I HATE APPLE

hey they fixed the itunes screensaver

duh I can't believe I needed Ned to make me think of just buying an external DVD-R instead of dealing with Apple Store bullshit. cristian vogel can just sit in my iMac forever, see if I care.

ok the menubar time machine icon is rad. I can hit alt+click "browse other disks" to restore from other attached volumes

10.5.2 finally fixed the maddening MacBook loses WiFi connection bug that has been driving me up the wall for almost a year. At least so far it has...

L-Tom, there's a way to get stuck discs out of even iMac drives. I used a dental tool last time I did this, but you can probably use a paperclip.

God the wifi instability was annoying

lc, yeah, I know, I was using a credit card to some success but this one was being a bitch so I just left it in. external drive is in the mail for probably a lot less than the 1 hours' worth of "Genius" labor

Meanwhile, my WiFi is shitting itself right now after a few days at full 130 mb/s speed. I think some people have gear that hop channels a lot.

Poor Vogel.

i kinda wanna crack people's networks just so i can brick their routers to cut down on interference.

http://www.smh.com.au/ffximage/2005/02/21/jamiejennedy_narrowweb__200x413.jpg

Don't be hatin'

hey- may finally update to Leo soon, though I'm worried about some conflicts with adobe CD3. But as far as time machine goes...I have two internal drives, stock 160gig and 500gig I installed. Can I back them both up to an external 1TB with Time Machine real easy or will it only want to back up one?

I'm pretty sure it will work aok.

seriously though how funny is it that the cristian vogel album I'm talking about that's stuck in there is "All Music Has Come To An End"

Took my laptop to the Genius Bar last night - I think they may have managed to fix the keychain error, but in turn have introduced me to what googling suggests is an "obscure bug" related to security certificates for email. Oh well.

Does 10.5.2 seem to be sorting out people's problems with Leopard? I've just discovered that our educational store sells it for $69, so I'm wondering if it might be upgrade time...

Oh, and is it true that Quicksilver is essentially broken in Leopard? If so, do people miss it? I guess that Spotlight is now a half-decent application launcher - is there an easy replacement for Quicksilver's ability to set up keyboard shortcuts? And what about emailing a file with a few keystrokes - is that easy in some non-Quicksilver way?

duh I can't believe I needed Ned to make me think of just buying an external DVD-R instead of dealing with Apple Store bullshit.

Hey, anything to help! Christian V. can be your computer's mascot or something.

any experiences running leopard on powerpc machines?

@antextit:

MATSHITA DVD-R UJ-857E:

Firmware Revision: ZA0E
Interconnect: ATAPI
Burn Support: Yes (Apple Shipping Drive)
DVD-Write: -R, -R DL, -RW, +R, +R DL, +RW

Emphasis added - shows DL support. And I'd be surprised if Leopard made an Apple shipping drive need updating (that didn't come with a simple apple updater).

as an intel mac user - try http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=303319 and run any SMC firmware updaters you can find too.

sorry - not a real sugegstion as such. best of luck. also try googling "Firmware Revision: ZA0E" to see what you find

PS i find most burning issues come down to duff media bought on the cheap.

once i finally get a new computer (in a couple of years i guess) i sort of have a hankerin to format my powerbook and install OS9 on it just to see it really blaze

toby: I use QuicKeys. It's not free, and it's not as flexible as Quicksilver, but it does an awful lot and it's about 1000000x more stable than QS.

TH: Yes. No problems on G5.

toby: I use QuicKeys. It's not free

$80?!

no quicksilver? i'll never upgrade

QK is worth maybe $35, yea. Definitely overpriced.

I've all but ditched Quicksilver in Leopard because Spotlight is zoomy but, as you say Toby, Quicksilver has a lot more power when trying to manipulate files quickly.

The only time I have used Quicksilver in Leopard for any amount of time, actually, was last night when I booted it up to install the Leopard-style bezel that's just been released by someone or other. Nice but I'll stick with Spotlight, I think.

10.5.2 finally fixed the maddening MacBook loses WiFi connection bug that has been driving me up the wall for almost a year. At least so far it has...

Fixed it for me too...The having to reset the wifi connection was really annoying

I was just looking at this hilariously out of date mac site:

http://www.essentialmac.com/index.html

and it reminded me of something. Am I the only one here who misses windowshade? There's some shareware that brings it back, right?

there is but it doesn't work (yet) in leopard:

http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/12243

I've all but ditched Quicksilver in Leopard because Spotlight is zoomy but, as you say Toby, Quicksilver has a lot more power when trying to manipulate files quickly.

The only time I have used Quicksilver in Leopard for any amount of time, actually, was last night when I booted it up to install the Leopard-style bezel that's just been released by someone or other. Nice but I'll stick with Spotlight, I think.

