Mac OS X Lion 10.7

Mainly I wanted a place to post this hint on how to display ~/Library since the default now is to have it invisible.

This is really great, guys. Have you enabled the title bar double-clicking? I know you can click to drag anywhere, but they really didn't document this double-clicking thing

what double-clicking? Double-clicking has always minimized to dock in X, and still does.

You must not have Lion yet!

Also, the little swirl motion you can do on the touchpad is pretty cool

I do; just double-clicked, is exactly the same.

I'm in love with natural scrolling now too, after hating it for two days solid.

You're really derailing my "making up random shit that is Lion to make Autumn Almanac confused when he actually gets it" tactic

I've been thinking about being a pirate and grabbing the gold master early this week. I'm assuming you're a registered developer?

yeh. I think "Gold Master" is pushing it a bit too; shit is buggy.

There's definitely an unfinished quality to the GM (yes I'm a reg. dev.). Before, GMs have been pretty solid but there's definitely some more work/debugging code removal to go.

don't have this yet but i'll be glad to get it & glad to read siracusa's review!

Will not be touching the initial release with a 10-foot pole.

lol rip

Buggy? Wait, isn't it coming out this month?

supposedly in a week or so

oooh.. that's not good. Maybe I'll wait for the first or second point release.

Just the chance of anything this big being critically buggy is unacceptable. Happy to let everyone else lose their iphoto libraries on my behalf.

have you ever had issues or are you just a for-life conspiracy skeptic?

Not to worry; SL first GM was like this too. The builds they give devs are usually older builds that are slightly more stable. Apple GMs aren't really GM at all.

I'm in love with natural scrolling now too, after hating it for two days solid.

otm

I've not yet used the new scrolling but it seems logical as hell to move your fingers in the direction you want the content to move, as though you're pushing a bit of paper up and down (q.v. ipad). In hindsight it's really quite weird that the other way became the norm for scroll wheels etc.

okay the "all my files" view is winnar.

really? seems utterly useless and pointless to me.

I know it's nothing you can't do already but I like the idea of a standard view that just shows you everything you have. System-wide text search makes everything else redundant imo, but still.

Maybe it's just cos I've got 10,000+ files, but a view that (checks) opens with 6 calendar events from 2006, 10 ancient screen shots, some random PDFs and crappy mid files etc is a view I'm never going into again.

oh fuck, really?

In hindsight it's really quite weird that the other way became the norm for scroll wheels etc.

it comes from the double function of scrollbars - both a "handle" for manipulating a document and a visual indicator of where you were in that document. it worked pretty well imo. but now with touch interfaces no "handle" is required

have you ever had issues or are you just a for-life conspiracy skeptic?

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tbf i agree with him totally on this and i am an OG apple stan.

to be fair I'd recommend most users wait for the 10.x.1 release for most releases

but I'm not most users

well exactly. sure, call out AA for his paranoia/jobs obsession/prejudice, but he's 100% otm about this.

by the way, is 10.6.8 ok?

I've had no issues thus far, but I think I only have it installed on one of two machines.

I'm not upgrading to snow leopard til we get to 10.6.9

lol

loooool @ u all, i'm still on os 9

. . .

classilla ftw

ok seriously autocorrect can GTF. it's turned otm into tom like 15 times now. Learn, ffs.

TOM.

Srsly tho: is autocorrect built into 10.7?

Can you not turn it off?

it is built in, same model as iPhone's, and tbh it's handy enough to want to keep it on, but they need to add a way to remove/update the dictionary, srsly.

oh it supposedly does "smart" quotes too. that's not working.

Seems utterly pointless when you're on a full keyboard. Also, fuck everything that cultivates bad typing habits.

hold down the 'e' key in this tèxt bóx

Wait, so holding down a key doesn't do key repeat anymore?

otmbot

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nhOG25fM8so

I feel a little ashamed for kind of knowingly nodding partway through

what version is the stock python on 10.7?

Python 2.7.1 (r271:86832, Jun 16 2011, 16:59:05)
[GCC 4.2.1 (Based on Apple Inc. build 5658) (LLVM build 2335.15.00)] on darwin

thanking you

so tomorrow

Now it's official I've installed it on my MacBook and full-screen apps are worth the price alone, basically.

