Am I imagining things?

This morning I had some time to spare, and just for fun I decided to check if it was still impossible to change the language of the interface of these forums. Just to make sure I was doing things right, I went first to this FAQ with instructions that I knew did not work at the time, and even for months after been posted (which I had reported, as others but without any reaction):
http://forums.adobe.com/thread/416450?tstart=30
As this FAQ had not been changed since it was posted, the instructions were the same that I remembered. I obediently went to look for the Region links at the top of the page, only to find that IT IS NO LONGER THERE, so there is now no way of changing the language of the interface. Or at least, one that I could find.
And then I noticed that this was not the only change up there. For example, the You are logged in as Claudio González line had also disappeared!. But this was not all. The best´part was that, marvel of marvels,
some of the enormous wasted space up there had been reduced, and I could see the titles of the first few threads without having to scroll down!!!
I was working on my new Mac and I thought that all this could be just a combined effect of a new computer, a new operating system, and a new browser, so I mover to my Win laptop, and I couldn't believe my eyes: everything I had seen was reproduced here as well!!
Then I remembered this thread for announcing updates in these forums, where I thought I was going to find a proud message announcing these changes:
http://forums.adobe.com/thread/433723?tstart=0
but no, last post there was from November 3, 2009 so...
Am I imagining all this? Am I witnessing the test phase of a change to come? Or have these changes actually been made in absolute secrecy? Whatever the answer, I must say that I very much welcome the reducing of wasted space up there, and I am most than happy not to have to scroll down to see the titles of the first threads.

acresofgreen wrote:
Jacob Bugge wrote:
I have noticed no change.
Presently, I can see the first two thread titles (one liners) in the forum.
Switching from FF to IE I can only see one.
You must have a small screen - on my work laptop I see the first 4 thread titles in this forum and the first 5 thread titles in the Photoshop forum (currently using IE9 beta). Screen resolution 1900 x 1200
I have been using this same monitor with my Macs for the last two years, and my present Win laptoy is also two years old. I noticed the other day that I was seeing the titles of the first few threads in this forum on both screens, when previously I could see none in either. I also noticed at the same time the changes in the top of the page that I described in my first message.
I would therefore venture to say that the observed changes are not in the least related with screen size or resolution, as I have changed neither.

Similar Messages

Screen shrinking or am i imagining things

wierd question>>>
When my backlight goes on, there is a black "border" of about 4-5 pixels around the whole screen. I might be losing my mind, but i could have sworn that it had used the entire screen surface before (ie right up to where the clear screen meets the white of the iPod body.. Does anyone else have the same issue?
It's like a whole area of 4-5 pixels all the way around the screen are not letting light through. Did i mess up a setting. or is this how it is supposed to be?

I have a black border around my screen if that is any
comfort. Can't actually tell if it is part of the
screen or part of the LCD/cover
Thanks. It's odd, i just noticed all of a sudden the other day. I have been under a ton of stress the last week or so with finals. I just finished my last final project for my MBA program. So with all the stress, i wan't sure if i was losing my mind or not:)
if i look really really closely at it, at a certain angle, it appears to be part of the actual LCD, like 4 or so pixels all the way around don't light up. Oh well, if others have the same thing, it must be normal. Saves me a trip to an apple store where i would have looked like a moron.

Am I imagining things? Spotlight on Word docs...

If I search for files modified in the last 7 days and select Kind is Document, it seems that Word 2008 .docs do not appear! .docx ones do, though!
Yet, if I select Extension is doc instead, then I get the Word .doc files.
Is there some trick here?

Anyone?

Am I imagining things or is my e mail hanging up more often since I installed Yosemite? as I'm typing, it often freezes and the little color wheel spins and spins. No way to stop it without doing a hard exit and a reboot...any ideas? tx

I am using Yosemite OS, just installed on macbook pro w retina display and 1TB memory with 16gigs of ram. E mail feels slower and it often freezes up as I'm writing, forcing me to do a reboot or hard shutdown.anyone have similar prob withe mail? Is there way to exit a spinning wheel warning? Earlier it said I had too many applications open; I've never seen that message before. I know how to close apps on i phone, but is it necessary on new mb pro?

