[Trane]

I'm guessing that most people never use their Mac with a full-screen white-text-on-black-background terminal. Well, that environment is my daily life as a coder. It makes the new screens act like a very clear mirror. Good for keeping an eye out for the boss looking over your shoulder, but not good if counting the spots on the ceiling is distracting you from the regular expression you're trying to figure out.

I'm not too concerned by the glossy though. From trying it out several times in stores I'm certain it will cause problems for my black-screen use, but I plan to just order a matte screen protector as soon as I order the Mac. That way if I want matte, I can put it on, and when I want gloss, I can take it off. Best of both worlds.

.... of course, I could find out that I'm completely wrong and the screen protector sucks. At which point, I will turn from being a Mac lover to a Mac hater, dust off my BeBox, and curse Jean-Louis Gassée for not dominating Apple when he had the chance.

[Trane]

I'm guessing that most people never use their Mac with a full-screen white-text-on-black-background terminal. Well, that environment is my daily life as a coder. It makes the new screens act like a very clear mirror. Good for keeping an eye out for the boss looking over your shoulder, but not good if counting the spots on the ceiling is distracting you from the regular expression you're trying to figure out.

I'm not too concerned by the glossy though. From trying it out several times in stores I'm certain it will cause problems for my black-screen use, but I plan to just order a matte screen protector as soon as I order the Mac. That way if I want matte, I can put it on, and when I want gloss, I can take it off. Best of both worlds.

.... of course, I could find out that I'm completely wrong and the screen protector sucks. At which point, I will turn from being a Mac lover to a Mac hater, dust off my BeBox, and curse Jean-Louis Gassée for not dominating Apple when he had the chance.

[Janak Parekh]

Originally Posted by Trane

I'm guessing that most people never use their Mac with a full-screen white-text-on-black-background terminal.

Wait, full-screen? How many columns wide?

My X/emacs/terminal sessions are all white-on-black, but never full-screen. (And I've never had problems using them on my iMac. YMMV, of course.)

--janak

[Trane]

80. I just keep making the font size bigger until it runs out of space. Either that or just zoom in to achieve the same. Ok, so it's not full-full screen. I haven't figured out how to do that yet. Preferences in Terminal are a little less than intuitive.

Back in college we did an ACM programming competition where the host school had 21-inch monitors (which was pretty sweet in the late 90s). All the other teams were busy configuring their Linux window-border themes and background images while we just hit Ctrl-Alt-F1, logged in on a 21-inch 25x80 text terminal, and started vi. It's a miracle the other teams didn't just copy the code off our monitor from across the room.

[Janak Parekh]

Originally Posted by Trane

Back in college we did an ACM programming competition where the host school had 21-inch monitors (which was pretty sweet in the late 90s). All the other teams were busy configuring their Linux window-border themes and background images while we just hit Ctrl-Alt-F1, logged in on a 21-inch 25x80 text terminal, and started vi. It's a miracle the other teams didn't just copy the code off our monitor from across the room.

Trust me, when you're doing the ICPC, there's NO WAY anyone's going to copy your code. It's all gibberish without comments and hardcoded arrays. I do remember those days, although I usually opted for X myself (if default to minimize wasting time).

--janak

[Jason Dunn]

This thread officially got too geeky even for me. There's geeky then there's PROGRAMMER geeky.