Re: convert from WordPerfect to Word?
On Dec 31, 2013, at 3:11 PM, Dinse, Gregg (NIH/NIEHS) [V] di...@niehs.nih.gov wrote: (I'm not sure WordPerfect ever existed on the Mac, or at least not for long). There was, but it was a different code base (but same technology) as the the DOS/Windows app. I was on the team that was converting the WP6 codebase to the Mac (the last “native” WP for Mac was 3.x) but that was eventually cancelled and we formed the basis of a cross platform support library for a next ten word processor from WP that never saw the light of day… Those were the days.. ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
Re: F4 Key in 10.8.3
On Jun 2, 2013, at 11:41 PM, LuKreme krem...@kreme.com wrote: On 02 Jun 2013, at 18:30 , objectwerks inc c...@objectwerks.com wrote: Show Dashboard F12 (which really means fn-F12) That's different. If I turn that on, I can use F12 (Fn-F12) to show dashboard, but F4 does nothing. On other machines, F4 shows the Launchpad (not dashboard) F4 seems to be hardwired to that functionality (which is what the icon on it suggests) Huh. Not here. Using Apple Aluminum keyboard (wired with 10-pad). The F4 shows two rows of 3 squares. Interesting. All the Apple Aluminum keyboards (wired with 10 key pad) that I have (a few) show a round gauge icon on the key. And they all show dashboard. I've had mine since the first year they were release (my A key is totally worn off and has a divot in it) Apple must have changed which codes get sent for that key when 10.7 came out. ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
Re: F4 Key in 10.8.3
On Jun 2, 2013, at 3:26 PM, LuKreme krem...@kreme.com wrote: On 31 May 2013, at 21:08 , objectwerks inc c...@objectwerks.com wrote: On May 31, 2013, at 4:29 PM, LuKreme krem...@kreme.com wrote: The F4 key on the Apple Aluminum keyboard used to show dashboard in 10.7 and I thought it used to show launchpad in 10.8, but on my iMac it is not doing anything at all. On my 10.8.2 system, a Mac Pro, the Apple Aluminum Keyboard F4 (just the F4 key, no fn key held with it) shows the widgets. Which I guess is the Dashboard. Under Settings, it shows F12 for Dashboard, and indeed, if I hit fn-F12 I get the widgets again. F12 by itself (no fn- key held with it) is an increase volume key. What are your settings in Keyboard=Keyboard Shortcuts=Launchpad Dock ? In that exact place (Launchpad Dock) Turn Dock Hiding On/Off cmd-opt-Dchecked on Show Launchpad off However, under Mission Control Show Dashboard F12 (which really means fn-F12) There is nothing for F4 or fn-F4 listed at all in any keyboard shortcut category. F4 seems to be hardwired to that functionality (which is what the icon on it suggests) --___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
Re: F4 Key in 10.8.3
On May 31, 2013, at 4:29 PM, LuKreme krem...@kreme.com wrote: The F4 key on the Apple Aluminum keyboard used to show dashboard in 10.7 and I thought it used to show launchpad in 10.8, but on my iMac it is not doing anything at all. On my 10.8.2 system, a Mac Pro, the Apple Aluminum Keyboard F4 (just the F4 key, no fn key held with it) shows the widgets. Which I guess is the Dashboard. Under Settings, it shows F12 for Dashboard, and indeed, if I hit fn-F12 I get the widgets again. F12 by itself (no fn- key held with it) is an increase volume key. - ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
Re: File Recovery
On May 30, 2013, at 7:07 PM, LuKreme krem...@kreme.com wrote: On 29 May 2013, at 21:53 , Rudolf O. Durrer r.o.dur...@durrer.org wrote: What I did look for is a file recovery utility which allows a user do recover files accidentally deleted. This is exactly what Time Machine is best at. Agreed if you have it on when the deletion occurs. It does not help after the fact if you did not. That is Rudolf's problem. ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
Re: File Recovery
On May 29, 2013, at 6:30 PM, Charles J McDonald mphsmcdon...@gmail.com wrote: On May 29, 2013, at 11:51, Rudolf O. Durrer r.o.dur...@durrer.org wrote: Can somebody guide me to a reliable product? The best back-up method is the one you use. The problem is that he is not asking about the best back-up method. He is asking about the best file recovery programs. Time Machine is irrelevant to his immediate problem. ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
Re: Tomorrow at 10am
On Apr 24, 2013, at 11:08 AM, Carl Hoefs newsli...@autonomy.caltech.edu wrote: On Apr 24, 2013, at 9:55 AM, Andy Lee wrote: On Apr 24, 2013, at 12:52 PM, Carl Hoefs newsli...@autonomy.caltech.edu wrote: https://developer.apple.com/wwdc/tickets/ Tomorrow at 10am, 100,000 iOS and OSX developers will be madly rushing to get 1 of just 5000 tickets, all of which will be gone by 10:05am. Even a lottery or some such would be better, at least there'd be _some_ chance of getting in... This effectively *is* a lottery, isn't it? Everybody will try at the same time, and only chance will decide who succeeds? That depends also on one's internet speed, refresh acuity, etc. There's _got_ to be a better way! Everyone dreads the thought of vying for the worm. Can't see how I'll ever get there at this rate. Perhaps Apple should hold a crowd sourcing contest of sorts to see who can come up with the most equitable scheme. The winner, of course, gets a free pair of tickets ;-) One thing they could do is give the paid developer program members first dibs. I don't have the resources to go this year anyway so it does not affect me this year... And I am glad of that since I have a funeral to go to tomorrow at the same time and wouldn't be able to make the rush anyway. Chad ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
Re: How to reset security questions for AppleID if you don't have a rescue email defined?
On Mar 22, 2013, at 4:50 PM, Macs R We macs...@macsrwe.com wrote: Worse comes to worse you can telephone an agent. I had a problem where I knew the answer to the questions, and the agent verified that I knew the answer to the questions, but the website wasn't taking them anyway. She managed to straighten out the entire account and we got it back, so my recommendation is, call her. What was her name? And did you get her number? ;) On Mar 22, 2013, at 3:45 PM, Kevin Callahan kc...@mac.com wrote: A few of us have forgotten our security questions for our AppleID's. We are told you can simply change the security questions. However, the snag is that you need to have set up a rescue email address in order to do so. If you don't have a rescue email setup, it seems like you get into an endless loop when following this tech support page: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5312 How does one set up a rescue email address on an existing AppleID? And will this allow one to then change security questions? Tnx ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
Re: Mount a De-CSS'd DVD?
You can purchase software that will rip the DVD and de-CSS it. (disclaimer: Check the legality in your area) They output VIDEO_TX folders that are the DVD (including menus etc) but are not longer encumbered with the CSS stuff and region coding. Mac The Ripper is one such piece of software. There are others. On Mar 5, 2013, at 9:28 PM, Michael_google gmail_Gersten keybou...@gmail.com wrote: Is there a program that can mount a DVD as De-CSS'd? My goal is simple: some video players (mplayer/etc) can handle DVD movies at faster than normal speed. Apple's DVD player can not do anything between 1x speed with audio, and 2x speed without. But the program I have -- MPlayerX -- cannot handle the movie that shows up when a DVD is inserted -- makes sense, as it is encrypted, and the decryption is inside Apple's player. How can I just mount the DVD as decrypted? -- Political and economic blog of a strict constitutionalist http://StrictConstitution.BlogSpot.com This message may have been spell checked by a laptop kitten. ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
Re: Drives me mad ...
John This does not solve the problem of a browser with lots of tabs and lots of windows causing the whole thing to slow down. Safari already works in a similar way to what you describe (not exactly, though I have not kept uo with exactly how Safari works). But there is overhead in building up all the windows and tabs and playing traffic cop for them all. I don't have particular problems myself with Safari being slow, even with all the bazillion windows and tabs I have, but the possibility is there. Chrome also gives me issues as the number of windows and tabs multiplies. Chad On Mar 1, 2013, at 4:16 PM, John Musbach johnmusba...@gmail.com wrote: What performance issue? Browsers should structure themselves like Chrome does where each tab is a separate process from the core browser. Therefore no one tab will degrade the whole browser's performance and if one site instance crashes it doesn't affect any other tab. In Chrome while some sites will be sluggish (e.g. Facebook), its design means everything else continues to perform normally. On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 7:02 AM, LuKreme krem...@kreme.com wrote: Ashley Aitken opined on Sunday 24-Feb-2013@10:32:36 Am I missing something? What do other people do? I like to group tabs in different windows (according to what I am doing etc.) Do people just use one window for all tabs? Any suggestions? I use at most two windows and rarely have more than 10 tabs total, and mostly those will be all in one window. I will pull a tab out to be a stand-alone window on occasions, but usually that is just one tab and just for a brief period. I’d say 95% of the time I have a single window with 10 or fewer tabs. I frequently have 5-10 browser windows with 5-10 tabs in each … Yeah, my brain can’t handle that. I use the history a lot (usually the menu, not the search) to pull back recent windows. -- You too will get old. And when you do you'll fantasize that when you were young prices where reasonable, politicians were noble, and children respected their elders. Respect your elders. ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk -- Best Regards, John Musbach ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
Re: Anyone bought one of these?
On Feb 10, 2013, at 3:14 PM, LuKreme krem...@kreme.com wrote: In our previous episode (Sunday, 10-Feb-2013), John Musbach said: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820227797 I think the reviews speak for the product quite well, no? Oh, but if you're thinking about getting a bunch of these for gaming, the go right ahead. This will definitely speed up the amount of time it takes to die in CoD. That way when it doesn't help your gaming you can open the case, pet it, and pretend it's a $2700 girlfriend. There's no way a real girlfriend or wife would let you buy (or think you were smart for owning) one of these anyhow... not until they come way down in price. If you're a girl, just buy it. It's way more street fred with nerds than a ring of the same cost. Despite popular opinion, this drive isn't made of gold, it will not be hand delivered by the Chosen One, will not positively/negatively affect your RAM, and will not cost you your first born child. But depending on who you believe, it may still protect you from the impending zombie crisis As soon as I plugged this in, the walls started to melt and Jеsus floated down from the ceiling on a Raptor made out of Weed and started playing Dubstep with his Eyebrows. Sold my car to buy this and wow, this is the best thing I did besides selling my kids for a motorcycle. It would be so nice if I had some idea what the hell this was without clicking a link and leaving my email. No worries. It is just a NewEgg product listing for a 1TB SSD using some unobtanium form of NAND and costing $2500. The reviews of the item are what John was quoting. ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
Apple Mail address auto completion no longer works after upgrade to Mountain Line
I have a strange issue on one machine. I upgraded my Mac Pro from 10.7.4 or 10.7.5 (don't remember if I updated to 10.7.5 first) to 10.8.2. This was about 2 weeks ago. At the same time, I also installed some SSD and moved my user account to one of the SSD, and updated its location in the Settings User settings. Now, when I start typing an address in Mail, instead of providing me a list of possible auto completions, I get a little spinning busy spinner thing at the end of the input field, it never gives me any auto completions, and the Console app shows these assertion failures (lots of them for each occurrence -- the last attempt yielded 7 of these identical assertions over 2 milliseconds) 1/1/13 11:34:47.689 AM Mail[29164]: *** Assertion failure in -[CompletionController _beginAutocompletionSearchesForString:], /SourceCache/Mail/Mail-1499/Mail/Compose/Headers/CompletionController.m:1251 +[ABAddressBook emptyMemoryBackedAddressBook] failed to return an address book ( 0 CoreMessage 0x7fff9705e8d7 -[MFAssertionHandler _handleFailureWithPreamble:description:arguments:] + 141 1 CoreMessage 0x7fff9705e748 -[MFAssertionHandler handleFailureInMethod:object:file:lineNumber:description:] + 215 2 Mail0x00010e6b3cea Mail + 1068266 3 Mail0x00010e6b3b4c Mail + 1067852 4 Foundation 0x7fff96b6fdb5 __NSFireDelayedPerform + 358 5 CoreFoundation 0x7fff95829da4 __CFRUNLOOP_IS_CALLING_OUT_TO_A_TIMER_CALLBACK_FUNCTION__ + 20 6 CoreFoundation 0x7fff958298bd __CFRunLoopDoTimer + 557 7 CoreFoundation 0x7fff9580f099 __CFRunLoopRun + 1513 8 CoreFoundation 0x7fff9580e6b2 CFRunLoopRunSpecific + 290 9 HIToolbox 0x7fff912ea0a4 RunCurrentEventLoopInMode + 209 10 HIToolbox 0x7fff912e9e42 ReceiveNextEventCommon + 356 11 HIToolbox 0x7fff912e9cd3 BlockUntilNextEventMatchingListInMode + 62 12 AppKit 0x7fff8c8ca613 _DPSNextEvent + 685 13 AppKit 0x7fff8c8c9ed2 -[NSApplication nextEventMatchingMask:untilDate:inMode:dequeue:] + 128 14 AppKit 0x7fff8c8c1283 -[NSApplication run] + 517 15 AppKit 0x7fff8c865cb6 NSApplicationMain + 869 16 libdyld.dylib 0x7fff974557e1 start + 0 17 ??? 0x0002 0x0 + 2 ) I've tried to Google various relevant bits from this asertion failure listing but without success. Anyone see this before or have any relevant ideas on what could be causing it? Thanks Chad ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
Re: upgrading from 10.6 to 10.8
On Dec 24, 2012, at 11:21 AM, Dinse, Gregg (NIH/NIEHS) [V] di...@niehs.nih.gov wrote: What about my wife's iMac? Is it better to go directly from Snow Leopard to Mountain Lion, skipping Lion (assuming this is possible)? Or should I do a 2-stage upgrade from Snow Leopard to Lion, and then from Lion to Mountain Lion? I just upgraded our family Mini from 10.6.8 (you need to be at 10.6.8, not 10.6.x) to 10.8.2 just last week, and my Mac Pro from 10.7.4 to 10.8.2. Both worked flawlessly. ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
Re: length of battery charge for sleep/wake versus on/off
On Dec 22, 2012, at 11:19 PM, Dinse, Gregg (NIH/NIEHS) [V] di...@niehs.nih.gov wrote: I thought the number of power cycles was the most important factor in determining when a battery would need to be replaced. This is why I was asking about the length of time between charges. If I charge the iPad each night, but the battery would actually last for a week without recharging, won't the battery need replacing 7 times sooner? I'm guessing that it won't really be 7 times sooner, but you get my point. Or is that just a myth? I don't know the details, but that is part of it. Depends on the exact battery chemistry. I've read (don't know how valid it is) that cycles that are not complete cycles (ie, recharging after 10% depletion) doesn't count. I don't know. But the iPad I only charge when it gets down to 20-40% or so. So not every night as it seems to last a long time. But the iPhone I do nightly. My 5 year old regular 1st gen 2G iPhone, though it doesn't get that much use now (my son uses it for games like an iPod touch kind of), still holds a really good charge and the phone got used regularly, and charged nightly, for over 2 years, and intermittently since. I wouldn't overly worry about it. Chad ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
Re: length of battery charge for sleep/wake versus on/off
On Dec 22, 2012, at 10:11 AM, Dinse, Gregg (NIH/NIEHS) [V] di...@niehs.nih.gov wrote: Hi, Does anyone know whether the time between battery charges would be significantly longer if I powered off my iPad between uses rather than simply putting it to sleep? I have the same question regarding my iPod Touch and my MacBook Pro, though I assume the answer is the same. I usually put my MacBook Pro to sleep when I'm not using it, unless I know I won't use it for several weeks. I just got an iPod Touch and an iPad, and I was wondering if I should continue the same behavior with those. Or would the battery last longer between charges if I actually powered these units off between uses? I just put my iPads and iPod touch (and iPhones) to sleep by hitting the power button to turn off the screen. They are not really asleep in the computer sense. Just the screen turned off. Instant on. The iPad will go several days anyway. Don't worry about it. Just hit the power button to turn off the screen, and plug it in when you go to bed. ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
Re: Hidden Partition Collisions
On Dec 16, 2012, at 8:57 PM, Macs R We macs...@macsrwe.com wrote: On Dec 16, 2012, at 7:58 PM, LuKreme wrote: Macs R We spake on Sunday 16-Dec-2012@17:41:53 Lion and Mountain Lion both create hidden recovery partitions. If I keep an external drive with Lion in one partition and Mountain Lion in another, are their respective recovery partitions going to collide? I'm not sure what you mean by 'collide' but the Recovery Partition will be 10.8. (As I understand it, 10.7 will not overwrite an existing recovery partition, and 10.8 will update a Recovery Partition to 10.8). As long as a 10.8 recovery partition will correctly service the 10.7 OS partition on the same drive, I suppose it wouldn't be a problem, but will it? Right of the top of my head, I suspect things like Repair Permissions would get wonky, probably some other things. I don't know much about how this works, but I don't have a recovery partition yet I can still boot with CMD-R and get into the recovery screens. It seems. This is with 10.8. I originally installed my Lion on a (OS X native software-) Mirror-RAID volume. I was told during the installation that OS X did not support a recovery partition on a RAID volume. This past weekend I used Carbon Copy Cloner to move this startup volume to a single SSD (using the complete device). It still had just the one partition. I then applied a 10.8 Mountain Lion upgrade to it. It did not say anything about re-partitioning and if I look at it in Disk Utility, it still shows just the one full size partition that it had before the 10.8 upgrade. I was able to do CMD-R to get into the recovery stuff (trying to repair some user directory ACLs in ~/Library), which I had never tried before. And it worked. So I wonder if it can install at least some of the Recovery stuff in the main partition? Again, I don't really know how this all works. Informationally, I also added a second SSD and moved my user account to that SSD (and changed the user account location in Settings). And I moved media files and mobile device backups to some standard hard disks and linked the Pictures / Music and ~Library/Application Support directories to this mirrored HD volume. This early 2008 Mac Pro once again screams in terms of normal every day use, where it had been bogging down with 5 year old Hitachi Ultrastar enterprise disks that were 66-75% full... Almost like getting a new machine :-) Chad -___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
Re: Control iPad from Mac? Or run iOS sw on Mac?
