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

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

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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 (seventeen years ago) link

ysi?

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

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

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

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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

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

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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

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

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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 (seventeen years ago) link

yeh. your silence says everything ;)

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

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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

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

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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 sjobs@apple.com will help.

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

We need this as a warning here!

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

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

There we go.

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

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

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

HAHAHAHAH jon, that's superb.

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

we should do this on hair dye threads

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

Contacting sjobs@apple.com totally works.

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

what happened?

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

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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

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

do you have a 17 or 15?

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

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

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

15", lemme see if I can find it.

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

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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

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

three weeks pass...

New Mac v PC ads

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

did they actually broadcast them?

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

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

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

just saw the other ones

these ones are not real

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

real ones aren't much better though, haha

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

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 (seventeen years ago) link

cant you go to the login page?

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

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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 (seventeen years ago) link

ha, now it seems like i can get a connection within a foot or two of the router, but not across the other side of the room (still shows up as being connected, but doesn't work). bizarre.

― toby (tsg20), Thursday, 13 July 2006 07:33 (seventeen years ago) link

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