Re: Name change
- From: Whiskers <catwheezel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 7 Apr 2007 21:05:27 +0100
On 2007-04-07, Rowland McDonnell <real-address-in-sig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Whiskers <catwheezel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 2007-04-07, Rowland McDonnell <real-address-in-sig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Whiskers <catwheezel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Rowland McDonnell <real-address-in-sig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Whiskers <catwheezel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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If you don't mind losing control and ownership of the images,
<http://tinypic.com/> hits the spot.
Hmm. `No nudity of offensive content allowed'. No `offensive' content?
Hmm. Terms and conditions, me no like. Nothing offensive means you can
get into trouble for perfectly innocent behaviour just on the basis of
someone complaining that you offended them.
What can they do if they don't like your picture? You aren't registered,
so the only sanctions they have are to remove the file and perhaps report
you to your ISP - or block your IP number if they're confident enough that
it's 'static'.
Hmm. Still, I'm not keen on it, and - oh, it's just a rip-off that
site, designed to get access to pictures, surely? Don't trust it.
Don't trust it at all.
I certainly wouldn't let them get hold of anything I wanted to claim as my
own in any way; but for a quick way to 'post' screenshots or other such
trivia it seems pretty harmless, to me.
The world is full of people quick to claim 'offence' about
all sorts of things, so businesses and law-enforcers usually take a
reasonably robust attitude to such complaints.
Law enforcers? We don't have them in this country. Law enforcement is
an invention of the fascist bully-boys in the USA as far as I can tell.
We get theirs, as does everyone else who doesn't get the Chinese or
Russian version instead. All they have to do is say 'we want that one,
trussed up like a turkey' and wait a bit while the Queen's representatives
go through the motions of thinking about it. Would it be better to get
European law enforcers instead? I'm not sure, but at least Brussels isn't
as far as Dallas or LA.
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I have a self-hiding 'panel' as well,
which you an see in the latest screenshot.
Is that the thing along the top? It seems to be akin to the MacOS
`Dock' - an entity I consider to be a Really Big Mistake in the
implementation we have. The problem is that it's used for `everything':
launcher (app, file, folder, disc, server, and all other entities),
displays all running user apps, keeps icons of minimised windows, it's
where the trash is now kept, and it's also meant for information display
(application icons displayed on the dock often display information).
The panel I use can have such things included, or not; it's very
configurable.
The problem with the `dock' is that it ain't; it's a hang-over from
NeXTSTEP, and I suspect the `non Mac' version might well have been
heavily configurable - but of course that's not the Apple way, is it?
I think the NeXT and related interface was very configurable; it is often
the basis for Linux interfaces.
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I do have a little toy on my desktop; it takes the form of a small
animated 'thing' which moves around the screen, along the top of the
active window or the bottom of the display, taking various forms which get
up to 'appropriate' antics - yesterday, a skating acrobatic penguin; today
a little white kitten (which is curled up atop this window, snoring, at
present). Is that sane enough? <G>
Oh yes. There were many such things for the old line of the Macintosh
OS - but not `all rolled into one' like that. The kitten wouldn't be
called Neko, would it?
The kitten graphics are borrowed fron the original Neko, I believe. The
program is called AMOR (Amusing Misuse Of Resources), part of the KDE-Toys
package. (It works fine in my XFce4 environment, ie not KDE).
I'm currently trying to track down a game which involves piloting a
paper aeroplane around a house. Well, actually, I mounted the disc
images I think contain it, and then immediately went and did something
else.
Ah, the 'went and did something else' problem. I get that too.
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I have a 'hyperthreading' P4 CPU
so the two CPUs shown by the monitor are not quite two independent things;
hence only one CPU temperature display.
Righto. No need for stuff like hyperthreading here (apparently, it
slows down Windoze) - four CPU cores in two chips. I've just got four
real processors :-) Who me, smug? Oh yes.
OK, OK, ...
