progrock

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by progrock 14y ago
I'm a fan of foot controlled faucets. I'll talk to my plumber about the possibility of getting some tomorrow.
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by progrock 14y ago
I didn't even think about dishwashers. I've only lived in one house with a dishwasher out of the ten that I've lived in. Are they that common place? I have two Belfast sinks in my house.
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by progrock 14y ago
Don't people just use wash buckets inside their kitchen sinks anyway? It would cost me too much otherwise on a water metre in the UK.
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by progrock 14y ago
The speed tests don't require correcting mistakes by backspacing like the accuracy ones. I like Klavaro, but it has a couple of annoying bugs. One is the text entry box doesn't actually follow quite what you are typing.
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by progrock 14y ago
I have a collection of bookmarks, that I haven't quite gotten around to organising! And they span about three machines and many web browsers. In their current state they aren't brilliantly useful for me. I've always thought that bookmarks
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by progrock 14y ago
You shower ;)
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by progrock 14y ago
The best night's sleep we've both found is a bed each in different rooms.
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by progrock 14y ago
Good point. Not sure if it's still applicable, but wasn't it such that you couldn't carry your iTunes library over international borders? If it's DRM'd then I'd expect to pay far less for it. I've got a Kindle, and I won't buy any books f
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by progrock 14y ago
Should charge by the word read perhaps? Though I'd get charged extra at night when I wrestle with the same paragraph repeatedly before passing out.
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by progrock 14y ago
Microsoft is offering a Windows 8 upgrade for £25 in the UK. There's some confusion over installation options, and process. Especially when one wants to do a clean install. I have Debian and Vista sharing a partition on my laptop. I boot
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Windows 8 upgrade - consumer confusion regarding installation options(windows.microsoft.com)
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by progrock 14y ago
I for one can't read Facebook's timeline and that uses downward scrolling. I don't quite get why I find it so difficult. I really can't get on with it. I'm fine with one column (but two - is a complete mind warp for me.) It's probably an
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by progrock 14y ago
I personally would just like a lightweight portable laptop to throw in my bag, as I cycle to work.
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by progrock 14y ago
I think I trashed my teeth through drinking juice and a lack of sunshine.
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by progrock 14y ago
Interesting point. I haven't set up colours in my terminal and it's not the greatest loss in the world, if what you have already is readable code.
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by progrock 14y ago
You better watch out for the skin deep. The best rebuttal Apple can make to any of this, is to polish their OS and their core apps as much as possible. It's ropey software that takes the polish away from supposedly glamorous devices.
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by progrock 14y ago
I don't know why I said barely - should have said 'doesn't solely stand on it's own.' But of course ideally it would be nice if it had meaning all by itself.
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by progrock 14y ago
Indeed the commercialisation of the web is tawdry. I'm surrounded by a sea of bullshitters too. The scientific aspect of the web - it's honesty and naivity have been lost. I still think there is room for the semantic web, to put right the
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by progrock 14y ago
More value in inbound links than outbound links? The environment sets the context of the content. But your content may appear different when viewed from a different aspect (under a different context.) A piece of content barely stands on it
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by progrock 14y ago
And at the same time info hoarding for the sake of it is pretty awful too. How do you wade through the vast amount of dirge that is out there in the sea of bits? How do you avoid feedback loops that occur from search engine lookups? How
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by progrock 14y ago
Not everyone is a polished orator.
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by progrock 14y ago
Kind of related Q and A: http://www.careerfaqs.com.au/careers/interview-questions-and...
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by progrock 14y ago
The most useful thing you could do with Nautilus is to make it keyboard friendly without having to resort to Function keys, and other odd key combos. How about Super key and arrows to move between panes of an applicaton side bar, location b
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by progrock 14y ago
Regarding search, something that always trips me up in Nautilus is the find as you type feature, which I also love. If you are in the folder list and you start typing - you can select folders. Say you start typin P-i-c, it will select say
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by progrock 14y ago
Nautilus does change it's behaviour every once in a while. Sometimes for the worse. You used to be able to open folders ala Finder style I think it was Alt and right arrow on a folder, when pressed repeatedly you could open up the folders
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by progrock 14y ago
Agree. The difficult thing here though is that it's an intrinsic part of the desktop, and you need to standardize interfaces across the OS, and preferably if they are shit hot (in that you can navigate them easily and barely notice them,)
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by progrock 14y ago
Why would you prefer the non-slash version? The only reason I can see a use for it is to either make the path more readable (which could be resolved perhaps with a more readable font,) or that it's designed for a touch interface. The latt
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by progrock 14y ago
As for typing in the location bar, there is a kind of autocomplete/tab completion mode which is really useful. The behaviour seems to have changed in more recent versions, I think the tab key doesn't work now, as it's a UI control to move
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by progrock 14y ago
Love it! There's alot of activity! How many planes, how many people up in the air in an average moment? All this talk of a third runway / increased flight support in the UK, but really - how much oil is left - how sustainable is this in
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by progrock 14y ago
The linux desktop probably hasn't suceeded due to pirating! Imagine if the developing world jumped onto Linux in a bigger way. I think MS realise this, there's suggestion that they'll be offering Windows 8 for a reasonable figure for once.

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