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NerdPolice posted:Don't know what is going on but ever since Lion I've been getting pinwheels OFTEN. I've thought it was FireFox but even using other browsers I still get pinwheels and also realized it was happening in practically every other application. Is there some sort of magic that I should know about? I did a clean install of Lion about a month ago and never had any sort of issue similar to this with Snow Leopard.
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coldplay chiptunes posted:Did you install fresh or upgrade on top of an existing SL install?
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# ? Oct 17, 2011 01:42 |
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Strange. I have no idea then.
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# ? Oct 17, 2011 01:43 |
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In my zeal to try out iCloud, I either ticked the "Bookmarks" box on my Mac, or it was checked by default. In any case, it now added two useless folders that I cannot remove from my iPhone: "Bookmarks Bar" and "Bookmarks Menu." I have tried all manners of syncing, re-syncing, and .plist editing, but at this point I concede defeat. I can either backup my Mobile Safari bookmarks to my iCloud account and live with two extra folders on my phone, or I can disable bookmarks backup and get those two rows back. I am irrationally frustrated by this. ETA: The problem is that there does not seem to be a way to "reset" bookmarks stored in iCloud. I can only "merge" from my iPhone, and I can't find a combination of .plist edits on my Mac that removes the bookmarks in a way that iCloud respects. Le sigh. Kobayashi fucked around with this message at 03:03 on Oct 17, 2011 |
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Useless? Why? If you want bookmark syncing then why are they useless? For reference, this is what it's syncing from your Mac.
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# ? Oct 17, 2011 03:03 |
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coldplay chiptunes posted:Useless? Why? If you want bookmark syncing then why are they useless? You're right. The problem is, I don't want to sync my bookmarks with my Mac. I simply want to back up my phone's bookmarks to iCloud. Unfortunately, I accidentally checked the box to backup my Mac's bookmarks to iCloud too, and now I'm stuck with those folders on my phone. Mobile Safari won't let me delete those folders, and I can't use my Mac to trick iCloud into forgetting about them either. My mistake, I guess, but it's still annoying.
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# ? Oct 17, 2011 03:11 |
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Ahh, didn't get what you were saying. Why don't you want to sync your Mac bookmarks with your iPhone? That's kind of the purpose of iCloud. It's not so much as "backing up" as it is keeping things synced across multiple Apple devices.
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# ? Oct 17, 2011 03:31 |
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Scripting question! (is there a better place to ask?) "Do Something When" is a great app for executing anything after a drive has been plugged in and/or mounted. However, it sucks having to rely on it. Outside of polling the syslog every 10 seconds to see if a drive has been mounted... is there a better way to do this entirely within a script? Shell script, apple script, ruby, python... i dont care! I just want some way of handling this without a 3rd party app. Script & apple native tools only. This script will be daemonized vi launchctl so it will be always alive. I just want the most lightweight way to detect a drive mounting event. Does OSX have a built in tool or other method for this maybe?
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# ? Oct 17, 2011 03:34 |
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DigitalChaos posted:This script will be daemonized vi launchctl so it will be always alive. I just want the most lightweight way to detect a drive mounting event. Does OSX have a built in tool or other method for this maybe?
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# ? Oct 17, 2011 03:55 |
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coldplay chiptunes posted:Ahh, didn't get what you were saying. It's mostly because I use the web differently on my Mac and on my phone. I could probably get used to it if those folders weren't at the top of the screen. But as it is now, it's too much clutter: Reading List, History, Bookmarks Menu, Bookmarks Bar, and then what I actually want, my bookmarks. It sounds trivial, but I want those two rows back.
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# ? Oct 17, 2011 04:10 |
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I'm not quite sure how to word this, but is there a Mac archive utility that supports a sort of file manager view, like WinRAR or WinZIP? My wife wants to be able to easily see what's in her ZIP files (without unzipping them) and add and remove individual files by dragging and dropping, and as far as I can tell, there's no way to do this with The Unarchiver or the Archive Utility. They just unzip everything and that's it.
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# ? Oct 17, 2011 04:39 |
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brc64 posted:I'm not quite sure how to word this, but is there a Mac archive utility that supports a sort of file manager view, like WinRAR or WinZIP? My wife wants to be able to easily see what's in her ZIP files (without unzipping them) and add and remove individual files by dragging and dropping, and as far as I can tell, there's no way to do this with The Unarchiver or the Archive Utility. They just unzip everything and that's it. Both WinRAR and WinZip have OSX versions. http://www.winzip.com/mac/en/product_overview_mac.htm?sc_cid=go_us_b_search_Mac_Edition and http://www.win-rar.com/download.html they both seem to have a file manager view similar to their Windows versions.
