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Lion isn't associated with anything, you can use the installer to do as many installs as you want. It doesn't use any CD keys or anything like that. If you're selling the computer I'd just install Lion but give them the original SL discs of course.
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Clean install feels snappier on my 2010 MBA 13" by far.
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Jul 24, 2011 19:21
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Daveh posted:This should do the trick: For what it's worth, you can hit space after hitting cmd-shift-4 to toggle between "drag a rectangle" mode and "select a window" mode for screenshots.
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Jul 24, 2011 19:37
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DEUCE SLUICE posted:I put Lion on my 13" Macbook Pro right before I bought my new Mini to replace it. I'm not sure why I did that, but that's neither here nor there. Lion is not serialized, so it just depends on how much effort you want to put into it.
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Jul 24, 2011 19:41
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I have a Macbook from 2008 and am considering putting Lion on it. Is there any reason I shouldn't? Someone posted earlier that their laptop seems to run hotter with Lion, and I don't want it to overheat, but I think fullscreen would be really good for web browsing since the screen is so small on this.
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Asnorban posted:I have a Macbook from 2008 and am considering putting Lion on it. Is there any reason I shouldn't? Someone posted earlier that their laptop seems to run hotter with Lion, and I don't want it to overheat, but I think fullscreen would be really good for web browsing since the screen is so small on this. I've also got a Macbook 4,1 and I really like Lion on it so far. You won't be able to do the fancy new gestures with your trackpad, but it sure seems peppier to me. Doesn't seem to get any hotter, and it doesn't run the fan anymore than it did with SL. I think the battery life is a little reduced, but I grant that could also be my imagination.
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Jul 24, 2011 19:44
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japtor posted:Did you boot from the InstallESD or did you use the Lion installer? Was there any system on the external drive? My iDisk-based backups are hosed, but I haven't gotten around to trying Time Machine. The files appear to still exist, but attempts to restore through Backup results in an empty folder, and mounting the .dmgs and copying the files directly shows the file copy dialog, but the files never actually show up in the destination folder. There was some relevant Console spam, but I haven't looked into it yet.
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Jul 24, 2011 20:23
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Any way to make dropbox have a stylized folder icon on the finder sidebar like before? Is this just something that Dropbox is going to have to implement in an update?
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Jul 24, 2011 20:31
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Stupid question, but is there a list of what all the keyboard shortcut codes mean anywhere? Especially ^, the white up arrow, and one that I can't even figure out how to describe.
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Jul 24, 2011 20:40
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Xandu posted:Stupid question, but is there a list of what all the keyboard shortcut codes mean anywhere? Here you go: http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1343
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Jul 24, 2011 20:43
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sudo stopped working on my MacBook Pro (5,5, 10.7), and I don't know how to fix it. I've booted from the OS X Lion install disc, mounted my HDD, chrooted into the mount, and used visudo to check out the sudoers file. Everything looks OK in it, and all the permissions are OK, as far as I know (root:wheel, 0440). My account is in the admin group, which is in the sudoers file, but I added my account into the file anyway, just in case. Still nothing. I also tried copying the sudoers file from my other computer (also running 10.7), which is working, but still nothing. I'm not really sure what to do other than reinstall, but that is kind of a pain in the rear end, especially since I just finished getting everything how I like it. Anyone know anything else to try? This is what I'm getting (timestamp even reflects from when I booted from disc and edited the file): $ sudo bash sudo: can't open /private/etc/sudoers: Permission denied sudo: no valid sudoers sources found, quitting $ ls -l /private/etc/sudoers -r--r----- 1 root wheel 1303 Jul 24 12:53 /private/etc/sudoers
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Jul 24, 2011 21:10
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So what's everyone's new preferred gesture (magic mouse) for "Next Track"? I had it set to two-finger swipe right and got pretty used to that with SL, but with the same gesture being used for desktop paging in Lion, I'm toying around with Better Touch Tool and haven't been able to come up with anything. Is there a way to request new gestures or add your own or something? I used two-finger swipe up for Expose before, so I've remapped Mission Control to that because I'm used to it, but it would be nice to remap the current Mission Control gesture (two finger tap) to next track, but it seems BTT doesn't have that available as a gesture currently.
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Jul 24, 2011 21:11
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Toe Rag posted:sudo stopped working on my MacBook Pro (5,5, 10.7), and I don't know how to fix it. I've booted from the OS X Lion install disc, mounted my HDD, chrooted into the mount, and used visudo to check out the sudoers file. Everything looks OK in it, and all the permissions are OK, as far as I know (root:wheel, 0440). My account is in the admin group, which is in the sudoers file, but I added my account into the file anyway, just in case. Still nothing. I also tried copying the sudoers file from my other computer (also running 10.7), which is working, but still nothing. Does anything at this link help? http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1408307
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Jul 24, 2011 21:18
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Xandu posted:It's a fun program, I wish there was an iphone app for it though, at least to do the scanning. I don't have the patience to hold thousands of books up to my computer. I used to use a Cue::Cat to scan the barcodes on CDs and DVDs, and frankly it's faster to type the UPC codes by hand on a numeric pad.
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Between Parallels and VMware Fusion, what's the preferred virtualization software? I'm (probably) not looking for gaming or anything super intensive, most likely just Solidworks stuff at most (I'm running a 2011 MBP, the high end 15" model). Also- do either of them have compatibility issues with Lion? I'm on Snow Leopard right now but I'm looking to upgrade soon.
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Jul 24, 2011 21:56
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computer parts posted:Between Parallels and VMware Fusion, what's the preferred virtualization software? I'm (probably) not looking for gaming or anything super intensive, most likely just Solidworks stuff at most (I'm running a 2011 MBP, the high end 15" model). I'm running a 2010 MBP and Solidworks in VMWare runs great (i7 with 8GB of ram) edit: I'm still running Snow Leopard but I plan on upgrading this summer.
