Messages In This Digest (25 Messages)
- 1a.
- Re: Hard drive dilemma From: Tod Hopkins
- 2a.
- Re: Apple OS X Lion Re-install From: Jim Saklad
- 2b.
- Re: Apple OS X Lion Re-install From: Jim Saklad
- 2c.
- Re: Apple OS X Lion Re-install From: N.A. Nada
- 2d.
- Re: Apple OS X Lion Re-install From: Arjun Singhal
- 2e.
- Re: Apple OS X Lion Re-install From: Harry Flaxman
- 2f.
- Re: Apple OS X Lion Re-install From: Jim Saklad
- 2g.
- Re: Apple OS X Lion Re-install From: Randy B. Singer
- 2h.
- Re: Apple OS X Lion Re-install From: Harry Flaxman
- 3a.
- Re: Looking for an alternative to Address Book and iCal From: N.A. Nada
- 4a.
- Re: Real Player Folder From: paul smith
- 5a.
- Re: DiskWarrior any good ??? From: Oneal Neumann, nonPhD
- 5b.
- Re: DiskWarrior any good ??? From: OBrien
- 6.
- iPad 3 - Bloomberg Report From: Denver Dan
- 7.
- 63% speed increase From: HAL9000
- 8.
- SOPA - Stop Online Piracy Act - Learn More From: Denver Dan
- 9a.
- Re: bedeviled by glitches From: Oneal Neumann, prePhD
- 10a.
- Re: caches From: Oneal Neumann, prePhD
- 10b.
- Re: caches From: Otto Nikolaus
- 11a.
- Re: Apple-font diacritics From: Oneal Neumann, prePhD
- 11b.
- Re: Apple-font diacritics From: Oneal Neumann, prePhD
- 12a.
- Re: disk temps From: Oneal Neumann, prePhD
- 12b.
- Re: disk temps From: Tod Hopkins
- 12c.
- Re: disk temps From: Jim Saklad
- 13a.
- Re: Changing an Airport Express name From: Jay Abraham
Messages
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Re: Hard drive dilemma
Posted by: "Tod Hopkins" hoplist@hillmanncarr.com todhop
Sat Jan 14, 2012 6:45 am (PST)
In many newer machines with ATA/IDE, including Macs I think, the proper jumper setting may be "cable select" (aka "CS") assuming you are using provided cables. In any case, your drive will currently be set to "master" if it was in an external case, and this will prevent mounting if it is installed as the second drive in the chain. Can't have two masters.
In many machines with both ATA and SATA, the ATA is not "on" by default, though I'm not sure how this works in any given Mac version. Just because there is an ATA connection does not mean that connection is active. Check documentation. You may need to flip a jumper (or set the BIOS on PC) if the ATA chain is not currently in use.
Cheers,
tod
On Jan 14, 2012, at 12:31 AM, Denver Dan wrote:
> 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
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Re: Apple OS X Lion Re-install
Posted by: "Jim Saklad" jimdoc@me.com jimdoc01
Sat Jan 14, 2012 10:20 am (PST)
> 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 Lion installer is smaller than 4 gigabytes. At 4 megabits per second, it should take 8000 seconds or about 2 hours 10 minutes.
If it predicts 116 hours, then you are getting less than 80 KILObits per second.
You are being ripped off. Demand the speed you are paying for.
> 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.
And apparently, you failed to save a backup copy before installing it, so that the installer deleted the installer file upon completion. Otherwise you would not need to download it again.
> I just seek to know, WHY is it that a recovery disk or thumb drive not be provided?
You are asking in the wrong venue.
Ask Apple.
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Re: Apple OS X Lion Re-install
Posted by: "Jim Saklad" jimdoc@me.com jimdoc01
Sat Jan 14, 2012 11:59 am (PST)
>> I just seek to know, WHY is it that a recovery disk or thumb drive not be provided?
>
> You are asking in the wrong venue.
> Ask Apple.
I should add that, at least in the U.S., Apple does sell a thumb drive with the installer on it.
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Re: Apple OS X Lion Re-install
Posted by: "N.A. Nada" whodo678@comcast.net
Sat Jan 14, 2012 12:31 pm (PST)
On Jan 13, 2012, at 9:22 PM, 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?
It doesn't take 116 hours. It will probably be closer to the 36 hours you had before. Still a very long time, especially when you have to pay for upgraded download speeds.