Actual launchers - well, while I could use *one* of those things as a
launcher, I mainly use it for finding folders.
I generally launch a terminal (RXvt) and run mc (Midnight Commander) a
very nice text-based file manager (and editor and ftp client etc), for
'finding stuff'.
Righto. ISTR hearing about a Mac port of Midnight Commander. There are
diddly-ump ways of `finding stuff' on this 'ere Mac. I use whichever
one I happen to remember and think is easiest at any given moment.
I think you'd like mc, especially if the Mac port comes with mousey stuff
enabled.
Anyway, to explain: the temperature probably ought to go, 'cos I don't
have any need to see it. It's displayed by the Temperature Monitor app,
which I keep running 'cos it keeps a log and I've been interested in
what the hell goes on at times (some software doesn't play nice and
sometimes uses 100% of a CPU - with four CPUs, this can happen even with
a pre-emptive multitasking OS).
Yes. That's one of the things I use GKrellM to tell me about. CPU and
disc activity, LAN traffic, a sort of 'mini top display', etc.
I've got Activity Monitor to give me the `what's up now' info; the thing
about Temperature Monitor is that you can use its temperature log to
infer `when the trouble started'.
I gotta lotta logs for all sorts of things :))
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And then the small filing cabinet is XMenu:
a configurable pull-down menu of files and folders so you can `just get
to whatever' in the file system without hassle. And the small blue
magnifying glass is the bloody, bloody Spotlight (system search) icon
and the sooner Spotlight is shot, the better.
Is that one of these new-fangled 'index everything' things?
That's not the problem. We've had indexed searching on Macs for yonks.
It's just that you can't avoid it now - it's compulsory. There is no
other `Find' provided by the GUI. You wanna search for just a file by
name? Not easy, and it's impossible to get the results displayed in a
fashion that I can use readily. It's just a total bloody disaster if
you ask me.
One of these days, I'm going to sit down and make some notes on `how to
use find from the command line' and stick to using that. It's not as
bad as all that - MacOS X has a nice `open' command in the Terminal
which is about the same as double-clicking a file in the Finder.
Sounds sensible. Midnight Commander has a nice 'find file' tool - Alt-?
(ie Alt-Shift-/ on a UK keyboard; M-? in emacs notation) to get the dialog
in the mc window or console, or use the mc drop-down menus to get there.
They've
infiltrated the Linux world too; my distro, Mandriva, had 'kat' included
in the default installation for a while - and then made it optional in
response to the shrieks of agony as it hogged CPU clicks and disc access
apparently making some peoples systems almost unusable while the initial
index database was constructed.
Mac users have the same trouble - but they just have to scream in
anguish because Apple won't make Spotlight off-switchable. Well, okay,
*Apple* won't do that - but people have found out, so, erm, we don't
have to suffer.
I dislike solutions to small problems, that cause big problems.
Presumably someone thinks they're a good
idea, but I can't see why.
It can be handy to look inside files, but I'd rather do it `as and when'
rather than use an index. Indexes - oh, they just cause problems.
Thing is, that sort of thing is also `the Unix way' to an extent. Maybe
things will get sensible in another decade or two.
I like to see
what my machine is doing;
I know the feeling - but I find I'd rather not be distracted by that
sort of thing. I mean, I've often got `Activity Monitor' running (think
of a GUI version of top, and then add brass knobs and all the other
monitoring in that line you can think of), and I can't help keeping an
eye on things when I have. Waste of flippin' time, that's what.
I'm very good at ignoring things.
Lucky old you. I'm not.
Except
that sometime they will be some process got itself messed up - usually
Classic - and needing a bit of a prod (aka kill -9, or `Force quit' in
MacOS X terms).
'Runaway process'. We get those in Linux sometimes too.
Werl, yeah - after all, Linux is basically the same sort of OS as MacOS
X.
Except that Linux users get to screw up their systems in so many more
ways.
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