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ScifiterX wrote:

Copy and paste of files does work. Cut and paste of files does not work.

A bit safer so you don't lose a file.

user wrote:

Especially since Mac OS X's equivalent feature, Force Quit, manages to work perfectly every time.

::snicker::

Not on my Mac.

How does that work? Is a mouse used in that process?

Thank you

ScifiterX wrote:

Not for me under OS X 10.4.10. I cant even get it to cut via the "Edit" > "Cut" menu command.

The Command-c & Command-v combo does work for me every time though, as do their "Edit" > "Copy 'selected item(s)'" and "Edit" > "Paste" menu commands.

As FutureDreamz point put it's a bit safer it works that way though.

Safer how? If you're running a journaled filesystem, which we all are, the cut will either complete, or not complete.

I want Cut/Paste functionality

It'll complete or not even on a non-journaled system too. However what I talking about are things like stuff getting accidently over written in the process. People get distracted or hit the wrong keys. If you cut and have to run off before pasting, It's possible to forget you had something in the clipboard and overwrite it. Journalling doesn't do crap about that. You've simply lost that file in the cut.

I would second the cut and paste feature.  It is one thing I really miss about Windows when working on my Mac.  Also, I wish OS X did a better job of remember window position, size, and browse point than it does.  This is particularly annoying for me when customizing my system.  I browse a folder full of icons in the largest icon view, and when I go back to the root folder, I always default to the top of the folder instead of where I last left off.  If I am navigating several folders at the bottom, I need to go back and re-scroll to that area.  Annoying.  Trying to set a specific Finder view for certain folders is also rediculous, because it is overwritten by any change to the default setting made later.  It is bad enough that I have created an Automator function specifically to make this easier.

With all its flaws, OS X still beats the tar out of Windows.

Last edited by volk (2007-07-12 10:07 am)

I can't stand the way you can resize windows from all the corners and sides on Windows.  I absolutely hate it when I go to move a window or grab the scroll bar and wind up resizing my carefully-positioned and perfectly-sized window instead.

Last edited by Daniel (2007-07-12 1:10 pm)

Daniel wrote:

I can't stand the way you can resize windows from all the corners and sides on Windows.  I absolutely hate it when I go to move a window or grab the scroll bar and wind up resizing my carefully-positioned and perfectly-sized window instead.

Indeed

Daniel wrote:

I can't stand the way you can resize windows from all the corners and sides on Windows.  I absolutely hate it when I go to move a window or grab the scroll bar and wind up resizing my carefully-positioned and perfectly-sized window instead.

Same here, although I use all corners resizing. I also really hate how Windows (XP, at least) will reset my positioned windows to the default size for no apparent reason. It seems that every other day I have to resize and reposition my windows to where I want them to be.

ScifiterX wrote:

HackerJax wrote:

Czachorski wrote:

I just started running windows in Parallels on my new MBP, and the stupid little pop-up reminders bleed through to the desktop even when Parallels is in Coherence mode (running Windows aps as OS X windows without the full Windows OS window).  The company's mandatory 15 minute pw protected screen saver bleed through full-screen too.  What a PITA.

It's a trip into bizarro world to run iTunes, Safari and Quicktime in Windows through parallels in coherence mode.  It's an Apple app running in Windows on a Mac in parallels coherence mode so it looks like a regular window in OS X.

You can disable the system tray popups in XP using a registry setting change found here:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/307729

Should make for a less annoying time

Funny I thought altering or patching Microsoft software in that manner was a EULA violation.

Nah, MS is pretty good with allowing OS tweaks. The only time they might take exception is if you hack a system DLL and then start distributing it. Even then sometimes they don't take action if the change adds usability or a much wanted feature.

user wrote:

8. End Task

A program hangs. You type <Ctrl><Alt><Del> to bring up the Task Manager, then click End Task to kill the app. Nothing happens. You try again and again, and it eventually works. Or doesn't. Why is such a basic operating-system need so flaky in 2007? We're not sure. Especially since Mac OS X's equivalent feature, Force Quit, manages to work perfectly every time.

::snicker::

actually, it doesn't work to force quit toast when it loses the firewire disk drive.... the only thing that fixes that it to force restart my computer... or the firewire drive.

ScifiterX wrote:

I know but it so fun to razz them about the draconian language in their EULAs, especially when it more or less makes it sound like if you fix the OS then you are violating the EULA.

I haven't seen an EULA yet that isn't draconian.