I wrote a little diagnostic program to help show what might be causing these problems. Download EtreCheck from http://www.etresoft.com/etrecheck, run it, and paste the results here. EtreCheck is perfectly safe to run, does not ask for your password to install, and is signed with my Apple Developer ID.
Disclaimer: Although EtreCheck is free, there are other links on my site that could give me some form of compensation, financial or otherwise.

Can the iphone set a reminder based on things said in a phone conversation?

Today my wife was on a phone call with her mother and had to cut the call short so she said, "I'll call you back in a few minutes." About 15 minutes after hanging up a reminder went off on her phone (that she had not set) that said "Call back [mom's name]." She was totally surprised by it, but had forgotten to call her back, so it actually came in handy.
Are we imagining things, or can the iPhone actually create reminders without you knowing just based off of things said in a phone conversation? I know that neither of us had set that reminder manually, and we're the only ones in the house.

Right, but in this case, she never activated Siri to set a reminder. She never set the reminder at all. She just said that she'd call her back in the phone conversation and then hung up. Then the reminder came.

Code returns "null" and "0"s in main module - why?

I am coding a program that is in two modules. The main module serves it's standard function. The inventory class/module has three functions - 1) request stock input on 4 data points (1 String and 3 integers, one of which is a double) - 2) calculate the value of the inventory, and - 3) return string which reads out the 4 data points and the calculation showing the total value of the inventory. I've created the 3 functions in the inventory class/module, but obviously don't have them referring to each other correctly because when we come to the end of the program the output is null for the String and "0"s for the int/doubles. The code is below - any ideas about how to overcome the empty output? The code compiles fine and acts like it is going to work, but when it comes to the final command line it outputs
"null, which is item number 0, has 0 currently in stock at a price of 0.00 each. The total value of inventory in stock is 0.00"
Main module:
public class Main {
    @SuppressWarnings("static-access")
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        Inventory inventory = new Inventory(); //call Inventory class
        inventory.inventoryInput();
        Inventory results = new Inventory();
        results.inventoryResults(); //call for inventoryResults in Inventory class
}Inventory module:
import java.util.Scanner;
import static java.lang.System.out;
public class Inventory
//declare and initialize variables
   int itemNumber = 0;
   String productName;
   int stockAmount = 0;
   double productCost = 0;
   double totalValue = 0;
   String inventoryResults;
   //initialize scanner
   Scanner input = new Scanner(System.in);
   public void inventoryInput ()
   out.println("Please enter item number: "); //prompt for item number
      itemNumber = input.nextInt();
   out.println( "Enter product name/description: "); //prompt for product name
      productName = input.next();
   out.println("Quantity in stock: ");
      stockAmount = input.nextInt(); // prompt for stock quantity
   out.println("What is the product cost for each unit? ");
      productCost = input.nextDouble(); // prompt for product cost
    } // end inventoryInput
    public double totalValue( double stockAmount, double productCost )
      totalValue = stockAmount * productCost;
      return totalValue; // return stock value
    } // end totalValue
    public void inventoryResults()
    out.printf("%s, which is item number %d, has %d currently in stock at a " +
     "price of %.2f each. The total value of inventory in stock is " +
     "%.2f\n.", productName, itemNumber, stockAmount, productCost, totalValue);
    } // end inventoryResult
}// end method

