On Wednesday, 26 September 2012 at 22:23:00 UTC, Nick Sabalausky
wrote:
On Wed, 26 Sep 2012 10:37:10 -0700
"H. S. Teoh" wrote:
wide images get clipped with no way to unclip them when using
the
mobile stylesheet (probably the same bug you describe above),
etc..
And Apple has the audacity of f
On Wed, 26 Sep 2012 10:37:10 -0700
"H. S. Teoh" wrote:
>
> I have one objection to your list though: although _for the most part_
> AA's can work with any kind of key, there are a lot of bugs in that
> area. The language itself, of course, in theory supports any kind of
> key, but the current imp
On Wed, 26 Sep 2012 10:40:13 -0700
"H. S. Teoh" wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 09:30:43AM -0700, Sean Kelly wrote:
> >
> > Google+ is an opt-out service rather than an opt-in service if you
> > have a gmail account, so that you have G+ isn't surprising.
>
> I don't have a gmail account, thoug
On Wed, 26 Sep 2012 10:44:34 -0400
"Steven Schveighoffer" wrote:
> On Tue, 25 Sep 2012 18:59:55 -0400, Nick Sabalausky
> >
> > I miss words. I didn't mind non-word toolbar buttons on the desktop,
> > because then you have the concept of "hover" which will trigger the
> > words until you learn t
On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 09:30:43AM -0700, Sean Kelly wrote:
> On Sep 25, 2012, at 11:11 PM, H. S. Teoh wrote:
>
> > On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 09:42:26PM -0400, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> >> On 9/25/12 7:24 PM, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> >>> Me too. My wife has FB, and that's good enough for me.
> >>>
>
On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 05:19:16AM -0400, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
[...]
> Most GUIs are made of common re-usable widgets, right? The "button"
> widget, the "checkbox" or "radio box" widgets, the "menu bar" widget,
> the "text box" widget, "image", "list", "grid", "treeview", etc. So
> then you make
On Sep 26, 2012, at 7:44 AM, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
> On Tue, 25 Sep 2012 18:59:55 -0400, Nick Sabalausky
> wrote:
>
>>
>> Ugh, yea, exactly. I can't do a normal file copy? I can't email them?
>> The way apple handled photo orientation is just terrible. Like the one
>> guy said in there,
On Sep 25, 2012, at 11:11 PM, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 09:42:26PM -0400, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> On 9/25/12 7:24 PM, H. S. Teoh wrote:
>>> Me too. My wife has FB, and that's good enough for me.
>>>
>>> Sad to say, though, I got suckered into signing up for Google+.
>>
>
On Tue, 25 Sep 2012 18:59:55 -0400, Nick Sabalausky
wrote:
I don't think the photos are meant to be browsed that way. See this
thread here https://discussions.apple.com/message/16514340#16514340
I think explorer must not be using the rotation field (seems odd),
but the camera import rotate
On Wednesday, 26 September 2012 at 02:29:09 UTC, Nick Sabalausky
wrote:
Ie, imagine you make a trivial HTML page that's nothing but a
purple background and no content. Now load it in a web browser.
The purple part (and maybe the scroll bars?) is the *only* part
that's included.
I think that's
On Tue, 25 Sep 2012 23:00:41 -0700
"H. S. Teoh" wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 10:29:54PM -0400, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
> > With what I'm talking about, all of the back/forward/etc buttons and
> > everything are completely gone. Think Scintilla, but for HTML/CSS
> > instead of text.
> >
> > Ie,
On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 09:42:26PM -0400, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> On 9/25/12 7:24 PM, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> >Me too. My wife has FB, and that's good enough for me.
> >
> >Sad to say, though, I got suckered into signing up for Google+.
>
> No Facebook but Google+? That's it. You're out. Use Go.
