| OSX 10.3 to 10.5 install |
[Jul. 18th, 2009|09:32 am] |
I'm going to upgrade an older Intel iMac from OSX 10.3 to 10.5. Will I need to first install the interim 10.4 , or can I just jump from Panther to Leopard and skip Tiger?
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| password storage |
[Jul. 18th, 2009|09:00 am] |
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Can anyone recommend a free or cheap secure password storage program? |
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| [FIC] Neku's Misadventures: Redux (Chapter IV) |
[Jul. 18th, 2009|12:32 pm] |
Title: Neku's Misadventures: Redux
Authors: ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) takatohedgehog and kohakutenshi
Ratings: MA+15 for this chapter (it's not outright NC-17 - just one scene - so I think that's the appropriate rating), for Neku and Sakuraba's potty mouths
Warnings: sex in later chapters, profanity
Summary: Neku's Misadventures rewritten. A freshly crowned Conductor, Neku is sent to Shibuya no. four-ninety-one to protect Yoshiya - a popular stripper and counterpart of Joshua - from Sakuraba - a counterpart of his own who is going around killing Joshuas for unknown reasons.
Chapters: Chapter I | Chapter II | Chapter III
follow the fake cut |
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| Safari .gif error? |
[Jul. 18th, 2009|12:29 am] |
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I was going to try to live with this, but considering my lovely Flist have a habit of spamming my Friends page with .gif images (that's the moving kind), I come to seek help XD
I'm running the latest version of Safari on my MacBook. And whenever I try to scroll past a .gif image, it sort-of freezes up (could be for a few seconds or even up to a minute, or it just plain crashes) and the beach ball of doom appears. It's almost like it's trying to buffer the images and failing? I've checked all of my settings and can't see anything pertaining to this problem :| Anybody have any idea of what it is? Any help would be greatly appreciated <3 :)
Thanks! |
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| Mac Messenger 7 problems |
[Jul. 17th, 2009|04:05 pm] |
| [ | Current Mood |
| |  annoyed | ] |
I can't sign into Microsoft Messenger 7 for Mac. It says that the service is not available or I'm not connected to the internet. It's been going on since April. I googled it and found that it has been a problem since 2008, but messenger was working fine for me. I tried using adium or amsn to sign on, but it still won't connect. Anyone have any solutions? |
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| MBP Shipping Times |
[Jul. 17th, 2009|11:32 am] |
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Has anyone ordered a MBP or really any other custom hardware from Apple lately? When I ordered it, it said it would ship in 7-10 business days. The ship date on the Order Status Page is 11 business days away. I was wondering if they do this to give themselves a saftey net (to underpromise and overdeilver) and if there was a fair chance it might ship a few days earlier. |
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| iCal |
[Jul. 17th, 2009|10:53 am] |
Happy iCal Day.
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| Copied from email to the moderator |
[Jul. 17th, 2009|11:24 am] |
user "mymacsucks" constantly and consistently is causing problems in the "appleworld" community.
They never ask for help with the problems they are having, and instead curse and moan about how much apple sucks; seemingly to get a rise out of other community members..
I move that said user be banned, or at least have their posting abilities revoked.
-seconded anyone>?
==edit==
After reading some of the thoughtful comments, I think banning outright would be a bit harsh..
A warning or temporary denial of posting access or something along those lines would be far more appropriate. |
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| 14 Custom Icons For Super Smash Bros. Brawl |
[Jul. 17th, 2009|06:05 am] |
| [ | Tags | | | images | ] |
| [ | Current Mood |
| | Artisticish? | ] |
| [ | Current Music |
| | Naw... | ] |
[001-014]: Super Smash Bros Brawl; 100x100
[001-002]: King Dedede
[003]: Princess Peach
[004-009]: Falco Lombardi
[010-011]: Fox McCloud
[012-014]: Toon Link
Samples:
  
Find the rest HERE.
Enjooooy~. <3
(Cross-posted to ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/community.gif) ssb_graphics) |
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| (no subject) |
[Jul. 17th, 2009|05:42 am] |
http://newyork.craigslist.org/brk/ele/1272617367.html
130-Watt Bi - M-Audio Amplified Studio Reference Monitors for real - pick up in BROOLYN only.
Never used, still in original box. Retailed for $600. My engineer uses them and They are the best monitors money can buy. If you're interested, drop me a line, and hopefully we can set something up.
One sub is opened but never used, the other is still factory sealed. The surround speakers (Kilpsch RS-3) were never opened either. The satellites (Quintent 1) were used gently less than 10 times. PICK UP ONLY in BENSONHURST.
These speakers sound phenominal, but I upgraded to professional studio monitors recently, and have no used to these anyone.
And if you're interested, I also have a Pioneer D509S 5.1 Dolby Digitial/DTS receiver, as well as a Kenwood DD/DTS receiver (sans remote) That I"m looking to get rid of. Everything is in perfect order, and you can find manuals to each and every item you're interested in purchasing by going to the manufacturers website in case of any trouble-shooting.
