On Sun, Nov 4, 2018 at 5:25 PM Gary Schiltz
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> Owen, what program is it that you use to give that nice hierarchical
> display of used space?
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Owen, what program is it that you use to give that nice hierarchical
display of used space?
On Nov 4, 2018, at 12:42 PM, Owen Densmore wrote:
(I gotta stop, I'm on a roll here. but...)
Here's an example of the hierarchical storage on my laptop:
The top level lets me know that "Users" is wher
(I gotta stop, I'm on a roll here. but...)
Here's an example of the hierarchical storage on my laptop:
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The top level lets me know that "Users" is where to look. On unix systems
that is the set of user accounts, which in this case has only me but often
has tempo
Oh, forgot: one of the "surprises" had to do with email. Even tho I use
gmail, which keeps all the email in the cloud, the mail *clients* (apps
that interface with the email on the server) often store a huge amount of
my email in a local "cache". We're talking 10s of GBs.
Try running one of these
I'd recommend using a program that tells you where all the storage goes to.
My OS has a simple facility that tells me I have 75GB left out of 250GB SSD
drive on my laptop. That's OK but prompts me to run a finer grain program
that tells me what my folder hierarchies contain. It good in that it tel
ersity
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On my Mac, I have three categories of space on my drive: used, free, and
purgeable. I think Windows may be similar. The response to seeing an
apparently empty continent is to occupy it. Same here.
A definition of purgeable space, pulled from a help file, is:
##What Is Purgeable Space##
When yo
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Nick:
This might be of interest
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I'd wonder how much space you've allocated for browser caching.
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> How about $10 a gallon gas and $2000 / month rent? I'd settle
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How about $10 a gallon gas and $2000 / month rent? I'd settle for that.
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Hmm question for nick to consider: how reliable are they now?
On Thu, Oct 11, 2018, 2:12 PM Gary Schiltz
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> Late to the party here, but here is my perspective: the apparent speed of
> laptops I've upgraded has increased 5X or more just by changing the old
> spinning hard drive for an SSD.
Late to the party here, but here is my perspective: the apparent speed of
laptops I've upgraded has increased 5X or more just by changing the old
spinning hard drive for an SSD. This mostly shows up in startup and
shutdown, and launching programs. Some of us love tinkering with stuff and
making it
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And doggone it, I really *should* be back working in the gas station like I did
in High School, for $2 an hour.
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> This may not be any consolation, but these “dollars” you speak of, thanks to
> inflation, are what we used to call
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This may not be any consolation, but these “dollars” you speak of, thanks to
inflation, are what we used to call in our childhood, “dimes”.
--Barry
On 10 Oct 2018, at 12:30, Nick Thompson wrote:
> I HATE
This may not be any consolation, but these “dollars” you speak of,
thanks to inflation, are what we used to call in our childhood,
“dimes”.
--Barry
On 10 Oct 2018, at 12:30, Nick Thompson wrote:
I HATE to spend more than 1K for a computer. It seems a mortal
injustice, an assault upon my mo
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Nick these all sound like pretty good ideas. To me it seems like their's
always some need to get a pretty good
l storage so I don't need so much. But for the above
>>> mentioned reasons, I will need help to do that, in which case, members of
>>> the Local Church might suggest a Digital Storage Rationalization Consultant
>>> to help me straighten out the mess I have made.
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otentially handle everything you could store on the laptop).
Brent
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If the issue is bulk, most laptops will acce
ss I have made.
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From: Friam [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On Behalf Of ? u???
