Mom says the government is turning off the servers that run the Internet. It was on local news, so it must be true. This is all I could find quickly on the iPhone. [link]
Check your DNS settings. I think you will be ok otherwise.
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omnis_audis - Jul 06, 2012 1:22:09 pm PDT #20420 of 25501
omnis, pursue. That's an order from a shy woman who can use M-16. - Shir
§ ita § - Jul 06, 2012 1:54:16 pm PDT #20421 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
That HP article is riveting. It feels like just yesterday when all the podcasts were debating the Pre (because it was a contender), and complaining about the creepy woman in the ads.
But at the same time, it feels like it's been an Android/iOS race since forever.
I bought the touchpad out of curiosity--my tablet requirements will probably continue to be satisfied by the Galaxy for a little while now. But once I got my hands on it, I realised I wouldn't have jumped in head first for a couple reasons--I didn't have any tablet experience to compare the Galaxy to, but it fel slim and cool. When I got my sister a tablet--I forget the brand now, actually--it was heavier than my Galaxy, but it felt more rugged where the Touchpad felt heavy
The Touchpad definitely isn't made to slip into my mini-backpack and get carried everywhere with me. So I tried to find a niche for it at home. But I couldn't find a media player for it that supported my library--at least not for free. And as reading apps go, it couldn't be used for my Nook library.
So right now it's just the portable web browser.
§ ita § - Jul 06, 2012 2:38:44 pm PDT #20422 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
What is your guys' favourite text editor? Actually--OS X and Windows each?
And do you have a favourite screencap and annotation tool for Windows? I love Skitch so freaking much. I have to use a proper graphics app on Windows to get the equivalent markup tools.
tommyrot - Jul 06, 2012 2:46:57 pm PDT #20423 of 25501
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
For windows I use Notepad++. In some ways it's better than the one in MS Visual Studio.
I especially love how you can select a word and every occurrence of that word is highlighted--very useful in debugging.
I don't have a fave for OS X and I hope I find a good one here.
Jessica - Jul 06, 2012 3:02:46 pm PDT #20424 of 25501
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
the government is turning off the servers that run the Internet
Well, they're turning off the servers that are running the botnet they took over a while back. If you still have the trojan that redirects you through those servers, you'll need to get rid of that.
You can check to see if you're infected here - [link]
Here's what the FBI has to say about it - [link]
And here's how to get rid of it - [link]
Gris - Jul 06, 2012 4:09:01 pm PDT #20425 of 25501
Hey. New board.
I like Notepad++ on windows as well. I used to use Smultron on Macs but I don't think it's under development anymore. I don't have a primary mac anymore but mostly use TextWrangler when I'm on one. It's ugly but powerful in my opinion. If I were still coding with any regularity I'd probably use vim in a terminal window - that was my system in college.
Gris - Jul 06, 2012 4:12:43 pm PDT #20426 of 25501
Hey. New board.
Huh. Lifehacker points me to Fraise as the updated Smultron and, more excitingly, Kod. Looks pretty awesome.
Gris - Jul 06, 2012 4:20:35 pm PDT #20427 of 25501
Hey. New board.
[link] That is the Lifehacker article on coding editors for the Mac. I there are lots of passionate comments that mention dozens of options.
§ ita § - Jul 06, 2012 4:23:45 pm PDT #20428 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Smultron is what I use on OS X too. It's almost what I want--my complaints are pretty minor, I guess. Being able to search and replace with a little more flexibility--like I could point it at a directory and let it loose--would be nice. I haven't made the leap to work out how its regex works, and how much leeway you have with composing the replacement. But that's because UltraEdit stung me and I'm now twice shy.
But what really REALLY bothers me is that I can't find out how to turn off automatically replacing ... with …, which completely bollixes the text in an HTML file. I went through the preferences again and again, and tried googling, but in the end I had to edit those files in TextEdit, because two dots looks stupid (and is WRONG) and putting 4 didn't make a difference--three of them still got converted and then spat garbage back out when you display the HTML. This *has* to be a me issue, because there's no way that can't be turned off. But I'm blind to where...
UltraEdit is my go to on Windows, enough so I paid for the version I have (10?) but not enough so that I upgraded it, and I can't run (I don't think) the same license on my work laptop--I use Notepad++ there, but really don't like it. I can't decide if that's education or featureset.
§ ita § - Jul 06, 2012 4:30:58 pm PDT #20429 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Wow. It seems that ~$60 is the price point in that market. That just feels like a really big jump from $0. But development tool. Some people gotta live in that shit.
I'll plonk that down for a graphics tool (luckily I didn't have to--I found a great PS Elements sale), but my text needs don't support it.
I will give the other free options a look--I hadn't even realised that Smultron was DOA.