Burg, Questions and concerns about it.

I've heard/read that it is outdated and unstable. How unstable is it? Is it worth building it and replacing it with Grub2, and does it build off of, or replace grub2? I really do like the graphical abilities of burg, and it far surpasses the themes of grub2. Any guide/information on it or a packagebuild to have it replace grub2 would be nice, as I was unable to find any relevant information for my situation pertaining to burg on both google and the wiki. Thanks in advance, Multimoon.

I recently tried grub2 as burg in the AUR has become unmaintained (though still usable) but immediately had to switch back as burg is so much nicer. Just follow the wiki entry, it's very similar to grub2 and you can have both installed at the same time. Obviously only one can be installed to the MBR. There's also a long burg thread on these forums.
It's installed on my SSD to a 1 MiB bios_grub partition (GPT, no separate /boot). I maintain /boot/burg/burg.cfg by hand. I have various entries for Arch, a SystemRescueCD ISO and WinXP (on the first partition of a rarely used drive). I've never had a stability issue.

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Someone asked me will Spotify work on EDGE mobile network in 160 kbps mode.
I will explain some things out.
EDGE network is very slow and actually EDGE is for light internet usage. However some operators, like Elisa Oyj in Finland, can handle 200 kbps in EDGE. If so, you can use 160 kbps Spotify without any problems. But keep in mind, some networks may be slow in EDGE and speed may be lower - in this case just use 96 kbps sound quality.
Personally I would suggest 384 kbps or faster Mobile Internet. Because when you use 320 kbps in mobile, EDGE network isn't enough to handle Extreme quality. The Unlimited is good, but you should be fine with 1GB, just stream then 96 kbps or 160 kbps. I use 0.5M Unlimited 3G Internet and I can say it works like a charm with Extreme sound quality.
If in your country no way for Unlimited, you always can download Spotify playlists to Offline mode with your wifi. But I would say there is no need to fast 3G internet like max. 21M packages - Spotify will work fine with 384 kbps in any sound quality and in slow network too. However in this case you might want to use lower sound quality.
Also remember if you use Unlimited or Free and there no plans to Premium, just ignore those. Free and Unlimited use only 160 kbps and no Mobile or 320 kbps support, so you will be fine with 256 kbps Internet. Personally I suggest to everyone 8M/1M Internet for Home use and to Mobile use something like 0.5M or 1M.

