Butler: [key combo of your choice] + [first few letters of the app you're after] = app launches.
I find it hard to believe that anybody would be running OS X and -not- have Butler installed. It's even free (although anyone who doesn't donate $18 deserves a week locked in a church with nothing but mormons for company).
The cluster is shared by many users, so users should be respectful of each other and not monopolize resources...
I wonder how a user would manage to monopolise (sic. - I'm English) this little baby? Suggestions on the back of a postcard to Please Just Send Me One Of These Puppies, You Really Won't Miss It, PO Box 67,...
A quote from that article: To paraphrase the gist of all the posters in all the various forums, it goes something like this "Apple is actively pursuing torrent sites that distribute beta Tiger releases. If they spot a torrent they will shut down the torrent site. They will also file suit against any site distributing Tiger." Somehow we are to believe that Apple will turn a blind eye toward all the other illegally distributed software in order to protect Tiger. What nonsense!
errr... what, you want Apple to trawl Torrent sites and notify EMI when they find a dodgy copy of the new Travis album on there? Or perhaps to call up the nice folks at Paramount to let them know the URL of the tracker for episode 4 of the final season of Frasier?...
Thanks - I haven't checked it yet (nor the rest of the list) as it's late here, but I will tomorrow: you're right, one source of news can't be healthy. I suppose it's just that the beeb is so easy and that I trust it/her...
I should indeed broaden my horizons. I'll do that tomorrow when I'm slight more awake.
A valid point - but if you go to http://news.bbc.co.uk, World News takes centre-stage. It might be the BBC but it certainly isn't "British" news.
Of course, there are plenty who accuse the BBC of bias (one way or the other). Personally, I find their reporting to be the very essence of "objectivism", as all good journalism should be.
:-) Hehe... as a Brit, I can barely describe the sense of pride Aunty brings. I love her.
RealPlayer, however: what else would you suggest? QuickTime would be gorgeous, but isn't going to happen. Anything that *isn't* Windows Media Player - which runs like my grandmother on this Mac of mine - is fine by me. We watch Question Time and Newsnight regularly here from Melbourne, and all for free. What we'd do without our fix of BBC I do not know.
I don't even know why I'm in Australia. My flatmate's mother sends us copies of the Guardian every week, too. Australian media is *poor*, so much so that we put our TV in the cupboard last month. It hasn't been missed.
(I know, I didn't really answer your point there. AFP... whatever. My original point was more against the "Google is everything because it's American" view of the poster.)
Oh god... please... stop this.
AFP is a massive, globally recognised news organisation. Just because they're not on Google News doesn't mean they will sink into a void.
The French - to their enormous credit - are fiercely nationalistic. You're not French (forgive the assumption, but I'm fairly sure it's valid) and therefore have no idea as to the scope of AFP's influence within France.
It's like saying "if the BBC refuse to allow Google to index their content, BBC News will disappear within a month!!". Utter, complete nonsense. As a Brit, news.bbc.co.uk is the only news source I check. Google News can go jump.
The whole world does not think like you, America. Sorry if that upsets you.
Er... "dinosaur"? "Certain destruction"? "Old methods of business"?
Listen, e-vangelising is all well and good - sometimes. Other times, we actually *need* these old-methods companies. Say AFP folds; who, then, gathers the news which Google collates? Google sure as hell doesn't. They index, and that's all.
AFP, BBC, ABC, Reuters; whatever, whoever: the fact is, these organisations are essential if we are to continue to receive cutting-edge, informative news from around the world.
AFP doesn't want to "defend a natural monopoly". It wants to ensure that it obtains sufficient revenue to allow it to continue to pay its journalists, without whom Google News would be largely pointless.
My dad bought one of those beeping-keychain devices, and was trying to explain how it worked to his dad - without first putting in the batteries and demonstrating.
Dad: You whistle, and it tells you where your keys are. Grandad: Aye, aye... that's good, like. But... er... how? D: You just whistle, and it tells you where they are. GD: Right. Aye. [Utterly confused.] But, how does it know? D: [Rapidly losing patience, as is his wont.] Christ man, Dad, you just whistle and... (you get the idea).
This went on for about five minutes, my dad getting more and more frustrated and his dad growing none the wiser. Eventually it turns out that my grandad thought the little device worked like this:
Dad: [Whistles to find his keys.] Little device: They're in the pocket of your leather jacket!, or Little device: You left them in the bathroom!
Just goes to show: take nothing for granted when talking to someone who has never, ever used a technology more advanced than a touch-tone telephone.
Slashdot Mirror
...is the day I go to live on a mountainside and herd goats.
Please, please, please (repeat ad. nauseum): no "Intel inside" soundbite at the end of Apple ads...
Has nobody heard of Butler, for heavens' sake?!
