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2/12/2009 6:06:00 AM
On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 9:48 PM, Phlip <phlip2005@gmail.com> wrote:
> 4.1.3 with Kubuntu 8.10.
>
> Alt-tab works (but I configured it to show windows and not excessively
> trippy hallucinations when it flicks thru them).
>
> Shift-alt-tab does not work - this is a prime example of "cargo cult
> engineering", where the GUI impersonates Windows conventions without reading
> or understanding the "Common User Access" research that came before them...
>
> Even without the Graphic key raising the root menu, I can keep my fingers on
> the keyboard longer than with Windows, and much much longer than with a Mac.
Yeah ... I dearly love Compiz on Gnome but I had to turn it off --
it's not quite stable yet.
I've never owned an Apple product, and I don't intend to start any time soon. :)
>
> And Linux obviously lined them up and blew them out of the water, right?
I didn't attempt to interject Linux into *that* discusssion. ZDNet is
not a place where I want my name dragged into a flamewar. Besides, the
openSUSE community manager is a regular columnist there. :)
>
> BTW both Ruby and big batch files like Rake are mondo faster...
If you're on a 32-bit machine and using the "stock" Ruby interpreter,
you can probably pick up a modest speed increase by recompiling the
Ruby interpreter using the GCC "-march=native -O3" options. And of
course you can also get a speed boost for a lot of jobs by using
jRuby. jRuby might be your best bet if you're constrained to run on
Windows for some reason. You get less of a boost from recompiling on a
64-bit machine because the binaries are already compiled knowing
they've got the whole AMD64 / x86_64 architecture to play with. The
tests I ran a week or so ago on my 64-bit machine didn't give me
enough boost from a recompile to be worth the effort.
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>
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