Contribution, Ideas and comment are welcomed

By seeing this problem of classpath every day, can't we create a small jar file that it can check for jar file needed to be put in the classpath. A small application just with a File Choose to choose the jar file
Any suggestion!

no point. manipulating the classpath should be something all developers can do. a deployed application isn't going to be able to ask users to locate jars in that way, or at least I hope the developer that does it gets fired. learn to use the classpath on your development machine, and deployment becomes cleaner. you wouldn't believe some of the "deployments" that appear, only able to run on the developers machine or something, because they relied on local classpath hacks

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Hello All,
I am seeking opinions about a survey methodology that was told to me today. I have my own thoughts about it but I just want to make sure I'm not off base so any help is greatly appreciated. The requirements for the wireless network are as follows:
- Data and Voice
- Clients will utilize all bands but newer devices will be pushed to 5GHz
- Clients are laptops and iPads right now but the future goal is to implement BYOD
So, here is the methodology that was told to me ... "We survey only in the 5GHz spectrum because if you have coverage in that spectrum (5GHz) the coverage in the 2.4GHz will be the fine or even better than that. Therefore, we feel comfortable not capturing the data in the 2.4GHz spectrum."
Thoughts about the above statement are welcome!!!
Thanks,
Malwan

The essential question for a high-density design is how many channels for each band will be needed to match the client base? This can be a tricky question since even dual band capable clients do not always select the faster 5 GHz band. Since bandwidth in 2.4 GHz is going to be limited, 5 GHz must be relied on to reach the goal.
Dual band adapters have been shipping with most laptops for some time. This does not mean that every laptop is a dual band client, but many are. Simply having a dual band client does not guarantee that it will choose 5 GHz over 2.4 GHz. The Microsoft Windows operating system defaults to a Wi-Fi channel search that starts with the 5 GHz channel 36 and continues searching through all of the 5 GHz channels that the client is capable of. If no 5 GHz AP is found then it will continue the search in 2.4 GHz starting at channel 1. Unless the Windows default is changed or the user has chosen a third party Wi-Fi utility to set spectrum preference to 2.4 GHz, the client radio will first try to associate to a 5 GHz AP. Apple Computer's latest release for Atheros and Broadcom chipsets also searches 5 GHz first.
The Cisco BandSelect feature enables the infrastructure to optimize these types of client connection choices. Where possible, it helps make sure that devices are attaching to the 5 GHz spectrum channels where interference sources tend to be significantly lighter. A much greater channel selection leads to the alleviation of bandwidth challenges.
Tablet computers and smartphones have begun entering the market at a staggering rate. The vast majority of smartphones shipping today operate in 2.4 GHz only. While many of them are 802.11n clients, of these most have implemented a single input single output (SISO) rather than Multiple Input, Multiple Output (MIMO). A SISO device is only capable of supporting MCS7 data rates, or 54 Mbps.

IPhoto keywords and comments are gone

I just bought the new iMac G5 (iSight) to replace my G4. Before I sold the G4, copied my 6000-picture iPhoto folder to the G5 using a Firewire cable. I then used the Migration Assistant to do the transfer from the G4 to the G5, again using a Firewire cable. Them I sold the G4. When I first launched iPhoto, it was empty. I then relaunched iPhoto while pressing the Option key. I told iPhoto where my album was. It worked, but none of the keywords or comments made it through the transfer. Everytime I imported a picture, I give it some keywords (e.g. Christmas, 2005, etc.) and some comments. But all this is now gone. Any solution to me predicament would be appreciated!
Daniel
iMac G5 (iSight), 2.1 GHz, 1 GB RAM Mac OS X (10.4.3) iPhoto 5.0.4

