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>We take 80-100,000 pictures every year, and...
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>We take 80-100,000 pictures every year, and we're not even close to 2 TB.
I should clarify:
1rst TB = 250G Text/PDF/Word Files/Powerpoint 500G Images (I shoot RAW and use high res 16 bit tiff...
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Posted by barbarian, on Apr 28, 2005 at 08:09 AM, in macOS |
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Random notes... this is with and education copy...
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Random notes... this is with and education copy which I think is identical to the others... same build number.
1. it doesn't "feel" like a major upgrade as most major elements are basically the...
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Posted by barbarian, on Apr 27, 2005 at 05:49 PM, in macOS |
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physical security software
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Does anyone know if there's a utility out there that can play a loud alarm on your machine if someone unplugs a USB or firewire device?
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Posted by barbarian, on Feb 24, 2005 at 09:14 PM, in macOS |
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strange safari behavior
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on several of our machines safari has inexplicably started slowing down to molasses pace.
Loading of pages is painful. Spinning wheel etc.
No other apps seem to be affected.
Firefox works...
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Posted by barbarian, on Jan 29, 2005 at 10:15 PM, in macOS |
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It appears that many of my finder gripes will be...
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It appears that many of my finder gripes will be fixed with Spotlight...
but it appears that Tiger still does not allow the user basic control over the look of the finder specifically control over...
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Posted by barbarian, on Jan 18, 2005 at 07:32 PM, in macOS |
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I manage many macs (in a software company) and...
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I manage many macs (in a software company) and have found over and over that our users who try to get smart and optimize invariably end up screwing up their systems.
OS X does a pretty good job of...
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Posted by barbarian, on Nov 30, 2004 at 11:26 AM, in macOS |
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many thanks... painless and easy.
I actually...
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many thanks... painless and easy.
I actually was concerned about the files on my HD. I wanted to add artwork and itunes wasn't letting me because of the permissions.
life is good now.
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Posted by barbarian, on Nov 30, 2004 at 02:30 AM, in macOS |
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Batch changing permissions for nested folders
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A buddy of mine on a Linux system has been painstakingly converting my and my girlfriend's collection of old jazz vinyl to MP3s. We have just started receiving the CDs of burnt files, but there's...
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Posted by barbarian, on Nov 29, 2004 at 10:50 PM, in macOS |
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I would recommend first grabbing the data off the...
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I would recommend first grabbing the data off the drive. I've had tremendous success with Data Rescue X. It doesn't try to recover the disk, it just grabs the data. In my experience disk warrior,...
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Posted by barbarian, on Nov 27, 2004 at 05:14 PM, in macOS |
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how am I supposed to keep my drives nice and...
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how am I supposed to keep my drives nice and optimized - any suggestions out there?
Let OS X do the work. This is not OS 9, not Windows. X defragments most small files on the fly. Unless your...
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Posted by barbarian, on Nov 24, 2004 at 01:24 PM, in macOS |
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I've experienced night and day differences on...
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I've experienced night and day differences on certain machines simply by running Xupport (versiontracker) hitting Maintain and then using the "clear caches" button.
Other machines have seemingly...
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Posted by barbarian, on Nov 23, 2004 at 02:48 PM, in macOS |
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airport and interference
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I am looking to buy a baby monitor that does not interfere with my airport or my 5.6 ghz phones.... any suggestions?
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Posted by barbarian, on Nov 9, 2004 at 03:03 PM, in Networking |
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System install hackery
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My brother-in-law is in Korea with his ibook.
He connected to the net, saw a bunch of system updates (he was 10.3) and installed. All went well until the 10.35 update. It hung for hours during the...
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Posted by barbarian, on Nov 4, 2004 at 01:47 PM, in macOS |
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The reason I ask is that I have a home in NY with...
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The reason I ask is that I have a home in NY with a very fast connection. I'm not there very often (live in CA), and while I'm not there I leave an airport network open to whoever finds it. When I...
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Posted by barbarian, on Sep 1, 2004 at 12:31 PM, in macOS |
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Stuck CD in G5
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I stupidly shipped my G5 with a CD inside. Now it is stuck. I can make the metal door go down manually but the cd slot won't eject. Any ideas on how to unstick this?
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Posted by barbarian, on Aug 17, 2004 at 01:24 PM, in Mac Desktops |
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Alerts
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I was wondering if there was any program that would throw up an a dialog box and audio warning when any of the following happened:
1. another user logs in remotely
2. another user ftps/ visits...
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Posted by barbarian, on Aug 9, 2004 at 01:31 PM, in macOS |
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Here's another question from the same user... in...
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Here's another question from the same user... in trying to troubleshoot this issue, he put in new passwords both for himself and as root. But when he input his own password he thinks he mistyped so...
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Posted by barbarian, on Jul 28, 2004 at 09:22 AM, in macOS |
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Weird System Admin
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A user at our workplace logged out of his home computer and found that one of his logged in users was the System Administrator. He claims he did not log in as root and his password is relatively...
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Posted by barbarian, on Jul 28, 2004 at 01:41 AM, in macOS |
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Yes and no... it makes sense if you understand...
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Yes and no... it makes sense if you understand how FAT differs from HFS/HFS+/UFS. Time to find better Mac techs?
