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Apple has Balkanized their OS's API. Most software out there only supports the latest release. The rest only supports two releases back. In fact with 10.6's release imminent it is hard to find software that supports older than 10.4 anymore.
I really like Terminator on linux; it's a python script that wrapps Gnome Terminal and lets you split the screen horizontally and vertically. I'd love to have that on OSX but don't want to run X/Gnome/etc.
If you're an Emacs user with (3!) decades old-finger habits like me, Mac OS X is a dream come true--you can customize the Cocoa text environment to be a quite decent subset of Emacs, available in most system apps now (most importantly, Safari). Oops, this is an anti-annoyance. ;-)
I would like to know how to do this. Do you have any links?
Running linux on a Mac laptop is a bit of a pain, mostly because of the keyboard/touchpad. The control and alt keys are in strange places (at least on my powerbook), and having only one button on the mouse is pretty irritating when you're not in OSX. I actually replaced my powerbook with a Linux laptop primarily for those two reasons; I'm always working in a terminal, so not having reasonably placed control and alt k…
You'll find that with only a little practice using tap gesture for button press becomes second nature. From there it's only a 5 minute learning curve to double-tap equals right button. So if you're serious about putting Linux on there, and frankly I think that's just silly, don't let the touchpad put you off. I'm perfectly happy with Coda for web development, although I wish it had function collapsing.
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Not an outlier.. I have had three hardware problems with my MBP: 1) Hard drive had IO errors and was replaced (2 months) 2) One of my keys stopped working. (9 months) 3) The right fan died. (10 months) The last company I worked at had a small fleet of MPB's and hardware problems were a regular occurrence. Far more frequent than when I was at an IBM/thinkpad shop, but drastically less than when I worked with Dells. Je…
Data is not the plural of anecdote.
You have 2 verified MBP users with a total of 4 problematic MBPs. That's raw data right there.
Do not confuse data with statistics.
The mouse speed algorithm. I'm using an iMac for three days and want to throw it out off window. I just keep missing the clicks! Or the mouse go too fast and pass the controls, or too slow and don't reach them. But the worst thing is that when I switched to my Dell Notebook (ArchLinux), I was too used to the iMac's mouse =\
I think I use USB overdrive on my iMac which might explain why I don't have the same problem with it. Or it might just be that I use a Razor-mouse.
Why does't toggle full screen work in stock X11?
Why is it so hard to get plan9/wmii to work properly :(
Binary package managent for common tools, like subversion etc.
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Not to keep pushing this software, but SizeUp allows for a keyboard shortcut to do full size windows (for any window) and then snap back to previous size, plus a whole mess of other great features. Its literally the app that kept me using OS X after switching from Linux. And its name your own price licensing. http://www.irradiatedsoftware.com/sizeup/
That looks like a great piece of software! I have been bugged by the lack of maximize for a while now. This looks like it will fit the bill nicely. Out of curiosity, what is a typical "donation" to the developer in this style of licensing?
Inability to resize windows from any corner except the bottom right.
This might help. http://www.heliumfoot.com/mercurymover/