Comment: Re:Does Microsoft make bad versions deliberately? (Score 1) 610
The Mac's menu-bar at the top of the screen was a Fitts' Law thing, the same reason why Windows (before 8) put the Start Button in the corner, and why Windows 95 was so brain-damaged for putting the Start button two pixels away from the corner.
In Windows
Hell, I'm using Kubuntu with KDE right now, and how is it set up? With the K menu in the lower right corner, ready to be quick-drawn at the flick of a mouse.
Though to be honest, the Mac-style menubars don't work as well as they used to. In the early days of the Mac, screens were smaller, trying to get multiple windows on screen just made it hard to get work done, so you maximized your window, had your menubar on the top of the screen, and for those early Macs with small monitors and lower resolutions, that was the optimal way to get things done.
Now with big screens, and multiple screens, people want to have multiple windows up. On my system, I usually don't have my web browser maximized, because it makes columns too wide that way, and makes reading harder, so I have it only vertically maximized. On systems with the huge amounts of screen real-estate, the top-of-the-screen Mac-style menu bar doesn't make as much sense anymore. It's too removed from the application. Some power users will still like it - they're all for quick-drawing their menus, but having the app in one window, and the menus for that app way off on the top edge of the screen is confusing.
And big monitors is why Microsoft's insistence on forcibly full-screening applications is brain-damaged.
Comment: Only if you can separate it from the U-232 (Score 5, Informative) 258
Comment: I learned that the hard way as a teenager. (Score 5, Informative) 164
My very first job, I worked at an A&W, and they put me to work at the deep fryer. The procedure there (OSHA would not approve) was to take a big bag of fries out of the freezer, cook some of them, put the fries back in the freezer, and repeat for a few iterations. They freeze-thaw cycles would cause the fries to get covered with ice crystals.
One particularly frantic dinner rush, I was scrambling to get fries out, and I jammed a whole bunch of ice-covered fries in the deep fryer. Of course, the crystals flashed to steam, and splashed my arm with napalm-hot frying oil. I still have the scars.
Comment: Seen in the manual for a T-Mobile G2 smartphone: (Score 1) 143
Comment: There's Gandhicam... (Score 4, Informative) 983
Comment: Re:Hardly (Score 1) 362
Nmap 5.20 Released 36
from the more-and-better dept.
Comment: Building artificially intelligent killing machines (Score 4, Funny) 258
Pushing Linux Adoption Through Gaming 269
from the year-of-games-on-the-linuxtop dept.
+ - White House: E-mail on Fired Lawyers was Deleted
+ - White House E-mails Deleted
+ - GWB43.com -- Now Disappearing
"The nameservers responsible for giving the definitive answer as to gwb43.com are no longer responding to requests for that domain. The email servers are still there, but I'm not able to pin down the IP for the domain itself. It appears to me that steps are being taken to 'disappear' gwb43.com." Geeky Bonus: Dig query showing no "A" record for the domain."
+ - RNC Emails Lost! How believable is that?
+ - RNC "Lost" Emails. Can they be recovered?
Is anyone else seeing the ghost of Rosemary Woods here? This question is for those of you who work in ISPs and other places where you handle a decent amount of email. How likely is it that emails such as the ones in the story can be lost accidentally? How hard it is to "lose" emails deliberately? And assuming that computer forensics gurus can get a hold of those servers, as well as the workstations of certain White House aides (like Karl Rove,) how hard would it be to recover emails that had been "accidentally" deleted, or even deliberately wiped?"