Daniel,
Is your short user name the same on the new G5 as it was on the G4?
Well, check the permissions on the iPhoto Library folder just to make sure permissions are set for your user name on the G5.
Highlight the iPhoto Library folder
Hit command I
In the next window make sure you are the owner and have Read/Write permissions. Hit the button at the bottom of the window.
Also a rebuild might help....or not.
Try this:
Before doing a rebuild make sure iPhoto's trash bin is emptied. You can do this by control clicking on the trash bin, or from the menu bar under iPhoto.
Close iPhoto
Duplicate the iPhoto Library folder
Drag the duplicate to the desktop (hopefully you have enough room on your hard drive for the duplicate.)
Launch iPhoto holding down the Command and Option keys until you see the rebuild options screen.
Choose the first three options. If you were missing photos in your library, also choose the last option. Be advised that you will get a roll of orphaned photos and it might be quite huge. Most of them will already be in your iPhoto library, but use caution when deleting anything from this roll until you are sure the photos are still in your library in another place. It might be a good idea to share/export this roll of photos just in case you need to import them again.
Back to the rebuild, depending on the size of your library it might take some time. When it is done, hopefully your photos will be there.
You might see some unexpected results as I did when I did a rebuild. Photos had been moved to wrong dates, video clips had lost their duration info and some were even orphaned from the jpg pointer file. It took me some time to straighten it out again.
This is the reason to make a duplicate before you rebuild, in case you do not like the result. If you don't like the result, close iPhoto, then delete the rebuilt library and drag the duplicate back into the Pictures folder making sure the name is iPhoto Library. Launch iPhoto and it should open the library in the Pictures folder.
iPhoto 4 or later: Rebuilding the iPhoto Library
Lori

Thumbnails and comments are not loading on youtube

Since I updated my mac book air to Yosemite everytime I go on youtube the thumbnails don't show at all and the comments never load, I don't know what is the problem. I've checked adobe flash to see if its updated and everything. Please help.

Welcome to the Apple Community.
Contacts
First check that all your settings are correct, that contact syncing is checked on all devices (system preferences > iCloud on a mac and settings > iCloud on a iPhone, iPad or iPod).
Make sure the contacts you are adding are added to your 'iCloud' group and not an 'On My Mac', 'On My Phone' or other non iCloud group (you can do this by checking in groups), non iCloud contacts will not sync.
If you are sure that everything is set up correctly and your contacts are in the iCloud group, you might try unchecking contact syncing in the iCloud settings, restarting your device and then re-enabling contact syncing.
Calendars
First check that all your settings are correct, that calendar syncing is checked on all devices (system preferences > iCloud on a mac and settings > iCloud on a iPhone, iPad or iPod).
Make sure the calendars you are using are in your 'iCloud' account and not an 'On My Mac', 'On My Phone' or other non iCloud account (you can do this by clicking/tapping the calendar button in the top left corner of the application ), non iCloud calendars will not sync.
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Acrobat quits during saving and then the file and comments are lost

I'm working in acrobat pro x on a 300page pdf. I am commenting on pages throughout the pdf using stickies. I try to save the file. half way through the save process acrobat unexpectedly quits. when i reopen it says it has recovered the lost file - i click on it and am told that the file cannot be opened and it is lost. This happend yesterday also so about 4 hours work down the drain! is there any way around this? thanks for any suggestions. If I can't comment safely on the pdf then the wrole reviewing/commenting process becomes unusable...

As you have seen, documents with high page counts and large file sizes can become unstable. Adding several hundred comments to such a document further contributes to the problem. It's a great feature that everyone loves, but it's not omnipotent, as you have seen! To avoid this, I always recommend regular exporting of comments to an .fdf file, and always PRIOR to regular saves. That way, if your files does crash for some reason, the comments can easily be re-imported. It's also advisable to have a backup, pre-annotation version of your document, as a matter of course.
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Hope that helps!
Jason Covey
PDF Litigation Solutions, LLC
www.pdflitigationguide.com

Comments are welcome!

