Tuesday, December 25th, 2007 - 4:10PM
So Leopard does this really clever thing where, if you don’t exclude it from making backups of your Applications directory, it will let you do a right click / “open with” and select previous versions of apps Time Machine has backed up. The rub: you can’t turn it off, and if your Time Machine drive is connected but not spun up, it’ll wait until the drive gets going before populating that list and giving you the menu. Anyone discovered how to disable it (short of excluding the Applications directory from backup)?
Also, big ups to Conrad for sharing Stamatiou’s really useful OS X hack for turning off safe-sleep mode.
Wednesday, November 7th, 2007 - 1:07AM
Leopard has been pretty good to me so far, but the whole Finder automagically finding local Windows / Linux machines and mounting their SMB shares has been the one thing I’m classifying a total joke. I’m sure some Mac fans are about to pipe up and mention AFP and the like, but let’s face it, like it or not SMB is an incredibly widely deployed standard, and I expected more after Apple briefed me on how much better Finder handles this stuff.
I’ve tried a few tricks, like adding a second network location and inputting my local network’s WINS workgroup (the second location is necessary because Leopard has a bug that prevents it from saving a workgroup name in automatic mode) and other such black magic, but this jaded old network engineer just can’t seem to fix the issue. I’m not feeling too defeated and alone, though — it seems like almost no one has been able to get Leopard to auto-mount anything but AFP drives, with or without Bonjour for Windows (even sans firewall). Any Leopard users in the house with a solution or any bright ideas?
