Yes, I actually had to look this one up. Apparently nobody thinks DVD menus and using your mouse for them) would be a sensible default.
mplayer -mouse-movements dvdnav://
And no, this doesn’t work with gmplayer. That would be crazy. =/
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One of the things that’s been a real killer for me using most wikis has been the syntax. None of them get it right.
MediaWiki has been bearable, and over time I’ve grown used to it. The problem is that nobody agrees on a remotely similar syntax. There were some early efforts to create a generally agreed-upon syntax, and it did fairly well.. but it’s still not used everywhere.
I’m not just talking about wikis, but about markup languages in general. Even something like Ruby’s RDoc decided on its own syntax.
And they’re all wrong. Seriously, who thinks that __this is italicized__ ?
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I act in cycles. I am inspired by and I work on something new, and that inspiration shifts around. I also have a tendancy to drop and pick up projects in cycles. In the past I’ve dropped ideas for long enough for all effort to become meaningless given enough time, but these days I’ve been careful to cycle back to earlier ideas to scrape off the cruft and re-launch the project.
When I re-launch a project, I often find myself bringing significant maturity to the table. I have new ideas and techniques, and I take a kind of sick pleasure in redoing much of my previous work. This isn’t just a programming thing.. it applies to anything that I’ve been working on.
The simple way to reproduce this is:
\mkdir source \cp source target
It’s a pretty simple request. I want to copy a directory. I want to copy and not create the directory. I don’t want any of the contents (cp -r), I just want the container itself, without using mkdir. I don’t want to diddle around with the contents of the directory (moving them around) and then do cp -r. I want to copy the container because I want to match the permissions. I don’t want to separately use other commands to sync permissions:
\chmod --reference=source target \chown --reference=source target
Why can’t cp do this? Oh right, it’s GNU .. so it sucks.
Midori >
(The version of Midori was not recorded)
The first glance is that this isn’t a real project because it doesn’t have a real website. But then again, it doesn’t have a stable release yet, so I don’t mind at all.
Overall it’s decent, but it lacks a couple of fundamentals which would prevent my using it as an everyday browser. The fact that it is better with Flash really gives it a niche use.
Tested 2009-08-07 on Unity Linux 0.99-alpha1.
https://wiki.lxde.org/en/LXTerminal
A straightforward terminal emulator.
- A component of LXDE.
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tabbed
See also:
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Xfterm, which might have come first.
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The problem with developers is they fly off onto wild tangents without any consideration for usability.
I appreciate AJAX. I really do. The reason websites like YouTube are required to use this technique is to save on bandwidth costs.
The problem is that a site is totally unusable. Nomatter how pretty developers make their site, if it uses AJAX it will suck.
I went way out of my way to comb through all of the settings of msec to make sure things are to my liking. However, my preferences have been overwritten by a default for the second time!
This really pisses me off to no end. The one thing whose configuration is amazingly important to not screw up.. gets screwed up.
I strongly suspect this was done by PCLinuxOS updating.
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Something that’s been on my mind recently was the process of troubleshooting. Specifically troubleshooting while asking for help.
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http://web.archive.org/
(on Wikipedia)
As useful as Google spell checking is, it doesn’t measure up to the value the Wayback Machine has had for me.
I love the Wayback Machine. I want it to have my babies.
