I find that the easiest way to solve cable messes is to organize the entire setup. Start by labelling every cable with it's input and output at both ends of the cable. Then, figure out how things could be best bundled together.
Then, bundle it all together using TechFlex sleeving. It will organize things tremendously and will make solving routing issues considerably easier.
I bought 4 Maxtor 80 GB drives and had one seize up on me. I was fairly certain that the logic board had fried itself (the screws anchoring the drive came out and the drive started floating free in the metal chassis).
Since I had 4 identical Maxtor 80 GB, I waited until Maxtor sent me a replacement, swapped the logic boards, brought the drive up immediately, and dumped everything over. I sent the drive with the bad logic board back and resumed work.
I doubt I would have gone to the trouble of asking vendors to look up their firmware versions had I not bought several identical drives!
I have not heard the album yet, (this won't stop me from buying it though) but if the sound is clipping that often I would hope that they had some plan for this record. The talent in and around this band would make me think this might have been done for a reason. What that is, I don't know.
Don't bother buying it. It's one of the worst recordings made this century.
Then you've obviously never mixed or mastered for vinyl, radio, or especially television. Nothing wrong with an L2 brick, especially with certain genres. I wouldn't fool with much dynamic processing for good jazz players in a room, but smash the shit out of pop vocals ala bruce swedien...then again...this is slashdot
I have mastered for many formats. However, CDs do not require that they be bricked like has become the trend. And CDs aren't even the worst offenders, actually! Console games are even worse. PlayStation games, especially, are compressed like nothing else I've ever worked with.
I still stand by my statement that dynamic range is a good thing. I'm not saying that I don't use compression when mixing. On some instruments (voice included) it is a necessity.
I always mix to -20 dBFS RMS because louder is NOT better. Headroom is much better.
Hopefully, surround music formats (DVD-Audio & SACD) will convince the tried & true engineers that they don't have to slam recordings at -0.1 dBFS like they've been doing with CDs.
A nice 24 dB of headroom allows for dynamic range in muxic, as well as loud transients. This is something you don't get when your music is an L2 brick.
I've had a PowerBook for 2.5 years now and I decided in the last week of my original warranty to purchase AppleCare. I have not regretted it, nor will I ever again do without it for a portable computer.
Portables tend to get a lot of day-to-day grief that a desktop doesn't come close to.
My PowerBook G4 400 MHz has been to Apple for various repairs about 8 times over the past 2.5 years, most of which were not defects in the machine. I've been quite happy with my PowerBook and found the AppleCare to be a good selling point, too! I was able to wrangle a better price for it because it still has warranty coverage through April of next year.
Today I received my new 17" PowerBook G4, which I plan on purchasing AppleCare for, as well.
Believe me, I won't stop buying O'Reilly products as a result, nor am I upset with them. I just had hopes they'd treat me better than that.
Yes, 30% off is a pretty good deal, but when was the last time you paid MSRP on computer gear or a car? There are always ridiculous prices and then there are street prices. Obviously, they want only to sell their products at MSRP and the discount brings them to street prices.
It was a nice effort, but I still felt like they could have done more for me.
Personally, this Bookshelf CD was a source of contention between me and O'Reilly. I already own 2 of the 6 books in this collection in dead tree format and wanted to have those two books on my hard drive, so I could travel with my programming references.
So, I called O'Reilly and inquired about an upgrade discount. The woman I spoke with was friendly and really tried her best, but all they would offer me was a 30% off flat retail. Seeing as how I've bought a dozen O'Reilly books, including the $90 I already spent for 2 books I simply wanted in HTML format, I was willing to spend around $60.
For $90, I could buy the collection brand new from Amazon without having ever spent a penny on O'Reilly's books.
I told them "no thanks" and ended up finding someone in the Amazon Marketplace who sold me the shrinkwrapped product for $55.
I understand that O'Reilly has to sell books to stay in business but one would hope they'd treat repeat customers better.
All-in-all, I'm totally satisfied with the Programming Bookshelf. Couple it with the Design Bookshelf and the Linux Bookshelf and you've got all the references you'll probably need for Web Applications programming on the road.
Now, if Osbourne would just release a PDF version of Eric Meyer's "CSS 2.0 Programmer's Reference".
