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Jan 6	accepted	Does Tivoli Storage Manager for backup get the details right?
Jan 4	awarded	Promoter
Dec 29	awarded	Tumbleweed
Dec 22	asked	Does Tivoli Storage Manager for backup get the details right?
Nov 23	awarded	Popular Question
Nov 9	comment	Decompressing .sit file The last time I tried the official StuffIt it was spectacular bloatware. I'd avoid it if at all possible.
Nov 9	comment	Where will the incident be reported to? It's always irritated me to no end that sudo is so crabby in responding to almost always perfectly innocent errors.
Nov 9	comment	What is the iPod touch's screen sensitive to? Along those lines, water is conductive, which is why the screen can go loopy if you try it use it in the rain or if your hands are wet.
Nov 9	comment	What is the iPod touch's screen sensitive to? Not quite - you need a voltage difference to generate an electric field. Your finger doesn't have that, so it can't generate an electric field. Rather, the screen essentially contains an array of capacitors, and if your finger is near one of these capacitors, it changes that capacitor's capacitance. That change is what's detected.
Nov 2	awarded	Yearling
Sep 11	awarded	Nice Question
Sep 6	comment	View IE (6,7,8,9) on Mac? It's not browser snobbery; it's a legitimate recognition that IE6 is very obsolete and that making modern web designs compatible with it is difficult or impossible.
Aug 16	comment	Will Time Capsule work on a college dorm's WiFi network? You might also add a task management tool like The Hit List or Remember the Milk to help with these tasks. Add a repeating tasks for "back up" and you've semi-automated it.
Aug 16	comment	Why doesn't the red dot shut down the program? You're right about the single menu bar, but the Finder doesn't "own" the menu bar any more than any other app does.
Aug 10	comment	What are the best disk cloning tools? Note that CCC can also do the block-level clone that the OP suggested, with a few limitations (though I have not tried this myself).
May 5	comment	Disable File System Cache for USB Devices? FWIW, the supposed dupe is absolutely not an exact duplicate. This question is about disabling the write cache so that the the device can be safely removed; the other is about simply turning off the message and ignoring the risk.
Apr 25	comment	Filter out duplicate keystrokes in software? Hi @Niloc, thanks - but see my comment posted earlier. :)
Apr 25	comment	Filter out duplicate keystrokes in software? Hmm, that's a good idea. Unfortunately, it doesn't quite work: the substitution appears to happen only when the repeated keys are an independent word, and it doesn't address the issue of when the repeated key is mixed with other letters (e.g., "addrerrss", which just happened actually - it's the R key that's bad). Thanks though!
Apr 25	comment	Filter out duplicate keystrokes in software? @hobs, that prompted me to look into the Slow Keys feature in Universal Access. Unfortunately, it seems that it doesn't actually filter out the duplicate key events unless I set the threshold high enough so that normal typing is too fast and keystrokes are lost. Also, with that feature on, key repeat rate becomes incredibly slow.
Apr 25	comment	Filter out duplicate keystrokes in software? Well, it's not key repeat rate, it's the fact that a couple of the keyswitches are flaky and sometimes give multiple key events for a single physical key down. This is before the key repeat kicks in.