I hate OS X El Capitan

There are following quirks on the new OS X that drives me crazy:

1. I like if the typed text immediately shows on the display. However, on El Capitan the text can get sometimes delayed by whole seconds. This is a system wide problem - the "feature" equally affects Mail just as TextEdit. And when text lags behind typing even in such undemanding applications like TextEdit, I am getting furious.
2. Why do they have to move previous/next week controls in Calendar in each version? Every time I get finally accustomed to the new position they move it from one side of the window to the other side. Guys, make your mind!
3. GUI in some applications, like Navicat, got unbearably sluggish. This will likely get fixed with updates of the affected applications. But in the mean time, I am not happy.
4. With each update of OS X the GUI (or display setting) gets more colorful. The change is  subtle - I am noticing the change only for the first few hours. But still, I am terrified of where this trend will end.

Boot Camp Assistant error

When you get following message in the Boot Camp Assistant:

"The startup disk does not have enough space to be partitioned. You must have at least 10 GB of free space available."

It means that the Boot Camp reserves 20 GB for Windows partition and then it needs additional 10 GB of free space to run Mac Os X. Hence you need 30 GB of free space to install Windows and not 10 GB as the message could mislead you.

And there is one more hiccup. That 20 GB for Windows must be continuous. Hence if you have more than 30 GB of free space and you still get this message:

1. Boot Mac from the install disk (hold the C key as you boot until the language selection screen appears.) 
2. From the Utilities menu on the install screen choose Disk Utility, then Repair Disk. 

How to install Windows in place of Os X

Insert Mac OS X Install Disc (this part should work with OS X 10.4 Tiger or OS X 10.5 Leopard discs). Reboot. Hold down C key during reboot Do not start the install. From the Utilities menu, select Disk Utility. Select your hard drive from the list and then click the Partition tab / button. Click the Options button and select “Master Boot Record” as the partition scheme. Click OK. From the Volume Scheme drop down list, select 1 Partition. Select MS-DOS (FAT) for the format (not that this matters since you will reformat it using NTFS during the Vista install). Click Apply. Reboot. Hold down the Alt/Option key turning reboot. When the graphical boot menu appears, hit the eject button. Take out the OS X Install Disc and put in your Vista with SP1 install disc. Proceed through the Vista install. When you come to screen titled “Where do you want to install Windows,” select Disk 0. There will be a message saying that you cannot install to that disk because it is not formatted using NTFS. Click the Drive Options link. Click the Format link. Click OK in the confirmation dialog. Now select Disk 0 and click Next. The Vista installation should proceed as normal. Once Windows is installed and loaded, insert an OS X 10.5 Leopard disc and install the Windows drivers from Apple. Thanks to "Derek Hatchard's Information Flume Ride".

OSX Finder: Sort Folder Before File

Most of switchers getting used with how windows and linux sorting folder and files. Under Windows Explorer or Gnome Nautilus or KDE Konqurer, folder have a priority and displayed first before files if your order by type (or kind under Mac OS X).

Mac OS X is more logic than other OS; under Finder, filetype .dmg (or any filetype starting before alphabet F) will display first before folder since folder filetype is folder (and starting with alphabet F). LOGIC, BUT MAKE ME SICK!!!

Instructions how to fix it:

1- open terminal
2- paste this into it:

sudo vi /System/Library/CoreServices/Finder.app/Contents/Resources/English.lproj/InfoPlist.strings

3- type in your password
4- type 'a' (this will allow you to edit the file)
5- edit so line 7 looks like this:
"Folder" = " Folder";
6- Press escape
7- type ':w' to write
8-type ':q' to quit

What do I like on Mac

What do I like on Mac:
1) You can easily open a cd/dvd image (iso) out of box
2) Small applications like Calendar and Address Book are really easy to use and still extremely useful
3) No shining blue LEDs
4) Unified keyboard shortcut for application settings (Command+,)
5) Nice terminal
6) Text auto-correction in all applications
7) Uniform icon decorations for counting (like number of unread emails in Mail icon)  
8) Recovery disk on the hard disk. So you don't have to boot from a slow CD.
9) Touchpad gestures
10) Simple management of wireless networks
11) Unified management of passwords
12) Virtual screens
13) Full screen mode of some applications where the application doesn't cover all the applications but rather creates a new desktop. Hence switching between the application and the rest of the system is fluent and fast.
14) The accents marks are displayed immediately, not like in Windows, where you don't know whether you have really pressed the accent key or not until you press another key.
15) You can trash a file, which is still in use, without an error message.
16) Applications are just one file. And installation and uninstallation of such application is easy.
17) I fall in love with Alfred, a quick launch application that 'predicts what do I want to run much faster and accurately than the default quick launch in the top right corner.
18) Omnifocus is another great To-Do utility.
19) Global switching of keyboard layout. Not application based as in Windows.
20) The password inboxes are delightfully shaking if you input wrong password.

What I don't like on Mac:
1) No Paint Brush by default.
2) Some keyboard shortcuts are ridiculous. For example print screen used to be one keyboard stroke, but on mac it is Control+Command+Shift+4. Ridiculous.
3) Window controls on Mac are unpredictable, sometimes you can close application, sometimes not.
4) When I click on an already active application in the task bar, the application should minimise. Or do something. Not so on Mac.
5) Can't control everything with just a keyboard.
6) Windows decoration is grey as everything else. Thus it is hard to distinguish the borders between the windows.
7) Windows on Mac are strangely layered - sometimes freshly started application pops up, sometimes it is hidden behind others.
8) You can't uninstall Os X applications like Mail. So when the are broken you have to reinstall whole system.
9) Forget about Microsoft Office for Mac. They are crap. Word for Mac is not fully compatible with Word for Windows. Just try to work with equation editor on Mac and then open it on Windows. It's not going to work nicely. And Excel for Mac is a joke as well - you can't work with a big amount of data in Excel since it is sooooooooooo slow.
10) Task manager doesn't allow increase or decrease the priority of a process - you have to do that from the console. And when one process steals all the processor resources it's really a pain to use other applications. On Windows you can use other applications with a hungry application in the background without any issue.
11) Lack of compatibility - with each version of mac Os X you have to use updated applications. In comparison on Windows you can run 10 years old without any problem, you can quite likely run 20 years (except games) and even 30 years DOS applications work.
12) It's hard to switch between different spell checkers. If you write just in one language it's fine but if you are bilingual you have a problem.
13) Ping command doesn't work completely. Supposedly it should support a variable size of payload but this setting didn't work. In the end I had to use Windows' ping command.
14) There isn't any keyboard shortcut for displaying context menu. In windows there is a button dedicated for that. But Mac doesn't even have a shortcut for that.  

Root in OSX

The root is not enabled by default. enable it from terminal but KNOW what you do with the root or you might end giving yourself trouble.

open terminal

sudo passwd root

You will be prompted for a new password to enable root access.


A harder way to enable root is to use the Netinfo Manager application (Applications/Utilities).

1) Open NetInfo Manager
2) Select "Users" from the second list.
3) Select a user you created andnd know the password for!
4) Double-click on the value across from "passwd" and copy it. It is the encoded form of the password for that user.
5) Select "root" from the list of users. Find the "passwd" value (default is "*") and paste over it.
6) Exit Netinfo Manager.
7) Open the Terminal and type "su root".
8) Enter the password for the user chosen above.

Have a different passw for root than the user - and make it something that you don't forget easily.