On Nov 20, 2012, at 1:24 PM, Alex Kornilov wrote: On 11/20/12 6:44 AM, objectwerks inc wrote: On Nov 19, 2012, at 5:53 PM, LuKreme wrote: On Nov 18, 2012, at 12:11, Michael Grantmgr...@gmail.com wrote: Is there any way to control an iPad from a Mac, or to run iOS software on a Mac? The only way to run an iOS program on OS X is within Xcode. And even then you need the source. Xcode compiles the apps into X86 code that runs inside the simulator. Regular iOS is ARM based. just curious: does Apple ask for the source code or only binary? What do you mean? Xcode runs on your own computer. Apple does not ask for anything. If you meant, does Apple ask for source code when you submit an iOS app to the App Store? No. Just a compiled binary app package (binary and resources needed to run). Chad ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
Re: Control iPad from Mac? Or run iOS sw on Mac?
On Nov 19, 2012, at 5:53 PM, LuKreme wrote: On Nov 18, 2012, at 12:11, Michael Grant mgr...@gmail.com wrote: Is there any way to control an iPad from a Mac, or to run iOS software on a Mac? The only way to run an iOS program on OS X is within Xcode. And even then you need the source. Xcode compiles the apps into X86 code that runs inside the simulator. Regular iOS is ARM based. --___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
Re: list of Airplay compatible devices
On Jul 25, 2012, at 6:44 PM, LuKreme wrote: On Jul 25, 2012, at 15:19, Kevin Callahan kc...@mac.com wrote: None of my machines, including my 2 year old (mid-2010) iMac 27 i7 with ATI Radeon HD 5750 1024 MB is advanced enough: Based in what? The only requirement I know if us iTunes 10.2? The link he gave on Apple's website, http://www.apple.com/osx/whats-new/features.html, has a superscript 1 on it under the Airplay Mirroring and that leads to this footnote AirPlay Mirroring requires a second-generation Apple TV or later, and is supported on the following Mac models: iMac (Mid 2011 or newer), Mac mini (Mid 2011 or newer), MacBook Air (Mid 2011 or newer), and MacBook Pro (Early 2011 or newer). ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
clean out the dust! It can get expensive if you don't
So, I have a Mac Pro (early 2008) with an Nvidia Quadro 5600 video card. While it has reasonable airflow, the Mac Pro itself is heavy, and it was behind a monitor on a table that was hard to easily get at it. So I did not blow out the dust often and never really in the video cards (also has an ATI 2600 card). Lately I have been having occasional glitches when the card gets pushed hard, and more likely when the room is warm than cold. I've been thinking that I should take the computer, blow all the dust out, as well as off (out of) the video card. But I've been busy -- real busy -- the last week or two and did not get to it, even when I thought I should make time. Well, yesterday I was down in my basement working on some stuff (moving tables from an office to the man-cave :-) ). I came back up and the Mac Pro was off. I did not remember putting it to sleep and it is not set to go to sleep automatically. (Though I do put it to sleep manually, the last few months, when I am away for a longer period). The light [power led] was on like it was sleeping, but not pulsing. The monitors (Apple monitors) were sleeping. I tried to wake it up. No go. Finally I got all the cables disconnected and took it in to the kitchen, and opened the side. A thin layer of dust but not as bad as I have seen some computers. I took it out back on the porch and my cans of compressed air as well, and gave it 10 mins of blowing in every conceivable nook and cranny to get all the dust out. Still no go when trying to boot. You could hear some sort of relay or something go when you plugged it in, and see the fan on the Nvidia card try to move, but it would not start. I took the card out and blue out more dust from it. Then I saw the internal ducts in front of the heat sink were basically totally clogged. I got it all blown out. The ATI card as well. Put it all back together. Nothing. Replaced the MB battery (CR2032). No go. Finally I removed ALL PCI-E cards and trued, and it would start up. (No video obviously so I quit the startup after showing it would start). So I tried each card one at a time. The ATI worked. The Nvidia not. :-( It was the main driver of my 30 screens. I've ordered an ATI 5770 Radeon overnight delivery to replace the Nvidia, but the cost could have been avoided if I had just dusted it out and cleaned out the video card once in a while. The Nvidia 5770 should be a lot faster and get around an OpenGL Nvdidia bug that makes 1/2 the websites out there crash the WebProcess stuff in Safari, but with overnight delivery and one third party display-port-DVI adapter, it was almost $290 -- money I did not need to spend if I had done a better job keeping it clean. Chad ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
Re: clean out the dust! It can get expensive if you don't
On May 8, 2012, at 6:40 PM, Arno Hautala wrote: On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 8:32 PM, objectwerks inc c...@objectwerks.com wrote: [...] it fits the circumstances better than other possibilities. False. Ghosts. Q.E.D. It could be Ghosts if there was any indication or evidence of such, like there has been of overheating. Maybe you need to go back to lab 101 or proofs 101 ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
Re: clean out the dust! It can get expensive if you don't
Sent from my iPhone On May 8, 2012, at 7:50 PM, Arno Hautala a...@alum.wpi.edu wrote: On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 8:44 PM, objectwerks inc c...@objectwerks.com wrote: It could be Ghosts if there was any indication or evidence of such, like there has been of overheating. Maybe you need to go back to lab 101 or proofs 101 At this point, I'm thinking Jokes 101 Now that worked. -- arno s hautala/-| a...@alum.wpi.edu pgp b2c9d448 ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
Re: what do these error messages mean?
On Apr 28, 2012, at 10:33 AM, Dinse, Gregg (NIH/NIEHS) [E] wrote: On Apr 28, 2012, at 11:58 AM, objectwerks inc wrote: On Apr 28, 2012, at 8:07 AM, Dinse, Gregg (NIH/NIEHS) [E] wrote: On Apr 27, 2012, at 9:39 PM, Arno Hautala wrote: On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 16:29, Dinse, Gregg (NIH/NIEHS) [E] di...@niehs.nih.gov wrote: What is centrify? Centrify is a central management system for auditing, package management, etc. I'm guessing this is a company machine? You may need to have it and McAfee reinstalled with updated versions. Hi Arno, Yes, this is a company machine. I guess I will have to contact our computer support folks. They still are not supporting Lion, so I was hoping to get things working on my own, but I suppose I'll need to call them. If they are not supporting it, why do you care if centrify or macafee is running? Just wondering Chad I did not even know what centrify was, so I did not know whether I should care or not. but now you do. Also, even if I should not care about it, I do not know how to stop it from running. Mainly I am concerned because it dominates my Console logs. These same 15 lines of error messages are repeating every 5 or 10 seconds, so it is difficult to see any other messages because they are buried in millions of lines of centrify/McAfee messages. why bother? My point is: if this is a centrally managed machine, supposedly, and they don't support Lion, but you installed Lion, why rock the boat? I don't know how your IT dept is but I would not want to involve IT in anything I did not have to. As for McAfee, is this software generally considered helpful, hurtful, or just useless? I consider it useless. But with this latest Java based malware thingy going around more people will probably find it useful than previously. Just don't type your password into anything you did not mean to do or know what it is doing etc, don't visit dodgy sites, and avoid java and flash. How do I remove the centrify software? Also, I do not believe I have a way to remove the McAfee software, as I do not see a McAfee package or a McAfee uninstaller. This was installed by the computer support folks, so I guess I will have to ask them to remove it (and I'm sure they will then want to install a Lion version). See above. Why bother. Everyone's logs are full of useless lines that come from things that don't know what they are doing. When it comes to IT dept, especially when I am running unsupported, I keep them as far away as possible. Chad Thanks, Gregg ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
Re: what do these error messages mean?
On Apr 28, 2012, at 10:56 AM, John Musbach wrote: That's just like shooting yourself in the foot. Way better in a unsupported config to google for the uninstallers then get IT involved. At places I've worked that've had IT departments it has been a violation of their policy to run a unsupported config so telling IT you're doing so is probably not going to prove helpful. Just remember this folks, IT is not their to support you. They are there to support themselves and make their own lives as easy and comfortable as possible. ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
Re: what do these error messages mean?
On Apr 28, 2012, at 10:59 AM, objectwerks inc wrote: On Apr 28, 2012, at 10:56 AM, John Musbach wrote: That's just like shooting yourself in the foot. Way better in a unsupported config to google for the uninstallers then get IT involved. At places I've worked that've had IT departments it has been a violation of their policy to run a unsupported config so telling IT you're doing so is probably not going to prove helpful. Just remember this folks, IT is not their to support you. They are there to support themselves and make their own lives as easy and comfortable as possible. if I could spell and use appropriate words today I would be ahead. Sorry Just remember this folks, IT is not *there* to support you. They are there to support themselves and make their own lives as easy and comfortable as possible. ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
Re: what do these error messages mean?
