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cog spazzed out when i tried it before

― The Real DG (D to thee G), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 13:48 (eighteen years ago)

cog spazzed out when i tried it before

― The Real DG (D to thee G), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 13:49 (eighteen years ago)

xpost etc.

problem is is that apple would have to pay a royalty on every copy of iMovie with Mpeg-1 encoding support and that isn't worth it (see also SanDisks trouble with one of the mpeg licensing authorities). Mpeg-1 has awful licensing for encoding, MPEG-2 is even worse, MPEG-4 is much saner.

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 13:51 (eighteen years ago)

Yeah Ed, I did a Cinepak AVI as an export from iMovie; default settings except I raised the "quality" slider to "high" ... 28 minutes was 500 megs and it looked like absolute garbage.

― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 14:01 (eighteen years ago)

xpost Ed that has the ring of truth.

― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 14:01 (eighteen years ago)

welcome to the early 90s. I will come armed with a pack of DVD's later and, if I still have it, a special and useful surprise on one of them.

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 14:02 (eighteen years ago)

apple is offering the written-by-a-guy-from-24-and-distributed-to-right-wing-blogs "documentary" "based on" the 9/11 commission report, on itunes, and they're offering it for free

here is a big list of email addresses and real addresses and phone numbers at apple for you to complain to, if you wish - http://americablog.blogspot.com/2006/09/action-alert-tell-steve-jobs-and-apple.html

which, it strikes me, could come in handy for some of the other issues that have been brought up on this thread.

― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Saturday, 9 September 2006 00:19 (eighteen years ago)

Tracer, can you make your thing and then convert it to mpeg-1 with ffmpeg?

― Paul Eater (eater), Saturday, 9 September 2006 01:23 (eighteen years ago)

Yeah I finally did do exactly that! Unfortunately I couldn't figure out anything less tedious than 1) making a DVD with iMovie 2) copying the files to my harddrive 3) converting that with ffmpegx. It totally worked, though. (File size was enormous, but that's what you get with mpeg-1) - Yay!

― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Saturday, 9 September 2006 11:36 (eighteen years ago)

"My Macbook has been struck by the affliction that's affecting quite a number of the machines; it keeps switching itself off, eventually getting into a cycle of turning itself off every time you hit the power button. A PMU reset fixes it, or at least allows you to boot it up, but the problem comes back a few hours later. What fun. It's in with AppleCare at the moment, but many have got their machine back 'fixed' only to have it begin again a few days afterwards."

Something similar started happening to my G4 Powerbook (1.67GHz, 1 GB RAM, 100GB HD) last week. I checked in some of the Mac online forums, and the problem seems to be fairly widespread, especially with machines purchased in 2005. Apparently, the cause is a faulty temperature sensor in the trackpad which sends misleading information to the machine's power management unit. I checked my system log using Console, and noticed that the message: "Power Management recevied emergency overtemp signal. Going to sleep" appeared several times. Luckily my computer is still under warantee (for another 4 days),and I bought Apple Care. I'm taking it into the Apple store tonight, and I hope that they can sort it out quickly, without me having to go back several times. I've heard mixed reviews about Apple's customer support.

― J-rock (Julien Sandiford), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 02:40 (eighteen years ago)

A friend of mine had her iPod stolen and has just bought a new one as replacement. But it seems to require the new iTunes 7, which in turn requires 10.3.9. She's still running Jaguar (or possibly even 10.1). Is there really no way of making newer iPods work without buying/stealing an OS upgrade?

― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 16:34 (eighteen years ago)

Arrgh - I've just looked at the new iPod specs and it seems to be suggesting she needs USB 2.0 as well, which she definitely doesn't have. Will it at least work (slowly) with USB 1.0 if she sorts the OS issue out?

OK, now I do hate Apple.

― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 16:37 (eighteen years ago)

usb2.0 ipods have no problem at usb1.0 speeds. It is a bit slow though. I was in this situation earlier this year.

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 17:01 (eighteen years ago)

Why did the bastards drop Firewire support?

― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 17:09 (eighteen years ago)

saved them a chip

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 17:10 (eighteen years ago)

J-rock, that happened to me and I was still under AppleCare so it was no problem. Get a freeware temperature monitor thingie and it will give you a readout of all the temp sensors - including the faulty trackpad sensor. Print that out, bring it in and tell them what's up. They will appreciate it and you will get your machine back tout suite.

― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 18:20 (eighteen years ago)

one month passes...

What's a good way of unzipping lots of archives at once, or rather in a row? I have hundreds of zip files, and I'd like it to unarchive each one and then delete the archive. Surely there's a way of doing this, possibly with an extra program? Currently I just double click on them one by one, which takes forever, plus I have to delete the archives afterwards.

― toby (tsg20), Friday, 17 November 2006 10:19 (eighteen years ago)

select all of them, right click or ctrl+click choose open then do a search on .zip and drag the results to the trash.

― Ed (dali), Friday, 17 November 2006 10:22 (eighteen years ago)

Terminal!

if you're using bash as your shell:

for f in *.zip; do unzip "$f"; rm "$f"; done

(NB do not blame me if this goes horribly wrong and fucks your machine up, cos I haven't tested it)

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Friday, 17 November 2006 10:25 (eighteen years ago)

Ah, I've just discovered that Stuffit works quite well. Don't know why it doesn't show on google.

Ed, that reminds me why I don't do that - there seems to be a weird Finder bug on my machine, whereby if I right slick on more than one file that's selected, Finder immediately crashes 75% of the time. Very annoying!

― toby (tsg20), Friday, 17 November 2006 10:57 (eighteen years ago)

WARNING: I'm in ur board posting on ur thread.
I love apple because when my computer gets fucked up, some guy already wrote a program for free that I can just double-click and fix it.

