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Yeah, I'll definitely try that. It's weird because 7 ran absolutely flawlessly (I even was able to game with it) but 10 is struggling hardcore.
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IUG posted:Despite some graphical glitches, this works fine. Thanks! I used to use RipIt, but a few years ago it went long periods without being updated and no longer worked on some newer DVDs at the time with updated copy protection. Around the same time, LittleAppFactory, makers of RipIt, closed their discussion forums and looked like they might be circling the drain (they weren't though). I finally gave up on them and switched to Mac DVDRipper Pro (MDRP) and have been very happy with it. It gets updated frequently for bug fixes and to add new DVDs to its database. MDRP may also have a a couple more features than RipIt does, I'm not sure, but they both do pretty much the same thing. Never had an issue using my credit card with them and never worried about them being trustworthy.
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Quick FileVault questions. When does the recovery key get displayed? When you start the process or when it's finally done? And if you choose the iCloud key storage option, can you change your mind later and generate a new recovery key?
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ibntumart posted:Quick FileVault questions. When does the recovery key get displayed? When you start the process or when it's finally done? If you used iCloud to escrow the private key, it won't display a recovery key. If you change your mind, you need to decrypt and then re-encrypt. The recovery key will be displayed once only before the encryption starts.
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flosofl posted:If you used iButt to escrow the private key, it won't display a recovery key. I think Apple just says that so they don't have to deal with morons loving things up. You can use fdesetup from the command line to manage your keys. You'd need to add your local account, add a personal recovery key, and remove the iCloud account.
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There's not a more elegant way to integrate GPGTools with MS Outlook 16 than Services->PGPServices, right?  I ended up switching from Mail.app/Calendar.app to Outlook because tbh I like it more (and Calendar was having some weirdness with my work Exchange) but I forgot I use GPG quite often to send stuff back and forth to consultants. It's not insurmountable but attaching encrypted files is a pain in the butt now.
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Speaking of morons, I joined the club when switching out an encrypted SSD for a client; turns out when you enable FV2 on a startup device, seems that it locks the logic board into wanting only to boot from that encrypted device. I already transplanted the new SSD with migrated system before decrypting old SSD. Tried zapping PRAM, disconnecting battery for 10 minutes, setting new startup disk in Recovery partition, always got the blinking question mark folder. Holding down option might work for one or two boots but eventually it goes back to only booting from the encrypted device. Be interested if someone came across this before or has any thoughts. Wound up decrypting the original and then selecting new SSD connected via USB enclosure before it'd work properly, this on a 15-inch Late 2013 rMBP running latest Sierra.
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All of a sudden, Quicktime Player's "export to youtube" function doesn't work. Exporting anything, even a video I've successfully exported before, results in a "Cannot Decode The media data could not be decoded. It may be damaged." message.
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A brand loving new OS X Sierra Installation fails to yield a functional way to connect via Apple Remote Desktop without physically walking to the computer, disabling Remote Management, enabling Screen Sharing, disabling screen sharing, and re-enabling Remote Management. gently caress. You. Apple.
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McDeth posted:A brand loving new OS X Sierra Installation fails to yield a functional way to connect via Apple Remote Desktop without physically walking to the computer, disabling Remote Management, enabling Screen Sharing, disabling screen sharing, and re-enabling Remote Management. it's called macOS now
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McDeth posted:A brand loving new OS X Sierra Installation fails to yield a functional way to connect via Apple Remote Desktop without physically walking to the computer, disabling Remote Management, enabling Screen Sharing, disabling screen sharing, and re-enabling Remote Management. e: double post oops!
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As an update to my Parallels problem, the W10 install ended up making GBS threads itself and I somehow didn't have a time machine backup so I just nuked the whole thing and started fresh. It works fine now. I only really use it if I need to look up how to do something in windows when troubleshooting with clients, so it wasn't a big loss.
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What's the current best decompression app? I need to decompress a bunch of 7z and RAR.
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The Unarchiver and keka are still fine, as far as I know. I switched to Entropy because I liked the interface a bit better, but it's all whatever you prefer. Also these are covered in the OP that I'm just gonna delete since no one looks at it.
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Aw I'm sorry dude I read the first post but didn't scroll to the second. My bad... Thanks for the recommendations. I guess I would be happy with something that resembles winRAR. Like basic two plane. I'll try all 3 out.
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IUG posted:I'm trying to backup my DVD collection to ISO, as some of them are starting to have problems playing (I suspect disk rot has taken a few already). I don't want to use Handbrake, since I want to get the menus, special features, etc into Kodi. Googling this brings up either out of date information such as FairMount, or paid programs that I don't trust giving my credit card information to. Is there something that someone can suggest that will let me get that data backed up? This is old, but I did this for 20 DVDs a week or so ago. If you can't use dvdbackup to just pull the folder (which works fine in most media playback software, a simple "dvdbackup -M -i /dev/whatever -o dvd_folder" will work), you can use ddrescue (You might need libdvdcss). OnceIWasAnOstrich fucked around with this message at 00:40 on Apr 29, 2017 |
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Pivo posted:See hurrrr: iFixit is sometimes wrong about Mac laptops, but these are fine. Before anyone asks, I believe it was the 2013 MacBook Pro logic board replacements.
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OnceIWasAnOstrich posted:This is old, but I did this for 20 DVDs a week or so ago. If you can't use dvdbackup to just pull the folder (which works fine in most media playback software, a simple "dvdbackup -M -i /dev/whatever -o dvd_folder" will work), you can use ddrescue (You might need libdvdcss). Thanks. I filled my hard drive just this morning, but will give this a try when I get more space. 12 seasons of the Simpsons... 
