Wicked1
Apr 14, 01:17 PM
Ok so I have a 2009 uMB which has the OS Installer Disk and Applications Disk, then I have a 2009 Mini which has both OS Installer and Applications, however I am trying to reformat my new HDD to use in my uMB but I can not find the disk, is the disk that came with the Mini the same application installer disk until I find the other disk, I need to get iLife 2009 on the uMB and that is what is on both Application installer disks.
I am just not sure if Apple has different software by machine, or they are all the same.
I am just not sure if Apple has different software by machine, or they are all the same.
ranviper
May 2, 08:43 PM
I have always had a soft spot for the blackbook, and if it comes back I will be all over it like white on rice. Especially with a decent bump in specs. :D
Doctor Q
Apr 22, 02:07 PM
At least the error message is better than it used to be. :o I think this is a version of the 'Missing Security Token' bug.
I'll hazard a guess, that you didn't check the "Remember Me?" checkbox when you logged in, and your session happened to time out while you were managing attachments. (It's always a good idea to check that checkbox. If you are using someone else's computer, however, be sure to log out when you are done at MacRumors, so nobody else can use your account later.)
Perhaps my guess is wrong. If this problem happens again, please see if my guess fits the circumstances or if you notice any pattern about when it happens.
I'll hazard a guess, that you didn't check the "Remember Me?" checkbox when you logged in, and your session happened to time out while you were managing attachments. (It's always a good idea to check that checkbox. If you are using someone else's computer, however, be sure to log out when you are done at MacRumors, so nobody else can use your account later.)
Perhaps my guess is wrong. If this problem happens again, please see if my guess fits the circumstances or if you notice any pattern about when it happens.
Akitakoi
Apr 28, 11:43 AM
Or would an Apple TV work for the same price?
3tuxedo
Mar 22, 07:47 PM
actually THAT question was answered very well, but i did a little more research and found if i can just unmount the disc i can delete it and all is well.
kingcrowing
Dec 12, 06:57 AM
sold :-D
iMeowbot
Sep 30, 03:26 PM
This is one of the neater toys I've seen in a while. You run a little program that scours RSS feeds for audio links and pushes them into iTunes playlists. Sync up your iPod (or just use iTunes if you don't have one), and you have a sort of time-shifted personalized radio thing.
I'm using iPodderx (http://ipodderx.com/), but see the article for other possibilities.
I'm using iPodderx (http://ipodderx.com/), but see the article for other possibilities.
doucy2
Dec 15, 08:17 PM
why dont you like the ice station??
i have an icurve in my closet, but im saving it to use with my next apple lappy
i have an icurve in my closet, but im saving it to use with my next apple lappy
XIII
Sep 19, 01:25 PM
Hahaha, ^^, that would be awesome. :D
Heh, this guy is going to make a tidy sum..
Heh, this guy is going to make a tidy sum..
donlphi
Jan 15, 12:38 AM
Not that I REALLY care (okay I do, otherwise I wouldn't say anything)... but 3 people made comments to me today regarding my wimpy, slightly less impressive name tag. As the educator, I gotta ask, "Couldn't they just give me the regular tag with a different color on the bottom?"
Jeeze... it's borderline discrimination. I had been dreaming about going to this thing for about 6 years. I register online, take off two days of work, fly out to San Francisco, wait in line to get my tag (which took forever because they couldn't move the line fast enough - causing me to miss the only clinic I was able to go to (according to the guy at the door), they don't give me a bag.
It has been very sad and disappointing today. I pray Tuesday is better. :rolleyes:
http://i55.photobucket.com/albums/g137/donlphi/secondclass.jpg
Note to self: Do not sign up for the educator thing ever again - weak!
Jeeze... it's borderline discrimination. I had been dreaming about going to this thing for about 6 years. I register online, take off two days of work, fly out to San Francisco, wait in line to get my tag (which took forever because they couldn't move the line fast enough - causing me to miss the only clinic I was able to go to (according to the guy at the door), they don't give me a bag.
