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!
Oh, no, oh, no! Spontaneous poetic exclamations. Lord, spare me college boys in love.
Dr. Walsh ,'Potential'
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Kevin - Apr 12, 2007 4:08:05 am PDT #1269 of 25496
Never fall in love with somebody you actually love.
DCJensen - Apr 12, 2007 4:09:50 am PDT #1270 of 25496
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 25496
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.
Jessica - Apr 12, 2007 4:53:10 am PDT #1272 of 25496
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
I can't remember if I had to install the Xvid/Divx codecs separately or not to play torrents in QT. (I normally burn everything to DVD and play it on the TV, so it doesn't come up that often.)
esse - Apr 12, 2007 6:11:46 am PDT #1273 of 25496
S to the A -- using they/them pronouns!
The only codec I installed with quicktime was the wmv support. Weird.
Tom Scola - Apr 12, 2007 6:36:43 am PDT #1274 of 25496
Mr. Scola’s wardrobe by Botany 500
[link] covers most of my quicktime codec needs.
tommyrot - Apr 12, 2007 9:04:07 am PDT #1275 of 25496
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Popular Mechanics review of the top six computers. Of 1982. [link]
The IBM PC had just been introduced.
From PM:
It used to be that programs were easy to copy and change. But manufacturers began to lose money as many people made copies of software and gave them to their friends.
Now, many manufacturers have figured out how to “copy-protect” discs. A copy-protected disc—like a cartridge—can’t be copied or changed.
To our mind this is a disaster: Most people learn programming by changing programs to fit their own needs. This capability of customization is what makes computers so attractive. New ways of copy protection will probably be found soon. Until then, a computer owner may have to put up with being “locked out” of his own machine.
eta:
All the companies which make these computers... are referred to as "primary manufacturers." Companies which make software or hardware to "fit" one of these machines... are called "secondary manufacturers."
I've never heard that terminology.
Sean K - Apr 12, 2007 9:07:56 am PDT #1276 of 25496
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
Popular Mechanics review of the top six computers. Of 1982.
I've used all six of those computers.
amych - Apr 12, 2007 9:08:49 am PDT #1277 of 25496
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
I've used all six of those computers.
You win. I never used the PET.
Sean K - Apr 12, 2007 9:13:27 am PDT #1278 of 25496
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
The PET's the one I probably used the most. Or possibly the Apple II. The computer club my dad signed me up for way back when had a whole bunch of PETs and TRS-80s (as all us right-thinking people know, this is, of course, pronounced Trash-80), and we had a II at home.
The computer club had a small smattering of the other computers, so I had much less exposure to those, and mostly I encountered the IBM PC in my dad's office (he was a professor of education, specialized in technology in learning -- I've been ahead of the computer curve pretty much my whole life).