Damn it! You know what? I'm sick of this crap. I'm sick of being the guy who eats insects and gets the funny syphilis. As of this moment, it's over. I'm finished being everybody's butt monkey!

Xander ,'Lessons'


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Gris - Apr 12, 2007 1:02:25 am PDT #1262 of 25513
Hey. New board.

I don't use Synergy, because I find setting global hotkeys with Quicksilver is by far my favorite way to control iTunes.

Growl is awesome.


esse - Apr 12, 2007 1:22:56 am PDT #1263 of 25513
S to the A -- using they/them pronouns!

Well, I generally use the shuffle feature, so it's easier for me to just click the skip button in the menu bar than do a key combination. But they're both powerful.


Kevin - Apr 12, 2007 3:38:56 am PDT #1264 of 25513
Never fall in love with somebody you actually love.

Help again!

I put a blank DVD in the drive, pressed ignored when it asked me what I wanted to do, and now there's no icon on the desktop so I can't eject it, and I can't figure out how to burn something.

Being an IT professional who suddenly doesn't have a clue what he's doing is distressing.


esse - Apr 12, 2007 3:47:01 am PDT #1265 of 25513
S to the A -- using they/them pronouns!

Did you press the eject key?


DCJensen - Apr 12, 2007 3:47:18 am PDT #1266 of 25513
All is well that ends in pizza.

Hit f12, for two seconds.

More OSX keyboard commands: [link]

Unfortunately it seems to be remapped to Dashboard on my mac.


DCJensen - Apr 12, 2007 3:57:33 am PDT #1267 of 25513
All is well that ends in pizza.

Unbent paper clip, if you have the little hole...?


esse - Apr 12, 2007 3:59:56 am PDT #1268 of 25513
S to the A -- using they/them pronouns!

it is on all macs, daniel, but the fn (function) key makes the command work.


Kevin - Apr 12, 2007 4:08:05 am PDT #1269 of 25513
Never fall in love with somebody you actually love.

There's an eject key? I didn't even realise. At work at the moment so I'll fiddle when I get home. Thanks all!


DCJensen - Apr 12, 2007 4:09:50 am PDT #1270 of 25513
All is well that ends in pizza.

it is on all macs, daniel, but the fn (function) key makes the command work

Is that a Tiger change? Hmmm.


§ ita § - Apr 12, 2007 4:49:02 am PDT #1271 of 25513
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I know there's not supposed to be a codec issue on Macs, so I'm not sure why QT balked at so much.

I love Growl. My father hated it, because up came a window he couldn't click on. However the idea that while I'm typing fast it's okay to give a new window the focus is crank-making to me. I hate when typing hits the combo of keys that makes a command decision on the popup and then dismisses it.