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usb2.0 ipods have no problem at usb1.0 speeds. It is a bit slow though. I was in this situation earlier this year.

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 17:01 (nineteen years ago)

Why did the bastards drop Firewire support?

― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 17:09 (nineteen years ago)

saved them a chip

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 17:10 (nineteen years ago)

J-rock, that happened to me and I was still under AppleCare so it was no problem. Get a freeware temperature monitor thingie and it will give you a readout of all the temp sensors - including the faulty trackpad sensor. Print that out, bring it in and tell them what's up. They will appreciate it and you will get your machine back tout suite.

― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 18:20 (nineteen years ago)

one month passes...

What's a good way of unzipping lots of archives at once, or rather in a row? I have hundreds of zip files, and I'd like it to unarchive each one and then delete the archive. Surely there's a way of doing this, possibly with an extra program? Currently I just double click on them one by one, which takes forever, plus I have to delete the archives afterwards.

― toby (tsg20), Friday, 17 November 2006 10:19 (nineteen years ago)

select all of them, right click or ctrl+click choose open then do a search on .zip and drag the results to the trash.

― Ed (dali), Friday, 17 November 2006 10:22 (nineteen years ago)

Terminal!

if you're using bash as your shell:

for f in *.zip; do unzip "$f"; rm "$f"; done

(NB do not blame me if this goes horribly wrong and fucks your machine up, cos I haven't tested it)

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Friday, 17 November 2006 10:25 (nineteen years ago)

Ah, I've just discovered that Stuffit works quite well. Don't know why it doesn't show on google.

Ed, that reminds me why I don't do that - there seems to be a weird Finder bug on my machine, whereby if I right slick on more than one file that's selected, Finder immediately crashes 75% of the time. Very annoying!

― toby (tsg20), Friday, 17 November 2006 10:57 (nineteen years ago)

WARNING: I'm in ur board posting on ur thread.
I love apple because when my computer gets fucked up, some guy already wrote a program for free that I can just double-click and fix it.

― Bobby Ganush (Uri Frendimein), Friday, 17 November 2006 11:18 (nineteen years ago)

God, Stuffit's RAR support sucks! How hard is it to write code that is actually capable of opening valid archives?

― toby (tsg20), Friday, 17 November 2006 15:32 (nineteen years ago)

God, Stuffit's RAR support sucks! How hard is it to write code that is actually capable of opening valid archives?

Note also that, when it crashes while opening an archive, it often leaves behind large invisible temp folders.

― M. V. (M.V.), Friday, 17 November 2006 16:27 (nineteen years ago)

yep. also, when set to delete after unzipping, it seems to still delete even if it crashes. very dud. good for zip files though.

― toby (tsg20), Friday, 17 November 2006 17:41 (nineteen years ago)

UnRarX is good for rar files.

― Alba (Alba), Friday, 17 November 2006 19:53 (nineteen years ago)

rar expander does what it says on the tin. works for me, anyway.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Friday, 17 November 2006 22:39 (nineteen years ago)

Is there anything better for backing up every night or so than rsyncx? Nothing with proprietary file types pls

― stet (stet), Friday, 17 November 2006 23:28 (nineteen years ago)

not that I've found, what's wrong with RSyncX?

― Ed (dali), Friday, 17 November 2006 23:29 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, nothing, it just seemed like the best option to me, but I wondered if I was missing anything.

― stet (stet), Friday, 17 November 2006 23:41 (nineteen years ago)

a couple of weeks' worth of backups from earlier this month?

[ducks]

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Friday, 17 November 2006 23:46 (nineteen years ago)

[throws fucked-up cheap hard disk at grimly]

― stet (stet), Saturday, 18 November 2006 00:14 (nineteen years ago)

I got a firmware update thing for my macbook pro yesterday. As I was installing it, I accidently shut down my computer. Now the thing is totally dead. When I turn it on the DVD makes sounds, but nothing happens. Yikes!

― Super Cub (Debito), Saturday, 18 November 2006 00:24 (nineteen years ago)

If you've got access to another mac, you can burn a CD that will fix it:
http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/firmwarerestorationcd12.html

― stet (stet), Saturday, 18 November 2006 00:54 (nineteen years ago)

i use deja-vu for backups, it installs as a system preference and works like a charm.

― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Saturday, 18 November 2006 01:54 (nineteen years ago)

Hey thanks stet. That worked.

― Super Cub (Debito), Saturday, 18 November 2006 07:33 (nineteen years ago)

my 1.5 GHz 1.25gb ram powerbook g4 is really struggling with ableton with any vsts (esp guru)

i see rather more of that beachball than i'd really like, even at other times

bit frustrating.

leaving dual core aside for now, how do these powerbook compare to pc laptops, performance wise?

― -- (688), Monday, 20 November 2006 12:29 (nineteen years ago)

how do which powerbooks compare to which pc laptops?

