{"id":1722,"date":"2005-09-22T01:14:21","date_gmt":"2005-09-22T01:14:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sunpig.com\/mt-entry-1722.html"},"modified":"2006-09-23T19:30:11","modified_gmt":"2006-09-23T19:30:11","slug":"mac-switching-update-wed-21-sep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/2005\/09\/22\/mac-switching-update-wed-21-sep\/","title":{"rendered":"Mac Switching update, Wed 21 Sep"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just some quick notes, because it&#8217;s really late&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Dell sent out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sunpig.com\/martin\/archives\/2005\/09\/16\/mac_switching_update_fri_16_sep\/\">another<\/a> replacement monitor today.  Even though this is still a refurb (apparently after the first 30 days, even though you&#8217;re within warranty, you&#8217;re not automatically entitled to a brand new replacement), and one of the earlier A01 revisions, this particular one actually works, and doesn&#8217;t suffer from the backlight bleeding <em>at all<\/em>. It has two stuck sub-pixels, one red and one blue, and one dead blue sub-pixel, but they&#8217;re well out of the way, and unnoticeable unless you&#8217;re using a screen utility to actually detect them.  Overall:  I&#8217;m happy with it now.<\/li>\n<li>When I installed the IntelliType software to make the Mac recognize my (Windows) keyboard, I left the command key mappings at their default settings, which mapped the Windows key to the Apple clover key, resulting in a Ctrl-Apple-Option layout at the left hand side of the keyboard.  In the IntelliType settings, there is a toggle that switches the position of the Apple and Option command keys, and I turned that onearlier this evening, giving me a more Apple-standard Ctrl-Option-Apple layout.  Since then, I&#8217;ve found using keyboard shortcuts a lot more natural.  I think it&#8217;s something to do with the natural resting position of my thumb while I&#8217;m typing&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>When installing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mysql.com\">MySQL<\/a> on a Mac Mini, make sure to grab the right version, i.e. <em>not<\/em> the 64-bit edition.<\/li>\n<li>If you&#8217;re using <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mysql.com\/products\/tools\/\">MySQL Administrator and MySQL Query Browser<\/a>, and connecting to your local machine, you need to make sure that you change the connecting socket (under &#8220;Advanced Options&#8221;) to &#8220;\/tmp\/mysql.sock&#8221;.  The default value for the socket  &#8220;(null)&#8221;, and that doesn&#8217;t seem to work, and you get lots of highly non-descriptive error messages.<\/li>\n<li>Camino (v1.0a) doesn&#8217;t warn you when you try to close it down with 20 tabs still open.  Grr.  I only wanted to close one tab, but hit Q instead of W.  I think I&#8217;ll be sticking to Firefox for now&#8230;.<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;ve got the Dock visible again.  I like being able to see at a glance what I&#8217;ve got running, without having to use the mouse to activate it.  Also, I found the half-second delay before it came up a bit annoying<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just some quick notes, because it&#8217;s really late&#8230; Dell sent out another replacement monitor today. Even though this is still a refurb (apparently after the first 30 days, even though you&#8217;re within warranty, you&#8217;re not automatically entitled to a brand new replacement), and one of the earlier A01 revisions, this particular one actually works, and &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/2005\/09\/22\/mac-switching-update-wed-21-sep\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Mac Switching update, Wed 21 Sep&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[132],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apple"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1722"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1722\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}