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Kilometers Davis posted:Has anyone had luck getting a G9x mouse to play well with OSX? I'd love to get the side buttons working. Have you tried Logitech Control Center? It'll sort of mess with the default mouse settings in terms of acceleration, etc. from what ships default with OSX, but it's worked pretty much flawlessly from 10.5 through to 10.8 now. I should clarify that I have an MX Revolution, but I just wanted to check whether you'd tried the software.
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Do not install the logitech poo poo. Use bettertouchtool and map buttons to gestures.
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evil_bunnY posted:Do not install the logitech poo poo. Use bettertouchtool and map buttons to gestures. Just out of curiosity, why not? I've been using the logitech software for probably 5 or 6 years now without a single problem.
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Sep 2, 2012 20:50
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BTT does everything better?
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Sep 2, 2012 20:51
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evil_bunnY posted:BTT does everything better? Like what? I've been the logitech software with my MX Revolution and M510 with no issues whatsoever. I've had the Revolution for like 4 years.
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Sep 2, 2012 20:53
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Mu Zeta posted:Like what? I've been the logitech software with my MX Revolution and M510 with no issues whatsoever. I've had the Revolution for like 4 years. e: TBH, I tried the drivers once and like BTT better but my opinion of their PC software may have tainted my judgement at the time. evil_bunnY fucked around with this message at 21:04 on Sep 2, 2012 |
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Sep 2, 2012 21:00
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I looked up the G9X and it only has Windows support. So BTT might be your only option with that mouse.
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Martytoof posted:Just out of curiosity, why not? I've been using the logitech software for probably 5 or 6 years now without a single problem. Anecdotal Experience Zone ahead I stopped using the LCC software after I found it was causing system slowdowns and it was causing kernel panics unless I regularly rebuilt the extensions cache on my 11-inch MBA. Haven't used it since v3.5.1 and I've had no problems either. 
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Sep 2, 2012 21:11
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Yeah, no I don't mean to imply that my opinion is in some way superior to anyone else, and my experience is certainly anecdotal as well. Just when given such a strong opinion against LCC I figured there was some amazing reason it was deemed "poo poo" and not just another opinion. I would agree that a lot of OEM-ware can be poo poo, but I think LCC is a pleasant exception.
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Martytoof posted:Yeah, no I don't mean to imply that my opinion is in some way superior to anyone else
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I mean just because I have a PhD and a nobel prize in physics doesn't mean I'm better than any of you peons.
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Sep 2, 2012 21:58
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Martytoof posted:Yeah, no I don't mean to imply that my opinion is in some way superior to anyone else, and my experience is certainly anecdotal as well. Just when given such a strong opinion against LCC I figured there was some amazing reason it was deemed "poo poo" and not just another opinion.
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Sep 2, 2012 23:26
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It's kind of like the hate against Coconut Battery. Sure, it tells you what System Profiler can give you, but it's still free, and so far it's the first battery utility that was modded for compatibility for Mountain Lion and is still being actively maintained as far as I can tell. But the sheer mention of it causes people to recoil in horror and say it sucks, even though it gives you a little handy database for tracking your battery's capacity which I have yet to see in other battery utilities. Binary Badger fucked around with this message at 00:04 on Sep 3, 2012 |
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Sep 3, 2012 00:02
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The hate for Coconut stems from the nerds who constantly obsess over their battery, not the program itself.
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evil_bunnY posted:App-specific bindings in my case (I have another, non-logitech pointer). If there is a complaint that I have for LCC, it is that I have to mod the config file for it to recognise my MX1100 mouse because it was a part of the Wave Keyboard kit, which is incompatible with Macs
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Sep 3, 2012 01:47
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Just figured out the hard way that screen sharing doesn't work on the retina MBP unless you switch to a non-HIDPI setting using SwitchResX or something similar. Radio silence from MS about it. I really hope this gets fixed quickly.
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I think I have found the single USB mouse that doesn't work with OS X. It's a Targus AMU2601EUK retractable wire thingy. The LED turns on when I plug it in and the first time it popped up the Apple Wireless Keyboard wizard (!?). Works fine on a Windows machine. Googling popped up a thread with someone having the same issue, but that's it. The Targus site doesn't have any drivers, either. Not much to do, is there? I don't really know if it belongs in a software or hardware thread, could be both.
