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No_47		2009-03-03 01:40:49 PM

http://www.apple.com/macmini/specs.html

The new Mac Mini is a beast.

Legios		2009-03-03 06:40:35 PM

No_47: http://www.apple.com/macmini/specs.html

The new Mac Mini is a beast.

Have they fixed the heat issues with them yet? Or can you still fry and egg on them?

Mike		2009-03-03 11:16:22 PM

What heat issues? I've got a 7200 rpm disk and a T7200 cpu in mine and it seems ok, but then I don't run anything intense like Photoshop on it either.

No_47		2009-03-04 03:14:35 AM

The hardest workout mine gets is decoding 720p H.264

Legios		2009-03-04 05:34:11 AM

Mike: What heat issues? I've got a 7200 rpm disk and a T7200 cpu in mine and it seems ok, but then I don't run anything intense like Photoshop on it either.

Good point, last one I used (a friends old one) was pre-Core2, so it would've been (presumably) a P4 . Those things used to increase the room temperature by 10 degrees...

Mike		2009-03-04 12:52:45 PM

Apple never used P4's, the oldest they used was Core Solo / Core Duo stuff... which were Pentium-M derived. (Unless you count the Celeron M in the AppleTV). I replaced the Core Solo in mine w/ a Core2 Duo T7200. Which reminds me, anyone wanna buy a Core Solo CPU? :)

FuturePastNow		2009-03-06 03:19:25 AM

Mike: What heat issues? I've got a 7200 rpm disk and a T7200 cpu in mine and it seems ok, but then I don't run anything intense like Photoshop on it either.

The new mini has a soldered processor :( No upgrades allowed (other than RAM and disk).

Mike		2009-03-06 12:15:48 PM

Yeah, that was a hell of a bummer.

On the other hand, with mobile Core i7 on the way (which uses a different socket), how many more faster Penryn CPUs are even coming out? Looks like the P8700 is as far as you could even go right now...

Drasher		2009-03-06 12:40:28 PM

I need the geek brain trust help PLEASE!

I have a web site that I have done for a customer.

There is a graphic in the sidebar of the page that I created; the graphic is a GIF file that changes a little image and associated text every 10 seconds or so.

Is is possible to create something that will behave like that (switching every so many seconds) but also pause on a particular screen when mouseover'ed or on a click??

PLEASE don't tell me to do it in flash, I just don't know enough for that and don't have time/resources.
I would like to see a different solution (javascript?) unless you know of a "canned" flash thingie that I can easily adapt.
Heck, even if it is javascript, I need a canned solution. I am NOT a pro.

[If you must see the site or you have something you don't want to share in the forum, email me. (EIP)]

The Voice of Doom		2009-03-06 02:54:09 PM

Drasher

This can be done with Javascript, but I don't have a canned solution, have to do laundry, bake a cake and have a server to configure later.
An I'm not a Javascript programmer so I would need to look up the syntax to have it working.

Possible rough pseudo-code outline:
We assume your img-tag of the cycling image is inside a DIV with an "id" attribute having the value "theImageCrap"



var counter=0; // current image
var shouldILoop=true; // start/stop cycling

var htmlSnippetForEachImage=[
   'img src=\"url0\"',
  'img src=\"url1\" onmouseover=\"stopLoop();\" onmouseout=\"startLoop();\" onClick=\"doSomething();\" ...',
'img src=\"url3\"..',
 ...];
var sleepPerImageInSeconds=[3,1,2,...];

var numOfImages=htmlSnippetforEachImage.length;

function doLoop() {
  while (shouldILoop) {
    var theMarkedDivTag = document.getById('theImageCrap');
    theMarkedDivTag.innerHTML= htmlSnippetForEachImage[counter];
    sleep(sleepPerImageInSeconds[counter]*1000);
    counter=(counter+1)%numOfImages; // "%" is modulo
  }
}



function stopLoop() {
    shouldILoop=false;
}
function startLoop() {
    shouldILoop=true;
    doLoop();
}

[ Sorry, someone steals the whitespace from inside the "code"-tag so there's no indentation. ]

Add a "onLoad=startLoop();" to the "body"-tag.

Drasher		2009-03-06 04:37:08 PM

WOW, thanks The Voice of Doom

I'll try that as soon as I get back from dinner...

