@lzm yeah, unfortunately Stack Exchange really isn't for discussion-type questions
however, with regard to your home/end and page up/down question, you can use fn+up for page up, fn+down for page down, fn+left for home and fn+right for end
@lzm I think there's still a good question to be asked. Would anyone object to a question in the vein of "Where can I find and customize key bindings in Xcode?" - explain that you are used to having home keys, and ask for specific help. You can even ask and then answer your own question if no-one has a better answer by the time you find the answer yourself.
Keep asking questions here and on the main site. You'll quickly find that with a little care, you can make most subjective questions into concrete ones by limiting the editorial and focusing on the nub of the problem.
I'll add DTERM as a nice terminal program. I used to live in iTerm (not even iTerm2) but the Lion terminal looks to be much more to my liking. DTerm is meant to be there always in the background for quick hits so it takes some getting used to.
It's not just another replacement / reinvention of the term as a square window to look at a lot of text - it's there to bring the command line into the GUI so it's powerful in ways no other terminal program is - but not for everyone's taste :-)
With apologies, just one off-topic (non-Apple) question that might gain a quick simple answer here. I imagined a clear distinction between (a) Area 51 (for things that approach then enter beta) and (b) the Stack Exchange network stackexchange.com/sites
but I see that there are some betas in both Area 51 and the official network.
So, the question: (I guess there'll be an answer somewhere in a meta, but I could not find it): what are the criteria that allow a 'sprawl' across the two areas, beta and official?
@GrahamPerrin I think the "sprawl" is just a consequence of how sites start on area 51, grow, hit beta, get their own domain, own branding and eventually drop off the training grounds.
The process is quite involved and allows the SE folks to move things in an orderly way - each site can learn to fly on it's own schedule.
This one appears to be taking off like a rocket ship - but I could see others taking a year or more until they need/merit all the steps and effort to make them stand alone (as much as any of these sites are alone - the common code base is shared, with each having different deployment, special cases, etc....)
i think any site that was born through the area 51 system retains its area 51 page indefinitely. there isn't any activity on the area 51 page, but it displays the stats the site had when it launched.
@GrahamPerrin the ones that still have the beta mark and the "sketchy" theme are still in their public betas. i don't think the private betas show up on se.com/sites
but a public beta is fully functional, crawled by google spiders, etc, so it gets a spot on the main sites list.
apple is fully launched but it still has its area 51 page:
I recently got an OCZ Vertex 2 SSD for my Spring 2010 i7 MacBook Pro and am having issues getting AHCI working reliably under Windows 7 x64 in Boot Camp. Following the instructions outlined here I've tried the following:
In the Windows registry changed HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\msa...
thanks folks, two preliminary questions … (1) seeing [apple inc] at meta.apple.stackexchange.com/questions/1/… makes me wonder whether it's acceptable to have multiple-word tags that use space (not hyphen) separation
With Mac OS X 10.7 (Build 11A411) alone, or with Xcode 4.1:
Q: is there a way to accurately measure, or at least estimate the CPU load associated with Core Storage?
A graphical view of load on a timeline would be useful but not essential.
I would be equally happy with useful results from som...
in the not yet published man page for diskutil, in Lion the man page often uses the expression coreStorage (one word) but that's probably for convenience; the verb in context of diskutil
I believe Core Storage (and so the tag core-storage) is more proper in conversation.
@Nathan thanks; @AbbyTMiller now I'm puzzled, can't find in my Safari history a blog post (I think it was a blog post) where you announced yourself, or your new role, or something … ring a bell?
I'm just dropping in to introduce myself. My name's Abby (you may have gathered this already), and I work for Stack Exchange as a member of their brand new CHAOS team. I've been given temporary moderator privileges on Ask Different for a special project. My assignment is to use these privileges t...
I starred that yesterday, had a vague recollection of seeing a companion post somewhere outside the SE domain(s). Maybe confused memory after all the stack-hopping in my first two days!
in light of our consciously using OS X instead of OSX (since it's correct and all), is it worth considering making the tag [os-x] instead of [osx]? the hyphen looks weird but [osx] is sort of misleading?
@AbbyTMillerΨ Whichever side of the bread lands butter side up, please keep a tag synonym for the other pointing to the chosen tag. I'd vote for whatever else is chosen for App space Store and Mission space Control so that OS space X all follow a convention :-)
@AbbyTMillerΨ hmm in principle +1 to synonyms, OTOH I don't know the long-term effects of creating a tag synonym in Stack Exchange. If for example you now make [mac-os-x] synonymous with [os-x] …
I think only a few can make them - so we've been saved / spared from the protocol - @dori might know or point us to the authority on tagging. I use them a lot, but don't get how SE likes them to be used - there seems to be some strong (and well founded) feelings about what makes a great tag and how to curate them properly
… then (pure speculation) some day Apple legally distinguishes between Mac OS X and OS X, if undoing the synonym becomes necessary: would that be practical?
