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Why did they change they article to a link to the google cache? Google has since re-cached the page, and the cache now links to itself. I was clicking on that link for hours before I realised, what a way to spend christmas.
Here's a Readability link of the full article: http://www.readability.com/articles/geihcmwz?legacy_bookmark...
WOW - the best feature here is that Total Finder enables cut-and-paste to move files! This is the one thing I have missed terribly from Windows. It boggles my mind that Apple thinks all that clicking, rearranging windows, dragging, shifting, and dropping is a sane way to move files. Intuitive yes, but more painful than typing it out at a command line. Sometimes Apple gets stuck in "make it pretty" and forgets "make i…
Doesn't Windows Explorer support ctrl-x & ctrl-v for moving files? It's a long time since I used Windows but I'd be surprised if it didn't.
For git users: echo ".DS_Store" >> ~/.gitignore git config --global core.excludesfile ~/.gitignore If you spend many man hours dealing w/ .DS_Store files in source code repos you're doing something wrong.
I noticed the other day that .DS_Store was already ignored globally, but I don't remember ever telling Git to do that. Is this perhaps just something that OS X Git installer is doing by default now?
That's interesting... The PC equivalent is thumbs.db, which can be disabled through a simple OS option. One of those rare occasions where a PC is actually more user-friendly than a Mac. Oh wait, did I just open Pandora's box?
WOW - the best feature here is that Total Finder enables cut-and-paste to move files! This is the one thing I have missed terribly from Windows. It boggles my mind that Apple thinks all that clicking, rearranging windows, dragging, shifting, and dropping is a sane way to move files. Intuitive yes, but more painful than typing it out at a command line. Sometimes Apple gets stuck in "make it pretty" and forgets "make i…
Lion lets you move copied files by adding option to your paste: option-command-V.
WOW - the best feature here is that Total Finder enables cut-and-paste to move files! This is the one thing I have missed terribly from Windows. It boggles my mind that Apple thinks all that clicking, rearranging windows, dragging, shifting, and dropping is a sane way to move files. Intuitive yes, but more painful than typing it out at a command line. Sometimes Apple gets stuck in "make it pretty" and forgets "make i…
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Right, I don't think anybody is saying it's an overburdening difficulty. But it's still something , when I shouldn't have to do anything.
It's an extreme case of what is commonly called a "first world problem".
That's interesting... The PC equivalent is thumbs.db, which can be disabled through a simple OS option. One of those rare occasions where a PC is actually more user-friendly than a Mac. Oh wait, did I just open Pandora's box?
Windows has always had more configuration than OSX. OSX - supposed to be simple to use and the defaults are supposed to "just work" and make sense to most people (drag an "icon" to the "trash" to "uninstall" it made no sense to me) Linux (old-school) - made for users who care about the details and will take days or weeks to set up their system. Arch is still like this. Stuff adheres to philosophical standards and POS…
Application installation is the confusing part (stupid DMGs), but what's wrong with moving something to the trash to delete it? That's what you do with files, why should applications be different?
You are confused by it just because you've been trained to think that install and uninstall are specific procedures, but since apps are bundles on the Mac, the procedure could in theory be just a copy and delete.
Too bad practice is always more complicated than theory.
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You must be thinking of the Linux fantasists registry, not the real one, as the real registry has Windows ACLs and users can only write to HKCU by default, admin rights are needed to write to HKLM or HKCR. And "one of the worst ideas of all time" provided a system-wide centralised, standardised configuration database accessible from vbscript and command line, as well as app code, with user specific settings migratabl…
A huge improvement on the previous .ini files and something still unmatched in the Mac or Linux worlds with config in arbitrary locations and formats (which, incidentally, let anyone write anything anywhere in a similar fashion). You are a little wrong there about Linux. Nearly all configuration files are in one of two places, /etc or dot folders in the root of my home folder. I can't write to the files in /etc as a…
That's entirely incorrect. There are many, many programs out there that do not follow the convention.