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Re: Star Trek Into Darkness (Movie Review)

Remiel — Fri, 31 May 2013 00:04:10 -0000

That's the best I could hope for, Simon.

Re: Evolve Beyond Darwin • worstpanda: Unintelligible Design The...

Remiel — Tue, 02 Apr 2013 19:33:01 -0000

This wasn't really intended as a criticism of intelligent design so much as a joke about how marvelously bizzarre the platypus is.

Re: I’ve Fallen Behind

Remiel — Mon, 11 Mar 2013 19:07:42 -0000

He looks like he hates filing paperwork. I don't know. Just my take on it.

Re: Rape Culture In Gaming

Remiel — Thu, 23 Aug 2012 20:51:17 -0000

Gamers were/are arguing that criticism of their precious, misogynist games amounts to “censorship”. I suggested that if the games they want to play were suddenly rife with content they found obnoxious, they would take the same — rightful — stance as feminists: it’s not censorship for us to say “this is shit and the world deserves better”.

I was calling them out on their current, ham-fisted rhetoric and probable hypocrisy on the other side of a similar fence.

Re: Remiel: How to Use Quicksilver to Post Tweets to Twitter in 2012

Remiel — Thu, 23 Aug 2012 20:33:03 -0000

Thanks guys. Just added some extra-cool things like searching the LOCAL iTunes App Store and Mac App Store.

Re: http://remiel.info/post/6118028039

Remiel — Fri, 03 Jun 2011 12:25:06 -0000

Yeah, actually some of the related files are mod-stamped January '09. That might have been the start.

Re: Making the leap to SSD on a MacBook

Remiel — Mon, 07 Feb 2011 17:19:51 -0000

UPDATE: Sorry, I just noticed you specifically said you came back to re-read the information about sleep settings. I assume you triple-checked you've got it set up properly.

Just did some quick poking around on Google, and came across probably the same info you did. This seems to be an issue specific to OWC Mercury, and as you said, the rumor is that there's a firmware update coming. So I guess you know as much as I do. Have you actually called OWC? Might be worth doing.

Re: Making the leap to SSD on a MacBook

Remiel — Mon, 07 Feb 2011 17:14:20 -0000

Thanks for reporting in. Any chance it's your sleep settings? I know you said you disabled sleep entirely, but did you first follow the instructions in the "New hibernation settings" part the article?

In a nutshell: the current generation of MacBook Pros can't wake from disk drive-based hibernation if the system volume is on the optical drive cable. It doesn't mean you can't "sleep" the computer, though.

If you HAVE followed those instructions, then I apologize, but I don't have any hands-on experience with the OWC offerings. Only Intel.

Re: Making the leap to SSD on a MacBook

Remiel — Wed, 02 Feb 2011 01:14:20 -0000

Thanks for reporting back, Mario. Be sure to let me know how it's performing after you've had it to play with for a while.

Re: Need smartphone advice, Tumblr.

Remiel — Tue, 01 Feb 2011 12:55:14 -0000

Tried to paragraph, ended up posting. Can't delete (nice, Tumblr.) Posting here, instead.

If it were me...
I'd go with Android now, for two reasons:
1. Since you're going to be in a customer support position, having ~6 months of personal familiarity with Android will be very beneficial.
2. In the long run, you end up with the more advanced iPhone. A year from now, and for as long as you own it, you'll be glad you waited for the sexier hardware. Plus, white IS a possibility.

HOWEVER:
@smartasshat's point about being grandfathered into "true" unlimited data is something you might want to research. I don't know anything about that.

Re: Making the leap to SSD on a MacBook

Remiel — Sat, 04 Dec 2010 03:26:56 -0000

I can't prove there's any downside to leaving sudden motion protection active with an SSD. The OS may even be smart enough to say "Hey, that's an SSD" and never use it, but I'm not going to start dropping or shaking my MacBook with protection enabled just to see if it causes a problem.

Until we know whether it does that, I believe it's prudent to disable protection, since the best case is that it's harmless, and the worst case is a conflict.

