New Apple Lust Objects for 2010 and onward

the only nerdy typeface i know is FIXEDSYS

my hard drives are named after humanities people... was with great regret that i reformatted roland barthes earlier this year.

ha i should call my new computer fixedsys

(thanks to american taxpayers for my new computer btw)

mine are named for right-wing politicians

jördhaider320 still going strong

Siracusa: "The turning point came in Mac OS X 10.4, which added support for arbitrarily extensible file system metadata. No longer were we confined to just a file name, a few dates, and some permissions and ownership information. Now we could attach any information to a file by adding arbitrary name/value pairs."

I must have read about this at the time, but it's news to me. Hasn't exactly set the world on fire I guess.

I still remember where I was when that happened.

see even os x added avatars before ilx

i've seen things you people wouldn't believe. arbitrarily extensible file system metadata added to hierarchical file systems. i watched avatars glitter in sub-retina resolution on thunderbolt displays. all those... moments... will be lost in time... like tears in the rain. time... to die.

lol this thread got super interesting in the wink of an eye

loud embarrassing snort-laugh accomplished, thanks dayo

I still prefer it to most other web email interfaces, though. God, there are some awful ones.

― mh, Thursday, October 24, 2013 3:38 PM (4 hours ago)

my favorite was the iteration of ms exchange with a webmail interface that wouldn't work properly in internet explorer

what's the opposite of eating yr own dog food

That is so Microsoft

Their current Team Foundation Server web dashboard definitely works better in other browsers than IE

I have a weird bug w/tweetbot where it's hidden off the screen somewhere ungrabbable & it persists even when closed and reopened

how do I fix it

I get that too.

If you hold down the option key, and go to the File menu you can choose "Quit and close all windows". Then restart and it should be fixed fit for the time being.

Relaunch, I mean, not restart.

perfect thanks

next problem: silverlight is acting like a total dog in mavericks. I thought netflix were supposed to be switching over to HTML5 - have they already done this and if they have is there a way to force netflix into HTML5?

how long does the mavericks upgrade take? 20m, 1h, more?

Once it's downloaded, about 35 minutes for me. Though the final "About a minute left" took 10.

yeah little less than 1h. but the DL took like 2.5 hrs.

for me it took over two hours to install after the download (which itself took about 4 hours). i've got an old ass 2008 iMac though

i think it was actually the lowest possible iMac spec for 10.9 lol

I must have read about this at the time, but it's news to me. Hasn't exactly set the world on fire I guess.

Excuse the digression, but it’s been a difficult decade for file systems:

2001. Palm, Inc. acquires Be, Inc. for $11 million.

2001. Palm, Inc. discontinues BeOS, therefore, the Be File System (BFS) development stops.

2002. Lucent Technologies discontinues Plan 9.

2006. Microsoft, for unknown reasons, shelves WinFS, the most promising practical file system since BFS.

2006. Hans Reiser, author of the promising ReiserFS, murders his wife, Nina.

2009. Apple advertises support for Sun Microsystems’ ZFS in OS X Server 10.6.

2010. Oracle acquires Sun Microsystems.

2010. Apple removes references to ZFS from the OS X Server website.

download mavericks: 4 hrs
install mavericks: 42 mins
resolve this:

http://i.imgur.com/HSN79Tm.jpg

7 hrs
download mavericks: 4 hrs
install mavericks: 42 mins

run diskwarrior, sounds like you have a bad directory.

throw hard drive out window, buy new ssd, install mavericks, restore home directory from backup imo

yeah. i did do the disk repair thing, but odds on it's a dying drive. at least i know the backup is okay.

yes buy SSD and see the world from a rocketship

price prohibitive, sadly. i need at least 1/2 tb. also, the mbp is 3.5 yrs old and not really worth putting too much money into.

yeah would be trickier on MBP but I have a 2009 MacBook and the SSD gave it a new life. But you could pull out the optical drive and put in a 128 SSD for $120 in the bay. Then upgrade your dying HD for around the same price and use that for cold storage. (Depends on your workflow, of course. Are you doing a lot of video or photo work?)

oh interesting, cheers. i think the optical drive is hosed anyway. i don't do video work, just web stuff, docs and itunes/iphoto storage.

the plan is to buy a retina mbp next year when i'm a bit more flush.

Dunno. I think a 3.5 y.o. MBP is still worth a memory upgrade and a 200-300 dollar SSD, no? Depends on your needs I guess but I could still get a few years out of such a machine

my 5 y.o. mbp seems fine for everything i put it through

the non-retina mbps are sort of the last apple macbooks that are actually amenable to user upgrading.

damn AA, that blows

cheers nhex. at least my backup is good!

Dunno. I think a 3.5 y.o. MBP is still worth a memory upgrade and a 200-300 dollar SSD, no? Depends on your needs I guess but I could still get a few years out of such a machine

― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Saturday, 26 October 2013 08:09 (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yes! i did the memory upgrade recently (to 8 gb) and it made a huge difference. my whole incentive to upgrade is for a retina screen, but yeah, this mbp could probably go for another few years.

right now i can get a 1/2 tb ssd for 4x the price of a 1 tb non-ssd. difficult to justify, especially as speed is not really an issue (although dandydonweiner's dual ssd/non-ssd solution really appeals).

i'm doing a dual ssd / hdd setup - 256 ssd and a 1tb hdd

that's my setup on my 2009 iMac. All I have on my MacBook is a 256SSD.

If I could push all my music and photos to the cloud I'd ditch HD life forevah.

If you need 500GB get a hybrid, they are rad

- written on Mid-2010 MBP with a 500GB Seagate Momentus XT

oh, so done. there's a 1tb where i'm going!

fabulous sshd tip, mh. it's already noticeably faster in some ways.

now i'm wishing i'd bought a new drive sooner. i've been scraping through with <10 gb free space for at least two years.

i just (well, the us taxpayer just bought me) an air with a 512gb ssd /braggin

you're welcome

1 maverick tip and 1 questions.

tip: w/ multiple monitors, application switcher (command tab) pops up on whichever monitor you last invoked the dock on (assuming it's hidden, not sure otherwise)

question: why on earth do I have two tiny little finder windows sitting in the middle of my desktop that I can't click on and don't do anything?

i.. don't have that, so i don't know?

however, my nfs mounts no longer work, and i don't even see where to configure them. :/

and screw however killed the ability to switch the dock back to 2D. Always the first thing I do.

my dock stayed 2d during the upgrade

oh, seems you need to put your dock on the side (it should be there anyway unless you are a savage)

dock on the side? that's where all my adobe tools are. I keep it on the bottom, minimized.

caek otm

If your adobes are on a side put your dock on the other