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Is there any way to adjust Quicktime's black levels in the windows build? As long as I could remember its always been off-black. e: Oh maybe its a gamma thing. vvv Thanks. Didn't realize there's an iTunes thread vvv Shaocaholica fucked around with this message at 23:39 on Jul 5, 2012 |
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Boris Galerkin posted:What was that tiny program called again that was posted a while back that basically disabled you from accessing Facebook etc for a chosen time without a way to undo it until the time actually ran out? I know I can change my hosts file but I guess I don't have the self control to not change it back "for a minute while my program is compiling" or whatever (which you know, always ends up to be closer to 10+ minutes…). Self Control? Shaocaholica posted:Is there any way to adjust Quicktime's black levels in the windows build? As long as I could remember its always been off-black. Maybe it's worth asking in the iTunes thread? It's not specifically for quicktime, but you'll have more luck getting answers for the windows version than in here.
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Maybe they are intentionally vague on implementation details, but I don't understand how this works.
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Jul 6, 2012 00:02
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Lexicon posted:Maybe they are intentionally vague on implementation details, but I don't understand how this works.
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Jul 6, 2012 00:19
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Lexicon posted:Maybe they are intentionally vague on implementation details, but I don't understand how this works. You put in a list of sites, you can either create a blacklist, so all the sites on that list won't be accessible, or a whitelist, so only the sites on that list are accessible. Then you set a period of time during which those rules will be in place. During that time there is no way to undo those changes.
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Auron posted:By putting a stock image on there, do you mean they will wipe the system for me and install leopard or snow leopard (my choosing), so its basically like out of box again? How much do these services generally run? It's nothing that's impossible to do yourself at home, you may just find it more convenient depending on your circumstances.
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Boris Galerkin posted:What was that tiny program called again that was posted a while back that basically disabled you from accessing Facebook etc for a chosen time without a way to undo it until the time actually ran out? I know I can change my hosts file but I guess I don't have the self control to not change it back "for a minute while my program is compiling" or whatever (which you know, always ends up to be closer to 10+ minutes…). I use self control. http://visitsteve.com/made/selfcontrol/ e:f,b
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Jul 6, 2012 09:50
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TACD posted:Exactly. And an advantage over doing a plain OS install is it'll have iLife on there, a clean install of OS X doesn't include iLife. It's free - Apple Stores haven't charged for software repairs in years. Bar appointments and such are free no matter how far out of warranty you are, only repairs on hardware incur a fee. Awesome, thanks for the heads up!
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Jul 6, 2012 18:58
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Bob Morales posted:Does anyone else have to use Filemaker? I haven't directly seen the issue you're describing. I've seen cases where my local client of FileMaker will crash, and then I can't reconnect to the server with out a restart(or switch from FileMaker Pro Advanced to FileMaker Pro). We're running FileMaker 11 (and have also run various versions from 5.0 on up). Our FileMaker Server software is set to shut down the served files about 3am, then runs a backup of all the files to a separate computer (located on site, but not in the same office space), then restarts the served files for the next day. That might help keep us from having any long uptime stability issues.
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I keep thinking that we'll get the Mountain Lion GM for developers any day now.  Lion GM went up for developers on July 2 before showing up on the App Store for public release on July 20. Maybe after the holiday week is over...
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Jul 6, 2012 20:16
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In OSX Activity Monitor, what is the interval that "page ins" and "page outs" is counted over? Like, if my machine says 3GB of page outs, is that from the last reboot, last launch of Activity Monitor, lifetime of the machine, what?
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Jul 6, 2012 22:51
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MrChupon posted:In OSX Activity Monitor, what is the interval that "page ins" and "page outs" is counted over? Like, if my machine says 3GB of page outs, is that from the last reboot, last launch of Activity Monitor, lifetime of the machine, what?
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Jul 6, 2012 22:53
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Star War Sex Parrot posted:I believe it's this user session, so in most cases since you booted the machine up. Ok, that makes me feel a bit better. I've been toying around with a Parallels Win7 VM on a 2010 Air, and I noticed my page outs were almost 40GB, but checking my uptime it's been 50 days since my last reboot, so maybe that's a bit less alarming over that interval. (though I do have literally 25MB free...) I'll have to reboot and see how quickly that number grows in my normal VM+OS X usage.
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MrChupon posted:Ok, that makes me feel a bit better. I've been toying around with a Parallels Win7 VM on a 2010 Air, and I noticed my page outs were almost 40GB, but checking my uptime it's been 50 days since my last reboot, so maybe that's a bit less alarming over that interval. (though I do have literally 25MB free...) How much memory are you giving the virtual machine? Any of the major web browsers will grow to huge memory sizes over 50 days (even over just a few days) if you don't quit them once in a while.
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Have I missed it and they announced when Mountain Lion is released?
