Recent content by Iritscen

  1. Iritscen

    I want to kill PreferenceSyncClient...

    Nope, don't have any HP software installed, to the best of my knowledge. I don't own any HP devices, so I should hope not. Looks like all the HP files on my HD are printer drivers, nothing unusual.
  2. Iritscen

    I want to kill PreferenceSyncClient...

    ...I'm just not sure if I should. It runs at least once an hour, making all kinds of HD noise, and I don't know why. Isn't PSC connected to MobileMe? Because I don't have a MobileMe account. The MobileMe icon also shows up in my menubar. I know I can command-drag it out, but I'd rather get...
  3. Iritscen

    The decline of emulation... the loss of history

    You certainly make a valid point, EDCC, that even if someone's older Mac dies, they can buy another one if they need the Classic OS. I'm also not complaining that modern Macs can't run the old software, that's how the cookie crumbles. But my concern is that eventually working "Classic" Macs...
  4. Iritscen

    The decline of emulation... the loss of history

    Yeah, I know what you mean. I still use some AppleWorks Database documents, and I keep waiting for the point when the latest OS no longer runs AppleWorks. I just never found anything to replace that function of AppleWorks. But I still find it odd that no one's working on emulation, even if...
  5. Iritscen

    The decline of emulation... the loss of history

    I realize that most people only needed to emulate the Classic OS from a newer Mac because the Classic environment wasn't fast enough or not compatible with some old Mac program. Now that 97% of everyone is on OS X (warning: made-up statistic!), many of them on Intel Macs, I don't see much talk...
  6. Iritscen

    Adobe Flash Player 9 Not installing..stalls...

    Okay, solution found! It's dangerous for newbies but experienced Mac users can handle it :-) Go to System Preferences>Accounts. Right-click on your name on the left, and choose Advanced Options. You can now change your UID and GID. They should be 501. Set them to 0. This gives you the...
  7. Iritscen

    Measuring FPS???

    Over on the Dark Side, PC gamers can use a program called Fraps to measure how many times a window is being drawn to in a second. Do we have anything like that for OS X? My searches are turning up nothing. Edit: Hmm! This is the 39,999th thread in this forum. Who will get the big 40,000?
  8. Iritscen

    Subverting SP X at the command line (super-geeks welcome)

    Table of Contents (hehe) I. The Back-Story (read if you want to know why I want to know what I want to know) II. The Geeky Questions (skip here if you want) I. Okay, I'm no expert on OS X or its underpinnings. But I do like to hack my Macs using what little knowledge I have (hey, I've only...
  9. Iritscen

    Changing partition size

    Well, here's the answer to my question, for any interested parties. Turns out it is totally possible to do what I suggested: http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=7294266
  10. Iritscen

    Changing partition size

    Ditto what he says :-) 10 GB is not enough for me either. I know that Boot Camp itself does not allow you to expand the partition, but I was wondering if you could image the existing partition and restore it after making a new one. There was a thread on this a long while back that ended...
  11. Iritscen

    Time Machine Backing Up Ghost Data

    Awesome, Mikuro! Thanks so much. I also love whoever wrote tms. The answer (and I hope this helps others too, because one would think this to be a widespread problem) to the question "What is the 1.6GB?" is, the TechTool Directory Protection Backups (or some similar kind of backup) that are...
  12. Iritscen

    Time Machine Backing Up Ghost Data

    Nope, don't have Aperture. And what do you mean by repairing the sparse image, Satcomer? I did a little reading on sparseimages just now, but I'm not sure I even have one. A search turned up only a sparseimage that was used for a little application I once downloaded, but no sparseimage on the...
  13. Iritscen

    Time Machine Backing Up Ghost Data

    Okay, maybe this is an isolated problem. I feel like I should be able to solve it, but so far I haven't been able to. Surely if it was widespread it would be talked about all over the Internet, but my searches aren't turning up anything. All right, let's cut to the chase: Time Machine, ever...
  14. Iritscen

    Help Me Turn a G5 into a NAS RAID

    Okay, just to wrap up this story, I went with the LaCie 2big. I just decided that I needed a fast RAID more than a NAS RAID, so I went with the Triple Interface 2big, not the Ethernet one. I ruled out the G5 because of power consumption and needing to keep a big computer running continuously...
  15. Iritscen

    Help Me Turn a G5 into a NAS RAID

    It's true, I didn't think of the power consumption. There are some attractive RAID/NAS options like the Drobo, the LaCie 2big, and the Synology DS107+. Also, I wanted hot-swappable drives, and the G5 is anything but hot-swappable. The Drobo and LaCie are.
Back
Top