Whoa the shuffle is so cheap now! I may grab one for working out
― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Tuesday, 19 February 2008 14:33 (sixteen years ago) link
'working out'
As if!
― Bob Six, Tuesday, 19 February 2008 15:45 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― dan selzer, Tuesday, 19 February 2008 15:50 (sixteen years ago) link
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
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?)
― M.V., Tuesday, 19 February 2008 23:13 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=2008021122525348
^ nice
― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Wednesday, 20 February 2008 00:57 (sixteen years ago) link
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"
― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Thursday, 21 February 2008 18:11 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― libcrypt, Friday, 29 February 2008 21:25 (sixteen years ago) link
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
― El Tomboto, Friday, 29 February 2008 21:27 (sixteen years ago) link
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
― El Tomboto, Friday, 29 February 2008 21:28 (sixteen years ago) link
after I quit a long session in apps like Photoshop and Motion after I quit a long session in apps like Photoshop and Motion after I quit a long session in apps like Photoshop and Motion after I quit a long session in apps like Photoshop and Motion after I quit a long session in apps like Photoshop and Motion
― libcrypt, Friday, 29 February 2008 21:29 (sixteen years ago) link
and it's faster and more efficient than ever. YEh, users says this even when they get a new version that's demonstrably slower.
― stet, Friday, 29 February 2008 21:30 (sixteen years ago) link
IFreeMem clears Inactive memory to help your applications avoid the performance hit you get when running low on Free memory.
Clears inactive memory, eh? How's that? By allocating a metric shitload and releasing it? Nice, real nice.
― libcrypt, Friday, 29 February 2008 21:32 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.f-secure.com/weblog/archives/00001388.html
― El Tomboto, Friday, 29 February 2008 21:37 (sixteen years ago) link
I called Apple and spoke with a couple of their reps. ... The reps were incredulous about the existence of malware specifically targeting Macs. They looked up articles about it while we were on the phone — they wouldn't believe me until they looked it up for themselves.
like, dnschanger has been out since fucking halloween.
― El Tomboto, Friday, 29 February 2008 21:38 (sixteen years ago) link
computing is turning into the automotive industry. consumers get what they think they want, which is generally horrible, inefficient shit, and before long somebody will have to go and write a book which will be made into a documentary asking "who killed useful software?"
― El Tomboto, Friday, 29 February 2008 21:41 (sixteen years ago) link
/ IT Morbius
just installed leopard. first impression: butt ugly.
― moonship journey to baja, Monday, 10 March 2008 18:14 (sixteen years ago) link
maybe it's optimized for a glossy screen? (j/k)
i'm trying hard to figure out how to turn down the opacity on the 2d dock.
― moonship journey to baja, Monday, 10 March 2008 18:21 (sixteen years ago) link
deleting bottom1.png - bottom5.png didn't work.
― moonship journey to baja, Monday, 10 March 2008 18:26 (sixteen years ago) link
oh actually it did. it turned off the rounded corners.
Run software update, install 10.5.2 and you'll have an option in system preferences to make the menu bar solid.
― Ed, Monday, 10 March 2008 18:30 (sixteen years ago) link
still hangin tough with tiger, my goal is to keep this computer alive long enough to skip leopard completely
― Tracer Hand, Monday, 10 March 2008 18:36 (sixteen years ago) link
i'm talking about the DOCK, not the menu bar
― moonship journey to baja, Monday, 10 March 2008 18:36 (sixteen years ago) link
tracer how do you know that 10.6 COUGAR won't be worse than leopard?
― moonship journey to baja, Monday, 10 March 2008 18:37 (sixteen years ago) link
btw i have 10.5.2 and the "translucent menu bar" checkbox doesn't show up in my system preferences. weird, right?
― moonship journey to baja, Monday, 10 March 2008 18:43 (sixteen years ago) link
if it is even worse then i will downgrade to OS9 in silent protest
― Tracer Hand, Monday, 10 March 2008 18:43 (sixteen years ago) link
TOM THEY ADDED TABS IN TERMINAL APP SO I DONT NEED TO USE DODGY SHAREWARE FUCK YOU
btw i have 10.5.2 and the "translucent menu bar" checkbox doesn't show up in my system preferences. weird, right?-- moonship journey to baja, Monday, March 10, 2008 2:43 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Link
-- moonship journey to baja, Monday, March 10, 2008 2:43 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Link
under DESKTOP at the bottom
― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Monday, 10 March 2008 18:45 (sixteen years ago) link
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3107/2324962944_79884b1fee_o.png
― moonship journey to baja, Monday, 10 March 2008 18:53 (sixteen years ago) link
Looks pretty solid to me! (Ask Tuaw?)
― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Monday, 10 March 2008 18:58 (sixteen years ago) link
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3091/2324975082_11e5d5bdcc.jpg
here's my ugly dock
― moonship journey to baja, Monday, 10 March 2008 19:05 (sixteen years ago) link
There is no (EnvironmentVariables) default for the (/System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.WindowServer) domain.
^ bizarre
― moonship journey to baja, Monday, 10 March 2008 19:17 (sixteen years ago) link
isn't there a 3rd party prefpane to set env vars?
― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Monday, 10 March 2008 19:18 (sixteen years ago) link
i gave up on the menu bar. people are saying it has something to do with old graphics cards? who knows.
reset the dock also. trying to figure out whether left dock or right dock is a better choice.
― moonship journey to baja, Monday, 10 March 2008 20:37 (sixteen years ago) link
If yr card isn't up to the translucent menu bar, you get the solid one anyway (and the pref doesn't appear).
― stet, Monday, 10 March 2008 21:10 (sixteen years ago) link
But, aye, Leopard is uggggly
i should correct: the bar IS solid, the drop-down menus are translucent, which is also annoying. now mail won't do notes.
damn, shit is uggggly and buggggy
OTOH it does seem to run much quicker than usual.
― moonship journey to baja, Monday, 10 March 2008 21:15 (sixteen years ago) link
i only did this because all of the omnigroup stuff is slowly going to leopard-only and i use their products slavishly. and i guess also to ease the eventual transition into leopard.
― moonship journey to baja, Monday, 10 March 2008 21:16 (sixteen years ago) link
I used to be against auto-hide for some reason, but now it's right-side dock, hidden, all the way.
I haven't really run into that many bugs and it looks fine to me, haters. I can hate Apple for completely different reasons, though.
― mh, Monday, 10 March 2008 21:20 (sixteen years ago) link
guys if you really want to fuckin' geek th' fuck out on screen graphics -- like me, I mean -- apple is the wrong OS. GTK basically uses stylesheets with a splash of python, and it's hella customizable, and Murrine is like the next gen of that with all kinds of fun alpha transparency and glassiness. It's all good times for people who like to make things pretty.
― kenan, Monday, 10 March 2008 21:24 (sixteen years ago) link
i need a full, viable OS
― moonship journey to baja, Monday, 10 March 2008 22:12 (sixteen years ago) link
There's all sorts of graphics pipeline problems with Linux/X/GTK that make it a dog.
― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Monday, 10 March 2008 22:22 (sixteen years ago) link
kenan, that is why I used the enlightenment window manager (speedy and customizable!) and hung out on their irc channel for a couple years, before I realized that my time would be better spent elsewhere. Most GTK themes are pretty fugly, and this Murine thing doesn't seem to be that much prettier off the shelf, although I am sure with my complete lack of graphic design skill I could make some amazing themes.
― mh, Monday, 10 March 2008 22:34 (sixteen years ago) link
If you can make an attractive website, you can make a GTK theme. Although I'm curious what trouble jon has run into.
― kenan, Monday, 10 March 2008 23:06 (sixteen years ago) link
O, this is nice: hadn't realised that you browse iPhoto, iTunes, iMovie and Aperture libraries from any Open... dialog box
― stet, Tuesday, 11 March 2008 00:20 (sixteen years ago) link
that you can
quick look is dope too
― moonship journey to baja, Tuesday, 11 March 2008 17:15 (sixteen years ago) link
sort of makes my document management software seem a little irrelevant
― moonship journey to baja, Tuesday, 11 March 2008 17:16 (sixteen years ago) link
I haven't looked at GTK in like 3 years, but there are some major problems with the way the way stuff is composited in X11 versus OS X.
Quartz Compositor is the compositing engine used by Quartz 2D and other renderers, such as OpenGL, Core Image, and QuickTime. In Mac OS X 10.2 and later, Quartz Compositor uses the processors (GPUs) on supported graphics cards to vastly improve composition performance. This technology is known as Quartz Extreme, and is enabled automatically on systems with supported graphics cards.
― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Tuesday, 11 March 2008 17:26 (sixteen years ago) link
What is the app in your dock with the octopus icon?
― Ed, Tuesday, 11 March 2008 17:28 (sixteen years ago) link