FAQ: Questions and Answers about Spotify

Hey and welcome to my FAQ. Here answers for most questions.
What connection do I need to use Spotify?
Spotify can use any connection! Mobile broadband, ADSL, cable modem... I recommend 1M connection or faster, however you can use Spotify also in 384 kbps speed or even lower (when on slow mobile networks, just enable lower stream quality).
Does Spotify stream on EDGE (2G, mobile network)?
If you use 160 kbps or lower setting, yes. But keep in mind, network should be near 200 kbps all the time before it's possible without buffering. Recommended 3G and at least 384 kbps mobile speed for 320 kbps.
I have limited internet. How much bandwidth Spotify need?
Spotify use P2P, so no one can answer it right. To eliminate data usage, download tracks to Offline (Premium) and from File or Mobile app settings enable Offline mode. Also you can stream in Mobile with lower sound quality. There is also available Spotify Connect sound machines like Pioneer SMA1 and with these you can play Spotify from your mobile using Connect and that does not use P2P.
Quality 96 kbps => 0.72 MB per minute. (Only in Mobile these days)
Quality 160 kbps => 1.2 MB per minute. (Free, Unlimited, Premium)
Quality 320 kbps => 2.4 MB per minute. (Premium. Desktop, some mobile platforms and some other Spotify devices)
With online streaming you may need a lot bandwidth. But you can also change cache size to 100 GB. This helps keep the network requirements down as it enables more caching. Also this depends on how much you listen music. Try Web Spotify or Mobile Spotify, these don't need P2P for work. Actually these apps doesn't use P2P at all. I hope you enjoy Spotify over your Internet.
How much Mobile data I need to get to stream Spotify full month?
If you have Premium, you can download your music to offline mode, no data used after first download. Offline on home wifi or at library etc. public wifi. If you have Premium and don't want to use Offline or don't have one Premium at all, data usage depends on your Internet connection and Spotify plan/settings. For example if you use Automatical sound quality option in Android app. It selects best quality for music on-the-go depending on network type/speed. Basically your music keeps going even on EDGE network at 96 kbps. If you don't want full sound on the go, keep quality in manual eg. 160 kbps only.
Data usage depends also how much you listen music, basically it is 144 MB in hour at 320 kbps.
Please keep in mind, if you stream online music one hour in day and in month 31 days it will be:
96 kbps: 43 MB in hour, 1339 MB (1.3 GB) in month. Only mobile.
160 kbps: 72 MB in hour, 2232 MB (2.2 GB) in month.
320 kbps: 144 MB in hour, 4464 MB (4.4 GB) in month. Only Premium.
If you listen more than hour, it will be more data usage, or if you listen little - less usage. Please keep in mind also that you just don't use Spotify - you may use YouTube, web surfing etc. too. Actual data usage needs is much higher. If Unlimited data is not possible, I suggest 5-10 GB of data, and if you allowed only 1GB - download music to Offline mode to reduce your data needs to minimum.
How much space I need to Micro-SD for my Offline list?
If you prefer radio edits, it is almost 8.5GB for 1,000 songs. Basically 32 GB is needed if you believe you will be one day near 3,333 tracks limit of Offline mode / device. Big card is also cheaper than little if you look at price/size value. Please look at your phone specs, what is maximum card size supported by your phone. In most phones it is 32 GB.
How to improve playback on Android when outside using mobile network as Internet?
That's great question. Go to Android, open Spotify, hit Settings and select for Online play quality Automatical. This option chooses best possible sound quality for the time and area you are in. If a bit slower 3G, or even parts in EDGE, playback will be less interrupted. Spotify uses for a while 160 kbps or even 96 kbps, when for 320 kbps no speed available at this time on mobile network. Sadly on GPRS this won't work as it is only 56 kbps network.
How I can listen music? I created account and there is no search box in site to search music?
You need to download desktop app before you can listen music from www.spotify.com/download or just use web player https://play.spotify.com/. If you are Premium customer, you can use it also for example in Mobile, in some Spotify Connect speakers, in some smart-tv's etc. Please look into your device advertisements or Spotify site/forum to know which devices support Premium.
How in the earth I can use Spotify outside my country?
You need paid subscription to do this, then you can use Spotify without trouble just as long as you pay for it. However keep in mind that you may not be able to renew subscription in new country, so ensure you have enough months. In Free travelling time is limited to 2 weeks.
How I can delete duplicates from my playlists?
The official tool is under consideration. Before this just use my guide.
How I can check a bitrate of Spotify songs?
There is no official tool or guide from Spotify for this, however I created one guide for you. Come this way.
Where I can reset my password?
Go to Password reset page.
How I connect or disconnect to/from Facebook?
Go to Edit - Preferences in Spotify.
How I clean Spotify cache?
Go to Edit - Preferences and check folder location, then copy and paste it in My Computer.
How Spotify use my internet connection?
Spotify is a P2P software. You download those tracks from P2P network, your cache or Spotify servers. Spotify also can share your cache with Spotify users using your interet connection.
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Spotify uses my Unlimited 3G max. 21M mobile connection. I listen music with empty cache.
What customer service? They just answered to me and asked to go to Community to search answer. Really?
Hey there, sorry about this, this is automatical response. Response is good for some simple questions answered already in Community, however sometimes system will not recognise your question. Just click in your mail "Reply" and ask question another time, then real people contact you.
How I disable P2P from Spotify?
You can't do this. Spotify is cheap to you, so you help Spotify with server costs. Only Spotify Mobile, Spotify for Smart-TV, Spotify Web, Spotify for some speakers can download tracks from Spotify servers without P2P.
Where is artist or band I like?
Good question! Spotify always want to have all music in it's catalogue. But some artists, bands or record labels want to be out of Spotify. I hope that they change their mind! Also you can add missed puzzles as Local files to Spotify.
My music flapping or skips on my laptop!
Don't worry. Just go to Edit - Preferences and disable the hardware acceleration. Also you can try completely re-install of Spotify. Hope this helps!
My music is often stopping or buffering all the time on my mobile phone. Help me!
Don't worry. If you use mobile network, ensure with your teleoperator that speed is at least 384 kbps. Unlimited is better. If you are using slow mobile internet, changing play quality in settings to low might help you. If you are at home, try Wifi, as usually Wifi is much faster than these mobile networks. If you are in poor mobile coverage area, try to find better coverage area. Hope this helps! If this problem is all the time, maybe you want to download playlist for Offline use? Then no need for Internet at all!
The song or artist is misspelled! And I found poor quality tracks on Spotify! What do I do?
Contact to Spotify and report all those errors via Contact form. Hopefully in future Spotify can improve reporting system.
Why Spotify send/not send my listened tracks to Facebook?
Check your sharing settings in Spotify's Preferences.
Why Spotify is not working after delete or de-activate of Facebook account?
If your account is created with Facebook details, you need Facebook to be able to login into Spotify. If you are deleted Facebook or don't want Facebook anymore, just create another account using email adress and ask Spotify to transfer playlist over using Contact form!
How I delete my account completely?
Contact to Spotify Support. Come this way.
I have idea, how I share it?
Just add topic to Idea community. Come this way.
My playlists or starred tracks are gone! What do I do?
Just let Spotify know. Spotify can put them back to your account in no time, just contact to Support and add information like your problem with Spotify and your username. Come this way. Before that, try to recover playlists itself here.
How I delete tracks from Library? Delete button is greyed out!
Awesome question. Just locate track from playlists, locals or starred tracks and delete it.
