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Feenix posted: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. It's just a matter of IT staffs being unfamiliar/too lazy to support OS X users, which stunned me on a large college campus.
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No poo poo. I mean I get why they would go with the more common denominator, but it's like... hey... my whole office has Macs at home! I know others must too in different branches. We're not loving Lepers! Anyway, I am eternally grateful to the both of you! And after fiddling with all the effects and resolutions, it's definitely the network connection or whatever. But I am so thrilled and will be passing all this on to everyone at work. THANKS!
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Jul 7, 2012 03:02
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You may want to go straight to IT and offer the solution to them before you show everyone else, otherwise they're going to start getting help requests for an unsupported configuration and hate OS X users even more. If for some reason they're worried about CoRD, the official Microsoft RDC application should work as well but I don't like its interface nearly as much.
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Jul 7, 2012 03:05
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Star War Sex Parrot posted:You may want to go straight to IT and offer the solution to them before you show everyone else, otherwise they're going to start getting help requests for an unsupported configuration and hate OS X users even more. If for some reason they're worried about CoRD, the official Microsoft RDC application should work as well but I don't like its interface nearly as much. Excellent advice. 
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Jul 7, 2012 03:10
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Star War Sex Parrot posted:It's just a matter of IT staffs being unfamiliar/too lazy to support OS X users, which stunned me on a large college campus. Not to mention "MACS SUCK ONLY STUPID GRANDMAS AND HIPSTERS USE MACS"
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Jul 7, 2012 03:19
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Oneiros posted:Launchpad is dumb and you shouldn't use it (does anyone here actually use Launchpad?). I had this opinion until someone actually demoed Lauchpad for me, and when using gestures, it kicks the poo poo out of the dock and finder for launching apps. E: I was the same way with full screen apps and mission control. I ignored them for almost a year, but once I started using more gestures, I found them indispensable. empty baggie fucked around with this message at 06:28 on Jul 7, 2012 |
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Jul 7, 2012 06:25
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Bob Morales posted:Not to mention "MACS SUCK ONLY STUPID GRANDMAS AND HIPSTERS USE MACS" Oh, have we moved on from 'The Gays'?
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Jul 7, 2012 06:25
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empty baggie posted:I had this opinion until someone actually demoed Lauchpad for me, and when using gestures, it kicks the poo poo out of the dock and finder for launching apps. I use launchpad too but sometimes it feels like I am the only one. It's pretty convenient for launching stuff not on the dock.
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Jul 7, 2012 06:27
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mike- posted:I use launchpad too but sometimes it feels like I am the only one. It's pretty convenient for launching stuff not on the dock. You obviously don't have enough stuff in your dock.
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Jul 7, 2012 06:30
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mike- posted:I use launchpad too but sometimes it feels like I am the only one. It's pretty convenient for launching stuff not on the dock. withak posted:You obviously don't have enough stuff in your dock. It's nice to have a clean dock after years of keeping 20 or 30 apps in it. VVV Well yeah, that's why I didn't mention anything about Spotlight. Compared to the Dock and Finder, Lauchpad wins hands down. empty baggie fucked around with this message at 08:43 on Jul 7, 2012 |
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Jul 7, 2012 06:34
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I mean cmd space and typing the first 2 letters is pretty fast too. I've never used launch pad. I don't even use the dock.
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Jul 7, 2012 07:54
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Alfred's where it's at. Honestly one of my favorite and most-used apps ever. I switched its and Spotlight's hotkeys around for convenience and it's so good. The paid version adds quite a bit of stuff but I haven't dished out for it yet as the free version does everything I need it to do at the moment. And I just found out you can make iTunes play certain tracks with it, too, which is great when iTunes is fullscreened on another desktop.
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Jul 7, 2012 12:39
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Can I disable Spotlight from doing that annoying full-text search? I know I can disable it completely on certain directories. I hate pulling something down in SVN and then having Spotlight index it.
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Jul 7, 2012 15:21
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empty baggie posted:I had this opinion until someone actually demoed Lauchpad for me, and when using gestures, it kicks the poo poo out of the dock and finder for launching apps. I use launchpad when using my laptop directly (ie not docked) because of the gestures. I do think it needs some refinement, however. 
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Jul 7, 2012 16:07
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I have this same crap in my launch pad. Is it possible to delete them?
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Jul 7, 2012 16:11
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None that I know of, it's what I hope is fixed in 10.8.
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Jul 7, 2012 16:34
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That's just Adobe dumping a ton of crap in your Applications folder, I think. I have a few of those that are completely useless as well.
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Jul 7, 2012 17:25
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Bob Morales posted:I'd bump the VM down to an even 1GB. You won't hurt the drive. Just thought I'd respond again and say that this plus what was probably a needed reboot after 50 days, plus my brand new Win7 VM finally finishing all of its background compilation of .NET stuff means that I'm running without trouble at this point, so thanks for the advice. I mean it's not perfect -- it's a 2010 Air and you can only stretch a Core2 chip and 4GB so far -- but at least now I have a few hundred MB of free RAM with all of my usual applications open and I'm not paging so much.
