What do people use to work on html, css, and javascript on a mac? Hopefully something that enforces xhtml, and formatting of html and javascript and has intelliSence (MSFT word?) built in.
Or do mac users just do this stuff in a text editor?
Firefox webdev mostly but bigger stuff in smultron. The really nice part about smultron is that you can set cyberduck to recognize it and automatically use it to edit the html, js, php, whatever files on your server. Then when you save in smultron, the saved copy is automagically updated on your server.
both easy, both free.
of course these days I use more macFUSE and sshfs than cyberduck.
Y'all don't want to hear me, you just want to dance.
Next mac question. I've got most everything set up, now I need to move some files from my pc to my mac. I followed the instructions...
mac and pc both wired into the same hub, pc has firewall down and sharing open, I open the finder then Go > Connect to Server > Browse. I see my pc workgroup and my pc in finder, but when I try and connect to my pc it it says that the alias is no longer valid . If I try and connect to my pc via typing the IP address directly it can't find anything at that IP address. I should also mention, it is just the pc and the mac connected to a simple hub, nothing else. What am I doing wrong? What am I missing?
Thanks, but I need to be able to network with my pc, its the pc that has all the files on it that my mac needs: 100+ Gb of images I want to make sure my mac has access to.
Sure you can, I do it all the time. I've got an HP external drive. It's the type of thing that just plugs right into a slot on my desktop. But it also comes with a usb connection. My MacBook Pro recognizes it with no problem (it was truly plug and play) and I've read and written tons to it like that.
However, if there is a chance that data can become corrupted, I won't do it again.
Y'all don't want to hear me, you just want to dance.
Sure you can, I do it all the time. I've got an HP external drive. It's the type of thing that just plugs right into a slot on my desktop. But it also comes with a usb connection. My MacBook Pro recognizes it with no problem (it was truly plug and play) and I've read and written tons to it like that.
However, if there is a chance that data can become corrupted, I won't do it again.
OK, I didn't know you can actualy write to NTFS disk from a Mac.
Have no use for it, only remember reading about it on Apple support dscussion forum.
I don't know about mac and ntfs any more. I've been trying to copy about 150GB from ntfs to a mac-formatted drive. Twice my mbp has frozen up and given me a message telling me to restart the computer.
And now verify disk from the disk utility tells me that my "volume header needs minor repair". How do I do that when my "Repair Disk" button remains greyed out?
I don't know about mac and ntfs any more. I've been trying to copy about 150GB from ntfs to a mac-formatted drive. Twice my mbp has frozen up and given me a message telling me to restart the computer.
And now verify disk from the disk utility tells me that my "volume header needs minor repair". How do I do that when my "Repair Disk" button remains greyed out?
Which disk needs repair? If it's your boot drive, yes, you cannot repair it while you are booted from it.
There are several ways around this, but my favorite is AppleJack. Download, install, then restart and immediately after the start-up chime hold cmd-s until you've started up in single user mode (bunch of white text on black background). As soon as you see the text you can let go of cmd-s. Once the sytem is done loading into single user mode, type: "applejack auto restart", and go get a cup of coffe. It takes 5-10 minutes to repair your drive, your permissions, your preferences and to clean up your cache files and something else I always forget. It's handy.
Which disk needs repair? If it's your boot drive, yes, you cannot repair it while you are booted from it.
There are several ways around this, but my favorite is AppleJack. Download, install, then restart and immediately after the start-up chime hold cmd-s until you've started up in single user mode (bunch of white text on black background). As soon as you see the text you can let go of cmd-s. Once the sytem is done loading into single user mode, type: "applejack auto restart", and go get a cup of coffe. It takes 5-10 minutes to repair your drive, your permissions, your preferences and to clean up your cache files and something else I always forget. It's handy.
David, you rock!!!
What you suggested worked perfectly. Problem solved, all issued resolved!
What you suggested worked perfectly. Problem solved, all issued resolved!
Thank you!
Glad it helped. Now download and install (and pay the $8) Macaroni. Once installed, you don't need to do anything, but I would recommend setting it to delete localizations that you don't use. You can safely delete all of them if you're using american english. I set it to do that monthly. The rest of the settings you can just leave as is. Deleting localizations will save you a couple of gigs of space, and reduce the number of files on your drive by a lot. Macaroni does other good stuff. Just install it and leave it be (make sure it's registered, or it will stop working).
I also should note that if the drive gets into more serious trouble, then the tool to reach for is DiskWarrior. Expensive, but nothing repairs a disk like it.
also should note that if the drive gets into more serious trouble, then the tool to reach for is DiskWarrior. Expensive, but nothing repairs a disk like it.
However, if there is a chance that data can become corrupted, I won't do it again.
