I still haven't initialized the additional internal drive. I bought it
as a dedicated scratch disk. Do I allow Mac's Disk Utility to RAID
it?...and if so, what setup? I'm mostly clueless on RAID.

Also, I bought a 500GB external drive for files and backup; any
recommendations on partitioning or anything?


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inez

On Mar 11, 1:49 pm, inez <nezm...@or.fact> wrote:
No need to RAID it. Just let OS X initialise it, and then make it the
primary scratch inside PhotoShop.

The external drive... well you don't need to do much. Our external
backup drive just has a few root folders (/photos /projects /
userfiles) and we use deja to schedule file copies from our other
volumes daily / weekly. I wouldn't chop up the disk into smaller
volumes as you'll only end up making one to small, or one to big etc
etc.

In OSX you can create mountable volume files - just a big file that
pretends to be a disk. You can use these to create little secure areas
of files that are protected - you can even back up these file images
in one lump, rather than the files contained inside them. We do this
for storing sensitive material.

So... forget RAID

SpaceGirl wrote:
Thanks! I'm still waiting for my Missing Manual so I'm wondering around
this big Mac like a blind woman who got dropped off on the moon I'll
ask Help about volume files. Problem is, I want/need to learn everything
all at once and asap.

Got Quark all loaded up; vastly different. Waiting on a book for that
too, and sent for their manual. BUT, they did include a lynda.com
training CD so I'll be spending time with that.

Just followed a link to a print relevant article:
http://www.creativetechs.com/iq/prep...a_is_dead.html

I do hope Adobe OTFs are better than their old postscript fonts. They've
always seemed overpriced to me.

As you can tell, my mind is going in all directions at once. LOL!

BTW, when I used to hit the enter key (not the return key) it would
enter/submit/send; now it just seems to return. What's up with that?

i

On Mar 11, 3:01 pm, inez <nezm...@or.fact> wrote:
"mountable volume files" is definitely not the correct name for them,
but my head is seriously fuzzed today (back at work after being wiped
out by the flu).

I don't use the number pad enter key! Well apart from for macros in
WoW :P

I've never really had any issues with fonts in OS X. To be honest, I
pretty much carry my fonts around with me on a memory stick (is that
really sad?) and when I got my new Macs I just copied the font files
into /user/miranda/library/fonts/ and they just worked. A real mix of
old Windows TTFs and OTFs and the Adobe fontpacks I've hoarded over
the years. I don't do much print work, but not had any real issues.
I've got around 1000 active fonts.

OTF is a much better format than the old PS fonts; they render nice
and quickly and Illustrator seems to like them better from what I've
found.

Catch me on IM if you need any help in OSX. I can fire up iChat or
something.

I'll send you and e-mail with my AIM & .Mac screen names

inez wrote:
I added you! But I guess our timezones dont sync :s


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http://www.northleithmill.com

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Kammy has a new home: http://www.bitesizedjapan.com

SpaceGirl wrote:
Yeah. I had to do some household stuff. Haven't been sleeping well at
night so I've been hitting the wall head first after supper, so I
drowsed with the TV on. Now I have to jump to and make a late night
visit to WalMart so the critters have food and litter. Ugh!

Maybe catch you tomorrow.

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inez

On Mar 12, 4:10 am, inez <nezm...@or.fact> wrote:
I'll be around. I've been working like a bee on acid this last week.
Had a crazy deadline (which I met last night, w00t!), and the flu so I
was sick as a dog and overworked. But feeling better now and the
client is happy with the site I did so I can calm down a bit :s

SpaceGirl wrote:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHzdsFiBbFc

Drew wrote:
HILARIOUS!!!...but not true. The caffeine spider burns out and dies of a
heart attack. The pot spider lives a long but unproductive life and just
doesn't have the sense to know it's unsatisfied. When they mate though,
the off spring a productive type B spiders. They make the most of every
situation and don't sweat the small stuff.


(yippee! I was able to watch a youtube link seamlessly

inez

"inez" <nezmyth@or.fact> wrote in message
news:6JIBj.70696$Ft5.7733@newsfe15.lga...
With any luck you'll see OMH there.

inez wrote:
LOL perfect.

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http://www.northleithmill.com

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Kammy has a new home: http://www.bitesizedjapan.com

Copmments from another group:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHzdsFiBbFc

HILARIOUS!!!...but not true. The caffeine spider burns out and dies of a
heart attack. The pot spider lives a long but unproductive life and just
doesn't have the sense to know it's unsatisfied. When they mate though,
the off spring a productive type B spiders. They make the most of every
situation and don't sweat the small stuff.

On Thu, 13 Mar 2008 07:39:01 -0400, "CapCity" <CapCity@nowhere.com>
wrote:

Even if she lived where I do that's not likely since I'm often in the
back doing labeling and binning, handling claims or ordering. If
we're really backed up then I'll usually go out on the floor and throw
freight or zone, depends on how many people we have. The other times
I'm out on the floor is when I'm doing returns or "reverse shopping"
as I sometimes like to call it. For fun I usually walk the cart
backwards from the front of it, so then it really *IS* reverse
shopping. ^_^

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"I didn't make reality, Sunshine, I just verbally bitch slapped you
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"I'm not a professional, I'm an artist."

"Your Usenet blinders are my best friend."

"Usenet Filters - Learn to shut yourself the fuck up!"

"Drugs killed Jesus you know...oh wait, no, that was the Jews, my
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"There are clingy things in the grass...burrs 'n such...mmmm..."

"The more I learn the more I'm killing my idols."

"Is it wrong to incur and then use the hate ridden, vengeful stupidity
of complete strangers in random Usenet froups to further my art?"

"Freedom is only a concept, like race it's merely a social construct
that doesn't really exist outside of your ability to convince others
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"Next time slow up a lil, then maybe you won't jump the gun and start
creamin yer panties before it's time to pop the champagne proper."

"Reality is directly proportionate to how creative you are."

"People are pretty fucking high on themselves if they think that
they're just born with a soul. *snicker*...yeah, like they're just
givin em out for free."

"Quible, quible said the Hare. Quite a lot of quibling...everywhere.
So the Hare took a long stare and decided at best, to leave the rest,
to their merry little mess."

"There's a difference between 'bad' and 'so earth shatteringly
horrible it makes the angels scream in terror as they violently rip
their heads off, their blood spraying into the faces of a thousand
sweet innocent horrified children, who will forever have the terrible
images burned into their tiny little minds'."

"How sad that you're such a poor judge of style that you can't even
properly gauge the artistic worth of your own efforts."

"Those who record history are those who control history."

"I am the living embodiment of hell itself in all its tormentive rage,
endless suffering, unfathomable pain and unending horror...but you
don't get sent to me...I come for you."

"Ideally in a fight I'd want a BGM-109A with a W80 250 kiloton
tactical thermonuclear fusion based war head."

"Tell me, would you describe yourself more as a process or a
function?"

"Apparently this group has got the market cornered on stupid.
Intelligence is down 137 points across the board and the forecast
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