I HATE APPLE

for people thinking about trying ssd via expresscard, here's some more deets: http://onethingwell.org/post/1610589228/ssd-two-electric-boogaloo

I've found that if you use Time Machine on a drive that's not partitioned or dedicated to TM, it has a funny way of messing with permissions, to the extent that it forbids you from renaming files on that drive, moving them into different folders, etc. Just an FYI, from my experience.

yes, you need to give time machine its own disk, partition or disk image. it won't coexist with other stuff.

^^^^just discovered this the other day

I would like to get an expresscard SSD to boot up from, but the area on the logic board around the expresscard slot is where I vacuumed off a resistor once, and I'm still not sure what that's affecting, and if it's the expresscard slot, I don't want to bork my computer by using the expresscard slot

hahaha

you vacuumed a resistor of your logic board?

yes. :( I took apart my mbp to replace the thermal grease, thought I'd vacuum off the dust bunnies, next thing you know a few resistors have gone off. so far around that area, the headphone output is still working, not sure about the displayport/mic input/express card slot. also I don't have applecare. hmm

pro tip: never use a vacuum cleaner to clean yer logic board. compressed air is much safer. #fuckfuckfuck

lol, well i can't imagine it hurting to try, but you never know. i don't really know what electricity is.

yeah maybe I'll pick one up. I ~think~ I noticed that the speakers started sounding shittier after I did that so maybe it was a speaker resistor. or maybe I had just gotten too used to my headphones at that point.

on the plus side, my mbp runs at ~45-50 C at idle now, when there isn't some unknown process eating up cpu cycles and making it run at 60 (I'm looking at you, flash)

i'm actually surprised about forcing TM to its own partition - a lot of internet talk said otherwise. good thing i separated them when i started

the disk image alternative is great because it saves you partitioning. the problem with partitioning is that if you're like, "hey, i don't want this disk to be 50/50 time machine/music collection" any more after a year, you are in for an ordeal or copying stuff on and off, repartitioning, etc.

the disk image is just a file that grows (and shrinks) with your time machine to take up more or less of the partition its on, without affecting the other files. and when you double click that file (or when time machine automatically opens it to run a backup) its like you temporarily have another partition.

there are two slightly fiddly things about working like this:

1) it's a pain to set up. you have to manually create an empty disk image with a filename made up of the machine name and the ethernet MAC address.
2) when you want to recover a file from the tm you have to manually mount the disk image then option-click the time machine menu bar and chooose "browse other time machines" because it won't find the disk automatically.

but in normal use, assuming you're on 10.6.5 or better, its totally transparent.

the other nice thing is that you can encrypt the disk image if you care about that stuff, e.g. you take the tm disk travelling (although it's probably a waste of time unless you also encrypt your mac's hard drive or run filevault)

u r like a next level nerd

http://wallofscribbles.com/gallery/Misc.%20Images/obama%20respect%20knuckles.jpg

l-r: gbx, caek, guy standing in for ppl that don't give two shits about backups

hahalol i am very presidential

fwiw stet knows more mac stuff than me, especially in the post-iphone era. i was on 10.5 until july, and have used someone's iphone/ipad maybe 3 times.

but i am king of (1) unix and (2) backup paranoia on this board fuiud

u cant be a king of unix until u own a recumbent bicycle

lookin at that SSD article, man I dun even know if my snow leopard cd is in the country

~hmm~

dont u mean special administrative region

your moms a special administrative region

lol

>:[

A gatrillion posts- my MBP died Unser the weight of 35K + photos. I finally got it to start again and ripped them all off. Works like dream now

can't upgrade ios to 4.2 until i upgrade itunes to version 10, which i can't do until i upgrade from tiger to snow leopard.

What happened to Lex's macbook - he was keeping us on tenterhooks?

we put the old hard drive i mentioned into it, and it works - still kinda annoying in many ways cuz i'd got used to the new 10.6 hd. on 10.4 i have to use firefox, which ALWAYS freezes and generally takes up more memory, instead of chrome (does anyone have any recommendations for light 10.4-compatible browsers?). and the version of itunes on 10.4 is pretty annoying too - for certain mp3s it has to stop and think and spin the beach ball for ~5secs before it'll play them, which rules out listening to some mixes completely.

i don't know what to do about the dead hd - there's stuff on there that i really quite need to have back, but not quite enough/sufficiently important to pay top dollar to retrieve. i've tried the freezing thing - didn't work. and i tried data warrior - the free demo tells you what data it can retrieve, and no dice there either. then i hit it a few times and that didn't work either.

(does anyone have any recommendations for light 10.4-compatible browsers?)

seamonkey

http://www.seamonkey-project.org/releases/

Try Camino for a browser.

I got a new iphone 3gs on Tuesday. Everything seems to work apart from one thing: when I make or receive calls, I can't hear any sound unless I plug in the earphones or put it on speakerphone. There doesn't appear to be any fix for this - as far as I can tell the handset is just slightly fucked and there's no setting I can change to sort it out. Carphone Warehouse (who I ordered the phone from) were so hopeless in the first place (they managed to get my bank account blocked temporarily by fucking up the payment, then repeatedly promised me the phone would be delivered the next day but took a week to send it) that I don't know if I can face trying to get this sorted: I can see myself losing everything I've downloaded / set up so far and being without a phone for a week. Should I take this short term pain for long term gain, or just take the earphones with me everywhere and put up with it?

Short-term pain for long-term gain.

do you have an apple store nearby? they should be able to replace it on the spot. just back it up before you go.

There's a massive apple store on regents street (in central London) (or there was in 2005 and I assume it's still there), but I didn't buy my phone from them so surely they wouldn't be obliged to help.

my 3G died last year, i bought it from O2 but the apple store changed it with no fuss. can't see why they'd treat you any differently.

Cool. I just need to work out how to save all my contacts, apps, etc. and then delete everything from the phone.

Do a full backup in iTunes. Then, when you get the new one, do a restore from backup and you'll be set.

Apple handles support for iPhones, nevermind where it was bought.

There's the fact that it's a retail store that makes you think they support what was sold there, but they're also the brick-and-mortar franchises of AppleCare and general support.

Nasty & Brutish - have you tried this?

http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1630

Yes, but thanks for looking. That's not the same problem - I couldn't find my exact problem on their site. Now that I know I can essentially save everything I need on my computer, I'm going to try restoring the device. If that doesn't work I'll take it to the Apple store.

an empty plastic pitcher fell on my iphone from like a foot up and cracked the screen. wtf.

what are the chances that apple will replace this for me for free (none right)
is it worth trying to replace it myself for ~$50 with a diy kit
or should i just get the iphone 4 since ive had this phone for 2 years

2 years? iPhone 4 for sure

dont want to spend the moneyyyyyyyyy

should have thought of that before you got into bed with steve jobs

$50 for repairs, $199 for a new iPhone 4, assuming it really has been 2 years

(sorry about your phone max)

assuming it really has been 2 years

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you doubt me?!

eh it still works so probably i will do what i always do which is just use it until it really breaks even tho it has a gross ugly broken screen now

Well, I would say "2 years" if I'd bought it in mid-December 2008, but by actual time, that is 1 year, 11 months and some change.

well i bought it in sept 2008 so so there