12/06/2012

[macsupport] Digest Number 9267

15 New Messages

Digest #9267
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Re: iPad 2 G3 Verizon shared plan by "Daly Jessup" dalyjessup
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Re: iPad 2 G3 Verizon shared plan by "Daly Jessup" dalyjessup
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Re: What is "launchd"? by "HAL9000" jrswebhome
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Re: inexpensive scanner by "bob morin" rbmorin2002
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Re: inexpensive scanner by "Otto Nikolaus" nikyzf
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Re: inexpensive scanner by "Otto Nikolaus" nikyzf
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Re: inexpensive scanner by "bob morin" rbmorin2002
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Re: inexpensive scanner by "Hester Reik" drhester_06107
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Re: inexpensive scanner by "Otto Nikolaus" nikyzf
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Re: inexpensive scanner by "hester" drhester_06107
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Preview Quits Unexpectedly by "stupnski@tiac.net" mstupinski
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Re: Preview Quits Unexpectedly by "Otto Nikolaus" nikyzf

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Wed Dec 5, 2012 9:00 pm (PST) . Posted by:

"N.A. Nada"

I assume she does not have WiFi at home in ND. How's Verizon at your place?

Yes, you can get a Verizon capable iPad 2, and I believe Vz has a stand alone, month to month plan for cellular iPad service. Just check the connection fee for each time you turn it back on. AT&T allows the same, but there is a $36 fee _every_ time you start it up. What is Vz's fee?

If it is $10 a month as an addition on a shared data plan, how does that pencil if you left it on all year. Compared to turning it on and off? Compared to a stand alone plan?

Call whichever cellular provider and verify their charges, all of them. Ask about start up fees, etcetera.

I don't know if grandma is considered part of a family plan.

Brent

On Dec 5, 2012, at 8:06 PM, Bekah wrote:

My sister and I want to get my mom an iPad G3 for Christmas. My mom lives here in this town in the winter, but in North Dakota in the summer. She has AT&T here and it works well, but AT&T is not a very good option in ND - it's Verizon country. Also, she has her cell on my other sister's Verizon plan.

Question: Can we get her the iPad 2 set up for Verizon and leave it as wifi only until May when she goes to ND? Then she'd have my daughter add the iPad to their Verizon account. Dear son-in-law said it was fine, $10 or $20 on their bill (with two teens) will be nothing. It's $30 to add her to mine, it's $30 to add her to her own AT&T (with spotty ND service) - I'll add her to mine if necessary but I'd rather go with my kids' plan. Can it be done that way?

Bekah

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Wed Dec 5, 2012 10:14 pm (PST) . Posted by:

"Bekah" bekalex

Lot of things to look into - thanks.

Bekah

On Dec 5, 2012, at 9:00 PM, N.A. Nada <whodo678@comcast.net> wrote:

> I assume she does not have WiFi at home in ND. How's Verizon at your place?
>
> Yes, you can get a Verizon capable iPad 2, and I believe Vz has a stand alone, month to month plan for cellular iPad service. Just check the connection fee for each time you turn it back on. AT&T allows the same, but there is a $36 fee _every_ time you start it up. What is Vz's fee?
>
> If it is $10 a month as an addition on a shared data plan, how does that pencil if you left it on all year. Compared to turning it on and off? Compared to a stand alone plan?
>
> Call whichever cellular provider and verify their charges, all of them. Ask about start up fees, etcetera.
>
> I don't know if grandma is considered part of a family plan.
>
> Brent
>
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> On Dec 5, 2012, at 8:06 PM, Bekah wrote:
>
> My sister and I want to get my mom an iPad G3 for Christmas. My mom lives here in this town in the winter, but in North Dakota in the summer. She has AT&T here and it works well, but AT&T is not a very good option in ND - it's Verizon country. Also, she has her cell on my other sister's Verizon plan.
>
> Question: Can we get her the iPad 2 set up for Verizon and leave it as wifi only until May when she goes to ND? Then she'd have my daughter add the iPad to their Verizon account. Dear son-in-law said it was fine, $10 or $20 on their bill (with two teens) will be nothing. It's $30 to add her to mine, it's $30 to add her to her own AT&T (with spotty ND service) - I'll add her to mine if necessary but I'd rather go with my kids' plan. Can it be done that way?
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> Bekah
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Thu Dec 6, 2012 5:49 am (PST) . Posted by:

"Daly Jessup" dalyjessup

Dear Bekah,

My mother has just sent me her Verizon iPad 2 with wifi and 3G, to sell for her (she bought it, not realizing that there was a difference between AT&T and Verizon iPads -we are with AT&T).

