Messages In This Digest (10 Messages)
- 1.
- How to restore a missing Recovery HD partition in Lion From: Tim O'Donoghue
- 2a.
- Re: Blowout quarter for Apple From: hester
- 2b.
- Re: Blowout quarter for Apple From: Denver Dan
- 3a.
- Re: Re; Problems with a MAC From: Denton Larson
- 4a.
- Re: reason not to GoDaddy ??? From: Oneal Neumann
- 5.
- Not arranging by name From: jayant m
- 6.
- More on extended-ASCII characters in Mail.app From: Alan Fry
- 7a.
- Re: Great Courses From: Otto Nikolaus
- 8.
- 28th Annual MacWorld Expo Starts Today From: Denver Dan
- 9a.
- Re: Bluetooth in App Folder, BUT will not run suddenly today. From: Denver Dan
Messages
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How to restore a missing Recovery HD partition in Lion
Posted by: "Tim O'Donoghue" tjod@drizzle.net timodonoghue
Thu Jan 26, 2012 4:02 pm (PST)
An article addressing topics recently discussed here at great length:
http://reviews.cnet.com/ 8301-13727_ 7-57366205- 263/how-to- restore-a- missing-recovery -hd-partition- in-lion/? tag=nl.e795
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Re: Blowout quarter for Apple
Posted by: "hester" dhreik@gmail.com drhester_06107
Thu Jan 26, 2012 4:12 pm (PST)
--- In macsupportcentral@yahoogroups. , Denver Dan <denver.dan@com ...> wrote:
>
> Howdy.
>
> Foxconn has factories in 13 countries and a number of Chinese cities.
>
> The largest plant is in Shenzhen and may have up to 450,000 workers.
> There are dorms, swimming pool, grocery store, bank, bookstore,
> hospital, restaurants, and something like 20 cafeterias.
>
> What the New York Times article didn't say much about is that Foxconn
> also makes products for Amazon, Sony, Microsoft, Nintendo Wii,
> Hewlett-Packard, Dell, and others.
>
> Denver Dan
>
They did mention it, though didn't emphasize it. Here's the thing though. The margin squeeze is very narrow, so there's almost no leeway for the suppliers to make much. And the times did mention that HP gives more margin.
The essential thing to me is this: Apple has such cachet and prestige that if they insisted that conditions improve or lose contract x, it would happen, even in China. I adore my MBP, just love it. But I am distressed by the working conditions of those who assembled it. And wanted to balance the 'blowout quarter' story with facts about why perhaps it was a blow out.
hester
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Re: Blowout quarter for Apple
Posted by: "Denver Dan" denver.dan@verizon.net denverdan22180
Fri Jan 27, 2012 5:09 am (PST)
Howdy.
Apparently, however, tens of thousands of rural Chinese flock to jobs
in factories just like Foxconn because it's better than constant stoop
work in a rice paddy or farm work at even lower levels of income. Since
unions are either illegal or only tolerated if controlled by the State
it means that there isn't a lot that can be done unless the Chinese
State itself changes and it's doubtful that Apple or Hewlett-Packard or
Amazon can have a strong influence over that.
I'm not sure we can easily know the reality of this in China because we
can't walk in their shoes but there appears to be a very large amount
of news coverage in the United States that is not based on good and
dispassionate factual information. For example, I've seen now several
stories about the suicide rate at Foxconn and what a scandal this is
but then I've also seen stories that the suicide rate at the big
Foxconn factory is lower than in Chinese society as a whole which,
compared to a number of Western countries (but not apparently Sweden)
is fairly high.
Denver Dan
On Fri, 27 Jan 2012 00:12:43 +0000, hester wrote:
>
> --- In macsupportcentral@yahoogroups. , Denver Dan <denver.dan@com ...> wrote:
>>
>> Howdy.
>>
>> Foxconn has factories in 13 countries and a number of Chinese cities.
>>
>> The largest plant is in Shenzhen and may have up to 450,000 workers.
>> There are dorms, swimming pool, grocery store, bank, bookstore,
>> hospital, restaurants, and something like 20 cafeterias.
>>
>> What the New York Times article didn't say much about is that Foxconn
>> also makes products for Amazon, Sony, Microsoft, Nintendo Wii,
>> Hewlett-Packard, Dell, and others.
>>
>> Denver Dan
>>
> They did mention it, though didn't emphasize it. Here's the thing
> though. The margin squeeze is very narrow, so there's almost no
> leeway for the suppliers to make much. And the times did mention that
> HP gives more margin.
