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Bruce, do you know of anyone looking for database work? Saw this on a school email list from a former classmate: "If you're interested in doing some database consulting work in SF for a law firm that's developing an affirmative action compliance tracking system, please email me."

ddt

Dropbox has some kind of referral thing, right? I don't have a Dropbox account yet and was about to register but I figured I'd check to see if someone wants to get a referral credit before I do.

Sure, thanks! Email me with the email address you want added.

ddt

firstname@lastname.com

(Matthew Sparby)

Send it to me at firstname@lastname.com

(Matthew Sparby)

Sent and thanks!

ddt

DPBD:

Anyone else getting "The iTunes Library file cannot be saved. An unknown error occurred (-54)." messages after the last iTunes upgrade. They're popping up every few seconds, though I'm able to download app updated and podcasts. Should I be worried?

ddt

I've not seen that particular problem, but iTunes has been getting increasingly unstable for the last year, IMHO.

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I'll let you know if/when we have it free. It's a mid-2009 model, though, so it might not be all you'd want of a laptop.

I'm still using your 1GHz G4 at home (a loyal Mac if ever there was one). Trust me, your '09 would be a step up.

Alan, my wife is claiming the 2009 MBP for her own. And she's keeping her old MBP. She has a weird idea that one will be her media hub, the other her daily use computer. I don't get it, but I don't argue. So no MBP's crossing the mountains to your domicile any time soon. Sorry.

Maybe next time then...

AT&T U-Verse (which may be DSL) or Time Warner Cable? Dslreports seems to give those as my only real choices in 78704. Both seem evil, inclined to go with AT&T since I already pay them and I think it's cheaper.

I have Bright House, which is affiliated somehow with Time Warner, and I have all the typical cable problems: flaky equipment, flaky signal, service calls that don't materialize, and, recently, internet service that has slowed, if not to a crawl, then to a lazy, meandering walk. Not a fan.

AT&T in the Bay Area provided better QoS and support than Comcast, but that's comparing -- well, evil and evil.

ddt

... take it to the Parlor... oh, not politics. he he

Anybody know a good directory diff tool? I have a bunch of half-assed ones (which ones, I can't recall, since I don't have my MBP with me). My ideal would be something like Beyond Compare (a Windows and Linux app), which will let me compare two directory trees, identify differences, and copy files back and forth to make them identical. I think that BC had a Mac version once, but it was $200, and isn't available any more.

My problem (set forth in Milkshakes), is that my migration to a new MBP had some difficulties. I want to diff entire directory trees with my backup and correct the migration's difficulties. I've spent too much time configuring and setting up the new MBP to nuke it and start from scratch if I don't have to.

From the command line:

rsync -nav /path/to/source /path/to/dest

If that shows expected diffs:

rsync -av /path/to/source /path/to/dest

Thanks, Tom, I can at least use the first command to identify what I need to fix and the second if I can't find a decent GUI to do it.

This page seems to have a good selection of the GUI options. I've got a bunch of them, but I need to re-examine them.

I think that Beyond Compare never supported the Mac, and I was thinking of Araxis which IS still available and IS still too expensive.

Beyond Compare is just a great tool.

have you tried the comparison tool in TextWrangler? Search Menu --> Find Differences . It won't move any files for you, but it will list them.

Late Edit: I just thought, another good file handling tool is Transmit:

http://andrew.hedges.name/blog/2007/01/16/merge-folders-with-transmit

Except it is now much easier because Transmit 4 allows you to browse any folder your mac, not just with FTP.



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I mostly need to move files, so I'll look at Transmit. Thanks.

Here's a new one, for me at least: as of this morning, my 27" iMac isn't accepting mouse clicks. I start up, I get to the login screen, I click on the account I want to sign into, and nothing happens. The cursor moves with the mouse, but the click does nothing. I tried option-restarting (the iMac has two bootable volumes, one Lion, one Snow Leopard). Here, I get a hint of recognition: when I click on the upward-pointing arrow under the selected volume, the arrow darkens, but nothing else happens. I can't actually get the machine to continue with startup, nor can I change startup volumes with the mouse. I've tried both the Magic Mouse that came with the iMac and a wired Mighty Mouse; same thing happens with each. Any suggestions? Need I add that this iMac is about two weeks out of warranty?