Re: Drive Genius-$40 - Yesterday

I did it. Not that I can really spare the $40... but I've not had a current edition of this Utility in a while, and decided it's time to capture it, license it, and start using it again. It really is a good program to have, highly recommended.

Re: Anyone streaming 1080P from Mac to Mac or Mac to ATV3? - Yesterday

Also--just a theory--streaming from one Mac to another might not get the more favorable results I think you could expect from an Apple TV. The reason being (and this is just a theory, I'm not qualified enough to know if my hunch is correct) that a Mac, even if it's not occupied performing a heavy task, maybe only minor ones, or with most apps not launched, no other tasks at all, leaving plent

Re: Anyone streaming 1080P from Mac to Mac or Mac to ATV3? - Yesterday

COOL option key trick! Gonna have to remember that.

Re: Anyone streaming 1080P from Mac to Mac or Mac to ATV3? - Yesterday

Your Mac is a mobile, like a laptop, yes? And the ATV, also something you'd move around from location to location? From one TV set to another? If the Apple TV is stationary, and your Mac is a stationary desktop Mac, it's questionable to elect to stream wirelessly, unless there's no other choice. WiFi is meant primarily for non-stationary devices that you walk around with, or move from location

Re: Bed Sheets 600 ct cotton. I cannot find any that are not deep pocket. Suggestions? - 2 days ago

Bed sheets with shallow pockets, or deep pockets. Where do plan to wear them? A rally of some kind, perhaps? :villagers:

Re: The Anti-Vaccination folks are suceeding in the UK: Measles WAY up... - 2 days ago

To get to the earliest source of flawed reasoning, leading to 40 years of hand-wringing, fear, and loathing over toxic pesticides, the DDT scare (leading to unwarranted withdrawal, leading to millions of preventable malaria deaths) chemical contamination in food supplies--related to fears about "excessive" vaccination--one need look no further than the movement's secular bible--"Si

Re: The Anti-Vaccination folks are suceeding in the UK: Measles WAY up... - 2 days ago

Not surprising that it's in the U.K. where this disaster is first showing early troubling numbers of this backwardness and voluntary deconstruction of modernity. Western Europe is committing cultural suicide at a slightly faster rate than other parts of the developed world. I hope we can contain it, and study it. On the other hand, their tea and scones are really good. They make some good

Re: The Anti-Vaccination folks are suceeding in the UK: Measles WAY up... - 2 days ago

exposure to chemicals and laboratory created food ingredients People tend to exercise choices about food, selecting flavor-pumped convenience foods (including restaurant food, packaged foods, slow or fast food establishments) rather than making the effort to select and prepare genuine food from readily-available fresh ingredients, in our own kitchens. That for some of us, is burdensome, while

Re: The Anti-Vaccination folks are suceeding in the UK: Measles WAY up... - 2 days ago

Very revealing. In any discussion of more than a dozen people, it only takes a few moments for one of them to unwittingly breed pro-disease thinking. It's often part of the same pattern of denial: first-world popular folklore and vague suspicions about "rampant" use of "chemicals" and "herbicides"-- 20th-century advances that ushered in the flourishing of unprece

Re: MBP Refurbs: Is the ~$100 price diff b/w these worth it? - 2 days ago

The price differences b/w don't indicate that the display isn't in color. All modern macs have video cards that produce graphics in full color, not b/w. So a refurb often is a good deal. Fortunately, neither the 2011 and the 2012 models have graphics cards that only display b/w. They're in color. Hope that helps! :)

Re: Time Machine Question - 3 days ago

I let it do its thing. I noted that yes, it does delete previous backup history to start fresh. It backed up overnight, about 6 hours, and all appears to be well. If this happens a third time (since it would delete the history anyway) I'll simply replace the hard drive. It's a Seagate. I've got lots of HDs, I'll swap it out and see if a different drive is more reliable. And take that opp

Re: Time Machine Question - 3 days ago

I can understand it happening one time. But to do the same thing again, a month or two later--suggests a problem. No, it's not normal for Time Machine to require this, twice, in such a short time.

Re: Good cradle for iPhone needed - 3 days ago

One should hardly have to explain wanting a cradle or stand for their iPhone. I've had iPhones since they first came out, and have always preferred parking it on a stand, over just laying it down, and sticking a charging cable in it. Since getting the iPhone 5, the cable is easier to plug in (fits in either way, doesn't have to be flipped one specific way) and is smaller, but the down side is

Re: Good cradle for iPhone needed - 4 days ago

You realize, now you'll be required to sing it a lullaby, too. And change its little pants.

