Mirrors - suggestions and frustrations

Dealing with mirrors is the one thing I hate about Arch. I am constantly changing my mirrors and wondering if I have the latest version of things. This is supposed to be a rolling release distro, but it is almost turned my system into an Ubuntu release cycle, as every few weeks I realize my mirrors are out of date, I fix the problem and I do a major update. At least with a release cycle, I am getting the version someone intentionally wanted on my system for a long time. With Arch, I get an arbitrary version that was meant to be replaced in a few days.
I realize I can just leave my machine pointed to the official repository. That is slow, and if that is what we tell everyone to do, it defeats the point of having mirrors.
Can we configure the mirror servers to go off line if they haven't synchronized in 24 hours? A completely dead mirror is much easier to deal with than one that is out of date.
Could pacman be changed to go to the official repository to decide what to update, and then go through the list of mirrors to find a place to download the latest version? If a mirror doesn't have the version pacman wants, it could go to the next mirror in the list.

hyness wrote:
Inxsible wrote:
hyness wrote:
You can use this link to see which are the most up to date mirrors...
https://www.archlinux.de/?page=MirrorSt … ync;sort=1
HTH
That website gives a SSL security warning ! Maybe their Verisign or Thawte..or whatever certificate expired or they never had one in the first place.
Yes, you caught me in the infamous german arch linux phishing scam where a site poses as the official german site for arch linux where they require you give your credit card information before telling you which are the most up to date mirrors
Whatever SSL warning you got yesterday is not there now, and why it would be important when you are just reading it baffles me.
Funny because I am still getting the SSL warning. Yeah I know it doesn't matter much since you are only reading the website. So no, don't get baffled.

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HT4759 I want to use icloud mail on both iPhone 4s AND my pc. icloud mail on PC is mega glitchy and frustrating because my PC is ancient, I run XP, & these DO NOT MEET req's for iCloud. Is there a email platform that will run well on both XP and iPhone?

I NEED to use icloud mail on both iPhone 4s AND my PC. I need to use both.
Trying to use icloud mail on PC is mega glitchy (STOP SCRIPT WARNINGS EVERY FEW MINUTES) and frustrating because:
1. my PC is ancient (but nicely refurbished/fast)
2. I run XP (with both Firefox and Chrome- newest versions)
3. thusly, I DO NOT MEET SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS for iCloud.
In my passed attempts I found that
1. Yahoo doesn't work well on iPhone
2. Gmail doesnt work well on iPhone.
I must be missing something... an app or... maybe a donated/ NEW FREE MAC! (That would be sweet! Ha.)
Is there an email platform that will run well on both XP and iPhone?
or... Please say it isn't true: I would love a Mac tablet or desktop. We have no money for a mac. SOL? Is this iCloud apple tech only for wealthy middle class and above who can afford to have the newest and best of everything?

@Naiks, having suffered through unsuccessful synching attempts for Calendar and Contacts myself, l would suggest you try the following:
UNINSTALL iCloud control panel from your PC. Seems silly, but do it.
Go into Outlook, and look at the very top menu. Click FILE, then ACCOUNT SETTINGS, then click the popup box.
You will see a list of all your email accounts. Make sure that ONE of them has a checkmark against it. If not, select the account your want as your default, and click "set as default.
Exit out of Outlook and reboot your machine.
Now reinstall iCloud, check CALENDAR and CONTACTS, and do as instructed when prompted.
Reboot for good luck and now launch OUTLOOK. All that remains is to locate your iCloud Contacts and Calendar files, and make them your default.
IMPORTANT: Don't panic if you can't find your contacts -- they're there. Click CONTACTS and you'll see you have several available contact files. Locate the one label "iCloud" in grey type. Right-click on it, select PROPERTIES, then click the Outlook Address Book tab. Check the box that says something like "Make this my default Outlook Address Book." Keep clicking "apply" and "okay" until you've exited out of the dialog box maze.
You may have to do something similar with your Calendar files. I dd not, but if you need to, do it.
Everything should now sync pretty seamlessly.
I didn't have the exact same problem as you, but my dilemma was close enough. Good luck!
Arthur P. Johnson

