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can anyone help me. i have a 27'' imac with thunderbolt and macbookpro with thunderbolt in some situations i want to use the macbook pro as a slave so i can keep tools in laptop and main viewing on imac is this possible? i cant seem to do it this way round making imac a slave is fine but i dont want it this way, i am using a thundebolt cable to do this

If you mean you want to run your system on the imac and have access to the files on your laptop, just boot the laptop in target disk mode and connect to the imac via thunderbolt.
http://www.macworld.com/article/1160887/targetdiskmodethunderbolt.html

If you mean using the imac as an external display for the OS on the laptop, use target display mode on the imac.
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3924

If you want both systems running at the same time, you might (as mr_tom suggested) want to use synergy, using the LAN/airdrop/ to move files around.
http://synergy-foss.org/

Not that I'm knocking (har har) SSDs (early adopter meself) but surely, like a tone arm lock, couldn't a "traditional" HDD's reading head be "made safe" by rotating it away from the platter, negating vertical movement? And if this isn't possible, why can my Lacie 2.5" HDD enclosure repeatedly take a fall of over a metre without issues?

I carried my old pre-unibody MBP around in a satchel on sleep mode for years, and never had a HDD failure.

I suspect, a bit like bitrot on SSD's, it's evidenced only on paper, and affects very few, if any, people IRL.

What the hell is going on with the text direction in this? Which direction is it supposed to be read from? Why have they used hyphens instead of en-dashes?! Shoddy piece of work =/

This. I initially thought the funny was in the terrible example of information design, not haha nob.

Wow, "niglet".

nerged.

I have a very similar setup to TS by the sound of it, but my MBP is one iteration older than TS's.... (2.3 i7, not 2.5 i7), with 16GB RAM.

Under heavy loads (for most of last week I was running PS, AI & AE CS5, AE CS4 & AE CS5.5 simultaneously for 8hrs a day, rendering out various stereographic 3D clips @ 3840x1020... I could leave AE rendering whilst still working on and saving out multi-layered PS files quite happily... Fans often sounded like the desk was about to take off, but it coped with little lag in the UI or switching between apps.

Oh for the good old days of 4hr render breaks!

If you mean Macbook pro, this:
Corsair VS4GSDSKIT667D2 4GB (2 x 2GB) Value Select DDR2 Memory: Amazon.co.uk: Computers & Accessories

If you mean Mac Pro, this:
Corsair TWIN2x2048-6400C5C 4GB 800MHz C5 DDR2 Memory Kit: Amazon.co.uk: Computers & Accessories

I'm not sure what "rep" is, but it sounds like a good thing?

Glad it got there ok, and no, didn't come across as sarcastic at all, thanks for your kind words.

You get that SSD ok Chris?

If anyone has a need for more RAM in their laptop... I've just upgraded to 16GB, so have 2x 4GB DDR3 sticks going spare (That's 8GB in total, maths fans).... they are what Apple ship with, not third party (They are stickered Apple, although I believe Samsung actually make 'em?)

The cheapest alternative I can find online is £35 posted (I paid £80 for the upgrade a year ago!) so they are yours for £25 posted. PM me if you're keen, first to dibs em and pay for em gets em.

@chrisbmx I've got a Corsair 128gb ssd that I upgraded a while back, been reconditioned, yours posted for 60 notes. PM me if you're interested.

Sassless CSS aside, I've got a little bug to report - apologies if it's already been covered, and it isn't really a biggie.

If I hit "Today's Posts", and then try and scale the text using the brand new text-resizer, the page reloads with the ?fontsize=1 suffix, but loses the searchid, so I end up with http://www.lfgss.com/search.php?fontsize=1, rather than http://www.lfgss.com/search.php?searchid=12358533&fontsize=1

Mac OS 10.7.3, Chrome 17.0.963.46, fwiw (although it's prolly not a browser/os specific issue)

Fact for the day: according to this website: http://www.globalrichlist.com/ you're already in the top 1% if you're earning more than 26k

£25,780, to be precise.

