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Re: Bitpocket as a Dropbox alternative - Odes of the Occult

Haegin — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 12:03:20 -0000

How does the running rsync twice approach differ from unison which uses the rsync protocol to do multiway syncronisation instead of just copying?

Re: Who cares about password security? NatWest don’t

Haegin — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 05:35:32 -0000

I just checked on my Natwest online banking thing and not only is my password longer than 8 characters but it also requires my card reader to let me change my password, just like it does if I wanted to add a new person to transfer money to. Are your images really old and you're just remembering them for this blog post or are you on some other, more different and especially insecure version of Natwest online banking?

Re: The Ubuntu One Control Panel: Beauty in simplicity

Haegin — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 05:09:43 -0000

I'm not sure what is with the obsession with going Mac but those tabs seem stupid. Copying for the sake of it doesn't make sense and this tab design loses the visual distinction that you get with 'normal' tabs. The tab connects to a panel which contains everything that is relevant to that tab. With these new Mac style tabs you click on a tab and have no idea what part of the window is bounded by the tab.

Additionally what is with taking up half the window with two clouds? If Ubuntu is trying to go after the netbook market they are going to have major problems if the top half of every window is a complete waste of space. Netbooks already have small screens and the trend for wider, shorter screens is only going to exaggerate the problem.

Finally the modal dialogue seems to just be there because modal dialogues are popular for signing up to website at the moment. The window behind it has absolutely nothing of use on it and is being covered up anyway. Why bring up the modal dialogue when you could just display the signup form in the window you already have? On the web the modal window is useful because it prevents a page load. On the desktop we don't have that problem so don't need to design around it.

It seems that this entire design has been copied from a combination of current Web 2.0 design trends and the Mac look without anyone giving any thought as to why things should be that way or what advantages it is supposed to bring.

Re: OMG! 5! – Five alternative file managers

Haegin — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 08:28:24 -0000

Another good alternative to Nautilus which is similar to Gnome Commander is EmelFM2. It's fairly lightweight as it only requires GTK+ and not the rest of Gnome and although it is somewhat less intuitive than other file managers it easily wins on customization. Changing the what's on the toolbars is just the tip of this iceberg.

Re: OMG! 5! – Five Terminal commands/tips

Haegin — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 12:24:01 -0000

I really like the Alt-<key> shortcuts.

When you are part way through typing a command such as
$ cd verybigname
and you remember that verybigname doesn't exist yet you can hit Alt-Q to put what you have typed so far into a buffer and give you an empty prompt again. Then you can run a single command and it'll put the buffer back onto the shell. For example after realising the directory doesn't exist hit Alt-Q then
$ mkdir verybigname<enter>
will leave you with a shell that looks like:
$ cd verybigname

Alt-B and Alt-F are useful - they let you go back and forwards by words instead of by letter. Also Alt-<backspace> deletes by word.

Re: How much free space? | Haeg.in

Haegin — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 12:25:38 -0000

That's a far nicer solution and just proves I need to get far better at using awk.

Re: Installing Uzbl on Ubuntu-based Distros

Haegin — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 12:33:22 -0000

Following your guide the documentation is in /usr/local/share/uzbl rather than /usr/share/uzbl as in accordance with the FHS.