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Sun Feb 24, 2013 8:44 am (PST) . Posted by:
"Jim Saklad" jimdoc01
> I much prefer the Mac OS for most of what I do, but I MUST use Internet Explorer for one Enterprise Medical Electronic Health Record and soon will be compelled to use Windows for another.
Have you tried activating the Developer menu in Safari and then telling Safari to "masquerade" as Internet Explorer?
Have you tried activating the Developer menu in Safari and then telling Safari to "masquerade&qu
Sun Feb 24, 2013 8:51 am (PST) . Posted by:
"James Robertson" jamesrob328i
On Feb 24, 2013, at 8:43 AM, Jim Saklad jimdoc@icloud.
> Have you tried activating the Developer menu in Safari and then telling Safari to "masquerade&qu
Not recently, but when I have, the fact that each generation of Internet Explorer in history has required some new and different cluster of bastardized html formatting elements made me give up on it.
As a customer (user) of literally a half dozen IE-demanding web apps in the Health Care space, I cannot BELIEVE they can stand up in front of their users, time after time, present their new release of their web app, but remind their users that they've not been able to make it run without problems yet in the newest release of Internet Exploder (not a typo, in my view).
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Sun Feb 24, 2013 9:56 am (PST) . Posted by:
"Otto Nikolaus" nikyzf
On 24 February 2013 16:51, James Robertson jamesrob@sonic.net > wrote:
>
> Not recently, but when I have, the fact that each generation of Internet
> Explorer in history has required some new and different cluster of
> bastardized html formatting elements made me give up on it.
>
> As a customer (user) of literally a half dozen IE-demanding web apps in
> the Health Care space, I cannot BELIEVE they can stand up in front of their
> users, time after time, present their new release of their web app, but
> remind their users that they've not been able to make it run without
> problems yet in the newest release of Internet Exploder (not a typo, in my
> view).
>
Let me add that I'm furious that any publicly funded body should design web
pages demanding the use of one commercial browser, and that these pages are
not W3C compliant. It's a ****ing disgrace.
Otto
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>
> Not recently, but when I have, the fact that each generation of Internet
> Explorer in history has required some new and different cluster of
> bastardized html formatting elements made me give up on it.
>
> As a customer (user) of literally a half dozen IE-demanding web apps in
> the Health Care space, I cannot BELIEVE they can stand up in front of their
> users, time after time, present their new release of their web app, but
> remind their users that they've not been able to make it run without
> problems yet in the newest release of Internet Exploder (not a typo, in my
> view).
>
Let me add that I'm furious that any publicly funded body should design web
pages demanding the use of one commercial browser, and that these pages are
not W3C compliant. It's a ****ing disgrace.
Otto
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Sun Feb 24, 2013 10:02 am (PST) . Posted by:
"James Robertson" jamesrob328i
On Feb 24, 2013, at 9:56 AM, Otto Nikolaus otto.nikolaus@
> It's a ****ing disgrace.
But in many rather large companies, quite the norm.
Jim
Sun Feb 24, 2013 10:09 am (PST) . Posted by:
"Otto Nikolaus" nikyzf
On 24 February 2013 18:02, James Robertson jamesrob@sonic.net > wrote:
>
> But in many rather large companies, quite the norm.
>
Well, you would think that business considerations would prevent such
stupidity, but then it's their loss, so who cares?
With publicly funded organisations, it's morally indefensible.
Otto
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>
> But in many rather large companies, quite the norm.
>
Well, you would think that business considerations would prevent such
stupidity, but then it's their loss, so who cares?
With publicly funded organisations, it's morally indefensible.
Otto
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Sun Feb 24, 2013 8:46 am (PST) . Posted by:
"James Robertson" jamesrob328i
On Feb 20, 2013, at 2:43 PM, us2forever us2forever@frontier
> On my MacBook Air running 10.8.2, I have to wait for it to slowly find the network. When it does, I have to go to the network drop down list and click the network "frontier8888&
I have a similar problem on my Retina Display MacBook Pro. There are a few specific locations where the computer'
There must be SOMETHING contributing at my end, because SOMETIMES I get in, and once I do, everything (well, ALMOST everything) is fine. What's not fine is that these folks provide me a secure Exchange IMAP account that enables their employees to communicate securely with me no matter where I am (I'm not joined to their domain); the one place I can't send or receive mail from them is those few times when I DO manage to obtain guest access via their own SSID!
