More versatile selection while holding Shift
When you hold ⇧ Shift and click in a text field, you extend the selection from the current cursor position to the point you clicked. In Lion and earlier, one end of the selection would remain fixed at its original point, and shift-clicking a new point...
Oh wow. Using SetResX to change the resolution on a rMBP to 1680x1050 gives you the non-retina version (i.e., the same thing that would render on a non-retina hi-res MBP)
If I save files to iCloud in apps in Mountain Lion that support such saving, where on my drive can I find these files if I want to run command line utilities on them, edit them in other programs, etc?
Here are some commands to set time before the computer enters standby mode. For testing purposes this probably should be set to lower than the initial ~1 hour forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1307671
Hmm I can't find any command to check wether or not the computer has actually entered standby mode
They say that the computer should resume within a few seconds
Isn't almost instant in regular sleep?
So using three tests it should be discernible: 1) close the lid, wait for it to sleep, and wake it. 2) set the delay before standby mode to a few second, close lid, wait for standby mode, and wake it. If any speed difference is noticed proceed to test 3) Insert SD card, unmount it but let it stay inserted, close lid, wait for standby mode and wake it: Is it instant as in 1) or slower, as in 2) ?
Yes! You can simply click and drag the alert off to the right and it will disappear.
Additionally, you can temporarily move the notification by dragging it to the left:
It will stay there for a few seconds and then move back to its original position. This currently seems very buggy, but perha...
That's strange, when I tried to find indicators of the standby / deep sleep mode testimonials from users consistently said it took around 10 secs to wake from standby
The question arose from the kickstarter campaign for The Nifty Minidrive. A micro SD card adapter that fits perfectly into the sd slot of portable macs
@jtbandes I bet CS2 is 32-bit, which means it can only use up to 4GB of RAM. It did run out of RAM, but not because you don't have enough, but because the program didn't have enought
This question arose from the comments page of The Nifty Minidrive's Kickstarter page
The Nifty Minidrive is essentially a microSD card adapter that fits perfectly into the SD-slot of the MacBook Pro / Pro Retina / Air so that a microSD card can be used as additional storage.
However a backer ca...
If it does prevent standby: we might have to find some sort of (terminal) to make the computer ignore the sd card (if possible) and even then might also have to use the method above
Post Mountain Lion questions or answers with total combined score of 75 or greater.
How does this work? I don;t understand the criteria. I have more than 75 points on ML tagged questions, and anyone with a nice answer should have at least 100, so why have only 3 got the level?
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...
@balpha Thank you a thousand times for this. It's a real pain to mod and edit things on the site with the contest and this dialog constantly popping up.
Any chance we can test this fix out this weekend on the Ask Different site? @balpha
I do apologize to whomever declined my flag about editing the code. Looks like the person who posted it fixed the formatting issue. I wasn't able to fix it at all. It was a weird issue.
In the shots above, all partitions are shown (a debug option within the utility). There's also some use of ZFS child datasets.
The shot below, without that debug option, more clearly demonstrates how things not within a logical volume group are misrepresented as within the LVG:
Would the following be an acceptable question within Ask Different? "How should Apple redesign Disk Utility to suit modern uses of disks?"
@GrahamPerrin @jtbandes Is right, we've shied away from 'How would you redesign X?' questions in the past because of how subjective they are. If you're looking for alternatives/workarounds or just want to inventory what it doesn't support, that would be okay.
@NathanGreenstein You're both right – thank you. Ultimately I (and some other users of OS X) would like design suggestions … I wasn't sure whether Ask Different is the best venue for this.
@GrahamPerrin ux.stackexchange.com could be a good resource for specific questions, but I don't think they handle things as broad as 'ways to redesign x' either.
@jtbandes I make no claims about opening up the case, but an Apple staff member showed me a schematic where the disk was slotted into a space on the mother board.
@NathanGreenstein No, but a redesign by Apple of the utility is overdue, and I reckon that the stacks are ideally suited to collecting the knowledge/ideas required for a design to be future-proof and … maybe extensible.
@jtbandes Recommended reading: the man page for diskutil, the section for the coreStorage verb. Encryption applies to a logical volume (LV).
@jtbandes Do you wish a part of the physical disk to be not encrypted? If so: would you like that part to be without coreStorage world, for compatibility with Snow Leopard and earlier?
@GrahamPerrin I don't mind (I don't need backwards compatibility), I'm just curious how this works :)
Hm, does anyone understand the difference between tmutil inheritbackup and tmutil associatedisk?
It sounds like maybe the first one acts as a special case of the second?
I got a new machine but restored from a TM backup of an old one, so I don't know if associatedisk applies to me (but I also don't know if inheritbackup would properly associate everything)
If I save files to iCloud in apps in Mountain Lion that support such saving, where on my drive can I find these files if I want to run command line utilities on them, edit them in other programs, etc?
This question arose from the comments page of The Nifty Minidrive's Kickstarter page
The Nifty Minidrive is essentially a microSD card adapter that fits perfectly into the SD-slot of the MacBook Pro / Pro Retina / Air so that a microSD card can be used as additional storage.
However a backer ca...
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...
