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Terpfen
Jul 27, 2006
Objection!

:dukedog:

Fats posted:

$70 for both Windows and OSX is a bit silly. I wish you got both versions for your $40.

It's still worth it.

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modig
Aug 20, 2002
What does 1password do that lastpass doesn't do?

equation groupie
Feb 7, 2004

debased and dread pilled

modig posted:

What does 1password do that lastpass doesn't do?

It's not a service, for one, and your data isn't stored in THE CLOUD unless you use Dropbox sync (like I do). I think the browser integration may be better with 1Password but I've never used Lasspass so that could be wrong.

Also, and this is more theoretical than most people might care about, but with SSL's trust model getting completely owned lately I feel a lot safer using something that doesn't rely on it so heavily.

Terpfen
Jul 27, 2006
Objection!

:dukedog:

modig posted:

What does 1password do that lastpass doesn't do?

Better browser integration. Choice of where your password files are stored. iOS/Android apps.

Using Lastpass is better than nothing, but IMO 1Password is a better OS X/iOS app than Lastpass.

Grayham
Jun 13, 2005

I just blue myself
LastPass has an iOS app but the last time I used it, it was pretty awful. 1Password's iPhone and iPad apps are great.

Grayham
Jun 13, 2005

I just blue myself

TACD posted:

Actually yea, this happens to me to. Do you have FileVault enabled?

Yeah. I was hoping it would've been fixed in 10.7.1.

UndyingShadow
May 15, 2006
You're looking ESPECIALLY shadowy this evening, Sir
Whenever I hold down shift and then right click on my magic mouse, it brings up Mission Control. I dont want it to do this, how do I stop it from doing this?

Terpfen
Jul 27, 2006
Objection!

:dukedog:

UndyingShadow posted:

Whenever I hold down shift and then right click on my magic mouse, it brings up Mission Control. I dont want it to do this, how do I stop it from doing this?

System Preferences -> Mouse, I would imagine.

actionjackson
Jan 12, 2003

Two quick questions:

1) Can I stop Finder from automatically opening with "All My Files?" Kind of awkward trying to show my Mom something and BAM pornography. Luckily I did a ninja click.

2) Can I change it so that when I shut down or restart the box for "restore windows next time..." is unchecked? Whenever I had it checked the next time I would login the desktop would freeze.

Star War Sex Parrot
Oct 2, 2003

actionjackson posted:

1) Can I stop Finder from automatically opening with "All My Files?" Kind of awkward trying to show my Mom something and BAM pornography. Luckily I did a ninja click.
Yes go to Finder Preferences.

coldplay chiptunes
Sep 17, 2010

by Lowtax

actionjackson posted:

Two quick questions:

1) Can I stop Finder from automatically opening with "All My Files?" Kind of awkward trying to show my Mom something and BAM pornography. Luckily I did a ninja click.
Remove it from the sidebar via preferences.

EDIT: Or just right click it.

withak
Jan 15, 2003


Fun Shoe
Your mom already knows about your pornography.

actionjackson
Jan 12, 2003

haha thanks. Anyone know (2)?

Bob Morales
Aug 18, 2006


Just wear the fucking mask, Bob

I don't care how many people I probably infected with COVID-19 while refusing to wear a mask, my comfort is far more important than the health and safety of everyone around me!

I'm liking Sublime Text 2

http://www.sublimetext.com/2

Nice text editor.

carry on then
Jul 10, 2010

by VideoGames

(and can't post for 10 years!)

That reminds me, I'm fairly confident this hasn't been posted yet, but it looks like there might be a Textmate 2 after all: http://blog.macromates.com/2011/whats-next/

Sir Sidney Poitier
Aug 14, 2006

My favourite actor


I have questions about how applications are launched.

As I posted in the firefox thread, firefox has problems unless I launch it by running this in the terminal:

/Applications/Internet/Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS/firefox-bin

If I do it that way, it works fine. If I run it via clicking on the .app, it doesn't connect to sites at all. Anyway, I'm wanting to know what actually happens when you click on the .app, what is it within the package that gets run, what determines what file it is that gets run, and if I could somehow change it so that the above file is the one that gets run when I run the .app.

