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Map Caps Lock to both! Tap is Esc, hold is Ctrl.
I got that working with Karabiner Elements but how do people get this to work on Windows and Linux?
I do it with xmodmap on Linux.
“I would buy a Mac today if I was not working at Microsoft” (2004)
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Re: “I would buy a Mac today if I was not working at Microsoft” (2004)
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Yes I did, and it probably wasn't really an option, but the moderators were kind enough to reclaim a very old, unused username (which I think was mine but forgot all the credentials to).
What made you want to change it?
It's Stavros everywhere, it was only StavrosK here because the former was unavailable. I wasn't too fussed either way, but I asked the mods whether I could reclaim the username and they renamed the account to it, so here we are!
I figure it's easier for people to remember now.
Re: “I would buy a Mac today if I was not working at Microsoft” (2004)
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Yep. Currently working there as a dev on a team completely unrelated to Apple (i.e., i am not working on iOS apps or anything else that even remotely requires a macbook), using a company-issued macbook pro. And of course, you are always welcome to bring your own machine of any kind, as long as it allows you to do things you are doing for work (e.g., if you are working on something super-windows-specific that just str…
Microsoft allows you to do corporate work and development on personal devices? That is incredibly surprising to me.
>Microsoft allows you to do corporate work and development on personal devices?
No, they do not. If you bring your own device, you have to put it under control of the company using MDM software, pretty much the same way it works with company devices. Without MDM, none of the corporate resources are accessible, just like they shouldn't be.
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Maybe I’m the minority but I’ve only had good things to say about Vista. Maybe the problem isn’t Vista but trying to run it on underpowered hardware? It ran perfectly fine on a quad-core and 4GB of RAM.
One of the scandals of that era was Microsoft purposefully lowering the hardware requirements for Vista so that lower end PCs could get the all important Vista sticker. I was in tech support at the time, and a ton of cheap HPs came in that were sold with vista and 2gb of ram.
2GB would have been fine. I still remember a bunch of Fujitsu laptops that we got at work, all with the "Vista Ready" sticker and 512GB of ram - they were almost unusably slow, but XP ran absolutely fine with the same amount of ram. 2GB would have been a massive improvement.
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No, it is based on leaked schematics[1] from one of Apple's component suppliers who were the unfortunate victims of a ransomeware attach. [1] https://www.macrumors.com/2021/04/21/macbook-pro-stolen-sche...
I'm aware of the leaks/rumors, but I'm saying the M1 MBP isn't any indication. It's not an entirely newly designed body, just the old base model with a new processor (and I think the new non-butterfly keyboard?)
I don’t follow. The leaks indicate Apple is planning a fully designed MBP. The schematics show a completely redesigned chassis and the removal of the touch bar. i’m not sure why the current M1 MBP is relevant here.
Re: “I would buy a Mac today if I was not working at Microsoft” (2004)
#206I would buy an iphone today if they warent so restricted.
Re: “I would buy a Mac today if I was not working at Microsoft” (2004)
#207Anecdote: A senior person at Microsoft that I knew after he left relayed his experience trying to use a Mac at HQ. Balmer threw it across the room during a meeting.
My first thought is that this sounds like a terrible work environment. My second thought is, "Wait senior person at microsoft? That means he could probably afford multiple macs." What I'm imagining is that after Balmer throws my mac across the room I pull out my second mac. I would also be scouting for someone who can install an airbag into my mac. Like, can you imagine the look on Balmer's face when he throws your m…
airbag modules are probably a bit too big for that. also it would just propel the mac in the other direction
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I agree, but seemingly that hasn't mattered or helped much? Apple is a more valuable company in terms of market cap, and almost certainly a more 'loved' company in terms of mindshare. Many people thought they'd be doomed without Jobs but they've seemingly been doing just fine still (ignoring many valid criticisms here, of course, but talking about the general population). Which I really find fascinating. Aside from t…
There are two things that have always set Apple apart in my opinion: 1) Landscape-shifting new product categories 2) Holistic, "scenario"-driven product design (as the author was advocating for) #1 mostly died with Jobs, imo. But #2 seems to still have deep cultural roots at the company. They don't think in terms of component parts (at the hardware, software, UI, or any other level). They think in terms of making a d…
I think of Apple as tech company that has fashion brand retail quality marketing and distribution, and highly developed internal hardware with very strong and well managed supply chain.
Those are more advantageous features in smartphones than they are in desktop.
The products are 'good' but not that much better from a feature/function perspective. They look a little cleaner, nicer, but it's not really features that make them better.
Every employee rants, and thinks that 'the thing they are working on' is really important, and it's common that people think that the company has 'lost it's way' with this or that.
The fact is, the 'speed' of the file system on mac and windows isn't very relevant. It works, it's fast enough.
More paradoxically, the Windows UI's are a total confusing mess, always have been, and yet they've dominated on desktop forever.
Re: “I would buy a Mac today if I was not working at Microsoft” (2004)
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OEMs also shipped Vista on laptops with as little as 256MB of RAM, where the silly thing was immediately deep into swap space (on a slow 4200 or 5400 rpm 2.5" spinning hard drive) immediately after booting. It was the most excruciating experience.
And on the other hand 4GB or more of ram would require Vista 64bit, which today remains the most crash-prone and unstable leaky bucket of an operating system I’ve ever been subjected to, at least in the first year of release.
No it doesn't. Both Windows and Linux have PAE.
Re: “I would buy a Mac today if I was not working at Microsoft” (2004)
#210Mac OS X for its era was astounding. Think about it. The ease of the Macintosh (journalist, media people) that's it, a good looking OS and the security and Unix tools preinstalled which would be helping ex-Solaris/Sparc departments. As it was shipped with XQuartz, a Terminal by default and tons of Unix utilities, even Motif worked, so porting expensive Unix stuff between Solaris, Linux and OSX was a breeze. Windows..…
And for music producers! Logic Pro is probably the best bang for the buck you buy right now as far as DAWs go.
Well, I already say that Macs were pretty known for media/writting people such as journalists, artists, painters, designers, writers, and so on. That was pre-OSX.
Mac OS 9 with Quark Xpress and Photoshop were THE tools used in any newspaper/magazine HQ, no matter the country in the world.
Professional printed papers/music and video production = Mac. Period. No one would say otherwise in the 90' s.
But with OSX you had both the media/press people and the science people in your pocket. (Unix sysadmins with KSH, Unix utilities and SSH ready from the beginning, maybe not as a server but you could test all crap locally, and well, Aqua looked shiny, fun and shit would work; and for die hard C/C++/Perl/X11/Motif programmers porting legacy scientific tools to Xquartz and Motif with barely any changes).
And OFC, LaTex, with some GUI's showing the PDF preview.