Comments on: Quake-style slide-down terminal on Mac http://casperfabricius.com/site/2006/08/25/slide-down-terminal/ expert ruby on rails development Wed, 04 May 2011 02:45:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Casper Fabricius http://casperfabricius.com/site/2006/08/25/slide-down-terminal/comment-page-1/#comment-67 Casper Fabricius Mon, 23 Oct 2006 16:47:09 +0000 http://casperfabricius.com/blog/2006/08/25/slide-down-terminal/#comment-67 Hi "Welcome" ;) Thanks for the encouragement. You are right, you can keep on discovering new "easter eggs" in OSX - just today, Lau (see comment #7) showed me a cool zoom function, where I can zoom in on anything by holding down Ctrl and scrolling - nice! :) On the downside I'm starting to realize that it was a bad choice to buy the cheapest Macbook Pro with only 512 MB RAM, since the laptop is swapping a lot under both OSX and Windows. Adding 1 GB of RAM will cost me 2500 DKK (more than 400$), so that's not gonna happen immediately ... Hi “Welcome” ;)

Thanks for the encouragement. You are right, you can keep on discovering new “easter eggs” in OSX – just today, Lau (see comment #7) showed me a cool zoom function, where I can zoom in on anything by holding down Ctrl and scrolling – nice! :)

On the downside I’m starting to realize that it was a bad choice to buy the cheapest Macbook Pro with only 512 MB RAM, since the laptop is swapping a lot under both OSX and Windows. Adding 1 GB of RAM will cost me 2500 DKK (more than 400$), so that’s not gonna happen immediately …

]]> By: Welcome. http://casperfabricius.com/site/2006/08/25/slide-down-terminal/comment-page-1/#comment-66 Welcome. Mon, 23 Oct 2006 06:53:11 +0000 http://casperfabricius.com/blog/2006/08/25/slide-down-terminal/#comment-66 Always happy to welcome fellow propellerheads to the binary wonderland of Macintosh. With the FreeBSD underpinnings wrapped in elegant, simple yet powerful design, the process truly becomes as beautiful as any destination. And unless you want it to, the discovery process which accompanies Macs never really ends. There are easter eggs tucked away all over the place. Mac Hacks can be a lot of fun, be they for useful endeavors such as Visor to your personal workflow, or great breaktime diddle-sessions uncovering hidden eye candy or even better, harnessing the stellar Apple Core API's. Very happy to have you along for the ride. p.s. Apple WILL do stupid things from time to time. Just shake your head and understand shit happens to the best of us. But overall, the experience will be top-tier. Enjoy! Always happy to welcome fellow propellerheads to the binary wonderland of Macintosh. With the FreeBSD underpinnings wrapped in elegant, simple yet powerful design, the process truly becomes as beautiful as any destination. And unless you want it to, the discovery process which accompanies Macs never really ends. There are easter eggs tucked away all over the place. Mac Hacks can be a lot of fun, be they for useful endeavors such as Visor to your personal workflow, or great breaktime diddle-sessions uncovering hidden eye candy or even better, harnessing the stellar Apple Core API’s. Very happy to have you along for the ride.

p.s. Apple WILL do stupid things from time to time. Just shake your head and understand shit happens to the best of us. But overall, the experience will be top-tier. Enjoy!

]]> By: Casper Fabricius http://casperfabricius.com/site/2006/08/25/slide-down-terminal/comment-page-1/#comment-65 Casper Fabricius Wed, 20 Sep 2006 16:02:13 +0000 http://casperfabricius.com/blog/2006/08/25/slide-down-terminal/#comment-65 Hi Lau - and thanks for yesterday, that was fun. No, I actually didn't give Mail much of change, because I wanted to stay compatible with all my fellow Outlook users - but now that I see how painfully slow Microsoft Office 2004 runs in Rosetta, I'm having second thoughts, also because I can't sync with Entourage. I've installed Quicksilver; it seems pretty cool! Hi Lau – and thanks for yesterday, that was fun.

No, I actually didn’t give Mail much of change, because I wanted to stay compatible with all my fellow Outlook users – but now that I see how painfully slow Microsoft Office 2004 runs in Rosetta, I’m having second thoughts, also because I can’t sync with Entourage.

I’ve installed Quicksilver; it seems pretty cool!

]]> By: Casper Fabricius http://casperfabricius.com/site/2006/08/25/slide-down-terminal/comment-page-1/#comment-58 Casper Fabricius Wed, 30 Aug 2006 19:58:54 +0000 http://casperfabricius.com/blog/2006/08/25/slide-down-terminal/#comment-58 Thanks for your comments, guys. I'll definitely give AdiumX a try. I'm also very impressed by the sleep function - I had it sleeping the entire night on batteries, and the drain was almost non-existant. Thanks for your comments, guys. I’ll definitely give AdiumX a try. I’m also very impressed by the sleep function – I had it sleeping the entire night on batteries, and the drain was almost non-existant.

]]> By: Oliver http://casperfabricius.com/site/2006/08/25/slide-down-terminal/comment-page-1/#comment-61 Oliver Mon, 28 Aug 2006 07:32:07 +0000 http://casperfabricius.com/blog/2006/08/25/slide-down-terminal/#comment-61 1) Never shut it down! Sleep is your friend, shutdown is for suckers. It almost doesn't use any power while sleeping so you should default to doing that -- plus it makes the whole machine much more accessible any time you need a quickfix. 2) Use AdiumX -- Much nicer! 1) Never shut it down! Sleep is your friend, shutdown is for suckers. It almost doesn’t use any power while sleeping so you should default to doing that — plus it makes the whole machine much more accessible any time you need a quickfix.

2) Use AdiumX — Much nicer!

]]> By: Jakob S http://casperfabricius.com/site/2006/08/25/slide-down-terminal/comment-page-1/#comment-60 Jakob S Mon, 28 Aug 2006 07:25:37 +0000 http://casperfabricius.com/blog/2006/08/25/slide-down-terminal/#comment-60 Welcome to the cult :) I too never shut down the laptop, I just close it and let it sleep. Works just fine. For IM, I use Proteus. Adium didn't fit my needs, for some reason I don't recall now. Welcome to the cult :)

I too never shut down the laptop, I just close it and let it sleep. Works just fine.

For IM, I use Proteus. Adium didn’t fit my needs, for some reason I don’t recall now.

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