a day in the life

This is halarious.

By Ruben Bolling from Salon

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So if you’re like me, you like to make legitimate backups of your software and original install discs. I always make an image of the disc using Disk Utility, included in OS X. Well, lets say you made a backup image of the new Mac OS X Leopard 10.5 disc and then accidentally destroy the disc, but you need to install the OS. Disk Utility to the rescue! As long as you have a spare external hard drive (I’m using a USB one in this case), you can extract the image to the HD and boot from it. Here’s how:

1. Start by creating the disc image of the installation media (this can be DMG, CDR, ISO or any of the disc image formats supported by Mac OS X).
2. Connect your external drive and launch Disk Utility.
3. Select the drive in Disk Utility and then select the Partition tab. Make sure that the drive is formatted using a GUID partition scheme (you may need to reformat your drive to get it in this form).  (NOTE: If you are going to use a PowerPC based Mac, ie G4 or G5, you need to select Apple Partition Map here. GUID is for Intel Macs ONLY) 
4. Once the drive is in the GUID partition scheme.
5. Select the Restore tab of Disc Utility and drag the Disk Image for the Installation Media onto the Source field.
6. Then drag the appropriate partition (in my case, the USB external drive) to the destination field.
7. Press restore.
8. Once the restore is complete, launch System Preferences and select Start up Disk. You should now see the external drive listed as a start up disk. Select it and press restart. You can now install as if you had inserted the DVD!

Additional notes:

• Plug the HD directly into the computer, not into a Fire wire or USB hub. The installer had trouble finding the internal HD when connected through a USB hub.
• This procedure should be the same for previous versions of OS X as well, except for PowerPC versions. PowerPC versions probably need to change the partition format of the drive to Apple Partition Map, but I’m not sure.

Video:Here is a demonstration of using an iPod as the external media. The procedure is the same for an external hard drive, just substitute the iPod partition for the partition on your external hard drive.  

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Something that has always bothered me about listening to radio is that it seemed like the songs were always sped up. Well I was in the car a few days ago and decided to check for myself. I recorded the end of the Justin Timberlake song “What Goes Around Comes Around” and have cued up the same part of the actual album version below. Take a listen for yourself. Notice how the pitch is even different!

Radio Version:

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Album Version:

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Crossover Version (Left Track is the Radio Version, Right Track is the Album Version):

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I also created a waveform comparison below. The first loop is synced up, but notice on the radio version (on the bottom) that each loop starts before the same loop on the album.

Those bastards probably do this just so they can fit more Ads in between songs. ugh

I was playing around with my Google hosted services, and tried out a few links just for shits. Look what I found.

http://www.google.com/a/oakland.edu

Check out the videos! I followed the instructions located here.  This is an iPod Touch version 1.1.1. 

Not even 2 days after Bibles for America showed up on campus passing out materials, the sexual sin jesus freak IS BACK. This is twice in one week now and three times this semester.

This is enough. I contacted the Dean of the Students today along with a few other students. Please feel free to contact them on your own:
Glenn McIntosh
Dean of Students and Assistant Vice President of Student Affairs
Phone: (248) 370-3352
E-mail: mcintosh@oakland.edu
  
Karen Lloyd
Assistant Dean of Students
Phone: (248) 370-3352
E-mail: lloyd@oakland.edu 

Samuel Lucido
Chief of Police, Oakland University Police Department
Phone: (248) 370-3000
Dispatch Phone: (248) 370-3331
E-mail: lucido@oakland.edu

 

EDIT: I was told by the Dean of the Students office that this soliciter is allowed to be on campus as long as he does not preach or approach students. If you notice him approaching students (which is common during class breaks) please contact the Dean of the Students Office or the University Police.

 EDIT 2:50pm 10/10/2007 : The university police detained the soliciter, took his ID and filed a report and issued a citation. The soliciter then packed up his stuff and left.

Thanks to everyone who helped on this one.

 

Is it just me or does the new function called stacks in os x leopard seem like a hint at a tablet device? I have been pondering this ever since I saw the Leopard website put up. I could see the arch of the stack as a response to a finger or thumb based support hint. Imagine holding a tablet-y device from the bottom corners and using your thumbs to hit the stack button. Anyone else see it?

Let me know what you think… 

  

Is it just me or does it look like Mobile 1 stole their logo right from Real 1?

 

Bibles For America was at school today harassing students and handing out “free bibles.” Ok, seriously. WTF. First it was the jesus freak on campus preaching about sexual sins and now this? I go to a public school, right????

       

Get this SHIT OFF MY PUBLIC SCHOOL CAMPUS.

Oh, just kidding.