On Apr 28, 2012, at 3:02 PM, Arno Hautala wrote: On Sat, Apr 28, 2012 at 12:47, objectwerks inc c...@objectwerks.com wrote: On Apr 28, 2012, at 10:33 AM, Dinse, Gregg (NIH/NIEHS) [E] wrote: Also, even if I should not care about it, I do not know how to stop it from running. Mainly I am concerned because it dominates my Console logs. These same 15 lines of error messages are repeating every 5 or 10 seconds, so it is difficult to see any other messages because they are buried in millions of lines of centrify/McAfee messages. why bother? My point is: if this is a centrally managed machine, supposedly, and they don't support Lion, but you installed Lion, why rock the boat? I don't know how your IT dept is but I would not want to involve IT in anything I did not have to. If it's anything like my experience with Centrify, it's down to trying to audit / push out unsupported hardware. The Windows machines are handled by external IT and Centrify compatible hardware must have that installed. IT then uses Centrify to log in and inspect the installed software, looking for security flaws (without checking for backports). As soon as a few flaws are identified, the hardware is kicked off the network until justification is supplied. Maintaining the OS and packages is up to the user. I don't know if it's the same in this case, but Centrify may be required for the machine to stay on the network. He does not seem to be off the network now, so I would continue to ignore Centrify and let the errors go to the console. If it becomes a concern, worry about it then. ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
Re: USB modem and Lion
On Apr 28, 2012, at 8:17 PM, LuKreme wrote: The last time I needed to fax I did it via the Internet. My printer DOES support faxing, but I don't have a landline, so not so useful. If people say they want a fax now a days I laugh at them and say, No, seriously. Even the banks, Mortgage lenders, and doctor's seem to have figured out that a significant percentage of their customer have no way to fax anything. This is more for the benefit of everyone else: faxzero.com . They also have an OS X widget available. They tack some spam ad on the cover page and you can fax at no cost to you. ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
Re: PhotoStream
On Apr 27, 2012, at 12:11 PM, Kevin Callahan wrote: I'm noticing PhotoStream not updating reliably of late. I don't want to reset and lose all my photos. Are others noticing reliability issues this week? K Every once in a while I notice some pictures not getting uploaded. I've been able to fix it by making sure I am in a WiFi area and taking another picture. That one gets noticed and it then does all the not-yet done ones. Chad ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
Re: monitor keeps waking up
On Apr 20, 2012, at 6:51 AM, Dinse, Gregg (NIH/NIEHS) [E] wrote: Hi, For the last few weeks, the monitor (30 Apple) connected to my Mac Pro keeps waking up on its own. This happens multiple times per day, but it does not seem to be on a regular schedule (i.e., not every hour). I do not know what made it start doing this and I do not know how to stop it. I don't remember making any changes that would be obvious (to me) culprits. I think I might have checked the box in Energy Saving preferences to wake on network activity so I unchecked that box and rebooted, but this did not solve the problem. Any suggestions? Do you have a new mouse? Or placing it differently? Just a shot in the dark, but I once had an issue of a mouse that became overly sensitive and just walking nearby would cause it to sense the movement and wake things up. ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
Re: monitor keeps waking up
On Apr 20, 2012, at 1:53 PM, LuKreme wrote: objectwerks inc squawked out on Friday 20-Apr-2012@09:25:06 Do you have a new mouse? Or placing it differently? Just a shot in the dark, but I once had an issue of a mouse that became overly sensitive and just walking nearby would cause it to sense the movement and wake things up. OS X no longer wakes on mouse movement. It requires a key press (or mouse click). I've had mice generate that when they get old, switches worn, etc with no physical interaction with the mouse. My comments were to look at that sort of thing. Do you know when this started? I've noticed it myself in trying to wake up my computer but don't remember when it started. Chad ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
Re: monitor keeps waking up
On Apr 20, 2012, at 2:38 PM, Nathan Sims wrote: On Apr 20, 2012, at 1:34 PM, Vince LaMonica wrote: FYI, the OP is running Snow Leopard [as I am too], and mouse movement does wake the display. Lion is when things changed such that a click was needed [an annoying change that i can't find an option to disable on my 10.7 laptop]. Odd, I'm running SL 10.6.8, and when the machine is asleep, the mouse LED is off. A mouse movement won't wake the machine, only a click will. You're seeing different? I think it also has to do with what kind of mouse you have. Besides the Apple Trackpad (which had the batteries go out 2 days ago and I have not had a chance to go to my battery stash and get new ones -- using up my older Alkalines in it), I also now have an iBuffalo Blue Focus mouse, which I got in Japan last fall. It is like that. A click will wake up the mouse (and the screen) while movement won't. But the mouse it replaced, some sort of Microsoft which finally wore out and started getting weird, WOULD wake up the mouse and screen with just a movement. (Same OS major version too with Lion). I did notice that Machine Sleep would only happen with keypress or mouse press with Lion, when I first installed Lion. Chad ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
Re: iMac WiFi
On Apr 16, 2012, at 9:47 AM, st...@paper-ape.com wrote: i get excellent results streaming from older MBP --ethernet-- Time Capsule (older N version) --wifi-- 1/4 bronze plate, drywall, insulation, stucco, air, asphalt shingles, insulation, drywall, air -- AppleTV2; the wifi distance is about 30 feet there are around ten other wifi signals nearby, some of which are strong, but i've chosen my channels strategically; the iPhones are 802.11g only, so they don't slow down the N signal, but i suppose the iPad2 might; i only stream from the MBP server, not from internet because Qwest/Centurylink crippled traditional DSL when they brought fiber to the local box that's only 150 feet away My Mac Pro is not in a location I can easily run ethernet to. It is not my house so I don't want to do any construction work :0 to run a cable. So I connect via our Airport Extreme on the N 5ghz band. Our media center Mac Mini runs on the same. I get pretty good performance. The AE is in the basement while Mac Pro is over 1/2 a house away on the next floor up. The Mac Mini is closer but still a floor up. I also run a second Airport Extreme which runs on 2.4ghz and the iPhones and some other stuff use that. The new iPad runs on either. But I don't remember what the old iPad 1 runs on (did it do 5ghz N?) I try and keep things uncluttered frequency wise. There are a bunch of other WiFi signals in the area but I have not noticed any issues. Not as saturated as an urban area would be. Chad ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
Re: Safari errors
On Mar 21, 2012, at 7:40 AM, LuKreme wrote: On Mar 20, 2012, at 23:33, objectwerks inc c...@objectwerks.com wrote: I have the latest Flash installed and it works fine in Chrome and Firefox Chrome uses its own internal Flash, not the one installed in the system. The installed one still works in Firefox though not in Safari since I upgraded to Lion... HTML5 video also has problems and also works only some of the time in Safari IIRC. I stopped trying to mess with it a while ago. ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
Re: Time Machine runs almost all the time
How big are your data sets (how full with how much data are your disks)? Is the one at home using a local TM disk or a TM disk on your network? Is the data set composed of LOTS of little files? On Mar 7, 2012, at 10:07 AM, Dinse, Gregg (NIH/NIEHS) [E] wrote: Hi, On my Mac Pro at home, Time Machine runs for about 30 minutes of each hour, even when I have not created any new files. I also have a Mac Pro at work and it does NOT exhibit this behavior. Both are running the latest version of Snow Leopard (10.6.8). Does anyone have an idea about why Time Machine is running so much on one of these? I expect Time Machine to run for a short period (maybe a minute or two), even without many files changing, since I assume it still has to search for possible changes, but 25-30 minutes seems really excessive when nothing much has changed. Any thoughts? Thanks, Gregg ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
Re: iPad 3: More of the same?
Interesting how you call it more of the same and then list all sorts of new things that were not in the older one. A new much faster processor. A new much higher density display. A new camera (which is more than a slight upgrade). And LTE connectivity. All that is new. Apple is not about coming out with some completely new product every year -- one completely different than the previous. They come out with a new product, and then improve it with new technologies as it matures. When they have something new and earth shattering to introduce, they start the process over again. Apple is not about a completely new thing every 6 months, like their competitors seem to be. I for one am super stoked. What is an Apple TV interface? Why would I want Thunderbolt on my iPad? Chad On Mar 7, 2012, at 1:16 PM, Nathan Sims wrote: Maybe it's just me, but I think Apple forgot to add anything new to the iPad 3, its just more of the same: - Upgraded processor - Higher-density display - Slightly upgraded camera - 4G cell connectivity I would call this iPad 2.5, incremental at best. So where's the innovation? No Apple TV interface? No Thunderbolt? No Siri? I mean, give me something NEW... Yawn. ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
Re: Time Machine runs almost all the time
On Mar 7, 2012, at 10:46 AM, Dinse, Gregg (NIH/NIEHS) [E] wrote: Both machines use an internal hard drive for the TM backups. Ok. I do TM to a network server over both Wifi and a wired ethernet. The wired ethernet is much faster to back up the same amount of data. So it was one area to explore. Both TM backup drives still have a lot of empty space, though the TM drive at home is larger than the TM drive at work. Having enough empty space is an issue, though not what I was asking. I was wondering about the disks being backed up. How big are those (how much data is on them versus how big they are)? I certainly have a few files at home that are larger than those at work, such as videos, but I exclude the Movies, Music, and Pictures directories from my TM backups, so that should not be the problem. I am more concerned about a lot of small files. My datasets that are a small number of big files get backed up by TM much faster than the same overall size of dataset composed of a ton of smaller files. It does comparisons on all the file files and reading file info and comparing it for 200 gb worth of small files takes a lot more time than the same amount of effort for a small number of larger files. All the file attribute comparisons etc I am guessing (since I am not intimately familiar with TM innards). Chad Any other thoughts? Gregg On 7 Mar 2012, at 12:36 PM, objectwerks inc wrote: How big are your data sets (how full with how much data are your disks)? Is the one at home using a local TM disk or a TM disk on your network? Is the data set composed of LOTS of little files? On Mar 7, 2012, at 10:07 AM, Dinse, Gregg (NIH/NIEHS) [E] wrote: Hi, On my Mac Pro at home, Time Machine runs for about 30 minutes of each hour, even when I have not created any new files. I also have a Mac Pro at work and it does NOT exhibit this behavior. Both are running the latest version of Snow Leopard (10.6.8). Does anyone have an idea about why Time Machine is running so much on one of these? I expect Time Machine to run for a short period (maybe a minute or two), even without many files changing, since I assume it still has to search for possible changes, but 25-30 minutes seems really excessive when nothing much has changed. Any thoughts? Thanks, Gregg ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
Re: iPad 3: More of the same?
On Mar 7, 2012, at 2:28 PM, Nathan Sims wrote: On Mar 7, 2012, at 1:07 PM, objectwerks inc wrote: Interesting how you call it more of the same and then list all sorts of new things that were not in the older one. A new much faster processor. A new much higher density display. A new camera (which is more than a slight upgrade). And LTE connectivity. All that is new. Heh, the things I listed aren't new. Actually, they are new. We did not have this level of display or power previously. They're more of the same, revamps, upgrades, ie what is to be expected as the baseline bare minimum for a release. New if you buy into the marketing hype maybe, but totally uninnovative. Actually, the technology behind this stuff is innovative. New technology innovations had to be made in order to achieve this level of power in a handheld tablet with the stated battery life. It may not be flashy, like some new whiz-bang feature might be, but it is based on technological innovation. There's nothing innovative in the iPad 3 over the iPad 2, just more of the same. Only to you. To the rest of us, we appreciate the innovative work done to fit the increased power in a chip the same size, to quadruple the pixel count in the screen, and to provide LTE speed data at a reasonable price and power consumption. This is not some freebie give me. It is based on hard work and I am sure innovative new ways of doing things at the low level of the chips and stuff. Apple is not about coming out with some completely new product every year -- one completely different than the previous. They come out with a new product, and then improve it with new technologies as it matures. When they have something new and earth shattering to introduce, they start the process over again. Apple is not about a completely new thing every 6 months, like their competitors seem to be. I for one am super stoked. What is an Apple TV interface? Why would I want Thunderbolt on my iPad? Stoked about what, exactly, that it has the Apple logo on it? No. Because of the vast new power it puts in my hands and the new capabilities it opens up to me based on that power. When I get paid for my current projects, I will be upgrading my iPad 1 to a 4G 64GB new iPad and maybe buying an additional entry level iPad 2 or an entry level wifi only new iPad. And you did not answer my question. Why would I want Thunderbolt on my iPad? How is that innovative? Thunderbolt has been around a year already. And what is an Apple TV Interface? And how would that be innovative. Nothing to be stoked about. It's okay, but really just more of the same. Whatever. Your mind is closed. No use talking about it with you. Chad Chad On Mar 7, 2012, at 1:16 PM, Nathan Sims wrote: Maybe it's just me, but I think Apple forgot to add anything new to the iPad 3, its just more of the same: - Upgraded processor - Higher-density display - Slightly upgraded camera - 4G cell connectivity I would call this iPad 2.5, incremental at best. So where's the innovation? No Apple TV interface? No Thunderbolt? No Siri? I mean, give me something NEW... Yawn. ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
Re: iPad 3: More of the same?
On Mar 7, 2012, at 3:37 PM, Larry Gusaas wrote: On 2012-03-07 4:06 PM John Musbach wrote: On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 4:54 PM, Neil Laubenthalneil-nxhb2ja5tffwatoyat5...@public.gmane.org wrote: What would you like? I grant you that Apple TV interface would be nice . . What's a Apple TV interface? It's called Airply. All the great stuff on your iPad — your music, photos, and videos — can stream wirelessly to your HDTV and speakers via Apple TV or to AirPlay-enabled speakers over a Wi-Fi network. Except that Nathan said it did NOT have an Apple TV Interface and Airplay is on the iPad, so it must be something else. I am still waiting for him to let me know what he meant by Apple TV Interface ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
Re: iPad 3: More of the same?
On Mar 7, 2012, at 5:22 PM, Neil Laubenthal wrote: On Mar 7, 2012, at 7:20 PM,3/7, st...@paper-ape.com wrote: on 3/7/12 4:30 PMNeil Laubenthal wrote Some cameras at least will tether to an iPad 1 with the camera connection kit using the USB connector included in it. i suspect we mean different things by tethering; i mean viewing images before after exposure, ability to zoom view image parameters, and more or less complete control of the camera Yeah, I was talking about downloading images; not camera control…doubt we'll ever see that since it's not something even a minority percentage of the user base would use. You need to get the Camera manufacturers to support this first, over wifi or bluetooth. Then someone will make an app for that ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
Re: Memory upgrade ?
On Feb 23, 2012, at 5:27 PM, Jean-Christophe Helary wrote: On Feb 24, 2012, at 8:24 AM, LuKreme wrote: MacTracker agrees that 6.0GB is the actual maximum memory. I believe you have to put the 4GB module into a specific slot for it to work. What do you mean by specific? Aren't there only two slots ? Assuming there are two, a specific on would be one of those two. But only that one, not either. ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
Re: Mailto links on webpages not activating gmail or mail.app
On Feb 22, 2012, at 3:14 PM, John Musbach wrote: On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 5:07 PM, LuKreme krem...@kreme.com wrote: On 22 Feb 2012, at 14:15 , Macs R We wrote: The control for this, obscurely enough, is in Apple Mail preferences. Well, she doesn’t use Apple Mail. There’s no accounts setup in it, and the Default Mailer does not allow a setting of “GMail”, so I’m not sure how that will help. Despite there being no accounts in Mail, it looks like that's where the desired setting lies (http://www.askdavetaylor.com/how_do_i_set_my_default_email_program_on_mac_os_x.html) so you just need to step through the wizard with some madeup values to get at the Mail preferences. GMail is not a client in of itself (web interface doesn't count here) so it makes sense that wouldn't be a option, your mom needs to setup GMail's IMAP service in something like Thunderbird and then just set that client to be the default. Why not just set up GMails IMAP service in Mail? Chad ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
Re: Thoughts on Mission Control / Exposé ?