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Is there a way to selectively dim windows? It'd be cool to dim my Firefox window with SA dim while keeping Netflix at full brightness.
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How so I stop the macosx from deciding to randomly killing background tray processes. I am running karabiner and it feels it's up to the whim of the mood of the MacBook if it lives or not after an hour or two.
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EVIL Gibson posted:How so I stop the macosx from deciding to randomly killing background tray processes. Uh, that's possibly the process crashing? Is that application compatible with Sierra? macOS shouldn't be closing any process 'on a whim', it's not iOS.
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Pivo posted:Uh, that's possibly the process crashing? Is that application compatible with Sierra? Google: "Karabiner does not work on macOS Sierra at the moment. "
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macOS actually does have an automatic app quit feature. If you want to see it, open Quicktime, close all its document windows, and switch to another app; sooner or later it will silently go away. Iirc from watching a wwdc video a few years ago, it's an optional feature app developers can choose to enable in any app built around the Cocoa document model. If no documents are open in such an app, macOS can safely quit it. Of course in this case karabiner is probably crashing because what developer would enable this in their background services app
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Housh posted:Aw I'm sorry dude I read the first post but didn't scroll to the second. My bad... MacPar Deluxe?
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Smashing Link posted:Google: "Karabiner does not work on macOS Sierra at the moment. " Not on Sierra and now super glad I'm not.
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Smashing Link posted:Google: "Karabiner does not work on macOS Sierra at the moment. " https://github.com/tekezo/Karabiner-Elements/blob/master/README.md
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BobHoward posted:macOS actually does have an automatic app quit feature. If you want to see it, open Quicktime, close all its document windows, and switch to another app; sooner or later it will silently go away. Xcode does this, and I hate it.
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Chris Knight posted:MacPar Deluxe?
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BobHoward posted:macOS actually does have an automatic app quit feature. If you want to see it, open Quicktime, close all its document windows, and switch to another app; sooner or later it will silently go away. Double Punctuation posted:Xcode does this, and I hate it. I almost wish it did actually quit the app, because then it would release it's hold over recently opened files. It's more like a suspend/hibernate feature. Handy in safari, not so great for like, text edit. It annoys me the most in like Preview or Quicktime, because sometimes when it suspends the app, it doesn't release the last file you were looking at, so if you try to delete the file you get an error and then have to reopen the program to quit it properly. That said, I'm pretty sure there's a) a universal off switch for app nap somewhere in system preferences, and b) a per-app setting. Can't remember where the last one is, though.
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How I love it when they add new features that nobody needs or asked for and make the system less stable, presumably to pad the "new features announced at wwdc" count. discoveryd
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Anyone have anything particularly good/bad to say about VMWare Fusion 8.5, especially in terms of how well it's supported W10 after each of its major updates (Anniversary, Creators, etc.)? I've been a long-time Parallels user for running Windows VMs on my Macs, but since 10 they've gone to a very aggressive (yearly) release schedule with each new version being a full paid upgrade, and support for previous versions have become downright terrible. This combined with the license being per machine rather than per user has driven me to ponder switching to VMWare Fusion, which at least has a much better license (unlimited number of machines for personal use). However, there was a lot of talk about them laying off a large number of people last year and the future of VMWare Fusion being in doubt. That they did a version 8.5 rather than expected 9 would indicate there might be something to it, so I'm a little reluctant to switch if I end up having to find yet another option a year or two down the road.
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I switched from Parallels and Fusion to Veertu. So far it's good for my uses. Give it a shot to see if it's good enough for your uses -- no reason not to since it's free.
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wdarkk posted:There's no way to use Veertu with a boot camp disk, is there?
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Star War Sex Parrot posted:I switched from Parallels and Fusion to Veertu. So far it's good for my uses. Give it a shot to see if it's good enough for your uses -- no reason not to since it's free. Oh, I actually hadn't heard of this until now. Their website isn't terribly clear on exactly what it supports though, and a (possibly outdated) review says you need to pay for the $40 premium edition to support Windows? I guess I'll have to make some time to poke at it. Does it support importing of VMs from Parallels? That's really a must-have feature - I'd much rather pay some money than deal with completely re-setting up my VMs.
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GokieKS posted:Oh, I actually hadn't heard of this until now. Their website isn't terribly clear on exactly what it supports though, and a (possibly outdated) review says you need to pay for the $40 premium edition to support Windows? It might not be worth investing time into for production work, but for someone like me who occasionally needs to spin up a VM, it's fine and beats paying for Parallels annually. With regard to your original question, I wouldn't invest in Fusion at this point. All signs point to that dying on the vine.
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Yeah, I'm using Veertu on my MBA for occasional Windows use because it feels "lighter" than VMware Fusion and doesn't require external daemons or kexts, as SWSP mentioned. Works really well even with VMs stored on a slow internal "nifty drive" microSD.
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Star War Sex Parrot posted:Most early information about Veertu is now wrong. They're still trying to figure out how to monetize, but Veertu is now free as best as I can tell. They announced a related product last week for developers, but it doesn't relate to my uses. Veertu is basically just a front end for Apple's own Hypervisor.Framework for native VM support. Ah, OK. Have you gone through a major W10 update on a VM in Veertu? That was one of the issues I had with Parallels, as major updates (e.g. Anniversary Update) would cause problems, and they were not fixed in a terribly brisk manner on the older versions.
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GokieKS posted:Have you gone through a major W10 update on a VM in Veertu?
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Star War Sex Parrot posted:I switched from Parallels and Fusion to Veertu. So far it's good for my uses. Give it a shot to see if it's good enough for your uses -- no reason not to since it's free.
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