This is the error message you decided to go with? Wait a minute, THIS IS AN ERROR!?
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@blakeyrat said:
@_gaffer said:
No problem. Open "System Preferences", click on "Desktop & Screen Saver", choose picture, look smug (this is always the final step for Apple products).
Jesus. Duh.
I'm trying to set a RSS feed as my desktop background, not a single image. You know, like that Windows theme file does. I want that theme file in a format Macs can understand, or at least a way of plugging the RSS url into a single Mac would be fine I guess. Dumbshit.
Oh, ok. That just passed me by because it seems like such a fucking retarded concept. Cunt.
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@blakeyrat said:
I'm trying to set a RSS feed as my desktop background, not a single image.
I'm pretty sure there are keybindings in vim that can do this.
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@nonpartisan said:
From the person who screams "Why don't you just Google the fucking thing??!?!?!?!?"
When have I screamed that?
@nonpartisan said:
Googling for: "os x" rss feed background
Returned this.
That's slightly remotely close to what I want, but in practice is entirely different. That creates a screensaver that runs based on a RSS feed, then runs the screensaver on your desktop layer. I used to do that trick in 10.2 to have animated desktops. The problem is, my only Mac now is a MacBook Air and I don't want the battery life hit that running a screensaver 24/7 would create.
I think I've found that trick in the past, but decided not to use it for that reason, and for the reason that I can't put it in a single link and add it to my website.
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@_gaffer said:
Oh, ok. That just passed me by because it seems like such a fucking retarded concept. Cunt.
Next time you want to helpfully solve a problem, you might want to fucking read what the problem actually is. I'm sure you're a credit to your employer, if this is the way you meet customer requirements.
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@blakeyrat said:
@_gaffer said:
Oh, ok. That just passed me by because it seems like such a fucking retarded concept. Cunt.
Next time you want to helpfully solve a problem, you might want to fucking read what the problem actually is. I'm sure you're a credit to your employer, if this is the way you meet customer requirements.
You start paying me, I'll start giving a shit about your pissy little problems.
Actually, now that you mention it, I've been highly valued in the past for my efforts in telling people how mind blowingly stupid their ideas are. They get it in a more polite form though, again because of the paying thing.
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@_gaffer said:
You start paying me, I'll start giving a shit about your pissy little problems.
I only asked for your help because you said you'd already done it. Which was a fucking lie. Because you're a fucking liar. Stupid face ugly head stink breath butt man!
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@blakeyrat said:
I think I've found that trick in the past, but decided not to use it for that reason, and for the reason that I can't put it in a single link and add it to my website.
Granting you the bit about battery life, from a technical standpoint would doing it this way achieve a similar desktop background to what you expect from Windows?
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@nonpartisan said:
Granting you the bit about battery life, from a technical standpoint would doing it this way achieve a similar desktop background to what you expect from Windows?
I recall it does a "Ken Burns" effect with RSS images, but it's been years and years and years since I've used it. In any case, I can't link to it from the website, so it's not nearly as good a solution as the Windows equivalent.
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@_gaffer said:
You start paying me, I'll start giving a shit about your pissy little problems.
Actually, now that you mention it, I've been highly valued in the past for my efforts in telling people how mind blowingly stupid their ideas are. They get it in a more polite form though, again because of the paying thing.
You make me sad. :(
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@blakeyrat said:
I recall it does a "Ken Burns" effect with RSS images, but it's been years and years and years since I've used it.
I remember being [url="http://forums.thedailywtf.com/forums/p/25555/277043.aspx#277043"]ripped on by you[/url] for admitting I no longer use a feature of Word from many years ago after getting burned by it. And you're telling me you haven't looked at the RSS Visualizer option any time recently? I have no idea whether it does exactly what you want -- I don't have a Mac -- but by admitting you haven't looked at it, you have no idea whether the options have changed on it or not. And if you know for sure that it still doesn't do what you want, then you must have looked at it more recently than that, which still makes your statement false.I ought to call you Fred Astaire. You're quite adept at dancing around the question without giving a straight answer. You never answered the question of whether, from a technical standpoint, it will do something similar. Even though you may not like the way it does it, it appears the answer is "yes". What I've shown is that
@blakeyrat said:
You neglected to notice that unlike every other OS, Windows can download desktop backgrounds from an RSS feed.
is incorrect. It may not be to your preference, but it can be done. And it's even built into the OS -- it's not a plug-in or another screensaver that you have to download.
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@boomzilla said:
@blakeyrat said:
I'm trying to set a RSS feed as my desktop background, not a single image.
I'm pretty sure there are keybindings in vim that can do this.
easy:
q[enable RSS as background somehow]q
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@nonpartisan said:
I remember being ripped on by you for admitting I no longer use a feature of Word from many years ago after getting burned by it.
Ok. Congratulations on your memory.
@nonpartisan said:
And you're telling me you haven't looked at the RSS Visualizer option any time recently?
It's not an "option", it's a screensaver. And no, I haven't looked at it any time recently.
