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Mr. Clark2: Sep 17, 2003; Rocco sez: Oh man, what a bummer. Woof.

Binary Badger posted:

BTW, that particular laptop can run OS X 10.6.8, Snow Leopard.. ah but it costs $30 to order it from Apple, or $29 from Amazon. You said you didn't want to spend any money, so maybe beg around for someone with a Snow Leopard retail installer?

So, a quick update...I managed to get the disc out of the drive and it's a 10.6.7 install disc. I can boot from it but it refuses to install, just giving a generic "This cant be installed on this computer" ( I'm paraphrasing the error) type of error, nothing really specific.

# ? Sep 22, 2015 20:50

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# ? May 9, 2024 00:30

Djarum: Apr 1, 2004; by vyelkin

flosofl posted:

I thought someone said earlier it was because it takes so drat long to download it in China that people go looking for local sources.

I believe that is the case. Also I think some people develop software who do no have a Apple Developer account.

# ? Sep 22, 2015 20:51

Proteus Jones: Feb 28, 2013

Mr. Clark2 posted:

So, a quick update...I managed to get the disc out of the drive and it's a 10.6.7 install disc. I can boot from it but it refuses to install, just giving a generic "This cant be installed on this computer" ( I'm paraphrasing the error) type of error, nothing really specific.

It's probably an install disk for a mini or a iMac or even a different model of MacBook sometimes.

They used to bundle them that way. When you bought the laptop, the bundled disks would only work on laptops (sometimes only that model). It's usually labeled as such.

The full retail disk was the only one that could install on everything.

# ? Sep 22, 2015 20:56

Last Chance: Dec 31, 2004

Mr. Clark2 posted:

So, a quick update...I managed to get the disc out of the drive and it's a 10.6.7 install disc. I can boot from it but it refuses to install, just giving a generic "This cant be installed on this computer" ( I'm paraphrasing the error) type of error, nothing really specific.

If I recall correctly, some OS X install discs came with certain models of Macs and weren't compatible with all models as a generic install disc. That disc might be from an iMac or something and the previous owner of the Macbook tried using it and gave up.

You probably need a generic Snow Leopard disc. I would just pirate it and put it on a thumbdrive or something.

edit: beaten grr

# ? Sep 22, 2015 20:57

Binary Badger: Oct 11, 2005; Trolling Link for a decade

Mr. Clark2 posted:

So, a quick update...I managed to get the disc out of the drive and it's a 10.6.7 install disc. I can boot from it but it refuses to install, just giving a generic "This cant be installed on this computer" ( I'm paraphrasing the error) type of error, nothing really specific.

Just remember, the full retail Snow Leopard installer was OS X 10.6.3. Usually, as soon as you installed this and got on a network, Software Update would report that it could download a combo update to 10.6.8, which is what you want to do.

Be advised that it'll never be able to be upgraded past 2 GB of RAM, its memory controller won't recognize any more than that.

# ? Sep 23, 2015 01:18

Mr. Clark2: Sep 17, 2003; Rocco sez: Oh man, what a bummer. Woof.

Thanks everyone. My wife has a friend that works at an Apple store so I'm going to check with her to see if she can get a disc from one of their genius bar people.

# ? Sep 23, 2015 21:22

wdarkk: Oct 26, 2007; Friends: Protected
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For some reason the "bless tool" is unable to set my boot camp disk to be my boot disk, according to the error message I get in the startup disk control panel. I can still use the bootcamp disk by holding alt, but should I be worried about this?

# ? Sep 23, 2015 22:07

NeuralSpark: Apr 16, 2004

wdarkk posted:

For some reason the "bless tool" is unable to set my boot camp disk to be my boot disk, according to the error message I get in the startup disk control panel. I can still use the bootcamp disk by holding alt, but should I be worried about this?

Are you running 10.11?

# ? Sep 23, 2015 22:10

wdarkk: Oct 26, 2007; Friends: Protected
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NeuralSpark posted:

Are you running 10.11?

No.

# ? Sep 24, 2015 01:45

binarysmurf: Aug 18, 2012; I smurf, therefore I am.

wdarkk posted:

For some reason the "bless tool" is unable to set my boot camp disk to be my boot disk, according to the error message I get in the startup disk control panel. I can still use the bootcamp disk by holding alt, but should I be worried about this?

Here's what I'm using within Alfred 2 to boot into Windows

code:

do shell script "bless -mount /Volumes/Windows -legacy -setBoot" password "OMGWTFBBQ!" with administrator privileges
do shell script "shutdown -r now" password "OMGWTFBBQ!" with administrator privileges

Note the '-legacy' switch, and the fact that my Bootcamp volume name has no spaces in it.

