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not that I've found, what's wrong with RSyncX?

― Ed (dali), Friday, 17 November 2006 23:29 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh, nothing, it just seemed like the best option to me, but I wondered if I was missing anything.

― stet (stet), Friday, 17 November 2006 23:41 (seventeen years ago) link

a couple of weeks' worth of backups from earlier this month?

[ducks]

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Friday, 17 November 2006 23:46 (seventeen years ago) link

[throws fucked-up cheap hard disk at grimly]

― stet (stet), Saturday, 18 November 2006 00:14 (seventeen years ago) link

I got a firmware update thing for my macbook pro yesterday. As I was installing it, I accidently shut down my computer. Now the thing is totally dead. When I turn it on the DVD makes sounds, but nothing happens. Yikes!

― Super Cub (Debito), Saturday, 18 November 2006 00:24 (seventeen years ago) link

If you've got access to another mac, you can burn a CD that will fix it:
http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/firmwarerestorationcd12.html

― stet (stet), Saturday, 18 November 2006 00:54 (seventeen years ago) link

i use deja-vu for backups, it installs as a system preference and works like a charm.

― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Saturday, 18 November 2006 01:54 (seventeen years ago) link

Hey thanks stet. That worked.

― Super Cub (Debito), Saturday, 18 November 2006 07:33 (seventeen years ago) link

my 1.5 GHz 1.25gb ram powerbook g4 is really struggling with ableton with any vsts (esp guru)

i see rather more of that beachball than i'd really like, even at other times

bit frustrating.

leaving dual core aside for now, how do these powerbook compare to pc laptops, performance wise?

― -- (688), Monday, 20 November 2006 12:29 (seventeen years ago) link

how do which powerbooks compare to which pc laptops?

― Ed (dali), Monday, 20 November 2006 12:50 (seventeen years ago) link

1.5 GHz 1.25gb ram powerbook g4s

― -- (688), Monday, 20 November 2006 12:59 (seventeen years ago) link

to equivalently priced pc laptops

― -- (688), Monday, 20 November 2006 12:59 (seventeen years ago) link

or what is the pc equivalent?

i dunno. i mean, i cant justify the expense of a macbook pro, but i didnt really expect the powerbook to struggle with what seems a relatively light load

― -- (688), Monday, 20 November 2006 13:11 (seventeen years ago) link

that is to say, i very much doubt im going to be buying any new hardware for a while

i might try installing it on the dell, be interesting to compare performance for it

― -- (688), Monday, 20 November 2006 13:12 (seventeen years ago) link

"Typical work-arounds ... include submixing (rendering) groups of processor-intensive tracks, deleting any system-draining plug-ins or taking advantage of Live's new play-from-RAM feature (as long as you have the RAM to spare)."

― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Monday, 20 November 2006 13:16 (seventeen years ago) link

or freezing tracks

yea, theres lotsa different ways of keeping the cpu down, but, you know, "deleting any system-draining plug-ins", isnt really what im looking to do!

― -- (688), Monday, 20 November 2006 13:19 (seventeen years ago) link

our laptop ist kaput. i mean, the charger is. bah

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Monday, 20 November 2006 13:21 (seventeen years ago) link

i use live 6 on macbook - its really fast & cpu drainage is not a problem so far - its kind of untested though as there is a serious lack of quality vsts available in UB at the moment. so if your thinking of upgrading & love yr vsts, i wouldn't bother with intel macs for at least the next 6 months

― zappi (joni), Monday, 20 November 2006 13:32 (seventeen years ago) link

one month passes...

our laptop ist kaput. i mean, the charger is. bah
I just had to replace the charger, which I had electric-taped back together, after a puff of smoke came out from the frayed wires. The thing was always expensive and now, because the iBook is on its way into history, is kind of hard to find.

― The Redd And The Blecch (Ken L), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 18:15 (seventeen years ago) link

Investing in an iGo universal power adapter ($80 at Radio Shack) isn't a bad move, for this and countless possible future situations.

― Paul Eater (eater), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 18:27 (seventeen years ago) link

KEYBOARD VOLUME CONTROL ON POWERBOOKS

you know what i'm talkin about. when you try to turn the volume up or down with the keyboard and it responds like 10 seconds after you press the button, and moves one tick at a time, making a broken "thup thup thup thup thup" sound.

FOR YEARS NOW

(maybe this has changed with the intelbooks but AAARRRGH)

― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 18:34 (seventeen years ago) link

fedex delivered my new apple to the wrong address this morning :((((

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 18:48 (seventeen years ago) link

You can turn off the volume chime.

― milo z (mlp), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 20:53 (seventeen years ago) link

I HATE FEDEX
When I used to live on Spadina Rd (that's Road not Avenue) - oh how I loved those trips down the the El Macombo to get my packages.

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 21:12 (seventeen years ago) link

milo I'm not talking about that, I'm talking about how a random 50% of the time there's a 10-15 second delay after you press volume up or down and it goes "thup thup thup thup thup." I'm like to kill somebody with that shit.

― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 23:12 (seventeen years ago) link

Fedex fucks something up every time I deal with them. UPS is consistently grebt.

― do i have to draw you a diaphragm (Rock Hardy), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 23:25 (seventeen years ago) link

yea, agree 100x

― roc u like a § (ex machina), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 23:56 (seventeen years ago) link

ups fucked me up with border charges around xmas :(

CAN NOT CTACH A BREAK.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 18 January 2007 02:59 (seventeen years ago) link

4 quick movies to watch

http://www.internet-nexus.com/2007/01/im-mac-im-pc.htm

― Frogm@n Henry (Frogm@n Henry), Monday, 29 January 2007 23:24 (seventeen years ago) link

Who thinks making parody videos is a good idea? Sheesh.

