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Didion posted:Hopefully this'll make sense, has anyone else ever experienced hovertext sticking around when you switch to another virtual desktop? Does it only happen in some applications? I've not seen hovertext doing that, but some apps can be pretty funky when using Spaces (MS Office was a prime offender for years).
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I just realized that somewhere along the way the traffic lights in Mountain Lion got tiny and, in my opinion, less attractive than they used to be. Here's what they look like now:  Here's what they used to look like, in Snow Leopard:  When did this happen? Is there any way to get the nice, 'fuller' traffic lights back?
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Choadmaster posted:Well that's what he said, so I really hope that's what he means. And yes, it's a permissions issue, as I noted. But after he moves them he wants to delete the system-supplied folders from his new user account on the SSD and replace those with aliases to the folders on his old drive. That's just a bad idea (particularly if he's going to do this to ~/Library) unless he's skilled enough to deal with permissions issues and other potential problems, which it seems he isn't. I found out that trying to move my Desktop folder from /users/myaccount to the root of that drive would force a copy, but I could move the major project folders from the desktop folder to the root and they would move just fine, so I went with that and created aliases to those folders on my SSD desktop. Thanks for the help!
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WHOIS John Galt posted:I just realized that somewhere along the way the traffic lights in Mountain Lion got tiny and, in my opinion, less attractive than they used to be. It changed in Lion, and as far as I can tell, there's no way to just make them bigger. I've already gotten used to it to be honest...
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Jan 6, 2013 18:42
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strokevictim posted:Does it only happen in some applications? I've not seen hovertext doing that, but some apps can be pretty funky when using Spaces (MS Office was a prime offender for years). I think it might be just Safari? Could it have anything to do with Flash?
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Jan 6, 2013 19:21
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porkface posted:Which one? I'd love to get this going. Get a Synology. I received a DS212J and two WD Red 2TB drives for Christmas. It handles my Time Machine backups and hosts my iTunes library. Works great.
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Jan 6, 2013 20:10
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Laserface posted:Netgear ReadyNAS NV4000. i should state that its currently NOT working, because of the previous complaint. but I was using a backup on it in the past (on Lion). maybe firmware updates on the NAS coupled with ML has broken it, I will have to look into it. After a bit of reading I can't tell what they're doing exactly. Is it just like the "create a sparse bundle disk image on a share and mount it like a local disk" method I've seen in a few places? Going to have to try this tonight.
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Jan 6, 2013 21:21
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porkface posted:After a bit of reading I can't tell what they're doing exactly. Is it just like the "create a sparse bundle disk image on a share and mount it like a local disk" method I've seen in a few places? Not sure of the specifics behind it, I just tick a box in the NAS admin web interface.
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Didion posted:Hopefully this'll make sense, has anyone else ever experienced hovertext sticking around when you switch to another virtual desktop?
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Here's the scoop as far as I can tell with TimeMachine to non-TimeCapsule network shares: Lion (and ML) broke all those "create spare bundle, run some terminal commands" tutorials that show up when googling. Now Time Machine only sees AFP shares, and even then, only AFP shares meeting the newest AFP spec, which broke a lot of third-party NAS products that advertise as TmeMachine-compatible. TimeCapsule can apparently be faked using a relatively new version of Netatalk on *nix and Avahi to announce the AFP shares it creates, but I haven't been able to get it to work on my Tomato-based router. There's a hack app called "iTimeMachine" that I just ran on ML and suddenly my SMB and NFS shares showed up in the TimeMachine panel, but I haven't tried an actual backup with it yet. I don't know how much I trust it, don't know when apple will break it, and in the best of circumstances, backups created with this method won't be usable for a clean-slate restore.
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Anything to non-HFS+ volumes scares the crap out of me. edit: VVV Yeah but that is a far cry from system files. porkface fucked around with this message at 04:22 on Jan 7, 2013 |
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Jan 7, 2013 02:08
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porkface posted:Anything to non-HFS+ volumes scares the crap out of me. I replaced my "Home/Music/iTunes" folder with a symlink to an NFS share of an ext3 drive. Haven't had a hiccup. The only thing that scares me about that iTimeMachine hack is the lack of documentation or explanation.
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Jan 7, 2013 02:12
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moron posted:My Mac Pro 1,1 is too old to be compatible with Mountain Lion, but will I be able to run it in VMWare instead? Not sure, but it should work. You can use Chameleon to boot System 10.8 on your old Mac Pro though.
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I recently updated to mountain lion and now my computer disconnects from my NAS because apparently the computer going to sleep is enough to turn off the ethernet port. in addition to that my python install seems all hosed up and sickbeard will eventually stop working as python pegs the CPU at 99% usage. is there any way to stop the ethernet disconnecting, without fully disabling the computer sleeping?
