French colony UBANGI-SHARI-CHAD

stamp: 2 centimes

year: 1915

mammal: catlikes / leopard

There are many situations that require you to restore backups to different computers, other than the one from where the data was originally backed up from. In the case of Apple’s Time Machine the restore procedure to different machines is not very intuitive. You have to use the “secret” option key…

There is a supported way to restore Time Machine backups of other computers using the “option-key” click on the Time Machine menu. If you want to use it just do the following:

1. Connect the Time Machine disk to the Mac you want to restore the files to
2. Set the “Show time machine status in the menu bar” In System Preferences -> Time Machine.
3. Click the Time Machine icon in the menu bar and keeping the mouse button pressed, press the “Option” key.
4. Select “Browse Other Time Machine Disks”
5. Select the disk you want
6. click Use Selected Disk

The Time Machine will open with the selected disk and you can use it to restore the files.

If, like me, you are using a non supported Time Machine configuration, where the backup disk is mounted using SMB or AFP (see this post on how to enable that) then the procedure above will not work directly. In my case I backup to my Buffalo TeraStation NAS, and the “Browse Other Time Machine Disks” window shows up empty, with no disk to select.

In order for this to work you need to first mount the Time Machine disk by hand in using the command line.

1. Mount the shared folder where your Time Machine backups are stored
2. Open a Terminal window and cd to the Time Machine volume. in my case I called it backups

   sudo cd /Volumes/backups

3. use hdiutil to mount the specific Time Machine .sparsebundle file

   sudo hdiutil attach <time_machine_file.sparsebundle>

Now you should be able to see the mounted volume in Finder, with all the backups listed as folders, and you can copy any files directly from it. Remember that mounting the disk may take some time due to the size of the disk and network connection speed, especially If you do this over a WiFi network.

Another option is to repeat the supported Time Machine procedure  outlined in the beginning of this post. You should now see the mounted disk as a Time Machine disk. Select the the disk and click “Use Selected Disk” and Time Machine will open on the selected disk just like with a Time Machine supported back up disk.

Personally I like to copy them directly from the Finder but your preference may vary so I document both ways of achieving this goal. Hope this helps.

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From the article here “The difference in speed between OS X Leopard and Snow Leopard is remarkable.  I did two tests in the latest version of Final Cut Studio’s (3) Compressor.  I took a 33-second clip NTSC (720 x 480, 29.97 frames per second/fps) and converted it to a similar .m2t (MPEG-2 Transport Stream), which I have to convert video clips to at work.  The results:

• With Mac OS X Leopard: 26 seconds
• With Snow Leopard: 18 seconds”

A peine le temps de profiter des Be@rbricks SpongeBob de la série 18 qu’il faut déjà s’ambiancer pour acheter la série 19. Comme d’hab, beaucoup de déchets et de figurines inutiles, et un ou deux modèles vraiment cool.

Et pour cette série, c’est le Be@r Mr. Spock qui l’emporte, juste devant le Uglydoll orange et le robot marron. Même si j’en vois déjà me contredire à cause des oreilles rondes et non pointues du vulcain.

Pour voir le reste de la série 19 Be@rbrick, cliquez pour

If you’re like me and you don’t like Safari 4 for the one reason you have no progress bar, what’s all that about, having said that even Google Chrome is the same, but anyway, for Snow Leopard users its finally solved.

1. Download the same Safari 3.2.3 portable by clicking here! (Open in a new tab/window)

2. In a Finder window containing the file “Safari 3.app”, right click and “Show Package Content”

3. Open the only folder available marked “Contents”, then “MacOS”, then double click the Terminal file marked “TrueSafari” and a Terminal window will open and as will Safari 3.

4. However if you close the Terminal window you will also close Safari 3 as that is preventing Snow Leopard from knowing what OS the application requires. Safari 3 runs as it does on Leopard in my experience.

TIP; Right click the “TrueSafari” command and “Create Alias”, copy the alias file to a more convenient place, Documents etc, you then can launch Safari 3 by double clicking that alias!

After waiting for it to mature a bit. I am now on Snow Leopard 10.6.2. Runs really well. Have a look!

