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evol262 posted:Remote Install supports this, yes, but there's very little documentation on what it's doing behind the scenes. It supports wifi, but it's unknown how much of Core* is included. I'm not proposing a community solution but rather something Apple rolls to prevent MB theft.
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I see Apples Compressor is on the app store for $50. Does anyone know if I need FCP/FCX to use this app or can it work standalone? Standalone with be great and I didn't see anything in the requirements about it needing to have FC installed.
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japtor posted:From some quick searching around, yeah it appears to work as a standalone app. That said, figure out if the app fits your needs and/or look into other options just in case. Its only $50 and its for work. I need to convert stuff to ProRes and thats it. Official(er) stuff is better since its for production. I'm sure theres a few free apps out there but they all seem really basic and not tunable. Maybe I'm wrong but I haven't come across any that I would want to use in production. We don't do anything else on a Mac so its been a hard sell to buy one and have IT have to support it just for making ProRes movies but we're also wasting money paying other companies to do it for us when you can get a mac mini and this $50 app for as much as it costs to have 2 movies converted by a post house.
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Did something happen between 10.6.8 and 10.8.X with respect to SMB file sharing? I've had a C2D Mac Mini sharing files with a PC over gigibit and had no issues on 10.6.8. Playing video files off of the Mini and transferring files was flawless under 10.6.8. Now with 10.8.3 I get really erratic speeds and dropouts. Usually with bigger files >4GB. The transfer will fail somewhere around 75% and its pretty consistent. Playing files directly from the Mini causes the video to corrupt and fail in the middle of the clip. WTH.
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Star War Sex Parrot posted:Something did indeed happen. Starting with 10.7, Apple switched from Samba to an in-house solution (SMBX). Supposedly all of the growing pains have been fixed by now, but if you're having problems I believe it's possible to get Samba setup instead: Man I thought I had it rough. Seems like SMBX is not production ready and people have found that out the hard way: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4771281?start=15&tstart=0
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I followed this guide http://www.networkedmediatank.com/showthread.php?tid=65018 and got Samba working in 10.8.3 (yay) but I'm not versed on how launch agents work. Currently I have 2 plist files in /Library/LaunchAgents/ that work. Will the OS automatically launch these when I login next time or do I need to add them to another list somewhere?
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Socialism posted:No idea but have you looked into smbup instead of going through all those complicated stuff? It has worked phenomenally well for me. Nice thanks although it seems like thats doing exactly what I'm doing only with an older version of samba. I feel like I'm so close to just having it done.
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Recommendation on a command line tool that does audio conversions?
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Upgrading a MBP 3.1 from 10.4 to 10.9. Thats got to be the biggest jump allowable.
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Stare-Out posted:You might want to sit down, it could be a shock. Also wow, someone else on this earth who still uses a 3,1 MBP. Oh its not my only Mac. I've been using 10.8. The MBP 3.1 was a salvage and the former owner didn't upgrade but did use it up until 6 months ago when the battery blew out. Clean install. New 500G SSHD, 2GB => 4GB, disassemble and clean innards/outside, the works. Shaocaholica fucked around with this message at 20:05 on Oct 25, 2013 |
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As much as I like keynote this is hilariously stupid: http://www.tuaw.com/2012/08/07/invalid-keynote-document-calm-down-and-try-this-fix/ I can't imagine having this happen the day of a presentation.
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marmot25 posted:...a couple of days... Pffft. Thats an eternity.
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Whats a reliable zip archiver? Seems like whenever someone sends me something zipped from OS X its corrupt. Granted these are typically huge archives (10G+) but I've never had persistent issues like this with 7z and p7z.
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snakeater posted:You could always try the p7z mac port. Doesn't look too well supported though. Gui might be better. I need to tell clients to use it so I'm not inclined to tell them to use a CLI tool.
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Oh OS X. I attach an NTFS external drive to 10.9. I get asked if I want to use the drive for time machine when its obvious OS X can't write to it.
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Did SMB get any better with 10.9? With 10.7/10.8 I was recommended to use samba which I'm using now on a MM thats a file server. If I upgrade to 10.9 should I keep using samba or switch back to Apple's newer SMB?
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Star War Sex Parrot posted:Define "better." It's dramatically faster, that's for sure. Random drop outs during streaming/copy operations. Mainly large files 1G-10G.
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If I enable the web server in 10.8/10.9 to host some videos and photos so I can view them on my ipad/iphone within my local network, am I also opening that up to the world? I'm not sure how it could/should be blocked by my router. If not, how can I put a password on it? vvvvv tanks vvvvvv Shaocaholica fucked around with this message at 06:18 on Jan 6, 2014 |
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AHAHAHAHAHAHAHA I can't believe how easy this was. Using 10.8. Should work the same on 10.9. code:sudo ln -s /Volumes/Torrents/ files Will vary from user to user, machine to machine. But basically now I can playback all my idevice supported files mov, mp4,mp3,aac streamed over HTTP from my Mac without syncing and files are ready as soon as they are dropped/downloaded into the source dir. Because I hate syncing videos I'm only going to watch once. I can actually log into Transmission web interface from my idevice, start a torrent and watch that torrent on my idevice without opening itunes or interacting with OS X on the Mac.