On Dec 8, 2011, at 4:01 PM, Michael_google gmail_Gersten wrote (quoting LuKreme): Certainly there are features of some virtual desktop systems that Mission Control in Lion doesn’t support, but putting windows on desktops is certainly one that it does. As I said, the Apple rep at Bestbuy couldn't do that. Said that feature was gone. Easy enough to test: select Mission Control, drag a window to a different desktop ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
Re: Thoughts on Mission Control / Exposé ?
On Dec 7, 2011, at 4:38 PM, Michael_google gmail_Gersten wrote: Bumpage On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 1:53 PM, Michael_google gmail_Gersten keybou...@gmail.com wrote: Does anyone know of any spaces/expose equivalent / any third party window/desktop manager that works under 10.7? The very idea that All your firefox windows -- all 50 of them -- are a single group, and those preview windows are all a separate group, and those textedit windows are yet another group is a pain. This behavior is bad enough -- but livable -- under 10.5 when I can force different topics into different _desktops_. Spaces _and expose_ organize by my _desktops_, so this combination of Firefox windows, PDF manuals, and text edit notes all are on one subject, and those over there are on another subject. From what I understand, 10.7 forces it to be per-app, and refuses to honor your desktop spaces. So for me, 10.7 is a major loss here. Are there any third party apps -- even just virtual desktops -- that work? This is probably the biggest show stopper for me for upgrading to 10.7. Replacing spaces with something that makes windows tiny because that app has a lot, with no way to group things meaningfully, with no real support for virtual desktops (I actually asked an Apple rep at BestBuy, and they said no), is worse than no PPC emulation. I am a little confused by all this.Except for the grid, it pretty much works like spaces did before. I can group each desktop with the windows I want. Or maybe I am not understanding? When I upgraded, it has the same number of spaces defined as I did before and apps that were set to be in every space still were. I can put multiple safari windows in multiple spaces. Help me understand ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
Re: Thoughts on Mission Control / Exposé ?
How it works for me is that you get a one by N grid now If you had 4 x 4 previously you now have 1 x 16. However each individual desktop is similar to before. You can put separate Safari windows on separate desktops, separate terminal windows on separate desktops, etc. the way it was before. The only major difference I see is that you don't have the grid anymore you have a one by something and so you don't get to use the arrows to go up and down. I just control-N for going to the separate desktops. (this email dictated to Siri so don't get frustrated at any awkwardness :-) ) Chad Sent from my iPhone On Dec 7, 2011, at 16:57, Michael_google gmail_Gersten keybou...@gmail.com wrote: I am a little confused by all this.Except for the grid, it pretty much works like spaces did before. I can group each desktop with the windows I want. Or maybe I am not understanding? When I upgraded, it has the same number of spaces defined as I did before and apps that were set to be in every space still were. I can put multiple safari windows in multiple spaces. Help me understand Simple: I was under the impression that in 10.7, the grid of virtual desktops was gone, replaced by the per-app grouping, only, and with no way to work with virtual desktops. I went over the BestBuy, which has an Apple rep working the apple section, and that person could not figure out how to enable a grid of virtual desktops, and then confirmed my understanding that it was now gone. So this is, in fact, wrong? I can still make a 4x4 grid, I just can't see the 4x4 grid except when I'm moving up/down/left/right? -- Political and economic blog of a strict constitutionalist http://StrictConstitution.BlogSpot.com This message may have been spell checked by a laptop kitten. ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
Re: Thoughts on Mission Control / Exposé ?
Addendum to my last email. The Exposé groupings of Windows works a little bit differently as well, but you get used to it Sent from my iPhone On Dec 7, 2011, at 16:57, Michael_google gmail_Gersten keybou...@gmail.com wrote: I am a little confused by all this.Except for the grid, it pretty much works like spaces did before. I can group each desktop with the windows I want. Or maybe I am not understanding? When I upgraded, it has the same number of spaces defined as I did before and apps that were set to be in every space still were. I can put multiple safari windows in multiple spaces. Help me understand Simple: I was under the impression that in 10.7, the grid of virtual desktops was gone, replaced by the per-app grouping, only, and with no way to work with virtual desktops. I went over the BestBuy, which has an Apple rep working the apple section, and that person could not figure out how to enable a grid of virtual desktops, and then confirmed my understanding that it was now gone. So this is, in fact, wrong? I can still make a 4x4 grid, I just can't see the 4x4 grid except when I'm moving up/down/left/right? -- Political and economic blog of a strict constitutionalist http://StrictConstitution.BlogSpot.com This message may have been spell checked by a laptop kitten. ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
Re: is my iMac fried? -- how to run diagnostics from single user mode?
On Oct 30, 2011, at 7:18 PM, Gregg Dinse wrote: The last thing it said it was testing was the memory. I have not run a HW test in a long while but depending on how much RAM you have, it could take a long time to run on the extended tests version and it appears to be hung. Just let it sit for a few more hours Chad ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
Re: After upgrade to Lion, Safari 5.1 crashes on all sorts of web pages
On Oct 29, 2011, at 12:26 AM, Macs R We wrote: Just reaffirmed my original finding. I noticed I had my Airport on unnecessarily, as I was cabled in. After hitting the login button at PayPal, I turned Airport off while I waited for the page to load. IMMEDIATELY, Safari bitched that file://...Resources/ could not be opened because it was a directory. So, what does your stack dump look like? That is the defining issue. So your failure more may be different, but mine is confirmed. I filed a bug report with apple. They asked for more info. A couple days later they closed it as a duplicate of an existing bug that they are working on. It appears the NVidia GL driver has a bug in it that is getting triggered in Safari, based on the stack dumps. I found the same stack dump as mine through Google with a guy who had an iMac with an NVidia graphics card. ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
Re: After upgrade to Lion, Safari 5.1 crashes on all sorts of web pages
more info On Oct 14, 2011, at 8:33 PM, objectwerks inc wrote: Ever since I upgraded to Lion (10.7.1) from Snow Leopard, Safari crashes on all sorts of dynamic web pages. www.icloud.com in itunesconnect, when you look at the sales graphs Google Engineer: Here's Why Google+ Is Failing, And How We Can Start Doing This Right and many many more snip It seems to be a GL driver issue of some sort. Maybe an NVidia one? This part of the stack dump seems to always be the same or very simialr Thread 0 Crashed:: Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread 0 com.apple.GeForceGLDriver 0x0002607e 0x2 + 24702 1 com.apple.GeForceGLDriver 0x0002000b3d53 0x2 + 736595 2 com.apple.GeForceGLDriver 0x0002000b44e7 0x2 + 738535 3 GLEngine 0x0001132ebc6d gleUnbindTextureObject + 57 4 GLEngine 0x0001132c0556 gleUnbindDeleteHashNamesAndObjects + 178 5 GLEngine 0x0001131db522 glDeleteTextures_Exec + 747 6 com.apple.QuartzCore 0x7fff94737bcd CA::CG::IOSurfaceRenderer::detach_surface(bool, bool) + 173 7 com.apple.QuartzCore 0x7fff94737cf7 I was able to find one other person with basically the same crashdump (it was on pastebin.com so there was no commentary, just the crashdump) from like back in July with a beta of Lion it seems, on an iMac. Seems that WebProcess and PluginProcess both crash at the same time as the Console shows crash dumps from both within milliseconds of each other. The crash dump is not the same but ends up at the same place. I created a new vanilla user on my system to see if it was dependent on my account. Nope. Happens to the new user as well. Appears to be a bug in the NVidia OpenGL driver. Driving me crazy as it basically makes Safari unusable for a lot of the things I do in safari (itunesconnect / github / many other places)... I installed Google Chrome and am using that and an old FireFox (old due to compatibility with a site I need for my son's school) for lots of stuff. I prefer Safari to tell the truth. I keep sending in the crash dumps as well as one OS X Feedback page on the problem.___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
Re: get rid of that damn speakable microphone bubble thing you hold esc to trigger
On Oct 15, 2011, at 11:42 PM, Vince LaMonica wrote: On Oct 16, 2011, at 1:33 AM, objectwerks inc wrote: How do I get that damn round speakable items round microphone thing that says esc in it off my screen? speakable items in preferences is OFF. Turn speakable items in speech prefs back on. Then off again. There's usually a delay of a few seconds before the always-on-top microphone window goes away. I've had it stuck before and that seems to have helped. I tried that. All it did was get rid of the esc in the microphone window. So now it does not say 'esc' in it but it is still there. (This is on 10.7.1 btw) I will go try it again and see what happens. thanks Chad ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
After upgrade to Lion, Safari 5.1 crashes on all sorts of web pages
I upgraded my Snow Leopard Mac Pro (mid 2008 model) to Lion a week ago. I have since updated to 10.7.2. Ever since I upgraded to Lion (10.7.1) from Snow Leopard, Safari crashes on all sorts of dynamic web pages. www.icloud.com in itunesconnect, when you look at the sales graphs Google Engineer: Here's Why Google+ Is Failing, And How We Can Start Doing This Right and many many more all have the same symptoms. It tries multiple times to load and then it says - Safari Can't display this webpage Safari has repeatedly encountered an error while trying to display - URL - - where - URL - is the actual URL that it was trying to open. The address bar shows: file:///Applications/Safari.app/Contents/Resources/ AT THE SAME TIME, it also tries to refresh every other open window / open tab in as many Safari windows as you have open and they all do the same thing and fail with the same answer but with their URL. However, unlike the window that triggered the problem, you can just refresh these other failed windows and they come back normally. After failing like this, the Report to apple window comes up with a stack trace and system info and a place where you can put what you were doing that caused this. This is the stack trace and info about the crash. It is always the same: Process: WebProcess [9002] Path: /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/WebKit2.framework/WebProcess.app/Contents/MacOS/WebProcess Identifier: com.apple.WebProcess Version: 7534.51 (7534.51.22) Build Info: WebKit2-753405102200~3 Code Type: X86-64 (Native) Parent Process: Safari [8873] Date/Time: 2011-10-14 21:08:46.029 -0600 OS Version: Mac OS X 10.7.2 (11C74) Report Version: 9 Interval Since Last Report: 27736 sec Crashes Since Last Report: 40 Per-App Interval Since Last Report: 24392 sec Per-App Crashes Since Last Report: 28 Anonymous UUID: E036B8F6-6E47-4E9E-8A14-27353498D917 Crashed Thread: 0 Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread Exception Type: EXC_BAD_INSTRUCTION (SIGILL) Exception Codes: 0x0001, 0x Application Specific Information: objc[9002]: garbage collection is OFF Thread 0 Crashed:: Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread 0 com.apple.GeForceGLDriver 0x0002607e 0x2 + 24702 1 com.apple.GeForceGLDriver 0x0002000b3d53 0x2 + 736595 2 com.apple.GeForceGLDriver 0x0002000b44e7 0x2 + 738535 3 GLEngine0x0001132ebc6d gleUnbindTextureObject + 57 4 GLEngine0x0001132c0556 gleUnbindDeleteHashNamesAndObjects + 178 5 GLEngine0x0001131db522 glDeleteTextures_Exec + 747 6 com.apple.QuartzCore0x7fff94737bcd CA::CG::IOSurfaceRenderer::detach_surface(bool, bool) + 173 7 com.apple.QuartzCore0x7fff94737cf7 CA::CG::IOSurfaceRenderer::detach_drawable(CA::CG::IOSurfaceDrawable) + 67 8 com.apple.QuartzCore0x7fff946cb21a CA::CG::IOSurfaceDrawable::~IOSurfaceDrawable() + 20 9 com.apple.QuartzCore0x7fff947373c1 CA::CG::IOSurfaceContextDelegate::~IOSurfaceContextDelegate() + 55 10 com.apple.CoreGraphics 0x7fff960c3af0 CGContextDelegateFinalize + 53 11 com.apple.CoreFoundation0x7fff9019a1ef CFRelease + 399 12 com.apple.CoreGraphics 0x7fff960c3a81 context_reclaim + 74 13 com.apple.CoreFoundation0x7fff9019a1ef CFRelease + 399 14 com.apple.WebCore 0x7fff90e5c7ec WebCore::GraphicsContext::platformDestroy() + 30 15 com.apple.WebCore 0x7fff90e5c76e WebCore::GraphicsContext::~GraphicsContext() + 24 16 com.apple.WebCore 0x7fff910217a7 WebCore::ImageBuffer::~ImageBuffer() + 27 17 com.apple.WebCore 0x7fff91011955 WebCore::HTMLCanvasElement::reset() + 207 18 com.apple.WebCore 0x7fff9101186b WebCore::HTMLCanvasElement::parseMappedAttribute(WebCore::Attribute*) + 49 19 com.apple.WebCore 0x7fff90f5551b WebCore::StyledElement::attributeChanged(WebCore::Attribute*, bool) + 353 20 com.apple.WebCore 0x7fff90f54f91 WebCore::NamedNodeMap::addAttribute(WTF::PassRefPtrWebCore::Attribute) + 189 21 com.apple.WebCore 0x7fff91043b55 WebCore::Element::setAttribute(WebCore::QualifiedName const, WTF::AtomicString const, int) + 455 22 com.apple.WebCore 0x7fff91043979 WebCore::Element::setAttribute(WebCore::QualifiedName const, WTF::AtomicString const) + 17 23 com.apple.WebCore 0x7fff910df4ab WebCore::HTMLCanvasElement::setWidth(int) + 101 24 com.apple.WebCore 0x7fff910df438
Re: Locked Screensaver in Lion
On Oct 5, 2011, at 12:34 PM, Scott Roebuck wrote: 10.7 (Lion) will by default, no longer allow anyone except the current console user to dismiss an active password protected screen saver. This is only partially correct. Another user can log in as a second user. At the BOTTOM of the screen there is a switch user button Chad In previous versions of Mac OS X, it was possible to enter the name of any local administrator account credentials and bypass the screen saver, regardless of who was currently logged into the console. In this environment computers are required to be locked so IT maintains a local master admin account on all computers so that an IT staff member could do maintenance/troubleshooting at an end user's Mac locked with a screen saver. The end user is not required to be present to physically unlock the screen saver. I believe this problem exists if you ARD in to the computer as well. In 10.6 you would be required to edit the /etc/pam.d/screensaver file in order for this to work but that does not work in 10.7. Part of the problem in 10.7 is that with a locked screensaver only the credentials of the current console user is presented and it doesn't appear that there is anyway to switch to another admin user. Does anyone know if this behavior can be changed? Am I just missing something really simple? Thanks, Scott CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This fax and any attachments thereto may contain information which is privileged and confidential, and is intended for the sole use of the recipient(s) named above. Any use whatsoever of the information contained herein (including, but not limited to, total or partial reproduction, communication or distribution in any form) by persons other than the designated recipient(s) is strictly prohibited. If you have received this email in error, please notify the sender by email and destroy the document and any attachments. Thank you for your cooperation. ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
Re: Locked Screensaver in Lion
