Messages In This Digest (14 Messages)
- 1a.
- Thunderbolt - Big CES Announcements From: Denver Dan
- 1b.
- Re: Thunderbolt - Big CES Announcements From: Otto Nikolaus
- 1c.
- Re: Thunderbolt - Big CES Announcements From: Denver Dan
- 1d.
- Re: Thunderbolt - Big CES Announcements From: Bob Cook
- 2a.
- Re: Changing an Airport Express name From: Daly Jessup
- 2b.
- Re: Changing an Airport Express name From: Ken
- 3a.
- Re: Looking for an alternative to Address Book and iCal From: Larson
- 4a.
- Hard drive dilemma From: Dan
- 4b.
- Re: Hard drive dilemma From: Barry Austern
- 4c.
- Re: Hard drive dilemma From: Denver Dan
- 5a.
- Apple OS X Lion Re-install From: Arjun Singhal
- 5b.
- Re: Apple OS X Lion Re-install From: Harry Flaxman
- 5c.
- Re: Apple OS X Lion Re-install From: Harry Flaxman
- 6a.
- Re: How do I stop iPhoto sharing photos between users From: davidpriceuk
Messages
- 1a.
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Thunderbolt - Big CES Announcements
Posted by: "Denver Dan" denver.dan@verizon.net denverdan22180
Fri Jan 13, 2012 4:35 pm (PST)
Howdy.
Lots of announcements at CES of new Thunderbolt products, laptops, PC
logic boards, gadgets.
Here's some of the companies releasing Thunderbolt products soon:
Lenovo
LaCie
Acer
Belkin Dock
Seagate
Western Digital
ioSafe
OCZ Lightfoot external SSD
G-Tech, G-RAID
Elgato portable SSD
Intel releasing Thunderbolt equipped logic boards for PeeCees
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Looks like Thunderbolt is picking up steam.
Denver Dan
- 1b.
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Re: Thunderbolt - Big CES Announcements
Posted by: "Otto Nikolaus" otto.nikolaus@googlemail.com nikyzf
Fri Jan 13, 2012 4:57 pm (PST)
At last!
BTW is it possible for TB ports to connect to USB3?
Otto
On 14 January 2012 00:35, Denver Dan <denver.dan@verizon.net > wrote:
> Howdy.
>
> Lots of announcements at CES of new Thunderbolt products, laptops, PC
> logic boards, gadgets.
>
> Here's some of the companies releasing Thunderbolt products soon:
>
> Lenovo
>
> LaCie
>
> Acer
>
> Belkin Dock
>
> Seagate
>
> Western Digital
>
> ioSafe
>
> OCZ Lightfoot external SSD
>
> G-Tech, G-RAID
>
> Elgato portable SSD
>
> Intel releasing Thunderbolt equipped logic boards for PeeCees
>
> - - - - -
>
> Looks like Thunderbolt is picking up steam.
>
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- 1c.
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Re: Thunderbolt - Big CES Announcements
Posted by: "Denver Dan" denver.dan@verizon.net denverdan22180
Fri Jan 13, 2012 5:41 pm (PST)
Howdy.
It's very possible for USB 3 to run over Thunderbolt but someone has to
make the correct adapter for that to happen.
As it is, it should work to connect a USB 3 device to a USB 2 port on a
Thunderbolt gadget and it should work albeit not at USB 3 speeds.
On Sat, 14 Jan 2012 00:56:41 +0000, Otto Nikolaus wrote:
> At last!
>
> BTW is it possible for TB ports to connect to USB3?
>
> Otto
>
> On 14 January 2012 00:35, Denver Dan <denver.dan@verizon.net > wrote:
>
>> Howdy.
>>
>> Lots of announcements at CES of new Thunderbolt products, laptops, PC
>> logic boards, gadgets.
