Comments on: The MacBook Pro Dual Boot Experience http://undefined.com/ia/2006/12/21/the-macbook-pro-dual-boot-experience/ Agile & Open Source Software, Economics, Liberty and Entrepreneurship Wed, 20 Aug 2008 11:43:10 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: iBookworm http://undefined.com/ia/2006/12/21/the-macbook-pro-dual-boot-experience/#comment-227782 iBookworm Fri, 23 Nov 2007 02:40:37 +0000 http://undefined.com/ia/2006/12/21/the-macbook-pro-dual-boot-experience/#comment-227782 You can choose which monitor shows the menu bar in "Displays" in "System Preferences." You can choose which monitor shows the menu bar in “Displays” in “System Preferences.”

]]> By: dave rogers http://undefined.com/ia/2006/12/21/the-macbook-pro-dual-boot-experience/#comment-3573 dave rogers Thu, 21 Dec 2006 19:40:39 +0000 http://undefined.com/ia/2006/12/21/the-macbook-pro-dual-boot-experience/#comment-3573 <i>The “download something that turns into a disk on the desktop that I can’t get rid of until I reboot” is annoying, but not deal-breaking</i> Not sure if you're refering to .dmg disk images that auto-mount on the desktop following download, but you can simply eject them like any other disk. Right-click (Ctrl-click if you aren't using a 2-btn mouse) and select Eject from the contextual menu, or select the disk by clicking on it and hit the eject button, normally at the upper right corner of the keyboard. (Don't have a MBP at hand to verify, but I think it's the same as my iBook.) Contextual menus alleviate much of the traveling back to the menu bar. The “download something that turns into a disk on the desktop that I can’t get rid of until I reboot” is annoying, but not deal-breaking

Not sure if you’re refering to .dmg disk images that auto-mount on the desktop following download, but you can simply eject them like any other disk. Right-click (Ctrl-click if you aren’t using a 2-btn mouse) and select Eject from the contextual menu, or select the disk by clicking on it and hit the eject button, normally at the upper right corner of the keyboard. (Don’t have a MBP at hand to verify, but I think it’s the same as my iBook.)

Contextual menus alleviate much of the traveling back to the menu bar.

]]> By: jb http://undefined.com/ia/2006/12/21/the-macbook-pro-dual-boot-experience/#comment-3572 jb Thu, 21 Dec 2006 19:38:43 +0000 http://undefined.com/ia/2006/12/21/the-macbook-pro-dual-boot-experience/#comment-3572 Yeah, Firefox was the main culprit - because I was using Firefox, I couldn't get rid of the disk. I eventually figured out the rather obscure instructions when starting up Firefox, so this isn't as bad right now as it was. Yeah, Firefox was the main culprit - because I was using Firefox, I couldn’t get rid of the disk. I eventually figured out the rather obscure instructions when starting up Firefox, so this isn’t as bad right now as it was.

]]> By: gmlk http://undefined.com/ia/2006/12/21/the-macbook-pro-dual-boot-experience/#comment-3570 gmlk Thu, 21 Dec 2006 18:59:52 +0000 http://undefined.com/ia/2006/12/21/the-macbook-pro-dual-boot-experience/#comment-3570 <blockquote>The “download something that turns into a disk on the desktop that I can’t get rid of until I reboot” is annoying, but not deal-breaking</blockquote>Drag the disk to the trashcan in the dock, this trachcan wil become an ''eject'' icon. Alternative: in any finder window (metallic interface) there is a "eject" icon next (right) to the volume icon. Press that. WHEN this does not work, then soms application is using the disk; Open files for example. Close a few applications and try again. In time you will develop a sense about which application could be the culprit. You may want to deactivate in Safari under the tab "General" the option to "Open 'save' files after downloading".

The “download something that turns into a disk on the desktop that I can’t get rid of until I reboot” is annoying, but not deal-breaking

Drag the disk to the trashcan in the dock, this trachcan wil become an ”eject” icon.

Alternative: in any finder window (metallic interface) there is a “eject” icon next (right) to the volume icon. Press that.

WHEN this does not work, then soms application is using the disk; Open files for example. Close a few applications and try again. In time you will develop a sense about which application could be the culprit.

You may want to deactivate in Safari under the tab “General” the option to “Open ’save’ files after downloading”.

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