I installed an app as one user on OS X, and now I can't upgrade it as another. Is there any simple way to chown over all the application files to the new user? Also, if I delete the old user, what happens to the rights?

From the command-line, you can type "sudo chown -R ita:ita /Applications/Awesome.app"

There's also an interface to do this via the Finder's "Get Info" pane.

And why doesn't admin behave the way I want it to, which means absolute dominion over all?

If you really want that, you can always enable the root account, which will give you such awesome power, and with it, the ability to seriously fuck up your computer.

sudo chown -R ita:ita /Applications/Awesome.app

Based on what happened when I clicked on uninstall (a partial list of folders came up) it's not all in one folder. Is Applications smart enough to find everything, even if I'm just operating from the command line? Or even from a Finder pane?

with it, the ability to seriously fuck up your computer

I wouldn't mind so much if I didn't have to log out to upgrade a damned app. That's working against me.

Well, let me delete my test user and see what happens to access to its files.

Who cares? The machine is currently refusing to boot. ::sigh::

maybe you need to do a complete undelete for the app before you try to reinstall it?

I stopped in my uninstall tracks because I didn't want to lose the application data (call logs and notes, primarily for my job search) right now and it wasn't clear where it was or what would happen to it.

I think I'm going to try the sudo chown fix since I can't find where in Finder I can reassign ownership from.

Does anyone know anything offhand about Adobe Flash Lite? Upon cursory examination it doesn't look like I can upgrade the version on my phone to 2.1 by downloading anything from adobe.com. And it doesn't seem to be a technical limitation, annoyingly.

Dude!

Remember a while ago when we talked about the $99 Sheevaplug computer? I said that I wanted to get one of those, add a USB IR transmitter to it, and use it as a universal remote that I could control with my iPhone?

Well I went ahead and bought a Sheevaplug (they were back-ordered, it took over a month to ship), and also one of these, and I was able to send IR commands to my TV set!

That was the hard part; I wasn't sure that when I put everything together it would work. Now all I have to do is install apache on this thing and write a web app that I can control with my iphone. Awesome.

Thanks, Tom--the chown worked just fine--navigated the apparently unrelated paths precisely well enough that I can update from my main account now. Fie on the application for requiring me to be the owner, rather than just another member of the admin group.

I've been using a 3GS for a week and a bit now, I'm pleased to say it's pretty stable. I suspect the extra RAM helps compared to my first gen phone. Battery life is still not as good as I'd like. Video functionality is amazing, they should have called it the 3GV.

So far my experience with Windows 7 has been pretty good. It was just as easy to install as Ubuntu, which is saying something. Everything else has been pretty smooth too. It is quite Vista-like but it seems snappier. The memory footprint seems lower too, when doing video encoding, word processing, playing mp3s and burning a disc all at the same time; there was still plenty of memory left. The taskbar seems better sorted as well. One problem, I should have gotten the 64-bit version to try out instead of the 32-bit. I might see if I can grab that and redo the install.

One disappointment that has nothing to do with Windows 7. Ubuntu's video playback when running in VMServer isn't good enough to be useful to me.