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Wow, you can see the apple logo backlight through the monitor.
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I'm gonna move to wordpress. Will just keep my artsy blog here.
So cute.
My macbook air (June 11, 2012 model) is doing much better.
Slightly concerned by this. Not doing as well as it should. Is mountain lion a RAM-sucker?
This is my 2.5 GHz Intel Core i5 21.5 in. iMac from summer 2011. I upgraded directly from snow leopard to mountain lion.
I couldn’t resist.
Another complaint...
Search engines cannot be added.
I guess a lot of people don't care, because google, soon-to-be-big-brother is so popular, but I am nearly a hardcore duckduckgo fan.
My only solution was to install an ugly bar.
Also glims works. Except I dislike it, since I find it a bit heavy (9.1 mb) for an extension and cluttery.
Mountain Lion Angst
I think I'm just going to be very, very ragey about mountain lion for a while.
It's cute and all but I am having such a hard time getting things to work.
I ran
sudo port install mcabber
scp'ed the mcabberrc from my school
found out that "set jid" no longer works - "set username" is how they do it now.
And then I get this.
If I set ssl = 0, I get the second screenshot.
FUUUUUUU
Mountain Lion seriously fucks up MacPorts.
I haven't found a solution.
And yes, I did run port selfupdate.
Mountain Lion /dev
One thing I noticed right off the bat is that there are a lot more devices in Mountain Lion.
ls /dev and what do you see?
A shitton of ptys - pseudo terminals.
Mountain Lion
Oh, it's out now.
Time to start posting again.
kill -HUP `pidof finder`
A friend just told me about this command: kill -HUP `pidof finder`, a deadly command which will probably bork your os x install.
Apparently it causes a kernel panic. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kernel_panic
Don't do it.
Directory Structure - Library
The library - what does it sound like? A library. It's a library of resources. Since there are way too many subdirectories to go through in detail, I'll only go through the ones which might be relevant to someone in need of some hacking...
Application Support - These are some non-critical resources for apps such as Automator, Grapher, Mail, GarageBand, Microsoft Office, etc.
Desktop Pictures - These are desktop pictures; if you want to add some to the preloaded Apple Desktop Pictures for whatever reason, simply add the desired photos to this directory.
Dictionaries - If you want to add dictionaries to the dictionary.app, such as, for example, an IT dictionary or a foreign language dictionary, you must move your downloaded .dictionary files to this folder.
Fonts - You can add font files here. Note that the directory "Fonts Disabled" contains Times New roman, Verdana, Wingdings, Arial, and Brush Script - all windoze-y fonts. If you want to use them, simply move them to the Fonts directory.
Frameworks - Here are the frameworks for iTunes, AudioMixEngine, AEProfiling, AERegistration, AudioMixEngine, NyxAudioAnalysis, PluginManager, and other programs. They are filled with important files like libraries and supporting programs. More on this later; I don't understand them entirely.
Java - This contains basically all the important files needed for java to run. /Library/Java/Home/bundle/Commands and /Library/Java/Home/bin are two paths to where all command-line commands for java are located... Who knew there was more to java than just jar, java and javac?
Keychains - Keychains are here. More about keychains here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keychain_(Mac_OS)
Ok, it's late and I'm sleepy; I'm less than halfway through, but I'll stop for tonight and continue tomorrow.
Directory Structure - Applications
The /Applications directory contains .app files. These are apps; programs. They are what appear in your launchpad or applications folder... It's pretty self-explanatory. .app files are executable. If you try to open one in a text editor, you won't see anything.
Pretty simple. Pretty self-explanatory.
Yes. Enjoy your Mac. I wish I owned one because then I wouldn't have to muddle with GNUstep when I could be using NeXTSTEP, which is natively on the Mac. Then, I could try developing some iPhone/iPad/iPod applications using Objective-C. And Linux is great and all, but if you ever have problems with a Mac, you can bring it to the Genius Bar and ask questions, which is far easier than tracking down answers in forums and discussion boards.
True. I love your thoughts-on-computing blog, btw.
Directory Structure
One really important step to understanding and manipulating an OS is knowing the directory structure; where important system files and other files are stored. So, I'll explain the directory structure of Mac OS X.
You may want to open of Terminal (under Utilities) and follow along.
Type in "cd /", then "ls"
/ is the root of the directory tree. OS X is based off of FreeBSD, a *NIX operating system, so the directory structure is very similar to that of linux or any other *NIX OS.
I'll go through each folder in detail in the next couple of posts, but the basic gist of things can be found here: http://osxdaily.com/2007/03/30/mac-os-x-directory-structure-explained/