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Tim O'Reilly: I am really starting to hate Mac OS X.

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Re: Tim O'Reilly: I am really starting to hate Mac OS X.

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Post by Nagyman »

cantbecool wrote: post #387
pkamb wrote: post #160

I haven't upgraded to Lion, and likely never will, because they removed the single best feature of OS X, "all-windows" Expose with no stacking into app bundles. Default Expose was terrible in Snow Leopard too (strict grid layout vs. the old natural spatial layout) but at least then there was a hack to get the old version back: http://superuser.com/questions/118424/old-leopard-expose-on-...

I completely agree. I can't believe that Lion does not have an "all-windows" Expose. It's annoying trying to find a hidden window by minimizing everything. If someone knows how to toggle between an applications windows, please let me know.

CMD+` will cycle through applications' windows, but it won't restore minimized windows.

Re: Tim O'Reilly: I am really starting to hate Mac OS X.

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Post by McP »

Lewisham wrote: post #156

Having had a "I really am starting to dislike Mac OS X, but Windows 8 looks pretty good!" revelation, I started to use Windows 7. I came back after about a week and told Mac OS X I'd never leave it again. I reinstalled Windows 7 about 2 or 3 times, lots of weird, inexplicable errors, one of which required a Microsoft FixIt program to run as there were some "corrupt registry keys". Gosh, it was not good. That said, I…

You got unlucky. I suspect that on a different occasion with a different machine you'd never encounter anything that required reinstalling or FixIt or anything like that.

Re: Tim O'Reilly: I am really starting to hate Mac OS X.

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Post by mgkimsal »

ahlatimer wrote: post #168
mgkimsal wrote: post #129

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Alt-Arrows - is that a Lion thing? Opening up a stock iterm, and hitting... hrm... well "alt" is above the 'option' label, so I'm not sure how to invoke that. option arrows don't move by word. fn+option (which I'd assume give me 'alt' mode) doesn't work. What's the magic invocation to make that happen? Or is it Lion only? (snow leopard here).

iTerm != Terminal. The alt-arrows works in Lion's Terminal; I just checked (although I use iTerm, where it doesn't work). iTerm appears to be the only app that doesn't respond to ctrl/alt-arrows. I use them quite frequently, and it always trips me up that iTerm works differently than essentially every other app.

You're right, in that they're not the same - I use the terms interchangeably sometimes and shouldn't. That said, my snow leaopard Terminal doesn't have those keystrokes working either. :/

I typically use iterm2 now, and I mapped option/left and option/right to ESC-b and ESC-f, and all is well for me. Hope that helps someone else.

Re: Tim O'Reilly: I am really starting to hate Mac OS X.

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Post by brindle »

This isn't news, its just a random rant. I agree that as OS X adds complex features we lose flexibility in other areas. Many of these are are not frequently visited but its still annoying and unacceptable. Fortunately, if Tim knows where to find these files and really wants to delete them, an "rm -rf" from the offending directory would do the trick - I'd like to think that 99% of the people reading this forum know this. Ditching mail.app for GMail? Seriously??

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Post by Darr247 »

mattbot5000 wrote: post #338
Elepsis wrote: post #287

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Windows 7 actually supports explicit vertical maximization; dragging the top of a window to the top of the screen will maximize the app vertically but leave its width unchanged.

Double clicking the vertical resizer also maximizes vertically.

In what... Gnome3? Win7? OS/X?

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Post by pja »

frou_dh wrote: post #281
cpeterso wrote: post #199

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Thanks for the tip! I didn't know about RightZoom. Here are some little known Mac utilities I like: * MutableCode's Breakaway let's you configure separate audio volumes (including silence) for with and without headphones. * Stereopsis' Flux adjusts your display's color temperature to match the type of lighting in your room (e.g. daylight, halogen, fluorescent) to avoid the blindly blue glare in a dark room.

Separate volume bars for speakers/headphones are already maintained, no?

They certainly are on my work Mac (Snow Leopard).

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Post by barend »

tedunangst wrote: post #207
sukuriant wrote: post #192

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That is quite curious... though can you really blame the operating system for a program running on it? (Presumably SW:tOR)

People like to blame everything on Windows, including "I dropped my laptop down the stairs and now it doesn't work right" type stuff. I think if Microsoft had replaced the blue screen with a message that instead said "Your $PC-MAKER computer is a piece of crap, buy a $OTHER-PC instead." nobody would actually complain about Windows. [a general comment, not directly related to lewisham's problem.]

In some regards, they did. The crash reports from Windows XP indicated that around 20% of all OS crashes originated in the display driver (1). Vista introduced a new display driver model. One of its features is that the OS will now survive a driver crash. The screen just goes blank for a few seconds.

1) http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa480220.aspx

Re: Tim O'Reilly: I am really starting to hate Mac OS X.

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Post by pja »

wes-exp wrote: post #183
statictype wrote: post #80

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They changed that in Lion to every corner, every side. And you don't have to press ALT to do it He meant, you can click anywhere in the window and use Alt. If you left-click, it moves the window. If you middle-click it (apparently - I did not know this) will resize the window. Mac OS X has oddly small targets for many of the Window management things. You have to be careful with the mouse when finding a resize corner…

FYI, I just installed duplicity and rdiff-backup through Homebrew and it worked flawlessly. Agree that MacPorts is crap. But Homebrew is actually pretty good.

Last time I looked, Homebrew wasn't even trying to deal with conflicting dependencies, or any of the other hard corner cases of package management. MacPorts at least makes a decent effort on that front.

Has it improved recently?

Re: Tim O'Reilly: I am really starting to hate Mac OS X.

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Post by tonio09 »

megamark16 wrote: post #39

I came from a windows background, tinkered with Linux for a few years on and off, and when I started my current job I was given a Macbook Pro. After a few months of using it I as so frustrated, and found myself spending more and more time in my Ubuntu virtual machine, that when they were ordering new MBPs for the design team I offered to give mine up to a designer and buy a ThinkPad, thus saving the company over $1,0…

You only need these features because you are a programmer. A lot of people never even open the Terminal. Arguably, Linux or Windows is better match for programmers.
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