I HATE APPLE

This was the video, btw, if anyone is interested (most YouTube videos have been fine)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXbCwq4ewBU

I've been watching 15 min long starcraft 2 replays on youtube via ipad. and I have a corny iphone 3g tethered internet connection which I'm sharing via my macbook. so I dunno

I was wondering if it was because it's HD.

that could be it. I didn't know you could select res on the youtube app, the standard 480p looks fine on mine

Thanks for checking it out. I didn't select HD, it's just that I see an HD version is available, so maybe it's trying to play that in the YouTube app for some reason. Actually it doesn't look that HD before it starts stuttering, so maybe not. Anyway, avoiding the YouTube app seems to now make it work, so I'll stop fretting about it.

You can't install plugins on iPad safari, no, just Mac. But it's great there.

Interesting about using the html5 version -- I've always preferred using the native app because it seems more reliable.

(sorry, thought the stuttering youtubes bit started on a MacBook, not your iPad! That browser thing drives me nuts, too. iCab seems a lot better at handling it, though -- saves tabs to disks if memory low)

i bought a HD enclosure to see if i could access the broken HD. i broke it within five seconds of opening the box.

i plugged my ipod in to sync it. i clicked "cancel" on a box saying it was already synced to another computer because i didn't know which was the right thing to do and now that box won't come up again and it won't sync. moreover, last.fm has not acknowledged it.

why is every. single. step of this shit so trying? why can't things JUST FUCKING WORK FOR ONCE LIKE THEY'RE MEANT TO. i'm so demoralised about all of this.

also google chrome won't work on 10.4.11 and i'd forgotten just how much of the firefox experience is spent glaring at a spinning beachball

and i'd forgotten my old itunes problem whereby it has to think and the beachball has to spin for 5 secs before playing certain random mp3s

dropbox is just another idisk

...for nothing left to lose.

Good luck USA for next week:

iPhone users could well be rolling into the office an hour late today across Europe. A bug affecting Apple’s handset’s alarm has hit after clocks went back one hour at the weekend.

The fault means that although the phone’s clock will automatically step back one hour to account for daylight saving time, the alarm sticks to its previous time. The result? Lots of people getting up an hour late.

hard drive in parents' 4 1/2 yr old mac mini died, apple are charging for parts only (£60), pretty good i think

lol just realized my powerbook doesn't have an expresscard slot anyway.. BUH

gah my airport express network has gotten so shitty this weekend. DO NOT UNDERSTAND. i have literally tried everything :(

Bluetooth interference? I just started having this problem.

Buy a microwave? New cordless phone? Baby monitor?

http://www.istumbler.net/

install that. see if there are networks in your range that are using the same channel. check to see what the other stats look like. change channels if necessary.

you can also check other area wifi networks by pressing option and clicking your airport icon in the menu bar. mouse over the other network names and see if one near you is on the same channel. could be causing the trouble.

i already tried everything

only thing that seems to be working is occasionally changing the channel. must just be crazy interference around here

gah my airport express network has gotten so shitty this weekend. DO NOT UNDERSTAND. i have literally tried everything :(

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omg mine did too, i think its back on ok but maybe there was a "virus" going around--get it

I used to love Apple products when I was a teenager but since converting to the more universal Windows OS in 2003 or so I feel as if I've grown out of them. They're too easy to use, so the OS gets boring. I like to tinker on my hardware so bringing my gadgets to the Apple Store and paying for Apple Care isn't something that thrills me. There are also cooler phones and music players out there if you're willing to look hard enough(Creative Labs, where is my Zen Touch Phone? GET ON IT!).
Apple is cool if you're into ease of use for various reasons, but I don't think it's convenient for the rest of us that are constantly surrounded by Microsoft-based operating systems in our everyday lives and need to move our data across platforms. Windows is still the dominant OS in public and I think Apple fanboys rag on it because the dominance of Windows inconveniences them and makes them butthurt.
Thankfully file conversion is getting easier due to the internet and open source applications, I think eventually Win and Mac are going to be able to work hand-in-hand and it won't make a damn difference because it will all be the same crap, just a different OS skin. Actually, we're getting to that point already.

mine eyes have seen the glory

MintIce, are you from 2001 on a tech forum?

lol

Don't be mean, I for one am pleased to discover that the internet is making file conversion easier. I've had all these mp3 things and I don't know what they are supposed to transform into.

jpgs

that looks dangerous.
http://en.kioskea.net/forum/affich-81155-mp3-files-got-converted-to-jpg

There's no reason why you shouldn't be able to convert mp3s into an image file with suitably high resolution. Then print image file. Then take picture of said image file and convert back to music.

