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MOTHERFUCKING $300 MOTHERBOARD

FUCK

― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Thursday, 4 May 2006 16:59 (twenty years ago)

Zfs looked like voodoo magic until i read the explanation of snapshots in the comments.

― stet (stet), Thursday, 4 May 2006 17:36 (twenty years ago)

two weeks pass...

Ok, so I have a BRAND NEW 60GIG IPOD.

I'm syncing it and I notice that 'mdimport' is taking up a lot of cpu time. I go and check and SPOTLIGHT INDEXING IS ENABLED ON MY IPOD WTF?!!??!

So to turn it off:

sudo mdutil -i off /Volumes/iPodNameHere

seems faster

― JW (ex machina), Friday, 19 May 2006 01:57 (twenty years ago)

spotlight is problematic. you may want to try quicksilver. besides expose, it is the most productivity-enhancing application i have ever used. seriously.

― lf (lfam), Friday, 19 May 2006 03:07 (twenty years ago)

I've been using it for quite a while. I usually only have it index applications because otherwise it is too laggy.

Spotlight isn't so hot, but it isn't *BAD* persay

― JW (ex machina), Friday, 19 May 2006 03:09 (twenty years ago)

Not to totally divert from all the tech geek talk, but can anyone point me to the most useful forums/websites for new Mac users to get up to speed on using OSX, ask questions, etc.? Thanks!

― pleased to mitya (mitya), Friday, 19 May 2006 13:30 (twenty years ago)

ysi?

― Tracey Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 19 May 2006 13:43 (twenty years ago)

Mac OS X Hints has loads of useful hints. Friendly forums as well.

― Ed (dali), Friday, 19 May 2006 13:47 (twenty years ago)

Spotlight is definitely bad when it comes to floppies. I was making some to fix the aged relative's aged LCII last month, and the bloody thing takes up 200k *of an empty disk* with its nonsense.

When you turn Spotlight off for the disk, it makes a file to tell it not to index that. And that file takes up just enough space that you can't image an system install disk to it. Grrrr.

― stet (stet), Friday, 19 May 2006 14:30 (twenty years ago)

Shouldn't you IMAGE the disk using disk utility when the disk is unmounted

― JW (ex machina), Friday, 19 May 2006 15:28 (twenty years ago)

Yes, you definitely should. Except Disk Utility goes nuts with System 7 disk images. Actually, I think that's been fixed now, but it certainly did then.

Still is a pisser that it takes up space on a tiny disk, just trying to tell it not to take up space.

― stet (stet), Friday, 19 May 2006 15:36 (twenty years ago)

I wonder how long I can go without touching a floppy. I think it may have been since summer 2004.

― JW (ex machina), Friday, 19 May 2006 15:58 (twenty years ago)

http://dustin.waterfallsw.com/2006/05/one-feature-to-expect-in-leopard.html

― JW (ex machina), Friday, 19 May 2006 16:22 (twenty years ago)

and the bloody thing takes up 200k *of an empty disk* with its nonsense.

for fuck's sake. i think i've used spotlight about three times. hmph.

stet: don't you have SOMEONE ELSE'S perfectly good PB5300 running 8.5 to make nice disk images?

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Friday, 19 May 2006 22:03 (twenty years ago)

Yes, EXCEPT SOMEONE ELSE lost the Ethernet adaptor ... so there's no way to get the images on to it.

― stet (stet), Friday, 19 May 2006 22:08 (twenty years ago)

dude! seriously. YOU HAVE IT. i'm sure of this. i know this because i've just found the little red piece of cable that used to live with it at all times. BUT NO ADAPTOR. i'm sure i gave it you at work about two years ago.

tits. either way, we're fooked, aren't we?

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Friday, 19 May 2006 22:15 (twenty years ago)

yeh. your silence says everything ;)

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Friday, 19 May 2006 22:42 (twenty years ago)

Sorry, I was busy looking for it. I thought it might be with my fairy dust, unicorn hair, liquid light and OTHER SHIT I DON'T HAVE.

― stet (stet), Friday, 19 May 2006 22:53 (twenty years ago)

two weeks pass...

i dropped my powerbook while i was in the hospital and now one of the corners has a big ding in it. in fact, the ding is so big that there's a tiny gap between the top housing and the sidewall.

obviously, this bugs me.

even though titanium is soft enough to bend that much when i drop it, i'm having no luck bending it back into place (maybe i'm not using the right tool??)

obv this isn't covered by applecare, since they don't cover "accident". any way i can trick them into fixing it??

― renegade bear shot by cops on frat row (vahid), Saturday, 3 June 2006 19:20 (twenty years ago)

I bought a MacBook Pro Saturday afternoon, now they're starting a $179/free Nano promotion on Monday.

Where should I start bugging someone to gimme my rebate slip? Store manager, or higher up?

― milo z (mlp), Monday, 5 June 2006 02:33 (twenty years ago)

Knee-cap all the floor reps until you get to the final boss and then use the double fireball laser cannons on him, wiggle erratically and keep to the edges.

― Tracey Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 5 June 2006 04:15 (twenty years ago)

http://www.consumerist.com/consumer/apple/apple-genius-messes-up-customer-refund-178418.php

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Monday, 5 June 2006 19:55 (twenty years ago)

People only care because it is Apple!

