Re: Contextual menus are on right-click, OK?

2007-02-01 Thread Peter da Silva
> First, ctrl-click works for me on the word "alarm." Does same thing as > left-click. Which is why nobody at Apple noticed it, I'm sure, because except for a few leftover NeXTies I'm sure they all use control-click, so the lazy code in iCal that just ignores the meta-key seems to work for them.

Re: Contextual menus are on right-click, OK?

2007-02-01 Thread Chris Nandor
At 14:07 -0600 2007.02.01, Peter da Silva wrote: >``Normally on the Mac where an object on the screen has a contextual >menu available, that is accessed by right-clicking. In iCal, to >add an additional alarm to an event, you have to LEFT click on the >word "alarm". Right-clicking does nothing. Tw

Re: Bash file completion, symbolic links and pwd confusion

2007-02-01 Thread Peter da Silva
Bash is doing the wrong thing. You are in "foo/bar". There is nothing inside "foo/bar" for any program you run to tell that you got there by following a symbolic link. Bash is hiding this from you. This is like getting on a plane and having it fly to the wrong airport, and your Joo Janta Peril Se

Contextual menus are on right-click, OK?

2007-02-01 Thread Peter da Silva
Bug-report to Apple, on iCal: ``Normally on the Mac where an object on the screen has a contextual menu available, that is accessed by right-clicking. In iCal, to add an additional alarm to an event, you have to LEFT click on the word "alarm". Right-clicking does nothing. ``Whether that's a bug o

Re: Bash file completion, symbolic links and pwd confusion

2007-02-01 Thread Tony Finch
You can turn off this POSIX-me-harder braindamage with set -P. Tony. -- f.a.n.finchhttp://dotat.at/ VIKING: WEST, BACKING SOUTHWEST FOR A TIME, 4 OR 5 OCCASIONALLY 6. MODERATE OR ROUGH. OCCASIONAL RAIN OR DRIZZLE. GOOD, OCCASIONALLY MODERATE OR POOR.

Bash file completion, symbolic links and pwd confusion

2007-02-01 Thread Robert Rothenberg
Note the following session: m...@nix:~$ mkdir foo m...@nix:~$ mkdir foo/bar m...@nix:~$ mkdir foo/feh m...@nix:~$ mkdir baz m...@nix:~$ mkdir baz/bo m...@nix:~$ cd baz m...@nix:~/baz$ ln -s ../foo/bar m...@nix:~/baz$ cd bar m...@nix:~/baz/bar$ ls ../bo Bash file completion works as one e

Re: Denial of denial of service

2007-02-01 Thread A. Pagaltzis
* blah blah [2007-02-01 01:55]: > I'm hating the fact that in BSTR's, the pointer points to the > first character, while the four bytes indicating length exist > *before* the pointer, _as well as_ the whole string being > NULL-terminated. > > http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms221069.aspx

Re: Upper limit on software hate

2007-02-01 Thread Peter da Silva
On Jan 31, 2007, at 11:59 AM, David Landgren wrote: The interactions of a complex system lead to... emergent hate. So that's what the Singularity is.

Re: Denial of denial of service

2007-02-01 Thread blah blah
I'm not really hating length being part of the structure of the string. I'm hating the fact that in BSTR's, the pointer points to the first character, while the four bytes indicating length exist *before* the pointer, _as well as_ the whole string being NULL-terminated. http://msdn2.microsoft.com