More Fruity Computing Madness!

Okay, so I don't even have my laptop turned on right now. XP has become flaky over the last couple months, which isn't a surprise, it's been 18 months since I installed it last, which is about 50% longer than I usually get out of a Windows install before I just get fed up and start over (I reinstalled XP on my desktop at home just this past Sunday, after 14 months since the previous install; the FreeBSD partition has been in existance and untouched (save for the dump | restore needed to move it when I replaced a drive at some point) since my last major hardware upgrade (three years ago come June)).

So, I'm sitting on the Mac, and mostly, I'm happy. At least, I'm happy enough. Yeah, Apple are interface fascists, but for the most part, they put a lot of thought in to designing the interface so the gripes with it are minor. There is one though, that I'm sure I can do, but I don't know how. In finder, I want all my folders to display details, instead of as icons. In Windows, this is easy and is set in Folder Options. In OS/2 this was as simple as making the change to a single folder (any folder, it didn't matter) while holding down alt, and the change to the one folder object was propogated globally to all objects (OS/2 was a decade ahead of its time, really. As long as you ran it on good hardware, it was stable, solid, fast, reliable, oh, and unlike OS X, customizable). Once I go into a folder in Finder, I can set it the way I want, and it'll remember that setting, but where the hell do I set global preferences for folder views? I HATE large icon view. In ANY OS.

I started on a higher dose of my meds this morning, and wow, I FELT the change when they kicked in. I've gotten more done in the last hour than I did on any given day last week. As a bonus, they totally destroy the bodies requests for sustenance, while kicking my metabolism into high gear.

I still maintain the grad student(s) who originally thought giving stimulants to hyperactive kids were high themselves and thought it would be funny as hell to watch, but I'm glad they (whomever they may be) did it.

More Fruity Computing Madness!

Okay, so I don't even have my laptop turned on right now. XP has become flaky over the last couple months, which isn't a surprise, it's been 18 months since I installed it last, which is about 50% longer than I usually get out of a Windows install before I just get fed up and start over (I reinstalled XP on my desktop at home just this past Sunday, after 14 months since the previous install; the FreeBSD partition has been in existance and untouched (save for the dump | restore needed to move it when I replaced a drive at some point) since my last major hardware upgrade (three years ago come June)).

So, I'm sitting on the Mac, and mostly, I'm happy. At least, I'm happy enough. Yeah, Apple are interface fascists, but for the most part, they put a lot of thought in to designing the interface so the gripes with it are minor. There is one though, that I'm sure I can do, but I don't know how. In finder, I want all my folders to display details, instead of as icons. In Windows, this is easy and is set in Folder Options. In OS/2 this was as simple as making the change to a single folder (any folder, it didn't matter) while holding down alt, and the change to the one folder object was propogated globally to all objects (OS/2 was a decade ahead of its time, really. As long as you ran it on good hardware, it was stable, solid, fast, reliable, oh, and unlike OS X, customizable). Once I go into a folder in Finder, I can set it the way I want, and it'll remember that setting, but where the hell do I set global preferences for folder views? I HATE large icon view. In ANY OS.

I started on a higher dose of my meds this morning, and wow, I FELT the change when they kicked in. I've gotten more done in the last hour than I did on any given day last week. As a bonus, they totally destroy the bodies requests for sustenance, while kicking my metabolism into high gear.

I still maintain the grad student(s) who originally thought giving stimulants to hyperactive kids were high themselves and thought it would be funny as hell to watch, but I'm glad they (whomever they may be) did it.

More Fruity Computing Madness!

Okay, so I don't even have my laptop turned on right now. XP has become flaky over the last couple months, which isn't a surprise, it's been 18 months since I installed it last, which is about 50% longer than I usually get out of a Windows install before I just get fed up and start over (I reinstalled XP on my desktop at home just this past Sunday, after 14 months since the previous install; the FreeBSD partition has been in existance and untouched (save for the dump | restore needed to move it when I replaced a drive at some point) since my last major hardware upgrade (three years ago come June)).

So, I'm sitting on the Mac, and mostly, I'm happy. At least, I'm happy enough. Yeah, Apple are interface fascists, but for the most part, they put a lot of thought in to designing the interface so the gripes with it are minor. There is one though, that I'm sure I can do, but I don't know how. In finder, I want all my folders to display details, instead of as icons. In Windows, this is easy and is set in Folder Options. In OS/2 this was as simple as making the change to a single folder (any folder, it didn't matter) while holding down alt, and the change to the one folder object was propogated globally to all objects (OS/2 was a decade ahead of its time, really. As long as you ran it on good hardware, it was stable, solid, fast, reliable, oh, and unlike OS X, customizable). Once I go into a folder in Finder, I can set it the way I want, and it'll remember that setting, but where the hell do I set global preferences for folder views? I HATE large icon view. In ANY OS.

I started on a higher dose of my meds this morning, and wow, I FELT the change when they kicked in. I've gotten more done in the last hour than I did on any given day last week. As a bonus, they totally destroy the bodies requests for sustenance, while kicking my metabolism into high gear.

I still maintain the grad student(s) who originally thought giving stimulants to hyperactive kids were high themselves and thought it would be funny as hell to watch, but I'm glad they (whomever they may be) did it.