justStartingOut wrote:
Actually my final solution was quite simple - I moved the calculation and final formated print text statements into the body of Inventory's class code. It now works. "Works" scares me a bit.
Someone cooking dinner might rummage about in the fridge and the cupboards to see what's there. Do imaginative things with what they come up with. And, with a bit of luck come up with something tasty or, at any rate edible.
A physician deciding on a medical treatment would do well to try a more cautious approach. A specific aim would be a good thing. And a calculated appreciation of the documented effects of each medicine. And how they interact.
It's up to you to determine which approach your coding should resemble. But it seems to me that your original Main class had a perfectly good reason to exist. It was a driver class whose purpose seemed to be to create and use an Inventory. (And using an Inventory is a very different thing from being an Inventory, so it made perfect sense to have two different classes.) To me it works or not, depending on whether it fufills that purpose. And what you have done is not so much solve the problem of it not working, as avoid that problem.
(If by "moved" you mean that the outputting now occurs as part of - or is called from - inventoryInput() then that is not a good thing. The input method should input: just input.)
I think that is because once the original input was loaded into the program (when I entered product number, name, price and value), the entries were dropped when the code switched to the next step. I think your intuition is entirely correct. In particular look at what your original main() method does (my comments replacing yours):
Inventory inventory = new Inventory(); // (A) Create an inventory...
inventory.inventoryInput(); // ... and put stuff into it
    // (B) Create some new entirely different (and empty) inventory...
Inventory results = new Inventory();
results.inventoryResults(); // ... and print its contentsInstead of creating a second inventory, try printing the results of the first one.
Edited by: pbrockway2 on Apr 22, 2008 12:37 PM
Whoops ... just read reply 2.
It might sense, though to call totalValue() at the end your input method (because at that point the total value has changed). Or do away with that method - which you worked on getting right in your other thread ;)

My library will not show up in Itunes after moving library

I moved my library folder from my C drive (my primary drive) to my D drive because I was running out of space on my C drive. I did this through My Computer and not through iTunes. Then, my library does not show up in iTunes.
I moved the folder back to my C drive and everything, but to no avail. I read the tutorial on the Apple website called "Moving your iTunes folder," and I read the first 1,000 or so posts and nothing really solved my problem. There were other posts that were sort of related, but my case differs in that I moved the folder back to the same place it was before and nothing showed up.
This happened before, and I was able to fix it. I thought I did the same thing again, but apparently not, since it's still not showing up. I tried every imaginable thing. I looked at under preferences, advanced, and then made sure the iTunes music folder was the same as the one I had my files in. Still, nothing is showing up. I know where my files are and everything, but iTunes acts like no files were even imported.
I have tried importing songs into iTunes, but it doesn't show up on iTunes, so that rules out importing my files again.
Please help me. I really am at a loss of what to do. Thanks so much!
Yours, Al
2005 Acer TravelMate 6000, 39.2 GB Windows XP iTunes version 7.01.8

hey.
finally somebody with the same problem! i bought a new external drive because i was running out of space and backed up my entire library. then my computer crashed and i wanted to take advantage of a clean drive and not add my whole library back onto my computer. i'd love to be able to access my music folder on the external and have that show up as my library on iTunes when connected...
i followed all the steps as closely as possible and am pretty confident that my advanced preferences in iTunes are correct, but the library does not show these songs from the external drive. have you had any feedback or figured it out on your own?! i hope so, i'm at a deadend.

A Long DEFERRED Decision – That Proved IMPRUDENT

Dear Thorsten,
A Long DEFERRED Decision – That Proved IMPRUDENT
I had been a NOKIA Loyalist ever since it launched its first best seller 1100. And thereafter the journey passed through 2600, N70, N72, N73, N97, E5, E6, and Lumia 800 and stopped at Lumia 820 when I felt the strong urge of faster mailing service due to my official commitments.
Meanwhile; to my Good Fortune (which unfortunately proved to be not-so-good) BlackBerry came out with BB10. Since you still are undisputed and uncrowned prince of flawless mailing system, I without giving second thought decided to Cross-the-Floor and join the Band Wagon of BlackBerry. Although I liked Z10 & Q10 in the first glance and after having a feel of them, the price-tag did not let me take the immediate plunge and hence I waited for Q5. And this proved to be the Biggest Mistake-Of-The-Recent-Times Of My Life.
Because to keep the price low, you have drastically compromised with the quality as Q5 which is atleast 90% inferior to Q10.
The major problems I have been facing with Q5 are:-
1.    The OBSTINATE touch – One needs to literally RUB The Screen To Get It Unlocked
2.    Cumbersome Configuring Process Of Mail – Although I have configured my mails on the same, it keeps throwing messages to reconfigure it time-n-again for no valid reasons.
3.    Fragile SIM & MMC Compartment – The cover keeps opening on its own without applying any pressure or effort, which may lead to breakage – example of poor designing.
4.    Drastically Slow – Inspite of having a Good Processor, the Video Streaming and Downloading is very very slow.
5.    Silent Profile Is Too Silent – When the phone is kept on the Vibrate Only Mode it becomes almost dead as one cannot get to feel the vibration when in the pocket.
In a nutshell all I can see that You Have Reduced The ‘PIZZA’ To ‘CHAPATI’ In Order To Bring Down The Cost.
I am not sure what to do now as I am in Catch 22 situation – I am into BBian era but only as good as belonging to Barbarian Age.
And before I forget - even after using it for over a fortnight, I am not able to configure BBM because every time it throws a message "TEMPORARY SERVER ERROR" (which in fact is PERPETUAL) . Extremely sorry state of affairs at my end - what to do?
Best regards.
Yours sincerely,
Rajneesh Batra
To,
Mr. Thorsten Heins
CEO
Research In Motion