― UART variations (ex machina), Monday, 29 January 2007 23:58 (seventeen years ago) link

The very first parody (with the guy jumping up and down "Jack Russell fucking terrier") is where these should have stopped.

― milo z (mlp), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 00:07 (seventeen years ago) link

http://img442.imageshack.us/my.php?image=masakothehumorlessvf3.jpg

― Frogm@n Henry (Frogm@n Henry), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 00:14 (seventeen years ago) link

http://static.flickr.com/46/170645523_eacbb1ad37_m.jpg

― UART variations (ex machina), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 00:16 (seventeen years ago) link

fuck you mighty mouse roller-ball that always stops rolling.

― jed_ (jed), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 01:56 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm about ready to make "switch" back to PC.

-- jay blanchard

"PC"

― roger goodell (gear), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 01:59 (seventeen years ago) link

"make 'switch'"

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 02:02 (seventeen years ago) link

eh it's sorta fucked that they bundle in an iSync for your .mac account, but you can't get iSync to work with a stupid fucking USB travel drive

the "genius" was all "oh yeah, why would you need a travel drive, you can just use your wireless w/ .mac" ... i worry that this company panders a bit too much to the "sit around in a cafe doing fucking nothing all day" crowd.

someone recommend me a good sync utility that's cheap (willing to pay $40 or less, i guess, for shareware but not $100) so that i can get my files in order.

― vahid (vahid), Sunday, 4 February 2007 07:34 (seventeen years ago) link

i understand rsyncx is recommended but i can't find any readable documentation on it (don't know shit about unix) and it seems a bit hardcore for my purposes.

i just want to be able to open an application that just picks the newest revision of files off the drive and my hd and updates/overwrites the older ones.

― vahid (vahid), Sunday, 4 February 2007 07:51 (seventeen years ago) link

well ... actually, can anybody w/ rsyncx experience tell me if this seems workable:

i've got a directory on my computer that's got everything that's on the travel drive on it ... looks just like the thing.

so before i go to bed at night, do an rsyncx with my directory as source and my traveldrive as destination and "folder contents only".

when i get home from work (after playing w/ travel drive contents at work) do a rsyncx with the traveldrive as source and HD as destination.

should i do "update" or "two-way"??

― vahid (vahid), Sunday, 4 February 2007 07:57 (seventeen years ago) link

I've never used rsyncx, but rsync itself is dead easy to set up and does exactly what you want.

In the situation outlined, it surely shouldn't matter which you do, because only the files in one place should have changed, so there won't be any changes to sync in the opposite direction.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Sunday, 4 February 2007 08:06 (seventeen years ago) link

unsurprisingly Gates hates apple too although half of what he claims in this (about Microsoft creating the file menu system) is wrong. oops.

― kyle (akmonday), Sunday, 4 February 2007 17:27 (seventeen years ago) link

specifically, this bit of delusional weirdness:
In many of the Vista reviews, even the positive ones, people note that some Vista features are already in the Mac operating system.
You can go through and look at who showed any of these things first, if you care about the facts. If you just want to say, "Steve Jobs invented the world, and then the rest of us came along," that's fine. If you’re interested, [Vista development chief] Jim Allchin will be glad to educate you feature by feature what the truth is. I mean, it’s fascinating, maybe we shouldn't have showed so publicly the stuff we were doing, because we knew how long the new security base was going to take us to get done. Nowadays, security guys break the Mac every single day. Every single day, they come out with a total exploit, your machine can be taken over totally. I dare anybody to do that once a month on the Windows machine. So, yes, it took us longer, and they had what we were doing, user interface-wise. Let’s be realistic, who came up with [the] file, edit, view, help [menu bar]? Do you want to go back to the original Mac and think about where those interface concepts came from?"

― kyle (akmonday), Sunday, 4 February 2007 17:30 (seventeen years ago) link

Gates in self-colonoscopy non-shockah.

― Tuesdays With Morimoto (Rock Hardy), Sunday, 4 February 2007 18:02 (seventeen years ago) link

vahid I use deja vu, and I like it a lot. i don't do the "syncing" thing myself but deja vu WILL do that (if by syncing you mean "get rid of the stuff on the target folder/drive that no longer exists on the source folder/drive"). it sits in your system preferences and it can run on a schedule or manually. http://propagandaprod.com/

― Elsa Svitborg (tracerhand), Sunday, 4 February 2007 19:00 (seventeen years ago) link

on the backup theme, does anyone have any suggestions about how to backup to some webspace? is storage space affordable? e.g. do .mac accounts do this (i've always wondered what they were for)?

― toby (tsg20), Sunday, 4 February 2007 19:53 (seventeen years ago) link

.mac accounts do this but they aren't the cheapest around. Nicely integrated with the OS (there's a free backup utility included with the .mac subscription).

― Ed (dali), Sunday, 4 February 2007 19:54 (seventeen years ago) link

i just want something that will update changes to files made in either location on a daily basis, so that i always have the newest version of whatever files (mostly documents and pictures) at both locations

― vahid (vahid), Sunday, 4 February 2007 20:05 (seventeen years ago) link

RSyncX in two way is what you need.

― Ed (dali), Sunday, 4 February 2007 20:06 (seventeen years ago) link

i did some reading on rsyncx and it seems like the best thing to do is write two scripts, one that updates files from powerbook to memory stick and one that updates files in the other direction.

and to run both scripts at the same time and not do anything in between.

and to do this on an extremely regular basis.

― vahid (vahid), Sunday, 4 February 2007 20:16 (seventeen years ago) link

can anybody tell me about chronosync??

― vahid (vahid), Sunday, 4 February 2007 20:16 (seventeen years ago) link

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