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The finder is really, really woeful and I won't defend it for a minute. Hurrah! stet, you are a rare free-thinking gem amongst mac-heads.

fandango, if you're really going to go back to a windows box: i wish you luck. but i think, in the long term, you'll have made a big mistake. still, like i've said to you before: horses, courses etc ;)

In the long term, they might have switched over to an intel architecture, and, FIXED THE FUCKING FINDER. Maybe they'll even allow me to do something about the bizzare window management *chuckles* :-)

However, until hell freezes over, I'm far more content typing this from a Windows box and have had NO REGRETS about switching back.

― fandango (fandango), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 18:38 (nineteen years ago)

it creates a copy first then opens that

isn't that what it always did? i know i could check, but i'm busy.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 18:41 (nineteen years ago)

[o, the irony]

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 18:41 (nineteen years ago)

No, under OS 9 opening stationery opens a new document called "untitled 1" that just happens to have the contents of the stationery. If you then press Apple-S, it asks you for a name.

The new way, it copies it then opens it. So if you Apple-S, it saves to, say, "GF'S Bad Service Template -1" in the "GF's Complaints Letters" folder without asking. If that folder is locked -- like the Designer Masters are at work -- it fails! Silently!.

― stet (stet), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 18:47 (nineteen years ago)

i'm actually surprised no one has created a kind of meta-finder that apes OS 9 somehow.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 19:13 (nineteen years ago)

The real reason is that it's deceptively hard: it took years to get the first Finder right, and the new one has to fight between two competing sets of filesystem code, which must be murder. Though if Apple would sort out their internal religious wars on metadata and interface, it'd be a lot easier for them.

― stet (stet), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 19:16 (nineteen years ago)

This thread lost me some hours ago.

― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 19:17 (nineteen years ago)

I have no problems with aliases.

― GET EQUIPPED WITH BUBBLE LEAD (ex machina), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 19:24 (nineteen years ago)

oh, shit, they must be fine then. Silly me.

― stet (stet), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 19:27 (nineteen years ago)

Clearly, Mr. Bubble Lead.

xpost

While we've got the hedz here, anybody have a good solution for fucking FONTS? I use Suitcase, but all my fonts are on an external drive. Suitcase forgets what it's activated, for some reason, so I have to go turn on the sets I want every time I restart. That doesn't happen for fonts on the local drive.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 19:30 (nineteen years ago)

Dude, why do you have fonts on an external drive?

― GET EQUIPPED WITH BUBBLE LEAD (ex machina), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 19:31 (nineteen years ago)

I have no problems with aliases, and while I was frustrated switching to OSX at first, I've come to love it, and like any slighty odd and buggy software, live with and/or work around the issues, all of which for me, are minor. I suppose I'm not doing as technical stuff as some of you?

Yes, why are fonts on an external drive? And if suitcase is forgetting, either your suitcase is fucked or the preferences are set wrong. Whatever fonts I open stay open untill I close them.

Now I have a problem with autoactivation with Quark, but am pretty sure it's a bug with Quark, which is a TRULY problematic application I've come to learn to live with.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 19:40 (nineteen years ago)

it's forgetting because they're on an external drive. it remembers fonts that are on mine. i should just move them over i guess, since i've got tons of HD space now. i had them externally because my HD used to be so incredibly squozen for space (9 G!)

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 20:02 (nineteen years ago)

yeah, I'm with alba : /

― cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 20:34 (nineteen years ago)

Any idea if anyplace online sells powerbook "feet"?

― GET EQUIPPED WITH BUBBLE LEAD (ex machina), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 22:33 (nineteen years ago)

pic pls

― nein Socken (nein Socken), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 22:38 (nineteen years ago)

Those little nubs on the bottom.

― GET EQUIPPED WITH BUBBLE LEAD (ex machina), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 22:45 (nineteen years ago)

those are the kinds of things i always need but never know where to buy

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 22:46 (nineteen years ago)

superglue some skittles

― detoxyDancer (sexyDancer), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 22:50 (nineteen years ago)

painted white

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 22:51 (nineteen years ago)

$5 says you can find a couple between your sofa cushions.

― nein Socken (nein Socken), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 22:51 (nineteen years ago)

I have a fouton.

― GET EQUIPPED WITH BUBBLE LEAD (ex machina), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 22:55 (nineteen years ago)

a lot of people i know use these things, and i do too. it swivels!

http://www.targus.com/us/product_details.asp?sku=PA241U

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 22:56 (nineteen years ago)

Web Results 1 - 10 of about 614 for those little adhesive tabs that you put on the cabinet door corner so the door doesn't slam. (0.30 seconds)

― nein Socken (nein Socken), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 23:02 (nineteen years ago)

I don't need that. xpost

― GET EQUIPPED WITH BUBBLE LEAD (ex machina), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 23:04 (nineteen years ago)

!! http://www.cleansweepsupply.com/pages/skugroup18375.html !!

― nein Socken (nein Socken), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 23:11 (nineteen years ago)

Those would rip off in like 3 seconds.

