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Andy's Un-Official Unsolicited Mac Advice Thread

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    JCCJCC Registered Users Posts: 27 Big grins
    edited May 7, 2008
    Some Help Printing Please!
    Hi-
    My prints all have a slight yellow cast to them. Can I adjust something in Smugmug to remove it? I've selected auto color for printing, I'm using a macbook, set to sRGB, and the mac and the external monitor have been calibrated as carefully as I could.
    Any suggestions?
    Thanks,
    JCC
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    ian408ian408 Administrators Posts: 21,914 moderator
    edited May 7, 2008
    cmason wrote:

    Desktop OS versions

    The chart is a bit mis-leading. As a whole, not. But by market segment I think
    it might be. For example; in the CAD/EDA world, we are almost 100% linux (or
    some variant of it).
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    cmasoncmason Registered Users Posts: 2,506 Major grins
    edited May 7, 2008
    ian408 wrote:
    The chart is a bit mis-leading. As a whole, not. But by market segment I think
    it might be. For example; in the CAD/EDA world, we are almost 100% linux (or
    some variant of it).

    Probably why Sun OS and HP-UX show up, since they are dominant in Workstations.
    What the heck?? This chart shows operating systems... and then some O/S I've never heard of with 4.59% of something. headscratch.gif

    Assume you mean MacIntel. this would be Mac with Intel chips, vs Mac OS, presumably an older, version like OS 9.
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    SloYerRollSloYerRoll Registered Users Posts: 2,788 Major grins
    edited May 7, 2008
    ian408 wrote:
    The chart is a bit mis-leading. As a whole, not. But by market segment I think
    it might be. For example; in the CAD/EDA world, we are almost 100% linux (or
    some variant of it).
    I thought the different flavors of nix had a much stronger presesnce then those numbers show as well.
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    ian408ian408 Administrators Posts: 21,914 moderator
    edited May 7, 2008
    SloYerRoll wrote:
    I thought the different flavors of nix had a much stronger presesnce then those numbers show as well.

    If you broke them into market segments, yes. I think the nix's are a much larger
    percentage of say the Business segment. And if you look at the mix of OS's,
    where Solaris was dominant 5 years ago, it's hardly a factor anymore (hence
    OpenSolaris--I think).

    To put it differently, a 280R used to cost several thousand dollars for a single
    uSPARC processor. You could get 1U PC hardware that cost half as much,
    consumed fewer watts and ran twice as fast and in the EDA world, 2x the
    throughput is a more efficient use of the software licenses. And licenses
    are significantly more expensive than hardware to run the tools.
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    cmasoncmason Registered Users Posts: 2,506 Major grins
    edited May 7, 2008
    ian408 wrote:
    If you broke them into market segments, yes. I think the nix's are a much larger
    percentage of say the Business segment. And if you look at the mix of OS's,
    where Solaris was dominant 5 years ago, it's hardly a factor anymore (hence
    OpenSolaris--I think).

    To put it differently, a 280R used to cost several thousand dollars for a single
    uSPARC processor. You could get 1U PC hardware that cost half as much,
    consumed fewer watts and ran twice as fast and in the EDA world, 2x the
    throughput is a more efficient use of the software licenses. And licenses
    are significantly more expensive than hardware to run the tools.

    Don't forget that this is Desktop measurements, not server. Unix is no where in the business world as a desktop platform. Manufacturing/CAD/CAM, yes, but not Business. It is dominant as a server platform for Business however.
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    ian408ian408 Administrators Posts: 21,914 moderator
    edited May 7, 2008
    cmason wrote:
    Don't forget that this is Desktop measurements, not server. Unix is no where in the business world as a desktop platform. Manufacturing/CAD/CAM, yes, but not Business. It is dominant as a server platform for Business however.

    Which is why I mentioned the business segment in my reply.

    I would add that in engineering environments, the preferred desktop is
    Linux. For us, a desktop is a server when you're not sitting there :D
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    StevenVStevenV Registered Users Posts: 1,174 Major grins
    edited May 7, 2008
    cmason wrote:
    Assume you mean MacIntel. this would be Mac with Intel chips, vs Mac OS, presumably an older, version like OS 9.
    so the PowerBook (non-Intel) that I'm using right now, running OS X, would fall where in their chart? I'm just not sure I'd be putting much faith in a chart made by somebody that can't even distinguish between hardware and software.
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    CatOneCatOne Registered Users Posts: 957 Major grins
    edited May 7, 2008
    cmason wrote:
    Probably why Sun OS and HP-UX show up, since they are dominant in Workstations.



    Assume you mean MacIntel. this would be Mac with Intel chips, vs Mac OS, presumably an older, version like OS 9.