It has been very sad and disappointing today. I pray Tuesday is better. :rolleyes:
http://i55.photobucket.com/albums/g137/donlphi/secondclass.jpg
Note to self: Do not sign up for the educator thing ever again - weak!
pcypert
Mar 22, 07:59 AM
There's that guy that's so dang bad at making video game adaptions...what's his name? I was so pissed when I heard HE was doing the Castlevania movie. Thankfully it went on hold for another year waiting for snow...
Some games COULD make great video games...like the FIRST Resident Evil...that was spooky and cool...creepy house, zombies, great. Why they chose what they did...?
GeOW is great coop gameplay and a lame story/dialgoue...there are some actions that would be kind of fun in a movie...like the spotlight bit and the bat things (I started playing it with sound off due to the horrible dialogue and don't know proper names) could make interesting action scenes... but I'd be banking on horrible with the past successes...but maybe someone will pull a Spider Man /Blade and revive the genre.
Paul
Some games COULD make great video games...like the FIRST Resident Evil...that was spooky and cool...creepy house, zombies, great. Why they chose what they did...?
GeOW is great coop gameplay and a lame story/dialgoue...there are some actions that would be kind of fun in a movie...like the spotlight bit and the bat things (I started playing it with sound off due to the horrible dialogue and don't know proper names) could make interesting action scenes... but I'd be banking on horrible with the past successes...but maybe someone will pull a Spider Man /Blade and revive the genre.
Paul
deathcab4xtina
Apr 2, 12:43 AM
:eek:
iMacC2D
Dec 5, 11:58 AM
Greetings MacRumors. Posting here as a long time reader, but i've only been a member of the forums for a very short time. I've been reading some of the forums, getting an idea just what goes on around here and thought perhaps the regulars to the Apple Collectors section would be interested in this. :)
I started working on this project in August so a while ago now. I'm a regular over on MacTalk Australia, and at the time I arranged with one of the forum members to buy up 2 old Compact Macs from a batch of 20 to 30 machines he was clearing out, one of which worked and one of which didn't, a Macintosh 512Ke. For the most part it was completely dead, it didn't even make it to a successful boot chime. Being an otherwise huge fan of the Macintosh (original) body shape and design, I bought it with the intention of doing some work on it. I had no idea what to expect and admittedly assumed something fairly minor.
When it arrived, it was in pretty good shape externally. Internally it was the opposite. Age had taken its toll on the old Macintosh and left the internal frame looking a little rusty, the lower logic board cover stained with calcium, the floppy disk drive gummed up and the rest of it covered in dust. It quickly became apparent that this would be more of a challenge than i first thought.
Being a bit of a Mac nut that has a background of repairing cars, I chose to begin restoring the old machine.
http://img718.imageshack.us/img718/1624/photowvp.jpg
So obviously the first challenge was to make this thing actually power on and boot up. When connected to mains and switched on, it would initialize the floppy disk drive over and over again while whistling... so it wasn't supplying the necessary current to start the machine up, or too much, but all I knew was that the power supply was in a self-protection mode due to some form of fault.
So, I bought a new set of capacitors. Unfortunately the total of the capacitors was around $60 AUD... $47 of which was in 4 mains filter capacitors. So I just skipped them and bought the rest. In the end I needed to bite the bullet for the remaining 4 filter caps, so it has all new capacitors all around, but that was still not enough to kick it over. Admittedly this left me somewhat puzzled. I was pretty sure that would have done the trick.
What was still holding it back was the Flyback transformer. Although otherwise healthy and working, the solder joints securing it to the Analog Board were cracked. After desoldering and resoldering it with fresh solder, fixing the electrical connections in the process, the Mac was able to finally power on.
http://img268.imageshack.us/img268/6301/dcp2423.jpg
http://img152.imageshack.us/img152/9049/20090826qxq1119wmnu1atj.jpg
http://img266.imageshack.us/img266/4949/dcp2364.jpg
I considered that a temporary success, being surprised to get even this far, and reapplied the glue to the new capacitors to prevent them from moving, as they do in the factory.
Even so, I still had a Sad Mac to deal with. There was no error code, just garbage, which didn't make the fault isolation process any simpler. I didn't know what was wrong, only that the logic board was at fault. Many of the usual basic components tested fine, so the culprit had to be a bad IC, which are not only near impossible to diagnose with home tools, but also difficult to find replacements for.