>>
>> Here's some of the companies releasing Thunderbolt products soon:
>>
>> Lenovo
>>
>> LaCie
>>
>> Acer
>>
>> Belkin Dock
>>
>> Seagate
>>
>> Western Digital
>>
>> ioSafe
>>
>> OCZ Lightfoot external SSD
>>
>> G-Tech, G-RAID
>>
>> Elgato portable SSD
>>
>> Intel releasing Thunderbolt equipped logic boards for PeeCees
>>
>> - - - - -
>>
>> Looks like Thunderbolt is picking up steam.
- 1d.
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Re: Thunderbolt - Big CES Announcements
Posted by: "Bob Cook" cookrd1@discoveryowners.com cookrd1
Fri Jan 13, 2012 5:44 pm (PST)
And most of them are very expensive and don't come with a TB cable. BTW,
you can walk by most of these booths and never know they had any new TB
products unless you really dug deep or asked. Definitely few big signs
with Thunderbolt emblazoned on them.
Sony has had TB on one of their Vaio models for a year. I just happened to
be looking at their Ultrabooks when someone asked if Sony used TB. When
they answered "No", I had to correct them.
We definitely need more vendors to get on the TB bandwagon since this will
mean more and less expensive products, and it is technically superior.
Hopefully, not another Firewire which was also superior but not widely
adapted outside of Apple or video. And, I didn't see Intel hawking TB but
they were hawking USB3 (but I could have missed it in the big crowd).
And, I would like to see USB3 ports on a TB dock or display. Samsung had a
super TB display but I don't recall if it had USB2 or 3 ports on it.
-Bob
On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 6:35 PM, Denver Dan <denver.dan@verizon.net > wrote:
> **
>
>
> Howdy.
>
> Lots of announcements at CES of new Thunderbolt products, laptops, PC
> logic boards, gadgets.
>
> Here's some of the companies releasing Thunderbolt products soon:
>
> Lenovo
>
> LaCie
>
> Acer
>
> Belkin Dock
>
> Seagate
>
> Western Digital
>
> ioSafe
>
> OCZ Lightfoot external SSD
>
> G-Tech, G-RAID
>
> Elgato portable SSD
>
> Intel releasing Thunderbolt equipped logic boards for PeeCees
>
> - - - - -
>
> Looks like Thunderbolt is picking up steam.
>
> Denver Dan
>
>
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- 2a.
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Re: Changing an Airport Express name
Posted by: "Daly Jessup" jessup@san.rr.com
Fri Jan 13, 2012 4:51 pm (PST)
On Jan 13, 2012, at 1:15 PM, Ken wrote:
> Hi. I now have 2 Airport Expresses, and the main wireless router, an Airport Extreme. My question is about the 2 Expresses. In iTunes, they both turn up as Airport Express, having the very same name. Is there a way to re-name one of them. The problem is more of an aggravation, in that they feed audio to different parts of the house, and it's a trial-and-error thing when choosing one over the other. If they even stayed in the same order in the iTunes' list, I could remember which one went where, but they flip-flop their order too.
Yes, just open /Applications/Utilities/ Airport Utility.
in there on the left, click on the icon for one of your Airport Expresses. Then under the Base Station tab, the top item is "Airport Express Name."
Rename it.
Do the same for the other.
Daly
- 2b.
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Re: Changing an Airport Express name
Posted by: "Ken" avlisk@cox.net avliska
Fri Jan 13, 2012 6:11 pm (PST)
Your suggestion changes it in Utility, but not in the iTunes screen, lower right, bottom. Both still say the same thing. I should have included that bit of info.
Ken S.
--- In macsupportcentral@yahoogroups. , Daly Jessup <jessup@...> wrote:com
>
> On Jan 13, 2012, at 1:15 PM, Ken wrote:
>
> > Hi. I now have 2 Airport Expresses, and the main wireless router, an Airport Extreme. My question is about the 2 Expresses. In iTunes, they both turn up as Airport Express, having the very same name. Is there a way to re-name one of them. The problem is more of an aggravation, in that they feed audio to different parts of the house, and it's a trial-and-error thing when choosing one over the other. If they even stayed in the same order in the iTunes' list, I could remember which one went where, but they flip-flop their order too.