Clearly you need to find cheaper media. I picked up a 50 pack of DVD-RW (yes, -RW) for $45 a few weeks ago. If I could have waited, ground shipping would have been free too. Don't pay more than $1 per disk.
It's a nice idea, but I haven't seen any bulk DVD-R media that burns at 4x. I refuse to spend a day doing archives when I can spend half the time. The price difference is more than made up for in my hourly rate.
I gave up using tape for backups because it was too costly and time-consuming. For my audio engineering work, DVD-R is fantastic. I recently did a project that archived neatly onto 6 DVDs. That cost me a grand total of $20 for media and about the same amount of time to archive as did my Ecrix VXA1. However, the archives are infinitely more accessible, as I can open the disc on any machine with a DVD-ROM, regardless of having a VXA drive around. And, the files are instantly accessible, without having to restore from tape.
Or like Spike Lee being granted an injunction against Spike TV for using his name for their TV brand name?
After all, there haven't been any other "Spikes" in the history of popular culture. Certainly not Spike Jones (the musician) or Spike Jonze (the filmmaker).
Umm, if you won't help them replicate the problem in their labs, how do you expect them to help? If you think telling them "Entourage chokes on 900MB mailboxes" will give them enough info to fix it, you obviously have never written a semi-complex piece of software in your life, dumass.
Thanks for the namecalling.
I am well aware that it would be helpful to send them the corrupted mailbox. But, there's a privacy issue at hand here. I don't feel comfortable giving out all that sensitive information about me.
Sure. I've got a 900 MB mailbox I can't send email from anymore because if I send more than 2 attachments, it replaces the additional ones with randomly-selected email from my Inbox. I had to create a new Identity (thus making a new mailbox file) in order to continue working. At least I can easily reference my old mailbox. (And, yes, I've already tried all the rebuild functions and whatnot.)
M$ was willing to help with it, but only if I sent them my mailbox file. Riiiiigghhht. I'm a little uncomfortable with sending my personal email (that dates back to 1996) to M$.
I couldn't imagine forcing myself to use Entourage
I switched to Entourage because I got tired of the constant updates to Eudora. Updates that didn't add features I wanted.
Nope, I think Mail.app has just about the right blend of usefulness and minimalism.
It is close, which is why I make my comment at all. I want to switch to Mail.app, but I had tons of troubles with it in the first day. I don't like the bloat of Entourage, but I've been using it for quite some time, now, so it's difficult to switch. I already use iCal for my appointments and Apple's Address Book for my contacts.
The only three complains I really have about Mail.app are the two I already mentioned (heinous bugs and UI control) and it could benefit from some better find functionality. Personally, I think the find functions in MailSmith are the best, since it allows grep-type searches.
With an app as buggy as Mail.app is, I don't understand why they haven't released a maintenence update already? I mean they've updated iSync and iPod and other tools so many times in the past few months.
The Mac needs a decent email app. Entourage corrupts mailboxes (and is from M$), Eudora hasn't gotten any real improvements since version 3 (no, I don't consider advertising an improvement), and MailSmith suffers from lack of UI controllability (much like Mail.app).
Improving the the capabilities of the spam filtering in Apple's Mail.app program is nice, but I wonder if they've fixed any of the *REAL* problems? There are so many problems that Macintouch has PAGES of reader reports of issues.
Like, the fact that the application kills its own preferences if your drive runs out of space.
Or the problem of attachments being destroyed when sent if they have a resource fork.
I switched to Mail.app for a day, but switched back to Entourage when I discovered these serious issues, as well as the lack of interface behavior controls (like the fact that Mail.app automatically marks an email viewed in the preview pane as "read", when I don't want it to).
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I find that the easiest way to solve cable messes is to organize the entire setup. Start by labelling every cable with it's input and output at both ends of the cable. Then, figure out how things could be best bundled together.
Then, bundle it all together using TechFlex sleeving. It will organize things tremendously and will make solving routing issues considerably easier.
I bought 4 Maxtor 80 GB drives and had one seize up on me. I was fairly certain that the logic board had fried itself (the screws anchoring the drive came out and the drive started floating free in the metal chassis).
Since I had 4 identical Maxtor 80 GB, I waited until Maxtor sent me a replacement, swapped the logic boards, brought the drive up immediately, and dumped everything over. I sent the drive with the bad logic board back and resumed work.
