Comments on: I like my new MacBook Pro, but… http://www.oracle-base.com/blog/2009/06/20/i-like-my-new-macbook-pro-but/ Oracle related rants (and lots of off-topic stuff)... Sat, 11 Feb 2012 20:21:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Tim... http://www.oracle-base.com/blog/2009/06/20/i-like-my-new-macbook-pro-but/comment-page-1/#comment-109206 Tim... Mon, 29 Jun 2009 16:29:12 +0000 http://www.oracle-base.com/blog/?p=1001#comment-109206 That methods works fine for some executables, but not all. For example, it works fine for editors like the default TextEdit or TextWrangler, but it will not perform the association correctly for all editors. I think the file association on OSX is buggy to say the least. Cheers Tim... That methods works fine for some executables, but not all. For example, it works fine for editors like the default TextEdit or TextWrangler, but it will not perform the association correctly for all editors.

I think the file association on OSX is buggy to say the least.

Cheers

Tim…

]]> By: Mike http://www.oracle-base.com/blog/2009/06/20/i-like-my-new-macbook-pro-but/comment-page-1/#comment-109202 Mike Mon, 29 Jun 2009 09:36:20 +0000 http://www.oracle-base.com/blog/?p=1001#comment-109202 They heard you at Apple. I read this post a while ago and when I saw the Apple - Pro - Tips a couple of days later I knew they were reading this blog. http://www.apple.com/pro/tips/reassign_files.html?sr=hotnews?sr=hotnews.rss They heard you at Apple. I read this post a while ago and when I saw the Apple – Pro – Tips a couple of days later I knew they were reading this blog.
http://www.apple.com/pro/tips/reassign_files.html?sr=hotnews?sr=hotnews.rss

]]> By: Ben Prusinski http://www.oracle-base.com/blog/2009/06/20/i-like-my-new-macbook-pro-but/comment-page-1/#comment-109174 Ben Prusinski Sun, 28 Jun 2009 01:21:48 +0000 http://www.oracle-base.com/blog/?p=1001#comment-109174 Tim, Welcome to the Mac world. I also replaced my old dead laptop with a new Macbook Pro as well. The new features for stretch and resizing web pages with the touch pad is quite nice. The terminal Unix tools are great. My only beef really is that VMWare Fusion sucks compared to the Linux and PC version. There is no real way to clone VMs and setup multiple shared storage with VMWare Fusion for 11g RAC. Other than that works well. I run R12 EBS and 11g databases under VMWare with the Mac and they are quite fast. Cheers, Ben Tim,

Welcome to the Mac world. I also replaced my old dead laptop with a new Macbook Pro as well. The new features for stretch and resizing web pages with the touch pad is quite nice. The terminal Unix tools are great. My only beef really is that VMWare Fusion sucks compared to the Linux and PC version. There is no real way to clone VMs and setup multiple shared storage with VMWare Fusion for 11g RAC. Other than that works well. I run R12 EBS and 11g databases under VMWare with the Mac and they are quite fast.

Cheers,
Ben

]]> By: tommy http://www.oracle-base.com/blog/2009/06/20/i-like-my-new-macbook-pro-but/comment-page-1/#comment-109117 tommy Wed, 24 Jun 2009 13:12:47 +0000 http://www.oracle-base.com/blog/?p=1001#comment-109117 yeah, microsoft thinks they understand security now... wait until you get blocked attachments in entourage, you have to open the plist file and manually add the extensions you want to allow through. how annoying is that?!? they could have a button in entourage allowing you to override the block, but no, they definitely know better than you! yeah, microsoft thinks they understand security now… wait until you get blocked attachments in entourage, you have to open the plist file and manually add the extensions you want to allow through. how annoying is that?!? they could have a button in entourage allowing you to override the block, but no, they definitely know better than you!

]]> By: Tim... http://www.oracle-base.com/blog/2009/06/20/i-like-my-new-macbook-pro-but/comment-page-1/#comment-109071 Tim... Mon, 22 Jun 2009 19:56:54 +0000 http://www.oracle-base.com/blog/?p=1001#comment-109071 Hi. The URL messages are only when you link to a non-browser link, like a text file. If you link to a web URL it works fine. It's a "feature" of powerpoint. Security by annoyance. :) Cheers Tim... Hi.

The URL messages are only when you link to a non-browser link, like a text file. If you link to a web URL it works fine.