>
> Yes, just open /Applications/Utilities/ Airport Utility.
> in there on the left, click on the icon for one of your Airport Expresses. Then under the Base Station tab, the top item is "Airport Express Name."
>
> Rename it.
>
> Do the same for the other.
>
> Daly
>
- 3a.
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Re: Looking for an alternative to Address Book and iCal
Posted by: "Larson" pix@maksimo.de yovard@ymail.com
Fri Jan 13, 2012 5:31 pm (PST)
On 13.01.2012, at 23:44, Michael Grant wrote:
> Contactizer Pro was one of the better ones, but unfortunately the
> company seems to have gone out of business — at least, they haven't
> responded to support queries by e-mail or on their own forum for
> months, and there was a rather cryptic tweet on Twitter back in
> December about how the lead developer (at least I think that was his
> role) had "betrayed" the company. Very disappointing.
The last update was from Oct. 2011.
Wir grown-ups all miss the legendary Now Contact & Now-up-to-Date, the kids are happy with AddressBook. Wish the last version of Now Contact (5.3.2) had Unicode support, then I might try installing the bundle again. Last time I tried it I was on Tiger and a G4 machine. Before the installation my computer was running fine. After the installation searching with Spotlight was not possible anymore. The Uninstaller which worked via Terminal was lousy and left a number of files behind in different places.
Anna
OS X 10.6.8
MacBook Pro 17''
- 4a.
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Hard drive dilemma
Posted by: "Dan" live2av8@usjet.net live2av8
Fri Jan 13, 2012 6:20 pm (PST)
Hard Drive question. One that has probably been asked many times
before. Just wondering if there's any recent resolutions.
I have an ATA/IDE internal drive that doesn't mount on the desktop.
I had it mounted in an external USB drive case.
I think the problem began about the time I tried to connect it to two
different computers running Windows XP. It wouldn't show as a usable
drive along with the others on the computers, but the computers
indicated there was a USB device connected.
Now back with Apple computers it doesn't mount either. Disk Utility
doesn't show it. I've put it in two different external drive cases,
one with USB & Firewire. I've mounted it inside a G4 desktop as a
second drive, it delayed the startup procedure but didn't mount.
So for the big question. Is it junk or is there someway to restore
it to working order? Some software that would have the ability to
analyze the drive?
Dan
- 4b.
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Re: Hard drive dilemma
Posted by: "Barry Austern" barryaus@fuse.net barryaus
Fri Jan 13, 2012 7:18 pm (PST)
At 8:20 PM -0600 1/13/12, Dan wrote:
>Hard Drive question. One that has probably been asked many times
>before. Just wondering if there's any recent resolutions.
>
>I have an ATA/IDE internal drive that doesn't mount on the desktop.
>I had it mounted in an external USB drive case.
>
>I think the problem began about the time I tried to connect it to two
>different computers running Windows XP. It wouldn't show as a usable
>drive along with the others on the computers, but the computers
>indicated there was a USB device connected.
>
>Now back with Apple computers it doesn't mount either. Disk Utility
>doesn't show it. I've put it in two different external drive cases,
>one with USB & Firewire. I've mounted it inside a G4 desktop as a
>second drive, it delayed the startup procedure but didn't mount.
>
>So for the big question. Is it junk or is there someway to restore
>it to working order? Some software that would have the ability to
>analyze the drive?
Probably 10-12 years or so ago since I played with IDE, but I do
recall having to set jumpers for master and slave. Each IDE bus, as I
recall, can have two drives, and one is master and the other slave.
Sorry I can't remember more, but maybe there are jumpers you have to
play with. An external case is its own bus, so the jumpering is not
the problem as much.
--
Barry Austern
barryaus@fuse.net
- 4c.
