boot from a CD, then fsck a couple of times and see what comes up
― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Monday, 7 August 2006 14:48 (seventeen years ago) link
― milo z (mlp), Monday, 7 August 2006 19:04 (seventeen years ago) link
Today's WWDC keynote was really insulting. There's not a single thing mentioned that's of any interest to me (or most mac users I know) at all. Gotta love that Steve's big deal was explaining that all these years after Outlook made us hate getting e-mail, you can now replicate that awful experience with Mac OS. If I can't get this iMac's issues worked out it's fucking newegg.com for me.
― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Monday, 7 August 2006 19:20 (seventeen years ago) link
For me, core animation is pretty goddamn cool. If you hate Mail, then switch to Thunderbird already and stop crying.
― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Monday, 7 August 2006 19:30 (seventeen years ago) link
― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Monday, 7 August 2006 19:39 (seventeen years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 7 August 2006 19:44 (seventeen years ago) link
― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Monday, 7 August 2006 19:44 (seventeen years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 7 August 2006 19:45 (seventeen years ago) link
Yeah, I think that was the argument just being made re: stfu about your really piss-poor Outlook rip off and its ability to turn into a to-do list!
― Allyzay knows where the interfacing goes. (allyzay), Monday, 7 August 2006 19:47 (seventeen years ago) link
― Allyzay knows where the interfacing goes. (allyzay), Monday, 7 August 2006 19:49 (seventeen years ago) link
The most exiting thing was moving the graphics slot so a double width card didn't block a slot and a novel way of mounting hard drives.
― Ed (dali), Monday, 7 August 2006 19:57 (seventeen years ago) link
― kyle (akmonday), Monday, 7 August 2006 20:21 (seventeen years ago) link
― stet (stet), Monday, 7 August 2006 20:22 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ed (dali), Monday, 7 August 2006 20:52 (seventeen years ago) link
― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Monday, 7 August 2006 21:53 (seventeen years ago) link
I have spent the better part of a day thinking about what my $Mac could buy in $PC and have decided that unless they somehow miraculously find out that my computer is perfectly fine after I take it back in this afternoon, I'm going to ask for a straight refund, and I'm going to buy a shuttle pc with Office & XP Pro and I'm going to run Ubuntu on the back half.
Fuck Apple and their Aqua Music Chat Party Store People Plan.
― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Tuesday, 8 August 2006 16:55 (seventeen years ago) link
― Machibuse '80 (ex machina), Tuesday, 8 August 2006 17:17 (seventeen years ago) link
― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Tuesday, 8 August 2006 17:40 (seventeen years ago) link
― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Tuesday, 8 August 2006 18:03 (seventeen years ago) link
― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Tuesday, 8 August 2006 18:20 (seventeen years ago) link
WARNING: Wizard Jon Loves the Blinky Fucking Red Text!!!!
― Shoes say, yeah, no hands clap your good bra. (goodbra), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 04:39 (seventeen years ago) link
http://cogosx.sourceforge.net/
gapless playback, does .flacs
basically this is what i've been looking for for years - a replacement for SoundApp
i have gotten excited about music all over again. i have spent the last hour cleaning out my old music folder, creating Smart Folders in the finder to duplicate the smart playlists i used to have and g*ddamn it it's DONE. even the "use the search box to immediately filter library" functionality is there - cause i use the finder for all that crap. let the finder be the finder, let cog be cog
― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 08:28 (seventeen years ago) link
i would like the ability to edit ID3 info on the fly (but iTunes doesn't do that either)
new versions apparently offer suspiciously spruced-up appearance. i hope they don't ruin it.
for those who want even more of a stripped down experience, i have also found this, which, while not exactly an iTunes replacement, is far preferable than firing up a whole Store System/Library Manager in order to hear some track you are 75% sure you're going to delete anyway; it's very nice and doesn't even open an app icon in the dock - it just plays what's opened with it and quits as soon as that thing's done - "taply" - http://www.bluem.net/downloads/taply-en/
― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 08:34 (seventeen years ago) link
― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 11:23 (seventeen years ago) link
― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 13:06 (seventeen years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 14:20 (seventeen years ago) link
― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 14:27 (seventeen years ago) link
― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 14:28 (seventeen years ago) link
― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 14:42 (seventeen years ago) link
― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 14:50 (seventeen years ago) link
If and when I finally get to take home a healthy iMac I am stoked to try out this Cog thingamabob.
― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 14:55 (seventeen years ago) link
― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 14:57 (seventeen years ago) link
is that me you're talkign about?!
― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 15:00 (seventeen years ago) link
― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 15:22 (seventeen years ago) link
― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 15:23 (seventeen years ago) link
1) Back up ALL your personal data: emails, mp3s, mpgs, the whole lot.2) Wipe your Mac hard drive and do a clean install. Choose the "Customize" option and deselect the iLife programs (along with the 5 million printer drivers). Keep iTunes, though, you'll likely want it.3) When your machine reboots & you've set your accounts back up, remove Dashboard from your dock.4) Search for a folder called "Widgets". Delete its contents.5) Ta-da! No more iLife, no more Dashboard.6) QUIT BLOODY WHINGING.
― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 17:02 (seventeen years ago) link
Can the 10.4.7 update really have fucked things up that badly or was I just lucky in the hour or so that I was on 10.4.0?
― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 17:08 (seventeen years ago) link
― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 17:10 (seventeen years ago) link
MAYBE IT WORKS NOW?!?! WE WILL SEE
xpost 6) There was a time in Mac days when that process was intuitive and the Finder was my primary tool for accomplishing those steps, instead of going and BLOODY WHINGING to unix sysadmins.
7) The Jay Beale slides from DEFCON deal with only one pane of System Preferences, but excellently illustrate the duplicitous wackness, shit defaults and general-purpose user-handicapping that goes on all over OS X.
8) SHUT THE FUCK UP AND PAY ATTENTION to what I'm saying about my valid problems with this OS and quit acting like you get a paycheck from Jesus Jobs for standing up for his false adverts and lazy, bad MSFT-style design decisions.
― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 17:13 (seventeen years ago) link
― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 17:14 (seventeen years ago) link
DO NOT tell me to shut the fuck up and pay attention. I've been following this thread since day one - I was the one with the busted Shuffle, remember? The one that they ultimately replaced???
Believe it or not, I was TRYING to help you, but you're obviously too wrapped up in the bullshit conspiracy theory that Apple has gone out of its way to inconvenience YOU AND YOU PERSONALLY.
― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 17:50 (seventeen years ago) link
― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 17:54 (seventeen years ago) link
― Mr. Que (Mr.Que), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 17:56 (seventeen years ago) link
― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 17:59 (seventeen years ago) link
― Mr. Que (Mr.Que), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 18:03 (seventeen years ago) link
― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 18:04 (seventeen years ago) link
Nope. I said "whinging", not "whining".
http://infosecuritymag.techtarget.com/2003/jan/curmudgeon.shtml
(also I don't know if "QUIT BLOODY WHINGING" goes down a treat with other people when you are helping them but it seems kind of obvious to me that it's a surefire way to get Tom to type a million variations of "EAT MY ENTIRE SMELLY ASS WITH CHOPSTICKS" in humorous caps)
What can I say? I'm more than a little burnt out after 6 years of DAW-related Apple support, and I jumped at the chance to say something that my old job essentially forbade me to do.
My point is that while I can totally sympathize with Tombot's hardware issues, it strikes me as utterly petty & churlish to bitch about Dashboard and iLife when it's easy enough to get rid of both of 'em. They strike me as the absolute least of Tombot's worries, or they oughta be.
― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 18:12 (seventeen years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 18:14 (seventeen years ago) link
It's W-H-I-N-I-N-G.
― Mr. Que (Mr.Que), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 18:17 (seventeen years ago) link