For The Two Or Three Of Us, Another Mac Topic

[dmauro]

a more "fun" thing to do would have been to show up at the store, call the cops and try to have them arrested for theft.

That's the sort of thing my grandpa would do.

[dhex]

i concur with grandpa in this particular case i.e. if i got something serviced and i thought they'd fucked me like that, it'd be some shit. i'd be all like "abracadabraandrewcuomo" and poof that walking human boil would pop up all kazaaam style. bonus points if chuck schumer could give two shits because that guy is human ebola.

[FortNinety]

Remember, most folks who get fucked over at a store or restaurant, no matter how pissed they might be, and no matter how appealing the offense might also be, will simply roll their eyes and move on. Which sucks, since that's how stuff stays broken, especially here in the city.

BTW, in case anyone's wondering, after a couple of days of solid use, I'm pleasantly shocked by how rock solid Snow Leopard is. Again, there's the aforementioned quirks, plus the interface/design inconsistencies are slowly getting worse, though most once again will hardly notice. But overall, it's pretty niffty for a .0 release, and one has to continue to wonder how they dropped the ball so badly with the iPhone OS.

Though I too find Apple's claim of getting back more hard drive space being someone bullshit due to them fixing the numbers pretty lol-worthy. Then again, I always did wonder why 1024k made a meg, so to have it a flat, even 1000k does good for my OCD-raddled brain.

[dhex]

yeah, but this isn't like "bad service", this is "outright theft".

now, my assumption is that the technical knowledge of the folks telling these stories was less than deep, and that this might very well be an error on their part.

alternately, they're very slick at it and rightly presume that most of their customer base isn't going to check under the hood.

even more alternately, their service contracts explicitly/legalistically say "we reserve the right to use third party parts to the point where we just barely dance on the line to avoid violating apple's warranties and our status as an authorized dealer".

point being, back up frequently or live with losing all your mp3s, as i once did.

[loopback]

Then again, I always did wonder why 1024k made a meg

The easy answer for this is just in the history of computers, where everything was being done with binary. so a byte (8 bits) leads to making a kilobyte, which is 1024 (powers of 2 are GO), and then from there, the kilo/mega/giga prefixes when used are used to reference powers-of-2 based multipliers, instead of the standard decimal/metric version. 

[FortNinety]

Yeah, I know there's a real reason. I also find Apple bucking this very established train of thought to be... very Apple. Though I have yet to encounter even their most fanatical fan base saying this is some stupid game changer, which they tend to do at almost ever opprotunity.

[Fitz]

i concur with grandpa in this particular case i.e. if i got something serviced and i thought they'd fucked me like that, it'd be some shit. i'd be all like "abracadabraandrewcuomo" and poof that walking human boil would pop up all kazaaam style. bonus points if chuck schumer could give two shits because that guy is human ebola.

I like making a scene when I know I'm in the right.

I just like to make sure I know I'm in the right.

[dmauro]

I thought I posted in this thread yesterday, but maybe I posted in the wrong thread or just didn't post it.

Anyways, I've been using my new Mac Mini, and it's nice getting back to OS X with all the improvements that have been added since I last used it. Expose makes it now as easy to switch between active apps as it is in windows xp, and see my desktop which is awesome. The two big problems I was having through, I just found some software to take care of. For the buttons 4 and 5 not working as back/forward, I used USB Overdrive, and for the fucked OS X mouse acceleration, I found iMouseFix. The latter isn't perfect, but it's much better. I wonder if that bad acceleration curve is better for trackpads or something? :/

I also downloaded Little Snitch, which is a nice firewall program that can be used to block outgoing requests, and also has a really nice activity monitor that goes in the menu bar up top if you like.

So now I just have one last problem, which is that it takes a fraction of a second too long for the dock to come up (because I keep it hidden so I can get firefox running fullscreen the way it should be). I hide my taskbar in windows as well, and it's much better about popping up as you need it. The dock needs to be as responsive as expose.

[dmauro]

Okay, I'm starting to get used to the slow dock, but just realized you can't cut and paste files and folders. God damn, do I seriously have to have two finder windows open to move a file or am I missing something?

[FortNinety]

Not exactly sure what you're trying to do. When you have a finder window open, do you have the side bar visible? I have mine turned off by default... to Windows like... but that being said, it should be behave exactly the way you're used to. You can also, right click and copy and past files, though I know it doesn't behave exactly like in Windows.

Also, have you tried Quicksilver yet? I think it's rather ridiculous, but many people swear by it, including Nullsleep.

[dmauro]

Yeah, I was actually just coming back to say that I just found out about Quicksilver, and I love it already because I can set it's hotkey to be Windows button + r so that it behaves like Windows built in quick launcher, except that it's much better of course because I don't have to type the full name of the executable (basically the windows quick launcher is only good for launching calc and command, but I found it very helpful for that). Hopefully I'll be able to get this doing some more tricks for me though.

Copy and paste is fine and all, but that leaves you with the extra step of deleting the original file. Cut and copy in windows simply moves a file, but you can do it with the hot keys ctrl+x and ctrl+v or with the right click context menu. OS X simply doesn't have this. You have to drag and drop or copy/paste/delete. Obnoxious.

[dhex]

openapple + x doesn't work?

[drozdal]

God damn, do I seriously have to have two finder windows open to move a file or am I missing something?

You can always use Disk Order, it's like using Windows version of Total Commander (which is today's implementation of Norton Commander and Dos Navigator).

[dmauro]

openapple + x doesn't work?

No

DiskOrder looks kind of neat. I like the Finder though, it's really just the cut command that I'm missing.

[FortNinety]

This is... interesting...

http://lnx.donelleschi.com/Donelleschi_Software/Face/Face2.php?pag=25_