>
> The essential thing to me is this: Apple has such cachet and prestige
> that if they insisted that conditions improve or lose contract x, it
> would happen, even in China. I adore my MBP, just love it. But I am
> distressed by the working conditions of those who assembled it. And
> wanted to balance the 'blowout quarter' story with facts about why
> perhaps it was a blow out.
>
> hester
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Re: Re; Problems with a MAC
Posted by: "Denton Larson" wb0zur@gmail.com wb0zur
Thu Jan 26, 2012 5:08 pm (PST)
I got it working woo hoo
I found a active program inside Activity Monitor It need rather big
amount to get the resignation active so I thought I had killed it off,
I guess I did not.
Thanks Tod and Denver Dan for all your hints you said.
Denton
Re: Re; Problems with a MAC
Posted by: "Tod Hopkins" hoplist@hillmanncarr.com todhop
Thu Jan 26, 2012 8:05 am (PST)
The "normal" problem would be that something is keeping your system
"active" so the screensaver timer does not time out. Presuming it's
not you, the next likely candidate is a USB connected device.
Disconnect everything external except the keyboard (but including any
mouse) and wait three minutes. If this does not work, you'll want to
check background apps. Activity Monitor will show you anything that is
using the system when you are not. Sort the list on the "% CPU" column
and look for apps that pop to the top when you are not doing anything.
If you recognize something, you might try shutting these down or
disabling their "background" functions. It's also possible your system
is being "polled" over the network by another system or device. Same
tactic. Disconnect your network (pull plug and turn off wireless) and
wait.
Cheers,
tod
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Re: reason not to GoDaddy ???
Posted by: "Oneal Neumann" wardell.h.s@gmail.com newalander
Thu Jan 26, 2012 5:43 pm (PST)
> On 2012 January 24 (at 00:29) Randy B Singer wrote:
>
>> On Jan 23, 2012, at 1:17 AM, Oneal Neumann wrote:
>>
>> I am looking for a website host. Not sure that I want to GoDaddy
>> –the babes are great and the Super Bowl is around the corner–
>> even though its prices are low.
>>
>> Can anyone talk me into/out of it? Thanx. Oneal
>
> I used GoDaddy for many years, and they seemed to be fine. But their
> support sucked. They also nearly gave away my domain name to someone
> else (which almost caused me to expectorate an internal organ in
> anger), and have some onerous policies that I really didn't like.
>
> So now I use this service that I arrived at by doing a bunch of
> research. They are inexpensive, offer a ton of bells and whistles,
> and have truly amazing 24/7 support via e-mail that is unmatched:
>
> ICDSoft
> http://icdsoft.com/
> http://www2.icdsoft.com/ hosting.php
>
> For the amazing price of $72/year I get a huge amount of Web space,
> unlimited e-mail addresses and e-mail hosting, the facility to
> quickly and easily set up e-mail discussion lists, etc. Renewal of
> my domain name only costs $5. Randy B Singer
>
About 50/50 split re GoDaddy.
Thanx for the ICDSoft link, Randy.
Could be a keeper. Oneal
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Not arranging by name
Posted by: "jayant m" jmurthy@yahoo.com jmurthy
Thu Jan 26, 2012 9:09 pm (PST)
I have "Arrange by Name" enabled but the order is not by name. ls in a terminal window works fine; it's only in the Finder window that things don't work. I repaired all the permissions so that is not the problem. Any ideas, or even better, solutions?
Thanks
JM
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More on extended-ASCII characters in Mail.app
Posted by: "Alan Fry" ajf@afco.demon.co.uk alanjohnfry
Fri Jan 27, 2012 2:53 am (PST)
In a message to this group today, January 26, with the subject '[macsupport] Bluetooth in App Folder, BUT will not run suddenly today' from HAL9000 there are a number of characters in the ASCII range 128-255 which appear (on my Mail.app at least) incorrectly decoded.
For example there is a line:
'You canÕt open the Ã'BluetoothÃ" preferences pane because'
Looking at the source it shows the message was sent with the following settings:
Content-Type: text/plain
Charset=ISO-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
The word "canÕt " (which obviously should have been "can't") contains an apostrophe which travels as '=D5'. Now looking at various extended ASCII encodings it can be seen that:
Hex D5 (decimal 202) in ISO-8859-1 == Õ (O-tilde)
Hex D5 (decimal 202) in Western Mac OS encoding == ’ (right single quotation mark aka apostrophe)
So what seems to have happened is that on composing the message Mail.app (I am assuming HAL9000 was using Mail) encoded the apostrophe according to the Western Mac OS extended ASCII table and sent the message stating that the encoding was according to the ISO 8859-1 extended ASCII table (ie Charset=ISO-8859-1). At the receiving end my Mail.app obeyed the 'charset' declaration and decoded 'D5' as Õ (O-tilde).
