how about an applescript to do it for you? Save as app and still the icon from the dock launch app. Stick it in your dock and you're set...
display dialog "Dashboard on or off?" buttons {"On", "Off"} default button "On" copy the button returned of the result to theSel if theSel is equal to "Off" then
do shell script "defaults write com.apple.dashboard mcx-disabled -boolean YES" end if if theSel is equal to "On" then
do shell script "defaults write com.apple.dashboard mcx-disabled -boolean NO" end if do shell script "killall Dock"
my sister just got an ibook, when I first started it up to help her set it up it had the stock half gig and it was swapping like crazy. I added a second half gig (corsair) sim I grabbed from new egg and, eureka! performance went through the roof.
My powerbook has had one gig from the beginning, and I havent had any probs. Tiger's pretty memory hungry, perhaps you should grad another half gig. The sim I got from new egg was around 50 bucks, so good deal. Check it out.
it's funny, I've actually noticed longer battery life under tiger. I attribute it to turning off dashbaord though, as it seems to have started around then. I wrote myself a small applescript to turn it off/on after I noticed my battery life seemed to go down on tiger from panther. Afterwards it shot back up, perhaps it's not spotlight, but dashboard....
Xbox NT - stable, briefly ported to ps3 and gamecube but no games made for ports or for itself for that matter
Xbox NT4.0 - more stable, though not nearly as stable as Xbox haxxor linux, most games still won't run
Xbox 2000 - Only useful/useable version of Xbox. Games run, Xbox stable, unfortunately doomed to be retired in favor of flashy chrome looking, resource eating Xbox XP.
wow, I'm impressed by your... well, I'm not really impressed at all actually. Are you really that idiotic as to use the risk of STDs inherrent in any sexual act to prove that same sex sex is wrong and detrimental. The only reason the risk of STDs are higher in the homosexual population is that the lack of risk of pregnancy makes some worry less about protection. However, this is also true in the hetero population when oral sex and anal sex are concerned.
Speaking of that, the main problem there (in both hetero and homosexual communities) is the lack of education as the chirstian right continues its campaign to "abstinence only" sex ed. If everyone understood the risk of STDs much better, safe sex (both hetero and homo) would be more common and STDs less so.
As for damage to the colon and also risk of cancer, I have 3 comments:
1)If the couple knows what they are doing, the risk of mechanical damage is very small indeed.
2)This risk is present in hetero couples that engage in anal sex too (and a lot of couples do). By your logic, lesbian who do not use butt toys would be the safest eh? Also, there is plenty of info on what not to do to prevent damage available in books, on the web, etc.
3) In terms of cancer probability, how many things cause cancer these days? Your cell? Your cigarette? How about your computer? The background radiation from granite in some cities (like NYC)? Perhaps vehicle emissions? You're argument about cancer probability is rather insignificant all told and if people are allowed to smoke cigs, which cause lots of cancer and effect others through second hand smoke, why can't 2 gay men for example (or a hetero couple having anal sex) engage in a pleasurebal activity that doesnt risk anyone else?
tis time methinks to wip out this quote from west wing:
President Josiah Bartlet: Good. I like your show. I like how you call homosexuality an abomination.
Dr. Jenna Jacobs: I don't say homosexuality is an abomination, Mr. President. The Bible does.
President Josiah Bartlet: Yes it does. Leviticus.
Dr. Jenna Jacobs: 18:22.
President Josiah Bartlet: Chapter and verse. I wanted to ask you a couple of questions while I have you here. I'm interested in selling my youngest daughter into slavery as sanctioned in Exodus 21:7. She's a Georgetown sophomore, speaks fluent Italian, always cleared the table when it was her turn. What would a good price for her be? While thinking about that, can I ask another? My Chief of Staff Leo McGarry insists on working on the Sabbath. Exodus 35:2 clearly says he should be put to death. Am I morally obligated to kill him myself or is it okay to call the police? Here's one that's really important because we've got a lot of sports fans in this town: touching the skin of a dead pig makes one unclean. Leviticus 11:7. If they promise to wear gloves, can the Washington Redskins still play football? Can Notre Dame? Can West Point? Does the whole town really have to be together to stone my brother John for planting different crops side by side? Can I burn my mother in a small family gathering for wearing garments made from two different threads? Think about those questions, would you? One last thing: while you may be mistaking this for your monthly meeting of the Ignorant Tight-Ass Club, in this building, when the President stands, nobody sits.
actually, after my upgrade to xorg in debian from xfree86 I neglected to reinstall the nvidia driver before restarting X. X started, became unresponsive, and took keyboard access with it. In order to fix the problem I had to ssh in from another machine, disable gdm on boot (so X wouldnt automatically start), restart, and reinstall the nvidia drivers. While this certainly isnt typical and was doubtless my fault, it is in fact an example of where your solution doesnt hold up.