― GET EQUIPPED WITH BUBBLE LEAD (ex machina), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 23:15 (nineteen years ago)

Ha ha - apple has a PDF guide to replacing those feet:

http://www.apple.com/support/powerbook/doityourself/17al/

― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 23:22 (nineteen years ago)

And you can buy them here

― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 23:23 (nineteen years ago)

Thank you :D

― GET EQUIPPED WITH BUBBLE LEAD (ex machina), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 23:24 (nineteen years ago)

here dude, while you're at it, you could probably use some of these products as well:

http://www.assistedlivingstore.com/

― nein Socken (nein Socken), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 23:25 (nineteen years ago)

four weeks pass...

read the online tutorial, if you do this you will hardly ever need to call tech support, cause you can set up you own repairs online. use the tools you have at your finger tips; google, ipodding.com, ilounge.com and also the Apple support pages. its all very easy, you just have to put in work to get where you need to get. oh yeah, work would involve showing some ability to do this for yourself, im sorry i guess it would be hard for over 50% of the people on this thread. And for the other group, thanks for being able to read, understand and implement the instructions that are given online. Enjoy your Apple products, have fun.

― Krajik Al Thor, Thursday, 12 January 2006 20:02 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah you fuckin' mac faggots, Windows works great if you know what the fuck you're doing. Jesus if you don't know how to run taskmgr and regedit wtf are you even doing on the internet, fucking gaywads!!!!!

― TOMBOT, Thursday, 12 January 2006 20:09 (nineteen years ago)

Wer mit Ungeheuern kämpft, mag zusehn, dass er nicht dabei zum Ungeheuer wird. Und wenn du lange in einen Abgrund blickst, blickt der Abgrund auch in dich hinein.

― JENSEITS VON GUT UND BOT, Thursday, 12 January 2006 20:12 (nineteen years ago)

Nietzsche bots rool.

― Evanston Wade (EWW), Friday, 13 January 2006 04:41 (nineteen years ago)

it saddens me that this is the most popular thread i've ever started...i don't even hate Apple anymore.

― jay blanchard (jay blanchard), Friday, 13 January 2006 04:47 (nineteen years ago)

This thread stinks like a jock's locker room thanks to TOMBOT and Allyzay's balls-out cussing. I haven't heard so many testicular metaphors since the bigshot lawyer played squash with the rightwing radio host and they "told it like it was" in the changing room instead of taking a shower.

― Momus (Momus), Friday, 13 January 2006 06:02 (nineteen years ago)

Men with Large Testicles Speak Out!

― latebloomer: Let's just say I do for bullshit what Stonehenge did for Rocks (lat, Friday, 13 January 2006 06:07 (nineteen years ago)

Now Apple are switching over to to Intel processors isn't it about time Microsoft rewrite their operating system with *nix and put these fucking bullshitters out of business?

I've never felt such a mug in all my life. God just imagining the prospect of using Finder (or whatever bullshit "search" function, gadget or app they try & present to make it appear like the file browser is a trifling nonsense to be ignored) and iTunes again, with no good alternatives make me want to stick redhot needles in my scrotum (sorry Momus).

My feelings when I sit back in front of a Windows PC "Ah, good. Now I can stop pissing about pretending to be streamlined and efficient and actually f*cking get something done, as the operating system isn't permanently working against me so hard"

I can't even face unpacking my boxed up iBook to watch a DVD :( My sister apparently wants to buy it, but even that seems like keeping it in my life too much now (god no, not 'family' tech support for the evil f*cking thing).

― fandango (fandango), Wednesday, 18 January 2006 05:43 (nineteen years ago)

hahaha you said scrotum!

― Allyzay must fight Zolton herself. (allyzay), Wednesday, 18 January 2006 19:00 (nineteen years ago)

incidentally, why do the volume buttons on every powerbook i've owned since 1997 take anywhere from 1-10 seconds to have any effect at all, replete with hard-disk churning, etc? fuck's sake. and oh, balls.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 18 January 2006 19:11 (nineteen years ago)

Momus, did Shoyu Weenie steal your song?

― TOMBOT, Wednesday, 18 January 2006 19:12 (nineteen years ago)

Tracer, that's a feature. Not a bug.

― Allyzay must fight Zolton herself. (allyzay), Wednesday, 18 January 2006 19:14 (nineteen years ago)

fandango: for someone who made so much noise upthread about how happy he was switching back to windows, you still seem awfully crabby about apple. did you trap your knob in the iBook lid or something? i just don't get the level of hate if you're not actually using the thing any more.

― grimly fiendish's scrotal sac (grimlord), Wednesday, 18 January 2006 19:17 (nineteen years ago)

People don't buy enough RAM for how they use their systems.

― A BOLD QUAHOG (ex machina), Wednesday, 18 January 2006 19:18 (nineteen years ago)

i just want to make it louder, or softer.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 18 January 2006 19:26 (nineteen years ago)

That would be everyone since macs never come with enough to begin with.

xpost

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Wednesday, 18 January 2006 19:27 (nineteen years ago)

Wow Jon, that DOES explain everything.

― TOMBOT, Wednesday, 18 January 2006 19:27 (nineteen years ago)

#1 apple annoyance -- inability to turn off "relative date" in open dialog boxes of individual applications -- also the absolute idiocy of the relative date sorting mechanism.

the fix the finder stuff rilly can get irritating.

on the other hand, with the side-shelf & the right cmd & option combos, etc., navigating the finder is still waay faster than windows -- just took a little getting used to.

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Wednesday, 18 January 2006 19:52 (nineteen years ago)

the cross application cmd-backtick window switch thing is magic too.

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Wednesday, 18 January 2006 19:53 (nineteen years ago)

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