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IceLicker posted:So, I have a Mid 2010 MBP (2.4ghz C2D, 4GB ram) running Snow leopard (10.6.8) and was thinking of making the leap to Mountain Lion but I'm reading mixed things about it mainly regarding battery life and performance on "older" macs. Has anyone else confirmed this to be true? Should I wait for some updates or just jump right in? I've got that model (though I upgraded to 8GB RAM and SSD) and I'm happy with the performance and battery life, myself. As said, 10.8.1 should help when it arrives. I do have to admit it seems like I just got this thing yesterday, I'm not ready to refer to it the way people refer to PowerBooks 
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a bad poster yall posted:As an aside, are there any recommendations for an app that combines last.fm scrobbling with a little notification that popups (in the top right corner or wherever) when a new song starts playing. You might want to check out bowtie: http://bowtieapp.com/
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Bob Morales posted:I hate Excel 2011. Slow, crashes loading big files, ugh. I've been using LibreOffice and while it's not perfect either, it works great. Interesting. I jsut realized I am still using Office 2004, and it is much much better than Numbers with any large document. As in Number will pin the CPU for several minutes at a time from scrolling, and Excel does not even notice the document is open. I guess MS realized that no oen cared about performance and just went for the Numbers eyecandy route for Excel 2011.
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EVERYTHING I SAY ABOUT JAPAN OR LIVING IN JAPAN IS COMPLETELY WRONG, BUT YOU BETTER BELIEVE I'LL 
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Does anyone know how I can go about finding the UUID of my windows drive's system reserved partition so I can edit my fstab to stop it mounting at boot? My Macintosh HD drive shows it in Disk Utility, but it doesn't seem to want to show up for NTFS volumes. Any tips?
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Try this in Terminal: diskutil info /Volumes/volumename
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japtor posted:Try this in Terminal: diskutil info /Volumes/volumename That did it, cheers!
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Is Adium supposed to be unstable on 10.8? Since upgrading, there have been a few isolated incidents when my late 2011 Macbook Pro has just completely frozen up. In all cases, Adium was open, and I wasn't doing much else...
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Montalvo posted:Is Adium supposed to be unstable on 10.8? Since upgrading, there have been a few isolated incidents when my late 2011 Macbook Pro has just completely frozen up. In all cases, Adium was open, and I wasn't doing much else... It's been fine for me, I've not got any custom themes or whatever though.
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I'm not using custom themes either. To be frank I could be barking up the wrong tree entirely; it seems to occur just as I mouse over the Dock to click on an app (it was usually on the Adium icon, but I just had another crash as I moused over the Mail app.) Edit: bingo, it appears to be an issue with the dock and looks like it is happening for others: http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/59445/mountain-lion-sometimes-hangs-when-mouse-enters-dock-pointer-is-movable-but-t To summarise, what myself and others appear to be experiencing is that Mountain Lion occasionally hangs when the user moves their mouse over the dock. The app label comes into view and while the user can still move the mouse (and things like iTunes or flash videos continue to play), the system becomes unresponsive and requires a hard reboot. Montalvo fucked around with this message at 16:25 on Aug 22, 2012 |
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Martytoof posted:10.8 is really nice and all, but as a daily driver I'm not noticing any of the new features. I like it, but I've been having some serious issues with applications randomly crashing under (seemingly) minimal load... this list includes Firefox, Chrome, Droplr, Textual, and TeamViewer... hopefully 10.8.1 might fix a thing or two.
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Did you do an upgrade or a fresh install of ML? I did a fresh install and have no crashing or any issues.
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It was an update for me, since I just started from Lion. I really, really would rather not do a fresh install. 
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I doubt problems like that are worked out with a patch. Just do a fresh install when you have time.
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Mu Zeta posted:I doubt problems like that are worked out with a patch. Just do a fresh install when you have time. I'm a bit dense when it comes to doing fresh installs, but I did back up the Mountain Lion installer app to a USB stick before installing it. If I do a fresh install, can I just plug in my Time Machine and have it pretty much restore my apps and documents, or is it a more involved process?
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Even with 10.8.1 still in developer testing, 10.8.2 is being seeded to select developers. http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/12/08/22/apple_invites_developers_to_begin_testing_os_x_1082.html I wonder if it has some sort of unannounced tie-ins with iOS 6.
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dox posted:I like it, but I've been having some serious issues with applications randomly crashing under (seemingly) minimal load... this list includes Firefox, Chrome, Droplr, Textual, and TeamViewer... hopefully 10.8.1 might fix a thing or two. What hardware are you on?
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Star War Sex Parrot posted:I wonder if it has some sort of unannounced tie-ins with iOS 6. It's probably the one with the Facebook stuff?
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cbirdsong posted:It's probably the one with the Facebook stuff?
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I'm guessing the SDK only contained documentation and checks regarding the public API calls for the FB integration. 10.8.2 may be what allows developers to actually test their apps with FB integration.
