Re: Gnome focus-follows-mouse

2009-07-08 Thread Joe Mahoney
Oh jesus christ you sad bastards. Your preferred mouse/focus behaviour are wrong, whatever it is. Audio-cocks all round!

Re: Gnome focus-follows-mouse

2009-07-08 Thread Joe Mahoney
On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 7:56 PM, Joe Mahoney wrote: > Audio-cocks all round! Pre-emptive reply - of course that includes me Joe

Re: Gnome focus-follows-mouse

2009-07-08 Thread Joe Mahoney
On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 5:27 PM, Aristotle Pagaltzis wrote: > This is hates-software; worship-apple is over there. > OK then. If I click on a window I want it to raise up. If I simply put my mouse over a window I want it do do nothing at all. Any other behaviour is mindbogglingly annoying and

Re: just a reminder that it could be worse

2009-04-17 Thread Joe Mahoney
My java googles came loose when i dropped my laptop. Now I can hear them rattling round in my bag when I walk to work. Joe On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 2:52 AM, Yossi Kreinin wrote: > Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote: >> >> http://www.craigslist.org/about/best/slc/1052576173.html >> >> > > "I accidentally del

Re: Gnumeric Graph Plug-Ins

2008-03-11 Thread Joe Mahoney
, requiring a consistent interface and presentation that stays the same from document to document. Joe Mahoney http://cheerschopper.com

Re: Restart now, or restart in two minutes?

2007-08-30 Thread Joe Mahoney
Well I was replying to the email about os x specific software update. In that case you have a simple, easy choice or updating or not. No need to force quit, no need to be annoyed at having to force quit. Why people even discuss windows updates on this list is beyond me. To paraphrase a CSI charac

Re: Restart now, or restart in two minutes?

2007-08-30 Thread Joe Mahoney
Here's an idea: let's put context back to software updates rather than an analogy. It's my experience the longer I leave a reboot after a reboot-requiring update the more stability problems I have after the reboot. It makes no logical sense but if you're on this list YOU KNOW IT TO BE TRUE. So th

Re: Restart now, or restart in two minutes?

2007-08-30 Thread Joe Mahoney
> OS X Software Update doesn't even give you the option. You restart or... you > restart. And the damn thing will keep bouncing in the dock until you do. > > Fortunately you can just Force Quit the application and that's that. Why run the software update if you don't want to update? Joe

Re: Where "always" means "come hell or high water"

2007-03-16 Thread Joe Mahoney
On 3/16/07, Michael G Schwern wrote: Its like putting a "self destruct" button on the right hand side of all the tables in your house. Carelessly put a cup down in the wrong spot and *boop*! Your table and cup disappear! And the best part is, there's no undo! (something else Tab Mix Plus fix

Re: Dragging to the Taskbar in Windows XP

2007-02-27 Thread Joe Mahoney
Various theories and explanations here: http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/archive/2004/11/24/269237.aspx Joe

Re: Hating the Mac OS X installer

2006-11-20 Thread Joe Mahoney
On Nov 20, 2006, at 8:44 PM, Timothy Knox wrote: After a few minutes, the installer pops up a dialog that says, "You must quit X11.app before updating it. OK?" (or words to that effect). I clicked "OK", expecting the installer to either quit X11 for me, or to stop the install. If I recal

Re: iTunes

2006-10-13 Thread Joe Mahoney
I can't hear anything better than 128 mp3 but I don't have a problem with lossless formats. Joe On 10/13/06, Bill Page wrote: On 10/13/06, A. Pagaltzis wrote: > You're telling me that with a general-purpose CPU running at > 1.5GHz, backed by a bus that's capable of pushing a few dozen (or >

Re: iTunes on Windows

2006-10-09 Thread Joe Mahoney
On 10/4/06, Smylers wrote: > Why repeat? ... Select the files you want to change, hit Option-I, it > asks are you sure you want to edit all those files at once, say yes > and it'll let you set everything in bulk except the track name. Um, in that case I'd guess the answer to your question is "b

Re: iTunes on Windows

2006-10-04 Thread Joe Mahoney
On 10/4/06, Chris Devers wrote: Provide hierarchy, metadata, and efficient search. For example: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Be_File_System Can't argue with that. But until then, iTunes still wins. Joe

Re: iTunes on Windows

2006-10-04 Thread Joe Mahoney
On 10/4/06, Martin Ebourne wrote: The filesystem is an entirely excellent way to organise music. So long as it's all laid out consistently, which is the software's job. (sound-juicer works well for me, sorry that was rather off topic). If by "excellent" you mean "fundamentally crippled" I'd ag