Every planet has its own weird customs. About a year before we met, I spent six weeks on a moon where the principal form of recreation was juggling geese. My hand to God. Baby geese. Goslings. They were juggled.

Wash ,'Our Mrs. Reynolds'


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DCJensen - Jan 23, 2006 4:08:50 pm PST #6807 of 10003
All is well that ends in pizza.

Oh, I think I get it now. I'll bet the CD is 8.0 and I only have the update unstalled on the hard drive. So I can't do this.

If you can mount the hard drive, you might still be able to run it off the drive. I think it can still do a lot of things, but I don't know which things it can do.


aurelia - Jan 23, 2006 4:12:20 pm PST #6808 of 10003
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.

This is certainly not my expertise, but my understanding is that you can't de-frag the hard drive when you are running from the hard drive.


DCJensen - Jan 23, 2006 4:18:03 pm PST #6809 of 10003
All is well that ends in pizza.

When I click "Optimize" in Speed Disk 6.0.5, I it says yes, can't do it all, but it does give me the option of defragmenting "Files not currently in use"


aurelia - Jan 23, 2006 4:24:40 pm PST #6810 of 10003
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.

I'll give it a shot.


Jessica - Jan 23, 2006 5:31:36 pm PST #6811 of 10003
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

If so, you can probably clean out a lot of the stuff that got archived during the archive & install.

How do I find that stuff?

I think I'm going to bring in my own external hard drive, regardless. I'm not really using it here.


Gris - Jan 23, 2006 6:00:33 pm PST #6812 of 10003
Hey. New board.

When the iMac Intel came out, I was actually very surpised, as it seemed a silly place to switch. They took a machine with a totally decent DESKTOP chip, the single-core G5, and replaced it with a brand new, top-of-the-line LAPTOP chip. The fact that there's any improvement at all actually surprises me, and shows that they probably had to make some pretty big architectural sacrifices to make the G5 consume little enough power to work in the iMac in the first place.

Where the Intel switch will make the most drastic improvement is in the laptops - the MacBook should, theoretically, operate at exactly the same speed as the new iMacs, which really is something like a 100% speed improvement over the G4s - and in the quad and maybe even octal-core PowerMacs that will come out later in the year or early 2007.


tommyrot - Jan 23, 2006 6:12:12 pm PST #6813 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

how many playlists do you have on your ipod (and/or itunes)

63 78, of which 40 42 are smart. (eta I forgot to count the playlists that I've put into folders.)

Some of those smart lists exist solely to narrow down my collection to fit on the Nano or the 40 Gig ipod. I think I'm gonna buy a 60 Gig iPod just so I can have my entire library on one iPod again.

Also, why is 'solely' spelled that way?


tina f. - Jan 23, 2006 6:21:07 pm PST #6814 of 10003

how many playlists do you have on your ipod (and/or itunes)

I have lost upward of about 50 or so in work-computer-and-no-iPod-having computer switches. Now -

6 smart, 29 regular on my iPod (which I've had since 03/05).

I don't have any on my main computer's iTunes because I make all of them on my iPod now.


bon bon - Jan 23, 2006 7:07:45 pm PST #6815 of 10003
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.

Holee CRAP, people. I have like, two. One for songs I am not sick of and one for working out. Also the preinstalled ones like recently added/purchased. I have one for podcasts too, but that's the fault of iTunes for not making it easier to play podcasts sequentially.


DebetEsse - Jan 23, 2006 7:16:14 pm PST #6816 of 10003
Woe to the fucking wicked.

Seriously? I can't imagine making mine work for me without them

21 smart . 83 total. I could probably get rid of a few, but there are some that I'll be making once I finish my re-genre-ing (the genres, as they were, were utterly unhelpful). It's possible that I have some sort of sickness