However you get a copy of (Install Mac OS X Lion.app) onto your MBP move it from the Application Folder BEFORE you reinstall it. As long as it is not in your Application Folder the installer will not delete it when done.
But better yet, burn it to a disc or make a Recovery DVD, thumb drive, or external hard drive. There are plenty of tutorials online. I think you can even make a recovery partition on a Time Machine.
One note of caution, it sounds line you will need two Lion Recovery versions, since one came with Lion and your other laptops had prior original Mac OS X. From the notes in: http://support.apple.com/ kb/HT4848
" • If the computer shipped with Lion, the external recovery drive can only be used with the system that created it.
• If the system was upgraded from Mac OS X v10.6 Snow Leopard to Lion, the external recovery drive can be used with other systems that were upgraded from Snow Leopard to Lion."
It does not say if you can or can not make an external recovery drive or disc for those that shipped with Lion. (If not, real bummer, and grounds for a real gripe with Apple.)
You should probably read through these articles also:
http://support.apple.com/ kb/HT4718
http://9to5mac.com/2011/ 08/08/apple- releases- tool-to-create- an-os-x-lion- recoveryinstalla tion-external- drive/
http://www.macworld.com/article/ 161069/2011/ 07/make_a_ bootable_ lion_installer. html
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Re: Apple OS X Lion Re-install
Posted by: "Arjun Singhal" arjunsinghal@yahoo.com arjunsinghal
Sat Jan 14, 2012 2:18 pm (PST)
It will take 116 hours because apparently it will download everything that the computerr shipped with including ilife etc.
And although a lot of folks have suggested creating my own thumb drive, that is possile on,y if youre upgrading to lion from the app store after using snow leopard. If lion comes pre installed on your system, you cannot create your own thumb drive.
If apple had considered that as a friendly gesture to people who dont have fast access to the internet, it would be good. Most hp laptops do not ship with the recovery DVDs, but they have a utility that allows you to make the recovery DVD yourself for one time. After that the utility stops working.
In earlier days, if you called apple support and told them that the recovery CD is not working, they shipped you a replacement DVD. Now if u say you do not have an internet connection worthy of downloading Lion quickly, they say, the internet is the only option. In my opinion, such people are robots, not humans. Mindless robots.
This side of the globe, the mirrors are slow where it downloads content from. I have run speed tests on my connection, it is 4 mbps. Its just that apple downloads are extra slow here. Its queer coz asia provides more than 50% of the traffic to you tube, and 44% of the entire internet traffic is also coming from asia. And apple is neglecting it, if they are not providing adequate bandwidth to india from their servers.
Regards,
Arjun
blowtrumpet.com
Sent from my iPad
On 15-Jan-2012, at 2:01, "N.A. Nada" <whodo678@comcast.net > wrote:
>
> On Jan 13, 2012, at 9:22 PM, 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 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?
>
> It doesn't take 116 hours. It will probably be closer to the 36 hours you had before. Still a very long time, especially when you have to pay for upgraded download speeds.
>
> However you get a copy of (Install Mac OS X Lion.app) onto your MBP move it from the Application Folder BEFORE you reinstall it. As long as it is not in your Application Folder the installer will not delete it when done.
>
> But better yet, burn it to a disc or make a Recovery DVD, thumb drive, or external hard drive. There are plenty of tutorials online. I think you can even make a recovery partition on a Time Machine.
>
> One note of caution, it sounds line you will need two Lion Recovery versions, since one came with Lion and your other laptops had prior original Mac OS X. From the notes in: http://support.apple.com/ kb/HT4848
>
> " • If the computer shipped with Lion, the external recovery drive can only be used with the system that created it.
> • If the system was upgraded from Mac OS X v10.6 Snow Leopard to Lion, the external recovery drive can be used with other systems that were upgraded from Snow Leopard to Lion."
>
> It does not say if you can or can not make an external recovery drive or disc for those that shipped with Lion. (If not, real bummer, and grounds for a real gripe with Apple.)