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Jul 6, 2012 23:33
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IIRC they just said "July" Not seeing a 10.8 GM build yet, I think we can assume it'll be late July; My guess would be anything between 20-25th.
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Bob Morales posted:How much memory are you giving the virtual machine? I use Firefox, so I know that well - but I don't think it's the issue as all was well until I started toying with Parallels. It's a 4GB RAM air, and I gave the VM 1.3something GB of RAM (random, I know). All it's doing is running Windows Update and installing things, and I'm maxed out on RAM usage in the Mac OS. Actually, Activity monitor RAM usage doesn't seem to add up for me. Parallels is using 1.39GB, the Kernel 600, and Firefox maybe 300. I'm too lazy to add up all the processes using 40MB and under, but I really doubt they add up to 1,500 more MB. e: On the plus side, other than the blazing fan, this machine is nothing but responsive despite the resources situation. I probably wouldn't know it was so dire if I didn't know where to look. Plus, I get the adage that free RAM is wasted RAM, so I don't mind seeing a lot in use, although having literally 2 digits free with so few applications open is a little concerning. I guess so long as it shuffles it around when I open more... But yeah I really just want to make sure I'm not paging 50GB a day in this use case just for the sake of the poor solid state drive in this thing. Pakistani Brad Pitt fucked around with this message at 23:56 on Jul 6, 2012 |
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I'd bump the VM down to an even 1GB. You won't hurt the drive. How much of that memory is 'inactive'?
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So when Mountain Lion comes out, will the Apple store start Macbooks with it pre-installed right away? Does a fresh install vs upgrade even matter?
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Jul 7, 2012 00:48
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mistermojo posted:So when Mountain Lion comes out, will the Apple store start Macbooks with it pre-installed right away? Does a fresh install vs upgrade even matter? They'll probably give out App Store promo codes to download a free install of Mountain Lion until stock of Lion-installed MacBooks runs out. And no, it doesn't matter.
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Bob Morales posted:I'd bump the VM down to an even 1GB. You won't hurt the drive. There is roughly 500MB 'inactive', which is like recently closed OS X apps, right? Maybe that makes up for the odd count I was seeing. What's weird is that it still pages to disk rather than claiming that inactive memory. I thought paging was supposed to be a last resort of sorts, memory wise. I'll bump the VM down to 1024MB once I'm done with all the Windows Updating as I think it's good advice -- I don't think my workflow in this VM will benefit from the extra 300 MB and it would be nice to see that as free/inactive memory for the Mac.
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Since I guess he's too humble to promote it, I want to point out that fellow goon OHIO (main developer of the iOS Awful app) just released an OSX version of his Algebra Touch app. It's featured in the New and Noteworthy section of the Mac App Store, and is currently the number 15 paid app. Let's try to get it even higher.
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Is there a way to remove nonsense junk from my Launchpad? I installed Diablo 2 and now ive got a Diablo 2 icon in there, a Diablo 2 Launcher icon, and a folder with "Diablo 2 Error" in it which just launches the error reporter that does nothing. I tried holding left-click to edit them but they can't be removed. Semi-related, is there some kind of guide somewhere I can read to understand how "software installation" kinda works on the mac coming from a Windows user perspective? Sometimes I get a DMG which can be mounted and I have to drag software into the Applications folder. With those, I seem to have to launch them from Spotlight. Sometimes I get zip files that are just applications I can run by double clicking on them. Some things are Apps which appear in Launch Pad and also I think appear in Spotlight as well. Then there was one program that I had to install by running a .command file and it did all this stuff inside a terminal and now I can run it from Spotlight. I just don't understand why some stuff is in Launch Pad (and some of the stuff in Launch Pad can be removed from Launchpad by holding left-click on it, some others cant) and what happens when I drag one of these DMG mounted icons into the Application folder. Edit: Also, how come some programs close when you click the red cross in the top left, and some others seem to keep running (i.e. they have a little dot under them in the tray at the bottom) and you have to Command+Q to close them? Mug fucked around with this message at 02:06 on Jul 7, 2012 |
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A question which may only tangentially relate to OSX. Or it may relate a lot... I run VMWare Fusion, whereby I run Windows 7 x64. I then use Remote Desktop Connection to access my PC at work. Here's the dilemma: No matter where I put the amount of cores or memory that VMWare is allowed to use, when I'm RDC'ing into my work PC, it just runs goddamn slow. Like it draws the page from left to right in chunks. Know what I mean? Is there some setting or thing I'm missing that can improve this? My internet is blazing fast so I'm assuming it has to do with my iMac's specs or just VPN'ing via a Virtual installation of Windows 7 or something. Also, I've been told by folks at my work I can't just Remote Desktop in directly from my Mac. I'm not 100% sure I trust their answer (because they don't care enough to really explore that option) but I wouldn't know the process to do if I wanted to try it out. my iMac's specs (for reference relating to the first part of my question (the dilemma) are: 3.06 Intel Core i3 12 gb ram [edit] I know this kinda straddles the hump between a hardware question and a software question, but I asked here because I *believe* my hardware is more than adequate. I believe it to be either "the way things are, too bad." or some kind of setting I need to futz with...