And if by some chance you're having a hard time finding specs or pictures of said items, try using Google's image searcher. |
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| Dammit! |
[Jul. 17th, 2009|12:08 am] |
I spilled water on my Macbook tonight near where the computer & monitor join. I turned it off & dried what I could. I have a hard shell on it & I got the bottom piece off easily.. The top piece is not coming off, though. I see a puddle of water underneath it, but can't get to it. I'm afraid of breaking it! What would you do?
EDIT: I finally managed to pry off the top piece of the shell, by prying loose one clip & then holding up the shell while I pried the other clip loose. Go me!
There didn't seem to be too much water on it. I'm leaving the shell off for awhile, just in case. |
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| cracking macbooks |
[Jul. 16th, 2009|10:05 pm] |
I know this has been posted before but I don't want to dig for answers. I'm having that all too common cracking case problem on my white MacBook that I purchased in January 2008:
I Googled to no avail. I found more information on the problem, but couldn't find out if anyone successfully has had it fixed free of charge. So, has anyone had their case replaced? I have AppleCare, but I don't know if it would be covered under it. I never have dropped my computer and I'm very gentle with her as well.
I don't live near an Apple store but I'm going up to Cleveland to visit my family next week, so I will be able to swing by the Legacy Village location in Beachwood to drop her off for repairs. Once I hear some feedback from all you lovely folks, I'll book a Genius Bar appointment.
(edited to fix my purchase date--I got it in January 2008, not July 2008, but regardless my AppleCare is still good!) |
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| (no subject) |
[Jul. 16th, 2009|02:41 pm] |
I just signed up for a Twitter account. I noticed I can view my Twitter as an RSS feed, so I figured I'd use Apple's RSS Visualizer screen saver. Alas, I cannot get it to work. I've tried copying and pasting the url from Safari as well as adding an RSS feed to Mail and then selecting that (note: it did show up in Mail). No matter what I do, the RSS Visualizer just doesn't show anything (other than the swirly background).
I have Googled this and used my own logic to no end, and I cannot get this to work. Anyone have any ideas? |
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| Apple rapes us just to rape Palm users. |
[Jul. 16th, 2009|10:04 am] |
Last night I was forced into rebooting for an update of Safari and iTunes. Supposedly, a web browser update required the entire OS to restart (yeah, right). Since the reboot failed (I didn't have the time to waste sticking around to supervise a Mac rebooting, I was on my way out), it basically resulted in a denial-of-service attack on the entire wireless shared internet portal here - the mac is the nameserver.
So I'm reading the news this morning and as it turns out, Apple fucked the entire Mac family RIGHT UP THE ASS for no purpose other than to rape anyone who happened to buy a Palm Pilot instead of one of those crappy phones they offer - phones that would remain pieces of shit no matter how well Apple made them simply because they only work with the extremely crappy AT&T network.
So the reboot was really necessary as a way to disable hardware, and it was labeled as coming from the Safari part of the update instead of the iTunes part of the update to conceal the fact that this was going on. Assholes.
I miss the Apple of the late 1980s and very early 1990s that gave us awesome tools to use our Macs any way we wanted, tools like ResEdit.
Subjecting every customer to a corporate sponsored denial of service attack just for the sake of engaging in anticompetitive business practices is a fucking outrage.
Didn't Mac users used to whine and bitch that Microsoft's OS was only popular because they did this sort of crap? Next time I hear a Mac user say something like that as a means of suggesting a Mac is somehow better, I'm going to throw a fucking pie in their face, same as was done to Bill Gates back in the day.
From http://tech.yahoo.com/news/ap/20090716/ap_on_hi_te/us_tec_apple_palm_pre
SAN FRANCISCO -
Apple Inc. has shut down one of the most compelling features on Palm Inc.'s rival Pre smart phone, crippling the Pre's ability to act like an iPod.
Users of the recently released Pre had been able to put music on it by using Apple's free iTunes software — a unique twist for a device not made by Apple. But Apple updated iTunes on Wednesday to block this feature.
Apple spokesman Tom Neumayr said the update "disables devices falsely pretending to be iPods, including the Palm Pre."
Palm spokeswoman Leslie Letts said Apple's move is a "direct blow to their users, who will be deprived of a seamless synchronization experience." For a workaround, she noted, Pre owners can stick to the older version of iTunes, move music from computers to a Pre with a USB cable or consider third-party music applications.
The iTunes software smackdown is the latest example of tensions brewing between Apple and Palm, which since June has been led by the former executive behind the iPod, Jon Rubinstein. Rubinstein became Palm's executive chairman in October 2007.
The $200 Pre includes a "multi-touch" screen like Apple's iPhone, letting users do things like pinch photos to zoom in and out. Apple was granted a patent in January related to certain multi-touch functions, though the effects on Palm are unclear.
Avian Securities analyst Matthew Thornton said Apple's move to squash the Pre's iTunes function could turn off some people looking to buy the Pre, since they might have considered the device as a way to consolidate their music player and cell phone.
Still, "it's not like 10 out of every 10 people who buy a Pre are going to use the device for their MP3 player," he said.
