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Galg
Jun 5, 2004

How can I make this as complicated as possible?

HorseDickSandwich posted:

Would anyone recommend installing Lion on a C2D unibody MacBook? I was wanting to put it on my mom's computer, but I'm not sure how well it would run.

Lion runs better than SL on mine, and I only have 2GB ram at the moment; although, that may be due to the fact that I did a clean install. It's totally useable in any case.

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JHVH-1
Jun 28, 2002
My iTunes keeps having a gap at the bottom later after it is started full screen. Maybe cause I quit it while fullscreen and then started it back up, or cause I shut the lid to my machine. The gap is exactly the size the dock would be, but instead of the dock it has that fabric background like whats behind safari pages.

Mrs. Badcrumble
Sep 21, 2002
Safari 5.1 is quite fast most of the time, but it seems to be hanging on one page or another MUCH more often than 5.0 did. I don't know if that has to do with ClickToFlash or what (don't think so - some of the sites where this is happening don't have any active Flash that I'm aware of), but it's *very* annoying (and often, when it hangs, it ends up reloading ALL tabs). Is anyone else experiencing similar behavior and/or has a fix for this?

edit: https://www.politicalwire.com is a good example of a site that ALWAYS slows Safari 5.1 down, but I don't see any Flash there.

curried lamb of God
Aug 31, 2001

we are all Marwinners
I'm also getting considerable slowdown with Safari 5.1 when viewing HTML5 video on YouTube.

JHVH-1
Jun 28, 2002

Mrs. Badcrumble posted:

Safari 5.1 is quite fast most of the time, but it seems to be hanging on one page or another MUCH more often than 5.0 did. I don't know if that has to do with ClickToFlash or what (don't think so - some of the sites where this is happening don't have any active Flash that I'm aware of), but it's *very* annoying (and often, when it hangs, it ends up reloading ALL tabs). Is anyone else experiencing similar behavior and/or has a fix for this?

edit: https://www.politicalwire.com is a good example of a site that ALWAYS slows Safari 5.1 down, but I don't see any Flash there.

I've had it beach ball on a couple pages but nothing as bad as it used to be. The new threaded setup at least lets me switch tabs.

I installed Flash Player 11:
http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashplatformruntimes/flashplayer11/

I don't know if it helps, but it adds 64 bit support.

vikingstrike
Sep 23, 2007

whats happening, captain

actionjackson posted:

So I assume it's just a bug (or missing feature) but I can't find a way to exit full screen mode in Chrome while using Lion, the arrow button I used to get there in the first place disappears.

Didn't see this answered, but you can do View -> Exit Full Screen or Shift + Command + F

echobucket
Aug 19, 2004

vikingstrike posted:

Didn't see this answered, but you can do View -> Exit Full Screen or Shift + Command + F

Yes, but the real problem is, Chrome added the Lion style full screen button, but then didn't use the Lion APIs for fullscreen. So it doesn't go on it's own space, it actually takes up your regular desktop.

I just wish they haven't done the button at all.

vikingstrike
Sep 23, 2007

whats happening, captain

echobucket posted:

Yes, but the real problem is, Chrome added the Lion style full screen button, but then didn't use the Lion APIs for fullscreen. So it doesn't go on it's own space, it actually takes up your regular desktop.

I just wish they haven't done the button at all.

The developers have noted this and say that they are working on making a Lion compatible version of Chrome. I believe they said, too, that the full screen button that is present now will be removed in the next version until they "get it right". Chrome also doesn't play nicely with some of the new touch gestures, in addition to the Spaces issue you mention

Ninja edit: http://techcrunch.com/2011/07/21/chrome-os-x-lion/

Chrome's scroll bar also doesn't disappear/appear like it is supposed to.

cbirdsong
Sep 8, 2004

Commodore of the Apocalypso
Lipstick Apathy
They've said they'll be removing the Lion full screen button until they can rewrite the full screen mode to work properly within Lion. It should disappear in the next couple weeks.

Edit: Beaten.

NotShadowStar
Sep 20, 2000
Google, just like everyone else, has as Developer Previews since February and they're just now getting around to thinking about fixing things. Errgh.

qbert
Oct 23, 2003

It's both thrilling and terrifying.
This is probably a dumb question, but Google was no help. Is there any way to view an .avi file's dimensions in OS X? I use VLC to play that file type.

some kinda jackal
Feb 25, 2003

 
 

NotShadowStar posted:

Google, just like everyone else, has as Developer Previews since February and they're just now getting around to thinking about fixing things. Errgh.