Mike		2009-03-06 05:35:46 PM

OK, well, that didn't go quite as smoothly as I'd hoped.

The Voice of Doom		2009-03-06 05:39:01 PM

Don't forget you'll have to Javascriptify it first.
For example, Google just told me that a Javascript Array can't be created with "foo=['value1', 'value2']", but with "foo=new Array('value1','value2')" and it's actually "getElementById" and not "getById".

The Voice of Doom		2009-03-06 05:42:58 PM

Mike
OK, well, that didn't go quite as smoothly as I'd hoped.

Someone be movin' da Geek forum away while I wanted to post.

/had to look up my password since the browser didn't know shiat about posting to www.fark

Mike		2009-03-06 05:55:19 PM

Yeah, I just realized that's gonna happen at least once to everyone, so I put a note on the "forgot password?" screen about how to look it up in at least Firefox.

Man On Fire		2009-03-06 06:02:14 PM

Mike: OK, well, that didn't go quite as smoothly as I'd hoped.

meh, just a little hiccup. otherwise looks good.

Goimir		2009-03-06 06:47:37 PM

Hey, anyone ever have an issue with kill -9 just refusing to work? I'll have a process just eating all the clocks on the laptop, which isn't good as it can't run all out for too terribly long without overheating.

Sometimes it happens with a process that isn't gone all buck-re, but I don't notice that as much ('cause I don't go looking for processes stuck in a wait state unless they're messing something up).

The googles, they do nothing.

Mike		2009-03-06 06:59:04 PM

I've seen kill -9 fail when the process is waiting for a dead NFS server to wake back up.

Fenis-Wolf		2009-03-06 07:13:57 PM

kill -9 won't work with programs that were spawned by a parent process but not closed when the parent process was ended. I see this occasionally on our backup servers. I think they're called zombie processes

Goimir		2009-03-06 07:28:45 PM

Mike, I've seen that on a *bsd system. And on a BSD system, that's about the only place I've seen it.

This particular instance was with Pidgin, and I'm not running any sort of non-vanilla stuff save for wireless.

I've also seen it happen with Mozilla on this system.

The Voice of Doom		2009-03-06 07:29:24 PM

I have seen kill -9 fail with kwintv/kdetv and a bt878-based Hauppauge TV card quite often when it crashed - the window of the app was gone but you could still hear the sound that went from the TV card's line-out into the sound card's line in.
Only a reboot would help.

To be fair:
it's been ages since the last time that happened and for comparison, Hauppauge's WinTV app for Windows used to completely destroy (the BIOS on) my Matrox graphics card each time it crashed.
I didn't even bother to remove the floppy with the Matrox BIOS flash utility from the drive as I would need it each other day.

Mike		2009-03-07 12:41:16 AM

in short if the process is stuck in kernel mode, it won't be killable. I'm gonna guess the non-BSD systems were doing interruptible and/or soft NFS mounts, where BSD tends to default to hard/noninterruptible mounts (because they're safer from a data integrity standpoint)

Goimir		2009-03-07 05:02:26 PM

Mike: in short if the process is stuck in kernel mode, it won't be killable. I'm gonna guess the non-BSD systems were doing interruptible and/or soft NFS mounts, where BSD tends to default to hard/noninterruptible mounts (because they're safer from a data integrity standpoint)

No, I actually meant that I've only seen the fs related unreachability on BSD; while I've seen much inexplicable unresponsiveness on Linux.

Appreciate the help though.

roddikinsathome		2009-03-08 04:31:24 PM

Please help me un-dumb this; restarted Firefox and all the .gif links on all the pages are gone. Firefox 3.0.7, adblock, filterset g updater, noscript (latest build). I can click on the html links, but the left column is otherwise bare. I did go through my addons and unchecked ass loads of checkboxes, no joy; then went back through the geek forum and saw no help. What am I missing, y'all?

Mike		2009-03-08 05:42:21 PM

Clear cache.

roddikinsathome		2009-03-08 06:27:49 PM

Mike: Clear cache.

Cashe is always cleared. So... ???

FuturePastNow		2009-03-08 06:59:41 PM

Mike: Yeah, that was a hell of a bummer.

On the other hand, with mobile Core i7 on the way (which uses a different socket), how many more faster Penryn CPUs are even coming out? Looks like the P8700 is as far as you could even go right now...

