puredanger.com Blog » Mac http://puredanger.com/kablooie Scott Bale's technical blog Tue, 23 Jun 2009 15:19:57 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 MacBook Crashy Crashy http://puredanger.com/kablooie/2008/03/25/macbook-crashy-crashy/ http://puredanger.com/kablooie/2008/03/25/macbook-crashy-crashy/#comments Tue, 25 Mar 2008 18:12:42 +0000 Scott http://puredanger.com/kablooie/2008/03/25/macbook-crashy-crashy/ Has anyone ever seen this before?

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At least three times now my MacBook has crashed, displaying this screen which states the obvious in infuriating detail. It’s better than a blue screen of death, I guess.

All three times, I was trying to use eyeBeam to make a call.

So far I have loved the MacBook, but today I’m only fond of it.

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Terracotta

General

  • Firefox (download)
  • Eclipse Java IDE
  • Adium for IM (supports Yahoo, GTalk, etc)
  • Skype for video chat
  • Eyebeam soft phone (this is the non-free version of the free X-Lite soft phone, apparently with Leopard we must use this. You’ll need to get a download URL and license from the Terracotta help desk.)
  • TextWrangler text editor
  • TextMate not free but great text editor
  • NetNewsWire feed reader
  • Growl (download) system alerts, integrates with Adium, NetNewsWire, Elluminate and other Mac software
  • NeoOffice (download) free OpenOffice for Mac (was preinstalled on my MacBook)
  • iWork office suite, not free
  • iStat menu bar meters for cpu, etc.
  • Terminal (preinstalled) which as of Leopard is now tabbed
  • Quicksilver
  • OmniGraffle – graphics editor du jour
  • Cisco AnyConnect VPN Client (preinstalled)

Java

Eclipse Plugins (all of these were installed via Eclipse’s Update Manager)

  • Terracotta Plugin (URL for update manager) – eases integrating Terracotta into a project
  • ASM (URL) – you’ll want to install the ASM Framework and Bytecode Outline
  • Groovy (URL) – syntax highlighting and whatnot
  • Subclipse (URL) – Subversion support
  • Maven (URL) – needed to resolve Eclipse inter-project dependencies using Maven pom.xml’s rather than Eclipse .classpath or .plugin files. (Not to be confused with Maven Eclipse plugin, a Maven plugin for generating Eclipse project files.)
  • FindBugs (URL)
  • QuickREx (URL) – regex
  • Implementors (URL) – quickly navigate between interfaces and implementations, or super and sub classes

Firefox Plugins

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Below is my attempt to document (i.e. sear into my brain) all of the various shortcuts I’m accustomed to using with Windows, and their equivalents in Mac. There’s already some good documentation on this subject out there, but this is tailored to my experience coming from a PC. This page will likely improve as I learn more.

So far I love my MacBook! I’ve been joking for weeks that I can’t wait to join the cult, and I’ve not been disappointed.

Item or Task Windows Mac
system settings Control Panel System Preferences (under Apple icon menu)
file system Windows Explorer The Finder
manage open apps Taskbar The Dock
switch between apps alt-tab ⌘-tab
change password ctrl-alt-del, change password System Prefs -> Account
context menus right mouse click Ctrl-click
Scrolling (laptop) use edge of mousepad two-fingers on mouse
cut ctrl-x ⌘-x
copy ctrl-c ⌘-c
paste ctrl-v ⌘-v
select all ctrl-a ⌘-a
quit File->Quit ⌘-q
hide current window minimize window ⌘-h
show desktop minimize all F11
save File->save ⌘-s
create shortcut various drag icon onto Dock

Eclipse
To pass args to Eclipse (ex: -vmargs -Xms128M -Xmx512M -XX:PermSize=64M -XX:MaxPermSize=128M), find the Eclipse icon in the Finder, hold the control key down and click on the icon, select “Show Package Contents”, find the Eclipse.ini file in the new window, and open with a text editor. (This is contained within the Eclipse application bundle.)

Misc
Taking Screenshots in Mac

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