On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 10:29:54PM -0400, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
> On Tue, 25 Sep 2012 18:05:01 -0700
> "H. S. Teoh" wrote:
> > On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 08:19:00PM -0400, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
> > >
> > > A "web browser control" is pretty common, AIUI. I know IE and
> > > WebKit can be used as co
On Tue, 25 Sep 2012 18:05:01 -0700
"H. S. Teoh" wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 08:19:00PM -0400, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
> >
> > A "web browser control" is pretty common, AIUI. I know IE and WebKit
> > can be used as controls that you just plop into a window. Then you
> > have to add in all the
On 9/25/12 7:24 PM, H. S. Teoh wrote:
Me too. My wife has FB, and that's good enough for me.
Sad to say, though, I got suckered into signing up for Google+.
No Facebook but Google+? That's it. You're out. Use Go.
Andrei
On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 12:56:14AM +0200, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
> On Tuesday, 25 September 2012 at 22:49:36 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> >I must've been half-asleep when I wrote that. I meant a
> >mail-handling library that can handle MIME attachments.
>
> I did a simple one a while ago. Jush pushed to
On Tue, 25 Sep 2012 16:24:14 -0700
"H. S. Teoh" wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 06:59:55PM -0400, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
> [...]
> > > There is a general assumption by many applications/websites that
> > > *everyone* uses facebook.
> >
> > I know! And it's not just software, it's all business i
On Tue, 25 Sep 2012 15:52:09 -0700
"H. S. Teoh" wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 05:36:48PM -0400, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
> >
> > Newer Operas also got rid of the "native-ish" theme, which is why
> > I'm not upgrading past v10. It may seem trivial, but skinned apps
> > *really* bug me.
>
> Skin
On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 06:59:55PM -0400, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
[...]
> > There is a general assumption by many applications/websites that
> > *everyone* uses facebook.
>
> I know! And it's not just software, it's all business in general. They
> noticed that it's popular so they think that means
> > I'm looking at the photos on my iPhone through Explorer right now
> > and aside from the screenshots, the majority of them are either
> > sideways or upside-down.
>
> Wait, did you *download* them? Or are you just browsing via the USB
> cable? When you download them via the camera import f
On Tuesday, 25 September 2012 at 22:49:36 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
I must've been half-asleep when I wrote that. I meant a
mail-handling library that can handle MIME attachments.
I did a simple one a while ago. Jush pushed to github:
https://github.com/adamdruppe/misc-stuff-including-D-programmi
On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 05:36:48PM -0400, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
> On Tue, 25 Sep 2012 08:10:07 -0700
> "H. S. Teoh" wrote:
> > On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 09:55:48PM -0400, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
> > > For my usual mailboxes though, I prefer typical GUI desktop
> > > clients. Unfortunately, I still
On Tue, 25 Sep 2012 08:10:07 -0700
"H. S. Teoh" wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 09:55:48PM -0400, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
> > For my usual mailboxes though, I prefer typical GUI desktop clients.
> > Unfortunately, I still haven't been able to find one that I like.
>
> Maybe you should write one i
On Sep 24, 2012, at 6:55 PM, Nick Sabalausky
wrote:
> On Mon, 24 Sep 2012 18:10:09 -0700
> "H. S. Teoh" wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 07:52:15PM -0400, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
>>
>>> A lot of the videogames I've played have independent adjustable
>>> SFX/music/voice volumes. I've even ha
On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 09:55:48PM -0400, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
[...]
> > > > The one thing I would rip out of OSX and throw against the wall
> > > > is the mail app. Its interface and experience is awesome. But
> > > > it frequently corrupts messages and doesn't properly save
> > > > outgoing m
On Tue, 25 Sep 2012 01:55:54 -0400, Nick Sabalausky
wrote:
On Mon, 24 Sep 2012 21:52:05 -0400
"Steven Schveighoffer" wrote:
There is a master volume control. It has two volumes, on and off, and
it's called the silent switch ;)
Calling that a master volume control is a stretch.
Yeah I
On Mon, 24 Sep 2012 21:52:05 -0400
"Steven Schveighoffer" wrote:
>
> There is a master volume control. It has two volumes, on and off, and
> it's called the silent switch ;)
>
Calling that a master volume control is a stretch.
