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Kyle Cronin

00:00

so instead of sending a letter to
Kyle Cronin
123 something st
city, state country

you'd address it like
Kyle Cronin
virtual box number, country

Kyle Cronin
USA#d89w5

something like that

VxJasonxV

The mechanism is irrelevant without the actual functioning part of it...

why can't people just address something to my domain and have it make it to me? Screw everything else.

Kyle Cronin

you mean your web domain? that might work

VxJasonxV

right

For that matter, why not just an e-mail address?

why can't all profile information be stuffed behind that?

Kyle Cronin

it's possible

VxJasonxV

code.google.com/p/webfinger

Kyle Cronin

00:04

the specifics of exactly how this can be accomplished are left as an exercise to the reader

but it would be nice for there to be some way to give someone an address that they can put on a piece of mail that you can subsequently direct wherever you want

basically a DNS for the real world

OK, kind of upset that Lion got rid of the 'pill' in the upper right to hide the top part of the window

VxJasonxV

Bad answer, but, full screen is the replacement for that.

Kyle Cronin

the full screen button is in the same place as the pill used to be

but the features are completely different

VxJasonxV

yep

Kyle Cronin

I'm just glad that so far the apps that I want to do it on have implemented View -> Hide Toolbar

VxJasonxV

well, wait a minute

and you should be able to bind that to a keyboard shortcut too

I actually suggested that because I thought some fullscreen apps hid their toolbar, but that's not the case, aside from iterm

Kyle Cronin

00:12

I wish that the pill was still there

in fact, I use it more than I'll use the full screen, so I wish they just added the full screen stuff to the menu instead

VxJasonxV

I don't use it often at all.

didn't. don't is futile :).

Kyle Cronin

I first noticed it was missing when I installed Soulver

I wanted to hide the toolbar but the pill was nowhere to be found

VxJasonxV

01:21

Thank you StackExchange, I'm glad you think you're smarter than me.

Any question tagged Lion, on such a specific such as AD (for me) is now highlighted, this is completely obnoxious and unnecessary. I understand it on large topic sites like SO/SU/SF/language sites, and perhaps even gaming. But I don't want it on my Ask Different.
PLEASE tell me there's a way to get rid of that?

I clicked 'set tag preferences' and it took me to my account settings, but the favorited/ignored tags are empty.

This is just frustrating.

Kyle Cronin

wait, where is that?

VxJasonxV

top right. same place favorite/ignored tags are shown, if set

Kyle Cronin

I don't have it

ah, apparently it's because you don't have any interesting or ignored tags

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Q: How do I remove a frequented tag?

When I logged in today I saw a new frequented tag on the right side: This causes questions having the 'android' tag to be highlighted. Example of highlighted questions: But I don't want that. How do I remove the tag? Thanks.

VxJasonxV

I don't want any highlighting, or shading, AT ALL

Kyle Cronin

then add a made up, nonsense tag

it's a hack, but it should work

VxJasonxV

01:28

yeah, I know, I was going to do that after I complain on that question

frustrating that I'd have to

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A: How do I remove a frequented tag?

Seconding the comment by fluteflute, but it needs to be an answer. Over on Ask Different, I'm generally interested in the whole subject matter, so I do not want any highlighting nor shading of topics. The fact that I'm coerced into it now is absolutely frustrating. PLEASE make this a preference...

Technically I'm third'ing it, I think. But whatever.

-> home.

Kyle Cronin

05:19

I plugged/unplugged my external speakers and that fixed my audio problem

that was weird though

bckbck

12:56

oh hai

VxJasonxV

17:30

@KyleCronin I was going to say that I know the problem isn't inability to communicate with the sound chip, because the volume dialog doesn't behave in that manner when there is no sound device.

Glad you figured it out!

VxJasonxV

21:47

"If you upgraded, your running apps will have the glowing dot indicators you’re used to seeing in the dock. If you’re on a new Lion system, they won’t. With Apple trying to move to a persistent state/instant start app design model, these running indicators may eventually be unnecessary. For now, though, with the vast majority of apps still being designed for Snow Leopard and earlier, the lack of dots is just really damned confusing."