Where do the numbers come from in chat under names. I'm listed 10.1k and Nathan is 9196 - do meta and chat have some algorithm that extrapolates based on the main reputation)
at any rate - i'm not sure what to think when it comes to [mac-os-x] vs [os-x] vs [osx], just wanted to bring it to y'all's attention - if we're gunning for OS X all day errday, [osx] without a dash or space seems counterproductive
@AbbyTMillerΨ That might make sense - especially if the "total" flair number filters out all <200 rep sites - I could see how I might have a bunch of 100 hits on many sites I rarely visit and have chatted at least once)
@Nathan I would be happy to change convention - but also think someone should look to see how search engines index this site. Would OSX be more useful for the way people search using google or blekko? That would be a good reason to break the mold and not have os-x
@VxJasonxV I'd be happy to. What's the best place for bugs - here in meta or some meta meta that oversee all the sites?
@Nathan No, it's not just you. You may have also noticed that it pops up immediately on boot - this is because this is the disk decryption password entry screen
it also serves as a login screen, but the event of logging in happens once the system boots
@Nathan I am surprised he did, this seems to suggest that the person at Stack Exchange that arranged the sponsorship told him the name was "AskDifferent"
CHAOS is a team of six full-time employees that just started working at Stack Exchange Global World Domination Headquarters in New York, NY. While at work, they look like this:
As a convention, CHAOS members put a secret handshake, the Greek letter psi (Ψ), after their name.
This blog post de...
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I'm all for the conversational tone that Area 51 uses. However, in my opinion, the public beta announcement has gone a little over the top:
The new Web Applications Stack Exchange site is now open to the public!
After just 7 days in private beta, we’ve already got 415 users who have aske...
@AbbyTMillerΨ I'm also not surprised she didn't catch the "AskDifferent" slip-up - she's been completely absent from the site since it was launched and never liked the name "Ask Different"
@AbbyTMiller Would this question title fit your specs? "How can I make File Vault show the unlock screen as 'name and password' instead of 'list of users'?"
the only thing i'd point out is that it's sorta long. we aim for about 60-70 characters for a title, because that's what Google search results give us and it's nice when the whole title is in the search results
but sometimes that just isn't possible, in which case being a nice full sentence is ideal. and i can't think of a way to shorten that easily without losing relevant information
This week, Ask Different is sponsoring the Daring Fireball RSS feed, Gruber will run a little ad for Ask Different in the RSS feed. I believe there will also be a plug live on the Daring Fireball homepage on Friday, but don't quote me on that.
John Gruber is just one guy who likes to talk and w...
As a little aside, I'm ridiculously glad to see constant life in this chat. So thank you @bmike @AbbyTMiller @GrahamPerrin @bckbck @Garikapti (pretty sure I butchered that name) and all of the other recent-comers not coming up on my autocomplete list. Of course, thanks to @KyleCronin for much of the reason of this place's existence. And our regulars, @Nathan @VxJasonxV (hurr) and @Grant and the eternal spectre of @Dori's disembodied head!
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Oh, and I would be very stupid to not thank Joel and Jeff and the entire rest of the Stack Exchange staff. And @Jin for his multiple-times-over work on the site's absolutely gorgeous layout. Sticking with us through all of the bugs, dealing with all of our nitpicky "style bug" reports and all that.
There is a nice community forming here - it sure is nice getting to know the humor and style of people here. Many chat rooms never work - this one has a shot with regulars and newcomers alike.
I wonder if we can goad abby into a real picture, but perhaps I'd miss it gazing at my toes. :-)
CHAOS is a team of six full-time employees that just started working at Stack Exchange Global World Domination Headquarters in New York, NY. While at work, they look like this:
As a convention, CHAOS members put a secret handshake, the Greek letter psi (Ψ), after their name.
This blog post de...
I recently got an OCZ Vertex 2 SSD for my Spring 2010 i7 MacBook Pro and am having issues getting AHCI working reliably under Windows 7 x64 in Boot Camp. Following the instructions outlined here I've tried the following:
In the Windows registry changed HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\msa...
With Mac OS X 10.7 (Build 11A411) alone, or with Xcode 4.1:
Q: is there a way to accurately measure, or at least estimate the CPU load associated with Core Storage?
A graphical view of load on a timeline would be useful but not essential.
I would be equally happy with useful results from som...
I've seen a number of users with a PSI character in their names doing strange mysterious things on some Stack Exchange sites. What does it all mean?
I'm all for the conversational tone that Area 51 uses. However, in my opinion, the public beta announcement has gone a little over the top:
The new Web Applications Stack Exchange site is now open to the public!
After just 7 days in private beta, we’ve already got 415 users who have aske....png)
