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― R.I.P. Concrete Octopus ]-`: is a guy with a belly button piercing (ex machina), Monday, 20 March 2006 20:52 (nineteen years ago)

I was having a weird audio issue like that and eventually chalked it up to somehow hitting the key combination that changes audio balance! It's stopped doing it, but I have no idea what I was hitting. Presumably a key combination in iTunes.

― mike h. (mike h.), Monday, 20 March 2006 21:02 (nineteen years ago)

you are all gay

― R.I.P. Concrete Octopus ]-`: is a guy with a belly button piercing (ex machina), Monday, 20 March 2006 21:04 (nineteen years ago)

every time it wakes up, the audio balance is set to Left 100%.

this has happened to me for years, i think it's something to do with my cheapo Edirol audio interface, but it's incredibly annoying and i'm amazed it's gone on for so long with no fix.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 20 March 2006 21:08 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.macedition.com/partingshot/sad_mac_20010914.jpg

― R.I.P. Concrete Octopus ]-`: is a guy with a belly button piercing (ex machina), Monday, 20 March 2006 21:20 (nineteen years ago)

― vahid (vahid), Monday, 20 March 2006 21:23 (nineteen years ago)

every time it wakes up from sleep, it wants to configure a bluetooth keyboard.

Go into System Preferences -> Keyboard & Mouse -> Bluetooth tab. Uncheck "Allow Bluetooth devices to wake this computer"

― The Equator Lounge (Chris Barrus), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 02:18 (nineteen years ago)

aha. thanks. how about the balance problem?

― vahid (vahid), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 05:43 (nineteen years ago)

aha. thanks. how about the balance problem?

What version of iTunes are you on?

― The Equator Lounge (Chris Barrus), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 01:05 (nineteen years ago)

all fucking versions

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 01:13 (nineteen years ago)

my ire is not directed at you chris ... fairly certain it has to do w/system prefs, at least that's where i always go to re-balance the output

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 01:14 (nineteen years ago)

So for the first time in a very long time I had to admit defeat and replace Apple hardware with something else.

I've been struggling with a 14TB (yes terabyte) Xsan network with anywhere from 3 to 4 million files on it. This isn't really even an extreme case, it's a high-traffic printer that is routinely dealing with hundreds of thousands of ginormious files. Anyway, files are getting corrupted, two brand-new Xserve controllers are going deaf, and just imagine even trying to use Spotlight on several million files. And Apple's enterprise-level support? HA!

I love my PowerBook, but I also love the new Sun SunFile T2000 server I just installed here too.

― The Equator Lounge (Chris Barrus), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 01:19 (nineteen years ago)

my ire is not directed at you chris ... fairly certain it has to do w/system prefs, at least that's where i always go to re-balance the output

There was actually some audio balance bugs fixed in the 6.0.3 update to iTunes. The fix was reportedly specific to people using the Airport Express "play-through" option, but it supposedly helped other folks having similar issues.

― The Equator Lounge (Chris Barrus), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 01:21 (nineteen years ago)

actually, a friend of mine did exactly this. he lost his rag with his new iBook, bought a vaio ... and took it straight back to the shop within 12 hours.
i think he came back with a pencil and a notepad.

-- grimly fiendish (simonmai...), March 8th, 2006 4:47 PM. (grimlord) (link)

did he come back with one of these??
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0811831434/002-9196454-6764004?v=glance&n=283155

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 01:39 (nineteen years ago)

xpost yes, i actually almost never use itunes, though i'll try the itunes update and see what happens.

― vahid (vahid), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 05:24 (nineteen years ago)

Tracer, I think tjere was a firmware patch for your generqtion of powerbook that fixed some audio issues.

Quartz, what issues did you have with xsan? We've had no issues with ours, however we're in video with fewer but very large files to deal with. I find 10.4.4 and xsan 1.2 to be very stable under these conditions even serving files over dmb to windows clients which was a major weakspot of earlier versions.

