For anyone with concerns about Hackintosh stuff in Ask Different: I have an answer to something that involves limited use of software that is OSx86-oriented. The skeleton of the answer is not ideal (I plan to flesh it out over the next few hours) but hopefully there's enough there to allay any concerns about allowance of the answer.
10.8 (Build 12A269) in VirtualBox 4.1.18 or greater
Not mentioned in my earlier answer, an approach to installing and running 10.7 in a VirtualBoxVM. Assume that this approach, originally for 10.7, will be equally good for 10.8.
I'll build this answer over the next few hours, maybe testing as ...
Hi @GrahamPerrin, just FYI, you can leave a comment at the bottom of your answer if you wanted to leave a note. If your post is flagged for whatever reason, the moderator, as well as other users who come across your post, will see the comment and will let you know if there is a problem :)
Flags are a bit overkill ;) Good luck with your answer!
@jmort253 thanks … I wasn't sure about the flag, I was once told that it's the simplest (least noisy, least disturbing) and most targeted way of gaining moderator attention.
A different subject. Recently at least one answer has disappeared from under the following question. Some commentary was contentious, but I didn't imagine deletion of any answer …
Performance/responsiveness is a common concern with new software, especially on older machines. In general, upgrading from Snow Leopard (10.6) to Lion (10.7) wasn't too bad, but now Mountain Lion (10.8) is adding even more features such as Notification Center.
What will be the performance impac...
Would it be polite/appropriate for me to open a separate performance question? Something like "On newer computers, is any aspect of working with Mountain Lion slower than with Lion?"
@GrahamPerrin On the Q&A site itself, the flag won't be so bad, but chat flags are different. They reach a much wider audience. They're mostly intended for situations where there is a major problem.
As for your question, I don't participate on Ask Different, so I'm not really familiar with the rules and guidelines of this site.
My thought would be that as long as it's not excluded in the faq it should be okay.
I have just upgraded to OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion and am attempting to use Facetime and iMessage. Upon entering my Apple ID into the respective applications and attempting to sign in, I receive the following error message:
The server encountered an error processing registration. Please try ag...
I recently loaded a few hundred files into iTunes, and it's going through the paces of matching and/or uploading those files. But I've run into a problem, the process becomes stuck on Step 3 and never advances after hours of execution.
After opening Activity Monitor, iTunes is taking anywhere ...
I wish I had some ideas for you @JasonSalaz on the match crud.
Anecdotally, I have heard good things from people that turned off match on all devices for an hour or an overnight on the premise that the cloud processes things to clean up your database files when it knows no device is set up.
@jtbandes Wow - is it I/O bound or CPU bound?
@GrahamPerrin Yup - chat flags are different. If you want clarification FAQ - a meta question is great as all site mods get pinged when a new meta arises. I think the site devs also see the pings, but screen for site wide issues most of the time.
@jtbandes Hmm. I rarely work with video but if realtime for that type of media is sometimes a requirement, you might adventurously experiment with temporary unloading of the dynamic_pager daemon. If you do so, just keep an eye on the pie in Activity Monitor – use of real memory will be extraordinarily (pleasingly) different but without the daemon you will need to take care to not push the system to the point of stopping.
@GrahamPerrin It was merely a test (I was trying to find a video that was higher resolution than my screen, to see it in its full glory) — but thanks for the tip, that's good to keep in mind.
@jtbandes Woah - that puppy has some serious memory bandwidth. It's still a bit awesome that one video stream could saturate the IO. If I had the change I'd get one of the rMBP and a Promise Thunderbolt RAID and geek out on video transfer benchmarking....
Spinning drives actually are quite good for feeding a lot of video data down a fat pipe.
SSD have high transfer rates for random IO, but fast HD with modern caches/head seek firmware are really good too at reading ahead and keeping the pump primed.
Possible Duplicate:
What Window Management Options exist for OS X?
I'm on a retina MacBook Pro and usually I want to see several windows together. For now I use BetterTouchTool with gestures to move window to the right and left, but that means I need to focus on both of the windows and...
Some new command-line utilities in Mountain Lion: http://apple.blogoverflow.com/2012/07/interesting-new-unix-commandsbinaries-in-os-x-mountain-lion/ (via @joesflow)
@patrix is getting some welcome accolades for the very well done blog post. You should read it if you are interested in the terminal and new tools for Mountain Lion.
And it was fun to write, especially because I run across a lot of "unknown" commands in the past and wanted to get a better view on the new stuff in ML
Long story is that one of my friends started a workout challenge on G+. We are going to do 100 pushups a day for Aug.; 200 for Sept. etc. We'd like to be able to share numbers back and forth.