NTFS is a proprietary filesystem with very very little public documentation. In the Linux/BSD world there have been a few folks that have done the old reverse engineering approach to trying to figure it out. There is now a reasonably sane "writeable" driver out there for linux, and I assume also BSD, which underlies Mac OS/x. The important thing to remember when using the Linux one, at least as of the last time I looked at it seriously for work, was that it was a "emergency fix" writable driver. If you absolutely HAD to write to a file that already existed to change something simple, like say a disk ID in the bootloader control file, then you could and be reasonably safe. It intentionally marked the disk as in need of repair every time you mounted it read/write. There were some fields that the driver didn't know how to properly update so it didn't even try, it just left them wrong and trusted chkdisk.exe to fix them on reboot into windows.
So you don't want to be using that disk as a extensively as a normal device from Linux if you really care about your data.
I'd like to hope, that with the move to Intel, Apple has done some kind of deal with MSFT to get the specs, or better yet a working device driver, or else poured a LOT of R&D into their version of that driver, because you know there are going to be people using bootcamp to install windows, and they're going to expect they can share a data disk. (Or did apple make an HFS+ driver for windows?) A quick search of the apple tech support site however, screams "NTFS is READ ONLY" on every hit. That kinda says to me they didn't.
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NTFS is a proprietary filesystem with very very little public documentation. In the Linux/BSD world there have been a few folks that have done the old reverse engineering approach to trying to figure it out. There is now a reasonably sane "writeable" driver out there for linux, and I assume also BSD, which underlies Mac OS/x. The important thing to remember when using the Linux one, at least as of the last time I looked at it seriously for work, was that it was a "emergency fix" writable driver. If you absolutely HAD to write to a file that already existed to change something simple, like say a disk ID in the bootloader control file, then you could and be reasonably safe. It intentionally marked the disk as in need of repair every time you mounted it read/write. There were some fields that the driver didn't know how to properly update so it didn't even try, it just left them wrong and trusted chkdisk.exe to fix them on reboot into windows.
So you don't want to be using that disk as a extensively as a normal device from Linux if you really care about your data.
I'd like to hope, that with the move to Intel, Apple has done some kind of deal with MSFT to get the specs, or better yet a working device driver, or else poured a LOT of R&D into their version of that driver, because you know there are going to be people using bootcamp to install windows, and they're going to expect they can share a data disk. (Or did apple make an HFS+ driver for windows?) A quick search of the apple tech support site however, screams "NTFS is READ ONLY" on every hit. That kinda says to me they didn't.
Bah. Thanks for the info cabby.
These days I mostly have my external drive plugged into the desktop and I access it via smb from my macbook pro. Do you know if I could run into the same issues doing it that way?
Y'all don't want to hear me, you just want to dance.
These days I mostly have my external drive plugged into the desktop and I access it via smb from my macbook pro. Do you know if I could run into the same issues doing it that way?
I'm assuming the desktop is a windows machine, in which case no, you can't be impacted by the issue I mentioned.
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Right now I'm playing with TextWrangler, I like the price. I might have to try out Coda though.
TextWrangler is great. But it is NOTHING like CSS Edit. I love that app. Especially for a CSS n00b like myself. At least check out the demo. Coda is more 'spensive, but more feature rich, too.
TextWrangler is great. But it is NOTHING like CSS Edit. I love that app. Especially for a CSS n00b like myself. At least check out the demo. Coda is more 'spensive, but more feature rich, too.
I'll probably have to check out coda. I've been using Microsoft Visual Studio for my web work for so long its going to be hard to find anything else I like. Possibly Eclipse (anyone used that on a mac?).
But too be totally honest, I'm spending all my time trying to figure out how my new mac works and playing with photo booth, garage band, and iMovie (how does anyone get any work done on a mac?).
I'll probably have to check out coda. I've been using Microsoft Visual Studio for my web work for so long its going to be hard to find anything else I like. Possibly Eclipse (anyone used that on a mac?).
But too be totally honest, I'm spending all my time trying to figure out how my new mac works and playing with photo booth, garage band, and iMovie (how does anyone get any work done on a mac?).
Glad you're having fun.
Most of that will wear off and you'll get back to work after a bit. I haven't opened Photobooth in ages. Garage Band in longer.
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both easy, both free.
of course these days I use more macFUSE and sshfs than cyberduck.
http://photos.mikelanestudios.com/
mac and pc both wired into the same hub, pc has firewall down and sharing open, I open the finder then Go > Connect to Server > Browse. I see my pc workgroup and my pc in finder, but when I try and connect to my pc it it says that the alias is no longer valid
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my words, my "pro"pictures, my "fun" pictures, my videos.
I found this: vhttp://www.apple.com/getamac/movetomac/network.html but so far its not going that smoothy.
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"The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera" - Dorothea Lange
[edit] oh, or are you just going to access the files on the pc (leaving them there), as opposed to copying them over to the mac?
my words, my "pro"pictures, my "fun" pictures, my videos.
I plugged in the external harddrive from my pc which was formatted NTFS, and my mac had no problem reading it!
