nileshk

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by nileshk 15y ago
follow-mode is great. I use functions that: 1. split into three or four windows 2. balance the windows (so each takes up equal amount of space) 3. turn on line highlighting Line highlighting helps because when using follow-mode it can beco
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by nileshk 16y ago
Ethernet is absolutely worth it. Streaming video or audio will benefit from this. Having a wired network can help improve your wifi network because you can put wireless access points anywhere you have a wired connection. The combination o
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by nileshk 16y ago
I, too, went the LCD route initially because I thought the burn-in issue was important enough to go that route, but ended up exchanging the LED-LCD I bought for a plasma and was much happier. I have my plasma TV set to automatically shut of
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by nileshk 16y ago
Personally, I wouldn't use the TV recommendations as I generally recommend getting a plasma rather than LCD unless you absolutely need a TV smaller than 42", are concerned about power usage more than picture quality, have direct sunlight hi
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by nileshk 16y ago
I think Eclipse is in a better position to handle this because it uses SWT instead of Swing. SWT is not produced by Apple, and uses native widgets (for OS X, there is both a Cocoa and Carbon version). So in theory, Eclipse could run on so
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by nileshk 16y ago
the most interesting feature in .NET is that its memory consumption is about half that of Java on an average application Does that also apply to Mono? If so, are Microsoft's .Net and Mono equals as far as low memory consumption, or does
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by nileshk 16y ago
It's great that Apps accounts can have Google Voice now (as well as all the other servers), so Apps users don't have to maintain a separate address book. I hope that it is possible to transfer Google Voice numbers from an @gmail.com accoun
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by nileshk 16y ago
I have my Emacs config here: http://github.com/nileshk/emacs startup.el is the main starting point (I load that from my .emacs). Can't say it's the cleanest set of config files, but you might find something of use in it. Some of the thin
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by nileshk 16y ago
Strangely, in Firefox, this brings up a new tab with a Firefox help page. Another option for getting to the menu is the "Move focus to the menu bar" keyboard shortcut which defaults to CTRL-F2, but is assignable. Neither of these methods a
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by nileshk 16y ago
> Window Max & Min buttons randomly work depending on the application In OS X I rarely use these buttons. "Minimize" is very rarely useful. If I want to get an app out of the way I use Hide (CMD-H). Hide Others (CMD-Option-H) is
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by nileshk 16y ago
"I don't think you can hope that 4.1 will fix anything. Slowness on old devices is part of Apple's planned obsolescence. How else would they get you to buy a new iPhone?" This was my feeling, too, especially with the lack of an official way
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by nileshk 16y ago
I just recently acquired a 3GS, after previously having used a 3G and a 2G. The 3GS is much faster, such that I don't feel like I experience lag in most operations. I had no idea that improving the speed could make such a difference in th
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by nileshk 16y ago
This will probably be controversial, but I believe that RSI (and typing-related carpel tunnel) is psychosomatic. I experienced what I thought was chronic RSI that I wasn't able to solve through any other means but reading Dr. John E Sarno
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by nileshk 16y ago
If you are already setting the JVM argument for MaxPermSize then I think this issue wouldn't affect you. For example, put "-XX:MaxPermSize=256m" in eclipse.ini
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by nileshk 17y ago
What helped me completely cure my wrist pain was reading "The Mindbody Prescription" by Dr John E Sarno. I was in a similar position and was considering a career change. I took over a year off of work to try and recover (eventually coming
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by nileshk 17y ago
This is what I want: a printer driver that outputs directly to an e-book reader.
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by nileshk 17y ago
Actually, the Cocoa (aka "nextstep") build of GNU Emacs 23.1 works exactly this way by default. Option is Meta, and various typical Mac Cmd shortcuts work by default (many of the ones that Aquamacs supports). For example: Cmd-C/X/V -
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by nileshk 17y ago
To compile your own Emacs 23 (Cocoa) for OS X: ./configure --with-ns && make install "Emacs.app" will be in the "nextstep" folder As for switching from the Carbon version to this version, I'm not sure what kind of changes your confi
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by nileshk 17y ago
I have been meaning to finish writing some blog entries that detail the whole thing. If you're interested here they are in their not-ready-to-be-published form: Short version: http://www.nileshk.com/node/73 Long version: http://www.nile
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by nileshk 17y ago
That experience doesn't invalidate what he says, in fact its right in line with it. I suggest reading his book to fully understand it. Here is my take on it (which probably doesn't explain things as well as the book does): Your belief is
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by nileshk 17y ago
Have you used one the keyboards on Apple recent notebooks? If so, how does it compare to the thin Apple keyboard? I really wanted to like the new Apple desktop keyboards (specifically the one without the numpad because I actually like the
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by nileshk 17y ago
I suggest reading "The Mindbody Prescription" by John E Sarno. Here is an overview of what it talks about: http://www.rsi.deas.harvard.edu/handout.doc (I know it's a Word doc, but that is the best overview I've seen) It helped me recover
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by nileshk 17y ago
Yeah, that's a good reason not to, especially if you will need to have your Windows VM running constantly. RAM limitations was why I never tried running Linux as main OS and Windows in a VM on my previous workstation. I had 2GB but that w
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by nileshk 17y ago
I wish the iPhone supported Bluetooth keyboards (or some form of external keyboard). It would make using SSH and such much more pleasant. Maybe someone will use the external peripheral framework in OS 3.0 to add an external keyboard. I'v
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by nileshk 17y ago
Could you not run Windows in a VM? When I switched to OS X from a Windows workstation at my job, I used VMWare Converter to convert my workstation to a VM and it worked flawlessly.
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by nileshk 17y ago
I've been using OpenTerminal for this purpose: http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/23173 It gives you an icon in Finder that changes the directory in your terminal to the one in the Finder window. There are some options, like have it op
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by nileshk 17y ago
I use a privacy service for many of my domains. This is mostly to avoid spam/junk mail/phone solicitors; I'm not particular worried about people being able to track me down and I have no intention of being anonymous. The privacy service i
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by nileshk 17y ago
Apparently there is a Firefox plugin to do split panes: http://piro.sakura.ne.jp/xul/_splitbrowser.html.en
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by nileshk 17y ago
I personally really like Opera's MDI interface in general (note that they no longer have it in OS X, but the Windows and Linux versions still have it). Being able to tile pages is nice, especially tiling vertically, what with the huge wide
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by nileshk 17y ago
I was around 8 or 9 when my family got an IBM PCjr. We got it for only $400 because we had a friend who worked for IBM and got discounts and it was already an older machine at that point (around 86 or 87). We never upgraded past the 128K

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