Curtis Thompson
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[John Nelson] ” or you could run one virtually using parallels or vmware…? I’m out of the loop on this one…”
running an os virtually means it is contained in a separate container on your machine – essentially a single file that contains the entire os install is created, and you run it via one of these pieces of software. for example, with virtual box (https://www.virtualbox.org/), i run windows 7 on my mac in a virtual container.
you don’t want to be doing heavy lifting in a virtual install (things like rendering giant after effects projects, etc.), but otherwise they are very powerful. and the nice thing is that you can run the virtual os right alongside the main one and switch back and forth as needed (as i do with my windows install on my mac – i just have it on a different space and one key stroke and i can switch between them).
your other option is to isolate the operating systems to separate drives (as you were thinking of doing) and then do the “change the startup disk” routine in preferences each time you want to switch between them. of course then you can’t have both running at the same time, though.
as for which one on which drive – the one that you anticipate taking up more space in the long run is the one that should get the bigger drive. although again with a virtual os, you just say up front how big you want it to be, and then it takes up that much space on a drive. so if you put snow leopard on the smaller drive and did a virtual install of mountain lion that was 750gb on the larger drive, you’d have that spare 250gb to use for snow lion.
here’s a quick answer to this same question that has some links to the different options:
https://www.macworld.com/article/2014336/one-mac-two-versions-of-os-x.html
if you don’t need a ton of heavy lifting in mountain lion, i’d recommend considering a virtual install of it…otherwise, you can do the os-per-harddrive option and it should work pretty well too…
hope that helps! feel free to reply with any other questions, of course…
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you had a lot going on in there and i wasn’t sure what was done vs what you wanted to do. i take it you want to run snow leopard and mountain lion on the same box? you can do that and change your startup hd whenever you want to boot into one or the other, or you could run one virtually using parallels or vmware…
is that the goal?
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if i’m following you correctly, you should be able to put that icon back on the desktop under finder > preferences…
if not, then let us know more!
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it probably is close to one line, but the time comes in going through a page, figuring out where what is, isolating the issue and trying to offer a solution that can’t be verified because i can’t run the code myself to make sure… 🙂
the easiest way to get assistance will always be to post a page with the item in question and preferably only that item in question on the page – so in this case again just the images and the related js code that is acting on them with some basic html wrapper – but not the whole page. that way we can quickly look at it, perhaps even easily copy it locally or to a fiddle and give it a shot there to verify what we are saying is true.
chaining here is probably your answer, but i can’t just say “oh – change foo.bar() to foo.esp.bar()!” without easily having access to the whole picture.
(that’s why writing the fiddles is so quick, btw – it’s a blank slate and i’m writing it and testing it as i go – that’s a lot easier way to go at it)
go ahead and post a page with just the latest js code and the image block and i can look at it probably tonight or tomorrow.
and thanks for the thanks – i’m always glad to help out whenever i can!
sitruc
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disclaimer: i’m not trying to be rude here – just talking very matter-of-factually…please take it just as that… 🙂
here’s the issue: you want an example that fixes a custom bit of code that you have enhanced. i gave you an example that covers chaining, which is what you need to do. there will not likely be an example that covers your specific issue with the code you have started with unless it’s on that page that you took it from in the first place…so in terms of an example, this is about the best i can do without getting into your full working code, finding what you want to change and posting the exact code to change it.
the above would be an example of learning jquery and javascript in general. you have said you don’t necessarily want to do that right now, which is completely understandable. if that is the case, however, then i recommend that you implement an existing plugin (such as the one i linked to) so that you don’t need to get anywhere near as far into learning javascript at this time.
but as it stands, you now have the information that you need to fix this. again, i don’t have the cycles right now to tailor an example to your specific code and write up that solution for you. you have taken a custom piece of code and further customized it – the best anybody at this point can do short of writing it up in your specific custom code is to point you at a simple generic example that covers the concept that you need (chaining, in this case) and the api.
if you read that api and play around with the fiddle, you can figure it out for sure, as that is the answer. however, that goes back to learning vs. implementing…but that is your choice at this point, really…
i hope that makes sense. once you start customizing a custom thing, you can’t find examples online that exactly and perfectly plug into your code. you have to take the idea and implement it into your code…that’s sort of a staple of programming, unfortunately, that we cannot get around here. if i had more time, i’d take your code and write a solution for you, but i just don’t at this point… :-/
sitruc
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[Simon Matthews] “hoping that there was something out there already available”
there are more plugins than you can probably count that do exactly this using jquery. i pointed you to one somewhere in this thread, but here it is again:
https://jquery.malsup.com/cycle/
or query “image cycle jquery” or the likes. you are currently trying to modify a simple example that this guy made, which is very good for learning, but if you just want a plugin and don’t want to understand the guts, try the one above.
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no – that was just a simple example of chaining. while i definitely want to help you, i don’t have the time at the moment to write up a fully functional example using your code. it’ll be best if you study that, read up on jquery chaining a bit and give it a shot in your own code.
basically what is happening there is that the function listed as an argument is called after the fade. here’s the api docs for this:
https://api.jquery.com/fadeIn/
hope that helps. best you learn what is going on vs. us just writing it all for you, though. :-/
sitruc
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the short answer is that you need chaining…here’s a fiddle i made to demonstrate this:
https://jsfiddle.net/sitruc/6JG8Z/
sitruc
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no cons really that i see – networking them up won’t be an issue, and other than just getting used to a few new ways to do things, you should be fine…
if you have any more specific things, let us know!
sitruc
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what are the kernel failures saying? is there anything interesting in the log? you can learn about that log here:
https://support.apple.com/kb/TS3742
unless there is a new virus of sorts that is embedded in .mov files that attacks os x (unlikely, but certainly of course possible), then i don’t think it was the footage. those logs are a good place to start to see at least what it is…
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