionstore.max_tabs_undo in about:config. The default is 10. If you can live with it (i.e., if you have the memory to support it), this is really not a problem, and I think it contributes to a better overall experience. When people look at how much memory Firefox is using, this is usually the "problem." If not, perhaps you've found a bug.
It's a menu, not a context menu. Also, Windows is the only oddball because there's never been a consistent place, although Tools seems to have become the standard until the Ribbon-style interfaces moved it to the nameless orb, now replaced by a menu button vaguely reminiscent of File. Also, I don't think the information about some of the toolkits is correct. Qt is capable of moving the preferences/options menu item on a platform-specific basis so it's always "right." Finally, your assertion that the preferences menu item belongs under "Edit" on OS X is wrong; it goes under the application name menu except on the most poorly designed cross-platform apps. (Swing might do this, but you can make it stop with some effort.)
I'm not sure what your point about Firefox is, either: there are different keyboard shortcuts to match expectations of that platform's users. IE set the standard as Backspace to go back on Windows, so Mozilla followed it. I'm fairly positive one or more of Ctrl+[ or Ctrl+Left Arrow would also work. Your suspicion that Backspace doesn't work on OS X is also unfounded, as all of the keyboard shortcuts you and I combined mention work on OS X. I just tested it. I imagine it's similar with Linux.
Only if you use FTPS (or, of course, run FTP over SSH yourself--difficult because it uses so many ports--or use SFTP, which is technically unrelated but superficially similar).
Dear Slashdot,
I don't want to veer off-topic, but this redesign is a mess. Comments have the score randomly disappear from them (the only "fix" is to find the problematic parent and expand it), and every few times I load a hidden comment, my entire browser content area turns gray.
I'm not complaining about the look, although for what it's worth I did like the old one better. I'm complaining about the fact that I literally cannot use the new layout because it is broken on a relatively popular browser (Firefox 3.6 on OS X).
We can haz fix?
Wouldn't you need to accelerate and decelerate exceedingly quickly for you to have an average speed of 25 within the, let's say, 3 seconds it takes your GPS to update if you went 40 for, at least, an instant during that time?
Mozilla has a free plugin check that you can use to see not only if you're up to date on the most common plugins but also if any of yours that are out of date suffer from an known exploit you should fix immediately. It's free, and there's no extra plugin (yeah, BrowserCheck...what the) to install: http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/plugincheck/.
Try completely removing your existing installation of Java. Try the standard Add/Remove Programs (sorry, "Programs and Features") uninstaller. When that probably fails, do the rest yourself: delete everything in C:\Program Files\Java, then remove the HKLM\Software\JavaSoft key from the registry. Now, download the full offline installer (or whatever you want, I guess--I normally use this one because I hate downloading installers that really only download something else) and try again. You may need to reboot beforehand if you've attempted a previous installation recently.
Or, at least, this is what I've done manually on some 100+ computers where the SCCM installation of Java has epically failed and deleted most of the bin folder. Maybe it will work for you, too.
Dear Amazon,
We want pictures on our Kindle subscriptions, even if they are (currently) only black-and-white on the flagship device. They are often important parts of the content. Please stop, or come to a more reasonable (to you, anyway) conclusion--for example, I would gladly wait until a Wi-Fi connection to download the images if it makes you happy. (And others won't, but I say this as someone who rarely reads such publications and won't want to do so right-now-at-an-airport or something.)
Except you foolishly left Wi-Fi off the new Kindle DX despite putting it on the Kindle 3. Don't do that, either. I'm not going to want to hook it up with USB. (Hey, Wi-Fi would also help with your 3G costs!)
Sincerely,
Your users
The headline might actually be funny if they mimicked the hosts' usage: "Can you explain what Internet is?" That's half of what made this video so funny in the first place! (Note the lack of "the." They practically mentioned everything else, like confusion with "@" and no "dot"-mentioning in ".com.")
By the time you were playing Oregon Trail in 1992, you were likely on the PC version.
IIRC, 1992 is when the DOS version was first released, but I might be wrong. In any case, I also remember playing it around 1992 (possibly 1993), and it was definitely the Apple II version.
In related news, I can't believe the summary didn't mention that it's being released on Facebook tomorrow. :)
This is not news. This is making it sound like a Firefox 4 problem, but if you read any of the bugs they link to, some of them date back to the late 90's! They've been affecting you all of Mozilla's life, and nobody complained about them in Firefox 1.0 (although I'm sure I did about some of them in Netscape 6 :)).
the silence when you stand still at a red light
Reminds me of the story last week of how the US wanted to make hybrids louder. I hope it was only when they were driving, not idling, but I can see some moronic legislation coming out of this, too.
Sorry, you're doing this wrong - how are they going to learn?
I'm too nice to do anything more than a scowl (or, at intersections where they have a red hand and I a green light, an eye-roll or barely-passing-through-because-you-shouldn't-be-here now).
However, I do so with great frequency. It is my home that they will learn ... sometime. (Note: I work on a university campus, so foot traffic--both at legal and illegal times--isn't all that uncommon.)
If you're relying on Engine noise to determine if a car is coming, you're already fairly screwed.
