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Tom Scola - Oct 19, 2007 5:54:54 am PDT #3095 of 25497

Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.

Then again, perhaps I'm putting too much importance on contiguous space?

Does having so many fragments and so little contiguous space NOT effect performance?

Not significantly.

Are you planning to upgrade to Leopard? That would be a good time to back up your disk and wipe it out anyway.

beekaytee - Oct 19, 2007 6:09:38 am PDT #3096 of 25497

Compassionately intolerant

Good question...and good point.

I hadn't thought about upgrading. Are there likely to be significant benefits...and will my pokey 1gb 'puter be able to handle it?

Must do research!

eta: Apropos of this...lifehacker has suggestions for cleaning up your Mac to prepare for Leopard. They point to a free utility that provides an inventory of what is on your system and how much space it takes.

Perfect!

(please forgive, if this is old news)

tommyrot - Oct 19, 2007 6:51:15 am PDT #3097 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.

My ass itches.

beekaytee - Oct 19, 2007 10:28:34 am PDT #3098 of 25497

Compassionately intolerant

Disc Inventory X turned out to be great. It gave me a visual sense of there my spacehogs lie...which leads me into an area I never expected to tread...

My biggest offenders are Jonathan Creek ahems...19gb. I'd like to burn the episodes off onto discs but the Toast 6 lite that came with my Lacie d2 DVD RW does not accept avi files.

Anyone have experience with this and/or advice?

amych - Oct 19, 2007 10:40:56 am PDT #3099 of 25497

Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?

If you just need to back up/free up some space, you'll be able to fit a lot more on a DVD if you use it as a data disk. If you want DVD's that you can watch with a DVD player, ffmpegX has converted just about anything I've ever thrown at it -- I'm not sure what formats your copy of toast will handle, but ffmpegX can probably produce them.

omnis_audis - Oct 19, 2007 12:06:08 pm PDT #3100 of 25497

omnis, pursue. That's an order from a shy woman who can use M-16. - Shir

iPhone question. How do you highlight to read the white font in b.org?

tommyrot - Oct 19, 2007 12:08:23 pm PDT #3101 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.

I thought I recalled someone saying it couldn't be done. But maybe I'm thinking of some other web phone.

NoiseDesign - Oct 19, 2007 12:12:40 pm PDT #3102 of 25497

Our wings are not tired

iPhone question. How do you highlight to read the white font in b.org?

You don't.

Along with copy and paste not being possible.

omnis_audis - Oct 19, 2007 12:13:16 pm PDT #3103 of 25497

omnis, pursue. That's an order from a shy woman who can use M-16. - Shir

that is what I was suspecting, but I've only had it for less than one day, so I don't know everything about it yet.

Eta: ya the no copy/paste makes it harder to quote

beekaytee - Oct 19, 2007 12:52:28 pm PDT #3104 of 25497

Compassionately intolerant

If you just need to back up/free up some space, you'll be able to fit a lot more on a DVD if you use it as a data disk.

I'm creating the data disk right now, but downloaded ffmpegx for future use.

I see a lot of backing up in my future.

Thanks so much amych.

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