I had no idea where to go from here, so I turned to another member on the MacTalk Australia forums who happened to find another compact Mac, a Macintosh Plus, with analog board issues (cracked joints) and some case yellowing. I at least wanted one working Compact Mac. When it arrived, I noticed the case was indeed a nice shade of yellow on the front bezel and the analog board had a nasty habit of tripping the safety switches in my house.
However the logic board from the Plus did work in the 512Ke and did in fact tell me that the analog board restoration had gone well, so I pressed on with some of the basics. This involved cleaning out the 512's floppy disk drive and relubricating the moving parts, removing any rust and corrosion from the internal frame by means of sanding and cleaning away the remaining dirt and debris from the rear "bucket" casing.
Once all that was done, I took a bit of a random shot at resolving the issue with the Macintosh 512Ke logic board. In the process of tinkering at random, I took the ROM LOW chip from the Plus board and fitted it to the 512Ke board, which resulted in a successful boot. Not surprisingly, the ROM was the same down to the checksum, so I left the Plus ROM on the 512Ke board instead of seeking out another set of replacements.
With a successful boot, I was now presented with the flashing question mark prompting me for a system disk. In another stroke of luck, I was able to find a System Disk in my random stash of old disks, which booted the system to the desktop without any issues.
http://img571.imageshack.us/img571/908/dcp2438.jpg
This was a great result, but it exposed another issue that I hadn't quite noticed before. The CRT was displaying a raster that was taller yet narrower than Apple's specifications and it was also somewhat warped on each corner. To correct this, I borrowed the electronics tools from my high school at the time to calibrate the display. These CRTs are extremely sensitive to even a 2 degree turn of the yoke, so even the very slightest movement will be reflected as a significant tilt of the CRT raster. It took literally hours to get the raster displaying perfectly straight with no warping or blurring of the edges. After that was sorted though, brightness, contrast, focus and voltages were otherwise extremely easy to adjust in comparison.
This pretty well bought the project to completion. Not one component inside the system hadn't been worked on at some stage and all of them seemed to be working within spec, so I was satisfied with the result.
I had some other bits and pieces collected over the years that I was finally able to use now that I had the computer to use them with.
http://img80.imageshack.us/img80/2509/dcp2449.jpg
For the most part the computer has stayed in that condition and configuration since then. It doesn't get much use, but it makes for an interesting discussion piece and every now and then it's great to fire up MacWrite, MacPaint or Apple's bundled Maze game (titled "Amazing") and just mess around with it for a while. It has a certain charm of its own, in its design, its simplicity and it's overall retro appeal.
Anyway, that's the story of the 512Ke Restoration Project. It took just a little over a month of on and off work to complete it, and about $80 Australian to build it up with fresh components.
I'm sure some of the vintage Mac collectors around here will be interested in it, and also interested to know it's not the only machine i've done such work to. I also have an Apple II Plus in the next room that's had similar treatment (mainly cosmetic) and an iMac G3 that's undergone extensive work similar to this. For me, it's the challenge that keeps me coming back, but the end result is equally as rewarding.
Cheers :cool:
- Michael
I started working on this project in August so a while ago now. I'm a regular over on MacTalk Australia, and at the time I arranged with one of the forum members to buy up 2 old Compact Macs from a batch of 20 to 30 machines he was clearing out, one of which worked and one of which didn't, a Macintosh 512Ke. For the most part it was completely dead, it didn't even make it to a successful boot chime. Being an otherwise huge fan of the Macintosh (original) body shape and design, I bought it with the intention of doing some work on it. I had no idea what to expect and admittedly assumed something fairly minor.
When it arrived, it was in pretty good shape externally. Internally it was the opposite. Age had taken its toll on the old Macintosh and left the internal frame looking a little rusty, the lower logic board cover stained with calcium, the floppy disk drive gummed up and the rest of it covered in dust. It quickly became apparent that this would be more of a challenge than i first thought.
Being a bit of a Mac nut that has a background of repairing cars, I chose to begin restoring the old machine.
http://img718.imageshack.us/img718/1624/photowvp.jpg
So obviously the first challenge was to make this thing actually power on and boot up. When connected to mains and switched on, it would initialize the floppy disk drive over and over again while whistling... so it wasn't supplying the necessary current to start the machine up, or too much, but all I knew was that the power supply was in a self-protection mode due to some form of fault.