Future of music distribution.

that rings a bell -- wasn't there some Linux backup system that involved printing files out as images?

omg, i converted "Stairway to Heaven" to a jpg!

http://www.hennessy.id.au/quentingeorge/archives/satan.jpg

Been using carbon copy cloner this week which seemed pretty good, but today it hung and wouldn't let me quit or force quit - tried to kill it from the command line but it wasn't feeling that either. Then it started hanging all my other applications, prevented me from logging out or shutting down. I think superduper might be more suitable for me

When I first heard of them they were discussed as being basically the same thing, but by now I've read many more people talking about Super Duper, and I've used it with no problem, so I'd say it comes out tops.

never had any problems with CCC myself, and it's free, so *shrugs*

I use SuperDuper, never tried CCC, but i've only had good results with SuperDuper.

I didn't mean to complain about CCC (it cloned my disk just fine) - was just wondering whether super duper might be a better fit for me

had a problem with superduper - if your disk disconnects in the middle of a backup (my external has a faulty enclosure or something) you'll be left with zero disk space. you need to go into /Volumes (which is not usually accessible) and delete a backup folder in order to get your space back.

SuperDuper's great but I quit using it for Time Machine. I like having old versions of stuff just in case. What's up with those of you that stuck with SD?

If your drive disconnects randomly, you shouldn't use it to backup anything! That's dangerous.

they're complementary, not replacements for each other. i use both. i clone (with SD, but you could use ccc) because (1) a time machine disk is not bootable so can't be used for emergency boot, you have to do a restore and i don't entirely trust that process. with a clone you can pick up where you last cloned (never more than four days for me) after a 30 second reboot (2) i exclude stuff from time machine that i don't want/need regular snapshots of, but do want a second copy of.

if you've got the space, you should use both. partition your external drive into one partition whose size matches that of your computer (clone), and one that is 2-3x the drive (TM). and then buy a second drive and do the same. keep one drive at work and swap them once a week.

if you don't have the space, time machine is more useful than a clone for most people.

Could one swap a cloned drive in after a crash and then use Time Machine to sort of restore from the future?

I recently had a drive die and the replacement is also making a clicking noise, so I'm seriously interested in this.

Restore from TM worked fine (I actually did a fresh install of Snow Leopard and used Migration Assistant, which performed flawlessly.) But it was time-consuming and I don't want to do it again.

also re: (1) i encrypt my TM disk, so it's doubly unbootable and slow to restore. i only use tm for recovering old versions of specific files. would never use it to restore my entire disk.

Could one swap a cloned drive in after a crash and then use Time Machine to sort of restore from the future?

yes. restore your home directory to the latest version in TM and that probably covers it, assuming your clone is not months out of date.

I also use both. Super Duper for my system and apps drive so I can always go back a day in case stuff crashes. Time machine for all my work stuff for those times where I somehow for some reason accidently delete or lose a file.

I actually did that at work today, and was working off a server. Versioning off some stuff and moving files around and thought I was done with it, hit delete, it's gone, then realized I needed it. If I really needed it I could've had the IT guys go to the tapes, but I just recreated the change that had happened between the two versions. Still there was that scary moment where I clicked on the trash thinking I can get it back then remembering that when you delete something off a server, it don't go into your trash.

does my backup strategy need improving?

I have external disk A which has two partitions. i) a CCC clone of the internal drive, and ii) a partition for music and other stuff not kept on the internal drive.

This drive is permanently attached by firewire and the backups are automated

Then I have external disk B which also has two partitions, i) a CCC clone of the internal drive, and ii) a copy of the 2nd partition of drive A.

This drive is held offsite, I bring it home once a week and copy the internal and the 2nd partition of external A to it

Should i be using time machine for some of this?

that's solid, and if you're strict about rotating it means you can always have a choice to two snapshots of any files to revert too, as well a the full clones. that's how i did it in pre-tm days.

but if you can afford the space then i would add tm to that.

I wasn't sure if I should be using time machine - and if so, in which way. Whats the advantage of time machine over CCC/superduper? (I'm not sure I need previous revisions of files)

And if i did use time machine (a 3rd partition? or 3rd and 4th?) - would i use CCC/SD to do internal to external A and then a time machine of that to external B - or vice versa - or something else? Not sure what the best combination of the two would be

if you don't need previous versions of files you don't need time machine. i think you'd find them more useful than you might imagine, but if you're sure then that's problem solved.

if you do decide to have a tm then remember the partition needs to be at least the size of the disk your backing up, but ideally a couple of times bigger (depending on what you use your computer for and how big the files that regularly change are). i do:

computer: 500gb

disk A (1TB, lives at work):
partition 1A: clone (500gb, runs on wednesday mornings)
paritition 1B: 500gb tm

disk B (2TB, lives at home):
partition 1B: clone (500gb, runs on saturday mornings)
partition 2B: tm in a disk image (so can grow up to 1.5TB, but I can also keep other stuff on that partition without affecting the tm)

A and B are not clones of each other. in fact, it's a good idea if they're not.

I have a little script that changes the time machine drive from A to B whenever either is connected (which happens every time I arrive at work or home and plug my computer in).

if you do decide to have a tm then remember the partition needs to be at least the size of the disk your backing up

sorry, needs to be at least the size of the data your backing up. e.g. my 500gb disk is only half full, and i exclude about 50gb of stuff from tm, so a 500gb time machine is plenty.