Is anything broken? I don't want to update and find all my softwares broken.

i like that you dont need a license for each installation

PPC apps are out -- there's no Rosetta at all. (So that's CS3 and older dead). Everything else seems to be working so far.

You've never needed a license for OSX installations.

Just read iTunes is finally going to be 64bit Cocoa whatever updated. I've been waiting years and years for iTunes to not be a pain in my ass.

It's still a pain in the ass; just a 64bit one.

Getting used to the scrolling, but everything seems to have come through smoothly. I downloaded it this morning and the install only took about 30 minutes. Nice!

doing this tonight :)

Always entertaining when the Spotlight indexing takes twice as long as the install

OK, I decided to roll the dice and be a dumbass. The Lion install went so smoothly on my macbook pro that I connected to my Mac Pro via vnc and kicked off the install. It should come back up in an hour or so, right? :)

i'm on lion now -- glad to be back to the mac after it taking over an hour & a half plus to do its stuff

Encrypted Time Capsule backups (along with full-disc encryption) a nice touch. The big Ars Technica article gets into it.

PPC apps are out -- there's no Rosetta at all. (So that's CS3 and older dead). Everything else seems to be working so far.

My CS3 is Intel, not PPC. Or at least that's what Activity Monitor is telling me.

Must be CS2 that's PPC. I don't know if CS3 works though -- heard people complaining about it. Are you running Lion now?

No, I am afeared of the Lion.

Looks like CS3 works, but you have to install Java first.

i have lion now

what next

brilliant writing appears as if by magic iirc

quit your apps without having to worry about saving

man, it's nuts a real nice but i still click save sometimes tbrr

also idk what's doing this autocorrect stuff right now but it really wants spotify to be spottily

sail through space while viewing all ur old document revisions

i feel like diamond dave is taking my hand and leading me on a cosmic tour of the most advanced operating system on th planet

I got a lion in my pocket I'm lyin I got a nine in my pocket and baby I'm just

I know this is incorrect to say for some reason but I really don't like the new UI features. It's more than just me being used to a particular way of doing things. The new scrolling makes sense but mission control feels half-baked and spaces has been neutered.

I never used spaces because I thought they were too similar to ye olde multiple desktop systems

http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_loozokhjnx1qz6f9yo1_500.jpg

i never used spaces in previous releases but i use them a lot in lion!

spaces since day 1, they are awesome! looking forward to seeing how they updated it in lion

Trying really really hard to do things Apple's way. Did away with all my spaces and have everything open in one desktop. If I minimise a window it doesn't appear in mission control. The clutter is already driving me up the wall.

I'm using way more full-screen apps and swiping between them than I thought I would.

The Screen Sharing app is pretty sweet when you full screen it. Then you can swipe between computers@

I'd use more full-screen apps if I weren't on a 15" screen. For stuff like itunes it's just too great an angle for my eyes to cover comfortably. On a MBA I'm sure it'd be great.

I'm going on a 30" screen! ITunes is huge but kinda great. Safari unusable.

Also when you use screen sharing you can get to you desktop/screen even if someone else is logged in at the actual screen. Amazing.

stet aiding and abetting the iOSization of OSX

I don't have anyone to share screens with :(

Currently trying to work out why the fuck my battery life has halved.

I have been redoing my 'office' area at home so my Mac Pro is currently plugged in downstairs without a monitor/keyboard/mouse. Works great with screen sharing!

Oh jesus, it's Firefox. I don't know why it's started happening in Lion. Nothing unusual in activity monitor but as soon as I close FF the battery life more than doubles.

Some discussion on how the /etc/hosts file has changed (potentially) in Lion: http://ga.rgoyle.com/blog/2011/06/16/mac-os-x-lion-etchosts-file/

just used airdrop to send some pics to be girl.... pretty slick

me:

"shit, that file's fucked"
"wait, there's a versions feature"
"omg amazing there we go, old version back"

so. good.

all the cute new lil transition animations are way dumb

yeah, and ugly. When you grab 10 items and drag them somewhere and you suddenly get this bulbous red "10" badge, it's things like that that make wish Apple came up with that metro interface.

when you do the new three finger swipe thing to yr desktop the icons fade in instead of just being there, like where r they coming from idgi

if you press cmd-m in launchpad or expose it gets worse

h8 u apaple

it really bugs me that apple implements 'natural scrolling up/down but switching between apps in full screen mode w/ the four finger swipe doesn't follow the same geography

it's three finger, and yeah it does?

well conceptually they reversed the up/down scrolling because you're imagining you're moving a piece of paper in front of you. now pretend you've got the torah or something horizontal in front of you and imagine you're moving it to the right or left. does it accord with what lion does?

