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On Monday 02 January 2006 14:45, Chad P. wrote:

few issues. Those are easily fixed though.

Okay, thanks for the clarification.

I keep flirting with the idea of getting a Mac in here, but keep
discarding it with the realization that A) I probably wouldn’t use it
much and B) I still don’t like one-button mice (which would be something
of a problem since I’d probably want to get a laptop).

They give you a mighty mouse now anyway, so A is your only problem.

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On Tue, Jan 03, 2006 at 08:32:51AM +0900, Kevin B. wrote:

On Monday 02 January 2006 14:45, Chad P. wrote:

I keep flirting with the idea of getting a Mac in here, but keep
discarding it with the realization that A) I probably wouldn’t use it
much and B) I still don’t like one-button mice (which would be something
of a problem since I’d probably want to get a laptop).

They give you a mighty mouse now anyway, so A is your only problem.

I direct your attention again to my reference to laptops.

–
Chad P. [ CCD CopyWrite | http://ccd.apotheon.org ]

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Sean W. [email protected] wrote:

I’ve had terrible luck with any DarwinPorts package. Also a lot of the
ports are out of date.

i did install anjuta one week before and today where i was unlucky ))
Error 2 @ make…

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While we’re hijacking this thread for our own purposes, I have a couple
of requests for OS X software that might exist, but I can’t find:

  • I’d like to press a crazy, unused modifier combo (say, Shift-Alt) and
    have click-and-drag move the entire window that I’m
    clicking-and-dragging on. I’m tired of slogging all the way to the top
    of the window just to move it.
  • I generally have gem_server, plus one or two rails servers of my own
    running, and because I like to be able to a)flip to the logs quickly,
    and b)start/stop the servers in very few keypresses, I generally keep
    'em each open in their own Terminal window. That creates clutter
    quickly. Now, I might investigate 1)screen, 2)iTerm, 3)creating my own
    start/stop daemonizer bash script for the purpose, but what I’d really
    like is a stupid little Cocoa app that I could wire up to random shell
    scripts, and that gave me a bunch of Start/Stop and View Log buttons,
    akin to the System Controls thing that the MySQL dmg gives me.
    Basically, Locomotive, but without using Locomotive. :slight_smile:

Sorry about that…

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On Tuesday 03 January 2006 01:03, Chad P. wrote:

On Tue, Jan 03, 2006 at 08:32:51AM +0900, Kevin B. wrote:

On Monday 02 January 2006 14:45, Chad P. wrote:

I keep flirting with the idea of getting a Mac in here, but keep
discarding it with the realization that A) I probably wouldn’t use it
much and B) I still don’t like one-button mice (which would be
something of a problem since I’d probably want to get a laptop).

They give you a mighty mouse now anyway, so A is your only problem.

I direct your attention again to my reference to laptops.

I direct your attention again to plugging in any usb mouse. I’m sorry,
but I
simply cannot allow you to write off Macs entirely because there’s one
button
on the track pad. If you gave it a chance, you wouldn’t have that much
of a
problem with it. Really.

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Hi Hampton,

I hope I’m not repeating what anyone else is said but you can get
mysql bindings to work by:

Compiling and installing ruby, gems, etc and setting up mysql based on
the guide below:

At the bottom of the mysql section it has:
sudo gem install mysql – --with-mysql-dir=/usr/local/mysql

Do this and then go read through this url:
file:///usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mysql-2.7/README.html

Which basically says go to the mysql gems directory (from above) and
do the following:

  • ruby extconf.rb --with-mysql-dir=/usr/local/mysql
  • make
  • su
  • ruby ./test.rb [hostname [user [passwd [dbname [port [socket
    [flag]]]]]]]
    I got one error from this test, on the test_fetch_double test but the
    result seems fine.
  • make install

After you do this you can run ruby mysql fine. A sample bit of code is
below:

require ‘mysql’

m = Mysql.new(“localhost”, “root”, “”)
m.select_db(“dbname”)

result = m.query(“select * from table”)

result.each do |row|
row.each do |val|
puts val
end
end

As an aside, I bought a mac a few days ago and love it. I bought the
17". I’ve written a blog:
http://carlwoodward.blogspot.com/

Hope this helps and you stick with your mac.

Cheers,
Carl.

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On Wed, Jan 04, 2006 at 04:19:54AM +0900, Kevin B. wrote:

I direct your attention again to my reference to laptops.

I direct your attention again to plugging in any usb mouse. I’m sorry, but I
simply cannot allow you to write off Macs entirely because there’s one button
on the track pad. If you gave it a chance, you wouldn’t have that much of a
problem with it. Really.