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"The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera" - Dorothea Lange
http://photos.mikelanestudios.com/
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I have 2 external drives. One is now mac formatted, one is ntfs. I can put all the data on one, and copy it to the other!
Now if I can just get Nikolai to do a mac version of star explorer, I will have everything I need.
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http://photos.mikelanestudios.com/
AFAIK, you can't write to it.
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However, if there is a chance that data can become corrupted, I won't do it again.
http://photos.mikelanestudios.com/
OK, I didn't know you can actualy write to NTFS disk from a Mac.
Have no use for it, only remember reading about it on Apple support dscussion forum.
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http://500px.com/macmilan
twitter: @milanovec
And now verify disk from the disk utility tells me that my "volume header needs minor repair". How do I do that when my "Repair Disk" button remains greyed out?
initialphotography.smugmug.com
"The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera" - Dorothea Lange
Which disk needs repair? If it's your boot drive, yes, you cannot repair it while you are booted from it.
There are several ways around this, but my favorite is AppleJack. Download, install, then restart and immediately after the start-up chime hold cmd-s until you've started up in single user mode (bunch of white text on black background). As soon as you see the text you can let go of cmd-s. Once the sytem is done loading into single user mode, type: "applejack auto restart", and go get a cup of coffe. It takes 5-10 minutes to repair your drive, your permissions, your preferences and to clean up your cache files and something else I always forget. It's handy.
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What you suggested worked perfectly. Problem solved, all issued resolved!
Thank you!
initialphotography.smugmug.com
"The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera" - Dorothea Lange
Glad it helped. Now download and install (and pay the $8) Macaroni. Once installed, you don't need to do anything, but I would recommend setting it to delete localizations that you don't use. You can safely delete all of them if you're using american english. I set it to do that monthly. The rest of the settings you can just leave as is. Deleting localizations will save you a couple of gigs of space, and reduce the number of files on your drive by a lot. Macaroni does other good stuff. Just install it and leave it be (make sure it's registered, or it will stop working).
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and done.
Again. Thanks.
initialphotography.smugmug.com
"The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera" - Dorothea Lange
NTFS is a proprietary filesystem with very very little public documentation. In the Linux/BSD world there have been a few folks that have done the old reverse engineering approach to trying to figure it out. There is now a reasonably sane "writeable" driver out there for linux, and I assume also BSD, which underlies Mac OS/x. The important thing to remember when using the Linux one, at least as of the last time I looked at it seriously for work, was that it was a "emergency fix" writable driver. If you absolutely HAD to write to a file that already existed to change something simple, like say a disk ID in the bootloader control file, then you could and be reasonably safe. It intentionally marked the disk as in need of repair every time you mounted it read/write. There were some fields that the driver didn't know how to properly update so it didn't even try, it just left them wrong and trusted chkdisk.exe to fix them on reboot into windows.
So you don't want to be using that disk as a extensively as a normal device from Linux if you really care about your data.
I'd like to hope, that with the move to Intel, Apple has done some kind of deal with MSFT to get the specs, or better yet a working device driver, or else poured a LOT of R&D into their version of that driver, because you know there are going to be people using bootcamp to install windows, and they're going to expect they can share a data disk. (Or did apple make an HFS+ driver for windows?) A quick search of the apple tech support site however, screams "NTFS is READ ONLY" on every hit. That kinda says to me they didn't.
http://wall-art.smugmug.com/
These days I mostly have my external drive plugged into the desktop and I access it via smb from my macbook pro. Do you know if I could run into the same issues doing it that way?
http://photos.mikelanestudios.com/
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I'm assuming the desktop is a windows machine, in which case no, you can't be impacted by the issue I mentioned.
http://wall-art.smugmug.com/
likewise you might want to look into CSSEdit.
my words, my "pro"pictures, my "fun" pictures, my videos.
I love CSS Edit. Recommend it all the time. This looks like CSS Edit with added features.
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Right now I'm playing with TextWrangler, I like the price. I might have to try out Coda though.
initialphotography.smugmug.com
"The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera" - Dorothea Lange
TextWrangler is great. But it is NOTHING like CSS Edit. I love that app. Especially for a CSS n00b like myself. At least check out the demo. Coda is more 'spensive, but more feature rich, too.
Dgrin FAQ | Me | Workshops
I'll probably have to check out coda. I've been using Microsoft Visual Studio for my web work for so long its going to be hard to find anything else I like. Possibly Eclipse (anyone used that on a mac?).
But too be totally honest, I'm spending all my time trying to figure out how my new mac works and playing with photo booth, garage band, and iMovie (how does anyone get any work done on a mac?).
initialphotography.smugmug.com
"The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera" - Dorothea Lange
Glad you're having fun.
Most of that will wear off and you'll get back to work after a bit. I haven't opened Photobooth in ages. Garage Band in longer.
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