It has almost never been used. It is white, with 64 GB of memory, and is restored to factory settings, fully updated, and fully charged. It comes with the original box and accessories as well as the cover that snaps on magnetically and protects the screen and acts as a stand as well. The cover is lime green.

Yes, you could leave it wifi-only for as long as you wish, and sign up with Verizon when you want to.

We would sell the whole package for $375 plus shipping.

I am about to place an ad to sell it, but would rather sell it to someone I "know" from the list.

Please let me know if you would like to have it. I'm attaching a picture. I have the perfect shipping box in which she meticulously packed it, so it's ready to go, if you want it.

Daly

On Dec 5, 2012, at 8:06 PM, Bekah wrote:

> My sister and I want to get my mom an iPad G3 for Christmas. My mom lives here in this town in the winter, but in North Dakota in the summer. She has AT&T here and it works well, but AT&T is not a very good option in ND - it's Verizon country. Also, she has her cell on my other sister's Verizon plan.
>
> Question: Can we get her the iPad 2 set up for Verizon and leave it as wifi only until May when she goes to ND? Then she'd have my daughter add the iPad to their Verizon account. Dear son-in-law said it was fine, $10 or $20 on their bill (with two teens) will be nothing. It's $30 to add her to mine, it's $30 to add her to her own AT&T (with spotty ND service) - I'll add her to mine if necessary but I'd rather go with my kids' plan. Can it be done that way?
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Thu Dec 6, 2012 6:00 am (PST) . Posted by:

"Vixpix" nyskater

There is no start up fee for Verizon cellular service on the iPad if you sign up on the iPad itself in the general settings.

Vickie 

Sent from a spoiled little iPad

On Dec 6, 2012, at 12:00 AM, "N.A. Nada" <whodo678@comcast.net> wrote:

>
> Yes, you can get a Verizon capable iPad 2, and I believe Vz has a stand alone, month to month plan for cellular iPad service. Just check the connection fee for each time you turn it back on. AT&T allows the same, but there is a $36 fee _every_ time you start it up. What is Vz's fee?

Thu Dec 6, 2012 6:05 am (PST) . Posted by:

"Daly Jessup" dalyjessup

I am so sorry! I meant to send this privately to Bekah. I'm embarrassed.

Daly

On Dec 6, 2012, at 5:49 AM, Daly Jessup wrote:

> Dear Bekah,
>
> My mother has just sent me her Verizon iPad 2 with wifi and 3G, to sell for her (she bought it, not realizing that there was a difference between AT&T and Verizon iPads -we are with AT&T).
>
> It has almost never been used. It is white, with 64 GB of memory, and is restored to factory settings, fully updated, and fully charged. It comes with the original box and accessories as well as the cover that snaps on magnetically and protects the screen and acts as a stand as well. The cover is lime green.
>
> Yes, you could leave it wifi-only for as long as you wish, and sign up with Verizon when you want to.
>
> We would sell the whole package for $375 plus shipping.
>
> I am about to place an ad to sell it, but would rather sell it to someone I "know" from the list.
>
> Please let me know if you would like to have it. I'm attaching a picture. I have the perfect shipping box in which she meticulously packed it, so it's ready to go, if you want it.
>
> Daly
>
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> On Dec 5, 2012, at 8:06 PM, Bekah wrote:
>
>> My sister and I want to get my mom an iPad G3 for Christmas. My mom lives here in this town in the winter, but in North Dakota in the summer. She has AT&T here and it works well, but AT&T is not a very good option in ND - it's Verizon country. Also, she has her cell on my other sister's Verizon plan.
>>
>> Question: Can we get her the iPad 2 set up for Verizon and leave it as wifi only until May when she goes to ND? Then she'd have my daughter add the iPad to their Verizon account. Dear son-in-law said it was fine, $10 or $20 on their bill (with two teens) will be nothing. It's $30 to add her to mine, it's $30 to add her to her own AT&T (with spotty ND service) - I'll add her to mine if necessary but I'd rather go with my kids' plan. Can it be done that way?
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Wed Dec 5, 2012 9:19 pm (PST) . Posted by:

"HAL9000" jrswebhome

Thanks, Randy. I reinstalled Macaroni just to stop the console reports. I thought simply dragging off a Pref Pane delelted it from OSX. There must be some script or coding that remains w the original install. I forgot that an installer is an uninstaller as well. Thanks. jr