― Ed (dali), Monday, 20 November 2006 12:50 (nineteen years ago)

1.5 GHz 1.25gb ram powerbook g4s

― -- (688), Monday, 20 November 2006 12:59 (nineteen years ago)

to equivalently priced pc laptops

― -- (688), Monday, 20 November 2006 12:59 (nineteen years ago)

or what is the pc equivalent?

i dunno. i mean, i cant justify the expense of a macbook pro, but i didnt really expect the powerbook to struggle with what seems a relatively light load

― -- (688), Monday, 20 November 2006 13:11 (nineteen years ago)

that is to say, i very much doubt im going to be buying any new hardware for a while

i might try installing it on the dell, be interesting to compare performance for it

― -- (688), Monday, 20 November 2006 13:12 (nineteen years ago)

"Typical work-arounds ... include submixing (rendering) groups of processor-intensive tracks, deleting any system-draining plug-ins or taking advantage of Live's new play-from-RAM feature (as long as you have the RAM to spare)."

― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Monday, 20 November 2006 13:16 (nineteen years ago)

or freezing tracks

yea, theres lotsa different ways of keeping the cpu down, but, you know, "deleting any system-draining plug-ins", isnt really what im looking to do!

― -- (688), Monday, 20 November 2006 13:19 (nineteen years ago)

our laptop ist kaput. i mean, the charger is. bah

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Monday, 20 November 2006 13:21 (nineteen years ago)

i use live 6 on macbook - its really fast & cpu drainage is not a problem so far - its kind of untested though as there is a serious lack of quality vsts available in UB at the moment. so if your thinking of upgrading & love yr vsts, i wouldn't bother with intel macs for at least the next 6 months

― zappi (joni), Monday, 20 November 2006 13:32 (nineteen years ago)

one month passes...

our laptop ist kaput. i mean, the charger is. bah
I just had to replace the charger, which I had electric-taped back together, after a puff of smoke came out from the frayed wires. The thing was always expensive and now, because the iBook is on its way into history, is kind of hard to find.

― The Redd And The Blecch (Ken L), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 18:15 (nineteen years ago)

Investing in an iGo universal power adapter ($80 at Radio Shack) isn't a bad move, for this and countless possible future situations.

― Paul Eater (eater), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 18:27 (nineteen years ago)

KEYBOARD VOLUME CONTROL ON POWERBOOKS

you know what i'm talkin about. when you try to turn the volume up or down with the keyboard and it responds like 10 seconds after you press the button, and moves one tick at a time, making a broken "thup thup thup thup thup" sound.

FOR YEARS NOW

(maybe this has changed with the intelbooks but AAARRRGH)

― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 18:34 (nineteen years ago)

fedex delivered my new apple to the wrong address this morning :((((

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 18:48 (nineteen years ago)

You can turn off the volume chime.

― milo z (mlp), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 20:53 (nineteen years ago)

I HATE FEDEX
When I used to live on Spadina Rd (that's Road not Avenue) - oh how I loved those trips down the the El Macombo to get my packages.

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 21:12 (nineteen years ago)

milo I'm not talking about that, I'm talking about how a random 50% of the time there's a 10-15 second delay after you press volume up or down and it goes "thup thup thup thup thup." I'm like to kill somebody with that shit.

― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 23:12 (nineteen years ago)

Fedex fucks something up every time I deal with them. UPS is consistently grebt.

― do i have to draw you a diaphragm (Rock Hardy), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 23:25 (nineteen years ago)

yea, agree 100x

― roc u like a § (ex machina), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 23:56 (nineteen years ago)

ups fucked me up with border charges around xmas :(

CAN NOT CTACH A BREAK.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 18 January 2007 02:59 (nineteen years ago)

4 quick movies to watch

http://www.internet-nexus.com/2007/01/im-mac-im-pc.htm

― Frogm@n Henry (Frogm@n Henry), Monday, 29 January 2007 23:24 (nineteen years ago)

Who thinks making parody videos is a good idea? Sheesh.

― UART variations (ex machina), Monday, 29 January 2007 23:58 (nineteen years ago)

The very first parody (with the guy jumping up and down "Jack Russell fucking terrier") is where these should have stopped.

― milo z (mlp), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 00:07 (nineteen years ago)

http://img442.imageshack.us/my.php?image=masakothehumorlessvf3.jpg

― Frogm@n Henry (Frogm@n Henry), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 00:14 (nineteen years ago)

http://static.flickr.com/46/170645523_eacbb1ad37_m.jpg

― UART variations (ex machina), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 00:16 (nineteen years ago)

fuck you mighty mouse roller-ball that always stops rolling.

― jed_ (jed), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 01:56 (nineteen years ago)

I'm about ready to make "switch" back to PC.

-- jay blanchard

"PC"

― roger goodell (gear), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 01:59 (nineteen years ago)

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