In the great tradition of Battlestar Galactica LOL Cats (One, Two, Three), Star Trek LOL Cats, and Torchwood LOL Cats, I proudly present Buffy the Vampire Slayer LOL Cats!
In the great tradition of Battlestar Galactica LOL Cats (One, Two, Three), Star Trek LOL Cats, and Torchwood LOL Cats, I proudly present Buffy the Vampire Slayer LOL Cats!
I come from the old school computer camp; I am used to using keyboard shortcuts for everything, I only use the mouse if I absolutely have to. I highlight (shift+Home, shift+End, shift+ctrl+arrow), cut (ctrl+X) and paste (ctrl+V) about a bajillion and one times a day. When browsing the internet I also create new tabs (ctrl+T), switch tabs (ctrl+Tab), close tabs (ctrl+W), and change web address (ctrl+D) all without using the mouse. Don’t even get me started on the number of MS Office shortcuts I use. Oh, and do I get extra geek credit for typing on a Dvorak keyboard?
Craig: keeping my fingers crossed for the bloggies!
I don’t have Windows 7 yet, but I am excited about some of the new shortcuts for it. I really want to try the one where you grab a window with the mouse and shake it to minimize all other windows. What can I say, I am a computer geek.
M.N. — I’m the same way! I use the mouse as little as humanly possible. I TAB between editboxes, I ALT+TAB between applications, I use whatever shortcuts I can in whatever app I’m in, and if I don’t know the shortcuts, I use the ALT+mnemonic combinations to pull up the menus or set focus to the place in the dialog I want to get to. Having the eraserhead nub does make it easier to use the mouse, so I do use it more now than I did when I had no mouse; and in particular on my ThinkPad I love to use the center button + nub to scroll.
And, yes. Dvorak keyboard is ultra-über-nerdy. You are vying with Craig for reigning Puntabudork.
Windows 7? I never upgraded to Vista. On principle I hate the DRM stuff Microsoft built in to Vista and I find the OS far too Mac-like (i.e. everything is hidden and hard to modify and they think they know better than you do about how your computer should work). I gather Windows 7 is better than Vista in the latter respects, but I am sure they are just as DRM-nazi-like as before.
Windows 7? Vista? I do have a pleasant vista outside my bedroom window, one of 15 windows in my house…am I playing along correctly?
HUGS…
Justin: I skipped over Vista, mainly because there was no real good reason to leave XP. The “added value” of Vista was minimal and, as you said, made some things more difficult to do because MS knows better than you what you want to do. However, I am more optimistic about Win 7, especially after learning about God Mode.
Justin: and there are ways around DRM, as long as you don’t mind breaking a rule or two.
I know there are ways around DRM. But what Microsoft did was even worse: they bullied the hardware manufacturers to build DRM protection into their drivers such that, for instance, you couldn’t play your own home movies from your own HD camcorder in High Def on your computer, because drivers are required to downscale from HD to SD if the stream DOESN’T have DRM on it. Or at least that’s what I’ve read; I’ve never tried it myself.
I have been seriously considering switching to Linux for my next OS… As for my work-owned laptop, I doubt IBM will *ever* switch to Vista or Windows 7. For now we are all still on XP (Vista/Windows 7 are not supported by IBM’s IT department, though obviously some people have to run those OS’s for testing purposes, but nobody gets to run it as their primary workstation OS). If Microsoft ever decides to EOL XP support, I wouldn’t be surprised if we all got switched to Linux. We’ve already been required to remove Microsoft Office from our work computers.
Ugh. Windows 7 DRM is even worse than Vista’s
Justin: My understanding was that Vista would downgrade DRM HD if your cable/monitor wasn’t DRM compliant. This prevented people from recording DRM HD in real time (which I understand would require something like a RAID array of 20 hard drives to write that fast).
Ryan, yeah, I can’t swear that the story I repeated above is actually true; I don’t have Vista and I don’t even have an HD camcorder.
I’m a huge un-fan of DRM and of so-called “intellectual property rights” in the first place. As far as I’m concerned, copyright is an entitlement, not a property right; it’s there to serve a public good, and unfortunately it’s been taken to a point where it is no longer serving a public good but in many ways decidedly thwarting it and stifling creativity.
Don’t get me wrong: I believe strongly in paying for music, movies, software, etc., and I do — I don’t have the least desire to circumvent DRM in order to be able to “steal” content.
Paul: Escape key = LOL!
Tam: X as cut makes sense, C as copy makes sense. V as paste/insert I think it is because it is in line with C and X and it is like the short hand symbol for inserting that teachers used when we were in grade school. Just a thought.
M.Nico: Dvorak keyboard = Nerd FTW!
Dear Craig,
Maybe LOL does not mean what you think it means.
Warmest Regards,
Someone who hates {insert name of crappy show here} LOL Cats
My window.
It doesn’t help that San Diego doesn’t know how to weatherize.
Adam: LOL. You’re just waiting for me to post {crappy show you liked} LOL Cats. A-Team LOL Cats perhaps?