Extremely Disappointed and Frustrated with ZFS

I feel like crying. In the last 2 years of my life ZFS has caused me more professional pain and grief than anything else. At the moment I'm anxiously waiting for a resilver to complete, I expect that my pool will probably fault and I'll have to rebuild it.
I work at a small business, and I have two Solaris 11 servers which function as SAN systems primarly serving virtual machine disk images to Proxmox VE cluster. Each is fitted with an Areca 12 port SATA controller put in JBOD mode, and populated with WD Caviar Black 2TB drives (probably my first and biggest mistake, was in not using enterprise class drives). One system is configured as a ZFS triple mirror, and the other a double mirror, both have 3 hot spares.
About a year ago I got CKSUM errors on one of the arrays I promptly ran zpool scrub on the array, and stupidly I decided to scrub the other array at the same time. The scrub quickly turned into resilvers on both arrays as more CKSUM errors were uncovered, and as the resilver continued the CKSUM count rose until both arrays faulted and were irrecoverable. Irrecoverable metadata corruption was the error I got from ZFS. After 20+ hours of attempted recovery, trying to play back the ZIL I had to destroy them both and rebuild everything. I never knew for certain what the cause was, but I suspected disk write caching on the controller, and/or the use of a non-enterprise class flash drive for ZIL.
In the aftermath did extremely thorough checking of all devices. I checked each backplane port, each drive for bad sectors, SATA controller onboard RAM, main memory, ran extended burn-in testing, etc. I then rebuilt the arrays without controller write caching and no seperate ZIL device. I also scheduled weekly scrubbing, and scripted ZFS alerting.
Yesterday I got an alert from the controller on my array with the triple mirror about read errors on one of the ports. I ran a scrub which completed and then I proceeded to replace the drive I was getting read errors on. I offlined the old drive and inserted a brand new drive and ran zfs replace. Re-silver started fast and then the rate quickly dropped down to 1.0MB/s, my controller began spitting out a multitude of SATA command timeout errors on the port of the newly inserted drive. Since the whole array had essential froze up, I popped the drive out and everything ran back at full speed, resilvering against one of the hot spares. Now the resilver soon started uncovering CKSUM errors similar to the disaster I had last year. Error counts rose and now my system dropped another drive off in the same mirror set and is resilvering 2 drives in the same set, with the third drive in the set showing 6 CKSUM errors. I'm afraid I'm going to lose the whole array again, as the only drive left in the set is showing errors as well. WTF?!?!?!?!?!?!
So I suspect I have a bad batch of disks, however, why the heck did zfs scrub complete and show no errors? What is the point of ZFS scrub if it doesn't accuratly uncover errors? I'm so frustrated that these types of errors seem to show up only during resilvers. I'm beginning to think ZFS isn't as robust as advertised....

FMA does notify admins automatically through the smtp-notify service via mail notification to root. You
can customize this service to send notification to your own email account on any system.
The poster said he has scripted for ZFS, but I don't know if that means reviewing zpool status or
FMA data.
With ongoing hardware problems, you need to review FMA data as well. See the example below.
Rob Johnston has a good explanation of this smtp-notify service, here:
https://blogs.oracle.com/robj/entry/fma_and_email_notifications
For the system below, I had to enable sendmail to see the failure notice in root's mail,
but that was it.
Thanks, Cindy
I failed a disk in a pool:
# zpool status -v tank
pool: tank
state: DEGRADED
status: One or more devices are unavailable in response to persistent errors.
Sufficient replicas exist for the pool to continue functioning in a
degraded state.
action: Determine if the device needs to be replaced, and clear the errors
using 'zpool clear' or 'fmadm repaired', or replace the device
with 'zpool replace'.
scan: resilvered 944M in 0h0m with 0 errors on Mon Dec 17 10:30:05 2012
config:
NAME STATE READ WRITE CKSUM
tank DEGRADED 0 0 0
mirror-0 DEGRADED 0 0 0
c3t1d0 ONLINE 0 0 0
c3t2d0 UNAVAIL 0 0 0
device details:
c3t2d0 UNAVAIL cannot open
status: ZFS detected errors on this device.
The device was missing.
see: http://support.oracle.com/msg/ZFS-8000-LR for recovery
errors: No known data errors
Check root's email:
# mail
From [email protected] Mon Dec 17 10:48:54 2012
Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2012 10:48:54 -0700 (MST)
From: No Access User <[email protected]>
Message-Id: <[email protected]>
Subject: Fault Management Event: tardis:ZFS-8000-LR
To: [email protected]
Content-Length: 751
SUNW-MSG-ID: ZFS-8000-LR, TYPE: Fault, VER: 1, SEVERITY: Major
EVENT-TIME: Mon Dec 17 10:48:53 MST 2012
PLATFORM: SUNW,Sun-Fire-T200, CSN: 11223344, HOSTNAME: tardis
SOURCE: zfs-diagnosis, REV: 1.0
EVENT-ID: c2cfa39b-71f4-638e-fb44-9b223d9e0803
DESC: ZFS device 'id1,sd@n500000e0117173e0/a' in pool 'tank' failed to open.
AUTO-RESPONSE: An attempt will be made to activate a hot spare if available.
IMPACT: Fault tolerance of the pool may be compromised.
REC-ACTION: Use 'fmadm faulty' to provide a more detailed view of this event. Run 'zpool status -lx' for more information. Please refer to the associated reference document at http://support.oracle.com/msg/ZFS-8000-LR for the latest service procedures and policies regarding this diagnosis.

