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brap
Aug 23, 2004

Grimey Drawer

wdarkk posted:

Odds of Apple fixing it ever? I'd say maybe 15%.
uh, I should hope they do for SL. It doesn't make sense to break support for something that important with a point release. Lots of SL users depend on rosetta and its not acceptable to gently caress them just because the next OS is dropping support. Since they never committed in the first place with lion they won't have to care what their updates do to it.

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brap
Aug 23, 2004

Grimey Drawer
Adobe will be the downfall of our society.

brap
Aug 23, 2004

Grimey Drawer
It seems funny to cut the "Mac" from "Mac OS X" while still having the startup disk named "Macintosh HD" by default.

brap
Aug 23, 2004

Grimey Drawer

Tarq posted:

Not sure if this has been pointed out yet, but Parallels (latest version) does not run under Mountain Lion. I had to boot camp into my windows partition to get some work done and now I hate life.

Has anyone gotten VMWare Fusion to work in Mountain Lion?

Maybe you should try not running a developer preview on your main computer that you do work on.

brap
Aug 23, 2004

Grimey Drawer
You need a developer account to get all sorts of necessary resources so it's a bit of a moot point if you need one to sign your code.

brap
Aug 23, 2004

Grimey Drawer
If you think the plan is to make iOS and OS X one and the same, you're not paying attention.

brap
Aug 23, 2004

Grimey Drawer
Honest to gently caress, I'd love to understand what it is about ECC RAM and Xeons that makes people stick to their 5-years-discontinued Mac Pros. I completely fail to understand why you wouldn't get whatever cash for it you can right now and use it toward a new iMac.

brap
Aug 23, 2004

Grimey Drawer

ptier posted:

Most of the time those people have very specific needs and a certain version of a program that may not or cannot update based on some reason or hardware. Once you have the super expensive cards and software and it Just loving Works (tm) you don't really want to do anything to change that unless you shell out for the specific program update and needs OSX 10.X Snow Gopher. And reselling a Mac Pro is not like reselling an MBP. Very small market and most will just buy new when they have the cash.

which pretty well contradicts concerns about support for new OSes.

brap
Aug 23, 2004

Grimey Drawer

Choadmaster posted:

I'd rather not have to go through a menu option and confirmation box every time I start up my browser, and I'd definitely not like to have to re-login to SA and every other site I use every time, either.

No, all Safari needs is a "no history" option like every other bloody browser on the planet.

You need some poo poo that like 1% of users need. To apple that means they can take you or leave you. So use a different browser.

brap
Aug 23, 2004

Grimey Drawer
Don't cry about it.

brap
Aug 23, 2004

Grimey Drawer
Apple didn't give you that choice because it's a bad choice. Heil Tim.

brap
Aug 23, 2004

Grimey Drawer
Also don't forget BetterTouchTool's Aero snap clone features. Drag on a window, bring your cursor to the top of the screen and release to maximize, or drag to the left or right edge to fill up half the screen.

brap
Aug 23, 2004

Grimey Drawer

~Coxy posted:

ControllerMate is the gold standard for more complicated things like this.
Pricey but free trial etc. etc.

Mac Developers In Support of Ron Paul

brap
Aug 23, 2004

Grimey Drawer
Try this:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3964

brap
Aug 23, 2004

Grimey Drawer
I'm surprised BetterTouchTool can't do it.

brap
Aug 23, 2004

Grimey Drawer
For god's sake, if your app is ever on sale in a bundle basically for 87% off, you are charging too much for it. Some of these prices are still in the 90s. I don't get it. It's price posturing for the Mac. Consider two versions of the same application with very nearly the exact same functionality and feature set will cost well over double on a Mac than on iOS. There is no good reason for this.

brap
Aug 23, 2004

Grimey Drawer

coldplay chiptunes posted:

That requires you to use the keyboard. :colbert:
keep it in the dock, use launchpad or don't eat/masturbate while launching applications

brap
Aug 23, 2004

Grimey Drawer
ZFS couldn't take anything away from a design standpoint like a USB port on iPad would.

brap
Aug 23, 2004

Grimey Drawer
It's completely apples and oranges. There are all sorts of storage scenarios where cloud storage makes no sense at all.

brap
Aug 23, 2004

Grimey Drawer
Yeah, with graphics, the first digit typically indicates generation and the second indicates the tier within that generation. So a 9400 is likely to be worse than an 8600. However, hardware manufacturers are notoriously bad at making consistent naming schemes. See Intel's designations on which letters and numbers indicate hyperthreading, number of cores, turbo boost etc.

brap
Aug 23, 2004

Grimey Drawer
Education, dude. If it's some computer lab at a high school they're probably not about to drop on a set of new iMacs.

brap
Aug 23, 2004

Grimey Drawer
you'd probably see some returns through the sale value if you put the memory and an OS on it. Also, if the palm rest has any cracks, I think you can take it to the genius bar and they'll replace the top case for free.

brap
Aug 23, 2004

Grimey Drawer
Take it in, try your luck. I'm pretty sure the recall was based precisely on the material that caused that discoloration.

