I HATE APPLE

Well, installing the 10.6 beta did not work out well at all. So now we again test the limits of restoring the system from a Time Machine Backup. I'll let you know in... 1 hour and 21 minutes, it says here.

what went wrong?

It installed, seemed to work, then wanted to update itself. Updates downloaded, seemed to install, but it would never boot again.

I'm not going to spend a lot of time diagnosing weirdness on a beta. If it doesn't work, drop back and punt.

it works well in vmware, once you install the vmware hackz

UGH

i have that problem now where the keyboard has made little keyboard shaped marks all over my macbook pro screen. i thought it was just finger grease but neither iklear nor goo gone can get the marks off. any suggestions for a sort of LCD polish that'll take the marks off?

this is the unibody glass screen?

I've never seen that happen before... Not good!

no it's an old aluminum body macbook pro

i have keyboard marks on regular macbook but i'm not very gentle with it at all. i've just sort of accepted it.

hmm with a matte or glossy display? if iklear and goo gone can't get the marks off, then they may be permanent :*(

What the fuck is all this "I can't use ILM because I have a Mac!!" horseshit?

?

Can't open ILM on a Mac...anyone have any ideas?

Zing: A (beta) ILX client for Macs

What the fuck is all this "Soulseek doesn't work on Macs" horse shit?

Seek into your soul, you'll find it

― young depardieu looming out of void in hour of profound triumph (Le Bateau Ivre), Saturday, September 5, 2009 2:37 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

that made me chuckle, but i am on a mac--why didn't i wait until 9/10 to switch over from pc! thanks though

― iago g., Saturday, September 5, 2009 2:38 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark

Ummm... I thought Macs were supposed to be good. That's reason enough not to buy one!!

lol

is that a new thing? I used to use soulseek on a mac all the time.

Snrub, the first thread you linked mentioned that there were platform-independent connection issues and it wasn't OS-related. The second thread is about a program made to view ILX outside of a browser, for those that would prefer such a thing -- no such thing exists for Windows or any other platform, so that would be a mac-positive, not negative.

There are also soulseek clients for mac os.

both of which have been abandoned by their developers.

but at least one of which still works just fine.

lol soulseek

I am posting from 2009 how about you?

also soulseek works fine on mac

http://apps4macs.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/ssx.png

love that little dude

does sxs still work after the upgrade?

ssx? xsxss?

works fine

you have to install rosetta though

you have to install rosetta though

Actually, the very last build of ssX is universal.

Yeah - I used it for the first time since 10.6 the other day, and after upgrading to latest version avoided the Rosetta install again. I'm thinking I can duck Rosetta forever now.

I thought I could dump Rosetta forever, but I still had some financial data left in Quicken 2007*. Plus I still like playing No One Lives Forever 1 & 2.

*I've since moved stuff over to the Financial Life beta, but Great Cthulhu that interface sucks. Can someone write a decent OS X financial app that doesn't suck, doesn't try to be the "iTunes of xxxxx," isn't weird/culty like Moneywell?

http://i28.tinypic.com/2ce4ykp.jpg

this keyboard, this is a terrible keyboard. also mac mouses are awful. it's like typing on a calculator and mousing with a hardboiled egg.

wow. to me it's the best keyboard i've ever used! I love the feel. Different strokes for different folks, i guess

mighty mouse does suck tho

yup agreed w/nhex on both points

I like the Mighty Mouse, until it breaks. It always seems to break.

it just doesn't feel like a keyboard to me, i guess. i need clacking noises!

I love that keyboard. Didn't think I would but took to it right away.

I use a kensington trackball though...not enough deskspace for a mouse.

I've got the more compact wireless version, and it's fantastic. Same feeling about my MBP's keyboard, too.

quick look-ing exposéd windows is nice

as is using exposé hot keys w/in command-tab

is there an equivalent of "10-foot hud" for os x?

I love typing on that keyboard and the new Macbook Pro keyboards (chiclet-style or whatever they're called). It has a very positive keystroke feel, I guess. Not mushy like their old keyboards.

lol I've bought things from this apple store

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qER69SvyYV8

lols from the cnn article (also lol at this being a newsworthy event):

The magsafe cords detached instantly, offering no resistance and leaving power sockets undamaged.

Finally, the stiff unibody shells meant that the villains could grab the notebooks one-handed from a corner with no flexing, and no risk to the internal circuitry, the tough aluminum bodies resisting the jostling clanks inside the sacks.

i have to admit that video is kind of amusing in how movie-like the operation is

skilled practice in the art of smashing a window

You, the one who updated to iTunes 9 and has an iPod: had any issues with smart playlists under iTunes 9? I'm nervous about updating now. I've heard RUMORS.

Was fine for me. The only thing I heard about smart playlists under iTunes 9 is that they're even better now, since you can nest criteria.

The issue I've heard of is smart playlists not doing live updating on the iPod any more, or not appearing on the iPod at all. Thanks!

the first itunes 9 sync of my girlfriend's ipod resulted in the ipod freezing up, playlists disappearing, and no record of what she'd listened to. Dunno how much you can blame itunes 9 and how much you can blame possibly random, destructive freezing.