> >> They aren't? They make complete sense to me. You even admi
On Mon, 24 Sep 2012 18:10:09 -0700
"H. S. Teoh" wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 07:52:15PM -0400, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
>
> > A lot of the videogames I've played have independent adjustable
> > SFX/music/voice volumes. I've even happily made use of that. And I'm
> > damn glad that the TV *stil
On Mon, 24 Sep 2012 19:52:15 -0400, Nick Sabalausky
wrote:
On Mon, 24 Sep 2012 10:02:57 -0400
"Steven Schveighoffer" wrote:
On Fri, 21 Sep 2012 17:22:32 -0400, Nick Sabalausky
wrote:
> On Fri, 21 Sep 2012 08:24:07 -0400
> "Steven Schveighoffer" wrote:
>>
>> That works too, but doesn't war
On Mon, 24 Sep 2012 19:52:15 -0400, Nick Sabalausky
wrote:
On Mon, 24 Sep 2012 10:02:57 -0400
"Steven Schveighoffer" wrote:
On Fri, 21 Sep 2012 17:22:32 -0400, Nick Sabalausky
wrote:
> On Fri, 21 Sep 2012 08:24:07 -0400
> "Steven Schveighoffer" wrote:
>>
>> That works too, but doesn't war
On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 07:52:15PM -0400, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
[...]
> Independently controllable ringer/game/music volumes: Good
>
> Complete *lack* of any way to control *overall* volume: Bad
I have to agree with that. It's OK, and sometimes even useful, to have
multiple independent volumes,
On Mon, 24 Sep 2012 10:02:57 -0400
"Steven Schveighoffer" wrote:
> On Fri, 21 Sep 2012 17:22:32 -0400, Nick Sabalausky
> wrote:
>
> > On Fri, 21 Sep 2012 08:24:07 -0400
> > "Steven Schveighoffer" wrote:
> >>
> >> That works too, but doesn't warrant rants about how you haven't
> >> learned ho
On Fri, 21 Sep 2012 17:22:32 -0400, Nick Sabalausky
wrote:
On Fri, 21 Sep 2012 08:24:07 -0400
"Steven Schveighoffer" wrote:
That works too, but doesn't warrant rants about how you haven't
learned how to use the fucking thing :)
It's *volume* controls, there doesn't need to be *anything*
On Sun, 23 Sep 2012 22:47:58 -0700
"H. S. Teoh" wrote:
[...]
>
> As soon as you start having a whole bunch of code at different levels
> of abstraction mixed together, you know it's time to split them up
> into separate functions, 'cos chances are you'll need to use each
> piece independently on
On Monday, 24 September 2012 at 05:45:11 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
On Sat, Sep 22, 2012 at 03:48:49AM -0400, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
On Fri, 21 Sep 2012 15:37:46 -0700
"H. S. Teoh" wrote:
>
> The sad part is that so many of the commenters have no idea
> that
> adjacent C literals are concatenated
On Sat, Sep 22, 2012 at 03:48:49AM -0400, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
> On Fri, 21 Sep 2012 15:37:46 -0700
> "H. S. Teoh" wrote:
> >
> > The sad part is that so many of the commenters have no idea that
> > adjacent C literals are concatenated at compile-time. It's a very
> > nice way to put long strin
On Fri, 21 Sep 2012 15:37:46 -0700
"H. S. Teoh" wrote:
>
> The sad part is that so many of the commenters have no idea that
> adjacent C literals are concatenated at compile-time. It's a very nice
> way to put long strings in code and have it nicely indented, something
> that is sorely lacking in
On Friday, 21 September 2012 at 21:37:23 UTC, Nick Sabalausky
wrote:
On Fri, 21 Sep 2012 22:13:22 +0200
"Paulo Pinto" wrote:
On Friday, 21 September 2012 at 19:09:48 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
>
> The saddest thing is that people are paying big bucks for
> this kind of
> "enterprise" code. It's o
On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 05:38:06PM -0400, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
> On Fri, 21 Sep 2012 22:13:22 +0200
> "Paulo Pinto" wrote:
>
> > On Friday, 21 September 2012 at 19:09:48 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> > >
> > > The saddest thing is that people are paying big bucks for this
> > > kind of "enterprise"
On Fri, 21 Sep 2012 22:13:22 +0200
"Paulo Pinto" wrote:
> On Friday, 21 September 2012 at 19:09:48 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> >
> > The saddest thing is that people are paying big bucks for this
> > kind of
> > "enterprise" code. It's one of those things that make me never
> > want to
> > pay for
On Fri, 21 Sep 2012 08:24:07 -0400
"Steven Schveighoffer" wrote:
>
> That works too, but doesn't warrant rants about how you haven't
> learned how to use the fucking thing :)
>
It's *volume* controls, there doesn't need to be *anything* to learn.
