Launching background process in Terminal window

2011-01-24 Thread Jonathon Kuo
From the Terminal window (bash, OSX 10.6.5) I'm running a command-line program in the background like this: % ./myprogram 121 331 8.9 [1] 38547 This puts it into the background where it comtineus to run: 38547 ttys0000:00.01 ./myprogram 121 331 8.9 But I want it to stay running even when

Re: Launching background process in Terminal window

2011-01-24 Thread Jonathon Kuo
Excellent! Works perfectly! Thanks! On Jan 24, 2011, at 5:47 PM, Arno Hautala wrote: On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 20:20, Christopher Bort top...@thehundredacre.net wrote: Run your program in a screen session (man screen) and detach the session (C-a d) before quitting Terminal. Screen is

Re: Hide every window except the frontmost?

2011-01-13 Thread Jonathon Kuo
On Jan 13, 2011, at 2:12 PM, Vince LaMonica wrote: You can hide all apps except the one you're in via option-command-H. Not sure if that is what you're looking for though... What key sequence will undo this action? ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list

Re: Giving up on Safari ...

2010-11-13 Thread Jonathon Kuo
On Nov 13, 2010, at 9:43 AM, Scot Hacker wrote: Out of curiosity, what remaining reasons are there to use Safari or Firefox when Chrome is available? I find Chrome SO much faster and more stable than either of them, and the Chrome extensions landscape has really matured. I haven't

Re: iPhoto 11

2010-10-21 Thread Jonathon Kuo
Heh, mebbe iTunes will follow suit... On Oct 21, 2010, at 11:22 AM, Kevin Callahan wrote: iPhoto 11 has colored icons ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk

Re: lion

2010-10-21 Thread Jonathon Kuo
On Oct 21, 2010, at 10:11 AM, Michael_google gmail_Gersten wrote: Second, multi-tasking -- doing two different things at once -- may be a bad idea. Guess I'll need multiple computers to get things done efficiently in Lion. Pretty smart of Apple.

Re: lion

2010-10-21 Thread Jonathon Kuo
On Oct 21, 2010, at 12:08 PM, Ashley Aitken wrote: On 22/10/2010, at 2:44 AM, Jonathon Kuo wrote: On Oct 21, 2010, at 10:11 AM, Michael_google gmail_Gersten wrote: Second, multi-tasking -- doing two different things at once -- may be a bad idea. Guess I'll need multiple computers

Re: GlimmerBlockerProxy connection to appforthat.com

2010-10-20 Thread Jonathon Kuo
Have you looked at Little Snitch? http://www.obdev.at/products/littlesnitch/index.html -Jon On Oct 20, 2010, at 1:15 PM, Sven Aluoor wrote: Hi folks How to see which application (PID) connects to appforthat.com. I don't see the source app, because I use GlimmerBlockerProxy as local proxy

Re: lion

2010-10-20 Thread Jonathon Kuo
On Oct 20, 2010, at 3:29 PM, Bill Cheeseman wrote: But I must say that the presentation scared me. To me, the iOS model seems passable for mobile devices but I fear its invasion of the OSX desktop. My first impression of iOS/iPad was wow, it's so dumbed down, how do you actually do any

Re: Safari toolbars

2010-09-16 Thread Jonathon Kuo
Heh, get in line. I've complained about that for years. Someone on the Safari team must think that black text on dark grey backgrounds is clever. Or funny. It violates GUI Design 101 and their own HIG, along with common sense, about not having colors so close to each other. On Sep 16, 2010, at

Re: New iPod Shuffle and Nanos

2010-09-02 Thread Jonathon Kuo
Wow, the new nano looks to be an iPhone missing only the 3G?! Okay, looking deeper, it doesn't have a GPS sensor. But is that it? Awesome! -Jon On Sep 2, 2010, at 4:25 AM, Ashley Aitken wrote: They look good but I hope they've left in the ability to use earbud controls (the ones on the

Re: New iPod Shuffle and Nanos

2010-09-02 Thread Jonathon Kuo
Doh! I meant 'iPod Touch' not 'nano', obviously...! -Jon On Sep 2, 2010, at 9:06 AM, Jonathon Kuo wrote: Wow, the new nano looks to be an iPhone missing only the 3G?! Okay, looking deeper, it doesn't have a GPS sensor. But is that it? Awesome! -Jon On Sep 2, 2010, at 4:25 AM, Ashley

Re: New iPod Shuffle and Nanos

2010-09-02 Thread Jonathon Kuo
On Sep 2, 2010, at 11:35 AM, st...@paper-ape.com wrote: On 2010-09-02 10:11 , Jonathon Kuo wrote: Doh! I meant 'iPod Touch' not 'nano', obviously...! -Jon On Sep 2, 2010, at 9:06 AM, Jonathon Kuo wrote: Wow, the new [iPod Touch] looks to be an iPhone missing only the 3G?! Okay, looking

Re: Mini = $700

2010-08-20 Thread Jonathon Kuo
On Aug 19, 2010, at 10:29 AM, Jonathon Kuo wrote: On Aug 17, 2010, at 8:06 PM, Michael J Wise wrote: I'm especially enamored with the server variant. I'm waiting on the variant that has a solid-state drive. Currently the laptop drive inside limits the mini to an operating environment

