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TapTap / Re: Tips and Tricks

« on: November 20, 2006, 06:51 PM »

Hey mouser,

_Very_ happy with TapTap. "Lean & mean" is exactly right.

Your suggestion was actually the first thing I tried, without anything more than a cursory look at the config file's comments. So my next thought was to try:

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keymap DLS : capslock

But that gives me:

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ERROR: Bad config line with source = 'drs' and action = 'capslock'.

That's when I noticed that the comments don't actually include capslock or pause as possible options for keyname2. However, numlock also works, unlike capslock.

Is the handling for capslock different enough to exclude it as an action target? I'd really like to assign all caps functionality to the shift key and free the capslock up entirely

Thanks for another useful addition to my desktop, too.

- wu wei

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Find And Run Robot / Re: v1.13.01 test

« on: October 11, 2006, 03:22 AM »

Hey mouser,

Very happy with the responsiveness of the new version, but noticed something a little off with group alias handling today. I have a 'bt' group alias that lets me target various bittorrent search engines. Here are three consecutive runnings of FRR:







It looks like group aliases pick up the last icon in the matching list, the difference comes from where the list has compiled to when I hit 'space' and finally match on the alias.

Not an issue at all, believe me, but I thought I'd point it out anyway

- wu wei

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Living Room / Re: Google's Grey Goo problem

« on: May 19, 2006, 08:09 PM »

It also helps to take any article Andrew Orlowski writes about Google with a huge heaped tablespoon of salt. He's kinda lost any claim of journalistic neutrality when it comes to covering them, as he has a tendency to distort whatever he can to show that a) they're evil and b) they're gonna collapse. He especially likes to create pathetic straw men - data overload and unconstrained, self-replicating nanotech are nothing alike - and now seems to be attracting like-minded readers:

Many people have waxed lyrical about how Google was "God's Brain"...

Most people I know like to wax lyrical about how it's really a "search engine".