Mac OS X Lion 10.7

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

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.