Why I should subscribe to playlists?
Spotify is social! Just subscribe to playlists you like and sit down - music entertain you. Millions of playlists waiting you. Just Google, browse playlist sites or search those with Spotify in search bar. If you do not like playlist anymore, you can unsubscribe. Your choice.
Who the heck delete songs from my playlist? Where deleted songs are sitting?
Do not worry! Sometimes Spotify just hide songs that are unavailable these days. Those songs can be released again in your country for example in future. You can see all hided tracks - just go to Edit - Settings and untick Hide unplayable tracks.
Purchased Unlimited or Premium today. Still I can hear ads and Free service. Joke? Scam? Cheat?
Not. Absolutely not. You can fix this in no time. Just go to File then click Log out and then Log in again. And yay, your paid service is waiting you. Also check that you are log in with right account. You can also contact Customer Service via Contact form. Come this way.
Purchased Premium, still the same sound. You advertised 320 kbps!
Do not worry. Just go to Edit - Preferences end enable High quality sound. After this clean the Spotify cache.
What format Spotify use and how music is converted?
Spotify use a OGG format. OGG is very great format with rich sound. In Premium sound quality is 320 kbps (excluding currently Spotify Mobile, where quality is 160 kbps or 96 kbps) and in Free/Unlimited quality is160 kbps. All tracks are converted from lossless format. And 99,9% of Premium catalogue is in 320 kbps quality.
I want to talk with real person, support number?
Spotify do not use support number. Here is two awesome way for Support - Support Community here and Contact form here. If you want to use Contact form, come this way. Spotify does not use bots, real people is answering to you.
I need more privacy. I still listen Britney Spears etc. How I can hide top tracks and top artists in my Spotify profile?
Yes, you can hide those. You can also hide Starred tracks and Playlists too! If you need privacy, Spotify provide tools for it. Just go to Edit - Preferences and untick all options: Automatically publish new playlists, Top tracks and Top artists. Privacy is here. And if you want to hide Starred or any Playlist you have - just right-click a Starred or any Playlist in Sidebar of Spotify and click Publish. Then you can go to your nice profile and them all are gone!
Is Spotify legal?
Absolutely. Spotify has agreements with record labels. Anyone listening in Spotify give money for artists, record labels and composers. So if you use Spotify, you can continue to use it. Legal and awesome service. Every track you listen is legal and Spotify keep statistics for payment to right holders - even when you are Offline with Spotify!
Spotify client is downloading my Local files to it's servers?
No, not ever. Local files are just for you, Spofy does not collect or download those tracks.
Can I listen my Local files and artist get paid by Spotify?
No. Spotify does not pay to right holders when you listen Local files which are not in Spotify.
I am Spotify Free user, why ads or skip limits on mobile?
It's simple. You hear ads and have skip limits and Spotify is free for you this way. Also Spotify pay for right holders using ads revenue when you are Free user. If you do not like ads or want nonstop music, why not to subscribe for Unlimited or Premium service?
How Spotify will know I use tablet and let me then listen without skip limits and shuffle (Free)?
Your tablet is tablet for Spotify if screen size is more than 7".
Why Spotify is playing tracks that are not in my playlist when I use mobile phone and Free service?
This is how Spotify is designed to play for free users. You can listen your playlist on Shuffle and in time you will get some track suggestions, these can't be removed from Play Queue, but you may be able to skip these if you have enough skips to do it in hour. Also in mobile you may see ads and hear these also.
I have Spotify Connect enabled on my device and Pioneer SMA1 or other sound machine with Connect. What is quality used?
This depends on settings of your device. If in Spotify settings 320 kbps Extreme is enabled, your lovely sound machine will stream at 320 kbps using Connect. It depends on Stream quality, not Download quality. If you want to reduce data usage also in your speaker, just change it (sound quality) :)
I'm unsure will Spotify Connect drain my battery and does Pioneer SMA1 or other sound machine with Connect stream using my phone mobile data plan?
Absolutely not. The Spotify Connect is huge thing. You can listen music using Spotify Connect speakers like Pioneer SMA1 and totally without need to stream using your phone mobile network. The sound speaker can be connected to your wired Internet (in my home with RJ45 to cable modem 100M/5M). You can also use Wifi in some speakers, but RJ45 is preferred as it's more stable :) Actually after you connect your Spotify in phone to speaker, you can start playlist and then forget about it. Or even shut down your phone, your speaker continues to play! Also in future you can add tracks to play queue if you want and these will keep playing for you. Connect also will be available as remote to your PC, you can then remote your Desktop Spotify using your phone :)
Can I listen Spotify music with my own music player?
No. Why? This is simple. Spotify use a protected files, so music player like iTunes or WMP can not read those as music files. Only Spotify can understand those files. Also you need to use Spotify, because only this way Spotify can pay for right holders.
Can I make a CD from Spotify music?
No. Why? Spotify does not allow you to burn CD when you streaming music. If you want a CD, just purchase it form Spotify and burn a CD with iTunes etc. music player. Of course you can download with Premium your music to Mobile and connect your phone to your sound system and you can start your party then!
Can I download tracks from Spotify with my monthly fee?
No. Spotify works in this way: you purchase a way to rent music. In Free you can rent music as long as you are Free user. In Unlimited or Premium you can use all it's features as long as you pay. When you stop paying for service, your account will be Free again. For example you start hearing ads and your Premium Offline playlists will be removed. In Fact in Spotify you can stream with your month fee as much as you want. In Free service listen time may be limited.
I'm unable to cancel my subscription. Spotify decline my password. Help me!
Do not panic! All you need is to try another Internet browser like Firefox, IE or Chrome. Also you can try log out first from Facebook and try then again. Spotify will miss you if you go. You are welcome back at any time.
Purchased Premium, not hearing advertised better sound quality.
Make sure you are using a high quality in Spotify's desktop app Settings. Also in some mobiles you can use this 320kbps mode advertised Extreme, so make sure you're enabled it. If after that quality is still bad, clear cache and try again! Also it may worth to try setup with another stereo system etc. I hope you enjoy Premium sound quality!
My question not here.
Not a problem. Ask and Spotify community can help you ASAP.
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Someone asked me will Spotify work on EDGE mobile network in 160 kbps mode.
I will explain some things out.
EDGE network is very slow and actually EDGE is for light internet usage. However some operators, like Elisa Oyj in Finland, can handle 200 kbps in EDGE. If so, you can use 160 kbps Spotify without any problems. But keep in mind, some networks may be slow in EDGE and speed may be lower - in this case just use 96 kbps sound quality.
Personally I would suggest 384 kbps or faster Mobile Internet. Because when you use 320 kbps in mobile, EDGE network isn't enough to handle Extreme quality. The Unlimited is good, but you should be fine with 1GB, just stream then 96 kbps or 160 kbps. I use 0.5M Unlimited 3G Internet and I can say it works like a charm with Extreme sound quality.
If in your country no way for Unlimited, you always can download Spotify playlists to Offline mode with your wifi. But I would say there is no need to fast 3G internet like max. 21M packages - Spotify will work fine with 384 kbps in any sound quality and in slow network too. However in this case you might want to use lower sound quality.
Also remember if you use Unlimited or Free and there no plans to Premium, just ignore those. Free and Unlimited use only 160 kbps and no Mobile or 320 kbps support, so you will be fine with 256 kbps Internet. Personally I suggest to everyone 8M/1M Internet for Home use and to Mobile use something like 0.5M or 1M.