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 06:08 (nineteen years ago)

Quartz, what issues did you have with xsan?

Two main problems. One was EOF errors with some Adobe CS2 files and the second problem was just the sheer number of files - roughly 3 to 4 million, but always constantly changing. Set-up and the initial couple of days would be terrific and then files would disappear and cvfsck would report a file system corruption error.

File searching was another story. Forget Spotlight, I ended up having to write an Automator script that would write out the contents of the drive to a FileMaker file and have people search that instead.

― The Equator Lounge (Chris Barrus), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 15:26 (nineteen years ago)

"One was EOF errors with some Adobe CS2 files" - just checking that this isn't users opening files across the network. this is something not recommended by Adobe on any of their applications on any AFP service. (same goes for Quark BTW tho that problem shows up more often enough for users to end up bitten and twice shy by it right off)

― Britain's Obtusest Shepherd (Alan), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 15:37 (nineteen years ago)

this may be of some use: web interface to a server spotlight http://searchlightrss.com/

― Britain's Obtusest Shepherd (Alan), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 15:41 (nineteen years ago)

we have our own media library app to catalogue stuff on both mac and windows servers, it does more than just provide a search function but gets round the problems inherrent in searching large volumes across the network.

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 15:58 (nineteen years ago)

i just tried out that searchlight service on our toy tiger server and it's looking pretty smart

― Britain's Obtusest Shepherd (Alan), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 16:01 (nineteen years ago)

That looks very cute

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 16:13 (nineteen years ago)

they just got bonus points cos the page appeared in my bonjour bookmarks! not that that's any use when a real server won't be in the same VLAN. but still.

― Britain's Obtusest Shepherd (Alan), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 16:27 (nineteen years ago)

I wish Apple offered OS X Server as an option on all the non-notebooks. I am using a nu-iMac as a dev server / desktop and would have appreciated some of the features

― R.I.P. West Village Bird Shaman ]-`: (ex machina), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 17:34 (nineteen years ago)

do the server install disks just say "nuh uh, not on this you don't!" with an imac?

― Britain's Obtusest Shepherd (Alan), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 17:38 (nineteen years ago)

My home server is an iMac G3 running panther server. I must try tiger server on it.

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 17:40 (nineteen years ago)

but yes, a BTO option would be good, especially for the Mac Minis.

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 17:43 (nineteen years ago)

do the server install disks just say "nuh uh, not on this you don't!" with an imac?

Eh, I doubt it but:

#1 No intel os X server
#2 No one likes paying 2x
#3 It is "good enough"

― R.I.P. West Village Bird Shaman ]-`: (ex machina), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 21:31 (nineteen years ago)

Of course with OS X server, what you are mainly paying for is the admin tools. Most of it is open-source stuff any way. OS X client plus fink and phpmyadmin is not a bad second guess (insert favourite package manager or source compiles and admin tools where applicable)

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 21:35 (nineteen years ago)

PhpMyAdmin is for administering MySQL not Unixland, MORON.

― R.I.P. West Village Bird Shaman ]-`: (ex machina), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 21:37 (nineteen years ago)

http://web.mit.edu/macdev/KfM/KerberosClients/KerberosApp/Documentation/Graphics/osx-realm-servers.jpg

― R.I.P. West Village Bird Shaman ]-`: (ex machina), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 21:38 (nineteen years ago)

But you're right, I figure most of the hard stuff out anyway.

― R.I.P. West Village Bird Shaman ]-`: (ex machina), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 21:40 (nineteen years ago)

I meant webmin, but you get the general idea.

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 21:47 (nineteen years ago)

Webmin is useful for some things, but I'd never try to use it as my primary server config tool. It's just too rough around the edges.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 21:51 (nineteen years ago)

I really don't like a lot of automated tools for that kind of stuff. I got burned way too many times back in the RH5.2 era.