@nonpartisan said:
I have no idea whether it does exactly what you want -- I don't have a Mac -- but by admitting you haven't looked at it, you have no idea whether the options have changed on it or not.
It doesn't matter what the options are, because you still can't put a fucking link on a website that a Mac user can click and it'll configure their Mac to show an RSS feed as a desktop background. It could have a checkbox reading, "do exactly everything Blakeyrat wants and serve it to him on a golden platter" and it still wouldn't matter because it still doesn't meet my requirements.
I can't believe I have to spell this out. Raise your hand if you read this forum and you're not a moron. Thought so.
@nonpartisan said:
And it's even built into the OS -- it's not a plug-in or another screensaver that you have to download.
True; but you do have to turn it on in such a goofy way that I can't believe it's actually supported by Apple in any way. That said, the RSS option in Windows Themes is pretty hidden also, but it's at least documented and supported in an official way, not in a "Windows tricks and hacks" site.
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@superjer said:
@blakeyrat said:
Bonus points to anybody who can figure out what the various checkboxes in Device -> Synchronise Selection do.
Your bonus points are safe. Even the people who wrote the 20-page guide on using ImgBurn don't seem to know what those do:
ImgBurn for Dummies
Fully detailed guide on how to use ImgBurn and what everything means. (page 17 of 20)
ImgBurn has 'known issues' with its lack of use of 'Advanced...' buttons to hide the bulk of its OCD-ish options; as some comments here already show, it is pretty much a public secret.
This particular case is an adjacency matrix (note the disabled diagonal!) that indicates if the selected (i.e. drive) in the Source and Destination dropdowns of the various operating modes should be synchronized when switching from one mode to another. The synchronization is unidirectional (from row to column) hence both halves of the matrix are present for tweaking.
For example:
- Untick 'Verify' on the 'Read Mode' row of the matrix.
- Switch to Read Mode (menubar: Mode->Read) and select a different device in the 'Source' dropdown list. (If you have any kind of image mounting software installed, then its virtual drive should show up here as well. That should give you atleast two options to pick from.)
- Now switch to Verify Mode (menubar: Mode->Verify). This will not synchronize the selected device and will show the last device that was selected in Verify Mode.
- Now switch back to Read Mode. As we only unticked 'Verify' on the 'Read Mode' and not 'Read' on the 'Verify Mode' row, this will synchronize the selected device and the selection made in Verify Mode will carry over to Read Mode
If that left you with your mouth agape and "WTF?!" floating in your mind: good! It means you're sane and you can contribute to the more important question that is at hand. Namely: what illegal substance was the author was on when this behavior was ever conceived as a 'feature' in the first place?
PS: I'd still like those bonus points...
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Once more a neophyte computer programmer attempts to impress us by using the "F" word.
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@SilentRunner said:
Once more a neophyte computer programmer attempts to impress us by using the "F" word.
I totally agree, the next time somebody uses "foo" I will...er...write an strongly worded reply.
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@serguey123 said:
The inconvenience of the internet is that you can't murder people electronically and exact your sweet revenge onto the unsuspecting masses that slighted you so much
If we could murder people electronically, the population of internet users would quickly approach zero.
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@PedanticCurmudgeon said:
If we could murder people electronically, the population of internet users would quickly approach zero
Indeed, step 2 should be to make internet usage mandatory
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@blakeyrat said:
@Someone You Know said:
Which raises the question of why all the menus in the log window appear to be grayed out/disabled.
Because it's not the active window, the dialog box is. Duh?
Edit: that said there is some funkiness with the log window focus. If you're in another app, and click on the log window, ImgBurn instead focuses the main window. If the main window is in focus, you can focus the log window. I wonder how many lines of code they had to write to over-ride default Windows functionality and break their application in such a creative way...
Sadly, not too many. It's probably not much more complicated than handling WM_ACTIVATE and throwing focus to the other window.
Not that that invalidates your point. I never tried closing the log window before, but that message is obnoxious. It's kinda like the error sound you get when a burn fails, a woman saying "Oh, no!"
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@SilentRunner said:
Once more a neophyte computer programmer attempts to impress us by using the "F" word.
Yeah that Dhromed's a real ass.
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@Ragnax said:
This particular case is an adjacency matrix (note the disabled diagonal!) that indicates if the selected (i.e. drive) in the Source and Destination dropdowns of the various operating modes should be synchronized when switching from one mode to another.
What does "synchronize" mean in this context? What does it mean to "synchronize" one mode to another?
@Ragnax said:
Now switch to Verify Mode (menubar: Mode->Verify). This will not synchronize the selected device and will show the last device that was selected in Verify Mode.
Oh I'm slowly getting it? I guess?
So this app which has multiple "modes" (even though its a windowed app on a multi-tasking OS and so that, conceptually, makes no fucking sense whatsoever and brings up a hundred other WTF thoughts), if you uncheck all of those checkboxes, each "mode" will keep track of which drive it applies to separate from every other "mode". This doesn't make sense on so many levels. You need to understand the first level of it not making sense (a windowed app having "modes") to understand the deeper layers of it not making sense.