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Re: Hard drive dilemma
Posted by: "Denver Dan" denver.dan@verizon.net denverdan22180
Fri Jan 13, 2012 9:32 pm (PST)
Howdy.
Barry suggested checking Master and Slave jumpers on the drive itself.
Which to do depends on where it's installed and whether another IDE
drive is present. The selection, on most IDE drives, is done by adding
or moving a tiny "jumper" on pins on back of drive. Many IDE drives
will have a diagram showing this.
If you are certain that the Master/Slave jumper is set correctly, and
if drive has power, and if it still doesn't appear in Disk Utility then
you have a problem.
The classic drive resurrection utility is Disk Warrior. However, it
won't fix a hardware problem and a drive that has failed because of
component failure.
If the drive had really critical data on it, you could send it to a
place like Drive Savers but this is usually very expensive. They will
remove the actually magnetic disk platters in a clean room, put them in
a functioning device, and then attempt to recover data for you. Time
consuming and expensive.
If no critical data, and if it can't be seen in Disk Utility, and if
Master/slave jumper set correctly, toss it out.
Denver Dan
On Fri, 13 Jan 2012 20:20:13 -0600 (CST), Dan wrote:
> Hard Drive question. One that has probably been asked many times
> before. Just wondering if there¢s any recent resolutions.
>
> I have an ATA/IDE internal drive that doesn¢t mount on the desktop.
> I had it mounted in an external USB drive case.
>
> I think the problem began about the time I tried to connect it to two
> different computers running Windows XP. It wouldn¢t show as a usable
> drive along with the others on the computers, but the computers
> indicated there was a USB device connected.
>
> Now back with Apple computers it doesn¢t mount either. Disk Utility
> doesn¢t show it. I¢ve put it in two different external drive cases,
> one with USB & Firewire. I¢ve mounted it inside a G4 desktop as a
> second drive, it delayed the startup procedure but didn¢t mount.
>
> So for the big question. Is it junk or is there someway to restore
> it to working order? Some software that would have the ability to
> analyze the drive?
>
> Dan
- 5a.
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Apple OS X Lion Re-install
Posted by: "Arjun Singhal" arjunsinghal@yahoo.com arjunsinghal
Fri Jan 13, 2012 9:22 pm (PST)
Hi
Finally, I need to re-install the OS X Lion on my Late 2011 MacBook Pro, because the Bootcamp partition on the hard drive started giving blue-screen errors, when used with VM Ware Fusion. There is only the internet recovery option available on these Late 2011 MBPs, so I have booked a Speed-on-Demand connection that will allow a throughput of 4Mbps. Now, when it started to download the components, the installer says 116 hours to download.
The cost of the 4Mbps connection running continuously for 116 hours would be phenomenal. Perhaps even more than the cost of the Macbook Pro itself? And what if there are hiccups in the connection in between?
Last time, when I downloaded OS X Lion from the App Store on my late 2008 Machine, it took about 36 hours to download on the 4Mbps connection. I just seek to know, WHY is it that a recovery disk or thumb drive not be provided? And these options are not available even in retail in India? Is the development of the internet complete as per Apple, that everyone in the world has access to extreme multi gigabit connections that can download the OS in a jiffy?
Regards,
Arjun
- 5b.
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Re: Apple OS X Lion Re-install
Posted by: "Harry Flaxman" harry.flaxman@comcast.net hflaxman001
Fri Jan 13, 2012 10:42 pm (PST)
On Jan 14, 2012, at 12:22 AM, Arjun Singhal wrote:
> Hi
>
> Finally, I need to re-install the OS X Lion on my Late 2011 MacBook Pro, because the Bootcamp partition on the hard drive started giving blue-screen errors, when used with VM Ware Fusion. There is only the internet recovery option available on these Late 2011 MBPs, so I have booked a Speed-on-Demand connection that will allow a throughput of 4Mbps. Now, when it started to download the components, the installer says 116 hours to download.
