I HATE APPLE

think we should maybe stop derailing the thread n ... hang on, this is ILX. sorry, as we were.

I has a nice new wireless keyboard so today I don't hate apple

could do with pgup/dn keys tho :(

the more i use this fucking windows box at work, the more i love apple and everything it stands for.

so lolz at the new Apple store in Boston being three stories tall and massive and having pretty much the exact same inventory as the Apple store in the Cambridgeside Galleria

I think I am halfway towards convincing my wife I need an Apple laptop, though. Anyone had experience/difficulty networking these with Windows machines?

nope apart from windows being its usual helpful self

at my parents house they have a desktop PC connected to a printer and a wireless router. i managed to get both of their powerbooks (both running panther) to be able to share files w/ each other and the PC and to use the PC's printer. there was some crap at first involving workgroups but it worked itself out.

lolz at the new Apple store in Boston being three stories tall and massive and having pretty much the exact same inventory as the Apple store in the Cambridgeside Galleria

oh of course! They all have *exactly* the same inventory. The Apple Store does not exist to be a brick-and-mortar retail establishment, and it's a thousand miles away from being a service center -- it's there to provide different levels and acreages of floor space for glorified Best Buy employees to mill around and explain to anyone who will listen that a .Mac account will really enhance their Apple user experience.

I used to think it was a shiny clean enticing place. Now it depresses the hell out of me. At least at Micro Center, there are options and usually someone geeky enough to know the difference between the products. The Apple store eliminates that little snag in staff training by only having one model of any Apple-compatible product at a time. Need a firewire hard drive? This is the one for you. How about an external DVD drive? We happen to offer this one fabulous model for your convenience. Etc etc.

People are as free as they want to be.

kenan: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9hpMgKI_NU

I guess I'm still dealing with the shock of having lost all faith. The pricey Apple product isn't always the best one, and all the employees in the Apple store are complete frickin' morons. Those are both facrs, you can look 'em up. :(

facTs

Lookin' em up boss.

Just tell me you don't have an Apple tat, kenan.

Maybe it can be worked into some kinda biblical montage, if so.

no. I have never even shamed myself with an Apple sticker on my car or my bedroom window. Momentary temptation, sure, but it passed. Like all such things, it will go the way of the Half a Garfield and the Darwin Fish.

As much as I prefer Apple products to wintel, I don't believe in giving any for-profit company free advertising.

Can you still say "Wintel"? You did hear about that little thing with the Apples and the... nah, skip it. ;)

As much as I prefer Apple products to wintel, I don't believe in giving any for-profit company free advertising.

I needed computer speakers so I went to the new Apple Store in Boston. There was a queue, a fucking queue, of people waiting to get their picture taken in front of the Apple logo. Disgusting.

Wintel = Windows on Intel, no more, no less.

Wow. I really don't get it.

On an "I hate Apple" note, Safari's become halfway dysfunctional in the last week and I can't figure out why, so I'm using Firefox most of the time now. (By halfway dysfunctional, I mean it won't let me click buttons or many links, and video doesn't work.) Great job, Apple!

My first guess at the source of that problem would be Application Enhancer, if you have it.

also if your history is massively long, delete most of it

(or switch to firefox, which i've done. the history feature is kind of important if you're older than 12)

(By halfway dysfunctional, I mean it won't let me click buttons or many links, and video doesn't work.)

oddly enough firefox keeps doing this to me so i switch to safari for a while

yeah me too. I seems like firefox gets "tired" if you use it or leave it on too long.

the more windows you open without restarting the application, no matter what application it is, its memory usage will climb and climb

i think

http://i25.tinypic.com/n3m9o3.png

yeah me too. I seems like firefox gets "tired" if you use it or leave it on too long.

-- sexyDancer, Tuesday, May 27, 2008 5:11 PM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Link

http://www.firefoxmastery.com/firefox/firefox-hack-back-button-memory-consumption/

Firefox 3 seems to have finally fixed the memory collection bug.

okay, so is there really no way to have muliple users on one machine running leopard logged in at the same time (as you can do in XP)? one user has to log out for the other to log in, right? You can't just switch users? ANNOYING.

yes, there is!

http://www.apple.com/sg/macosx/features/fastuserswitching/

well, actually, this is more helpful.

http://www.usingmac.com/2008/1/21/leopard-fast-user-switching

oh yes, thank you so much! i was really missing this

why can't you just tell Time Machine to back-up once a day instead of once an hour?

You are not to be trusted with such decisions.

(but you can give this a shot)

The regular backups are incremental, so it's not really so much stress on the computer. If you are doing something where you need all available I/O, you should probably just turn off Time Machine while you are doing it.

I have the oldest possible G5, and I'm always doing super powerful intensive pro computer user things. I'd rather not have to always be turning the thing on and off. Seems like such an obvious option.

Here is something that may help. Put the following in a file called TimeMachineOn.applescript or something like that and set a cron job to run it at midnight or something (e.g., 0 0 * * * osascript /Users/danselzer/Library/Scripts/TimeMachineOn.applescript <-- this in yr crontab). Make a similar script and change "is 0 then" to "is 1 then" and have it run when you get up or whatever.

activate application "System Preferences"
tell application "System Events"

	tell process "System Preferences"

		click menu item "Show All Preferences" of menu 1 of menu bar item "View" of menu bar 1

		click button "Time Machine" of scroll area 1 of window "System Preferences"

		repeat until exists window "Time Machine"

			delay 0.2

		end repeat

		if value of checkbox 2 of window "Time Machine" is 0 then

			click checkbox 2 of window "Time Machine"

		end if

	end tell

end tell
delay 1
tell application "System Preferences" to quit

You have to have GUI scripting turned on for that to work by the way.

sudo defaults write /Library/Preferences/com.apple.TimeMachine AutoBackup -bool yes

^ i think this should make it only run manually (from menubar)

That's not really desirable either.

I guess you could flip that on and off with a crontab so it only backs up during the night

oh shiiiit

sudo defaults write /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/\
com.apple.backupd-auto StartInterval -int SECONDS

http://www.makemacwork.com/command-time-machine.htm

make screenshots from Preview pngs instead of tiffs:

defaults write com.apple.Preview Preview -dict-add PVImageScreenCaptureFileFormat public.png

wtf are you people talking about. I want to be able to open Time Machine prefs and select "daily". End of story. I don't know who CRON is and I don't want to know.

And I thought screenshots defaulted to pngs anyway.

yea, I want that too ;_;

Sorry, Dan. That's not available. If you want additional functionality in that vein, I'm afraid we're going to have to charge you.

Also, the pony you requested is not available for retail purchase.

oh man, speaking of charging for additional functionality...i got an ipod a few years ago and it came with a plug-in charger, a usb cable, and a pair of headphones with pads over the earbuds. it eventually broke (apparently you're not supposed to go running with a small hard drive, it doesn't like being shaken around....) and i bought an ipod nano, and it didn't come with a plug-in charger or pads on the earbuds! how cheap and annoying!