I've written a small app using AppleScript and Growl.
It puts the lyrics of the current iTunes' selected or playing song in a (Growl)window.
Both Growl and my app are free.
My point is, if you like the app as it is great. Keep it and have fun. However, if you do not or have any criticisms and suggestions, I'd like to hear them.
Thank you.
Deivy

Hi James,
first, I do not have any connections with the Growl team, unfortunately.
Growl is an application that receives messages from other applications and passes these messages to the user.
So, if you use HarwareGrowl, which I really recommend, if you connect a device (say a printer) to your USB port, it will display a window with a message stating that "the printer X was connected in USB port y" or something to this order. Which is excellent to diagnose any possible USB connection problem.
In the case of the script I wrote, the window will display the lyrics of the current playing song.
You can read more about Growl in its website.
Independent of using my script, I really recommend Growl.
Deivy

First PKGBUILD, comments are welcomed

Hi,
I adopted the orphan package Selfoss and modified the PKGBUILD and .install files. Since this is my first one, I thought I post it here first. So if anybody has any input I would really appreciate it.
The two big differences between my PKGBUILD and the original is that I moved the config file to /etc/selfoss/.. and that I keep the old data folder (on upgrades). I keep the data folder because the selfoss homepage states that you should on upgrades
Upload all new files and folders excluding the data folder
My main concern is this folder thing (which I do in the .install file). My suspicion is that I maybe don't need to restore the old data folder. I made some quick tests, and it looked like pacman kept everything that had been added or modified after the last install. But I really don't know when or how pacman will change stuff on a upgrade. So I started looking for answers. First on the wiki, like on pages about ABS, PKGBUILD, creating packages and the Arch packaging standards and then on the forum. But I didn't find it..
Anyhow, here's my PKGBUILD and .install . Thanks in advance!
PKGBUILD
# Maintainer: Maxim Andersson <[email protected]>
# Contributor: Tetsumaki <http://goo.gl/YMBdA>
pkgname=selfoss
pkgver=2.9
pkgrel=1
pkgdesc="The new multipurpose rss reader, live stream, mashup, aggregation web application"
arch=('any')
url="http://selfoss.aditu.de/"
license=('GPL3')
depends=('php>=5.3')
optdepends=('apache: is depedency if you do not use lighttpd or nginx'
'lighttpd'
'nginx'
'mariadb: is depedency if you do not use postgresql or sqlite'
'postgresql'
'sqlite'
'php-sqlite: is dependacy if you use sqlite'
'wget: for automatic updating feeds with cron'
'curl: for automatic updating feeds with cron')
conflicts=('selfoss-git')
backup=('etc/webapps/selfoss/config.ini')
install=${pkgname}.install
source=("http://selfoss.aditu.de/${pkgname}-${pkgver}.zip"
"${pkgname}.install")
sha256sums=('9bf3642c7de146c1a89c336ad5fc77e1823d125d7dbfed9060c6c7c2cdc8ec39'
'f59a0de2ee13d83a263a8f1a0c25ee3542e1981d6ead19af299999818975e142')
package() {
rm -rf README.md ${pkgname}-${pkgver}.zip
install -d "${pkgdir}"/usr/share/webapps/${pkgname}
cp -rf . "${pkgdir}"/usr/share/webapps/${pkgname}/
# move config to etc
install -d "${pkgdir}"/etc/webapps/${pkgname}
sed '4,$s/^/;/' "${pkgdir}"/usr/share/webapps/${pkgname}/defaults.ini > "${pkgdir}"/etc/webapps/${pkgname}/config.ini
chmod 755 "${pkgdir}"/usr/share/webapps/${pkgname}/{data/cache,data/favicons,data/logs,data/sqlite,data/thumbnails,public}
chown -R http: "${pkgdir}"/usr/share/webapps/${pkgname}
# vim:set ts=2 sw=2 et:
selfoss.install
link_config() {
ln -sf /etc/webapps/selfoss/config.ini /usr/share/webapps/selfoss/config.ini
chown http: /usr/share/webapps/selfoss/config.ini
post_install() {
link_config
echo ""
echo "==> Installed in : /usr/share/webapps/selfoss"
echo "==> Change RewriteBase in .htaccess"
echo "==> Check http://selfoss.aditu.de/ for details."
echo ""
echo "==> Config is now at /etc/webapps/selfoss/config.ini"
echo ""
pre_upgrade() {
# save old config (from pkgbuild 2.8)
[[ -f /usr/share/webapps/selfoss/config.ini && ! -f /etc/webapps/selfoss/config.ini ]] \
&& install -Dm644 /usr/share/webapps/selfoss/config.ini /etc/webapps/selfoss/config.ini
[[ -f /usr/share/webapps/selfoss/config.ini && -f /etc/webapps/selfoss/config.ini ]] \
&& install -Dm644 /usr/share/webapps/selfoss/config.ini /etc/webapps/selfoss/config.ini.backup
# temporarily backup data folder
rm -rf /tmp/data
cp -rf /usr/share/webapps/selfoss/data /tmp/ 2> /dev/null
post_upgrade() {
link_config
# restore data folder
if [[ -d /tmp/data ]]; then
rm -rf /usr/share/webapps/selfoss/data
cp -rf /tmp/data /usr/share/webapps/selfoss/
fi
rm -f /usr/share/webapps/selfoss/public/{all.css,all.js}
[[ -d /usr/share/webapps/selfoss/data/icons ]] \
&& mv -f /usr/share/webapps/selfoss/data/{icons,favicons}
echo ""
echo "==> For a clean update:"
echo "==> Change RewriteBase in .htaccess"
echo "==> Refresh your browser cache (CTRL+R in most cases)"
echo "==> Check http://selfoss.aditu.de/ for details."
echo ""
echo "==> Config is now at /etc/webapps/selfoss/config.ini"
echo ""
For reference, here's the AUR page with the old PKGBUILD.

