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Mac OSX Noob thread of OSX noobs
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There are many apps to make your OS look how you want it to really._leech_ said:
But sadly I do not see anything to give you a borderless Terminal. I Googled and found a few replacements, one that has fullscreen mode and looks like an old style CRT with flickr, and one that came out before Tiger added tabs to the default OS X Terminal. But nothing that let you have a borderless window. Weird. I swore there used to be an app that sat in the background and could be called at the press of a hotkey at which point it slid down like the terminal in Quake and newer DOOM games for modifying settings and such. But I couldn't find it.
This is not really Mac related, but then again, it might be. I was wondering if there's an affordable way to wirelessly connect my WD external passport drive and printer to our WRT54G router so I can access both devices from my Macbook? Both the drive and printer connect via USB/Firewire.
The Airport Extreme is a bit overkill for me. The Airport Express however looks awesome, but the problem is that is has only a single USB port and it will only allow a printer to be connected. An external drive will not work. Does anyone know of a good product that will satisfy my needs?
So basically: modem > wrt54g router > wireless bridge/hub? > usb: external drive and printer.
The Airport Extreme is a bit overkill for me. The Airport Express however looks awesome, but the problem is that is has only a single USB port and it will only allow a printer to be connected. An external drive will not work. Does anyone know of a good product that will satisfy my needs?
So basically: modem > wrt54g router > wireless bridge/hub? > usb: external drive and printer.
i'm no mac techy, so im asking on my bro behalf, he's using MSN and Adium and every time he messages someone he keep getting weird spam link sent to people he's chatting with every time. it's driving me insane as well since when we chat i keep getting spam links all over the IM window.
what could be causing this? and how does he get rid of it? any particular scanning program or such?
what could be causing this? and how does he get rid of it? any particular scanning program or such?
Liu Kang Baking A Pie
Member
The read/write speed on "fake NAS" router setups are so bad that it's not worth bothering with. I'm lucky to get 1 MB/sec on the Airport Extreme.Jel0man said:
You already made the thread for this and got answers.marwan said:
Mecha_Infantry
Banned
I'm debating between these browsers:
Safari: I like because it's light and quick rendering, but I still have problems with .gifs and not being able to do some stuff like "paste and go" into address bar or search bar, or right click on links to open in a new window straight away
Firefox: Perfect browser in terms of features, but suffers the dreded "www.neogaf.com is taking too long to respond" shit. And it sometimes is sluggish as hell
Camino: Not used it yet
Chrome: Loving it, it is fucking raw right now with some animations being jerky as turkey, but other than that it's solid
Opera 10: Not used it yet
Anyone have any input on Camino? Can it use FF's add ons?
Safari: I like because it's light and quick rendering, but I still have problems with .gifs and not being able to do some stuff like "paste and go" into address bar or search bar, or right click on links to open in a new window straight away
Firefox: Perfect browser in terms of features, but suffers the dreded "www.neogaf.com is taking too long to respond" shit. And it sometimes is sluggish as hell
Camino: Not used it yet
Chrome: Loving it, it is fucking raw right now with some animations being jerky as turkey, but other than that it's solid
Opera 10: Not used it yet
Anyone have any input on Camino? Can it use FF's add ons?
Mecha_Infantry said:
I have used camino. it's alright but does not support FF addons. but it's GUI is written in cocoa so it feels a bit more at home on the Mac. i think when FF was at version 2, that difference was more noticeable. now it's not such a big deal, I find.
I haven't tried it recently so I'm not sure if there are any recent changes that would put it ahead of FF or Safari.
I can't get into opera at all. the UI just turns me away. they've made progress with opera 10 but it still just doesn't feel right.
