Why isn't there Civilization for the Mac?
It's possible that's a rhetorical question. Unless you have an answer.
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§ ita § - Oct 18, 2007 8:55:50 pm PDT #3082 of 25497
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Sean K - Oct 18, 2007 9:29:56 pm PDT #3083 of 25497
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
So, my monitor, which is working fine on my Mac Mini right now, no longer works on my PC.
Which blows, as that's the computer with my main iTunes library, and I want to charge my iPod, but without be able to see, I can't eject it safely.
Theodosia - Oct 19, 2007 2:32:23 am PDT #3084 of 25497
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
Um, tommyrot's ass seems to have distracted people from my BIG IMPORTANT need to know what backup procedure people are using for Vista, especially net-based offsite backup, which wouldn't be Vista-specific I suppose. Bonus points if I can also backup my Mac to it, and get stuff from the PC to the Mac that way....
Tom Scola - Oct 19, 2007 3:03:25 am PDT #3085 of 25497
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
Gris - Oct 19, 2007 4:00:08 am PDT #3086 of 25497
Hey. New board.
tommyrot - Oct 19, 2007 4:53:38 am PDT #3087 of 25497
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
In Vista, when you're in Windows Explorer (or whatever the file manager's called) can you make the directories and files display in different colors? You can in OS X, but not in XP. (In XP, you can change the image that a folder has in thumbnail view, but I don't use thumbnail view that much.)
le nubian - Oct 19, 2007 4:54:42 am PDT #3088 of 25497
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
Theo,
that is a lot of space: 180GB.
I would say that if you want to go absolute cheapest, you might want to get syncback SE (you can trial it for 30days) and get a dreamhost acct and back everything up there.
you may need webdrive if you want to backup through webdav.
beekaytee - Oct 19, 2007 5:03:17 am PDT #3089 of 25497
Compassionately intolerant
I'm with Theo on the awesomeness of tommy's ass...and I'm hoping that someone has a thought about the best way to defrag my eMac.
I'm pretty weirded out by the fact that Techtool can't seem to manage it. (Could that be because I'm running it in Classic?)
My thoughts so far:
back up, clean off as much as possible
wipe the hard drive and reinstall everything?
Both of these seem daunting in the extreme, but I'm worried that if I don't do something, something worse will happen.
So far, no actual problems besides slowness and occasional hanging.
Tom Scola - Oct 19, 2007 5:08:00 am PDT #3090 of 25497
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
You really shouldn't need to defragment your drive. For the most part, OS X takes care of defragmentation automatically.
§ ita § - Oct 19, 2007 5:19:32 am PDT #3091 of 25497
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Tom, thanks! The Civ pages themselves don't say OS X at all.