progrock

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by progrock 13y ago
How about the manufacturers providing a back door? Their own code. What happens in the event that you loose your fob?
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by progrock 13y ago
Thanks for that! Actually it still introduces the scroller at some point, but is slightly better.
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by progrock 13y ago
Misleading title. Refined theme, rather than a UI overhaul.
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by progrock 13y ago
Beautiful! Hardly. Just de-cluttered on the face of things. Trying to select an encoding is about as difficult as pinning the tail on the donkey.
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by progrock 13y ago
I find I sometimes need to right click my title bar on Linux, to do things like move my window to another workspace. And other window functions, I have to have it on with Chrome. I'd actually rather there was a simple meta key in each app
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by progrock 13y ago
If you get tab happy, tabs are really difficult to navigate in Firefox without and extension, and I've tried most of the popular tab extensions - and have yet to find anything I like (that works without some bug). Chrome and Opera squeeze t
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by progrock 13y ago
One rough edge is that it totally ignores my keyboard layout for keyboard shortcuts. It appears to use the Qwerty layout for shortcuts, even under a different layout. (That's Opera next 12.50 on Linux, with Presto)
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by progrock 13y ago
Pick any of the main browsers, the main advance in the UI is the slimming down of controls. Even Opera went from a g'zillion toolbars down to a slim default interface. The rendering engines receive loads of attention while the basic brows
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by progrock 13y ago
You are right of course, I doubt there would be a scene, only me embarrassing myself by probably dragging out some kind of justification of not wanting to hand over my details. Perhaps it's down to being schooled in implicit compliance, an
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by progrock 13y ago
Funny you say that. A lot of retail chains in the UK, ask for your postcode as you make a purchase, and basically identify you. I'm never comfortable with that arrangement, but hand out the data anyway, basically because I don't want to m
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by progrock 13y ago
I was going to suggest it could have been something as simple as a name. Posterous is a proposterous name. It's horrible. Tumblr is an equally shitty Web2.0 crap name, in the same vain as the ghastly i prefix. iYahoor!
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by progrock 13y ago
Sure. If you are worried about email mistypes then you could always provide a confirmation. However I'd have thought we'd be pretty good at getting our email address right, and the browsers a lot of the time provide a magic autocomplete fo
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by progrock 13y ago
I think using an email address (and/or a uniquely generated username), as an identifier is the best comprimise. Then a generic 'credentials invalid' => retrieve your account: 'enter email' page to reset passwords. And require a conf
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by progrock 13y ago
Really I was just suggesting trying the one tab approach as an experiment. You can't read in parallel, but I do understand the idea of backgrounding links to visit later - so you don't necessarily break the flow of the page you are current
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by progrock 13y ago
> My browsing is like a tree, pages branch off every which way. I used to have to keep track of that entire tree structure in my head, now the browser does it for me! And how does it do that? Have you got some pictorial representation
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by progrock 13y ago
I don't really get the text-only web browser comment. An aside... If W3m was as fast as Firefox - I'd most likely use it. Bizarre really as you wouldn't expect it to be slower.
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by progrock 13y ago
I understand how easy that is to do. But when do you have the time to read them? Part of the fun of the web, is getting a little lost in it. But I totally loose focus. Have you ever tried limiting yourself to one window and the judiciou
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by progrock 13y ago
I've been championing the same issues, or rather bemoaning them on HN repeatedly. I never see much innovation with the actual browser UIs. The rendering engines get plenty of love, while something like the UI for Firefox has barely changed
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by progrock 13y ago
At least with Chrome there is the built in Task Manager.
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by progrock 13y ago
Problem I've found is that there aren't any simple GUIs for creating/tweaking GTK3 themes. You could configure the colour scheme slightly (5 colours) with Gnome 2 and the older GTK engine. The other thing, is that you still have a mix of
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by progrock 13y ago
Yeah it's fugly by half (Ubuntu that is). And I once even liked the browns! I prefer the subdued themes. I'm almost happy with Bluebird and Xfce, but I still have theme/colour scheme issues. I'm forever hoping for a pretty and consisten
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by progrock 13y ago
I would take a punt and suggest that the average punter couldn't describe what a desktop is. I'd struggle to define it. But think it includes: application launching, application management, window management, file management and a couple
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by progrock 13y ago
Only when they experience the problem first hand! My brother is a novice computer user, he ripped all his CDs into his music library through windows media player as WMA files. I tried explaining that he'd be better off with a 'free' format
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by progrock 13y ago
Not to mention the dross is gumming up the tubes! Having said that, this is more a question of content delivery than the actual content.
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by progrock 13y ago
This has been imagined before, but with dire consequences... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qabOjyTNg6s
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by progrock 13y ago
The Cathedral and the Bizaar and the Open Sources books, give a nice historical background. The Open Sources book have many nice essays from different contributors. I particulary enjoyed reading about the history of Unix transforming into
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by progrock 13y ago
I was excited to find one book as html broken into chapters, but the others are in various formats - there isn't much consistancy - which makes it difficult to read them, or write my own glue code - to get them onto my e-reader.
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by progrock 13y ago
Actually both browsers look out of place on my Linux box, because they deviate from the desktop theme. I'd rather they looked native. It's really window manager territory. I'm sick of the inconsistencies with tab control etc, accross app
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by progrock 14y ago
Spatial browsing, fit to width, and being able to disable images easily.
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by progrock 14y ago
I like the disable images in my toolbar. Each to their own.

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