@Ragnax said:
PS: I'd still like those bonus points...
I guess you can have them, but I have no way of telling if your theory is correct or not.
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@FrostCat said:
@blakeyrat said:
I can't believe I have to spell this out.
Oh. My. God. You're Raymond Chen!This isn't the first time I've stolen one of his catchphrases. And I certainly agree with the sentiment.
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@blakeyrat said:
So this app which has multiple "modes" (even though its a windowed app on a multi-tasking OS and so that, conceptually, makes no fucking sense whatsoever and brings up a hundred other WTF thoughts), if you uncheck all of those checkboxes, each "mode" will keep track of which drive it applies to separate from every other "mode". This doesn't make sense on so many levels. You need to understand the first level of it not making sense (a windowed app having "modes") to understand the deeper layers of it not making sense.
My sentiments exactly.
Ever heard of DVDDecrypter? DVDDecrypter was a tool to rip copy-protected DVDs and burn copies. ImgBurn started its life at the end of DVDDecrypter's. It's a continuation of its codebase, if I remember correctly, with the ripping code pulled for legal reasons. Even though ImgBurn significantly cleaned things up, the actual multi-mode interface is one of those legacy things that just stuck around. The author did later make an attempt to fix this with the "EZ-Mode Picker" screen, but the concept is flawed from the ground up and should really have been redone altogether.
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@dhromed said:
@_gaffer said:
You start paying me, I'll start giving a shit about your pissy little problems.
Actually, now that you mention it, I've been highly valued in the past for my efforts in telling people how mind blowingly stupid their ideas are. They get it in a more polite form though, again because of the paying thing.
You make me sad. :(
There there, you'll get over it.
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@blakeyrat said:
Oh and the Status Bar on the launcher screen, if you launch the app without double-clicking a file, reads: "Oompa Loompa doompadee doo."
It's actually random every time you start the app.
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@Daniel15 said:
It's actually random every time you start the app.
Oh, crap - it'll give Swampy ideas.
I used CDBurnerXP at one time (on a works Win laptop when away from my server) - I found that pretty lean, basic, intuitive.
Not used any other Windows-based burning progs for some years now.
And yup... that dialogue box IS a major WTF.
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Who burns CDs anymore?
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@dhromed said:
Who burns CDs anymore?
Not many I know of, but despite the name I used it to burn DVDs for both data and video purposes
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@dhromed said:
Who burns CDs anymore?
When you rent a lot of cars you quickly find out that Avis does not have only high-end radios with USB ports so keeping a few mp3 CDs around can be convenient if you have to drive in the American midwest (in Oklahoma the radio options are: country music, preachers, country music and preachers, country music and local news about the OK State Fair, or static noise).
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I accept all your use cases.
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<img src="all_your_use_cases_are_accept_by_us.gif" />
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@serguey123 said:
I burn them because I like to see the flames dance
Crap I was extremely too late to make this comment =D.
Also...
@blakeyrat said:
because you still can't put a fucking link on a website that a Mac user can click and it'll configure their Mac to show an RSS feed as a desktop background.
The idea of the ability to click a link that changes local settings on a computer sounds like a "hey, watch this!" kind of thing.
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@too_many_usernames said:
The idea of the ability to click a link that changes local settings on a computer sounds like a "hey, watch this!" kind of thing.
Same class of thing where you right-click an image and it has a "set as desktop background" option.
Not saying it's good, bad, smart, stupid, handy or impractical. Just what it is.
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@dhromed said:
I accept all your use cases.
Additional: Most live theatres still have legacy equipment that takes audio CDs for sound queues / tracking. You need to had the techies an audio CD, with an index of what each track is and when it should be played. Those are used to program the sound/lighting board.
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@dhromed said:
Not really. Clicking a link is something you do frequently on the web and can easily do under misdirection. "Set as desktop background"-ing an image, not so much.@too_many_usernames said:
The idea of the ability to click a link that changes local settings on a computer sounds like a "hey, watch this!" kind of thing.
Same class of thing where you right-click an image and it has a "set as desktop background" option.
Not saying it's good, bad, smart, stupid, handy or impractical. Just what it is.
On second thought, I think it would be perfectly acceptable for a browser to have "set as desktop background" on the context menu of an RSS feed you've browsed to.
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@too_many_usernames said:
The idea of the ability to click a link that changes local settings on a computer sounds like a "hey, watch this!" kind of thing.
It installs a Windows theme, then asks you if you want to switch to that theme right away. It's hardly a conspiracy.
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@blakeyrat said:
@too_many_usernames said:
The idea of the ability to click a link that changes local settings on a computer sounds like a "hey, watch this!" kind of thing.
It installs a Windows theme, then asks you if you want to switch to that theme right away. It's hardly a conspiracy.
Whatever. I'm only interested in things that normal people do. This feature is not worth the learning curve.
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Just click it.