Anyone here use Subversion or something like it to manage config files?

― R.I.P. West Village Bird Shaman ]-`: (ex machina), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 21:54 (nineteen years ago)

I've not had to touch it in a long while, you're probably right, no good for production, but for home server, or even workgroup, good enough. All the servers I have to deal with are OS X (lovely admin tools) or win 2000/2003 (not bad really but really really inconsistent)

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 21:57 (nineteen years ago)

That admin thing that works over the network in win2k is the jam.

― R.I.P. West Village Bird Shaman ]-`: (ex machina), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 21:58 (nineteen years ago)

I don't like the admin tools on Windows at all. Their entire design strategy: put any important settings in the same size of dialog box. If the box isn't big enough, add another tab!

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 22:01 (nineteen years ago)

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http://homepage.mac.com/bradster/iarchitect/images/psych.gif

― R.I.P. West Village Bird Shaman ]-`: (ex machina), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 22:04 (nineteen years ago)

this may be of some use: web interface to a server spotlight http://searchlightrss.com/

That's really kinda cool. I'll check it out some though I think it was a little too late. One thing I didn't mention was that there was an outside IT consultant who wanted to toss the whole works for a Windows server, so at least I convinced him to stay with *nix.

sigh

― The Equator Lounge (Chris Barrus), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 23:24 (nineteen years ago)

Small mercy there then, the windows networking stack is shockingly slow.

― Ed (dali), Thursday, 23 March 2006 06:27 (nineteen years ago)

Is it really that bad? Or do you mean windows filesharing instead of TCP/IP?

Do they even do zero copy sockets? Do they have sendfile()? Pretty sad that the only way for IIS to come close to smoking Apache at static content was for them to integrate parts of it into the kernel..

― R.I.P. West Village Bird Shaman ]-`: (ex machina), Thursday, 23 March 2006 06:38 (nineteen years ago)

Both nfs and smb sharing from windows are significantly slower that *nix on the same hardware (this was with a live cd used for testing and the same ntfs volume used for source material, mixed win2k and xp clients, mixed gigabit and 100 megabit infrastructure). Its not conclusively the networking stack but the result is much the same.

― Ed (dali), Thursday, 23 March 2006 06:46 (nineteen years ago)

yea, I'm not surprised.

― R.I.P. West Village Bird Shaman ]-`: (ex machina), Thursday, 23 March 2006 06:57 (nineteen years ago)

My own experience is that SMB sharing is significantly slower on Windows than with Samba on Linux. Using a properly-optimised ext3 volume to store the files on instead of NTFS gives Linux a second speed advantage, too.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Thursday, 23 March 2006 07:00 (nineteen years ago)

I don't know why people deploy ext3 when reiser etc are available.

― R.I.P. West Village Bird Shaman ]-`: (ex machina), Thursday, 23 March 2006 07:03 (nineteen years ago)

I HATE APPLE AND SUNN O)))

So in the processing of keeping up iTunes with my CD collection, I tried to rip Sunn O)))'s "Black One" about an hour ago. Now, my iBook won't spit the CD back out. It's little motor tries and tries and then gives up and re-loads the CD in iTunes. Fuck.

Already called AppleCare and they couldn't figure out anything. They just told me to either mail it in or take it to an Apple store. So, any tips before I make the long trek tomorrow morning? Sigh.

― Mickey (modestmickey), Sunday, 26 March 2006 21:34 (nineteen years ago)

Did you put a shaped or a spraypainted cd in? I don't have Black1

― R.I.P. West Village Bird Shaman ]-`: (ex machina), Sunday, 26 March 2006 21:53 (nineteen years ago)

our imac loves to eat Cds

― Mr Jones (Mr Jones), Sunday, 26 March 2006 22:22 (nineteen years ago)

Mickey did you try starting up your iBook while holding down the eject key?

― jed_ (jed), Sunday, 26 March 2006 22:30 (nineteen years ago)

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