    No, they're distinguishing between OS X on Intel versus OS X on PPC. It seems an artificial distinction, and I'm not sure why it continues.

    Add the two to get the OS X market share. The only people still on OS 9 are curmudgeons, and there aren't that many hobbits left in the world mwink.gif
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    DavidTODavidTO Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 19,160 Major grins
    edited May 9, 2008
    Oh, please, let's cut back on the g33k talk!

    Look, here's something that's:

    a) interesting
    b) helpful

    deal.gif
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    SloYerRollSloYerRoll Registered Users Posts: 2,788 Major grins
    edited May 9, 2008
    Lol.
    that's as g33k as it gets. :D

    Now let's continue our more inteligent discussion of... oh, nevermind rolleyes1.gif
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    CatOneCatOne Registered Users Posts: 957 Major grins
    edited May 9, 2008
    SloYerRoll wrote:
    I thought the different flavors of nix had a much stronger presesnce then those numbers show as well.

    As a percentage of machines that people use to surf the web?

    Nah.

    There are like zero Sun or HP-UX boxes in use at peoples' homes these days. They are workstations, and people are doing CAD/CAE/etc., on them and not surfing the web. They're using their Macs or PCs next to them to do that.
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    ian408ian408 Administrators Posts: 21,914 moderator
    edited May 9, 2008
    CatOne wrote:
    There are like zero Sun or HP-UX boxes in use at peoples' homes these days. They are workstations, and people are doing CAD/CAE/etc., on them and not surfing the web. They're using their Macs or PCs next to them to do that.

    Desktop workstations are PC's running Windows and using VNC or Exceed
    or Linux. Gone are the days people get two machines--too much of a support
    burden.
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    DavidTODavidTO Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 19,160 Major grins
    edited May 9, 2008
    :snore
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    ChrisJChrisJ Registered Users Posts: 2,164 Major grins
    edited May 9, 2008
    ian408 wrote:
    Desktop workstations are PC's running Windows and using VNC or Exceed or Linux.
    Cygwin has been stable for me for years now, though I must admit Exceed was a bit better when I used it at Equator.
    ian408 wrote:
    Gone are the days people get two machines--too much of a support burden.
    Please tell that to my current manager! mwink.gif
    DavidTO wrote:
    :snore
    :poke
    Chris
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    SloYerRollSloYerRoll Registered Users Posts: 2,788 Major grins
    edited May 9, 2008
    DavidTO wrote:
    :snore
    rolleyes1.gif
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    SloYerRollSloYerRoll Registered Users Posts: 2,788 Major grins
    edited May 14, 2008
    Top 10 things you forgot your Mac can do
    From lifehacker.com. Better links on the bottom of the post as well.

    http://lifehacker.com/390226/top-10-things-you-forgot-your-mac-can-do

    BTW: If you don't read lifehacker. You should.
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    blalorblalor Registered Users Posts: 94 Big grins
    edited May 15, 2008
    SloYerRoll wrote:
    From lifehacker.com. Better links on the bottom of the post as well.

    http://lifehacker.com/390226/top-10-things-you-forgot-your-mac-can-do

    BTW: If you don't read lifehacker. You should.
    Ok, does anyone else have problem with the Gawker family of sites (Lifehacker, Jalopnik, etc.) when using Safari 3.1 on OS X 10.5.2? For me, it defaults to the iPhone "theme" on all of those sites. If I force the user-agent to Mozilla (or open it *with* Mozilla) it displays fine. I reported the problem to Ray Wert (Jalopnik editor) and he was forwarding it on to their techies, but it's been going on so long that I feel like I must be the only one seeing it!
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    cmasoncmason Registered Users Posts: 2,506 Major grins
    edited May 15, 2008
    blalor wrote:
    Ok, does anyone else have problem with the Gawker family of sites (Lifehacker, Jalopnik, etc.) when using Safari 3.1 on OS X 10.5.2? For me, it defaults to the iPhone "theme" on all of those sites. If I force the user-agent to Mozilla (or open it *with* Mozilla) it displays fine. I reported the problem to Ray Wert (Jalopnik editor) and he was forwarding it on to their techies, but it's been going on so long that I feel like I must be the only one seeing it!

    works fine for me, same specs
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    blalorblalor Registered Users Posts: 94 Big grins
    edited May 16, 2008
    cmason wrote:
    works fine for me, same specs
    Effing weird. And frustrating. ne_nau.gif
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    BradfordBennBradfordBenn Registered Users Posts: 2,506 Major grins
    edited May 18, 2008
    So how soon before there is a Smuggy icon?
    -=Bradford

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    cabbeycabbey Registered Users Posts: 1,053 Major grins
    edited May 18, 2008
    So how soon before there is a Smuggy icon?