Mecha_Infantry
Banned
LCfiner said:
Opera was shit for me on the PC too so that's at the bottom of my list. I like the sound of running Chrome, Safari and Omniweb. What I might do with FF is keep my bookmarks as a html document and just access links from there, rather than keeping them bogging down FF. Also I will try and tweak it to my best ability to be as light as possible, even if that means removing Persona's
PhoncipleBone
Banned
I am trying to set up my printer to share with a Windows computer. It is hooked to my iMac and sharing is turned on. Under the Vista computer the printer drivers are installed and it is recognized, but when it tries to print it says "Access Denied." Looking under the Mac OSX help, it says to turn on post script in Windows. Where the hell is that?
criesofthepast
Member
Someone help me please. Just now I started downloading something in Safari and it's downloading, but it's not showing up on my download list. Look at the screenshot, it shows 1 download but I can't see anything. The file IS downloading though. Pretty strange and annoying.
Screenshot: http://i25.tinypic.com/mbrdjb.jpg
Screenshot: http://i25.tinypic.com/mbrdjb.jpg
DeathbyVolcano
Banned
...did you press clear?
Particle Physicist
between a quark and a baryon
criesofthepast said:
if you have 'Private Browsing' selected, you won't have a download history.
criesofthepast
Member
If you see the screenshot the clear button is actually greyed out. Private Browsing is off.BrandNew said:
edit: nvm, i fixed it. not sure how but all is well again.
midwestern_stylings
Neo Member
Quick hardware question for anyone that may know.
I have just recently bought a Western Digital WD5000BEVT 500GB 2.5" Hard Drive, for my new macbook pro, but upon installation my macbook would just show a file with a question mark and not do anything. When I put the installation disc in, when prompted to ask for a medium to install leopard on, the hard drive would not show up.
I was pretty sure I was putting it in and connecting it right, since I was able to put my old one in again just fine.
So anyway I asked for replacement from where I bought it, they got the item and ran tests, and said they couldn't find any of the faults I had said (I said it was D.O.A), but they will replace it with a new one anyway.
Now I'm a bit concerned, if that one was fine, why was it not being read by the macbook? I installed it multiple times to make sure (sata cable on securely etc), and it just didn't seem to work.
I have just recently bought a Western Digital WD5000BEVT 500GB 2.5" Hard Drive, for my new macbook pro, but upon installation my macbook would just show a file with a question mark and not do anything. When I put the installation disc in, when prompted to ask for a medium to install leopard on, the hard drive would not show up.
I was pretty sure I was putting it in and connecting it right, since I was able to put my old one in again just fine.
So anyway I asked for replacement from where I bought it, they got the item and ran tests, and said they couldn't find any of the faults I had said (I said it was D.O.A), but they will replace it with a new one anyway.
Now I'm a bit concerned, if that one was fine, why was it not being read by the macbook? I installed it multiple times to make sure (sata cable on securely etc), and it just didn't seem to work.
The_Inquisitor
Member
Edit: Nvm
The_Inquisitor
Member
I am trying to change the scurve .pngs for my dock. I believe I changed it a long time ago. However anytime I try to copy the new scurve files into the dock's resource folder, OSX does not copy ANY of the files into the folder. Anyone know what I am doing wrong?
The_Inquisitor said:
when i've tried to overwrite the resource files for the scrollbars, I found that even when I would authenticate, it wouldn't copy over. so I would need to delete the old files from the package first, then copy over the new ones into the dock.app.
....make sure to back up the unmolested dock.app to another folder or drive just in case.
that should work
The_Inquisitor
Member
LCfiner said:
Negative. I already deleted all the scurve files out of the resource folder. When I try to copy the new ones it "runs" the copy, but no files actually go in.
Edit: I notice that when I repair my permissions it:
Permissions differ on "private/etc/postfix/main.cf.default", should be -rw-r--r-- , they are -r--r--r-- .
Repaired "private/etc/postfix/main.cf.default".
User differs on "System/Library/CoreServices/Dock.app/Contents/Resources/scurve-l.png", should be 0, user is 501.
Group differs on "System/Library/CoreServices/Dock.app/Contents/Resources/scurve-l.png", should be 0, group is 501.
Repaired "System/Library/CoreServices/Dock.app/Contents/Resources/scurve-l.png".
User differs on "System/Library/CoreServices/Dock.app/Contents/Resources/scurve-m.png", should be 0, user is 501.