OK, sorry. Was not clear on first reading that you needed to be in that user's account. Second reading made it more clear. On Oct 5, 2011, at 4:02 PM, Scott Roebuck wrote: Right... but it switches user accounts. I need to login to the current users space so that I can get to their user settings and documents in a specific app. If I login to the Tech space or account it doesn't do me any good. On Oct 5, 2011, at 2:58 PM, objectwerks inc wrote: On Oct 5, 2011, at 12:34 PM, Scott Roebuck wrote: 10.7 (Lion) will by default, no longer allow anyone except the current console user to dismiss an active password protected screen saver. This is only partially correct. Another user can log in as a second user. At the BOTTOM of the screen there is a switch user button Chad In previous versions of Mac OS X, it was possible to enter the name of any local administrator account credentials and bypass the screen saver, regardless of who was currently logged into the console. In this environment computers are required to be locked so IT maintains a local master admin account on all computers so that an IT staff member could do maintenance/troubleshooting at an end user's Mac locked with a screen saver. The end user is not required to be present to physically unlock the screen saver. I believe this problem exists if you ARD in to the computer as well. In 10.6 you would be required to edit the /etc/pam.d/screensaver file in order for this to work but that does not work in 10.7. Part of the problem in 10.7 is that with a locked screensaver only the credentials of the current console user is presented and it doesn't appear that there is anyway to switch to another admin user. Does anyone know if this behavior can be changed? Am I just missing something really simple? Thanks, Scott CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This fax and any attachments thereto may contain information which is privileged and confidential, and is intended for the sole use of the recipient(s) named above. Any use whatsoever of the information contained herein (including, but not limited to, total or partial reproduction, communication or distribution in any form) by persons other than the designated recipient(s) is strictly prohibited. If you have received this email in error, please notify the sender by email and destroy the document and any attachments. Thank you for your cooperation. ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This fax and any attachments thereto may contain information which is privileged and confidential, and is intended for the sole use of the recipient(s) named above. Any use whatsoever of the information contained herein (including, but not limited to, total or partial reproduction, communication or distribution in any form) by persons other than the designated recipient(s) is strictly prohibited. If you have received this email in error, please notify the sender by email and destroy the document and any attachments. Thank you for your cooperation. ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
Re: Safari - downloading AAC or MP3 files
On Oct 1, 2011, at 9:00 PM, Kevin Callahan wrote: Safari 5.1.1 doesn't allow you to download an MP3 or AAC file as an mp3 or aac file. You can save the page as a webarchive or page source - did this change with Lion? or with Safari 5.x ? or? what's the solution? You can't right-click and choose save file or download file or whatever it is called? Chad seems a bit odd you can't post an MP3 file and have someone download it via Safari if they so choose ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
Re: Safari - downloading AAC or MP3 files
Do you have a test page I can play with so I can see what sort of page you are talking about? On Oct 1, 2011, at 10:27 PM, Kevin Callahan wrote: On Oct 1, 2011, at 9:26 PM, objectwerks inc wrote: On Oct 1, 2011, at 9:00 PM, Kevin Callahan wrote: Safari 5.1.1 doesn't allow you to download an MP3 or AAC file as an mp3 or aac file. You can save the page as a webarchive or page source - did this change with Lion? or with Safari 5.x ? or? what's the solution? You can't right-click and choose save file or download file or whatever it is called? yes, but when you do, you have 2 choices: Web archive Page source you can't just grab the MP3 or AAC as you once could Chad seems a bit odd you can't post an MP3 file and have someone download it via Safari if they so choose ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
Re: iCloud
probably a combination of licensing limits and making sure the whole system will work as Nathan mentioned___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
Re: running SL inside VMWare Fusion under Lion -- Rosetta still work?
On Sep 7, 2011, at 2:53 PM, Michael_google gmail_Gersten wrote: Bump Google is your friend. Ignoring any license issues, the technical issues are easy to solve. On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 5:55 AM, Neil Laubenthal n...@laubenthal.net wrote: Regular SL won't install on VMWare or Parallels (at least it wouldn't the last time I tried maybe 3 months ago) . . .if it works that would allow me to keep SL around for the 1 or 2 Rosetta required apps I haven't gotten rid of. Has anyone tried running VMWare on Lion and run SL in it (various tutorials online on how to do this). Does the optional Rosetta install still work? I'm looking to upgrade from 10.5.8, and I've got a LOT of PPC :-). So a 10.7 environment that I can continue to work in would be nice. Any solution? If not, then can I: 1. Install 10.6 on the current 10.7 hardware, and 2. Run 10.7 guest in a virtual machine under 10.6 host? Or am I in trouble because I held onto my 10.5's too long? -- Political and economic blog of a strict constitutionalist http://StrictConstitution.BlogSpot.com This message may have been spell checked by a laptop kitten. ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
Re: password management
On Sep 12, 2011, at 8:34 AM, Scott G. Lewis wrote: 1) Easily managing MULTIPLE accounts per website. If I logon to MobileMe, it auto fills. If I logon to a Google site, it gives me a list of all my saved credentials, and then autofills after I choose one. Keychain does this btw. Just type in the account and it will fill in the correct password from Keychain. ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
Re: MobileMe sending mail (LION)
On Sep 7, 2011, at 2:52 PM, Michael_google gmail_Gersten wrote: If I missed something, please let me know: what makes you think that Google makes money by mining your information? See those ads popping up when connected to a Google service? Google is the new Microsoft. ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
Re: survey: what software from Mac App Store do you using?
On Aug 30, 2011, at 9:03 AM, Ashley Aitken wrote: Hi Derek, Thanks for your post. On 30/08/2011, at 8:56 PM, Derek Chesterfield wrote: On 30 Aug 2011, at 13:41, Ashley Aitken mrhat...@mac.com wrote: (i)You may auto-download Eligible Content or download previously-purchased Eligible Content from an Account on up to 10 Associated Devices, provided no more than 5 are iTunes-authorized computers. No more than 5 authorised computers, so I guess up to 10 iOS devices? That is referring to auto-download only. So you can configure 10 iOS devices to automatically download purchases, but you can still side-load to as many as you have. (At least, that's how I understand it) I am all for good interpretations but what about the or download previously-purchased? That is referring to auto-download of previously purchased content, versus newly purchased content. Remember, this thing you are quoting from is part of the iCloud TC (at least for the beta). It is not a general policy statement for iTunes What do you mean by side-load? Do you mean syncing the app from a Mac with that item in it's iTunes account? There is also the limitation that you can only use five accounts with (I have one each for family members plus a couple of overseas ones, do'h). At least typing in the iTunes account when you purchase on the device. I don't do a lot of app synching so don't know the details. I do most of it on device and let a synch copy it to my Mac. Chad I am confused by all this really. Anyway I think it is clear that in the future an iOS device can (for all practical purposes) only be associated with one iTunes account. So if we want to have separate accounts I can't see how they can share apps, Music etc. I guess I am really wanting family iCloud/iTunes accounts where magic number is also much greater than 5 or 10 because with two or three devices (inc. iOS) each, and a server or two (old Macs never die they just become servers), it's easy to get to 10+ The account you use to log in to MAS is independent of that that you use for other iCloud services, e.g. iTunes or Mail. So you children can still have their own iCloud for purchasing music, while you use one account for all the computers in MAS Again, I am confused, I think I have used the same account for my MAS as for iCloud (currently MobileMe) but maybe I am wrong. I was also suggesting that they (iTunes and MAS accounts, maybe even the apps?) may merge in the future. So, if everyone wants to have their own account, they will not be able to share Mac apps either. Or at least, I was speculating / guessing this. Cheers, Ashley. -- Ashley Aitken Perth, Western Australia mrhatken at mac dot com Skype Name: MrHatken (GMT + 8 Hours!) ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
Re: survey: what software from Mac App Store do you using?
On Aug 30, 2011, at 9:53 AM, Ashley Aitken wrote: But a device can only use one iTunes account (for all practical purposes) going forward and currently the limitation is, as far as I can tell, that a device can download from only five account (hence my problem with 4 family members and 2 overseas accounts). This is not clear. I don't think it says anywhere that a device can only use one iTunes account. It can only have auto load turned on for one account. I think you are jumping to conclusions. ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
Re: survey: what software from Mac App Store do you using?
On Aug 30, 2011, at 10:28 AM, Ashley Aitken wrote: On 31/08/2011, at 12:07 AM, objectwerks inc wrote: On Aug 30, 2011, at 9:53 AM, Ashley Aitken wrote: But a device can only use one iTunes account (for all practical purposes) going forward and currently the limitation is, as far as I can tell, that a device can download from only five account (hence my problem with 4 family members and 2 overseas accounts). This is not clear. I don't think it says anywhere that a device can only use one iTunes account. It can only have auto load turned on for one account. I think you are jumping to conclusions. Sorry, I am not trying to jump to conclusions, I am just trying to understand. A device can only change the iTunes store account every 90 days, which for all practical purposes is a lifetime of hard labour ;-) Where does it say this? Chad I would be happy with only auto downloading from one account but how else do you get new stuff on (without syncing for the moment) without changing the store account? I would be happy to do this by syncing but I'm not sure how this will really work either. There is also the five account limit. And, as I currently have apps from more than one store (country) on my iOS devices I have to switch the store and account before I can download to update. No longer possible with one 90 day limit. I can admit I was wrong for using other country stores - it was just the temptation of getting some apps earlier and also the price of larger cost apps (e.g. Tom Tom Europe) varies quite a bit from store to store. Cheers, Ashley. -- Ashley Aitken Perth, Western Australia mrhatken at mac dot com Skype Name: MrHatken (GMT + 8 Hours!) ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
Re: survey: what software from Mac App Store do you using?
On Aug 30, 2011, at 11:56 AM, Ashley Aitken wrote: (since we can't switch stores regularly on iOS devices) by logging out and logging back in to the store with your ID at another country's store you should be able to switch store as often as you want. you can force a log out in Settings-Store by touching the apple id (maybe on the second screen -- first touch gets you to details) ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
Re: survey: what software from Mac App Store do you using?
On Aug 30, 2011, at 12:28 PM, Nathan Sims wrote: On Aug 30, 2011, at 11:03 AM, objectwerks inc wrote: by logging out and logging back in to the store with your ID at another country's store you should be able to switch store as often as you want. Hrm, I just tried this and got an alert panel saying Your ID is not authorized to purchase from this iTunes Store. Is there some magic to enabling an ID for multiple stores? You have to have a different ID for each store. By logging in under a different ID, it will use that ID's default store for purchases. ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
Re: Matching a multiline pattern?
On Aug 18, 2011, at 9:22 PM, Michael Gersten wrote: I'm trying to match a multiline pattern in a program's output. This is not OS X specific and I just found it by binging but it may send you on the right path http://superuser.com/questions/165634/grep-multiline-pattern I've got a shell script that runs from cron. It has some output. Normally it's pointless, and clutters my mailbox. I've determined that if the program runs properly, the output will match the following: /dev/disk.*FDisk_partition_scheme /dev/disk.*/Volumes/XcomQemu sending incremental file list sent.* total size is.* disk. unmounted. disk. ejected. Note the following: 1. It's multiple lines. 2. It has . and .* (only). I've looked at expect, and grep(1), re_format(7), and regex(3). Expect doesn't seem to like multiple lines of matching. Nothing in the grep family indicates anything about searching for a newline in the middle of a pattern -- at best, the patterns in a file give one pattern per line. So what's the best way to test the output of one command against an expected behavior? If something goes wrong, I want to see it; if nothing goes wrong, I don't want to see anything. (If you're curious, it's mounting a virtual hard drive, rsync'ing the data of interest into an HFS+ directory, and then unmounting it. I don't want time machine copying a large virtual hard drive when the files of interest are tiny.) Michael --- PGP/GPG accepted; key 25D85CE0 Political and economic blog of a strict constitutionalist http://StrictConstitution.BlogSpot.com ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
Re: menus vs MS's RIBBON approach
On Aug 16, 2011, at 10:04 PM, Kevin Callahan wrote: I just upgraded to Sibelius 7. They revamped their entire UI. Eliminated all the drop-down menus and replaced everything with the MS ribbon approach. I can't find anything. I spend way too much time navigating and clicking the ribbon to get anything done. My eyes are jumping all across the screen looking at text and icons and additional drop-downs and panels. Is this just my lack of experience with MS's better way ? or is my beef justified? I really can't stand the ribbon way, but I am willing to believe it's my inexperience, possibly. It may just be me, but the same thing happens to me when I use apps that use that approach. (I don't use Sibelius though I wish I had the skill and need to ;-) ) ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
iTunes audio glitches
I don't know when this first started happening but it was recently. I don't know if it happened with upgradeto 10.6.8 from 10.6.6 or from iTunes 10.3.x to 10.4 or exactly when. But I just started noticing it in the last week or two after I did the 10.6.6-10.6.8 upgrade and the iTunes upgrade. I am getting frequent audio glitches. Almost like a fraction of a second pause in a song. It is hard to tell if it is an audio drop out or a pause (ie, sometimes it kind of feels the whole song's groove gets off like it actually hangs for a fraction of a second though sometimes it just feels like a drop out though I would vote mostly for the slight pause). Most of my songs are on a shared server in my basement, though some songs are stored locally on my Mac. The Mac is a 2008 era Mac Pro 2x4 3.0ghz with 16GB memory. The glitches happen with locally stored tunes as well as ones stored on the file server). (File server is on internal gigabit network serving to the mac pro wirelessly over 802.11n 5.0ghz band with an Airport Extreme of the same age.) I googled (actually bing'ed in this case as Google is annoying me with Android patent stupidity at the moment) on iTunes audio glitches but did not find anything. Anyone else noticing this sort of thing? Thanks Chad ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
Re: does wireless not support streaming?
