So to follow up on today’s earlier post, there was no reviving Malkovich. It did not boot up on its own after 24 hours of cooling off. So I thought/hoped that maybe if I re-seated the SATA drive connectors that we would at least get one final access on this drive. Wrong again. Got inside […]
Last night’s hard drive failure really has me bummed out. Way to kick in the post-vacation blues… It could definitely “be worse” – – I could have nothing backed up. I could have deleted the gargantuan .tar back-up of the iTunes library. KetelOne could have gone down at the same time. But as it stands, […]
Return from vacation to find that Malkovich decides to tank again. So soon. AppleCare’s diagnosis? BAD HARD DRIVE. So, like last time…: Had Malkovich shut down for the days we were on vacation. Get home, fire it up. Log in. Let everything come up. Plug in the camera to start downloading the pics from our […]
[18:34:40 ~] rob@Malkovich $ tar -czf $BACKUPS/iTunesLib.tar $SHARED/Music tar: Removing leading `/’ from member names [13:11:50 ~] rob@Malkovich $ du $BACKUPS/iTunesLib.tar 89272296 iTunesLib.tar
Because unpacking tar’s on Windows makes baby Jesus cry. TUAW’s Victor Agreda & some “punk kids” install os x86 on a Dell machine. Albeit, it isn’t exactly a wonderland. currently playing: Lee Burridge “NuBreed 005” mix (disc one)
Interesting(?) piece from creativebits presenting the “Desk” concept as a replacement for/amalgamation of the Finder & Desktop concepts. The problems I had with it are that it’s not readily apparent “out-of-the-box” what it is or what it’s for. First I just eyed the graphic like “WTF is this?” Then I watched the video. And I […]
Get started w/ launchd rather than cron Malkovich to death… Figure out some other way to automate exports from iCal to phpCal since there more/less isn’t an ics file to copy w/ a shell script any more and AppleScript support for iCal’s export feature is confusing and weak at best… currently playing: Amon Tobin “Reanimator”
UPDATE on yesterday’s post. The compiled notes: …not sure how it started but: published a poster-size thumbnail set to PDF – – and iPhoto went “pinwheel” – – and then when I tried to Cmd+Option+Esc my way out of it, Finder pinwheeled as well; Malkovich went totally unresponsive so I did a hard reboot w/ […]
Extra time taken today, consumed by some inexplicable OS X nastiness. Tried “print to PDF” from iPhoto and next thing I knew the system was good as frozen. A hard reboot later and it’s two hours of troubleshooting and assorted diagnostics to culminate in an OS reinstall. Ugh.
TUAW is one among others that has turned its RSS feed into a Dashboard widget. yawn! Get an aggregator, people! And wake me when it’s over. currently playing: Luomo “Synkro”