> >
> > Try listing out all the different volum
On Friday, 21 September 2012 at 19:09:48 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 03:54:21PM +0200, Paulo Pinto wrote:
[...]
In big corporations you spend more time taking care of existing
projects in big teams, than developing stuff from scratch.
In these type of environments you learn t
On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 03:54:21PM +0200, Paulo Pinto wrote:
[...]
> In big corporations you spend more time taking care of existing
> projects in big teams, than developing stuff from scratch.
>
> In these type of environments you learn to appreciate the verbosity
> of certain programming languag
On Thursday, 20 September 2012 at 21:15:24 UTC, Nick Sabalausky
wrote:
On Thu, 20 Sep 2012 08:46:00 -0400
"Steven Schveighoffer" wrote:
On Wed, 19 Sep 2012 17:05:35 -0400, Nick Sabalausky
wrote:
> On Wed, 19 Sep 2012 10:11:50 -0400
> "Steven Schveighoffer" wrote:
>
>> I cannot argue that
On Thu, 20 Sep 2012 17:16:14 -0400, Nick Sabalausky
wrote:
On Thu, 20 Sep 2012 08:46:00 -0400
"Steven Schveighoffer" wrote:
On Wed, 19 Sep 2012 17:05:35 -0400, Nick Sabalausky
wrote:
> There's also a separate one for alarms/alerts:
>
http://www.ipodnn.com/articles/12/01/13/user.unaware
On Tue, 18 Sep 2012 00:29:11 -0700
Walter Bright wrote:
>
> I tend to snicker at companies that insist they only hire the top 1%.
> It seems that about 90% of the engineers out there must be in that
> top 1% .
>
I bet that's marketing-speak for "Our applicant-to-hire ratio is 100:1,
and natural
On Thu, 20 Sep 2012 08:46:00 -0400
"Steven Schveighoffer" wrote:
> On Wed, 19 Sep 2012 17:05:35 -0400, Nick Sabalausky
> wrote:
>
> > On Wed, 19 Sep 2012 10:11:50 -0400
> > "Steven Schveighoffer" wrote:
> >
> >> I cannot argue that Apple's audio volume isn't too simplistic for
> >> its own g
On Wed, 19 Sep 2012 17:05:35 -0400, Nick Sabalausky
wrote:
On Wed, 19 Sep 2012 10:11:50 -0400
"Steven Schveighoffer" wrote:
I cannot argue that Apple's audio volume isn't too simplistic for its
own good. AIUI, they have two "volumes", one for the ringer, and one
for playing audio, games,
On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 01:15:32AM -0400, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
> On Wed, 19 Sep 2012 13:38:32 -0700
> "H. S. Teoh" wrote:
>
> > I prefer to communicate in complete sentences rather than
> > point-n-grunt.
>
> That's great :)
>
> I like both CLI and GUI, depending on what I'm doing, but that's
On Wed, 19 Sep 2012 13:38:32 -0700
"H. S. Teoh" wrote:
> I prefer to communicate in
> complete sentences rather than point-n-grunt.
That's great :)
I like both CLI and GUI, depending on what I'm doing, but that's really
good.