#pedant

Perhaps someone can help me. I have run out of space on my laptop and need to transfer my media to a larger HD. However I don't want to have to always have a external HD plugged in when I want to listen to music.

I am hoping to buy a Time Capsule to store all my media and then stream it across to my laptop. Would this work?

In theory yes, it works just fine, but Time Capsules are expensive for what they are, and you can't format them remotely - you need to crack them open, drop them into a dock/external case and format the drive, which voids warranty (not always a bad thing!)

I'd suggest buying the lowest capacity Time Capsule (or an Airport express) and plugging a cheap USB HD, then streaming files from that - that way, you keep backup and media separate.

Another thing - TC's can't back up network drives, so if a USB drive is plugged into a Time Capsule, Time Machine won't back it up. (it will, of course, back it up if you plug it into your laptop)

If you want to get busy with a screwdriver, you can always replace your superdrive with another harddrive; Optibay make conversion kits, but you can always find cheaper alternatives on ebay. I did this with my old MBP when I wanted SSD speeds but no sacrifice on space.

Good space-saving utilities:
X-Slimmer will strip out unnecessary binaries and language files from applications, which can free a good few gB, depending on the apps you have. Demoware.

DaisyDisk (app store) or GrandPerspective (freeware) will give you a good visual representation of what directories take up most room.

Decloner or Chipmunk (app store) do a byte-by-byte file comparison to help weed out duplicates.

I'm not asking it to answer the most profound and deepest philosophical questions, or to write my dissertation for me, or to tell me what that weird lump on my testicle is (although there's undoubtedly an app for that)

However, it doesn't require Asimov levels of AI to recognise a voice request, then combine GPS information with a yell search of local businesses to find a local bank or petrol station. It can manage it in the US apparently, so why not here?

Anyone here a bit disappointed with Siri? Can't search for businesses outside the US, can't read me my emails (can only read out new text messages) and struggles with basic commands.

The only thing it's currently good for is ipod commands, weather (although I have to ask for the nearest town, as it doesn't recognise where I live) and asking it to open the pod bay doors.

Hopefully they'll sort this out in the next iOS update, as at the moment, it's a bag of wank.

Still curious about this.

if you have "clip to artboards" ticked in the save dialog, it will save out each artboard as a separate file (hence 01, 02 etc). At least, it does this with .eps files, and when you export to jpg. Never known it to happen with .ai files.

ok i thought i'd bump this as this is also (Probably) an incredibly easy-to-answer Adobe Illustrator question

right, i'm struggling here, whats happening is the colors i'm using are acting like they are in mulitiply or have been made % based transparent, but there not, there in normal mode and 100%,

whats going on, is there someway i can get them to be solid colors again like there meant to be, **

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see top layer, 100%, normal mode, whats going on?

Double-click into group isolation, and see if the path has been altered in any way. or ungroup/release compound path. failing that, hit up the "appearance" panel, click top-right panel settings icon, and select "revert to basic appearance"

After that I'm all out of ideas.

#haven'tgotillustratoropensorecitingfrommemory

Could be? http://peteraurisch.com/?page_id=232

It is, I found it in his album on facebook here. Not sure if those links work, but searching for peter aurisch on facebook will doubtless throw up his fanpage.

I really rate his style (a lot) but I agree with Tina Kino.. some of them look like they won't age so well.

I really like this, I wonder who is the artist, if anyone knows?

I think it's Peter Aurisch?

Any forumengers present for this? We managed to get down there in time but unfortunately sans bell.

ooooh this one's fairly near me... the race is on OneLessCardigan...

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Thanks everyone who's been taking part in this tagathon and whoever is keeping the map updated.... I don't know London at all, so keeping up with this thread has been enlightening, it's great to get some insights into London's architectural oddities from a group of people that know the place well.

It's also a brilliant idea for a game. I'd join in if I knew where any of these places were!

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