    Huh? headscratch.gif
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    SystemSystem Registered Users Posts: 8,186 moderator
    edited May 19, 2008
    blalor wrote:
    Ok, does anyone else have problem with the Gawker family of sites (Lifehacker, Jalopnik, etc.) when using Safari 3.1 on OS X 10.5.2? For me, it defaults to the iPhone "theme" on all of those sites. If I force the user-agent to Mozilla (or open it *with* Mozilla) it displays fine. I reported the problem to Ray Wert (Jalopnik editor) and he was forwarding it on to their techies, but it's been going on so long that I feel like I must be the only one seeing it!

    Works fine for me as well, same specs!
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    StevenVStevenV Registered Users Posts: 1,174 Major grins
    edited May 19, 2008
    blalor wrote:
    Ok, does anyone else have problem with the Gawker family of sites (Lifehacker, Jalopnik, etc.) when using Safari 3.1 on OS X 10.5.2? For me, it defaults to the iPhone "theme" on all of those sites.

    do you have developer tools, perhaps including the iPhone SDK, installed?

    I've heard talk of using Safari to intentionally mimic the iPhone (to gain free WiFi access at Starbucks, which iPhone users get automagically); maybe you've accidentally triggered the same sort of behaviour.
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    BradfordBennBradfordBenn Registered Users Posts: 2,506 Major grins
    edited May 20, 2008
    cabbey wrote:
    Huh? headscratch.gif

    One of the lifehacker tools is how to change the icons and devices in Mac... so the question is how soon before a Smuggy icon for the desktop items.
    -=Bradford

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    cabbeycabbey Registered Users Posts: 1,053 Major grins
    edited May 21, 2008
    One of the lifehacker tools is how to change the icons and devices in Mac... so the question is how soon before a Smuggy icon for the desktop items.

    That took all of 10 seconds.
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    SloYerRollSloYerRoll Registered Users Posts: 2,788 Major grins
    edited May 21, 2008
    cabbey wrote:
    That took all of 10 seconds.
    SM icon is only a temp folder. UGH.. :D

    I need to get some of that time juice you have cabbey. You can crack WEP in 20 seconds and do an icon in 10? mwink.gif
    (j/k on both parts)
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    cabbeycabbey Registered Users Posts: 1,053 Major grins
    edited May 21, 2008
    SloYerRoll wrote:
    SM icon is only a temp folder. UGH.. :D

    I need to get some of that time juice you have cabbey. You can crack WEP in 20 seconds and do an icon in 10? mwink.gif
    (j/k on both parts)

    rolleyes1.gif

    Actually that's a raid volume... nice fast stripe set for temporary files like video I'm editing etc.

    The 20 second WEP cracker was cmason. mwink.gif

    For the folks that asked....
    1. install MacDaddy uploader
    2. get info on the application
    3. click icon and hit apple-c to copy it
    4. get info on the volume you want to change
    5. click icon and apple-v to paste
    6. restart finder if it doesn't take

    To restart finder, open a command prompt and issue this command:
    osascript -e "tell application \"Finder\" to quit"
    

    Then click the now-deactivated finder icon on the dock.
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    gusgus Registered Users Posts: 16,209 Major grins
    edited May 23, 2008
    My new dilemma guys. Im using the default email for Leopard. If i try and copy & past a link to a single photo from my smugmug account into an email that im replying to...its invisible. I know the link pastes for sure & ive tried changing colours but it stays white on white. The curser moves & i can see the red underlines alerting me that is a spelling mistake so i know its there...just invisible.

    Actually it shows its face when i highlight it. Still white on white tough.

    However i can copy & paste the URL of the album just fine.

    Any ideas ?
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    BradfordBennBradfordBenn Registered Users Posts: 2,506 Major grins
    edited May 23, 2008
    gus wrote:
    My new dilemma guys. Im using the default email for Leopard. If i try and copy & past a link to a single photo from my smugmug account into an email that im replying to...its invisible. I know the link pastes for sure & ive tried changing colours but it stays white on white. The curser moves & i can see the red underlines alerting me that is a spelling mistake so i know its there...just invisible.

    Actually it shows its face when i highlight it. Still white on white tough.

    However i can copy & paste the URL of the album just fine.

    Any ideas ?

    My gut says that you are sending HTML formatted mail which is following the typical default of white text from SmugMug and you do not have a background. I am surprised that changing the colors does not work. I do not use Mail to know how to fix it. I am solely guessing based on the symptoms.
    -=Bradford

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