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Mug posted:questions DMG files are basically like a ZIP file but they get mounted as a virtual disk in finder. DMG is a 'disk image'. After you install the app you can unmount the virtual disk and delete the DMG file. 'Install the app' generally means drag and drop it into your applications folder. You can launch them from that folder or spotlight. A traditional Mac application is actually a file with the '.app' extension - similar to a ZIP file, it's actually a container for a ton of other files. So instead of having a folder called 'SomeProgram' and then data files and executables and poo poo in it, OS X makes it appear as one object with a pretty icon. Whether the software is distributed in a Windows-like ZIP file, UNIX-like 'tar.gz', or a Mac-like DMG file is up to the developer. Lastly, whether a program stays open when you close a document in it, is again up to the developer. It's more Mac-like for it to stay open, but as you've found not all programs work that way. Bob Morales fucked around with this message at 02:11 on Jul 7, 2012 |
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Feenix posted:Also, I've been told by folks at my work I can't just Remote Desktop in directly from my Mac. I'm not 100% sure I trust their answer (because they don't care enough to really explore that option) but I wouldn't know the process to do if I wanted to try it out.
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Bob Morales posted:DMG files are basically like a ZIP file but they get mounted as a virtual disk in finder. DMG is a 'disk image'. After you install the app you can unmount the virtual disk and delete the DMG file. Okay cool, I understood DMG files are disk images, as that was how it worked back when I have a 13" Core 2 Duo macbook, but now things are a bit different. Launch Pad totally dumbfounded me when I found it, and Mission Control appears to be the new Expose, right? Which for some reason is F3 instead of F9 now. So every program I am using should really be a .app file in my Applications folder somewhere which can be located in Spotlight? Is that how I'm meant to be launching software? Just do everything from Spotlight, simmilar to how in Windows you do everything by hitting the windows key and just typing a few letters of the program you want? Is there a 1 key shortcut to spotlight? Command+Space is a bit cumbersome.
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Star War Sex Parrot posted:Yeah you should be able to RDC directly from the Mac with something like CoRD. Unless there's something very specific about your work's VPN setup that requires a Windows PC, I see no reason it can't work for OS X. I grabbed CoRD a while back and tried to monkey with it but I think I just don't know what I'm doing (aka: what goes where?) because I constantly get a "Host Name could not be Resolved" error when trying to connect.
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Feenix posted:I run VMWare Fusion, whereby I run Windows 7 x64. I then use Remote Desktop Connection to access my PC at work. You probably don't have the right graphics driver installed in the Windows 7 virtual machine. I haven't used Fusion, but I use VirtualBox with Windows XP, Windows 7, and a couple different Linux distros and the desktops are plenty fast. I have the old i3 iMac with 8GB RAM. Also, in general only give your virtual machines ONE core, and don't go overboard with the RAM - like 1GB for WIndows 7. I guess if you have 12GB you can give it 2GB, but don't give it something crazy like 6GB. Feenix posted:Also, I've been told by folks at my work I can't just Remote Desktop in directly from my Mac. I'm not 100% sure I trust their answer (because they don't care enough to really explore that option) but I wouldn't know the process to do if I wanted to try it out. Sure you can. There's the Microsoft RDP client for the Mac, which kinda sucks: http://www.microsoft.com/mac/remote-desktop-client You should really use CoRD: http://cord.sourceforge.net/
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Feenix posted:I grabbed CoRD a while back and tried to monkey with it but I think I just don't know what I'm doing (aka: what goes where?) because I constantly get a "Host Name could not be Resolved" error when trying to connect.
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Mug posted:So every program I am using should really be a .app file in my Applications folder somewhere which can be located in Spotlight? Is that how I'm meant to be launching software? Just do everything from Spotlight, simmilar to how in Windows you do everything by hitting the windows key and just typing a few letters of the program you want? Mug posted:Is there a 1 key shortcut to spotlight? Command+Space is a bit cumbersome. Just use your thumb to hit space and command at the same time. I keep my common programs on the dock but honestly it seems easier to just hit Command-Space then type 'F-i-r' then hit enter (actually I think I just have to hit 'F' and Firefox comes up) than it is to move my hand to the trackpad and click on Firefox.
