Circle gets the square
Friday May 27, 2005 - 12:04PM EDT
I've actually had some things to do at work recently. Meaning a dearth of blog posts. Almost done transfering all my data and setting up the software on my new powerbook. I want to do the flash website I've been meaning to complete this weekend. The powerbook coupled with my 1.6ghz P4 Windows XP is the most computing power I have ever had. Should be a breeze to setup Maya (3D modeling software) with network rendering to share the rendering load between the two computers. I have good idea of what this website is going to look like. It will probably be the fanciest website I have ever designed. It should also get me the needed flash knowledge that people keep asking for. First ultamite game is today. I have the regular season schedule. Looks like I'll miss about 6 games through the month of July while I am in Venezuela. But I'll be back for August playoffs. Projects are moving slowly because of the job, but that is ok because I am still making some progress. I'll have the rest of the summer to work on then anyway.
In Windows when view a directory listing it shows the folders and files grouped together then each group in whatever order you specify. On Linux and Mac OSX is doesn't group the folders or files together in their respetive groups. It just gives you a listing in whatever order you specify with files and folders intermingled within the listing. I don't like that. It make more sense to organize it the Windows way. There are definately a few things Windows does better as far as UI goes in comparison to OSX. Most of them involve the retarded simplicity of OSX. It oversimplifies tasks in some cases and it makes then more tedious to do. Windows seems to have more in deepth customization options as a standard. Like I can't hit the delete key to move things to the trash sometimes. I have to right click and select move to trash. Actually that might be a compact keyboard issue on the powerbook. The most annoying thing is the rudimentry operation of the Finder in OSX. It is not nearly as featured as Windows Explorer. Finder is too basic, I need more control to do things faster. There are plugins that add funcationality so I will take a look at them. Moving files around in Finder is not as easy as Explorer. I am suprised that such an integral part of the OS is so bad. It is clearly inferior to both the windows and Linux equivalents.