I Feel Completely Helpless And Frustrated

Hello everyone,
I feel completely helpless and frustrated. A couple nights ago I worked in logic pro 9 with no problem, except some crashes, which I learned to live with. I turned off my computer and went to bed. The next day I turned on logic and the note heads were missing. The staves, Stems and ledger lines are visible but no note heads. I did not do anything out of the ordinary, nor did I download anything from the internet so I can't imagine that I got hit with a virus. I tried some troubleshooting like turning off fonts but that did not help. I posted myb problem on the Logic discussion page but I got no feedback. I have arranging and scoring deadline to meet and I am completely lost. Would an Apple Tech Support PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE HELP ME. I consider the equipment I'm using (Mac Pro and Logic Pro 9) as top of the line and to be sitting here with my work tools being useless is extremely painful. Can apple PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE tell me why this is happening, and help me with a solution??

The problems you habe are probably a side effect of the crashes you had, and the song file could be corrupted. Maybe there's a problem with your hardware (memory, hard drive etc...) - knock wood, but Logic practially never (as in only once every few months) crashes here.
My suggestion is that you look up the pdf-manual or help sysem and find out how you can import your data into a new song. If you do that, and find why Logic is crashing for you, your problems could be gon onc yoiu have imported the needed project data into a new, empty song.
Alternatively – upload your problemtic project file so one of us can look at it for you.
Good luck!

Unexplained activation delay and frustration thank...

I'm moving house on 6th August so made arrangements to change my line to my new address and in addition add a broadband connection. This was ordered nearly 2 weeks ago and was told that activation would take place on 5th August. Everything seemed to be fine until today when I received a voicemail message from BT telling me that there was going to be a delay in the activation and that I would be contacted again on 19th August.
I rang BT and asked them to shed some light on why there was a delay. I was first told that there wasn't a delay; that everything was on track for the order to be completed and connection established on 5th August. So I then asked why I had received the message in first place, and was just told 'I don't know, it must have been a mistake.' When I then asked the member of staff if she could therefore guarentee that it would fine for the 5th Aug, she wouldn't commit and so I asked her to check with the suppliers department who left the message. 10 minutes later the member of staff returned and told me that there was already a broadband provider supplying the address and that I would have to get the code to allow BT to connect me. I know for certain that there is no supply to that address - I checked before I even rang BT to order the service - and said as much to the woman on the call. She then rang the suppliers department again (for another 5 minutes) and then returned and said 'It might be the 5th'. I asked her again for a conclusive answer and she could not provide me with one, and could not provide me with a reason for why it might not be the 5th. I like to keep a record of customer service calls I make so I asked for the operatives name, and she was very reluctant to give it to me, something else I found frustrating. So I'm absolutely nowhere with getting an answer out of BT and frustrated with the very unhelpful nature of a 45 minute (in total) phone call.
I need an answer on this ASAP - being internet-less until the 19th would be a major hassle and I would have to seriously consider cancelling my order and going with another company, especially considering the customer service I received today. I just hope that the dire level of care received today isn't indicative of the general level provided by BT - I would hope that I was just unlucky, but reading some of the posts on the forum doesn't really instill confidence...
Would appreciate any suggestions of where to go next to get a resolution to this issue. Cheers!

Hi Littlelarry30
Welcome to the community.
I can have this investigated for you, to try to find out what is actually happening with your order.
Send me an email using the contact us form in my profile, it will prompt you for the details I will need to check your line fault condition.
You will find this form in the section 'about me'
Thanks
Stuart
BTCare Community Mod
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We are sorry that we are unable to deal with service/account queries via the private message(PM) function so please don't PM your account info, we need to deal with this via our email account :-)

Airport Express; Seriously unreliable and frustrating. Please Help?

