I recently got a MacBook Pro at work. I’ve been slowly adjusting to OS X. I’ll post more on the adjustments I knew I’d have to make and the ones that suprised me later. However, I found a nick trick that took longer to find than I thought it would, so I’d blog it.
The OS X dock has its good and bad points, but its important due to that’s where minimized apps go and where running apps keep there icons. However, by default, it is centered and that doesn’t jive with how I like to place windows. Especially when coding. Based on the information given here at applepedia and the definition at this O’Reilly article I was able to figure out how to put it into the lower left or lower right corner. Click on the image here to see a screenshot of the dock put in its place.
The feature is called pinning. Just do the following from the command line:
After you restart the doc (by either logging back in or a nice "killall Dock.app" that will pin the dock to the left. If you want to lock it to the right, switch the start to end.
The company you work for was issued a court order demanding you turn over all the presentations that the company’s employees have given. Further, let’s say you have always done your presentations in OpenOffice.org Impress. You burn a CD-R of your 100s of presentations and include a README.txt (launched by an AUTORUN.INF) that says "Anything not opened by PowerPoint can be opened by the freely available OpenOffice.org at http://www.openoffice.org/"
Later, your in-house legal council coimes to you and says "Lawyers don’t have OpenOffice, we need to make this more user-friendly to lawyers, can you convert them to PowerPoint?" After arguing over free and easiness to obtain of OpenOffice, you give in and convert them all to PowerPoint.
Let’s take it as a given that no file format conversation is 100% accurate. Let’s also assume that the spirit of the court order is for the presentations you actually gave.
Did you tamper with evidence? The PowerPoint version is technically NOT the version you actually gave. Or is it good enough?
Last night, Sarah and I watched Fever Pitch. The movie was a light romantic comedy and was entertaining. It has Jimmy Fallon as an insane RedSox fan and his relationship with a woman and how the two mix and match, or don’t as the case may be.
Anyway, a lot of the movie takes place in Fenway Park, among other baseball stadiums. I’m glad I saw this movie at home as the repeated scenes of people eating hot dogs and drinking beer got to me. I had to drink a beer while watching the movie. I’m still craving a hotdog, but I can solve that today at lunch.
I recently got a MacBook Pro at work. I’ve been slowly adjusting to OS X. I’ll post more on the adjustments I knew I’d have to make and the ones that suprised me later. However, I found a nick trick that took longer to find than I thought it would, so I’d blog it.