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ufarn posted:How do I save my Terminal aliases permanently? They keep turning invalid eventually. Copy them into a file named .profile and save that in your user's home folder.
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Alec Eiffel posted:Today I decided to upgrade to Mountain Lion by first downloading Snow Leopard (I know, I know). Apple's website seems to no longer offer Snow Leopard - is my only option via Amazon or Ebay? (It's priced in the low $100s - was it always this price?) Until Apple realizes that pulling SL was a stupid decision when it's required to upgrade to anything newer, yes (legally, anyway). And no, it wasn't always that price, but because of people in your situation who actually have to have it, the price has inflated.
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Binary Badger posted:
How would that solve the issue? As was said, someone at AppleCare bypassed the security.
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Anyone have any recommendations on weather apps? I've been using the vanilla weather widget for a while now but for some reason its started to become very buggy recently. Every day or so a widget will forget what city it's supposed to be reporting on and will change back to Cupertino (I run a handful of them to keep track of multiple cities). I've already tried Meteorologist, which was definitely nice, but for some reason I can't configure it to have more than 1 city.
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empty baggie posted:Until Apple realizes that pulling SL was a stupid decision when it's required to upgrade to anything newer, yes (legally, anyway). Didn't they offer everyone a free upgrade to SL that wasn't on it for about a month before ML came out? Wasn't anyone who's going to upgrade to ML already on SL?
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Bob Morales posted:Didn't they offer everyone a free upgrade to SL that wasn't on it for about a month before ML came out? I don't remember the free upgrade thing. Maybe they did. As far as people already being on SL, from the several frustrated customers I've talked to over the past week, no.
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Bob Morales posted:Didn't they offer everyone a free upgrade to SL that wasn't on it for about a month before ML came out?
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empty baggie posted:I don't remember the free upgrade thing. Maybe they did. Maybe go to Best Buy and see if they have retail SL discs still?
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A person could possibly try an Apple reseller. Our shop has quietly upgraded a few people so they can install ML. We're really not supposed to do this and obviously don't charge, so it's strictly a customer-satisfaction thing. I'm not sure how hard Apple would crack down on shops doing this, but I mean, they've kinda screwed a ton of people by setting this restriction. Surely it's not just to sell more computers as some people I've talked to have suggested.
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I'm assuming that their reasoning is simply "If you're interested in upgrading to ML then you would have likely upgraded to SL already, and if your hardware is too old to have come with SL then oh well buy some new hardware".
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A bunch of Amazon resellers have 10.6.3 DVDs for $114 new, $88-98 for an open box. Bleah..
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Alec Eiffel posted:Today I decided to upgrade to Mountain Lion by first downloading Snow Leopard (I know, I know). Apple's website seems to no longer offer Snow Leopard - is my only option via Amazon or Ebay? (It's priced in the low $100s - was it always this price?) Do you still need a copy? Can your Mac use a 10.6 install?
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Just pirate 10.8, install it, then buy it. Anything else is going to be needlessly harder and more expensive.
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Shin-chan posted:How would that solve the issue? As was said, someone at AppleCare bypassed the security. http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2012/08/apple-amazon-mat-honan-hacking/all/
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japtor posted:And to be more specific: There are two sides to this. The 'only when hackers go after high profile targets will security be fixed' argument. balanced against the The 'just because there are glass windows does not mean one should break them' argument. I cannot believe this guy does not back up his computer though. WTF? The article is surprisingly well-written for a complete idiot. How the gently caress does someone who does not even consider that hard drives fail all the drat time manage to string sentences together?
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EVERYTHING I SAY ABOUT JAPAN OR LIVING IN JAPAN IS COMPLETELY WRONG, BUT YOU BETTER BELIEVE I'LL 
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kapalama posted:I cannot believe this guy does not back up his computer though. WTF? The article is surprisingly well-written for a complete idiot. How the gently caress does someone who does not even consider that hard drives fail all the drat time manage to string sentences together? This fellow was on Sunday's "The Week in Tech" podcast to tell this story. He said that his desktop was backed up regularly, and it was just the laptop that he'd gotten lazy with. Object lesson, right? Can't afford to get lazy with anything these days. Dude didn't sound pompous on the podcast tho, he just sounded tired.
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evil_bunnY posted:I'm having the weirdest input mapping bug. All my keys are mapped according to the US layout, except tilde which now inputs § and ±, the swedish layout. What the gently caress, apple.
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CaptainCrunch posted:This fellow was on Sunday's "The Week in Tech" podcast to tell this story. He said that his desktop was backed up regularly, and it was just the laptop that he'd gotten lazy with. Object lesson, right? Can't afford to get lazy with anything these days. Dude didn't sound pompous on the podcast tho, he just sounded tired. Yeah I am hammering him too hard about that I guess. I am certainly gald he is willing to be called an idiot about it for the purposes of bringing to light a serious issue. And in some sense if his MBP would not have been wiped, it would be too easy to see it as just a hiccup. Also if I just had a kid, I would be unable to function as a person, much less a proper member of society, even much more less remembering to back up my laptop. kapalama fucked around with this message at 16:46 on Aug 7, 2012 |
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So this sob story got me to turn on two factor authentication. I get how this works for the web, but it looks like it just generates individual passwords for all my other devices. So if someone gets my gmail password, they can still do tons with it, just not from the web app?