--- In macsupportcentral@yahoogroups.com, "Randy B. Singer" <randy@...> wrote:
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> On Dec 5, 2012, at 11:00 AM, HAL9000 wrote:
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> > Console Report:
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> > 12/5/12 12:54:47 PM com.apple.launchd[1] (com.atomicbird.macaroniTool[6387]) posix_spawn("/Library/PreferencePanes/Macaroni.prefPane/Contents/MacOS/MacaroniTool", ...): No such file or directory
> >
> > I trashed this System Folder/PrefPane months ago. Where is Console picking up that it is trying to launch? Where or what do I trash to stop this occurring?
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> launchd is a protocol in your Mac's underlying Unix for scheduling things. i.e. if you want a program to run daily at a certain time.
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> It looks like you have Macaroni installed, and that it is set to do something at a certain time, but that it can't find the file that tells it when to do it.
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> You can probably fix the problem by completely uninstalling Macaroni (which may require an installer program).
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Thu Dec 6, 2012 4:13 am (PST) . Posted by:

"bob morin" rbmorin2002


On Dec 5, 2012, at 8:46 PM, Barbara Adamski <adamski@telus.net> wrote:

> I recently bought a Canoscan 5600F. I can't recall what I paid, but it wasn't too much. Works great with my iMac.
>

I have the same scanner which works very nicely. Great software with it. It has own power supply and doesn't power off a USB hub as some of the lower cost scanners do. I like Canon products.

bob

Thu Dec 6, 2012 4:16 am (PST) . Posted by:

"Otto Nikolaus" nikyzf

On 5 December 2012 21:47, Jim Saklad <jimdoc@icloud.com> wrote:

>
> Canon - CanoScan Flatbed Color Image Scanner with Z-Lid Expansion Top
> Model: LiDE 110 SKU: 1238008
> High-speed USB interface; up to 2400 x 4800 dpi resolution; 48-bit color
> Sale: $54.98 at Best Buy
>

It's worth mentioning that the Canon LiDE scanners are USB-powered, cutting
down on cable/transformer clutter. (I don't know if other brands do this
type.)

Otto

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Thu Dec 6, 2012 4:35 am (PST) . Posted by:

"Otto Nikolaus" nikyzf

On 6 December 2012 12:12, bob morin <rbmorin11@gmail.com> wrote:

>
> I have the same scanner which works very nicely. Great software with it.
> It has own power supply and doesn't power off a USB hub as some of the
> lower cost scanners do. I like Canon products.
>
> The bundled software could make all the difference when choosing amongst
similar models, e.g., our LiDE 50 came with Photoshop Elements, which at
the time cost almost as much on its own as the scanner.

Otto

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Thu Dec 6, 2012 5:00 am (PST) . Posted by:

"bob morin" rbmorin2002


On Dec 6, 2012, at 6:34 AM, Otto Nikolaus <otto.nikolaus@googlemail.com> wrote:

> > The bundled software could make all the difference when choosing amongst
> similar models, e.g., our LiDE 50 came with Photoshop Elements, which at
> the time cost almost as much on its own as the scanner.

The software that came with my 5600F allows me to scan 4-5 photos at once, separate on scanning and actually do some editing - works really well in restoring fading photos. (except in one photo it interpreted a deep brown as deep red.). One can crop before scanning into computer actually. I am scanning thousands of old photos and slides.

bob

Thu Dec 6, 2012 5:09 am (PST) . Posted by:

"Hester Reik" drhester_06107

Thanks all for the replies.

Randy, i don't need a sheet feeder but I do need it to be able to scan
pages from books.
Thanks

hester

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Thu Dec 6, 2012 5:21 am (PST) . Posted by:

"Otto Nikolaus" nikyzf

In that case you only need to check that the lid will allow the thickest
books to lie flat.

Otto

On 6 December 2012 13:09, Hester Reik <dhreik@gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks all for the replies.
>
> Randy, i don't need a sheet feeder but I do need it to be able to scan
> pages from books.
>

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Thu Dec 6, 2012 9:47 am (PST) . Posted by:

"hester" drhester_06107

Will it scan pages from books? Some scanners don't do that so well.

Thanks

hester

--- In macsupportcentral@yahoogroups.com, bob morin <rbmorin11@...> wrote:
>
>
> On Dec 5, 2012, at 8:46 PM, Barbara Adamski <adamski@...> wrote:
>
> > I recently bought a Canoscan 5600F. I can't recall what I paid, but it wasn't too much. Works great with my iMac.
> >
>
>
> I have the same scanner which works very nicely. Great software with it. It has own power supply and doesn't power off a USB hub as some of the lower cost scanners do. I like Canon products.
>
> bob
>

Thu Dec 6, 2012 8:13 am (PST) . Posted by:

"stupnski@tiac.net" mstupinski

When I've tried in the last day or so to use Preview to look at a multipage PDF, it quits on the second or third page and gives me a log listing that seems to indicate a memory problem. I have 8GB of OWC memory modules in the second bank of memory slots on my iMac (2.8 GHz Intel Core i7, 21.5-inch, Mid 2011) running OS 10.8.2.