Bob Morales
Aug 18, 2006


Just wear the fucking mask, Bob

I don't care how many people I probably infected with COVID-19 while refusing to wear a mask, my comfort is far more important than the health and safety of everyone around me!

Anjow posted:

I have questions about how applications are launched.

As I posted in the firefox thread, firefox has problems unless I launch it by running this in the terminal:

/Applications/Internet/Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS/firefox-bin

If I do it that way, it works fine. If I run it via clicking on the .app, it doesn't connect to sites at all. Anyway, I'm wanting to know what actually happens when you click on the .app, what is it within the package that gets run, what determines what file it is that gets run, and if I could somehow change it so that the above file is the one that gets run when I run the .app.

Have you tried creating a new profile by running

/Applications/Internet/Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS/firefox-bin --profilemanager

And then launching from the doc/Applications menu?

There are 2 executable files in the /Firefox.app/MacOS/ folder, firefox and firefox-bin

According to the info.plist firefox is the one that opens when you double click the app

<key>CFBundleExecutable</key>
<string>firefox</string>

Do you get the same problem as launching from the dock if you try to run 'firefox' instead of 'firefox-bin'? It may be a helper that simply loads a few things and then launches firefox-bin.

Sir Sidney Poitier
Aug 14, 2006

My favourite actor


Until recently I had thought it was a profile issue, so yeah I've tried that and through various combinations of tests ruled it out. In fact running the profile manager from the terminal was how I eventually found out it was the launch method that made the difference.

Anyway, I've tried doing:

/Applications/Internet/Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS/firefox

In the terminal, and that DOES exhibit the problem. I have also tried changing info.plist to use firefox-bin but that unfortunately doesn't seem to fix it.

Bob Morales
Aug 18, 2006


Just wear the fucking mask, Bob

I don't care how many people I probably infected with COVID-19 while refusing to wear a mask, my comfort is far more important than the health and safety of everyone around me!

What is the actual error you get when you say it won't connect to sites? You don't have something weird like a proxy setting on or something do you? What version of Firefox?

Sir Sidney Poitier
Aug 14, 2006

My favourite actor


No error is given, it appears as if no effort is made. The window just stays blank. It occurs with an entirely new profile (no addons, settings, anything), no proxy. It happened first when I updated to 7.0.1 but when I changed to 8.0.1 beta it still happened and when I changed back to 7 it still happened. It still happens after an entirely clean install using CleanApp to remove every trace of the old one. I have no idea how this works.

Bob Morales
Aug 18, 2006


Just wear the fucking mask, Bob

I don't care how many people I probably infected with COVID-19 while refusing to wear a mask, my comfort is far more important than the health and safety of everyone around me!

Anjow posted:

No error is given, it appears as if no effort is made. The window just stays blank. It occurs with an entirely new profile (no addons, settings, anything), no proxy. It happened first when I updated to 7.0.1 but when I changed to 8.0.1 beta it still happened and when I changed back to 7 it still happened. It still happens after an entirely clean install using CleanApp to remove every trace of the old one. I have no idea how this works.

Does CleanApp actually delete the /Users/Anjow/Library/Application Support/Firefox folder ?

It seems like an extension or plugin is behind this. Do you get any console log messages related to Firefox when you load firefox-bin? (go up to spotlight and type in 'console')

Tarq
Apr 25, 2008

by Ralp

Star War Sex Parrot posted:

There must be a ton of recent switchers, because that question's been asked more times in the last week than in the entire previous year.

Don't worry about antivirus. Don't put your user password into any installers you don't recognize and you're good.

I was probably the last person I'd every thought would switch to a Mac. I've been a windows developer since 1994. In my current company I'm in a leadership position and half of the company uses Macs (designer, UX people) so when it came time for me to get a machine I abused my authority a little and got a loaded MacBook Pro.

