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Comment on 40 Useful Mac OS X Shell Scripts and Terminal Commands by Netzschilder #5 | mac my life

Netzschilder #5 | mac my life — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 09:53:34 +0000

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Comment on MacBook Pro won’t wake up from sleep by Joe

Joe — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 08:26:27 +0000

Jack: thanks for the comment. I think I’ve changed my mind about SafeSleep thanks to you guys. Will switch it on so I can calibrate the battery with confidence…

Hey SCPlugin looks cool… I will download it and give it a go. I currently use the Terminal to manage all my Subversion stuff but it’s not very Mac-like! I have used Tortoise on Windows a few years back and it seems like integration with Explorer/Finder is the way to go… Cheers!

Comment on MacBook Pro won’t wake up from sleep by jrep

jrep — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 21:45:08 +0000

A linkage between “non-removable batteries” and “disabling SafeSleep considered harmful”: if you “calibrate” your battery occasionally, by letting it run down, then you’re deliberately doing exactly the thing that requires SafeSleep, or causes you to lose all your live work.

If you *don’t* calibrate the battery, I’m not sure I underdstand the consequences. It’s always described in reply to a question like “my battery doesn’t last very long any more.” But descriptions of the process, especially at Apple, seem a bit obscure; it may be doing nothing more than retraining the stored notion of what constitutes “full” and “empty,” to track the degraded battery!

Comment on MacBook Pro won’t wake up from sleep by Joe

Joe — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 18:50:00 +0000

Thanks Brandon, I didn’t really consider that! I was more worried about the time it takes to go to sleep. Safe Sleep starts to make sense if the Mac might be sleeping for a while. Personally my Mac is not ever asleep for long, but I can see Safe Sleep has its place. It’d be nice to see some System Preferences control for all this stuff… Cheers!

Comment on MacBook Pro won’t wake up from sleep by Brandon Zylstra

Brandon Zylstra — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 15:16:09 +0000

If you put your laptop to sleep (regular sleep) it will continue to drain your battery. If you leave it like this for a while, and safe sleep is disabled, you’ll lose everything, and not be able to use it agin until you are at an outlet. Personally I almost never use UNsafe sleep!

By default your laptop only uses safe sleep if it is low on juice, but you can set it to always use safe sleep when it is unplugged. (Or always, but that doesn’t seem sensible.) (I believe if it is in unsafe sleep and gets low on power it will hibernate, but I’ve not tested this recently.)

Comment on How to manage a huge iTunes Library by Joe

Joe — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 03:14:15 +0000

If you want them to show up as having the same Album name, choose the tracks and Get Info (On a Mac) or get the properties (probably Alt + Enter on Windows), then on the Info tab set the Album name. If you just want to group them, just drag them into a playlist. Cheers!

Comment on 40 Useful Mac OS X Shell Scripts and Terminal Commands by Joe

Joe — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 20:47:17 +0000

Thanks for your comment… Good point, I was really focussed on Mac OS X because there are obviously many Linux/Unix resources on the Web already. Off the top of my head, the ‘defaults’ command will not work, nor will ‘pmset’. Also, there are no ‘pbcopy’ or ‘pbpaste’ commands, at least not on Debian.

Comment on 40 Useful Mac OS X Shell Scripts and Terminal Commands by Yaro

Yaro — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 16:48:00 +0000

Some of these (In fact… MOST of these.) aren’t Mac exclusive.

Comment on How to manage a huge iTunes Library by dallas

dallas — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 02:41:09 +0000

how can i put different songs into the same album even though they aren’t a true album

Comment on Adobe Contribute and Wordpress Timezone bug by Stephanie

Stephanie — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 17:08:26 +0000

Believe it or not, I did solve it, on this server, at least (HostGator).

The trick was to add a line to .htaccess on the server specifying the time zone, then setting the time zone the same in WordPress, rebuilding the connection in Contribute (not sure if that was necessary) and ALWAYS clearing out the time stamp in Contribute before publishing.

I’m still not sure if everything will work smoothy and may end up in the same situation you were in — just having to give up on the WordPress part…