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From: Richard Maine on 10 Apr 2010 23:33 Erik Richard S�rensen <NOSPAM(a)NOSPAM.dk> wrote: > > nospam(a)see.signature (Richard Maine) wrote: > >> The biggest related annoyance that I see is that there is no way > >> to tell it to reboot into Windows and then walk away while it does so > >> (perhaps to grab a snack or something). I have to sit there and hold the > >> option key faithfully... > I don't know about this on a Win-box, but you can use 'BootChamp' on a > Mac. This little tool puts an icon into the menubar from where you can > boot directly into any bootable Windows system. I've been using it on my > MacPro along with OS X 10.4.x + XPPro, 10.5.x + XPPro. > > BootChamp 1.0.2 (freeware) > http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/36697 Thanks greatly for the tip. That appears to do exactly what I want (and cites much the same reasons as mine for wanting such a thing). I just installed it and it appears to work for me, at least based on a quick test. Do note that the V 1.0.2 on versiontracker appears to be out of date. Going to the developer's site (listed on the above versiontracker page) finds a V 1.1, which is what I installed (V 1.1 says it requires OS X 10.6, but that's what I'm on). -- Richard Maine | Good judgment comes from experience; email: last name at domain . net | experience comes from bad judgment. domain: summertriangle | -- Mark Twain
From: Paul Sture on 18 Apr 2010 12:58 In article <timmcn-A344B5.09561110042010(a)news-2.mpls.iphouse.net>, Tim McNamara <timmcn(a)bitstream.net> wrote: > In article <paul.nospam-0D07D1.11430310042010(a)pbook.sture.ch>, > Paul Sture <paul.nospam(a)sture.ch> wrote: > > > But when I'm disconnecting my PowerBook to take it elsewhere I do > > shut it down, if only to ensure that the external disks are > > dismounted correctly before unplugging them. > > That's unnecessary. If you've unmounted the drive, it's unmounted. > Shutting down doesn't improve the unmounting. Drag the icon to the > trash or click the unmount button in a Finder window and unplug after > the icon disappears off the desktop (I wait a few seconds just to be > sure everything is done and for the drive to stop spinning). I've got 3 external disks, one of them partitioned. Dragging each to Trash is too much work (and I don't think the dismount completes if an app has a disk open). > My laptop sometimes goes for months without rebooting, which I generally > only do when doing system updates and it's required. > > Leaving the system running allows the Mac to do some automated > housekeeping tasks that are run by cron in the middle of the night. > > http://www.thexlab.com/faqs/maintscripts.html The problem is that relative to my old iBook, this PowerBook can be quite noisy so I got into the habit of closing it when I'm done for the day. I solved the problem of the scripts not running overnight by by adjusting their start times in the plist files until after the system starts automatically (at 6am). -- Paul Sture
From: Nick Naym on 18 Apr 2010 13:51
In article timmcn-A344B5.09561110042010(a)news-2.mpls.iphouse.net, Tim McNamara at timmcn(a)bitstream.net wrote on 4/10/10 10:56 AM: .... .... >> >> But when I'm disconnecting my PowerBook to take it elsewhere I do >> shut it down, if only to ensure that the external disks are >> dismounted correctly before unplugging them. > > That's unnecessary. If you've unmounted the drive, it's unmounted. > Shutting down doesn't improve the unmounting. Drag the icon to the > trash or click the unmount button in a Finder window and unplug after > the icon disappears off the desktop (I wait a few seconds just to be > sure everything is done and for the drive to stop spinning). > I've always been concerned about that: Whenever I unmount an external _drive_ via Disk Utility, the drive no longer is available in DU...but only for a few minutes: It then reappears. Clearly, DU is telling me that the drive _itself_ is still on the bus, even though the volume it contains remains unavailable. .... .... > > Leaving the system running allows the Mac to do some automated > housekeeping tasks that are run by cron in the middle of the night. > > http://www.thexlab.com/faqs/maintscripts.html I rely on our own Tom Harrington's "Macaroni" (http://www.atomicbird.com/macaroni) for all of that. -- iMac (27", 3.06 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 4 GB RAM, 1 TB HDD) � OS X (10.6.3) |