On Aug 7, 2011, at 7:36 PM, Gregg Dinse wrote: Hi, I just bought a mac mini and connected it to our HDTV with a HDMI cable. I used screen sharing from my Mac Pro to control the mini. All that seemed to work fine. I have a Netgear router with both 5-GHz and 2.4-GHz radios. I tried to watch an episode of The Closer (and then a few other shows) but nothing even started to play. Is this not possible via wireless? That seems hard to believe. My Sony Bluray player can stream 1080p stuff from Netflix. Why can't I watch a show from a network's web site? It works fine on my Mac Pro which has a wired connection to the router. I tried both the 5-GHz and 2.4-GHz settings and neither worked. I was able to play videos that were on the mini's hard drive and a video on the Apple web site, but not any of the TV videos I tried. If there is not enough bandwidth for the best picture, why don't they drop to a lower resolution or at least offer me a choice. I just get nothing happening when I click on the video link, as if I did not even click. I don't even get the spinning beach ball. I also tried this on a MacBook Air and again could not get anywhere. Am I doing something wrong? If not, why won't this work? I can't say the issues you are having but I have no problem streaming video to my Mac Pro and my 2 year old mini over the 5ghz WiFi over my Apple AirPort Extreme (older model) when I mount my server HD over AFS over the WiFi link and play the movies off this network share. Chad ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
Re: The new Mac mini
On Aug 3, 2011, at 2:49 AM, Arno Hautala wrote: A/V consumption on computers is a nicety that is being phased out fairly quickly. really? Data? Why the big emphasis on iTunes? A/V is not only optical you know. More people still use computers for A/V than use an Apple TV. I stand by my statement that it would have been nice to offer a variant of the mini with an optical disc device this time around. Introduce the mini without but have a variant with for the luddites who still use optical (which I bet is still a rather large majority of people). Broadband in the US is not everywhere or fast. Not everyone wants to rent media. Some like to buy. And that some is probably larger than the group is streams significantly (still). I do agree that the change will happen, but it has not happened yet I wager (while physical media sales are down, are they down over 50%?) ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
Re: The new Mac mini
On Aug 3, 2011, at 10:24 AM, LuKreme wrote: On Aug 3, 2011, at 9:32, objectwerks inc c...@objectwerks.com wrote: I stand by my statement that it would have been nice to offer a variant of the mini with an optical disc device this time around. They did, actually. No, they did not. It requires an optional separate USB optical drive. My whole point is that I believe that a variant offering (not the main optical disc-less offering) with in-built optical drive in THIS generation of mini would have been welcomed by the market. I am not saying to ship all minis with the in-built optical drive. Just a variant. There are major differences between something hung-off the USB port and an in-built device. And for someone like Apple that tries and makes the user experience supreme, including where it comes to cables (think of all the Apple efforts to get rid of excess cables), Apple is now forcing people to have an extra cable and a more fragile set up. Baseline mini dropped $100 from last year. Optical drive is $80. Buy both and you get a much faster mini and $20 off. And Apple could keep the extra $20!win-win for all -- I am not arguing that the change is taking place that makes the optical drive less relevant today. But it is not totally irrelevant and I would bet that people would rather have it in-built than as a USB thing hanging off (when talking about the mini, not the AIR, where it grossly impacts the form factor and hence usefulness of the AIR). ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
Re: The new Mac mini
On Aug 3, 2011, at 10:30 AM, Lawrence Sica wrote: On Aug 3, 2011, at 12:19 PM, LuKreme wrote: On Aug 2, 2011, at 19:02, Arno Hautala a...@alum.wpi.edu wrote: I doubt many software vendors are going to increase their distribution costs by replacing installation media with USB drives. USB thumb drives are cooperative with optical media. Sure,the unit cost is higher but packaging and distribution costs are a lot lower, not to mention storage. Also, a thumb drive can be written on site with the latest version. I love the thumb drive I have for my Air. I wish more would do that. Plus the media is smaller to carry around and can't get scratched. Has anyone actually done a real cost analysis? I wonder how much it cost Apple to do that. I am betting that thumb drives SW distribution is in the same order of magnitude as optical media distribution. When you consider how many free thumb drives I have received (even as junk mail by snail mail) as marketing devices (Nissan sent me a 1GB one not long ago to show off some new vehicle) they cannot be that expensive and I bet the equipment necessary to produce the recorded device is cheaper than the stamping of optical media. ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
Re: The new Mac mini
On Aug 3, 2011, at 10:52 AM, Arno Hautala wrote: On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 12:34, objectwerks inc c...@objectwerks.com wrote: I am betting that thumb drives SW distribution is in the same order of magnitude as optical media distribution. When you consider how many free thumb drives I have received (even as junk mail by snail mail) as marketing devices (Nissan sent me a 1GB one not long ago to show off some new vehicle) they cannot be that expensive and I bet the equipment necessary to produce the recorded device is cheaper than the stamping of optical media. There is no chance that thumb drives are cheaper to produce and distribute than it is to burn and distribute a DVD. Even the bulk prices that I've seen for a 4GB drive are around $7. Let's say Apple can get a ridiculous discount and drop that to $2. I can buy a 100 pack of DVDs for $30. That is going to go down further for bulk orders, but it's already at $0.3 And I seriously doubt it's cheaper to assemble USB media than it is to press a disc. Sure, a 1GB drive might be around $0.5 for a large bulk order, but there's no way they've got anything on optical. Any company that decides to follow Apple and ditch optical media is not going to consider USB distribution when they can offer network as a primary avenue. Arno: You did not read what I said ;-) As a WPI alum, you should recognize the phrase same order of magnitude. :-) $2-3 say for the cheap thumb drive (SW distribution drives are usually a simple flat piece of plastic with a little flash embedded, not teh fancy ones you see at retail) is in the same order of magnitude as a $0.75 DVD or whatever the price is. It is more but in the same magnitude. Also, your comparisons are incorrect. Apple (or whoever) buys the thumb drives already assembled. They just need to put the software on. Their price they pay already includes the assembly. The DVDs on the other hand need expensive equipment to press once the blanks are manufactured. That is what I was referring to. The data dumping to flash device is probably a cheaper device than the burning the DVD device. The DVDs you buy are not the same as the ones they use to professionally make DVDs and the cost of pressing needs to be included. I am also not advocating replacing all DVD distribution of SW with thumb drives. It is however an option that is not significantly more expensive than the DVD route and has its advantages. ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
Re: The new Mac mini
On Aug 3, 2011, at 12:24 PM, st...@paper-ape.com wrote: On 2011-08-03 11:11 , objectwerks inc wrote: The DVDs on the other hand need expensive equipment to press once the blanks are manufactured. That is what I was referring to. The data dumping to flash device is probably a cheaper device than the burning the DVD device. The DVDs you buy are not the same as the ones they use to professionally make DVDs and the cost of pressing needs to be included. one small point: bulk production of DVD media is not burning; it is far faster per unit than transferring data to a USB drive; no one would buy a complete DVD manufacturing system for producing small quantities when one can contract the work to an outfit that achieves quantities of scale yes of course. My point was the incremental costs associated with each. When you contract it out, there is a cost over the raw materials. ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
Re: The new Mac mini
On Aug 2, 2011, at 11:03 AM, Arno Hautala wrote: On Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 12:41, objectwerks inc c...@objectwerks.com wrote: I do agree with the overall sentiment though that the optical drive is going the way of the DoDo. I just think we are not quite that far along yet. I'd say we're further along than we were when Apple dropped the floppy. I disagree. For one big reason. The optical drive on computers has many more uses now than the floppy did in 1997 (not only for SW distribution, but also for media -- music and movies) AND in 1997 there was a reasonable replacement -- the CD-ROM and CDRW drives.Today, there are still a lot of people using DVD media for movies (Red Box is always busy when I see the kiosks and I've seen a few neighbors recently walking to the mail box with Netflix envelopes) and lots of people still use their computers to watch things, and still an awful lot of CDs sold (yes CD sales have tanked percentage wise but there are still a lot of CDs sold). As they pertain to computer uses, optical discs are already mostly gone. Their primary use to consumers is through other, non-computer, devices (CD / DVD / BluRay players, game systems, etc.). I bet a very small percentage of users have computer based media centers That is probably true, but not all users of optical drives for media are using them for media centers. A lot of people still consume media on their computer. I know people who use their PCs or Macs to watch movies on a regular basis. They can watch stuff the kids shouldn't see, or while they pretend to work, etc. I bet if Apple had come out with just one variant of the mini with an optical drive, it would outsell the server dual HD version. and a drastically smaller percentage are using Apple computers for that task. That is irrelevant to the discussion (number who use Apple). Since we are talking Apple users, only the Apple computers are considered and the PC people doing it are mostly irrelevant except for a handful of switchers. - On Aug 2, 2011, at 11:18 AM, LuKreme wrote: objectwerks inc c...@objectwerks.com squaked out on Tue 02-Aug-2011 10:41 On Aug 1, 2011, at 10:50 PM, LuKreme wrote: On Aug 1, 2011, at 17:48, Nathan Sims newsli...@autonomy.caltech.edu wrote: Optical drives in 2011 are a lot like floppy drives in 1997. Other than burning a backup of Lion, I've not used mine in about a year. For the very few people who need an optical drive, Apple offers one for a reasonable fee. I do wish that Apple had included one model of the mini with an optical drive, personally. I use a mini as a media center for the family and an in-built optical drive is easier with little kids than a plugged in one and we still get DVDs that we borrow and they want to watch. And I still buy DVDs on sale. And until I get them ripped to my movies volume we use them with the optical drive. I don’t allow my kids NOW to handle discs, much less when they were little. Who said anything about letting the kids HANDLE the discs. Just having an external drive attached to the computer is tempting for kids to mess with. They are not allowed now to handle discs -- parents handle the discs for them. Everything gets ripped to the hard drive with Handbrake. The slowest part of that process is feeding the discs to the drive. I do something similar, but my time is limited and I have a stack of discs to slowly do. So if the family wants to watch a movie while they are waiting for me to rip them to the family server (transitioning over to a Nexenta based system running Netatalk as the current system is full) they use the disc, with a parent to do the actual inserting. Additionally, we borrow discs from my parents, the library, etc and I don't take the time or space for these short term discs to rip them (let alone the time until I would get to it). For those kinds of discs we use the actual disc. (I don't use handbrake though as I like to have the complete DVD with menus etc for my family to use so I use something else that keeps it in DVD format and use Media Central as the playback system) (yes I know it takes a lot more space -- I handbrake some stuff for me to use on iPad/iPhone) I also use my Mac Pro optical drive often to rip new DVDs and I still buy music on CD whenever I can (for the small amount I buy) and I am still finding long lost music CDs of mine (misplaced in moves, etc) that I rip to my iTunes volume. So I use the optical a lot. Well, if you have a computer with an optical drive you can rip the DVDs there with Handbrake. If you need to access a CD or DVD on your new mini an the other computer is a Mac, you can share the disc drive. See above I do agree with the overall sentiment though that the optical drive is going the way of the DoDo. I just think we are not quite that far along yet. So said a lot of people on 1997. Apple is going
Re: The new Mac mini
On Aug 1, 2011, at 7:18 PM, st...@paper-ape.com wrote: On 2011-08-01 18:55 , Nathan Sims wrote: Besides, he didn't need to purchase any adapters for the Thunderbolt. what adapters? you realize the adapter situation is identical from the switcher perspective? THIS. The previous mini required a display-port--DVI adapter AFAIK to hook up a monitor with. That same display-port--DVI adapter works with the Thunderbolt port. The exact same adapter is required either way. ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
Re: The new Mac mini
On Aug 1, 2011, at 8:45 PM, Nathan Sims wrote: On Aug 1, 2011, at 7:38 PM, David Schwartz wrote: On Aug 1, 2011, at 5:55 PM, Nathan Sims insisted: Besides, he didn't need to purchase any adapters for the Thunderbolt. Please try and pay attention. As others have attempted to explain, the new models have the _exact same_ physical monitor connections as did the previous model (Mini DisplayPort and HDMI). The inclusion of Thunderbolt technology inside the box does _nothing_ to change how external displays can be connected. Ahem, the new models do NOT have the _exact same_ physical monitor connections as did the previous model. There is no Mini Display port. Did you even both to look at one? Did you even bother to read the Apple website specs? The Thunderbolt port doubles as a mini-display port http://www.apple.com/macmini/design.html Built-in Thunderbolt technology lets you daisy-chain up to six Thunderbolt peripherals, including the new Apple Thunderbolt Display, to a single port. It also supports Mini DisplayPort peripherals you might already have, including the Apple LED Cinema Display. and http://www.apple.com/macmini/specs.html and http://www.apple.com/thunderbolt/ ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
Re: The new Mac mini
On Aug 1, 2011, at 8:59 PM, Thomas Myers wrote: FYI: The new mac-mini also comes with a displayport/Thunderbolt to DVI adaptor in the box, plus HDMI out. actually, the Apple website under Mac Mini tech specs says it comes with an HDMI--DVI adaptor in the box, not a mini display port -- DVI adapter. On Aug 1, 2011, at 10:52 PM, st...@paper-ape.com wrote: On 2011-08-01 20:45 , Nathan Sims wrote: Ahem, the new models do NOT have the _exact same_ physical monitor connections as did the previous model. There is no Mini Display port. Did you even both to look at one? And because Thunderbolt is based on DisplayPort technology, the video standard for high-resolution displays, any Mini DisplayPort display plugs right into the Thunderbolt port. To connect a DisplayPort, DVI, HDMI, or VGA display, just use an existing adapter. http://www.apple.com/thunderbolt/ the only difference i know of from a display perspective is that only a Thunderbolt port can connect to the new Apple Thunderbolt monitor, or to the new iMac in display sharing mode ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
Re: running SL inside VMWare Fusion under Lion -- Rosetta still work?