I doubt I would have gone to the trouble of asking vendors to look up their firmware versions had I not bought several identical drives!
There were even rumors of Sun buying the Newton division from Apple!
I have not heard the album yet, (this won't stop me from buying it though) but if the sound is clipping that often I would hope that they had some plan for this record. The talent in and around this band would make me think this might have been done for a reason. What that is, I don't know.
Don't bother buying it. It's one of the worst recordings made this century.
Then you've obviously never mixed or mastered for vinyl, radio, or especially television. Nothing wrong with an L2 brick, especially with certain genres. I wouldn't fool with much dynamic processing for good jazz players in a room, but smash the shit out of pop vocals ala bruce swedien...then again...this is slashdot
I have mastered for many formats. However, CDs do not require that they be bricked like has become the trend. And CDs aren't even the worst offenders, actually! Console games are even worse. PlayStation games, especially, are compressed like nothing else I've ever worked with.
I still stand by my statement that dynamic range is a good thing. I'm not saying that I don't use compression when mixing. On some instruments (voice included) it is a necessity.
I always mix to -20 dBFS RMS because louder is NOT better. Headroom is much better.
Hopefully, surround music formats (DVD-Audio & SACD) will convince the tried & true engineers that they don't have to slam recordings at -0.1 dBFS like they've been doing with CDs.
A nice 24 dB of headroom allows for dynamic range in muxic, as well as loud transients. This is something you don't get when your music is an L2 brick.
I've had a PowerBook for 2.5 years now and I decided in the last week of my original warranty to purchase AppleCare. I have not regretted it, nor will I ever again do without it for a portable computer.
Portables tend to get a lot of day-to-day grief that a desktop doesn't come close to.
My PowerBook G4 400 MHz has been to Apple for various repairs about 8 times over the past 2.5 years, most of which were not defects in the machine. I've been quite happy with my PowerBook and found the AppleCare to be a good selling point, too! I was able to wrangle a better price for it because it still has warranty coverage through April of next year.
Today I received my new 17" PowerBook G4, which I plan on purchasing AppleCare for, as well.
Believe me, I won't stop buying O'Reilly products as a result, nor am I upset with them. I just had hopes they'd treat me better than that.
Yes, 30% off is a pretty good deal, but when was the last time you paid MSRP on computer gear or a car? There are always ridiculous prices and then there are street prices. Obviously, they want only to sell their products at MSRP and the discount brings them to street prices.
It was a nice effort, but I still felt like they could have done more for me.
Personally, this Bookshelf CD was a source of contention between me and O'Reilly. I already own 2 of the 6 books in this collection in dead tree format and wanted to have those two books on my hard drive, so I could travel with my programming references.
So, I called O'Reilly and inquired about an upgrade discount. The woman I spoke with was friendly and really tried her best, but all they would offer me was a 30% off flat retail. Seeing as how I've bought a dozen O'Reilly books, including the $90 I already spent for 2 books I simply wanted in HTML format, I was willing to spend around $60.
For $90, I could buy the collection brand new from Amazon without having ever spent a penny on O'Reilly's books.
I told them "no thanks" and ended up finding someone in the Amazon Marketplace who sold me the shrinkwrapped product for $55.
I understand that O'Reilly has to sell books to stay in business but one would hope they'd treat repeat customers better.
All-in-all, I'm totally satisfied with the Programming Bookshelf. Couple it with the Design Bookshelf and the Linux Bookshelf and you've got all the references you'll probably need for Web Applications programming on the road.
Now, if Osbourne would just release a PDF version of Eric Meyer's "CSS 2.0 Programmer's Reference".
Sorry. I guess I ran "make mistake".
Of course, I've still got bits stuck between my teeth from the last release. Should have remembered to type 'make toothpick'.
Isn't that just an alias for "make clean"?
Clearly you need to find cheaper media. I picked up a 50 pack of DVD-RW (yes, -RW) for $45 a few weeks ago. If I could have waited, ground shipping would have been free too.
Don't pay more than $1 per disk.
It's a nice idea, but I haven't seen any bulk DVD-R media that burns at 4x. I refuse to spend a day doing archives when I can spend half the time. The price difference is more than made up for in my hourly rate.