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Jan 7, 2013 13:27
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It'd be nice if Apple would get around to updating their Windows Boot Camp drivers and client (and I don't just mean increasing the version number on the OS X side of things). I've been dual-booting OS X 10.8.2 and Windows 8 on my non-Retina 2012 MacBook Pro for a while now, using workarounds and generic drivers updated for Windows 8. It'd be nice to see something official from Apple in regards to Windows 8, wouldn't it? I mean, I know it's the competition and everything, but people do like to use Windows in conjunction with their Mac hardware and they rely on Apple to keep the software allowing them to do so up-to-date. Heredity fucked around with this message at 14:11 on Jan 7, 2013 |
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Jan 7, 2013 14:08
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Heredity posted:It'd be nice if Apple would get around to updating their Windows Boot Camp drivers and client (and I don't just mean increasing the version number on the OS X side of things). While I can see your point.. I've been using the Mac now for all of 5 days, and it's blatantly obviously to me that Windows is a second class citizen as far as Apple is concerned. I think the fact you can bootcamp Windows AT ALL is a bonus. 
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binarysmurf posted:I've been using the Mac now for all of 5 days, and it's blatantly obviously to me that Windows is a second class citizen as far as Apple is concerned. If that were the case, I wouldn't think they'd push Parallels so much. quote:I think the fact you can bootcamp Windows AT ALL is a bonus. That's one way of going about it. I'd probably be the same if they'd truly updated Bootcamp since 2011.
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binarysmurf posted:While I can see your point.. I've been using the Mac now for all of 5 days, and it's blatantly obviously to me that Windows is a second class citizen as far as Apple is concerned. I think the fact you can bootcamp Windows AT ALL is a bonus. Unless you're playing games is there any good reason to use Bootcamp and not virtualization software of some sort?
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Bob Morales posted:Unless you're playing games is there any good reason to use Bootcamp and not virtualization software of some sort? Personal preference and convenience (especially if you do a lot more work under Windows than OS X, but still need OS X).
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Jan 7, 2013 16:09
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Safari and Gmail: does the browser switch over to the Gmail tab for anybody else whenever Gmail is loaded? Like I'll open a tab and login to Gmail with it, then as that's loading I'll cmd + t twice and start going to say Facebook and Twitter, and then my active tab just switches over to Gmail and it's really annoying.
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Nevermind, I apologize.
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Jan 7, 2013 20:50
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Bob Morales posted:Unless you're playing games is there any good reason to use Bootcamp and not virtualization software of some sort? I basically set Bootcamp up because I could, and to have a look at how SWTOR runs on current iMac hardware. As an additional bonus, in the event I take my machine into work I just have to boot into Windows 7 Pro if AD on OS X won't talk to the work server.
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While we're talking about Bootcamp: I'm running Windows 8 through Bootcamp. I'll randomly hit rough patches where I get the blue screen that says BAD_POOL_HEADER and restarts over and over again, until it randomly fixes itself for a time. Has anyone else run into this? I've doing some Googling but haven't found any definitive solutions. I've read that "Disabling the PnP driver in Monitors within Device Manager" helps, I just worry that doing that is going to disable my iMac screen or something since it's a monitor driver. Maybe it's just because Windows 8 isn't officially supported yet, just thought I'd try asking. triplexpac fucked around with this message at 16:24 on Jan 8, 2013 |
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triplexpac posted:While we're talking about Bootcamp: While doing some cursory searching about Win8 I remember reading something similar and the fix was to rollback video card drivers. Maybe try searching for that, but I know it was a fix for some Win8 BSOD in bootcamp.
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Vomik posted:While doing some cursory searching about Win8 I remember reading something similar and the fix was to rollback video card drivers. Maybe try searching for that, but I know it was a fix for some Win8 BSOD in bootcamp. That could very well be the fix, since I think this started happening once I updated my video card drivers to a beta for FTL to work properly. Hard to tell though, I haven't been using Windows 8 for too long so maybe it was always going to end up doing this.
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I need visual studio for a class this term (let's not dwell on that for too long  ) Is there any way to get this to run semi-natively without having to buy a license for windows and bootcamp. I basically really want to avoid having to reboot my MBA every time I need to use this garbage.Is parallels more of a 'native' program? I checked crossover and they say 2010/2012 is unsupported. Sorry if this is a stupid question. Worst case scenario I guess I boot up a VM and run it in there. Glad I sprung for the 8GB upgrade if that's the route I have to go.