Windows on iMac, questions and concerns...

Hello,
I bought an iMac and unfortunately some games I want to play are only developed for windows, under those circumstances I need to install windows vista on my iMac and have it run both operating systems. I'm concerned however because a few of my friends have had system problems when doing that and I cant afford losing all my work on my current Lion operating system...
So, in the end, my questions are: What will happen when I install both operating systems on the iMac? Do I need to be careful or pay attention to any particular step of the windows vista instalation? And, is it true that some iMacs suffer system damages when sharing operating systems?
My iMac configuration is: 2.5 GHz intel core i5, 4GB 1333 DDDR3m, AMD Radeon HD 512MB.
Thanks in advance,
Guedes.

Windows on a Mac
Using Windows on a Mac via Boot Camp

A few questions and comments about the 2010 MBP i7

Hi! I'm pretty new to owning a Mac computer and I actually always wanted one. I bought the top of the line Macbook Pro 15" i7 8GB, 500GB SSD notebook. I have a couple of questions on its usage.
1) Overheating is a big issue. Many people noticed overheating with the i7 MBP. Temperatures range from 38C to 60C when using iTunes/Safari/Word. Temperatures shoot to the 70C-85C when playing games. Once you hit the 70C mark, the notebook part above the keyboard is pretty hot. However, I wouldn't care if it doesn't damage my computer so my question is, will 85C temperatures damage a Macbook Pro?
2) Screen Scratching: Do MBP screens scratch easily? I have quite a few fingerprints a day on the screen but is it like the iPod Touch anti-scratch screen?
3) Freezing: I've been having the MBP for 2 weeks now and my MBP has frozen twice. It wasn't because of the heat but Finder wasn't responding and I could not force quit. However, it worked after 30 seconds. Does this happen often and will it be a long-term issue?
Even after the overheating issue, Macs are still better than PCs. It's so much easier and neat than a PC.
5) Do you guys have any tips to using a Mac? Any accessories?
6) I installed SMC Fan Control. If I set it to 6000 rpm, will there be any significant damage to the fans? Are the fans durable?
Thank you all for the help!
Message was edited by: kevinzhengli

Just came across this thread while looking for info on the newest MBPs, and their (lack of) ability to cool themselves. Wanted to throw my 2c in.
I have to strongly disagree with the recommendation to not install fan control software. I have an early 2008 MBP, and I frequently play video games and encode video. When left to defend itself, I have witnessed the CPU temp reach 202 F. Sorry, but that's totally unacceptable, and I manually adjust the fans to mitigate the heat.
After 2 years of this, I am convinced the excess heat has harmed my system. It's very disappointing to hear that the new models still have problems with heat.

Password on every purchase? and concern about purchase history screen.

iTunes 9 is great overall, the store is much better and the iphone app organizer is a god send, but I do have 2 concerns.
First, whenever I make a purchase, it asks for my password, it used to do this once per session i.e. when I launch the program and access the store, then I was good until I closed the app, but now I must enter it with every purchase, it makes 1-click a 3 step process, how do I turn on the shopping cart?
secondly, the new history screen that comes up whenever I buy something, that is great info to have access to, but I don't want that displayed randomly upon purchase or "free app upgrade" redemption if I have other people around, what I buy and how much I spend is no one else's darn business! Also, I can not go back from this screen to the search that I did 3 screens earlier, so I have to redo that query to buy the 2nd result that I also wanted.
Message was edited by: Anthony Greer to fix punctuation.

Do'H! I scrolled all the way down on that purchase history thing and at the bottom in red tiny letters it said that there is a problem with the card, which there was as I had that card killed this week due to loss, but I had to scroll to get a message that should have been on the top, in big bold lettering, you know, something like "fix your charge card info, dingbat!"