Ok, so here's how my PKGBUILD and .install looks like now.
PKGBUILD
# Maintainer: Maxim Andersson <[email protected]>
# Contributor: Tetsumaki <http://goo.gl/YMBdA>
pkgname=selfoss
pkgver=2.9
pkgrel=1
pkgdesc="The new multipurpose rss reader, live stream, mashup, aggregation web application"
arch=('any')
url="http://selfoss.aditu.de/"
license=('GPL3')
depends=('php>=5.3')
optdepends=('apache: server, depedency if not using lighttpd or nginx'
'lighttpd: server, depedency if not using apache or nginx'
'nginx: server, depedency if not using lighttpd or apache'
'mariadb: database, depedency if not using postgresql or sqlite'
'postgresql: database, depedency if not using mariadb or sqlite'
'sqlite: database, depedency if not using postgresql or mariadb'
'php-sqlite: dependency if using sqlite'
'wget: for automatic updating feeds with cron'
'curl: for automatic updating feeds with cron')
backup=('etc/webapps/selfoss/config.ini')
install=${pkgname}.install
source=("http://selfoss.aditu.de/${pkgname}-${pkgver}.zip")
sha256sums=('9bf3642c7de146c1a89c336ad5fc77e1823d125d7dbfed9060c6c7c2cdc8ec39')
package() {
rm -rf "${srcdir}"/{README.md,${pkgname}-${pkgver}.zip}
install -d "${pkgdir}"/usr/share/webapps/${pkgname}
cp -af "${srcdir}"/. "${pkgdir}"/usr/share/webapps/${pkgname}/
# create config in /etc
install -d "${pkgdir}"/etc/webapps/${pkgname}
sed '4,$s/^/;/' "${pkgdir}"/usr/share/webapps/${pkgname}/defaults.ini > "${pkgdir}"/etc/webapps/${pkgname}/config.ini
ln -sf /etc/webapps/${pkgname}/config.ini "${pkgdir}"/usr/share/webapps/${pkgname}/config.ini
chmod 755 "${pkgdir}"/usr/share/webapps/${pkgname}/{data/cache,data/favicons,data/logs,data/sqlite,data/thumbnails,public}
chown -R http: "${pkgdir}"/usr/share/webapps/${pkgname}
# vim:set ts=2 sw=2 et:
.install
post_install() {
echo ""
echo "==> Installed in : /usr/share/webapps/selfoss"
echo "==> Change RewriteBase in .htaccess"
echo "==> Check http://selfoss.aditu.de/ for details."
echo ""
echo "==> Config is now at /etc/webapps/selfoss/config.ini"
echo ""
pre_upgrade() {
# save old untracked config (from pkgbuild 2.8) and make it tracked
[[ -f /usr/share/webapps/selfoss/config.ini && ! -h /usr/share/webapps/selfoss/config.ini ]] \
&& install -Dm644 /usr/share/webapps/selfoss/config.ini /etc/webapps/selfoss/config.ini
post_upgrade() {
rm -f /usr/share/webapps/selfoss/public/{all.css,all.js}
echo ""
echo "==> For a clean update:"
echo "==> Change RewriteBase in .htaccess"
echo "==> Refresh your browser cache (CTRL+R in most cases)"
echo "==> Check http://selfoss.aditu.de/ for details."
echo ""
echo "==> Config is now at /etc/webapps/selfoss/config.ini"
echo ""
pre_remove() {
# remove untracked files
find /usr/share/webapps/selfoss/data/ -type f -exec rm -f '{}' ';' 2> /dev/null
rm -f /usr/share/webapps/selfoss/public/{all.css,all.js}
Thanks for all the time you spent explainting stuff! Really appreciate it. Can't wait to adopt a new PKGBUILD or maybe make a new one
The only thing I wasn't able to do was to put the data directory in /var/lib/. On upgrades pacman complained about the new link (ln -s /var/lib/.. data), because it was already tracking a directory with the same name ('data'). But that's no big deal.
Last edited by thesilentboatman (2014-02-10 17:13:22)