If you look at the bug notes, that one guy was fighting for his current implementation of fullscreen so I guess they didn't actually see anything "wrong" with what they shipped :v:

Looks like it's only now that people are complaining that they're being all "oh hey I guess maybe we shouldn't use a native fullscreen icon for something that doesn't conform to the expected fullscreen behaviour :confused:

chimz
Jul 27, 2005

Science isn't about why, it's about why not.

qbert posted:

This is probably a dumb question, but Google was no help. Is there any way to view an .avi file's dimensions in OS X? I use VLC to play that file type.

VLC:
Window->Media Information->Codec Info

Quicktime (with Perian):
Window->Show Movie Inspector

bassguitarhero
Feb 29, 2008

Having some severe issues with my computer and I need to get it fixed ASAP. Last night while my Mac Pro 1,1 was supposed to be asleep, it just decided to restart.

I checked it this AM and instead of 6GB RAM it had the 2GB that came with it. I pulled out the machine, dusted it out and re-seated the RAM, it says 6GB now.

But Final Cut Pro will not play any HD video anymore. It just stops immediately, plays 2 frames and stops. I'm in the middle of a couple of really big projects and I just cannot have this happen. I ran Tech Tool Deluxe and it said there's no problem, I ran permissions repair, I just can't figure out why last night the computer was fine, restarted overnight, and now will not play HD video in Final Cut. Could something have happened to my machine? I was just editing this stuff last night and it was fine, woke up and now it's all hosed.

Binary Badger
Oct 11, 2005

Trolling Link for a decade


Can you play HD anywhere else? Like in QuickTime Player or VLC?

What video card did you have?

Terpfen
Jul 27, 2006
Objection!

:dukedog:

NotShadowStar posted:

Google, just like everyone else, has as Developer Previews since February and they're just now getting around to thinking about fixing things. Errgh.

Webkit2 has been in development for a while now, but Google still uses their home-brewed sandbox model, too.

moms pubis
Jul 9, 2011

by T. Mascis
The volume licensing page says I can download the installer package for Lion and deploy it to multiple machines without having to go through the Mac App Store on each machine. Do the machines I'm deploying it to still need to be running Snow Leopard, or can I install Lion on Leopard machines in this way?

brap
Aug 23, 2004

Grimey Drawer
pretty sure you'll need to image a flash drive or burn a dvd and clean install for leopard and earlier machines.

moms pubis
Jul 9, 2011

by T. Mascis

fleshweasel posted:

pretty sure you'll need to image a flash drive or burn a dvd and clean install for leopard and earlier machines.

That's fine as long as I won't have to upgrade all of those machines to Snow Leopard first. Thanks.

Just a fool
Oct 14, 2004
Well they call me the hunter, baby that's my name, they call me the hunter, that's how I got my fame.
Hmm. Been trying to download Lion for about 20 minutes now, but it is going nowhere. It keeps saying it cannot download at this time. Weird.

Xenomorph
Jun 13, 2001
I just read that Mac OS X Server 10.7 doesn't support acting as a Primary Domain Controller, and no longer has NFS GUI management.

We spent a gently caress load on Apple Xserves and used them as PDC and NFS servers.
I've been moving to Dell servers to have a better Windows/PDC experience, but I was wanting to stick with Mac OS X Server for the nice NFS GUI.

What does NFS management look like now? The 10.7 Server Admin Tools are a busted loving mess, so I haven't been able to do poo poo with them. They are seriously pre-beta "quality".

japtor
Oct 28, 2005

Coughing-up Tweed posted:

Anyone else using Clusters? It's a utility that compresses your files with the HFS+ compression scheme introduced in Snow Leopard. I've been using it for over a year and have saved 18 GB on a 100 GB HD that would be nearly full without it. Backups from CCC work perfectly, and I haven't had any problems at all with compatibility (though you may have to decompress a file before using it on a pre-10.6 system).

I figure it would be great for people who picked up an Air with a small SSD and need to worry about space.
Yeah I've been using it for a while. I've noticed some weird issues but that's more cause the way I added a whole bunch of folders that probably shouldn't have been added. For my next installation I'll probably only use it on my Applications folder and others that are relatively static content wise.

timb posted:

There has to be a way to do the compression from the CLI.
Yup. Clusters basically just does some folder watching and automation around it afaik.

Mrs. Badcrumble posted:

Safari 5.1 is quite fast most of the time, but it seems to be hanging on one page or another MUCH more often than 5.0 did. I don't know if that has to do with ClickToFlash or what (don't think so - some of the sites where this is happening don't have any active Flash that I'm aware of), but it's *very* annoying (and often, when it hangs, it ends up reloading ALL tabs). Is anyone else experiencing similar behavior and/or has a fix for this?

edit: https://www.politicalwire.com is a good example of a site that ALWAYS slows Safari 5.1 down, but I don't see any Flash there.
Not at my computer to test, but I know extensions can cause issues occasionally. The simple way to test is to just disable all of them with the on/off switch. And if all the tabs are reloading it sounds like it caused the renderer process to crash.