So as it stands, I’m out $400 (which as a poor college student, I’d like back)

If you can't afford to be out $400 (+ the price of whatever laptop you'll replace that one with) you are not budgetting proper.

― Courtney Gidts (ex machina), Monday, 5 June 2006 20:07 (twenty years ago)

Why?

Turns out all I have to do is bring my receipt to the Apple Store, they'll do a 1:1 exchange and add whatever iPod I want to the receipt so I can get a rebate.

― milo z (mlp), Monday, 5 June 2006 20:11 (twenty years ago)

My MBP has suddenly started with the high-pitched CPU whine after 11 days (low/no-load = whine, open PhotoBooth or another high-CPU usage program, it goes away). Genius bar people are useless. Maybe [email protected] will help.

― milo z (mlp), Thursday, 15 June 2006 20:50 (twenty years ago)

We need this as a warning here!

WARNING: Genius bar people are useless!!!!!

― lord pooperton (ex machina), Thursday, 15 June 2006 21:06 (twenty years ago)

There we go.

― lord pooperton (ex machina), Thursday, 15 June 2006 21:06 (twenty years ago)

Could you add one about first-gen Apple hardware being pieces of shit? Thanks.

― milo z (mlp), Thursday, 15 June 2006 21:16 (twenty years ago)

HAHAHAHAH jon, that's superb.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Thursday, 15 June 2006 21:32 (twenty years ago)

we should do this on hair dye threads

― lord pooperton (ex machina), Thursday, 15 June 2006 21:42 (twenty years ago)

Contacting [email protected] totally works.

― milo z (mlp), Friday, 16 June 2006 15:22 (twenty years ago)

what happened?

― lord pooperton (ex machina), Friday, 16 June 2006 15:23 (twenty years ago)

http://www.google.com/search?q=sjobs%40apple.com&start=0&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official

― lord pooperton (ex machina), Friday, 16 June 2006 15:23 (twenty years ago)

I got a call from the Executive Relations dept. asking about the details (I sent a long e-mail describing everything that happened), they contacted the store I originally bought it from, and now I can go in this weekend, talk to the MOD and they'll exchange it without the restocking fee that the other store wanted to charge me.

― milo z (mlp), Friday, 16 June 2006 15:36 (twenty years ago)

I think I love Apple again. Unless this MBP doesn't work either.

― milo z (mlp), Friday, 16 June 2006 15:37 (twenty years ago)

do you have a 17 or 15?

― lord pooperton (ex machina), Friday, 16 June 2006 15:37 (twenty years ago)

Can you post your email? With embarassing/personal shit removed?

― lord pooperton (ex machina), Friday, 16 June 2006 15:43 (twenty years ago)

15", lemme see if I can find it.

― milo z (mlp), Friday, 16 June 2006 17:12 (twenty years ago)

we installed windows on our laptop. it's the first time i use it. HOW THE FUCK CAN YOU HATE APPLE IF THERE'S WINDOWS? just try windows for five minutes and feel the lurve for apple return.

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Friday, 16 June 2006 18:17 (twenty years ago)

the processor is whining because it wants to be put out of its misery

― lf (lfam), Saturday, 17 June 2006 05:02 (twenty years ago)

three weeks pass...

New Mac v PC ads

― Alba (Alba), Saturday, 8 July 2006 09:06 (twenty years ago)

did they actually broadcast them?

― RJG (RJG), Saturday, 8 July 2006 09:15 (twenty years ago)

these can't be real (although i said that about the original ads).

― jed_ (jed), Saturday, 8 July 2006 10:02 (twenty years ago)

just saw the other ones

these ones are not real

― RJG (RJG), Saturday, 8 July 2006 10:13 (twenty years ago)

real ones aren't much better though, haha

― RJG (RJG), Saturday, 8 July 2006 10:17 (twenty years ago)

ok, i have a problem with my macbook pro :-( suddenly last night i seemed to lose my internet connection, and i'm having a lot of trouble getting it back. i'm connecting wirelessly to a netgear DG834G router, and have been doing so for months. the connection shows 5 bars, but after being connected for 5 mins or so i seem to lose the ability to browse the web etc, although logging in to the router on other machines shows that my laptop's still connected. any ideas?

i've googled and found tons of problems with macbook pro airport stuff, but they all seem to happen straight out of the box, and don't seem to involve the wireless connection appearing to stay valid. hopefully this is just something really stupid...

― toby (tsg20), Thursday, 13 July 2006 06:54 (twenty years ago)

cant you go to the login page?

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Thursday, 13 July 2006 06:58 (twenty years ago)

Have you specified DNS servers explicitly in the network setting page? The OS X networking stack seems to have this problem where it looses knowledge of cached DNS servers.

― Ed (dali), Thursday, 13 July 2006 07:02 (twenty years ago)

does login page = the router's admin page? if so, then no.

DNS servers - no, will do so. weirdly i noticed that my fixed IP address has changed, which seems really weird.

related, hopefully easier q: my first idea for a workaround was to connect via an ethernet cable. on xp, this would just work - you plug in and go. nothing happened on my mac, though! what do i need to do to use ethernet with the router?

― toby (tsg20), Thursday, 13 July 2006 07:20 (twenty years ago)

Is your Mac set to acquire an address via DHCP?

Try doing this for the ethernet interface when connecting with the cable and see what address the Mac picks up and if you can get to the management page.

― Ed (dali), Thursday, 13 July 2006 07:26 (twenty years ago)

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