Mac OS X Lion 10.7

Also when you use screen sharing you can get to you desktop/screen even if someone else is logged in at the actual screen. Amazing.

stet aiding and abetting the iOSization of OSX

I don't have anyone to share screens with :(

Currently trying to work out why the fuck my battery life has halved.

I have been redoing my 'office' area at home so my Mac Pro is currently plugged in downstairs without a monitor/keyboard/mouse. Works great with screen sharing!

Oh jesus, it's Firefox. I don't know why it's started happening in Lion. Nothing unusual in activity monitor but as soon as I close FF the battery life more than doubles.

Some discussion on how the /etc/hosts file has changed (potentially) in Lion: http://ga.rgoyle.com/blog/2011/06/16/mac-os-x-lion-etchosts-file/

just used airdrop to send some pics to be girl.... pretty slick

me:

"shit, that file's fucked"
"wait, there's a versions feature"
"omg amazing there we go, old version back"

so. good.

all the cute new lil transition animations are way dumb

yeah, and ugly. When you grab 10 items and drag them somewhere and you suddenly get this bulbous red "10" badge, it's things like that that make wish Apple came up with that metro interface.

when you do the new three finger swipe thing to yr desktop the icons fade in instead of just being there, like where r they coming from idgi

if you press cmd-m in launchpad or expose it gets worse

h8 u apaple

it really bugs me that apple implements 'natural scrolling up/down but switching between apps in full screen mode w/ the four finger swipe doesn't follow the same geography

it's three finger, and yeah it does?

well conceptually they reversed the up/down scrolling because you're imagining you're moving a piece of paper in front of you. now pretend you've got the torah or something horizontal in front of you and imagine you're moving it to the right or left. does it accord with what lion does?

Yes

? under apple's new philosophy of up/down scrolling, when I move my fingers up I will see more text appear from the bottom of the screen (i.e. downward scrolling). so when I move my fingers to the right, I ought to expect to see an application fly in from the left hand side, no?

what does it do instead?

That's what happens on mine. The only thing that is wrong is legacy three-finger-back in Finder/Chrome etc, and you have to turn that on in prefs

on my computer when I move my fingers left, apps come in from the left hand side

oh duh I don't have natural scrolling turned on

*fart*

motion to strike previous posts from the record

hey look over there

*throws smoke bomb*

has apple said anything about that upcoming new program where they replace my girlfriend's macbook after i throw it out the gd window for scrolling weird?

okay sorry for the previous brainfart. is there a way to make the dock come up in full screen mode if you have it set to hide?

mine comes up when i jam the mouse to its area.

oh okay. I ran out of room to jam on the trackpad

dayo, they have classes on how to use a computer at the Apple store, I hear they're free! :)

I used to know what I was doing but then they changed everything

refusing to upgrade the mbp because I should have gotten a lion install disc with my air, fuck you apple

:-(

You know you can make one, right?

yeah but only as a fresh install right? can't make a upgrade versh afaik

Yeah you can! It's the same damn thing.

could you point me to somewhere that says you can?

Uh, the fact that the disc you make is just an image of the installer, which when launched from inside OS X is an upgrader?

In fact, you could just stick the upgrader on a drive and then run it from the other computer!

I dunno man

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4848

Notes

If the computer shipped with Lion, the external recovery drive can only be used with the system that created it.

If the system was upgraded from Mac OS X v10.6 Snow Leopard to Lion, the external recovery drive can be used with other systems that were upgraded from Snow Leopard to Lion.

tbc my air shipped with lion - has never seen snow leopard. so this would mean any disk I make with it could only be used with it or w/ a blank HD, yeah?

External. recovery. drive.

Can you download via the app store?

To clarify since I was kind of harsh:

I was *not* referring to the external recovery drive stuff. I was talking about the installer/upgrader that you can make a disk image of that is what you get from the App Store. I thought that you either are entitled to a copy of that as a new hardware purchaser, or that it was somehow available, but it looks like you can only get that if you purchase (or otherwise somehow download) it by itself.

Sorry for the confusion! It sounds like you're stuck paying $30 or getting the image through other means if you just want an upgrade.

haha understood, and yeah I probably have done a bit more research on this than necessary. but as a new hardware purchaser I'm not entitled to download it from the app store @ all, only to do web recovery or make my own usb/external recovery drive.

my only hope is that I'm pretty sure that when I log onto the App Store from my parents refurbished iMac I do see some kind of... Lion Upgrade thingy that I can assign to my account. if it turns out that my parents iMac was upgraded from snow leopard at the factory, then I could probably make a boot image from that.

and yeah, wtf @ apple for not giving me a free download via the App Store, which is why I said fuck you apple in the first place!

It's only $30 though. Or um, you could download it elsewhere from less authentic sources.

it's the principle of the matter. I could buy a lot of beer or a fifth for $30!

and I already gave them two huge lumps of cash in the past summer

I'll email you the installer and a fifth

am confused dayo: what would you want to download? You can make an external image already, so what do you want to download?

He can make a recovery image, which he believes (and I'm starting to believe) is only good for a fresh install. He wants to upgrade.