I HATE APPLE

*visits celebrityonthenews.net for more celebrity news and pictures*

when are they goona make the 240gb iPod? never? that sucks, man

So, I've always been confused about just what Apple TV does. Is it just in interface to allow you to stream content (music, movies, TV) through iTunes? Like Airport Express but with movie/TV capabilities, too, connected via HDMI? How well does it handle non-proprietary formats? The only times I typically use my DVD drive these days are to burn copies of TV shows I've downloaded to DVD so that I can watch them on TV. Will Apple TV solve that problem, or will Apple, Inc. get in the way of what I want to do with its product?

accidentally deleted my verisign public primary certificates from my system root (using keychain access). in hindsight i now have a much better understanding of how these things work.

stupid, i know. can't restore from time machine right now because i am out of state for a week. can't manually add certificates to system root. have managed to repopulate most of them by "always trusting" when i log out and back in to various services but i can't figure out how to get the "class 3" certificates back.

i am assuming this is why my mobileme pref pane and app store can no longer connect to apple's servers.

i am trying the 10.6.7 and 10.6.8 updates again in the hopes that will restore the missing system root certificates, but if that doesn't work ... any suggestions?

I'm at work and not near a mac at the minute, but could someone export those certs so you could reimport them?

can't import into "system roots" and i think that's where app store looks for them. i've already put them back into both "login" and "system" folders, to no effect.

the ironic thing is i was fucking with the certificates in the first place because app store wasn't working properly, now it looks like i've permanently locked myself out of it AND fucked up mobileme completely.

maybe i'll just go get a new MBP today, this 2007 model is getting pretty rickety.

can you get an education discount at a retail store?

ps LOL CHINA

http://www.macrumors.com/2011/07/25/chinese-authorities-close-two-fake-apple-stores-over-permit-issues/

yeah just show some credentials xp

ok, there we go. if you happen to ever fuck up the system root keychain parts you need to reinstall the latest big software update package (10.6.8 in this case). the clue i should have picked up on earlier was that the group of certificates i was messing with had an expiration date 25 years forward from the date of the 10.6.8 update.

Apple's whole "we don't know what a web browser is" thing is retarded. You can download all the fucking apps in the world, but Korean teenagers and shady Russian "iOS Developers" don't know how to program Wikipedia better than Wikipedia does, ergo, viewing Wikipedia the way it was actually intended, e.g. through a web browser, is better than a slow, vaguely retarded Wikipedia app (just as an example).

App store is full of fucking garbage, much like the internet itself used to be. Don't care. Don't look at apps. Still look at things ON THE FUCKING INTERNET USING A WEB BROWSER.

I don't agree with that. Wikipanion is far better than the Wikipedia site, specifically for searches and in-page navigation.

Especially because it's slow, ugly, and requires you to navigate away from whatever you were looking at by launching a completely different application! You're a fucking genius!

It's not slow. Ugliness is subjective. On an iphone/ipad you would have to navigate to a new browser window anyway. I am indeed a fucking genius.

WTF is "in-page navigation" anyway. Does anyone really have issues navigating within a page? Come on man.

lol aa

"used to be"

There's a table of contents button. It's always there and it's easier than scrolling up.

You must be reading some very long, complicated Wikipedia articles. I just scroll down to the part where it says "Demographics:" and start feeling thankful I don't form part of whatever demographic group whose page I'm looking at.

when i first logged in on lion, it gave me a "some apps are not compatible" alert. i closed in instead of checking "more details". can osx tell me which of my apps aren't compatible?

Just don't upgrade to Lion. Wait until you buy a machine that ships with Lion. There is absolutely no reason to upgrade to Lion unless you really hate having thirty bucks.

lion is kind of fun tho

It's like upgrading your reality to one where the retards won.

hmm, that's not helpful, since i've already upgraded to lion

Wikipedia is the worst example there, because they don't know how to program their site. That's why their shitty mobile redirect traps you, meaning if you hit back from the mobile page to go to your search results, you just forwarded back to the mobile page again. Wikipanion is faster and better, for anything other than a hit-and-run fact.

Baja: scroll through Applications in big icon view. Apps that won't run will have a no entry sign embossed on the icon.

sorry to derail the salmon baiting...

any video/music making people updated yet? how is lion holding up? does it feel roughly the same as SL?

i like the idea of all these pretty new things, but not enough to warrant losing a bit of processing power and live processing stability

also, right, say im in finder, i have 10 files selected and i want to know how much space these 10 files will take up when i copy them onto a usb stick or something

what's the quickest way of doing that?