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You may already know this ... Because you're probably using that *thing*
called
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You may already know this ... Because you're probably using that *thing*
You may already know this ... Because you're probably using that *thing*
called Windows, in order to do this effectively, you have to pay attention to
where programs are installed. Windows installers will try to put everything on
your "C" drive. But they usually give you the option of install
My guess is that your 460 GB drive is a spinning hard drive, and that
the new computer has a solid state drive (SSD). This is a *good* thing
since the SSD drives are much faster. The prices on Amazon for 1TB
drives are around $50 and the 2TB drives are close. My suggestion is to
get the new com
Nick,
One approach is to run a program that converts the system into a virtual
machine image. There are different codes for this depending on your
virtualization software. (vmware, hyper v, virtualbox, etc.) Then you get a
big (!) folder representing your old system that you can put on an ext
I was about to give up on my 460 Gig hd HP because [it was old and] I was
running out of disk space, only to discover that the standard machine
offered by my university to replace it has LESS disk space. Wondering how
people are storing stuff. Are the days of buying larger and larger hard
disks
Let me revise that advice slightly. :)
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=bkf+backup
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http://www.winhelponline.com/blog/restore-bkf-file-ntbackup-windows/
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Sent: Wednesday, November 16, 2016 12:47 PM
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Subject: [FRIAM] advice on Old Backups
Dear Friammers,
Anybody with experience recovering to a
Dear Friammers,
Anybody with experience recovering to a Win7 machine files saved in .bkf
format from an WinXT machine to a peripheral HD a decade or so ago? The
Win7 machine recognizes the HD just fine, but not the backup files. I looked
around on the web for a bit but nothing jumped out. I
On 1/3/2015 4:00 PM, Marcus G. Daniels wrote:
It may be possible to take the whole resulting image and run it under
VMWare Workstation (for Windows or Linux), but I haven't tried. VMWare
Workstation is more though ($250).
So VMWare Workstation 11 can run MacOS X (e.g. Yosemite), but it
requi
Holy cow, hadn't thought about that. I've been using a mac mini for a
desktop for years, I bet if you don't need the power of the MacPro, the
Mini would work fine. SDD is an absolute must, no disk. Helps with
portability too: less likely to fail.
On Sun, Jan 4, 2015 at 1:06 PM, Gary Schiltz
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If she needs both portability and power, how about a Mac Pro (not
MacBook Pro) portable setup? Sounds like a contradiction of terms, but
check out https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTmDS-_SfpY. Heck of a lot
easier to get a decent loaner monitor than a loaner CPU that will run
everything from a flash
Barry -
Great/succinct experience!
I am still seeking a vehicle power-solution for the Macbook but have
gotten by with a small cigarette-lighter inverter, though sometimes I
think the quality of power is to sketchy for my charge-block and have to
"reboot" the inverter a few times to get thing
I got a "ship ASAP because I'm screwed" MacBook Pro 15" a year ago. It
has 500GB of SSD, and 16GB of RAM. I have to say, it is the fastest
computer I've ever owned, although there are some now that are faster.
One of my most common tasks (building with 45,000 files, of which a
handful have chan
: Saturday, January 03, 2015 3:18 PM
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Eric -
As a Mac person, she doesn't have *lots* of choices, for better and/or
worse:
I can't imagine traveling without a screen/keyboard, depen
Dropbox too. One TByte for $100/year, and really easy to use. And can be
used on multiple computers, not a bad strategy.
On Sat, Jan 3, 2015 at 3:18 PM, Steve Smith wrote:
> Eric -
>
> As a Mac person, she doesn't have *lots* of choices, for better and/or
> worse:
>
> I can't imagine traveling w
Eric -
As a Mac person, she doesn't have *lots* of choices, for better and/or
worse:
I can't imagine traveling without a screen/keyboard, depending on the
kindness of strangers to provide a display and a keyboard, so I'd say
MacBook Air or MacBook Pro is the *only* choice.
With internal SS
Hi Everybody,
May I ask for technical advice, please, from you who are probably the most
knowledgeable and informed community I know?
I have a friend who is likely to spend the next several years in a very
high-travel situation, with six months or so in Asia each year and six in the
U.S., and
I rarely need my remote DVD with my MacAir since for almost everything you can
use a remote disk on another computer so I usually don't carry it on trips
(although it weighs almost nothing). Possibly having something else to carry is
offset by the weight difference between an Air and a heavier l
It really comes down to convenience... not having to get up and cross
the room or go downstairs to load a movie in your comp... and while
traveling... getting two things together (laptop and DVD) is hard enough
without adding a third (DVD player).
In my experience, watching movies on DVD is the
Pamela,
You can also share the DVD drive of another Mac from your new MacBook Air.
Grant
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On Jan 24, 2013, at 8:40 PM, Pamela McCorduck wrote:
> Whoops, more votes coming in. The idea of a MacBook Air plus external CD/DVD
> player is very interesting.
>
>
>
> ==
On 1/24/13 9:57 PM, Steve Smith wrote:
In my experience, watching movies on DVD is the one compelling reason
not to depend on an external drive (as with MacBook Air or iPad).
iSCSI & Wifi, problem solved? (combo untested)
http://www.lg.com/us/data-storage/lg-N2B1DD2
http://www.attotech.com/p
I agree that DVD optical drives make sense. But really, we only use one ..
on the mini. It shares well with all the other computers and the TV (after
ripping). And with NetFlix, Amazon, iTunes, torrents .. do you really use
DVDs that much?
