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SimpleCoax posted:Well, I just found out that Lion and Xcode 4.1 completely remove MPI. Hope macports will get me OpenMPI back easily enough. I'm getting really concerned about Apple's idea for the future of its professional user base. Not just with this little MPI removal, but the other signs that they're shifting focus. I don't want to have to wind up stuck with just Linux down the road. Why in the world would they do that?
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Ziir posted:Why in the world would they do that? No clue. Now macports has an error with OpenMPI. Heinous. edit: found this http://www.compmath.com/blog/2011/08/installing-rmpi-with-openmpi-on-mac-os-x-lion/ On another note, does anyone else have their computer stop and wait until their time machine drive spools up before some things will open? I mostly had this happen in Finder, and then opening files in Text Edit, but even Safari just did it to me. Lion isn't treating me very well so far. SimpleCoax fucked around with this message at 23:32 on Aug 9, 2011 |
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Does Apple still sell Leopard that I can install on a MDD G4? I want to set up a dedicated machine for my SCSI 35mm scanner and I've got this MDD dual 1.4 sitting around collecting dust. I'd love to clean install it but I don't have my Leopard media anymore, and haven't had them for quite some time. Is Craigslist/eBay my only hope now? Apple store still sells 10.6 but doesn't seem to go back further. e: Actually it looks like I might need to go back to 10.4. I think I'll just scrap this idea and go with VueScan on a Linux machine instead, nevermind 
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Aug 9, 2011 23:54
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Martytoof posted:Is there any way to get 10.7 Mail to integrate COMPLETELY with Gmail? You can define the destination of (some of the) Mail.app default actions by highlighting the mailbox on the left pane, then going to "Mailbox > Use This Mailbox For..." in the menu bar. For example, I selected "Gmail/All Mail" and used it for "Trash", so now I can trash an email in Mail.app and it'll behave exactly as if I'd clicked the "Archive" button in Gmail. I don't see an option to use a mailbox for "archives", though, otherwise I'd bind this behavior to Mail.app's archive button. Drafts and Junk work just fine. EDIT: Oh, and for the love of God, don't let Mail.app delete your trash every month if you do this! Accounts > Gmail > Mailbox Behaviors should look like this:  You know what, I don't like that I've effectively become one of those people who stores all of his important mail in the trash. If anything ever emptied my trash on my laptop, the changes would sync over IMAP and delete everything on Gmail. I'm going to look for a better solution. EDIT EDIT: Okay, don't use "All Mail" as Trash because that's a terrible idea, but go ahead and switch junk and drafts and use Gmail's trash as Mail.app's trash. That's just one extraneous folder instead of three, and everything in IMAP/Archive will still show up when you click on All Mail. Strangelet Wave fucked around with this message at 01:04 on Aug 10, 2011 |
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Aug 10, 2011 00:42
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Awesome, thank you! Archive would be a great addition but this is more than sufficient to help clean up some folder creep. I decided to forego the trash -> all mail solution for now though.
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Aug 10, 2011 01:03
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Martytoof posted:Awesome, thank you! Archive would be a great addition but this is more than sufficient to help clean up some folder creep. Try the free Lite version of Sparrow for a bit. Seriously.
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Martytoof posted:Does Apple still sell Leopard that I can install on a MDD G4? I want to set up a dedicated machine for my SCSI 35mm scanner and I've got this MDD dual 1.4 sitting around collecting dust. I'd love to clean install it but I don't have my Leopard media anymore, and haven't had them for quite some time. As far as I know, nothing prior to 10.6 is officially sold (with 10.6 sales likely to end relatively soon I'm guessing too). However, if you do really want 10.5 or 10.4 on there at some point, one thing you can try is taking it in to an Apple Store. Not too long back I found out that while they don't sell copies anymore, they still often keep copies of older OS X versions around, so that if customers do come in with older PPC Macs, they can re-install the OS if necessary. It may vary by store, but I do know a couple of the stores in the Phoenix area had copies of 10.3, 10.4 and 10.5 on hand (don't know if they had anything older).
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Dick Trauma posted:Although I'm not going to install Lion until it gets some serious patching I realized my Macbook Pro only has 1 gig of RAM so I'm getting a couple of 2 gig chips today. I didn't know about the Core 2 Duo requirement until yesterday so I was relieved so see I have a 2.16 C2D, probably one of the first MBP models that had one. Be sure your computer can handle it. The first generation Core 2 Duo computers (I think the 2.16 is one) can only use 3GB of memory. You can throw 4GB in there, it's just not going to be able to recognize it all. It's a chipset limitation, I believe. Fire up System Information and see if it's 2x512MB or 1x1GB. If it's the latter, save yourself the money and grab just one 2GB stick.
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SimpleCoax posted:On another note, does anyone else have their computer stop and wait until their time machine drive spools up before some things will open? I mostly had this happen in Finder, and then opening files in Text Edit, but even Safari just did it to me. Lion isn't treating me very well so far. Yes, but it happened in 10.6 too. Seems to happen less now.
