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On Thu, 14 Feb 2008 09:15:19 +0000, Phil Cook wrote:
> And lo on Wed, 13 Feb 2008 17:27:28 -0000, Jim Henderson
> <nos### [at] nospam com> did spake, saying:
>
>> On Wed, 13 Feb 2008 11:49:23 +0100, scott wrote:
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>>>> Well I don't live in America, do I? :-P
>>>
>>> Didn't they take over Asda in the UK?
>>
>> Yep. And I hope Asda treats their employees better than they
>> (Wallmart) do over here.
>
> Fortunately I think the only practice that got transferred over was
> having a greeter on the door.
That's a relief.
Jim
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Jim Henderson escribió:
> On Thu, 14 Feb 2008 07:31:18 +0000, Orchid XP v7 wrote:
>> Well, so many applications won't uninstall cleanly. :-S
>
> One of the *major* problems I have with Windows.
He was talking about Windows.
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On Thu, 14 Feb 2008 16:00:11 -0200, Nicolas Alvarez wrote:
> Jim Henderson escribió:
>> On Thu, 14 Feb 2008 07:31:18 +0000, Orchid XP v7 wrote:
>>> Well, so many applications won't uninstall cleanly. :-S
>>
>> One of the *major* problems I have with Windows.
>
> He was talking about Windows.
I know, I was agreeing with him.
Jim
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>> Something like 8 years ago, I was manually editing the X11 configuration
>> file to tell it what DAC chip my graphics card has in it... o_O
>
> That was 8 years ago. This is now - with OpenSUSE, you use sax2 to do
> the configuration.
Or just... install OpenSUSE and it instantly works. (Although on my
laptop I *always* have to tweak the settings to get the picture to fill
the display...)
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Jim Henderson wrote:
>
> As for confidential data being leaked, the core file typically will
> contain just the crashed program info, but if it's reproducible, you send
> them a core from a simplified setup.
Content of a file being limited doesn't stop people from thinking what's
inside of it.
> Jim
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On Thu, 14 Feb 2008 18:54:30 +0000, Orchid XP v7 wrote:
>>> Something like 8 years ago, I was manually editing the X11
>>> configuration file to tell it what DAC chip my graphics card has in
>>> it... o_O
>>
>> That was 8 years ago. This is now - with OpenSUSE, you use sax2 to do
>> the configuration.
>
> Or just... install OpenSUSE and it instantly works. (Although on my
> laptop I *always* have to tweak the settings to get the picture to fill
> the display...)
Well, that works as well. Unless you have an ATI card at present (just
updated the kernel on this machine, my t42p, and had to reinstall the old
driver because the new one still doesn't work for me). But I've got a
process down now to do that.
Jim
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Bill Pragnell wrote:
>
> And you know the best thing? On their laptops, tapping the touchpad with
> two fingers instead of just one performs a right-click (I don't think
> this is default behaviour, but it's in the desktop settings - and it's
> genius).
My X performs a middle-click when clicked with two fingers. Much better
for me :).
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On Thu, 14 Feb 2008 22:20:48 +0200, Eero Ahonen wrote:
>> As for confidential data being leaked, the core file typically will
>> contain just the crashed program info, but if it's reproducible, you
>> send them a core from a simplified setup.
>
> Content of a file being limited doesn't stop people from thinking what's
> inside of it.
True, but they can't know for sure. But IME most technicians at software
vendors don't have time to spend digging through core files to see what
confidential data is being leaked. Then again, most of those who do core
file analysis where I work are highly trusted professionals as well.
Jim
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Invisible wrote:
>>
>> You must be joking! This sort of behaviour is what makes laptops
>> usable without a mouse.
No, it's what makes a laptop *faster* to use than a desktop.
> On the contrary - this is the number #2 reason for me always plugging a
> mouse in. (#1 is that, obviously, a glide pad is, what, 2 inches square?)
Sigh, learn to use the touchpad :p. What comes for the 2" square,
acceleration is absolutely needed option - fast move, long movement.
Correctly configured touchpad is fast and pretty accurate to use (yes, I
prefer normal mouse too, if I'll need to draw something).
>> Anyway, it's easy to avoid your problem on the Mac because the pointer
>> speed varies non-linearly with finger speed.
>
> Ah-hah! Another thing I really hate... Makes it easy to move the pointer
> half way across the screen, but almost impossible to aim at a 1-pixel dot.
Wrong. Statically set fast speed would do this, but non-linear
acceleration feature doesn't.
Besides touchpad have "scrolling areas" - when you'll reach the end of
the touchpad, you hold your finger there and the cursor still moves,
until you raise your finger.
> Well, under Windoze the device driver for the glide pad lets you change
> it. I had assumed it's a software thing, but under SUSE the glide pad
> seems to malfunction in exactly the same way, so it must be hardware...
It's configurable also in Linux ;).
>> The other thing I like is scrolling the currently active window by
>> moving two fingers on the touchpad instead of one.
I prefer scrollbar on the side of the touchpad, so one finger is enough.
I'll never have to raise my hands from the keyboard when I'm using
laptop, since the touchpad is fully usable with thumbs (mostly the right
one - middle-click makes also left one needed).
> Ah, yet another thing I really hate about using the glide pad. "Oh, I
> accidentally touched the pad slightly too far to the side, now it thinks
> I want to *scroll* this window rather than point at the one behind it". >_<
If you miss a hit on a keyboard, it writes wrong letter...
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>> Ah, yet another thing I really hate about using the glide pad. "Oh, I
>> accidentally touched the pad slightly too far to the side, now it thinks
>> I want to *scroll* this window rather than point at the one behind it". >_<
>
> If you miss a hit on a keyboard, it writes wrong letter...
Yeah, but you know what? The keys are all seperate. ;-)
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