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Sep 3, 2012 12:35
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Does the text input area in Messages show at a slightly smaller size or something? The spacing feels cramped to me.
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On iTunes: how do I get it to sort according to date added while having a chronological track listing?
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Didion posted:On iTunes: how do I get it to sort according to date added while having a chronological track listing? Click to sort by album, then again, and once more will sort by Artist, then album release. I assume this is what you meant. EDIT:I guess not, you said date added. Don't know.
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Sep 3, 2012 17:36
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Didion posted:On iTunes: how do I get it to sort according to date added while having a chronological track listing? You can make a smart playlist which will show only "recently added" tracks up to a certain date ago, and then sort by regular album order.
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I just had an extraordinary experience. I was faffing about online, when suddenly the computer froze and a message popped up urging me to forcibly shut it down and restart. In the five years I've been working with Macs, I had never seen such a message, so, slightly alarmed, I ran an internet search for what just happened. I discovered that I had just experienced a MacOS kernel panic (what Windows would call a "blue screen of death"). After five years of intense, day-to-day usage, including games and system intensive media editing software, my computer finally crashed for the first time. Five years. I love you, Apple.
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Yeah, these days it's a rare sight.
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Sep 3, 2012 23:56
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YO MAMA HEAD posted:Does the text input area in Messages show at a slightly smaller size or something? The spacing feels cramped to me. Smaller than iChat? Seems about the same to me - too small. That it's un-resizable is irritating. But I continue to use it anyway... <sigh>
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I ended up going with BTT and it worked perfectly. Within 30 seconds of opening it I had my G9x configured exactly how I wanted. Great program.Jolan posted:I just had an extraordinary experience. I was faffing about online, when suddenly the computer froze and a message popped up urging me to forcibly shut it down and restart. In the five years I've been working with Macs, I had never seen such a message, so, slightly alarmed, I ran an internet search for what just happened. I discovered that I had just experienced a MacOS kernel panic (what Windows would call a "blue screen of death"). After five years of intense, day-to-day usage, including games and system intensive media editing software, my computer finally crashed for the first time. Five years. As bored as I am with the somewhat stale color palette and general look of the current Apple lineup, these reasons are why I don't jump to Google for tablets and MS for a desktop OS. The quality and consistency is ridiculous. I always have to laugh when I hear people say Apple stuff is horribly overpriced and hear how they gently caress over their customers. Apple treats us with respect and knows we want really, really good quality all around. I can't remember the last time I really felt like I was dicked around by the company or their products. Even my ridiculously old MBP would run fine if it had a working battery.
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Wario In Real Life posted:You can't really. When you import a folder iTunes goes random on it so even though you've got a 01 First Track.mp3 it might add 08 Spaghetti Sauce.mp3 first. Oh wow, really? Thanks for the clarification . 
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strokevictim posted:Smaller than iChat? Seems about the same to me - too small. That it's un-resizable is irritating. But I continue to use it anyway... <sigh> SorryI meant smaller than the message display area. Once I see them sent or received, it looks a little better, but the input area is cramped.
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YO MAMA HEAD posted:SorryI meant smaller than the message display area. Once I see them sent or received, it looks a little better, but the input area is cramped. Yep - it's smaller. I thought you might be asking if that area is smaller than it was in iChat... and to me, it's about the same size. Far too small considering how much of space it tends to waste with Bubbles and whatnot turned on.
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Martytoof posted:Yeah, these days it's a rare sight. You know what's not a rare sight these days? NVIDIA driver flip-outs that manifest as "NVDA channel exception" in the system logs when NVIDIA's poo poo-rear end garbage drivers take a poo poo. It might as well be a kernel panic, because it's completely unrecoverable.