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Butler: [key combo of your choice] + [first few letters of the app you're after] = app launches.
I find it hard to believe that anybody would be running OS X and -not- have Butler installed. It's even free (although anyone who doesn't donate $18 deserves a week locked in a church with nothing but mormons for company).
http://www.petermaurer.de/nasi.php?thema=butler&s
What's *wrong* with you people?...
A quote from UIUC's site:
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The cluster is shared by many users, so users should be respectful of each other and not monopolize resources...
I wonder how a user would manage to monopolise (sic. - I'm English) this little baby? Suggestions on the back of a postcard to Please Just Send Me One Of These Puppies, You Really Won't Miss It, PO Box 67,
A quote from that article:
To paraphrase the gist of all the posters in all the various forums, it goes something like this "Apple is actively pursuing torrent sites that distribute beta Tiger releases. If they spot a torrent they will shut down the torrent site. They will also file suit against any site distributing Tiger." Somehow we are to believe that Apple will turn a blind eye toward all the other illegally distributed software in order to protect Tiger. What nonsense!
errr... what, you want Apple to trawl Torrent sites and notify EMI when they find a dodgy copy of the new Travis album on there? Or perhaps to call up the nice folks at Paramount to let them know the URL of the tracker for episode 4 of the final season of Frasier?...
Some people are too stupid.
Thanks - I haven't checked it yet (nor the rest of the list) as it's late here, but I will tomorrow: you're right, one source of news can't be healthy. I suppose it's just that the beeb is so easy and that I trust it/her...
:-)
I should indeed broaden my horizons. I'll do that tomorrow when I'm slight more awake.
I *love* slashdot.
j.
A valid point - but if you go to http://news.bbc.co.uk, World News takes centre-stage. It might be the BBC but it certainly isn't "British" news.
Of course, there are plenty who accuse the BBC of bias (one way or the other). Personally, I find their reporting to be the very essence of "objectivism", as all good journalism should be.
:-) Hehe... as a Brit, I can barely describe the sense of pride Aunty brings. I love her. RealPlayer, however: what else would you suggest? QuickTime would be gorgeous, but isn't going to happen. Anything that *isn't* Windows Media Player - which runs like my grandmother on this Mac of mine - is fine by me. We watch Question Time and Newsnight regularly here from Melbourne, and all for free. What we'd do without our fix of BBC I do not know. I don't even know why I'm in Australia. My flatmate's mother sends us copies of the Guardian every week, too. Australian media is *poor*, so much so that we put our TV in the cupboard last month. It hasn't been missed. (I know, I didn't really answer your point there. AFP... whatever. My original point was more against the "Google is everything because it's American" view of the poster.)
Oh god... please... stop this. AFP is a massive, globally recognised news organisation. Just because they're not on Google News doesn't mean they will sink into a void. The French - to their enormous credit - are fiercely nationalistic. You're not French (forgive the assumption, but I'm fairly sure it's valid) and therefore have no idea as to the scope of AFP's influence within France. It's like saying "if the BBC refuse to allow Google to index their content, BBC News will disappear within a month!!". Utter, complete nonsense. As a Brit, news.bbc.co.uk is the only news source I check. Google News can go jump. The whole world does not think like you, America. Sorry if that upsets you.
Er... "dinosaur"? "Certain destruction"? "Old methods of business"?
Listen, e-vangelising is all well and good - sometimes. Other times, we actually *need* these old-methods companies. Say AFP folds; who, then, gathers the news which Google collates? Google sure as hell doesn't. They index, and that's all.
AFP, BBC, ABC, Reuters; whatever, whoever: the fact is, these organisations are essential if we are to continue to receive cutting-edge, informative news from around the world.
AFP doesn't want to "defend a natural monopoly". It wants to ensure that it obtains sufficient revenue to allow it to continue to pay its journalists, without whom Google News would be largely pointless.
My dad bought one of those beeping-keychain devices, and was trying to explain how it worked to his dad - without first putting in the batteries and demonstrating.
... (you get the idea).
Dad: You whistle, and it tells you where your keys are.
Grandad: Aye, aye... that's good, like. But... er... how?
D: You just whistle, and it tells you where they are.
GD: Right. Aye. [Utterly confused.] But, how does it know?
D: [Rapidly losing patience, as is his wont.] Christ man, Dad, you just whistle and
This went on for about five minutes, my dad getting more and more frustrated and his dad growing none the wiser. Eventually it turns out that my grandad thought the little device worked like this:
Dad: [Whistles to find his keys.]
Little device: They're in the pocket of your leather jacket!, or
Little device: You left them in the bathroom!
Just goes to show: take nothing for granted when talking to someone who has never, ever used a technology more advanced than a touch-tone telephone.
j.