Comment Kodos FTW (Score 1, Informative) 750
I'm voting for Kodos!
I'm voting for Kodos!
I bought a macbook 2006, still running strong.
Solid machines indeed. I especially *love* the self-cleaning aspect of the early Intel Mac laptops. Dirty keyboard? Simply fire up a YouTube Flash video and let the fans blow the crap out.
Twin fans means you get a mini tornado above the 'H' key.
10 years ago I bought a Powerbook G4 and ran it for 6 years without a single issue. Then I got burgled whilst on holiday, and it was no more. Once the insurance came through, I got a MacBook Pro (2006) and it's still my main workhorse today. No longer the fastest or bestest, but everything works.
While waiting for the insurance to pay up for the G4, a friend gave me an old T30 Thinkpad. I upped the RAM & HDD and installed Linux, then used it daily. That died in a house flood 2 years ago (burst water main, upstairs neighbour), again whilst I was on holiday.
This leads me to believe that the single largest cause of computer failure is going on holiday. Now, I take the fuckers with me.
1) Open the picture.
On 10.5 and later, select the image and hit the space key. Use arrow keys as required to navigate.
Like how the OS calculator doesn't have scientific functions until 10.5.
In 10.4, press Command+(1/2/3) to switch views. Command+2 is 'scientific', Command+3 is 'programmer'.
Or how to extract a still from a movie, you have to re-navigate to the directory every
... fuckin' ... time.
If your movie is full screen, hit Command+Shift+3 and it'll create a picture on your desktop. If your movie is windowed, hit Command+Shift+4 and use the cross-hairs to define the area to snapshot.
Or how you can't use the standard upload file interface on websites, but have to hope it's compatible with iPhoto or some other hack.
I really don't get this. Either use the 'browse' button like anyone else, or just drag and drop the file in question into the file upload control.
Or the lack of alt-shortcuts which makes it so that you can't call up a function from a menu unless it's been hot-keyed.
Turn on 'full keyboard access' in the System Prefs (Ctrl+F1).
+5 informative my arse. Perhaps your time and energy would be better spend learning to use your damn machine instead of ranting about non-existent problems.
Because
As a bonus, this delay gives you time to formulate your rage into a semi-coherent rant for / against the subject and post it here for the world to point fingers at. Alternatively, you could just troll like everyone else does. Or post a link to goatse or tubgirl. Or your lame blog.
Or you know, you could actually get involved with the discussion.
Your call...
They saw a chair try to hump a table and therefore said that the chair is a he and the table is a she.
In Italian, yes. In French, Catalan and Spanish both these items are feminine.
He must have been some real twisted SOB to come to the conclusion that a woman's vagina is a masculine noun!
Conversely, 'vagina' is only masculine in French. In Italian, Catalan and Spanish both these items are feminine.
Even though we lump them together under a common 'Romance' flag, the differences between the various constituent languages are enormous. It's these differences that retain my interest. I love the idea that there are whole chunks of words in French that are silent, but implied. Makes the language a bitch to learn though, unlike Spanish where it is spoken as read; where every letter is pronounced (and always with the same intonation).
For the record, I live in Barcelona with my French wife. While her Spanish (Castilian) is technically perfect, she often has problems making herself understood because she can't make the right sounds (the rolled double R in 'Tarragona', the J in 'cojones'). As a Scot, I have no problem with these, but trip up embarrassingly often on 'beaucoup' (beau cul)!
You are English skills are terrible.
Sarcasm? Irony? WTF is this?
Otherwise, I think the GP got his point across just fine...
In other words, 10.4 no longer gets security updates
Untrue. The last 'general' security update for 10.4 was on 10 Sept 2009. There have been subsequent security updates for Safari, iTunes, etc.
Note to self II: Fuck moderating, drink more Lagavulin...
Posting to undo fucked up moderation.
Note to self: Don't moderate whilst drinking Lagavulin.
On OSX you should take a moment to check out Camino. It's normally a couple of steps behind the latest Firefox release, but it's far more Mac-like with full support for the 'Services' menu, Keychain, speelchequer, etc. To automatically get the latest Camino nightlies that are somewhat closer to the Firefox releases, you may be interested in CaminoKnight.
You may miss a few common Firefox plugins, but at least Adblock is there...
I think you'll find Rule #42 is:
"DON'T PANIC"
The rule in question is, I believe, #38. Perhaps you should take a moment to review the rules that have been available in the local planning office for the last nine months.
Take a flashlight.
What's the point in having a stick if you can't poke something with it?
For God's sake, stop researching for a while and begin to think!