>
> You should probably read through these articles also:
>
> http://support.apple.com/ kb/HT4718
>
> http://9to5mac.com/2011/ 08/08/apple- releases- tool-to-create- an-os-x-lion- recoveryinstalla tion-external- drive/
>
> http://www.macworld.com/article/ 161069/2011/ 07/make_a_ bootable_ lion_installer. html
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Re: Apple OS X Lion Re-install
Posted by: "Harry Flaxman" harry.flaxman@comcast.net hflaxman001
Sat Jan 14, 2012 2:21 pm (PST)
On Jan 14, 2012, at 5:17 PM, Arjun Singhal wrote:
> It will take 116 hours because apparently it will download everything that the computerr shipped with including ilife etc.
Arjun,
You never said, did you get anywhere with the recovery partition?
Harry
Harry Flaxman
harry.flaxman@comcast.net
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Re: Apple OS X Lion Re-install
Posted by: "Jim Saklad" jimdoc@me.com jimdoc01
Sat Jan 14, 2012 3:08 pm (PST)
> It will take 116 hours because apparently it will download everything that the computer shipped with including ilife etc.
That is still highly unlikely to be more than 16 GB when unpacked. At 4 Mbps, still only 10 hours or less.
> And although a lot of folks have suggested creating my own thumb drive, that is possible only if you're upgrading to lion from the app store after using snow leopard. If lion comes pre installed on your system, you cannot create your own thumb drive.
But you stated that you had also downloaded the Lion installer for a machine that didn't originally come with Lion.
All that advice about saving the installer, and making a bootable thumb drive or DVD DOES apply to that installer, and that COULD have been used to reinstall Lion on the new machine.
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Re: Apple OS X Lion Re-install
Posted by: "Randy B. Singer" randy@macattorney.com randybrucesinger
Sat Jan 14, 2012 6:29 pm (PST)
On Jan 14, 2012, at 2:17 PM, Arjun Singhal wrote:
> And although a lot of folks have suggested creating my own thumb
> drive, that is possile on,y if youre upgrading to lion from the app
> store after using snow leopard. If lion comes pre installed on your
> system, you cannot create your own thumb drive.
Sure you can.
You can 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.
_____________________ _________ _________ ____
Randy B. Singer
Co-author of The Macintosh Bible (4th, 5th, and 6th editions)
Macintosh OS X Routine Maintenance
http://www.macattorney.com/ts. html
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Re: Apple OS X Lion Re-install
Posted by: "Harry Flaxman" harry.flaxman@comcast.net hflaxman001
Sat Jan 14, 2012 7:02 pm (PST)
On Jan 14, 2012, at 9:29 PM, Randy B. Singer wrote:
>
> On Jan 14, 2012, at 2:17 PM, Arjun Singhal wrote:
>
>> And although a lot of folks have suggested creating my own thumb
>> drive, that is possile on,y if youre upgrading to lion from the app
>> store after using snow leopard. If lion comes pre installed on your
>> system, you cannot create your own thumb drive.
>
> Sure you can.
>
> You can 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.
Randy,
I added this right after he started the thread. I also emailed the specific instructions to him.
I kind of wondered why this kept going on.
Easy to get it off of the recovery partition using Terminal and the diskutil command!
Harry
Harry Flaxman
harry.flaxman@comcast.net
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Re: Looking for an alternative to Address Book and iCal
Posted by: "N.A. Nada" whodo678@comcast.net
Sat Jan 14, 2012 11:30 am (PST)
On Jan 13, 2012, at 5:31 PM, Larson wrote:
> 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,
From your original post I could tell you were looking for either a project (or office) management or sales helper. You spelled it out with,
"I would like to know what kind of CRM (customer relationship management) program Randy B. Singer is using as a lawyer and what PIMs (personal information manager) other members here can recommend. "
You could have not been more clear.
And you are correct, AddressBook and iCal are very basic, and for the 80%. I'm sorry I can't offer a suggestion to you, because they satisfy my needs.
Brent
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Re: Real Player Folder
Posted by: "paul smith" kullervo@nycap.rr.com waldonny
Sat Jan 14, 2012 11:48 am (PST)
Real Player Downloader is a real nuisance, IMO. And all the stuff in the RP folder *should* be unnecessary and disposable. The only catch would be if the previous owner messed things up so badly that necessary items got misfiled in that location.
Do you also have the installer DVD for your Mac? If so, I would recommend deleting the Real Player folder entirely. You can then download a new copy of Real Player if you wish. And if anything vital to the operating system gets deleted, you can reinstall it from the installer DVD.
