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

« Last post by Tuxman 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 ...

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

« Last post by Tuxman 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...

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

« Last post by Tuxman 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.)

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Living Room / Re: A rant on religiousness about OSes

« Last post by Tuxman on August 03, 2010, 07:06 PM »

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

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Living Room / Re: A rant on religiousness about OSes

« Last post by Tuxman on August 03, 2010, 06:20 PM »

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

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Living Room / Re: A rant on religiousness about OSes

« Last post by Tuxman 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.

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

« Last post by Tuxman on August 02, 2010, 11:20 PM »

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

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Finished Programs / Re: Frep - commandline find and replace

« Last post by Tuxman on August 02, 2010, 11:06 PM »

Now why don't you use sed instead?

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

« Last post by Tuxman 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.

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Living Room / Re: Richard Stallman Answers Your Questions

« Last post by Tuxman on August 01, 2010, 08:20 PM »

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

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General Software Discussion / Re: Media players

« Last post by Tuxman 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.

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

« Last post by Tuxman on July 26, 2010, 07:17 AM »

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

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

« Last post by Tuxman 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?

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

« Last post by Tuxman 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.

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

« Last post by Tuxman 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?

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

« Last post by Tuxman 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.

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

« Last post by Tuxman 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.

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

« Last post by Tuxman on July 25, 2010, 07:33 PM »

Yes, at it is part of the ribbon bar.

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

« Last post by Tuxman on July 25, 2010, 07:21 PM »

It hides the ribbon, not the bar IIRC?

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

« Last post by Tuxman on July 25, 2010, 07:05 PM »

I went away from MS Office after Office 2003 when seeing the first screenshots of the ribbon bar. Proudly using OpenOffice.org, and while it has its own rough edges, it is still free.

(I would really like to legally own a license for SoftMaker Office, but as I already do all my office stuff with OO.org, I still need a good reason for paying the price, although it seems to be well worth it.)

Office 2010 might be a mighty, well-integrated office suite for us "recent Windows" users. But it totally lacks unique advantages. (There is not even a way to hide that crappy bar! And the "oh well, let's do a ribbon UI" attitude seems to me like a virus, yesterday I found a simple text editor (!) with these bars... geez.)

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