today my powerbook g4 told me that i didn't have a soundcard installed at all, err OK
i rebooted and guess what, it had forgotten all about it! aw bless
― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 15 April 2008 16:52 (sixteen years ago) link
how do you remove the "movies" and "tv shows" playlist things?
― jed_, Tuesday, 15 April 2008 16:57 (sixteen years ago) link
I second that question. I just googled it and got a million and one results for making your movie playlists way more awesome. Uh huh.
― kenan, Tuesday, 15 April 2008 17:13 (sixteen years ago) link
uh, i think i just hit "delete"?? i have an old version of itunes though
― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 15 April 2008 17:13 (sixteen years ago) link
Yeah the latest update calls your mother and tells her you've been bad if you try that.
― kenan, Tuesday, 15 April 2008 17:17 (sixteen years ago) link
it's in preferences or view prefs or something....you can totally modify the source list.
― dan selzer, Tuesday, 15 April 2008 17:52 (sixteen years ago) link
ugh. Yeah, I'm an idiot. It's a frickin' checkbox under Preferences, first tab that pops up. However, I only noticed this after I had wasted 30 minutes combing through the most LOL HUEG plist file that man or beast hath ever laid eyes on, surely a work of the devil himself, only to suffer humiliating defeat and THEN discover the checkbox, which I am beginning to suspect was not there before, but appeared only to laugh and point at me and say "Haha, way to go there, Mister poweruser!"
I'm awesome.
― kenan, Tuesday, 15 April 2008 18:48 (sixteen years ago) link
wow @ ical / leopard mail integration ... i just figured this out
― moonship journey to baja, Tuesday, 15 April 2008 19:00 (sixteen years ago) link
prefs -> general -> show -> uncheck 'tv shows' (useless) and 'movies' (useless)
― czn, Tuesday, 15 April 2008 19:50 (sixteen years ago) link
czn: if you don't use the movies playlist, how are you getting movies on to your iPhone/touch (can't remember which you have)? sure, you could drag 'em on manually, but ... i dunno, i quite like the automaticity of it.
― grimly fiendish, Tuesday, 15 April 2008 20:05 (sixteen years ago) link
(although: most of the things that live in my "movies" playlist are actually episodes of "the wire", so ... go figure.)
― grimly fiendish, Tuesday, 15 April 2008 20:06 (sixteen years ago) link
visual hub + sync selected movies... I haven't synced since I (just) removed the movies playlist... will I have difficulties then?
― czn, Tuesday, 15 April 2008 20:36 (sixteen years ago) link
ach, not really. if you did, it'd be nothing you couldn't work around in a minute.
― grimly fiendish, Tuesday, 15 April 2008 20:42 (sixteen years ago) link
Seriously cool shit!
In other news I just traded in my practically new iMac for a new MacBook due to travel/portability reasons. I am feeling very happy about it so far. There was always something about that iMac that was too ... big, or too much like a real computer. I love being back in Lego computer land.
― fields of salmon, Tuesday, 15 April 2008 22:12 (sixteen years ago) link
i got a macbook pro today - discontinued 2.6 ghz 15" w/ 4gb ram ($2000). i'm not too concerned about the multi-touch trackpad but it's a shame that i'm only getting 256 mb VRAM and a 4 mb L2 cache. so much for "hardcore gaming".
― moonship journey to baja, Wednesday, 16 April 2008 00:48 (sixteen years ago) link
Anyone who has been missing tunneling/forwarding in 10.5 should download this:
http://www-user.rhrk.uni-kl.de/~nissler/tuntap/
and install OpenSSH 5.0. Seems to have fixed my issues, at least.
― libcrypt, Thursday, 17 April 2008 21:40 (sixteen years ago) link
OMFG somebody please tell me why when I try to change the name of a file in the finder it times out on me, like it thinks I hit return and am finished? WHY? I tried messing with the key repeat rate but that's not it. Is there a preference for this? Is this a bug?
Also Mail keeps quitting.
Other than those things I love Leopard.
― dan selzer, Wednesday, 23 April 2008 04:23 (sixteen years ago) link
Guess it's high time to check software updates for protools and the ilk.
― csa, Wednesday, 23 April 2008 04:28 (sixteen years ago) link
I've only really experienced two bugs
1) sometimes it's very slow to wake up. when it does wake up, the trackpad is jerky. like i move my finger and it responds 2-3 seconds late. if i open the airport control the whole thing crashes. from what i gather it's a well-known but not explained issue, like the 10.4 bug where the speaker balance moved hard-left for no reason after hibernating.
2) all of my mail (in all of my mail folders) disappears for no reason at all.
btw i am super happy w/ this new 15" laptop. can't really imagine it being any faster w/ a bigger l2 cache or another 256 on the video card. who uses that stuff anyway?
― moonship journey to baja, Wednesday, 23 April 2008 04:36 (sixteen years ago) link
Anyone else find that DVD Player just doesn't work under Leopard? No matter what disc I put in my G4 Powerbook, as soon as DVD Player opens I get a spinning beachball and the only way to recover is to force a shutdown. I'm using VLC to watch the same discs on the same machine, so it's got to be a problem with DVD Player.
