Bill and Ted and Cartman's Maccellent Adventure
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I miss copy con file.txt.
What about something like
copy con aux
- I seem to remember something like this crashing old windows.
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The question is why can't you just convert? Unless I'm missing something, it should just require (at worst) reindexing all the filenames.
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if you're going to fix it at some point you have to rip the bandaid off. Fast or slow it won't change the pain, and either way you gotta go through it to fix what's broken.
That's not the Microsoft Way™.
The Microsoft Way™ is to keep the bandaid there, forever. Piling more and more bandaids on top of it.
@boomzilla said:
NOW YOU CAN CLOSE THE TICKETS.
WE DO! THEY KEEP OPENING NEW ONES!KEEP CLOSING THEM. Problem solved.
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The question is why can't you just convert? Unless I'm missing something, it should just require (at worst) reindexing all the filenames.
There's like some paid partition magic type thing that can supposedly convert it. Alternatively there are advises with backing up then restoring, juggling partitions, etc.
All that seems more complicated than spending 2 hours last night reinstalling the almost vanilla OS from scratch.
Also, this way, 2 months down the line, I won't suddenly discover "oh, that thing's been silently broken all this time, and now you need to reinstall God knows how many hacks and custom settings you've painstakingly configured."
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I love how your OS "Well, Actually"s you in the setting descriptions.
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Nice. I also like
(+ Change End to Ctrl+E in Emacs,Terminal,X11)
(Except in [...] EMACS, TERMINAL, X11 [...])
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Also, this way, 2 months down the line, I won't suddenly discover "oh, that thing's been silently broken all this time, and now you need to reinstall God knows how many hacks and custom settings you've painstakingly configured."
Rule #2 of IT: always be ready for a reinstall
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Karabiner isn't part of the OS... Googling would have told you that.
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What about case sensitivity of non-Latin character set?
What about a system that has some Turkish users, but where many people aren't? Turkish uses different capitalisation rules to everyone else…
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In lojban,
h
is a capital version of'
.
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Yeah but not even the Unicode Consortium cares about lojban.
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All symbols used in lojban have one-byte UTF-8 representations, so they don't have to do anything.
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Incorrect. Because lojban has it's own casing rules, those are not the correct characters at all. They would have to be duplicated at other code points and casing rukes correct to lojban established.
Unicode isn't just a giant sack of visual characters. It's got metadata. Character classes, case changing and folding rules, etc.
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I don't know much about Unicode algorithms and attributes, but if
h
is a capital version of'
in lojban, shouldn't they (assuming they cared about lojban) include that in Unicode in some way? Most likely, by making separateh
and'
characters that were marked as "equivalent".
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In lojban,
h
is a capital version of'
.
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All symbols used in lojban have one-byte UTF-8 representations, so they don't have to do anything.
Hello person who doesn't understand how Unicode works!
Although you also don't understand how humor works, so maybe that was supposed to be a joke?
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i need case senitive file systems
First
writetype case sensitive, and then we can talk.
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First writetype case sensitive,
caes sensitive
fxxx
case senitive
damnit!
copy senile
CASE SENSITIVE
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my current plan has a 1 in 3 chance of ending with my incarceration.
Only 1 in 3? You need to show more ambition if you ever want to get promoted.
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if you ever want to get promoted.
ah, but you see. dead-mans-shoes is only a viable promotion path if you manage to pin the "accident" on someone else.
i have plans in place that if properly executed will result in rapid promotion with only a one in onehundred change of incarceration resulting for myself.
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Although you also don't understand how humor works
Humor...it is a difficult concept.
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Some more lessons I learned as I'm trying to make my latest Mac outing at least somewhat bearable.
Disable "natural" scrolling
This is basically like playing a flight simulator when you scroll windows; up is down and down is up. Yes, this is enabled by default. What fucking MORON thought that was acceptable?
Enable the | button
On my European ISO keyboard, the bottomest leftest normal key (just right from the left shift) is | - very useful key for shell typing. On Mac, it kept printing some stupid hieroglyph that no one will ever need for anything (this happens a lot as you press various key combos, BTW).
This useful Karabiner hack forces the OS X to print the correct thing.
Install HyperDock
Adds Windows like tiling and "aero peak" support. Absolutely essential extension IMO. Doubles the usability of OS X's otherwise awful stacking WM. Costs only $7 too.
Disable scroll acceleration
Apple insists on treating my fine tuned precise scroll wheel the same as a clumsy paw some idiot millennial is dragging over a touch screen. This accessibility option doesn't remove acceleration entirely, but it helps a bit.
It's the equivalent of disabling equally stupid option Microsoft insists on enabling by default ever since Vista ("smooth scroll list boxes" or something like that, under performance settings).
Add desktop peak in a lower right corner of the screen
It's the closest Mac has to "show desktop" from Windows, although not entirely the same. In my previous Mac excursions, I figured out a way to get a real Show Desktop button (where all the windows are minimized for good), but I think I can learn to live with this.
Oh and BTW, for some reason, this is hidden in a screen saver settings screen. WTF?
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On my European ISO keyboard, the bottomest leftest normal key (just right from the left shift) is | - very useful key for shell typing.
What about above/next to Enter?
It's the closest Mac has to "show desktop" from Windows
If you have a trackpad they have some neat multi-touch gestures for this, as well as for switching between virtual desktops/full-screen apps.
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Humor...it is a difficult concept.
Agreed! I wonder if I will ever understand it...
What fucking MORON thought that was acceptable?
FFS, this is enabled on my touchpad drivers too...some stupid hieroglyph
Apparently Mac was programmed to be useful primarily to scribes that use the Section mark?What about above/next to Enter?
That's the actual Section mark referenced in the screenshot.