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# ? Oct 17, 2011 05:14 |
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NerdPolice posted:Don't know what is going on but ever since Lion I've been getting pinwheels OFTEN. I've thought it was FireFox but even using other browsers I still get pinwheels and also realized it was happening in practically every other application. Is there some sort of magic that I should know about? I did a clean install of Lion about a month ago and never had any sort of issue similar to this with Snow Leopard. Do you have an external hard drive or multiple hard drives in your computer? This happens to me when an external drive spins down and then it will pinwheel when it spins the HD back up. For some reason there is a lot of things in Lion that make the hard drive spin up, seems to happen way more than Snow Leopard ever did.
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# ? Oct 17, 2011 06:22 |
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Evil Orca posted:Both WinRAR and WinZip have OSX versions. http://www.winzip.com/mac/en/product_overview_mac.htm?sc_cid=go_us_b_search_Mac_Edition and http://www.win-rar.com/download.html they both seem to have a file manager view similar to their Windows versions. Another one is BetterZip.
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# ? Oct 17, 2011 08:07 |
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brc64 posted:I'm not quite sure how to word this, but is there a Mac archive utility that supports a sort of file manager view, like WinRAR or WinZIP? My wife wants to be able to easily see what's in her ZIP files (without unzipping them) and add and remove individual files by dragging and dropping, and as far as I can tell, there's no way to do this with The Unarchiver or the Archive Utility. They just unzip everything and that's it. There's also zipeg
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# ? Oct 17, 2011 08:11 |
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I want to have a 1-button thing in my menu bar that turns on and off a SOCKS proxy. Is this possible?
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# ? Oct 17, 2011 08:40 |
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Ziir posted:I want to have a 1-button thing in my menu bar that turns on and off a SOCKS proxy. Is this possible? I use Chrome and Proxy Switchy. That one definitely switches the browser's proxy settings in one button with the quick switch enabled. Firefox has Foxyproxy which is similar. I don't know about menu bar and one button version of either of those or of this kind. Also, I've never seen any app do a one button thing in the menu bar either.
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# ? Oct 17, 2011 08:45 |
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Barack Pwnbama posted:Do you have an external hard drive or multiple hard drives in your computer? This happens to me when an external drive spins down and then it will pinwheel when it spins the HD back up. For some reason there is a lot of things in Lion that make the hard drive spin up, seems to happen way more than Snow Leopard ever did.
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# ? Oct 17, 2011 11:13 |
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Is there any kind of small piece of software that automatically switches desktop wallpapers at certain times of day? I know OSX has this sort of thing in it by default, but I'd like to set the time when the wallpaper changes myself (ie. switch from a brighter wallpaper to something darker when it's 6pm and back at 6am or something).
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# ? Oct 17, 2011 14:40 |
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Have you tried f.lux? It might just be what you need. (it doesn't change wallpapers though, just regulates the temperature of the screen's lighting or whatever, I'm not good at explaining this)
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Yeah I use f.lux and love it, but I'm using dual monitors and it'd be nice to have a day/night wallpaper cycle at appropriate times. It's a shame the built-in wallpaper rotation in OSX doesn't let you do this.
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# ? Oct 17, 2011 15:53 |
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Safari still doesn't work at the library and I have no idea why. But as Firefox does work, I guess I will just chalk it up to ghosts or voodoo magic and move on.
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# ? Oct 17, 2011 15:53 |
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What's a good note taking application? Not just quick notes, but like school notes. Things I would like most are good organization and good formatting options.
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# ? Oct 17, 2011 16:10 |
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Stare-Out posted:Is there any kind of small piece of software that automatically switches desktop wallpapers at certain times of day? I know OSX has this sort of thing in it by default, but I'd like to set the time when the wallpaper changes myself (ie. switch from a brighter wallpaper to something darker when it's 6pm and back at 6am or something). This is kind of a silly workaround, but you could set up a folder of wallpapers and set OS X to cycle through them. Since OS X has options for "Change Wallpaper Every Hour" and "Every Day", but not "Every 12 Hours", you could make 12 copies of your brighter wallpaper and 12 copies of your darker wallpaper. Then make sure the "random order" box is unselected, and the wallpapers should appear to change twice a day.
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Clank posted:What's a good note taking application? Not just quick notes, but like school notes. Things I would like most are good organization and good formatting options. Personally, I used Journler for the first semester of law school, then Pages, and finally settled on Omni Outliner Pro. It depends if you like having a database of files, or a series of paragraphs, or a flexible outline. I recommend OOP because I really like thinking in outline form.
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# ? Oct 17, 2011 16:27 |
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Evernote may work too
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# ? Oct 17, 2011 17:01 |
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Hopewell posted:This is kind of a silly workaround, but you could set up a folder of wallpapers and set OS X to cycle through them. Since OS X has options for "Change Wallpaper Every Hour" and "Every Day", but not "Every 12 Hours", you could make 12 copies of your brighter wallpaper and 12 copies of your darker wallpaper. Then make sure the "random order" box is unselected, and the wallpapers should appear to change twice a day. MacRabbit (the people who make Espresso/CSSEdit) used to have an app called DeskShade that would let you set wallpapers to cycle at a certain time, as well as do nifty things like recolouring existing desktop images via sliders and such, but it seems they've removed all references to it from their site and I can't find a download to see if the last released version plays nicely with Lion.