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I’m genuinely curious if anyone in this thread has Time Machine working reliably over WiFi with a (Mountain) Lion Server Mac as the backup target. So far Time Machine in ML has trashed my complete backup history from back to September 2010 and now happily saturates my WiFi connection day and night if I let it. My SSD in this machine is 256GB large and time machine wants to back up 385GB of it (and then even more when it closes in on that number)  You should think there is a way to recover all the old backups? Hah, you wish. Do I need to buy a Time Capsule or is Time Machine just that flipping useless over WiFi? Thank god for SuperDuper. eames fucked around with this message at 22:42 on Aug 22, 2012 |
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For both Lion and Mountain Lion, I've never done anything but fresh installs, then used Migration Assistant to bring everything over. Upgrade installs in my anecdotal experience always wind up tripping over themselves as far back as Tiger. Wipe and clean installs have not failed me yet.
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Binary Badger posted:For both Lion and Mountain Lion, I've never done anything but fresh installs, then used Migration Assistant to bring everything over. Upgrade installs in my anecdotal experience always wind up tripping over themselves as far back as Tiger. Wipe and clean installs have not failed me yet. Nthing this. One of the single most problematic issues I deal with daily is users who present with hilariously broken user accounts or OS' They're almost always linked by having done a migration assistant, or a similar. It's worth the extra couple hours it'll take to do things from an erase and install. Always.
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eames posted:I’m genuinely curious if anyone in this thread has Time Machine working reliably over WiFi with a (Mountain) Lion Server Mac as the backup target. I'm using ML server on a 2008 iMac and am using Time Machine over wifi with two MBP's to a FW800 RAID enclosure attached to the iMac. Those MBP's were not backing up before I set up ML server, and I did have to set each one up separately and let them do their initial backup before moving to the next (and it took 2 days each for the initial backup and rendered my home network useless during that time) but now they seem to be working just fine and don't hog my bandwidth. The only problem I ran into was that they wouldn't stay connected if I used the name of the server, only with the IP.
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How do I maximize a window via keyboard commands? *Note that I want to do this because OSX does really stupid things when I switch from monitor to laptop display, such as resizing windows to 10 by 10 pixels. In this particular case the "Window" menu shows it as in the front and foreground, but I can't see it at all so it must be somewhere off screen.
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I use Moom but there's a bunch of others that can do that type of stuff. I think BetterTouchTool can do it too if you want a free app.
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ShadowHawk posted:How do I maximize a window via keyboard commands? It's not Windows-style maximize, but you can always add your own keyboard shortcuts to anything that exists in the menubar:
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Help a dumbass noob out, how do I resize the tabs in Safari so they don't take up the whole screen like this?
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slowdave posted:Help a dumbass noob out, how do I resize the tabs in Safari so they don't take up the whole screen like this? It's a feature. You can fix it by installing chrome.
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Ah ok. I thought that was something that could be adjusted.
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slowdave posted:Ah ok. I thought that was something that could be adjusted. I wish it could. It's a real pain in the rear end closing multiple tabs that aren't the first one due to the fact that the close button moves all over the place.
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Modern Pragmatist posted:I wish it could. It's a real pain in the rear end closing multiple tabs that aren't the first one due to the fact that the close button moves all over the place. Keyboard shortcut!
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Modern Pragmatist posted:I wish it could. It's a real pain in the rear end closing multiple tabs that aren't the first one due to the fact that the close button moves all over the place. Learn CMD + W. It is your best friend. It closes the currently open window or tab. Just note that in 95% of cases, even if you close the last window/tab, it won't close the program itself. That's what CMD+Q is for.
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I'm using Google Calendar online right now but would like a desktop app, if there's a good one out there. My use will be almost exclusively using it for time management for college homework, assignments, club meetings, etc. /Lots/ of days will be filled with "all day" events, until the night before that day when I decide what chunk of 'tomorrow' I'll use to accomplish them. However I don't need a to-do function. Just something where it's easy to have half a dozen unscheduled events in a day, and then drag them into specific blocks of time. Any advice? I have OS X 10.6
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10.8.1 out now.
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gregday posted:10.8.1 out now. Is it still a 34mb update or whatever the developer seed was? Any link to a changelog?
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Winszton posted:I'm using Google Calendar online right now but would like a desktop app, if there's a good one out there. Calendar? Link it to your google Calendar by adding an account.
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Didn't get a chance to save the changelog, but it was a ~35 mb update.
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Martytoof posted:Is it still a 34mb update or whatever the developer seed was? Any link to a changelog? Changelog: - Resolve an issue that may cause Migration Assistant to unexpectedly quit - Improve compatibility when connecting to a Microsoft Exchange server in Mail - Address an issue playing audio through a Thunderbolt display - Resolve an issue that could prevent iMessages from being sent - Address an issue that could cause the system to become unresponsive when using Pinyin input - Resolve an issue when connecting to SMB servers with long names - Address a issue that may prevent Safari from launching when using a Proxy Automatic Configuration (PAC) file - Improve 802.1X authentication with Active Directory credentials. http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5418 Modern Pragmatist fucked around with this message at 16:48 on Aug 23, 2012 |
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Modern Pragmatist posted:Changelog: poo poo, now I'm going to be paranoid Migration Assistant missed some files when I ran it.
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