rajneeshbatra wrote:
Just one thing I am not able to comprehend is that why didn't you for a second give a thought to my hardship that there might be some genuine problem with my particular handset and hence kept defending the orgn. And if by doing so you wish to establish that BlackBerry is a 0 defect company,
I have no idea what you're speaking of: I have never said that BlackBerry was anything of a "0 defect company", as a matter of fact if you knew me, you would know that I often make critical oberservations of the company, it's products and services.
You're imagining things I've never stated. You have a vivid imagination. Becasue you and disagree on your specific comments doesn't mean I defend BlackBerry on everything.
rajneeshbatra wrote:
I wish you knew Hindi otherwise had recited a beautiful two liner which perfectly fits you.
Try me.
I might have a two worder that perfectly fits you.
1. If any post helps you please click the below the post(s) that helped you.
2. Please resolve your thread by marking the post "Solution?" which solved it for you!
3. Install free BlackBerry Protect today for backups of contacts and data.
4. Guide to Unlocking your BlackBerry & Unlock Codes
Join our BBM Channels (Beta)
BlackBerry Support Forums Channel
PIN: C0001B7B4   Display/Scan Bar Code
Knowledge Base Updates
PIN: C0005A9AA   Display/Scan Bar Code

If I had any more hair, I would be pulling it out

iBook G4/1.42, 512MB RAM, 10.4.9 on combo update. Machine running absolutely fine. Been on 10.4.9 for some weeks. No problems whatsoever. Unaltered OS X apps in use. Regularly disk permissioned, cache cleaned, sudo periodic daily/weekly/monthly script in terminal. 21gb free space.
2 days ago, from nowhere, PDFs, image files, MS Word docs and MS Excel docs that come into Mail are seen and detected as normal. It comes up with the correct preview, has the correct size etc. But they won't open. Only Word doc that has opened has been one with no images. So the problem is to do with images, it seems to me.
I then checked Console and discovered a world of logs that I only part understand - error messages seem to be 'corrupt jpeg data-premature end of data' and 'extraneous bytes before marker'.
The Excel error message on MS Excel files are: "the file may be read-only, or you may be trying to access a read-only location. Or, the server the document is stored on may not be responding". Needless to say the xl file is NOT read-only, and the mail service is POP not IMAP.
The MS Word message is: Word cannot open the document. Try one or more of the following: *On the File menu, click Open to open the document. * Make sure the document is a valid Word document. Needless to say it is a valid word document.
Images either don't open in preview, or the window just shows some scrambled stuff at the top.
In all cases, have attempted to open files from Mail or from the desktop.
Although I'm British I travel a bit and this problem has started in China. But I travel here frequently, never had this problem before. I'm wondering whether their cyber-curtain is corrupting files.
I sent myself an image from the laptop's hard drive, the e-mail back was corrupted (the outbound image was fine). I double checked and sent the good image to my son in the UK. He received it fine. He sent it back and it was scrambled.
Word, XL and image files already on the iBook open as normal; word docs e-mailed with no images work OK.
I've repaired permissions, there were no unusual messages. Have had no power outages or other disk corrupting events.
I looked in HOME/LIBRARY/PERMISSIONS and found 2 lines for Word and Excel. I moved them to desktop and re-opened xl and word. The programs work fine, they made new permissions files. But Mail attachments don't open still.
Mail Downloads file has permissions that say I can READ/WRITE.
I set my mail server to keep mails on the server. I knew there were some files with Word docs and image attachments.
I checked my mail using web mail service mail2web.com, and successfully downloaded word doc with images and an image file. Absolutely normal and fine.
Did my e-mail using mail.app, and word doc doesnt open, per the error messages in the original post, and the image file is scrambled.
Tonight, not sure if I was imagining things, I used my FTP client (Cute FTP) to download an image from my website. It was corrupted.
So, some sort of downloads work and some don't. Any suggestions?
This is what i have done so far:
cleaned caches
re-loaded combo 10.4.9 (163mb one)
disk permissions
sudo periodic daily weekly monthly
repair disc
start in single user mode, repair disc (no error messages)