There are a few (expensive) mobile quad core Penryns now. Someone would be crazy enough to put one in a mini, if it were possible.

Mike		2009-03-08 08:27:43 PM

if still no images, read the last paragraph of this, especially if you are on Linux.

(oops, sorry about breaking posting for a few mins)

The Voice of Doom		2009-03-08 11:37:53 PM

roddikinsathome

I use Seamonkey and not Firefox, but there was a time when the image permissions became garbled between two browsing sessions.
For some reason they got set to "Do not load any images" instead of "Accept all images".

I don't know why that happened.
My heck-if-I-know guess at that time was that it might have been an obscure issue with the "prefbar" extension I'm using and because I have the checkbox for enabling/disabling the loading of images added to it.

roddikinsathome		2009-03-09 10:05:24 AM

The Voice of Doom: roddikinsathome

I use Seamonkey and not Firefox, but there was a time when the image permissions became garbled between two browsing sessions.
For some reason they got set to "Do not load any images" instead of "Accept all images".

I don't know why that happened.
My heck-if-I-know guess at that time was that it might have been an obscure issue with the "prefbar" extension I'm using and because I have the checkbox for enabling/disabling the loading of images added to it.

FOUND IT! The lpa checkbox was on, but 3 things were in the exceptions file. img.fark was in there, and I didn't put it in. I've relied on noscript and adblock for that.

Mike, it could be OSX spec build of fifox 3 I'm using [Minefield] or just a random... thanx doom.

No_47		2009-03-09 02:39:34 PM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96dWOEa4Djs&fmt=22

Maddogjew		2009-03-09 04:25:42 PM

No_47: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96dWOEa4Djs&fmt=22

I see that you go to HardOCP.

Not a bad site, but Kyle is kind of a douche.

No_47		2009-03-09 05:08:39 PM

reddit, actually

gayb		2009-03-09 09:11:19 PM

That was fun. I was filled with rage when he started jumping up and down holding them all by the ribbons, even though it wasn't that big of a deal.

wyrlss		2009-03-10 09:54:05 AM

Does anyone know anything about this pifts.exe furor? I don't have Norton antivirus, so I can't see if the program even exists, and sometimes these things are hoaxes and sometimes they turn up something that gets a person in jail. I was curious which it was this time.

No_47		2009-03-10 09:47:50 PM

theword is that it's something to do with upgrades to Win7

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/2009/03/symantec_users_complain_o f_ mys.html

funky monkey		2009-03-10 11:35:46 PM

Hey, Ive got an issue with an ancient laptop thats borderline stable at best. Ive been looking at the hijack this log and cant for the life of me find anything totally farked up. Anyone else think there is something in it that I am missing?