Since I’ve been glued to YouTube pretty much all day (having internet at home means never having to say “I’m bored” apparently), I thought it appropriate to share a few vids.  My brain seems to want stuff about  large predators (lions and tigers and bears, oh my!) so today you get leopards:

Leopard #1: The apex predator of the Antarctic

This is one of the coolest things I’ve ever seen.  I have an extraordinary level of respect (i.e., I’m TERRIFIED) of leopard seals (I think I saw some movie about huskies or something, and a leopard seal featured in the only memorable scene…it was essentially a big “BOO!!!”, with teeth.  I shrieked and jumped 5 feet in the air). What an amazing experience for that photographer.  Leopard seals are the second largest seal in the Antarctic, after southern elephant seals.  Most sources will say that they are named for the distinctive spotting on their short coats, but I say it’s because of the impressive array of chompers, including very prominent canines.  Their long teeth serve as krill-sieves; the tiny shrimp-like crustaceans are a staple of their diet.  The larger seals (like our friend in the video) hunt penguins along pack ice or island shorelines, while the littles must make do with fish and squid.   

Leopard #2: Unlikely surrogate cares for infant baboon

It’s a bit sad, but a fascinating story nonetheless.  Two things strike me as incredible here: 1. the fact that the infantile characteristics shared among mammal species are SO pronounced and can elicit such strong inter-species responses (come on, I dare you to tell me you didn’t just want to scoop that wee baby up when you saw his little face); and 2. the familiarity of so many of the leopard’s movements – it’s eerily like watching a larger version of my housecats.

Cu putin timp in urma, Descopera.ro prezenta, in cadrul unei stiri, imaginile inedite ale unei foci-leopard, realizate de un fotograf al National Geographic in sudul Argentinei, aproape de Antarctica. Acum, si o poveste cel putin surprinzatoare, avand acelasi subiect, a iesit la suprafata.

We also saw a jaguar but he was so stressed about the whole cage thing he just kept going back and forth and back and forth behind the bars so I was never able to get a good photo of him. He didn’t look happy at all and it made us all quite sad. I didn’t get any photos of my favourite wild animal in the whole world – the  lynxes either. They were sleeping but a bit too far away and my camera don’t reach that far (that’s why I wish for a new camera ) but they looked very cute and cuddly and I think I asked boyfriend to give me one for my big 25:th coming up soon like a hundred times. He said I’d get one. He also said I’d get a tiger, a lion baby, some monkeys, a zebra, and that I could have a giraffe down on the street and it could reach up with it’s tall neck to our balcony on the fifth floor. We’ll have to keep the zebra in somebody other’s apartment of course – otherwise the tiger and the lion will eat it. I even suggested that me and Linda (my special lady friend) could have shared custody over a tiger. I think it’s very clever. That way we can repair everything he’s destroyed (chewed furniture, limbs) one week and let him come over the next.

French Equatorial Africa, colony of UBANGI – SHARI

stamp: 1 centimes

year: 1924

mammal: catlikes / leopard

Overprinted stamp from Middle Congo

When the Lehigh Home Club hosted the 2009 Lehigh-Lafayette Pub Night in advance of the rivals’ 145th gridiron meeting, Club President Dennis Zehner ‘99 was hesitant to reprise his 2008 photo (immediately below) with the Lafayette Leopard. Then a fellow Lehigh alum reminded him that Lehigh won 2008 game and suggested that it might be good luck to do so again.

So the 2009 photo was snapped (see below), and less than 72 hours later, the Brown and White scored another upset over the Leopards.

“Coincidence? Probably,” Zehner said. “But a new Lehigh-Lafayette tradition has begun … at least until it stops working. But if the streak continues long enough, I expect my successors to carry it on.”

Miranda, Miranda… just because you had to wear some theatrical undergarments as Victoria’s Secret model it doesn’t mean you need to up yourself by transforming yourself into a lampshade! The dress really reminded me of leopard rug with skirting of a lamp shade. It’s like whoa!

photos:justjared

Obi und ich wollen etwas besonderes in Angriff nehmen: Wir entwickeln unsere erste Anwendung speziell für den Mac.

XCode ist wahrlich keine einfache Programmiersprache, aber wir werden uns einarbeiten (müssen) und bald entsteht ein neues Projekt: Der YouTube-Manager.