On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 05:51:31PM -0400, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
> On Wed, 19 Sep 2012 13:38:32 -0700
> "H. S. Teoh" wrote:
>
> > On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 08:49:58PM +0200, Mehrdad wrote:
> > > It's pretty damn hard to convince Linux users that what you're
> > > trying to do is, in fact, not out o
On Wednesday, 19 September 2012 at 21:30:58 UTC, Nick Sabalausky
wrote:
On Wed, 19 Sep 2012 20:49:58 +0200
"Mehrdad" wrote:
On Wednesday, 19 September 2012 at 17:29:17 UTC, H. S. Teoh
wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 12:02:24PM +0200, Timon Gehr wrote:
>> The issue is that in one case you kno
On Wed, 19 Sep 2012 13:38:32 -0700
"H. S. Teoh" wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 08:49:58PM +0200, Mehrdad wrote:
> > It's pretty damn hard to convince Linux users that what you're
> > trying to do is, in fact, not out of stupidity/ignorance.
>
> It's pretty damn hard to convince Windows zealots
On Wed, 19 Sep 2012 20:49:58 +0200
"Mehrdad" wrote:
> On Wednesday, 19 September 2012 at 17:29:17 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> > On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 12:02:24PM +0200, Timon Gehr wrote:
> >> The issue is that in one case you know how to fix it and in
> >> the other one you do not (and you care le
On Wed, 19 Sep 2012 10:11:50 -0400
"Steven Schveighoffer" wrote:
> On Wed, 19 Sep 2012 01:34:12 -0400, Nick Sabalausky
> wrote:
>
> > On Tue, 18 Sep 2012 23:46:35 -0400
> > "Steven Schveighoffer" wrote:
> >> The keyboard click sound (which you can disable BTW,
> >> settings->sounds->keyboard
On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 08:49:58PM +0200, Mehrdad wrote:
> On Wednesday, 19 September 2012 at 17:29:17 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> >On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 12:02:24PM +0200, Timon Gehr wrote:
> >>The issue is that in one case you know how to fix it and in the
> >>other one you do not (and you care les
On 9/19/2012 2:47 AM, monarch_dodra wrote:
I have about 2 laptops at home, whose batteries are left with, literally, 0
charge. Even a simple split second power cut, and they fill turn off :(
Yeah, my ancient laptop's batteries are good for maybe a second on full charge.
On 9/19/2012 1:37 AM, Mehrdad wrote:
What exactly do you guys _do_ with your computer that suddenly breaks the power
supplies?! Maybe I'm just too young to know, but I've never seen a power supply
break...
The symptoms I had are it just won't turn on. What I do? Take the old one out,
got to th
On Wednesday, 19 September 2012 at 17:29:17 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 12:02:24PM +0200, Timon Gehr wrote:
The issue is that in one case you know how to fix it and in
the other one you do not (and you care less about it because
you prefer to think Windows is superior as it i
On Sep 19, 2012, at 12:40 AM, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
> On 2012-09-18 17:36, Sean Kelly wrote:
>> On Sep 18, 2012, at 12:48 AM, Walter Bright
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> The most common failure I've had are the power supplies, they're still as
>>> bad today as in the 80's.
>>
>> There are good power sup
On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 12:02:24PM +0200, Timon Gehr wrote:
> On 09/19/2012 11:54 AM, Mehrdad wrote:
> >...
> >At least when Windows has the occasional boot problem which I
> >stupidly caused, it's _fixable_ and doesn't lie to you about having
> >fixed it!!
> >
>
> The issue is that in one case yo
On Wed, 19 Sep 2012 01:34:12 -0400, Nick Sabalausky
wrote:
On Tue, 18 Sep 2012 23:46:35 -0400
"Steven Schveighoffer" wrote:
The keyboard click sound (which you can disable BTW,
settings->sounds->keyboard clicks) obeys the ringer volume.
Ehh? How unintuitive.
