My Preview icon boy looks nothing like that. The boy is what looks to be of Asian ethnicity and looks perfectly normal.
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My Preview icon boy looks nothing like that. The boy is what looks to be of Asian ethnicity and looks perfectly normal.
Inconsequential
macrumors 68000
Same!
dmmcintyre3
macrumors 68020
From attached fileMiles Bader and RMS said:
CarlisleUnited
macrumors 6502
HAHA just saw that this morning, i think its the best one in that folder
Are people still falling for this one?
It's not true. The LCD screen has a backlight that doesn't shine any more or less bright if the display is showing black pixels. The only way you can make it shine less brght and save your battery is by simply reducing your brightness. The inverted colors is primarily present for people with impaired vision.
Are people still falling for this one?
It's not true. The LCD screen has a backlight that doesn't shine any more or less bright if the display is showing black pixels. The only way you can make it shine less brght and save your battery is by simply reducing your brightness. The inverted colors is primarily present for people with impaired vision.
It might not be shining any less brightly, but in a dark environment, a black background is much less irritating on the eyes than a white background. A white background is sometimes like sitting looking at a lamp constantly. I prefer black at night when my desk is dark.
mysterytramp
macrumors 65816
On my mini, running Tiger 10.4.11, instead of 22.1 the folder is 21.6
so the path might be: /usr/share/emacs/21.2/etc/COOKIES
mt
BTW, the slider trick is a holdover from Apples' pre-OS X operating systems, and it probably has to do with the control taking all mouse messages until the software processes a mouseup.
Why's this an easter egg?
Did you read the whole thing?
I believe these games are available to any *nix system that has emacs on it. You can also play pong as well!!
Trainwreck707
macrumors member
It's actually control+ scroll up.
Darn..
Darn I don't feel special anymore.
I just found out that not only can Macs speak any text, it can also store the audio in an audio file. I just wrote a script which converts a PDF to audio and stores it in iTunes.. Easier revision.. Sweeeet..
Thats quite funny.. haha.. I remember reading it a while ago and cracking up!
Darn I don't feel special anymore.
I just found out that not only can Macs speak any text, it can also store the audio in an audio file. I just wrote a script which converts a PDF to audio and stores it in iTunes.. Easier revision.. Sweeeet..
The Text Edit icon is just this old Apple commercial http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dvn_Ied9t4M
Another great easter egg, if you have a Windows server on your network, it will show a CRT with a BSOD for the icon.
HAHAHA that's pure genius
Not an easter egg but I like keyboard shortcuts to save time and found this one by accident
On a MBP press CTRL + EJECT for options of shutting down/sleep/restart
On my generic keyboard it is CTRL + F12
Thanks for the color inversion tip. I'm using it now and love it...this will be especially nice for night time reading!
srl7741
macrumors 68020
maclover001
macrumors 6502a
Not an easter egg, you're simply telnetting to "towel.blinkenlights.nl". Still cool though.
designgeek
macrumors 65816
The "etc" folder is gold! why is it here even?
mysterytramp
macrumors 65816
And in case anyone's wondering, in this version, Han fires first!
None of that revisionist George Lucas crap! ASCII keeps it real!
mt
That's not a joke or easter egg. They are serious.
lamerica80
macrumors 6502a
I read somewhere that if you stare at the "grass" wallpaper long enough a hidden leopard will appear - any truth to this?
Steve Jobs=God
macrumors 6502
I love this trick, doing it in PC stores that have a little corner stand for Macs but nobody who actually knows anything about them working there and then watching them run around panicing that it's broke is hilarious!