Yes

? under apple's new philosophy of up/down scrolling, when I move my fingers up I will see more text appear from the bottom of the screen (i.e. downward scrolling). so when I move my fingers to the right, I ought to expect to see an application fly in from the left hand side, no?

what does it do instead?

That's what happens on mine. The only thing that is wrong is legacy three-finger-back in Finder/Chrome etc, and you have to turn that on in prefs

on my computer when I move my fingers left, apps come in from the left hand side

oh duh I don't have natural scrolling turned on

*fart*

motion to strike previous posts from the record

hey look over there

*throws smoke bomb*

has apple said anything about that upcoming new program where they replace my girlfriend's macbook after i throw it out the gd window for scrolling weird?

okay sorry for the previous brainfart. is there a way to make the dock come up in full screen mode if you have it set to hide?

mine comes up when i jam the mouse to its area.

oh okay. I ran out of room to jam on the trackpad

dayo, they have classes on how to use a computer at the Apple store, I hear they're free! :)

I used to know what I was doing but then they changed everything

refusing to upgrade the mbp because I should have gotten a lion install disc with my air, fuck you apple

:-(

You know you can make one, right?

yeah but only as a fresh install right? can't make a upgrade versh afaik

Yeah you can! It's the same damn thing.

could you point me to somewhere that says you can?

Uh, the fact that the disc you make is just an image of the installer, which when launched from inside OS X is an upgrader?

In fact, you could just stick the upgrader on a drive and then run it from the other computer!

I dunno man

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4848

Notes

If the computer shipped with Lion, the external recovery drive can only be used with the system that created it.

If the system was upgraded from Mac OS X v10.6 Snow Leopard to Lion, the external recovery drive can be used with other systems that were upgraded from Snow Leopard to Lion.

tbc my air shipped with lion - has never seen snow leopard. so this would mean any disk I make with it could only be used with it or w/ a blank HD, yeah?

External. recovery. drive.

Can you download via the app store?

To clarify since I was kind of harsh:

I was *not* referring to the external recovery drive stuff. I was talking about the installer/upgrader that you can make a disk image of that is what you get from the App Store. I thought that you either are entitled to a copy of that as a new hardware purchaser, or that it was somehow available, but it looks like you can only get that if you purchase (or otherwise somehow download) it by itself.

Sorry for the confusion! It sounds like you're stuck paying $30 or getting the image through other means if you just want an upgrade.

haha understood, and yeah I probably have done a bit more research on this than necessary. but as a new hardware purchaser I'm not entitled to download it from the app store @ all, only to do web recovery or make my own usb/external recovery drive.

my only hope is that I'm pretty sure that when I log onto the App Store from my parents refurbished iMac I do see some kind of... Lion Upgrade thingy that I can assign to my account. if it turns out that my parents iMac was upgraded from snow leopard at the factory, then I could probably make a boot image from that.

and yeah, wtf @ apple for not giving me a free download via the App Store, which is why I said fuck you apple in the first place!

It's only $30 though. Or um, you could download it elsewhere from less authentic sources.

it's the principle of the matter. I could buy a lot of beer or a fifth for $30!

and I already gave them two huge lumps of cash in the past summer

I'll email you the installer and a fifth

am confused dayo: what would you want to download? You can make an external image already, so what do you want to download?

He can make a recovery image, which he believes (and I'm starting to believe) is only good for a fresh install. He wants to upgrade.