Logfile of Trend Micro HijackThis v2.0.2
Scan saved at 9:19:00 PM, on 3/10/2009
Platform: Windows XP SP2 (WinNT 5.01.2600)
MSIE: Internet Explorer v6.00 SP2 (6.00.2900.2180)
Boot mode: Normal
Running processes:
C:\WINDOWS\System32\smss.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\csrss.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\winlogon.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\services.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\lsass.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\svchost.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\svchost.exe
C:\WINDOWS\System32\svchost.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\svchost.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\svchost.exe
C:\WINDOWS\Explorer.EXE
C:\Program Files\Common Files\Symantec Shared\ccSetMgr.exe
C:\Program Files\Common Files\Symantec Shared\SNDSrvc.exe
C:\Program Files\Common Files\Symantec Shared\SPBBC\SPBBCSvc.exe
C:\Program Files\Common Files\Symantec Shared\ccEvtMgr.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\spoolsv.exe
C:\Program Files\Common Files\Apple\Mobile Device Support\bin\AppleMobileDeviceService.exe
C:\Program Files\Symantec\LiveUpdate\ALUSchedulerSvc.exe
C:\Program Files\Bonjour\mDNSResponder.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\KodakCCS.exe
C:\Program Files\Norton AntiVirus\navapsvc.exe
C:\Program Files\Norton AntiVirus\IWP\NPFMntor.exe
C:\Program Files\Common Files\Symantec Shared\CCPD-LC\symlcsvc.exe
C:\WINDOWS\System32\alg.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\hkcmd.exe
C:\Program Files\Synaptics\SynTP\SynTPLpr.exe
C:\Program Files\Synaptics\SynTP\SynTPEnh.exe
C:\Program Files\HPQ\Quick Launch Buttons\EabServr.exe
C:\Program Files\Common Files\Symantec Shared\ccApp.exe
C:\Program Files\Hewlett-Packard\HP Software Update\HPWuSchd.exe
C:\Program Files\HP\hpcoretech\hpcmpmgr.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\spool\drivers\w32x86\3\hpztsb09.exe
C:\Program Files\Java\jre1.5.0_06\bin\jusched.exe
C:\Program Files\QuickTime\QTTask.exe
C:\Program Files\iTunes\iTunesHelper.exe
C:\Program Files\Webroot\Spy Sweeper\SpySweeper.exe
C:\Program Files\Messenger\msmsgs.exe
C:\Program Files\Spybot - Search & Destroy\TeaTimer.exe
C:\Program Files\Palm\Hotsync.exe
C:\Program Files\iPod\bin\iPodService.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\wuauclt.exe
C:\Program Files\Java\jre1.5.0_06\bin\jucheck.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\wuauclt.exe
C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe
C:\Program Files\Trend Micro\HijackThis\HijackThis.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\wbem\wmiprvse.exe
R1 - HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings,ProxyOverride = *.local
O2 - BHO: AcroIEHlprObj Class - {06849E9F-C8D7-4D59-B87D-784B7D6BE0B3} - C:\Program Files\Adobe\Acrobat 7.0\ActiveX\AcroIEHelper.dll
O2 - BHO: Spybot-S&D IE Protection - {53707962-6F74-2D53-2644-206D7942484F} - C:\PROGRA~1\SPYBOT~1\SDHelper.dll
O2 - BHO: SSVHelper Class - {761497BB-D6F0-462C-B6EB-D4DAF1D92D43} - C:\Program Files\Java\jre1.5.0_06\bin\ssv.dll
O2 - BHO: CNavExtBho Class - {BDF3E430-B101-42AD-A544-FADC6B084872} - C:\Program Files\Norton AntiVirus\NavShExt.dll
O3 - Toolbar: Norton AntiVirus - {42CDD1BF-3FFB-4238-8AD1-7859DF00B1D6} - C:\Program Files\Norton AntiVirus\NavShExt.dll
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [HotKeysCmds] C:\WINDOWS\system32\hkcmd.exe
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [SynTPLpr] C:\Program Files\Synaptics\SynTP\SynTPLpr.exe
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [SynTPEnh] C:\Program Files\Synaptics\SynTP\SynTPEnh.exe
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [eabconfg.cpl] C:\Program Files\HPQ\Quick Launch Buttons\EabServr.exe /Start
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [Cpqset] C:\Program Files\HPQ\Default Settings\cpqset.exe
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [ccApp] "C:\Program Files\Common Files\Symantec Shared\ccApp.exe"
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [Symantec NetDriver Monitor] C:\PROGRA~1\SYMNET~1\SNDMon.exe /Consumer
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [HP Software Update] "C:\Program Files\Hewlett-Packard\HP Software Update\HPWuSchd.exe"
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [HP Component Manager] "C:\Program Files\HP\hpcoretech\hpcmpmgr.exe"
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [HPDJ Taskbar Utility] C:\WINDOWS\system32\spool\drivers\w32x86\3\hpztsb09.exe