Hi Tony,
try to reset the Launch Service Database with a utility such as Cocktail, OnyX or Tiger Cache Cleaner.
If this answered your question please consider granting some stars: Why reward points?

Where Can I Learn About Connecting an External Drive to My Airport Extreme?

I'm having trouble find information on this. I want to know the pros and cons of connecting my LaCie drive to the FireWire port of my base station so that different computers in the house have direct access to it. I'd like to know whether there will be a big change in the data transfer rate, any security issues, and whether permissions will be assigned automatically by the computer creating new folders on the drive. Also, I'd like to know whether Time Machine works well this way.
Any thoughts would be most appreciated.

You're right about the USB. Must have been imagining things. Darn those meds. Thanks for the speed comparison too; I think I'll experiment a bit. Shame about Time Machine though. I thought I had read a post elsewhere on the discussion board saying that Time Machine recognized an external drive connected to a router. It may not have been an AEBS, and perhaps recognizing it doesn't mean Time Machine will back up to it.
Thanks again for your reply.
Gregory

How do I import AVI video with stereo audio (and keep it that way)?

Today I just discovered that all the AVI video with stereo audio I've ever imported into a Premiere Pro CS6 project has been mysteriously converted to mono. And I can't find any import setting anywhere that enable me to change this.
Here's the deal...
I've have an AVI file with stereo audio (the file is actually a stereo sound test that I downloaded to prove that I wasn't imagining things). On my hard drive, I right-click and view the properties:
Video
Length: 00:00:36
Frame width: 320
Frame height: 240
Frame rate: 25 frames/second
Audio
Bit rate: 128kbps
Channels: 2 (stereo)
Audio sample rate: 44 kHz
I click on it to play and listen with headphones--everything is playing in the correct part of the stereo spectrum. Then, I import it to Premiere, click the file name in the left content menu, and check the properties, suddenly they read:
Type: AVI Movie
File Size: 1.1 MB
Image Size: 320 x 240
Frame Rate: 25.00
Source Audio Format: 11025 Hz - 16 bit - Mono
Project Audio Format: 11025 Hz - 32 bit floating point - Mono
Total Duration: 00:00:36:15
Pixel Aspect Ratio: 1.0
Sure enough, I drag it into the sequence, listen to it, and it's indeed playing mono. Outside of Premiere, the original source file still reads and plays correctly with stereo sound.
When I import stereo WAVs and MP3s, it keeps the original stereo channels without me having to do anything special. I even just imported the same exact file as a MOV with stereo audio, and it showed up in Premiere as:
Source Audio Format: 44100 Hz - 16 bit - Stereo
Project Audio Format: 44100 Hz - 32 bit floating point - Stereo
What is going on here with AVIs? Am I doing something wrong? Are there settings I'm missing somewhere?
(And before anyone suggests I only use MOV in the future... that's not exactly the answer I'm looking for.)