The same goes for the other encoded characters. I cannot but help feel this is a bug in Mail.app. I should not state it is using ISO-8859-1 encoding but actually to use Western Mac OS encoding.
There is an additional complication, in so far as there are two 'Content-Type' declarations in the message, the first being;
Content-Type:multipart/ alternative
followed by the boundary definition and other data. This refers to the HTML version of the message which follows the plain text version. Whether my Mail.app is reading the plain text version or the HTML version is impossible to tell. However the encoding of the apostrophe (ie D5) is the same in both, and the same for the other high-ASCII characters.
It may be that HAL9000 has Mail.app set to compose in 'Plain Text' rather than 'Rich Text'? I am sending this message in 'Rich Text' which should ensure that it is encoded to UTF-8 which should avoid these ambiguities. We shall see.
I hope raising this topic again is not boring, but it does seem to me important that Apple's Mail.app should be able to handle non-ASCII characters reliably and consistently. That is, after all, the aim of UTF-8. If it cannot, then I think it should be brought to Apple's attention.
Alan Fry
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Re: Great Courses
Posted by: "Otto Nikolaus" otto.nikolaus@googlemail.com nikyzf
Fri Jan 27, 2012 4:29 am (PST)
On 26 January 2012 18:18, Harry Flaxman <harry.flaxman@comcast.net > wrote:
> Not to mention on the Apple web site! They are almost always mirrored
> there.
>
> Why pay when you can get the same or better, from the 'horses mouth',
> for nothing!
>
Indeed. For anyone who doesn't know, go to
<http://support.apple.com/ >videos/
Otto
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28th Annual MacWorld Expo Starts Today
Posted by: "Denver Dan" denver.dan@verizon.net denverdan22180
Fri Jan 27, 2012 4:56 am (PST)
Howdy.
The annual MacWorld Expo starts today in San Francisco.
It's the 28th annual one.
Folks can read more here:
<http://www.macworld.com/ >
Denver dan
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Re: Bluetooth in App Folder, BUT will not run suddenly today.
Posted by: "Denver Dan" denver.dan@verizon.net denverdan22180
Fri Jan 27, 2012 5:15 am (PST)
Howdy.
Your post is confusing to me.
I don't have a Bluetooth" app in my Applications folder (but this could
be because I don't have a Bluetooth device connected).
Why is a "Bluetooth" app located in your Applications folder???
Where does the Bluetooth app in your Applications come from? Was it
installed by a 3rd party (non Apple) installer?
Is the Bluetooth app in your Applications folder actually the
Bluetooth.prefPane item from System/Library/PreferencesPanes folder??
(If so it's in the wrong location.)
Have you used Bluetooth in System Preferences?
Denver Dan
On Thu, 26 Jan 2012 23:44:25 +0000, HAL9000 wrote:
> 27" iMac/2.0/OSX6.8/12gigRAM/ 1TBHD
>
> This situation has happened suddenly after months working fine.
> I posted at Apple Forums, but no help yet, so I ask here:
>
> Deleted the Main Library/Pref/bluetooth. plist, rebooted.
> Nothing
> Restarted w magic mouse off, removed batteries, replaced batteries,
> turned on magic mouse.
> Nothing
> Restarted holding Command+Option+P+R three dings
> Nothing
> Shutdown, unplugged all connections, then unplugged power cord,
> replugged all back. Restart.
> Nothing
> Ê
> I can see the Bluetooth app in my applications folder. Clicking on it
> displays:
>
> "You canÕt open the ÒBluetoothÓ preferences pane because
> it is not available to you at this time.
> To see this preferences pane, you may need to connect
> a device to your computer."
> Ê
> I have not had this problem using Snow Leopard, ever, until today,
> and today Bluetooth suddenly STOPS working.
> Ê
> I shut the computer down for 4 hours,
> then powered up and Bluetooth WAS ACTUALLY RUNNING.
> After 10 minutes, it QUIT.
> Ê
> I booted from my SL installer disk and ran Disk Repair.
> I booted from my Diskwarrior Disk, repaired, especially,
> Disk Warrior blessed the sysytem folder.
>
> Apple Menu/More Info/Bluetooth/No information found.
> Ê
> Does anyone know why Bluetooth is refusing to run?
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