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Comment on Mac OS X Must Haves by Matt Jarvis

Matt Jarvis — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 13:27:21 +0000

Someone just asked me about back-up limits, saying they always get:

“Time Machine hasn’t backed up for x days because it is full”

Here’s what I suggested:

In time machine preferences -> options, un-check “Warn when old backups are deleted”.

When that box is checked (on Leopard, 10.5), Time Machine will fail with a message when the backup drive is full. Just un-check it and run a backup — it should behave properly.

(Note: the wording of that option, and behaviour, were changed in Snow Leopard (10.6): if the box is checked, it sends an informational message after deleting old backups.)

More info on manually deleting old back-ups here:
http://pondini.org/TM/12.html

Comment on Mac OS X Must Haves by Mac OS X Must Haves | Slade Knowledge Base

Mac OS X Must Haves | Slade Knowledge Base — Mon, 13 Jun 2011 12:27:25 +0000

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Comment on Sonic Saber game in MAX/MSP. It’s like a ‘light saber’, only sound, not light, kinda thang. by admin

admin — Mon, 01 Nov 2010 01:45:24 +0000

Hi Stella, sorry for not replying sooner.
Hmmm, maybe you can explain a little more about the problem?
I will have a look if you still need help.

Comment on Sonic Saber game in MAX/MSP. It’s like a ‘light saber’, only sound, not light, kinda thang. by stella

stella — Wed, 20 Oct 2010 17:42:48 +0000

hi ~
i am trying out this program to learn more of max msp ..
but i download your source to try to make it work, however there is no reaction to wii remote .. however from osculator i can see the wii remote is connected .
how can I fix it ?

Comment on Matt’s Minimalist Visualizers for iTunes by Catchpole

Catchpole — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 13:07:16 +0000

Hey Mat, nice to find these visualisers.
Here’s one I made recently:
http://kineme.net/composition/Scratchpole/3DEQ
Cheerio

Comment on Diana Princess of Wales does music video… by admin

admin — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 12:23:31 +0000

Here's some out-takes: The pain of making youtube videos

Comment on Diana Princess of Wales does music video… by mattjarvis

mattjarvis — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 07:26:28 +0000

Martin Sastre Genius..

Comment on Matt’s Minimalist Visualizers for iTunes by m

Sun, 17 May 2009 22:39:35 +0000

they also work with Alan Bennett reading Winnie-the-Pooh

Comment on Think different – Is Google Making Us Stupid? by Jonathan Hal

Jonathan Hal — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 01:05:00 +0000

Interesting. I think we are all changing in the way we gather and use information. Working closely with education I find that students are also researching differently. There is a movement within education to stamp down on the “google” generation. Perhaps however given the way learning has changed, should education be more supportive of the new knowledge gatherers and instead give them the tools to be more discriminatory?

Comment on Love Hypothesis by firat

firat — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 11:54:00 +0000

Love physiology changes over time; 'Romantic love more powerful than sex'

Another breakthrough, Brown noted, was that "we found several brain areas where the strength of neural activity changed with the length of the romance. Everyone knows that relationships are dynamic over time, but we are beginning to track what happens in the brain as a love relationship matures."

Helen E. Fisher, a research anthropologist at Rutgers University, New Jersey, noted that not only did the brain change as romantic love endured, but that some of these changes were in regions associated with pair-bonding in prairie voles. The fMRI images showed more activity in the ventral pallidum portion of the basal ganglia in people with longer romantic relationships. It's in this region where receptors for the hormone vasopressin are critical for vole pair-bonding, or attachment.

"Humans have evolved three distinct but interrelated brain systems for mating and reproduction – the sex drive, romantic love, and attachment to a long term partner," Fisher said, "and our results suggest how feelings of romantic love might change into feelings of attachment. Our results support what people have always assumed – that romantic love is one of the most powerful of all human experiences. It is definitely more powerful than the sex drive."
F. KARA