Comments on: Logging In Like A Luser http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2007/05/15/logging-in-like-a-luser/ Utterly random, incoherent and disjointed rants and ramblings... Thu, 04 Dec 2008 17:50:24 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.5 by: Luke http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2007/05/15/logging-in-like-a-luser/#comment-4413 Wed, 16 May 2007 18:52:53 +0000 http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2007/05/15/logging-in-like-a-luser/#comment-4413 [quote comment="4412"]my login procedure has one simple step: click the button (I make use of Firefox's password remember-er)[/quote] I do that too. I also religiously lock the computer every time when I step away from the desk - even if I'm home alone (force of habit). This way my system login acts as a gatekeeper for all the passwords stored by my browser. Matt` said:

my login procedure has one simple step: click the button (I make use of Firefox’s password remember-er)

I do that too. I also religiously lock the computer every time when I step away from the desk - even if I’m home alone (force of habit). This way my system login acts as a gatekeeper for all the passwords stored by my browser.

]]> by: Matt` http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2007/05/15/logging-in-like-a-luser/#comment-4412 Wed, 16 May 2007 18:26:18 +0000 http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2007/05/15/logging-in-like-a-luser/#comment-4412 Similarly excruciating is watching my dad scroll down a webpage using the sidebar when he has a perfectly good scroll wheel at his fingertips, he goes through the "wiggle mouse" process for that as well. my login procedure has one simple step: click the button (I make use of Firefox's password remember-er) Similarly excruciating is watching my dad scroll down a webpage using the sidebar when he has a perfectly good scroll wheel at his fingertips, he goes through the “wiggle mouse” process for that as well.

my login procedure has one simple step: click the button
(I make use of Firefox’s password remember-er)

]]> by: Luke http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2007/05/15/logging-in-like-a-luser/#comment-4401 Tue, 15 May 2007 16:22:26 +0000 http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2007/05/15/logging-in-like-a-luser/#comment-4401 [quote comment="4398"]People I work with are constantly amazed that I hardly touch my mouse. Then again, I survived the Windows 3.1 days without a mouse, so I know how to even get around Windows without it. I even had a non-windows keyboard when running Windows 95 and would use the control-escape sequence to activate the start button.[/quote] People get confused when I use the Run command to get to most system settings (ie. services.msc, nusrmgr.cpl, devmgmt.msc and etc). Launchy makes this even easier. I use launchy for almost everything when I'm on windows now. :P [quote comment="4398"]Oh well, maybe we should just hand out old DOS systems again for everybody to work on. Might cut down on all the time wasted surfing the web! (not me though, I still use lynx occasionally).[/quote] I use Elinks - it actually has some css capabilities so some of the web pages out there actually look really good in it. My site is not one of them, but whatever. :P [quote comment="4399"]…and then your boss says: “Make it so that when you press “return”, the form submits”.[/quote] Correct response to this is "Consider it done!" - since it's a built in feature, it will be done whenever he decides to consider it. :) Craig Betts said:

People I work with are constantly amazed that I hardly touch my mouse. Then again, I survived the Windows 3.1 days without a mouse, so I know how to even get around Windows without it. I even had a non-windows keyboard when running Windows 95 and would use the control-escape sequence to activate the start button.

People get confused when I use the Run command to get to most system settings (ie. services.msc, nusrmgr.cpl, devmgmt.msc and etc).

Launchy makes this even easier. I use launchy for almost everything when I’m on windows now. P

Craig Betts said:

Oh well, maybe we should just hand out old DOS systems again for everybody to work on. Might cut down on all the time wasted surfing the web! (not me though, I still use lynx occasionally).

I use Elinks - it actually has some css capabilities so some of the web pages out there actually look really good in it. My site is not one of them, but whatever. P

Wikke said:

…and then your boss says: “Make it so that when you press “return”, the form submits”.

Correct response to this is “Consider it done!” - since it’s a built in feature, it will be done whenever he decides to consider it. )

]]> by: Wikke http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2007/05/15/logging-in-like-a-luser/#comment-4400 Tue, 15 May 2007 16:00:11 +0000 http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2007/05/15/logging-in-like-a-luser/#comment-4400 [quote comment="4398"]ROFLMFAO! People I work with are constantly amazed that I hardly touch my mouse. [/quote] True! Most people think it's some dark magic. The use of the mouse is so well adapted, most people go like "Huh!?" when you do some alt-tabbing to switch windows. Craig Betts said:

ROFLMFAO!
People I work with are constantly amazed that I hardly touch my mouse.

True! Most people think it’s some dark magic. The use of the mouse is so well adapted, most people go like “Huh!?” when you do some alt-tabbing to switch windows.

]]> by: Wikke http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2007/05/15/logging-in-like-a-luser/#comment-4399 Tue, 15 May 2007 15:53:02 +0000 http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2007/05/15/logging-in-like-a-luser/#comment-4399 ... and then your boss says: "Make it so that when you press "return", the form submits". You think you're clever and detail-minded, but in the end, it"'s mostly a waste of "line" … and then your boss says: “Make it so that when you press “return”, the form submits”.
You think you’re clever and detail-minded, but in the end, it”’s mostly a waste of “line”

]]> by: Craig Betts http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2007/05/15/logging-in-like-a-luser/#comment-4398 Tue, 15 May 2007 15:14:12 +0000 http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2007/05/15/logging-in-like-a-luser/#comment-4398 ROFLMFAO! People I work with are constantly amazed that I hardly touch my mouse. Then again, I survived the Windows 3.1 days without a mouse, so I know how to even get around Windows without it. I even had a non-windows keyboard when running Windows 95 and would use the control-escape sequence to activate the start button. Oh well, maybe we should just hand out old DOS systems again for everybody to work on. Might cut down on all the time wasted surfing the web! (not me though, I still use lynx occasionally). ROFLMFAO!

People I work with are constantly amazed that I hardly touch my mouse. Then again, I survived the Windows 3.1 days without a mouse, so I know how to even get around Windows without it. I even had a non-windows keyboard when running Windows 95 and would use the control-escape sequence to activate the start button.

Oh well, maybe we should just hand out old DOS systems again for everybody to work on. Might cut down on all the time wasted surfing the web! (not me though, I still use lynx occasionally).

]]> by: Pit http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2007/05/15/logging-in-like-a-luser/#comment-4395 Tue, 15 May 2007 07:39:55 +0000 http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2007/05/15/logging-in-like-a-luser/#comment-4395 Ta ta ta ta that`s true folks... Ta ta ta ta that`s true folks…

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