Microsoft will buy Apple.
It's not unfathomable, considering the recent camaraderie between the companies. If their common goal is putting Google down, then the merger will possibly be their best weapon against Google now acquiring a mobile hardware manufacturing company (Motorola Mobility).
If you think about it, the two companies are pretty much the same. Mac is just a glorified expensive snobbish form of the newer Windoze operating systems (with crappy hardware to boot). Maybe the merger will result in better customer service for M$ consumers and better hardware for the Crapple consumers. It's a win-win situation.
The only thing that will possibly take a nasty hit would be the fragile egos of Apple fanboys/girls. But then who give a damn about the mental health of this minuscule bunch of self-obsessed rich (or heavily in debt) snobs anyway.
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08/16/2011 00:19 #54954
In the year 2020Category: i-tech
08/15/2011 21:52 #54952
Niftay linux Alt+Right Click ResizeCategory: linux
I just found that I could resize all windows by pressing Alt+Right Click and totally do away with the annoying practice of carefully hovering over window margins and waiting for the resize arrow to appear.
Sweet!
Sweet!
tinypliny - 08/16/11 23:50
I really like that too! But it backfires on me sometimes because the middle click = scroll for chrome and when I am on google docs, it keeps pasting what I have on the doc!
I really like that too! But it backfires on me sometimes because the middle click = scroll for chrome and when I am on google docs, it keeps pasting what I have on the doc!
paul - 08/16/11 23:43
My favorite new trick is to select some text in one app and then middle mouse click in another to copy and paste in one step with no right clicks and no copy buffer.
My favorite new trick is to select some text in one app and then middle mouse click in another to copy and paste in one step with no right clicks and no copy buffer.
08/15/2011 20:35 #54951
Crunchbang Take 2Category: linux
Conky's gone.
So has the upper bar with active windows.
Instead the right side panel has everything I need. The rest is via the right click menu.
So has the upper bar with active windows.
Instead the right side panel has everything I need. The rest is via the right click menu.
tinypliny - 08/15/11 23:45
heh. it helps me relax and concentrate :)
heh. it helps me relax and concentrate :)
uncutsaniflush - 08/15/11 23:00
I once had an all-black theme with all-black fonts and all-black background. It was fun for a while. I had to remember keystrokes and keybindings to do anything. Nihilism on the desktop only exists if you believe in it.
PS I know yr desktop really isn't all black, there is stuff on the right hand side i think.
I once had an all-black theme with all-black fonts and all-black background. It was fun for a while. I had to remember keystrokes and keybindings to do anything. Nihilism on the desktop only exists if you believe in it.
PS I know yr desktop really isn't all black, there is stuff on the right hand side i think.
08/15/2011 20:07 #54950
Cooking simpleCategory: eating in
I have decided to cook with fewer ingredients going forward. Not only does it make it simpler to cook, it also brings out the flavour of each component.
This fun stir-fry salad had:
-- Tofu
-- Bell peppers
-- Raw onions
-- Tomatoes
Seasoned with:
-- Dried red chillies
-- Cumin
-- Olive oil
-- Basil
This fun stir-fry salad had:
-- Tofu
-- Bell peppers
-- Raw onions
-- Tomatoes
Seasoned with:
-- Dried red chillies
-- Cumin
-- Olive oil
-- Basil
metalpeter - 08/16/11 17:59
Didn't know people stir fried only Vegetables
Didn't know people stir fried only Vegetables
paul - 08/16/11 01:22
Thats a great picture.
Thats a great picture.
08/15/2011 15:38 #54949
PDF on LinuxCategory: linux
So there are some amazing tools on linux for pdf manipulation and I am super glad that none of them involve Adobe's evil little tools.
If you want to cut out pages or manipulate PDFs in any way, there is no other tool as powerful as pdftk
It's a command line-heavy utility but it does its job pretty well. I am trying to learn small pdftk commands on an as-and-when-needed basis. Desperation is truly the mother of learning.
For annotation, no utility comes even close to the Wine + PDF Xchange viewer combo.
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PS: I just found out there is a gui for pdftk called... gui_pdftk but unfortunately, I have not been successful in simply deleting a page from a PDF using the gui. Using command line at least does everything reliably.
If you want to cut out pages or manipulate PDFs in any way, there is no other tool as powerful as pdftk
sudo apt-get install pdftk
It's a command line-heavy utility but it does its job pretty well. I am trying to learn small pdftk commands on an as-and-when-needed basis. Desperation is truly the mother of learning.
For annotation, no utility comes even close to the Wine + PDF Xchange viewer combo.
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PS: I just found out there is a gui for pdftk called... gui_pdftk
but unfortunately, I have not been successful in simply deleting a page from a PDF using the gui. Using command line at least does everything reliably.paul - 08/15/11 17:54
I use pdftotext a lot too. It extracts the text content from PDFs. Could be useful if you were building your own database of PDFs.
I use pdftotext a lot too. It extracts the text content from PDFs. Could be useful if you were building your own database of PDFs.
This could happen But I suspect Apple would buy Mircosoft...
1. Owners would have to Change First though... I don't see either of these guys ever giving up control of there baby to the other guy so one of them would have to be out of the picture....
2. Currently if you buy any computer (yes you can go out and get linux or what ever) you get Microsoft windows and all the software so it wouldn't really make sense for them to buy a computer company since currently Dell, Gateway and anything that isn't apple uses there stuff... Now If another comes along that is a different story... But is Dell really going to say take a chance that what is being used people might not like um no.... But apple Buying the tech company (software) makes more sense....
3. Now of course Cell phones and Tablets who knows what is going to happen with them..... As cool as tablets are they are more of at home thing who really wants to carry one of those around? Well I guess if you are going some where by car like a beach or something but they aren't like a cell phone where you can walk to the store and watch true blood and then slip it into your pocket.....
yeah. that makes more sense.
Wow, I never see that happening. If anything I would see it being the other way around. Mac really is different than windows. In fact I would say its more of a glorified, expensive snobbish form of linux than windows.