Edit: This doesn't actually help you much, and I may in fact be an idiot.

binarysmurf fucked around with this message at 07:30 on Sep 24, 2015

# ? Sep 24, 2015 07:27

jackpot: Aug 31, 2004; First cousin to the Black Rabbit himself. Such was Woundwort's monument...and perhaps it would not have displeased him.<

I want to use Finder to search inside a folder to find all filenames that contain 2015 and that end with the extension .ai. Can I?

# ? Sep 25, 2015 20:04

Depressing Box: Jun 27, 2010; Half-price sideshow.

jackpot posted:

I want to use Finder to search inside a folder to find all filenames that contain 2015 and that end with the extension .ai. Can I?

Start typing "ai" or "Illustrator" and select Kinds > Adobe Illustrator Document, then start typing "2015" and select "Name matches: 2015".

Depressing Box fucked around with this message at 20:13 on Sep 25, 2015

# ? Sep 25, 2015 20:07

some bust on that guy: Jan 21, 2006; This avatar was paid for by the Silent Majority.

Anyone know what's the best (or have a favorite) Mac program to use to convert a MOV file to a MP4?

Most of the time, the MP4 turns out to be darker and look washed out. It's like that using Handbrake, Final Cut Pro, Converter, and Sorenson Squeeze. It appears to be a common issue. http://larryjordan.com/articles/compressor-x264-improve-video/

Only on Aimersoft for some reason does it not change the brightness and colors at all, but even on the highest setting it's a little blurry. The quality is still lovely.

# ? Sep 29, 2015 22:48

Tippis: Mar 21, 2008; It's yet another day in the wasteland.

Super Ninja Fish posted:

Anyone know what's the best (or have a favorite) Mac program to use to convert a MOV file to a MP4?

Most of the time, the MP4 turns out to be darker and look washed out. It's like that using Handbrake, Final Cut Pro, Converter, and Sorenson Squeeze. It appears to be a common issue. http://larryjordan.com/articles/compressor-x264-improve-video/

Only on Aimersoft for some reason does it not change the brightness and colors at all, but even on the highest setting it's a little blurry. The quality is still lovely.

Depends on what's in the MOV file. If it's just your standard MP4 stream, almost anything that lets you get at the different media components will let you extract them rather than go through a regular conversion process � hell, I think even QuickTime has a pass-through save option these days.

# ? Sep 29, 2015 23:21

SaintFu: Aug 27, 2006; Where's your god now?

Super Ninja Fish posted:

Anyone know what's the best (or have a favorite) Mac program to use to convert a MOV file to a MP4?

Most of the time, the MP4 turns out to be darker and look washed out. It's like that using Handbrake, Final Cut Pro, Converter, and Sorenson Squeeze. It appears to be a common issue. http://larryjordan.com/articles/compressor-x264-improve-video/

Only on Aimersoft for some reason does it not change the brightness and colors at all, but even on the highest setting it's a little blurry. The quality is still lovely.

If the video is H.264, you can use Subler to move it to a m4v/mp4 file without reencoding. If not, you could try ffmpeg.

# ? Sep 29, 2015 23:21

kiwid: Sep 30, 2013

Is there a way to completely disable mouse acceleration and mouse scroll inertia but leave the trackpad settings intact?

# ? Sep 30, 2015 02:21

BitesizedNike: Mar 29, 2008; .flac

kiwid posted:

Is there a way to completely disable mouse acceleration and mouse scroll inertia but leave the trackpad settings intact?

I use Smoothmouse for exactly this.

# ? Sep 30, 2015 02:26

kiwid: Sep 30, 2013

Slowhanded posted:

I use Smoothmouse for exactly this.

Ah great, it's working for acceleration, however, scroll inertia is still there. Anything else you recommend?

# ? Sep 30, 2015 02:35

Star War Sex Parrot: Oct 2, 2003

Friendly reminder to do your backups tonight with El Capitan releasing tomorrow.

# ? Sep 30, 2015 02:46

some bust on that guy: Jan 21, 2006; This avatar was paid for by the Silent Majority.

SaintFu posted:

If the video is H.264, you can use Subler to move it to a m4v/mp4 file without reencoding. If not, you could try ffmpeg.

It is H.264. Sublet works for getting video. But it leaves the audio alone. It says "Sound track PCM has not been muxed." Is that normal? What do I do for the audio?

# ? Sep 30, 2015 03:15

SaintFu: Aug 27, 2006; Where's your god now?