Re: Mini = $700

2010-08-19 Thread Jonathon Kuo
On Aug 17, 2010, at 8:06 PM, Michael J Wise wrote: I'm especially enamored with the server variant. I'm waiting on the variant that has a solid-state drive. Currently the laptop drive inside limits the mini to an operating environment of 95 degrees F max, which is too limiting for embedded

Re: yucko ... Safari 5.01

2010-08-10 Thread Jonathon Kuo
On Aug 10, 2010, at 9:32 AM, Jared Earle wrote: On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 5:28 PM, Jonathon Kuo newsli...@autonomy.caltech.edu wrote: On Aug 9, 2010, at 7:27 PM, Michael_google gmail_Gersten wrote: 4 GB is plenty of memory. You should not need that much. How rude... the new Safari

WPA capability

2010-07-29 Thread Jonathon Kuo
I'm not quite sure how to ask this question… I'm trying to get an older iMac (iLamp Tiger 10.4.11) to connect to a WPA network, but the only options in the wireless connect panel are for WEP, so it can't connect. Thinking that the WPA option might have been introduced in Leopard, I tried to

Re: Flagging email as Junk

2010-07-08 Thread Jonathon Kuo
On Jul 8, 2010, at 8:29 AM, Shawn Erickson wrote: On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 5:38 PM, Jonathon Kuo newsli...@autonomy.caltech.edu wrote: Interesting, clicking on Reset didn't have any effect... Does anyone know where the file is that maintains the spam info? In what way doesn't it have any

Flagging email as Junk

2010-07-07 Thread Jonathon Kuo
Has anyone else had problems getting Mail.app (OSX 10.6.4, v4.3) to remember what you've flagged as junk mail? I get spam emails all the time, some from the same sources, and every time I diligently flag them as junk (by clicking on the Junk button in the toolbar). But lo and behold, the next

Re: Flagging email as Junk

2010-07-07 Thread Jonathon Kuo
On Jul 7, 2010, at 10:43 AM, Vince LaMonica wrote: On Wed, 7 Jul 2010, Jonathon Kuo wrote: } Has anyone else had problems getting Mail.app (OSX 10.6.4, v4.3) to } remember what you've flagged as junk mail? Yes, when that happens, click the Reset... button in the Junk Mail preference

Re: Getting two MacBooks to see each other

2010-06-02 Thread Jonathon Kuo
On Jun 2, 2010, at 4:45 PM, st...@paper-ape.com wrote: On 2010-06-02 17:11 , Jonathon Kuo wrote: What does it take to get two MacBooks to wirelessly see/talk to each other, point to point, outside the presence of a wifi router? When I try this, neither one can see the other. I have

Apple keyboards

2010-05-12 Thread Jonathon Kuo
Before I lay down some cash, does anyone know the difference between Apple USB keyboard models A1243 and MB110LL/A? From the online images, I can't tell the difference. ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com

Re: That little green button...?

2010-04-28 Thread Jonathon Kuo
On Apr 28, 2010, at 12:37 PM, Michael Winter wrote: On Apr 28, 2010, at 2:29 PM, Jonathon Kuo wrote: In theory what's the little green button supposed to do? I believe it's supposed to change the window size so it goes from the present, unwanted size to a new, unwanted size. That's

Secure erase

2010-04-12 Thread Jonathon Kuo
I've got an old working iLamp iMac that I want to donate. Whats the potential of somebody retrieving deleted information off the hard drive? It used to have a lot of Quicken data on it. Is there a secure way to wipe the disk? I know in Disk Utility theres an erase feature but don't know if

Re: Secure erase

2010-04-12 Thread Jonathon Kuo
. On Apr 12, 2010, at 11:41 AM, Jonathon Kuo wrote: I've got an old working iLamp iMac that I want to donate. Whats the potential of somebody retrieving deleted information off the hard drive? It used to have a lot of Quicken data on it. Is there a secure way to wipe the disk? I know in Disk

defaults read warning

2010-04-09 Thread Jonathon Kuo
I get the following warning when I do the following: $ defaults read 2010-04-09 16:47:36.710 defaults[29482:903] Preference plist was NOT a dictionary. . . . Any way to figure out which plist it's yelling about? The console is filled with these messages. OSX 10.6.3

Re: Adding to a PDF

2010-04-02 Thread Jonathon Kuo
Am 01.04.2010 um 21.41 schrieb LuKreme: Several years ago I had a pdf sent to me that I needed to sign and send back. I opened the pdf, pasted in a digital copy of my signature, emailed it, and was done. Trying to duplicate that today, I am unable to paste the signature graphic into the

First impression: Working with the new 27 iMac

2010-02-16 Thread Jonathon Kuo
My office just got in a suite of new 27 iMacs, 2.8GHz, 8GB, 1TB. They're huge, super fast, quiet and beautiful. However, now that I've used mine for a week, there are a few detractions: - The tiny bluetooth keyboard works fine, even without a numeric keypad, but it's really hard to use Spaces!