Speaking of which, if you feel like Safari is hogging too much memory and you want to free it without restarting (but don't have anything you just typed in the tabs), just kill that process. It's a really ghetto way of forcing a memory purge but it works.

bassguitarhero posted:

Having some severe issues with my computer and I need to get it fixed ASAP. Last night while my Mac Pro 1,1 was supposed to be asleep, it just decided to restart.

I checked it this AM and instead of 6GB RAM it had the 2GB that came with it. I pulled out the machine, dusted it out and re-seated the RAM, it says 6GB now.

But Final Cut Pro will not play any HD video anymore. It just stops immediately, plays 2 frames and stops. I'm in the middle of a couple of really big projects and I just cannot have this happen. I ran Tech Tool Deluxe and it said there's no problem, I ran permissions repair, I just can't figure out why last night the computer was fine, restarted overnight, and now will not play HD video in Final Cut. Could something have happened to my machine? I was just editing this stuff last night and it was fine, woke up and now it's all hosed.
Have you tested out other projects to see whether it's a particular file? I guess try doing SMC and PRAM resets. Have you looked in Console to see what might have caused the restart while it should've been sleeping?

japtor fucked around with this message at 01:47 on Jul 27, 2011

Doctor Zero
Sep 21, 2002

Would you like a jelly baby?
It's been in my pocket through 4 regenerations,
but it's still good.

moms pubis posted:

That's fine as long as I won't have to upgrade all of those machines to Snow Leopard first. Thanks.

It doesn't say anything about 'upgrades' in relation to SL, so you're fine.

do it
Jan 3, 2006

don't tell me words don't matter!
Has anyone else seen this error when trying to open iTunes on Lion? I've tried restarting, logging out, etc. to no avail:

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Bradzor
Mar 18, 2007
Fwhaa?

do it posted:

Has anyone else seen this error when trying to open iTunes on Lion? I've tried restarting, logging out, etc. to no avail:



I was having this error for a while, and I ended up having to reinstall Lion to get it working again. Everything I researched, even though I didn't fix it, leads me to thinking it's an audio hardware problem. Try plugging in headphones and unplugging them. Or Option-Click on the volume menubar icon, and make sure your inputs and outputs are correct.

Petey
Nov 26, 2005

For who knows what is good for a person in life, during the few and meaningless days they pass through like a shadow? Who can tell them what will happen under the sun after they are gone?
Does anyone know if the "can't share wireless to ethernet unless your Mac has 192.168.2.1" bug is still accurate and, if so, whether there is a workaround?

Doctor Zero
Sep 21, 2002

Would you like a jelly baby?
It's been in my pocket through 4 regenerations,
but it's still good.

Petey posted:

Does anyone know if the "can't share wireless to ethernet unless your Mac has 192.168.2.1" bug is still accurate and, if so, whether there is a workaround?

There have been no updates to Lion, so the bug must still be there.

AlwaysWetID34
Mar 8, 2003
*shrug*
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AlwaysWetID34 fucked around with this message at 17:59 on Jan 18, 2019

mayodreams
Jul 4, 2003


Hello darkness,
my old friend

Xenomorph posted:

I just read that Mac OS X Server 10.7 doesn't support acting as a Primary Domain Controller, and no longer has NFS GUI management.

We spent a gently caress load on Apple Xserves and used them as PDC and NFS servers.
I've been moving to Dell servers to have a better Windows/PDC experience, but I was wanting to stick with Mac OS X Server for the nice NFS GUI.

What does NFS management look like now? The 10.7 Server Admin Tools are a busted loving mess, so I haven't been able to do poo poo with them. They are seriously pre-beta "quality".

Another fun tidbit about the 10.7 Admin Tools: you can't access a 10.6.x Server. I found that wonderful fact this morning. I setup Lion as a OD Master, but the client lost it after a couple of hours, and that caused the AD authentication to fail. Also, adding the OD master on client puts the server in the list, but does not actually bind it, which is loving retarded. This is just another gently caress you to enterprise/education customers following the death of Xserves and the clusterfuck that is FCP X.

shodanjr_gr
Nov 20, 2007
How does VMWare Fusion behave on the hybrid graphics 2011 MBPs? Does it use whatever GPU was active when the app launched or trigger the discrete GPU or what?

wolffenstein
Aug 2, 2002
 
Pork Pro
I think Fusion will use integrated graphics when the 3D display driver is disabled and use dedicated graphics when it is enabled.

shodanjr_gr
Nov 20, 2007

wolffenstein posted:

I think Fusion will use integrated graphics when the 3D display driver is disabled and use dedicated graphics when it is enabled.

