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How I Use My Mac
- ojbyrne 18y agoI found the stuff about photos interesting. I'm a fairly heavy photographer and use a mac. I don't throw away anything other than pure white or pure black photos. I keep 3 copies of all my pictures, organized like he suggests - in directories by YY/MM. I rsync from the main disk to the second disk as soon as I put new photos on the first disk. I rsync from the second disk to the third disk when I think of it. I have 3 1 TB drives (the last one I bought cost C$ 120) and about 600 megs of photos. I only save the raw images, not processed images. I like my system better than his, at least for photography. I should make more of an effort to backup other stuff (for which I do ad-hoc backups, usually with tar files).
- kajecounterhack 18y agoI agree about his photography comment. I use an 80gb harddrive with 2 partitions (one for linux and a small 15gb windows partition), so I'm more than just ruthless. I have to be resourceful. I have to be no-food-to-eat resourceful. Dumpster diving resourceful, lol.
- Herring 18y agohttp://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148274 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148...
- kajecounterhack 18y agoalas, doesn't help to only have $30 left in your paypal account and no credit card either.
- scott_s 18y agoI do use iTerm. Terminal does not let me change the ASCII colors, which is a deal breaker for me. (Mostly because of Terminal's default for green - it's too light, and that's the color I use for comments in code.)
- ericmc 18y agoI've used this before to change the colors and it works well: http://ciaranwal.sh/2007/11/01/customising-colours-in-leopard-terminal http://ciaranwal.sh/2007/11/01/customising-colours-in-leopar...
- scott_s 18y agoThanks, I'll give it a try. The last solution I found for that didn't work on Leopard.
- shiranaihito 18y agoHow I Use My Toilet Paper: * I fold it. * I wipe my ass with it.
- joubert 18y agoI don't fold mine.
- ideamonk 18y agoI don't use a toilet paper like billion others in my country ;P
- josefresco 18y agoDo You Scrunch or Fold? http://www.josefresco.com/tp/ http://www.josefresco.com/tp/ Currently 'fold' is winning (153 votes) And yes I set this page up months ago as a joke (for friends and family) and have forgotten about it until ... just now.
- mhb 18y agoWho folds it? That's so anal.
- Hexstream 18y agoI often fold it multiple times if it's not too nasty. Take 2 squares, fold, wipe, refold, rewipe, and sometimes once more. How anal is that? Hacker News, where you Discuss your ass wiping Strategies(tm).
- shiranaihito 18y agoFold, of course (just like I mentioned). Scrunching is for people who don't mind getting their hands dirty. I do.
- nileshk 18y agoI'm glad he mentioned that he never uses minimize button (the yellow minus in the left-hand corner), because it seems even people who have used OS X for years don't get this. Hide (CMD-H) is what you should be using when you want to minimize. Hide others (CMD-ALT-H) is also very useful. The only time minimize is useful is if you are using a particular application with multiple windows open and you aren't going to be working in one of those windows but don't want to close it because you might come back to it later. In addition to getting it off your screen, this is also helpful so that when you are hitting CTRL-` to switch between the app's windows the window you aren't working in doesn't come up. But if you want to get the whole application out of the way, just use hide.
- thomasmallen 18y agoNot a word on the Cmd+Opt+O, or holding down option while double-clicking a file (closes the source window)?
- mhartl 18y agoThis was worth reading just for the open command. Oh, how I have longed for exactly that! But I was woefully ignorant. Thank you, Tim, for showing me the way.