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Mac Geek Gab #192: Time Machine, QoS, Drobo, Syncing, DVDs, Dock Hiding and More
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John and Dave are here delivering all kinds of stuff today. A quick follow-up on the Drobo, including some listener tips, then some Time Machine discussion, which leads into listener questions about DVDs, Quality of Service, hiding the Dock, and more. Subscribe for free today and don't miss another episode!
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Show Notes and Items Mentioned:
Note: Shownotes are complete!
- Drobo
- DroboShare
- WD My Book Mirror Edition
- RAID
- atvusb-creator
- How to increase recording capacity on your TiVo DVR
- Firefly iTunes Media Server
- Western Digital DRM'd Hard Drive Won't Let You Share MP3, DivX ... Or Impulse Tracker
- Discovering Sparse Bundle Disk Images
- VLC media player
- MacTheRipper
- DVD Region Code
- Bandwidth throttling in OS X
- WaterRoof
- Throttled Pro
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This podcast is recorded on an iMac (Core 2 Duo Mid 2007) using Audio Hijack Pro and routing courtesy of WireTap Anywhere. As for equipment, John is using a Heil PR-40 microphone going through a Behringer Eurorack UB1222FX-PRO mixer, monitored with Etymotic ER-6i Isolator earphones, then straight in to his Mac. On Dave’s end, a Heil PR-40 microphone is also used, and the whole show is mixed “live” through a Mackie Onyx 1220 FireWire-enabled mixer before being pumped back into the Mac (via FireWire, of course), and is monitored with Westone ES2 custom-fit earphones. When PilotPete is in the house, he’s usually talking through a Heil PR-30. Each microphone is run through a channel on a Behringer Autocom Pro-XL MDX1600 compressor, a touch of reverb is added with an ART FX-1 processor, and the whole thing is then compressed in software on the Mac. The show is recorded to AIFF, and then converted and uploaded with an Automator script. Michael Johnston from iPhone Alley then goes through and enhances the show to provide you with the AAC version. You can hear more details of the setup and how it’s mixed on Episode #32.
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3 Observer Comments
DVD regions. You were partly wrong about this. You *can* change or play DVD regions as many times as you want in software (vla VLC or whatever) if, and only if, your drive behaves as a RPC1 drive. All drives since 2000 are now RPC2 where the drive itself contains the number of swicthes between regions. Once you hit 5, you need to get a new drive (or re-flash the ROM). The version of VLC does not matter.
When I got my macbook (Core duo) it came with a UJ-865 (RPC 2) drive which I could only change a maximum of 5 times. After that, it wouldn’t change again. I managed to find on the web a site that contained a version of the ROM for this drive which converted it to RPC1. I now can play and switch between regions to my heart’s content.
However, this is not for the faint of heart. Things may go wrong and then you’re “SOL”. The easiest/safest way to get around this problem is, unfortunately, to by a simple USB DVD ROM and use that one for R1 playback and the internal one for R2.
You forgot to include a link to the TimeMachineEditor (http://timesoftware.free.fr/timemachineeditor/)
Otherwise, good work! 
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I love the podcast. But umm. It’s becoming the time machine/drobo show. Guys?