But the admission must be made that for the most part X11.app more than a bit of a ghetto. Applications running in X11 on OS X must forge their own way for everything, including clipboard data. And that is perhaps my least favorite thing about OS X is the big disconnect between the X11 clipboard and the OS X pasteboard. I wonder sometimes if there is an underlying technical problem that stops the OS X software engineers from syncing up those two data sources.
Three Cheers for Landon Fuller! As a technical question, does anyone know how efficient using Application enhancer is? I tried Shapeshifter, and found performance lacking. Was that specific to ShapeShifter, or is it a general problem with application enhancer extentions?
Of course, with all your comparisons between OS X's dock and KDE's kicker, you forget (or at least gloss over) the fundamental differences in design philosophy. Especially when you put in those two screenshots of the dock's configuration options versus the configuration options for KDE's panel. The difference is that OS X gives you a solution, take it or leave it, with the minimum amount of customization such it won't get in the way of you doing what you will. With KDEpanel, you have a plethora of options, and as result can craft any solution your little heart desires.
Curiosity mainly. Perhaps a little wondering about efficiency. I suppose if you're building an FS like that one hopes your hashing is fast. (But, thinking about it, hashing is probably a crap load faster than the disk write.)
Time machine + ZFS seems to be quite the perfect combination. A file system that supports not only snapshots internally, but also allows the addition of entire new disks (zpools) with next to no effort, added together with a backup solution that's exactly what most people need.... seems good to me:D
Oh I agree with you 110%. Having said that, the faculty is not however in agreement, and as such many (90%) of the things my Professors post are in Word format. Admittedly, it's possible to open those files on campus, and save them as PDFs on the campus computers, then keep them on my diskspace. However, it's a question of the value of my time. Accrued over the long period I plan to be at the university, I think Office is a reasonable investment, for mere interoperability. Speaking of LaTeX, it's definitely something I have to look more into, as well, I need to figure out how to write one's own style templates. (Strangely enough, it comes with nothing for a standard MLA style essay.)
Even NeoOffice, the aqua "face" of OpenOffice is pretty damn bad. I'm using it as a stopgap measure until I can get Office 2007; It'll be the first time I'll ever have bought office. However, I am a university student now, and I wouldn't have realized how much Office is used on campus without having seen it. Goddamn, it bothers me that I'll have to blow 250$ on a piece of software just so the damn equations will show up right, so I can see a unit vector, without having to imagine it in the stead of a blank box in NeoOffice. Having said that though, I'll pay for something that will work. Do the job, do the job well. Of course, the sad thing being that I most likely won't be switching over to Word for most of my document work. I'll keep writing in WriteRoom and LyX.
I call bullshit on you; specifically for calling EFI proprietary. As anyone who can access Wikipedia could tell you, while EFI was started by Intel, it's now developed by a completely separate forum. The specs are available at uefi.org.
Hopefully this admission of his mistake will lead to something being done about it. He laid out quite clearly a plan of action to reverse the stagnation of NetBSD, and hopefully his steps are taken.
I don't know the history behind the creation of the Foundation as a separate entity from the project, but it is most likely that that will be the sticking point unless the members of the Foundation are perceptive enough to see that their disbanding would be best for the entire project.
I love you.
Or, at least, I love your brain. You think like a true evil genius.
What's next on your list; just for kicks put everybody else to the same channel? (All 35 routers in the building but yours on channel 2. While you chug along happily on channel 11:D)
You know, that could well be it; of course, I'm not really planning any time soon to try running without it. I suppose I ought to find something smaller and less... intrusive, than Avast!. Any ideas?
Interestingly I've found this to be a windows problem. On my 2400+ windows desktop OOo takes longer to open a window from a cold start than does OOo on my FreeBSD 900Mhz laptop. Both are equipped with identical amounts of ram (512). OOo is in fact a much more sane thing to use on a nix system for some reason, though, I'm at a loss to really explain it.
You don't even have to go that far back to find an amount of awe as far as finding the old experts, reading people who obviously know the subject.I came to slashdot.... four years ago? Maybe five. Regardless, it was the concentration of intelligence that got me to stay. Now, sure, having been around for a while now, I know that nothing on slashdot is perfect. Slashdot has its fair share of trolls, perhaps more than its fair share simply becuse of it's popularity. But, so does every other site.
Let's just hope we don't see slashdot slowly slide into oblivion, because that would be the most sad thing.
Jeeze. One wonders how many wars have been started through stuff like this.
Of course, letter form is probably no better, so I suppose one ought to expand the query to include all correspondence since the dawn of the written word. Sumer wasn't it?:D And a good day to you too.
I follow better now, and in large a sense, agree. (My disagreement is semantic, and not worth mentioning.)
We'll shake hands and go our different direction. We both managed communicate something that wasn't intended, quite possibly due to my lack of verbosity and writing skill, and also the lack of visual communication cues.
I detect a hint of derision there, in reference to the girls. As a guy who deals with the emotions of girls every day, I don't think it's something to even joke about. It's a sad thing when you see a girl's self confidence down: I can't imagine how bad it would be if a girl were to be so bad off that cutting was her escape. I see the same sort of sadness in this fight club thing, in reference to that quote.
I wonder sometimes why so many people we see now lack basic confidence in themselves. I wonder, is it different in develiping countries.