@DanielLawson No. He created a G+ event and we were going to log #s in the comments, but I really don't like that idea, so I'm searching out a solution. Gdocs seems like the way to go...
@daviesgeek I can't pretend to understand parental restrictions, but how is using a system where each user can enter data that all the other users can read any different from using… Twitter?
@daviesgeek Speaking from personal experience, FB can suck up an incredible amount of time. I've gotten back in touch with good friends through Facebook, but yes, it takes time.
@stuffe will likely pass me soon at the rate he's going. And especially if I keep awarding bounties (one of which will go to him unless someone comes up with an answer that actually works)
I'm trying to understand how to get Notifications working properly in Mountain Lion. I understand all the concepts about how to enable them, and configure them etc, but it doesn't seem to work as advertised.
I'll use Safari as my example here:
I have the following preferences set in both Syste...
@stuffe If the answer-to-comment adds some helpful content, we will sometimes convert them to comments, but if they're just "Hey, I've got that problem too" then we don't.
Okay. Spreadsheet experts. I have a question. I want to fill 365 adjacent cells in a column with consecutive date. I.e. Cell 1 = 7/30/2012, Cell 2 = 7/31/2012 etc. How do I do this?
I know it is possible. I've seen my Dad do it. I just don't know how.
Type the first date in one cell, type the next date in the sequence you need in the next, select both, and then corner drag over the next 300 odd cells
@stuffe I'll admit. I was the downvote, but I'd love to be brought around. I am having trouble imagining what an answer to the question would look like.
@DanielLawson Well, assuming that this is indeed the case, an acceptable answer is "Yeah, it's buggy, these problems are fixed in 10.8.1" - although obviously this answer may take a while if that's the way
My understanding of the way they work could be wrong, or it maybe as per design that when I switch back to Safari they go away (like the do for messgaes). I'm not sure, but I know it's not right
Someone may at least spot a pattern, like if the window is minimised this happes, if you have it open but not active, that happens, if it's open, but on another screen etc etc...
It would help if I could create my own alerts. I seem to recall a website you can go to to trigger them at will for testing
terminal-notifier
From the README:
terminal-notifier is a command-line tool to send Mac OS X User
Notifications, which are available in Mac OS X 10.8.
It is currently packaged as an application bundle, because
NSUserNotification does not work from a ‘Foundation tool’.
radar://1195...
@stuffe Undownvoted. (and I didn't feel guilty about the downvote because I've given you a ton of upvotes recently)
Some new command-line utilities in Mountain Lion: http://apple.blogoverflow.com/2012/07/interesting-new-unix-commandsbinaries-in-os-x-mountain-lion/ (via @joesflow)
10.8 (Build 12A269) in VirtualBox 4.1.18 or greater
Not mentioned in my earlier answer, an approach to installing and running 10.7 in a VirtualBoxVM. Assume that this approach, originally for 10.7, will be equally good for 10.8.
I'll build this answer over the next few hours, maybe testing as ...
Performance/responsiveness is a common concern with new software, especially on older machines. In general, upgrading from Snow Leopard (10.6) to Lion (10.7) wasn't too bad, but now Mountain Lion (10.8) is adding even more features such as Notification Center.
What will be the performance impac...
I have just upgraded to OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion and am attempting to use Facetime and iMessage. Upon entering my Apple ID into the respective applications and attempting to sign in, I receive the following error message:
The server encountered an error processing registration. Please try ag...
I recently loaded a few hundred files into iTunes, and it's going through the paces of matching and/or uploading those files. But I've run into a problem, the process becomes stuck on Step 3 and never advances after hours of execution.
After opening Activity Monitor, iTunes is taking anywhere ...
Possible Duplicate:
What Window Management Options exist for OS X?
I'm on a retina MacBook Pro and usually I want to see several windows together. For now I use BetterTouchTool with gestures to move window to the right and left, but that means I need to focus on both of the windows and...
I'm trying to understand how to get Notifications working properly in Mountain Lion. I understand all the concepts about how to enable them, and configure them etc, but it doesn't seem to work as advertised.
I'll use Safari as my example here:
I have the following preferences set in both Syste...
terminal-notifier
From the README:
terminal-notifier is a command-line tool to send Mac OS X User
Notifications, which are available in Mac OS X 10.8.
It is currently packaged as an application bundle, because
NSUserNotification does not work from a ‘Foundation tool’.
radar://1195...