Time Machine Question - 4 days ago

For the second time in about two months, i got a message, when Time Machine was doing its process... Forgive me, I didn't capture the exact wording... ...basically saying something about improving the reliability of backups, and discovering something invalid, then announcing it's going to initiate a backup from scratch, and do I want to back up now, or later? Last time I saw this, I went

Re: Lost 10 pounds in two weeks - 4 days ago

QuoteRacer X Quotesunfalcon It's all about caloric intake. Take in less than you burn and you'll lose weight. Excercise and you can eat more. It's a numbers game. and when you tell people that, it just pisses them off, mostly because its true, and that simple too. The common-sense rule that overeating contributes to obesity, and eating modestly and staying active promotes healthy weight, s

Re: Lost 10 pounds in two weeks - 5 days ago

I did that weight shift, too. Started out at around 210, got down to just below 180. And dropped pounds at a rate of 10 -15 lbs a month (the first week or two, dropping 10 pounds happens immediately) The results were very rewarding. Besides feeling lighter, feel healthier in general. Is it plain yogurt? Some popular flavored yogurts are almost like eating dessert, and can help you mainta

Re: CW network shows coming to Apple TV - 5 days ago

Is that a country-and-western music cable channel? Not sure what the "CW" network is.

Re: Need help with restoring from Time Machine-Case Sensitive - 6 days ago

I'm referring to the state of the external hard drive (understanding it's one you brought yourself) before you assigned it as a backup drive to use with Time Machine. Time Machine, the software application built into OS X, is not a utility that does things like erase and format hard drives, like Disk Utility. It will create a sparsebundle and mount that on your desktop during backups. But it

Re: iTunes update has several decent improvements... - 6 days ago

I welcome our new iTunes Overlords

Re: Worst.Concert.Ever. - Smashing Pumpkins - 6 days ago

Maybe you should have gone to see this guy instead.

Re: Need help with restoring from Time Machine-Case Sensitive - 6 days ago

Do you recall why that drive was formatted (incorrectly, as it turns out) as case-sensitive? It's an unusual choice. Just curious. I'm not familiar with that format, or what would be an appropriate reason to format it that way. Though it's not clear in your post, I assume it's not the Apple Time Capsule unit, but is an external HD that you purchased, installed, and formatted, to use for b

Re: TJs peaberry coffee - 6 days ago

I used to work in the coffee trade. I spend a fortune on my coffee habit, and love exploring rare or exotic or novel beans and roasts. I'm not an expert, but an addict, and hobbyist. I recently inquired about the virtues of peaberry, what makes that type of bean desirable. The answer was different than the Wikipedia source. First, it's a mutant bean. That's one thing that's cool about it.

Re: Ordinarily, I find Gordon Ramsay's Shows to be so similar and fomulaic from one to the next that they all blend together, but... - 7 days ago

My wife is hooked on the series, will sometimes watch a few in a row. The unexpected downside to this hobby she has (and I get drawn in sometimes) is that ...we developed this perception of restaurants as crazy and sloppy and dysfunctional. Even the pretty good restaurants have problems, personnel problems, food storage rotation, menu rot. And distrust the habits, and question the managem

Re: Seth Meyers to be the new Johnny Carson Trainee - 9 days ago

Who is the new Jack Parr? And the new Steve Allen?

Re: Recommendations for an auto battery for a vehicle that isn't driven often? - 10 days ago

Quotedavester Quoteguitarist Cheap trickle chargers of the type described by eustacetilley will destroy the battery through overcharging. This is an overstatement. It's not necessary to overspend to get a perfectly safe, reliable trickle charger. If companies that made standard, affordable car battery trickle chargers were regularly "destroying" their customers' batteries through ov

Re: Recommendations for an auto battery for a vehicle that isn't driven often? - 11 days ago

Cheap trickle chargers of the type described by eustacetilley will destroy the battery through overcharging. This is an overstatement. It's not necessary to overspend to get a perfectly safe, reliable trickle charger. If companies that made standard, affordable car battery trickle chargers were regularly "destroying" their customers' batteries through overcharging, they'd be rejecte

Re: Recommendations for an auto battery for a vehicle that isn't driven often? - 11 days ago

A trickle charger, and a long, heavy-duty extension cord. There's power somewhere on your property, true? If not, purchasing a different kind of battery may not help. I've had that issue with my Honda Civic Si, I drive it infrequently sometimes, and it doesn't take much neglect for the battery to get drained. I use a long extension cord. It may only need this during certain seasons. If a

Re: [OT : Leather] caring for bicycle gloves - 11 days ago

basic leather conditioning supplies, like you see in a shoe department, or shoe repair store. Even the hardware store, and the local supermarket, has this stuff, it's not rare or hard to find. Good for leather jackets, leather boots, leather anything. Even a big leather chair. There's a cleaning kind, and a conditioning kind. I get either, they work similarly, but inclined toward the conditioner.

John Lennon's head driven to auction, can't buy me love? - 11 days ago