My MacBook has me with a different user name than my other Macs, so when I copied my iTunes directory, some of the subdirectories have my old user name as the owner. How do I give myself ownership of every directory and subdirectory in a folder? (There's a simple command to do it, but it didn't work because of all the weird folder names.)
Played with Kaylee. Sun came out, and I walked on my feet and heard with my ears. I ate the bits, the bits stayed down, and I work. I function like I'm a girl. I hate it because I know it'll go away. The sun goes dark and chaos has come again. Bits. Fluids. What am I?!
River ,'War Stories'
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tommyrot - May 14, 2008 2:14:12 pm PDT #6213 of 25501
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
amych - May 14, 2008 2:15:17 pm PDT #6214 of 25501
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
chown -R
§ ita § - May 14, 2008 2:15:40 pm PDT #6215 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
chown with a -r parameter?
Theodosia - May 14, 2008 2:22:48 pm PDT #6216 of 25501
'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"
Is it possible for a wireless router to die slowly? For the past week or two, I've been getting very VERY slow speeds from my router, which is the same one I've used for the past two or three years. When I plug the computer DIRECTLY into the cable modem, bypassing it, I'm back up to cruising speed.
Even when I'm not connecting the computer THRU the wireless, just using the router to connect to by old-fashioned wire, I get the lousy performance.
Any ideas what to try? I've already had one support call to the cable people, who were able to confirm that the speed I'm getting where it leaves the cable modem is just peachy.
(Now I'm wondering if my problem could be the cable from the cable modem to the wireless router. I may try rewiring, just on general principle.)
tommyrot - May 14, 2008 2:24:33 pm PDT #6217 of 25501
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
chown -R
OK, I tried that and it craps out. It sez:
chown: !!! Chk Chik Chick: Invalid argument
(Apparently, "!!! Chk Chik Chick" is the name of a directory.)
eta: Yep, a directory. How can I get chown to work no matter how weird the directory names?
beth b - May 14, 2008 2:29:26 pm PDT #6218 of 25501
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
It look like our wireless router is dyingslowly. It sorta stops working and we have to reboot the other router to getthe wireless working again
but I'm not 100% sure of the cause
Anne W. - May 14, 2008 5:49:11 pm PDT #6219 of 25501
The lost sheep grow teeth, forsake their lambs, and lie with the lions.
What program is used to open a file with the extension .mkv?
Jesse - May 14, 2008 5:55:37 pm PDT #6220 of 25501
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
!!! Chk Chik Chick
Name of a group, no?
tommyrot - May 14, 2008 5:58:31 pm PDT #6221 of 25501
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Name of a group, no?
Yes. That's the iTunes way. (Plus album names, which become subdirectories under the band name.) So any sort of weird name can cause UNIX-y problems. Years ago I had many problems with managing .mp3s thanks to Björk....
Gris - May 14, 2008 6:18:55 pm PDT #6222 of 25501
Hey. New board.
What program is used to open a file with the extension .mkv?
VLC should be able to handle most of them. MKV is a container format for videos, like AVI or MOV.