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Tard Helmets posted:Yes, but it happened in 10.6 too. Seems to happen less now. Hmm, I never noticed it in 10.6. I thought it had something to do with whatever these "locked" files are for time machine. A lot of files I was opening were locked and I think it needs to read the time machine disk for some reason. I changed the lock setting in time machine to one year and I think it may have helped.
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Make sure to uncheck 'Put the disk(s) to sleep when possible' in Energy Saver. Doing so cured all of my external HD woes.
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Neurophonic posted:Try the free Lite version of Sparrow for a bit. Seriously. Seconding this. If you use GMail, Sparrow is just a better app than Mail.
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A Quick cross post: I'm in need of feed back for my Window Management app "Display Maid" so I started my own thread with promo codes begging for feedback and Mac App Store reviews. Other Thread posted:Display Maid is an app that saves and restores window sizes and positions, mainly for MacBook (air/pro) users who have an external display and are frustrated when they unplug that display and all their windows get randomly thrown about on their main display. http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3430331
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In case this helps anyone down the road, I got Sparrow to not constantly crash on start by purging the cache directory (/User/Library/Application Data/Sparrow/*) and now it launches without falling on its face anymore! 
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ndrake posted:I set up Mail.app (new Mail/ Lion) with a gmail account. I'm sure I'm missing something obvious... but how do I make it behave exactly like my iPad? I only want 30 days or 3 months or some predefined amount of time's archived emails to be downloaded, and the rest just wait for me on the server in case I search. When I used the account it downloaded my entire 2 gigs of email; I don't want to waste space. (But that could be gone in 10.7 for all I know  )unruly posted:Yes, there are bugs and edge cases where this isn't going to work perfectly. Those rules can be tweaked, interfaces can change (I agree with some of the commenters that the icon should stay in the cmd-tab/dock for a bit -- perhaps fade out?). The thing that irks me though is when people whine and complain about 'the new' without really understanding the focus behind it.
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smax posted:Be sure your computer can handle it. The first generation Core 2 Duo computers (I think the 2.16 is one) can only use 3GB of memory. You can throw 4GB in there, it's just not going to be able to recognize it all. It's a chipset limitation, I believe. I was already aware of this but with RAM so cheap I decided I'd sacrifice a gig to gain a gig. This MBP cost me $1 so another $45 doesn't bother me much.
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Dick Trauma posted:I was already aware of this but with RAM so cheap I decided I'd sacrifice a gig to gain a gig. This MBP cost me $1 so another $45 doesn't bother me much. I heard, anyway, that it was smarter to do this because the matched RAM sizes enable faster transfer modes, even if you waste a gig. Haven't verified it myself, but I've seen this from multiple sources.
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This might be useful for some of you: http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1433quote:The Lion Recovery Disk Assistant lets you create Lion Recovery on an external drive that has all of the same capabilities as the built-in Lion Recovery: reinstall Lion, repair the disk using Disk Utility, restore from a Time Machine backup, or browse the web with Safari. edit: Seeing a few posts elsewhere saying this doesn't seem to work if you have a FileVault encrypted volume, at least at the time of this post. japtor fucked around with this message at 10:06 on Aug 10, 2011 |
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I've got a few things installed that say they support growl, but none of them are getting registered with it, and I can't figure out how to fix it. Sparrow Lite, Twitter, Adium... none of these show up under Growl Applications. I downloaded The Simplest Notifier Evar, and that did work, so I'm at a loss as to how to make the rest work.
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SimpleCoax posted:Well, I just found out that Lion and Xcode 4.1 completely remove MPI. Hope macports will get me OpenMPI back easily enough. I'm getting really concerned about Apple's idea for the future of its professional user base. Not just with this little MPI removal, but the other signs that they're shifting focus. I don't want to have to wind up stuck with just Linux down the road. Homebrew has open-mpi. Stop using MacPorts and/or Fink, they are loving awful.
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NotShadowStar posted:Stop using MacPorts and/or Fink, they are loving awful. Why? Or more specifically, how are they awful?
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They're awful because they don't use any application already included with OS X (You want irssi? Let's download and compile our own version of Perl for an hour). This can waste a lot of space. The other big problem is they have only certain people in charge of updating packages. With Homebrew, everyone can submit a formula, and the author updates Homebrew all the time. If you need to wrie a formula, it's really easy even if you haven't seen Ruby.
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 Is there a way to make the flag black/white like all my other icons? I know a lot of flags look similar which could get confusing but I only have two input languages.
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Did Apple break iCal Alarm Automator in Lion? I've been trying to make one for 20 minutes and it's not working at all. e: Oh great now it works the second after I post. Nut Bunnies fucked around with this message at 10:20 on Aug 10, 2011 |
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toxick posted:Seconding this. If you use GMail, Sparrow is just a better app than Mail. I was using Sparrow, but I just switched to Lion Mail because Sparrow doesn't have an "All Mail" view for browsing Archived mail, as far as I can see. Am I missing something?