This is the most amazing machine I've ever owned. OSX Lion was a great place for me to jump into Mac as I had no problems getting used to the gestures. I use the newest Parallels to run windows which is amazing since I can have a Visual Studio window floating around along side my Mac windows. I think Lion is more productive for business than 7, and Windows 8 looks like a UI nightmare.

Sir Sidney Poitier
Aug 14, 2006

My favourite actor


Bob Morales posted:

Does CleanApp actually delete the /Users/Anjow/Library/Application Support/Firefox folder ?

Yeah, it does.

Bob Morales posted:

It seems like an extension or plugin is behind this. Do you get any console log messages related to Firefox when you load firefox-bin? (go up to spotlight and type in 'console')

02/10/2011 17:00:29.860 [0x0-0x26d26d].org.mozilla.firefox: [NoScript] Adding category

02/10/2011 17:00:29.921 [0x0-0x26d26d].org.mozilla.firefox: *** Failed to get string bocaraton in bundle: chrome://worldip/locale/worldip.properties

These occur when:

Launching firefox from the icon.
Launching firefox from the icon with said addons disabled.

They do not occur either way when launching from the console using firefox-bin but both addons function perfectly.

Bob Morales
Aug 18, 2006


Just wear the fucking mask, Bob

I don't care how many people I probably infected with COVID-19 while refusing to wear a mask, my comfort is far more important than the health and safety of everyone around me!

Remove that extension? Do you get that error on a clean install (is it installed by default?)?

Sir Sidney Poitier
Aug 14, 2006

My favourite actor


Bob Morales posted:

Remove that extension? Do you get that error on a clean install (is it installed by default?)?

It is not installed by default, but removing it does not solve my problem unfortunately (just tried). Likewise, it works fine if I:

Create a test user account in the OS. Copy across the profile from my main one, run firefox. Then I can browse sites as normal using the addons I always have. However exactly the same profile does not work on my main user account.

Bob Morales
Aug 18, 2006


Just wear the fucking mask, Bob

I don't care how many people I probably infected with COVID-19 while refusing to wear a mask, my comfort is far more important than the health and safety of everyone around me!

Anjow posted:

It is not installed by default, but removing it does not solve my problem unfortunately (just tried). Likewise, it works fine if I:

Create a test user account in the OS. Copy across the profile from my main one, run firefox. Then I can browse sites as normal using the addons I always have. However exactly the same profile does not work on my main user account.

Maybe you can run 'lsof' while Firefox is open to see what files are opened by Firefox and see if they exist or are corrupt in your main user account?

Does your /Users/Anjow/Library/Preferences/org.mozilla.firefox.plist stick around even after you remove it with CleanApp?

You Am I
May 20, 2001

Me @ your poasting

Star War Sex Parrot posted:

New 10.7.2 seed is out for developers.
Hasn't updated for my developer account, still shows the 22nd of September beta :confused:

Star War Sex Parrot
Oct 2, 2003

You Am I posted:

Hasn't updated for my developer account, still shows the 22nd of September beta :confused:
Apparently it's not showing up for everyone yet. I got a seed notice and can download it. Weird.

Mad Wack
Mar 27, 2008

"The faster you use your cooldowns, the faster you can use them again"
It wasn't on the developer page, but I was able to get it from the e-mail link.

Ziir
Nov 20, 2004

by Ozmaugh
Does anyone use Papers2? I'm using the trial and I'm trying to move my library over to my home folder (~/Papers/[Papers2]) but I can't seem to do it. Their FAQ says to quit Papers2 and mv the folder, then start it again and it should tell me to locate my new folder, except all it does is create a brand new folder in the old ~/Library folder. It also won't let me change it in the preferences.

Bitcoin Billionaire
Mar 10, 2007
What's the best way to automatically synchronize my home folders between my "Mac Pro" and my Macbook Pro?

Star War Sex Parrot
Oct 2, 2003

MALCOLM XTREME posted:

What's the best way to automatically synchronize my home folders between my "Mac Pro" and my Macbook Pro?
Windows Live Mesh. Weird, right?

There might be other options, but it's worked well for me in the past.