On Jul 27, 2011, at 6:55 AM, Neil Laubenthal wrote: Regular SL won't install on VMWare or Parallels (at least it wouldn't the last time I tried maybe 3 months ago) . . .if it works that would allow me to keep SL around for the 1 or 2 Rosetta required apps I haven't gotten rid of. Google is your friend Has anyone tried running VMWare on Lion and run SL in it (various tutorials online on how to do this). Does the optional Rosetta install still work? ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
running SL inside VMWare Fusion under Lion -- Rosetta still work?
Has anyone tried running VMWare on Lion and run SL in it (various tutorials online on how to do this). Does the optional Rosetta install still work? I'd like to upgrade to Lion on one of my machines but h ave a couple PPC programs still running under Rosetta. Sometime this year I will be migrating the work that they do (accounting) to a different system that is intel based (and not the same software so it requires a bunch of conversions of data that I don't have time for now). If I could still run these under VMWare that would be great. They don't get run often but I need access to them. Chad ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
Re: Transferring an e-book
On Jul 24, 2011, at 9:34 PM, Nathan Sims wrote: Is there any way to transfer an e-book from an iPad to a Kindle? I assume the iPad uses PDF format? What format does the Kindle use? You mean an iBooks e-book? I believe their format is something called ePub for books bought from the iBookstore and I would make a very strong assumption that they are protected. iBooks will also work with unprotected ePub format that you create yourself and PDF.. Chad ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
Re: Thoughts on Mission Control / Exposé ?
On Jul 22, 2011, at 3:43 PM, Nathan Sims wrote: This is a totally stupid way for a multithreaded, multiwindow, multitabbed application to operate. The modal window should apply to a single tab only -- namely, the one that launched the modal panel. (Sometimes I've not been able to find the modal panel, and have to resort to Force Quitting the app. Very annoying.) no argument from me. - on a related note, it seems to me that Apple thinks that under Spaces (at least under SL), people will distribute their apps across spaces, ie, mail in 1 space, safari in another, etc, but not with one app across multiple spaces. It works, but has enough issues that make it seem that Apple does not really think of Spaces being used that way. ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
Re: Multiple accounts and iCloud?
This is all based on my non-lawyerly reading On Jun 9, 2011, at 2:29 AM, Ashley Aitken wrote: (iii)You may switch an Associated Device to a different Account only once every 90 days. This is interesting / strange. I change the iTunes store account on my Mac and iPhone often (sometimes many times in a day). Does this only relate to non iOS devices like iPod nanos and shuffles? This is not what account you log in to from you iPhone (for example to purchase from the app store). It is the account set for auto-push download stuff from iCloud. (iv) You may download previously-purchased free content onto an unlimited number of devices while it is free on the iTunes Service, but on no more than 5 iTunes-authorized computers. Unlimited devices but only 5 iTunes-authorized computers? Why this limitation for free content? It is not free content. It is previously purchased content that can be re-downloaded for free. AUTOMATIC DELIVERY AND DOWNLOADING PREVIOUS PURCHASES BETA When you first acquire App Store Products, as defined below, (excluding products acquired from the Mac App Store) or iBookstore Products, as defined below, through the App and Book Services (collectively, “Eligible Content”), you may elect to automatically receive (“auto-download”) copies of such Eligible Content on additional compatible iOS Devices and iTunes-authorizedcomputers with compatible software by associating such iOS Devices and computers subject to the association rules below (each, an “Associated Device”). For each Associated Device, you may specify which type of Eligible Content, if any, may be auto-downloaded to it. On an Associated Device that is capable of receiving push notifications (“Push-Enabled”), including iOS Devices, the Eligible Content will auto-download to that Associated Device when it has an Internet connection; on an Associated Device that is not Push-Enabled, including those running on the Windows operating system, Eligible Content will automatically appear in the download queue and you may manually initiate the download within iTunes. Again, push sounds like this is beta for iCloud? (i) You may auto-download Eligible Content or download previously-purchased Eligible Content from an Account on up to 10 Associated Devices, provided no more than 5 are iTunes-authorized computers. So apps to 10 devices of which only 5 can be computers (Macs I guess). (ii) An Associated Device can be associated with only one Account at any given time. (iii)You may switch an Associated Device to a different Account only once every 90 days. Hmm, not sure I understand this or that it is being enforced? The above terms (i) to (iv) do not apply to App Store Products. Products? They mean electronics / accessories? That did not make sense. Can someone simplify all this? How is it supposed to work for a household of 4 people who wish to share music and apps? Are we supposed to share apps like we share music? Cheers, Ashley. ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
Re: Multiple accounts and iCloud?
On Jun 6, 2011, at 2:04 PM, Ashley Aitken wrote: On our iOS devices and iTunes we use multiple accounts (family members, work) for apps, music, etc. Some are even international accounts (used for purchases that were not available locally or cheaper in an O/S store). I've recently run into the limit that an iOS device can only have content from 5 accounts - that's a pain. I'm now wondering if anyone has a hint as to how iCloud will work with multiple accounts. I'm thinking that we're going to have to consolidate accounts (i.e. repurchase apps and music for one family account). Now for international accounts we probably deserve it but are family member really expected to buy separate copies of music and apps? We share the devices but we've had separate accounts so kids can manage their own spending etc. Probably too early for anyone to know and probably not much we can do but I hope iCloud is multiple account friendly. Cheers, Ashley. ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk Just FYI: Here is the relevant section from the iTunes USA TC pages http://www.apple.com/legal/itunes/us/terms.html AUTOMATIC DELIVERY AND DOWNLOADING PREVIOUS PURCHASES BETA When you first acquire music iTunes Products and music video iTunes Products (collectively, “iTunes Eligible Content”), you may elect to automatically receive (“auto-download”) copies of such iTunes Eligible Content on additional compatible iOS Devices and iTunes-authorized computers with compatible software by associating such iOS Devices and computers subject to the association rules below (each, an “Associated Device”). For each Associated Device, you may specify which type of iTunes Eligible Content, if any, may be auto-downloaded to it. On an Associated Device that is capable of receiving push notifications (“Push-Enabled”), including iOS Devices, the iTunes Eligible Content will auto-download to that Associated Device when it has an Internet connection; on an Associated Device that is not Push-Enabled, including those running on the Windows operating system, iTunes Eligible Content will automatically appear in the download queue and you may manually initiate the download within iTunes. As an accommodation to you, subsequent to acquiring iTunes Eligible Content, you may download certain of such previously-purchased iTunes Eligible Content onto any Associated Device. Some iTunes Eligible Content that you previously purchased may not be available for subsequent download at any given time, and Apple shall have no liability to you in such event. As you may not be able to subsequently download certain previously-purchased iTunes Eligible Content, once you download an item of iTunes Eligible Content, it is your responsibility not to lose, destroy, or damage it, and you may want to back it up. Association of Associated Devices is subject to the following terms: (i) You may auto-download iTunes Eligible Content or download previously-purchased iTunes Eligible Content from an Account on up to 10 Associated Devices, provided no more than 5 are iTunes-authorized computers. (ii)An Associated Device can be associated with only one Account at any given time. (iii) You may switch an Associated Device to a different Account only once every 90 days. (iv)You may download previously-purchased free content onto an unlimited number of devices while it is free on the iTunes Service, but on no more than 5 iTunes-authorized computers. Some pieces of iTunes Eligible Content may be large, and significant data charges may result from delivery of such iTunes Eligible Content over a data connection. --- AUTOMATIC DELIVERY AND DOWNLOADING PREVIOUS PURCHASES BETA When you first acquire App Store Products, as defined below, (excluding products acquired from the Mac App Store) or iBookstore Products, as defined below, through the App and Book Services (collectively, “Eligible Content”), you may elect to automatically receive (“auto-download”) copies of such Eligible Content on additional compatible iOS Devices and iTunes-authorizedcomputers with compatible software by associating such iOS Devices and computers subject to the association rules below (each, an “Associated Device”). For each Associated Device, you may specify which type of Eligible Content, if any, may be auto-downloaded to it. On an Associated Device that is capable of receiving push notifications (“Push-Enabled”), including iOS Devices, the Eligible Content will auto-download to that Associated Device when it has an Internet connection; on an Associated Device that is not Push-Enabled, including those running on the Windows operating system, Eligible Content will automatically appear in the download queue and you may manually initiate the download within iTunes. As an accommodation to you,
Re: Multiple accounts and iCloud?
On Jun 7, 2011, at 4:08 PM, Nathan Sims wrote: On Jun 7, 2011, at 1:23 PM, Patrick Coskren wrote: On Jun 7, 2011, at 4:14 PM, Nathan Sims wrote: But here's where I'm coming from: Shouldn't the real iCloud be where everyone has his own? That's the product I was hoping they were going to come out with: My iMac is my iCloud or some such. Same functionality and availability but *I own my data*. Why would I want all my stuff to reside on _their_ server, not mine? Because a big part of the point is that they want to eliminate the need to have a Mac or PC in order to use an iOS device. Exactly! Look where the graph is taking us: towards NO private data storage, no desktops, everything is 'mobile' and all content (especially licensed content) resides in the cloud except what's needed locally in cache RAM on the device. I'm not quite ready to be so dependent, so tied-in tied-up, to any one single thing -- and to a potential single point of failure at that. No one else feels a bit _powned_ by the paradigm or where it's leading? Eliminating the need for a Mac or PC is a long way from eliminating the capability of doing local storage etc. I see the desire to eliminate the requirement for a Mac or PC and will use some of the services. However, I will still make my data in my own possession my main copy of the data, personally. Chad ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
Re: Multiple accounts and iCloud?
