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apple data bank regulation iPad sever desktop link cloud millions of people's lives FDIC insurance

1. data is money 2. when you have money in your mattress it's your problem 3. when someone else has 100 people's money in his mattress it's your problem 4. when someone has 1 million people's money in his mattress it's everyone's problem 1. when you have your emails on computer it's your problem 2. when you store your emails with someone elses computers who stores 100 other peoples emails it's your problem 3. when you store your emails with someone elses computers who stores 1 million other peoples emails it's everyones problem apple data bank regulation iPad sever desktop link cloud millions of people's lives FDIC insurance 1 the ipad-ization of data 2 data doesn't live on the ipad 3 in the beginning it was tethered to your computer where it stored its data 4 but not now - now you can have ipad without a computer and keep everything in the icloud 5 there will be millions of people that have all their data in the cloud

free ftp client? winscp!

i couldn't use filezilla because there's an issue with using in windows server 2003 if the firewall is on. i know, right? i am not turning the firewall of so, i went looking, and my winscp - which i use for ssh - support ftp - and - synchronization! filezilla doesn't do that. the interface is easier and it saves connections settings faster. case closed. good bye filezilla - i hardly knew you... what ever.

handbrake 0.9.5 preset hack

problem - handbrake is not saving the preset with deinterlace turned on so you need to hack handbrake 0.9.5 preset hack 1. make a preset - i called mine "mini" 1.1 quit handbrake 2. RTFM https://trac.handbrake.fr/wiki/Presets 3. open the plist file On Mac: HandBrake stores the preset information in a plist located in /Users/ /Library/Application Support/HandBrake/UserPresets.plist 4. set PictureDecomb from 2 to 0 5. set PictureDecombDeinteralce to 2 6. launch handbrake

iPhone / ipad + filemaker go + syncplicity / dropbox = awesomeness

1 get any iDevice 2 install filemaker go 3 sign up for syncplicity / dropbox account 4 install syncplicity / dropbox on your desktop or filemaker server and iDevice 5 put share a folder with filemaker files with syncplicity - for example your filemaker server backup directory 6 open syncplicity / dropbox on your iDevice and open .fp7 files in filemaker go NOTE: any changes will made will be saved in FileMaker GO - not in the syncplicity / dropbox version

how to troubleshoot brother 7820n scan check cable error

1. push the scan button on the printer 2. error "check cable" 3. but i can print, and i can access printer web page - printer ip is 192.168.1.11 4. run installation check - show scanner ip as 192.168.1.7 - dhcp changed 5. install check said to check control panel scanners and cameras 6. get properties on brother mfc-7820n lan - in network setting - specify machine by address was using old address - i changed it to specify machine by name so future ip changes won't impair printing 7. all is working

how to backup google docs on the mac

1. get latest Mono framework - mine was MonoFramework-2.10.1_3.macos10.novell.x86.dmg 2. get latest GDocBackup command line - mine was GDocBackup_0.4.28.126_CMD.zip 3. cd to GDocBackup_0.4.28.126_CMD 4. mono ./GDocBackupCMD.exe -mode=backup -username=user@gmail.com -password=password -destDir=~\Desktop -docF=pdf -sprsF=csv -presF=ppt ** more notes http://gs.fhtino.it/gdocbackup/machowto

How to convert AAC to MP3 on Mac OS X

1. install VLC 3. create a file called convert.sh on your desktop ie. ~/Desktop/convert.sh 4. chmod +x convert.sh 5. make the contents of convert.sh #!/bin/sh vlc="/Applications/VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/VLC" ext="mp3" dst="/Users/[your name]/Desktop/" for a in *$fmt; do $vlc -I dummy -vvv "./$a" --sout "#transcode{acodec=mp3,ab=128,channels=2,samplerate=44100}:std{mux=raw,dst=\"$dst$a.$ext\",access=file}" vlc://quit done 6. open terminal and cd to folder that has your AAC music files ie. ~/Desktop/AAC 7. then type ~/Desktop/convert.sh *.aac 8. sit back and relax as the files are converted Notes http://wiki.videolan.org/How_to_Batch_Encode http://wiki.videolan.org/Documentation:Streaming_HowTo_New#Example_commandline:_Converting_an_audio_file_to_a_MP3_file