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# ? Oct 17, 2011 17:07 |
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Hopewell posted:This is kind of a silly workaround, but you could set up a folder of wallpapers and set OS X to cycle through them. Since OS X has options for "Change Wallpaper Every Hour" and "Every Day", but not "Every 12 Hours", you could make 12 copies of your brighter wallpaper and 12 copies of your darker wallpaper. Then make sure the "random order" box is unselected, and the wallpapers should appear to change twice a day.
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Clank posted:What's a good note taking application? Not just quick notes, but like school notes. Things I would like most are good organization and good formatting options. I really like PearNote because of its audio recording feature. It'll match up what you're hearing with what you've typed. Click a certain place in your notes, and it'll seek to that portion of the audio. Has actually saved my rear end a few times.
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Stare-Out posted:Is there any kind of small piece of software that automatically switches desktop wallpapers at certain times of day? I know OSX has this sort of thing in it by default, but I'd like to set the time when the wallpaper changes myself (ie. switch from a brighter wallpaper to something darker when it's 6pm and back at 6am or something). This is old so I'm not sure if it runs well on Lion. At work now so I can't try it out. Desktopia: http://www.chatelp.org/?page_id=6
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Stare-Out posted:That's... actually pretty clever. I'll do just that until I find an app that does it for me. Thanks. Without digging into it too much, another way to do this would be to use Lingon to schedule the action. I'm sure you could script the whole thing through Lingon, but to make things simpler you could just create two applications in Automator- one to change the desktop image and another to change it back. That way, you don't have to time the changing of your desktop changes based on when you turned on your computer, you could set it to happen at a given time. You may get off of the cycle for a bit if you shut down your computer and turn it back on after the desktop was supposed to switch. I suppose if you really care that much you could run a little script at boot to set the correct background on boot.
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# ? Oct 17, 2011 20:34 |
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Studio Network Solutions Lion compatible iSCSI initiator is out today. http://www.studionetworksolutions.com/products/product_detail.php?pi=11
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# ? Oct 17, 2011 21:10 |
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Thank loving christ.
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# ? Oct 17, 2011 21:37 |
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ephori posted:Anybody here work with Macs in a corporate, Windows environment? I've always used Macs at home and PCs at work, but they just bought me a Mac Pro to play with at the office because they're thinking about buying a bunch more for some of the marketing staff. Late on this, but I am a Mac admin at a university explicitly doing what you are talking about. I have around 50 'lab' Macs that I manage in a Server 2003 AD environment. You basically have two options: OS X Server or BeyondTrust (Likewise). Technically, we use both, but I know that AD is better in SL and Lion than it was in Leopard, but I have found that Likewise is more reliable long term than Apple's plugin. BeyondTrust allows you to manage Mac policy from within a complete Windows environment by using a snap in console that you point Apple's Server Tools (namely Workgroup Manager) to as a 'fake' Mac OS X Open Directory Server. The other option is to just setup a Mac (a mini server is perfect for this) as an OD master and do the policy that way. Both methods still allow for AD authentication, but I have found the OSX Server method to be better for managing policy. Feel free to PM if you don't want to really go off topic in the thread.
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mayodreams posted:Late on this, but I am a Mac admin at a university explicitly doing what you are talking about. I have around 50 'lab' Macs that I manage in a Server 2003 AD environment. You basically have two options: OS X Server or BeyondTrust (Likewise). Technically, we use both, but I know that AD is better in SL and Lion than it was in Leopard, but I have found that Likewise is more reliable long term than Apple's plugin.
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# ? Oct 17, 2011 22:57 |
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Ziir posted:I want to have a 1-button thing in my menu bar that turns on and off a SOCKS proxy. Is this possible? You can try this. Make a bash script with this in it: code:
Then, save this into a file called SOCKS.scpt: code:
Now, open this: /System/Library/CoreServices/Menu Extras/Script Menu.menu Now you should see your script in there. This works for me when I try, although it's two clicks. You can probably delete all those folders if you'll never use them, make it look a little cleaner.
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# ? Oct 18, 2011 01:06 |
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Re: notes, I've heard Curio is nice if you're into the free form type of note taking.
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# ? Oct 18, 2011 01:19 |
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Is it normal to press Caps Lock and not have it do anything until you hit it a second time? 10.6, MBP, WTF.
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# ? Oct 18, 2011 01:50 |
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lord funk posted:Is it normal to press Caps Lock and not have it do anything until you hit it a second time? 10.6, MBP, WTF.
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If you release too soon after you press, it won't trigger to prevent accidental input.
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