for 1) the cursor might be on the region of the desktop that the external monitor was covering.
After disconnecting from the external monitor go to "System Preferences --> Displays" and click on "Detect Displays".
posted to Ask Metafilter by golo at 7:14 PM on January 26, 2006

Check out Seed magazine: science is culture
posted to Ask Metafilter by golo at 9:28 AM on July 15, 2005

from Tenuki's link, interesting tidbit
posted to Ask Metafilter by golo at 8:54 PM on June 13, 2005

It says here: Artwork by Nelson Carrick
posted to Ask Metafilter by golo at 9:44 PM on June 12, 2005

She's speaks english fluently, by the way
posted to Ask Metafilter by golo at 1:07 AM on January 12, 2005

She has a BA in graphic design, looking for a Masters
posted to Ask Metafilter by golo at 3:42 AM on January 12, 2005

Thank you. I'll pass her the information, hopefully this will encourage her to keep looking.
I wouldn't mind studyng design myself, but it's not me. I'm actually in Israel (and not that talented).
posted to Ask Metafilter by golo at 7:22 AM on January 12, 2005

If there can be one and only one object per haystack, then the chances of finding an object in any random stack would be 20/270 (0.074). The chances of picking a random stack and NOT finding an object then would be 1-0.074= 0.925 (good chances). The chances of this happening twice would be 0.925 squared (0.857), for three stacks would be 0.925 cubed and so on. If I'm right the chances of choosing 100 haystacks and not finding simngle object would be (1-(20/270))^100=4.54e-4, or something like 0.... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by golo at 7:57 AM on December 1, 2004

Thanks Doohickie. Apparently I was thinking of choosing 100 stacks at a time, not choosing one by one and checking their contents before continuing.
posted to Ask Metafilter by golo at 8:20 AM on December 1, 2004

Vacapinta, doesn't "lero-lero" sound like "nyah nyah - nyah nyah"?
posted to Ask Metafilter by golo at 7:43 AM on November 25, 2004

In the Activity Monitor, under the "Monitor" menu, there is an item labeled "Dock Icon". Select from it the "Show CPU history" option. As mentioned above you'll be able to constantly monitor the CPU usage as a function of time, additionally you'll see what amount is used by System Processes and what amount by User Processes.
Do yo have fast user switching enabled? If you do, do you have a second user logged in?
posted to Ask Metafilter by golo at 11:59 AM on November 5, 2004

Relevant thread
posted to Ask Metafilter by golo at 7:50 AM on October 23, 2004

if you start rolling you own cigarettes and other "cool" stuff it might work on strangers but your friend's will think that you're an asshole (and they'd probably be right).
I sometimes find myself dressed as a dork, driving at half the speed limit, listening to swing or whatever un-cool music and feeling great, and I think to myself "Now, isn't that cool?"
And what grumblebee and melissa said.
posted to Ask Metafilter by golo at 3:41 PM on October 22, 2004

OS X does come with curl which is great, however if you don't feel comfortable with the terminal try iCab. Besides being an all around solid browser the download dialog offers the options to "Get all files in same path, get all files on same server or get all linked files". You can specify own may links to follow (the "depth") and what file extensions to ignore.
posted to Ask Metafilter by golo at 3:13 PM on October 21, 2004

The Spanish word rico, usually translated as tasty, can be used to characterize many pleasurable sensations. From a nice smell or a nice texture to a catchy rhythm or some pleasant weather.
People are usually amused when they find out that it is used both at the table and in bed. (Que rico, indeed!)
posted to Ask Metafilter by golo at 2:05 AM on September 28, 2004

Octaviuz, in hebrew there is a single verb for "ser" and "estar" but it doesn't exist in the present tense! You say "I hungry", "I here" or "I engineer".
"I am what I am" becomes "I what I".
posted to Ask Metafilter by golo at 2:08 AM on September 29, 2004

Preferences → Advanced → Browsing: There are two check boxes: "Select new tabs opened from links" and "Select new tabs opened from bookmarks or history". If checked, new tabs will open in the foreground. As for closing a tab, I use "Ctrl+W".
posted to Ask Metafilter by golo at 6:09 AM on September 25, 2004

