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dual boot - gptsync showing blank GPT and MBR partition table - Ask Different - 1 views

apple.stackexchange.com/...nk-gpt-and-mbr-partition-table
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  • Fedora 13 Live CD and use terminal to do the following su gptsync /dev/sda
    • David Corking
      David Corking on 13 Apr 13
       
      Wow! that simple
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Watch out, Apple: Windows 8 could trump the iPad - Sep 2011 - 46 views

www.infoworld.com/172971 PDA tablet
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  • Live is assumed and focused on letting an app's state roll across all devices a user has.
    • David Corking
      David Corking on 10 Nov 11
       
      A pendulum swinging back towards mainframe computing, perhaps.
  • Apple designed iOS for gesture-based input, and people took to it easily -- and developers had to think in the mind-set to even be able to deliver apps.
  • old "finger as mouse" approach to touch was a bad idea.
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  • "Legacy" Win32s apps from Windows 7 and earlier won't get the Windows 8 Metro UI goodness unless they are at least partially revised; even then, they'll be limited. Users will find that touch, syncing, and interapplication sharing won't always work.
  • (It's no accident that Excel was a Mac application first or that Windows Word shared almost nothing with DOS Word other than file format.) Microsoft's apparent strategy creates that risk for today's developers.
  • Sloppy developers could thwart Microsoft's seeming reinvention of Windows from taking root. Or, as happened with Apple's iOS, developers could wholeheartedly adopt the Windows 8 model and deliver an amazing portfolio of apps that pulls in users and drags IT behind them.
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XCHAT FAQ - 0 views

xchat.org/faq Macintosh
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  • !firefox -a firefox -remote 'openURL(%s,new-tab)'
    • David Corking
      David Corking on 03 Nov 10
       
      This doesn't work on my Mac - I don't know why.
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lottadot: OSX Leopard and Wireless network Compromised - 4 views

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  • Switching from TKIP to AES solved the problem immediately.
    • David Corking
      David Corking on 03 Nov 10
       
      If you *must* use WPA, this tip seems to work in OS X 10.4 Tiger as well.
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Microsoft's grinning robots or the Brotherhood of the Mac. Which is worse? | Charlie Br... - 1 views

www.guardian.co.uk/...-brooker-microsoft-mac-windows Macintosh Windows Humour
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  • whereas eerie replicant Mac monks really are everywhere, standing over your shoulder in their charcoal pullovers, smirking with amusement at your hopelessly inferior OS, knowing they're better than you because they use Mac OS X v10.6 Snow Leopard.
    • David Corking
      David Corking on 28 Oct 09
       
      I should upgrade to Snow Leopard to go with my woolly pullover.
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BBC Breakfast Talk Up Windows 7 Dismiss Rivals | popey.com blog |Oct 21 2009 - 2 views

popey.com/...lk-up-windows-7-dismiss-rivals ubuntu Windows
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  • ‘little community’ building Free Software you say Rory? Dismissive and unnecessarily Patronising
    • David Corking
      David Corking on 21 Oct 09
       
      I didn't like that bit either
  • No mention of the pain users will have upgrading
    • David Corking
      David Corking on 21 Oct 09
       
      yes there is
  • Ubuntu isn’t ‘out next week’. The latest version is.
    • David Corking
      David Corking on 21 Oct 09
       
      big oops
  • David Corking on 21 Oct 09
     
    Cellan-Jones not up to his usual standards - though this piece is a little too harsh on him.
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» Rebuilding thumbnails cache in iPhoto » Silver Mac - 0 views

www.silvermac.com/...rebuild-cache-iphoto06 Macintosh
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  • hold Command and Option down while starting iPhoto.
  • David Corking on 03 Sep 09
     
    undocumented?
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Apple - Support - Discussions - How to view all windows as a "cascade"? ... | 2009 - 0 views

discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa Macintosh
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  • Open the Windows menu, hold down the Option key and click on "All in Front". The cascade effect is from left to right, not from upper left to lower right.
    • David Corking
      David Corking on 27 Aug 09
       
      Not all applications have it - I guess the developer has to add it. Finder does, and it is very nice.
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GUIdebook > Articles > "The Xerox Star: A retrospective" | IEEE Magazine, 1989 - 0 views

www.guidebookgallery.org/...thexeroxstararetrospective xerox Culture Business supplies
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  • With hindsight, we can say that it might have been better to release these technologies into the public domain or to market them early, so that they might have become industry standards. Instead, alternative approaches developed at other companies have become the industry standards. Xerox’s current participation in the development of various industry standards indicates its desire to reverse this trend.
  • David Corking on 24 Aug 09
     
