I use a program called Time Machine Editor to switch my Time Machine to only run once a day instead of every hour.
― dan selzer, Thursday, 16 December 2010 06:15 (thirteen years ago) link
Every two minutes the Apple TV is asking me if I want to upgrade to the latest firmware. EVERY TWO MINUTES. Hopefully one of the things the upgrade fixes is this shit.
― I mean Emma Watson Premier League fit (Autumn Almanac), Friday, 17 December 2010 22:58 (thirteen years ago) link
THIS IS DRIVING ME INSANE
― I mean Emma Watson Premier League fit (Autumn Almanac), Friday, 17 December 2010 23:08 (thirteen years ago) link
Chose 'upgrade now' instead of 'upgrade later' by accident and it's stopped my music. SO FUCKING ANGRY RIGHT NOW
― I mean Emma Watson Premier League fit (Autumn Almanac), Friday, 17 December 2010 23:11 (thirteen years ago) link
Maybe you should upgrade
― mh, Friday, 17 December 2010 23:25 (thirteen years ago) link
This upgrade had better come with maggots.
― I mean Emma Watson Premier League fit (Autumn Almanac), Friday, 17 December 2010 23:28 (thirteen years ago) link
i think it wants u to upgrade
― ice cr?m, Saturday, 18 December 2010 00:44 (thirteen years ago) link
FUCK U IPOD. "No Music" WTF. I can see the fucking files you bastard.
― a fucking stove just fell on my foot. (Colonel Poo), Saturday, 18 December 2010 08:25 (thirteen years ago) link
Is there an Apple utility that can rebuild your iTunesDB file?
I was writing a Python script that would do it until I ran into that fucking encryption thing Apple put in to force everyone to use iTunes because they are such incredible cunts.
― a fucking stove just fell on my foot. (Colonel Poo), Saturday, 18 December 2010 09:00 (thirteen years ago) link
You could drag the files from the drive into the iPod in iTunes.
― mh, Saturday, 18 December 2010 19:20 (thirteen years ago) link
I've heard that dragging just one song the iPod can repair the database. Worth a try as well? Do backups first though.
― I mean Emma Watson Premier League fit (Autumn Almanac), Saturday, 18 December 2010 20:19 (thirteen years ago) link
so i spilled beer on my macbook keyboard last night--i turned it off immediately, turned it upside down, let it drain... just turned it off and its working fine (so far) except keyboard shortcuts seem to be totally messed up--some of them dont work at all (command-tab), some of them only work from one command key (command-n in safari). doesnt seem to be a weird system preferences thing so im worried its a bad hardware situation. any hope for me?
― max, Sunday, 19 December 2010 21:02 (thirteen years ago) link
maybe let it dry (while off) for another 24 hours?
― caek, Sunday, 19 December 2010 21:07 (thirteen years ago) link
if the keyboard needs replacing you can DIY for ~100$/£
― caek, Sunday, 19 December 2010 21:09 (thirteen years ago) link
unfortunately i need it tonight
― max, Sunday, 19 December 2010 21:13 (thirteen years ago) link
"oh well"
HOYL FUCKL
― Mordy, Sunday, 19 December 2010 21:19 (thirteen years ago) link
OMADOGFMGOMASDFMGASDOFMASPDOMFAIOPSDMFGIOASNDMOIVGNAMDSFOPVNMASDOPVg
Wrong thread, sorry!
― Mordy, Sunday, 19 December 2010 21:20 (thirteen years ago) link
external usb keyboard xxp?
― caek, Sunday, 19 December 2010 21:26 (thirteen years ago) link
external usb keyboard would def be a good temp solution
other than that you could try taking it apart and dipping the entire keyboard in 100% isopropyl alcohol
it's easy I do it all the time
― dayo, Monday, 20 December 2010 00:17 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah i dont have one lying around, and its not anything crucial, just annoying given how used to keyboard shortcuts i am. ill see if i can borrow one later, or just replace this bad boy. going on 4 years with this laptop anyway and my eye is starting to wander...
dont worry though ill keep this thread updated.
― max, Monday, 20 December 2010 00:27 (thirteen years ago) link
i rebooted my MBP and it hung at the grey screen - didn't get the ? indicating the hard drive dead, just a grey screen
came back later in the afternoon to see what was happening, still the same. cold booted it, same thing again - tried coldbooting it with the option key down to see if would boot off that, same thing - seems to be before that
on i think the 5th cold boot it booted up ok
― cherry blossom, Friday, 31 December 2010 18:33 (thirteen years ago) link
my mbp from 2007 is fucked, it just makes the startup chime over and over when i turn it on. i think its the logic board >:(
― old man yells at cloud computing (am0n), Friday, 31 December 2010 18:36 (thirteen years ago) link
old man yells at apple computer
― old man yells at cloud computing (am0n), Friday, 31 December 2010 18:39 (thirteen years ago) link
i rebooted it again to see what would happen and its just rebooted fine - there's been no clicking to indicate a problem with the hard drive, and when it hung it seemed to be before it got to choosing which drive to boot off
maybe its just the time of year, i haven't really been at the races myself either
― cherry blossom, Friday, 31 December 2010 18:52 (thirteen years ago) link
Sounds like time to back up all your stuff.