Option-command-I

Also my favourite new thing in lion finder: with icons selected press ctrl cmd n to make a new folder and put them in it

will that not just bring up individual info boxes for each file?

No, command I does that. Adding option gets you the old NeXT/10.1 get info inspector, which changes depending on ehat's highlighted and shows info for collections of icons etc

i did not know that!

Apple doesn't know what a web browser is, that's why they originally insisted all iOS stuff be just HTML-based and had no native API. That's also why they have a web browser on their platform, and an entire development site explaining how to use device-specific HTML and JS extensions.

im seeing an annoying bug in safari 5.1 where im looking for a thread, say "Retromania: Pop culture's..." and i hit cmd+f and type 'mania'

no results found /:

There is absolutely no reason to upgrade to Lion unless you really hate having thirty bucks.
― fields of salmon, Wednesday, 27 July 2011 07:10 (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

this is otm ~regrets~

are mac mini's good value? can't decide betw. 13" mbp (which can be had for £850 on the refurb store) or mac mini + 24" monitor & ipad

The way Lion handles screen sharing sessions and a half dozen other things have made it worth it to me already!

Can anyone answer the apple tv question from a billion posts ago pls?

This one?

So, I've always been confused about just what Apple TV does. Is it just in interface to allow you to stream content (music, movies, TV) through iTunes? Like Airport Express but with movie/TV capabilities, too, connected via HDMI? How well does it handle non-proprietary formats? The only times I typically use my DVD drive these days are to burn copies of TV shows I've downloaded to DVD so that I can watch them on TV. Will Apple TV solve that problem, or will Apple, Inc. get in the way of what I want to do with its product?

― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 27 July 2011 02:30 (2 days ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

1. I think so
2. I think so
3. It doesn't
4. Apple Inc. will get in the way

hth :(

In other words, if you want a media server product that serves media you really should get a proper media server. The Apple TV is really just a propagation tool for itunes purchases and your personal mp3/m4a/m4v media library (i.e. no avi/mkv or divx/xvid/etc codecs).

AppleTV takes stock MP4 just fine. That's about all it takes, but if you've used Handbrake or similar software, it'll stream it just fine. I've encoded a number of DVDs and blu-ray discs and it's worked fine.

MKV files of the popularly-torrented variety can be remuxed (not re-encoded, just basically split and stuck in a new container file) pretty easily. Other formats might need a re-encode. I think some people have been working on streaming servers that advertise as iTunes shares and do the transcoding on the fly, but I don't know much along that line.

i am also pretty underwhelmed by lion but whatever, i am willing to bet that i will run into some sort of "sorry, this software needs lion" sort of situation before the big upcoming MBP redesign (6 months away?)

best re-encoding program i've found is SmartConverter which is free on the app store atm

Anything can be re-encoded for the Apple TV but the problem I have is going to that trouble in the first place. We have a WD TV Live that just plays everything out of the box, no conversion required, and it cost a good 30% less than an Apple TV.

But Apple TV only costs a crisp hundred and you can stream music right from your iPhone or control it on your iPad! :)

good tip on the converter program clay

what are other good converting programs besides smartconverter and handbrake? parents love to download chinese soap operas which are usually encoded in real player or other crappy codecs (blame real for gaining a real foothold in the hearts and minds of chinese citizens)

if I can find a good all-purpose converter, that would be a step closer to converting them completely to a mac

iVideoConverter can handle pretty much every codec EXCEPT real :( Don't think I've come across anything that still deals with realplayer idk

i've had pretty good experiences with iVideoConverter, but it's less "one point and click" than smart converter and can't do the rewrappign stuff with .mkv fiels that some of the newer apps can.

Is Miro any good?

fixing the tab thing...

http://lrasinen.kapsi.fi/OpenAtEnd/

i like my appletv but I don't use it for watching divx/xvid/mkvs, luckily my blu ray player will play these off a usb stick so if i have a torrented file i usually just watch from there. but you can use handbrake or something to make it an mp4; I've done it for a few things and it works fine. I really like our appletv, it seemed like a good way to spent $100 particularly since I can stream all the itunes library to the stereo with it and it give you a visual interface from which to browse your library. also, netflix streaming.

admittedly, lots of other devices do all of these things, probably a bit better; but it does all of those things with one device well enough for me.