My rule of HI: if you have 3 or 4 people who understand what is going on but can't...
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Posted by barbarian, on Jul 15, 2004 at 02:09 PM, in macOS |
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Then why not copy the files to the Mac, format...
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Then why not copy the files to the Mac, format the media on the PC, then copy the files back off the Mac? Are you just using this for portable storage?
PC won't format it without special software...
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Posted by barbarian, on Jul 14, 2004 at 06:27 PM, in macOS |
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They definitely did not "lift the algorithms"......
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They definitely did not "lift the algorithms"... apples and oranges maybe just the idea. NTSC monitors and LCDs are wildly different animals and the fact that you can do this on both is something of...
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Posted by barbarian, on Jul 13, 2004 at 06:12 PM, in macOS |
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Ah but here's the thing. I don't have the camera...
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Ah but here's the thing. I don't have the camera any more. I have a card reader which I switch between macs and PCs and I want to format it for PC so I can use it on both sides (the PC side simply...
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Posted by barbarian, on Jul 13, 2004 at 06:07 PM, in macOS |
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Formatting a camera flash card
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Is there a simple way to format a camera's flash card as a PC disk so I can move it between macs and PCs.?
I formatted it as a Mac disk and now disk utility only gives me mac/unix erase options.
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Posted by barbarian, on Jul 13, 2004 at 04:08 AM, in macOS |
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Your an idiot, ClearType is garbage, it mangles...
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Your an idiot, ClearType is garbage, it mangles your fonts to all look exactly the same, it is horrible on LCDs and every comparison you can find will tell you such, GIYF. Go search for yourself, no...
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Posted by barbarian, on Jul 13, 2004 at 04:07 AM, in macOS |
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accessing smtp with php
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I was wondering if it is possible to access smtp via php...
For years we've been using a simple form processor that sends mail via sendmail.... but on one particular server sendmail is turned off...
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Posted by barbarian, on Jul 12, 2004 at 02:44 PM, in Developer Center |
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Ironically enough, I understand ClearType font...
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Ironically enough, I understand ClearType font rendering technology was developed by The Woz Himself some years ago.
Very loosely. This is a quote from Woz ""Back in 1976, my design of the...
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Posted by barbarian, on Jul 12, 2004 at 12:05 PM, in macOS |
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Perception of font smoothing is highly...
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Perception of font smoothing is highly subjective. Put 5 users in front of 5 machines using different font smoothing algorithms and you'll get five options as to which is the best.
To my eyes...
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Posted by barbarian, on Jul 11, 2004 at 12:39 PM, in macOS |
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I wish there were more live screensavers... like...
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I wish there were more live screensavers... like I would love one that used isight & motion detection that would show everything that has been happening in front of the computer since you were...
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Posted by barbarian, on Jul 5, 2004 at 07:18 PM, in macOS |
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Opening ebooks under OS X
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Anyone know a method to read Microsoft reader .lit files under OS X?
This program installs under OS X:
http://www.kyz.uklinux.net/convlit.php
But it needs a copy of MS Reader to work! And...
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Posted by barbarian, on Jun 22, 2004 at 11:37 PM, in macOS |
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Security Monitoring
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I'm going to be selling my house soon and want to monitor it during open houses. I have lots of computer equipment and am worried about some of it walking off.
I'm going to use evocam/isight for...
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Posted by barbarian, on Jun 21, 2004 at 03:07 PM, in macOS |
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Over the years, literally thousands. I have been...
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Over the years, literally thousands. I have been responsible for making the decision to switch to Macs in several of my jobs. In most cases it has worked out very well and saved the companies I have...
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Posted by barbarian, on Jun 13, 2004 at 10:56 PM, in macOS |
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I didn't want to format the whole drive... just...
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I didn't want to format the whole drive... just the partition.
Eventually I booted from a CD and managed to to the deed by running diskutil that way. Very frustrating couple of hours there. I wish...
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Posted by barbarian, on Jun 8, 2004 at 12:29 PM, in macOS |
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Formatting HFS+
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I have a partion that is formatted as UNIX.
I thought I should be able to format it as HFS+, but disk utility doesn't allow me to to do this (under volume format UNIX is the only option).
Any...
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Posted by barbarian, on Jun 8, 2004 at 12:46 AM, in macOS |
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>Tinkertool does it. All you need is the free...
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>Tinkertool does it. All you need is the free version
Doesn't seem to work on my system. Also it's still bold white and shadowed...
The only way I know to really control desktop text is to...
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Posted by barbarian, on May 23, 2004 at 08:57 PM, in macOS |
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I've tried FontBook, Suticase, Font Reserve, and...
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I've tried FontBook, Suticase, Font Reserve, and Font Agent Pro.
For my money FontAgentPro (the recent 2.1 release) is by far the best of the bunch.
FontBook breaks down very quickly... I'd...
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Posted by barbarian, on May 20, 2004 at 07:04 PM, in macOS |
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Yeah.. these are all cool but none of these do...
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Yeah.. these are all cool but none of these do what I want... ie use an app or the web (no phone) to send images to a particular MMS enabled phone.
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PhoneAgent is very cool btw. A great little...
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Posted by barbarian, on May 16, 2004 at 12:52 AM, in macOS |
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