― schwantz, Friday, 31 December 2010 20:26 (thirteen years ago) link
backed up w ccc on one partition and time machine on the other (then repeated with an offsite disk once a week ok month)
― cherry blossom, Friday, 31 December 2010 20:34 (thirteen years ago) link
but the weird thing is...when it wouldnt boot...it wouldnt let me choose to boot from the external either, it hung before that point
(now it boots off both fine)
― cherry blossom, Friday, 31 December 2010 20:35 (thirteen years ago) link
finally worked out how to wirelessly connect my MBP with my PS3. MAGIC.
― calling planet dearth (sunny successor), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 08:18 (thirteen years ago) link
why.... would you do that
― progressive cuts (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 11:05 (thirteen years ago) link
probably to screen avi files from his laptop to his television (that's why I connected my MB to my 360)
― Mordy, Tuesday, 4 January 2011 13:02 (thirteen years ago) link
you can also use your laptop as a floating hard drive and stream music through your tv. also wonderful.
is there anyway to screen share so we can watch hulu stuff or is it just folders and files??
― calling planet dearth (sunny successor), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 13:55 (thirteen years ago) link
just folders and files
― Mordy, Tuesday, 4 January 2011 14:45 (thirteen years ago) link
lame
― calling planet dearth (sunny successor), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 00:40 (thirteen years ago) link
surely you can get a vpn client for a ps3, it is huge!
― caek, Wednesday, 5 January 2011 00:50 (thirteen years ago) link
More of an "I LOVE APPLE" post, but...
I lost my iPhone a couple months ago, and assumed it was stolen, because I tried to call it immediately, and it went straight to voicemail. I ended up having to pay the "early upgrade" pricing to get a new one ($500).
Then, a couple of days ago, I got an email from the SF Apple store telling me that a good samaritan had turned in my phone, and that I could come in and pick it up any time. So maybe this is more of a "I LOVE GOOD SAMARITANS" post, but in any case... YAY!
― schwantz, Monday, 17 January 2011 19:37 (thirteen years ago) link
So do you get your money back or do you just pointlessly have two phones?
― Death and Taxis (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Monday, 17 January 2011 22:43 (thirteen years ago) link
I think my wife gets a new phone, or I could sell it, maybe?
― schwantz, Monday, 17 January 2011 22:45 (thirteen years ago) link
can't you watch hulu via the PS3 browser? not ideal but should still work. I know iplayer does
― cozen, Monday, 17 January 2011 22:46 (thirteen years ago) link
anyone got a link to the chart showing how much apple stock you'd have if you'd invested in shares instead of buying their laptops on release
― cozen, Monday, 17 January 2011 22:52 (thirteen years ago) link
http://cdn.hipsterrunoff.com/sites/default/files/imagecache/800/20110119-jgh61ps6d7ufqwm8b7b6cyxx7f.jpg
― Jefferson Mansplain (DG), Wednesday, 19 January 2011 19:57 (thirteen years ago) link
Bastard thing did it again. So it looks like every time I plug my ipod into my conputer it fucks up, loses all the songs and says it has to be reset to factory settings. Brilliant. The only upside is this model doesn't run out of battery very often.
― a fucking stove just fell on my foot. (Colonel Poo), Sunday, 23 January 2011 00:40 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah i dont have one lying around, and its not anything crucial, just annoying given how used to keyboard shortcuts i am. ill see if i can borrow one later, or just replace this bad boy. going on 4 years with this laptop anyway and my eye is starting to wander...dont worry though ill keep this thread updated.― max, Sunday, December 19, 2010 6:27 PM (1 month ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
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what'd you end up doing with your computer, max? i spilled some whiskey on the right side of my macbook keyboard a few days ago and the A through L keys and the left option key (none of which were spilled on) are all dead. probably going to end up with permanent usb keyboard :-/
― circles, Friday, 28 January 2011 04:29 (thirteen years ago) link
nothing. all my keys work fine individually, but the shortcuts that didnt work at the beginning still dont work. its a pain.
― max, Friday, 28 January 2011 04:30 (thirteen years ago) link
Whenever I try to log on to ILX on my iphone, when I type in my name (at the start of my e-mail address) the autocorrect keeps changing it to 'nanoscale'. Is there a way I can add my name to a dictionary of known words so that it won't keep trying to change it?
― Death and Taxis (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Friday, 28 January 2011 09:32 (thirteen years ago) link
Settings > General > Keyboard > Edit User Dictionary
― Balls is significantly to the left of Brown (Autumn Almanac), Friday, 28 January 2011 10:00 (thirteen years ago) link
I don't get that option under Keyboard.
But my surname (along with other words I use) has automatically been added to the user dictionary, just from me having typed it a few times.
― Alba, Friday, 28 January 2011 10:24 (thirteen years ago) link
What's your iPhone?
― Balls is significantly to the left of Brown (Autumn Almanac), Friday, 28 January 2011 10:28 (thirteen years ago) link