10 Problems With OSX Lion

I've been using Tiger, Leopard, Snow leopard, and now Lion.  There are a couple annoyances I've discovered with Lion and would like to share my findings.  If you know of some good workarounds, I'd be interested in hearing your thoughts.

1.  Previously, when you're viewing a picture in Preview, you could delete that file by hitting Command-delete.  Now you cannot do that.  You may attempt to add a delete icon by customizing the toolbar but you'll notice a delete option is not available.

2.  If you are using a magic mouse, you cannot disable the control-left click to simulate a right click button.  So, if you're in a program like VMWare Fusion running XP and would like to highlight several non-consecutive items with your mouse, you cannot hold the control button and select each item with the mouse.

There appears to be a workaround for VMWare in the settings.  You can unselect an option to use Mac shortcuts in your VMWare but that removes all shortcuts like the Command-C for cut and Command-V for paste.   I used to like keeping those so it's consistent for both my mac and pc sides.

3.  I used to be able to  press my middle button to get to the dashboard.  Now I have to press my F4 button or use a two finger swipe to get to a dashboard screen.

4.  When you buy your computer with Lion already installed, there's a hidden partition on the hard drive that contains the installation files in case you wish to reinstall.  However, what if you want to remove that hard drive and replace it with an SSD?  How do you reinstall the OS?  The computer does not come with a DVD with Lion so that's not the way to do it.  The solution is to download it from the internet using a menu built into the bootstrap.  I might not always have internet available so I don't like this option.  So, I ended up ordering a USB device that contains an installable Lion OS.  The instructions say "Hold down Command-R during startup to boot into the Recovery HD, or hold down the Option key during startup and select Recovery HD"  Neither of those options show the USB drive so I was forced to install using the Internet option.  I currently have business class internet service at 22 - 50 mbps so it didn't take too long but what about those poor souls on dial-up or standard <3 mbps connections?  I'd still like to figure out how to use that USB drive and I'm sure there's a way but they don't make it easy.

Imagine if you bought Lion using the App Store.  Do you need to install your Snow Leopard first and then download lion again every time you reinstall.

Most people may not need to reinstall that often but I do.  I like to test software that is in beta and could potentially make my computer unstable.

5.  The old Activity Monitor used to display all processors and a graph displaying their percent used.  The new one doesn't have that feature.  You get a chart of all the processors combined that moves with time (It's labeled as CPU Usage but should be labeled as CPU History).  You can get the true CPU Usage display by using the menu Window -> CPU Usage or Command - 3 but that's in a separate window.  When you minimize the Activity Monitor, it no longer shows your CPU Usage in the icon and you do not have the option to minimize the CPU Usage window that pops up with the Command -3.

This is important for some of us that use multiple OS's at the same time.  It's not unusual for me to have three VMWare operating systems running at the same time.  I need to know if a slow-down in one of the windows is caused by a CPU overload so I like to monitor that carefully.

6.  I used to enjoy watching new trailers with Front Row.  That application is either missing or in a location that is not easy to find.  I have been unsuccessful in finding it on my standard Lion installation.

7.  Repeat keys have been disabled by default.  That means if you're in a text box and you hold down some of the keys, it will not repeat.  Try holding down the "n" key.  Instead of putting several n's on the screen, it pops up with a menu that allows you to select foreign versions of this letter like the ñ or ń.  This can be changed in preferences but why would they change a basic behavior like this and make you hunt down a way to change it back?  This is the same with the mouse scrolling.  It's completely backwards from any operating system you've ever encountered.  Usually when you scroll down, the text moves up.  Now, with Lion, the default is when you scroll down, the text moves down.  Additionally, scrollbars are missing until you move your mouse to where the scrollbar would normally be or begin scrolling.  Very annoying so these need to be changed in preferences to be "normal" again.

8.  Youtube is jerky when viewed with Firefox.  You'd think this has to be a Firefox and Adobe issue but it isn't.  You can install the same versions of Firefox and Flash on a Snow Leopard system and it works fine.  Surprisingly, you can watch the same video posted somewhere else and it works fine.  Also, if you watch it in full screen it works fine too.

9.  Lion has a new Launch Pad feature.  No complaints with that but it doesn't seem necessary.  Why do I need this when I can just click on the Applications icon in my dock to list all my applications instead of just some of them listed in the Launch Pad (unless I scroll horizontally to see the rest)?

10.  I'm locked out of my own library.  Several third party applications have text or XML files that you can edit to modify their behavior.  You cannot find your library files anywhere.  There is a workaround for this one though.  Getting back Library access is achievable via a brief use of the command-line, just launch Terminal and copy and paste the following inside, then press return:

chflags nohidden ~/Library/ 

Why would they do this change on purpose? It hurts the power users and it's not intuitive on how to get that feature back. You need to do extensive research since it's not a system preference change.

The standards God judges you by

Why would God allow a rapist or murderer to enter heaven? 

There are different standards that different Christian groups have claimed.  We can assess that standard and determine if that is just and moral.  If the bible is true and there is a god and he is judging people by some standard.  Anybody that would advocate that person X should be tortured forever in "Hell" because they refuse to believe something for which there is insufficent evidence while some other person can kill and rape and have a death bed belief is not justice.

