kwack - Slashdot User

Comment Re:After 5 years' Linux usage, I'm switching to Ma (Score 1) 378

by kwack on Saturday November 10, 2012 @08:27AM (#41941461) Attached to: GNOME 3.8 To Scrap Fallback Mode

A couple of things power users enjoy in OSX:

- Services
- The automator
- AppleScript
- Using these to design workflows involving different applications

If you are creative and willing to learn a bit, you are getting pretty damn enabled in OSX by these extremely well thought through tool sets.

And I actually even like the Finder. Miller Columns mode together with a persistent info window, and of course activated services linked to my custimized scripts, is working fantastic.

Comment no predictions (Score 2) 258

by kwack on Sunday April 29, 2012 @07:33PM (#39840323) Attached to: The Science of Handedness

As someone who knows a little bit of mathematical modeling and statistics, I have to point out that they did not predict the percentages, since they already were known! The correct term would be retrodict.

Comment PowerPC version broken (Score 3, Informative) 299

by kwack on Sunday February 19, 2012 @04:34PM (#39094677) Attached to: VLC 2.0 'Twoflower' Released For Windows & Mac

I upgraded to 2.0.0 on my old PowerPC G4 iMac, which I like to use as a movie player "for the design". Warning for that! No sound, red stripes all over the frame... The upside is that it's really easy to downgrade, just move the old app bundle back from the trash can to the applications folder.

The Battle Between Purists and Pragmatists 213

Posted by kdawson on Friday July 24, 2009 @05:29PM from the driving-out-in-all-directions dept.

Glyn Moody has a thoughtful piece taking a long look at the never-ending battle between pragmatists and purists in free and open software. "While debates rage around whether Mono is good or bad for free software, and about 'fauxpen source' and 'Faux FLOSS Fundamentalists,' people are overlooking the fact that these are just the latest in a series of such arguments about whether the end justifies the means. There was the same discussion when KDE was launched using the Qt toolkit, which was proprietary at the time, and when GNOME was set up as a completely free alternative. But could it be that this battle between the 'purists' and the 'pragmatists' is actually good for free software — a sign that people care passionately about this stuff — and a major reason for its success?"

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