Huh...

Kyle Cronin

22:00

I did a clean install, but I still have the dots

though it may be due to the method with which I did the install - I put my MBP in target disk mode and ran the installer on my old MacBook

VxJasonxV

very likely

I'm not sure what I think about the indication

The Dock and the ⌘-tab disagreement seems... odd.

Kyle Cronin

I think they're moving towards a world where you launch everything from Launchpad

so that, by definition, the apps in your dock are the apps that are running

VxJasonxV

hmm

So, I've been using a magic trackpad all day.

When I had the mouse out yesterday, I kept changing back and forth, so I've only put the trackpad on my desk today.

Kyle Cronin

is it magical and revolutionary?

VxJasonxV

It's easy to go back and forth between my work desk setup, and the laptop itself.

As if it was particularly harder with the mouse.

I mentioned that because, maybe I should shrink the dock way way down / auto-hide it.

I haven't touched launchpad once yet, except to show people it's existence.

But I've never launched an app from it.

Kyle Cronin

22:08

I haven't used it a whole lot either

but I expect I will eventually, once I get all my apps loaded

I'm actually quite looking forward to being able to arrange them around

VxJasonxV

meh

Kyle Cronin

you're such a downer

might I suggest

VxJasonxV

:(

Kyle Cronin

it's hard to believe how far Mac OS X has come even just since the Intel transition

VxJasonxV

:((

yeah, no kidding

I mean, I've been here since the Intel transition. So, there's that.

Kyle Cronin

22:16

yeah same here

my first Mac, my old MacBook, ran Tiger

and now it'll run Lion (though no rush on that)

VxJasonxV

my first Mac, first-gen macmini, ran Tiger. Oh the $100 upgrade to Leopard...

Kyle Cronin

ah, that's right, you pay for OS upgrades :D

the only upgrade I paid for is SL

I actually payed for it twice, annoyingly

VxJasonxV

O_o

break your disc?

Kyle Cronin

no, lost the original disc for my MBP

VxJasonxV

there's an odd keyboard input stutter/debounce "bug" in Lion that admittedly is getting on my nerves from time to time.

ah

Kyle Cronin

22:19

I wish macminicolo.net accepted other kinds of Macs

my old MB would be great in there

VxJasonxV

mini's are just so shelf-able

Kyle Cronin

true

there would be cooling issues with my MB if the lid were left closed

any problems with Sparrow?

I've occasionally had problems sending

there was one time a few months ago when it just ate my email - could not find it in drafts or the trash

and just today I tried to send some emails with attachments and they didn't go through

VxJasonxV

Pretty sure I haven't seen problems.

Kyle Cronin

at least in the GMail interface I could get at the draft text, but most of the attachments weren't, well, attached

it's just kind of bizzare

VxJasonxV

sparrow doesn't upload attachments to gmail when in drafts

Kyle Cronin

22:27

well I clicked "send" in sparrow

it pretended to upload for a while, and it stopped doing anything so I thought it was sent

though when I went to check in the web interface, they were't in the sent folder

they were in the drafts folder, and like I said some of the attachments weren't attached

so I just reuploaded with the web interface and sent that way

VxJasonxV

22:50

oh god, what a time to remember

burma shavé...

I swear I don't understand these deferred requests my brain fulfills.

Comptrol

23:35

hi, any xcode users?

VxJasonxV

only 1 user actually present

make that 2

I have used Xcode in a very very limited extent.

Comptrol

thanks @VxJasonxV :)

nite nite then

VxJasonxV

(No offense, @Dori :) )

@KyleCronin Ever heard of Downcast ?

@Comptrol Feel free to ask your question. If we can't answer, there's always the actual site :).

Though, now that I think about it, programming questions belong on stackoverflow.

You might actually find activity on their chat rooms too.

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