Apparently, though unproven, at 00:09 on Sunday 05 June 2011, Stroller did
opine thusly:
Yes, like FINDER (actually makes windows explorer look almost
reasonable),
You know, Finder is not as bad as you would imagine. As Alan says - it
works exactly how Steve thinks it should work. I can
On Sun, Jun 05, 2011 at 12:40:29PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
So here's one thing that MacOS is very good at: text searches. I have to
archive old mails in off-line tbz2 to retain some sanity, my colleagues on
Macs don't. Their mail store goes somewhere (we don't know where, not having
On Sat, Jun 04, 2011 at 05:10:01AM +0200, Stroller wrote:
Part of my post that you chose not to quote was I'd be the first to admit
that Macs have flaws.
All desktops / UIs / operating-systems are a compromise. I don't believe any
of them are perfect.
Last time I used Linux on the
Apparently, though unproven, at 13:35 on Saturday 04 June 2011, Indi did opine
thusly:
You say OS X is good enough
I say you've got some mighty low standards.
My manager's predecessor's precedessor's precedessor had the same thing with
SuSE and installed that goddamn piece of shit on 100+
On Sat, Jun 04, 2011 at 06:47:34PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
Apparently, though unproven, at 13:35 on Saturday 04 June 2011, Indi did
opine
thusly:
You say OS X is good enough
I say you've got some mighty low standards.
My manager's predecessor's precedessor's precedessor had the
On Saturday 04 Jun 2011 18:25:00 Indi wrote:
On Sat, Jun 04, 2011 at 06:47:34PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
Apparently, though unproven, at 13:35 on Saturday 04 June 2011, Indi did
opine
thusly:
You say OS X is good enough
I say you've got some mighty low standards.
My
On 4 June 2011, at 12:35, Indi wrote:
...
Last time I used Linux on the desktop (in ernest) I had some dreadful
problems with KDE crashing or failing to open under certain circumstances,
which I found frustrating and impossible to overcome. That was several years
ago, and no-one on the
On Sat, 4 Jun 2011 23:09:28 +0100, Stroller wrote:
My client wraps lines at a perfectly sensible length.
http://linux.stroller.uk.eu.org/Email%20Line%20Wrapping.png
It's not always a readable length. Long lines are much harder to read,
that's why newspapers use columns. The accepted width
On Sat, Jun 04, 2011 at 11:09:28PM +0100, Stroller wrote:
You know, Finder is not as bad as you would imagine.
I don't have to imagine.
Bought my first Mac (an SE) in 1987, and my last in 2009.
The '87 SE still works, the 2009 mini no longer does and was a
buggy piece o' crap all its life.
On Saturday 04 Jun 2011 23:38:09 Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Sat, 4 Jun 2011 23:09:28 +0100, Stroller wrote:
My client wraps lines at a perfectly sensible length.
http://linux.stroller.uk.eu.org/Email%20Line%20Wrapping.png
It's not always a readable length. Long lines are much harder to
Mick wrote:
On Saturday 04 Jun 2011 23:38:09 Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Sat, 4 Jun 2011 23:09:28 +0100, Stroller wrote:
My client wraps lines at a perfectly sensible length.
http://linux.stroller.uk.eu.org/Email%20Line%20Wrapping.png
It's not always a readable length. Long
On Sat, Jun 04, 2011 at 06:37:31PM -0500, Dale wrote:
Mick wrote:
On Saturday 04 Jun 2011 23:38:09 Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Sat, 4 Jun 2011 23:09:28 +0100, Stroller wrote:
My client wraps lines at a perfectly sensible length.
On 3 June 2011, at 02:32, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
...
Your Linux box isn't working, and you're complaining about Macs?
That seems a little inappropriate.
Let me assure you: when a Mac has a hardware button, it will work just fine.
It won't be disabled for no reason.
This is why I
Stroller wrote:
My next machine will have 8gb of RAM, and I'm pretty confident I won't see this
problem; I typically have 40 - 60 browser tabs open in perhaps 8 different
windows.
Stroller.
I used to do that when I was on dial-up. Large pages would take so
long, I would click on
On Tuesday 31 May 2011 00:26:45 Stroller wrote:
On 30/5/2011, at 11:10am, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
...
Right clicking on Audio Disc gives an eject menu point. YUCK!!! If
I'd've wanted an Apple Macintosh, I know where to buy one. I just want
my drive's eject button to work.
Your Linux
Hello, Stroller.
On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 12:26:45AM +0100, Stroller wrote:
On 30/5/2011, at 11:10am, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
...
Right clicking on Audio Disc gives an eject menu point. YUCK!!!
If I'd've wanted an Apple Macintosh, I know where to buy one. I just
want my drive's eject
On Tuesday 31 May 2011 14:45:47 Alan McKinnon wrote:
Apparently, though unproven, at 13:46 on Monday 30 May 2011, Mick did opine
thusly:
e17 is the best desktop for me, because it is extremely light footed, has
enough eye candy (if you need that) and it is relatively
configurable. Until
, though unproven, at 00:05 on Thursday 02 June 2011, Mick did opine thusly:
On Tuesday 31 May 2011 14:45:47 Alan McKinnon wrote:
Apparently, though unproven, at 13:46 on Monday 30 May 2011, Mick did
opine
thusly:
e17 is the best desktop for me, because it is extremely light footed,
On Wednesday 01 Jun 2011 23:50:18 Alan McKinnon wrote:
, though unproven, at 00:05 on Thursday 02 June 2011, Mick did opine thusly:
On Tuesday 31 May 2011 14:45:47 Alan McKinnon wrote:
Apparently, though unproven, at 13:46 on Monday 30 May 2011, Mick did
opine
thusly:
e17 is
Apparently, though unproven, at 13:46 on Monday 30 May 2011, Mick did opine
thusly:
e17 is the best desktop for me, because it is extremely light footed, has
enough eye candy (if you need that) and it is relatively
configurable. Until it becomes stable you'll need to compile it from
svn.
on 05/29/2011 11:49 PM Alan Mackenzie wrote the following:
So, I thought, maybe this feature is another pesky group restriction.
