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Upgraded from ML with one issue. Calendar will no longer show my subscribed google (sports) calendars, which really ruins its usefulness. I've tried removing my google account, deleting Library\Calendar with no success. Any ideas?
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Star War Sex Parrot posted:Only if your IT department requires it, otherwise no. I believe Java remains the biggest exploit opportunity on OS X, especially now that Flash is sandboxed in Safari 7. I don't have Java installed on my Macs, but if you need to use it just be sure to double-check any time something Java related wants to interact with you. That reminds me that I'm infuriated by Adobe CS5 requiring Java.
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Oct 24, 2013 18:25
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I'm still fighting the lack of subscribed google sports calendar updates in Calendar.app. They show up in the left pane but just will not show on the calendar. I've tried them as delegates, set them to sync to mobile devices in google's settings, deleted all the calendar config stuff, but I'm out of ideas. This worked in ML too. 
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Oct 28, 2013 17:27
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jeeves posted:Macports for 10.9 is out now if anyone still uses that. I'm forced to for work, so hooray I can now start the mindboggingly terrible task of updating a bunch of ancient unix-based scientific software for my clients! It still has the most up-to-date implementation of Pidgin that I can find.
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Oct 28, 2013 18:14
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duck monster posted:Why not just use adium? IRC, mainly. I use Adium for everything else, but pidgin +no_x11 +quartz is quite nice these days.
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Oct 28, 2013 22:33
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My subscribed google sports calendars magically appeared in Calendar after a week. I have no idea what fixed it but I'm glad it did! 
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Nov 4, 2013 17:11
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Van Dis posted:Logitech informs me that my particular mouse (M325) isn't supported in OSX, which is why the Logitech Control Center can't configure it. Any recommendations for a non-mighty mouse with two buttons, a scroll wheel that can tilt, and is compatible on OSX? Steermouse can probably configure your existing one.
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Dec 5, 2013 00:55
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Does textual save chatlogs, preferably in nice HTML format? I use pidgin for this right now, and keep the logs for an RPG I play.
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Jul 21, 2014 16:35
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tonic posted:Has anyone completely ditched Flash on their Mac? Any regrets? CPU usage is killing me in Yosemite, I think it's time. Chrome's built-in flash is why I'll only use that browser, at least until flash dies the horrible death it deserves.
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Aug 1, 2014 17:18
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cbirdsong posted:It's almost as though the people who write ad blockers might be short sighted individuals unable to imagine the consequences of their actions on the larger whole. Or they might be actual amateurs providing a valuable service to the public. The internet isn't usable without an ad blocker, and it's getting worse again with the drat CSS-based popovers. Anyone know a good way to be rid of those?
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Aug 8, 2014 20:38
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Pivo posted:You can't really block the CSS popovers because a lot of sites legitimately use them for modals (my company's site sure as hell does). You say, OK only if the style change is triggered by JS that is triggered by a user action - but no, we display popovers when you load the page (like welcome guides and stuff) I don't even care about legitimate uses for them, since none of the sites I use employ such obnoxious crap. I just want them gone. edit: Sites used to use popups for legitimate uses as well, but stopped when everyone started blocking them. Luceo fucked around with this message at 22:21 on Aug 8, 2014 |
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Aug 8, 2014 22:17
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Pivo posted:It's not obnoxious, we use them to guide people around the user interface, or to notify people of certain things like "hey, your credentials / API key expired!". I'm sure it's not obnoxious on your company's website, to you. It's obnoxious to me, everywhere else. Anyway, this isn't the place to argue about how annoying they are. I was just looking for a browser extension that can kill them, no matter how useful/obnoxious they might be.
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Aug 8, 2014 22:22
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Bamabalacha posted:If I want to keep listening to whatever I had playing when I get home, I just turn on my TV and hit the AirPlay button when I connect the phone to the dock or charger. Granted, you need an AppleTV for that. I want the ability to airplay to an iOS device without having to use third party software. I have my iPod touch sitting on a Bose sounddock and to use it as a speaker, I have to install Airfoil. That's poo poo and I know Apple's restricting this usage intentionally.