― treefell, Wednesday, 23 April 2008 08:05 (sixteen years ago) link
dan i think that happens when the attributes of another file/folder in that directory change at the same time that that you're typing the new name of the file/folder; i.e. if something's downloading in the same directory and you're trying to rename something else, it keeps losing focus. i consider that a bug. however i THINK if everything is static it lets you wait as long as you want?
treefell i always use VLC to watch DVDs because i need to change the aspect ratio to make it work on my TV, which DVD Player can't do (= it is lame)
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 23 April 2008 09:28 (sixteen years ago) link
nah-there's nothing else going on in those directories. It's really sudden and random, and very frustrating.
― dan selzer, Wednesday, 23 April 2008 15:30 (sixteen years ago) link
Dan, I have this happen to me on network drives I think. I think it has to do with the access time changing when Finder descends into the subdirectory to generate previews (QuickLook) for images, mp3s, etc.
― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Wednesday, 23 April 2008 15:56 (sixteen years ago) link
yeah i was going to say it's a network drive thing too. but then i couldn't think of why that would be.
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 23 April 2008 15:58 (sixteen years ago) link
trefell: it's probably the DVD Player's perference file (where it keeps track of which discs you've watched) is corrupt. Trash it and see.
― stet, Wednesday, 23 April 2008 16:06 (sixteen years ago) link
I'm not on a network. This is happening on my own harddrives. I'll live with it.
― dan selzer, Wednesday, 23 April 2008 16:51 (sixteen years ago) link
i hate sh*t like that though, there's no rhyme or reason to it. for the record this DOESN'T happen to me.
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 23 April 2008 16:56 (sixteen years ago) link
I'm guessing its quicklook
― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Wednesday, 23 April 2008 16:59 (sixteen years ago) link
This happens to me too. Mailbox -> Rebuild should fix it, at least until the next time.
― libcrypt, Wednesday, 23 April 2008 17:47 (sixteen years ago) link
Folks who are having mysterious issues: Run
% ps axwww | grep '[ a ]pe'
If it returns something, you gots trouble. (Remove the spaces around the 'a' before 'pe'.)
― libcrypt, Wednesday, 23 April 2008 17:50 (sixteen years ago) link
Run that in Terminal, by the way.
― libcrypt, Wednesday, 23 April 2008 17:51 (sixteen years ago) link
axwww?
― kenan, Wednesday, 23 April 2008 18:26 (sixteen years ago) link
BSD ps options. w = wide. ww = extra wide. ax = all processes.
System V options are fine, but ps -elf is traditionally narrower.
― libcrypt, Wednesday, 23 April 2008 18:29 (sixteen years ago) link
% ps -efl | grep -i '[ p]ainter' 501 65840 158 0 1:52.83 ?? 5:37.50 /Applications/Corel Painter X/Corel Painter X.app/Contents/MacOS 4000 62 0 572440 99620 - S 115fb090 % ps axww | grep -i '[ p]ainter' 65840 ?? S 5:37.50 /Applications/Corel Painter X/Corel Painter X.app/Contents/MacOS/Corel Painter X -psn_0_2863803
― libcrypt, Wednesday, 23 April 2008 18:32 (sixteen years ago) link
this is where i quietly slink away.
― kenan, Wednesday, 23 April 2008 18:33 (sixteen years ago) link
what you guys don't like ACTIVITY MONITOR?
― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Wednesday, 23 April 2008 18:41 (sixteen years ago) link
-- treefell
^^ i had the same problem w/ my g4. major contributing factor to my decision to go to macbook pro.
― moonship journey to baja, Wednesday, 23 April 2008 19:05 (sixteen years ago) link
i looked on macrumors and official apple forums and there were hundreds of people complaining about the issue.
― moonship journey to baja, Wednesday, 23 April 2008 19:06 (sixteen years ago) link
-bash: %: command not found
― dan selzer, Wednesday, 23 April 2008 20:41 (sixteen years ago) link
Anyone else's MBP have the issue where it misses the first letter you type after sitting for a minute or two?
― milo z, Wednesday, 23 April 2008 20:42 (sixteen years ago) link
Did you install firmware update 1.2?
― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Wednesday, 23 April 2008 20:44 (sixteen years ago) link
Hmmm, no, it's never come up on my updates screen. Weird.
― milo z, Wednesday, 23 April 2008 20:54 (sixteen years ago) link
Sorry, dan. I meant that to be a shell prompt. Try the command again w/o the '%'.
― libcrypt, Wednesday, 23 April 2008 21:14 (sixteen years ago) link
lol TCSH
― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Wednesday, 23 April 2008 21:22 (sixteen years ago) link
Interestingly enough, % was only the default tcsh prompt on OS X in early versions; old-skool UNIX nerds know % as the csh prompt; > is the out-of-box tcsh prompt. Now, I'm not trying to say that yr first experience with UNIX was OS X or anything, but perhaps you should consider growing a beard.
― libcrypt, Wednesday, 23 April 2008 21:33 (sixteen years ago) link
I think the TCSH at college was configured to be % as well!
― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Wednesday, 23 April 2008 21:43 (sixteen years ago) link
My first unix experience was using SCO in like 1989
― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Wednesday, 23 April 2008 21:44 (sixteen years ago) link
so you're already way past beard age in unix years. Hey, it's not so bad. Doesn't shaving kinda suck anyway?
http://ozguru.mu.nu/Photos/2005-11-11--Dilbert_Unix.jpg
― kenan, Wednesday, 23 April 2008 21:46 (sixteen years ago) link
uh oh, i think i just posted a dilbert cartoon. :(
― kenan, Wednesday, 23 April 2008 21:51 (sixteen years ago) link
nothing came back.
― dan selzer, Thursday, 24 April 2008 06:29 (sixteen years ago) link