Just accept that I require an integrated interface with which I’m
comfortable, and leave it at that. I don’t want to get into a flame war
about whether or not it’s acceptable to have to use an external pointing
device on a compact, portable device in order to not be driven up the
friggin’ wall by the interface.

Thanks.

–
Chad P. [ CCD CopyWrite | http://ccd.apotheon.org ]

“A script is what you give the actors. A program
is what you give the audience.” - Larry Wall

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Hi,

Just accept that I require an integrated interface with which I’m
comfortable, and leave it at that. I don’t want to get into a flame war
about whether or not it’s acceptable to have to use an external pointing
device on a compact, portable device in order to not be driven up the
friggin’ wall by the interface.

You might want to keep one thing in mind: the Apple Interface is built
to
be used with a single mouse button, it will certainly not drive you up a
wall, simply because of that fact. I found the lack of the second mouse
button weird at first, simply because I was using it the whole time in
window/linux, but I became used to it pretty fast, meaning a weeks or
so.
Generally I don’t propose Macs as I think most people just can’t “cut
back” something at first, just to discover that it’s just “the right
way”
on this platform.

Kash

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Hello.

Chad P.:

I tend to dislike pointing devices because of the disconnect in
disparate parts of the interface (keyboard and mouse), but I use
them because they’re useful with certain types of programs. A web
browser just isn’t as efficient tool without one, for instance.

Have you tried a ThinkPad laptop with a TrackPoint device (the red
nipple between G, H and B keys)? In the past two-and-a-half years,
I used an external mouse only once with my R31 (which I use 12+ hours
a day), and find myself reaching for the nipple every time I sit at
a desktop. For me, it’s simply unbeatable (although it took me about
a week to get used to it).

You only can’t bring yourself to buying an Apple
laptop; I couldn’t buy a non-ThinkPad one… :o)

Cheers,
– Shot

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On Fri, Jan 06, 2006 at 12:48:49AM +0900, Shot - Piotr S. wrote:

nipple between G, H and B keys)? In the past two-and-a-half years,
I used an external mouse only once with my R31 (which I use 12+ hours
a day), and find myself reaching for the nipple every time I sit at
a desktop. For me, it’s simply unbeatable (although it took me about
a week to get used to it).

Actually, I’m using one right now. I love Thinkpads. Once I turn the
trackpad off in the BIOS settings, so that I can just stick to the
trackpoint (and, when at home, an external trackball), I’m pleased as
punch. I love the button placement for the integrated pointing devices,
too.

You only can’t bring yourself to buying an Apple
laptop; I couldn’t buy a non-ThinkPad one… :o)

Every time I try a different laptop, I find myself wishing I was using a
Thinkpad. I’d be willing to make an exception for an Apple laptop from
time to time, though, if the physical interface was better (for me).

–
Chad P. [ CCD CopyWrite | http://ccd.apotheon.org ]

print substr(“Just another Perl hacker”, 0, -2);

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On Wed, Jan 04, 2006 at 07:13:00AM +0900, Kashia B. wrote:

wall, simply because of that fact. I found the lack of the second mouse
button weird at first, simply because I was using it the whole time in
window/linux, but I became used to it pretty fast, meaning a weeks or so.
Generally I don’t propose Macs as I think most people just can’t “cut
back” something at first, just to discover that it’s just “the right way”
on this platform.

I’ve used Macs. I didn’t like the one-button mouse.

I tend to dislike pointing devices because of the disconnect in
disparate parts of the interface (keyboard and mouse), but I use them
because they’re useful with certain types of programs. A web browser
just isn’t as efficient tool without one, for instance.

Giving a mouse only one button just exacerbates my annoyance, because it
forces more interface-switching than I would otherwise deal with, and
because the versatility of the pointing device itself is reduced.

Now that I’ve told the equivalent of my life story with regards to this
story, I’m going to attempt to drop the subject on the “agree to
disagree” note I already indicated (see above), and hope I’ll stop
getting messages from Mac evangelists who think the one-button mouse is
a feature rather than a bug. Maybe you like it: I don’t.

–
Chad P. [ CCD CopyWrite | http://ccd.apotheon.org ]

unix virus: If you’re using a unixlike OS, please forward
this to 20 others and erase your system partition.

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Just my 2c:
These little utils enable trackpad right-clicking (and scrolling, and
more) on Mac laptops. They both work wonderfully:

http://www.ragingmenace.com/software/sidetrack/
http://www-users.kawo2.rwth-aachen.de/~razzfazz/iscroll2/

-Payton