[Speakers] Apple PowerBook WAS: Shorts

[Greg Mason]

> USB keyboards and mice work fine on PC's, and _external_ USB keyboard
> and mice work fine on my new powerbook.
>
> They did something weird on the internal USB key/mouse.  dmesg detects
> the USB keyboard fine, then it sees the trackpad but gives an error 
> that
> it can't allocate it, or something like that.  One message I found on
> google said that both the keyboard and mouse has the same USB address,
> and only some minor thing was different, which confuses the kernel.
> Both the trackpad and external wheel mouse have the same problem.

> It's like acceleration is set super high on the scrolling, and just on
> Firefox and Thunderbird.  i.e.  An external wheel mouse works OK if I
> scroll REALLY SLOW, one click of the wheel, wait, another click ...
> If I scroll with any speed, I go from the top of a HUGE web page to the
> bottom in a quick spin of the wheel.  Where safari would only take me
> down a half-page or so.  VERY annoying!
>
>> I've installed a
>> smooth-scrolling plugin for Firefox called SmoothWheel, and it 
>> actually
>> scrolls nicer than Safari does.
>
> Thanks, I'll try that.  Do Firefox plugins work in Thunderbird?  :-)

I don't think so, but then again, I don't use Thunderbird.

> Speaking of that, how does one change their default browser in OS X?
> If I click on a link in an email, it always starts safari.

In previous versions of the OS, you could change it in System 
Preferences. Now that setting is located inside Safari's preferences. 
Not quite sure why that did that... Also, the setting for the default 
mail client is located inside mail.app
>
> I'd use it, except I REALLY don't like the way it handles IMAP.
>
> I've got a ton of mail archived in IMAP folders (on the server), and it
> will downloads ALL the emails in the entire folder when I click on the
> folder (takes forever and wastes a ton of local disk space).  Where
> Thunderbird only downloads the headers for each email, and then only
> downloads the actual email when I open one.

I do believe that can be changed inside Mail.app. Under Accounts -> 
Advanced, it defaults to keeping copies of every email and attachment. 
you can set it to not keep a copy of anything. I keep it set to keep 
copies as I'm sometimes not able to talk to a mail server and need to 
get to things in my email. Now, it it keeps downloading everything and 
just not saving it, I'm not sure.

> Mine came with two-finger scrolling working, I didn't install anything.

Like anything else on the Mac, I'm pretty sure it won't be long before 
some people start releasing custom drivers and applications for 
tweaking the new trackpads. google for SideTrack, it's a 3rd party 
trackpad driver that allows you to pretty easily configure the trackpad 
for anything you want. Right now it won't work on your PowerBook, but 
the developer of it is looking at how to make the driver work with the 
new USB trackpad, so I'd check it out a little later...

-Greg