Hi Guys,
I'm a bit of a novice with Macs but not to the extent that I can't follow some some simple instructuons !
I have a 2009 Unibody Macbook Pro running OSX 10.8.5 and use an Airport Express 2nd generation to send music from iTunes to the Express and then a phono cable from the Airport Express to my hi fi. The Express is no more that 2 meters away, yes ONLY two meters away yet it's always been very unreliable.
I find that when I wake in the morning and switch everything on then double click an internet radio station I have in itunes that the Airport Express will be located after a little while and begin playing sound thorugh to my speakers.
If how ever I switch everything on and leave it for longer that 3 minute then click an sound file in iTunes that iTunes or Airport Utility can't locate the Express.
Also if I then switch off the Express and back on after only a short while iTunes or Airport utility still doesn't find it. I find that I have to switch it off for much longer periods then make sure I start playing music in iTunes right away or I'll miss a window of connection if I get one at all or then again the Airport Express wont be detected.
I've tried a soft re-set and a hard re-set but this doesn't change any thing.
To me The Airport Express is extremely unrealible and frustrating to use.
Can any of you suggest what else I could try that would enable to me to more reliably connect and send music to my Airport Express?
Cheers guys,
Dan

Keeping saying that somthing is a bad product when a) you are not that technical and b) new to mac is not really fair now is it. I've got 6 Airports in Total - 4 AE 1 time machine and one old Extreme - they all work perfectly together. And the correct network configuration is always tricky. Most people never set it up right.
We are here to help!
Personally I have issues with Virgin's Super Hub and resorted to turning off the Wifi and router part of it, so it's just a modem and having an Airport express be a Router and I have 4 others connecting to that.
Not for your problem... If you don't need the signal boost and are happy with the connection in the house, certainly in the room you are in then just 'Join a network' Way simpler and will not cause possible network conflictions.
For example if you try and extend a network you can sometimes get double nat errors. What you don't want it for the Airport AND the BT hub to act as routers on the same network - you only want one.
Also, just did some more research on here 'airport and homehub' The BT hub appears to not have Open WDS standards. So more than likely that is your issue if you are trying to extend the network. May work for a while then fall over.
Another thing to check is the Wireless security type on your home hub it seems. Both should be the same.
WEP (Avoid!)
WPA2 - PSK - AES
WPA - PSK - TKIP
WPA/WPA2 Personal
WPA2 Personal

I did everything lllaass suggested and removed most of the itunes related components, but when I tried to remove itunes, I got the message, "The feature you are trying to use is on a network resource that is unavailable" so I was not able to uninstall it.

I did everything lllaass suggested and removed most of the itunes related components, but when I tried to remove itunes, I got the message, "The feature you are trying to use is on a network resource that is unavailable" so I was not able to uninstall it.

(1) Download the Windows Installer CleanUp utility installer file (msicuu2.exe) from the following Major Geeks page (use one of the links under the "DOWNLOAD LOCATIONS" thingy on the Major Geeks page).
http://majorgeeks.com/download.php?det=4459
Here's a screenshot showing the particular links on the page that you should be clicking:
After clicking one of the circled links, you should be taken to another page, and after a few seconds you should see a download dialog appear for the msicuu2.exe file. Here's a screenshot of what it looks like for me in Firefox:
Choose to Save the file. If the dialog box does not appear for you, click the link on the page that says "CLICK HERE IF IT DOES NOT". Here's a screenshot of the page with the relevant link circled:
When the dialog appears, choose to save the file.
(2) Go to the Downloads area for your Web browser. Doubleclick the msicuu2.exe file and follow the prompts to install the Windows Installer CleanUp utility. (If you're on a Windows Vista or Windows 7 system and you get a Code 800A0046 error message when doubleclicking the msicuu2.exe file, try instead right-clicking on the msicuu2.exe file and selecting "Run as administrator".)
(3) In your Start menu click All Programs and then click Windows Install Clean Up. The Windows Installer CleanUp utility window appears, listing software that is currently installed on your computer.
(4) In the list of programs that appears in CleanUp, select any iTunes entries and click "Remove", as per the following screenshot:
(5) Quit out of CleanUp, restart the PC and try another iTunes install. Does it go through properly this time?