I agree with your post completely. I would like to add that in the city, I am primarily a cyclist; thus, my vehicle is even quieter than an electric vehicle (even when freewheeling). You would not believe the number of pedestrians who dart out onto the street in front of me without looking. Luckily, unlike a car, I am (in good weather) usually capable of going from 20 to 0 in a ridiculously short distance.
The real solution to this problem is to look before you cross the street. I realize this doesn't help visually impaired individuals, but this proposed law is relying on the incorrect assumption that noise should be a cue for oncoming traffic. It never has been. Use other cues instead.
You can symlink instead of copying
Just to clarify, Dropbox does not recommend putting symlinks in the Dropbox folder itself. (When modified on another computer, it may get overwritten with just a normal file when re-synced, among other potential problems--I've had this problem with files, though I've had better luck with folders.)
Instead, move the folder (or file) to the Dropbox folder. Then, create a symlink to this location in the Dropbox folder at your desired original location. This is easy to do on Linux/OS X if you know the command line; on Windows NTFS, there is the DropboxFolderSync add on to ease the process, since NTFS links themselves are somewhat sketchy to deal with.
And since AirPlay requires the purchase of an additional device
It doesn't, because you can AirPlay to any Mac.
Really? (Apple does not support it. You can do it with AirFoil, which is not Apple-supported, could break in the future, has been around for a while, is not related to iOS 4.2, and requires the purchase of the software.)
An interesting use for the app would be to use it as a dialing front end on an iPod touch in concert with a VOIP service
Or, you know, an actual phone. (Yes, I realize VoIP could make it more seamless.) There's no reason it shouldn't be availabe for all iOS devices. In fact, I'm surprised it's available only on iPhone, of all the iOS devices--seems like that's where they (well, AT&T, at least) have the most to lose...although I guess you could say the same if it was availalbe for everything else and nobody bought an iPhone for that reason.
The App Store is coming to desktops and laptops in the next edition of OS X, so this applies to ALL of Apple's "computing" products in the near future.
You do realize that the forthcoming Mac App Store is for convenience only and is not the only way to install new applications on Lion, right? This is not the same as iOS.
Actually, USB is an Intel designed standard and came with the ATX board design and the BX430 chipset, also from Intel.
designing != popularizing
The iMac popularized USB because PCs at the time were still using a variety of connectors (PS/2, parallel, serial, etc.), and the situation was similar with previous Macs. Including USB as the only* external hardware connector on the first iMac is presumed to have spurred the industry to create appropriate peripherals faster. For that record, we can say the same thing about the floppy drive, which, as you may remember, the iMac also omitted.
*Yes, I'm lying: there was also FireWire, Ethernet, phone line, headphone, and microphone/line-in connectors (most of which are still with us today), but the point is that it abandoned ADB, GeoPort, and other randomness for USB.
Apple popularized Firewire (which became IEEE 1394), not USB.
You must have missed the iMac (G3, I mean).
I'm running IE9 beta on my Windows 7 machine at home.
You missed the point, which was that people will be stuck on IE 8 with Windows 7 because the pages will be coded for IE 8, which wont' run on Windows 9--just like how IE 6 won't run on Windows 7 now. (Nobody said that IE 8 wouldn't run on XP, which is like you having IE 9 on Windows 7.)
I'm not sure I agree with the point because IE 6 is exponentially more awful than IE 7/8 (especially 8), but we'll see.
I like to think that most people would agree that a single language would be one less roadblock in an advanced society.
Warning: actual linguist ahead.
You must be from the US (so am I, so I'm just sayin'). The majority of the world is multilingual. Try it--it's good for you. :)
In fact, having only one language would be worse for "an advanced society." How are we supposed to figure out how the mind works in terms of language (e.g., why are there language universals? what are they? what is the nature of language impariment?) when we only have one to study? Moreover, the goal itself is also slightly unrealistic: languages have a tendancy to change as the current generation acquires a grammar (in the lingustic sense, not the prescriptivist English sense) that does not converge exactly on that of the previous, which is exactly how we get different languages (although some probably arose independently to begin with, unless you subscribe to the Nostradic Hypothesis) as well as historical language change in the first place. In other words, it wouldn't work.
Of course, now that OpenOffice is finally becoming a contender in mindshare (as well as technically), they go and change the name...
Except there is no intention for there to be a name change, nor is it really "OpenOffice" who is doing the supposed changing. LibreOffice is a fork; they have asked Oracle to donate the OO.o name and trademarks, so if they get their way there will be no name change after all. LibreOffice is also not officially affiliated with the current OO.o project.
You can tell the name "LibreOffice" was chosen by several guys who communicated primarily via the internet. In the real world, it's very difficult to say "Libre" correctly without a Spanish accent, and I believe it's only going to continue to hinder the widespread acceptance of OO.o.
LibreOffice isn't intended to be the final name of the suite. They requested that Oracle donate the OO.o name and trademarks, and "LibreOffice" is only the working name. (But I don't think it's too hard to say, either.)
Don't forget, guys... it's called LibreOffice now!
Sort of--it's still officially OpenOffice.org. LibreOffice is "just" a fork--albeit, one with many current and former prominent OO.o developers behind it--who hopes Oracle will donate their trademarks so they can free the software from Oracle/Sun's not-so-good handling. (That also means that if they get what they want, the "LibreOffice" name will disappear.)