Now I'm as UNIX-loving and MS-loathing as the next Slashdotter, but in the early days of IM clients when, as you point out, ICQ was king of the hill, I went with Microsoft's solution when stuck using Windows at work because it was the better solution. Microsoft Messenger was lean, clean and fast at a time when ICQ, Yahoo et al were getting uglier and bloatier and more and more difficult to figure out. I don't think it's success is all down to purely being bundled with Windows. It was gaining mindshare before it was bundled in XP.
Having said that, I had cause to look at the current iteration of MSN Messenger Super Live Plus or whatever the hell they call it these days and I see that all that simplicity and cleanliness of interface went the fuck out the window. I quickly retreated to the safety of Adium and vowed never to look at it again.
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No, but you do have to face Cupertino and hum the Mac startup noise as you're doing it.
Anyway, as I said to the previous poster who made the same comment, the point is they don't want you to do it. They're telling you to reboot for a reason. This is merely a workaround, not SOP, and as such should not be expected to be user friendly.
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If they wanted you to actually do it they'd make it user friendly.
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There is a workaround on OS X.
When it brings up the dialog to have you reboot, you can hold Option and right click on the software update icon in the dock and choose Force Quit to postpone the reboot to a later time.
I have an aero tool for my Henry and it works wonders with the dog hair in my carpet. It's cheaper than the turbo brush as the brush is powered by suction alone. Simple, but effective.
Fair enough. Incidentally, it is possible to move between windows within an app by using Expose's application mode (F10 by default) and then the arrow keys to select a window - not as fast as alt-tabbing I'll grant you.
As for Windows-R there's no stock alternative, but a cheap and very effective solution is LaunchBar (or similar) that will give you that functionality and a helluva lot more. As a power keyboard freak you'd love it.
Ok, I'll bite. Why does your preference for keyboard shortcuts discount Mac OS X? Looking at any given app on my Mac here I see all major functions with a keyboard equivalent. For any that don't there's a shortcut key configurator in the standard keyboard preference pane that allows you to assign any key combination to any menu item on an app by app basis.
LucasArts' Rescue on Fractalus - every time the rescued pilot turned out to be an alien and you couldn't see his little green head running towards the ship. A brief silence where you expect the pilot to knock on the door and BAM - he'd jump up in front of your ship's cockpit and scare the bloody life out of you.
Another happy Super Duper customer here. I have a USB Lacie external drive that mirrors the size of my iMac's internal drive. With Super Duper's smart update option, my nightly backup takes about 20 minutes and I always have a complete bootable drive if the iMac's own drive goes belly-up.
I also rsync my data once a week to an off-site server, just to be safe and to provide an extra layer of recovery if I don't realise within a day that I've lost something important and it is gone from my local backup too.
I'm looking forward to seeing how the new backup solution in Leopard is going to fit in with this setup. I suspect I'll need another drive... one for Time Machine and one for a bootable drive clone.
No, why on earth would you recommend a Unix-based OS with an out-of-the-box C/C++ development environment, several free scripting languages and the OSS world's finest general purpose tools to the technically unsavvy.
Windows with its superb Notepad and awe inspiring Calculator is definitely the way to go.
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Now I'm as UNIX-loving and MS-loathing as the next Slashdotter, but in the early days of IM clients when, as you point out, ICQ was king of the hill, I went with Microsoft's solution when stuck using Windows at work because it was the better solution. Microsoft Messenger was lean, clean and fast at a time when ICQ, Yahoo et al were getting uglier and bloatier and more and more difficult to figure out. I don't think it's success is all down to purely being bundled with Windows. It was gaining mindshare before it was bundled in XP.
Having said that, I had cause to look at the current iteration of MSN Messenger Super Live Plus or whatever the hell they call it these days and I see that all that simplicity and cleanliness of interface went the fuck out the window. I quickly retreated to the safety of Adium and vowed never to look at it again.
It made me sit through eleven pages only to find Ikaruga wasn't on the list. Pah.
All your cliches belong to us.
Love and Monsters? Well, maybe he was there a little bit at each end of the episode, but still. It sucked. :-)
Oh I love the cover. Bravo. :-D
No, but you do have to face Cupertino and hum the Mac startup noise as you're doing it.
Anyway, as I said to the previous poster who made the same comment, the point is they don't want you to do it. They're telling you to reboot for a reason. This is merely a workaround, not SOP, and as such should not be expected to be user friendly.
If they wanted you to actually do it they'd make it user friendly.
There is a workaround on OS X.
When it brings up the dialog to have you reboot, you can hold Option and right click on the software update icon in the dock and choose Force Quit to postpone the reboot to a later time.
I have an aero tool for my Henry and it works wonders with the dog hair in my carpet. It's cheaper than the turbo brush as the brush is powered by suction alone. Simple, but effective.
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I don't remember where I got mine from but I think it was slightly cheaper than that. Still Henry+aero brush is still cheaper than a crappy Dyson.
Yes, yes they are.
Fair enough. Incidentally, it is possible to move between windows within an app by using Expose's application mode (F10 by default) and then the arrow keys to select a window - not as fast as alt-tabbing I'll grant you.
As for Windows-R there's no stock alternative, but a cheap and very effective solution is LaunchBar (or similar) that will give you that functionality and a helluva lot more. As a power keyboard freak you'd love it.
Ok, I'll bite. Why does your preference for keyboard shortcuts discount Mac OS X? Looking at any given app on my Mac here I see all major functions with a keyboard equivalent. For any that don't there's a shortcut key configurator in the standard keyboard preference pane that allows you to assign any key combination to any menu item on an app by app basis.
Command-Shift-G - Go to Folder.
Some sort of net-wide filter where we can block the rest of the world from viewing Dvorak articles would be good.
Wow, The Great PT Cruiser Controversy. Today is truly a day for Slashdot [f|s]lashbacks.
LucasArts' Rescue on Fractalus - every time the rescued pilot turned out to be an alien and you couldn't see his little green head running towards the ship. A brief silence where you expect the pilot to knock on the door and BAM - he'd jump up in front of your ship's cockpit and scare the bloody life out of you.
Fabulous.
It is possible... I play Miner 2049er on my Mac using the Atari800MacX 8-bit Atari emulator. Still one of my favourites.
That's no treasure chest Ms. Knightley has... it's just a couple of small gold plates.
Another happy Super Duper customer here. I have a USB Lacie external drive that mirrors the size of my iMac's internal drive. With Super Duper's smart update option, my nightly backup takes about 20 minutes and I always have a complete bootable drive if the iMac's own drive goes belly-up.
I also rsync my data once a week to an off-site server, just to be safe and to provide an extra layer of recovery if I don't realise within a day that I've lost something important and it is gone from my local backup too.
I'm looking forward to seeing how the new backup solution in Leopard is going to fit in with this setup. I suspect I'll need another drive... one for Time Machine and one for a bootable drive clone.
Good grief... do you live on top of an electro-magnet or are you just incredibly unlucky with hardware?
... and now they'll never give them their money.
s/unsavvy/savvy. Damn. My point was going to be so much better before I screwed it up.
No, why on earth would you recommend a Unix-based OS with an out-of-the-box C/C++ development environment, several free scripting languages and the OSS world's finest general purpose tools to the technically unsavvy.
Windows with its superb Notepad and awe inspiring Calculator is definitely the way to go.
And CompUSA customers are representative of the entire Macintosh community are they?