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I can't seem to find any recent feedback or solutions regarding this, but has anyone managed to get the built in TRRS-enabled audio port's microphone band to work properly on Windows via Bootcamp? I know it works fine on the OSX side, but I've read nothing but reports from a few years ago that there's issues. I bought a headset for a friend who owns an iMac as a gift and we typically game while he's using bootcamp. I just want to know if I need to get ahold of a USB soundcard before next week or not so he can use them as soon as possible.
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Fardels Bear posted:Quick question about automation and desktop customization -- the setup in my bedroom includes a TV that a mac mini uses as its monitor. I'd like to set it up so, in the morning, it plays itunes automatically and pulls up some information about the day -- top headlines from RSS feeds and weather, probably. I've been experimenting with automator to do the iTunes piece of this, but the desktop widget stuff seems very out-of-the-realm of what Macs do. Any suggestions for apps to use for either piece of this project?
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TACD posted:There's definitely dashboard widgets that will load iTunes playlists as an alarm. For the RSS thing I'd suggest setting up an iGoogle homepage or something with the feeds you want, set it as your homepage, and set the browser to open at a set time (I don't know if Automator can do this but I bet there's an easy solution for 'load x program at y time'). iGoogle is probably the easiest method for showing what you want, you can set up something like a Fluid site app for that, or use the "Get Specified URLs" action (and enter the Google address there) then "Website Popup" (new for Lion iirc) and mess with the stuff there. Another option might be to use the RSS Visualizer screensaver and enter whatever feed in there. The "Start Screen Saver" action just starts whatever is set in System Prefs, and that's where you configure the RSS one. Not the greatest way to view stuff but it looks cool at least. There's probably other dashboard type apps but I don't have any experience with any.
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timb posted:Cross-posting this here for anyone that doesn't read the iThreads: (Reflection) Thanks for the heads-up! Looks to have good potential, though at least for me it's fairly buggy at the moment (plays fairly smoothly when it works though). Hopefully they get things straightened out more now that it's been released. It's a lot more expensive than Airserver, but it would be totally worth it.
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Two things: * The new Growl isn't supposed to have update notifications, right? Well, I built it from source, uninstalled the old one, and installed the new one, so now I'm running 1.3, but I still occasionally see the notice telling me Growl's been updated. What's going on here, and how can I fix it? * I'm experiencing periodic lockups (maybe once every day or two). I don't get the black screen telling me I need to turn off the computer, but either the computer will not wake up from sleep, or it will just freeze in the middle of me doing something and be completely unresponsive to any mouse or keyboard input (if I have any sort of sound playing it will also make an incredibly annoying skipping sound till I cut the power). What log can I be looking at to diagnose this problem? Am I even going to find anything? It's not really a typical kernel panic if I'm not seeing the screen, I guess.
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What options do I have for making custom key bindings on a strictly per-application basis? I would like to be able to bind a complex shortcut like control+4 to just pressing 4 on the numpad but only in Photoshop. Using the custom shortcuts in the keyboard preferences to do this is not going to work since Photoshop seems to completely ignore whatever shortcuts I set up.
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japtor posted:Yeah Gmail doesn't push with IMAP or CalDAV while MobileMe/iCloud does (and if the latter isn't, then maybe it's set to fetch/manual rather than push). Gmail does do push IMAP. quote:
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RICHUNCLEPENNYBAGS posted:* I'm experiencing periodic lockups (maybe once every day or two). I don't get the black screen telling me I need to turn off the computer, but either the computer will not wake up from sleep, or it will just freeze in the middle of me doing something and be completely unresponsive to any mouse or keyboard input (if I have any sort of sound playing it will also make an incredibly annoying skipping sound till I cut the power). What log can I be looking at to diagnose this problem? Am I even going to find anything? It's not really a typical kernel panic if I'm not seeing the screen, I guess.  . Look at the logs with the Console app, it's usually unrelated gibberish but there might be some clues in there if you recognize what times your machine went down. There's also kernel panic logs which would tell you whether it was a panic or not...I don't think they always get written out though, so it's not an entirely reliable way of checking that I guess.AmbassadorTaxicab posted:Gmail does do push IMAP. (And speaking of iOS, that link forwards me to a sign in page, and after signing in forwards me to a blank page with Google's mobile toolbar at the top  )