Also, I have to say, in the past couple years I've had X crashes for no discernable reason that had the same effect on my sys.
While I've certainly had far more bsods on windows than X crashes on linux, it is true IMNSHO that serious X crashes are just as bad for the end user - the one without the other machine and the knowhow to ssh-in and fix the problem. Chances are my problem with the nvidia driver recently, if had by a newbie to linux would have prompted a reinstall as X would have simply kept coming up on startup and crashing (for all usable purposes for the normal end user) the machine. It's a good example of why even some of the more complete distros while perfectly suited for you and me, and not yet ready to be used on normal, end, PEBKAC users box.
from what I've seen, you need sse2 support. That leaves all us athlon xp users out in the cold unfortunately (and damn it, I wanted to try it out on my main machine, a athlon xp 2800+). You need a p4, recent celeron, or amd 64 to run osx-x86.
I just finished (2 weeks ago) installing debian on an oldworld g3 to use as my webserver. Fun isnt exactly the word that comes to mind. The exultation when it actually works is nice though:-P.
OTOH free 300mhz g3 with 20gig disk and 128MB of ram, old copy of os9 + bootx + free and powerful os (deb) = me being very happy so I guess I shouldnt complain.
perhaps he was talking about their chipsets, where the drivers are incomplete and a PITA to get installed. However, as all of the nvidia chipsets I've seen are very well supported by open source drivers (and in most cases drivers built into the linux kernel) I'm not sure why you'd want to use the official ones.
I've had that with most mobos recently, that the sounds doesnt sound all that great. The one in my main machine currently however doesnt seem to have that issue, (It's a gigabyte 7n400 pro2 in case you're wondering) the onboard sound sounds fine. Interestingly, in windows, it has the high-pitched wine you talk about, but under debian (which is 99% of the time), no problems at all.
my website runs on an oldworld beige g3 (300mhz, 128MB ram). I replaced the HD with a 20gigger and it uses a small os9 partition to use bootx to boot into debian. Runs quite nicely...
The disk space is expandanble in these things and the ram I'm sure will grow in the future, but even now, it's easily an adequate web server, dns server, even domain controller....
I use Devil Linux, Works quite nicely. I hand edit the rules, but it comes with shorewall and is compatible with firewall builder. Comes with a nice config utility too.
Realize for second that freedom of the press is abridged by the recent crackdowns on identities of sources. What rights are you losing by registering to use their (free with reg) website. I might add that front page articles, big headlines, and major political news stories are all free on the site without reg. Let me repeat this, Your rights are not abridged by reg, but freedom of the press is significantly threatened with the recent moves towards government forced disclosure of sources.
If you are subscriber to the physical paper (like I am) they have far more info than your name and email (which can easily be faked if you're really that worried about it).
As for their science problems, you're looking at it from a geeks perspective. The average reader (even one of the new york times) needs technology and science dumbed down for them. Personally, with country the way it is, anything that generates interest in real science is fine by me.
Oh, and there has never been any evidence of the NY times selling email addresses and as for user datamining, is google any better in that respect (/.s baby as it is...)
Lastly, if you want anonymity in reading the paper, go buy the physical copy in cash (with gloves on to leave no fingerprints) and read it in a dark, windowless room in your house. No-one's stopping you, but don't spew about anonymity on the web, it doesnt exist.
he/she/it's prolly using iScroll2. I use it also, however it may not work with your powerbook, as you need specific touchpad modules to allow the driver to work. They show you how to check on the site.
aha, but what about asyncronous IM. Gaim for example has it's buddy pounce feature (so you can have various things trigger other things) that's most useful for leaving IM messages for someone who's not around. I know a couple companies have been trying to get into the business of delayed delivery IMs too....
you can quickly and easily make a MS USB to normal USB adapter with a USB extension cord, a solder gun, solder, and an xbox breakwaway cable in about in 5 mins... Instructions are on the linux xbox website
If you need software not thus provided (which, I must say, is difficult to believe in the case of Debian
Perhaps the only packages really not available in deb's repositories that irritate me no end are the AAC libs.Compiling them on debian is a bitch and getting them from marillats repository is sometimes problematic (for example like right now, where I can't compile mpd to see aac files becuase the version isnt recognized, even if I force the lib location), and I have to recompile some natively packaged apps to get use out of them (gtkpod, mpd [see above], etc.).
did you miss the part about the "vocal fringe lunatics" being 49% of this country? Bush was elected on a very narrow margin Dr. Troll and there are a lot of us who don't believe in his policies.