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Jul 7, 2012 17:42
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geonetix posted:That's just Adobe dumping a ton of crap in your Applications folder, I think. I have a few of those that are completely useless as well. That's what I mean, either Adobe needs to figure out an application architecture that doesn't require dumping uninstallers everywhere, or Apple needs to let us choose which applications appear in Launchpad.
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Jul 7, 2012 17:51
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Chimp_On_Stilts posted:I have this same crap in my launch pad. Is it possible to delete them? There's a system preference pane that you can install that can hide them, it works pretty well for me. http://chaosspace.de/launchpad-control/
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Jul 7, 2012 18:15
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Awesome. Thanks!
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Jul 7, 2012 18:57
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Macintosh posted:There's a system preference pane that you can install that can hide them, it works pretty well for me. Holy poo poo this just turned me from a hater into a lover. Seriously. God bless you guys. This thread is like the gift that keeps on giving!
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Jul 7, 2012 19:18
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Star War Sex Parrot posted:
I was surprised to not see GIMP for OS X included in the OP, now that 2.8.0 packages for Mac are out. http://gimp.lisanet.de/Website/News/News.html
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Jul 7, 2012 21:32
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rzeszowianin 44 posted:I was surprised to not see GIMP for OS X included in the OP, now that 2.8.0 packages for Mac are out. That is because the Gimp is a piece of poo poo.
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Jul 7, 2012 22:36
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Anyone know of a similar benchmark (web browser RAM usage) for the Mac versions?
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Jul 7, 2012 23:37
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What is it called when all of my desktop icons change sizes and move around when I bring my macbook pro home from work (at work I've got a dual monitor setup; at home I'm just on the laptop)? Because that's annoying and is the opposite of helpful.
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Jul 8, 2012 00:02
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Bob Morales posted:Anyone know of a similar benchmark (web browser RAM usage) for the Mac versions? Not that I know of, but I can rustle one up jackpot posted:What is it called when all of my desktop icons change sizes and move around when I bring my macbook pro home from work (at work I've got a dual monitor setup; at home I'm just on the laptop)? Because that's annoying and is the opposite of helpful. It's called Finder being a piece of poo poo. Get used to it, my friend 
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My mother brought over her mac today and complained about problems with it - some adobe software was causing problems on startup. After fixing that, she mentioned "mackeeper", some apple 'system cleaner' or whatever the gently caress. Since all of my experience with a computer is on a PC, this set off alarms in my head because it sounded suspiciously like one of the billions of garbage malware scam softwares that you can find everywhere. After doing some research, I haven't made any headway into whether or not I should just remove it or not. She seems to appreciate it even if its a placebo but ultimately I'm more concerned about whether or not it's actually harmful or perhaps part of the cause of her problems when she came to me in the first place. Searching SA gets me a single result about someone complaining about a bad ad on SA that was unrelated to the program itself. Should I remove it or just leave it?
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Verviticus posted:Mackeeper Remove it. Waste of $40.
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Experto Crede posted:It's called Finder being a piece of poo poo. Get used to it, my friend
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Jul 8, 2012 01:08
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What's the best free app to transfer music from iPhone 4S to the Mac? (is that even still possible? I haven't done it in years)
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mistermojo posted:What's the best free app to transfer music from iPhone 4S to the Mac? (is that even still possible? I haven't done it in years) iPhone/iPad/iPod questions go here: http://forums.somethingawful.com/forumdisplay.php?forumid=192
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Jul 8, 2012 02:43
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Do you guys have any recommendations for a program that can read/write onto NTFS file formats? I have this external HDD I want to use.
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Jul 8, 2012 02:48
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Lyer posted:Do you guys have any recommendations for a program that can read/write onto NTFS file formats? I have this external HDD I want to use. http://code.google.com/p/macfuse/ Looks likey they don't support Lion, not sure if that means it doesn't work though.
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Jul 8, 2012 02:52
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What's the best portage software these days? MacPorts, Fink? It's been a while since I got a new Mac and have been using MacPorts forever... anything better out there?
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Jul 8, 2012 03:03
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jt posted:What's the best portage software these days? MacPorts, Fink? It's been a while since I got a new Mac and have been using MacPorts forever... anything better out there? Homebrew because it's simple and runs without needing escalated privileges.
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Jul 8, 2012 03:06
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Tuxera NTFS has been good to me. I've had weird issues in the past (albeit a few years ago now) with Paragon so I can't recommend that one.
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Jul 8, 2012 03:07
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chutwig posted:Homebrew because it's simple and runs without needing escalated privileges. Seconding homebrew. It's also lighter weight because it attempts to use the built-in system versions of libraries when possible rather than compiling an entire parallel ecosystem.
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chutwig posted:Homebrew because it's simple and runs without needing escalated privileges. Thanks. Looks better than MacPorts. More setup questions - Is there any way to get actual terminal emulation with proper ANSI characters in Terminal.app yet, or is using X11 the only way around this? The IRC client I use looks horrible when using Terminal.app.
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Try an alternative Terminal? Maybe iTerm 2? It might fix some unmentioned grievances as well.
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