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1a.: Re: New Trojan On The Loose From: paulette1031

2a.: Re: Moving app menu bar to 2nd monitor From: Tod Hopkins

3a.: Re: Need Storage Recommendation Please From: Tod Hopkins

4a.: Re: Portable Hard Drive Issue From: Tod Hopkins

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1a.: Re: New Trojan On The Loose

Posted by: "paulette1031" behindmylens@gmail.com paulette1031

Tue Sep 27, 2011 1:20 am (PDT)

I'm worried I may have downloaded the "new version" via Firefox. Not sure though. Any suggestions of what I can do now just in case?

Paulette

--- In macsupportcentral@yahoogroups.com, "Randy B. Singer" <randy@...> wrote:
>
> There is a new Trojan Horse on the scene. It looks as if this one
> might be widespread and seriously malicious.
>
> <http://www.macworld.com/article/162496/2011/09/
> intego_malware_masquerades_as_flash_installer.html>
> or
> http://is.gd/2PxtFZ
>
> It masquerades as an update for Flash that you encounter while using
> your Web browser. The easy way to avoid it is to not update Flash
> unless you download the update directly from Adobe's Web site:
> http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/
>
> Also, if you are using Safari as your Web browser, make sure to
> UNcheck "Open safe files after downloading."
> In Safari:
> Safari menu --> Preferences --> General
>
> ___________________________________________
> Randy B. Singer
> Co-author of The Macintosh Bible (4th, 5th, and 6th editions)
>
> Macintosh OS X Routine Maintenance
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2a.: Re: Moving app menu bar to 2nd monitor

Posted by: "Tod Hopkins" hoplist@hillmanncarr.com todhop

Tue Sep 27, 2011 4:17 am (PDT)

I knew it! There is nothing new in computing and someone out there has thought of just about everything.

Snow Leopard+ only. You might want to check the MacUpdate comments for some of the bug details.

http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/33264/secondbar

Cheers,
tod

On Sep 26, 2011, at 7:16 PM, Collin wrote:

> There is an application for that. I've used it for about 2 years, and it's great. It's called SecondBar.
>
> - Collin
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On Sep 26, 2011, at 6:11 PM, DaveC <davec2468@yahoo.com> wrote:
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> > Thanks, Tod. That's what I wanted to know.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Dave
> >
> > -=-=-=-
> >
> > >No, I don't think so, unless someone has created an add on that can
> > >give you two menus. It's simply the way MacOS handles menus. The
> > >OS thinks of the two monitors as one screen with one menu.
> > >
> > >Maybe an add-on or mod that can put a "pop-up" version of the menu
> > >replicating the OS menu in a second location or adding it to the
> > >context menu. I don't have one to recommend but it seems likely
> > >that something exists.
> > >
> > >Cheers,
> > >tod
> >
>
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>
>

Tod Hopkins
Hillmann & Carr Inc.
todhopkins@hillmanncarr.com

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3a.: Re: Need Storage Recommendation Please

Posted by: "Tod Hopkins" hoplist@hillmanncarr.com todhop

Tue Sep 27, 2011 4:31 am (PDT)

I'm not working with an SSD myself and I did not mean to dispute anyones specific claims. I was merely pointing out that workstyles vary and booting may not be your biggest time waster. It's certainly not mine. After all, that happens once or twice a day at most for a desktop and maybe less. My system boots quite rapidly. I have no apps loading at boot as I hate waiting for apps I'm not going to use.

My applications often take as long as the OS to load, (such as Final Cut Studio and Adobe apps). Large Final Cut projects can take longer and I may switch several times a day. How much of any of this is disk time versus CPU, I don't know for sure. Other people may work with dozens of apps each day, constantly switching around and may or may not have the RAM to hold everything they want, or may not want to keep them open all the time. I certainly don't like to keep apps open.

All I'm saying is that the SSD is good for whatever takes the most time to load and that one should examine ones working style to determine what goes on the SSD. And there is no downside to putting everything you can on the SSD. For me, the idea of spending money on an SSD just to speed up my boot makes no sense.

Cheers,
tod

On Sep 26, 2011, at 6:48 PM, Jim Saklad wrote:

>>>> I would recommend that you leave "working" directories on the system drive. Why wait an extra 15 seconds for that large project file you will be opening every day for the next week? Keep it handy. One very easy way to do this is to simply keep it on your "desktop" which, by default, is on your system drive.
>>>
>>> Well, yes and no.
>>>
>>> I ran an experiment for several months. I bought a 64 GB ExpressCard SSD. As you may (or may not) know, the ExpressCard slot on a Macbook Pro is on the slower USB bus, not the faster SATA bus.
>>>
>>> I set it up, using SuperDuper!, as a sandbox, with Users (but *not* Applications) shared. This left the ENTIRE Users folder on the disk hard drive, symlinked from the SSD. So ALL the users files, and non-Apple shared applications, were on the rotating disk, and all the System, Libraries, and primary Applications directories were on the SSD.
>>>
>>> It booted, and ran, wonderfully fast √ but NOT as fast as it would in Harry's situation, because he would have the 3 Gb/s SATA bus instead of the 480 Mb/s USB bus.
>>
>
>> If boot were the only thing that SSD made faster, they would hardly be worth it except on portable devices. On my production system, loading a large project takes longer than booting. If I had an SSD, I'd bloody well keep my working projects on it. That's unusual I grant, but the time opening and closing apps, and the system's swapping out of components and reading/writing caches is significant. You can mitigate this with RAM or your working behavior, but the speed of your system drive is a major factor. To get the greatest benefit, you want to put as move as much of your disk i/o to SSD. Watch Activity Monitor while you're working and note each time you hit a big i/o burst. Where was that data?
>> tod
>
>
> Have you tried working with an SSD yet, Tod?
>
> Keep in mind that what I described has the entire *operating* system, with all its libraries and frameworks, on the SSD.
>
> Yes, the 3rd-party application might have to load from a merely 7200 RPM drive. Once. In a couple of seconds.
>
> And the app's data would have to do so also. But if you're working with, for example, large images with many layers in Photoshop, you're probably going to have most or all of your data in RAM after the first few seconds.
>
> If you are speaking from real-world experience with SSD's, I would be fascinated to see actual timing tests.
>
> Of course, if price is no object, you make a large SSD RAID....
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4a.: Re: Portable Hard Drive Issue

Posted by: "Tod Hopkins" hoplist@hillmanncarr.com todhop

Tue Sep 27, 2011 4:36 am (PDT)

Likely the enclosure has failed. Generally it's the power supply that gets weak and can't provide enough, or stable, power so the disc simply never quite spins up. If the drive has the option of external power, try that, or an alternate power supply. Check to see if the drive appears in Drive Utility. If it does but is not mounting, then it maybe corruption. You can use disc utilities to diagnose and maybe fix. Otherwise you are likely at the point where you need to remove the drive from the case and see if you can connect directly.

Cheers,
tod

On Sep 26, 2011, at 11:24 PM, Rob Frankel wrote:

> Greetings:
>
> I got this iomega 1TB portable hard drive. Used it with Carbon Copy
> Cloner just fine as a back up for about a year. Cloned it every two
> months.
>
> All of a sudden, it won't mount. It lights up, it whirs, but doesn't
> show up on the desktop.
>
> I Googled it. Tried DU, DW, different cables (USB, FW 800),
> rebooted the machine -- everything. Doesn't mount or show up
> anywhere.
>
> Am I missing anything? I just thought I'd ping you before I throw it
> into the sea. It's only a year or two old and been kept in my safe,
> so it hasn't been knocked around....
>
> --
> Rob Frankel
>
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