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eddiewalker posted:There's a better thread for this The IYG iPad thread?
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The last time I tried to get Windows/Linux mouse acceleration in OS X it never really worked (this was like 6 years ago). Man it sucks to be reminded that even if game development, availability and performance have parity between consoles/Windows and OS X, you're still stuck with this small yet very non trivial issue.
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Are people having trouble with Mavericks??? I've got a clean install of 10.9.2 on the oldest supported MBP 2007 and its running fine.
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Is there a Mac games thread? I'm following this really dated settings guide for SC2 and the recommended settings for my 2008 MBP non unibody 4.1 are totally not working. http://eu.battle.net/sc2/en/forum/topic/169527587?page=10 My fps are below 20 and I have some sort of horrible stuttering where the fps goes from bad to horrible on a fairly consistent 2sec phase. MBP 4.1 2008 4GB 8600M 512 10.9.2 clean install vvv tanks vvv Shaocaholica fucked around with this message at 21:03 on Apr 12, 2014 |
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Before I pay $5 for this: http://www.bresink.com/osx/BatteryMonitor.html Is there anything free out there that can log the charge and discharge as a percent or mAh? Preferably draw a nice plot instead of outputting a CSV file? I'm just lazy here.
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Pivo posted:CoconutBattery? AFAIK it doesn't log/graph.
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Pivo posted:In the screenshot it has a "History" tab so I don't really know, I haven't used it for a long time. Nah thats just keeping track of your battery degredation, not anything fine grained like the data during a single charge cycle. Anyway I bought battery monitor for $5. Not bad but more like a $2 app. Axiem posted:You're looking for Scroll Reverser. This app is great. Too bad this should have been core OS functionality since day 1. At least the app is free.
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A corestorage volume of 2 identical HDDs should be fine right? This is a more or less proven use? I know its probably mostly for fusion right now but I'm in a situation where the extra space is worth more than the speed.
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When can I expect actual hardware compatibility lockdown for 10.10? When does apple usually release that info for the shipping version?
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rufius posted:That MacBook will run 10.8 but not anything newer. Gave my sister-in-law my old MacBook (like yours) and discovered that. Err, I thought the barrier versions were at 10.7. I think that any Mac that can run 10.8 can also run 10.9 unless you're talking unofficially.
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I'm having fun with one of the oldest machines to support Yosemite, a maxed out 2007 MBP. That's 7 years old coming around 8. Almost as old as having the same laptop from freshman year of high school to graduating college. Going to order a special SATA to IDE optibay next week to get fusion drive running. Something that this machine was never designed to support 
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Is there a way to automagically on a schedule backup iCloud photos to local disk? Including shared albums? I'm just paranoid I or someone else might blow them away accidentally or intentionally at some point in the future. edit: oh nevermind, I see the option to keep originals on a particular mac. edit2: urgh, the local copies organization isn't very human readable. 
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flosofl posted:Your model is listed as being able to run 10.8 (maybe 10.9, but I think Mavericks might give it a stroke). I've got 10.10 running on my 2007 MBP with 4GB (max) and its fine.
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^^^ I'm pretty sure they stopped making hardware specific recovery disks after 10.7(?) since they stopped shipping Macs with recovery media.Ur Getting Fatter posted:So just ask someone to make me a 10.6/7/whatever DVD with their mac and then just pop it into my girlfriend's 10.5 mac? Seriously, just ask for a 10.10 USB. TEN dot TEN. Yo-yo. Your 2009 MBP will be fine. It will not blow up.
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Are time machine backups basically everything set to backup for every snapshot but space savings are achieved with hard links to files that have not changed?
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NeuralSpark posted:Pretty much Neato, thanks! Glad to know the inner workings are pretty straight forward and not obfuscated.
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A guy at work is trying to 'reset' his Mac while trying to preserve all of his 'files'. From what I've heard from him he isn't using any externals. No idea what OS X hes on. Assuming worst case its 10.4, whats the best way to go about this without too much hand holding. I've offered to lend him a 1TB external but he really doesn't know poo poo but I'm not about to give him 4 hours of my time either.
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His personal machine. I don't fix computers at work either. I'm just a guy. I like to help when I can but since I don't know this guy I'm not willing to get sucked into his problems because I've been sucked in plenty on friends problems. I'd like to point him in the right direction at a minimum.
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I'm fine with someone elses photo organization system (provided I get a lot of stuff done for free) but the one with Photos is currently very difficult to navigate manually and it doesn't have to be like that. Plus I need Photos and Lightroom to play nice with the same photos on disk. Not sure if that's possible at all.
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DiskmakerX is handy but its dumb and doesn't list USB sticks over 8GB as USB sticks but 'other' volumes. Who the gently caress has a <=8GB stick these days. Dollar store USB sticks start at 16GB. If your Mac can run Yoyo you should be running it. Even if it shipped with 10.4.
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I would like to playback a 5400x1920 video file on a Mac Pro. Its going to be spanned across 5 vertical FHD displays. What player/codec would work best at that res? I need real-time no frame dropping playback. Storage will be local(SSD) and shouldn't be an issue. Video will be short, 2-4 min.
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