Damn it! You know what? I'm sick of this crap. I'm sick of being the guy who eats insects and gets the funny syphilis. As of this moment, it's over. I'm finished being everybody's butt monkey!

Xander ,'Lessons'


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le nubian - Jun 10, 2013 7:18:33 pm PDT #22557 of 25513
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."

wow! I didn't know it was that much. yikes.


Jon B. - Jun 11, 2013 4:04:45 am PDT #22558 of 25513
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!

I didn't realize it wasn't free for individuals anymore. Lifehacker may have a workaround, though: [link]


§ ita § - Jun 11, 2013 5:15:28 am PDT #22559 of 25513
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

That works for one email address, though. I wanted to be able to provide it to others, like my family. I get why they charge for it, it's just frustrating to be close and then denied.

Did people who had been signed up get grandfathered into "For Business".


Jon B. - Jun 11, 2013 5:51:50 am PDT #22560 of 25513
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!

I don't use it anymore, but for awhile I was using gmail for my domain. Now, I just forward everything to my standard gmail account. But I just logged in to my domain on gmail and all the addresses I set up were still there.


le nubian - Jun 11, 2013 11:25:34 am PDT #22561 of 25513
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."

I had tagged a bunch of stuff in instapaper and pocket for work (and evernote for that matter) and I'm horrible about tagging and filing, so I took an hour across the accounts to take a look and file what I had saved in the past 2-3 months.

Come to find out I had a secret pocket account that has old old old articles I saved there from like four fucking years ago.

I think I'm just going to delete the acct because I can't see why I'd need any of that.


§ ita § - Jun 13, 2013 8:03:59 am PDT #22562 of 25513
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I am having two OS X problems:

  • My Mac keeps freezing, and hard. The applications freeze one by one until there's nothing left I can do, including force quit. I've restarted twice today. I can't find a recent installation to blame, but it certainly might be a recent update. What are the OS X troubleshooting steps in this scenario?
  • Time Capsule keeps choking with the sparsebundle error. If I reboot the NAS, all is good for a day or two more. But that's not a fix, it's a week stopgap. Googling isn't much help either. Is my Mac to blame, or the NAS? Anyone seen this before?


Tom Scola - Jun 13, 2013 8:14:03 am PDT #22563 of 25513
Where do you come from? Where do you go? What is your scene, baby? We just gotta know.

What are the OS X troubleshooting steps in this scenario?

1. check memory usage.
2. check disk usage. If it's more than, say, 90-95% then you're going to have performance problems.


Rob - Jun 13, 2013 8:17:30 am PDT #22564 of 25513

3. Run disk first aid.


smonster - Jun 13, 2013 11:45:45 am PDT #22565 of 25513
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.

My Airbook bricked last week and is off being repaired, for another data point. It was freezing and crashing; it is quite possible that I was overusing the disk and memory.

Who's got a voice to text app they like for iPhone 4? I need something that doesn't use wifi, which I understand Dragon does. Bonus points for integrating into Evernote, though.


Liese S. - Jun 13, 2013 4:22:21 pm PDT #22566 of 25513
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."

What photo management tools do people use? I need something that will scan all my various places with .jpgs and can compare for duplicates and then do file management.