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Sun Feb 24, 2013 8:49 am (PST) . Posted by:
"Jim Saklad" jimdoc01
> I can't restore from backup because this started so long ago that if I restored from a backup I would lose months of more recent calendar events.
You can archive/export your existing calendar(s), then restore from backup, then re-import the saved (current) data. Where they overlap you will have duplication, but that's easier to deal with than absence of data.
You can archive/export your existing calendar(s), then restore from backup, then re-import the saved (current) data. Where they overlap you will have duplication, but that's easier to deal with than absence of data.
Sun Feb 24, 2013 9:19 am (PST) . Posted by:
"John Mills" jsm5320432
I had a somewhat surreal experience with my iphone, MB Pro (10.7.5) and the icloud when I first set up my phone and synced via the "cloud". Every time I synced it duplicated every event on my MB Pro and phone. Luckily this happened at the Apple Store and after the intervention of 3 Apple Geniuses (One phone guy, one "cloud" lady and another MB Pro guy) working on things for nearly 4 hours they restored my original data - mostly.
There were a number of events that simply would not "un-duplicate" and I had to manually do all of those (not to worry, only 15 years or so of dates!) which was a great way to spend a day. The iphone (4s) was so screwed up they gave me a new one, with the advice "don't use the cloud to sync".
Since then I only sync with my USB cord and things work flawlessly. However from time to time I wonder what other "black holes" are hiding up there in the cloud.
My experience with the cloud elicits a standard Cpt. James T. Kirk order to Engineering, "Scotty, all power to the warp drive and get us out of here!"
John
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There were a number of events that simply would not "un-duplicate&
Since then I only sync with my USB cord and things work flawlessly. However from time to time I wonder what other "black holes" are hiding up there in the cloud.
My experience with the cloud elicits a standard Cpt. James T. Kirk order to Engineering, "Scotty, all power to the warp drive and get us out of here!"
John
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Sun Feb 24, 2013 9:41 am (PST) . Posted by:
"Otto Nikolaus" nikyzf
On 24 February 2013 16:12, Daly Jessup jessup@san.rr.com > wrote:
>
> Otto, this was encouraging. I attempted to replicate what you did, but
> found that I had no Time Machine backup old enough to recover my old
> events. So I just have to let that go. At least now, having corrected the
> setting for "delete events earlier than one month ago," I should be okay
> into the future.
>
> But your post did leave me with two questions:
> 1) If you are backing up with CCC, how is it that you can retain
> earlier versions of files? Does CCC let you keep earlier versions of files
> while still cloning the most recent file?
>
> 2) How in iCal do you combine two calendars?
>
Daly,
I'm concerned that you have no TM backups that would help. Have you only
just started using it? I thought that every month, it combines old daily
backups into monthly ones and these are all kept until you run out of space.
We use CCC to update full bootable clones monthly (or when I remember!).
These are held on 2 externals which we alternate/rotate.
CCC is also set up to take regular (daily, etc.) backups to disk images on
our NAS. There are various options for what to do with files which get
replaced with newer versions. Ours get moved to folders within a folder CCC
Archives, still within the disk images. These subfolders are named using
the time stamp, e.g.
2013-02-23 (February 23) 23-02-25.
I can't remember exactly how I combined the calendars. I probably used File
> Export on the smaller one, and then imported the output (.ics) file into
the larger one. These .ics files are a good extra level of backup too.
HTH,
Otto
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>
> Otto, this was encouraging. I attempted to replicate what you did, but
> found that I had no Time Machine backup old enough to recover my old
> events. So I just have to let that go. At least now, having corrected the
> setting for "delete events earlier than one month ago," I should be okay
> into the future.
>
> But your post did leave me with two questions:
> 1) If you are backing up with CCC, how is it that you can retain
> earlier versions of files? Does CCC let you keep earlier versions of files
> while still cloning the most recent file?
>
> 2) How in iCal do you combine two calendars?
