― Mary (Mary), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 21:57 (seventeen years ago) link
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 21:58 (seventeen years ago) link
― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 23:18 (seventeen years ago) link
― naus (Robert T), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 23:29 (seventeen years ago) link
― Tracey Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 23:30 (seventeen years ago) link
The genius bar guy should have mentioned that up front. Every computer I've taken to the genius bar has come back restored to its "out of the box" state - wiped hard drive, etc.
Get a inexpensive HD from Best Buy and just back things up.
― LOL Thomas (Chris Barrus), Thursday, 20 April 2006 00:26 (seventeen years ago) link
― LOL Thomas (Chris Barrus), Thursday, 20 April 2006 00:34 (seventeen years ago) link
― phil d. (Phil D.), Thursday, 20 April 2006 00:47 (seventeen years ago) link
― JW (ex machina), Thursday, 20 April 2006 01:38 (seventeen years ago) link
GF: A bit of sick on the power transformer, that's all. You'll wipe that off easy, with a cloth.
― stet (stet), Thursday, 20 April 2006 01:46 (seventeen years ago) link
Aww, Jon, did they mock you? Did they not let you pose as a genius and hit on coked up NU students?
― Ed (dali), Thursday, 20 April 2006 04:52 (seventeen years ago) link
― Dan I. (Dan I.), Thursday, 20 April 2006 07:27 (seventeen years ago) link
I was looking at the bluetooth keyboard and some employee came up to me and he very pointedly looked about 8 inches to the left of my eyes while we were talking. Also, not very helpful about battery life in BT devices. I ended up getting the wired keyboard and a mighty mouse as I love the mighty mouse so.
I got hit on my a girl in the checkout line who liked my bag, which I had just bought a new cell phone holder for at the bike shop on 6th Ave and Canal though. She was cute.
http://www.chromebags.com/metropolis_olive.jpg
― JW POSING FOR CONSUMER PRODUCTS NOW AND THEN (ex machina), Thursday, 20 April 2006 13:06 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ed (dali), Thursday, 20 April 2006 13:50 (seventeen years ago) link
never buy luggage of any sort without a moneyback/replacement guarantee
― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Thursday, 20 April 2006 13:52 (seventeen years ago) link
― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 20 April 2006 13:55 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ed (dali), Thursday, 20 April 2006 13:55 (seventeen years ago) link
― JW (ex machina), Thursday, 20 April 2006 13:58 (seventeen years ago) link
The funny thing about this is that I seem to be the only person who actually let "geniuses" take my computer who got it back with files fully intact, non-wiped. Which pissed me off cos I was at that fucking Apple store for like 5 hours doing the back up on spot and I actually didn't care that much about "losing" data that was mostly easily re-gettable anyway (I would've only lost a handful of photos from my digicam that I didn't have on hard disc from my old computer, and term papers from previous semesters that I still had hard copies of anyway). The genius basically refused to send my computer into the shop without me purchasing a $200 hard drive and backing up all my "important" data, myself, in front of everyone in the damn store. Son of a bitch.
― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Thursday, 20 April 2006 16:20 (seventeen years ago) link
― JW (ex machina), Thursday, 20 April 2006 16:35 (seventeen years ago) link
― JW (ex machina), Thursday, 20 April 2006 16:46 (seventeen years ago) link
There is something liberating about a clean drive though. Like the first stage of a break-up when you feel free before you get lonely and wonder what did I do?
― Mary (Mary), Thursday, 20 April 2006 18:03 (seventeen years ago) link
Doesn't mean anything right now (except perhaps to me, TOMBOT, JW, and Ed), but still interesting.
― LOL Thomas (Chris Barrus), Monday, 1 May 2006 23:03 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 05:32 (seventeen years ago) link
this is interesting because it means (to me) that apple has finally got to the point where they feel confident enough that we (the users) aren't going to notice the cpu load of handling everything as part of a rel db (well obviously since we all play along with iTunes already).
I'm slightly more interested in rumors about the inclusion of a Torrent client as part and parcel of 10.5.
― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 13:47 (seventeen years ago) link
― stet (stet), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 13:54 (seventeen years ago) link
― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 14:15 (seventeen years ago) link
I don't consider it to be that big of a deal... Your average 10.x.x point update runs over 50MB and Apple has to pay for that bandwidth just like everyone else. Being able to distribute that out in exchange for some iTunes credit makes a lot of sense.
I believe it's unlikely that the "torrent" components will be extensible out to developers. Back during the Rhapsody developer meetings there was a lot of talk about being able to hook into OS X's software update engine and use it as a general application updater but then Apple decided not to.
― LOL Thomas (Chris Barrus), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 21:21 (seventeen years ago) link
― JW (ex machina), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 21:27 (seventeen years ago) link
― JW (ex machina), Thursday, 4 May 2006 16:44 (seventeen years ago) link
FUCK
― Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Thursday, 4 May 2006 16:59 (seventeen years ago) link
― stet (stet), Thursday, 4 May 2006 17:36 (seventeen years ago) link
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 (seventeen years ago) link
― lf (lfam), Friday, 19 May 2006 03:07 (seventeen years ago) link
Spotlight isn't so hot, but it isn't *BAD* persay
― JW (ex machina), Friday, 19 May 2006 03:09 (seventeen years ago) link
― pleased to mitya (mitya), Friday, 19 May 2006 13:30 (seventeen years ago) link
― Tracey Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 19 May 2006 13:43 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ed (dali), Friday, 19 May 2006 13:47 (seventeen years ago) link
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 (seventeen years ago) link
― JW (ex machina), Friday, 19 May 2006 15:28 (seventeen years ago) link
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 (seventeen years ago) link
― JW (ex machina), Friday, 19 May 2006 15:58 (seventeen years ago) link
― JW (ex machina), Friday, 19 May 2006 16:22 (seventeen years ago) link
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 (seventeen years ago) link
― stet (stet), Friday, 19 May 2006 22:08 (seventeen years ago) link
tits. either way, we're fooked, aren't we?
― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Friday, 19 May 2006 22:15 (seventeen years ago) link
― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Friday, 19 May 2006 22:42 (seventeen years ago) link
― stet (stet), Friday, 19 May 2006 22:53 (seventeen years ago) link
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 (seventeen years ago) link
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 (seventeen years ago) link