It's usually not a problem for me to input accented letters directly with a 1-key press. But I'm used to capitalized accented letters correctly at the beginning of phrases, since in gnome or kde you must simply hit CAPS-LOCK and the accented letter key to get something capitalized (eg. È which is third person present for the verb to be in Italian). But MacOS does not change the capitalization this way.
So I had to watch out for alternatives: compositing keyboard. In Snow Leopard (at least) you can use ALT+8 or ALT+9 and the a vowel key to get respectively an acute or grave accent. Just before pressing the vowel key you'll get the accent alone underlined (as a prompt to press a letter key).
In addition, you can user ALT+O to generate german umlauts (eg. ü) or ALT+N to generate tilded characters (eg. ñ).
2010/08/11
Ext3 Under OSX
I recently got a replacement notebook, since my favourite MSI s271 presented quite a few disk errors on smart, and it's a while that this one has the usb nonfunctional.
After looking for a new notebook, in the 12"-13" range, I found with some disappointment that those niceties come at a premium price, and most of the time they are built on cheaper consumer-level standards.
So, after some research, I went for a refurbished MacBookPro, the newest model with a 13" screen.
Now the challenge is, reading all those external disks (or internal slices/partitions) which are unfortunately ext3 formatted.
I tried not to choose the straightforward path which leads to Paragon software, and instead go the MacFuse way. This post helps a lot and basically it's all you need: http://forum.archosfans.com/viewtopic.php?f=47&p=220020
The modification to the script is really needed only if you require r/w, which is basically not advised from the authors of fuse-ext3, my tests say they are quite ok.
Now I need a way to bypass the default users and permissions that macosx uses to be able to write/read the data both under linux and under osx without touching sudo or becoming root.
After looking for a new notebook, in the 12"-13" range, I found with some disappointment that those niceties come at a premium price, and most of the time they are built on cheaper consumer-level standards.
So, after some research, I went for a refurbished MacBookPro, the newest model with a 13" screen.
Now the challenge is, reading all those external disks (or internal slices/partitions) which are unfortunately ext3 formatted.
I tried not to choose the straightforward path which leads to Paragon software, and instead go the MacFuse way. This post helps a lot and basically it's all you need: http://forum.archosfans.com/viewtopic.php?f=47&p=220020
The modification to the script is really needed only if you require r/w, which is basically not advised from the authors of fuse-ext3, my tests say they are quite ok.
Now I need a way to bypass the default users and permissions that macosx uses to be able to write/read the data both under linux and under osx without touching sudo or becoming root.
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