Having just reinstalled OS X EL Capitan from fresh on a new SSD, I looked around for a while for the trackpad 3-finger drag. For whatever reason it’s no longer in the Trackpad settings, but it’s in Accessibility. Details here.
Creating an OS X El Capitan install flash drive
Format the USB Flash Drive using Disk Utils:
http://www.macworld.com/article/2990837/storage/how-to-format-a-startup-drive-in-el-capitan.html
The volume name in the next step is /Volumes/name-you-gave-the-volume-in-the-first-step.
Copy install files to the Flash Drive using createinstallmedia:
To boot from the flash drive, reboot your Mac holding down the Option key and the choose the icon for the flash drive.
Installing OpenJDK 8 on Linux Mint 17.3
Linux Mint has OpenJDK 7 available in the default repos, but not 8 for some reason. You have a couple of options:
To install OpenJDK 8 from a restricted PPA (instructions from here):
sudo apt-add-repository ppa:openjdk-r/ppa sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install openjdk-8-jdk
Or you can install Oracle Java 8, downloading the .far file from here:
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/jdk8-downloads-2133151.html
gunzip, tar xvf and then move the jdk1.8.0_xxx dir somewhere like /opt/java, and then (from instructions here):
sudo update-alternatives --install "/usr/bin/java" "java" "/opt/java/jdk1.8.0_102/bin/java" 1 sudo update-alternatives --set java /opt/java/jdk1.8.0_102/bin/java
Windows 10 Anniversary Update – not as smooth as it could have been
There’s been a lot of stories in the news the past few days since the Windows 10 Anniversary Update went live of people running into issues with unexpected hangs and blue screen crashes after the update (for example). Even the update itself does not seem to be as smooth as it could have been.
On my HP desktop, I went through the first few reboots during the upgrade and then got stuck at a gray screen with the rotating progress balls. There was some disk activity every couple of seconds so I left it running, checking back on it every hour or so, but it stayed at this point for a whole day. Thinking it had just hung, I rebooted it and got a ‘Recovering your installation’ message, and then it seemed to pick up again at the “Working on Updates” progress screen. After about another 15mins and sitting at 91% complete, there’s a ton of disk activity so I’ll leave it running and check back on it later today.
If you’ve run into other issues during the upgrade, there’s a list of commonly seen issues so far in this article that might be useful.