"The root cause of Islamic hatred toward America and the west is our success and our rejection if Islam"
Bullshit, it's fringe religious nuts who hate the west. Most Moslems don't, don't support terrorism, and are good, normal people. Interestingly, the beliefs of the fringe groups that fund the terrorism have a great deal in common with the right wing christian ultra-conservatives in this country (including both hating freedom and those who disagree with them).
Bush has convictions - he knows he's doing the right thing
That's the worst part, the inability of the right wing nuts who control this country to deffirentiate between "the right thing" and "our beliefs". Bush beleives that he is Right and refuses to ever admit that he is wrong. This is not a strength but a terrible weakness. There is no shame in being wrong once in a while, there is shame in convering the fact up to avoid embarassment.
Oh yeah, IT HASN'T. Unless your name is Habib and you wear a turbin to work then nobody gives a fvck what you do.
So Moslems don't deserve the rights that the rest of us enjoy eh? I'd like to here the rationale behind that piece of shit comment...
oh, btw, what's up with the "not a script" image? it was actually a word this time, "analyze". How's that going to stop a bot with a dictionary attack? see image here
you could also download the "essential" codec pack from mplayers site (here) and install it manually either in/usr/local/lib/codecs or/usr/local/lib/win32 (simlink one to the other) and you should be good to go...
I did it this way before I knew about marillat's repository (which btw is a great source for the various faad and faac debs, since compiling them on debian is one hell of a PITA)
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how about an applescript to do it for you? Save as app and still the icon from the dock launch app. Stick it in your dock and you're set...
display dialog "Dashboard on or off?" buttons {"On", "Off"} default button "On"
copy the button returned of the result to theSel
if theSel is equal to "Off" then
do shell script "defaults write com.apple.dashboard mcx-disabled -boolean YES"
end if
if theSel is equal to "On" then
do shell script "defaults write com.apple.dashboard mcx-disabled -boolean NO"
end if
do shell script "killall Dock"
my sister just got an ibook, when I first started it up to help her set it up it had the stock half gig and it was swapping like crazy. I added a second half gig (corsair) sim I grabbed from new egg and, eureka! performance went through the roof.
My powerbook has had one gig from the beginning, and I havent had any probs. Tiger's pretty memory hungry, perhaps you should grad another half gig. The sim I got from new egg was around 50 bucks, so good deal. Check it out.
it's funny, I've actually noticed longer battery life under tiger. I attribute it to turning off dashbaord though, as it seems to have started around then. I wrote myself a small applescript to turn it off/on after I noticed my battery life seemed to go down on tiger from panther. Afterwards it shot back up, perhaps it's not spotlight, but dashboard....
but what about google's au gateway?
don't forget:
Xbox NT - stable, briefly ported to ps3 and gamecube but no games made for ports or for itself for that matter
Xbox NT4.0 - more stable, though not nearly as stable as Xbox haxxor linux, most games still won't run
Xbox 2000 - Only useful/useable version of Xbox. Games run, Xbox stable, unfortunately doomed to be retired in favor of flashy chrome looking, resource eating Xbox XP.
fly karma fly. Go free!
wow, I'm impressed by your... well, I'm not really impressed at all actually. Are you really that idiotic as to use the risk of STDs inherrent in any sexual act to prove that same sex sex is wrong and detrimental. The only reason the risk of STDs are higher in the homosexual population is that the lack of risk of pregnancy makes some worry less about protection. However, this is also true in the hetero population when oral sex and anal sex are concerned.
Speaking of that, the main problem there (in both hetero and homosexual communities) is the lack of education as the chirstian right continues its campaign to "abstinence only" sex ed. If everyone understood the risk of STDs much better, safe sex (both hetero and homo) would be more common and STDs less so.
