I'm doing a clean install (Erase & Install) of Leopard onto one of our office Macs. It's been saying "About 9 minutes" for at least 20 minutes now. Suggestions?
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Jessica - Oct 08, 2008 10:20:11 am PDT #7789 of 25501
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
tommyrot - Oct 08, 2008 10:27:10 am PDT #7790 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.
I'd wait some more. Those estimates are often off by a lot.
Is it a newer (i.e. fast) Mac, or an older one?
eta: Is there any other sign of activity? Is the HD doin' stuff? If so, then things are probably fine.
Jessica - Oct 08, 2008 10:28:41 am PDT #7791 of 25501
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
It's a G5, about 3.5 years old.
It was chugging along fine until this point, and now it seems to be stuck.
Maybe it's just gotten to the "erase" portion and discovered that there's 150GB of crap on this machine and given up in despair?
Jessica - Oct 08, 2008 10:52:14 am PDT #7792 of 25501
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Still hanging and I have to leave work in 5 minutes. Can I safely turn off this machine and start over tomorrow or will that completely fuck things up?
tommyrot - Oct 08, 2008 10:55:27 am PDT #7793 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.
Since you're doing a clean install, I'd think there'd be no risk to just shutting it off and starting over. (The clean install starts with the disk being reformatted, right?)
omnis_audis - Oct 08, 2008 1:29:29 pm PDT #7794 of 25501
omnis, pursue. That's an order from a shy woman who can use M-16. - Shir
no questions or answers. Just popping on to show geek love in a room of folks who would appreciate it.
For work, we are using OS-X-10.5 ability to "Screen Share". It is true geek love. So much better than Timbuktu or VNC or a KVM extender. AND, both the Sound Designer AND me are doing it to the same computer at the same time (ok, so we share the mouse function, but at least it doesn't say "only one at a time"). Anyhow, very cool and geek love in abundance.
Out of curiosity, does anyone know what the ramifications of the screen share is? Which computer does it tax? What does it tax? CPU? Video? RAM? or does it spread the load around? OK, maybe I did have some questions after all.
NoiseDesign - Oct 08, 2008 1:31:43 pm PDT #7795 of 25501
Our wings are not tired
It's pretty much just a VNC client. Pretty low overhead. I've used it with Qlab machines on macs a few times and even with multiple log ins on each end haven't noticed an appreciable difference. You can always run Activity Monitor and keep an eye on the RAM and CPU usage while things are at idle.
Hil R. - Oct 08, 2008 1:32:25 pm PDT #7796 of 25501
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My DVD player has been being a pain lately -- skipping around and pausing randomly, sometimes getting so that it plays about a second of movie, followed by a second of nothing, for a good minute or two. It's happening with any disc I try to play, so it's not that the disc is scratched. The tray to put the disk on was a little dusty, so I cleaned that off, but it didn't help. I'm suspecting there might be dust on the lens. Is there some way to clean that? Or any other suggestions about what might be the problem?
tommyrot - Oct 08, 2008 1:37:33 pm PDT #7797 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.
I've seen this cleaner thing for CD players that's basically a blank disk with a tiny brush on it. Maybe the same kind of thing would work for DVDs?
omnis_audis - Oct 08, 2008 1:39:33 pm PDT #7798 of 25501
omnis, pursue. That's an order from a shy woman who can use M-16. - Shir
I've used it with Qlab machines on macsThat's what we got. Now with the latest MOTU drivers, it seems pretty stable. 30 outputs with one interface. OK, so we got some ADAT expansion i/o, but still! So far so good, and a TON of headroom on the MOTU. We have the faders at -20 and it's still loud. Debating if I want to adjust down the trims in Qlab, but not sure how soft the actual cues in the show are, vs system check music.