But to upgrade you'd have to be running 10.6, and isn't the point that this mac came w/10.7?

refusing to upgrade the mbp because I should have gotten a lion install disc with my air, fuck you apple

― Whiney G. Blutfarten (dayo), Sunday, September 18, 2011 8:03 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

I'm just pissed that apple has finally started regulating its licenses

or maybe because apple is being inconsistent? like in the past, you could buy a single user license and a family user pack with like 5 licenses. they were both the exact same thing, you could install it on as many different macs as you'd like, but technically you'd only have bought one or five licenses.

now with lion, assuming you are upgrading from snow leopard, you just buy it once and you can install it on all your macs, yeah, without having to buy separate licenses for each of your macs? but if you buy a brand new mac, you can't use that mac's copy of lion to upgrade your snow leopard macs. doesn't make sense.

What are you talking about? They're still exactly the same thing, except with new macs you get a one-off. In the past, if you bought a new mac with, say 10.6, the disc it came with would be machine-specific and wouldn't necessarily work as a way to upgrade a 10.5 machine.

In other words, this is *exactly* how it was.

lol you're right

fuck you, apple

dude stfu stop complaining download this http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/6553429

I am very offended by your insinuation, mr. ice cr?m

haha icey just got real

http://i.imgur.com/J31Nt.gif

I made the executive decision (just now) in the shower that I will buy Lion this week

but that new finder sidebar is still ugly as shit

Finder is an abortion full stop, the sidebar is just an additional nuisance

<3 finder

You better, they will never fix it. They want Finder to wither away.

i'm not trolling, i genuinely like it -- what do y'all dislike about it?

You know, it's so long since I used the Finder for anything serious that I'm having trouble remembering all the things I hate about it. I do all my file operations through Nautilus on an Ubuntu box.

markers, read the siracusa reviews

actually he wrote an article just about it

http://arstechnica.com/apple/reviews/2003/04/finder.ars

(it's gotten worse since then)

Here's a few off the top of my head:

- nowhere near enough in the way of hotkeys
- new finder windows default to the "all my files" thing
- display options are (a) an outline list (b) that horrible grid thing (c) big icons
- dragging a file intermittently selects a list of files instead
- ejecting a USB drive closes the finder window without asking
- basically it's made for people who don't use computers

- display options are (a) an outline list (b) that horrible grid thing (c) big icons

(d) cover flow, which makes nought sense in a file system most of the time

the worst is when I do expose and find out I have like 25 finder windows open

<3 windows file manager though

w/ the new lion finder I look at my sidebar and I have no idea which is my dropbox folder and which is my photos folder and which is my downloads folder, it's all a big glob of grey

yeah, win explorer is the greatest xp

You guys know that windows is going to totally fuck up the default view in Win 8, right? :)

anyone use pathfinder?

the vista/7 finder thingy sucks, xp windows explorer was classic, 95/98 file manager was classicer

shit I am being rockist about windows I need to *take a step back*

- new finder windows default to the "all my files" thing

mine doesn't. Maybe "always open in list view" in view prefs?

- display options are (a) an outline list (b) that horrible grid thing (c) big icons

I'm confused. Icon size is adjustable. There's even a little slider in the finder window. Been that way since Snow Leopard.

- dragging a file intermittently selects a list of files instead

not for me.

- ejecting a USB drive closes the finder window without asking

it closes the finder window displaying the content of the USB drive, but not other windows.

I saw a toolbar on the Win8 Explorer and threw up for 12 minutes

I saw a toolbar RIBBON on the Win8 Explorer and threw up for 12 minutes

is what I meant

- dragging a file intermittently selects a list of files instead

not for me.

i think he's talking about this

http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20051121074003638

drag too quickly and you extend the selection, kind of like if you click a second time to edit a file name you actually double click

it's not a finder thing, it's a mac thing

Until it acts like OS 9 finder (complete w/drawers and stationery pads that work) it is dead to me

so in full screen mode, if I fling my mouse cursor to the top (where those infinite pixels are) and let it rest there, the menu bar pops down. but if I fling my cursor down to the bottom (where my dock is hiding), I have to keep on continuing downward movement in order to get the dock to come up. yeah?

whoa i just hit the worg key command and my shit went buck, the dashboard editing mode came up behind everything so that the add widget viewer was on the bottom of the screen but the active widgets were behind chrome w/only their little x's for removal showing AND i was in some weird fullscreen mode where the top menu bar was hidden - i got really confused, mashed my keyboard and ended up restarting

wtf that was terrifying

something similar happened to me last week after I exited a vid chat in ichat, had to hold the power button down