Restore/recovery questions and concerns

Hi,
Just order a recovery disc for my Qosmio X505-Q850, I have been having numerous issues (blue screens, etc.) and have been putting it off way to long. I want to restore to original out of box settings so that I can start over. However, I have some concerns (which by the way have been current issues) with my SSD (64GB), which is my C drive. It seems to be full even with every attempt to have nearly all downloads sent directly to the larger E drive (320GB). I am at wits ends and have randomly deleted stuff in hopes to make space. I am now at the point where that is not helping anymore, and ready to pull my hair out, lol. That is why I finally ordered the recovery disc from Toshiba.
Currently I don't really download many programs, main use of my computer is to play World of Warcraft and use of Ventrilo client. I have Zone Alarm Suite (firewall, anti-virus) also on my computer. Pretty much just the basics. I would like to know what to do after I restore to factory settings once I receive the disc and how to safely remove excessive bloat and avoid the filling of the SSD drive. I think most of my windows updates have gone on that drive, is it possible to have it all go to the larger E drive, if so how is that done? I am not a tech wiz but some good step by step info would certainly assist me. Thanks in advance for any assistance I can get regarding this matter.

Qosmio X505-Q850
Here are some tips.
1. You can move all those special folders that contain pictures and so forth. See Ramesh's instructions (which are the same for Windows 7).
   How to move the special folders in Windows Vista
   Do Not Move Special Folders in Windows to the Root!
2. You should certainly relocate the temporary-files folder. Its contents grows without limit and needs to be emptied from time to time in any case. Take a look at it by entering %temp% in the Start/Search field.
Relocate that folder by changing the values of both the TMP and TEMP variables to point to a new folder as follows. Open System Properties (sysdm.cpl) and on the Advanced tab click the Environment Variables button. You should see both TMP and TEMP listed in the section labeled User variables for <account>. (Each login account is assigned its own temporary location.) In the Variable value Edit box you should specify a path to the directory that Windows and many other programs will use for temporary files. Do the same for both TMP and TEMP.
3. And you should consider relocating the paging file (pagefile.sys). Leave at least 2 MB on C so you can get a small memory dump for BSODs. This is the only change that might interfere with performance.
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4. Finally you need to consider shadow storage, which occupies (eventually) 15% of the C drive. You can limit that. See the commands here.
   Vssadmin
-Jerry

More questions and thoughts about Anti-Flicker

I am working on a video that consists entirely of digital photos provided by my client (all jpgs - not my decision). Many of them flicker terribly in the final video. I did a search for "anti-flicker" on this forum and read a number of threads about it. There is one thing I am experiencing that I do not believe was covered in any of those threads.
First of all, selecting "flicker removal" in a clip's field options is useless. I don't know why this should be so, since this worked very well in Premiere 6.5 (my previous version).
However, adjusting the anti-flicker filter in the motion settings works great when one renders a preview. But this seems to have no effect on the final video output, and strangely, all the anti-flicker settings reset to zero if I exit the program. This seems like a bug to me. Does anyone else experience this?
Here is my work around. If I also make an adjustment to the scale of the clip, then Premiere will remember the anti-flicker filter setting, and the final video output is flicker free. If my photo is already sized for the screen, I'll set a scale setting of 99%. If the photo is large, I will either resize it in Photoshop, or uncheck "scale to frame size" and resize it with the scale adjustment.
J. D.

Thanks for your reply
The forum is called "support" so i thought there should be some admins and technicians of nokia itself on the forum...
I send my request direct to nokia, although i am sure that there will be no change of thinking in future. A mobile, especially a music mobile, should be able to do that. That way it works now it will never challenge a iphone or ipod, i think.

IMESSAGE Questions and concerns

1) do they show up your bill?
2.) if two people are on the same account do their messages between one another stay as text messages?
3.) does a person have to have imessage enabled on their phone in order to not show up on bill?
4.) how can i tell who is being texted if its not on my bill?
5.) what if one person has it enabled and the other does not? does it show up on a bill and whose?
6.)do the imessages get backed up on icloud
i have an phone 4 on the account and a 4s

About message http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3529
1. No - imessage is like instant chat
4. The contact name will be in the imessage
5. yes the imessage will send as a text message, so you will get billed
6. http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4859 yes it is part of the backup.

Concerned About Security and Privacy

Fine. Call me a conspiracy theorist, or whatever you want, but I'm concerned about online privacy and security in today's world. Government, media and big business want our personal and financial information (and viewing habits) to track, store, sell and use. I understand that's the world we live in but I refuse to "get used to it." It's MY information and I don't just give it away. They sure don't give us their's. We can't even get unbiased truth out of any of them. Now, I'm learning that it's possible for software, and other people, to access our cameras and microphones on the computer. C'mon. Enough is enough!
I don't sign up or register for much of anything online. When I do, it's 100% fake information. I especially hate Google. Don't get me wrong, I don't do anything online I wouldn't do in front of my mother, spouse or pastor. It's the principle of the thing. When you start giving up the little things, they start taking the big things. (As we're already well aware of.)
So, my question is this: What safegaurds do you take on your computer? Do you have lot of security apps/extensions? Which ones? Do you use your firewall and/or firevault? Is that frustrating the way you use the internet or programs you use? Which browser do you prefer? Search Engine? E-mail? Do you use any third party software for virus protection or anti-spyware?
Basically, what do YOU do to protect your computer and your personal information? I'm not the most computer literate person so I hope you'll have patience with me.

