You know, I just... I woke up, and I looked in the mirror, and I thought, hey, what's with all the sin? I need to change. I'm... I'm dirty. I'm, I'm bad with the... sex and the envy and that, that loud music us kids listen to nowadays.

Buffy ,'Lessons'


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dcp - Aug 04, 2012 5:05:54 pm PDT #20645 of 25501
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.

Mine is 3.2 lbs. The ones I linked to above are a little larger, and weigh about 4.3 lbs.


NoiseDesign - Aug 04, 2012 5:20:54 pm PDT #20646 of 25501
Our wings are not tired

I adore my 11" MacBook Air, but that only really works if you're a Mac person.


smonster - Aug 04, 2012 8:11:56 pm PDT #20647 of 25501
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.

I also adore my 11" MacBook Air, and it is my first Mac.


Zenkitty - Aug 05, 2012 7:40:00 am PDT #20648 of 25501
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.

Stop tempting me to the Dark Side!

I fear it wouldn't be compatible with all the stuff I have on the PC platform that I'd be moving over. And by "not compatible" I mean, I couldn't easily figure it out. I'm going for a shallow learning curve, here. Like, flat.


§ ita § - Aug 06, 2012 1:42:59 pm PDT #20649 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Okay--my NAS does not like Lion.

I'm trying to save a document in Elements, and I navigate to a folder full of symlinks to other folders on the NAS. Can't navigate past them. I doubleclick on "venus" and it replaces the filename with "venus", and doesn't resolve the symbolic link. Who am I supposed to be pissed at here--Apple, or Seagate? (Hell, or Adobe--I can navigate this way in Finder, after all)

Seagate's NAS is no longer compatible with Time Machine, which is why I ask. I am mad at them about that--my firmware is up to date, and everything. It's a kind of useless lump of spinning silicon at the moment.


NoiseDesign - Aug 06, 2012 1:50:20 pm PDT #20650 of 25501
Our wings are not tired

I have a Seagate NAS that broke Time Machine, but they did release a firmware update that fired it.


§ ita § - Aug 06, 2012 2:33:50 pm PDT #20651 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Which model, ND? I have a Black Armor 220, and its firmware is up to date, but no joy.

And Dreamhost, thanks for *nothing*. One of the least important PHP pages on my site is broken (it's one I use, direct URL only), and last time something like this happened, they'd changed their PHP configuration (disabled allow_url_fopen) without saying anything--this one, I'm going back and forth trying to work out why suddenly it's spitting up tons of "[Thu Aug 02 09:09:12 2012] [error] [client 69.163.231.184] access to /cross_sites.php failed for 69.163.231.184, reason: Client exceeded concurrent connection limit of 30, referer: christian bale, all hands" errors on the 2nd of August, when it hadn't been on the 1st, and I hadn't updated code since June.

No changes, they assure me!

In the middle of this discussion, I notice "This is just a note to let you know that we have moved your account to a new server!"

Seriously, tech support? I know it's not your job to debug my code, but when I ask what sort of things might have changed, SERVERS totally count. So at least I have a direction to look in, anyway.


NoiseDesign - Aug 06, 2012 2:41:55 pm PDT #20652 of 25501
Our wings are not tired

That's the model that I have. I'll double check but I'm pretty sure it's been working with Time Machine on a couple of laptops with no worries.


§ ita § - Aug 06, 2012 3:03:35 pm PDT #20653 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

  • Firmware: 2000.1231
  • OS X 10.7.4 Build 11E2617

Error: Time Machine can't access the backup disk/ The operation couldn't be completed (OSStatus error 2.)

So, no cigar. And Seagate says "Call me!" which I just about have no energy to do at the same moment as time.


NoiseDesign - Aug 06, 2012 3:19:51 pm PDT #20654 of 25501
Our wings are not tired

Hmm, that's the same firmware build that I'm running. I'm about to head out the door to a tech rehearsal and the machine that backs up to that network drive isn't the one that I'm typing from right now, but I will double check when I get home this evening that it is backing up correctly to that NAS 220.