I have a Mac G4 double mirrored model and everytime I shut it off it will not go on when I hit the power off button. However, if I unplug and plug in the power cord it boots fine and everything is OK. The PMU and logic board have been reset. Any ideas?

I have a Power Mac G4 double mirrored model and everytime I shut it off it will not go on when I hit the power on/off button again. However, if I unplug and plug in the power cord it boots fine and everything is OK. The PMU and logic board have been reset. Sometimes my Mac goes on just by pressing the power on button but most times I have to pull the power cord and put it back in. Any ideas or help out there for this? Could it be a failing power supply? Apple Care says that this model is obsolete so there is no help from there. John
<E-mail Edited by Host>

Hi John,
That's often a sign of a bsad Capacitor in the Power Supply, but...
Might be time to replace the PRAM Battery, 4 years is close to their lifespan, far less if ever without AC power, & can cause strange startup problems...
http://eshop.macsales.com/item/Newer%20Technology/BAA36VPRAM/

I recently changed my password to my apple id and was able to log into everything fine except the icloud on my ipad. It reverted back to an old apple id and I don't know the password. I have tried all the suggestions and no luck.

I recently changed my password to my apple id and was able to log into everything fine except the icloud on my ipad. It reverted back to an old apple id and I don't know the password. I have tried all the suggestions and no luck.

You didn't say what you've tried, but f the old ID is an earlier version of your current ID, temporarily recreate the old ID by going to https://appleid.apple.com, click Manage my Apple ID and sign in with your current iCloud ID. Click edit next to the primary email account, change it back to your old email address and save the change. Then edit the name of the account to change it back to your old email address. You can now use your current password to turn off Find My iDevice, even though it prompts you for the password for your old account ID. Then save any photo stream photos that you wish to keep to your camera roll. When finished go to Settings>iCloud, tap Delete Account and choose Delete from My iDevice when prompted (your iCloud data will still be in iCloud). Next, go back to https://appleid.apple.com and change your primary email address and iCloud ID name back to the way it was. Now you can go to Settings>iCloud and sign in with your current iCloud ID and password.

Best buy, please help me on this! very disappointed and frustrated!!

Here is my complaint:
1.I have been saving for weeks trying to buy this flat screen TV: the price has been $299.99
http://www.bestbuy.com/site/westinghouse-48-class-48-diag--led-1080p-hdtv-black/6233067.p?id=1219198...
Then finally this Tuesday I went there to buy, I checked the online price, it jumped to $329.99. I do have a mover coupon which is good for 10% off a single item. So I used, but I will have been really happy if I could have used it when the price is $299.99 instead. This mover coupon said any single item with some exclusions and I believe this Westinghouse 48" is not in the exclusion list.
After I bought Tuesday, I checked the price online today, man, it went back to $299.99. Your price mathcing policy said if the price lowered within the return period, we could get the difference back. Then I went back to the Best Buy at Fairlawn, Ohio (Montrose) location where I bought my TV. But they refuse to return the difference saying I used that coupon.
But key issue here is not using the coupon. That coupon DOES NOT SAY anything about not using on a sale item at all!!!!!
If I return the TV today and they give me back that coupon, I would have been able to buy this one again at $299.99 AND using that coupon again! So It is very UNFAIR they are doing that.
Very disappointed and frustrated. Please help me to get this issue straightened out!! I follow all the rules, but that store clerk did not seem to understand that coupon is good for on sale items too and that TV is not on the exclusion list so they should follow the price matching promise and issue me the credit!!!!!!