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What about above/next to Enter?
It's a two row Enter. Left of it is another instance of the same | key.
If you have a trackpad they have some neat multi-touch gestures for this, as well as for switching between virtual desktops/full-screen apps.
I don't. That's great for laptop guys, I guess.
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I think some of the cool stuff can still be done with the keyboard by default, although they may have changed it on more recent versions of OSX (I'm a couple versions behind). Try control (not command/) together with the arrow keys. Left and right will switch between desktops, and up and down will show you all your open apps and all open windows of the current app.
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people who literally don't want to understand
Man, it's like your sales weasels and our sales weasels are the same weasels (not really, wrong side of the continent and different country and all). There must be some universal rule about technical sales people being willfully ignorant. Direct quote from our VP of sales to my colleague on why he was complaining about a known issue that we couldn't do anything about:
"No, I didn't even click the link he sent. I don't speak tech."
If we didn't need customers...
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I think some of the cool stuff can still be done with the keyboard by default, although they may have changed it on more recent versions of OSX (I'm a couple versions behind). Try control (not command/) together with the arrow keys. Left and right will switch between desktops, and up and down will show you all your open apps and all open windows of the current app.
They work.
I'm a bit iffy with the amount of keyboard shortcuts that come out of the box on Mac. It's like any combination of command keys and arrows/numpads/gray keys does something. There's little space for applications to add their own shortcuts.
For example, this ctrl + arrows combination sounds like a great combo for some IDE or a text editor to utilize. But I guess not.
I had similar problems on Linux btw. Especially since each distro comes with their own special keymap that clashes with different apps in innovative ways.
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Disable "natural" scrolling
This is basically like playing a flight simulator when you scroll windows; up is down and down is up. Yes, this is enabled by default. What fucking MORON thought that was acceptable?
Those fancy new Apple mice don't have a scroll wheel, maybe that screen was built and preset for them? It makes some sense on a touch-based device if you're used to smartphones.
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silly @Tsaukpaetra, users are blind deaf and dumb to all notices about EVERYTHING. They would MUCH rather touch the hot stove to learn, EVERY TIME, than pay attention to ANYTHING. That would just slow them down
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Find a new job. Email all the salesfucktards on last day, "YOU CANNOT DO THAT AND I CAN FINALLY TELL YOU HOW MUCH OF A STUPID SHITHEAD YOU ARE."
Don't quit angry!
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Don't quit angry!
The point of that is to get out the angry before you quit. Admittedly it might only be moments before...
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The point of that is to get out the angry before you quit. Admittedly it might only be moments before...
A fan of the crispy bridges approach to quitting, I see.
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A fan of the crispy bridges approach to quitting, I see.
Yes, although I have never actually done it.
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technical sales people ... I don't speak tech.
Technical sales people who don't "speak tech" shouldn't be selling tech; they should be selling fertilizer, or something.
INB4: All sales people sell fertilizer.
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The generation of copious fertilizer is more of a side effect of sales then the end product (unless you're selling future software...).
Mind you, most customers don't want actual truth in sales, they want just enough truthiness to know that they won't be getting the old purple cactus when they try to use your product.
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SO. MUCH. BETTER.
You mean you kept other settings? Like fucking natural scroll direction (like God intended)?
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@cartman82 said:What fucking MORON thought that was acceptable?
Learning the ropes I see.
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Like fucking natural scroll direction (like God intended)?
Are you moving the content or the scrollbar?
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FFS, this is enabled on my touchpad drivers too...
FWIW, it kinda makes sense if you're multitouch-scrolling.
If you're scroll-wheel scrolling... that's just plain stupid.
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it kinda makes sense if you're multitouch-scrolling.
I might check later, but the setting applies to both multi-touch scrolling and edge-of-pad scrolling, which I do both of regularly, so I just need to figure out which method I prefer more...
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the setting applies to [...] multi-touch scrolling
Good...
and edge-of-pad scrolling
ICK.Yeah, that's annoying.
My current laptop doesn't do edge-of-pad scrolling at all - the multitouch scroll works pretty well though and I'm used to it now. It actually *seems* more natural.
If it's anything other than multitouch though, you're just if you use "natural" scrolling
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Are you moving the content or the scrollbar?
It depends. Before or after OS X Lion? It is the time that holy fucking spirit decreed the true natural direction of all the scrolls. And the flock followed.
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It depends. Before or after OS X Lion? It is the time that holy fucking spirit decreed the true natural direction of all the scrolls. And the flock followed.
I think it should be a green rectangle near the bottom right of the screen that tells you incorrect numbers and is changed to blue after a certain amount of time.
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This is basically like playing a flight simulator when you scroll windows; up is down and down is up. Yes, this is enabled by default. What fucking MORON thought that was acceptable?
No clue, but they need to be beaten with a sack of potatoes. That is first thing on my to-do list when I setup OS X.
is "natural" about the default OS X scroll direction? That would be like turning your steering wheel right to go left.
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If you have a trackpad they have some neat multi-touch gestures for this, as well as for switching between virtual desktops/full-screen apps.
A Magic Trackpad is essential for a desktop Mac. I use OS X on both desktop and laptop and I thought I could get by with a mouse on desktop.
Nope. The trackpad just makes everything so much more efficient.
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Those fancy new Apple mice don't have a scroll wheel, maybe that screen was built and preset for them? It makes some sense on a touch-based device if you're used to smartphones.
No it doesn't. It is ass backwards from how a smart phone would work.
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How do you mean?
When I'm reading stuff on my phone I put my finger on the phone and drag up to see what comes below. The classic way a scrollwheel works is to roll it downwards to see what's below.
So which of the two is "natural" scroll using or does it actually manage to break Boolean logic?