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modig posted:I installed Reeder on my MBA and my iPhone, and it seems pretty sweet. I didn't even know about Readability, but Reeder uses it and it is nice. My only complaint so far is on the Mac version. I have it set up full screen, with two columns on the left not taking up much space. The text is on the right, and it doesn't use up it's space well. The text remains narrow, and there is a bunch of empty space on the right and left of the text. Does anybody know how to change that, to make it use more of that space? I don't use Reeder and I don't know how it works with Readability, so I can't say for sure. But I believe Readability lets you decide how big you want your columns to be. If that's tapping into your Readability account, you might want to play with the Readability settings.
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Jul 24, 2011 22:05
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DEUCE SLUICE posted:RIP Rivet. At first I thought you meant it didn't work with Lion, but then I saw the blog post you're likely referring to. Shame.
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Jul 24, 2011 22:12
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From John SIracusa's twitter feed:code:
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Ever since I installed Lion, my cursor will "stick" to windows, so like if I have VLC open and then I want to click on an open Firefox window, instead of bringing Firefox to the front, it moves the VLC window to where I clicked. I looked under my trackpad preferences (have a 2007 macbook) and it didn't seem like there was some sort of "click lock" setting. Am I missing something?
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Jul 24, 2011 22:20
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gregday posted:From John SIracusa's twitter feed: Thanks.
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x-virge posted:At first I thought you meant it didn't work with Lion, but then I saw the blog post you're likely referring to. Shame. Is it working in Lion for you? It seems like it's streaming properly as far as I can tell, but my system definitely seems faster and less quirky when it's not running.
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Jul 24, 2011 22:27
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Gold and a Pager posted:I looked under my trackpad preferences (have a 2007 macbook) and it didn't seem like there was some sort of "click lock" setting. System Preferences -> Universal Access -> Trackpad Options... has the options for Drag Lock now.
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CaptainCaveman posted:System Preferences -> Universal Access -> Trackpad Options... has the options for Drag Lock now. Yeah this is the one thing I just can't get used to. Dragging without drag lock seems hopelessly impossible for me. I could get used to three finger drag, but that interferes with "normal" gestures. I can't get any kind of accuracy out of the "click with one finger and drag with another" approach.
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Has anyone been able to clone the Recovery HD partition in disk utility? Every time I try to kick off the restore disk utility dismounts it. Using CCC resulted in an unbootable SD card.
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Xandu posted:It's a fun program, I wish there was an iphone app for it though, at least to do the scanning. I don't have the patience to hold thousands of books up to my computer. Yeah, and that's why I never bothered with it until this one project came up. I could never see myself cataloging everything. Plus I have a kid who thinks it's fun, and has been appointed "project intern."
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Daveh posted:This should do the trick: oh son of a... that did it.
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Chemmy posted:Does anything at this link help? Unfortunately no  I was able to get to the point where I could edit the file without having to boot from the disc, but nothing I tried would work. I just ended up reinstalling and everything works now. I didn't have to wipe the drive either, so all my settings were saved 
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Does anyone mirror an itunes install between two computers? I'm going to have an imac and macbook air, and can't decide which I want to keep all my media/ sync iphone/ipad to. The imac is the easy answer, but I have 256 gb on the mba, so why not have a full 40 gb itunes library there for portable listening? I'm sure I'm not the first with this problem, what do you do? Empty itunes on the portable and just use iphone/ipad for music on the go? Or is there an app that will keep the two itunes folders in perfect sync? Without breaking iphone sync.
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El Jackalope posted:Is there a way to actually type emoji in OS X other than just dragging them from the special characters window into a text field? ❔ ndrake posted:Does anyone mirror an itunes install between two computers? I'm going to have an imac and macbook air, and can't decide which I want to keep all my media/ sync iphone/ipad to. The imac is the easy answer, but I have 256 gb on the mba, so why not have a full 40 gb itunes library there for portable listening?
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japtor posted:iTunes Home Sharing might work, but I don't know if it has some full auto sync thing or if you have to transfer stuff manually.
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http://supersync.com/ I've never used it, but it seems do you what you want.
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ndrake posted:That's my fallback plan, but as I understand it, it just streams to other devices on the network. Maybe I don't really need a full itunes library on the go. e: Apparently only iTunes Store music automatically syncs, but you can still drag-and-drop other stuff. Lazyhound fucked around with this message at 01:24 on Jul 25, 2011 |
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Anyone else have issues with external displays not working on MBP after upgrading to Lion? I have a 13" MBP (mid-2010) and if I connect an external display, the whole system slowly locks up over the period of about 5 seconds. I can keep dragging windows around for a bit, but eventually it stops responding altogether and I have to reboot. Tried a different MiniDP-DVI adapter but had the same problem. Blew into the DP port in case there was crud in there, and wiggled the cable around. The monitor is a cheap samsung (bx2440) which I've been using without issue for about 4 months. There is an old cinema display somewhere I'll try at lunchtime, but trying to work on this tiny 13" screen is quite annoying.
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Gold and a Pager posted:Ever since I installed Lion, my cursor will "stick" to windows, so like if I have VLC open and then I want to click on an open Firefox window, instead of bringing Firefox to the front, it moves the VLC window to where I clicked. I looked under my trackpad preferences (have a 2007 macbook) and it didn't seem like there was some sort of "click lock" setting. Are you using BetterTouchTool? I think this is a known issue with BTT and a few applications, including VLC. It happens to me with VLC, too. There's a checkbox in the BTT preferences that's supposed to fix it, but that was making it buggier, so I turned it off.
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