As for damage to the colon and also risk of cancer, I have 3 comments:
1)If the couple knows what they are doing, the risk of mechanical damage is very small indeed.
2)This risk is present in hetero couples that engage in anal sex too (and a lot of couples do). By your logic, lesbian who do not use butt toys would be the safest eh? Also, there is plenty of info on what not to do to prevent damage available in books, on the web, etc.
3) In terms of cancer probability, how many things cause cancer these days? Your cell? Your cigarette? How about your computer? The background radiation from granite in some cities (like NYC)? Perhaps vehicle emissions? You're argument about cancer probability is rather insignificant all told and if people are allowed to smoke cigs, which cause lots of cancer and effect others through second hand smoke, why can't 2 gay men for example (or a hetero couple having anal sex) engage in a pleasurebal activity that doesnt risk anyone else?
::sigh::
tis time methinks to wip out this quote from west wing:
President Josiah Bartlet: Good. I like your show. I like how you call homosexuality an abomination.
Dr. Jenna Jacobs: I don't say homosexuality is an abomination, Mr. President. The Bible does.
President Josiah Bartlet: Yes it does. Leviticus.
Dr. Jenna Jacobs: 18:22.
President Josiah Bartlet: Chapter and verse. I wanted to ask you a couple of questions while I have you here. I'm interested in selling my youngest daughter into slavery as sanctioned in Exodus 21:7. She's a Georgetown sophomore, speaks fluent Italian, always cleared the table when it was her turn. What would a good price for her be? While thinking about that, can I ask another? My Chief of Staff Leo McGarry insists on working on the Sabbath. Exodus 35:2 clearly says he should be put to death. Am I morally obligated to kill him myself or is it okay to call the police? Here's one that's really important because we've got a lot of sports fans in this town: touching the skin of a dead pig makes one unclean. Leviticus 11:7. If they promise to wear gloves, can the Washington Redskins still play football? Can Notre Dame? Can West Point? Does the whole town really have to be together to stone my brother John for planting different crops side by side? Can I burn my mother in a small family gathering for wearing garments made from two different threads? Think about those questions, would you? One last thing: while you may be mistaking this for your monthly meeting of the Ignorant Tight-Ass Club, in this building, when the President stands, nobody sits.
actually, after my upgrade to xorg in debian from xfree86 I neglected to reinstall the nvidia driver before restarting X. X started, became unresponsive, and took keyboard access with it. In order to fix the problem I had to ssh in from another machine, disable gdm on boot (so X wouldnt automatically start), restart, and reinstall the nvidia drivers. While this certainly isnt typical and was doubtless my fault, it is in fact an example of where your solution doesnt hold up.
Also, I have to say, in the past couple years I've had X crashes for no discernable reason that had the same effect on my sys.
While I've certainly had far more bsods on windows than X crashes on linux, it is true IMNSHO that serious X crashes are just as bad for the end user - the one without the other machine and the knowhow to ssh-in and fix the problem. Chances are my problem with the nvidia driver recently, if had by a newbie to linux would have prompted a reinstall as X would have simply kept coming up on startup and crashing (for all usable purposes for the normal end user) the machine. It's a good example of why even some of the more complete distros while perfectly suited for you and me, and not yet ready to be used on normal, end, PEBKAC users box.
from what I've seen, you need sse2 support. That leaves all us athlon xp users out in the cold unfortunately (and damn it, I wanted to try it out on my main machine, a athlon xp 2800+). You need a p4, recent celeron, or amd 64 to run osx-x86.
I just finished (2 weeks ago) installing debian on an oldworld g3 to use as my webserver. Fun isnt exactly the word that comes to mind. The exultation when it actually works is nice though :-P.
OTOH free 300mhz g3 with 20gig disk and 128MB of ram, old copy of os9 + bootx + free and powerful os (deb) = me being very happy so I guess I shouldnt complain.
perhaps he was talking about their chipsets, where the drivers are incomplete and a PITA to get installed. However, as all of the nvidia chipsets I've seen are very well supported by open source drivers (and in most cases drivers built into the linux kernel) I'm not sure why you'd want to use the official ones.
I've had that with most mobos recently, that the sounds doesnt sound all that great. The one in my main machine currently however doesnt seem to have that issue, (It's a gigabyte 7n400 pro2 in case you're wondering) the onboard sound sounds fine. Interestingly, in windows, it has the high-pitched wine you talk about, but under debian (which is 99% of the time), no problems at all.
my website runs on an oldworld beige g3 (300mhz, 128MB ram). I replaced the HD with a 20gigger and it uses a small os9 partition to use bootx to boot into debian. Runs quite nicely...
