On Tue, 11 Jul 2006 15:19:15 +0200, "Philip Newton"
wrote:
> On 7/11/06, John Handelaar wrote:
> > (Anyone else still shut Windows apps with Alt-F4?)
>
> I use it to shut extra Firefox windows. Which is still the same app. Ick.
>
> And Opera 9, which interfered with my Ctrl+N = new tab muscle
> Hate for documents (or file extensions, or MIME-types) having only one
> application bound to them.
OS X lets you have multiple handlers for a file extension, with one default.
But of COURSE they have to let programmers who think they're running OS 9
and PWN MY FILZ0RZ override that. :P
i honestly have no idea what you lot are complaining about - i have
had no troubles copying music from an ipod to a computer and back, all
around the place
my ipod is a filthy whore, let me tell you
well, with the aid of "super-lube" senuti to copy stuff off an ipod
On 7/11/06, Earle Martin wrot
On 7/11/06, Peter da Silva wrote:
TextForge: just because I used you to edit a config file that doesn't
mean you own that file. Stop pissing on every file you touch and making
it smell like you: if it was opening in Terminal before I edited it,
then it bloody well should open in Terminal afterwa
On 7/11/06, John Handelaar wrote:
(Anyone else still shut Windows apps with Alt-F4?)
I use it to shut extra Firefox windows. Which is still the same app. Ick.
And Opera 9, which interfered with my Ctrl+N = new tab muscle memory.
And Ctrl+Q closes down the whole program, so Alt+F4 it is. Still
On Tue, Jul 11, 2006 at 02:08:43PM +0100, John Handelaar wrote:
> Peter da Silva wrote:
> >Which brings me to my hate of Microsoft using CONTROL for application
> >commands AS WELL AS for command line OS level controls.
>
> See also: everyone else with both GUIs and terminals.
>
> Well, except
TextForge: just because I used you to edit a config file that doesn't
mean you own that file. Stop pissing on every file you touch and making
it smell like you: if it was opening in Terminal before I edited it,
then it bloody well should open in Terminal afterwards.
> Peter da Silva wrote:
> > Which brings me to my hate of Microsoft using CONTROL for application
> > commands AS WELL AS for command line OS level controls.
> See also: everyone else with both GUIs and terminals.
(insert control-click hate, stir well)
> Well, except IBM. (Anyone else still
Peter da Silva wrote:
Which brings me to my hate of Microsoft using CONTROL for application
commands AS WELL AS for command line OS level controls.
See also: everyone else with both GUIs and terminals.
Well, except IBM. (Anyone else still shut Windows apps
with Alt-F4?)
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[Regarding the "win" key.
On Jul 10, 2006, at 11:34 PM, Chris Devers wrote:
Au contraire, I used to feel this way, but once I got used to them I
realized that they made it possible to use Windows nearly sans mouse.
That's another reason for my hatred of the Win key.
You see, prior to the make
>> On Tue, Jul 11, 2006 at 10:42:07AM +0930, Bill Page said:
>>> the only useful thing i can think of about the windows key is
>>> windows+e brings up windows explorer
>>> though i assume there's another way of doing that anyway?
>>
>> Windows-m minimises and unminimises everything which is hella u
> On Tue, Jul 11, 2006 at 10:42:07AM +0930, Bill Page said:
>> the only useful thing i can think of about the windows key is
>> windows+e brings up windows explorer
>> though i assume there's another way of doing that anyway?
>
> Windows-m minimises and unminimises everything which is hella useful
On 7/11/06, Simon Wistow wrote:
Windows-m minimises and unminimises everything which is hella useful
sometimes.
Hiding your porn one handed, for example.
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On Tue, Jul 11, 2006 at 10:42:07AM +0930, Bill Page said:
> the only useful thing i can think of about the windows key is
> windows+e brings up windows explorer
> though i assume there's another way of doing that anyway?
Windows-m minimises and unminimises everything which is hella useful
sometim
On Mon, Jul 10, 2006 at 10:29:31AM -0500, sabrina downard wrote:
> But I've got to tell you, this iPod destructive mind-meld "link" to a
> specific computer, or whatever the hell it is, is just fucking stupid.
What the fuck happened to that Apple that used to produce non-insane
software? You know,
On Tue, 11 Jul 2006, Ricardo SIGNES wrote:
> * Chris Devers [2006-07-11T00:34:30]
> > As for the menu key, show me any other way to bring up a context menu
> > for the current focus (highlighted) item without using the mouse.
>
> I thought this nearly always was Shift-F10..?
Possibly, I hadn't
* Chris Devers [2006-07-11T00:34:30]
> As for the menu key, show me any other way to bring up a context menu
> for the current focus (highlighted) item without using the mouse.
I thought this nearly always was Shift-F10..?
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On Mon, 10 Jul 2006, Peter da Silva wrote:
> I never hit the "win" key in Windows, except when I've been using a
> Mac recently and I'm going for Command. Can anyone come up with as big
> a waste of keyboard space as the two Windows keys and the menu key...
> all of which simply duplicate other
the only useful thing i can think of about the windows key is
windows+e brings up windows explorer
though i assume there's another way of doing that anyway?
On 7/11/06, A. Pagaltzis wrote:
* Peter da Silva [2006-07-11 01:55]:
> can't even be usefully applied as hotkeys in other apps?
I like t
* Peter da Silva [2006-07-11 01:55]:
> can't even be usefully applied as hotkeys in other apps?
I like them, a set of extra meta keys is always nice to have...
But of course I don't use Windows.
There are a couple hates to be had around the subject (binding
keys in X11; trying to bind keys in Wi
> What I'm assuming happened here is that my iPod, named 'wee' (what?
> it *is*!), had some sort of sympathetic bond with my old laptop,
> "shiny." It liked shiny. It was evidently involved in a fiercely
> monogamous relationship with shiny.
That's the problem... you're assuming that your iPod
> Granted, WinXP and 2003 get this better, and admittedly I could use the
> logout option in the start menu itself that can be enabled, but that action
> isn't burned into muscle memory from years of hitting Win, u, enter every
> time I wanted to log out.
I never hit the "win" key in Windows, exce
On Mon, Jul 10, 2006 at 10:50:57AM -0500, sabrina downard wrote:
> >So if you want to pay money to get broken features unbroken, it's
> >possible that you can deal with this soon.
> is it too early in the morning to start drinking?
Never (says he, the wrong side of some whisky. and beer, and wine)
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