The left-overs of Spaces

One of the biggest issues so far is flickering windows for application that are set to “Every Space” when you switch Spaces. It seems that these applications are not rendered in the Space until you switch to it, when it jarringly snaps onscreen. Makes switching Spaces feel really really buggy. The Preference Pane to administer Spaces and apps belonging to each is gone so that seems to indicate that this bug is an oversight affecting those upgrading from Snowleopard configured Spaces. I am hoping that I can manually tweak Spaces settings and at least remove them.

I think Apple believes that we can’t organise Spaces on our own an need to be spoon-fed digital baby-food.

A mouse can’t wave!

Magic Mouse doesn’t seem to allow most of the gestures being touted. Hopefully an update will fix this. I don’t know if I can handle the weird reverse scroll thing – I am torn between “giving it a go” and just switching it back to normal.

Lion Java…

So far attempts to install Java have failed both through automatic updates and manual download. The installer just hangs, Not Responding.

iDontChat

Another annoyance that I am yet to solve is iChat. It won’t connect to any accounts gMail or Mobile Me and looks like its not just me. I never really used iChat in the past but wanted to see if there were any changes. Looks like the new feature is not working… brilliant!

Conclusion

I am hopeful that the issues will be confined to annoyances and not extend into deal-breakers though it is very close with Java not installing. The new scrollbars are very awesome and thankfully Safari’s interface is MUCH snappier. Showing/hiding the url bar with cmd+shift+| had a fraction of lag previously. And being able to drag windows from any edge is unexpectedly magnificent. The OS feels like it boots faster.

I really think that installing from scratch is the way to go. The amount of issues I am having I attribute to installing over a year-old, heavily used install of Snow Leopard.

And seriously, why would the 3.8 gig installer get deleted without ASKING me? Or at least just put it in the trash so it can be recovered.

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Abstract

This practice-led research project explores and maps a method for animation production which integrates automatism into the animation production process. This method of production has the purpose of critically diverting attention away from industrial frameworks which were introduced in the 1920′s by American animation studios, and towards utilising automatism, pioneered by André Masson, and intuitive animation techniques used by animators Len Lye and Norman McLaren. The use of a framework for automatism integration engenders a freedom to explore the possibilities and accidental discoveries that arise in practice, which would otherwise be culled in an industrial approach which aims for uniformity of output. This method of production is applied to my project first in a series of developing animation studies, aggregated into a DVD titled “Animation Studies and Experiments”. The developed framework is manifest in the production of a cohesive animated creative work on DVD titled “Few Are Chosen”.

Credits

• Project / animation: David Blackwell.
• Sound design / recording / guitar: Philip Tyrer
• Sound design: Chris Buckley
• Erhu (Chinese Violin): Nick Ng

The problem I experienced was a permissions mismatch as per this post by Ianc. For me these instructions didn’t work but after persisting I discovered that the htdocs folder has to have its owner/group the same as the one you change to in your httpd.conf.

Instructions for enabling WordPress automatic updates in Xampp on OS X:

1. Find your admin user name for this OS X account.
2. Change permissions and owner/group on htdocs folder.
   • You may of already changed your htdocs and its contents to 777 to avoid being unable to edit any files without authenticating. If not change chmod to 777.
   • If you have Pathfinder, you can easily change owner of htdocs folder to yourUserName with the Inspector (cmd+i with folder selected).
   • With Pathfinder again, change htdocs group to “staff”.
     I could not find an easy way to change the owner/group with just the regular Finder though it may be possible. Another alternative is to use whatever the user/group is of the folder as the details in your httpd.conf (haven’t tested this but it should work).
3. Change your httpd.conf user and group.
   • Open your httpd.conf file with Textedit. you can find it in Applications/XAMPP/etc/
   • Find “user” and change it from nobody to yourUserName
   • Below that line, change group from admin to staff
4. Test your automatic update ability.