OK - so it's a short article by a Mac geek who knows how to handle system problems - and has a nifty workaround for whatever issues he's having here - but it's still relatively amusing - to another [long-term] Mac geek.
By: rpaege on Tue, May 30 '06 at 11:50AM PDT
[if you type a -c# flag after the ping command it will only report back once, as in:]
ping -c2 192.168.1.255
Easy. In my case:
hdiutil create
-megabytes 650 -fs MS-DOS -volname MS_DOS -o
/Users/gabs/Desktop/MS_DOS_650MB
Where MS_DOS is filesystem [-fs] and Volume Name [-volname]. Output [-o] — using full path — to /Users/blah/blah/imagename. dmg suffix automatically generated.
Hat tip to MacOSXHints. Again.
An old mac hint that I'd forgotten about. Nicer.
… quit iTunes, open a Terminal window, and type:defaults write com.apple.iTunes invertStoreLinks -bool YES
Variations and synonyms
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Bloody Hell!
{CONTROL}-{Space}. [Instead of {CMD}-{Space}.]
Now why didn't I thing of that.
Now it the Spotlight search won't grab my Mac when
I'm trying to pan around in Adobe apps. Thanks to
Google, again, and Dan
Rodney
Good ole goooogle.
Thanks Mr Mac Observer and your TMO Quick Tip,
One-click Speaker Selection, to solve the menu
bar sound input/output selection problem I had.
[USB headset for Skype causing more options - and
System Preferences is a round the houses solution.]
I thought I'd seen this before; being an occasional
Audio Hijack Pro user and Rogue Amoeba fan.
Easy, lightweight solution. Oh, yes by the way its
called SoundSource
and it's from those Rogue Amoebas
Me Happy Now.
From the comments at Pilgrim (the article itself is flim-flam), via Decaffeinated
Here’s what I’d do (am in the process of moving to):Buy a ReadyNAS device from infrant - I’m looking at the 1U rack enclosure, because I have access to a rack, but one of their other boxes would be just as good. It’s pricey for a NAS, but it’s currently unbeatable, and supports hardware RAID-5. On top of that, its one of the few hardware RAID-5 implementations I’ve found that allows you to resize the array up by adding one hard drive at a time and rebuilding until all are replaced, and you have more place. Most seem to require you to destroy the array, and then recreate it.This gives you a great upgrade strategy - buy four hard-drives from seagate (5 year warranty, and best drives out there) that will provide enough space for the foreseeable future (defined by you) - $200 / drive can buy a lot of space. When they fill up (and it will be before the warranty is up), replace with the newer generation drives in the same price range - drive space will have jumped remarkably, and suddenly your array is much bigger. Rinse and repeat every few years.Not the cheapest option - especially for the initial setup - but you have some solid data protection. Either double for offsite storage (yes, pricey), or only worry about doing offsite storage for the most important information. Or find an offsite location for the rack enclosure, and trust they’ll never burn down…Comment by Isaac — Monday, May 8, 2006 @ 11:16 am