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Aug 11, 2014 17:19
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Bamabalacha posted:Wait, what? If I plug any device into my dock, it comes out of the speakers on the dock automatically. That's been the case with every iOS device and dock I've had going back 6 years. Unless you're talking about streaming from another device to the iPod, but I don't know why you'd do that? That's exactly what I'm talking about. It's useful to send music from my Mac to the iPod which may be in another room, or outside by the pool, or whatever, I personally think this use case is quite obvious.
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Aug 11, 2014 21:53
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ZShakespeare posted:Clearly what you are supposed to do is buy a bunch of airplay speakers or airport expresses to airplay to. Exactly why I'm pretty sure Apple is intentionally hobbling the functionality.
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Aug 12, 2014 01:17
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Chrome has flash built-in while Safari does not. One less thing to install and keep updated. Also, I game all the time in boot camped Win7 on my 2012 MBP and it's perfectly fine.
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Aug 29, 2014 20:08
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Whirlwind Jones posted:Why are you posting positives for Safari while trying to support Chrome? This would be funny if I didn't still come across flash on a regular basis. Safari's a wonderful browser, but gently caress having to install flash and keep it updated when Google will do it for me and patch any vulnerabilities before Adobe even knows they exist.
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Aug 29, 2014 21:47
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Pivo posted:My 17" MBP isn't retina. I'm the one guy in the thread saying gently caress the retinas because they don't have swappable drives or RAM, but eeeeveryone loves them so I guess I'm wrong. I'm actually the same way. Still on my 2012 non-Retina 15" MBP and don't see an upgrade for me this year. Sucks, too, since I like selling them with a year of applecare left.
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Aug 31, 2014 00:51
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Star War Sex Parrot posted:I'm still amazed that Dashboard didn't get axed, especially now that Notification Center supports widgets. Maybe next year. I still use it, but haven't upgraded to Yosemite yet. It's got weather for several cities, stocks, my calendar, and local movie theaters all at a glance. Why get rid of it?
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Oct 18, 2014 23:23
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Any consensus on clean installing vs. upgrading? I usually clean install out of OCD, but I'm not sure if I can be arsed this time around. I can't even remember if I upgraded to Mavericks or not.
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Oct 20, 2014 17:42
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Star War Sex Parrot posted:Textual 5 is out. It's a new purchase, but I'm okay with that. It was the first app I purchased when the Mac App Store first went up, and I'll support the devs for $5 more. Can Textual log chats in html format? I host an online RPG and having nice transcripts is keeping me on pidgin for IRC.
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Oct 22, 2014 05:19
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vtlock posted:Right click on the app, choose "show package contents," open the resources folder, and then swap the mac-normal and mac-normal-inverse icons. Huh, so that's what that gap was in my menu bar.  Still, the icon doesn't seem to do anything anymore when you click on it. In Mavericks it had a dropdown menu.
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Oct 23, 2014 17:20
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Snapchat A Titty posted:It just popped up like 3 times randomly and I have no idea what process is doing it. The only non-Apple thing in my menu bar is dropbox. Adobe CS5 and 6 require it, much to my annoyance.  gently caress people, ditch Java already!
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Oct 24, 2014 16:22
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Windows 8.1 is fine now, just like Vista was fine after a service pack or two, but it will always be thought of as poo poo because that's how it started and an OS will never shake that label. That said, I still use 7 on my boot camp partition, because I'm too lazy to bother upgrading it when I only boot it now and then to play Skyrim. Also, why pay the upgrade cost when 7 is good enough to do that? I'll probably jump to 10 like most people still using 7.
