I HATE APPLE

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

http://news.softpedia.com/news/OS-X-Lion-Drops-Save-As-One-of-the-Oldest-Features-in-Computing-213322.shtml

says:
UPDATE: as our Skeptic reader notes, "In TextEdit, you CAN save it in a different format - using the same trick as with preview (i.e. Duplicate and then Save). You are then presented with a dialog that lets you choose the name and format."

I am really liking having windows and linux on the same pc - its like a mullet - windows for work, ubuntu for party!

lukas: is this 10.7.1? if not, try the combo update to whatever version of 10.6 you're at.

gbx otm that textwrangler is a good default plain text editor. monaco 9pt is a terrible default font and john gruber likes it, but don't hold that against it.

if you find an editor you really like then remember you can still use texshop to compile preview (file -> open in exernal editor or whatever it's called)

i actually really liked subethaedit for some reason. never used the collaborative stuff and never paid for it, but it clicked for me until getting a post 7.0 vim running on os x became != agony

yeah I oughta give that one a shot, I've read about it before. I'm pretty undemanding in my needs for an editor, or maybe it's that I've never figured out how a good editor could help b/c I rarely use good editors? I just write lots of prose in tex & do a little html tinkering for professional reasons.

I mean textwrangler

definitely start with textwrangler

ya otm

it's got kind of a weird System 7 vibe which rubs some people the wrong way

I am really liking having windows and linux on the same laptop - its like a mullet - linux to do stuff, windows for, er, Update Windows

i've played with subethaedit but is it supposed to do anything other than collaborative stuff?

Euler, if you're going to use a "conventional" editor w/TeX (or even TeXShop itself) then I recommend taking a look at the TextExpander utility. i've only been toying with it for a couple days (i use snipMate with vim), but it could save you a TON of work if you take the time to set up the snippets.

also there might be prerolled LaTeX snippets out there, too

subethaedit's USP is definitely the collaborative stuff, and it has some basic programmers features (syntax hilighting, block editing), but i only ever used it as textedit without the rich text.

the heavyweight features of textwrangler will mostly stay out of your way, but it will syntax higlight your latex, which is nice.

gotcha thomp. i get paid to find problems with computers so when it happens unexpectedly at home I find myself kind of pissed like im giving myself something free when i should be getting paid

caek, it's 10.6.8, and i'll try that, thanks

I do like syntax highlighting of tex.

related q: have any of you sent tex documents written in Lion to other people, to confirm that they *can't* see the previous versions of those docs?

found a solution to my controlling itunes on one comp from another: OS X's inbuilt screen sharing, crude but effective

and with lion's full screen spaces I can just have the other macbook as a space on my desktop

I am really liking having windows and linux on the same pc - its like a mullet - windows for work, ubuntu for party!

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I did that for years, realised I only ever booted into windows for itunes, and blew away the whole partition and bought a mac.

...which somewhat complicates my 10.7 fallback position, because what I would be falling back to is ubuntu.

i don't really like this "full screen apps" thing and i can't understand natural scrolling without a touchscreen.

def. not seeing the value of full screen yet; on a widescreen monitor doesn't this just make e.g. browsing or text editing bizarrely wide?