>
Daly,
I'm concerned that you have no TM backups that would help. Have you only
just started using it? I thought that every month, it combines old daily
backups into monthly ones and these are all kept until you run out of space.
We use CCC to update full bootable clones monthly (or when I remember!).
These are held on 2 externals which we alternate/rotate.
CCC is also set up to take regular (daily, etc.) backups to disk images on
our NAS. There are various options for what to do with files which get
replaced with newer versions. Ours get moved to folders within a folder CCC
Archives, still within the disk images. These subfolders are named using
the time stamp, e.g.
2013-02-23 (February 23) 23-02-25.
I can't remember exactly how I combined the calendars. I probably used File
> Export on the smaller one, and then imported the output (.ics) file into
the larger one. These .ics files are a good extra level of backup too.
HTH,
Otto
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Sun Feb 24, 2013 9:48 am (PST) . Posted by:
"Otto Nikolaus" nikyzf
Mine is iCal 3.0.8 within 10.5.8.
Whilst this setting has clearly caused problems for some when it's been
mysteriously selected, surely it should still be present in some form in
later versions? The option is
[ ] Delete events [1] days after they have passed
Otto
On 24 February 2013 16:12, Michael Stupinski stupnski@tiac.net > wrote:
> I'm running v 6.0 of iCal and can find no provision for setting or
> adjusting automatic deletion of events based upon their age. That includes
> settings under the 'Advanced' tab. Is this setting only in an older
> version of iCal?
>
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Whilst this setting has clearly caused problems for some when it's been
mysteriously selected, surely it should still be present in some form in
later versions? The option is
[ ] Delete events [1] days after they have passed
Otto
On 24 February 2013 16:12, Michael Stupinski stupnski@tiac.
> I'm running v 6.0 of iCal and can find no provision for setting or
> adjusting automatic deletion of events based upon their age. That includes
> settings under the 'Advanced&#
> version of iCal?
>
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Sun Feb 24, 2013 9:25 am (PST) . Posted by:
"hester" drhester_06107
Thank you for this post. Very helpful and apropos for us non-techies.
Much appreciated.
hester
--- In macsupportcentral@
>
> Many of the posters who give blanket advice that the proper thing to do is just to delete all traced of Java from the Mac must not realize that there are people who would have to go and find different employment if they did that. There are MANY enterprise web apps that are ABSOLUTELY critical to day to day work for the employers in question that are totally dependent on a properly functioning Java plugin. Many Mac users might stare at that cute little coffeecup daily as they load their web app to start work, yet still not have the foggiest notion that if they delete the Java runtime they've deleted their ability to do their daily work at the same time.
>
> JMO (based on having to use a Java Plugin daily),
>
>
>
> --
> Jim Robertson
>
Sun Feb 24, 2013 10:17 am (PST) . Posted by:
"Eric" emanmb
There seemed to me to be quite a few sites that require it, let alone enhance a site. If you want to do a ping test or speed test of your internet you'll need it. (pingtest.net & speedtest.net) When I turned it off once a year or so ago after reading of the risk etc of using it, I found that even Google's page didn't work right.
So I've gone ahead and kept it.
So if it means my plans to conquer the universe are open to hackers or whatever the vulnerability is, so be it. I run Sophos and I'll keep my fingers crossed. There's just too many things to keep track of on these machines as it is let alone worry about some minor vulnerability that more than likely won't affect me.
--- In macsupportcentral@yahoogroups.com , James Robertson wrote:
>
>
> On Feb 22, 2013, at 4:22 PM, Paul Smith wrote:
>
> > Running a known Java app locally, with no connection made to the internet, should be safe. I would strongly advise against installing the Oracle component at this time, though.
>
> Many of the posters who give blanket advice that the proper thing to do is just to delete all traced of Java from the Mac must not realize that there are people who would have to go and find different employment if they did that. There are MANY enterprise web apps that are ABSOLUTELY critical to day to day work for the employers in question that are totally dependent on a properly functioning Java plugin. Many Mac users might stare at that cute little coffeecup daily as they load their web app to start work, yet still not have the foggiest notion that if they delete the Java runtime they've deleted their ability to do their daily work at the same time.