It’s a “feature” of powerpoint. Security by annoyance. :)

Cheers

Tim…

]]> By: tommy http://www.oracle-base.com/blog/2009/06/20/i-like-my-new-macbook-pro-but/comment-page-1/#comment-109063 tommy Mon, 22 Jun 2009 17:49:47 +0000 http://www.oracle-base.com/blog/?p=1001#comment-109063 weird tim, that doesn't really make any sense... you definitely have something strange going on. also, i tried to duplicate your powerpoint issue, i don't get any warnings going from a hyperlink in a slide show to the default browser. what specific warnings are you getting? weird tim, that doesn’t really make any sense… you definitely have something strange going on.

also, i tried to duplicate your powerpoint issue, i don’t get any warnings going from a hyperlink in a slide show to the default browser. what specific warnings are you getting?

]]> By: Tim... http://www.oracle-base.com/blog/2009/06/20/i-like-my-new-macbook-pro-but/comment-page-1/#comment-109057 Tim... Mon, 22 Jun 2009 16:00:32 +0000 http://www.oracle-base.com/blog/?p=1001#comment-109057 Chris: No difference between the two association methods. :( Tommy: On 3rd intallation of TextWrangler, the file association now works for that. It still doesn't work for any other editor, but I can live with TextWrangler. :) Regarding my warning messages from PowerPoint, the solution seems to be to move to KeyNote. :) Cheers Tim... Chris: No difference between the two association methods. :(

Tommy: On 3rd intallation of TextWrangler, the file association now works for that. It still doesn’t work for any other editor, but I can live with TextWrangler. :)

Regarding my warning messages from PowerPoint, the solution seems to be to move to KeyNote. :)

Cheers

Tim…

]]> By: Chris http://www.oracle-base.com/blog/2009/06/20/i-like-my-new-macbook-pro-but/comment-page-1/#comment-109040 Chris Mon, 22 Jun 2009 07:43:31 +0000 http://www.oracle-base.com/blog/?p=1001#comment-109040 Hi Mate: Not sure if this will be any good. It looks to detail two different ways (one of which is like what you have tried). Perhaps there is a subtly difference with the other way? http://www.tuaw.com/tag/file+format/ Hi Mate:

Not sure if this will be any good. It looks to detail two different ways (one of which is like what you have tried). Perhaps there is a subtly difference with the other way?

http://www.tuaw.com/tag/file+format/

]]> By: tommy http://www.oracle-base.com/blog/2009/06/20/i-like-my-new-macbook-pro-but/comment-page-1/#comment-109037 tommy Mon, 22 Jun 2009 02:17:05 +0000 http://www.oracle-base.com/blog/?p=1001#comment-109037 tim, that's weird... very weird. I've never heard of that before, and mine works as expected. you could always take the mbp into an apple store and see if a "genius" can help... though my luck with the "genius" has been bad, i think they usually get really basic switcher questions. if you have any luck, post it here, will you? tim, that’s weird… very weird. I’ve never heard of that before, and mine works as expected. you could always take the mbp into an apple store and see if a “genius” can help… though my luck with the “genius” has been bad, i think they usually get really basic switcher questions. if you have any luck, post it here, will you?

]]> By: Tim... http://www.oracle-base.com/blog/2009/06/20/i-like-my-new-macbook-pro-but/comment-page-1/#comment-109028 Tim... Sun, 21 Jun 2009 13:01:29 +0000 http://www.oracle-base.com/blog/?p=1001#comment-109028 Hi. Deleting the file only affects the current associations after I reboot the machine. After the reboot, I reassociate a ".sql" file with editor (whichever one) and it does the same thing. The editor opens, but there is no file in it. I reboot, just in case, and there is still no change. It doesn't work. I've tried SQL Developer, jEdit and TextWrangler. All fail in the same way. The only editor that works as expected is the built in TextEdit, but that also fails to open the document sometimes (according to one of the other ACEs). It would appear file associations is just plain buggy. Of course, I'm still hoping I'm being a dunce and someone will show me which switch to flick. Maybe after teh Snow Leopard upgrade. :( Cheers Tim... Hi.

Deleting the file only affects the current associations after I reboot the machine.

After the reboot, I reassociate a “.sql” file with editor (whichever one) and it does the same thing. The editor opens, but there is no file in it. I reboot, just in case, and there is still no change. It doesn’t work.

I’ve tried SQL Developer, jEdit and TextWrangler. All fail in the same way. The only editor that works as expected is the built in TextEdit, but that also fails to open the document sometimes (according to one of the other ACEs).

It would appear file associations is just plain buggy.

Of course, I’m still hoping I’m being a dunce and someone will show me which switch to flick. Maybe after teh Snow Leopard upgrade. :(

Cheers

Tim…

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