Thursday, March 20, 2008

Further notes on MacBook Pro

  • Parallels' version of Ubuntu Gutsy 7.10 is non-upgradeable: something about it prevents the usual sudo updatemanager -d method from successfully moving to Hardy Heron, complaining of insufficient disk space (perhaps a side effect of Parallels' compressed filesystems).
  • The bug in Adblock Pro which makes blockable applets (Java, Silverlight, Flash) disappear or flicker away on Macs and Macs only (which began with Firefox in OS 9 on PPC Macs) is still present and must be solved by disabling "Show tabs on Flash and Java."
  • CTRL-ALT-DEL fails inside of Screen Sharing regardless of the keyboard used (internal, external, Apple or Dell). This is a bug as far as I'm concerned, since Apple's crowing about how it uses the VNC standard. The VNC standard includes a full keyboard, one way or another. I am an idiot. Fn-Ctrl-Command-Del is Ctrl-Alt-Del on a compact keyboard.
  • I still can't get external blog editing apps to submit blogs as anything other than drafts to Blogger.
  • Parallels Transporter sucks. Sucks. Takes an hour to get to 1% and then mysteriously fails, even after optimizing the source computer's hard drive. This is betaware at best unless the folks at Parallels can answer this problem mentioned repeatedly across their forums.