I cannot argue that Apple's
On Wednesday, 19 September 2012 at 10:53:40 UTC, Jonathan M Davis
wrote:
On Wednesday, September 19, 2012 11:45:42 Paulo Pinto wrote:
On Tuesday, 18 September 2012 at 05:26:33 UTC, H. S. Teoh
wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 12:35:45AM -0400, Nick Sabalausky
> wrote:
> [...]
> Yet for whatever
On Wednesday, September 19, 2012 11:45:42 Paulo Pinto wrote:
> On Tuesday, 18 September 2012 at 05:26:33 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> > On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 12:35:45AM -0400, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
> > [...]
> > Yet for whatever reason corporate types just love WebEx. Every
> > meeting
> > and cow-o
On Wednesday, 19 September 2012 at 09:19:13 UTC, Mehrdad wrote:
On Wednesday, 19 September 2012 at 08:53:33 UTC, monarch_dodra
wrote:
On Wednesday, 19 September 2012 at 08:36:46 UTC, Mehrdad wrote:
What exactly do you guys _do_ with your computer that
suddenly breaks the power supplies?! May
On 09/19/2012 11:54 AM, Mehrdad wrote:
...
At least when Windows has the occasional boot problem which I stupidly
caused, it's _fixable_ and doesn't lie to you about having fixed it!!
The issue is that in one case you know how to fix it and in the other
one you do not (and you care less abou
On Tuesday, 18 September 2012 at 21:19:13 UTC, Nick Sabalausky
wrote:
On Tue, 18 Sep 2012 08:12:50 -0700
"H. S. Teoh" wrote:
Reformatting and reinstalling, though, is a matter of course
on any Windows installation that I've ever seen. I've heard of
such things as stable Windows installations
On Tuesday, 18 September 2012 at 21:19:13 UTC, Nick Sabalausky
wrote:
On Tue, 18 Sep 2012 08:12:50 -0700
"H. S. Teoh" wrote:
Reformatting and reinstalling, though, is a matter of course
on any Windows installation that I've ever seen. I've heard of
such things as stable Windows installations
On Tuesday, 18 September 2012 at 05:26:33 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 12:35:45AM -0400, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
[...]
Yet for whatever reason corporate types just love WebEx. Every
meeting
and cow-orker's son's birthday party is on WebEx. Ugh. Nowadays
I just
resort to looking
On Wednesday, 19 September 2012 at 09:19:13 UTC, Mehrdad wrote:
On Wednesday, 19 September 2012 at 08:53:33 UTC, monarch_dodra
wrote:
On Wednesday, 19 September 2012 at 08:36:46 UTC, Mehrdad wrote:
What exactly do you guys _do_ with your computer that
suddenly breaks the power supplies?! May
On Wednesday, 19 September 2012 at 08:53:33 UTC, monarch_dodra
wrote:
On Wednesday, 19 September 2012 at 08:36:46 UTC, Mehrdad wrote:
What exactly do you guys _do_ with your computer that suddenly
breaks the power supplies?! Maybe I'm just too young to know,
but I've never seen a power suppl
On Wednesday, 19 September 2012 at 08:36:46 UTC, Mehrdad wrote:
What exactly do you guys _do_ with your computer that suddenly
breaks the power supplies?! Maybe I'm just too young to know,
but I've never seen a power supply break...
I once tried to do some GPU calculations. After several ho
On Wed, 19 Sep 2012 10:37:44 +0200, Mehrdad wrote:
On Wednesday, 19 September 2012 at 06:11:00 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
On 9/18/2012 8:36 AM, Sean Kelly wrote:
On Sep 18, 2012, at 12:48 AM, Walter Bright
wrote:
The most common failure I've had are the power supplies, they're
still as
On Wednesday, 19 September 2012 at 06:11:00 UTC, Walter Bright
wrote:
On 9/18/2012 8:36 AM, Sean Kelly wrote:
On Sep 18, 2012, at 12:48 AM, Walter Bright
wrote:
The most common failure I've had are the power supplies,
they're still as
bad today as in the 80's.