Super Ninja Fish posted:

It is H.264. Sublet works for getting video. But it leaves the audio alone. It says "Sound track PCM has not been muxed." Is that normal? What do I do for the audio?

I�ve not seen that before, myself. What format is the audio?

One thing to try (if you haven�t already):
Open Subler
File>New
File> Import>File�
Navigate to the file you�re trying to convert. Subler will then list the tracks in the source file and options for handling them (passthrough, convert to AAC, etc.)

Subler also has an update just today, so that�s something as well.

Good luck.

# ? Sep 30, 2015 03:46

BitesizedNike: Mar 29, 2008; .flac

e: whoops, wrong

# ? Sep 30, 2015 05:03

Rekka: Feb 1, 2004; oh god, it's.... THE DOOOO!

Is there a way to easily go from GM to the final release today? I know its technically the final release but I have a feeling being under the GM (and beta) track will just get me beta updates...

# ? Sep 30, 2015 12:04

Binary Badger: Oct 11, 2005; Trolling Link for a decade

Supposedly just run today's release over the GM candidate and it should be fine.

Note that nobody can confirm this until the Final Golden Pristine Supercalifragilistic Uh Uh We're Not Changing It Until 10.11.1 Version gets released.

I'm refreshing App Store like nobody's business and aint poo poo happening.

# ? Sep 30, 2015 16:34

GokieKS: Dec 15, 2012; Mostly Harmless.

Binary Badger posted:

I'm refreshing App Store like nobody's business and aint poo poo happening.

I've seen the 6PM UTC mentioned as when it's going up, though no idea where it came from.

# ? Sep 30, 2015 16:57

Star War Sex Parrot: Oct 2, 2003

Rekka posted:

I know its technically the final release

It's really not. There's a very good chance that we get a new build number today.

# ? Sep 30, 2015 17:06

enojy: Sep 11, 2001; bass rattle
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GokieKS posted:

I've seen the 6PM UTC mentioned as when it's going up, though no idea where it came from.

Yea, that's what I'm expecting. Apple's OS updates always seem to come down the tube around that time.

# ? Sep 30, 2015 17:21

Star War Sex Parrot: Oct 2, 2003

enojy posted:

Yea, that's what I'm expecting. Apple's OS updates always seem to come down the tube around that time.

We don't actually have good recent precedents for that. Yosemite was released after the October media event last year around 2PM Pacific. Before that I believe they were releasing following their earnings call -- again in the afternoon. iOS releases are usually in the AM though.

Basically who knows.

edit: Sure enough, 10AM Pacific rolls around and Apple trolls us with an iOS update.

Star War Sex Parrot fucked around with this message at 18:13 on Sep 30, 2015

# ? Sep 30, 2015 17:28

Thauros: Jan 29, 2003

I'm still on Mavericks (plan on updating to El Capitan though) and I was pleasantly surprised to see that they're letting me download Safari 9 when 8 was exclusive to Yosemite.

# ? Sep 30, 2015 18:39

Binary Badger: Oct 11, 2005; Trolling Link for a decade

IT'S UP!!! :siren:

Binary Badger fucked around with this message at 18:48 on Sep 30, 2015

# ? Sep 30, 2015 18:45

Kreeblah: May 17, 2004; INSERT QUACK TO CONTINUE; Taco Defender

Binary Badger posted:

IT'S UP!!!

Huh. I must have checked just when it went up. Here's hoping it doesn't blow up my workstation.

# ? Sep 30, 2015 18:48

Star War Sex Parrot: Oct 2, 2003

Early reports are that it's 15A284, so GM Candidate users need to reinstall (unless Apple pushes some sort of delta, not likely).

# ? Sep 30, 2015 18:50

Thauros: Jan 29, 2003

awesome. I'm not upgrading for at least a few days until I read about potential real world issues with it, but I'm glad it's out there so those reports can start coming in.

EditL I'm not getting a big message under App Updates asking me to upgrade like I did with Yosemite, it's just blank there now. I can access the page in the store just fine though.

# ? Sep 30, 2015 18:51

Star War Sex Parrot: Oct 2, 2003

Thauros posted:

awesome. I'm not upgrading for at least a few days until I read about potential real world issues with it, but I'm glad it's out there so those reports can start coming in.

I mean it was in public beta all summer, so many "real world" issues were found already.

# ? Sep 30, 2015 18:52

Bob Morales: Aug 18, 2006; ~~Just wear the fucking mask, Bob~~

I don't care how many people I probably infected with COVID-19 while refusing to wear a mask, my comfort is far more important than the health and safety of everyone around me!