>
> JMO (based on having to use a Java Plugin daily),
>
>
>
> --
> Jim Robertson
>
So I've gone ahead and kept it.
So if it means my plans to conquer the universe are open to hackers or whatever the vulnerability is, so be it. I run Sophos and I'll keep my fingers crossed. There's just too many things to keep track of on these machines as it is let alone worry about some minor vulnerability that more than likely won't affect me.
--- In macsupportcentral@
>
>
> On Feb 22, 2013, at 4:22 PM, Paul Smith wrote:
>
> > Running a known Java app locally, with no connection made to the internet, should be safe. I would strongly advise against installing the Oracle component at this time, though.
>
> Many of the posters who give blanket advice that the proper thing to do is just to delete all traced of Java from the Mac must not realize that there are people who would have to go and find different employment if they did that. There are MANY enterprise web apps that are ABSOLUTELY critical to day to day work for the employers in question that are totally dependent on a properly functioning Java plugin. Many Mac users might stare at that cute little coffeecup daily as they load their web app to start work, yet still not have the foggiest notion that if they delete the Java runtime they've deleted their ability to do their daily work at the same time.
>
> JMO (based on having to use a Java Plugin daily),
>
>
>
> --
> Jim Robertson
>
Sun Feb 24, 2013 10:02 am (PST) . Posted by:
"C Melsbakas" cmelsbakas
Randy--thanks for your comments on the various virusi and their efficacy. I downloaded Sofus recently and noticed the beach ball spinning more than before. I want to take your advice and get rid of it. What's the best way to do it? Don't want to leave any remnants. Thanks.
Ches M
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Ches M
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Sun Feb 24, 2013 10:14 am (PST) . Posted by:
"Jurgen Richter" epsongroups
It is a network access security issue, not an itunes one.
This looks like you have LittleSnitch installed and it asks you every
time you launch itunes.... and you responded with yes or no to allow >>
until quit << rather than forever, or whichever other choice you picked.
So everytime you launch itunes it does that. If you allow it to so
forever, then the message will stop (as you have now more-or-less
defined a LittleSnitch rule to that effect.) You can always edit these
rules later if and when you change your mind.
re: I've yet to find a way to turn off the "Do you want the application
"itunes.
app" to accept incoming network connections?" message. Is deleting
itunes via the Terminal as per this page
http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1525142
http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1525142 > the only option
to fix this? Yikes.
This looks like you have LittleSnitch installed and it asks you every
time you launch itunes.... and you responded with yes or no to allow >>
until quit << rather than forever, or whichever other choice you picked.
So everytime you launch itunes it does that. If you allow it to so
forever, then the message will stop (as you have now more-or-less
defined a LittleSnitch rule to that effect.) You can always edit these
rules later if and when you change your mind.
re: I've yet to find a way to turn off the "Do you want the application
"itunes.
app" to accept incoming network connections?
itunes via the Terminal as per this page
http://forums.
http://forums.
to fix this? Yikes.
Sun Feb 24, 2013 11:15 am (PST) . Posted by:
"nosteele" nosteele
I have found folders in my Trash that I am pretty sure are backups that have been deleted from Time Machine. Info on one of the folders shows: /Volumes/Time Machine Backups/.Trashes/501
Because of this I am guessing these backups in my Trash are backups that have been deleted by Time Machine because my backup disc was full.
I want to empty my Trash and find that when it starts to process the number of files to be deleted it has 130,000 files and counting. I should say that all that is showing Trash are these eleven TM backups.
Is there a way that I can delete these backups one by one rather than having Trash do 130,000 files at one time?
Since I sometimes delete backups by opening the Time Machine program and delete using the Time Machine delete backup option, I do not recall ever dragging backups to the Trash.
Because of this I am guessing these backups in my Trash are backups that have been deleted by Time Machine because my backup disc was full.
I want to empty my Trash and find that when it starts to process the number of files to be deleted it has 130,000 files and counting. I should say that all that is showing Trash are these eleven TM backups.
Is there a way that I can delete these backups one by one rather than having Trash do 130,000 files at one time?
Since I sometimes delete backups by opening the Time Machine program and delete using the Time Machine delete backup option, I do not recall ever dragging backups to the Trash.
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