Just a catch-all thread for curious questions that have popped into my mind recently and have bugged me for the past few days...
Feel free to ask random questions of your own; someone might know the answer. They don't have to be tech-related at all...
Anyway, here's mine:
1) When you mount a disk image, 'where' are the files? In RAM? On a bit of your hard-drive that you can't access directly through Finder? What actually happens (apart from the obvious) when you double-click a dmg file?
2) Following on from that, is there an easy and foolproof way to drag and drop folders to make compressed images from them? Something like the way Stuffit operates? Instead of going through the hassle of doing it all from Disk Utility?
3) I saw this guy busking on the London Underground recently and he was standing playing some form of guitarish thing in an upright position. Never seen or heard anything like it. It definitely had more than six strings, was amplified and had quite a long neck and it kind of sounded like two or three guitarists playing at once. It wasn't a sitar or anything non-western or if it was, it was tuned to whatever a standard 'western/european' scale is. Does anyone have any idea of what I'm talking about? No pix, sorry.
Help me sleep at night, thanks.
Feel free to ask random questions of your own; someone might know the answer. They don't have to be tech-related at all...
Anyway, here's mine:
1) When you mount a disk image, 'where' are the files? In RAM? On a bit of your hard-drive that you can't access directly through Finder? What actually happens (apart from the obvious) when you double-click a dmg file?
2) Following on from that, is there an easy and foolproof way to drag and drop folders to make compressed images from them? Something like the way Stuffit operates? Instead of going through the hassle of doing it all from Disk Utility?
3) I saw this guy busking on the London Underground recently and he was standing playing some form of guitarish thing in an upright position. Never seen or heard anything like it. It definitely had more than six strings, was amplified and had quite a long neck and it kind of sounded like two or three guitarists playing at once. It wasn't a sitar or anything non-western or if it was, it was tuned to whatever a standard 'western/european' scale is. Does anyone have any idea of what I'm talking about? No pix, sorry.
Help me sleep at night, thanks.