Apple Product Security
Snoop Proof Your Mac - NSA Style!
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I am concerned about personal data being not encryption in transit over the Internet and therefore can be seen by other people.

I am a new Firefox user. I have just installed Firefox 4 on my windows PC today, 5/27/11. I have two major questions:
1. Accidentally, I clicked some thing at random on the screen (I can't remember what it was) and this page, http://us.config.toolbar.yahoo.com/bh/v2/wp/?view=wc&intl=us&pc=yma3&dc=v2_upgd&cv=2.3., showed up under Yahoo! Toolbar. It informed me that the connection was not encrypted and that information sent over the Internet could be seen by other people. I am not sure what the warning is all about. Does it mean when I use Firefox as a browser to access the Yahoo! and other Internet sites, e.g., my bank, all my personal (username, password, etc.) and bank data will be seen by other unauthorized people? I have never seen a similar warning from other browsers, such as Internet Explorer and Safari? So, if Firefox does not offer protection of personal data, I wonder what's the point of using it. I could have misinterpreted the Firefox warning and would highly appreciated it if you can clarify.
2. During the installation process, a message showed that Firefox 4 was not compatible with certain features of some of the software already on my PC. I did not copy those features and do not remember what they were except one that was associated with my firewall ZoneAlarm. I could be wrong but I think the message also said Firefox had removed the incompatible features. Please tell me if I should be concerned about it, especially the one that was removed from ZoneAlarm. Will my PC become susceptible to hacker invasions when I use Firefox as the browser? I wish Firefox had given some written explanations along with the incompatibility and removal message so that a user can understand exactly what it is about.
I would appreciate to hearing from you at your earliest convenience. I have tentatively suspended using Firefox until I can be assured that it is safe to do so without potentially compromising my personal data.
Thank you.

That is a generic warning message that you get if you submit a form via a normal HTTP connection (i.e not in via a secure HTTPS connection). That warning pop-up probably has a box to suppress this message in the future.
If you exchange data with your bank site then there should be a secure connection.
You can verify that by clicking the Site Identity Button (website's favicon) on the left end of the location bar.
* https://support.mozilla.com/kb/Site+Identity+Button
You need to check the ZoneAlarm website to see if they have an update of their software that is compatible with Firefox 4.0.1

PPBM5 Questions and GPU Rendering Concerns

Bill and Harm, i figured i woud post this here instead of a private email so as to get some opinions and input from others.
I am a bit confused with the logic behind the gpu testing and want to make sure i understand how this is working and make sure i dont have any problems with my machine.
I just wiped out my 8 core, 20GB ram, SSD, gtx 460/2GB, machine and put a fresh win7/64 on it with cs5 and nothing else.
i am planning on doing various tests with the SSD, then SATA Raid, then my 4gbit fibrechannel in combinations.
My concern is over the gpu acceleration and timeline rendering. My basis for wanting these gfx cards with cs5 is on the PPBM results showing all kinds of double digit speed gains with MPE enabled.
I have 8 of these machines and need to upgrade them all so i am concerned to make sure what i am doing and what i am getting for it.
my first obvious question for everyone else is when you load the benchmark in what do you see on the timeline? i have all yellow except for two small red lines near the end of each section where the curtain and cube effects are at.
Now when i hit the spacebar to play the timeline at starts out ok but then hits the 8 second mark into it and chokes out the rest of the way skipping frames and drawing maybe 3-5 frames per second until it gets through the rest. Is this what happens for everyone else or does your system play the yellow area smoothly?
Is this a by-product of my manually putting the 460 into my supported cards file and premiere not properly calculating what the gpu can and cannot accelerate?
Now as for the benchmark testing itself when i hit enter it simply renders out those 2 effects that have the red line then starts playing the same choked out skippy video as before.
So if this speed is calculated and then the speed of my cpu rendering the entire timeline then how is this an effective comparison? if i simply remove those two effects at the end then i still have that big complicated timeline and yet if i hit enter it just plays choppy video instantly and nothing is rendered, so compared to my cpu thats a bazillion times faster but i dont get anything out of it as the video doesnt actually play with the gpu.
My real concern and need is flat out rendering speed for encoding. i had high hopes that getting a video card with hundreds of cores on it would magically render out mpeg 2 files 10-20x faster then my cpus can.
i saved out a pic of my cores when i am playing the timeline, you can see they are not being maxxed out.
Before i wiped my system out i tried the trial version of the mainconcept gpu encoder and it went slower with the gpu than it did with my cpus. Their email response to me was that gpu rendering is more of an advantage against slow cpu systems. and my cpu's were too fast in comparison. I find this hard to believe in that my system is several years old now. thier own performance comparison charts show a tremendous speed increase over modern I7 processors.
On a side note - DONT INSTALL MAINCONCEPT TRIAL ENCODER!- it hijaacked my mpeg encoding/decoding even when i wasnt using it and it was watermarking all my stuff in premiere with its logo!
I also have been using a program called canopus procoder which does great encoding with multi cores, a standard dv to mpeg2 encode on my system maxxes all 8 cores and renders about 14x faster than realtime.
I hoped a cuda card could increase this speed for me and render faster then that directly out of premiere. I would think during rendering your cpu's and gpu's would work together at 100% usage to go as fast as possible. i would like to see 20-30x realtime speed for mpeg2 encoding in my situation.
Thanks and i look forward to any input or help or even a simple "click on this and yoru problem is solved"

