Messages

2001

Circle Dock / Re: Goodbye all, I'm out of here effective immediately

« on: August 13, 2010, 10:03 AM »

Markham: Thanks for clarification.

2002

Circle Dock / Re: Goodbye all, I'm out of here effective immediately

« on: August 12, 2010, 10:42 PM »

In theory it's easy:
If you want to make money, don't use stuff licensed under the GPL.

A counter-example:
Adobe Photoshop is non-free software, however anyone - anywhere - will distribute free copies of it to the general public. So is it pointless to say "it is commercial software"?

2003

Circle Dock / Re: Goodbye all, I'm out of here effective immediately

« on: August 12, 2010, 10:11 PM »

Well, I must have misread something then, but the latest thing I've read was "well, it's about 10% anyway, so what?". Sorry if I misunderstood.

2004

Circle Dock / Re: Goodbye all, I'm out of here effective immediately

« on: August 12, 2010, 08:23 PM »

And it's not being released anymore... so why the continued harping on that?

-wraith808 (August 12, 2010, 08:19 PM)

Team Circle Dock will take the program forward, as a fully non-GPL semi-commercial product, and likely to be under Microsoft's BizNet umbrella.

-Markham (August 12, 2010, 06:16 AM)

Follow the thread first.

2005

Circle Dock / Re: Goodbye all, I'm out of here effective immediately

« on: August 12, 2010, 06:32 PM »

According to the GPL v1, v2 and v3, even if one single line in an application is licensed under the GPL, the whole application has to be GPL-licensed. Any other use is illegal.

2006

General Software Discussion / Re: What's your preferred File Manager

« on: August 11, 2010, 07:14 PM »

people surprisingly believe that 64bit software is better than 32

-fenixproductions (August 11, 2010, 06:49 PM)

Well, let them believe so. Following them doesn't make you smarter.

- better support for 64bit context menu extensions,

-fenixproductions (August 11, 2010, 06:49 PM)

"Better" meaning what?

- better support for special system folders - IIRC there are some issues with WOW64.

-fenixproductions (August 11, 2010, 06:49 PM)

I srsly doubt that accessing these folders is related to your CPU arch.

2007

General Software Discussion / Re: What's your preferred File Manager

« on: August 11, 2010, 05:36 PM »

What would be the need of a 64-bit TC when it doesn't support explorer plug-ins anyway?

2008

Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Machinarium Pirate Amnesty (for one week only)

« on: August 07, 2010, 02:50 PM »

I loved that game when I saw it first. Never got a clue where to find it, though. Time to spend some Euros now ... 

2009

General Software Discussion / Re: What is your preferred font?

« on: August 05, 2010, 10:01 PM »

None of mine! The 0.7.x versions had some problems, but all of them are solved in 0.8 AFAICS. At least for me... 

2010

General Software Discussion / Re: What is your preferred font?

« on: August 05, 2010, 08:31 PM »

Whew, now I tried to live without gdipp for some hours and noticed that I don't like it anymore. (Running 0.8.2 here.)

2011

Living Room / Re: A rant on religiousness about OSes

« on: August 03, 2010, 07:06 PM »

No, it would be too close to "science". 

2012

Living Room / Re: A rant on religiousness about OSes

« on: August 03, 2010, 06:20 PM »

Although it seems that there are more Appleists than Satanists around.

2013

Living Room / Re: A rant on religiousness about OSes

« on: August 03, 2010, 05:45 PM »

A couple of academics have now weighed in with a formal paper describing Apple worship as a religion.

-xtabber (August 03, 2010, 08:51 AM)

Well, Satanism is some kind of a religion, too.

2014

Developer's Corner / Re: How to move initialWindow in AIR?

« on: August 02, 2010, 11:20 PM »

If anyone is still interested: I got it.
http://help.adobe.co...18666ade46-7e08.html

2015

Finished Programs / Re: Frep - commandline find and replace

« on: August 02, 2010, 11:06 PM »

Now why don't you use sed instead? 

2016

Developer's Corner / How to move initialWindow in AIR?

