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Chris Knight posted:I did exactly that with Wandows and Fusion, so I can't imagine Linux being any different. You might not imagine it, but it does require pretty tight integration with the guest operating system, and the guest operating system has to be OK with having hardware switched out from under it potentially on every boot, which historically X11 is not a big fan of to put it mildly. That's why you should definitely Google around and talk to the sales team before purchasing the thing, because it probably is not going to be just as easy as selecting the Boot Camp partition and pressing go.
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I’ve noticed that since the last os update my 2011 MacBook Pro makes the boot chime whenever I turn it on, whether it’s muted or not. Previously it only made the sound if the volume was turned up. Is there a way to silence it again? I’m on high Sierra.
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Feb 22, 2018 20:03
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Pretty easy, just type this into Terminal:code:code:
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This probably doesn't exist, but is there something that will make it require a certain key/combo/hot corner to dismiss the screen saver? I can turn on "require password" but would prefer not to.
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Feb 24, 2018 02:06
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hooah posted:Is there a way to either separate trackpad and mouse scrolling or flip the scrolling direction when a USB device is plugged in or unplugged? Since this is a company laptop, I can't install anything on it, but I might be able to run a script or something if that'll work. Nothing?
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hooah posted:Nothing? There’s a program that will allow you to set scroll directions for the trackpad and a mouse wheel independently called Scroll Reverser, though I’m not sure if you can install it based on your post. Worth a shot.
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smax posted:There’s a program that will allow you to set scroll directions for the trackpad and a mouse wheel independently called Scroll Reverser, though I’m not sure if you can install it based on your post. Worth a shot. Seems this might do the trick. I'd seen the name when Googling around, but I figured it was something that required installation, but it seems to run in-place. Thanks!
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Potential good news for OS X gamers (both of you) and CAD folks: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/02/vulkan-is-coming-to-macos-ios-but-no-thanks-to-apple/ https://www.khronos.org/news/press/vulkan-applications-enabled-on-apple-platforms Anything that lets devs use something other than Apple's moribund, unoptimized OpenGL 4.1 stack (and they're not going to Metal in droves either) is welcome..
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While pulling data off an old hard drive I found a couple audiobooks that are split up by chapter into mp3 files. Is there any free software to merge these all into a single file that I could add to my Audiobooks section of iTunes, with chapter marks and whatnot?
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Feb 28, 2018 04:04
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GobiasIndustries posted:While pulling data off an old hard drive I found a couple audiobooks that are split up by chapter into mp3 files. Is there any free software to merge these all into a single file that I could add to my Audiobooks section of iTunes, with chapter marks and whatnot? Chapter marks are out without a bunch of work afaik but you can just concatenate them with ffmpeg with two terminal commands. You can also do this with audacity, which takes way longer. Join together is another program that does this for like five bucks. Not sure if it’s updated recently but it used to be great.
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Feb 28, 2018 04:40
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Does anyone know of a way to switch from macOS f-key behaviour to standard f-key behaviour on a per-app basis? I use the f-keys a lot in Windows so I'd like them to be standard in Remote Desktop, but prefer them to be volume/brightness/etc everywhere else.
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Pivo posted:Does anyone know of a way to switch from macOS f-key behaviour to standard f-key behaviour on a per-app basis? I use the f-keys a lot in Windows so I'd like them to be standard in Remote Desktop, but prefer them to be volume/brightness/etc everywhere else. That is totally doable and I have it set for multiple applications. Now this is on a TouchBar system with High Sierra, but I'd guess the settings would work on non-touchbar as well. I'm going in to the office tomorrow and can poke around on my lab machine if it doesn't. 
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Nope, does not appear on non-TB :/
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Feb 28, 2018 06:16
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Pivo posted:Nope, does not appear on non-TB :/ Hmmm. Well, poo poo. Fluor is an open source app that looks to do what you want. But you have to build it yourself. Last update was 3 months ago. https://github.com/Pyroh/Fluor However it is available through brew, so that can make it easier to install. code:https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204436 If you prefer the top row of keys to always behave as standard function keys without holding the Fn key: * Choose System Preferences from the Apple menu. * Click Keyboard. * Click the Keyboard tab if it's not already highlighted. * Select "Use all F1, F2, etc. keys as standard function keys"
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Ohey, Fluor works. I found that before in an old blog post but it was sold for $0.99 on the App Store but it was no longer available. Neat that it's available free now. Thanks.
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Is there a preferable solution between Tuxera and Paragon NTFS? Those seem to be the two paid options in the NTFS write market.
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GobiasIndustries posted:While pulling data off an old hard drive I found a couple audiobooks that are split up by chapter into mp3 files. Is there any free software to merge these all into a single file that I could add to my Audiobooks section of iTunes, with chapter marks and whatnot? I had this problem a while back. I ended up using JoinTogether because it was real simple to have automator do all the manual labour for me and I could run 12 instances of the app at once to breeze through all the audiobooks.
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GobiasIndustries posted:While pulling data off an old hard drive I found a couple audiobooks that are split up by chapter into mp3 files. Is there any free software to merge these all into a single file that I could add to my Audiobooks section of iTunes, with chapter marks and whatnot?
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Any Automator users left? I'm trying to make a quick application to copy some files into a user's ~/Library/Preferences folder. It's a multi-user machine in a lab and they need to reset some preferences. Is there a way to copy to the specific user's home folder who runs the app? I can't seem to just supply a '~/' path -- it wants a static path as input.
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Mar 1, 2018 23:41
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Variables > Locations > Home / User Library / User Preferences whichever
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Audiobook update: Apparently back in 2012 I purchased an app called Audiobook Builder for OSX which does exactly what I was looking for! At some point I apparently hid it for some reason so it didn't show up in my purchased list (the reason I found it was because I thought I used to have such a program at one point so I dug into my account purchase history to check). Anyway it joined all the mp3 files into one single audiobook file that is now on my phone and i was able to tag it and add cover art and all that good stuff.