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Jan 7, 2015 17:41
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Last Chance posted:"Win 8.1 is just fine guys. No I would not buy it though, why do you ask?" Way to miss the point. I would not buy it at the current price and then spend the effort upgrading a partition I boot just for Skyrim, when 7 does that job without issue. That doesn't mean that 8.1 isn't perfectly fine, because it is.
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Jan 7, 2015 18:21
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I've been using macports for years but it's apparently turned into satan or something while I wasn't looking. I've yet to bother to switch. 
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Jul 8, 2015 01:46
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I just use Filezilla for free and it is good.
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Aug 9, 2015 03:25
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Last Chance posted:Filezilla is terrible OK I'll stop using it despite the fact that it connects to FTP servers and transfer files to and from them without a hitch
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Aug 10, 2015 20:41
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Is there an app that'll tell me what Time Machine thinks it needs to backup? I'm beginning to wonder if there's some stupid cache I need to exclude, because I'll see it wanting to back up a new 700mb chunk when I know that all I've done lately is browse the forums. This wouldn't be an issue except for when TM loves to sometimes upload to the NAS slower than a 56k modem.
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Aug 12, 2015 16:37
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flosofl posted:As far as I know, TM will back up everything local except for files that are rebuilt on a reboot. So that includes system work files, caches, logs, etc... I already exclude my VMs, but this oh hey 700 more megs! poo poo when I haven't even touched my computer since the last backup is getting old.
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Aug 12, 2015 23:27
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TACD posted:Can you do a diff on two backup folders that you think should be identical and see what's changed? I hadn't considered that since the TM folders are knot of hard links. I'll see if that works.
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Aug 13, 2015 00:39
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Luceo posted:I hadn't considered that since the TM folders are knot of hard links. I'll see if that works. As an update, I found a tool called Backup Loupe: http://www.soma-zone.com/BackupLoupe/ This lets you browse each backup to see what was included. I've discovered that ~/Library/Application Support/Google is an excellent thing to exclude. Also, the loving Curse Client has a 180MB log file. 
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Aug 13, 2015 17:54
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robodex posted:Didn't they basically kill the Curse client because they gave up on getting it to work properly? It still works, at least for WoW. Not like there's a choice in the matter other than manually updating addons. I hear they're trying again for a Mac version with the new v5 client.
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Aug 13, 2015 19:26
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Three-Phase posted:No, 10.10.5... and I really don't have any complaints about Yosemite. I want the longer double flash on selecting a menu item back.
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Aug 25, 2015 23:50
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Is there a Twitter client for OSX that does these things: 1) not play animated gifs/whatever automatically (gently caress you, Tweetdeck) 2) allows for filtering/muting 3) previews quoted tweets automatically (this I like about Tweetdeck) 4) works well in a single column view (Tweetdeck is abysmal at this)
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Oct 5, 2015 22:36
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Zenostein posted:Echofon, being ancient (on the desktop, at least) I tried that one and #3 was the stickler. So close! Do either of the big paid apps do these things?
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Oct 6, 2015 01:31
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chuck2020 posted:I come to sing the praises of Tweetbot! It's not the cheapest app in the world, but it looks slick, works great, and syncs across all of my devices. I've loved that app since day one. Froist posted:Yeah, Tweetbot does everything you're looking for here. It's not free/cheap, but the cross-device syncing is great. Bought it based on your recommendations and it does everything I'm looking for. Thanks! 
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Oct 6, 2015 16:16
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Guinness posted:Is there an easy way to get El Capitan to stop resetting the permissions on /usr/local/bin and /usr/local/share, without permanently turning off System Integrity Protection? I've not run into any issues with homebrew on El Cap. I just checked and those folders are owned by me in the admin group.
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Nov 9, 2015 21:53
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I did do a clean install, FWIW. After 3 years I figured it was time.
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Nov 9, 2015 21:55
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3-lb sledgehammer fixes all your spinny-drive disposal problems. I mean, yeah, so does zeroing out the drive, but the sledgehammer is more fun.
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Dec 18, 2015 21:26
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