harm, thats kind of funny actually, you show us a report of your dropped frames on playback then say you cant tell us how because of NDA, yet we obviously know you have an app that reports the dropped frames during playback
But thats ok, anyways as far as your ppbm goes i love it and dont mean to desparage it in any way, i have been a big supporter and love the work you and bill have put into it. I am really just trying to have a better understanding of how it works.
My concern is more about premiere as opposed to ppbm. I want to know if my system matches what everyone else sees, when i load the project is get this:
i just want to make sure everyone else has the same tiny red sections that premiere feels it can't play.
previously premiere has always either played in realtime at 30fps or shown a red line which needs to be rendered. then if you render it you get full 30fps playback on the entire timeline.
now with this new gpu workflow i can only render those two tiny little red sections and the rest of my timeline plays at about 2 or 3 fps from 8 seconds into the timeline until the end.
So I actually have no physical way to see my video at full 30fps without changing to software mode and rendering the entire timeline? or am i missing something here?
Isn't premiere supposed to recognize when it cant keep up with 30fps playback and change that section of the timeline to red?
And on a side note i still have to say i am fairly annoyed that an adobe employee took it upon themselves to move my thread into the unpopular generic premiere hardware forum, when this is a very specific premiere cs5 question thread. I have never even looked in this forum for any cs5 posts before now and had hoped to get more feedback from users in the main premiere cs5 forum. A lot of companies like to treat their customers well and the old addage "the customer is always right" doesn't seem to apply anymore. My company probably has purchased over $1,000,000 in adobe software licenses over the years which i feel would make me a valuable customer, and i have some important questions i need to ask about the new version of your software and how it is supposed to work.
thanks

I've read that Promise Pegasus2 series does not sell replacement parts. I'm buying the new MacPro but am concerned about spending $2K for storage that may break and cannot be fixed. What are others buying for storage for the new MacPro?

I've read that Promise Pegasus2 R6 thunderbolt 2 series does not sell replacement parts (no replacement parts for any of the Pegasus line). I'm buying the new MacPro but am concerned about spending $2K for storage (12tb version) that may break and cannot be fixed (am told that one must purchase a new unit if a part breaks). What are others buying for storage for the new MacPro? Thanks so much for your help.
Discussion about this issue at MacWorld.com: http://www.macworld.com/article/2082783/first-look-promises-pegasus2-r6-thunderb olt-2-raid-array.html

I've used the original Pegasus R6 units for a couple of years now and have been very pleased with them. On the two occasions I've had to call on their technical sujpport, I've found them readily available, knowledgeable, and very helpful. In one case it involved the reset of a unit after a power failure at an inopportune time; in the other case it was a question about upgrading disk drives to higher capacities (1 Gb gto 4 Gb). I was pleased to learn that their tech support people were in California and as good if not better than upper-tier AppleCare reps. The hardware itself has functioned flawlessly so far.

HT5193 I want to use Apple TV in a hospital classroom setting and IT is concerned about security (patient information). Is this an issue and how can I put them at ease?

I want to use the Apple TV to create an interactive white board type setting in the classroom. I appreciate the help.

My first reply was probably a bit vague but it's not clear exactly what you're planning to do.
Anyhow first off, remember this is simply a user to user forum and is not an Apple staffed technical advice area so no one here can accept any responsibility for the implementation you attempt.
If you intend to do anything that could potentially compromise patient confidentiality you must get appropriate advice from suitable agencies including your IT dept and probably Apple itself. Depending which country you are in you will be subject to local healthcare laws aimed at protecting patient confidentiality.
As users we know next to nothing about AppleTV under the hood security.
AppleTV runs a version of iOS just like iPhones and iPads.
There is no antivirus/firewall software for iOS as it's already pretty locked down.
That does not mean it is 100% secure as nothing is, and all these devices can potentially be hacked.
AppleTV itself does not store any content permanently, losing data when it's unplugged, so that is probably not an issue unless someone was going to attempt a forensic style data rescue from the internal components.
If your IT dept allows iPhones or iPads on the network then in principle it's the same, and in many ways less of an issue as it doesn't support 3rd party apps, only a small selection of features from Apple and selected partners.
I assume for your whiteboard plan this would entail using a touch screen like an iPad for mirroring. Be aware that fullscreen mirroring will send a 4:3 image to the display as the iPad screen is 4:3 not 16:9 (widescreen).
You need to work with your IT dept to assess the feasibility of what you want to do - unless you need internet access, to me it would seem a standalone local network without internet connectivity might remove some concerns about devices connecting to the main hospital network. Maybe their concern is simply wifi and possible interecption of data sent to the AppleTV - this would likely be a proprietary screen sharing format for Airplay but it could still potentially be intercepted on wifi though I can't really see why anyone would want to as the data would probably be pretty useless to them unless this was a specific attempt to capture Airplay streams and people knew what they were doing and had compromised your wifi security.
Good luck.
AC

Wondering if I should upgrade from OS 10.6.8 to yosemite as search engines are acting a little weird - fan can come on, slow to shut down and also concerned about Security as my OS is older and no longer upgraded etc...?

