That's not what I'm telling you. During my commute, I have an hour ferry ride each way. This leaves 2 hours per day I could use to work on the level. But I have a mac which sucks. I don't have a laptop other than this mac, which sucks. I have a computer at home with windows on it, but by the time I get home the last thing I want to do is sit in front of the computer (I'm a software developer so I do that all day long). Plus, I have a 3-year-old son to attend to when I get home from work. Also, macs suck.

It doesn't work. If I hold fn while while the function keys, it does the mac junk. For example, f9 brings up the 3d view of all my windows or whatever. Not holding the fn key and pressing f9 tries to fast forward my "media" whatever that means (does nothing unless I have some music or movie playing).

Also, there is no page up/page down key. Do you have any idea how annoying it is to use 3d preview but only being able to move, not look up or down?

There is a way to do a Page Up and Page Down.

As to why your function keys are not working I don't know. I've never had trouble with it. I would bet it's an issue with VMWare, maybe with not having the extra guest OS stuff installed. Check the settings.

VMWare tools is installed. By default the mac makes a ton of keyboard shortcuts for the function keys. I bet I have to disable them all. But really, I only want them disabled when I'm in vmware Blarg

"There is a way" how cryptic. Mind sharing?

There's definitely a way, I read about some hacks to temporarily disable them so that F8 doesn't always launch iTunes when watching VLC or listening to Spotify. I'd dig around for them now, but I'm about to eat my dinner.

On an semi-related note Brian, Fusion 3 is out at the end of the month, and apparently it has had a major overhaul. Check out Ars Technica's article: http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2009/10/fusion-30-gains-snow-leopard-windows-7-aero-support.ars

I read about version 3, I don't think it has anything that I need or even will use. If the performance is better, I'll get it, though. Right now the experience is less than ideal. I still may explore putting windows on a real partition, but that will take quite a bit of time that I don't have to invest right now.

hmm. Someone really should make a news post about the contest...

So do it then?

I thought someone else was doing it.

...Nope.

Lazy fools, I did it.

What does the winner receive?

All things good and holy.

I'm sorry you have no home, Brian.

Thanks but I really don't understand this comment. Maybe I'm just dense?

Tracer has gone delusional.

Brian, have you tried different keybinding softwares, or editing the keybinding .plist file? Or am I misinterpreting what you are trying to do

http://www.cocoabits.com/KeyBindingsEditor/

I figured out a workaround, I basically have to go in and set the settings to disable mac shortcuts whenever I'm going to be working in Jed. It's a pain in the *** because I do use those shortcuts, but I can live w/out while working with Jed. I have my first area almost done... it takes longer than I remember. Probably because when I used to edit, I spent 8 hours at a time, working till 2-3 in the morning. Ah the old days.

You wrote that you had no home on the newspost. Then you cleverly changed it to make me look like a crazy.

I seriously have no idea what you're talking about -- on the news post on the main page??? Maybe someone else is editing my posts or something.

Yup, someone has been editing it-- at the end of my post, I wrote "someone owes me a donut" and now it says "Someone please give me a funky beat because I'm going to drop it like it's hot." -- that is annoying because it makes me look like a moron. Screw you guys, I'm deleting it.

It was probably mb, he should get a KICKBANKLINE

Yeah, or whatever moron wrote the news script should be fired. It shouldn't let you edit other peoples posts, or at least it should write out an 'edited by...' notice like the message boards.

wasn't that you?

I don't get it. Is this suppose to be a joke or something?

While we are on the subject, prehaps we SHOULD upgrade the news script because the current one we have sometimes goes insane. While we are on that, we should update the SOTD scripts, fix the Level of the Week archive, and make uploading new files on Massassi NOT a nightmare that no one will touch. The parts that hold together this sinking ship called Massassi are falling rapidly apart.



Is it really surprising that the last statement regarding the donut was an easy invitation to vandalism or just fooling around? I mean, what does "someone owes me a donut" mean in the first place? Is it an injoke? If so, would anyone new to the community get it without finding it absurd? Why a donut?

I'll write something up about the contest. I was hoping someone else would write the news post because the front page pretty much became me talking to myself. Echoman, Echoman, Echoman. It's eerie. Like a blogger talking into the dark. Although I do think people do read it, and I'm happy for that. People like good old Tracer.

All of that is pretty much the new Massassi. I just can't get the free time to get a design I like made. And no one here seems to have the time either. All I need is a decent photoshop layout, I don't even really need CSS/HTML. It just needs to function well, look modern, and fit in with my plan I posted in the other thread.

New Massassi!

Haha, I guess I never got into the habit of typing forums.massassi.net.

Also I think 'someone owes me a donut' was like 'someone owes me for getting around to making the news post'.

Peeface.

I'll send a donut to Brian if he provides an address. A man should not withhold donut-based fantasies.

are you looking for:
System Preferences > keyboard > "Use all F1, F2, etc. keys as standard function keys."

Holding the fn key does the same exact thing -- the problem is that while in a full-screen vm guest, it still does the "mac" stuff, it doesn't pass them on to the guest OS. Which is fine most of the time, because Jed is the only program I have that actually uses those keys for anything. So my solution is to disable the "mac" shortcuts in a full-screen vm, but I have to go switch that setting every time I start working with Jed and again when I stop.

If CM gives me ssh access to the massassi part, I can fix SOTD and the lotw archives.

I just would like to point out that some of us have given a layout a shot, but then you shot it down (in all fairness, I'm not good at this stuff/I have a minimalist aesthetic no one else likes, though I still think you will need to give far more specific guidelines for anyone more capable to do so).

So you're just waiting on the actual layout? Isn't that like the easiest part?

Why don't you hire Detty to do it? IIRC he's a professional internet guy.

Please tell me you wrote an importer for all the old stuff, too. It would be a shame to lose everything.

I was going to keep the old design for the old stuff, as I don't think it'd mix. In any case, as I stated multiple times, I will never delete the old stuff. (Unless of course it breaks copyright law >.>) I may import it later, but it's not that critical, as long as it's easily accessible.

Geb: If someone else wants to take a stab at it and needs more specifics, I can do that. Just, yours wasn't the best (Thanks for trying though )

Tracer: I'd argue it's the hardest part. My mind doesn't work too graphically, and I know it. I can invision what I want, but I've never had much talent making that vision come out. I'm much better at the backend side of things, and it's easier for me. A bad UI can easily destroy a website that strives to be as popular and useful as my ambitious goals were. It's not something simple like a blog where a quick theme in CSS plus a logo is all you need.

I guess what I'm saying is, is if I can get an excellent mockup, then I can really make that a reality. That's my strong suite.

Also, I don't have money to pay Detty

In any case, if you give me ssh access to the massassi.net section, I can fix the php errors for you.

I can fix it I just need to do that :p

If you want to do it for me though I don't mind.

Well, people have been complaining on here for a few weeks now, I don't mind doing it.