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [SunJavaUpdateSched] C:\Program Files\Java\jre1.5.0_06\bin\jusched.exe
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [AppleSyncNotifier] C:\Program Files\Common Files\Apple\Mobile Device Support\bin\AppleSyncNotifier.exe
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [QuickTime Task] "C:\Program Files\QuickTime\QTTask.exe" -atboottime
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [iTunesHelper] "C:\Program Files\iTunes\iTunesHelper.exe"
O4 - HKCU\..\Run: [SpySweeper] "C:\Program Files\Webroot\Spy Sweeper\SpySweeper.exe" /0
O4 - HKCU\..\Run: [MSMSGS] "C:\Program Files\Messenger\msmsgs.exe" /background
O4 - HKCU\..\Run: [SpybotSD TeaTimer] C:\Program Files\Spybot - Search & Destroy\TeaTimer.exe
O4 - Global Startup: Adobe Reader Speed Launch.lnk = C:\Program Files\Adobe\Acrobat 7.0\Reader\reader_sl.exe
O4 - Global Startup: HotSync Manager.lnk = C:\Program Files\Palm\Hotsync.exe
O8 - Extra context menu item: E&xport to Microsoft Excel - res://C:\PROGRA~1\MICROS~4\Office10\EXCEL.EXE/3000
O9 - Extra button: (no name) - {08B0E5C0-4FCB-11CF-AAA5-00401C608501} - C:\Program Files\Java\jre1.5.0_06\bin\ssv.dll
O9 - Extra 'Tools' menuitem: Sun Java Console - {08B0E5C0-4FCB-11CF-AAA5-00401C608501} - C:\Program Files\Java\jre1.5.0_06\bin\ssv.dll
O9 - Extra button: Research - {92780B25-18CC-41C8-B9BE-3C9C571A8263} - C:\PROGRA~1\MICROS~4\OFFICE11\REFIEBAR.DLL
O9 - Extra button: (no name) - {DFB852A3-47F8-48C4-A200-58CAB36FD2A2} - C:\PROGRA~1\SPYBOT~1\SDHelper.dll
O9 - Extra 'Tools' menuitem: Spybot - Search & Destroy Configuration - {DFB852A3-47F8-48C4-A200-58CAB36FD2A2} - C:\PROGRA~1\SPYBOT~1\SDHelper.dll
O9 - Extra button: Messenger - {FB5F1910-F110-11d2-BB9E-00C04F795683} - C:\Program Files\Messenger\msmsgs.exe
O9 - Extra 'Tools' menuitem: Windows Messenger - {FB5F1910-F110-11d2-BB9E-00C04F795683} - C:\Program Files\Messenger\msmsgs.exe
O14 - IERESET.INF: START_PAGE_URL=http://ie.redirect.hp.com/svs/rdr?TYPE=3&tp=iehome&locale=EN_US&c =Q105&bd=pavilion&pf=laptop
O16 - DPF: {406B5949-7190-4245-91A9-30A17DE16AD0} (Snapfish Activia) - http://photo.walgreens.com/WalgreensActivia.cab
O16 - DPF: {E5F5D008-DD2C-4D32-977D-1A0ADF03058B} (JuniperSetupSP1 Control) - https://remote.amfam.com/dana-cached/setup/JuniperSetupSP1.cab
O23 - Service: Apple Mobile Device - Apple Inc. - C:\Program Files\Common Files\Apple\Mobile Device Support\bin\AppleMobileDeviceService.exe
O23 - Service: Automatic LiveUpdate Scheduler - Symantec Corporation - C:\Program Files\Symantec\LiveUpdate\ALUSchedulerSvc.exe
O23 - Service: Bonjour Service - Apple Inc. - C:\Program Files\Bonjour\mDNSResponder.exe
O23 - Service: Symantec Event Manager (ccEvtMgr) - Symantec Corporation - C:\Program Files\Common Files\Symantec Shared\ccEvtMgr.exe
O23 - Service: Symantec Password Validation (ccPwdSvc) - Symantec Corporation - C:\Program Files\Common Files\Symantec Shared\ccPwdSvc.exe
O23 - Service: Symantec Settings Manager (ccSetMgr) - Symantec Corporation - C:\Program Files\Common Files\Symantec Shared\ccSetMgr.exe
O23 - Service: HP WMI Interface (hpqwmi) - Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. - C:\Program Files\HPQ\SHARED\HPQWMI.exe
O23 - Service: InstallDriver Table Manager (IDriverT) - Macrovision Corporation - C:\Program Files\Common Files\InstallShield\Driver\11\Intel 32\IDriverT.exe
O23 - Service: iPod Service - Apple Inc. - C:\Program Files\iPod\bin\iPodService.exe
O23 - Service: Kodak Camera Connection Software (KodakCCS) - Eastman Kodak Company - C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\KodakCCS.exe
O23 - Service: LiveUpdate - Symantec Corporation - C:\PROGRA~1\Symantec\LIVEUP~1\LUCOMS~1.EXE
O23 - Service: Norton AntiVirus Auto-Protect Service (navapsvc) - Symantec Corporation - C:\Program Files\Norton AntiVirus\navapsvc.exe
O23 - Service: Norton AntiVirus Firewall Monitor Service (NPFMntor) - Symantec Corporation - C:\Program Files\Norton AntiVirus\IWP\NPFMntor.exe
O23 - Service: SAVScan - Symantec Corporation - C:\Program Files\Norton AntiVirus\SAVScan.exe
O23 - Service: ScriptBlocking Service (SBService) - Symantec Corporation - C:\PROGRA~1\COMMON~1\SYMANT~1\SCRIPT~1\SBServ.exe
O23 - Service: Symantec Network Drivers Service (SNDSrvc) - Symantec Corporation - C:\Program Files\Common Files\Symantec Shared\SNDSrvc.exe
O23 - Service: Symantec SPBBCSvc (SPBBCSvc) - Symantec Corporation - C:\Program Files\Common Files\Symantec Shared\SPBBC\SPBBCSvc.exe
O23 - Service: Symantec Core LC - Symantec Corporation - C:\Program Files\Common Files\Symantec Shared\CCPD-LC\symlcsvc.exe

