Messages In This Digest (11 Messages)
- 1a.
- Re: safe for the Lion ??? From: Jim Saklad
- 1b.
- Re: safe for the Lion ??? From: Denver Dan
- 2.1.
- Re: Mac Virus From: Harry Flaxman
- 2.2.
- Re: Mac Virus From: Jim Saklad
- 2.3.
- Re: Mac Virus From: N.A. Nada
- 2.4.
- Re: Mac Virus From: Harry Flaxman
- 3.1.
- MacBook Air 11 inch repaired From: Ardell Faul
- 3.2.
- Re: MacBook Air 11 inch repaired From: Harry Flaxman
- 4a.
- Re: Downloads From: N.A. Nada
- 4b.
- Re: Downloads From: Harry Flaxman
- 4c.
- Re: Downloads From: Harry Flaxman
Messages
- 1a.
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Re: safe for the Lion ???
Posted by: "Jim Saklad" jimdoc@me.com jimdoc01
Tue Dec 20, 2011 6:19 pm (PST)
> On this OS, unlike for Snow Leopard, I hung back on upgrading to Lion because of its perceived-by-me shortcomings. Is there any reason to hang back any longer? What 10.7 iteration is Lion at now?
Stable: 10.7.2
Beta: 10.7.3
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- 1b.
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Re: safe for the Lion ???
Posted by: "Denver Dan" denver.dan@verizon.net denverdan22180
Tue Dec 20, 2011 6:45 pm (PST)
Howdy.
I'm on Mac OS X 10.7.2 Lion (most recent version).
It's faster than Snow Leopard.
Have you done any maintenance in Apple's Mail program? Like Rebuild
mailboxes command?
I suspect you are misreading the free space fragmentation percent
number. A figure of 4 percent would be considered pretty high. 54
percent is terrible, bad, very bad, worse, the worst I've ever heard of
in decades of computer use.
Denver Dan
On Tue, 20 Dec 2011 20:35:42 -0500, Oneal Neumann wrote:
> Interestingly, Snow Leopard has now become glitchy on me, especially
> Mail, which has become quite wonky. At this point, Denver Dan would
> say that I need to do a clean install. How does that work? How do I
> effect that?
>
> (Activity Monitor doesn't work any more and has not for a year now. My
> free-space fragmentation rate is 54%. I'm running 10.6.8.)
>
> Thanx. Oneal
- 2.1.
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Re: Mac Virus
Posted by: "Harry Flaxman" harry.flaxman@comcast.net hflaxman001
Tue Dec 20, 2011 6:20 pm (PST)
On Dec 20, 2011, at 9:01 PM, Barry Austern wrote:
> Still almost in diapers. I was born in 1942. Since OS-X has a built
> in calculator (bringing this back on topic) you can do the arithmetic
> easily enough.
You're a year older than my ex-wife!! She'll be happy to hear someone is! :)
I just used Spotlight to figure that out!
Harry
Harry Flaxman
harry.flaxman@comcast.net
- 2.2.
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Re: Mac Virus
Posted by: "Jim Saklad" jimdoc@me.com jimdoc01
Tue Dec 20, 2011 6:20 pm (PST)
>> When you are older, you will not say such things when there are old
>> people around.
>
> Who around here's old?
1. No one here is *old*. Some of us are *older* than others....
2. I'm not saying I'm *old*, exactly, but I *do* hold the patent on dirt.... <g>
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- 2.3.
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Re: Mac Virus
Posted by: "N.A. Nada" whodo678@comcast.net
Tue Dec 20, 2011 11:05 pm (PST)
On Dec 20, 2011, at 6:20 PM, Jim Saklad wrote:
> >> When you are older, you will not say such things when there are old
> >> people around.
> >
> > Who around here's old?
>
> 1. No one here is *old*. Some of us are *older* than others....
>
> 2. I'm not saying I'm *old*, exactly, but I *do* hold the patent on dirt.... <g>
Let's just change that to experienced.
Heh! I hold the patent on water! Got it in a fire sale.
Brent
- 2.4.
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Re: Mac Virus
Posted by: "Harry Flaxman" harry.flaxman@comcast.net hflaxman001
Wed Dec 21, 2011 12:24 am (PST)
On Dec 21, 2011, at 2:04 AM, N.A. Nada wrote:
>
> Let's just change that to experienced.
>
> Heh! I hold the patent on water! Got it in a fire sale.
Nyuk Nyuk Nyuk!!
I've got Spotlight handy for the calculations, still!
Harry
Harry Flaxman
harry.flaxman@comcast.net
- 3.1.
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MacBook Air 11 inch repaired
Posted by: "Ardell Faul" ardell@icehouse.net computer_monitor_service_company
Tue Dec 20, 2011 9:14 pm (PST)
I just took in my first repair job on a MacBook Air11 inch, Mod A1370.
The owner had spilled chocolate milk in it. Another first--usually it
is beer. The unit had been sitting inoperative for months, so I was not
very confident that it would be repairable without replacing the logic
board, but most of the milk had ran all the way to the bottom of the
unit, so it was the bottom of the logic board that had goo all over it,
not the top. I pulled all the parts out except the keyboard and cleaned
them with hot soapy water and rigorous brushing, followed by a bath in
Isopropyl alcohol, which displaces water very nicely, and is easy to dry
completely with a heat gun. I am impressed by the solid state drive and
the compactness of the logic board overall.