windows server 2003 logon logoff loop

this saved my bacon when i client raid got out of sync (sil 0680 dual ide to be exact) and left me with two mirrored drives - booting up windows assigned c:\ to one of the drives and f:\ to the other and marked one as active and the other as system messing around with the raid controller somehow removed all the partitions on the c:\ volume so i had to get the f:\ to boot - which it would but after logging in it would log me off then i search for windows server 2003 logon logoff loop and found this (actually a pdf of this!) - which worked!! http://www.tech-archive.net/Archive/Windows/microsoft.public.windows.server.general/2006-02/msg01237.html Due to the various manipulations you performed, your system drive letter is now something other than C:. The easiest solution is probably to delete all current drive letter references and let Windows re-assign them. Run regedit.exe and navigate to HKLM\SYSTEM\MountedDevices. Now delete all values that look like this: \DosDevices\E: to DosDevices\

Google Chrome Browser Cache

info about Google Chrome Browser Cache on mac os x 1. /Users/[username]/Library/Caches/Google/Chrome/Default/Cache 2. to view cache in google put this in url "about:cache" 3. to find a file - copy and paste the url from the cache - and paste into url 4. save the file to your desktop - check the file size 5. look in the google cache for a file of the same size

how to make backup folder for retrospect or some other backup program to backup filemaker server on windows

I made this because I use Retrospect to backup my FileMaker server databases. Retrospect will to backup a folder and copy any changes it finds. Since FileMaker server creates timestamped backups, it will see all the files as new because they are in a new folder. This basically puts the backups back to the way FileMaker Server 5.5 did backups. requirements windows server 2003, windows resource kit, filemaker server, filemaker server php 1. make a folder c:\cp 2. make a file retrospect_backup_prep.cmd in the c:\cp directory 3. put this in its contents "C:\Program Files\FileMaker\FileMaker Server\Web Publishing\publishing-engine\php\php.exe" \cp\retrospect_backup_prep.phpretrospect_backup_prep.cmd 4. make a file retrospect_backup_prep.php in the c:\cp directory 5. put this in its contents 6. Edit these variables: # when does your daily backup schedule run - in 24 hour clock format $FMScheduleTime = " "; /* ie. 23 */ # where is FileMaker's backup directory: $FileMak

how to build micropolis - the open source simcity - for mac os x

requirements - Apple Development tools - ie the Developer folder 1. download http://git.zerfleddert.de/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi/micropolis?a=snapshot;h=HEAD;sf=tgz 2. you will have micropolis-HEAD.tar.gz on your desktop 3. uncompress it with tar zxvf micropolis-HEAD.tar.gz - or just double click 4. launch terminal, cd Desktop, cd micropolis 5. type make < this will compile the game 6. su < enter your root password 7. type make install < this will put the game in /usr/local/bin 8. to start the game type /usr/local/bin/micropolis

Excel, ODBC, FileMaker 11 and the Mac

Here's how I got Excel to query FileMaker 11 Advanced via ODBC on the Mac. 0. Get background from http://filemakerproandexcelodbcsolution.blogspot.com/ 1. From the FileMaker 11 Advanced CD, open the xDBC folder, and the ODBC Client Driver Installer, and run the FileMaker ODBC.mpkg. This will install the FileMaker ODBC.bundle in the /Library/ODBC Folder 2. From the http://www.iodbc.org/dataspace/iodbc/wiki/iODBC/Downloads, Download the appropriate Mac OS X SDK, for my 10.5 Mac I installed iodbc-sdk-3.52.7-macosx-10.5.dmg. 3. I launched FileMaker Pro 11, created a new database file "Untitled.fp7" with one field (Name) and two records "josh" and "Bob". 4. A dialog comes up asking 'Do you want the application "fmxdbc_listener.bundle" to accept incoming network connections?" - I said Allow. 5. I pulled down the File menu and selected "Sharing -> ODBC/JDBC..." 5. I turned on ODBC Sharing, selected "Untitled.fp7" in t