Thank you for that info.
For video, the codec is MPEG-4 Video (XVID) and for audio it says MPEG Audio Layer 1/2/3 (mpga).
There are two issues with that file:
The first is the Xvid CODEC (not meant for editing), and then the MPEG Audio/MPGA. I would convert that file, to something that is more editable.
Good luck,
Hunt

How can I remove a doubly-invisible file?

My external drive has a 28GB invisible file on it called "Volume Catalog Info". The finder says the disk is full, but won't reveal the file, even with all files made visible.
The way I found the monster file was using DiskSurveyor 2.5 under Classic. I'd think it was imagining things, except that the Finder agrees that the disk is full. My 2 folders on the drive (no system files) add up to the same 28GB short of the size of the disk. I made all files visible using Terminal ("defaults write com.apple.Finder AppleShowAllFiles 1") but besides the 2 folders mentined, there's nothing new shown of any size, only the following: Desktop DB 16KB, .DS_Store 8KB .TemporaryItems folder 8KB, Desktop DF 4KB, and .Spotlight-V100, .Trashes, Desktop, and Desktop Folder, all at Zero KB.
Since Terminal doesn't reveal the file either, how can I remove it?
Thanks!

I appreciate the help and think this may have been a case of operator error. In searching the web I found someone with the same problem, but I now think I had the wrong idea of my actual disk size! So DiskSurveyor showed this mega-file, but just as a side-effect of its being an OS9 program. No mega-file, nothing to delete, red face.

What a victory: failed installs due to "shared technology" errors returns endless threads via Google

I purchased PSE 10 (download) and lit up an install. It failed. I searched Google and oddly, the moment I hit the terms "photoshop elements 10 install fail" I got 40-50 results for "shared technology" failures. You guys are failure stars!
By the way, I cannot thank you enough for wasting my day like this. Back in the old days one had to visit microsoft.com to waste an entire ******** day trying to get their poorly engineered product installed, after it's failed endlessly to do as expected. Bill would be proud, if he weren't busy out there earning billions of dollars by giving away millions...which is nicer than what I have to say about you right now. Who needs time with their kids? Install PSE!!! It's a great time soak!
So, with that, I beg of you to please start sending me the usual asinine, nonworking fixes-in-a-box to get this product installed on my machine, even though we both know it won't work. Meanwhile, I have purchased downloaded, installed, and started using the Corel's latest version of PSP, which nearly FLEW into my hard drive and immediately worked right out of the box. Boy, they suck, huh? No. They don't. You do.
I've followed the hilariously funny and equally useless advice on your help forums (my favorite: " If you are using a downloaded installer, or running the installation from the hard drive, the Shared Technologies can fail because of the installation path. Copy the installation files to a folder to the root of the drive." Really? So you're saying "to install this stupid product, first you must fix our stupid mistake." Love you. Truly, I do.) and nothing has worked. I assume you will end up pointing at Microsoft and calling them bad, since every other app on my computer works without this moronic, yet remarkably popular, failure.
And even if we get this (endlessly) failed implementation to work - emphasis on IF - I will probably de-install it and demand a refund, depending on whether PSP has their product up to par, which is far more likely than Adobe having a working fix.
Now, I will say for the record that I have been harsh, and snide, and nasty. I am tired, and frustrated, and it's been four hours, and I have had enough. Having said that, deal with it. I am your customer (for the moment). Why do I need to ask you to make your product work? Isn't that the point? Is it? Helloooo?

