I HATE APPLE

first, do a two-way sync to get everything on the memory stickas new as possible.

next, just wipe everything off my harddisk.

then, use rsyncx on a daily basis just to back up my memory stick, and only work with files on the memory stick.

here is the basic situation:

1) i've got about a gigabyte of stuff i take back and forth with me between school and home. lessons, diagrams, worksheets, gradebooks, spreadsheets and so on.

2) i only edit a few items daily, but i need to make sure that everything is up-to-date on both laptop and memory stick as often as possible, especially the gradebook and spreadsheets.

3) when i am at work i work completely off the memory stick because i am hopping between 4 different offices.

4) when i am at home i plug the memory stick in the powerbook, but i don't want to leave it there for very long because it's really awkward to have a memory stick poking out of the side of the powerbook and i mostly work with the powerbook on my lap or in bed or on a crowded kitchen table.

so ... what should i do? mind you, i'm a complete n00b when it comes to rsync and unix-y stuff.

zzzz baiting zealots

- the tiresome old argument brooker propounds

- the fact someone as incisive as brooker should bother his arse to propound such an argument, even at the behest of a commissioning editor waving a bag of loot

- the shrieking shrew suggesting "writers" should be consulted about every edit to their copy

- the fact i've wasted two minutes of my life reading it

- the fact i obviously care.

ARGHHH FUCK YOU APPLE FOR REQUIRING ME TO GET A ONE HUNDRED DOLLAR DVI TO ADC ADAPTOR, I MEAN FOR THE FUCK OF GOD, REALLY.

WAHT?

I had no idea. I have an extra one on my desk right now. THERE'S CASH IN THESE THINGS. EBAY, HERE I COME.

ONE HUNDRED TWENTY-THREE DOLLARS AFTER SHIPPING. IT MAY TAKE ME A WEEK TO CALM DOWN ENOUGH TO TURN OFF CAPS LOCK.

I really don't get it. Is it scented or something?

IT'S THE SIZE OF A BRICK AND HAS ITS OWN POWER SUPPLY AND USB PORT. WAHT THE FUKC!!!!!!!!!!!

OOOOOOooooooh. I was thinking of a DVI to VGA adapter.

haha u got an ADC monitor sucka

well, so do I, all the cinema displays are ADC iirc. And a ADC to VGA is like 10 bucks.

;_;

current Cinema Displays (metal bezel) are all DVI.

The plastic monitors from the last series go by a different name, don't they?

http://images.apple.com/displays/images/digital_sidebar_dviport20060721.png

ah ha. you are correct.

ok so wtf is an adc monitor?

Same name, different housing, different connection. I got this monitor four years ago when I bought my last Mac. Dumb of me not to check connection compatibility when I bought the new computer. (xpost)

Monitor with custom cable that has everything -- USB, display and power in the one cord. You need the box to split them and provide the power. Basically so that everything was neat. xp

The Apple Display Connector (ADC) is a proprietary modification of the DVI connector that combines analog and digital video signals, USB, and power all in one cable. Apple used ADC for its LCD-based Apple Cinema Displays and their final CRT displays, before deciding to use standard DVI connectors on later models.

bastards

Do Geffen make a cheaper alternative?

http://www.smalldog.com/product/12651830

Should just plug into one end of your current power brick and then into a Mac Pro, right?

That one's the wrong thing: it lets a Mac with an ADC port use a DVI screen. The other way round is the expensive one.

Apple haters a shrinking minority

"The only thing that kept people from getting Macs before is that they thought it was expensive and you couldn’t do some Windows programs on them," Snorek said. "But they’ve taken down all those barriers, and that’s why you’ve seen it take off."

Well, ONE of those claims is true.

Actually, the second one isn't entirely true: you can run all Windows programs on your Mac if you have a Mac w/Windows & OSX.

If someone hadn't given me a G4, I probably would not own a Mac. But if someone hadn't given me a G4, I'd probably still be writing papers in Notepad I had on the 386 I owned before the G4.

It's more that PC prices are rising, not that Apple's are falling. A computer that runs Vista effectively is not going to run you much less than a comparable Mac.

Fuckin' Vista.

here's a very stupid question: i'm using a program that has a shortcut which is listed as ^⌘n. what key is the '^' referring to?!

shift?

ctrl

ctrl! i would have sworn i'd tried that unsuccessfully, but it works now. thanks!

i'm so awesome!

I just bought my first mac yesterday - an imac.

It looks beautiful, but I'm not finding it that intuitive so far. In particular, what is going on when i download a programme e.g. firefox for macs? I get two icons on the desktop? And when it try to delete one - it says 'eject firefox?"

One is the disk image and the other is the virtual 'disk' that ha mounted on this system to delete, first eject the virtual disk and delete the .dmg file.

How to make Leopard less smug

the best takedown is here

http://arstechnica.com/reviews/os/mac-os-x-10-5.ars/1