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Grumpy.
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May 3 |
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MacBook keyboard error, only letters not working @bluewoodtree - you can always remove kernel extensions. Doing a complete reinstall-remigrate is a bit overkill when all you would need to do is delete the right kext, and reboot. |
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Apr 24 |
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Is there a GUI SSH client for OS X? @EricWilson - It is just a command line - You have ssh from the command line. |
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Apr 24 |
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Why does the MacBook Air have five pins on the charger? The center pin does nothing with regard to switching the adapter off. It's only used for controlling the LED on the plug, and reporting to the laptop which kind of adapter it is connected to. The actual cable between the magjack, and the adapter has only two conductors (power and ground). |
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Apr 24 |
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Any danger to letting a MacBook stay on the charger long-term? This is incorrect. Read my answers to this question the previous time it was asked: apple.stackexchange.com/a/12285/1538 |
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Apr 22 |
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Is it safe to thin out Time Machine backups by deduplicating files? As for how your software would work if applied to apple's time-machine backup - The answer is no one knows. There is very little to no information on modifying or the effects of modifying the internal time-machine backup image. |
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Apr 22 |
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Is it safe to thin out Time Machine backups by deduplicating files? @GJ. - Multiple filesystems do support snapshotting. The link your provide is a completely different filesystem, with a completely different piece of software named "Time Machine". It behaves similarly to Apple's time-machine, but it's not the same thing. That implementation is simply a script that copies the data from ZFS's internal snapshot mechanism to a remote host. |
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Apr 21 |
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Discrepancies in available capacity of Macbook Air SSD The extra capacity to account for bad blocks is called "Overprovisioning", and is typically ~5% to ~%15 percent of total drive capacity. For what it's worth, NO other manufacturer on the market counts their Overprovisioning towards their capacity. Whatever is going on here, it's not related to the extra space reserved for wear-leveling and bad-block management. |
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Apr 21 |
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Discrepancies in available capacity of Macbook Air SSD SSDs include extra flash for wear leveling, they don't eat into the specified space. The 100 GB OCZ SSD I have in my desktop actually has ~120 GB of flash in the device (I did research before buying). |
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Mar 4 |
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Which OS X Applications do you find indispensable? Sublime text totally mops the floor with every other text editor. |
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Mar 4 |
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Which OS X Applications do you find indispensable? @hhh - When the "trial" expires, the only change is a little banner at the top of every window saying "unregistered". |
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Feb 18 |
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Using crashplan to backup a time machine disk Note that the crash-plan issue in the link you provide is only for local time-machine backups. It does not apply if the backup is a sparse-bundle file. |
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Feb 18 |
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What to use on OS X Lion: OpenOffice.org, LibreOffice or NeoOffice? @BennettMcElwee - Every time I have seen a company do that, there are generally places where you can download fan-built installers free. |
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Feb 11 |
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Apple computers model name identification and getting detailed specs? You need an internet connection to access "About this mac"? That's insane. It's a local hardware inspector. |
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Jan 21 |
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Symlinked Movies and Downloads. Restore icons? Why did you choose to keep the volumes separate, rather then joining them together into a "fusion drive"? |
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Jan 3 |
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Mountain Lion 10.8.2, Java Preferences has disappeared Not only have the preferences disappeared, so has java altogether! |
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Jan 2 |
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Display forwarding - for non-X programs? @Mark - Hmmm. I'm pretty sure I actually went through the whole install process a few years ago, only to get X11-based GUIs, requiring a whole clean reinstall of python. However, this may have changed. |
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Jan 1 |
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Display forwarding - for non-X programs? Oh, Doh, I read your question wrong. derp. For what it's worth, you can run matplotlib through X11/XQuartz even on a mac. If you install matplotlib through macports, I'm pretty sure it installs the X11 version, rather then the Cocoa version (which is what I thought you wanted when I commented). |
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Dec 31 |
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Display forwarding - for non-X programs? You could probaby do this with XQuartz, but you'd get 1. X11-style windows, and 2. it would be really hairy. |
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Dec 28 |
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RAID questions with ML I'm honestly not sure. I have a decent amount of experience mucking about with linux RAID setups, but I'm completely unfamiliar with how the software-RAID system works on a mac. I could help you get those hard drives to work on a linux box, but on a mac you're on your own. |
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Dec 26 |
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RAID questions with ML Oh, and remember, RAID is not backup. |
