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.
― vahid (vahid), Sunday, 4 February 2007 20:30 (seventeen years ago) link
― Paul Eater (eater), Sunday, 4 February 2007 20:31 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ed (dali), Sunday, 4 February 2007 20:32 (seventeen years ago) link
― vahid (vahid), Sunday, 4 February 2007 20:40 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ed (dali), Sunday, 4 February 2007 20:41 (seventeen years ago) link
― vahid (vahid), Sunday, 4 February 2007 20:45 (seventeen years ago) link
zzzz baiting zealots
― UART variations (ex machina), Monday, 5 February 2007 20:54 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ed (dali), Monday, 5 February 2007 20:57 (seventeen years ago) link
― stet (stet), Monday, 5 February 2007 20:58 (seventeen years ago) link
- 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.
― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Monday, 5 February 2007 23:08 (seventeen years ago) link
― TOMBOT, Thursday, 3 May 2007 14:21 (seventeen years ago) link
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 3 May 2007 15:08 (seventeen years ago) link
― milo z, Thursday, 3 May 2007 19:03 (seventeen years ago) link
― Maria, Thursday, 3 May 2007 21:04 (seventeen years ago) link
― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Thursday, 3 May 2007 21:43 (seventeen years ago) link
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.
― Rock Hardy, Monday, 25 June 2007 20:14 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― kenan, Monday, 25 June 2007 20:16 (sixteen years ago) link
ONE HUNDRED TWENTY-THREE DOLLARS AFTER SHIPPING. IT MAY TAKE ME A WEEK TO CALM DOWN ENOUGH TO TURN OFF CAPS LOCK.
― Rock Hardy, Monday, 25 June 2007 20:18 (sixteen years ago) link
I really don't get it. Is it scented or something?
― kenan, Monday, 25 June 2007 20:22 (sixteen years ago) link
IT'S THE SIZE OF A BRICK AND HAS ITS OWN POWER SUPPLY AND USB PORT. WAHT THE FUKC!!!!!!!!!!!
― Rock Hardy, Monday, 25 June 2007 20:25 (sixteen years ago) link
OOOOOOooooooh. I was thinking of a DVI to VGA adapter.
― kenan, Monday, 25 June 2007 20:28 (sixteen years ago) link
haha u got an ADC monitor sucka
― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Monday, 25 June 2007 20:31 (sixteen years ago) link
well, so do I, all the cinema displays are ADC iirc. And a ADC to VGA is like 10 bucks.
― kenan, Monday, 25 June 2007 20:36 (sixteen years ago) link
;_;
― Rock Hardy, Monday, 25 June 2007 20:39 (sixteen years ago) link
current Cinema Displays (metal bezel) are all DVI.
The plastic monitors from the last series go by a different name, don't they?
― milo z, Monday, 25 June 2007 20:41 (sixteen years ago) link
http://images.apple.com/displays/images/digital_sidebar_dviport20060721.png
ah ha. you are correct.
― kenan, Monday, 25 June 2007 20:45 (sixteen years ago) link
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)
― Rock Hardy, Monday, 25 June 2007 20:47 (sixteen years ago) link
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
― stet, Monday, 25 June 2007 20:49 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― milo z, Monday, 25 June 2007 20:49 (sixteen years ago) link
bastards
― Rock Hardy, Monday, 25 June 2007 20:52 (sixteen years ago) link
Do Geffen make a cheaper alternative?
― Ed, Monday, 25 June 2007 21:01 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.smalldog.com/product/12651830
― milo z, Monday, 25 June 2007 21:08 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― stet, Monday, 25 June 2007 21:27 (sixteen years ago) link
Apple haters a shrinking minority
― kenan, Thursday, 26 July 2007 23:54 (sixteen years ago) link
"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.
― Abbott, Thursday, 26 July 2007 23:59 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― Abbott, Friday, 27 July 2007 00:00 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― kenan, Friday, 27 July 2007 00:01 (sixteen years ago) link
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?!
― toby, Sunday, 16 September 2007 16:34 (sixteen years ago) link
shift?
― milo z, Sunday, 16 September 2007 16:52 (sixteen years ago) link
ctrl
― DG, Sunday, 16 September 2007 16:54 (sixteen years ago) link
ctrl! i would have sworn i'd tried that unsuccessfully, but it works now. thanks!
― toby, Sunday, 16 September 2007 17:01 (sixteen years ago) link
i'm so awesome!
― DG, Sunday, 16 September 2007 17:05 (sixteen years ago) link
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?"
― Bob Six, Sunday, 16 September 2007 18:44 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― Ed, Sunday, 16 September 2007 19:22 (sixteen years ago) link
How to make Leopard less smug
― Alba, Tuesday, 30 October 2007 23:13 (sixteen years ago) link
the best takedown is here
http://arstechnica.com/reviews/os/mac-os-x-10-5.ars/1
― Dandy Don Weiner, Wednesday, 31 October 2007 00:31 (sixteen years ago) link
no blind spots in leopard's eyes
can only help to jeopardize
the lives of lambs that shape the grass
― r|t|c, Wednesday, 31 October 2007 12:49 (sixteen years ago) link
haha sorry, that wz fairly unforgivable