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Comment: Re:I'm not the only one! (Score 1) 797

by sslayer (#35393056) Attached to: GNOME To Lose Minimize, Maximize Buttons
I've been using IceWM for about 10 years now. And I maximize and minimize a lot and, guess what? I've been doing it with the keyboard for years too. People who watches me managing my windows can't follow my speed of action and are frequently amazed.

The trick is simple: alt+space activates the context menu of the current window (just as if you clicked right button on the title bar). The, you have the three most common options just a centimeter from your finger: X to maximize, N to minimize, C to close. Both X and C can be typed with the same hand that has pressed alt+space, so it's quicker than, say, alt+F4. By the way, this three options work exactly the same under Windows, so it's a pretty good habit.

If I need to move a window around, I will never click on the title bar: I will type alt+space+m in 20 miliseconds and then I can move the window just moving the mouse from where it is, without the need to go to the title bar. This also works on Windows.

If I want to send a window to another virtual desktop, it's pretty easy: alt+space+t (for move To), and then the number of the desktop. Want to make a window on top of all the others? alt+window+y (for laYer) and then A (for Above dock) or N for Norma, or maybe B for Below... and all that just with one hand at the speed of light.

Long live to IceWM!

Comment: Re:folders + wiki (Score 1) 356

by sslayer (#35193788) Attached to: File Organization — How Do You Do It In 2011?
If you read the link from GP you will get these numbers:

example statistics (HP Proliant ML350 quad-core Xeon CPU 1.86GHz)
* n.directories: ~4800.
* initial scan: ~ 14sec.
* initial notebook upgrade (only once): ~ 13min.
* zim folder total dimension: 37MB.
* maintenance scans: ~ 25sec.

So it seems to me that you wouldn't wait more than a few minutes to get the new structure written on the wiki. Sounds pretty good.

Comment: Meccano (Score 1) 458

by sslayer (#34294150) Attached to: Thought-Provoking Gifts For Young Kids?
Meccano is remarkably the best construction game ever made. It's not only about imagination and building things but also about learning how to use the tools, mixing them when neccesary and understanding physics (for example, why does this nut gets unscrewed when the motor is on) and learning real world building, and in later years, they should be able to fix their own bikes when they need to change the brakes, because they know the tools, how to use them and why are they to be used that way.

Comment: Re:might be interesting to host it? (Score 1) 215

by sslayer (#34068914) Attached to: Geocities To Be Made Available As a 900GB Torrent
What I don't really understand is:

if it's only 900Gb of data or, for the sake of the argument, suppose it really is 9000Gb of data, come on, what could be the cost of hosting 10 terabytes? How much is yahoo saving every year after removing geocities? Something like, I dunno, 100 bucks a year? You can buy 1Tb disk for less than 100$ and will last for a decade. And in a decade you'll have 1000Tb for less than 100$.

Really, I think it's been much more troublesome for yahoo to remove geocities from the net than it would have been keeping it alive.

Comment: Re:Can I do this with Asterisk? (Score 3, Insightful) 83

by sslayer (#33999618) Attached to: Asterisk 1.8 Released With Support For Google Voice
Yes, you'll be able to do that. That is, probably, the most basic functionality of Asterisk. You can, as well, make your Asterisk server connect to another SIP provider (like voipbuster and the like) and redirect your phone calls through the trunk it provides. And that's just the beginning...

Comment: Re:How to get out of work on a progeamming team (Score 1) 814

by sslayer (#33144622) Attached to: Sentence Spacing — 1 Space or 2?

4. Discussion settled? Ask "Should there be brackets around code even if there's only one line? Like this:

If( foo == true) a=x;

Or is it: If( foo = true) { a=x; }

Given that those sentences are not equivalent, I'd choose the first one. Sure, it's not pretty and prone to make you make mistakes. However, I think that your intention is to compare if foo is true, not to set foo to true and then test if that succeed.

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