    Transcript of an article that showed the innovations in the Star workstation, which by then were found everywhere (though they may not have worked as well, and were not yet popular of IBM and Compaq PCs.) The overlapping windows, selection, menus, focus, object-oriented design and of course the mouse itsef were also found in Smalltalk-80. However, the icons, representing documents, folders, printers and so on, were a unique innovation. Did Apple license the Star technology as well as Smalltalk-80?
  • David Corking on 24 Aug 09
     
    Transcript of an article that showed the innovations in the Star workstation, which by then were found everywhere (though they may not have worked as well, and were not yet popular of IBM and Compaq PCs.) The overlapping windows, selection, menus, focus, object-oriented design and of course the mouse itsef were also found in Smalltalk-80. However, the icons, representing documents, folders, printers and so on, were a unique innovation.
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Google Latitude finally makes it over to iPhone, as a web app | July 2009 - 0 views

www.engadget.com/...over-to-iphone-as-separate-web Cellular phones GPS iphone
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  • Apple had some concern that people would confuse it for the native Maps app. We still don't get why it couldn't simply be added to Maps itself, but we're not the multibillion dollar company, here.
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macosxhints.com - Disable the startup chime via Unix scripts - 0 views

www.macosxhints.com/article.php Macintosh
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  • Unfortunately if I have the headphones connected it's their volume that is muted before shutdown and reset later. Is there a way to specify the speakers?
  • David Corking on 09 Aug 09
     
    This looks like great (it is a mix of Bash and AppleScript) and it works very well for me. However if you are not familiar with simple Unix administration, you might prefer packaged freeware or shareware like StartupSound.prefPane or Psst.
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Does the rescue system on the Install DVD include a text editor? - 7 views

started by David Corking on 24 Jun 09 no follow-up yet
  • David Corking
    #1 David Corking on 24 Jun 09
     
    It is always nice to have a rescue disk that can be slotted in to repair a damaged startup disk.

    For recent Macs, the install DVD can serve this purpose. You can run Disk Utility, hdiutil and fsck to repair the filesystem and check the SMART status of the disk.

    There is even a Terminal with a few basic commands. For example, you can read the system logs, and if the startup disk is healthy, but too full to safely start, you can browse around to empty trash cans and delete other unnecessary files.

    However, I foresee that sometimes I might have to edit a text file on the startup disk. Yet when I was using my disk (it is a OS X 10.4 DVD) I could not find emacs, pico, nano or vi. Is there an editor on there?

    If not, can you recommend a third party rescue disk that I can download or buy, with a wider range of repair tools?
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Bash Prompt HOWTO - extended - Giles Orr - 0 views

www.gilesorr.com/bashprompt Linux Macintosh
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  • The Bash Prompt HOWTO
    • David Corking
      David Corking on 24 Jun 09
       
      2007 draft
  • The Bash Prompt HOWTO Example Prompts
  • David Corking on 24 Jun 09
     
    Customize the default terminal prompt for Mac OS X and many Unix.
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Remove all hidden files in a directory | commandlinefu.com - 0 views

www.commandlinefu.com/...ll-hidden-files-in-a-directory Linux Macintosh
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  • That won't get rid of a file called .a rm .??* .[^.] The extra argument will, above, will do the job
  • David Corking on 24 Jun 09
     
    take care with file globbing (this one works for me)
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Cocktail - Overview - 0 views

www.maintain.se/...index.php Macintosh
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  • David Corking on 23 Jun 09
     
    This piece of $15 shareware (US dollars?) comes highly recommended, even though I would hope that future versions of OS X will do many of these things for itself. How often do upgrade licenses need to be purchased?
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Index of /files/apps - 0 views

vasi.dyndns.org/apps
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  • filelight-0.2.jpg
    • David Corking
      David Corking on 23 Jun 09
       
      This screenshot is quite impressive
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Mac OS X 10.4, 10.5: Gray screen appears during startup - Apple Support - 0 views

support.apple.com/TS2570 Macintosh
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  • David Corking on 23 Jun 09
     
    one more to print and keep at hand
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Mac OS X: What is Safe Boot, Safe Mode? - Apple Support - 0 views

support.apple.com/HT1564 Macintosh
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  • To perform a Safe Boot, hold the Shift key as your Mac starts up
  • David Corking on 23 Jun 09
     
    Another one I am printing and keeping near our Mac
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About disk optimization with Mac OS X - Apple - 0 views

support.apple.com/HT1375 Macintosh
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  • David Corking on 23 Jun 09
     
    situations when you might need to defrag - and why you usually don't need to
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iTheater: Mac Media Center » About Us - 0 views

www.itheaterproject.com/about-us Macintosh Open source
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  • FREE, open source software.
  • David Corking on 02 Jun 09
     
    Alternative to Front Row - I like Front Row but navigating among podcasts can be a nuisance - perhaps this can be hacked to make it easier
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