• Home
    • Recent
    • Calendar
    • Register
    • Login
    Iron Heart Forum
    Iron Heart Forum

    Iron Heart Fall/Winter 2025 Collection Preview - Now Live

    All Things Mac/ Apple

    General Chat
    130
    1.3k
    374.7k
    Loading More Posts
    • Oldest to Newest
    • Newest to Oldest
    • Most Votes
    Reply
    • Reply as topic
    Log in to reply
    This topic has been deleted. Only users with topic management privileges can see it.
    • Megatron1505M
      Megatron1505
      見習いボス
      Joined:

      You're a manwhore  :o

      Made in England, clothed in Japan, fed in America and drunk in Belgium !

      last edited by 1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
      • GraemeG
        Graeme
        啓蒙家
        Joined:

        That's how @Cutlasshound gets to indulge his expensive tastes for IH and Apple gear…

        last edited by 1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
        • CutlasshoundC
          Cutlasshound
          見習いボス
          Joined:

          If only it were true and I wasn't just simply hiding purchases from my wife!!!

          Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

          I ain't got time to bleed.

          last edited by 1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
          • DougNgD
            DougNg
            Joined:

            Do you guys wait for your computer to completely die before buying a new one? Or proactively replace as the device reaches end of life?

            I know violence is not the answer, I got it wrong on purpose

            last edited by 1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
            • Megatron1505M
              Megatron1505
              見習いボス
              Joined:

              Replace, the SSD has made my 2010 MBP feel like new. I seriously cannot recommend this upgrade enough, my MBP was basically a paperweight and now it runs like a dream, and the fan has not kicked in once since I upgraded either.

              Made in England, clothed in Japan, fed in America and drunk in Belgium !

              last edited by 1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
              • mclaincauseyM
                mclaincausey
                見習いボス
                Joined:

                @DougNg:

                Do you guys wait for your computer to completely die before buying a new one? Or proactively replace as the device reaches end of life?

                Unless you back shit up it's pretty reckless to go with the former.

                Think it, be it.

                last edited by 1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
                • S
                  Snowy
                  Joined:

                  Doug, I cycle hardware through. I try refresh every 2 or so years and give my old model, still in good shape, to a family member either free or at a low price. The rising tide raises all boats approach. And backup ALL The time, on-site, off-site and to the cloud!

                  last edited by 1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
                  • DougNgD
                    DougNg
                    Joined:

                    I upgraded the hard drive twice and the battery twice on my mid 2010, and backup monthly. I rely on my computer too much for day to day stuff to risk not having one, so I'm of the thinking to upgrade before the hardware finally shits the bed

                    Snowy, what do you use for offsite and cloud backup?

                    I know violence is not the answer, I got it wrong on purpose

                    last edited by 1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
                    • S
                      Snowy
                      Joined:

                      @DougNg I use backblaze https://www.backblaze.com/. $5/month, unlimited backup and restore. Native OSX app, multiple restore points, can get a HDD shipped from them if you need a large restore etc.

                      And their hardware design for backup is open sourced, which is very cool too;
                      https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze-storage-pod-4/

                      last edited by 1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
                      • S
                        Snowy
                        Joined:

                        I do spot restores from them to verify they're writing real data, 100% so far, obviously.

                        last edited by 1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
                        • mclaincauseyM
                          mclaincausey
                          見習いボス
                          Joined:

                          Backblaze is cool, love their appliance. I use a local provider though, Crashplan. RAID NAS headed by Mac Mini HTPC replicates to Crasplan in the cloud. If I need my shit I can pay them a visit with a hard drive or an array.

                          Think it, be it.

                          last edited by 1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
                          • S
                            Snowy
                            Joined:

                            yeah they're all pretty good at that level (carbonite's another one). Awesome they're physically local to you! Have you popped in to test it out / check out their office? :).

                            I've read about a few more data integrity issues with crashplan than with backblaze over the years, which is why I've kept with backblaze…..

                            last edited by 1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
                            • mclaincauseyM
                              mclaincausey
                              見習いボス
                              Joined:

                              That may be with their peer to peer platform. I use a standard replication. Haven't visited but I found out last weekend I know their CFO

                              Think it, be it.

                              last edited by 1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
                              • GilesG
                                Giles
                                IHUK Crew
                                Joined:

                                We use Mac Mail at IHUKHQ.

                                We use IMAP. We have certain email addresses that go to all of us (sales, shop etc etc).  And we have an understanding about who answers what, but we would like to get a bit more sophisticated.

                                So for example, without CCing the other members, is there some way we can let them know that a particular email has been handled.  Or if it cant be answered by (say) me, I can flag it for action by someone else.

                                Any ideas?

                                "OK face up to it - you're useless but generally pretty honest and straightforward . . . it's a rare combination of qualities that I have come to admire in you" - Geo 2011

                                last edited by 1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
                                • S
                                  Snowy
                                  Joined:

                                  It's one of those things that there is no system that works for everyone in e-mail. To do it proper you need to move from e-mails to ticketing systems and let e-mails forward to the system and use it to reply from etc.

                                  In e-mail itself, the 2 methods I've seen work;
                                  a)1 each person gets a colour, when a message is picked up or allocated to/by that person, the colour is updated
                                  b)Create folders for each person, drag any items to work on into the folder and leave as unread in there. Any mail not in a folder is yet to be picked up by anyone.

                                  last edited by 1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
                                  • GilesG
                                    Giles
                                    IHUK Crew
                                    Joined:

                                    Thanks Snowy…......G

                                    "OK face up to it - you're useless but generally pretty honest and straightforward . . . it's a rare combination of qualities that I have come to admire in you" - Geo 2011

                                    last edited by 1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
                                    • mclaincauseyM
                                      mclaincausey
                                      見習いボス
                                      Joined:

                                      How about these guys?

                                      http://freshdesk.com/helpdesk-features

                                      Think it, be it.

                                      last edited by 1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
                                      • S
                                        Snowy
                                        Joined:

                                        The Collaboration App getting all the buzz at the moment is Slack,

                                        https://slack.com/

                                        Don't think it's exactly what you're after.

                                        If you want to move beyond e-mail there's a whole ton of solutions out there. Asana, ZenDesk, Flow, all come to mind and can often integrate with each other. Essentially you'd be turning e-mail into a ticket/task/item, and then working on/through that.

                                        The slack video is a nice 3 minute video if nothing else 🙂

                                        last edited by 1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
                                        • S
                                          shego
                                          Joined:

                                          Zendesk released 'inbox' https://signup.zendesk.com/inbox

                                          last edited by 1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
                                          • georgeelG
                                            georgeel
                                            Joined:

                                            @Megatron1505:

                                            Replace, the SSD has made my 2010 MBP feel like new. I seriously cannot recommend this upgrade enough, my MBP was basically a paperweight and now it runs like a dream, and the fan has not kicked in once since I upgraded either.

                                            Yeah, I saw this happen! My early 2009 Mac Pro is letterally  reborn with a new 250GB samsung SSD. ah, don't forget to catch trimenabler, it makes believe your mac that the new ssd is  Apple and activates trim functions!

                                            IH-888S-142OD

                                            last edited by 1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
                                            • First post
                                              Last post
                                            Copyright Iron Heart 2025.