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Reading Articles (Grad Student Humor)
Funny Analogies and Metaphors
Anagrams
Fundamental Differences Between Men and Women
How to Make Friends in the Weight Room
Hu's on First?
Learn Chinese in 5 Minutes
Subject: Airline Complaints
Things To Do In An Elevator
Asian-American Jokes
Stupid Shell Tricks

Creative

Afterparty Song for Mark's Wedding

Favorite Scriptures

Isaiah 53

Favorite Hymns

How Firm a Foundation
Come, Ye Sinners
Before the Throne of God Above
Love That Will Not Let Me Go

Computer Tips

MySQL Server Startup Error
Save for Web Doesn't Resize Image in Adobe Illustrator CS6
Exporting Transparent PNGs in Adobe Illustrator CS6
Time Machine Slow Backup
Aperture 3.4 crashing
Aperture to Flickr Photo Sizes
LinuxMint Touchpad/Wireless

Miscellaneous

Interesting Characters
Reading Log

Time Machine Slow Backup

System: OS X Snow Leopard (10.6.8)

Symptom: Backing up minor changes (few MB) would take a really long time, and the rate of backup would be on the order of KB/s. The system tries to prepare hundreds of thousands of files. The Time Machine drive had a fresh full backup.

Solution:

  1. Delete /.fseventsd on your startup drive or move it to another location: mv /.fseventsd /.fseventsd.bak
  2. Reboot
  3. Start a Time Machine backup Speculation: When Time Machine can’t find /.fseventsd, I’m guessing it does a deep traversal (according to my system.log), which I take to mean scanning for changed files, and then rebuilding the metadata for /.fseventsd. More discussion at https://discussions.apple.com/message/18923411?ac_cid=tw123456.