> When you assume, you put plum paste on your ass I don't get it... Ume. I got it. I got. Hey, guys, I got it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ume
I don’t think that word is pronounced the way the blogger thinks it is…
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#102My Mac Pro running 10.8 has some issues such as applications with blank icons, pixelated icons, etc. I was told to boot into safe mode (which I tried about 5x) and it hangs at about 1/4 into it. It seems pretty silly to include a "safe mode" that won't even allow someone to use it. I always end up holding the power switch in for a few seconds until I reboot into normal mode, which apparently includes having blank/pix…
Disk utility's repair disk and repair disk permissions functions, which are run as part of a safe boot, can take quite some time to complete their job.
I would just wait.
However, if you would really like to know where your boot is getting stuck, do a verbose boot, which is the same thing as a safe boot, except it replaces the gray Apple screen fairly (and usefully) verbosely.
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#103Why didn't he call AppleCare back?
All he needed to do, with an Internet connection, was power on holding Command+R and the Mac does the rest (formats the new drive and creates a recovery partition, then, boots to it, and one of the options there is to restore the entire computer from a Time Machine backup).
Done.
He made this needlessly complicated, and really should have just called AppleCare back, as they could have easily walked him through these steps.
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#104So I may come off as a grumpy old man, and I do sympathize with the op ... but in this day in age, it's only that much more important to keep manual backups of serial numbers, passwords, installers ...
I trust Apple, Windows and Linux enough to not ruin my life, but not enough to keep me 100% safe.
Passwords: Personal & Business kept in LastPass and a copy in KeePass (synced in dropbox to 3 devices). Client passwords stored in Keepass + manual copies on digital client folders (secured files) + notes in a locked safe.
Games + apps: Digital downloads loaded into Raid 5 array, backed up on server, backed up onto DVD. serials/usernames/download links saved in cloud mail server + keypass
Documents: Saved to external HD, saved to raid 5, rsynced to private VPS, rysynced to downstairs server.
There is absolutely no excuse for losing passwords and misplacing things like that. That part of the story I believe it all the ops fault.
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#105Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yeah. Pirating is almost an ethical choice in these cases :) Unfortunately pirated packages are often filled with malware. Not exactly what you want. So a much better choice is just going with open source. Picasa, instead of iPhoto, etc...
I am not sure if pirating something you bought is actually technically illegal or not. You are not buying the disk with the data, you are buying a license to run the software. Even when you pirate it, the license should still apply.
It is much like torrenting a movie you already own the DvD for, because it is easier than ripping your entire collection one by one.
Ethically I think it is obvious such a thing would be completely reasonable. Technically almost certainly not.
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#106In my experience, Time Machine works great. What doesn't work great are the absolute pieces of crap that Seagate and Western Digital are pawning off on us as viable backup solutions. They are just plain garbage. The controllers are unstable, and the drives are invariably refurbished. (And don't even get me started on the 2.5" drives with embedded USB controllers and no access to SATA ports.) I went through a couple S…
Everyone should also have a remote backup anyway. Anyone relying on local hard drives to secure their data are completely naive. Not that I DON'T use a local, it's great for quick and easy file backup and transfer, but I sure as hell don't rely on that $100 drive to work correctly and with remote backup, I'm sure not going to spend more than that on a local drive. If your data doesn't exist in three places, one remote, it doesn't exist. Ask Francis Coppola about how well having one local backup worked out. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/7019644.stm
Anyway, you're right about everything you said in your post, but just so people know, you can pay $20K for a backup array and if you don't have a remote, one fire makes that backup meaningless. Crash Plan, Carbonite, Backblaze, etc etc (AWS Glacier anyone?) all these services are so cheap you'd be insane not to just drop the $5 a month if your data is valuable.
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#107There is no way he had a core duo system that is only 4 years old. Apple only made core duo MacBooks in early 2006.
#1. It's an iMac.
#2. You are wrong. http://www.everymac.com/systems/apple/imac/specs/imac-core-2...
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#108I was spec'ing out a new macbook pro and saw that memory is now soldered in, and the SSD drives have proprietary interfaces. I am, how shall you say, displeased...
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#109Earlier quoted context omitted.
> I think the point isn't that is impossible to be able to do a clean install of an OS and apps (Time Machine included) you have already paid (premium!) for but the fact that it is non-trivial and very much involved - all the things for which the Apple system stood against. I'm not sure I agree? Apple's always optimized for the average person's average case. "Those of us that need to maintain machines" aren't the ave…
Your last paragraph is just totally wrong. Ever since MS has been selling Windows online, they've also been providing a tool which will put the ISO onto bootable DVD or USB (your choice). http://www.microsoftstore.com/store/msstore/html/pbPage.Help... They point to this tool pretty clearly as part of the purchase process. So with MS you can do it anyway you like: Installation as an app, or an ISO which you may trivia…
FWIW, Apple also ships a tool inside the Lion and Mountain Lion installations that does the same thing, writes a bootable disk from the recovery partition onto a USB flash drive. It's found at "/Applications/Utilities/Recovery Disk Assistant.app"
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#110There is no way he had a core duo system that is only 4 years old. Apple only made core duo MacBooks in early 2006.
#1. It's an iMac. #2. You are wrong. http://www.everymac.com/systems/apple/imac/specs/imac-core-2...
1) He was specifically talking about his laptop.
2) You are wrong. Core Duo, not Core 2 Duo. There is a difference. Apple only sold Core Duos for a very short time in 2006, right after their switch to Intel. At the latest, he could have bought a MacBook with a Core Duo on November 5, 2006. After that date, Apple discontinued the last one. So his MacBook is at least nearly six years old.