― Bobby Ganush (Uri Frendimein), Friday, 17 November 2006 11:18 (eighteen years ago)

God, Stuffit's RAR support sucks! How hard is it to write code that is actually capable of opening valid archives?

― toby (tsg20), Friday, 17 November 2006 15:32 (eighteen years ago)

God, Stuffit's RAR support sucks! How hard is it to write code that is actually capable of opening valid archives?

Note also that, when it crashes while opening an archive, it often leaves behind large invisible temp folders.

― M. V. (M.V.), Friday, 17 November 2006 16:27 (eighteen years ago)

yep. also, when set to delete after unzipping, it seems to still delete even if it crashes. very dud. good for zip files though.

― toby (tsg20), Friday, 17 November 2006 17:41 (eighteen years ago)

UnRarX is good for rar files.

― Alba (Alba), Friday, 17 November 2006 19:53 (eighteen years ago)

rar expander does what it says on the tin. works for me, anyway.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Friday, 17 November 2006 22:39 (eighteen years ago)

Is there anything better for backing up every night or so than rsyncx? Nothing with proprietary file types pls

― stet (stet), Friday, 17 November 2006 23:28 (eighteen years ago)

not that I've found, what's wrong with RSyncX?

― Ed (dali), Friday, 17 November 2006 23:29 (eighteen years ago)

Oh, nothing, it just seemed like the best option to me, but I wondered if I was missing anything.

― stet (stet), Friday, 17 November 2006 23:41 (eighteen years ago)

a couple of weeks' worth of backups from earlier this month?

[ducks]

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Friday, 17 November 2006 23:46 (eighteen years ago)

[throws fucked-up cheap hard disk at grimly]

― stet (stet), Saturday, 18 November 2006 00:14 (eighteen years ago)

I got a firmware update thing for my macbook pro yesterday. As I was installing it, I accidently shut down my computer. Now the thing is totally dead. When I turn it on the DVD makes sounds, but nothing happens. Yikes!

― Super Cub (Debito), Saturday, 18 November 2006 00:24 (eighteen years ago)

If you've got access to another mac, you can burn a CD that will fix it:
http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/firmwarerestorationcd12.html

― stet (stet), Saturday, 18 November 2006 00:54 (eighteen years ago)

i use deja-vu for backups, it installs as a system preference and works like a charm.

― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Saturday, 18 November 2006 01:54 (eighteen years ago)

Hey thanks stet. That worked.

― Super Cub (Debito), Saturday, 18 November 2006 07:33 (eighteen years ago)

my 1.5 GHz 1.25gb ram powerbook g4 is really struggling with ableton with any vsts (esp guru)

i see rather more of that beachball than i'd really like, even at other times

bit frustrating.

leaving dual core aside for now, how do these powerbook compare to pc laptops, performance wise?

― -- (688), Monday, 20 November 2006 12:29 (eighteen years ago)

how do which powerbooks compare to which pc laptops?

― Ed (dali), Monday, 20 November 2006 12:50 (eighteen years ago)

1.5 GHz 1.25gb ram powerbook g4s

― -- (688), Monday, 20 November 2006 12:59 (eighteen years ago)

to equivalently priced pc laptops

― -- (688), Monday, 20 November 2006 12:59 (eighteen years ago)

or what is the pc equivalent?

i dunno. i mean, i cant justify the expense of a macbook pro, but i didnt really expect the powerbook to struggle with what seems a relatively light load

― -- (688), Monday, 20 November 2006 13:11 (eighteen years ago)

that is to say, i very much doubt im going to be buying any new hardware for a while

i might try installing it on the dell, be interesting to compare performance for it

― -- (688), Monday, 20 November 2006 13:12 (eighteen years ago)

"Typical work-arounds ... include submixing (rendering) groups of processor-intensive tracks, deleting any system-draining plug-ins or taking advantage of Live's new play-from-RAM feature (as long as you have the RAM to spare)."

― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Monday, 20 November 2006 13:16 (eighteen years ago)

or freezing tracks

yea, theres lotsa different ways of keeping the cpu down, but, you know, "deleting any system-draining plug-ins", isnt really what im looking to do!

― -- (688), Monday, 20 November 2006 13:19 (eighteen years ago)

our laptop ist kaput. i mean, the charger is. bah

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Monday, 20 November 2006 13:21 (eighteen years ago)

i use live 6 on macbook - its really fast & cpu drainage is not a problem so far - its kind of untested though as there is a serious lack of quality vsts available in UB at the moment. so if your thinking of upgrading & love yr vsts, i wouldn't bother with intel macs for at least the next 6 months

― zappi (joni), Monday, 20 November 2006 13:32 (eighteen years ago)

one month passes...

our laptop ist kaput. i mean, the charger is. bah
I just had to replace the charger, which I had electric-taped back together, after a puff of smoke came out from the frayed wires. The thing was always expensive and now, because the iBook is on its way into history, is kind of hard to find.

― The Redd And The Blecch (Ken L), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 18:15 (eighteen years ago)

Investing in an iGo universal power adapter ($80 at Radio Shack) isn't a bad move, for this and countless possible future situations.

― Paul Eater (eater), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 18:27 (eighteen years ago)

KEYBOARD VOLUME CONTROL ON POWERBOOKS

you know what i'm talkin about. when you try to turn the volume up or down with the keyboard and it responds like 10 seconds after you press the button, and moves one tick at a time, making a broken "thup thup thup thup thup" sound.

FOR YEARS NOW

(maybe this has changed with the intelbooks but AAARRRGH)

― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 18:34 (eighteen years ago)

fedex delivered my new apple to the wrong address this morning :((((

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 18:48 (eighteen years ago)

You can turn off the volume chime.

― milo z (mlp), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 20:53 (eighteen years ago)

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