Earle Martin wrote:
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
On Wed, Jul 12, 2006 at 02:27:32PM +0300, Jarkko Hietaniemi said:
I guess they fired those developers because they had to pay the salaries
of the Brushed Metal Clan.
http://daringfireball.net/2005/09/anthropomorphized
http://daringfireball.net/2006/01/brushed_metal
Earle Martin wrote:
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
On 11/07/06, Jan Martin Mathiassen hates_softw...@mindriot.as wrote:
On Tue, Jul 11, 2006 at 10:42:07AM +0930, Bill Page said:
windows+e brings up windows explorer
Windows-m minimises and unminimises everything which is hella useful
windows-l brings up the logout/change user box in XP
On 2006-07-12 at 11:00 +0200, Hakim Cassimally wrote:
windows-r brings up a mini command line. When I used windows I used
that for pretty much all of my application launching. Sure it mean
you had to remember excel but winword and powerpnt, but with
command-line completion that wasn't too
On 2006-07-12 at 11:12 +0200, Phil Pennock wrote:
I've since added a few others. The main limitation is that you're
limited to .exe, from what I recall, so no .bat. The other is that
whilst you can specify that a program takes dragdrop, you can't
otherwise massage the parameters. That, in
On 12/07/06, Phil Pennock phil.penn...@globnix.org wrote:
On 2006-07-12 at 11:12 +0200, Phil Pennock wrote:
Something has to go wrong soon, because this OS install is almost
becoming tolerable and every time I think that, I become frustrated at
something new and the hates builds to an even
On 7/12/06, Hakim Cassimally hakim.cassima...@gmail.com wrote:
So, I had to reboot it every 1-2 days or it would run like treacle,
Same with mine. And the problem - oh how I laughed - appears to be
Firefox leaking like a wounded oil tanker. Sure, I'm frequently
running in excess of 30 tabs,
On 7/12/06, Yoz Grahame y...@yoz.com wrote:
On 7/12/06, Hakim Cassimally hakim.cassima...@gmail.com wrote:
So, I had to reboot it every 1-2 days or it would run like treacle,
Same with mine. And the problem - oh how I laughed - appears to be
Firefox leaking like a wounded oil tanker.
Let me
On 7/12/06, Hakim Cassimally hakim.cassima...@gmail.com wrote:
Just to keep the hate nice and focused on topic, Safari, on gf's,
dad's, and brother's iBooks beachballs to a half when I try to run it
with more than 2 or 3 tabs. That and failing to work on pretty much
for any credit-card
Yoz Grahame writes:
Safari appeared to consistently take twice as much RAM as Firefox despite
the latter running three times as many tabs.
It seems not uncommon for my Safari to take 3 *gigabytes* of memory
after several days of usage. This is on a laptop with 768 MB of RAM;
unsurprisingly, I
Ohgodyes. I suspect Safari was partially responsible for my
experiences of OS 10.4 on a Mini being less stable than XP on the
laptop sitting next to it. Safari appeared to consistently take twice
as much RAM as Firefox despite the latter running three times as many
tabs. That, along with
On Wed, 12 Jul 2006 10:54:04 -0400, Peter da Silva pe...@taronga.com
wrote:
(insert hate about CSS taking the whole no tables things too seriously
and refusing to have grid layout as an option, just to turn it up to 11)
Actually it does, it's just not supported in IE so nobody bothers with
On Wed, 12 Jul 2006 14:50:34 -0400, Peter da Silva pe...@taronga.com
wrote:
tables for layout in inappropriate ways, and CSS doesn't seem to have a
way to specify grid layout in the CSS file...
But that's what you missed. You can specify table layout for any
elements, but since IE
You can have the target be a .lnk file (pointing directly to the .exe),
You can put command line arguments and things in a shortcut, and may be
able to run a batch file from there. If not, make it a shortcut to cmd.exe
and put the batch file in the arguments.
Or do what I do and keep a command
Phil Pennock wrote:
On 2006-07-12 at 11:00 +0200, Hakim Cassimally wrote:
[...]
I could never quite work out where these names were registered
(they're not in PATH, but are the short names which respond to start
progname in command line, I rifled through the registry a couple of
times to try
On Mon, Jul 10, 2006 at 06:24:26PM +, Zach White wrote:
Can anyone think of a more asinine proceedure for logging out? Not only is
it completely unintuitive, but the very way it operates is hateful.
Shuttle crew members share your hate.
From THE WEEKLY UNIX NEWSPAPER, London, 16-20 Feb
JSC: Okay. Press Alt + Esc.
Crew: And what does that do?
JSC: It should help.
Crew: Negative.
Oh yes, it's *control-escape*. Bleeding obvious, no? No?
Alt was the universal command key up to then, but Windows 95 is when
Microsoft really jumped the shark...
On Tue, Jul 11, 2006 at 07:52:23PM +0100, me said:
GAH GAH GAH GAH!
bloody mail clients.
On Wed, Jul 12, 2006 at 08:43:09AM +0100, I said:
GAH GAH GAH GAH!
bloody mail clients.
Right, found in /tmp/mutt-{mumble}.
Following simple but convoluted instructions my linux machines are all
now fully UTF-8 aware.
HUZZAH!
99% of my Linux time is spent using screen for IRC and mail.
On Wed, Jul 12, 2006 at 08:45:33AM +0100, me said:
Right, where's that other bottle of German booze?
It has been pointed out to me that there are, apparently, these things
called 'manuals' of which i have previously been unaware.
On 2006-07-12 at 08:59 +0100, Simon Wistow wrote:
On Wed, Jul 12, 2006 at 08:55:30AM +0100, me said:
I blame the booze. Sweet sweet booze.
Also, in my defence, this doesn't work for me. This probably means my
registry is hosed. Expect more hates in due time.
I vaguely recall being
http://the.earth.li/~sgtatham/putty/0.58/htmldoc/Chapter4.html#config-saving
The putty doesn't save configuration when you change your configuration hate
is still entirely valid.
Terminal.app hits the same hate buttons as well. If nothing else it ought to
save a temporary config when you exit
* Simon Wistow si...@thegestalt.org [2006-07-12 09:50]:
Does it remember it the next time I fire up a session? Does it
sweaty bollocks floating down the river Cam.
Do it before starting a session. Click a config, click load,
change the setting you want to change, then switch to the session
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