« on: August 01, 2010, 08:23 PM »

I am currently trying to build my first (HTML/JavaScript-based) AIR application. But I actually fail in many ways b/c the AIR documentation is rather confusing and incomplete.

Anyone got an idea how I can access and set the initialWindow's x/y values with JavaScript? window.moveTo() does not actually seem to have any effect.

2017

Living Room / Re: Richard Stallman Answers Your Questions

« on: August 01, 2010, 08:20 PM »

Bah, Emacs. (So this interview is not a fake?)

2018

General Software Discussion / Re: Media players

« on: July 26, 2010, 11:41 PM »

The newest kid in town is, obviously, DeaDBeeF which could perfectly fit your needs as you use foobar2000 anyway. Given that it is an audio player, of course.

2019

General Software Discussion / Re: Whoa, this gal hates MS Office 2010 -- 5 Reasons Why You Don't Need It

« on: July 26, 2010, 07:17 AM »

You said you were missing some hotkeys in the first place, so ... 

2020

General Software Discussion / Re: Whoa, this gal hates MS Office 2010 -- 5 Reasons Why You Don't Need It

« on: July 26, 2010, 07:03 AM »

Of course it is, at least regarding your complaint about missing default hotkeys.

BTW:

It simply doesn't make sense in a regular text editor, and I find it to be overkill in MSPaint as well.

So why should it make more sense in a web browser then?

2021

General Software Discussion / Re: Whoa, this gal hates MS Office 2010 -- 5 Reasons Why You Don't Need It

« on: July 26, 2010, 06:54 AM »

I am sick of not being able to "ALT N-F" to attach a file or "ALT N-P" to insert an inline picture.

-Josh (July 26, 2010, 06:40 AM)

There's the keyconfig extension for Tb and Fx. Works exactly this way without scrambling your UI. 

2022

General Software Discussion / Re: Whoa, this gal hates MS Office 2010 -- 5 Reasons Why You Don't Need It

« on: July 26, 2010, 06:36 AM »

I gave it several tries in several applications.

The point is: You'll have to switch the bars for various actions. But I rarely work with only one section of an application's functionality, so I waste too much time switching between the bars. Yes, it is more obvious what is where; but the things you really need are not visible at the same time.

Even when using Photoshop/GIMP, I prefer to have as many windows as possible on my screen.
In order to avoid unnecessary time loss while switching between them, you know?

2023

General Software Discussion / Re: Whoa, this gal hates MS Office 2010 -- 5 Reasons Why You Don't Need It

« on: July 26, 2010, 06:24 AM »

Even more so since this is a Microsoft product?

-Josh (July 26, 2010, 06:13 AM)

I am, have always been and will surely be for some more time a proud Windows user. What the heck are you talking about?

What exactly does "High screen" mean?

-Josh (July 26, 2010, 06:13 AM)

4:3, not 16:9.

Could it be that you are just against change or really dislike Microsoft?

-Josh (July 26, 2010, 06:13 AM)

See above. And all that "ribbon" stuff is more like an eye-catcher than of any real advantage for the daily use.
So you really like these bars, even if they require everyone to learn the whole office suite (which had been working the same way for one and a half decade!) from scratch?

Well, let's make up another example.

Can you tell me why it is of any practival use to have a simple text editor with a ribbon interface? It just doesn't make any sense!

In my very own opinion it is eye-candy and a waste of space, nothing more.

2024

General Software Discussion / Re: Whoa, this gal hates MS Office 2010 -- 5 Reasons Why You Don't Need It

« on: July 26, 2010, 05:16 AM »

Given that most people these days have largish screens

-Carol Haynes (July 26, 2010, 04:49 AM)

Yep, but widescreen, not highscreen, so the whole ribbon thingy is quite anachronistic.

2025

General Software Discussion / Re: Whoa, this gal hates MS Office 2010 -- 5 Reasons Why You Don't Need It

« on: July 25, 2010, 07:33 PM »

Yes, at it is part of the ribbon bar.