I'm seeing VMWare SVGA 3D under display adapters. Does this mean its running in discrete mode?

~Coxy
Dec 9, 2003

R.I.P. Inter-OS Sass - b.2000AD d.2003AD
Assuming what wolffenstein said holds true, check to see if 3D Hardware Acceleration is enabled in the VM Settings.

Lazyhound
Mar 1, 2004

A squid eating dough in a polyethylene bag is fast and bulbous—got me?

shodanjr_gr posted:

I'm seeing VMWare SVGA 3D under display adapters. Does this mean its running in discrete mode?
VMWare emulates a display device for client OSes. Presumably, VMWare itself uses whatever graphics card is active at the moment.

e: Also, any good Front Row replacements? My Apple Remote is kind of useless at the moment. I tried XBMC, don't really care for it.

Lazyhound fucked around with this message at 10:03 on Jul 27, 2011

Dan Hollis
Jun 16, 2006

Surprise!!!
Is anyone else getting a weird glitch where turning on "private browsing" in safari logs you out of SA and other forums? Oddly enough, turning private browsing off automatically logs me back in to this site.

Corb3t
Jun 7, 2003

Is there any way to move Time Machine backup folders from one computer's time machine folder to another computer's folder?

OS X tells me backup files can't be modified. I'm just trying to get my old MBA's time machine backups onto my new MBA (I didn't restore from a Time Machine backup, I started fresh and when I turned Time Machine on, it created a new backup folder)

Accipiter
Jan 24, 2004

SINATRA.

Dan Hollis posted:

Is anyone else getting a weird glitch where turning on "private browsing" in safari logs you out of SA and other forums? Oddly enough, turning private browsing off automatically logs me back in to this site.

That's not a glitch. Private Browsing is 100% segregated from your cache, both read and write. When you turn it on, your browsing session moves to a clean and empty sandbox that stays persistent only while private browsing is on. When you turn it off, the sandbox is purged and you move back to your standard cache.

Dan Hollis
Jun 16, 2006

Surprise!!!

Accipiter posted:

That's not a glitch. Private Browsing is 100% segregated from your cache, both read and write. When you turn it on, your browsing session moves to a clean and empty sandbox that stays persistent only while private browsing is on. When you turn it off, the sandbox is purged and you move back to your standard cache.

How come I never had this issue before Lion? The whole purpose of private browsing for me is to not have people see the poo poo I read and see here on Something Awful (and porn of course.)

natlampe
Jul 10, 2001

Xandu posted:

Is there no way to disable Resuming by program? Sometimes it's useful to have everything already open when I start a program, but with other things, it's mostly just irritating.
There are two solutions to this:

Disable (or enable) Resume by holding down the Option-key while you quit

If you hit the Option-modifier when you quit a program (ie. Command-Option-Q or using the menu), it'll not use Resume for that specific session. Conversely you can turn Resume off globally in the Preferences and only have it enabled whenever you Option quit out of a program.

I've got it turned off by default.

You can also use this method if you need even more control (I prefer the first method):

quote:

Disable Resume for single apps

In Lion, the new Resume feature (read more in our review) can be disabled upon quitting an app with a keyboard shortcut, or system-wide from System Preferences. If you wish to permanently disable Resume on app-by-app basis, you’ll have to enter a custom command in the Terminal for each app you don’t want to work with Resume. For example, “defaults write com.apple.QuickTimePlayerX NSQuitAlwaysKeepsWindows -bool false” (without quotes) will disable Resume in QuickTime Player. If you replace the “QuickTimePlayerX” portion of the command with another app’s identifier, Resume will be disabled in that app, with restart needed to take effect. Replace “false” with “true” to revert changes. An easy way to get an app identifier is to open it, launch Activity Monitor, search for it, select it and hit “Sample Process”; in the new window, Identifier will indicate the app’s ID you have to choose for this specific Terminal command. [via Wil Shipley]

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unruly
May 12, 2002

YES!!!

Dan Hollis posted:

How come I never had this issue before Lion? The whole purpose of private browsing for me is to not have people see the poo poo I read and see here on Something Awful (and porn of course.)
I think the change in WebKit2 is that instead of sending existing Cookies and other session data, the browser is decoupled from the local resources altogether. This should be seen as an improvement in private browsing.

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