YOU WERE STARING IN2 TH MAINFRAME

i was just in terminal trying to rip out the fuckin google talk plugin

i did not succeed

rm . . . de

sudo rm -fr /Library/Internet Plug-Ins/googletalkbrowserplugin.plugin /Library/Internet Plug-Ins/npgtpo3dautoplugin.plugin

ty!

the special characters window is more useful x1000

now i can edit the id3 tags for princes Sign ☮ The Times with ease

lol

any other tips? i'm just getting my way around it. this is the first time i've really used gestures and they are awesome. i want gestures for EVERYTHING, like window closing, for instance. switching tabs. etc

if you flip off your mac it detects it using FaceTime™ and formats itself...wasting all of your data

Guys I realize this marks me out as tremendously pedestrian but I like Launchpad... a LOT

Mainly because of the sleek fucking little gesture used to invoke it

lol i turned that shit off

I love Launchpad. I don't have a touchpad, but I assigned F1 to it and put all my key applications on the first page. This is useful for me because I keep my dock hidden. So I just hit F1 and select whatever needs opening.

I use Spotlight to launch most apps :/

I hate spotlight

I hate spotlight

― dan selzer, Friday, 14 October 2011 08:33 (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

http://virturl.com/pile/art/faces/disgust.jpg

btw Launchpad is fiddly and ill-thought out and woefully inconsistent and disgustingly savage

Once again, AA, we have to disagree, because something that works perfectly fine and simply for me is frustrating to you.

The thing I don't get about hating Spotlight is that it's completely and totally out of your way unless you need it (although so is Launchpad now that I think about it)

I initially hated spotlight because it's key command conflicted with very basic Adobe key commands, then because it's indexing took forever. Now I just don't need it...because I don't have to search for things if I already know where they are.

gestures are incredibly useful. they nullify most of the shit i would use keyboard shortcuts to do. mission control is also key. i tried really hard to drink the spaces/expose kool-aid but that drug just wasn't working. the double-tap gesture for mc on my magic mouse is freakin delightful. launchpad is useful when i need it. i mostly use spotlight for launching tho.

its been hard to parse whats good about what bc I'm coming off of 6 yrs on a G4, now on an i7. I'm pretty overwhelmed.

app store is kinda clutch. I'm glad i can give 99¢ to the developer of I Love Stars w/ two clicks. über universal apps would be good so i don't have to buy pages twice.

tighter integration w/ iOS would be good. like being able to move anything from one to the other.

i have a feeling that apples going to rule the 21st century.

I initially hated spotlight because it's key command conflicted with very basic Adobe key commands, then because it's indexing took forever.

Ah, I see what you mean. You can change the keyboard shortcut iirc, and I think you can even reduce the indexing by telling it to not index anything.

I've done both.

i tried really hard to drink the spaces/expose kool-aid but that drug just wasn't working.

I've done away with Spaces altogether, which I HATED doing because I've been using virtual desktops for maybe 15 years. I have a few apps in full screen mode but it's a compromise, and if ever I want to e.g. drag music into itunes I have to un-full screen it.

Just on Spotlight, I use it for everything all the time because I'm a hacky terminal user from way back, and find it easier and faster to type part of the name of something than go looking for it in folders/menus (although I do recognise that that's just me)

why do you have to un-fullscreen iTunes? you can drag and hold files at the edge of the screen to move over to the full screen app.

wow I had no idea, cheers

i rarely ever go looking for some random file. usually what i need is in an app thats already open or one of the folders on the dock which i clean out regularly. so i use spotlight only to launch apps that i use occasionally.

spotlight is great for launching apps

I tried spotlight out for 2 minutes in tiger and have never used it since

its good for searching for things

ha. tiger in spotlight blew chunks all over grandmas new dress.

er, spotlight in tiger

I have reserved my top right INFINITE PIXEL to expose though, launchpad is much better for app launching

I have been using Spotlight equivalents in Win (Launchy) and Ubuntu (gnome-do) for years. Could not live without them.

hot corner users, dire barbarians each one

upper-left for show desktop is useful

I have never had an upper left corner. OMG

I made it into "post I Miss You youtube"

upper left is apple menu, you monster

bottom left and right are useful.

if the only launching you ever do with spotlight is just running applications it's just about fine (although the amount of crap i have to scroll through to launch itunes after typing "it" is kind of amazing), but alfred or launchbar are _way_ better for everything spotlight does except actual searching.

aa, if you are a hacky terminal user you should try one of those, or quicksilver

upper-left for show desktop is useful

― shaane, Friday, 14 October 2011 09:19 (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Not judging but what do you use show desktop for? I never ever need to show my desktop.

