Comments for The Shifting Balance of Factors http://shiftingbalance.org Research in Philosophy, Informatics, and Evolutionary Biology by Adam M. Goldstein PhD MSLIS Mon, 30 Aug 2010 03:11:25 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 Comment on Yes, you can boot Mac OS 10.6.4 via eSATA by z_californianus http://shiftingbalance.org/?p=852&cpage=1#comment-102 z_californianus Mon, 30 Aug 2010 03:11:25 +0000 http://shiftingbalance.org/?p=852#comment-102 What a useful comment! I think it might be the 1394 port on the laptop. The drive works wonderfully on my new laptop. I did take it that 1394 is hot-pluggable. A little bit of a pain because I like to clone my hard drive each night with a 1394 drive. Maybe the best thing to do would be to do the cloning with USB, anyhow, it's at 4 am, it doesn't matter if it takes even a few minutes longer, and then if I need to use the clone to boot up another mac in an emergency, I can start it up using the 1394 for a little more speed. In fact I will change the cables right now! The old MBP is no longer under AppleCare in any case. What a useful comment! I think it might be the 1394 port on the laptop. The drive works wonderfully on my new laptop. I did take it that 1394 is hot-pluggable. A little bit of a pain because I like to clone my hard drive each night with a 1394 drive. Maybe the best thing to do would be to do the cloning with USB, anyhow, it’s at 4 am, it doesn’t matter if it takes even a few minutes longer, and then if I need to use the clone to boot up another mac in an emergency, I can start it up using the 1394 for a little more speed. In fact I will change the cables right now!

The old MBP is no longer under AppleCare in any case.

]]> Comment on Yes, you can boot Mac OS 10.6.4 via eSATA by Alex T http://shiftingbalance.org/?p=852&cpage=1#comment-100 Alex T Sat, 28 Aug 2010 06:28:01 +0000 http://shiftingbalance.org/?p=852#comment-100 The problem you're having with your 1394 ports is that one of the ports on either the computer or the device are dead. The PHY or physical layer will blow when the protective diode in the circuit if the cable is hotplugged while both devices are on. The fallacy with 1394 is that it looks like a hot-pluggable technology when in fact it is not. Line current on USB is 500ma, Line current on 1394 is 1.5A. The current surge is much higher just like with any circuit breaker, for example typical 20A breaker says 10K IR (meaning it can take an inrush current of up to 10K for a split second before settling down to 20A or less). Unfortunately 1394 ports don't have this kind of in-rush protection. The user must be aware not to hot-plug or something will die. After a while the protective circuitry can't handle the surge of current and it pops. This is a notorious problem with 6 pin 1394 devices. Especially troublesome for Mac Mini's and PowerBooks/MacBook Pro's since even when the power is down on the CPU it's just asleep and not really off. Take your MacBook into the shop and have it checked to see if the ports are toast. If they are it's a new MLB. AppleCare doesn't cover hotplugging of 1394 ports. The problem you’re having with your 1394 ports is that one of the ports on either the computer or the device are dead. The PHY or physical layer will blow when the protective diode in the circuit if the cable is hotplugged while both devices are on. The fallacy with 1394 is that it looks like a hot-pluggable technology when in fact it is not.

Line current on USB is 500ma, Line current on 1394 is 1.5A. The current surge is much higher just like with any circuit breaker, for example typical 20A breaker says 10K IR (meaning it can take an inrush current of up to 10K for a split second before settling down to 20A or less). Unfortunately 1394 ports don’t have this kind of in-rush protection. The user must be aware not to hot-plug or something will die.

After a while the protective circuitry can’t handle the surge of current and it pops. This is a notorious problem with 6 pin 1394 devices. Especially troublesome for Mac Mini’s and PowerBooks/MacBook Pro’s since even when the power is down on the CPU it’s just asleep and not really off. Take your MacBook into the shop and have it checked to see if the ports are toast. If they are it’s a new MLB. AppleCare doesn’t cover hotplugging of 1394 ports.

]]> Comment on BibTeX at the Darwin Manuscripts Project and BHL by Anonymous http://shiftingbalance.org/?p=247&cpage=1#comment-99 Anonymous Tue, 10 Aug 2010 21:31:30 +0000 http://shiftingbalance.org/?p=247#comment-99 I'm a BibDesk user, and I've been using Nelson Beebe's bibsql to generate simple statistics about my references with sqlite. I started using it around the time you were writing this post. It's very useful; I don't know of any other way to generate the statistics I want from a collection of references. You do need to clean up BibDesk's BibTeX before feeding it to bibtosql; I use an AppleScript in TextWrangler to do this but Beebe's bibclean might work as well. I’m a BibDesk user, and I’ve been using Nelson Beebe’s bibsql to generate simple statistics about my references with sqlite. I started using it around the time you were writing this post. It’s very useful; I don’t know of any other way to generate the statistics I want from a collection of references. You do need to clean up BibDesk’s BibTeX before feeding it to bibtosql; I use an AppleScript in TextWrangler to do this but Beebe’s bibclean might work as well.

]]> Comment on Matt Ridley: The promiscuity of things and ideas by Sarah http://shiftingbalance.org/?p=802&cpage=1#comment-78 Sarah Fri, 04 Jun 2010 20:13:25 +0000 http://shiftingbalance.org/?p=802#comment-78 Very interesting and also true I hope. May we continue to be better and to grow 'nicer' ;) Very interesting and also true I hope. May we continue to be better and to grow ‘nicer’ ;)

]]> Comment on Graphviz: There’s an app for that! by Maurice Calvert http://shiftingbalance.org/?p=441&cpage=1#comment-43 Maurice Calvert Tue, 18 May 2010 11:53:55 +0000 http://shiftingbalance.org/?p=441#comment-43 You might be interested in this Visio addin to layout diagrams with Graphviz: http://www.calvert.ch/graphvizio/ Best regards, Maurice Calvert You might be interested in this Visio addin to layout diagrams with Graphviz:

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Best regards,
Maurice Calvert

]]> Comment on New Blog Carnival of Evolution! by Ted C. MacRae http://shiftingbalance.org/?p=516&cpage=1#comment-31 Ted C. MacRae Sun, 04 Apr 2010 03:53:13 +0000 http://shiftingbalance.org/?p=516#comment-31 Hi Adam - thanks for helping get the word out! Hi Adam – thanks for helping get the word out!

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