here is the detail of this mover coupon:
http://www.bestbuy.com/site/regularcatpcmcat322300050002/movers-coupon/pcmcat322300050002.c?id=pcmca...
It does not have Westinghouse TV mentioned in the exclusion list and I donot believe it is a UMRP product!
Offer valid in store only.
Excludes Unilateral Minimum Resale Price (UMRP) products, gift cards, services (both in-store and in-home), Marketplace & special order items. Not valid on Best Buy.com. Not valid in Puerto Rico. No dealers. No copies. No cash back. No cash value. Limit 1 coupon per transaction. Limit 1 coupon per customer. Coupon required at time of purchase.
Products in the following categories are excluded from this offer:
Projectors, DSLR cameras, Compact System Cameras, lenses & flashes; subscription software services, digital music services; music & eReader download cards; Unlocked phones; contract mobile phones; and mobile broadband devices. Select premium: TVs from LG, Samsung, Sharp and Sony; Blu-ray players from LG, Samsung and Sony; home audio products from Samsung and Sony; Select Sony camcorders, digital cameras, NEX cameras; & headphones, set top boxes; Canon XA & XF series camcorders and G1X, S110, G16 cameras; Nikon Coolpix A & P530 cameras; Wacom tablets & stylus; Apple branded accessories for iPhone, iPad, audio and computing.
Products from the following brands are excluded from this offer: Bose®, Beats by Dr. Dre, Polk Audio, Denon, Boston Acoustics, Breville, Dyson, Go Pro, Leap, Philips; Electrolux. These brands and products available through Magnolia are excluded: Arcam, Bowers & Wilkins, JVC, Kaleidescope, Martin Logan, McIntosh, Oppo, Peachtree, Pioneer Elite, Rotel, Savant, Sennheiser, Sharp, Sonance, Sonus Faber, Universal Remote Control™ and special order merchandise. These brands and products available through Pacific Sales Kitchen & Bath are excluded: Bosch, Bertazzoni, Dacor, DCS, Fisher & Paykel, Jenn-Air, Lynx, Monogram, Sub-Zero, Thermador, U-line, Vent-A-hood, Viking, Wolf.

I recently did the iOS 7.0.2 update, now I'm unable to purchase apps. "App could not be purchased at this time. Please try again later. ". I have tried a few of the suggestions and nothing has worked. Reset,change auto lock time on main screen, now what??

I recently did the iOS 7.0.2 update, now I'm unable to purchase apps. "App could not be purchased at this time. Please try again later. ". I have tried a few of the suggestions and nothing has worked. Reset,change auto lock time on main screen, change language setting. Now what???

This sorted it for me:
Backup your iPhone to iCloud (I believe backing up to iTunes will work too). Now go to "Settings --> General --> Reset --> Erase All Content and Settings" to completely restore your iPhone to factory settings. Assuming you've backed up to iCloud, you'll be asked when setting up your iPhone if you want to restore from an iCloud backup. Choose that option and once your iPhone has restored itself from your backup, this annoying problem will finally be gone! (was for me anyway).
To restore from an iTunes backup, connect your iPhone to your computer, load iTunes. Click the File menu and select Devices > Restore from Back up.

TS4001 Bookmarks are not syncing to ONE of my Macs, but showing up on other Mac (work), iPhone 4 and iPad 1. Macs are on Mountain Lion. Tried all of Apple's suggestions - and the one Mac is still not updating/syncing Bookmarks or Reading List. What's goin

Bookmarks are not syncing to ONE of my Macs, but showing up on other Mac (work), iPhone 4 and iPad 1. Macs are on Mountain Lion. Tried all of Apple's suggestions - and the one Mac is still not updating/syncing Bookmarks or Reading List. What's going on? Do I have to wait to OS update? It seems lots of peolple were having issues before ML, but I as fine. Since ML, I am having all kinds of issues!

Yeah, I literally have tried everything except deleting my iCloud account (I'm close, but that would require so many changes that it is way too painful to consider at this point).
I am still waiting to hear back from Apple Support. Hopefully something can be done, or they can do a reset on their end.
Thanks for taking the time to respond though, much appreciated!

It's now over 6 weeks since I made the mistake of updating my iPad and I am furious and frustrated at the lack of a solution to the problem with ios 5 audio app missing lyrics

