Here’s a copy of one of the earliest videos by director Xavier Chassaing. Rumour has it that he is working on a brand new video at the moment; it should come out late this year or early next year. We have to wait, but I am sure that it will be just as amazing as this one, if not better. Hope you enjoy this one, and don’t be shy to leave comments to give your impressions. Chances are that Xavier will read them.
Youtube being what it is, I must warn you that the quality of this video is poorer than it really is.
An endless battle between a powerbook and its user: The Struggle for Space. Unless you have some cash laying around for a bigger and better hard drive, it seems like no matter how hard you try to keep things tidy around a laptop, space keeps running out eventually.
At least, this is what happened to me a couple of months ago, and again now today. In this article, I proposed a 10-steps process for cleaning up your Mac OS X (Keep in mind I am still running the 10.3.9 at the moment on this powerbook). In order to effectively clean your hard drive, you need a good picture of what’s in it, to see how it’s organized and get a strategy for cleaning it. But first things first, let’s take note of how much space you have on the computer.
Determining Available Space on Your Hard Drive
To check how much free space is available on your startup disk, do the following:
In your Finder, select your Hard Drive icon (mine is called ‘Gimli’ in memory of Frodo’s small but bulky helpful friend, but it all depends on your personal tastes!). It could potentially be still called Macintosh HD ;
Press Apple-I (Cmd-I) and get the info from this window: Capacity, Available, and space used ;
I recently stumbled across this very interesting joke by journalist Greg Palast. You should read the entire original article, but let me share this quote with you:
So, Osama Walks into This Bar, See? and Bush says, “Whad’l’ya have, pardner?” and Osama says, “Well, George, what are you serving today?” and Bush says, “Fear,” and Osama shouts, “Fear for everybody!” and George pours it on for the crowd. Then the presidential bartender says, “Hey, who’s buying?” and Osama points a thumb at the crowd sucking down their brew. “They are,” he says. And the two of them share a quiet laugh.
