Joey Gibson's BlogThoughts, musings, ramblings and rants on Java, Ruby, Python, obscure languages, politics and other exciting topicsQuickTime Player Annoys Me- November 27, 2007 The QuickTime player that Apple ships really, really annoys me. There are two reasons why I hate it: volume and geometry defaults. By this I mean that the player defaults to 100% volume, which is really loud, and top-left-of-window placement, with no way to set either of these in preferences. I don't know who on the QT team at Apple thought these were goodvalid defaults, but regardless of stupid defaults, I should be able to set preferences for these and have them respected. I would prefer the.http://joeygibson.com/blog/tech/mac/quicktime_player_annoys_me.html Monitor Log Using Console.app- November 14, 2007 When I'm working on a Linux desktop, I will frequently open a new shell window with tail -f on a log file I need to watch, such as my JBoss log. When I switched to my glorious Mac Pro I did the same thing, but it wasn't exactly what I wanted. I discovered that you can execute Console.app from the command line, so I have created a Bash alias that I run when I need to. Here's what I put in my .alias file: alias jbtail='ApplicationsUtilitiesConsole.appContentsMacOSConsole...http://joeygibson.com/blog/tech/mac/monitor_log_using_console_app.html No Flash By Default In Fedora 8 Huh- November 9, 2007 I saw that Fedora 8 had been released, so I thought I'd install it inside Parallels and check it out. After a long install, I booted up in 800x600 mode... Lovely. I googled to find out how to change the screen resolution and discovered I needed to edit etcX11xorg.conf, so I typed sudo vi etcX11xorg.conf and was promptly told that my userid was not in the sudoers file, and that "this incident will be reported." I've just gotten used to OSX and Ubuntu that handle that sort of thing, so this was..http://joeygibson.com/blog/tech/no_flash_by_default_in_fedora_8_huh.html |