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I just bought a Mac Mini off ebay for a home theatre computer. The dude said he wiped it prior to sale but my preference would be to wipe it again as soon as I get it. Reading online it seems like I don't need a CD or anything to reinstall OSX or whatever its called, is that right or should I try and track something down before I plug this thing in?
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1500quidporsche posted:I just bought a Mac Mini off ebay for a home theatre computer. The dude said he wiped it prior to sale but my preference would be to wipe it again as soon as I get it. Reading online it seems like I don't need a CD or anything to reinstall OSX or whatever its called, is that right or should I try and track something down before I plug this thing in? Plug it in and hold Command+R while it starts up. If you get into Internet Recovery you don't need anything else to clean install.
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Only 2010 and up yeah? Internet Recovery is an EFI thing on "newer" Macs (2010, 2011 etc), not sure if it was patched into the older ones. And I thought it was Cmd-Opt-R... Cmd-R boots the recovery partition off disk, not off the net, which is fine but not if you don't trust the bits on the drive (which is super paranoid IMO). Pivo fucked around with this message at 08:32 on Mar 3, 2018 |
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Pivo posted:Only 2010 and up yeah? Internet Recovery is an EFI thing on "newer" Macs (2010, 2011 etc), not sure if it was patched into the older ones. It will automatically do the right thing.
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Uh. Well, no. If you boot recovery off your disk, that's different than Internet Recovery. It is an EFI feature that is present on Minis that shipped in mid 2010 and onwards, and it will install the version of OS X that came with the machine rather than the one on the recovery partition. These are important differences.
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Quicksilver has been slowly making GBS threads the bed for me for the past few versions and my loyalty towards it waning. What are the best comparable launcher programs on the market? Alfred? Launchbar?
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Entropy238 posted:Quicksilver has been slowly making GBS threads the bed for me for the past few versions and my loyalty towards it waning. If you just want a launcher, then honestly, spotlight search does it well enough. Nothing really does the item-verb-object piping that makes Quicksilver so special and not just another quick-search launcher.
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Pivo posted:Uh. Well, no. If you boot recovery off your disk, that's different than Internet Recovery. It is an EFI feature that is present on Minis that shipped in mid 2010 and onwards, and it will install the version of OS X that came with the machine rather than the one on the recovery partition. These are important differences. Unless 10.12.4 or later was installed on the machine, in which case Internet Recovery will download and install the newest compatible version of macOS.
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Tippis posted:If you just want a launcher, then honestly, spotlight search does it well enough. I’ll give it a try - I’ve found that spotlight’s predictions aren’t really that great.
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Entropy238 posted:I’ll give it a try - I’ve found that spotlight’s predictions aren’t really that great. I loved Quicksilver back in the day but I've been using Alfred for years and can't live without it now. If you just want a basic app launcher I honestly don't know that the free Alfred is much better than spotlight, fuzzy find and custom web searches may be the only benefits but I haven't kept up with new spotlight features. The powerpack though has so many useful features -- 1password integration, snippet manager, workflows, clipboard history, hotkeys. I just checked and on average I invoke Alfred over 30 times per day.
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New Mac user here. I found out Mac can't use NTFS external harddrives without installing a bunch of stuff, so I formated it to exFAT. Am I doing this right? I don't ever see me needing to use the drive on an older Mac, but I definitely will have to connect it to PC sometimes.
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nervana posted:I formated it to exFAT. Am I doing this right? yup
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Get Paragon NTFS and never worry about that stuff again
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Quantum of Phallus posted:Get Paragon NTFS and never worry about that stuff again Is this better than using exFAT?
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There is no advantage to using NTFS + a macOS NTFS driver for an external drive vs. just using exFAT. NTFS is only a disadvantage, since permissions and security are tied to user accounts on a specific Windows machine / domain. NTFS supports transparent encryption on Windows but you won't be using that I imagine. If you have a choice over the file system of the external drive, exFAT is the clear winner. If you need to read and write to a Windows system drive that you cannot format from a Mac, an NTFS driver like Paragon is a good compromise.
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Lawen posted:I loved Quicksilver back in the day but I've been using Alfred for years and can't live without it now. If you just want a basic app launcher I honestly don't know that the free Alfred is much better than spotlight, fuzzy find and custom web searches may be the only benefits but I haven't kept up with new spotlight features. The powerpack though has so many useful features -- 1password integration, snippet manager, workflows, clipboard history, hotkeys. I just checked and on average I invoke Alfred over 30 times per day. Tippis posted:If you just want a launcher, then honestly, spotlight search does it well enough. Alfred has turned out pretty good. It seems to be designed more for normies than Quicksilver was. Don't think I'd have much use for the additional Workflows features because I never really spend much time hoking around the files on my computer. Also discovered the Vimmy Safari extension which brings Chrome's Vimium functionality to safari. Browsing the web with your keyboard is great.
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nervana posted:New Mac user here. I found out Mac can't use NTFS external harddrives without installing a bunch of stuff, so I formated it to exFAT. Am I doing this right? I don't ever see me needing to use the drive on an older Mac, but I definitely will have to connect it to PC sometimes. Wait, do we still live in that weird state where exfat formatted in MacOS doesn’t work with windows but the opposite is works perfectly?
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tuyop posted:Wait, do we still live in that weird state where exfat formatted in MacOS doesn’t work with windows but the opposite is works perfectly? It’s always (for the past several years) worked fine for me both ways.
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Weedle posted:It’s always (for the past several years) worked fine for me both ways. Same.
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