It’s now over 6 weeks since I made the mistake of updating my iPad and I am furious and frustrated at the lack of a solution to the problem with ios 5.
I recently updated to ios 5.1 but nothing has been done to rectify the audio app problems ie lyrics no longer shown,
I am extremely disappointed and angrywith those responsible for the iOS 5 update, in regard to the way it hasaffected the music app in my iPad.
I also own an iPhone 4, am an avid Apple fan, and up until now have beenextremely pleased with the devices, and have sung their praises to friends andassociates.
I am a professional musician, and purchased an iPad primarily to use with theperformance of my music.
The changes made to the music app affected my performances over the weekendextremely adversely – limiting my repertoire and causing confusion and delays.
I have spent many hours talking withApple helpline assistants (who, incidentally have been very good and have triedto help), and I have also spent a lot of time on this letter.
I greatly regret updating to iOS 5.
There are two major problems with the music app.
1. Lyrics no longer displayed
2. Layout, and appearance and consequently performance have seriouslyregressed.
I have a repertoire of around 500 song backing tracks, organised into about 20playlists, half of which featured lyrics / chords that I have spent monthsrecently entering into iTunes so that they could be used on my iPad.
These were working fine up until the update - now they are gone.
Previously, the app featured large icons for playlist, artists, songs etc. atbottom of page: Now there are small, grey, indistinct barely legible buttons.
Previously, when playlist icon was selected - all the playlists were listedclearly in order on the left hand side in black on white (as in iTunes).
Now they are scattered across the whole page in large squares (displayingnothing if there is no album art).
The identifying wording below eachsquare is now small, grey, indistinct & barely legible.
Previously, when a playlist was selected - the songs were displayed in adescending list in black & white: now they appear as small, grey indistinct & barely legible.
Previously, when a song was selected - it appeared filling the page, and withaudio controls clearly positioned at top of screen. One tap would bring uplyrics.
Now audio controls appear at top once again small, grey, indistinct &barely legible.
A small square representsalbum art which if tapped fills page. A further tap fails to bring up lyrics.
Don Wilson

Lyrics aren't supported in the Music app on iOS 5 on the iPad. These are user-to-user forums, they are not monitored by Apple (there are too many forums/threads/messages for that to happen). If you want to leave feedback for Apple then you can do so here : http://www.apple.com/feedback/ipad.html

Suggestion and Comments for a w530 unit

Hello Everyone,
I've been using macbookpro for almost 4 years, and since I heavily use AutoCad, Sketchup and Lightroom on a daily basis it has been a bothersome to rebooth from one OS to another. I have been looking at the W530 for quite sometime and decided to make the swtich. I hope someone can enlighten me on how to go about the purcahsing of W530. From Lenovo site, i intend of getting this specification and minor upgrade of some specs:
Lenovo w530 Intel Core i7-3940XM Processor Extreme Edition (8M Cache, up to 3.80 GHz)
Window 7 pro 64 bit
Lightroom 4
15.6" FHD (1920 x 1080) LED Backlit AntiGlare Display, Mobile Broadband Ready
NVIDIA Quadro K2000M Graphics with 2GB DDR3
16 GB PC3-12800 DDR3 (4 DIMM)
500GB Hard Disk Drive, 7200rpm
Bluetooth 4.0
Third Party Source Items:
Additional 2 8gb Ram, so total of 32GB
msata AData XPG x300 256gb
2.5" sata ssd 512gb
Hard drive caddy from new mode us. com
Questions:
1. If in case, I need to add additional ram, would it be okey to just buy an additional 2 pcs of 8GB of Corsair Vengance, or do i need to buy a new 4 pcs of 8GB? so the total ram would be 32GB. Or would it be wise to just get the 32GB of Ram from Lenovo?
2. I plan to use the 500gb HDD in the hard drive caddy and use the msata and 2.5" ssd for primary drive, What would be the best way to copy the Windows and Lightroom from the HDD to msata drive (256gb adata)?
3. How come some unit with the w530 comes with a color sensor option and the higher w530 specs does not? would it be wise to get the Color sensor/ calibration from Lenovo or Just get other calibration software? and can you suggest in your experience a good calibration software for w530?
4. and lastly, does all w530 whether it be lower end specs or high end spec has a msata connection? Sorry of the ignorance.
Really sorry for a long post and questions. I hope someone could enlighten me before i purchase this unit. Any suggestions and comment would be highly appreciated. Thanks

Hi.
I'm almost in your same boat; used a Macbook when travelling for AutoCAD and I just ordered a W530 (should arrive Thursday) after a long period of agonizing of the purchase. I'll update this thread once I've used it a bit if you'd like, but I have some comments on your post:
1. My understanding is that RAM works best when all sticks are of the same capacity. Personally, I ordered the W530 with the least RAM possible and am replacing all factory with Corsair Vengance.
2. Use drive cloning software.(check out this site: http://lifehacker.com/5839753/the-best-disk-cloning-app-for-windows). I'm eschewing the mSATA and going with a 500gb SSD (found the Samsung 840 for $279) as the main drive with the 500gb HDD in the ultrabay (mSATA slot vacant). Why do you need the hard drive caddy?
3. Not sure. I didn't go top-of-the-line as you are so my config had the color sensor option.
4. All have the mSATA.

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