There are good power suppli
On 2012-09-18 21:58, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
I have an rsync cronjob back up my home partition nightly so that the chances
of losing that data are slim (though I don't back up all the rest of my data
from my many hard drives unfortunately - it would take up too much space).
It's saved me on a nu
On 2012-09-18 17:36, Sean Kelly wrote:
On Sep 18, 2012, at 12:48 AM, Walter Bright wrote:
The most common failure I've had are the power supplies, they're still as bad
today as in the 80's.
There are good power supplies, they just don't come in pre-built computers
because they're expensive
On 2012-09-18 17:12, H. S. Teoh wrote:
Reformatting and reinstalling, though, is a matter of course on any
Windows installation that I've ever seen. I've heard of such things as
stable Windows installations, but as far as my experience goes those are
mythical beasts. Things just fail the moment
On 2012-09-18 09:37, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
- Oracle (Even if it's not a terrible DBMS, it's certainly overpriced)
You need a SAP system to keep track of the cost of your Oracle system :)
--
/Jacob Carlborg
On 9/18/2012 8:36 AM, Sean Kelly wrote:
On Sep 18, 2012, at 12:48 AM, Walter Bright
wrote:
The most common failure I've had are the power supplies, they're still as
bad today as in the 80's.
There are good power supplies, they just don't come in pre-built computers
because they're expensive.
On Tue, 18 Sep 2012 20:32:29 -0700
Sean Kelly wrote:
> On Sep 18, 2012, at 3:50 PM, Nick Sabalausky
> wrote:
>
> >
> > Actually, music over bluetooth? Wouldn't even an FM transmitter be
> > better quality? (Well, unless you have one of those newer antennas
> > that can't be retracted.) Bluetoo
On Tue, 18 Sep 2012 23:46:35 -0400
"Steven Schveighoffer" wrote:
>
> You can configure silent mode to not vibrate. Then it has the odd
> effect (if you have vibrate enabled for full-ring mode) of vibrating
> when you turn it *off* silent.
>
> I tried doing that for a while, but I found myself f
On Tue, 18 Sep 2012 18:32:41 -0400, Nick Sabalausky
wrote:
On Tue, 18 Sep 2012 17:42:59 -0400
"Steven Schveighoffer" wrote:
On Tue, 18 Sep 2012 16:50:18 -0400, Nick Sabalausky
wrote:
> Actually, it's a little too effective: It's impossible to reach down
> into my pocket and adjust the vo
On Sep 18, 2012, at 3:50 PM, Nick Sabalausky
wrote:
> On Tue, 18 Sep 2012 14:10:03 -0700
> Sean Kelly wrote:
>
>> On Sep 18, 2012, at 1:09 PM, Walter Bright
>> wrote:
>>
>>> On 9/18/2012 2:08 AM, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
>>>
>>> My car stereo takes a USB stick. I specifically picked that mode
On 9/18/2012 3:40 PM, Andrej Mitrovic wrote:
On 9/18/12, Walter Bright wrote:
There's nothing, nothing remotely as good as Breaking Bad.
You're just saying that 'cos your name rhymes with the lead character's name. :p
Walter Bright, Walter White, middle aged, buzz cut, nerdly, ...
hmmm..
On 9/18/2012 2:30 PM, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
I loved MV in the 80's. It was on netflix, so I started watching it.
It was *horrible*! Awful. Cringeworthy.
I've heard that the third and fourth seasons went downhill. I saw the
whole first season just about a year ago and loved it.
Uh, I watched
On Tue, 18 Sep 2012 14:10:03 -0700
Sean Kelly wrote:
> On Sep 18, 2012, at 1:09 PM, Walter Bright
> wrote:
>
> > On 9/18/2012 2:08 AM, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
> >
> > My car stereo takes a USB stick. I specifically picked that model
> > for that reason. CDs in the car suck.
>
> Mine does bluet
On 9/18/12, Walter Bright wrote:
> There's nothing, nothing remotely as good as Breaking Bad.
