dell can bite my shiny metal ass
well, a grand six months or so after i bought my laptop, on sunday my screen flickered, gasped and apparently died. tommy says it has something to do with the "backlight." i say that i am "screwed." it will be virtually impossible for me to be in chicago in the next couple of weeks without my computer (and i'm not sure how long it will take for the dell people to fix it). i have a major article, a newspaper layout project and a take-home final to do before the quarter is over. not to mention that i need my computer for email, blogging, mindless distractions and downloading the VERONICA MARS TORRENT! AHHHHH.
do universities usually have some sort of laptop lending program? should i buy a laptop for like two weeks and then return it? should i go shoot up the dell HQ?
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Three Words: Apple Student Discount.
A new iBook can be had for less than a grand with a student discount and Apple's new loan program is killer.
But then you're stuck with a mac, and its shitty focus model and alt-tab behavior.
Though of course they don't call it "alt"-tab.
I haven't used a mac in a long time. What's so weird about the focus model? Is it like other X11 environments where the active window is the one under the cursor? If so, can't you change that?
lisa might want to be out of a job. you should ask her.
No, the active window is the one you've clicked on and (I think) is at the front. I prefer it when the focus follows the pointer, because the active window needn't be on top. (In Enlightenment it was called "focus follows pointer lazily"; there was another one where it followed strictly which wasn't as good.) And I think you have to click on the title bar of a window to give it focus, not just anywhere in the window. It's not "another" X environment, anyway.
It's not so unusual—windows is like that too, IIRC—but I don't like it, not one bit.
Mmmm... Veronica Mars ...
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