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iStrum-bak & Donahoo; Cantrip; Brains
Jan. 19th, 2006 09:36 pmSo I have a lovely new external 160GB ATA HD with USB 2.0 support and a sleek little case, that I 'put together myself' out of... an internal HD and a case. I suppose that /is/ DIY for some people. I suppose it would have been, for me, in 1992.
There's a little problem.
I can't bring iStrummer (the PowerBook) to work anymore, and there's no working up-to-date PC at home. So. Like. There's NO EASY WAY to troubleshoot porting files between teh Mac und der PC. First I formatted the thing at work, and then the Mac wouldn't read it, because it was going all 'OMG, NTFS! It'll get it /on/ me! Unplug that thing before I barf zeroes all over it!' So I SIIIIIGHed and wrote zeroes all over it and repartitioned it with the Mac, and made one volume iStrum-bak (yey backups for teh iStrummer) and one volume Donahoo (for my fambly to use as storage space, so the family PC -- once I put it back together and update it as much as possible with a budget of zero -- doesn't get bogged down and die again), and it wouldn't let me make one volume FAT32 and one volume MacOS (which I'm sure doesn't surprise anyone, but it sure annoyed me), so I made them both MacOS extended journaled, whatever that means. Because, the /book/ said, 'Format it on the Mac if you intend to use it on both', so I went, 'O-kaaaay, if you saaaay so'. So I did. AND DAMMIT. I shoulda picked FAT32. But how the hell was I supposed to know? The same damn book told me 'Don't leave the drive as the FAT32 format it shipped with, OMG!'
So now I can't read the goddamn motherfucking drive at work.
So now I'm going to have to take the blasted thing home again, and move files off it again, and REFORMAT IT, AGAIN.
This 'learn as you go' shit really takes a lot outta you. But you know, I have such awful trouble with following directions.
Raaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaugh.
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Cantrip! There's apparently YET ANOTHER MU* client designed for a Mac platform. It's called, yes, Cantrip, and the screenshots are pretty-pretty-pretty OS X screenshots, and... when I get home (nngh) I will be able to download and play with it.
Now, don't get me wrong, Trebuchet Tk ("an excellent way to sling MUD!") is great, *much* less apt to crash suddenly and unexpectedly than Savitar, and has the familiarity (save for a few niggling details) of SimpleMU*. But... it occasionally WIGS OUT COMPLETELY and starts hogging ALL my system memory and abusing my poor CPU, and then makes the entire system freeze. You can't kill -9 when you got no bash prompt, yo.
There're a couple of other ones I found today that I'll probably have a look at, but none of them are as visually appealing as Cantrip. MudWalker, OTOH, doesn't look as pretty but my GOD the functionality! We'll see.
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I've been trying like hell to beat my brains into some semblance of working order since the Extended Medication Incident, and--
--well, it's really hard.
Evidence of this -- I was gonna go on a long explanation of it all, and I just completely forgot what I was gonna say. :/
There's a little problem.
I can't bring iStrummer (the PowerBook) to work anymore, and there's no working up-to-date PC at home. So. Like. There's NO EASY WAY to troubleshoot porting files between teh Mac und der PC. First I formatted the thing at work, and then the Mac wouldn't read it, because it was going all 'OMG, NTFS! It'll get it /on/ me! Unplug that thing before I barf zeroes all over it!' So I SIIIIIGHed and wrote zeroes all over it and repartitioned it with the Mac, and made one volume iStrum-bak (yey backups for teh iStrummer) and one volume Donahoo (for my fambly to use as storage space, so the family PC -- once I put it back together and update it as much as possible with a budget of zero -- doesn't get bogged down and die again), and it wouldn't let me make one volume FAT32 and one volume MacOS (which I'm sure doesn't surprise anyone, but it sure annoyed me), so I made them both MacOS extended journaled, whatever that means. Because, the /book/ said, 'Format it on the Mac if you intend to use it on both', so I went, 'O-kaaaay, if you saaaay so'. So I did. AND DAMMIT. I shoulda picked FAT32. But how the hell was I supposed to know? The same damn book told me 'Don't leave the drive as the FAT32 format it shipped with, OMG!'
So now I can't read the goddamn motherfucking drive at work.
So now I'm going to have to take the blasted thing home again, and move files off it again, and REFORMAT IT, AGAIN.
This 'learn as you go' shit really takes a lot outta you. But you know, I have such awful trouble with following directions.
Raaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaugh.
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Cantrip! There's apparently YET ANOTHER MU* client designed for a Mac platform. It's called, yes, Cantrip, and the screenshots are pretty-pretty-pretty OS X screenshots, and... when I get home (nngh) I will be able to download and play with it.
Now, don't get me wrong, Trebuchet Tk ("an excellent way to sling MUD!") is great, *much* less apt to crash suddenly and unexpectedly than Savitar, and has the familiarity (save for a few niggling details) of SimpleMU*. But... it occasionally WIGS OUT COMPLETELY and starts hogging ALL my system memory and abusing my poor CPU, and then makes the entire system freeze. You can't kill -9 when you got no bash prompt, yo.
There're a couple of other ones I found today that I'll probably have a look at, but none of them are as visually appealing as Cantrip. MudWalker, OTOH, doesn't look as pretty but my GOD the functionality! We'll see.
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I've been trying like hell to beat my brains into some semblance of working order since the Extended Medication Incident, and--
--well, it's really hard.
Evidence of this -- I was gonna go on a long explanation of it all, and I just completely forgot what I was gonna say. :/