Ich hatte schon vor langer Zeit eine Idee. Wie wäre es, wenn man mit einer Anwendung YouTube organisieren und verwalten kann und seine wichtigsten Videos immer mit dabei hat, auch wenn man mal nicht online ist? Dies und viel mehr soll das Programm können. Es soll Videos in einer ganz neuen Art präsentieren, anzeigen und verwalten können. Selbstverständlich mit Login und allem was dazugehört.

Das Programm wird nicht gerade eine leichte Anwendung die man so eben in 2 Stunden programmiert. Unser erstes Ziel wird es sein, alle Funktionen des regulären YouTubes zu implementieren. Doch wir gehen einen Schritt weiter. Wir werden die Geschwindigkeit erhöhen und die kleinen Mankos ausarbeiten, die die Onlineversion von YouTube besitzt. Außerdem werden wir umfangreiche Organisations- und Archivierungsfunktionen implementieren, die so zuvor noch nicht bekannt waren. Features, die wir planen, sind (unter anderem):

• Revolutionäre, geschwindigkeitsbringende Benutzeroberfläche mit Drag&Drop Features und exzellentem Design
• Archivierungsfunktion, um alle seine Favoriten, Abbonements, einzelne Videos oder sogar alle angeschauten Videos immer dabei zu haben
• Bessere Tagging- und Suchfunktion
• Mehrere Favoritenlisten und verbesserte Playlistfunktionen
• Umfangreiche Verwaltung von Abonnements
• Neuartige Kommentarfunktion mit History und vielem mehr
• Verbesserte Administration des eigenen Kanals
• und vieles mehr…

Das alles hört sich ziemlich theoretisch an, und das ist es auch. Es wird allerdings das nächste Projekt werden. Wir werden zusammen daran arbeiten. Das Programm wird mit XCode programmiert und ist nur auf OSX lauffähig. Eine Windows- und Linuxversion wird es nicht geben! Ich habe mich dazu entschieden, regelmäßig den genauen Projektverlauf auf meinem Blog zu veröffentlichen. Sobald das Programm lauffähig ist, wird es höchstwahrscheinlich Weekly Builds geben.

Und jetzt das Wichtige: Das Programm wird komplett Freeware und OpenSource (Lizenz ist noch nicht entschieden)!

Und zum Schluss noch eine wichtige Aufforderung an meine Leser. Wie ihr sicherlich gemerkt habt, sprach ich vom “Programm”, denn das Projekt hat bislang noch keinen Namen. Es wäre nett, wenn ihr ein paar Namensvorschläge als Kommentar hinterlasst. Vielen Dank und schönen Sonntag noch!

I only make really practical purchases. Leopard print hair extensions are something I need to function. Right?

French Equatorial Africa, colony of CHAD

stamp: 1 centimes

year: 1924

mammal: catlikes / leopard

Overprinted stamp from Middle Congo

Change .nfo and/or .diz to .txt

Using  TextEdit to read

Oooh… Apparently the file formats accepted by QuickLook also affect the icon preview in the Finder.

I found a .flv plugin and now I see .flv files have icon previews in the Finder instead of the usual VLC file icon. (And apparently I can only see the icon preview in the List view but not in the Icon view. Strange.)

Zip Quick Look Plugin – Underconstruction by Taiyo

Folder Quick Look Plugin – Underconstruction by Taiyo

(via Leopard tamers: 9 terrific interface tweaks)

If there are problems with information in your mailboxes, it may be necessary to reindex your messages. During this process, certain Mail folders on your computer are moved to another location, such as your desktop. When Mail is reopened, it rereads and reindexes all messages in all local mailboxes. The reindexing process can take several minutes depending on how many messages are in your local mailboxes.

When Mail detects a problem with your mailboxes, it may alert you that it needs to repair them by reindexing your messages. At other times, you can reindex messages yourself. To do so, quit Mail and, in the Mail folder in your home Library folder, move the Envelope Index file and any folders that begin with “Mac-”, “Exchange-”, or “IMAP-” to a different location, such as your desktop. When you reopen Mail, it reindexes all messages.