Quicksilver is dead. You can't really trust it to do any of the things that make it stand out from an application launcher (the stuff that elevates operating your computer to the level of Grammar and does away with infantile, crufty concepts like "windows" and "dialog boxes" and "applications" and "mice") and the developer has chosen to take an infuriating/amateurish/bushleague approach to software that could make him a lot of money and make a lot of people happy. He has, iirc, promised that it will become open source, but I don't think it's happened.

He's also been able to control what people say about QS, and the extent to which they are able to agitate for its development, by randomly shutting off the QS forum, delivering cryptic or glib postings, etc.

Fuck it.

^^^this

I dl'd windowshade, it's decent, I like the little minimize here thing, that's cool, but it doesn't have my favorite which was the ability to command double click and windowshade all the windows. I guess thats no different then the third expose option, but still...

I don't know if it was 10.5.1 or 10.5.2, but I'm immensely happy that the Finder will now offset desktop items to the left if you position the dock on the right. Before, the dock would just overlap icons, names, etc.

Current biggest annoyance with Spaces: Windows are sometimes arbitrarily reordered when switching apps that are on different spaces.

Spaces really is about 1/3 of a piece of software.

spaces is mostly rad except for the way it loses dialog boxes behind other apps

Features I wish Spaces had:
1. On-screen pager, preferably a pop-down from the menubar
2. Space-assignable background images
3. Keystrokes for moving windows between spaces without assigning them to that space
4. Space-sensitive dock and desktop (i.e., only the apps and icons on a current space would be present)

Bugs I wish Spaces didn't have:
1. Horrible window-order handling
2. Inappropriate auto space-switching
3. Incorrect popup handling

That's all I can think of at the moment. I'm seriously thinking of upgrading my old Virtual Desktops license when it's 10.5-compatible.

I've had some problems with disappearing windows (ichat) with spaces that i could resolve by "focusing" them from the window menu and then hiding&unhiding the app. ICK.

xpost libcrypt soooo otm <3

4. Space-sensitive dock and desktop (i.e., only the apps and icons on a current space would be present)

I'm going to disagree on this but request that the dot under an app reflect if it is on the current space

3. Keystrokes for moving windows between spaces without assigning them to that space

one handy trick is that grabbing a title bar and then changing space with a hot-key works.

TODAY ILX TAUGHT ME THAT NONE OF YOU ARE WHITE PEOPLE

one handy trick is that grabbing a title bar and then changing space with a hot-key works.

Yes, but this is a bit of a slow-down for me. First, I have to move hands to mouse, then engage a bit of draggable window. My space-changing hotkeys are apple-option-arrows/numbers, which are easier to apply with 2 hands. So the whole thing winds up being a Dr-Spock-nerve-pinch of a maneuver.

It's maddening to have to switch from Mac to Windows+Firefox with its side-scroll, crappy find, and lack of (apple)scriptability after becoming used to the far superior two-finger scroll, Safari find, and my reload-all-tabs-at-once applescript. I plan to keep this BS back-switching to an absolute minimum.

Whoa the shuffle is so cheap now! I may grab one for working out

'working out'

As if!

I still have the 1g 1 gig shuffle and I use it every single day. I much prefer carrying around a little stick with no screen or moving parts in my pocket and clicking through songs untill I hear one I feel like listening to. Though I have to say I think I'd prefer this shape (the chewing gum) to the new smaller ones. This one fits in my hand in my pocket so well and I can just plug it into the computers at work to recharge.

10.5.2 finally fixed the maddening MacBook loses WiFi connection bug that has been driving me up the wall for almost a year. At least so far it has...

Fixed it for me too...The having to reset the wifi connection was really annoying

Not just a MacBook problem, btw. (I notice 10.5.2 has reverted my mini's Broadcom Wireless Card's firmware version from 4.170.25.10 to 4.170.25.8. Surely there was more to the WiFi bug than that, though?)

http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=2008021122525348

^ nice

http://www.tuaw.com/2008/02/21/ifreemem-2-0-when-you-just-dont-feel-like-rebooting/

Ok, so here's some more computing Voodoo akin to "running fix permissions"

Spaces is fucking driving me nuts today. Even a simple double-F8 can reorder windows, it seems. And MS Office seems to have a REAL goddamned issue with palettes and spaces: There was one Excel window yesterday that, when I clicked on it, forced spaces to jump to a space with the format palette.

I'm a long-time user of iFreeMem. On my MacBook Pro with 3 GB of RAM, it can generally clear up about 800 MB (sometimes more) after I quit a long session in apps like Photoshop and Motion. And it's rescued me on numerous occasions where I've found myself with three or four MB free and everything starts slowing to a crawl. I just loaded version 2 and it's faster and more efficient than ever. Good stuff.

lol this is mad retarded

I'm glad we're finally approaching some real Windows levels of utter bullshit. he says that right after a paragraph that begins "As good as OS X memory management may be..." KEEP CHUGGIN THAT KOOLAID BRO