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zherok:
Don't suppose the wiki page on the subject helps any, does it?

a_muses:

--- Quote from: zherok on September 04, 2012, 04:54:22 AM ---Don't suppose the wiki page on the subject helps any, does it?

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*flushes* I didn't even know that wiki page existed... So much for being familiar with the wiki. Multipatch worked great.

xShadow:

--- Quote from: Bob2004 on September 04, 2012, 12:25:15 AM ---Has it occurred to you that just clicking a few extra buttons, or mucking about in the terminal a bit, or whatever's needed is easier than downloading and installing a copy of windows to a usb stick, then rebooting the PC into it every time you want to use xdelta?
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That's definitely false. Some things are either badly documented (ie hard as fuck to get running), or don't even exist on Mac/Linux. Can you explain to me how the hell spending hours on badly documented programs that you have to run from terminal is time-efficient? This is opposed to switching to Windows for a second, probably clicking one or two things, and then going back to Mac, when needed. In this case, a simple fix was found on our Wiki. Will that be true in all cases? I honestly really doubt it. After all, some specialty programs don't even exist on that OS.


--- Quote --- Especially considering that Windows would refuse to read any files saved on the computer anyway, which means it'd be even more work.
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It's called Fat32. You can run Windows on it. Mac can read Fat32.

Put files you want to fuck with on your USB. Boot Windows. Do things. Go back to Mac. Read files.



--- Quote ---You hate macs, I hate macs, plenty of people hate macs, but that's not really what this topic is about, is it? He came here looking for help with a problem, not to be lectured about how Windows is so much more superior.

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Can you explain to me how the second bit of my post was lecturing him about how Windows was superior, per se? I can't find that anywhere. The only thing I basically said was "use the most efficient tool for the job." It's called time efficiency. In this case, the BakaBT wiki provided a simple answer, but in the future what's the point of fucking around with things that take hours to get running in one OS that would probably take minutes in another? Unless you're doing the event on a very frequent basis, you probably won't break even on the amount of time you invested in fucking around in Mac in comparison to doing a boot into another OS and doing what you need to do. Not to mention, getting that Windows up and running is a one time investment that you could potentially use in the future.

(click to show/hide)If you want me bashing Mac:
Mac can't run many things that Windows can, and it's much more limited in hardware and more expensive for what you get. Those are simply facts. They're pretty much not refutable. Point number one is especially relevant when trying to perform special tasks.

Possible pros:
Different interface, less prone to security issues, specific computer design visual appeal. Two of those are subjective issues. The only one that's somewhat proven is that it's less prone to security issues (probably? I haven't had any security issues on this Windows machine in ages and I'm not particularly careful).

zherok:

--- Quote from: a_muses on September 04, 2012, 05:21:46 AM ---*flushes* I didn't even know that wiki page existed... So much for being familiar with the wiki. Multipatch worked great.

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It was the fourth link from googling "xdelta3 mac" =)

pingryanime:
don't mean to go off topic, but I'd just like to chime in that booting into windows -- usb, wine, or whatnot -- is generally more hassle than it's worth as most common window functions have some mac port. In this case, we saw xdelta didn't work but multipatch did. Also, primary reason I also own a mac is for musical productivity. I'd like to see Logic Pro on windows, or Pro Tools run anywhere as smoothly as it does on mac on a windows machine. Though for general usage I do use Windows.

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