Group differs on "System/Library/CoreServices/Dock.app/Contents/Resources/scurve-m.png", should be 0, group is 501.
Repaired "System/Library/CoreServices/Dock.app/Contents/Resources/scurve-m.png".
User differs on "System/Library/CoreServices/Dock.app/Contents/Resources/scurve-sm.png", should be 0, user is 501.
Group differs on "System/Library/CoreServices/Dock.app/Contents/Resources/scurve-sm.png", should be 0, group is 501.
Repaired "System/Library/CoreServices/Dock.app/Contents/Resources/scurve-sm.png".
User differs on "System/Library/CoreServices/Dock.app/Contents/Resources/scurve-xl.png", should be 0, user is 501.
Group differs on "System/Library/CoreServices/Dock.app/Contents/Resources/scurve-xl.png", should be 0, group is 501.
Repaired "System/Library/CoreServices/Dock.app/Contents/Resources/scurve-xl.png".
Warning: SUID file "System/Library/CoreServices/RemoteManagement/ARDAgent.app/Contents/MacOS/ARDAgent" has been modified and will not be repaired.
RubxQub said:
What's the difference between a trojan and a virus?
I changed the homepage, and that worked.
I haven't installed anything recently, to the best of my memory, but I do visit that torrent-site-that-shall-not-be-named quite often :/
What protection software do you guys use?
-Kimo
Zaraki_Kenpachi
Member
Burger said:
I went ahead and got the apple wireless keyboard. I have a wired one I'll leave around if I need to boot into my linux partition.
criesofthepast said:
Whether it's greyed out now is completely irrelevant. If you accidentally or purposefully hit it before it would clear the list even things that are in the process of downloading, so you would still have your one file downloading but have nothing on your downloads list.
The_Inquisitor said:Negative. I already deleted all the scurve files out of the resource folder. When I try to copy the new ones it "runs" the copy, but no files actually go in.
Edit: I notice that when I repair my permissions it:
Permissions differ on "private/etc/postfix/main.cf.default", should be -rw-r--r-- , they are -r--r--r-- .
Repaired "private/etc/postfix/main.cf.default".
User differs on "System/Library/CoreServices/Dock.app/Contents/Resources/scurve-l.png", should be 0, user is 501.
Group differs on "System/Library/CoreServices/Dock.app/Contents/Resources/scurve-l.png", should be 0, group is 501.
Repaired "System/Library/CoreServices/Dock.app/Contents/Resources/scurve-l.png".
User differs on "System/Library/CoreServices/Dock.app/Contents/Resources/scurve-m.png", should be 0, user is 501.
Group differs on "System/Library/CoreServices/Dock.app/Contents/Resources/scurve-m.png", should be 0, group is 501.
Repaired "System/Library/CoreServices/Dock.app/Contents/Resources/scurve-m.png".
User differs on "System/Library/CoreServices/Dock.app/Contents/Resources/scurve-sm.png", should be 0, user is 501.
Group differs on "System/Library/CoreServices/Dock.app/Contents/Resources/scurve-sm.png", should be 0, group is 501.
Repaired "System/Library/CoreServices/Dock.app/Contents/Resources/scurve-sm.png".
User differs on "System/Library/CoreServices/Dock.app/Contents/Resources/scurve-xl.png", should be 0, user is 501.
Group differs on "System/Library/CoreServices/Dock.app/Contents/Resources/scurve-xl.png", should be 0, group is 501.
Repaired "System/Library/CoreServices/Dock.app/Contents/Resources/scurve-xl.png".
Warning: SUID file "System/Library/CoreServices/RemoteManagement/ARDAgent.app/Contents/MacOS/ARDAgent" has been modified and will not be repaired.
hmm. I am now at a loss...
you can try the demo of candybar 3.2 that will make the dock change stick with an iconcontainer of the scurve files. i think the program will work for free with a limited set of icons and docks.
there might be other freeware programs that can handle this operation, too.