Problem description:
Wondering if I should upgrade to Yosemite from Mac pro 10.6.8 as search engines are not always responding well - Fan comes on with firefox/safari is not always responding on some sites - also concerned about security issues as my system is older and not able to receive ? I have used etrecheck and copied results here - Any help/suggestions much appreciated - Thanks kindly!
EtreCheck version: 2.1.8 (121)
Report generated February 7, 2015 10:41:15 AM EST
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Click the [Click for details] links for more information about that line.
Hardware Information: ℹ️
    MacBook Pro (13-inch, Early 2011) (Technical Specifications)
    MacBook Pro - model: MacBookPro8,1
    1 2.3 GHz Intel Core i5 CPU: 2-core
    4 GB RAM
        BANK 0/DIMM0
            2 GB DDR3 1333 MHz ok
        BANK 1/DIMM0
            2 GB DDR3 1333 MHz ok
    Bluetooth: Old - Handoff/Airdrop2 not supported
    Wireless: en1: 802.11 a/b/g/n
    Battery Health: Normal - Cycle count 303
Video Information: ℹ️
    Intel HD Graphics 3000 - VRAM: 384 MB
        Color LCD 1280 x 800
System Software: ℹ️
    Mac OS X 10.6.8 (10K549) - Time since boot: 1:24:41
Disk Information: ℹ️
    Hitachi HTS545032B9A302 disk0 : (298.09 GB)
        - (disk0s1) <not mounted> : 210 MB
        Macintosh HD (disk0s2) / : 319.73 GB (198.41 GB free)
    OPTIARC DVD RW AD-5970H
USB Information: ℹ️
    Apple Inc. FaceTime HD Camera (Built-in)
    Apple Inc. BRCM2070 Hub
        Apple Inc. Bluetooth USB Host Controller
    Apple Inc. Apple Internal Keyboard / Trackpad
    Apple Computer, Inc. IR Receiver
Thunderbolt Information: ℹ️
    Apple, Inc. MacBook Pro
Configuration files: ℹ️
    /etc/hosts - Count: 15
Kernel Extensions: ℹ️
        /System/Library/Extensions
    [not loaded]    com.olympus.DSSBlockCommandsDevice (1.1.0) [Click for support]
Problem System Launch Daemons: ℹ️
    [not loaded]    org.samba.winbindd.plist [Click for support]
Launch Agents: ℹ️
    [not loaded]    com.adobe.AAM.Updater-1.0.plist [Click for support]
    [loaded]    com.adobe.CS5ServiceManager.plist [Click for support]
Launch Daemons: ℹ️
    [loaded]    com.adobe.fpsaud.plist [Click for support]
    [loaded]    com.adobe.SwitchBoard.plist [Click for support]
    [loaded]    com.microsoft.office.licensing.helper.plist [Click for support]
User Launch Agents: ℹ️
    [loaded]    com.adobe.AAM.Updater-1.0.plist [Click for support]
    [loaded]    com.adobe.ARM.[...].plist [Click for support]
    [loaded]    com.google.keystone.agent.plist [Click for support]
User Login Items: ℹ️
    Flux    Application (/Applications/Flux.app)
Internet Plug-ins: ℹ️
    JavaAppletPlugin: Version: 13.9.8 - SDK 10.6 Check version
    FlashPlayer-10.6: Version: 16.0.0.305 - SDK 10.6 [Click for support]
    QuickTime Plugin: Version: 7.6.6
    AdobePDFViewerNPAPI: Version: 10.1.12 [Click for support]
    AdobePDFViewer: Version: 10.1.12 [Click for support]
    DivXBrowserPlugin: Version: 1.4 [Click for support]
    Flash Player: Version: 16.0.0.305 - SDK 10.6 [Click for support]
    SharePointBrowserPlugin: Version: 14.1.0 [Click for support]
    Google Earth Web Plug-in: Version: 7.1 [Click for support]
    Silverlight: Version: 4.1.10329.0 [Click for support]
    iPhotoPhotocast: Version: 7.0 - SDK 10.7
Audio Plug-ins: ℹ️
    iSightAudio: Version: 7.6.6
3rd Party Preference Panes: ℹ️
    Flash Player [Click for support]
    Growl [Click for support]
Time Machine: ℹ️
    Time Machine information requires OS X 10.7 "Lion" or later.
Top Processes by CPU: ℹ️
         7%    WindowServer
         1%    plugin-container
         1%    firefox
         0%    fontd
         0%    Flux
Top Processes by Memory: ℹ️
    515 MB    firefox
    52 MB    mds
    43 MB    WindowServer
    43 MB    Finder
    34 MB    plugin-container
Virtual Memory Information: ℹ️
    2.14 GB    Free RAM
    745 MB    Active RAM
    475 MB    Inactive RAM
    929 MB    Wired RAM
    231 MB    Page-ins
    0 B    Page-outs
Diagnostics Information: ℹ️
    Feb 7, 2015, 09:16:09 AM    Self test - passed

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