It has occurred to me that Adobe's support people may be cowards. Then again, I am being a jerk, and it's probable they may have read my comments and said "screw this guy." I might say that. Then again, if I worked for a world-class company like Adobe I might step up and defend my product.
Then again, I might not, because they fell off the tracks some time ago and failed to stay in sync with the technologies they need to work with (read: Microsoft) to the degree they have Google reflecting:
a.) Adobe's level of failure in compatibility given the immediate and numerous responses to the simple keywords "elements fail" returning an astonishing number of responses (mine at the top lately) and...
b.) Adobe's own technical staff offering roughly a dozen differing, non-working fixes to the issue and...
c.) Adobe's studied and intentional avoidance of my emails, this thread, and hilariously worthless chat support.
It is very likely the source of the issue is an administrator profile glitch on the MS side, or perhaps an MSI issue, but good luck getting that clarified from Adobe.
They!
Don't!!
Know!!!
And they don't care. All I can say about that is I am glad I only dropped sixty-odd bucks on this product rather than seven-odd hundred for CS6. Maybe I'd get support if I had, but these snotty threads would be YouTubed, Reddited, and published in the local paper.
Next: there has been a breakthrough! An amazing breakthrough!
Among the many useless and stupid bits of advice Adobe's staff throw around on the support site, there is a great recommendation to try to load the product in safe mode. Last night I booted into safe mode and tried to run the installer, which of course immediately popped a dialog box stating it couldn't run in safe mode, so there's Adobe's great advice for you. While I was laughing and taking screen shots for posterity I glanced at my desktop, and there it was: the Photoshop Elements 10 icon. What are you doing there? I double clicked, and viola! It was loaded all along! Opened right up with that blue screen with a thousand names of the dev team.
Wait. What? I thought it rolled back? It SAID it rolled back the install. No? That 5 minutes it spends “rolling back” it just pretends to roll back, deletes the icon, leaving my computer polluted with a product I already got a refund on from Amazon? Really?
Anyway I rebooted back into my normal state and lo and behold, the PSE 10 icon is still there on my desktop. It did not install from safe mode. It had been installed from the beginning, and for whatever reason booting into safe mode and rebooting back seems to fix whatever idiotic and mindless failure Adobe built into this thing which they couldn't otherwise help me fix. Plain reboots did not do this: only booting into and back out of safe mode.
Thinking I was imagining things, I got up this morning and checked. Yep. There it is on my desktop, working as if it had been there all along and I hadn't been ignored, avoided, led astray, given stupid advice, or sold a product that clearly wasn't ready for sale. PSE 10. Working. Seemingly fully functional. Glory be.
Now, since I am the one who fixed it, I was thinking Adobe should pay me. I spent about 10 hours fuming over this thing, and I bill $65 an hour as a consultant. I realize that I am not an Adobe coder or support specialist, but I fixed it and should be compensated for my time at my rate. A bonus is in order as well - call it pain and suffering. 10X$65 plus a little sweetener, let's call it a thousand bucks. What do you say, Adobe? Are you going to award my ingeniousness and brilliance? You couldn't handle it, and still can't, but I did it. Me. The bitchy, whiny one infesting your support board with angry hate. You owe me.
Yeah, I didn’t think so. Anyway, I have always liked PSE and have used past versions to great success. I think I will like PSE10 just as much, regardless the fact my view of Adobe is that much dimmer for the shamefully bad experience of late. This has been a pretty sucky couple of days, and from the boards and complaints I have found out it's the exception rather than the rule, but exceptional nonetheless.
Now I shall screenshot this thread and publish it everywhere I can find a place for it. I will call out the responses I received from Adobe (none) and the great support I received from Adobe (none) and the quality service I received from Adobe (none). Then I will do my level best to remember what the heck I was doing that made me want to buy PSE in the first place: there was a photo of...something, and I wanted to...do something. What was it? I've spent so much time in Adobe FailShop I have forgotten what I was doing here in this bottomless abyss of fail...
Ta taa, Adobe Support. Love you, really I do. True story.

Can only play one podcast at a time

Hi,
I have just upgrade from a 3g iPod to a 5g. On the older iPod I could pick a podcast and it would play all the episodes one after another. Now it will only play one at a time and shows 1 of 1 in the display. I can see 5 episodes if I actually go into the playlist. My Nano does the samething.
Is there a setting I am missing that can change this?
Best wishes
Michael