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PSmith
MacBook Pro, 2.4GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 4 GB DDR2 SDRAM, OS 10.7.2 iPhone 4S 64 GB, iOS 5.0.1
On Jan 13, 2012, at 6:53 PM, Rick wrote:
It seems "Real Player Downloader" pops up from time to time while I am about to view e-mail, as if it has a mind of its own.
I opened the "Real Player" Folder and found about 4,500 items, some of which are the photos I have in iPhoto or the music I store in iTunes.
But the majority of items/icons, are things I do not recognize and as such, I wonder if I should be deleting some or if in the entirety they are consuming too many GB`s, although it does not seem to be the case.
At the same time many of these may be valuable to the computer`s on going functions.
Examples are as follows:
"Portable Net," "Graphics," Quick Draw," "Word 2003 Format and Template,"
"HTML Document," "Tiff Image," "Apple Loop" and more.
Since I am not the original owner, could the above examples be things that were never purged before I took possession?
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Re: DiskWarrior any good ???
Posted by: "Oneal Neumann, nonPhD" wardell.h.s@gmail.com newalander
Sat Jan 14, 2012 1:29 pm (PST)
A friend gave me DiskWarrior 4.0 years ago for problems I was then having, however I never really used it much. Not sure if it helped me at all. I moved up to Leopard and my earlier problems disappeared with an erase-and-install as recommend by Denver Dan.
Is there any point getting the up-to-date version for Lion, which I will get soon?
Thanx. Oneal
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Re: DiskWarrior any good ???
Posted by: "OBrien" bco@hiwaay.net conorboru
Sat Jan 14, 2012 4:42 pm (PST)
On Sat, 14 Jan 2012 00:37:10 -0500, Oneal Neumann, nonPhD wrote:
> Is there any point getting the up-to-date version for Lion, which I
> will get soon?
Maybe. DW is a staple utility that can be invaluable at times.
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iPad 3 - Bloomberg Report
Posted by: "Denver Dan" denver.dan@verizon.net denverdan22180
Sat Jan 14, 2012 1:53 pm (PST)
Howdy.
iPad 3. Quad processor, High Definition screen, LTE download speed.
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IPad 3 Said to Have High-Def Screen, LTE
By Tim Culpan, Peter Burrows and Adam Satariano - Jan 13, 2012 7:44 PM
ET
<http://www.bloomberg.com/news/ >2012-01-13/ apple-said- to-prepare- march-ipad- 3-debut-with- sharper-screen- faster-chip. html
Denver Dan
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63% speed increase
Posted by: "HAL9000" jrswebhome@yahoo.com jrswebhome
Sat Jan 14, 2012 2:18 pm (PST)
namebench does it again. This time it was only rearranging the same server addresses in network settings.
jr
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SOPA - Stop Online Piracy Act - Learn More
Posted by: "Denver Dan" denver.dan@verizon.net denverdan22180
Sat Jan 14, 2012 2:40 pm (PST)
Howdy.
I'm posting this and asking that group members take some time, on their
own account, to learn more about his issue.
I also asked the group owner and moderators if they thought this was an
appropriate issue to mention here and the group owner thought it was as
long as the discussion is limited.
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I'm requesting, as a moderator, that group members not engage in a
discussion of copyright and online piracy here.
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Many countries would be impacted. Because this bill also aims at
stopping internet trafficking of copyrighted goods, counterfeited
goods, and intellectual property that is centered in countries outside
the borders of the United States it could affect many people and many
countries.
Please read more. Do some Yahoo and Google searching on the topic and
form your own opinion.
If you are not already familiar with this bill that has been introduced
in the United States House of Representatives, please use this as a
starting point to learn more.
The introduced bill is called H.R. 3261. Called the Stop Online Piracy
Act.
A companion bill called PIPA has been introduced in the United States
Senate.
Votes on both the SOPA bill in the US House and the PIPA bill in the US
Senate were recently postponed. Revisions to the bills' language may
be introduced.
A very large number of companies and individuals have come out in
opposition to this bill. Today the White House came out for major
revisions to the bill.
A good place to start reading about it is Wikipedia.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ >Stop_Online_ Piracy_Act
The bill was introduced by a bi-partisan group in the US House of
Representatives but is also supported by some major groups like the
United States Chamber of Commerce, the Recording Industry Association
of America (RIAA), Time-Warner, and the Motion Picture Association of
America (MPAA).