The disk space is expandanble in these things and the ram I'm sure will grow in the future, but even now, it's easily an adequate web server, dns server, even domain controller....
I use Devil Linux, Works quite nicely. I hand edit the rules, but it comes with shorewall and is compatible with firewall builder. Comes with a nice config utility too.
that's so that the switch doesnt get flipped in your pocket. My discman used to have that problem...
oh, stop trolling.
Realize for second that freedom of the press is abridged by the recent crackdowns on identities of sources. What rights are you losing by registering to use their (free with reg) website. I might add that front page articles, big headlines, and major political news stories are all free on the site without reg. Let me repeat this, Your rights are not abridged by reg, but freedom of the press is significantly threatened with the recent moves towards government forced disclosure of sources.
If you are subscriber to the physical paper (like I am) they have far more info than your name and email (which can easily be faked if you're really that worried about it).
As for their science problems, you're looking at it from a geeks perspective. The average reader (even one of the new york times) needs technology and science dumbed down for them. Personally, with country the way it is, anything that generates interest in real science is fine by me.
Oh, and there has never been any evidence of the NY times selling email addresses and as for user datamining, is google any better in that respect (/.s baby as it is...)
Lastly, if you want anonymity in reading the paper, go buy the physical copy in cash (with gloves on to leave no fingerprints) and read it in a dark, windowless room in your house. No-one's stopping you, but don't spew about anonymity on the web, it doesnt exist.
he/she/it's prolly using iScroll2. I use it also, however it may not work with your powerbook, as you need specific touchpad modules to allow the driver to work. They show you how to check on the site.
aha, but what about asyncronous IM. Gaim for example has it's buddy pounce feature (so you can have various things trigger other things) that's most useful for leaving IM messages for someone who's not around. I know a couple companies have been trying to get into the business of delayed delivery IMs too....
you can quickly and easily make a MS USB to normal USB adapter with a USB extension cord, a solder gun, solder, and an xbox breakwaway cable in about in 5 mins... Instructions are on the linux xbox website
If you need software not thus provided (which, I must say, is difficult to believe in the case of Debian
Perhaps the only packages really not available in deb's repositories that irritate me no end are the AAC libs.Compiling them on debian is a bitch and getting them from marillats repository is sometimes problematic (for example like right now, where I can't compile mpd to see aac files becuase the version isnt recognized, even if I force the lib location), and I have to recompile some natively packaged apps to get use out of them (gtkpod, mpd [see above], etc.).
did you miss the part about the "vocal fringe lunatics" being 49% of this country? Bush was elected on a very narrow margin Dr. Troll and there are a lot of us who don't believe in his policies.
"The root cause of Islamic hatred toward America and the west is our success and our rejection if Islam"
Bullshit, it's fringe religious nuts who hate the west. Most Moslems don't, don't support terrorism, and are good, normal people. Interestingly, the beliefs of the fringe groups that fund the terrorism have a great deal in common with the right wing christian ultra-conservatives in this country (including both hating freedom and those who disagree with them).
Bush has convictions - he knows he's doing the right thing
That's the worst part, the inability of the right wing nuts who control this country to deffirentiate between "the right thing" and "our beliefs". Bush beleives that he is Right and refuses to ever admit that he is wrong. This is not a strength but a terrible weakness. There is no shame in being wrong once in a while, there is shame in convering the fact up to avoid embarassment.
Oh yeah, IT HASN'T. Unless your name is Habib and you wear a turbin to work then nobody gives a fvck what you do.
So Moslems don't deserve the rights that the rest of us enjoy eh? I'd like to here the rationale behind that piece of shit comment...
oh, btw, what's up with the "not a script" image? it was actually a word this time, "analyze". How's that going to stop a bot with a dictionary attack?
see image here
gnome has it too, just for the record...
nah, it's just the anticipation of all the pron we're planning to save using the DVR...
you could also download the "essential" codec pack from mplayers site (here) and install it manually either in /usr/local/lib/codecs or /usr/local/lib/win32 (simlink one to the other) and you should be good to go...
I did it this way before I knew about marillat's repository (which btw is a great source for the various faad and faac debs, since compiling them on debian is one hell of a PITA)