So, I bought a new set of capacitors. Unfortunately the total of the capacitors was around $60 AUD... $47 of which was in 4 mains filter capacitors. So I just skipped them and bought the rest. In the end I needed to bite the bullet for the remaining 4 filter caps, so it has all new capacitors all around, but that was still not enough to kick it over. Admittedly this left me somewhat puzzled. I was pretty sure that would have done the trick.
What was still holding it back was the Flyback transformer. Although otherwise healthy and working, the solder joints securing it to the Analog Board were cracked. After desoldering and resoldering it with fresh solder, fixing the electrical connections in the process, the Mac was able to finally power on.
http://img268.imageshack.us/img268/6301/dcp2423.jpg
http://img152.imageshack.us/img152/9049/20090826qxq1119wmnu1atj.jpg
http://img266.imageshack.us/img266/4949/dcp2364.jpg
I considered that a temporary success, being surprised to get even this far, and reapplied the glue to the new capacitors to prevent them from moving, as they do in the factory.
Even so, I still had a Sad Mac to deal with. There was no error code, just garbage, which didn't make the fault isolation process any simpler. I didn't know what was wrong, only that the logic board was at fault. Many of the usual basic components tested fine, so the culprit had to be a bad IC, which are not only near impossible to diagnose with home tools, but also difficult to find replacements for.
I had no idea where to go from here, so I turned to another member on the MacTalk Australia forums who happened to find another compact Mac, a Macintosh Plus, with analog board issues (cracked joints) and some case yellowing. I at least wanted one working Compact Mac. When it arrived, I noticed the case was indeed a nice shade of yellow on the front bezel and the analog board had a nasty habit of tripping the safety switches in my house.
However the logic board from the Plus did work in the 512Ke and did in fact tell me that the analog board restoration had gone well, so I pressed on with some of the basics. This involved cleaning out the 512's floppy disk drive and relubricating the moving parts, removing any rust and corrosion from the internal frame by means of sanding and cleaning away the remaining dirt and debris from the rear "bucket" casing.
Once all that was done, I took a bit of a random shot at resolving the issue with the Macintosh 512Ke logic board. In the process of tinkering at random, I took the ROM LOW chip from the Plus board and fitted it to the 512Ke board, which resulted in a successful boot. Not surprisingly, the ROM was the same down to the checksum, so I left the Plus ROM on the 512Ke board instead of seeking out another set of replacements.
With a successful boot, I was now presented with the flashing question mark prompting me for a system disk. In another stroke of luck, I was able to find a System Disk in my random stash of old disks, which booted the system to the desktop without any issues.
http://img571.imageshack.us/img571/908/dcp2438.jpg
This was a great result, but it exposed another issue that I hadn't quite noticed before. The CRT was displaying a raster that was taller yet narrower than Apple's specifications and it was also somewhat warped on each corner. To correct this, I borrowed the electronics tools from my high school at the time to calibrate the display. These CRTs are extremely sensitive to even a 2 degree turn of the yoke, so even the very slightest movement will be reflected as a significant tilt of the CRT raster. It took literally hours to get the raster displaying perfectly straight with no warping or blurring of the edges. After that was sorted though, brightness, contrast, focus and voltages were otherwise extremely easy to adjust in comparison.
This pretty well bought the project to completion. Not one component inside the system hadn't been worked on at some stage and all of them seemed to be working within spec, so I was satisfied with the result.
I had some other bits and pieces collected over the years that I was finally able to use now that I had the computer to use them with.
http://img80.imageshack.us/img80/2509/dcp2449.jpg
For the most part the computer has stayed in that condition and configuration since then. It doesn't get much use, but it makes for an interesting discussion piece and every now and then it's great to fire up MacWrite, MacPaint or Apple's bundled Maze game (titled "Amazing") and just mess around with it for a while. It has a certain charm of its own, in its design, its simplicity and it's overall retro appeal.