So I tried adding myself to group disk, then to group cdrw,
Try adding yourself to plugdev group also.
Hi, Alan.
On Sun, May 29, 2011 at 11:56:10PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
Apparently, though unproven, at 23:37 on Sunday 29 May 2011, Alan Mackenzie
did opine thusly:
Hi, Neil.
On Sun, May 29, 2011 at 10:13:08PM +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Sun, 29 May 2011 22:58:39 +0200, Alan
Apparently, though unproven, at 12:10 on Monday 30 May 2011, Alan Mackenzie
did opine thusly:
My money says you've been hit by the Gnome Borg - where you are only
permitted to do things the way the gnome devs have deemed to be
appropriate and TheOneTrueWay(tm). After all, you are just a
On Monday 30 May 2011 11:33:02 Alan McKinnon wrote:
Apparently, though unproven, at 12:10 on Monday 30 May 2011, Alan Mackenzie
Can't say I blame you. What's the choice, though? I appreciate the
spare uncluttered desktop of Gnome. Last time I tried KDE (about 7 years
ago) it was
On Sun, 29 May 2011 20:49:05 +
Alan Mackenzie a...@muc.de wrote:
Having played a CD, I discover there's no way to eject it; the physical
button on the drive is inactive until I exit from Gnome, which is
clearly suboptimal.
Try checking to see if any program has a file open in the cd.
If
On 30/5/2011, at 11:10am, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
...
Right clicking on Audio Disc gives an eject menu point. YUCK!!! If
I'd've wanted an Apple Macintosh, I know where to buy one. I just want
my drive's eject button to work.
Your Linux box isn't working, and you're complaining about Macs?
On 30/5/2011, at 11:33am, Alan McKinnon wrote:
You're dashed right. I now understand what's happening: When a CD is
inserted and Gnome detects it as an audio CD, the CD drive is locked. At
the same time, a stupid icon Audio Disc appears on the screen.
I don't understand why they
On 31/5/2011, at 12:26am, Stroller wrote:
On 30/5/2011, at 11:10am, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
It gets worse. If you double click on Audio Disc, it opens a window
with the files uselessly displayed.
I'll bet it doesn't display the actual files. Audio CDs don't have files,
they have a
I can't be of much more help to you, I don't use Gnome at all (see above)
Can't say I blame you. What's the choice, though? I appreciate the
spare uncluttered desktop of Gnome. Last time I tried KDE (about 7 years
ago) it was anything but uncluttered. I tried XFCE briefly, but couldn't
daid@titan ~ % cat /etc/udev/rules.d/10-local.rules
# external USB, Seagate FreeAgent GO aka cyclops
SUBSYSTEMS==usb, DRIVERS==usb, ATTRS{serial}==
5LZ2XQJ5, SYMLINK+=cyclops ACTION==add,
RUN+=/etc/udev/scripts/mount_cyclops.sh
Sorry, but make sure that the one entry (begins with
On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 12:10:02AM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
Apparently, though unproven, at 23:37 on Sunday 29 May 2011, Alan Mackenzie
did opine thusly:
Hi, Neil.
On Sun, May 29, 2011 at 10:13:08PM +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Sun, 29 May 2011 22:58:39 +0200, Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 22:49 on Sunday 29 May 2011, Alan Mackenzie
did opine thusly:
Hi, Gentoo.
I've now managed to play CDs in Gnome, primarily by adding myself to the
cdrom group. I do wish all these restrictions, enforced by group
membership, could be switched off.
Having
On Sun, 29 May 2011 22:58:39 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
With a CD in the drive and gnome running, please post the output of
mount
cat /etc/mtab
And the output of eject -v
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Hi, Alan.
On Sun, May 29, 2011 at 10:58:39PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
Apparently, though unproven, at 22:49 on Sunday 29 May 2011, Alan Mackenzie
did opine thusly:
Hi, Gentoo.
I've now managed to play CDs in Gnome, primarily by adding myself to the
cdrom group. I do wish all these
Apparently, though unproven, at 23:20 on Sunday 29 May 2011, Alan Mackenzie
did opine thusly:
Hi, Alan.
On Sun, May 29, 2011 at 10:58:39PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
Apparently, though unproven, at 22:49 on Sunday 29 May 2011, Alan
Mackenzie
did opine thusly:
Hi, Gentoo.
Hi, Neil.
On Sun, May 29, 2011 at 10:13:08PM +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Sun, 29 May 2011 22:58:39 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
With a CD in the drive and gnome running, please post the output of
mount
cat /etc/mtab
And the output of eject -v
acm@acm ~ $ eject -v
eject: using
Apparently, though unproven, at 23:37 on Sunday 29 May 2011, Alan Mackenzie
did opine thusly:
Hi, Neil.
On Sun, May 29, 2011 at 10:13:08PM +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Sun, 29 May 2011 22:58:39 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
With a CD in the drive and gnome running, please post the
On Sunday 29 May 2011 22:56:10 Alan McKinnon wrote:
My money says you've been hit by the Gnome Borg - where you are only
permitted to do things the way the gnome devs have deemed to be
appropriate and TheOneTrueWay(tm). After all, you are just a user, what
do you know? The devs know better,
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