From: "M. Edward (Ed) Borasky" Date: 2009-02-12T15:06:05+09:00 Subject: Re: 1.9 on Vista, would like tips, best practices On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 9:48 PM, Phlip wrote: > 4.1.3 with Kubuntu 8.10. > > Alt-tab works (but I configured it to show windows and not excessively > trippy hallucinations when it flicks thru them). > > Shift-alt-tab does not work - this is a prime example of "cargo cult > engineering", where the GUI impersonates Windows conventions without reading > or understanding the "Common User Access" research that came before them... > > Even without the Graphic key raising the root menu, I can keep my fingers on > the keyboard longer than with Windows, and much much longer than with a Mac. Yeah ... I dearly love Compiz on Gnome but I had to turn it off -- it's not quite stable yet. I've never owned an Apple product, and I don't intend to start any time soon. :) > > And Linux obviously lined them up and blew them out of the water, right? I didn't attempt to interject Linux into *that* discusssion. ZDNet is not a place where I want my name dragged into a flamewar. Besides, the openSUSE community manager is a regular columnist there. :) > > BTW both Ruby and big batch files like Rake are mondo faster... If you're on a 32-bit machine and using the "stock" Ruby interpreter, you can probably pick up a modest speed increase by recompiling the Ruby interpreter using the GCC "-march=native -O3" options. And of course you can also get a speed boost for a lot of jobs by using jRuby. jRuby might be your best bet if you're constrained to run on Windows for some reason. You get less of a boost from recompiling on a 64-bit machine because the binaries are already compiled knowing they've got the whole AMD64 / x86_64 architecture to play with. The tests I ran a week or so ago on my 64-bit machine didn't give me enough boost from a recompile to be worth the effort. > > -- M. Edward (Ed) Borasky I've never met a happy clam. In fact, most of them were pretty steamed.