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~Coxy posted:Just pirate 10.8, install it, then buy it. I have to agree. Apple will do alright even if you don't drop your $20 on it. They are doing swell, and not because of software sales.
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dexter6 posted:So this sob story got me to turn on two factor authentication. I get how this works for the web, but it looks like it just generates individual passwords for all my other devices. So if someone gets my gmail password, they can still do tons with it, just not from the web app? As the Apple problem has shown, this part is the weakest link for people who aren't complete idiots about their security measures. The secret-question recovery model needs to die yesterday.
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Whenever you get a password recovery question at signup, I strongly suggest you wail away at the keyboard for a minute in the answer field instead.
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Dolomite posted:Do you still need a copy? Can your Mac use a 10.6 install? Yes, my Mac can use a 10.6 install. I have 10.5.8. Yesterday I thought, "gee, I should probably get this computer up to snuff," but alas...
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CaptainCrunch posted:This fellow was on Sunday's "The Week in Tech" podcast to tell this story. He said that his desktop was backed up regularly, and it was just the laptop that he'd gotten lazy with. Object lesson, right? Can't afford to get lazy with anything these days. Dude didn't sound pompous on the podcast tho, he just sounded tired. This kind of sob story could have been cut short at "wow Amazon and Apple's support security kind of sucks guys". Ugh.
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I would just laugh if someone told me they had a separate email for all their accounts with password recovery. But people definitely need to take backing up their data seriously.
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evil_bunnY posted:Whenever you get a password recovery question at signup, I strongly suggest you wail away at the keyboard for a minute in the answer field instead. This is completely useless most of the time. Apple gave out the account information despite the "hacker" failing the security question. Once, when I had forgotten that I had gotten fancy with the recovery question, I got access to my credit card account despite getting the answer wrong three times. The person on the phone just let it pass. This was during a call about fraudulent charges  .
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If anyone is really interested, I am pretty sure I have a Snow Leopard disc that I will sell cheap, I just have to go home and make sure its still in my desk drawer somewhere.
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Porkchop Express posted:If anyone is really interested, I am pretty sure I have a Snow Leopard disc that I will sell cheap, I just have to go home and make sure its still in my desk drawer somewhere. Thank you. I actually called Apple and they sold me a copy of SL for 29.99 + tax.
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I just filled out the Mountain Lion up to date form with my new MBA and the download code came less than a minute later. All I had to do was enter my serial#, not sure why people were scanning their receipts?
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Probably has to do with what kind of store you bought it from. I'm guessing buying it from a random electronics store instead directly from Apple or a premium reseller makes you scan it.
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New obnoxiousness discovered with the Safari 6 omnibar: When you're doing a Google search, the omnibar will show the search term, not the URL you are at (even after clicking to different pages, or image search). Want to copy/paste the URL so someone can see the search results? Well gently caress you, the omnibar knows better.
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How the hell do I get my girlfriends iMessage's from her phone to show up on her 2012 MBA? She upgraded to Mountain Lion but they aren't showing up. She's logged into the same iCloud account on both her iPhone and MBA, so I don't really know what the problem is...
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I think you're confused. iCloud doesn't sync your phones entire message history. Nor will it intercept messages sent to her phone number until Apple officially launches that feature with iOS 6.
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DarkJC posted:I think you're confused. iCloud doesn't sync your phones entire message history. Nor will it intercept messages sent to her phone number until Apple officially launches the that feature with iOS 6. Ah gently caress. This is what I get for being a Windows/Android user. Thanks! Guess she'll just have to wait until iOS6 drops for her 4S 
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chocolateTHUNDER posted:Ah gently caress. This is what I get for being a Windows/Android user. Or get people to send texts to her iCloud account address instead of her phone number.
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Alec Eiffel posted:Thank you. I actually called Apple and they sold me a copy of SL for 29.99 + tax. No worries, its open to anyone who might need it.
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Does anyone know offhand the preference to change to get removable media not to show up on the Desktop? I know it's off by default in ML, but it showed up again after I ran Migration Assistant.
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Arivia posted:Does anyone know offhand the preference to change to get removable media not to show up on the Desktop? I know it's off by default in ML, but it showed up again after I ran Migration Assistant. Finder Preferences, General Tab.
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For anyone using the Save As function in Mountain Lion like the pre Lion days...well it doesn't work the same way: http://macperformanceguide.com/MountainLion-SaveAs-data-destruction.html quote:If one edits a document, then chooses Save As, then BOTH the edited original document and the copy are saved, thus not only saving a new copy, but silently saving the original with the same changes, thus overwriting the original.
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