I open an image in preview, rotate it 90 degrees, save it back.

Upload it.

Its not rotated at all! Did I mess up? A quick check verifies that the image is, in fact, apparently rotated on the mac. But, yet, somehow, it is not rotated.

What the fuck is going on here?!?

UPDATE: The problem"Preview" merely changes the EXIF data JPEG header to ( Read more... )

(X-posted tomacosx.)

Does anyone else think its weird how pressing the keyboard shortcut for "New", as in new document, new window, etc.. you know, the good ole -N, you get a brand new terminal window!While fixing this problem in X11 preferences (don't use keyboard shortcuts for X11, save them for the apps - now at least when I press the wrong key I ( Read more... )

491 no longer listening on 127.0.0.1#53 ( Read more... )

iTunes had a copy of the Pokémon theme song in spanish with no DRM on it. Thats something you don't see every day! I clicked it, and still the charges haven't gone thru. I wonder whats holding them back? Maybe they can't believe someone would pay for that, whatever ( Read more... )

Well, not really. Only one DRM-free MP3 song to be purchased is on iTunes ( Read more... )

Oh yeah, and another thing... despite so many developers apparently sticking to the "Apple 2" standard for linefeed - control-M, Mac OSX doesn't know what to make of it. But is there any support for the "mac2unix" command to solve this little issue? Noooooo....


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Note that cp copies hard linked files as separate files. If you need to preserve hard links, consider using tar(1), cpio(1), or pax(1) instead.

... not to mention:

#cp -a sausedir dest
cp: illegal option -- aLOLWUT? no support for -a ( Read more... )

I plugged in my digital camera. I copied all the files from my digital camera to a folder. Then I deleted all the files on the camera, to free up space ( Read more... )

For some reason or another, the default profile (say what? I didn't put a disk in for it or anything, and its an off brand that I seriously doubt the Mac has any built in info for!) for my LCD monitor somehow manages to tell this computer to make everything as washed out as fuck. Like, seriously unreadable until stuff is recalibrated, at any angle ( Read more... )

When I was downloading some images, I made the mistake of having the Finder window they belong in open.

Finder previewed the files just as soon as they were created, but before all the data from the web had been saved to them! The result is a screen of icons that look like this:


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