I'm Sorry :)

craptakular · 22 Jul 2010 at 16:02

Some people in the forum may recall that I have been pretty negative about OS X in here.

My macbook is still in the household so I dusted it off a couple of weeks ago and plugged it into my 24" monitor.

I moved the dock to the left-hand side, which has helped me with screen sapce a lot, as I have a 16:9 monitor.

My mate is a big Mac fan, think he is IT Manager for a company which uses Macs, he has helped me setup somethings to make it easy and taught me some keyboard shortcuts.

The point of the post, well I just wanted to say I can now use it for soemthing. I think I didnt like OSX was because the 13" screen on my macbook is to small

May consider buying an iMac in 2011/2012

craptakular · 22 Jul 2010 at 16:18

Just found another cool feature which helps a lot!!!!

On the dock, say IU have 5 firefox windows open on Desktop area 2, if I hold my left button down on the icon it flicks to the firefox windows and highlights them all to select the one I want.

craptakular · 22 Jul 2010 at 16:23

Whats multi-touch?

craptakular · 22 Jul 2010 at 16:35

oh like doubling tapping for right click and dragging etc?

My white macbook does it.

craptakular · 22 Jul 2010 at 19:38

pingwing said:
OH MY GOD!!!!!! Oxy you have solved the year long confusion from me of how osx handles that!!!! Have an internet cookie as my mac is now complete

Oh and apology accepted, go hug your mac

yeh I know, it was pure luck as well, was on ts3 and clicked my push to talk button which then did some magic like I described.

This issue was my biggest issue with OSX, which I have now fixed.

Only thing left thats really annoying is cut and paste as siruisB describes.

Also pingwing you should be able to answer this, can I auto mount NFS shares in OSX?

craptakular · 22 Jul 2010 at 20:06

im on 10.6.4

pinwing - do you still use linux?

craptakular · 22 Jul 2010 at 20:08

oh also is there anyway to mimic windows snap feature?

craptakular · 23 Jul 2010 at 20:43

pingwing posted a way to automount NFS shares.

craptakular · 23 Jul 2010 at 20:47

Feek said:
Cinch.

cheers looks perfect!!!

craptakular · 23 Jul 2010 at 22:05

pingwing said:
Oooo does it all work ok??? Havnt had a chance to test it out (still repartitioning my mac to get boot camp back, I want to play oblivion)

Not had a chance to test it yet, will tommorrow night

craptakular · 23 Jul 2010 at 22:23

I think so, I can test that also later as I have samba shares as well.

craptakular · 25 Jul 2010 at 14:17

SiriusB said:
Bah! Bloody OS X!

The tip above is for NFS shares only. So I thought "I know, I will just create NFS shares on my server!"

5 hours later I finally get NFS and Unix attributes sorted on my SBS2008 server. NFS shares load fine through the Finder's Connect To menu. However, I could not get them to automount via the Disk Utility. No idea why but I gave up on it.

Instead I used a combination of SleepWatcher and some applescripts I can now mount my SMB shares at login, and they are also unmounted when my MBP goes to sleep and mounted when it wakes up!

No more annoying errors. Yippee!

I fail to see why Apple hasn't included basic stuff like this in its OS.

Can you post your scripts and a guide?

I may use my Samba shares if it's easier.

craptakular · 25 Jul 2010 at 22:36

iraiguana said:
If you were using AFP shares you would not have the problem you have found. I have AFP share on my ubuntu server and it is mounted with the start up, and then will be kept be remounted even after sleep.

Whats AFP?