On Jun 7, 2011, at 5:39 PM, Nathan Sims wrote: Looks to me like the writing's on the wall. I don't think it'll be very long before content from the iTunes store is streamed, not downloaded, i.e. you can enjoy but not own it. The rest is all downhill from there. If Apple wanted to do streaming, they would have done it by now. They know that is a losing proposition. I read an article yesterday -- wish I had saved a link -- that basically expounded on this and why all the iCloud will be a streaming service people will wrong. It meshes with what Steve has said all along.Apple is not pushing you to a streaming only setup. They know that won't fly. ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
Re: Tired MacBook Pro, and IMAP
On May 13, 2011, at 2:05 AM, Scot Hacker wrote: On May 13, 2011, at 12:49 AM, Andrew Brown wrote: On 5 May 2011, at 11:23, Jared Earle wrote: You should be on IMAP anyway. POP3 is a dead end. Well, so far, I rather prefer my dead end... I need to get IMAP for dummies, but perhaps the answer to my question is short : how do I handle IMAP on my iPhone and iPad ? if I delete messages on either, IMAP scurries off and deletes them from my MBP also, which is not what I want at all. When you use IMAP, actions mean what they say. Delete means delete. Actually, in most cases, it does not mean delete. It usually means one of: mark for delete, or move to trash folder depending on how your client is set up. In the first case, you still need to do an expunge to really honestly delete them off the server. In the second case, the server may auto-dump the trash folder after X days or the client may need to do so or you can manually purge the Trash folder. Depending on your client, things marked for delete may or may not be still visible by default. For practical purposes, you're manipulating mail directly on the server aka a central point of access, so of course delete deletes from everywhere. That's called consistency aka sanity and it's why IMAP has largely replaced POP. Agree with you there. It sounds like you've just gotten accustomed to POP's bizarro world where delete doesn't really mean delete. Just need to tweak your mental model of how mail should behave slightly. If you don't really intend to delete a message, then don't. ./s ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
Re: Tired MacBook Pro, and IMAP
On May 13, 2011, at 10:54 AM, Scott G. Lewis wrote: A lot of (bad in my view) clients mark deleted mail as such, and then provide an expunge feature to later delete them. Mac's Mail.app, Mail.app will work both ways. I prefer the mark for delete behavior. So I have Mail.app set to work that way. The iPhone unfortunately ONLY allows the move to folder (and does not seem to allow you to specify which folder but may inherit it from Mail.app settings ??). I believe original IMAP spec behavior is mark for delete as well as the iOS clients do what I strongly prefer. Deleted mail is actually not deleted, but MOVED to a designated Trash folder. Client settings on your Mac, iPhone and iPads all control how often the client should permanently delete (expunge) mail in that folder. For years I left mine at never but after about 5-6 years of never going back and looking at anything, I set it to expire deleted mail after about a month. On May 13, 2011, at 11:50 AM, Nathan Sims wrote: On May 13, 2011, at 1:05 AM, Scot Hacker wrote: When you use IMAP, actions mean what they say. Delete means delete. For practical purposes, you're manipulating mail directly on the server aka a central point of access, so of course delete deletes from everywhere. That's called consistency aka sanity and it's why IMAP has largely replaced POP. If in IMAP parlance delete means delete, does that mean if I delete an email message on/from my iPhone, my iPad (or any other device) will never see it? I'm confused... ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
Re: Mail Message Bounce doesn't leave msg in mailbox
On Apr 23, 2011, at 2:53 PM, Macs R We wrote: Seriously, the Bounce command is worse than worthless, it's actually harmful. Almost all the messages you would want to bounce have forged headers anyway, so all you are doing is spamming in turn some innocent guy who never sent the message in the first place. It has its uses. It is not worthless. It is useful to get the attention of people who have subscribed you to their lists without your permission. Those do not have fake headers etc and it ends up in their admin's mailbox (etc). After a few times they usually take me off the list. ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
Re: OS X is ten years old today
On Mar 29, 2011, at 10:24 AM, Nathan Sims wrote: On Mar 29, 2011, at 1:23 AM, Michael_google gmail_Gersten wrote: No one has ever been able to give me a convincing answer as to why EOF was ditched in favor of CoreData. I can understand EOF, it feels object-oriented and ObjC-like. CoreData is a like a plate of spaghetti to my mind, very C++ like, syntaxy, and hard to get your head around ... How about this for a good reason: EOF was huge and in need of a major overall. EOControl was three different classes lumped into one big mess. Heh, that's how I see CoreData: one big mess. EOF did have one major redeeming quality: I could understand it! :) I've given up on CoreData for now. Maybe someday I'll revisit it... http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/Cocoa/Conceptual/CoreData/Articles/cdFAQ.html%23//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP40001802-244739 Differences between Core Data and EOF___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
Re: OS X is ten years old today
On Mar 28, 2011, at 5:37 AM, Eugene wrote: This would not surprise me with OS X. Years ago, I read that the kernel itself is different between client and server. IIRC, the main difference is that server is designed for more equal preemptive multitasking between daemons and such, while client may prioritize users' main apps over other less-used processes. Can't find the source, but I wouldn't mind the reading material if someone has a link. If they did that, I would expect them to do it through some kernel parameters or something like that. Note actual different compiled code. (Note that I believe MS also does it this way through the registry). Things that they can set in an installer package script.___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
Re: OS X is ten years old today
On Mar 28, 2011, at 8:49 AM, objectwerks inc wrote: On Mar 28, 2011, at 5:37 AM, Eugene wrote: This would not surprise me with OS X. Years ago, I read that the kernel itself is different between client and server. IIRC, the main difference is that server is designed for more equal preemptive multitasking between daemons and such, while client may prioritize users' main apps over other less-used processes. Can't find the source, but I wouldn't mind the reading material if someone has a link. If they did that, I would expect them to do it through some kernel parameters or something like that. Note actual different compiled code. (Note that I believe MS also does it this way through the registry). should say *not* actual compiled code My excuse is its early Monday morning. ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
Re: OS X is ten years old today
On Mar 24, 2011, at 9:26 PM, Ashley Aitken wrote: I remember when OSX was released (slow and buggy) by Steve Jobs at WWDC thinking that the new Apple had saved the Mac for another 20 years. It is hard to believe half that period had gone already. With regards to the future, speculating of course, I think we are heading for an iOS world on the desktop as well as the tablet and phone. It is, of course, built around OSX (but not the Mac OS, if you follow ...). I don't think it will happen. I think you will get some iOS ways of manipulating things added (as in Lion) but I don't think you will supplant the keyboard and mouse any time in the next 20 years as the main input Plus, the HW needs are different between Mac OS X and iOS (which is also OS X). So you will continue to have different OSes on the desktop and the mobile post-PC device. Personally, I think iMacs will eventually fall over and be slanted screens on our desk, and we will do everything with our fingers on the screen (even typing, with voice,and possibly camera gesture recognition. Yes, Steve said that multi-touch on a vertical screen won't cut it, but I think multi-touch on a horizontal (slanted) screen will work just fine. Most of the space in front of my screen is wasted on a keyboard. That's right I'm suggesting Photoshop, Final Cut Pro, Xcode, pretty much all apps will be multi-touch apps, and we will even lose the menu bar as we know it today (since it was made for the mouse). The mouse is much finer control. Multi-touch is not a mouse replacement when you need a mouse. The prevalence of the PC may go down as more and more people adopt post-PC devices for their day to day normal use, but the keyboard and mouse will not go away on the PC in the next 20 years. That is my prognostication. ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
Re: External USB/Firewire camera recommendations
On Mar 15, 2011, at 3:31 PM, Nathan Sims wrote: FWIW, I just bought (and promptly returned) 3 more webcams -- three that I hadn't tried before. They all claimed Mac OSX compatibility, but all produced horrible images (lots of video noise, very poor light sensitivity, very low frame rates). The Logitech C910 says Works with Windows XP (SP2 or higher), Windows Vista or Windows 7 or (32-bit or 64-bit) on the box. No OSX. Surely there must be a decent camera that people are using for video purposes? It seems this camera works on OS X but the logitech software does not. http://blog.logitech.com/2010/06/10/newhdwebcams/ On Mar 15, 2011, at 1:24 PM, LuKreme wrote: Not sure if it is still the case, but the iSight cameras were going for a hefty premium at one time. I had someone offer me $250 for my FireWire iSight a coupe if years ago, but I declined. Sent from my iPad On Mar 15, 2011, at 13:41, Eugene list-omnigr...@fsck.net wrote: On Mon, Mar 07, 2011 at 10:28:33AM CST, Nathan Sims newsli...@autonomy.caltech.edu wrote: Since Apple no longer makes an external iSight camera, what do people recommend? I'd like a camera to be 640x480 @ 15fps min, and plays well with Quartz Composer. I've bought a few USB and one Firewire Mac compatible webcam in the past, they didn't perform well. Once I get going with a low-res camera, I'll step up to something with larger resolution. The Logitech 1080p Webcam Pro C910 gets good ratings. But I've never been a fan of USB video devices. Maybe I should sell my external iSight, as I've barely used it. -- Eugene http://www.coxar.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/ ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
Re: iTunes for aliens
On Jan 20, 2011, at 8:58 AM, Charles Dyer wrote: if you have a credit card that's billed in the US, you can set up a proxy that's got a US IP and access iTunes or Amazon in the US that way. And pay with the American CC. I use iTunes in a Japan once in a while. I bought some iTunes cards while there and signed up under a different email address and put my MIL physical address in. So I did not use a CC, just iTunes gift cards. You could use a UK CC or buy UK iTunes gift cards and set up a UK based iTunes account. Does Apple rent or sell movies over iTunes in the UK? ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
Re: can't play a ripped DVD on network as of 10.6.6
I use MediaCentral http://www.equinux.com/us/products/mediacentral/index.html though I am not on 10.6.6 yet. It uses the Apple DVD libs but I don't know if it will have the same problems... Chad On Jan 15, 2011, at 8:24 PM, Kevin Callahan wrote: spoke too soon VLC skips too much over my network DVD Player was fine So, DVD Player requires an optical drive in a machine to run? On Jan 15, 2011, at 7:20 PM, Kevin Callahan wrote: found another source ... VLC is running .. but some skipping ... okay solution for now k On Jan 15, 2011, at 7:04 PM, Kevin Callahan wrote: For years, I've ripped DVDs I've bought onto a drive that hangs off my MacPro. I often play these files over the network. As of 10.6.6, I'm getting an initialization problem. But it could be because I removed my optical drive from my MBPro and replaced it with an SSD and while the file is remote and residing on a disk, DVD Player crashes upon initialization due to lack of hardware. Should I resort to VLC ? or ? Well, I guess VLC doesn't like my MBPro with an SSD in the optical drive slot. PastedGraphic-11.png Exception Type: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGSEGV) Exception Codes: KERN_INVALID_ADDRESS at 0x6163696c Crashed Thread: 0 Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread Thread 0 Crashed: Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread 0 ??? 0x6163696c 0 + 1633905004 1 com.apple.DVDPlayer 0x000676dd 0x1000 + 419549 2 com.apple.DVDPlayer 0x0001af54 0x1000 + 106324 3 com.apple.DVDPlayer 0x0001af83 0x1000 + 106371 4 com.apple.DVDPlayer 0x3941 0x1000 + 10561 Thread 1: Dispatch queue: com.apple.libdispatch-manager 0 libSystem.B.dylib 0x93eac982 kevent + 10 1 libSystem.B.dylib 0x93ead09c _dispatch_mgr_invoke + 215 2 libSystem.B.dylib 0x93eac559 _dispatch_queue_invoke + 163 3 libSystem.B.dylib 0x93eac2fe _dispatch_worker_thread2 + 240 4 libSystem.B.dylib 0x93eabd81 _pthread_wqthread + 390 5 libSystem.B.dylib 0x93eabbc6 start_wqthread + 30 Thread 2: com.apple.dvdplayback-DVDEventCallbackThread 0 libSystem.B.dylib 0x93e86136 semaphore_wait_trap + 10 1 com.apple.dvdplayback 0x003721f0 DVDGetInstalledEQFrequencyRange + 135173 2 com.apple.dvdplayback 0x003555ce DVDGetInstalledEQFrequencyRange + 17379 3 com.apple.dvdplayback 0x003721cc DVDGetInstalledEQFrequencyRange + 135137 4 libSystem.B.dylib 0x93f7bd62 _pthread_body + 27 Thread 0 crashed with X86 Thread State (32-bit): eax: 0xbc24 ebx: 0xbaa0 ecx: 0x00012180 edx: 0xbc1c edi: 0x esi: 0xbaa0 ebp: 0xba68 esp: 0xba4c ss: 0x001f efl: 0x00010282 eip: 0x6163696c cs: 0x0017 ds: 0x001f es: 0x001f fs: 0x gs: 0x0037 cr2: 0x6163696c ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk Red Fantasy music: http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/the-red-fantasy-the-red-fantasy/id388974092?i=388974326 Red Fantasy and Fourth Stream scores: http://www.dobermaneditions.com/en/search-composer/p17554934.html Odair Assad CD: http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/el-caminante-el-caminante/id388974092 Three River Moments score: http://www.henry-lemoine.com/en/catalogue/rechercheFiche.html?cotage=27461 Accessorizer: http://www.kevincallahan.org/software/accessorizer.html Homepage:http://www.kevincallahan.org/ http://www.xeniamara.com ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk Red Fantasy music: http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/the-red-fantasy-the-red-fantasy/id388974092?i=388974326 Red Fantasy and Fourth Stream scores: http://www.dobermaneditions.com/en/search-composer/p17554934.html Odair Assad CD: http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/el-caminante-el-caminante/id388974092 Three River Moments score: http://www.henry-lemoine.com/en/catalogue/rechercheFiche.html?cotage=27461 Accessorizer: http://www.kevincallahan.org/software/accessorizer.html Homepage: http://www.kevincallahan.org/ http://www.xeniamara.com ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com
Re: Games changers ...
On Jan 4, 2011, at 1:49 PM, Ashley Aitken wrote (quoting someone): People may look at that and question paying almost twice as much for system that currently only has a handful of titles. And I think that's what it will all come down to (and always has) -who has the compelling titles? Not if it really is a game changer. seems to me to be circular logic of some sort.___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
Re: Quicktime stalling when playing from The Internets
On Dec 17, 2010, at 9:58 PM, Kevin Callahan wrote: playback of media coming of the Internets on any of my devices tends to suffer from buffer timing issues - when I test my download speed using www.speedtest,net, I get 38 Mbits DOWN and 5 Mbits up. but watching YouTube vids or vids streamed off MobileMe Gallery, whether on one of Macs or one of my iOS devices is not optimal - playback tends to stall - buffering seems miscalculated sites tend to stall as well - Safair, Firefox .. doesn't matter - sometimes fast as hell - other times, Safari sits there spinning - same with FF. Sre there network issues with 10.6.5? or is it QT specifically ? or ? ** I'm not the only one seeing this - I get emails from friends and family saying they're trying various configurations on their networks and routers trying to solve the problem I used to have issues with Flash based videos doing this in Safari but not FF. But that does not seem to be your issue. I would say pipe congestion somewhere along the way. As the use of video and stuff online increases the people serving it are hitting bottlenecks it appears and some of the carriers along the path to you are as well. Chad ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
Re: Mail does not load attachments
You are on a 10.5 version of mail, right? I would have to go down and check my 10.5 system but I think it worked the same there. Attachments have never been shown as more than an icon except for small one page documents (PDF for example) and pictures (or many pictures). On Nov 3, 2010, at 9:37 AM, Rudolf O. Durrer wrote: Since yesterday, Mail.app does not load attachments anymore. the mails still show the attachment logo, but there is no attachmentwith the mail. Going to my account through webmail, the attachments are there: readable and downlodable. Any idea, where I have to change that setting? Rudolf ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
Re: AppleCare Protection Plan (for iMac): Is it worth it?
On Nov 2, 2010, at 12:55 PM, Sven Aluoor wrote: Hi folks I am not interested in software help and support. But if some hardware component in my iMac 27 fails, I would welcome if Apple repairs it for free. What are your experiences with AppleCare Protection Plans? Do you buy it usually? Is it worth it? If a Disk fails, will Apple fix it for free? I have had excellent results with AppleCare (HW service) and would not hesitate to buy it again for most machines (I don't buy it on the mini or iPhone etc).___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
Re: signed software :: installer -- system software and package installer tool (Apple *.pkg)
is this pirated SW? On Oct 23, 2010, at 11:22 AM, Sven Aluoor wrote: Hi folks Does anybody know a few details about signed software and /Applications/Utilities/Installer.app? I didn't find more at Wikipedia (https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Installer_%28Mac_OS_X%29) and the UNIX-Manual (man 8 installer). I have here a valid signature from iLife 11 Installer.app (http://i.imgur.com/Y3raY.jpg). Does this mean I can be 100% sure that nothing is modified? It means I can trust this PKG because signed by Apple? Or did I get something wrong? cheers Sven ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
Re: lion
It is amazing how people see a new feature and automatically seem to assume that that feature is going to become the only way to interact in the future For example, this full-screen stuff etc. I seriously doubt that Apple, anytime in the near or near-far future will get rid of windowing etc. It is an additional way of displaying apps/windows for people who like that way. Full screen seems to be popular with Windows users and with the growth in the Mac being Windows users coming to the Mac, it seems that Apple saw a chance at doing something to help make these folks happy as well as to get some continuity going with certain sorts of apps with iOS. Another example is the Mac App Store. People immediately think that Apple will close the system and all Apps will have to go through the Mac App Store. Apple knows better than to do that on the Mac. It is easier on a system like the iPhone to do that than it is for a general purpose computer that only has 10+ years on the market (OS X) and 26 years by name (Macintosh / 1984). The Mac App Store intrigues me but unfortunately they won't take apps that are on a subscription basis (even if the renewal goes through them it seems) if I read the guidelines correctly, and my app I want to get out the door is a specialty app that instead of charging several hundred dollars for I wanted to charge a yearly $30-$40 for... Chad ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
