New Apple Lust Objects for 2010 and onward

is the under-the-hood stuff going to have any impact on a core 2 duo machine is what i wonder, still not sure about lion

and yeah i use ical and mail all the damn time ... did i hear right that apple bought sparrow and fantastical?

oh ok, encrypting a backup, yes I could do that

no it's under the hood from the POV of security, developers, etc. it's not going to be significantly faster for the user

ah

mountain lion seems zippy (esp safari 6) & notifications are nice

apple employees get 250$ fuckbucks off a new ipad! thusly shall I approve the rental application of my new tenant who worketh there and have security deposit paid in kind with ipaddery!

stet can you please integrate ilx bookmarks w/notification centre

^^ not impossible actually

http://www.w3.org/TR/notifications/

if you partition a 2gb drive in half, 1gb is always unavailable to store for other stuff, because TM will delete it next time the backup runs. the disk image method is nice because the disk image grows. it's like a partition which gets bigger.

so if you're not bothered about that then just partition

― caek, Thursday, July 26, 2012 2:56 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

actually my whole point is i DONT want it to grow past a certain size

yeah, the complicated thing i descriped takes up the minimum space possible for the amount of data (unlike a partition), and has a maximum size (like a parition)

it's the *sparse* in sparse disk image that means it takes up the minimum space poss. like you create a 1gb sparse disk image but until you actually put any files on it, the disk image is like 50mb or something. and the last steps in the instructions i pasted ensure that it never gets enlarged bigger than 1gb.

and yeah i use ical and mail all the damn time ... did i hear right that apple bought sparrow and fantastical?

Google bought out Sparrow

xp

hmm sparrow was pretty sweet but eventually turned out to be too much work

I've always been afraid to use Filevault. Maybe it had trouble when it came out? Is this something I should use on my laptop that gets a lot of travel?

― Euler, Thursday, July 26, 2012 12:03 PM (5 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

apparently it's rock solid now, so yeah i guess. i am leery of converting tho and feel like i should start from scratch.

― caek, Thursday, July 26, 2012 12:07 PM (5 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Just as a data point w.r.t. FileVault, I've been encrypting since 10.7.2 and it's been solid ever since.

filevault fucked up my friend's mac back in 05, it was sad

Yah, old FileVault was a mess. FileVault 2 (as Apple is calling it now) is very stable, but if you have any out-of-normal configurations you might have an issue. This guide is a good start: https://www.macworld.com/article/1162999/complete_guide_to_filevault_2_in_lion.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/28/technology/apple-is-said-to-discuss-an-investment-in-twitter.html?_r=1&hp

^^ reckons Apple wants to buy a stake in Twittwe

Twitter

haha for a sec i was like is that some 3rd party client

mail *finally* replies to the recipient not the sender if you were the sender. when did this happen?

im having trouble figuring out the usefulness of notifications--are any of you guys finding them helpful or useful at all yet?

like right now i keep my dock permanently on the right side, which lets me keep an eye on the app icons to let me know if i have new mail, new IMs, new tweets. notifications seems kinda redundant.

i guess theyre kinda useful for calendar events/reminders, though my phone will also buzz.

and if i use full screen mode, which i do on my laptop but not usually on my work computer

the twitter notifications are really slow

yeah i think that's basically it. they're much less necessary than on ios because you can see more than one thing at once.

My lust object should be here today sometime…

Hey mine too, silby! I had it delivered to work, got all excited and took the afternoon off. Going from an original core duo macbook to this is a real culture shock..

Oooh immediate massive improvement: scrolling through long ilx threads to get back to bookmarks is a breeze!

Meantime on another front:

http://www.macrumors.com/2012/07/31/hulu-plus-now-available-on-apple-tv/

I like the mail notifications because I get a flash of what the message is, & I can know immediately if I need to read it all or respond right away without having to click away from what I'm doing. before I'd get a ping or see that I have new mail, but wouldn't know what the mail was without jumping over to mail to read it.

wait, basically you guys are describing Outlook notifications, right

I've been using growl for that style of notifications for years.

i have never ever felt so impatient about receiving a package in my life

i thought i posted this somewhere else but i ended up going for the 2.6 / 16 / 256 retina, unbelievably super-excited for this shit to get here

also: mt lion is surprisingly zippy and cool on this 2008 santa rosa, if anything it's running faster than lion. i'm not sure why but one thing i notice is that it seems to do much less file indexing?

much happier since I destroyed notification centre

my RMBP will be ready to go in ... about 56 minutes!!!!

I'm wondering if I should be using time machine on my work computer. I've never used it with any of my machines; all my external hard drives are backed up offsite, and all my work is in multiple version-controlled places, but I have some amount of money for computer stuff, and I wonder if it might make life less painful in e.g. the event of total computer failure, or me doing something really stupid to the OS.

Does using it mean that there is an external drive constantly spinning? I'm kinda sensitive to computer noise when I'm working, and my current ssd-based iMac is essentially silent, so I don't like the idea of that - but maybe it can just run at night, if that's not defeating the point of it?

I hated the idea is time machine updating hourly, especially when dealing with huge scratch files that are immediately trashed. Theresa free little utility called time machine editor that lets you change the frequency. I have mine set to every morning at 5 am.

whether hourly is a problem depends on your usage. scratch files are obviously a problem. they can be excluded manually. if the app is well-behaved (i.e. not adobe?) then it should exclude them automatically. for me, the update each hour takes maybe 2 minutes. i almost never notice it.

why not exclude the scratch file folders?

yeah, definitely the easiest solution

yep.

I was typing on my iphone and using scratch files as a shorthand. I'm not talking about specific scratch files. I'll often have a huge file, like a gig, and maybe save a version to the desktop as a safety or something. Just generally moving stuff around. Plus huge stuff going in and out of dropbox. I don't want this stuff not backed up. I just don't need everything backed up every hour.

upon examination, if you're only backing up once a day, maybe you should physically just turn the drive on and off that one time, rather than allowing the automatic hr backups. it'll extend the life of your drive too, as it won't be accessing/spinning all day

why not do an SSD time capsule?

nhex NO, turning the drive on and off is the most mechanically stressful operation possible!

but maybe it can just run at night, if that's not defeating the point of it?

that is defeating the point of it

but the real point of it is that it's not updating everything in real time, it's doing it at efficient intervals, so even w/ something crazy like adobe happening it should not be constantly running the drive

ime when it does run though it can be a painfully slow process, so i am switching from a very old fw400 magnetic drive to the wireless ssd time capsule myself

which will not necessarily speed things up but at least it will run quietly in the background instead of clanking away on my desk like a circa-2004 g-drive

imo though this cloud document thing is about to change the game

I wish some new iMacs would come out. Mine is feeling clunky.

So if I've only got a Macbook at home with a 500gb, what's my best backup / Time Machine option? A small external drive with the same capacity and plug it in a couple times a week? Buy a cheap PC and run a drive as a network share?

I like Time Capsule