MGG 399: Five Questions from Three Scotts

Mac Geek Gab — Apple Tips, Tricks, and Troubleshooting

Dave Hamilton, Pilot Pete & Adam Christianson

Tech News, Technology, How To, News, Education

4.8 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 24 May 2012

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Ever wonder how to send multiple photos from the Photo Library on your iPhone? Ever wonder why some Keynote files are packages and others aren’t? Ever have trouble connecting to your AirPort-connected hard drive? How about knowing when - and when NOT - to worry about your Mac’s RAM consumption? All this and much more, as usual, on today’s Premium episode of Mac Geek Gab. Subscribe for just US$25 and you’ll get access to this show PLUS all the archives, and two extra shows per month for the duration of your six-month membership. Subscribe today and support your two favorite geeks!

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0:00.0	The Mac Observers Mac Geek Lab Number 399 Premium for Thursday, May 24, 2012. Oh, Thanks, where you send in your questions, you send in your tips,
0:32.5	we provide some answers, we provide some tips,
0:35.8	we even ask some questions of our own
0:38.3	here in the lovingly handcrafted Durham, New Hampshire.
0:43.8	I'm Dave Hamilton.
0:46.8	Who hand-crafted it?
0:48.8	Our forefathers did.
0:50.0	Ah, oh, I like that. That's a good answer, good answer. And here, in I suppose equally
0:58.9	lovingly handcrafted, Fairfield, Connecticut, John F. Braun. Yes, and I imagine your forefathers crafted that for just for you.
1:07.0	Probably.
1:10.0	Probably.
1:11.0	Oh, maybe not me specifically, but...
1:13.0	Our last show in the 300s here, John, if Base 10 means anything to you.
1:19.0	And by-colly it better.
1:21.3	It's one of my favorite bases.
1:22.3	Well, that's good.
1:25.4	I gotta say I do like 16, otherwise known as hexadecimal and two or binary. Those I like, and maybe octal.
1:35.1	Yeah.
1:35.9	How come we don't have any bases based on like prime numbers?
1:47.0	We do. You can certainly count in any base that you want. Yeah, well from a computing standpoint data really don't make sense.
1:50.0	No, I know I'm just just asking. We like powers of two, which is the three that I mentioned.
1:55.7	Actually, wait a minute, is three, no, 399 of course isn't a prime number.
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