My internet connection reset right before the download was complete, now it says "An error has occurred" next to the "install" button on the mac app store purchases page. Only when I click that nothing happens. Suggestions?
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I see your point. That is a close call.
PS Could you pick up some milk on the way home?
I'm probably missing something, but aren't you probably just going to have to uncheck a box to avoid installing Lion Server as part of the OS install process?
yes i do, i close them all the time. according to my SB Settings the RAM goes down to about 100 mb with a few apps "open" or just left in the multitasking tray and when i close them it goes back up to 340ish mb. god i dont want the same annoying thing on my real OS
Exactly what I was thinking! As I sometimes run a decent number of different apps, if they all were "open" when not using them my computer would probably explode! My 09 MBP can play Team Fortress 2 decently if I have most of the programs on my mac off, and wifi/bluetooth off with my fans at 6000rpm and it will also stay semi cool. But if all my apps just "stay" open then that would really hamper my successful gaming.
I'm just gonna leave this here:
There's something pretty interesting in this pic. Let's see if you guys can notice it
The Windows Migration Assistant? If that's it, it makes sense since 50% of new Mac owners come from Windows.
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I'm just gonna leave this here:
There's something pretty interesting in this pic. Let's see if you guys can notice it
Migration Assistant (Windows)! Do I get a cookie??? Edit: beaten to it.
They are "open" in the iOS sense, not the current OS X sense. If there aren't any tasks running, they'd be suspended and not using resources, (which is why apps have to be updated to support the feature; otherwise, you'd open and quit them as normal.)
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You say that as if XML is a good thing... The backend to store the "registry" in doesn't matter. The concept of a registry (central corruptible, deletable) in itself is flawed.
For things included in Gnome. libgtk/libgnome apps are all over the place UI wise (not that QT/kdelibs apps are any better). The stuff included in the KDE main packages is pretty decent as far as interface goes.
You're forgetting K3B (the best burning software. Period) and Amarok (iTunes can go cry in a corner).
Easy to ignore everyone else who isn't jailbroken and made plenty of perfectly viable points. His point is also fine, I see the same thing on my non-jailbroken iPhone. Except instead of SB settings, I either get 1 hour of battery or 30 hours.
Hopefully your Mac has more than 512 MB of RAM so you won't have to worry about it.
They need to fix the "feature" backward scrolling. i.e. Scroll up to go down and down to go up - much like iOS. It works on touch screens like: iDevices and will work on the potential iMac touch. But, for mice and trackpads, it doesn't work, we're used to normal scrolling. i.e. scroll down to go down, and up to go up.
As a software developer, Versions is the feature I'm most excited about. No more need for a private local Subversion.
Ooh, Sandboxing and Privilege Separation!!
I'd love to be able to sandbox Acrobat Reader to only be able to read files, and not mess with my system. Same with Flash, etc. Hell, being able to make them only open files in my Documents, Desktop, and network shares would be a great step too.
Time Machine only saves once an hour, which is nowhere near granular enough when you're actively working on a document. But more pertinently, when I got my notebook, I was trying to find ways to have Time Machine backup my workset documents locally, since I want to be able to work wherever, which precludes bringing a portable hard drive with me. This fills that hole very nicely. Especially if it's easy to configure what not to save. For example, I only want to version source files, but not the files that are built from them.
Totally. I think that serious serving will move to the cloud, and that will necessitate local computers being more of a server than ever, as they become more of a hub for consumer devices, and then intermediate between those and the cloud. Putting a server OS in the desktop, and users now move move from the desktop to a hand held, makes sense. Think of how many people use a computer as a media server.
Do developer previews run in VM?
I'm so tempted to pay the $99, especially if it's true that the final copy is included in that price. I'm dying to test the new filevault. But, I have only 1 core2duo system and I can't afford to run an untested OS on it right now.
I'm so tempted to pay the $99, especially if it's true that the final copy is included in that price. I'm dying to test the new filevault. But, I have only 1 core2duo system and I can't afford to run an untested OS on it right now.
I believe I have addressed the other points as well. Did you miss my previous post? It can happen in this crazy thread!
Versions saves once an hour as well. Hopefully there will be ways to go around that limitation (like there is with TM.)
Unfortunately not.
Edit: sorry for the double post.
Well I certainly disagree with this. I've purchased two trackpads and they both went back. I'd say the trackpad is "pathetic" in comparison to a good mouse. I would be willing to prove it by having a comparative analysis of who could move and edit windows/documents faster. I have ZERO doubt the mouse would win.
iOS automatically closes least frequently used apps when memory pressure reaches a certain threshold. Actually, what it does is send several levels of memory warnings to the active foreground, and backgrounded but still running applications. Those apps are expected to use that opportunity to free what memory they can to ease memory pressure. If memory pressure remains high, the OS will begin jettisoning least frequently used applications that are suspended. What you are doing is completely unnecessary and rather pointless. The OS already does it for you.
It is a form of caching... and like most forms of caching, the memory used is automatically recoverable by the system as required without impact on performance. The memory in the system is of no benefit if it's not being used. Free memory is useless memory in terms of system performance.
EDIT: An important thing to glean from that. iOS does not support paging. There is no swap file. If memory an application requests can not be allocated, the application outright crashes. There is no swapping to disk. Are your apps constantly crashing because of this high memory usage you are complaining about? I will wager, no, they aren't. Why is that? It's because the system automatically recovers memory for running applications by closing suspended applications as needed.
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Whaaat?! That's pretty close to pointless. Hopefully it'll be configurable.
Well, as long as the versions that correspond to a user initiated save are distinguishable from the subsequent auto saves, then it should be really easy to revert. Hell, a lot of the time when the edit goes wrong, it's somewhere in the middle between the last save, and now, so versions and auto save should help you get back to the closest point where all was good.
Sounds like trademark infringement to me.
Can you confirm this? (Screenshot?) I'm pretty sure the backwards scrolling is not user-configurable.
You're right. I should have thought my concern through more thoroughly.
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