Please be aware that GoDaddy, the internet hosting & domain group, was
initially in favor of this legislation but when they lost many
customers in protest of GoDaddy's support of this bill, GoDaddy changed
positions. Wikipedia changed from GoDaddy to another provider and said
they might have to close if this bill were passed.
Other entities opposing the bill include: Facebook, eBay, Mozilla,
Twitter, Huffington Post's parent company AOL, NVIDIA, Mojan,
Electronic Frontier Foundation, and many others.
Here's an article in Huffington Post that provides some more
information about the recent White House position on this bill:
<http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ >2012/01/14/ white-house- sopa-pipa_ n_1206347. html
One of the issues involved is the power of the government to terminate
a web site, to block access, to blacklist users and commercial
entities, and to block DNS addresses. A part of this is confusion over
whether the government would have to secure a court oder first, or,
not.
So please read more. Do some Yahoo and Google searching on the topic
and form your own opinion.
Thanks.
Denver Dan
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Re: bedeviled by glitches
Posted by: "Oneal Neumann, prePhD" wardell.h.s@gmail.com newalander
Sat Jan 14, 2012 3:01 pm (PST)
On 2012 January 13 (at 11:47) Bill B. wrote:
>> At 1:52 PM -0500 1/12/12, Oneal Neumann wrote:
>> In general terms, if knowable, what is producing this drift into operative wonkiness? Why do things that once worked fine no longer work as they used to? Will a (soon) move to Lion (10.7) remedy my still-minor problems, or will I just be bringing them along for the ride?
>
> Prefs, caches and extension conflicts. Trash prefs, clean caches. Check fonts too. It that doesn't help I would do a clean install of everything after cloning and erasing a disk.
>
> Bill B.
>
I used Yasu and Preferential Treatment, however nothing has changed with respect to Mail.
Yasu clears caches, so that part of your suggest was effected. Preferential Treatment, on the other hand, only checks whether my prefs were okay. No probs there.
Which preferences should I trash? How does one 'check' fonts? The only thing that I saw (in Font Book) was removing duplicate fonts, which I did.
Thanx. Oneal
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Re: caches
Posted by: "Oneal Neumann, prePhD" wardell.h.s@gmail.com newalander
Sat Jan 14, 2012 3:18 pm (PST)
What are caches and how do they affect the functioning of my laptop? There's nothing in Help that helps.
A poster to an earlier thread suggested, amongst other things, that I clear my caches, which was effected by Yasu.
How does clearing caches mitigate problems in general? In specific, my Mail probs remain.
Thanx. Oneal
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Re: caches
Posted by: "Otto Nikolaus" otto.nikolaus@googlemail.com nikyzf
Sat Jan 14, 2012 4:26 pm (PST)
What are caches?
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ >Cache
What to do about them?
<http://www.macattorney.com/ts. >html#3
(Your Mail problems may have nothing to do with caches.)
Otto
On 14 January 2012 23:18, Oneal Neumann, prePhD <wardell.h.s@gmail.com >wrote:
>
> What are caches and how do they affect the functioning of my laptop?
> There's nothing in Help that helps.
>
> A poster to an earlier thread suggested, amongst other things, that I
> clear my caches, which was effected by Yasu.
>
> How does clearing caches mitigate problems in general? In specific, my
> Mail probs remain.
>
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Re: Apple-font diacritics
Posted by: "Oneal Neumann, prePhD" wardell.h.s@gmail.com newalander
Sat Jan 14, 2012 3:48 pm (PST)
> On 2012 January 13 (at 16:25) Otto Nikolaus wrote:
>
> Is this using the Hungarian keyboard mapping? What's the distortion you are
> seeing? Are these distorted?
> Å'Å'ÅÅűűŰŰ
>
> Is <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ > any help as aHungarian_ alphabet
> reference? Otto
>
The font that I saw was 13-point Georgia. No probs with that particular font, so I will have to add it to my list of fave fonts.
I already knew of the link. Nothing there about fonts, at least nothing that I saw.
My diacritic problem with certain fonts is twofold: inconsistency in the look of the accents and inconsistency in the letter-body forms. Sometimes only one problem exists at a time.
Trebuchet MS has been the best thus far and it is the one font that I consistently use in my emails to Hungary. I am not sure, however, that PCs can render the font as I use it, so ultimately I may be defeated in my quest for alphabet uniformity.