The log listing shows, in part :
===================
Crashed Thread: 0 Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread

Exception Type: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGSEGV)
Exception Codes: KERN_INVALID_ADDRESS at 0x000000010c0c2000

VM Regions Near 0x10c0c2000:
VM_ALLOCATE 000000010c0c0000-000000010c0c2000 [ 8K] rw-/rwx SM=PRV
--> shared memory 000000010c0c2000-000000010c0c3000 [ 4K] rw-/rw- SM=SHM
CG image 000000010c0fa000-000000010c171000 [ 476K] rw-/rwx SM=PRV

====================
System Profiler shows the following:

ECC: Disabled

BANK 0/DIMM0:

Size: 4 GB
Type: DDR3
Speed: 1333 MHz
Status: OK
Manufacturer: 0x80AD
Part Number: 0x484D54333531533643465238432D48392020
Serial Number: 0x3D660B34

BANK 1/DIMM0:

Size: 4 GB
Type: DDR3
Speed: 1333 MHz
Status: OK
Manufacturer: 0x80AD
Part Number: 0x484D54333531533643465238432D48392020
Serial Number: 0x3D560AED

BANK 0/DIMM1:

Size: 4 GB
Type: DDR3
Speed: 1333 MHz
Status: OK
Manufacturer: 0x0000
Part Number: 0x000000000000000000000000000000000000
Serial Number: 0x00000000

BANK 1/DIMM1:

Size: 4 GB
Type: DDR3
Speed: 1333 MHz
Status: OK
Manufacturer: 0x0000
Part Number: 0x000000000000000000000000000000000000
Serial Number: 0x00000000
====================

Note that System Profiler and TechTool both show RAM status as"OK" although the identification portions of the last three lines of Profiler's report are strange.

Restarts and permissions repairs have made no improvement.

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Thanks,
...............Mike

Thu Dec 6, 2012 9:13 am (PST) . Posted by:

"Otto Nikolaus" nikyzf

I think you have bad RAM. Try running Memtest or Rember.
<http://www.kelleycomputing.net/Rember/>
<http://www.memtestosx.org/joomla/index.php>

Otto

On 6 December 2012 16:13, <stupnski@tiac.net> wrote:

> When I've tried in the last day or so to use Preview to look at a
> multipage PDF, it quits on the second or third page and gives me a log
> listing that seems to indicate a memory problem. I have 8GB of OWC memory
> modules in the second bank of memory slots on my iMac (2.8 GHz Intel Core
> i7, 21.5-inch, Mid 2011) running OS 10.8.2.
>
> The log listing shows, in part :
> ===================
> Crashed Thread: 0 Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread
>
> Exception Type: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGSEGV)
> Exception Codes: KERN_INVALID_ADDRESS at 0x000000010c0c2000
>
> VM Regions Near 0x10c0c2000:
> VM_ALLOCATE 000000010c0c0000-000000010c0c2000 [ 8K]
> rw-/rwx SM=PRV
> --> shared memory 000000010c0c2000-000000010c0c3000 [ 4K]
> rw-/rw- SM=SHM
> CG image 000000010c0fa000-000000010c171000 [ 476K]
> rw-/rwx SM=PRV
>
> ====================
> System Profiler shows the following:
>
> ECC: Disabled
>
> BANK 0/DIMM0:
>
> Size: 4 GB
> Type: DDR3
> Speed: 1333 MHz
> Status: OK
> Manufacturer: 0x80AD
> Part Number: 0x484D54333531533643465238432D48392020
> Serial Number: 0x3D660B34
>
> BANK 1/DIMM0:
>
> Size: 4 GB
> Type: DDR3
> Speed: 1333 MHz
> Status: OK
> Manufacturer: 0x80AD
> Part Number: 0x484D54333531533643465238432D48392020
> Serial Number: 0x3D560AED
>
> BANK 0/DIMM1:
>
> Size: 4 GB
> Type: DDR3
> Speed: 1333 MHz
> Status: OK
> Manufacturer: 0x0000
> Part Number: 0x000000000000000000000000000000000000
> Serial Number: 0x00000000
>
> BANK 1/DIMM1:
>
> Size: 4 GB
> Type: DDR3
> Speed: 1333 MHz
> Status: OK
> Manufacturer: 0x0000
> Part Number: 0x000000000000000000000000000000000000
> Serial Number: 0x00000000
> ====================
>
> Note that System Profiler and TechTool both show RAM status as"OK"
> although the identification portions of the last three lines of Profiler's
> report are strange.
>
> Restarts and permissions repairs have made no improvement.
>
> Any suggestions would be appreciated.
>

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