You're just saying that 'cos your name rhymes with the lead character's name. :p
On Tue, 18 Sep 2012 17:42:59 -0400
"Steven Schveighoffer" wrote:
> On Tue, 18 Sep 2012 16:50:18 -0400, Nick Sabalausky
> wrote:
>
> > Actually, it's a little too effective: It's impossible to reach down
> > into my pocket and adjust the volume because it plain refuses to
> > *let* me adjust t
On Tue, 18 Sep 2012 16:50:18 -0400, Nick Sabalausky
wrote:
Actually, it's a little too effective: It's impossible to reach down
into my pocket and adjust the volume because it plain refuses to *let*
me adjust the volume without taking it out, pushing "Lock" or "Home",
sliding the touch-slider
On Tue, 18 Sep 2012 13:09:39 -0700
Walter Bright wrote:
>
> > Yea, so was I, but then I discovered that that we're basically
> > trading one set of problems for another, especially with video.
> > Casettes suck, and I'm glad to be done with them, but with discs:
>
> My car stereo takes a USB sti
On Sep 18, 2012, at 1:33 PM, Nick Sabalausky
wrote:
> On Tue, 18 Sep 2012 10:03:13 -0700
> "H. S. Teoh" wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 08:36:26AM -0700, Sean Kelly wrote:
>>> On Sep 18, 2012, at 12:48 AM, Walter Bright
>>> wrote:
The most common failure I've had are the power suppl
On Tuesday, September 18, 2012 16:50:18 Nick Sabalausky wrote:
> Actually, it's a little too effective: It's impossible to reach down
> into my pocket and adjust the volume because it plain refuses to *let*
> me adjust the volume without taking it out, pushing "Lock" or "Home",
> sliding the touch-
On Tue, 18 Sep 2012 08:12:50 -0700
"H. S. Teoh" wrote:
>
> Reformatting and reinstalling, though, is a matter of course on any
> Windows installation that I've ever seen. I've heard of such things as
> stable Windows installations, but as far as my experience goes those
> are mythical beasts. Thi
On Sep 18, 2012, at 1:09 PM, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 9/18/2012 2:08 AM, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
>
> My car stereo takes a USB stick. I specifically picked that model for that
> reason. CDs in the car suck.
Mine does bluetooth, so I don't even have to take my phone out of my pocket to
listen
On Tue, 18 Sep 2012 19:22:50 +0200
"Chris Nicholson-Sauls" wrote:
>
> I do believe conky can provide SMART monitoring.
> http://conky.sourceforge.net/
>
> Although periodically running GSmartCtl (GUI front-end to the
> command line tool) isn't a bad idea, either, to see the specific
> details
On Tue, 18 Sep 2012 08:25:00 -0700
"H. S. Teoh" wrote:
>
> Heh. Reminds me of my UPS... I bought it to protect my very expensive
> PSU from power surges/failures, but guess what? The PSU is still
> running and the UPS has been dead for 4 years. :-P
>
One thing I learned, the batteries in those
On Tue, 18 Sep 2012 09:21:38 -0400
Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> On 9/18/12 8:53 AM, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
> > I never ever ever accidentally call someone when the phone is in my
> > pocket, because it gets locked when I'm done with it. In fact, I
> > never accidentally do *anything* on my i
On Tue, 18 Sep 2012 10:03:13 -0700
"H. S. Teoh" wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 08:36:26AM -0700, Sean Kelly wrote:
> > On Sep 18, 2012, at 12:48 AM, Walter Bright
> > wrote:
> > > The most common failure I've had are the power supplies, they're
> > > still as bad today as in the 80's.
> >
> >
On 9/18/2012 6:21 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
Last time I've seen that was on a Delta flight. If the UI
designer optimized for something, it must have been the maximization of the
number of key presses for doing anything.
What's miserable is the guy behind you stabbing the touchscreen on the
On 9/18/2012 2:08 AM, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
Install headers and a cherry-bomb exhaust,
Heh, I don't even know what those are :P
Watch "Bullitt".
Yea, so was I, but then I discovered that that we're basically trading
one set of problems for another, especially with video. Casettes suck,
and
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