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From: David Rogoff on 10 Feb 2010 23:00
On 2010-02-10 19:04:34 -0800, David Empson said:

> David Rogoff <david(a)therogoffs.com> wrote:
>
>> On 2010-02-10 12:17:42 -0800, nospam said:
>>
>>> In article <4b7304f0$0$19698$c36e2926(a)unlimited.newshosting.com>, David
>>> Rogoff <david(a)therogoffs.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Yeah - the cmd-tab functionality of OS/X is another thing that makes no
>>>> sense to me. Why would I want to switch to an app but not display any
>>>> of its windows???
>>>
>>> of course it displays the app's windows when you switch. how else would
>>> it switch?
>>
>> No, that's not true. If the app had had all of it's windows minimized,
>> then cmd-tab switching to it doesn't open any of its windows - just
>> switches the focus/title-bar.
>
> Some ways around that:
>
> 2. If you are running Snow Leopard, there is a keyboard shortcut to
> bring up Dock Expose. Hold down Command, then tab to the application you
> want, then while still holding down Command, press '1'. You can let go
> of Command now.
>
> Dock Expose will show you all windows for the target application. Active
> windows are shown in the top half, minimised ones in the bottom half.
>
> Pick a window using the arrow keys and press Return, or click on the
> window with the mouse. If you have lots of similar looking windows open
> in the application, you can use the space bar to enlarge the currently
> highlighted window to normal size to check you have the right one.

Thanks - that's a great tip!

From: David Rogoff on 12 Feb 2010 02:01
On 2010-02-08 20:22:17 -0800, Michael Vilain said:

> In article <4b706793$0$1261$c30e2946(a)unlimited.newshosting.com>,
> David Rogoff <david(a)therogoffs.com> wrote:
>
>> On 2010-02-08 11:22:59 -0800, Kir�ly said:
>>
>>> David Rogoff <david(a)therogoffs.com> wrote:
>>>> I need some help on sharing folders in OS/X. I'm coming from
>>>> PC/WinXP-Pro. I had a methodolosy in my network where I would share
>>>> the same folder under different names. For example, I shared the folder
>>>> with all my music files as "musc" and "music-write". The first was
>>>> read-only and the second read-write. This worked great to stop
>>>> unintentional modification of files.
>>>
>>> Are you trying to share these files between different user accounts on
>>> the same Mac, or with different computers over a network?
>>
>> Over a network (including SMB shares to some WinXP PCs).
>
> Then create a folder on MacOS X. Create two shares in Samba, one with
> write access and one with read-only access both pointing to the same
> folder.

Any pointers to websites that explain this? I know what Samba is, but
I've never directly set it up.


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