{"id":1403,"date":"2010-08-08T21:06:08","date_gmt":"2010-08-09T03:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/?p=1403"},"modified":"2021-10-21T07:37:52","modified_gmt":"2021-10-21T13:37:52","slug":"i-ride-the-turtle-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/?p=1403","title":{"rendered":"I ride the turtle again!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Look at him!\u00a0 He’s riding the turtle!<\/a><\/p>\n

Actually, it’s a tortoise.\u00a0 But who cares!<\/p>\n

Look at him!<\/p>\n

And like all slow rides, this ride gets you there eventually.<\/p>\n

If you’ve been paying attention to this blog… and honestly, I don’t know who the fuck in their right mind would, I mean come on.\u00a0 Even I don’t really pay attention to what I’m writing here, and I certainly don’t come back and read old posts to see how much I was complaining about work 3 weeks ago, or how much I was blabbering about how much I like phone sex last month.<\/p>\n

See?\u00a0 I’ve gone off on another stupid tangent again!\u00a0 Curses!\u00a0 Invocations!\u00a0\u00a0 Sorcery!!!<\/p>\n

So where was I… Yes, you may have noticed that I am a big fan of LXDE and I give major fucking props to Mr. PCMan, AKA Hon Jen Yee.\u00a0 Dude.\u00a0\u00a0 DUDE!\u00a0 (and possible dudette reading this)\u00a0 This man wrote most of LXDE and PCManFM (the file manager) himself!\u00a0 I can barely write a coherent blog post by myself!\u00a0 In fact, the sections of this post that actually make sense were written by a team of migrant Mexican workers!<\/p>\n

And while we’re on the subject of who did what, here are the credits from the “about” section of PCManFM:<\/p>\n

\u6d2a\u4efb\u8aed Hong Jen Yee <pcman.tw@gmail.com><\/em><\/p>\n

Source code taken from other projects:
\n* libmd5-rfc: Aladdin Enterprises
\n* Working area detection: Gary Kramlich
\n* ExoIconView: os-cillation e.K, Anders Carlsson, & Benedikt Meurer
\n* Text and icon renderer uses code from Jonathan Blandford
\n* Desktop icons use code from Brian Tarricone
\n* Volume management uses code from following projects\/authors:
\n* gnome-vfs: David Zeuthen
\n* thunar-vfs and libexo: Benedikt Meurer
\n* gnome-mount: David Zeuthen<\/em><\/p>\n

Gotta love open source, where the goal is to make something great and not to lock customers in with tricks.<\/p>\n

Anyway (come on guys, put that tequila bottle down!\u00a0 This has to make sense!) I like to use my file managers in “details” or “list” view.\u00a0 When I rock Windows XP or Windows 98, Explorer gets set to “details”.\u00a0 That’s the way I likes it.\u00a0 I have little patience for the default icon view.\u00a0 Here’s a pic to show what I’m talking about:<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>
\nThis is PCManFM, in “Icon” view.\u00a0 It’s not in “List” view because of a certain bug that stops it from working that way in Ubuntu 10.04.\u00a0 And that really fucking sucks because I LOVE PCManFM.\u00a0 It’s more fully featured than Thunar (which comes with Xubuntu) and way faster than both Thunar and Nautilus, which comes with Ubuntu.<\/p>\n

Now, here’s Nautilus (“List” mode) on my desktop:<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>
\nI primarily use Nautilus now.\u00a0 Why?\u00a0 Well, for starters because I don’t want to use PCManFM if I can’t use it in List mode.\u00a0 And Nautilus is no longer as slow as it used to be.\u00a0 Nautilus used to be so slow that…. uh… that.<\/p>\n

Okay, I must now turn to my talented team of Mexican migrant workers to come up with something poetic and sort of accurate to say.<\/p>\n

Guys?<\/p>\n

El burro trabaja doble.\u00a0 El indio no tiene la culpa sino el que lo hace compadre.<\/p>\n

\u02d9\u026f\u1d09\u0265 s,pu\u01dd\u1d09\u0279\u025f\u01ddq o\u0265\u028d \u01dduo \u01dd\u0265\u0287 \u025fo \u0287nq \u0287ln\u0250\u025f s,u\u0250\u1d09pu\u1d09 \u01dd\u0265\u0287 \u0287ou s\u1d09 \u0265\u0254n\u026f s\u0250 \u01dd\u0254\u1d09\u028d\u0287 s\u029e\u0279o\u028d ss\u0250\u029e\u0254\u0250\u027e \u2200<\/p>\n

That’s much better, isn’t it?\u00a0 Now you know EXACTLY what I’m talking about.\u00a0 You may need to translate, but suffice to say, Nautilus is now reasonably fast.\u00a0 In fact, I can’t tell much difference between its speed on this computer and that of Thunar.\u00a0 And Nautilus has some cool features that Thunar and PCManFM don’t have.\u00a0 It also has drawbacks, but it’s the best one I’ve used for Linux.<\/p>\n

And don’t talk to me about Dolphin, the KDE file manager.\u00a0 The only thing I can say about that one is how come the name doesn’t start with a K?<\/p>\n

Okay guys, time to get back in that van and get back across the border.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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