Backing up and verifying files in Mac OS

March 3rd, 2009 by Geoffrey Hing | No Comments

Backing up and verifying files in Mac OS

There are some interesting backup tools for system backups (Time Machine) but I want to just be able to copy and verify a directory (and its children).  I’ve heard that the commercial product Retrospect provides copy and verify functionality, but I’m cheap.
This is the method that I used.  I’d be interested on hearing feedback about [...]


making a 4up PDF

March 23rd, 2007 by Geoffrey Hing | No Comments

making a 4up PDF

This is the command that I used to make a 4up (that would be four equally sized images on one page) layout on letter sized paper of a tabloid sized poster. I used the excellent Multivalent tool’s Impose feature.
C:\Documents and Settings\surplus\Desktop>java -Xms32m -Xmx256m -classpath “C:\Documents and Settings\surplus\Desktop\Multivalent20060102.jar” tool.pdf.Impose -nup 4 -dim 2×2 -paper letter [...]


Dirty Dishes #1 – DUH-Ritos!

February 5th, 2007 by Geoffrey Hing | No Comments

Dirty Dishes #1 – DUH-Ritos!

Justin and Derek (and others?) have made this awesome Bloomington-produced DIY YouTube vegan cooking show.  In the first episode, they show you how to make vegan dorittos.
Link


HFS filesystem woes

June 19th, 2006 by Geoffrey Hing | No Comments

HFS filesystem woes

So I had this external firewire drive that I use both on my Linux box and my OS X box.  When I try to mount it under linux, I get an error saying “HFS-fs warning: Filesystem was not cleanly unmounted, running fsck.hfs is recommended.  mounting read-only”.  However, the drive works fine under OS X, and [...]