I installed alfred once but all it did was return snide erudite one-liners

I should definitely look at Alfred, been hearing good things recently

i have never used alfred tbf. i hear it mentioned. launchbar all the way.

they keep threatening to resurrect quicksilver but afaict the og developer is basically insane and its open source community is not much better.

http://www.alfredapp.com/powerpack/

http://www.alfredapp.com/images/powerpack/itunes-mini-player.jpg

if you don't use the desktop then obv show desktop is not useful. i just use the default expose shortcut for that when i need it.

bottom left hot corner is lock screen for me.

oh, wait, I thought the user was searching for "Polite Dance Song" and got Elliott Smith, nm xp

xxp oh great, more helvetica

the basic thing is spotlight is so much more than a launcher and as a result the UI isn't really optimized for launching stuff (and certainly not the kind of object verb subject stuff that even the basic dedicated launchers do). so get a real launcher, disable/reuse the spotlight shortcut, and one the rare occasions you need to use it's full text search then click the spotlight icon or use the keyboard shortcut that opens the dedicated spotlight window.

that is how i break it down

i use the desktop as a scratchpad so flicking between apps and the desktop comes in handy. its usually empty.

hahaha re: the hate for upper left. i chose it just cause the gesture of flinging the pointer up-left to reveal felt natural.

caek, what kind of object verb subject stuff do you do on a regular basis?

ftp, email, append to clipboard

probably some other stuff

when I picture caek using his mac, it looks like this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbpCLqryN-Q

yeah, i can imagine using those

i use the desktop as a scratchpad

Sorry, I don't get what you mean. Temp file storage (e.g. text files), or an actual scratchpad like a big magna-doodle?

real launchers also have a bunch of stuff built in that is basically just executing an applescript but is convenient to have prewritten (play/pause, show someone's phone number in big text, drill through folders, move, delete...)

when i use a mac it is more like http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.os.openbsd.misc/134336/focus=134979

jeez how does the mailman get your replies back to ILX so quickly

another thing i use it for is searches, e.g. i can type cmd-space then "a z" then space then type some text and a browser tab launches with it searched for on amazon. if i type "a z d e" then it searches amazon.de.

it also has clipboard history. i hit cmd-opt-\ and i get a list of the last 40 things i put in my clipboard. i can either scroll down or type a few letters from the entry i want, then hit turn to put the item back in the clipboard. this is on the verge of becoming bloatware, but LB does a way better job of it than the dedicated clipboard things that i don't mind. clipboard history is one of those things you don't know how you lived without.

youre just asking to have that used against you in a court of law

I love LB and probably use 15% of it's features.

lol xp my current history is basically just me stalking you on ilx

http://i.minus.com/ibaAv2d4pQqRqx.png

tbh unless I'm doing a search, I never look at the UI of Spotlight

I usually just type the first few characters of an app name and hit enter

chilling xp

so caek, you're a launchbar guy? don't quite recognize that launcher

ha at me uploading my government phone number to ilx in a screenshot

we need a "indefensible: stallman" thread

scratchpad is the wrong word. i just treat it like an actual desk. shit I'm working on goes there and i clean up when I'm done.

ah righto

btw sorry to rail against the whole metaphor of a desktop, I just hate things being on my desktop and forget that other people use it for real things

gassée on nextstep/be os: http://www.zdnet.com/blog/btl/the-story-behind-apples-next-os-in-1996-video/63196

I'll watch the video when I'm not at work but this quote:

“Thank god that didn’t happen, because I hated Apple’s management.”

..is completely hilarious in context. Had Gassée made the sale, he could have probably quit Be/Apple and retired a rich man. He basically flubbed the entire negotiation. On the other side of the coin, Jobs actually disliked most of the managers as well and as his influence grew upon his return, he cleaned house.