The Apple thread

[sty]

It's always been that way. When moving to my Wallstreet powerbook, its extreme sexy curviness, combined with the sexy black & rubber look, made all other machinery obsolete. Then I moved to the TiBook, which made the Wallstreet look like a bloated fuckpig etc etc etc

Absolutely, I've found the same effect with fast cars, nippy computers and large tellies

Arguing against myself I did have a little "I love living in the 21st century" shudder this morning having to check my rucksack to see if I'd taken the Air out with me. It's that light you can't tell by weight alone

It sounds like you have made my tech lust for an air even more than it was before. I finally laid hands on one two days ago and it was still appealing to me, now a fairly ringing endorsement from you confirms it again. The battery could be a killer, as could the fact it's a V1 product, but if I could get a real 2 and a bit hours out of it then it would probably just about do for the majority of travel/work I do and it would only be long haul flights I would be in trouble for.

I had and still have on my desk here a V1 TiBook and in comparison my Toshiba Tecra is a piece of shite, I'm realistically a light user of my laptops for work most of the time and I could suplement an air with a decent Dual Core (or better) workstation for any hardcore dev/DB work I needed to do in the office.

Have you run VMWare or Parallels on it with win XP yet? I'd love to know how it peforms, if I were to get it I would probably splurge and get the SSD so any issues with the slow HDD could be alieviated (see I'm already making excuses )

[sty]

I suspect this is to do with the fact that it took me about three attempts to jailbreak it, kept gettting locked keyboard, and I'm now toying with putting on the Jan update for the apps or cutting my losses and staying here for a while. I also wanted to try writing some code with the SDK but that's not happening at the moment due to not being able to live test it yet.

Get yerself over to http://www.ijailbreak.com. The latest version (0.6) works on an Apple-fresh restore of 1.1.4, and will install all the app updates for you too

nice one!

There goes another update cycle but best to get it done before I start traveling again.

[RiK]

but if I could get a real 2 and a bit hours out of it then it would probably just about do for the majority of travel/work I do and it would only be long haul flights I would be in trouble for.

Err, airline power adaptor?

http://store.apple.com/1-800-MY-APPLE/W ... m=MB441Z/A

[sty]

but if I could get a real 2 and a bit hours out of it then it would probably just about do for the majority of travel/work I do and it would only be long haul flights I would be in trouble for.

Err, airline power adaptor?

http://store.apple.com/1-800-MY-APPLE/W ... m=MB441Z/A

absolutely the way to go, as long as the airline has these available in the seats you are in

when I flew to NZ I was lucky enough to be in Biz Class and First Class and hence had all the power i needed (and Internet, so was able to irc with you lot while I was emmigrating ) however on most economy class tickets power isn't available, and while I have tried once or twice to see if there was a seat available with power I never managed to get my laptop plugged in.

my current employer is unlikely to send me Biz Class to Europe or USA unless I manage to get even more indespensable

[Dio]

Yeah - you usually need to be in at least a Premium Economy class to get lappy power (which at best is twice the price of cattle class).

[Deckard]

http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/08 ... anion.html

So Wii Fit and now this

[Dungeon-Dave]

For Apple rabid fanbois: http://www.snotr.com/video/244

D&RFC....

[WiteWulf]

For Apple rabid fanbois: http://www.snotr.com/video/244

D&RFC....

Ooooooooooold...

[Dungeon-Dave]

Well, an iTried a search and iDidn't see it come up anywhere here...

[tufty]

Macbook Air first to succumb in cansec pwn2own competition...

http://www.thetechherald.com/article.ph ... two-Update

http://www.techradar.com/news/computing ... own-284079

Discuss

[Gus]

it's totally baffling that I should have to touch my mouse at all to do trivial things like switch code windows.

I haven't read the rest of the thread yet (I'm lazy) so apologies if someone else has said this, but if you're working in "flat" mode (i.e. not opening shit loads of editor windows) then there's some useful stuff under the View menu. Basically Alt+Apple+Left/Right Arrows allow you to go backwards & forwards through your open files. I agree with you though, I much prefer writing code in VS than I do in XCode.


Guy

[tufty]

Buggeration.

Just moved up to Leopard on my mini, and overall I quite like it. However, it seems to have buggerated printer sharing, as follows:

My mini has an HP printer attached to it over USB, and shares that printer across the network. Printing from the mini is fine. Unfortunately, the PBG4, which is running Tiger, although it can see the printer, cannot print to it, it throws the following to console.log on the Tiger machine

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2008-03-29 10:26:33.835 soffice.bin[5900] Invalid PMPrintSettings in print info
2008-03-29 10:26:34.294 soffice.bin[5900] PMSessionValidatePrintSettings failed (error code = -50
)

That's from neooffice, but the same results apply to any app that tries to print.

Any ideas?

Simon

[piku]

it's totally baffling that I should have to touch my mouse at all to do trivial things like switch code windows.

I haven't read the rest of the thread yet (I'm lazy) so apologies if someone else has said this, but if you're working in "flat" mode (i.e. not opening shit loads of editor windows) then there's some useful stuff under the View menu. Basically Alt+Apple+Left/Right Arrows allow you to go backwards & forwards through your open files.

That works quite well Also works in Firefox too, which is handy.

[Bubba]

Buggeration.

Just moved up to Leopard on my mini, and overall I quite like it. However, it seems to have buggerated printer sharing, as follows:

My mini has an HP printer attached to it over USB, and shares that printer across the network. Printing from the mini is fine. Unfortunately, the PBG4, which is running Tiger, although it can see the printer, cannot print to it, it throws the following to console.log on the Tiger machine

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2008-03-29 10:26:33.835 soffice.bin[5900] Invalid PMPrintSettings in print info
2008-03-29 10:26:34.294 soffice.bin[5900] PMSessionValidatePrintSettings failed (error code = -50
)

That's from neooffice, but the same results apply to any app that tries to print.

Any ideas?

Simon

That sounds very familliar, did you upgrade to leopard or archive and install? I think that was the exact error message I had when upgrading a friends new iMac (it had come shipped with Tiger and a Leopard disc) when we tried to share printers. Much swearing later I just archive and installed the fucker and it worked perfectly. Well I say perfectly, the windows printer sharing is utterly fucked - everything shows it as set up properly, the windows machine can see and write to the queue, the mac logs show it accepting the job and then it just vanishes! Think it's gonna be time for a USB print server for this kinda stuff...

Cheers

Bubba

[Kelloggs]

This is a little perturbing; I've just (like, about half-an-hour ago) kicked off a Software Update, one item for Security, one for Safari and one for AirPort.

It's restarted, given me a Starfield backdrop and a progress box saying "Installing 3 items" and...

... it's not moved from about 3% complete since then.

Help!