But it is an important consideration.
-- Owen
On T
Pamela -
Macbook Pro unless you really don't use the DVD often or in unusual
places, then Air with an external DVD/CD for the rare software upgrade
that requires it.
In my experience, watching movies on DVD is the one compelling reason
not to depend on an external drive (as with MacBook Air
Doug is right about linux systems being quite zippy.
On the other hand, the MBA has a SSD (Solid State Disk) which makes it MUCH
faster. I'm ordering SSD for my mini and going to use the nifty tool set
Steve S and I have talked about so much lately.
Digital Ecology is real. If you have a lot of
Oh, you're a sadistic sonofabitch, Marcus. I kind of like that.
On Jan 24, 2013 8:39 PM, "Marcus G. Daniels" wrote:
> On 1/24/13 7:34 PM, Douglas Roberts wrote:
>
>> Ok, now that I'm back in front of a real (Linux) computer: I have a new
>> MacBook pro, and I've gotta say: it's slower that shit.
It was your hard "must be a Mac solution" requirement that tipped me,
Pamela. The good news is that limits your options. The bad news is ...
Never mind.
Seriously, if you need a Mac, get a Mac. Putting yourself at the mercy of
the Mac minions is part of the (very large) premium you pay for the
pri
Whoops, more votes coming in. The idea of a MacBook Air plus external CD/DVD
player is very interesting.
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On 1/24/13 7:34 PM, Douglas Roberts wrote:
Ok, now that I'm back in front of a real (Linux) computer: I have a
new MacBook pro, and I've gotta say: it's slower that shit. I've got
5 year-old Linux Laptops that are faster and more functional than it.
http://www.microsoft.com/Surface/en-us/surfa
Not a trick question, Doug. I really need to know.
One vote for rehabbing an old MacBook, one vote for getting a MacBookPro, one
vote for…well, going to an Apple Store and putting myself in the hands of the
twelve-year-old geniuses (is that what I got from you, Doug?). Thinking hard
about this.
Go back one generation, get a refurbished one from Apple, pile on the
memory.
Get a "real" bluetooth keyboard and trackpad, unless you like keys that
don't move very much.
I'd second the motion on investigating a mac mini with a big honking
monitor.You can hang out on the recliner with the
Ok, now that I'm back in front of a real (Linux) computer: I have a new
MacBook pro, and I've gotta say: it's slower that shit. I've got 5
year-old Linux Laptops that are faster and more functional than it.
But, if you are wedded to the Mac infrastructure, go to a Mac store & let a
Mac salesperso
Did you notice that? Sent from Android.
On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 6:57 PM, Douglas Roberts wrote:
> This may be a trick question, but what the hell: go to a Mac store get a
> Mac laptop?
>
> Sent from a phone, hence the succint brevity...
>
> Sent from Android.
> On Jan 24, 2013 6:53 PM, "Pamela
I've been happy with my MacBook Air. I wound up buying an external CD/DVD
player which I needed to install Parallels/Windows on a separate partition but
it was very inexpensive.
Ed
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Founding Director, Art, Research, Technology and Science Laboratory (ARTS Lab)
Professor Emer
When my last MB died, I looked at the replacement price and decided on a
MBA (Macbook Air) + a mac mini for house use. The point is that the MBA
was a great buy and I'm loving it. And with the leftover savings, you can
add to your ecology .. like a iPad or some sort.
The MBA's battery life is ab
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>It has been so long since I've bought a laptop (five years?) that I'm
>seeking your advice.
>
>I need an Apple product (please, to be compatible with everything else I
>own) to use during a post-surgical recovery (it's my foot, but it's g
This may be a trick question, but what the hell: go to a Mac store get a
Mac laptop?
Sent from a phone, hence the succint brevity...
Sent from Android.
On Jan 24, 2013 6:53 PM, "Pamela McCorduck" wrote:
> It has been so long since I've bought a laptop (five years?) that I'm
> seeking your advic
It has been so long since I've bought a laptop (five years?) that I'm seeking
your advice.
I need an Apple product (please, to be compatible with everything else I own)
to use during a post-surgical recovery (it's my foot, but it's gonna be a
stupid long time). I absolutely need a real keyboard
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