Tue Oct 2 04:56:56 2001
Tue Oct 2 05:07:35 2001
Damn straight.
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Tue Oct 2 05:16:56 2001
Thank you, Caesar. They who readeth thy Battlefront salute thee.
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(Edited by Imitation Gruel at 10:18 pm on Oct. 1, 2001)
Tue Oct 2 05:28:15 2001
Other than me, of course.
Tue Oct 2 05:28:54 2001
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Tue Oct 2 06:24:05 2001
what language is that?
Mon dieu! Vous ne savez pas le francais? Zut alors! Vous etes stupide.
:biggrin: Relax, OW. I know (or hope) you're joking and I know I'm only joking. But in answer to your question, it's obviously French. Unfortunately, I lack knowledge of how to make the special accents with an English-lanugage default keyboard setup.
Tue Oct 2 06:54:14 2001
For it appears that Mystic Grey, the Illusionist of Fate, yea even the Masta' of all that is Sucktacula' known to us as the Original Imitation Gruel, does in fact speak Francoise.
And I need practice as I scored a measly 67 on my Beginning French exam.
Tue Oct 2 07:25:10 2001
For it appears that Mystic Grey, the Illusionist of Fate, yea even the Masta' of all that is Sucktacula' known to us as The Original Imitation Gruel, does in fact speak Francoise.
:biggrin: :biggrin: :biggrin: :biggrin: :biggrin:
It's posts like that which make me realize just how many nicknames I have.
But, it's true. I do in fact speak French; however my French is rusty because it has been well over a decade since I lived in France and I was just a child when I left. In the United States, the only places I can think of where French would be particularly useful is if you were either studying it in school, or if you lived in Louisiana.
I am studying it in school, but I have no particular desire to ever live in Louisiana if I can help it. As a matter of fact, I don't desire to live in Texas much past my college graduation, if at all. I've considered moving back to Chicago; although I wouldn't go back to the same suburb -- too many painful memories.
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(Edited by Imitation Gruel at 12:25 am on Oct. 2, 2001)
Tue Oct 2 08:26:19 2001
:uzi: :fruit:
Tue Oct 2 09:09:08 2001
Tue Oct 2 09:32:09 2001
like atl+2 == ™
on the mac standard american enlgish keyboard setting:
alt+d == ?
alt+w==<sum>
etc., etc.,
And if you change the fonts the combinations give you different characters with regards to the font. Same applies to the pc.
oh and yes i was joking about the language thing.
Off course i knew it was russian
Tue Oct 2 14:42:18 2001
Francoise
1) You got a typo in there.
2) THIS LANGUAGE IS VIIIILEEEEEEE (and sounds gay)
Tue Oct 2 14:46:08 2001
Apple-option-k (or g?) gives an apple logo in the system fonts. Interestingly, Photoshop won't let you type that in any of it's text making tools :)
Tue Oct 2 14:57:45 2001
Tue Oct 2 15:38:34 2001
You got a typo in there.
Nope, it is spelled correctly, took it right out of the book.
Tue Oct 2 15:52:07 2001
CRAP, CAPSLOCK IS STUCK
and the fucking N button didn'T do a damn thing!
(Edited by Riso at 6:56 pm on Oct. 2, 2001)
Tue Oct 2 16:35:59 2001
Which reminds me, whats the key command for a new folder in windows? I really need to know this. I'm sick of the clicking and then selecting new folder.
When i'm in the finder, i just command-n for a new folder. And the same command-n opens up a new window in any foreground app for macs.
Hmmmm.... i just thought of something. What ever the new command for opening a new window on the pc might do the trick and create a new folder in explorer.... don't have access to a pc at the moment.
i'm at home on my mac.
Tue Oct 2 16:47:04 2001
These are just most of the commands that you're given to access most of the menu. Then there are some other commands that manipulate stuff but can't through the menu (or as easily with the mouse).
I guess maybe i misunderstanding you because i don't really know what you're talking about. If its the stuff i just pointed out above then thats odd since its all right there in the menu, even in the "classic" Mac OS?
The few things that got implemented later was the command-tab stuff.
I just found out in an OS X thread at arstechnica that I can command-tab and command-shift through apps. woot!
command-tab is moving right, and command-shift is moving left through the running app icons.
I still like the windows way of alt-tabbing through the recently used apps first versus just going through the list in a fixed order.