So anyway, after a good cleaning, drying, and inspection, I detected no
corrosion at all and put the unit back together, except I left the
bottom off. Initially when I hooked up the charger, there seemed to be
no action caused by pressing the power button, but after a few minutes
the fan would periodically run. I decided to leave it plugged in for a
few minutes just to see and turned my back to look up the price of a
logic board, when I heard the familiar chime and the unit booted right
up. The battery seems to be non-functional, but as far as I can tell,
the rest of the unit is perfect, including the keyboard.
I am impressed with this little unit, and happy about the $$$$ it will
bring my way.
Ardell Faul
Computer Monitor Service Inc.
Ardell's Laptop and PC Repair
10816 E. Mission Ave.,
Spokane Valley, Wa. 99206
ardell@icehouse.net
509-891-5188
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- 3.2.
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Re: MacBook Air 11 inch repaired
Posted by: "Harry Flaxman" harry.flaxman@comcast.net hflaxman001
Tue Dec 20, 2011 10:16 pm (PST)
On Dec 21, 2011, at 12:14 AM, Ardell Faul wrote:
> I just took in my first repair job on a MacBook Air11 inch, Mod A1370.
> The owner had spilled chocolate milk in it. Another first--usually it
> is beer. The unit had been sitting inoperative for months, so I was not
> very confident that it would be repairable without replacing the logic
> board, but most of the milk had ran all the way to the bottom of the
> unit, so it was the bottom of the logic board that had goo all over it,
> not the top. I pulled all the parts out except the keyboard and cleaned
> them with hot soapy water and rigorous brushing, followed by a bath in
> Isopropyl alcohol, which displaces water very nicely, and is easy to dry
> completely with a heat gun. I am impressed by the solid state drive and
> the compactness of the logic board overall.
>
> So anyway, after a good cleaning, drying, and inspection, I detected no
> corrosion at all and put the unit back together, except I left the
> bottom off. Initially when I hooked up the charger, there seemed to be
> no action caused by pressing the power button, but after a few minutes
> the fan would periodically run. I decided to leave it plugged in for a
> few minutes just to see and turned my back to look up the price of a
> logic board, when I heard the familiar chime and the unit booted right
> up. The battery seems to be non-functional, but as far as I can tell,
> the rest of the unit is perfect, including the keyboard.
>
> I am impressed with this little unit, and happy about the $$$$ it will
> bring my way.
Really impressive!
You know, I've heard of iMacs that have made it through house fires and have been operative after a dry out, regardless of water and smoke damage.
Apple seems to manufacture a rugged machine, no matter what form it takes!
Harry
Harry Flaxman
harry.flaxman@comcast.net
- 4a.
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Re: Downloads
Posted by: "N.A. Nada" whodo678@comcast.net
Tue Dec 20, 2011 11:24 pm (PST)
On Dec 19, 2011, at 10:08 AM, Otto Nikolaus wrote:
> I'm mystified too, but if the files need to go into Windows and the Windows
> folders are not accessible to Safari it's all moot, isn't it?
If she wants to download it into Windows, then she needs to download them while in Windows, not Mac OS X. Otherwise, she needs to use sneakerware to move them over, IF they download under Mac OS X in the correct format for Windows.
Brent
- 4b.
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Re: Downloads
Posted by: "Harry Flaxman" harry.flaxman@comcast.net hflaxman001
Wed Dec 21, 2011 12:25 am (PST)
On Dec 21, 2011, at 2:24 AM, N.A. Nada wrote:
> On Dec 19, 2011, at 10:08 AM, Otto Nikolaus wrote:
>
>> I'm mystified too, but if the files need to go into Windows and the Windows
>> folders are not accessible to Safari it's all moot, isn't it?
>
> If she wants to download it into Windows, then she needs to download them while in Windows, not Mac OS X. Otherwise, she needs to use sneakerware to move them over, IF they download under Mac OS X in the correct format for Windows.
Or use Tuxera NTFS-3G on the OS X side to enable writing to the partition.
Harry
Harry Flaxman
harry.flaxman@comcast.net
- 4c.
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Re: Downloads
Posted by: "Harry Flaxman" harry.flaxman@comcast.net hflaxman001
Wed Dec 21, 2011 12:27 am (PST)
On Dec 21, 2011, at 3:25 AM, Harry Flaxman wrote:
> On Dec 21, 2011, at 2:24 AM, N.A. Nada wrote:
>
>> On Dec 19, 2011, at 10:08 AM, Otto Nikolaus wrote:
>>
>>> I'm mystified too, but if the files need to go into Windows and the Windows
>>> folders are not accessible to Safari it's all moot, isn't it?
>>
>> If she wants to download it into Windows, then she needs to download them while in Windows, not Mac OS X. Otherwise, she needs to use sneakerware to move them over, IF they download under Mac OS X in the correct format for Windows.
>
> Or use Tuxera NTFS-3G on the OS X side to enable writing to the partition.
Came across this open source solution? Haven't tried it yet, but I'm about to.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/ ntfsosx/
Harry
Harry Flaxman
harry.flaxman@comcast.net
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