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SeaborneClink posted:I need visual studio for a class this term (let's not dwell on that for too long I use VS2012 everyday for work. I got VS2010 to work in wine but it was very very poor and since I needed IIS and some other things ended up going with Parallels. The coherence mode in parallels allows windows apps to run in a more native mode and besides a few quarks here and there seems to work really well. Performance is great with only 4GB of ram dedicated to the VM (have 12GB total). A coworker of mine uses virtualbox to do roughly the same thing but I don't believe they support any kind of integrated mode so things appear seamless. Another alternative depending on what the course actually requires is to just use Mono and Monodevelop. I realize this doesn't save you from buying windows but if this is for an actual school you could inquire with your instructor to see if they are enrolled in the Microsoft education stuff and get a dirt cheap student edition of Windows ($30 bucks if I recall the discount right). Edit: Here are the terms for the educational stuff. Apparently all you really need is a .edu email. http://drh.img.digitalriver.com/store/mswpus/ContentTheme/pbPage.Terms spaced ninja fucked around with this message at 23:09 on Jan 8, 2013 |
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Is there an easy way in Safari (or Firefox or Chrome I guess) to save all my open tabs and open them on another computer? I get home and pull up 20 tabs on various sites, and I'd like to just go to bed and read them at work (on my lunch hour of course) tomorrow instead of trying to find and re-open them all.
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Bob Morales posted:Is there an easy way in Safari (or Firefox or Chrome I guess) to save all my open tabs and open them on another computer? http://support.google.com/chrome/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=2591582
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Bob Morales posted:Is there an easy way in Safari (or Firefox or Chrome I guess) to save all my open tabs and open them on another computer?
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Boris Galerkin posted:Safari and Gmail: does the browser switch over to the Gmail tab for anybody else whenever Gmail is loaded? Like I'll open a tab and login to Gmail with it, then as that's loading I'll cmd + t twice and start going to say Facebook and Twitter, and then my active tab just switches over to Gmail and it's really annoying. I get it a lot too, and it drives me loving batty. Glad to know it's not just me!
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Bob Morales posted:Is there an easy way in Safari (or Firefox or Chrome I guess) to save all my open tabs and open them on another computer? I use Chrome Sync like eddie suggested and really enjoy it. iCloud always had some weird syncing issues that Google never has (bookmarks included). If you're on 10.8 I guess you can try both.
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Bob Morales posted:Is there an easy way in Safari (or Firefox or Chrome I guess) to save all my open tabs and open them on another computer? Have you considered using a read later service like Instapaper?
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Got a weird thing happening on the gf's Mac. Lately the system time (in the menubar, etc.) has started falling behind. Going into Sys Prefs and presumably forcing a ntp sync obviously fixes it. Anyone seen this before? Is there a way to make ntp sync more often?
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I've recently noticed that my menu bar frequently goes very slightly blurry: (top: normal / bottom: blurry) I can't seem to find out whats triggered it but changing my resolution to something different then changing it back fixes the problem, for a little while at least. It also seems to only be on the left side of the bar - my wifi / clock / notification centre icons are all fine, as is the rest of the screen. Not a big deal but it sometimes catches my eye. I'm using a 20-inch, Early 2008 iMac running Mountain Lion. Any ideas? EDIT: just hovered my cursor over the blurry area, it stays sharp so I guess it's not a fault with the screen.
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Why would I start suddenly receiving emails to my (pretty much unused) .me email account from local businesses that are ALL addressed to seriesofnumbers@me? It's kind of bizarre and makes me wonder what's going on.
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iostream.h posted:Why would I start suddenly receiving emails to my (pretty much unused) .me email account from local businesses that are ALL addressed to seriesofnumbers@me? It's kind of bizarre and makes me wonder what's going on. When I hit "new" it defaults to .me.
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I just got a new portable USB 3.0 hard drive (MyPassport 2TB) as a late Christmas gift to myself and have been in the process of formatting and attempting to move over my media and Time Machine partitions from my current external USB 2.0 hard drive (WD Elements 1TB). Last night I started the copy/paste of the Time Machine data after formatting a partition on the new drive. I saw it get to about 1/3 or 1/2 way through the ~145GB transfer before going to bed. I had plugged my 2011 MBA into AC power, gone into power settings and set "computer sleep" to never, unchecked "put hard drives to sleep when possible" and left display sleep at something like 15 minutes. When I checked this morning there was an error that had interrupted it, where the HD had ejected somehow. I decided to try deleting the interrupted TM backup from the new TM partition and try again later. It's still making its way through that now but in the meantime I tried copying over my old media partition to the new partition for that. I checked on it remotely from work and after about an hour I got the same error. Now the drive is unmounted and isn't showing up anymore under System Information, which didn't happen this morning. I'm not at home yet to unplug and replug the drive, agonizingly. I've never had any problems with this WD drive before, is this something to do with interaction between USB 2.0 and 3.0, or does it sound like it's getting to the end of the road? EDIT: Clarified a couple things. Kenny Logins fucked around with this message at 14:59 on Jan 10, 2013 |
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iostream.h posted:Why would I start suddenly receiving emails to my (pretty much unused) .me email account from local businesses that are ALL addressed to seriesofnumbers@me? It's kind of bizarre and makes me wonder what's going on. I've had this happen too recently, but it hasn't been local businesses. I just figured it was iCloud mail not handling mass spammers well.
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