New Apple Lust Objects for 2010 and onward

god no xp

Yes. Tom hanks?

kind of.

but more

MAC=$(ifconfig en0 | perl -ne 's/.*ether (\w+:\w+:\w+:\w+:\w+:\w+).*/$1/ && s/://g && print;')
SBNAME=$(hostname)_$MAC.sparsebundle
hdiutil create -fs HFS+J -size 350g -type SPARSEBUNDLE -volname "Time Machine Backup" $SBNAME

change 350g to whatever you want the maximum size to be. obviously this needs to be smaller than the disk. then...

chflags uchg $SBNAME/Info.*
chflags nouchg $SBNAME/Info.*
mv $SBNAME /Volumes/MYEXTERNALDRIVE_CHANGETHIS

obv. change MYEXTERNALDRIVE_CHANGETHIS to whatever your external drive is called

then open time machine preferences and choose MYEXTERNALDRIVE_CHANGETHIS as the time machine disk (*not* Time Machine Backups).

party time amirite

these instructions are good for 10.7. they kind of work on 10.6, although not really because you have to manually run time machine each time you want to take a snapshot. i don't know if they work at all on 10.8.

it gets more complicated if (1) you want to encrypt the backup or (2) you want don't want to start a time machine from scratch, but want to copy the history you already have one your old disk over.

ok thanks!!

i might just get rid of my time machine backup on my newish drive (~1 month) and reformat with a 1gb partition for it so it doesnt creep all over the entire drive (which is 3gb)

yeah actually the easy way is just to partition

thinking about it, the only reason i go through that v complicated procedure is so that i can encrypt the backup and i always have as much free space as possible on the external drive.

if you partition a 2gb drive in half, 1gb is always unavailable to store for other stuff, because TM will delete it next time the backup runs. the disk image method is nice because the disk image grows. it's like a partition which gets bigger.

so if you're not bothered about that then just partition

I've always been afraid to use Filevault. Maybe it had trouble when it came out? Is this something I should use on my laptop that gets a lot of travel?

apparently it's rock solid now, so yeah i guess. i am leery of converting tho and feel like i should start from scratch.

"apparently" = according to siracusa

you use some other encryption then?

if you don't have a time machine and an ipad and you don't want to like integrate your activity monitor w/ facebook and twitter is there any reason to do this update?

i encrypt the backup because it is often somewhere i am not, but i don't encrypt the laptop itsefl xp

if you use ical, mail etc. a lot then you might like the new calender, notes, mail, etc. stuff

and it's much improved under the hood

but for day to day, not a lot

Notifications are kinda nice if you're on the computer a lot.

is the under-the-hood stuff going to have any impact on a core 2 duo machine is what i wonder, still not sure about lion

and yeah i use ical and mail all the damn time ... did i hear right that apple bought sparrow and fantastical?

oh ok, encrypting a backup, yes I could do that

no it's under the hood from the POV of security, developers, etc. it's not going to be significantly faster for the user

ah

mountain lion seems zippy (esp safari 6) & notifications are nice

apple employees get 250$ fuckbucks off a new ipad! thusly shall I approve the rental application of my new tenant who worketh there and have security deposit paid in kind with ipaddery!

stet can you please integrate ilx bookmarks w/notification centre

^^ not impossible actually

http://www.w3.org/TR/notifications/

if you partition a 2gb drive in half, 1gb is always unavailable to store for other stuff, because TM will delete it next time the backup runs. the disk image method is nice because the disk image grows. it's like a partition which gets bigger.

so if you're not bothered about that then just partition

― caek, Thursday, July 26, 2012 2:56 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

actually my whole point is i DONT want it to grow past a certain size

yeah, the complicated thing i descriped takes up the minimum space possible for the amount of data (unlike a partition), and has a maximum size (like a parition)

it's the *sparse* in sparse disk image that means it takes up the minimum space poss. like you create a 1gb sparse disk image but until you actually put any files on it, the disk image is like 50mb or something. and the last steps in the instructions i pasted ensure that it never gets enlarged bigger than 1gb.

and yeah i use ical and mail all the damn time ... did i hear right that apple bought sparrow and fantastical?

Google bought out Sparrow

xp

hmm sparrow was pretty sweet but eventually turned out to be too much work

I've always been afraid to use Filevault. Maybe it had trouble when it came out? Is this something I should use on my laptop that gets a lot of travel?

― Euler, Thursday, July 26, 2012 12:03 PM (5 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

apparently it's rock solid now, so yeah i guess. i am leery of converting tho and feel like i should start from scratch.

― caek, Thursday, July 26, 2012 12:07 PM (5 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Just as a data point w.r.t. FileVault, I've been encrypting since 10.7.2 and it's been solid ever since.

filevault fucked up my friend's mac back in 05, it was sad

Yah, old FileVault was a mess. FileVault 2 (as Apple is calling it now) is very stable, but if you have any out-of-normal configurations you might have an issue. This guide is a good start: https://www.macworld.com/article/1162999/complete_guide_to_filevault_2_in_lion.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/28/technology/apple-is-said-to-discuss-an-investment-in-twitter.html?_r=1&hp

^^ reckons Apple wants to buy a stake in Twittwe

Twitter

haha for a sec i was like is that some 3rd party client

mail *finally* replies to the recipient not the sender if you were the sender. when did this happen?

im having trouble figuring out the usefulness of notifications--are any of you guys finding them helpful or useful at all yet?

like right now i keep my dock permanently on the right side, which lets me keep an eye on the app icons to let me know if i have new mail, new IMs, new tweets. notifications seems kinda redundant.

i guess theyre kinda useful for calendar events/reminders, though my phone will also buzz.

and if i use full screen mode, which i do on my laptop but not usually on my work computer

the twitter notifications are really slow

yeah i think that's basically it. they're much less necessary than on ios because you can see more than one thing at once.

My lust object should be here today sometime…

Hey mine too, silby! I had it delivered to work, got all excited and took the afternoon off. Going from an original core duo macbook to this is a real culture shock..

Oooh immediate massive improvement: scrolling through long ilx threads to get back to bookmarks is a breeze!

Meantime on another front:

http://www.macrumors.com/2012/07/31/hulu-plus-now-available-on-apple-tv/

I like the mail notifications because I get a flash of what the message is, & I can know immediately if I need to read it all or respond right away without having to click away from what I'm doing. before I'd get a ping or see that I have new mail, but wouldn't know what the mail was without jumping over to mail to read it.

wait, basically you guys are describing Outlook notifications, right

I've been using growl for that style of notifications for years.

i have never ever felt so impatient about receiving a package in my life

i thought i posted this somewhere else but i ended up going for the 2.6 / 16 / 256 retina, unbelievably super-excited for this shit to get here

also: mt lion is surprisingly zippy and cool on this 2008 santa rosa, if anything it's running faster than lion. i'm not sure why but one thing i notice is that it seems to do much less file indexing?

much happier since I destroyed notification centre

my RMBP will be ready to go in ... about 56 minutes!!!!