Thanx. Oneal
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Re: Apple-font diacritics
Posted by: "Oneal Neumann, prePhD" wardell.h.s@gmail.com newalander
Sat Jan 14, 2012 3:57 pm (PST)
> On 2012 January 13 (at 16:54) Ian Gillis wrote:
>
>> On 13 January 2012 09:33, Oneal Neumann, nonPhD <wardell.h.s@gmail.com > wrote:
>> Most fonts can handle the standard diacriticked vowels: <ááá>, <ééé>, <ÃÃÃ>, <óóó>, <úúú>. Most can also handle short umlauts: <ööö>, <üüü>. My problem is with long umlauts: <Å'Å'Å'>, <űűű>, which do not exist in German, which only has 30 letters compared to 40 Hungarian.
>>
>> The problem that I have experienced is that most fonts become distorted when trying to effect the long umlauts (<Å'> and <ű>). That’s a visual nono.
>
> They all appear correctly viewed using UTF-8 and Verdana. It's the
> character encoding that is the problem - so many US users stick with
> USASCII.
> regards, Ian (Who can't predict how this will appear on _your_ screen!)
>
I’m not sure that I understand this, Ian. Are you suggesting that my diacritc problem may only exist in my laptop and nowhere else?
I believe that few fonts were designed to be able to handle all possible diacritics that exist.
Probably most fonts cater only to the English alphabet, maybe with the addition of French and Spanish accents, but anything really esoteric â€"say Czechâ€" is out of the question.
Thanx for the input. Oneal
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Re: disk temps
Posted by: "Oneal Neumann, prePhD" wardell.h.s@gmail.com newalander
Sat Jan 14, 2012 5:03 pm (PST)
In order to be able to finish defragging relatively quickly (basically overnight) I set the iDefrag temperature setting for 55°/45° Centigrade.
If the disk temperature exceeds 55 degrees, then defragmentation is paused. Once the disk temp drops below 45 degrees defragmentation recommences.
My temp settings are higher than the original iDefrag settings, if I correctly recall. I do this on purpose to hasten the defragging process, which would stop and start all the time.
Am I playing with fire here? Am I risking disk meltdown? Could I set even higher?
Thanx. Oneal
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Re: disk temps
Posted by: "Tod Hopkins" hoplist@hillmanncarr.com todhop
Sat Jan 14, 2012 5:13 pm (PST)
My laptop commonly reaches CPU temps of 70C when under stress. At that temp, the fans kick into high gear. I consider 50C low. Desktops generally run cooler, but if I set my laptop to those settings, it would never defrag.
As you should not be Defragging frequently, I would not worry about temp. Frankly, it seems silly to me to even have that setting.
Cheers,
tod
On Jan 14, 2012, at 8:03 PM, Oneal Neumann, prePhD wrote:
>
> In order to be able to finish defragging relatively quickly (basically overnight) I set the iDefrag temperature setting for 55°/45° Centigrade.
>
> If the disk temperature exceeds 55 degrees, then defragmentation is paused. Once the disk temp drops below 45 degrees defragmentation recommences.
>
> My temp settings are higher than the original iDefrag settings, if I correctly recall. I do this on purpose to hasten the defragging process, which would stop and start all the time.
>
> Am I playing with fire here? Am I risking disk meltdown? Could I set even higher?
>
> Thanx. Oneal
>
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
>
>
Tod Hopkins
Hillmann & Carr Inc.
todhopkins@hillmanncarr.com
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Re: disk temps
Posted by: "Jim Saklad" jimdoc@me.com jimdoc01
Sat Jan 14, 2012 5:28 pm (PST)
> My laptop commonly reaches CPU temps of 70C when under stress. At that temp, the fans kick into high gear. I consider 50C low. Desktops generally run cooler, but if I set my laptop to those settings, it would never defrag.
iDeFrag looks at hard drive temperature.
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Re: Changing an Airport Express name
Posted by: "Jay Abraham" jaygroups@abrahamgroup.net kerala01212001
Sat Jan 14, 2012 9:23 pm (PST)
Ken,
Go into iTunes preferences: Manage Devices. Lower right corner - forget all remotes. Then add them back in again with the new names.
Jay
On Jan 13, 2012, at 8:11 PM, Ken wrote:
> 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
> >
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