Beyond Compare
posted to Ask Metafilter by golo at 11:22 AM on September 24, 2004

You should check the work of Daniel Kahneman. Also relevant to your last question in my opinion.
posted to Ask Metafilter by golo at 6:03 AM on September 18, 2004

I'm curios, was the "Only rotters hunt otters" badge found?
posted to Ask Metafilter by golo at 4:55 AM on September 13, 2004

I hope I understood correctly what you want to do.
Every Smart Play list has a checkbox that determines if unchecked songs should be included. You could have two practically identical play lists with all your songs (date added in the last 10 years, for example). The one for the Mac/PC should include the unchecked songs while the one for the iPod should not. In the iPod, instead of synchronizing all your library have it synchronize only the play list that doesn’t include the unchecked songs.
posted to Ask Metafilter by golo at 8:12 AM on September 12, 2004

I see what you're saying. Un-checked songs will not be played from the library, for my suggestion to work you'd have to play your "global" smart playlist.
The wording on the checkbox that you should deselect (on the mac version at least) is "Match only checked songs".
posted to Ask Metafilter by golo at 9:14 AM on September 12, 2004

Never mind, ignore my comment. The songs will be included in the Play List but will be skipped.
posted to Ask Metafilter by golo at 9:19 AM on September 12, 2004

You'll need a Torx driver. A regular screwdriver will damage the bolts.
posted to Ask Metafilter by golo at 12:05 PM on September 7, 2004

· Here are some details one the cables operated by Alcatel.
· These guys sell a poster for U$ 225!
· (Some Historical Maps)
posted to Ask Metafilter by golo at 8:39 AM on September 5, 2004

Sometimes it's easier to think of these points as vectors and solve them as such, if you're familiar with them.
posted to Ask Metafilter by golo at 12:22 PM on September 4, 2004 marked best answer

Yes, one of the ways of representing a zero is with zero volts.
There is indeed "garbage" electricity. It is called noise. One of the advantages of discrete systems is that they "only" have to discern if a signal is closer to the representation of '1' or of '0'. The noise usually should be well below this decision threshold.
Regarding the zero volt "burst", take into account that the bits are discrete no only in their value (amplitude) but... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by golo at 3:48 PM on September 3, 2004

The way I understand it, JPG compresses an image by by describing groups of pixels as opposed to the individual pixels of a bit-map. If there is large area of the same color (as there usually are in pictures) jpg only has to describe the shape size and color of it, instead of repeating what is basically redundant information.
I assume that the quality defines the tolerance: the lower the quality the more similar (but different) colors will be rendered the same.In theory multiple... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by golo at 11:11 AM on September 2, 2004

If it has that option set the white balance to "flourescent".
Don't leave it in "Auto".
posted to Ask Metafilter by golo at 3:12 PM on August 30, 2004

Or use this list.
posted to Ask Metafilter by golo at 6:07 AM on August 26, 2004

Get yourself an EPROM. They have a clear window and you can actually see the chip through it.
posted to Ask Metafilter by golo at 12:23 PM on August 25, 2004

If you just want to name the software task, from the wire "up" that would be IP, TCP (or less often UDP) and then one of many applications (HTTP for browsing, IMAP/POP/SMTP for mail, etc.)
If you want to delve deeper you should first understand the whole "Layered Model" idea and the concept of encapsulation.
Once you more or less got that you should learn the actual 5 layers model used in the internet (as opposed to the pie in the sky OSI model) and... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by golo at 10:54 AM on August 25, 2004

Exactly, It's not that simple. I got carried away before I knew your head was hurting so you may want to leave this for later:

An Ethernet frame arrives to your network card. The Ethernet card will handle only frames addressed to it directly (or to a multicast group to which it belongs or to all the cards in that network). It checks the frame’s integrity and analyzes the contents only of the very first bytes of the frame called the Ethernet... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by golo at 12:01 PM on August 25, 2004

I believe that the daemon is shut down by default when you quit mlmac but it might crash and leave them running. Re launching it and quitting should fix it.
I find mlmac and similar programs good for long files, but for short (up to 100MB) files acquisition is a lot faster. This is a BitTorrent client nicer than the "official" one.
posted to Ask Metafilter by golo at 12:16 PM on August 17, 2004

