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12:00 AM

bbl

@Senseful it doesn't matter it just sucks spending time to make a fully correct answer for a user, and then not getting that, especially when the accepted one doesnt fully answer your question. Absoulitly nothing against you or @CajunLuke .

Senseful

ya i feel bad. i think ill accept yours

sorry about that

jmlumpkin

@Senseful Please dont

@Senseful I did.... And mdutil doesn't wouldn't prevent you, it has an option to restart it

Senseful

gah... i'll accept whatever gets the most upvotes in a day or so

jmlumpkin

@Senseful please keep @CajunLuke 's answer.

Senseful

12:02 AM

sorry again and thanks for spending the time answering my quesiton

jmlumpkin

@Senseful no problem. im not trying to be a drama queen. just trying to help

@Senseful also, please do be aware (in case it doesn't solve your issue) that the md (can't remember the exact name) process will still be running and looking, just not indexing.

Jason Salaz

mds

Moshe

1:00 AM

Anyone here?

I'm trying to help somebody with a 2006 MacBook. It has Snow Leopard installed, but it won't get past the blue screen after boot.

I've tried several reinstall CDs and neither of them to install. Now I'm trying to verify disk permissions and verify disk. Is anything else is obvious that I'm missing? He's tried all the support for steps over the phone.

@Jason? @Kyle?

Timothy Mueller-Harder

1:50 AM

Weird. All my additional Xcode apps seem to have mysteriously disappeared...

sigh, here comes another 240 MB download.

Also, is it just my imagination, or is the starred messages' line spacing different?

bmike

2:04 AM

@moshe - blue screen is user level startup. Window server time. You should reboot to single-user mode and delete the file /var/db/. AppleSetupDone and make a new admin user. How recent it the last backup?

Phone support should have been all over that symptom - blue screen is easy to pinpoint the failure....

jmlumpkin

@TimothyMuellerHarder did you do the update, and install the additional packages?

Moshe

2:21 AM

@bmike how do I reboot to single user mode?

@bmike the issue isn't backup, there aren't any. The idea is to get a working machine.

Ian C.

W00T a reason to use an animated GIF in an AD answer. :)

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A: How to partially uncover bullet points in Keynote

I figured out a way to do this. It isn't perfect. It's limited to being useful against solid colour backgrounds. If you're using a gradient background or a complex image this won't work. Add a mask in the form of a rectangle over top of each bullet point. You don't need to be super precise. Just...

Timothy Mueller-Harder

2:50 AM

@jmlumpkin yeah, the additional packages are what mysteriously disappeared. Where are they supposed to go, anyway? I just have 'em in a folder in Applications, but is there anywhere that'll make them appear in the appropriate Xcode menu?

Jason Salaz

3:20 AM

@TimothyMuellerHarder they go in /usr/bin

how did you install them?

Timothy Mueller-Harder

11:40 AM

@JasonSalaz When you open the dmg, there are a bunch of applications inside. No installers or anything.

I just dragged them to wherever seemed like a good place at the time. :P

Daniel L

12:04 PM

sounds like a strategy. (I didn't say a good strategy)

jmlumpkin

12:14 PM

@JasonSalaz these are the .apps, like instruments and the like

@TimothyMuellerHarder I was going to say ask a question (so I or one could answer), but looks like we already have it

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A: In Xcode 4.3, where do I put the additional tools?

Find XCode.app and open it by 'Show package content' Drag and drop new development tool from downloaded .dmg to /Applications inside XCode Add yourself to 'Sharing & Permissions' of /Resources with rights to read/write Repeat step 3 for file /Resources/IDEHelperApps.plist Open file IDEHel...

That lets you put them in the actual menu. You can really place them anywhere, I think mine right now are just in /Applications.

jmlumpkin

12:28 PM

Wow, looks like I may break 4k very soon.

Daniel L

12:54 PM

I wanted to float an idea for a CW question. We're trying not to do too many of them, and they need to be interesting to a wide group of people to be worth doing, so I wanted feedback here. Additionally, they need to benefit from voting for the answers to get a sorted list. IMO this one fits the bill, but it all depends on what people here think as to whether I'll propose it or not. So here goes:

In recent years, many new users have started using Macs. This means that there might be software that long-time Mac users know well and use on a regular basis, but if it hasn't been updated or publicized recently, new switchers might not know about it.

Long-time Mac users, what software do you use on a regular basis that is

1) compatible with Lion (so it runs in a modern environment) but

2) not recently publicized or receiving a major update, so it might be off the radar screen of new users?

Any feedback?

Nathan Greenstein

1:44 PM

That seems to line up with the guidelines well. But, IMHO, the 'list of apps' CW's are some of the least successful. My main problem is that the voting is so high that, once the question has its phase of popularity and the initial gems are voted up, it's nearly impossible for a new app to make any kind of a dent in the existing apps (no matter how awesome it is).

That won't be as big of a problem with this question, since oldies-but-goodies don't pop up every day, but it could still be an issue in the form of someone coming a month later with a great app that just can't get exposure.

Daniel L

2:07 PM

I agree that it is hard for new entries to crack the list (although this lack of success seems to be a product of the questions success at getting people to weigh in on useful programs...), but the resulting lists are useful resources, even if latecomer entries have trouble generating enough votes to crack the list.

Mathias Bynens

@DanielL Sounds great. Please post this question, I already have some answers I’d like to share!

stuffe

@DanielL I have a few suggestions for things I would possibly answer with, but whie they would answer the Q nicely, they are probably too niche for anyone to get any benefit from. So I'm unsure on the Q as a whole, but will go with the majority

bmike

@DanielL Hmm - not so hot on the current wording - but the idea of asking people for their "desert island" software has some merit as a CW

Mathias Bynens

Yeah. I’m using lots of obscure apps today I wish people had told me about sooner!

stuffe

One problem is with the timing of the question.

bmike

2:17 PM

In general - any question that is targeted "for beginners" or "for experts" is something the SE long timers have a large aversion to. I wasn't around for that, but there was a lot of backlash against people asking or tagging things with respect to the skill level of the asker or the answerer

stuffe

With the lack of Rosetta in Lion, that's just culled off the greatest chunk, because to run in Lion it needs to be Universal or Intel, which makes each answer limited to 4 years old (ish) max

bmike

It seems to me (and did to them) to just throw all that out and purify the question.

@daniel What sort of answers are you hoping to provide a place for them to arrive?

Let's optimize for answers - not so much dwell on the question for a bit and see where it leads us.

@NathanGreenstein This is the biggest downside of CW. Too many answers accumulate and strangle the idea. Then the barrier to entry becomes too high. Even if you want to, searching if your idea has been covered makes it offputting for latecomers to fix a wrong answer or make the question better over time.

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They're fun for a short while while everyone rides the wave, but then we're left with something that buries content - most of it locked away on page 2 and deeper.

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