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  1. 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...
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    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...
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    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?
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    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...
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    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...
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    Help Me Turn a G5 into a NAS RAID

    I forgot to say, Please! :) There's good karma in it for you. I was planning to buy a NAS RAID device to serve my media, but suddenly I realized, I have a G5 sitting right here next to my current Mac (see sig), and it's still working great. Furthermore, it's got two drive bays and a blazing...
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    Leopard's Search a Step backwards?

    I tried to find another thread that covered this -- I'm sure this must have been a big issue for a lot of people, but I can't find any talk about it. I just upgraded to Leopard, and (I'm a longtime Mac addict so bear in mind that when I say anything critical it hurts me more than it hurts...
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    Thinking ahead to Windows development (blech)

    I'm writing a program that I may want to port to Windows at some point, only so I can get all those Windows geeks to see what I've done. I don't want to limit it to 5% of the market, yada yada. So, right now I'm writing in Obj-C in Xcode. I am using as much custom code as possible, mostly...
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    When objects don't get added to arrays

    I am simply trying to do this: NSMutableArray *ray; [ray initWithCapacity:5]; // or whatever number NSNumber *q; [q initWithInt:8]; [ray addObject:q]; Hopefully the above code, reconstructed from memory since I'm not at my Mac, will give the result that nothing is added to the array...
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    Apple Tech Support Recordings!

    How many people here have heard any? I ask because I have two that a friend gave me two MP3s of recordings years ago, and I just searched and found the motherlode. Look forward to such inane calls as: - The one where the tech support guy must try to explain to the caller what a paper clip...
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    What Leader Are You?

    This is not a serious test. It is definitely an ego-stroking test. I mean, who doesn't want to know what famous leader they can identify themselves with? Well, I thought it would be an ego-stroking test until I got my results: I'm Hitler. I'd post the test result but it's in HTML so it...
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    Bizarre color issue in Obj-C

    Hi guys. I have a really weird history in programming, where I am fairly skilled in some ways but blasted ignorant in others. I am still getting the hang of drawing in OS X. I've made some great progress in things like loading and displaying images with color masks, and yet some of the...
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    ImageMagick tomfoolery

    Sigh. I am not used to feeling this stupid. I'm no genius, mind you. I'm a long-time Mac user, a fairly long-time programmer, but I'm still pretty CLI-illiterate. All I wanted to do was use Inkscape. Inkscape is a great program, but I really need to be able to open .ai files, and I...
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    Benchmarking of MBP

    I really would like a good answer to this because I am extremely puzzled. I recently used a MBP at a friend's house (which speed, I don't recall). I asked if I could run a video encoding test to compare its speed to my home computer. I took out a DVD of mine, and used Handbrake (which must...
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