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But the admission must be made that for the most part X11.app more than a bit of a ghetto. Applications running in X11 on OS X must forge their own way for everything, including clipboard data. And that is perhaps my least favorite thing about OS X is the big disconnect between the X11 clipboard and the OS X pasteboard. I wonder sometimes if there is an underlying technical problem that stops the OS X software engineers from syncing up those two data sources.
Quoted for truth, or Quit Fucking Trolling. Interestingly, both definitions are possibly applicable here.
PPC Macs are dead. PPC processors are far from it.
Three Cheers for Landon Fuller! As a technical question, does anyone know how efficient using Application enhancer is? I tried Shapeshifter, and found performance lacking. Was that specific to ShapeShifter, or is it a general problem with application enhancer extentions?
Of course, with all your comparisons between OS X's dock and KDE's kicker, you forget (or at least gloss over) the fundamental differences in design philosophy. Especially when you put in those two screenshots of the dock's configuration options versus the configuration options for KDE's panel. The difference is that OS X gives you a solution, take it or leave it, with the minimum amount of customization such it won't get in the way of you doing what you will. With KDEpanel, you have a plethora of options, and as result can craft any solution your little heart desires.
Oh wait; Apple barely uses the damn TPM chip.
Curiosity mainly. Perhaps a little wondering about efficiency. I suppose if you're building an FS like that one hopes your hashing is fast. (But, thinking about it, hashing is probably a crap load faster than the disk write.)
How big is one of these blocks?
Time machine + ZFS seems to be quite the perfect combination. A file system that supports not only snapshots internally, but also allows the addition of entire new disks (zpools) with next to no effort, added together with a backup solution that's exactly what most people need.... seems good to me :D
Oh I agree with you 110%. Having said that, the faculty is not however in agreement, and as such many (90%) of the things my Professors post are in Word format. Admittedly, it's possible to open those files on campus, and save them as PDFs on the campus computers, then keep them on my diskspace. However, it's a question of the value of my time. Accrued over the long period I plan to be at the university, I think Office is a reasonable investment, for mere interoperability. Speaking of LaTeX, it's definitely something I have to look more into, as well, I need to figure out how to write one's own style templates. (Strangely enough, it comes with nothing for a standard MLA style essay.)
Even NeoOffice, the aqua "face" of OpenOffice is pretty damn bad. I'm using it as a stopgap measure until I can get Office 2007; It'll be the first time I'll ever have bought office. However, I am a university student now, and I wouldn't have realized how much Office is used on campus without having seen it. Goddamn, it bothers me that I'll have to blow 250$ on a piece of software just so the damn equations will show up right, so I can see a unit vector, without having to imagine it in the stead of a blank box in NeoOffice. Having said that though, I'll pay for something that will work. Do the job, do the job well. Of course, the sad thing being that I most likely won't be switching over to Word for most of my document work. I'll keep writing in WriteRoom and LyX.
I call bullshit on you; specifically for calling EFI proprietary. As anyone who can access Wikipedia could tell you, while EFI was started by Intel, it's now developed by a completely separate forum. The specs are available at uefi.org.
Really, I guess the only hopes is that perhaps the Foundation Members will remove themselves.
Hopefully this admission of his mistake will lead to something being done about it. He laid out quite clearly a plan of action to reverse the stagnation of NetBSD, and hopefully his steps are taken.
I don't know the history behind the creation of the Foundation as a separate entity from the project, but it is most likely that that will be the sticking point unless the members of the Foundation are perceptive enough to see that their disbanding would be best for the entire project.
Interesting.... Makes me really really wonder why I haven't upgraded my Linksys Wireless B router.
I love you. Or, at least, I love your brain. You think like a true evil genius. What's next on your list; just for kicks put everybody else to the same channel? (All 35 routers in the building but yours on channel 2. While you chug along happily on channel 11 :D)
May I ask for an elaboration on #4? Because I've thought and thought, and all I keep getting is a great big WTF.
You know, that could well be it; of course, I'm not really planning any time soon to try running without it. I suppose I ought to find something smaller and less... intrusive, than Avast!. Any ideas?
Say what?
Interestingly I've found this to be a windows problem. On my 2400+ windows desktop OOo takes longer to open a window from a cold start than does OOo on my FreeBSD 900Mhz laptop. Both are equipped with identical amounts of ram (512). OOo is in fact a much more sane thing to use on a nix system for some reason, though, I'm at a loss to really explain it.
Let's just hope we don't see slashdot slowly slide into oblivion, because that would be the most sad thing.
That was MPH vs. MPG. But, yeah.
Jeeze. One wonders how many wars have been started through stuff like this. Of course, letter form is probably no better, so I suppose one ought to expand the query to include all correspondence since the dawn of the written word. Sumer wasn't it? :D And a good day to you too.
I follow better now, and in large a sense, agree. (My disagreement is semantic, and not worth mentioning.) We'll shake hands and go our different direction. We both managed communicate something that wasn't intended, quite possibly due to my lack of verbosity and writing skill, and also the lack of visual communication cues.
I detect a hint of derision there, in reference to the girls. As a guy who deals with the emotions of girls every day, I don't think it's something to even joke about. It's a sad thing when you see a girl's self confidence down: I can't imagine how bad it would be if a girl were to be so bad off that cutting was her escape. I see the same sort of sadness in this fight club thing, in reference to that quote. I wonder sometimes why so many people we see now lack basic confidence in themselves. I wonder, is it different in develiping countries.