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Mug posted:Okay cool, I understood DMG files are disk images, as that was how it worked back when I have a 13" Core 2 Duo macbook, but now things are a bit different. Launch Pad totally dumbfounded me when I found it, and Mission Control appears to be the new Expose, right? Which for some reason is F3 instead of F9 now. Launchpad is dumb and you shouldn't use it (does anyone here actually use Launchpad?). You can launch applications through Finder, the Dock (if you have them pinned), or spotlight. You can also install a "launcher" such as Alfred that gives you a move convenient interface than spotlight along with some other productivity tools.
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Ok, well I definitely can VPN into my work (I do it via VMWARE Fusion / Windows 7 all the time) using SSLVPN AnyConnect or whatever it's called. I just can't figure out what it wants in the address field for CoRD. They didn't give me any kind of IP or whatever. They gave me some https://sslvpn.blahblah/workathome link. When I run this link from within Windows 7 (in VMWare, mind...)it brings up a login and password prompt in a browser. Then it confirms connection. Then I launch RDC from within Windows 7 and it connects. (just heinously slowly.) [edit] When I try that HTTPS:... /WorkatHome url in the Address field for CoRD, it fails to resolve hostname and also next time I go in there it just says https and everything else in the address field is blank.
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Feenix posted:Ok, well I definitely can VPN into my work (I do it via VMWARE Fusion / Windows 7 all the time) using SSLVPN AnyConnect or whatever it's called. Try visiting that in your browser on the Mac - CoRD wants the IP address of a terminal server, or your desktop, so if you have an SSL VPN setup I don't think you can use it without a special client or information from IT on how to set up the VPN on your Mac. It's probably just using a Java RDP client in your browser, so you'll need Java installed to use it.
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Bob Morales posted:Try visiting that in your browser on the Mac - CoRD wants the IP address of a terminal server, or your desktop, so if you have an SSL VPN setup I don't think you can use it without a special client or information from IT on how to set up the VPN on your Mac. Ok plugging that URL into my Safari browser on iMac got me to the login and now it's trying to connect and downloading a Sun Java thingy. Anyconnect Secure Mobility Client... Is this a good sign? Ok! It's says I'm connected! Now what? If I were in Windows 7 I'd go to RDC in my Start Menu or whatever and launch RDC with my PC name...
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Sounds similar to my work setup. I use the AnyConnect client to first connect to the VPN, then CoRD to connect to my machine. CoRD is really straightforward: open the Servers drawer, click the + sign, and fill in the appropriate data; namely Address (machine), Username, Password, and Domain.
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Star War Sex Parrot posted:Sounds similar to my work setup. I use the AnyConnect client to first connect to the VPN, then CoRD to connect to my machine. CoRD is really straightforward: open the Servers drawer, click the + sign, and fill in the appropriate data; namely Address (machine), Username, Password, and Domain. So I am trying CoRD now... with my machine name in the address, and my username and login. It's not giving me any kind of host name errors or server errors, or any error. It tries for a couple seconds (like 2) and then just stops. Sorry for all the questions... but I feel like I'm so close now! I'm also super jazzed about this. Not only because it will make working from home 2 days a week SO much better, but like EVERY single person in my office has a mac and we all have to jump through this BS virtual machine crap just because IT doesn't care to set us down the right path.... SO CLOSE! Edit: HOLY poo poo I THINK I'm IN. GOD BLESS YOU YOU KINGS OF MEN! Sit tight for a second while I check this poo poo out. Ok... good news and bad news... First the good: I am motherfucking IN! No more need to run VMWARE FUSION THEN WINDOWS THEN RDC BLAH BLAH BLAH! The not so good news is it STILL is doing that horrible horizontal "chunk" drawing whenever that screen refreshes. LIke... as if it was one of those printers from back in the day. So, basically, I am SUPER pumped that I don't need to launch VMWARE Fusion anymore. This is already a win. However, it still runs like utter poop. Maybe it's not my machine? Maybe it's the computer network at work? Weird that no one else has said they experienced similar though. Feenix fucked around with this message at 02:48 on Jul 7, 2012 |
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Feenix posted:The not so good news is it STILL is doing that horrible horizontal "chunk" drawing whenever that screen refreshes. LIke... as if it was one of those printers from back in the day. That's either a slow connection, or you have it configured where your wallpaper doesn't 'hide' when you start a remote connection. Also, is your screen resolution at something reasonable like 1024x768? The less data, the faster it will run.
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Bob Morales posted:That's either a slow connection, or you have it configured where your wallpaper doesn't 'hide' when you start a remote connection. Also, is your screen resolution at something reasonable like 1024x768? The less data, the faster it will run. I have Draw Desktop Background off. I have it set to 1024x768. Still does it. I guess the connection is just rear end. That's too bad. Still...happy for the more direct approach. 
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Bob Morales posted:That's either a slow connection, or you have it configured where your wallpaper doesn't 'hide' when you start a remote connection. Also, is your screen resolution at something reasonable like 1024x768? The less data, the faster it will run.
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