According to this IHT article , the World Memory Campionship (Aug. 28 to Aug. 30) and the Mind Sports Olympiad (Aug. 19 to Aug. 30) both in Manchester.
posted to Ask Metafilter by golo at 11:37 AM on August 17, 2004

I had the same situation with my iBook suddenly starting to do this sound after a couple of 'quite' years. Luckily the disk hasn't failed (yet?). Besides backing up you should make sure that you have journaling enabled for your disk.
posted to Ask Metafilter by golo at 10:56 PM on August 16, 2004

It says "Capertino CA" definitively. See the finder to show 128x128 icons and you'll see.
posted to Ask Metafilter by golo at 3:04 PM on August 16, 2004

If you searched for it, wouldn't it be in the History? If you open your bookmarks and do a "Find" (Command+F) the search will include your history.
In ~Library/Safari there is a file for History and one called "Form Values" but it's a binary file.
posted to Ask Metafilter by golo at 10:23 AM on August 5, 2004

Ars Technica recently had a review of several USB 2.0 flash drives (no mp3 capabilities tough).
In my experience they work with an iBook without special drivers. They appear to the Mac as standard USB mass storage devices.
posted to Ask Metafilter by golo at 8:08 AM on August 3, 2004

Sorry to be repetitive but when I first was told of the trick Coffeemate suggest I thought it didn't make sense but it works like a charm. I would definitively try this first since it doesn't involve any extra chemicals.
posted to Ask Metafilter by golo at 1:45 AM on July 17, 2004

I would advice you to get one with an equatorial mount (as opposed to an azimuth-elevation one). Even with a modest telescope you can see Jupiter and Saturn and with a properly aligned equatorial mount you can follow them by turning only one knob at a time making it less frustrating for beginners. The skyline doesn't move so the mount isn't that big an issue for that although it will be less intuitive to use than an Az-El mount for that application. Also some beginner models include what I... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by golo at 1:24 AM on July 17, 2004

You can also ignore my advice and go straight for a motorized telescope that nowadays can be surprisingly inexpensive. Even with moderate light pollution astronomy can be an entertaining hobby, especially for those of us that don't go out so often. I also recommend to get a beginners book. 99% of the dots we see in the sky will still look like dots through a telescope and a book can help you to find those objects that, depending on the person, might slightly amuse them or blow their minds.... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by golo at 1:41 AM on July 17, 2004

Esta no es SU maleta! (Español por supuesto)
posted to Ask Metafilter by golo at 11:48 PM on July 11, 2004

mylanguageexchange.com
posted to Ask Metafilter by golo at 3:50 AM on July 10, 2004

Or you could save it as HTML, throw away everything except the graph and then in Word do Insert--> Picture--> From File
posted to Ask Metafilter by golo at 9:13 AM on June 24, 2004

MacOS X can print to PDF from any application, you should check it out.
posted to Ask Metafilter by golo at 11:48 AM on June 1, 2004

There is a "print background" option that I didn't enable. Obviously it's not perfect, the buttons are horrible (But it's pretty neat that it's there, systemwide).
posted to Ask Metafilter by golo at 5:08 PM on June 1, 2004

Hold the Command (apple) and "V" keys at startup (verbose mode). You'll be able to see what's going on. Some times it can take a while for the disk to be checked (fsck), specially if you reset it (repeatedly) while it is checking it.
posted to Ask Metafilter by golo at 12:45 PM on June 1, 2004

Does it get to the stage when it makes the "Boot Sound"? If it doesn't it's most likely hardware, otherwise try the Command + V thing (I know you said the keyboard isn't working, but try it).
posted to Ask Metafilter by golo at 1:57 PM on June 1, 2004

^H (or CTRL-H) is ASCII for "Backspace".
In UNIX systems If the key that you usually use for backspace will print "^H" you can set the host to interpret it as "erase" with the stty command: stty erase ^H.
posted to Ask Metafilter by golo at 10:49 PM on May 31, 2004