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So I'm having kind of a weird issue, basically I can't authenticate at all. sudo still works but any time there is a password dialog I can't log in. It still recognizes when I enter an incorrect password, but entering the correct one doesn't do anything at all. It even happens on the login screen, if I try to log out and back in it will just throw me right back to the login screen. This means that I can't install software updates, use any of the system preferences that require authentication, or use my boot camp partition in VMWare. Kind of an issue. There's something weird going on with Kerberos, when I try to authenticate this appears in /var/log/secure.log: pre:Mar 2 12:42:44 iridium authorizationhost[330]: in od_record_check_pwpolicy(): retval: 0 Mar 2 12:42:44 iridium authorizationhost[330]: in od_record_attribute_create_cfstring(): returned 2 attributes for dsAttrTypeStandard:AuthenticationAuthority Mar 2 12:42:44 iridium authorizationhost[330]: in pam_sm_setcred(): Establishing credentials Mar 2 12:42:44 iridium authorizationhost[330]: in pam_sm_setcred(): Got user: sam Mar 2 12:42:44 iridium authorizationhost[330]: in pam_sm_setcred(): Context initialised Mar 2 12:42:44 iridium authorizationhost[330]: in pam_sm_setcred(): Got euid, egid: 0 0 Mar 2 12:42:44 iridium authorizationhost[330]: in pam_sm_setcred(): Done getpwnam() Mar 2 12:42:44 iridium authorizationhost[330]: in pam_sm_setcred(): Done setegid() & seteuid() Mar 2 12:42:44 iridium authorizationhost[330]: in pam_sm_setcred(): pam_sm_setcred: krb5 user sam doesn't have a principal Mar 2 12:42:44 iridium authorizationhost[330]: in pam_sm_setcred(): Done cleanup3 Mar 2 12:42:44 iridium authorizationhost[330]: in pam_sm_setcred(): Done seteuid() & setegid() Mar 2 12:42:44 iridium authorizationhost[330]: in pam_sm_setcred(): Done cleanup4 Mar 2 12:42:44 iridium authorizationhost[330]: in pam_sm_setcred(): pam_sm_setcred: ntlm Mar 2 12:42:44 iridium authorizationhost[330]: in pam_sm_setcred(): pam_sm_setcred: no domain found skipping Mar 2 12:42:44 iridium com.apple.SecurityServer[30]: UID 501 authenticated as user sam (UID 501) for right 'system.privilege.admin' pre:sudo rm -fr /var/db/krb5kdc /etc/krb5.keytab /Library/Keychains/System.keychain sudo /usr/libexec/configureLocalKDC edit: this is on 10.7.3 Hugh G. Rectum fucked around with this message at 21:59 on Mar 2, 2012 |
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The XKCD Larper posted:What options do I have for making custom key bindings on a strictly per-application basis? I would like to be able to bind a complex shortcut like control+4 to just pressing 4 on the numpad but only in Photoshop. ControllerMate is the gold standard for more complicated things like this. Pricey but free trial etc. etc.
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~Coxy posted:ControllerMate is the gold standard for more complicated things like this. That's kind of overkill. Is there anything easier out there?
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Pretty much the only halfway illuminating thing I can find in the logs before it locked up most recently was a bunch of noise from iTunes and usbmuxd so perhaps that's what's causing my system instability.
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~Coxy posted:ControllerMate is the gold standard for more complicated things like this. Mac Developers In Support of Ron Paul
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Are there any good RSS readers anymore? NetNewsWire hasn't been updated since, what, September? Last time I used Gruml it was unstable as all get out and also hasn't been updated since October. Google Reader syncing a must, free would be preferable but I could a little money if it's really good.
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Manky posted:Are there any good RSS readers anymore? NetNewsWire hasn't been updated since, what, September? Last time I used Gruml it was unstable as all get out and also hasn't been updated since October. Google Reader syncing a must, free would be preferable but I could a little money if it's really good. Reeder is... okay. It also does not seem to get updated often and I really wish it had NNW's option to not load plugins in embedded browser views, but it's adequate. Is it necessary to change readers just because NNW hasn't been updated in a while, though? As long as it still syncs with Google Reader, you should be good, right?
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chutwig posted:Reeder is... okay. It also does not seem to get updated often and I really wish it had NNW's option to not load plugins in embedded browser views, but it's adequate. Yeah, it's just that they've been promising an updated version was right around the corner since December, and the GReader integration is...functional but very barebones.
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Manky posted:Are there any good RSS readers anymore? NetNewsWire hasn't been updated since, what, September? Last time I used Gruml it was unstable as all get out and also hasn't been updated since October. Google Reader syncing a must, free would be preferable but I could a little money if it's really good. There's a new one called Caffeinated, but I'm not sure if it's good. Their main tagline is that they sync with Google Reader. Seems to have mixed reviews at this point.
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I love Reeder, but I have two gripes with it: - it needs a menu at item to show me how many unread items I have - it LOVES to leak memory at random ntervals. It will go weeks without an issue and then it suddenly spikes to 700mb.
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Why doesn't Terminal work with some color codes that work on Linux? I noticed they don't work on a BSD server I have access to either. Is BSD 'echo' different somehow? code:code:Bash's fault? Echo? Terminal settings? (doesn't work in iTerm either...)
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Not sure why that doesn't work; probably a difference in the bash versions, though (OS X is 3.x, Linux is 4.x). It does work if you do it like this, if that's of any use: code:
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headfake posted:Not sure why that doesn't work; probably a difference in the bash versions, though (OS X is 3.x, Linux is 4.x). Yea, I found a couple differnet ways to make it work, it just seems there's a never ending list of small differences between a Ubuntu/Fedora Linux install and OS X. I know they're different operating systems, but still.