Why does God have the right to judge us?  If you had kids, would you build a torture chamber in your basement and torture them endlessly if they didn't love you?  Religious people seem to think that since God brought you into this world, he can take you out.  Is there any possible way you can conceive of a standard God would punish person X and not punish person Y when everything about you tells you that person Y is is evil and person X is a good person.

Should a deity have the right to treat the person that lied and the person that murdered equally as if they committed equal wrongs?  The religious system assumes all crimes (sins) are equal and the unbelievers that do not believe the unbelievable, they are somehow punished.  If this is how the system works, then it is not moral.

Sacrificing someone else (Jesus) that is admittedly innocent for the crimes that someone else did is not moral either.  How does God sacrifice himself to himself as a loophole for rules that he created that were unjust and that makes the person that sinned suddenly a just person?

According to the bible, God has already thrown everyone into the pool and then dangles a life preserver and gives people a way to not drown.  In other words, everyone sins so we are all going to hell -- Unless, you believe that Jesus died for our sins.

(These were some highlights from an awesome video I saw at http://www.boreme.com/posting.php?id=30563)

What are the 10 Commandments that were on the tablets Moses had?

I have a hard time getting people to believe me on this but here's what it says in Exodus 34:14.  These are not the same that you hear people quote all the time. The numbering of these commandments is mine.

So where does it say:
You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain.

Honor your father and your mother.

You shall not murder.

You shall not commit adultery.

You shall not steal.

You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.

You shall not covet your neighbor’s house. 

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Exodus 34:14

1.  For thou shalt worship no other god: for the LORD, whose name [is] Jealous, [is] a jealous God:

2.  Lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and they go a whoring after their gods, and do sacrifice unto their gods, and [one] call thee, and thou eat of his sacrifice;
And thou take of their daughters unto thy sons, and their daughters go a whoring after their gods, and make thy sons go a whoring after their gods.

3.  Thou shalt make thee no molten gods.

4.  The feast of unleavened bread shalt thou keep. Seven days thou shalt eat unleavened bread, as I commanded thee, in the time of the month Abib: for in the month Abib thou camest out from Egypt.

5.  All that openeth the matrix [is] mine; and every firstling among thy cattle, [whether] ox or sheep, [that is male].  But the firstling of an ass thou shalt redeem with a lamb: and if thou redeem [him] not, then shalt thou break his neck. All the firstborn of thy sons thou shalt redeem. And none shall appear before me empty.

6.  Six days thou shalt work, but on the seventh day thou shalt rest: in earing time and in harvest thou shalt rest.

7.  And thou shalt observe the feast of weeks, of the firstfruits of wheat harvest, and the feast of ingathering at the year's end.

8.  Thrice in the year shall all your men children appear before the Lord GOD, the God of Israel.

For I will cast out the nations before thee, and enlarge thy borders: neither shall any man desire thy land, when thou shalt go up to appear before the LORD thy God thrice in the year.

9.  Thou shalt not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leaven; neither shall the sacrifice of the feast of the passover be left unto the morning.

10.  The first of the firstfruits of thy land thou shalt bring unto the house of the LORD thy God. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mother's milk.

And the LORD said unto Moses, Write thou these words: for after the tenor of these words I have made a covenant with thee and with Israel.

And he was there with the LORD forty days and forty nights; he did neither eat bread, nor drink water. And he wrote upon the tables the words of the covenant, the ten commandments.

Age of the Earth

Age of the earth. There's proof the earth is much older than what the Bible documents.  We know Jesus existed around 2,000 years ago.  In Genesis 4, it shows the genealogy from Adam and Eve to Judah.  In Matthew 1:1, it shows the genealogy from Judah to Jesus Christ (Actually, all the way back to Abraham so the information overlaps).  Using the ages listed in Genesis, it is exactly 2,106 years from the creation of the earth to the birth of Jacob  (or Israel after his name change).

According to Matthew 1, there are 38 more generations until the birth of Jesus Christ representing no more than 3,800 years (Genesis 17:17 says “Abraham fell facedown; he laughed and said to himself, "Will a son be born to a man a hundred years old? Will Sarah bear a child at the age of ninety?   Genesis 21:1 - Now the LORD was gracious to Sarah as he had said, and the LORD did for Sarah what he had promised.  Sarah became pregnant and bore a son to Abraham in his old age, at the very time God had promised him. Abraham gave the name Isaac to the son Sarah bore him. "  This took divine intervention to have children so old so I used the maximum of 100 years in the calculation assuming this divine intervention did not happen with every childbirth since Issac.  Adding everything up, the earth is less than 7,906 years old according to the Bible.  In Genesis 1:1, it claims the earth and the universe were created on the same day.

The Bible does not mention Dinosaurs that lived millions of years ago because the ancients didn't know about them.  Even if they discovered the bones, they wouldn't have thought about what kind of animal it was and would have just disposed of the bones.  Science says the universe is 15 billion years old and our solar system is 4.5 billion years old.  We can determine some of this with radio-active carbon dating. 

A star from the center of the Milky Way galaxy is 30,000 light years from us, and the nearest galaxy is 2 million light years away.  This means the light from these stars take 30,000 and 2 million years to reach us.  If the earth is only 7,906 years old as the Bible claims, the light from these stars would not have reached us yet and we would not know of their existence but we can see them.