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jyasu

Oh, so that is the magical incantation to burn a DVD...

Jun 07, 2005 15:05

Learning how to do something new in linux is always a bit of an
adventure. On the plus side, after a modest loss of sanity I believe I have
successfully taken a DVD+R coaster that was not properly fixated, and turned
it into a DVD+R non-coaster that actually has data on it that something
other than readcd can access. Along the way, I think I've ( Read more... )

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ex_trurl June 8 2005, 01:20:20 UTC

Probably because he is using Linux ;-)

jyasu June 11 2005, 02:04:38 UTC

Yeah, I'm stubborn that way. For me, it's far easier to learn how to do new things in Linux than it would be to completely change OS's...

ex_trurl June 11 2005, 19:19:32 UTC

Well, in your case changing OSes probably also requires changing hardware too. I'm really rather torn. There are a number of things I really like about my Linux/X11 setup, but there also many attractive things about running MacOS X. Fortunately, I think that the move to x86 is going to make dual-booting or running under a virtual machine much simpler.

ex_trurl June 11 2005, 19:19:49 UTC

Testing.

ex_trurl June 11 2005, 19:20:31 UTC

Hmmm... It didn't do it to me that time. I guess because I'm logged in. Since when have comments when not logged in requires "captchas"?

jyasu June 11 2005, 19:35:53 UTC

Have you posted a lot of comments recently, by any chance? From poking at the code a bit, it looks like the system will send a captcha your way if you exceed a certain rate of comments. That's the only thing I see that you comment might have triggered, offhand...

ex_trurl June 12 2005, 15:05:47 UTC

I don't think so. Who knows. It certainly helps with the comment spamming problem though, so the money I'm paying them definitely isn't going to waste.

jyasu June 11 2005, 19:48:08 UTC

A hardware change is inconvenient in that it's a maintenance headache -- right now it's enough of a hassle maintaining two different debian installs on my systesms (stable for two, unstable for two). For me though, that's a bit of a superficial reason...

The fundamental issue is that I am very stubborn about how I interface with computers. I do not like changes to interfaces, and I do not like eyecandy in interfaces. I've been using the same mailer for a decade now, the same editor for nearly as long (which changed the way one of its navigation commands worked a couple of years ago -- I'm still trying to adapt to that), the same bare-bones window manager since 1998 or so. A change in OS is one heck of an interface change, both for daily use and for administration -- not a change I'm prepared to make anytime soon.

That said, when the architectures unite, I would not be opposed to dual-booting to MacOS. In that I have to run a more mainstream OS from time to time anyway, I would certainly favour MacOS over Windows.

ex_trurl June 12 2005, 15:17:57 UTC

I would agree upon the interface issue. I actually use the extremely minimalistic window manager ion and find it extremely efficient. While extremely efficient when you just have a bunch of terminals, web browsers, and text editors open, it doesn't play so well with applications (like say GIMP) that want to mantain a bunch of little overlapping windows. So in some fundamental way it really calls out for applications designed for especially for the non-overlapping window paradigm. Unfortunately, I don't exactly have time to work on rectifying this situation.

On the otherhand there are certainly some things about MacOS X's interface in recent releases that I really like. Exposé style support in ion would be excellent sometimes to get an overall idea of what is happening on different virtual desktops. Furthermore, a friend and I years and years ago suggested it would be great to have some kind of HUD for X where ( ... )

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