Right. I hope someone DDoS's Apple's entire fucking domain for the next month or so. It'll keep those of us with Mac's from being attacked like this again, second, maybe it'll teach 'em a lesson. After all, It's not like 10 out of every 10 business transactions Apple conducts flow thru their website, right? |
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| Apple rapes us just to rape Palm users. |
[Jul. 16th, 2009|10:04 am] |
| [ | Current Mood |
| |  sore | ] |
Last night I was forced into rebooting for an update of Safari and iTunes. Supposedly, a web browser update required the entire OS to restart (yeah, right). Since the reboot failed (I didn't have the time to waste sticking around to supervise a Mac rebooting, I was on my way out), it basically resulted in a denial-of-service attack on the entire wireless shared internet portal here - the mac is the nameserver.
So I'm reading the news this morning and as it turns out, Apple fucked the entire Mac family RIGHT UP THE ASS for no purpose other than to rape anyone who happened to buy a Palm Pilot instead of one of those crappy phones they offer - phones that would remain pieces of shit no matter how well Apple made them simply because they only work with the extremely crappy AT&T network.
So the reboot was really necessary as a way to disable hardware, and it was labeled as coming from the Safari part of the update instead of the iTunes part of the update to conceal the fact that this was going on. Assholes.
I miss the Apple of the late 1980s and very early 1990s that gave us awesome tools to use our Macs any way we wanted, tools like ResEdit.
Subjecting every customer to a corporate sponsored denial of service attack just for the sake of engaging in anticompetitive business practices is a fucking outrage.
Didn't Mac users used to whine and bitch that Microsoft's OS was only popular because they did this sort of crap? Next time I hear a Mac user say something like that as a means of suggesting a Mac is somehow better, I'm going to throw a fucking pie in their face, same as was done to Bill Gates back in the day.
From http://tech.yahoo.com/news/ap/20090716/ap_on_hi_te/us_tec_apple_palm_pre
SAN FRANCISCO -
Apple Inc. has shut down one of the most compelling features on Palm Inc.'s rival Pre smart phone, crippling the Pre's ability to act like an iPod.
Users of the recently released Pre had been able to put music on it by using Apple's free iTunes software — a unique twist for a device not made by Apple. But Apple updated iTunes on Wednesday to block this feature.
Apple spokesman Tom Neumayr said the update "disables devices falsely pretending to be iPods, including the Palm Pre."
Palm spokeswoman Leslie Letts said Apple's move is a "direct blow to their users, who will be deprived of a seamless synchronization experience." For a workaround, she noted, Pre owners can stick to the older version of iTunes, move music from computers to a Pre with a USB cable or consider third-party music applications.
The iTunes software smackdown is the latest example of tensions brewing between Apple and Palm, which since June has been led by the former executive behind the iPod, Jon Rubinstein. Rubinstein became Palm's executive chairman in October 2007.
The $200 Pre includes a "multi-touch" screen like Apple's iPhone, letting users do things like pinch photos to zoom in and out. Apple was granted a patent in January related to certain multi-touch functions, though the effects on Palm are unclear.
Avian Securities analyst Matthew Thornton said Apple's move to squash the Pre's iTunes function could turn off some people looking to buy the Pre, since they might have considered the device as a way to consolidate their music player and cell phone.
Still, "it's not like 10 out of every 10 people who buy a Pre are going to use the device for their MP3 player," he said.
Right. I hope someone DDoS's Apple's entire fucking domain for the next month or so. It'll keep those of us with Mac's from being attacked like this again, second, maybe it'll teach 'em a lesson. After all, It's not like 10 out of every 10 business transactions Apple conducts flow thru their website, right? |
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| Tapping the Internet Brain Trust: XML files and Mac Excel 2008. |
[Jul. 16th, 2009|12:47 pm] |
I have a web service that generates raw XML files.
I need this data in Excel.
If I curl http://fooservice -o foo.xml and try to open "foo.xml" in Excel, Excel pukes on it and refuses to open it since it's not an Excel XML file.
The only way I've found thus far to get the data into Excel is to do it manually. Load the URL into Firefox. Let Firefox do the graphical translation of the page from XML into HTML tables for viewing, then copy/paste the Firefox table into Excel. That works.
Problem is... i need a way to automate this. I can cron the curl call and have it grab raw .xml files, but I need a way to get them into HTML tables for Excel to be able to read it.
Any ideas? Help?
Update:
Got the solution:
curl http://foo.com//admin/tabular.xsl -o tabular.xsl;
curl 'http://foo.com/select/?q=SELECT+*+from+hardware&rows=5&format=xml' | xsltproc ./tabular.xsl - |
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| Insane Laughter... |
[Jul. 16th, 2009|12:47 pm] |
The Good: I got pulled today to facilitate training for the rest of the week.
The Bad: I have to work OT to get other things done, outside of training. Ah well, it'll save me a few hours of PTO from taking Monday off.
The Ugly: Remember how last time I did a six day training class in four? Now I get to compress it down to a day and a half.
Cue maniacal laughter. ;) |
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