>
> The cost of the 4Mbps connection running continuously for 116 hours would be phenomenal. Perhaps even more than the cost of the Macbook Pro itself? And what if there are hiccups in the connection in between?
>
> Last time, when I downloaded OS X Lion from the App Store on my late 2008 Machine, it took about 36 hours to download on the 4Mbps connection. I just seek to know, WHY is it that a recovery disk or thumb drive not be provided? And these options are not available even in retail in India? Is the development of the internet complete as per Apple, that everyone in the world has access to extreme multi gigabit connections that can download the OS in a jiffy?
What I did to avert the download problem was to use an app called Lion Diskmaker to create a bootable SD card with the os on it already. Problem is, you need the original 'Install Mac OS X Lion.app" somewhere locally to create this device. You can also use a flash drive. They have to be 4gb or larger in size.
The utility to create the bootable device is free and found here:
http://blog.gete.net/ lion-diskmaker- us/
Should you have this file, you can always do this locally. If you don't, I would save the file after the download and create one then.
There is also a method using Terminal, for extracting the file from the recovery partition of the hard drive, assuming you have one.
I'll send this to you directly as it is lengthy and in PDF on my machine.
Harry
Harry Flaxman
harry.flaxman@comcast.net
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Re: Apple OS X Lion Re-install
Posted by: "Harry Flaxman" harry.flaxman@comcast.net hflaxman001
Fri Jan 13, 2012 10:48 pm (PST)
On Jan 14, 2012, at 12:22 AM, Arjun Singhal wrote:
> Hi
>
> Finally, I need to re-install the OS X Lion on my Late 2011 MacBook Pro, because the Bootcamp partition on the hard drive started giving blue-screen errors, when used with VM Ware Fusion. There is only the internet recovery option available on these Late 2011 MBPs, so I have booked a Speed-on-Demand connection that will allow a throughput of 4Mbps. Now, when it started to download the components, the installer says 116 hours to download.
>
> The cost of the 4Mbps connection running continuously for 116 hours would be phenomenal. Perhaps even more than the cost of the Macbook Pro itself? And what if there are hiccups in the connection in between?
>
> Last time, when I downloaded OS X Lion from the App Store on my late 2008 Machine, it took about 36 hours to download on the 4Mbps connection. I just seek to know, WHY is it that a recovery disk or thumb drive not be provided? And these options are not available even in retail in India? Is the development of the internet complete as per Apple, that everyone in the world has access to extreme multi gigabit connections that can download the OS in a jiffy?
In case you didn't get my PDF on how to recover a copy of Lion from the recovery partition, the discussion is here:
https://discussions.apple.com/ thread/3190146? start=15& tstart=0
This contains the detailed instructions for extracting the installer for Lion from the recovery partition.
Harry
Harry Flaxman
harry.flaxman@comcast.net
- 6a.
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Re: How do I stop iPhoto sharing photos between users
Posted by: "davidpriceuk" dprice@fireflyuk.net davidpriceuk
Sat Jan 14, 2012 12:45 am (PST)
The libraries are in the Pictures folder. In Preferences in my iPhoto, the box "Look for Shared Photos" was checked but not in my son's. The Sharing option itself was not checked.
David
--- In macsupportcentral@yahoogroups. , Otto Nikolaus <otto.nikolaus@com ...> wrote:
>
> Is your library in Shared, or do you have sharing enabled in iPhoto itself?
>
> Otto
>
> On 13 January 2012 08:42, davidpriceuk <dprice@...> wrote:
>
> > For some reason, my iPhoto library is identical to the one in my son's
> > account. So if I import a photo, it also appears on his iPhoto, and vice
> > versa. I don't know how this happened exactly, but a couple of months ago I
> > noticed my iPhoto library had disappeared from the Pictures folder and in
> > replacing it, I seem to have caused this issue. Do you have any suggestions
> > for stopping it happening?
> >
>
>
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
>
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