The_Inquisitor
Member
Ok I changed my scurve files from 3 different styles. I confirmed they changed in the dock resource folder each time. I then killed the dock. However this god damn 2D dock is STILL here, even after a killall command nothing changed. I am beginning to think something is really fucked up. Any ideas?
Edit: Quick screengrab
Edit2: What the fuck. Even Candybar3 shows the new background in the application. However I am still stuck with the 2D dock that is above.
Edit3: I tried reapplying the dock via candybar. Still no change.
Edit: Quick screengrab
Edit2: What the fuck. Even Candybar3 shows the new background in the application. However I am still stuck with the 2D dock that is above.
Edit3: I tried reapplying the dock via candybar. Still no change.
Particle Physicist
between a quark and a baryon
Kimosabae said:
If you think you really need it, clamXav is a free virus scanner:
http://www.clamxav.com/
http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/52238&vid=11093233&mode=info
I'm not sure if it works in Snow Leopard though. I do know some people are having issues with the beta.
how is safari for plugins? I've just discovered you can get xmarks for it, which is a big step towards me being able to use safari instead of firefox, but what else is there?
Mainly I'd want a decent twitterfox equivalent, and an adblocker. Secondarily I'd like something like autopager and something to block flash (kills battery on my MBP)
Mainly I'd want a decent twitterfox equivalent, and an adblocker. Secondarily I'd like something like autopager and something to block flash (kills battery on my MBP)
mrklaw said:
very few official plugins for safari. but, clicktoflash is a real plugin that disables flash unless you click on it. theres also a whitelist for stuff you always want to see.
"glimmerblocker" is a pref pane that adds ad blocking to all Mac browsers via a proxy. again, not a hack, works on SL and across all apps. however, since I started using it, I noticed its a huge memory hog. not sure if I should be concerned about that
cant help you with twitterfox, sorry. if thats vital, stick with firefox.
The_Inquisitor
Member
LCfiner said:
You are a gentleman and a scholar. Forcing back to 3D was the fix.
Ollie Pooch
In a perfect world, we'd all be homersexual
midwestern_stylings said:
i believe you need to go into the Utilities on the OSX boot disc to run Disk Utility, and erase the drive to HFS+ format before it will allow you to install the OS. it's probably FAT32 at the moment.
I've said it before, but if Camino came out with a FireFox style plug-in system, even if it meant plug-ins would have to be redone for it, I'd switch to it.LCfiner said:
I'd also switch to Chrome when it was final if it also had a plug-in system.
Because I feel if the browser is good enough, and can have plug-ins, the Firefox developers would port their popular plug-ins to them. I'm talking the main plug-ins. Like Tab Mix Plus for all the options, GreaseMonkey and Stylish for control of page content and layout, DownloadHelper and DownloadThemAll for downloading everything under the sun...
I think it's just a matter of time.
For now I stick with FireFox though. As I have made myself a home I can't just up and leave. I rely too much on total control over everything. Including making the UI as small as possible while still retaining its usability.
Zombie James
Banned
What the fuck's wrong with Flash for OSX? Why does the tiniest video shoot my CPU usage past 100%? I need alternatives to this shit.
Zombie James
Banned
Jasoco said:
So basically, if I want to watch any YouTube videos i'll have to sit through the noise of my Macbook transforming into a lawnmower. At first I thought it was shitty Intel drivers.
Safari: http://rentzsch.github.com/clicktoflash/_leech_ said:
Firefox (with Greasemonkey): http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/38074
Jasoco said:
This isn't quite accurate. First, Flash does not reside neatly in a real industry. Second, the only "consumers" of Flash are developers who pay Adobe licensing fees for one of many competing authoring tools (both of SWF and equivalent formats).
Technicality aside, if the iPhone has taught me one thing, it's that I don't miss Flash content one bit. I have click to flash installed on my Mac and I virtually never enable Flash anywhere. It's more relaxing, enjoyable, and a great way to stay in shape.
Zombie James
Banned
giga said:
I already use Flashblock for Firefox. I use a YouTube Greasemonkey script but it doesn't have an MP4 playback option and i'd rather not switch it. Bah.