No_47		2009-03-11 01:45:36 AM

well, TeaTimer can be a pain, but so can SpySweeper and Norton.

But if I were you, the first thing I do for randomly unstable machines is run a memory diagnostic (like memtest86) and a hard drive diagnostic (usually available from hard drive manufacturer's website, or in the machine's BIOS)

funky monkey		2009-03-11 03:02:09 AM

No_47: well, TeaTimer can be a pain, but so can SpySweeper and Norton.

But if I were you, the first thing I do for randomly unstable machines is run a memory diagnostic (like memtest86) and a hard drive diagnostic (usually available from hard drive manufacturer's website, or in the machine's BIOS)

Thanks, I figured thats where I was headed. I was just holding out for an easier way out.

No_47		2009-03-11 10:53:52 PM

I need a new optical drive for my Mac Mini.

I'm assuming I don't actually have to get an Apple one? Anyone know what's compatible?

FuturePastNow		2009-03-12 12:16:18 AM

No_47: I need a new optical drive for my Mac Mini.

I'm assuming I don't actually have to get an Apple one? Anyone know what's compatible?

Apple buys its drives from various manufacturers. I think System Profiler should tell you the model number of the drive.

No_47		2009-03-12 12:27:38 AM

The problem I have in NZ is finding a supplier that isn't going to sell it to me at Apple prices... which is why an alternative would be better

Mike		2009-03-12 01:45:40 AM

any standard 12.7mm optical drive will work, as long as it's PATA and slot-loading. I put a Pioneer DVR-K06 in mine, I think the DVR-K09 is the current model.

It's been a very very long time since any Mac needed proprietary disks or memory... yeah Apple sticks a logo on the drive label but it doesn't mean anything, not even custom firmware.

Mike		2009-03-12 01:51:03 AM

oh, and ya gotta pry the plastic bezel off the front of the drive, but that's no biggie

Legios		2009-03-12 05:59:19 AM

Mike:
I found the documentation from our move from Apache. Basically the network admins went to LigHTTPD because they were more comfortable with it, and it had a better uptake & documentation at the time - this was a back when a lot of the nginx additional documentation was in Russian.

Mike		2009-03-12 06:17:58 PM

At the time, yeah. I moved in the other direction (we used lighttpd for img.fark.com for about 6 months) because of lighttpd's bad security history and nginx was a bit faster. But the nginx docs are a bit... uh... sparse... at times...

FuturePastNow		2009-03-13 04:50:33 PM

No_47: The problem I have in NZ is finding a supplier that isn't going to sell it to me at Apple prices... which is why an alternative would be better

No, I mean get the model number of the drive... plug that into Google and buy one from anywhere. It's not an "Apple" drive. It's a Samsung drive, or an LG drive, or whatever.

No_47		2009-03-14 04:12:38 PM

It's a Mashiata, but it doesn't actually show up in the profiler anymore. I've had trouble with it for a while. Clearing the PRAM used to bring it back. Not any more.

Mike		2009-03-14 07:32:08 PM

replace it with a Pioneer. I've had several Matsushiata drives go bad in several Macs.

TehNacho		2009-03-15 10:41:14 AM

No_47: The problem I have in NZ is finding a supplier that isn't going to sell it to me at Apple prices... which is why an alternative would be better

How legal would it be for someone in the states to gift you a drive?

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