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Anal Volcano posted:I was using Sparrow, but I just switched to Lion Mail because Sparrow doesn't have an "All Mail" view for browsing Archived mail, as far as I can see. Am I missing something? https://skitch.com/kilgoretrout/fqxpr/screen-shot-2011-08-10-at-12.49.06-pm Looking at it, I can see my "gmail is different!" email from google dating June 2004.
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Cockwhore posted:You mean this?  Weird that they hid it down in the labels (which I never use, since I don't get a lot of email). Thanks for the tip!
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wolffenstein posted:They're awful because they don't use any application already included with OS X (You want irssi? Let's download and compile our own version of Perl for an hour). This can waste a lot of space. Plus, building your own brew is quite easy. Just write a ruby script describing the install process (or just copy someone else's) then run: brew install /path/to/script.rb
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japtor posted:Not sure about saving an x period of mail, but if it has similar settings to the 10.6 one you might be able to download the message list only, and load mails as you read them. In 10.6 it was Accounts -> Advanced and something about downloading messages. If that's set to "don't download any" or something, it'll only download/cache the message list. It would seem the vast majority of people keep their apps in the dock or would now use Mission Control, so the relatively low number of power user edge cases didn't crop up as important enough to affect CMD+TAB. I'd expect this to be patched in a couple of point releases' time though. Anal Volcano posted:
It's hidden in the labels because it is a label.
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brc64 posted:I've got a few things installed that say they support growl, but none of them are getting registered with it, and I can't figure out how to fix it. Sparrow Lite, Twitter, Adium... none of these show up under Growl Applications. I downloaded The Simplest Notifier Evar, and that did work, so I'm at a loss as to how to make the rest work.
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Martytoof posted:Why? They are literal ports of Gentoo Ports or the dpkg system and all the poo poo that comes with it. As stated they require their own compiled versions of apps, so installing one installs a huge chain that isn't necessary. Also the dpkg system is just loving awful. Resolving a chain of dependencies is generally nightmare both installing and uninstalling. More often than not when I'm helping someone with some bizarre OSS issue I ask 'do you have MacPorts/Fink' and the answer is usually 'yes'. Removing MacPorts/Fink and using the Homebrew version always does the trick. As stated Homebrew is built specifically for OSX. That means it uses the /usr/local structure that was designated for this sort of thing. Homebrew will never compete with OSX provided anything and will link against OSX provided libraries instead of having a huge chain of cross compiling that sends things into dependency hell like Ports. Finally it's just a whole lot simpler. People generally migrate from Windows or Linux to OSX simply because the OS structure and UI is a lot cleaner. Homebrew follows that idea and is a whole lot simpler and less error prone. tl;dr Use Homebrew, don't think about it.
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SourKraut posted:NotShadowStar posted:Both good reasons. I hope you didn't think I was being trolly when I asked why, I just didn't know what was so bad about them. They seem to get fairly widespread usage and I used them up until 10.7. Now that I know I might give Homebrew a try once I find something I need.
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NotShadowStar posted:They are literal ports of Gentoo Ports or the dpkg system and all the poo poo that comes with it. As stated they require their own compiled versions of apps, so installing one installs a huge chain that isn't necessary. Also the dpkg system is just loving awful. Resolving a chain of dependencies is generally nightmare both installing and uninstalling. More often than not when I'm helping someone with some bizarre OSS issue I ask 'do you have MacPorts/Fink' and the answer is usually 'yes'. Removing MacPorts/Fink and using the Homebrew version always does the trick.
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unruly posted:Just a caveat. There are some duplicates in Homebrew that compete with various system-provided items, but they have a policy against doing that if at all possible. There is actually even a Homebrew-alt repo basically full of system tools that have been updated, in case you need them (like rsync, or samba). This is true, and sometimes necessary because the Apple provided library can potentially be buggy or very out of date, but it's a very rare case.
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NotShadowStar posted:They are literal ports of Gentoo Ports or the dpkg system and all the poo poo that comes with it. MacPorts is a bit more closely related to the BSD ports system (I consider that a little more respectable than Portage). unruly posted:This. Homebrew takes the approach of not building EVERYTHING and using stock applications/libraries when possible *SHOCK*. For what it's worth, a large part of the reasoning behind this was that from OS X release to OS X release (sometimes even SU to SU!) you couldn't guarantee which versions of which tools would be around. For a little while Fink could be made to use the existing tools/libraries, but things often broke when perl versions changed or specific tools disappeared. Probably less of an issue now.
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Ok, I'm going to try Homebrew. Thanks for the explanations. edit: How well does gcc do in Homebrew? The entire reason I even use MacPorts is for fortran. SimpleCoax fucked around with this message at 19:05 on Aug 10, 2011 |
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Abel Wingnut posted:What's a good, free timer for Snow Leopard? Timer or Chimoo Timer.
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SimpleCoax posted:Ok, I'm going to try Homebrew. Thanks for the explanations. In the homebrew repo, there is gfortran
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