Comments on: The Best Laid Plans of Macs and Men http://doombot.com/2007/10/22/the-best-laid-plans-of-macs-and-men/ by Jane Austen Fri, 06 Jan 2012 17:05:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Jason http://doombot.com/2007/10/22/the-best-laid-plans-of-macs-and-men/comment-page-1/#comment-36057 Jason Mon, 22 Oct 2007 16:02:33 +0000 http://doombot.com/2007/10/22/the-best-laid-plans-of-macs-and-men/#comment-36057 I haven't tried Parallels yet, but $40 felt like a lot to shell out for software, and $80 feels like maybe more than I'm willing to spend right now. Maybe once I finally buy Endnote and the latest version of Adobe Creative Suite, I'll get over such concerns. Anyway, Dan was able to replicate the DoubleCommand error on his Macbook, so I <a href="http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1818014&group_id=65339&atid=510605" rel="nofollow">posted</a> to the bugs forum. I haven’t tried Parallels yet, but $40 felt like a lot to shell out for software, and $80 feels like maybe more than I’m willing to spend right now. Maybe once I finally buy Endnote and the latest version of Adobe Creative Suite, I’ll get over such concerns.

Anyway, Dan was able to replicate the DoubleCommand error on his Macbook, so I posted to the bugs forum.

]]> By: Jacob http://doombot.com/2007/10/22/the-best-laid-plans-of-macs-and-men/comment-page-1/#comment-36056 Jacob Mon, 22 Oct 2007 16:00:07 +0000 http://doombot.com/2007/10/22/the-best-laid-plans-of-macs-and-men/#comment-36056 Apparently my comment gets eaten if I type angle brackets. What you missed was the end of my story about remapping arrow keys, me asking you if you have tried a Parallels Desktop demo yet, and my mumbling about RAM usage on your laptop as a source to your Fusion woes. Apparently my comment gets eaten if I type angle brackets. What you missed was the end of my story about remapping arrow keys, me asking you if you have tried a Parallels Desktop demo yet, and my mumbling about RAM usage on your laptop as a source to your Fusion woes.

]]> By: Jacob http://doombot.com/2007/10/22/the-best-laid-plans-of-macs-and-men/comment-page-1/#comment-36055 Jacob Mon, 22 Oct 2007 15:57:44 +0000 http://doombot.com/2007/10/22/the-best-laid-plans-of-macs-and-men/#comment-36055 I've been remapping Caps Lock to Ctrl on all my keyboards for a few years now, and in addition to keeping my wrists a little straighter, it makes a virtualized Windows and Emacs a lot easier to use. After spilling coffee on my last laptop, I spent over a year with the non-functional right arrow key remapped to something ridiculous like Cntl-Cmd- I’ve been remapping Caps Lock to Ctrl on all my keyboards for a few years now, and in addition to keeping my wrists a little straighter, it makes a virtualized Windows and Emacs a lot easier to use.

After spilling coffee on my last laptop, I spent over a year with the non-functional right arrow key remapped to something ridiculous like Cntl-Cmd-

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