Comments on: Mac OS X http://www.breddy.net/2007/05/07/mac-os-x/ Personal and professional weblog of Chris Bredesen Tue, 06 Jan 2009 10:23:12 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: Jim Witte http://www.breddy.net/2007/05/07/mac-os-x/#comment-6622 Jim Witte Sun, 26 Aug 2007 13:00:56 +0000 http://www.breddy.net/2007/05/07/mac-os-x/#comment-6622 Does anyone know of anything (preferably OSS so I can see/modify a working IOKit HCI driver) that will aloow me to set multiple speed/accelleration curves for DIFFERENT MICE (including Bluetooth)? Preferably by drawing them, or inputing them directly WITH the mouse somehow (hence my request about source code, as I'm quite sure nothing exists that does all this.. I'm not familiar with IOKit or HCI programming, and don't know all the ins and outs of the hierarchy (such as whether USB and Bluetooth mice work off the same HCI driver at an abstract level, which could be patched, or whether seperate drivers for trackpads, USB, and Bluetooth would have to be written.. And how you would make a Bluetooth adapter that would sit "above" the vendor drivers (Logitech, etc) As you can see, code would be nice.. Suppose I'll have to subscribe to the Bluetooth-dev list.. Jim j(first letter of my name)s(+ letter s)witte@(+ last name@ at sign)indiana.(ubiquitous dot sign)edu(eudcation extension) This should be a properly formed 'address with hair.." Just remove all the comments... Does anyone know of anything (preferably OSS so I can see/modify a working IOKit HCI driver) that will aloow me to set multiple speed/accelleration curves for DIFFERENT MICE (including Bluetooth)?

Preferably by drawing them, or inputing them directly WITH the mouse somehow (hence my request about source code, as I’m quite sure nothing exists that does all this.. I’m not familiar with IOKit or HCI programming, and don’t know all the ins and outs of the hierarchy (such as whether USB and Bluetooth mice work off the same HCI driver at an abstract level, which could be patched, or whether seperate drivers for trackpads, USB, and Bluetooth would have to be written.. And how you would make a Bluetooth adapter that would sit “above” the vendor drivers (Logitech, etc)

As you can see, code would be nice.. Suppose I’ll have to subscribe to the Bluetooth-dev list..

Jim
j(first letter of my name)s(+ letter s)witte@(+ last name@ at sign)indiana.(ubiquitous dot sign)edu(eudcation extension)

This should be a properly formed ‘address with hair..” Just remove all the comments…

]]> By: Shih-Chien http://www.breddy.net/2007/05/07/mac-os-x/#comment-5965 Shih-Chien Mon, 04 Jun 2007 02:52:29 +0000 http://www.breddy.net/2007/05/07/mac-os-x/#comment-5965 Cool... Welcome to the Mac side :-) I am very happy with my Core 2 Duo iMac. I use Parallel Desktop for work stuff, and use Mac OS X for the rest of it. This is my second Mac. Cool… Welcome to the Mac side :-)
I am very happy with my Core 2 Duo iMac. I use Parallel Desktop for work stuff, and use Mac OS X for the rest of it. This is my second Mac.

]]> By: Rob http://www.breddy.net/2007/05/07/mac-os-x/#comment-5842 Rob Sat, 02 Jun 2007 05:36:01 +0000 http://www.breddy.net/2007/05/07/mac-os-x/#comment-5842 As for not being able to cylce through the checkbox and button controls with the TAB key, there is a setting in the "System Preferences --> Keyboard and Mouse --> Keyboard Shortcuts" to enable tabbing through "All controls". But this did not help with HTML Select boxes in web pages. http://lifehacker.com/photogallery/Lifehacker-Top-10-Mac-OS-X-Tweaks/1884254 As for not being able to cylce through the checkbox and button controls with the TAB key, there is a setting in the “System Preferences –> Keyboard and Mouse –> Keyboard Shortcuts” to enable tabbing through “All controls”. But this did not help with HTML Select boxes in web pages.

http://lifehacker.com/photogallery/Lifehacker-Top-10-Mac-OS-X-Tweaks/1884254

]]> By: Kris http://www.breddy.net/2007/05/07/mac-os-x/#comment-5562 Kris Tue, 29 May 2007 07:51:17 +0000 http://www.breddy.net/2007/05/07/mac-os-x/#comment-5562 Just to defend MCE 2005 a bit, since I think it's actually a very good product that was years ahead of it's time. The fact that MCE doesn't come with a mpeg-2 decoder out of the box is a little annoying, however MCE is not meant to be bought stand-alone, it's an OEM OS only, since microsoft only wanted vendors of PCs to put systems together. That said, this has been corrected in Vista apparently. Also my MS Bluetooth Keyboard and Mouse works right of the box with MCE. Never had any issues with it. Btw, Unbuntu is the next O/S that I'm going to be playing with next ... Just to defend MCE 2005 a bit, since I think it’s actually a very good product that was years ahead of it’s time.

The fact that MCE doesn’t come with a mpeg-2 decoder out of the box is a little annoying, however MCE is not meant to be bought stand-alone, it’s an OEM OS only, since microsoft only wanted vendors of PCs to put systems together. That said, this has been corrected in Vista apparently.

Also my MS Bluetooth Keyboard and Mouse works right of the box with MCE. Never had any issues with it.

Btw, Unbuntu is the next O/S that I’m going to be playing with next …

]]> By: Damian http://www.breddy.net/2007/05/07/mac-os-x/#comment-5174 Damian Mon, 14 May 2007 13:54:17 +0000 http://www.breddy.net/2007/05/07/mac-os-x/#comment-5174 > Checkboxes and buttons don’t get focus. You can fix this. Go to "about:config" in Firefox, the accessibility.tabfocus property regulates this. Straight from the knowledge base, accessibility.tabfocus: Determines which web page elements can gain focus when [Tab] key is pressed. 1: Text field form controls only 2: All form controls except text fields 3: All form controls 4: Hyperlinks and hyperlinked images 7 (default): All form controls and hyperlinks > Checkboxes and buttons don’t get focus.

You can fix this.

Go to “about:config” in Firefox, the accessibility.tabfocus property regulates this. Straight from the knowledge base, accessibility.tabfocus:

Determines which web page elements can gain focus when [Tab] key is pressed. 1: Text field form controls only 2: All form controls except text fields 3: All form controls 4: Hyperlinks and hyperlinked images 7 (default): All form controls and hyperlinks

]]> By: Jorge Luis http://www.breddy.net/2007/05/07/mac-os-x/#comment-4993 Jorge Luis Tue, 08 May 2007 18:05:47 +0000 http://www.breddy.net/2007/05/07/mac-os-x/#comment-4993 Another suggestion... Get the duck! Adium (Trillian for Macs), http://www.adiumx.com/ Another suggestion… Get the duck! Adium (Trillian for Macs), http://www.adiumx.com/

]]> By: Jorge http://www.breddy.net/2007/05/07/mac-os-x/#comment-4966 Jorge Tue, 08 May 2007 00:28:02 +0000 http://www.breddy.net/2007/05/07/mac-os-x/#comment-4966 Welcome to the right side of the force. Congratulations! I highly recommend getting Parallels so you can run other os' on top of OS X, like other *nix and Windows, when you have to. I found myself not resenting Windows as much when I'm not forced to use it. Also, don't forget to use expose, F9-F11. Welcome to the right side of the force. Congratulations!

I highly recommend getting Parallels so you can run other os’ on top of OS X, like other *nix and Windows, when you have to. I found myself not resenting Windows as much when I’m not forced to use it. Also, don’t forget to use expose, F9-F11.

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