« first day (346 days earlier)      last day (4642 days later) » 

VxJasonxV
VxJasonxV
5:31 AM
... Does Lion have native NTFS support?
I don't think I've ever installed ntfs-3g or anything, but an ntfs formatted drive I have is showing up in finder...
 
 
3 hours later…
Kyle Cronin
Kyle Cronin
8:13 AM
I think OS X has had read support for NTFS for a while, but if you can write to the disk then it is a new feature
 
 
12 hours later…
Kyle Cronin
Kyle Cronin
7:44 PM
Chrome has had some really laggy scrolling for me as of late
I've manually copied over my bookmarks bar to Safari and I'm going to give it a shot for a while
 
VxJasonxV
VxJasonxV
I didn't test writing.
I'm fairly certain that it did not have native NTFS support in snow leopard.
 
Kyle Cronin
Kyle Cronin
well, I could be misremembering then
though I have to ask: why are you connecting NTFS drives to your Mac?
...(crickets)...
 
VxJasonxV
VxJasonxV
8:16 PM
it's a disk from quite a few computers ago
looking for an old music repository
 
Kyle Cronin
Kyle Cronin
I see
well, just don't make a habit of it
 
VxJasonxV
VxJasonxV
:P
 
Kyle Cronin
Kyle Cronin
9:08 PM
this is disheartening - my top question on SO has been closed
149
Q: Rails or Django? (or something else?)

Kyle CroninI'm interested in learning a web framework. The two big ones, as I gather, are Rails and Django. Which one is better/faster? Is one better designed or more logically consistent than the other? Is there another framework I should look into? How easy is it to set up and administer a Rails or Django...

python ruby-on-rails ruby django web-frameworks
and apparently Programmers doesn't want it either
so it's left with nowhere to go
I'll admit, it's not an objective, non-discussion question, but it was one that got a lot of interest
you can tell it's old because of the comment "Don't worry about the FAQ"
nowadays if a question looks like it might possibly be against the FAQ if you look at it a certain way, it's promptly closed, and very shortly after deleted
 
bmike
bmike
9:27 PM
@KyleCronin bummers! I hadn't seen it till now. Some good information there...
 
Kyle Cronin
Kyle Cronin
yeah
 
Nathan
Nathan
9:44 PM
@KyleCronin That sucks!
Such a popular question...
 
Kyle Cronin
Kyle Cronin
I have to say, Stack Overflow was really different back then
a real sense of community
 
Nathan
Nathan
Clearly. "Ignore the FAQs"
 
Kyle Cronin
Kyle Cronin
@Nathan well, things could be OK with violating the FAQ if they were interesting or useful enough
 
Nathan
Nathan
Yeah, kinda like all of our 'tips and tricks' and 'essential apps' questions.
 
Kyle Cronin
Kyle Cronin
also, the scope of SO is different now that Programmers exists
yeah
I try to run AD in the spirit of the old Stack Overflow
 
Nathan
Nathan
9:51 PM
I like the AD 'vibe'
small enough to really feel like a community
with... looser rules.
but stays clean
 
Kyle Cronin
Kyle Cronin
yeah
 
Nathan
Nathan
changing the subject for a second:
I'm playing around with a Lion recovery dvd I burned.
was it suuuper slow for you guys?
 
Kyle Cronin
Kyle Cronin
I tried restoring the ESD (or whatever) to a USB flash drive
but I never could get it to work
 
Nathan
Nathan
hmm. did you burn with Disk Utility?
 
Kyle Cronin
Kyle Cronin
didn't try burning it though
 
Nathan
Nathan
9:54 PM
ah
HOLY CRAP THE PASSWORD RESET TOOL IS GONE
how can I hax now?
...i mean reset my password when I forget it
 
Kyle Cronin
Kyle Cronin
hold down command-S when starting the computer
then reset it from the command line
 
Nathan
Nathan
what's the command line tool?
 
Kyle Cronin
Kyle Cronin
passwd
so assuming your user account's short name is "nate", you type "passwd nate"
 
Nathan
Nathan
nice, thanks!
 
Kyle Cronin
Kyle Cronin
then enter the new password twice
 
Nathan
Nathan
9:56 PM
whew
 
Kyle Cronin
Kyle Cronin
not sure if it works if you have encryption enabled
 
Nathan
Nathan
not really worried about that part :)
 
Jim McKeeth
Jim McKeeth
@Nathan, my question is the opposite of the one you said it is a duplicate of.
 
Nathan
Nathan
@JimMcKeeth Oh, sorry. Someone flagged it and said it was and I didn't read well..
Opened.
Sorry there
Thanks for telling me
 
Jim McKeeth
Jim McKeeth
Sure. Thanks!
 
Nathan
Nathan
10:50 PM
@KyleCronin Looks like passwd isn't working with Lion.
But you can do it by opening the recovery partition, opening Terminal, and running resetpassword.
Which brings up a nice GUI.
I guess Apple just wanted to move it out of the average user's way.
which I guess is a good move.
@KyleCronin I think you asked about how Adobe stuff appeared in Launchpad?
 
Kyle Cronin
Kyle Cronin
11:25 PM
the way they develop software just boggles the mind
every other Mac app vendor has a single executable you move to your /Applications folder
not Adobe...
 
Nathan
Nathan
Yea. I think it's because they try to give themselves as little work as possible to port between platforms.
I assume their apps are in C (or some variant), and their updaters/helpers seem to be Java.
Almost 40% of those apps are extras (uninstallers, 'managers', etc)
 
Kyle Cronin
Kyle Cronin
that's what so crazy about it
Microsoft is hardly better
they have their own uninstaller, their own updater, et cetera
 
Nathan
Nathan
All the crud they put in for Office...
 
Kyle Cronin
Kyle Cronin
which is odd because Office for Mac is definitely not just a port
 
Nathan
Nathan
Yeah, that is strange.
 
Kyle Cronin
Kyle Cronin
11:32 PM
my guess is that it's legacy code
 
Nathan
Nathan
Canon and Epson both also suck at this, but those are direct(ish) ports.
 
Kyle Cronin
Kyle Cronin
both existed on Mac OS before OS X
 
Nathan
Nathan
true
But for Canon's stuff, I'm sure they port directly from the Windows code.
 
Kyle Cronin
Kyle Cronin
and now they have such a huge codebase based on obsolete APIs that it's costly and time consuming to move
yeah, hardware manufacturers are usually terrible when it comes to software
 
Nathan
Nathan
There's one piece of Canon software that I like:
It's got a nasty interface, but it's powerful.
 
Kyle Cronin
Kyle Cronin
11:54 PM
remote live view? so you see what the camera sees?
 
Nathan
Nathan
yeah.
It's nice for doing stuff with a tripod (set exposure and line up the shot from the computer)
 

« first day (346 days earlier)      last day (4642 days later) »