I HATE APPLE

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!

i wish i was l33t enough for the command line :(

okay, i need to change my privileges on my itunes music folder (apparently,though looking at it through the command line I don't know why it doesn't work), but when I do get info on that folder, I have NO lock icon to unlock to change permissions via the GUI. Anyone know why?

Did you expand the arrow next to "sharing and permissions" or are you a mouthbreather?

I did that and it just says "you can only read"

I only breath through my mouth when severely congested.

breathe that is. fuck I cannot type anymore.

Can you sudo chmod/chown the folder, or will it not let you do that, either?

Also, how did you iTunes music folder get into a state where you can't read it? Unless you've done something genius like change your own user ID number, you almost certainly already own and have red/write permission for everything in your home directory. Check with iTunes first, and see if it's still looking for the right directory.

My point being -- ownership and permissions is some mission critical shit -- don't mess with it if you don't absolutely have to. (I have learned this the hard way, through a few particularly daring acts of stunning dumbassery, like deciding I wanted to be the owner of everything on the drive.)

http://www.pang.com.au/2006filmposters/2006/Drama/brick_ver8.jpg

I had permission problems in iTunes when I moved my hd off my airport extreme back to a wired connection to my MacBook. Evidently the hd sharing on airport adds its own ownership, rather than just giving it to you or admin. So I ended up just doing a bunch of chmods for the directories that it took possession of (basically, whatever I'd added to iTunes wirelessly). If there's a better way, that would be great---was reluctant to just do a recursive chmod throughout my whole iTunes directory.

kenan is starting to learn the ol' axiom that it's PEBKAC 9 times out of 10.

If I don't learn it the hard way, I don't learn it at all. :(

Oh btw, thanks for the tips and scripts on the Time Machine cron -- that's immediately useful to me. At the office they're going to use TM to back up to a network drive for all the Macs, and it would be nice to set that up to only happen at midnight or some such.

Question, though -- I know that TM doesn't like smb shares especially much, and I that's what they're going to set up, if I know my Windows-lovin' IT department. I told them that it would be slow, so they're making sure the server and the machines all have gigabit ethernet. Only I'm not sure that's really the problem. I mean... is it? (I guess we'll see.) My idea is to give all the machines a static network IP and set up an NFS share on each volume that only exports to the one computer that needs access to it. Right?

kenan is starting to learn the ol' axiom that it's PEBKAC 9 times out of 10.

which actually means PEBEAU (problem exists between engineers and users)

computing is easily the most immature industry in the world right after hydrogen-powered cars

anyway I can't decide whether I hate Apple or not today, my iMac died (PSU kaput) on Saturday and the Pentagon City store staff were (again) way more helpful than I expected, plus the speed bump and price drops mean that I got a better machine to replace it for less money than I had paid for my 2005 iLemon (shipped to me with bad mobo, which appears to have shortened the lifespan of every other major component in the system, no point throwing any more good money after bad especially since I'm probably lucky the HD even still works)

really it's my dumb ass fault for not purchasing AppleCare while the thing was still under warranty, or asking for a fresh-box replacement as soon as they figured out the og mobo was faulty

bonus: got free HD data transfer even though the Geniuses are going to have to extract the drive from the case to fire it up in a separate housing + they're going to get my cristian vogel CD out of the optical drive that stopped ejecting months ago + govt employee discount on everything

weird, my post earlier didn't go through. this directory is on an external HD which was used with a windows xp machine until now (NTSF formatted); ownership is the same as the standard 'music' folder on the mac machine, it appears (owned by me); but maybe if itunes itself is copying the files, the system needs to own it? or they need to be in the same group? I think the group here is wheel, I dunno, I'm actually at work now. I'll fuck with it tonight, probably have to recursively run chmod/chown until it works. I kind of hate permissions shit, it's something that I seem to not understand incredibly well even when I think I do.

Sounds like akm's problem is PEBAirPortExpressAU, which is one of the reasons that I gave an AE a good two-week fighting chance to impress me, and then... no more. The fabulous USB port for network sharing should come with several asterisks.