I HATE APPLE

apparently you can't (or couldn't) copy to usb drives in lion? has this bug been fixed yet? cuz that is fucking lame.

I'm not bothering with this upgrade until i0S5 forces me to (like, if cloud storage for itunes doesn't work in snow leopard)

so I got an iPhone 4 and "restored" from iTunes. and now I don't have apps like FaceTime? how do I shot that?

the restore was from a pre-FaceTime restore backed up to iTunes? You should be able to access all the apps in iTunes and transfer them to the iPhone.

Am I right that my original MacBook won't run Lion?

ive copied to usb drives a bunch of times since i installed lion

I had the copying problem... restarted the finder and its been fine since

What the hell are you talking about? Facetime isn't a standalone app on the iPhone, it's rolled into Contacts or Phone app.

(go into your phone settings and enable FaceTime)

couldn't figure out how to downgrade lion to SL via usb stick

lion v.sluggish on bidey in's 2006 macbook

"apparently you can't (or couldn't) copy to usb drives in lion? has this bug been fixed yet? cuz that is fucking lame."

OH, wow, ya noticed this yesterday I could 'read only' my externals and couldn't change any access privileges! So this is a thing then huh?

thanks djp

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/08/09/apple-most-valuable-company/#more-71241?pagewanted=all

"apparently you can't (or couldn't) copy to usb drives in lion? has this bug been fixed yet? cuz that is fucking lame."

OH, wow, ya noticed this yesterday I could 'read only' my externals and couldn't change any access privileges! So this is a thing then huh?

Just as another data point, I read/write to a couple of USB drives in Lion daily and haven't had any issues. (both are formatted with Mac partitions FWIW)

Yeah, yesterday and Monday I filled two 2 TB ext drives with no issues so

When it happened to me I couldn't move or copy anything... external devices or even to other folders on the internal drive. Drove me mad for about 15 minutes but then I found some talk on a forum about it and restarting the finder seems to have solved it since.

Hopefully this patent will put a stop to all companies seeking to copy Apple's magical and beautiful designs by manufacturing doors, chopping boards and other rectangular shapes.

The problem it is game-theoretically disadvantageous for any major player to stop participating in the American IP disaster; if Apple doesn't patent rectangles, someone else will, and then they will sue Apple for rectangle royalties.

By the time an appeals court has decided that someone had prior art for rectangles in 1971, everybody's spend hundreds of millions of dollars on rectangle-centered litigation.

Apple closed today as the most walkable company in the world, displacing Exxon, this is kind of o_O

walkable = valuable - fuck you lion autocorrect

Rule #1 of Lion: turn off autocorrect

The problem it is game-theoretically disadvantageous for any major player to stop participating in the American IP disaster; if Apple doesn't patent rectangles, someone else will, and then they will sue Apple for rectangle royalties.

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I only became aware of the guts of that recently. If you don't actively defend your IP, it's considered fair game. Pathetic.

when did we all wake up in a william gibson novel

how feasible is it that my airport express router (now 5/6 years old) is bottlenecking my speed?

would I get better speeds on airport extreme? do wireless routers 'wear out'? sometimes when I'm streaming a football game after 20 mins the whole internet will jam up and I'll have to restart the router before it 'unjams'

football streams aren't the greatest control group for bottleneck issues.

have you tried FTPing a big file and seeing what happens?

i don't think wireless routers wear out, really. that said, moving up to wireless-N is a good move - just make sure every machine on your network is also N capable.

also, wireless in urban areas is just kind of fraught in general. for MISSION CRITICAL content like football matches i would use a wired connection, if possible.

Apple's wireless equipment has become significantly less flakey with each generation. If you're still using an Airport Express from 5-6 years ago, that means it has only 802.11g and is just generally slower. The Airport Extremes were nice, and now the ones with dual bands -- separate channels for 802.11b/g versus 802.11n -- are stable as hell in my experience. They just bumped the hardware again in the last couple weeks stealthily, so probably even better now.

Like Tracer said, N is better, but with the newest equipment you won't have any quality degradation if not all your equipment is N.

thanks... maybe I should look into going wired

fwiw I do all kinds of video streaming over 802.11n in a neighborhood with probably about ~8 wireless routers visible (not sure how many are N) and have no issues.

I have about 20 routers visible.

TOP TIP: Hold down the alt key before clicking on your wireless menu icon. Then wait a sec and roll your pointer over the networks in your vicinity. It will show you information about each one, including which channel they are on.

I heard from my neckbeardier friends that home wifi routers do wear out after 5-odd years. Shit runs hot 24/7, which is nagl for delicate electronics so might be something in that.

Yeah, I forgot to add that earlier. My friend's airport express fried itself, but he also had it outdoors next to a patio audio system in Las Vegas..

10.7.1

* Address an issue that may cause the system to become unresponsive when playing a video in Safari

I've actually had issues with wifi taking forever to reconnect or getting stalled out after waking my laptop from sleep. It seems like it could be waiting for Time Machine to spin up first and it just kind of locks. Hopefully this fixes it!

can you control itunes on one mac from another? other than via using screen sharing

know you can use remote.app on ipad/iphone obv

you can, uh, ssh from one mac to the other and use applescript to control iTunes from the command line. There's probably a dozen scripts to facilitate this kicking around the internets.

I understood mac and itunes

yeah.

pissed that they took "save as" away from TextEdit in Lion.

is there a better "light" text editor for OS X?

pissed that they took "save as" away from TextEdit in Lion.

I misread as "save us"

TextWrangler?

i just switched back to pc

yay

windows 7 is kind of awesome

do you need rich text euler?

ugh software update keeps stalling out at 98%, "writing files". standalone installers work fine.

tried an OS re-install, problem has returned. anyone know what i should try next?

thomp...really? im running both lion and w7 and windows 7 is the only one im having probs with

nope, no rich text needed

I mostly write in TexShop, but I don't use it for html editing & don't need a "full-serviced" html setup b/c uggh, just plain text. I can do it in terminal w/ vi but I'm slower in vi than I am in a regular text editor.

successor: i just switched back to windows after two-three years on an ooold (pre-intel) mac and it's nice having the OS feel that's 'natural' to me back -- also they've borrowed all of the mac os features that i actually liked, so too there's this 'you got your peanut butter' feeling to it

also there's actually something refreshing about having a computer that crashes and hangs and you have to work out what's going wrong with it, it occupies a puzzle solving centre of my brain that is otherwise starved for things to do. i.e. now i don't have to bother with the crossword puzzle