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chutwig posted:You know what's not a rare sight these days? NVIDIA driver flip-outs that manifest as "NVDA channel exception" in the system logs when NVIDIA's poo poo-rear end garbage drivers take a poo poo. It might as well be a kernel panic, because it's completely unrecoverable. That's weird. Are they the stock drivers or are you installing aftermarket drivers? I'm running a 6870 but I was thinking about throwing an NVIDIA card in my next machine (but I'll leave the hackintosh chat for the appropriate thread)
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Kilometers Davis posted:As bored as I am with the somewhat stale color palette and general look of the current Apple lineup, these reasons are why I don't jump to Google for tablets and MS for a desktop OS. The quality and consistency is ridiculous. I always have to laugh when I hear people say Apple stuff is horribly overpriced and hear how they gently caress over their customers. Apple treats us with respect and knows we want really, really good quality all around. I can't remember the last time I really felt like I was dicked around by the company or their products. Even my ridiculously old MBP would run fine if it had a working battery.
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This is borderline hardware/software. I'm looking for a way to keep using my external monitor as my only display. So far I have my E-Mac set up with Screen Spanning Doctor so my main desktop is on the monitor, with the E-Mac's display as a second display. But this gives me two issues. I'm on OSX Tiger. 1) If I move the mouse the right of the screen, it can go off the edge. This might seem like a minor irritation but I'd like a way to disable this if possible. 2) The E-mac screen is still on. I've cranked the resolution and contrast right down but presumably the E-Mac's CRT still has a finite life and I see no reason to have the screen running if I'm not using it. I tried using ScreenChangerX and some other program to set the default res of the E-Mac to 1600x900, so the external monitor would work but the E-Mac screen wouldn't, but no luck so far. I also tried using boot.plist but I'm on Tiger so I don't think the system looks for or uses that. Finally, is there any danger in sitting the E-Mac on the carpet under the desk? I can't see any X-Box 360 style ventilation that could be blocked at the bottom.
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Martytoof posted:That's weird. Are they the stock drivers or are you installing aftermarket drivers? Stock drivers on a retina MBP. It's a known issue that's been around since ML beta, but Apple ended up shipping Mountain Lion with broken drivers and maybe NVIDIA will deliver working drivers at some point in the future. There's all sorts of poo poo that can trigger the crash, my favorite of which is turning on MapsGL in Google Maps in Safari, which results in an almost-instantaneous explosion. This isn't new to ML either; NVIDIA delivered some seriously buggy drivers for a few point releases during Lion that caused my old MBP to blow up playing Starcraft 2, among other things.
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Has anyone else seen planet49/"win an ipad" popups here?
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What are you guys using for Terminal/iTerm fonts? I keep bouncing between Lucida Console (with the vertical spacing lowered) and Menlo. I like non-antialiased fonts like Proggy but they're far too small (11pt?), especially on an Air.
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Jolan posted:I just had an extraordinary experience. I was faffing about online, when suddenly the computer froze and a message popped up urging me to forcibly shut it down and restart. In the five years I've been working with Macs, I had never seen such a message, so, slightly alarmed, I ran an internet search for what just happened. I discovered that I had just experienced a MacOS kernel panic (what Windows would call a "blue screen of death"). After five years of intense, day-to-day usage, including games and system intensive media editing software, my computer finally crashed for the first time. Five years. To be fair, that's a pretty rare site on these days with Windows PC's also. I don't think I've had one since Vista.
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Bob Morales posted:What are you guys using for Terminal/iTerm fonts? I'm a big Monaco fan, but it looks like crap if it's not anti-aliased. edit: what's the appeal of aliased fonts (if you'll forgive my removal of your double negative), when OS X handles anti-aliasing, and font-rendering in general, so well?
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Lexicon posted:edit: what's the appeal of aliased fonts (if you'll forgive my removal of your double negative), when OS X handles anti-aliasing, and font-rendering in general, so well? They're cleaner, especially at small font sizes. But of course they don't scale so if you're not a 15" 1280x800 laptop they can be hard to see.  Clockwise from upper left - 13 pt Lucida, 13 point Ubuntu, Menlo 13, Proggy Clean 10pt
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I've always been a big fan of inconsolata, but you're right: at 11(or is it 10)pt it's drat hard to see on a 13" MBA and it doesn't look as crisp at larger settings.
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