Also, loving wipe the hair and stains and poo poo off it. jesus.

brap
Aug 23, 2004

Grimey Drawer
They actually say where it was manufactured? Does the app just put "China" in there and not even check anything? Because that would give the same result.

brap
Aug 23, 2004

Grimey Drawer

Zenostein posted:

Oh, excellent! Thanks, now I can view all the porn, and not have to worry about someone sitting behind me in a classroom seeing thumbnails of things one shouldn't be looking at in class!

Now if only Preview would respect the "Don't reopen poo poo I had open when I quit things" option.

:negative: Why, Apple?

Also, I think when I "killall Dock"-ed, it somehow briefly murdered finder/my background. Weird, that.

Closing an app isn't the same thing as closing its windows any more. Enjoy!

brap
Aug 23, 2004

Grimey Drawer
You don't see the difference between supporting Lion clients on SL servers out of the box and supporting OS 8 users on Mountain Lion servers?

brap
Aug 23, 2004

Grimey Drawer
Ok. Here's the extent of the argument that I know people to be making. Apple should do more to improve compatibility and frankly general functioning in their server software. That's pretty much all. Thank you come again.

brap
Aug 23, 2004

Grimey Drawer
I think I'm stuck on SL for the indefinite future. I'd have to pony up several hundred to get Lion-compatible versions of software I need and some of the new versions require you to keep a loving iLok in your USB port whenever you want to use the software. totally shameful.

brap
Aug 23, 2004

Grimey Drawer

End Of Worlds posted:

I had Leopard. I wanted to upgrade to Snow, finally, in preparation for Lion.

To get Lion, I need 10.6.8. Apple doesn't sell above 10.6.3, though, so I updated to that. Now I need to update 10.6.4 so I can update to 10.6.5 so I can update to 10.6.6 so I can update to 10.6.7 so I can update to 10.6.8 so I can loving download Lion when it goddamn comes out.

Is there an easier way to do this?

Is there some reason you can't run software update?

brap
Aug 23, 2004

Grimey Drawer
I'm pretty sure Safari is the most power efficient browser on OS X and it is a good browser so please use it thank you.

brap
Aug 23, 2004

Grimey Drawer

Van Kraken posted:

I have a question about installing Windows 8 on my computer. I have a mid-2009 Macbook Pro, so I can't boot from USB,

Have you tried? This sounds dubious.

brap
Aug 23, 2004

Grimey Drawer

Star War Sex Parrot posted:

Oddly enough, the feature that seems most-overlooked by previews (and Apple doesn't mention it because it seems like admitting a mistake) is the return of proper Expose. There's now a checkbox in Mission Control's preferences that removes window grouping by application and basically shows you every window at once, like Expose used to be.

Why is that useful?

brap
Aug 23, 2004

Grimey Drawer
no, it's free *whilst* in beta.

brap
Aug 23, 2004

Grimey Drawer
It's probably worth it if you are a computer janitor and clone drives every day. It is probably not worth it if you just bought an SSD and want to transfer your poo poo one time.

brap
Aug 23, 2004

Grimey Drawer
Hey, you know what's not good Apple design? A popup asking me to manually sign out and back in again because iTunes Match has encountered an error. I can't see why that isn't done completely transparently and automatically, except that Apple is slipping.

brap
Aug 23, 2004

Grimey Drawer

Bob Morales posted:

Safari 6's web inspector is stuupppid.

Has anyone else started running the nightly build of webkit?

http://nightly.webkit.org

why would people do this if they weren't testers? Seems like a bunch of hassle and potential instability.

brap
Aug 23, 2004

Grimey Drawer

~Coxy posted:

Just pirate 10.8, install it, then buy it.

Anything else is going to be needlessly harder and more expensive.

I have to agree. Apple will do alright even if you don't drop your $20 on it. They are doing swell, and not because of software sales.

brap
Aug 23, 2004

Grimey Drawer
I would just laugh if someone told me they had a separate email for all their accounts with password recovery. But people definitely need to take backing up their data seriously.

brap
Aug 23, 2004

Grimey Drawer
Hahah I'm actually not sure except maybe try disconnecting the computer from the internet?

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brap
Aug 23, 2004

Grimey Drawer
I believe it'll move everything currently on the drive into a folder at the root directory called "Previous System." You'll have to do the legwork of putting files where they belong.

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