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zsh is better than bash, in my opinion, and supports that control sequence.
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Can someone recommend a good book for learning Lion? I'm hardcore and have been doing windows dev for 20 years and I want to learn the internals of how lion works.
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Tarq posted:Can someone recommend a good book for learning Lion? I'm hardcore and have been doing windows dev for 20 years and I want to learn the internals of how lion works. 1600 pages of fun http://osxbook.com/book/buy/ It's not Lion specific, it's actually pretty old.
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Bob Morales posted:1600 pages of fun That book is really old, and only useful if you want to do super low level stuff with OS X. A better choice would be Advanced Mac OS X Programming.
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I want to archive a few hundred GB of simulation results I have. On Windows I would have used WinRAR and QuickPAR to compress and store them with parity information. What is my equivalent on OS X, or the best way to do this on OS X?
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SimpleCoax posted:I want to archive a few hundred GB of simulation results I have. On Windows I would have used WinRAR and QuickPAR to compress and store them with parity information. What is my equivalent on OS X, or the best way to do this on OS X? There's http://www.unrarx.com/ Or you can use the standard tar with gzip/bzip2 that comes with OS X.
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chimz posted:That book is really old, and only useful if you want to do super low level stuff with OS X. A better choice would be Advanced Mac OS X Programming. I didn't read this book however I read some of The Big Nerd Ranch books, and they've all been excellent, so I recommend buying this!
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Bob Morales posted:There's http://www.unrarx.com/ Thanks. I'm not certain UnRarX can create compressed archives. I may be able to get by using tar, gzip and split. I really miss WinRAR and 7-Zip for this. Anybody use Keka? Then I still need to find a good program to create PAR files. Edit: Ok, after a fair amount of research, I'm testing out Keka and MacPAR Deluxe and will probably use them. SimpleCoax fucked around with this message at 02:29 on Mar 4, 2012 |
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Thanks for the suggestions. Those are exactly the kinds of books I'm looking for. I really want to get into the guts of osx and find out how it works... How to break it and how to put it back together.
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There's also http://opensource.apple.com/ for some of the source if you're interested in that level of detail.
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SimpleCoax posted:I want to archive a few hundred GB of simulation results I have. On Windows I would have used WinRAR and QuickPAR to compress and store them with parity information. What is my equivalent on OS X, or the best way to do this on OS X? Not sure if you know but RARs can use inbuilt recovery data (set to a percentage you want) which is pretty much the same as parity files.
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What's a good app to keep a directory on my internal drive backed up to an external drive? I already have time machine set up with my time capsule, but I want to keep several folders synchronised with their counterparts on a USB drive.
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Anmitzcuaca posted:What's a good app to keep a directory on my internal drive backed up to an external drive? I already have time machine set up with my time capsule, but I want to keep several folders synchronised with their counterparts on a USB drive.
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Or rsync.
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Manky posted:Are there any good RSS readers anymore? NetNewsWire hasn't been updated since, what, September? Last time I used Gruml it was unstable as all get out and also hasn't been updated since October. Google Reader syncing a must, free would be preferable but I could a little money if it's really good.
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On my MacBook, I used to use BootChamp to reboot into Windows when I needed to. Now, I've got an iMac with Lion and a Windows 7 partition. BootChamp still works for booting in itself, but whenever I use it I can't change the brightness in Windows, neither with the keyboard nor through the control panel (it's not just me, it's been discussed at lenght on other boards). The only 'fix' I've been able to find is to just hold the option key on boot, but lately that hasn't always been working so I routinely have to reboot two or three times before it'll finally let me select my startup partition. I've also used an app called QuickBoot (pretty much the same as BootChamp), but the issue remains. Have any of you discovered a simple app to reboot into Windows without screwing with the brightness controls?
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Anmitzcuaca posted:What's a good app to keep a directory on my internal drive backed up to an external drive? I already have time machine set up with my time capsule, but I want to keep several folders synchronised with their counterparts on a USB drive. http://www.shirt-pocket.com/SuperDuper/SuperDuperDescription.html
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Star War Sex Butt posted:Welcome to the brave new world of sandboxing. That makes memory leaks worse?
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I was debating posting this in the A/V Forum, but figured I'd start here. What is the best software to stream media to various devices on a local network from a Mac? I'd like to be able to stream media from my 2011 iMac to the following devices: - XBox 360 - Samsung TVs (Smart Hub) Note: I've tried Rivet, but that was fairly inconsistent in connecting to the XBox, and though it was discoverable on the Samsungs it did not stream at all to them. Connect360 is an option, but it costs $20, so I just wanted to see if anyone could suggest another free option before I dive in and buy something. Would XBMC, Plex, or something else be ideal for this? Jeratain fucked around with this message at 04:43 on Mar 5, 2012 |
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