On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 06:01:37PM -0500, Nick Sabalausky wrote: [...] > Hmm, if that's like Total Commander on Windows, then I don't think I > would like it. I do *love* Total Commander's multi-file renaming, but > that feature is really the only reason I keep it around. > > Heh, as bad as this might sound, I think what I basically want is more > or less Windows Explorer on linux ;) (Including the customizations > I've installed, like "DOS Prompt Here" and Tortoise*) And yea, > Explorer works under wine, but it's kinda like running a GTK app in > Windows - but worse since Windows GTK apps at least *know* what OS > they're really running on.
Maybe if you write one in D... ;-) Perhaps *that's* the killer D app that we've been waiting for, that will take the world by a storm. :P [...] > > Keyboard/mouse switching is much better when it's a laptop with that > > "nipple" thing in the middle of the keyboard. In fact, that's the only [...] > I like to call it the clit mouse. It beats the shit out of trackpads (I hate > those things with a passion), but I still find them a pain compared to mice > and my trusty Logitech trackball. So I'm the opposite of you there: I > actually find it much *easier* to switch between keyboard and trackball than > keyboard and "clit mouse" despite the increased distance. Maybe I'm just > weird. Are you trying to out-weird me? ;-) [...] > > Ooooh! Another Apple II veteran! Ah, the good ole Apple II. Believe > > it or not, my dad actually still has a couple o' 30-year-old Apple > > II's that he actually *still uses*. He wrote a little personal > > accounting app in Dbase, and has been using it for the last 3 > > decades. Never felt the need to upgrade. Of course, now he also has > > a modern-day laptop and modern PCs in the office. But that old > > faithful Apple II is still chugging away... > > > > Wow. Nice. I have an Apple IIc in a pile on the floor here to my > right. Haven't had time to play with it in forever though. It's the > same model I grep up on (IIc), but not the same physical machine. > *God* I wish I hadn't sold my floppies along with my original system. Hmm. I'm really dating myself now, but I grew up with the *original* Apple II, not even the IIc. I think I did get a IIc later on, but I got caught up with IBM PCs around the time Macs started coming out. Haven't been back to Apple since. > I really wish I still had all that old data of mine. Probably all gone > forever now: Overwritten, decayed, or in a landfill. :( Well, even if you did have those old disks... they probably would've demagnetized by now. Perhaps. OTOH, ftp.apple.asimov (together with an Apple II emulator) is a wonderful resource for those moments of nostalgia, when you're just feeling that urge to go boot up with a single beep and see that beautiful "]█" prompt staring at you, just like it used to decades ago. And then you 'call -151' and geek out on coding some assembly routines by typing in opcodes, etc.. > I'm actually a huge Apple hater ever since I got fed up with my 10.2 > eMac and the whole "Return of Jobs" world and product lines in > general. But I *always* consider Woz's Apple II line to be the big, > giant, glaring exception in Apple's portfolio. [...] Ah, good ole Wozniak. Wasn't he the one who practically single-handedly coded up the entire Apple II ROM? Or am I just mixing up urban legend with reality? :) T -- Just because you can, doesn't mean you should.