Ziir
Nov 20, 2004

by Ozmaugh

Ziir posted:

Does anyone use Papers2? I'm using the trial and I'm trying to move my library over to my home folder (~/Papers/[Papers2]) but I can't seem to do it. Their FAQ says to quit Papers2 and mv the folder, then start it again and it should tell me to locate my new folder, except all it does is create a brand new folder in the old ~/Library folder. It also won't let me change it in the preferences.

Figured it out. I had to copy the library folder to where I wanted it to go, and then start Papers2 and tell it the path to where I copied it. (Kind of unintuitive. One would assume that it would just create the library files for you when you choose a folder where they don't exist.)

Anyway, I really like the simpleness of the default folder icons in the home folder (you know, the default Movies/Music/Pictures/etc) icons). Are there any more out there, fan created even, that look identical in style?

My PIN is 4826
Aug 30, 2003

Ziir posted:

Anyway, I really like the simpleness of the default folder icons in the home folder (you know, the default Movies/Music/Pictures/etc) icons). Are there any more out there, fan created even, that look identical in style?

There probably are, but why not make them yourself?: http://www.iconicosx.com/

JamesOff
Dec 12, 2002

What a frightening beast!

Martytoof posted:

Any suggestions? I could write a login hook to hdiutil eject it, I suppose. Ideally there would be some way to flag a drive as "DO NOT MOUNT" though.

I can't see a way to tag the fs itself as no-automount, but it looks like adding the UUID to fstab and giving it the noauto option will do it.

http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20060930150059172 is an old hint although the comments are fresh, and agree with http://www.quora.com/How-can-I-disable-automount-on-a-specific-external-USB-disk-in-Mac-OS-X

I haven't tested it since I don't have my MBP at work today but it looks like it's the Right Thing.

some kinda jackal
Feb 25, 2003

 
 

JamesOff posted:

I can't see a way to tag the fs itself as no-automount, but it looks like adding the UUID to fstab and giving it the noauto option will do it.

http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20060930150059172 is an old hint although the comments are fresh, and agree with http://www.quora.com/How-can-I-disable-automount-on-a-specific-external-USB-disk-in-Mac-OS-X

I haven't tested it since I don't have my MBP at work today but it looks like it's the Right Thing.

Thank you! I am going to give this a shot as soon as this machine is free to be rebooted :)

unruly
May 12, 2002

YES!!!

My PIN is 4826 posted:

There probably are, but why not make them yourself?: http://www.iconicosx.com/
I can't for the life of me get this application to work worth poo poo. I've dragged in SVG files converted to PNGs with white backgrounds, transparent backgrounds, inverted, etc. Every time it either comes out grainy or with a big matte that causes a big square to appear around the icon.

I hope he fixes this, it's really frustrating to use (and slow)

My PIN is 4826
Aug 30, 2003

unruly posted:

I can't for the life of me get this application to work worth poo poo. I've dragged in SVG files converted to PNGs with white backgrounds, transparent backgrounds, inverted, etc. Every time it either comes out grainy or with a big matte that causes a big square to appear around the icon.

I hope he fixes this, it's really frustrating to use (and slow)

I didn't have much luck with it when I used it a while ago, but I assumed it was because I'm poo poo at image editing :(

equation groupie
Feb 7, 2004

debased and dread pilled

Ziir posted:

Does anyone use Papers2? I'm using the trial and I'm trying to move my library over to my home folder (~/Papers/[Papers2]) but I can't seem to do it. Their FAQ says to quit Papers2 and mv the folder, then start it again and it should tell me to locate my new folder, except all it does is create a brand new folder in the old ~/Library folder. It also won't let me change it in the preferences.

I keep wanting this to be amazing, but every time I try a new version, it crashes when I try to import a few gigabytes. gently caress that, I have 10+GB of documents I'd love for you to store, but I'm not willing to deal with crashy bullshit.

It's been a few months, maybe I should try again.

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vtlock
Feb 7, 2003

vlack posted:

It's been a few months, maybe I should try again.

This new version was seriously buggy when they released it, but it's much more stable now (at least in my usage).

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