Re: Making the leap to SSD on a MacBook

Remiel — Sat, 04 Dec 2010 03:19:48 -0000

Yes, you could do that. I'm not sure the per-dollar performance or capacity of the Apple drives compared to the ever-improving aftermarket SSDs will ever bear out favorably, but it's worth considering.

Re: Making the leap to SSD on a MacBook

Remiel — Fri, 03 Dec 2010 17:44:12 -0000

I like the idea of "bounces" as a metric rather than seconds.

Re: Making the leap to SSD on a MacBook

Remiel — Fri, 03 Dec 2010 17:43:33 -0000

Yup; it's going to be even easier on a Mac Pro. I expect you'll need some kind of internal chassis to adapt the 2.5" SSD to fit one of the 3.5" bays, but I have no doubt those are readily available.

Re: Making the leap to SSD on a MacBook

Remiel — Fri, 03 Dec 2010 17:40:29 -0000

SSDs can lose capacity when written and overwritten inefficiently. This is one of the things that has previously made them non-viable options for consumer machines. But recently, groups like Intel and Sandforce have managed to do it right at the hard drive controller level. And now the time is right to buy.

That said, you want an OS that doesn't tax the drive too heavily with unnecessary write actions. An extreme (but not the only) example would be a defragmentation process, which is totally unnecessary (and potentially harmful) to a SSD.

There are guides online for configuring WinXP to work properly with SSD, but I can't vouch for them.

Re: Making the leap to SSD on a MacBook

Remiel — Fri, 03 Dec 2010 16:57:34 -0000

Yes, it fits in the 13" Unibody just fine, despite the extra height.

Re: Making the leap to SSD on a MacBook

Remiel — Fri, 03 Dec 2010 16:27:04 -0000

Unless of course your next Mac has SSD built in (e.g. Air), there's nothing stopping you from transplanting the SSD into the next Mac you buy. And yes, you will almost certainly notice the speed difference, even in an older Mac.

That said, prices on these things are dropping. A year from now, you might easily be able to get double the SSD space for half the price. So it's a classic geek dilemma: pay through the nose for performance now, or wait it out like a reasonable human being?

But will you notice a significant difference now? I expect yes.

Re: Making the leap to SSD on a MacBook

Remiel — Fri, 03 Dec 2010 16:23:26 -0000

With 160GB of space, I'm easily able to install them all on the SSD, although I assigned the scratch disk locations for things like Adobe Premiere onto a folder on the 1TB drive.

Re: Making the leap to SSD on a MacBook

Remiel — Fri, 03 Dec 2010 16:22:27 -0000

Yes, absolutely. Just keep in mind: with the SSD in the regular hard drive bay, you'll want to disable sudden motion detection:
http://support.apple.com/kb...

Re: http://remiel.info/post/1640217166

Remiel — Mon, 22 Nov 2010 11:47:01 -0000

My work here is done.

Re: Making the leap to SSD on a MacBook

Remiel — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 19:08:56 -0000

Thanks Dan. I like the idea of a pref pane better than the sleep widget I downloaded (I forget the name, but it was a disappointment.) This is more elegant.

Re: Making the leap to SSD on a MacBook

Remiel — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 15:04:39 -0000

I didn't do any "before" measuring on heat or battery life, so I can't say much specifically about the "after". But no, I haven't noticed any significant changes either way.

Which stands to reason, I think. On the one hand, I added another drive. On the other hand, it's an SSD, which is notoriously low-power and low-heat. Add to that the less frequent spinny-drive reads, and it's probably a wash at worst, and an improvement at best.

Re: I Want It Cooked Rare

Remiel — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 16:48:52 -0000

Yes. I may not agree with your beliefs, but I respect all religions. Except Scientology. And Wicca. And Michael Bay.

Re: http://remiel.info/post/704972535

Remiel — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 18:47:10 -0000

I hate work. It causes me a lot of problems at internet.

Re: http://remiel.info/post/704972535

Remiel — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 17:26:41 -0000

I don't remember the exact wording, but in IE7, the equivalent dialog box worked the opposite way: "Yes" displayed all content, and "No" blocked the insecure stuff. Presumably because users tend to click "Yes" without reading, MS opted to flip the buttons and force the accompanying text to agree, no matter how awkwardly it might read.