New Apple Lust Objects

wait, it just let me relocate the masters, weird

ok drop me a webmail if you need a serial just to get these images out.

cool man thx

just ctrl-click on aperture library, "show package contents" then copy files across as usual.

thanks!

tell me how a tablet would stand up

I can definitely understand how files, folders and finding the fucking things is such a problmem ON A MAC yeah. FTFF lol.

spelling also a problmem, been up since early... cafetiere on the bedside table.

and yeah I know, no-one sane would actually USE the finder rather than whatever the indexed gooogly hard disc search is called in mac.

was going to be cranky but it probably belongs in another thread. suffice to say all this stuff about autosaving (good) document history (also good) bundling of documents/media and apps into one big trouble-causing lump (HATE mostly).

i used to totally agree but fuck, they've had 25 years to come up with a better view into the filesystem and nothing's changed.

there are wayyyy more people out there - people under 30 - who literally have no idea how to click and drag a file from one folder to another, or create folders, or rename them than you would think, and they are never going to learn, and frankly i don't blame them. what is the point if i can do what i need from within an app? and never have to worry about "where" something is? it's on my freaking computer, that's where it is. why should i go hunting for it? isn't that the kind of tedious drudgework computers were made to obviate?

there are wayyyy more people out there - people under 30 - who literally have no idea how to click and drag a file from one folder to another, or create folders, or rename them than you would think

Hmmmmmmmmm.

FWIW: I use Spotlight to find pretty much *everything* on my Mac. In fact, Spotlight and Spaces have been two of the biggest productivity tools ever.

But ... I also use Dropbox (even *more* useful) to keep everything in order across different machines and that's required a pretty old-school rigorous directory structure. Put it this way: no matter how useful Spotlight and Dropbox have proved, they'd be substantially less useful (the latter in particular) if there wasn't a reasonably solid foundation underneath them.

People have ALWAYS just dumped files wherever they land and never worried about where they are, Tracer: I work with loads of people whose desktops have always been pile-ups of total shit. An OS that dispensed with good, useful concepts such as files/folders or directories/structures wouldn't make much difference to these people: they'd still manage to operate their computers in the same slightly confused and haphazard way. But I think for the majority of users it'd feel like a major step backwards.

Remember when OS X came out and the Mac community went mental because they couldn't move their apps about any more? An awful lot of people like being able to keep files and folders in certain places: it gives them a sense of control. (And I'd hazard a guess that these people -- the ones putting a tiny, tiny modicum of thought and logic into their storage -- are more productive than the ones who leave shit strewn everywhere.)

Yeah, organising my stuff, myself, still find the quickest easiest way to get shit done for me. Surprisingly or not.

Programs trying to organise/catalog/label things for me, with THEIR logic basically....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7vMvlRio5Y

also goes for people arguing the superiority of 20 different approaches and constant learning/adaptation, over learning one simple way properly, once, and just putting a bit of thought in I suppose.

An awful lot of people like being able to keep files and folders in certain places: it gives them a sense of control. (And I'd hazard a guess that these people -- the ones putting a tiny, tiny modicum of thought and logic into their storage -- are more productive than the ones who leave shit strewn everywhere.)

In a desktop OS you're of course going to be more organized and productive if you keep your directories well organized because the entire user experience is based around files and directories. Most people have no idea how inefficient they're being in this regard. They will probably never know.

Personally I think Spotlight should be called "Finder" and Finder should be called "Welcome to unpaid admin work"

even worse than people who can't comprehend a directory structure are the people who run apps from temporary mounted install disks left on the desktop

I find it amazing that people even understand they need to double-click on the disk image. To "mount" this "disk". Which is not a disk. WTF.

^lol

so is the chat on this tablet that it will have an OSX between the full thing and iPhone OSX and won't have a finder but instead just spotlight?

I think the assumption is that it will run iPhone OS or some modification of it

(And I'd hazard a guess that these people -- the ones putting a tiny, tiny modicum of thought and logic into their storage -- are more productive than the ones who leave shit strewn everywhere.)

always kind of suspicious of any academic with a seriously tidy office or computer desktop.

they are probably spies

i usually just tase them a little

caek you will be duly observed for suspicious orderliness when you visit here in a few weeks. Then again it's UCI, you'll probably fit right in.

always kind of suspicious of any academic with a seriously tidy office or computer desktop.

― caek, Tuesday, December 29, 2009 12:12 PM (7 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

otm totally not appreciating their position in the fake economy

suspicious orderliness sounds like something you admit at confession

A tidy mind in ... er, a tidy body. No, that doesn't sound like most academics I know either.

forgive me father for i have sinned:

suspicious orderliness
passive aggressive notes
two spaces after a period

two spaces after a period

such a blatant waste of resources

when's the conference thing?

26th?

It's on the 27th (and technically it's a "major product announcement", not a conference). Tablet announcement with possible announcement of iPhone SDK 4.0 and potential announcement of new iPhone model.

cheers both

ok so time machine is ridiculously amazing

i finally got my backup system in shape - a 500GB external drive partitioned in two equal halves - one half for Time Machine and the other half for monthly SuperDuper backups. the idea is that if my laptop HD fails I can immediately boot up with SuperDuper, then restore to ca. 1 hour ago with Time Machine.

(without SuperDuper you'd need to go to the shop, buy a new HD, come home, then restore with Time Machine - this way you can be back up and running within minutes)

i'm on the same plan, though I use Carbon Copy Cloner instead

(without SuperDuper you'd need to go to the shop, buy a new HD, come home, then restore with Time Machine - this way you can be back up and running within minutes)

― Tracer Hand, Monday, January 18, 2010 9:58 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

you mean boot straight to the super duper drive?

cuz either way wouldn't you need to get a new drive?

Perhaps - if it's just corruption and not a hardware failure, you could just boot off the external and pull a full restore, either by copying the clone backover or using a TM backup. Even if it is physically damaged, you can be up and running immediately and getting what you can off the bad drive.

doesn't time machine cripple anyone else's machine? so slow.

yes, boot directly to the superduper partition/drive so that you can carry on working, grabbing files from your time machine backup if you need them

then when you have some free time you can buy a new HD and restore from whatever's the most current

presumably one can also restore from TM to the working superduper as well.

Also if your superduper drive fits your computer, hey presto you can swap.

http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2010/01/top.jpg

should I sell my 17" MBP and get a 27" iMac? Turns out the 17" is too much of a pain to carry anywhere so it's just getting desktop duty.

yeah Ed that is actually my plan - to restore to the superduper partition - but I've never ascertained if it's a thing that ppl actually do - but why not? it's a full working bootable system

Before TM, I used Carbon copy cloner with much the same strategy and it saved my bacon. Just dropped the backup disk into the machine and away you go.

Judging by that 'latest creation' graphic, it'll be an updated version of this.

lot of people seem do be doing the superduper/cloner + time machine combo.

It's just easier to restore. I have my system drive + applications cloaning w/ superduper to a second drive every night. Then i have my 2 data drives being backed up w/ Time Machine. I did have a problem with my start up drive so I just booted from the dupe, wiped the start-up drive clean, and restored it from the dupe and it's like nothing ever happened.

new bootcamp today! I was already running w7 but hopefully this'll make things better

Tracer - I've booted from a SuperDuper! backup and then immediately used SuperDuper! to create a working copy of itself back on the original drive. Works fine. But...can't you just boot from your install CD and immediately create the same thing you're talking about by using the "transfer my data from Time Machine" option?