I gave up using tape for backups because it was too costly and time-consuming. For my audio engineering work, DVD-R is fantastic. I recently did a project that archived neatly onto 6 DVDs. That cost me a grand total of $20 for media and about the same amount of time to archive as did my Ecrix VXA1. However, the archives are infinitely more accessible, as I can open the disc on any machine with a DVD-ROM, regardless of having a VXA drive around. And, the files are instantly accessible, without having to restore from tape.
DVD-RW is fantastic!
Did you ever get the sense that Conflict Catcher was causing crashes?
Kinda like CrashGuard caused most of 'em?
Or like Spike Lee being granted an injunction against Spike TV for using his name for their TV brand name?
After all, there haven't been any other "Spikes" in the history of popular culture. Certainly not Spike Jones (the musician) or Spike Jonze (the filmmaker).
I couldn't have put it better myself!
Would that be CuntXP Home Edition?
Jaguar had 10.2.6 lives.
Umm, if you won't help them replicate the problem in their labs, how do you expect them to help? If you think telling them "Entourage chokes on 900MB mailboxes" will give them enough info to fix it, you obviously have never written a semi-complex piece of software in your life, dumass.
Thanks for the namecalling.
I am well aware that it would be helpful to send them the corrupted mailbox. But, there's a privacy issue at hand here. I don't feel comfortable giving out all that sensitive information about me.
Come on, there's no reason to have a 900MB mailbox, split it up for God's sake.
I would love to split it up, but being able to quickly dive into my archives to find past emails is extremely handy and important to me.
If I could find a good solution that would resolve this without keeping the mail in the email client, I'd do so. But I haven't seen one I like yet.
DO you have evidence?
Sure. I've got a 900 MB mailbox I can't send email from anymore because if I send more than 2 attachments, it replaces the additional ones with randomly-selected email from my Inbox. I had to create a new Identity (thus making a new mailbox file) in order to continue working. At least I can easily reference my old mailbox. (And, yes, I've already tried all the rebuild functions and whatnot.)
M$ was willing to help with it, but only if I sent them my mailbox file. Riiiiigghhht. I'm a little uncomfortable with sending my personal email (that dates back to 1996) to M$.
I couldn't imagine forcing myself to use Entourage
I switched to Entourage because I got tired of the constant updates to Eudora. Updates that didn't add features I wanted.
Nope, I think Mail.app has just about the right blend of usefulness and minimalism.
It is close, which is why I make my comment at all. I want to switch to Mail.app, but I had tons of troubles with it in the first day. I don't like the bloat of Entourage, but I've been using it for quite some time, now, so it's difficult to switch. I already use iCal for my appointments and Apple's Address Book for my contacts.
The only three complains I really have about Mail.app are the two I already mentioned (heinous bugs and UI control) and it could benefit from some better find functionality. Personally, I think the find functions in MailSmith are the best, since it allows grep-type searches.
Yes, how dare Mail.app mark a message "read" when it's been viewed!
Who said I viewed it? It will mark the message read simply because I up- or down-arrowed past it on the way to another message.
Personally, I like to mark messages read by hitting a hotkey. But Apple doesn't give us that option.
With an app as buggy as Mail.app is, I don't understand why they haven't released a maintenence update already? I mean they've updated iSync and iPod and other tools so many times in the past few months.
The Mac needs a decent email app. Entourage corrupts mailboxes (and is from M$), Eudora hasn't gotten any real improvements since version 3 (no, I don't consider advertising an improvement), and MailSmith suffers from lack of UI controllability (much like Mail.app).
Did I miss something?
I agree. I've had the same complaint ever since QuickTime 4 came out:
* With these brushed-metal windows, you cannot tell which window is in front.
I've closed so many windows I didn't intend to simply because I thought it was in the foreground when I hit Cmd-W.
Why did Apple have to toss out all the UI lessons they'd learned since 1984?
Improving the the capabilities of the spam filtering in Apple's Mail.app program is nice, but I wonder if they've fixed any of the *REAL* problems? There are so many problems that Macintouch has PAGES of reader reports of issues.
Like, the fact that the application kills its own preferences if your drive runs out of space.
Or the problem of attachments being destroyed when sent if they have a resource fork.
I switched to Mail.app for a day, but switched back to Entourage when I discovered these serious issues, as well as the lack of interface behavior controls (like the fact that Mail.app automatically marks an email viewed in the preview pane as "read", when I don't want it to).