Anyway, that's the story of the 512Ke Restoration Project. It took just a little over a month of on and off work to complete it, and about $80 Australian to build it up with fresh components.
I'm sure some of the vintage Mac collectors around here will be interested in it, and also interested to know it's not the only machine i've done such work to. I also have an Apple II Plus in the next room that's had similar treatment (mainly cosmetic) and an iMac G3 that's undergone extensive work similar to this. For me, it's the challenge that keeps me coming back, but the end result is equally as rewarding.
Cheers :cool:
- Michael
applemike
Feb 23, 06:41 AM
http://www.techeblog.com/index.php/tech-gadget/ipad-2-review-that-apple-doesn-t-want-you-to-see
Ok, so the real reason why Apple wouldn't want you to see this review is because it's a parody of their upcoming iPad 2, which will reportedly be announced next week. However, this 27-inch iMac-sized device does have its advantages, like a 1080p camera. Continue reading for the parody.
http://media.techeblog.com/images/ipad-2-review.jpg
Watch It Here (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ct1_r_61sk8&feature=player_embedded)
Ok, so the real reason why Apple wouldn't want you to see this review is because it's a parody of their upcoming iPad 2, which will reportedly be announced next week. However, this 27-inch iMac-sized device does have its advantages, like a 1080p camera. Continue reading for the parody.
http://media.techeblog.com/images/ipad-2-review.jpg
Watch It Here (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ct1_r_61sk8&feature=player_embedded)
ipodtoucher
Mar 7, 07:28 PM
Also, they DO come with stickers (or at least they used to) but INSIDE the box for you to put on other stuff :)
I like to put mine on other PCs hahahaha they can never have too many decorations :D:apple:
I like to put mine on other PCs hahahaha they can never have too many decorations :D:apple:
shahidhaque
Apr 30, 07:01 PM
I've been collecting an internet video series that is not available on iTunes (the Angry Video Game Nerd -- hilarious show). I downloaded all the episodes from the official website, where they are available in Quicktime format.
I added them to my library, and they appeared as Movies. I changed the Media Kind to podcasts, and grouped them together. The only problem is that my iPhone views these as audio podcasts -- not video podcasts. Therefore, it will only play the audio and not the video. I cannot seem to change the Media Kind back to Movies, and I cannot seem to designate them as video podcasts.
Any ideas on how I can change the metadata, as its not working using the standard options?
I added them to my library, and they appeared as Movies. I changed the Media Kind to podcasts, and grouped them together. The only problem is that my iPhone views these as audio podcasts -- not video podcasts. Therefore, it will only play the audio and not the video. I cannot seem to change the Media Kind back to Movies, and I cannot seem to designate them as video podcasts.
Any ideas on how I can change the metadata, as its not working using the standard options?
Jaffa Cake
Mar 18, 04:41 PM
Hmm. Might just be Myriad, I reckon.
risc
Mar 31, 03:38 PM
HDMI is pure digital so there is no signal lose. On my PS3 there is a definite upgrade in picture quality when you move from component to HDMI. Is that upgrade in picture quality worth buying a brand new (and rather expensive) console? I really don't think so.
bizzle
Jun 27, 05:22 PM
Hope you have a closet or spare room to put an Xserve in if you want one because they are loud as hell.
whiskeyvol
Apr 29, 06:32 PM
Answer is on the first page of topics in this forum
mulo
Apr 29, 09:41 AM
run?
Natalia81
Oct 19, 09:09 PM
Ok...so I put one of those clear sticky PDA screen protectors on my ipod. It was on there a few weeks and when I took it off today, it did not come completely off. It left behind some of the sticky stuff. I was able to remove it all but now there's that foggy/glossy leftover crap. Any recommendations on household products that can remove this, that won't mess up my ipod?
HBOC
Jan 5, 12:52 PM
I bet with the grain, this would be amazing (equally) as a B&W.
Gotta love the OG 1D bodies. I had a 1Ds for 4 months and it was a pleasure to use
Gotta love the OG 1D bodies. I had a 1Ds for 4 months and it was a pleasure to use
Kobushi
Sep 16, 08:36 PM
Who did the version of this same song but with with the words: "which backstreet boy is gay?" sounds kinda like Al, but I don't think it was him.
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