Well now I'm doubly .
Steve, did you try playing a Podcast episode in List view? I ask, because after Creydon's last post I read, re-read and read it again to make sure I wasn't imagining things. Consequently I tried playing some Podcasts.
The results are odd, even after re-booting my computer.
In List view:
Started a Podcast episode playing.
Checked the Up Next list. It was empty - not what I expected, but I'll go with the flow.
At the end of the episode, the following episode began playing. This makes no sense to me, if the list is empty, why does another episode begin? If this is expected behaviour, I did not realise that the Up Next only dealt with music, not Podcasts.
Turned on Shuffle, then turned it off again before the episode finished.
When this episode finished, a further Podcast began - at random! This also makes no sense, particularly as the Up Next was still empty. iTunes was in Shuffle mode, and was shuffling Podcasts!
Turned Shuffle back on and this time, left it on.
At the end of the episode, iTunes stopped. At last, expected behaviour!
As I'm sure you are aware, by default iTunes sets all Podcasts to Skip when shuffling, so in Shuffle mode, once a Podcast finishes, since all the others are set to skip, iTunes should stop. But if Shuffle is turned on then off again, iTunes mistakenly plays Podcasts at random, even though Shuffle has been turned off! Surely, this is a bug?
At least though, it is possible to make iTunes play one Podcast episode, then stop, (as I expected, so not a bug at this point!). Simply turn on Shuffle (and leave it on).
Phil
Message was edited by: the fiend

Zero Out Data on a SSD drive: Are my findings correct?

"Note: With OS X Lion and an SSD drive, Secure Erase and Erasing Free Space are not available in Disk Utility. These options are not needed for an SSD drive because a standard erase makes it difficult to recover data from an SSD. For more security, consider turning on FileVault 2 encryption when you start using the SSD drive."
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3680
Seems to hard to believe, as I've seen some of the top participants here clearly say that first your set a new partition, then erase Macintosh HD, then zero out data?

Retired Engineer, do you have any references? What I have read says otherwise.
Drive Wear & Tear
What is your estimation of wear and tear on the flash by writing to 0's. What percentage of the drives total usage has been "wasted"? I thought even consumer drives where capable of 1000 - 10000 rewrites per cell, whereas enterprise SSDs are capable of over 100,000: http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9112065/Solid_state_disk_lackluster_for_l aptops_PCs?taxonomyId=19&pageNumber=1&taxonomyName=Storage.
"For one thing, it matters whether the SSD drive uses SLC or MLC memory. SLC generally endures up to 100,000 write cycles or writes per cell, while MLC can endure anywhere from 1,000 to 10,000 writes before it begins to fail, according to Fujitsu's Hagberg. For its part, Western Digital's laptop hard-disk drive boasts up to 600,000 write cycles."
That's an old artcile too. Slightly newer, in late 2008 Micron/Sun achieved SLC NAND chips capable of over 1,000,000 write cycles: http://investors.micron.com/releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=440650 . I imagine things have gotten slightly better in the last 4 years.
Data Wiping
This paper (http://static.usenix.org/events/fast11/tech/full_papers/Wei.pdf) states, "In most cases, overwriting the entire disk twice was sufﬁcient to sanitize the disk, regardless of the previous state of the drive."
Going on however, "Overall, the results for overwriting are poor: while overwriting appears to be effective in some cases across a wide range of drives, it is clearly not universally reliable. It seems unlikely that an individual or organization expending the effort to sanitize a device would be satisﬁed with this level of performance."
The best method I have found for wiping an SSD on a Mac is the (SAFE) Scramble and Finally Erase process as described in this UC San Diego research paper: http://cseweb.ucsd.edu/users/swanson/papers/TR-cs2011-0963-Safe.pdf.
According to their paper, the effectiveness of the procedure is equiavlent to degaussing a magentic drive. Another tidbit, the SAFE technique is replicated by Sandforce controller when someone reformats the drive (as mentioned by Linc Davis above, however, I believe this is specific only to Sandforce controllers).
References:
http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2011/03/erasing_data_fr.html
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9211519/Can_data_stored_on_an_SSD_be_secu red_
http://arstechnica.com/security/2011/03/ask-ars-how-can-i-safely-erase-the-data- from-my-ssd-drive/
http://static.usenix.org/events/fast11/tech/full_papers/Wei.pdf
http://cseweb.ucsd.edu/users/swanson/papers/TR-cs2011-0963-Safe.pdf

Am I imagining things?

Similar Messages

Maybe you are looking for