(Edited by OscarWilde at 9:48 am on Oct. 2, 2001)
Tue Oct 2 17:00:00 2001
from OscarWilde posted at 6:35 pm on Oct. 2, 2001
Which reminds me, whats the key command for a new folder in windows?
I don't think there is :(
Tue Oct 2 17:25:20 2001
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Tue Oct 2 17:37:47 2001
now that is a fucking good idea!
well the good news is that the command prompt is a tad better in win2k then what they did with the command prompt in Windows NT
if ya don't what i'm talking about then you obviously don't use the command prompt at all....
md whosyourmamma
cd whosyourmamma
md bitch
md what
md yeahright
cd bitch
copy con bitch.txt
^z
copy con muahahahaha.txt
muahahahahahahaha i made an empty file!
^z
cd..
exit
Tue Oct 2 17:45:12 2001
md nwa\-\a\bitch\is\a\bitch
:biggrin:
Tue Oct 2 17:57:07 2001
oh wait a second...
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from OscarWilde posted at 8:23 pm on Oct. 2, 2001
how could you not know what a frenc guy is?
:confused:
I didn't. That's why you lost me there.
Tue Oct 2 18:28:23 2001
from vc posted at 8:26 pm on Oct. 2, 2001
Babelfish says "french guy without a head" == "type français sans principal".
Principal means "dick", right? ;)
Tue Oct 2 18:29:52 2001
have I met you before?
been to the restaurant at the end of the universe? or have you been to the burger joint at the other end of the universe?
Tue Oct 2 18:32:16 2001
M'sieur Wilde, no, but I have been to the Domain Of The King Bar And Grill. I'm viciouscarrot from Ars.
Tue Oct 2 18:33:04 2001
me thinks you need to take that fish outta your ear and see if its okay. might be sick you know. might need to get a new fish.
me has the latest evolved fish... much more fish like and it does all sorts of weird things to your mind... very cool
Tue Oct 2 18:34:45 2001
Tue Oct 2 18:36:29 2001
Tue Oct 2 18:36:32 2001
(Edited by vc at 7:48 pm on Oct. 2, 2001)
Wed Oct 3 03:13:04 2001
plus i do want to know about how to make folders via the keyboard in the GUI. Peter where art thou!? You have any ideas?
Wed Oct 3 03:54:18 2001
/me taps fingers on desk...
Wed Oct 3 04:02:15 2001
As for a New Folder button, I don't believe there's such a thing specifically. I normally use the mouse when I'm saving stuff :biggrin:
Luckily, if I should acquire a hard drive from Ebay I may soon have a full-time Performa 5200CD up and running here. I even have a SCSI-Ethernet converter. That's like l33t on a stick or something :cheesy:
Wed Oct 3 04:11:30 2001
when you press command does a menu hilight allowing you to use the arrows for movement or do you need to know all these command shortcuts?
oh. Good point. Thats somewhat trivial because first of all intially you may not know the commands but your muscle memory over time improves and second of all the GUI/HI is mostly consistent app to app so in general most combinations work in all the apps. Granted they may not do exactly the same thing, i.e.
command + n open a new window in Internet Explorer, or opens up a new document in Word in which you would expect in the finder that the same command would open up a new window but it doesn't.
Anyhow, the macs had these keyboard commands from the get go.
The command -x,c,v first appeared on the mac too. Well not from Apple them selves, but if i remember correctly it came from some text editor app. Which Apple then integrated into their OS eventually. Windows then followed suit, i think for the same reason.
it would be more intuitive to have command-p for paste, command-c for copy, but then you're stuck with cut. yet i think its brilliant that the original designers went with the x,c,v keys because they are all close to each other which is the first good thing. Second the keys are also close to the command key, another great thing. Just need your thumb on the command key and then hit the x,c,v keys with your relative fingers.
To me x is like a scissor. C is just the c in copy. V is like a tip of a glue stick or like the direction in which you're pushing down, like pasting something.
very clever no?
:)
Wed Oct 3 08:03:48 2001
Wed Oct 3 13:06:01 2001
and as for that memory thing, Somebody said "Why bother filling your brain with a lot of worthless information that can just as easily be looked up in a book?" Or something like that. And yes, I'd have to look up who said it :biggrin:
Wed Oct 3 19:54:04 2001
iN MY BOOK IT WAS FRAnCAISE
Correct, I was looking at the wrong word :)
Thu Oct 4 02:31:05 2001