R3load EXPORT tips for 1,5 TB MAXDB Database are welcome!

Hello to ALL;
this post is addressed to ALL MAXDB-GURU's !!
I'v few questions to MAXDB Performance-Guy's for R3load Export on MAXDB!
(remark to my person:
I'm certified OS/DB migration consultant and have already done over 500 OS/DB migrations since 1995 successfully)
BUT now I'm face with following setup for Export:
HP- IA64 BL870c, 4 CPUu2019s Dual-Core + Hyperthreading activ (mean's 16 "CPU'S" shown via top or glance)
64 GB RAM, HPUX V11.31;
MAXDB 7.7.07
ECC 5.0; Basis/Aba 640.22
SAP-Kernel 640-Unicode Patch 381
8 sapdatas are configured on unique 200GB LUN's and VG's in HP-UX; on storage-side the 8 220GB LUN's are located on (only) 9 300GB-Disks with Raid-5 Level and within HP-UX each VG/LVOL is mirrored via LVM to a second desasterdatacenter (200m distance)
LOGFILES:
2 x 4 GB LUN Raid-1 on Storage and via LVM also mirrored to failover-center
MAXDB-Datasize: 1600 GB Overall and within this 1350 GB used, TEMPUsage about 25 GB !
MAXDB-Parameter-Settings
MAXCPUu2019s 10 (4 x IA64 QuadCore+Hyperthreading shows 16 Cores within top and galcne
Cache_SIZE= I/O Buffer Cache = 16 GB (2.000.000 Pages)
Data-Cache-HitRatio: 99.61%
Undo-Cache = 99,98%
the following sapnote for MAXDB Peformance and Migrations are well known and already processes
928037, 1077887, 1385089, 1327874, 954268, 1464560, 869267,
My major problem is the export-runtime with over 4 days on the first dry-run (6 R3load's running on Linux-APPL-Server), and 46h on second runtime, 6 R3loads running on DB-Server IA64)
the third trail-run was aborted by me after 48hours and 50% export-dump-space was written. In all 3 dry-runs, no more than approx 3.5GB DUMP-Space were written per hour!
My first question to all MAXDB-Guru'S: How can I influence/optimize the TEMP - Area in MAXDB?? I didn't find any hint's in SDN or SAPNOTES or MaxDB Wiki or google....As fare as I know, this TEMP area "resides" within MAXDB-datafiles, thus it's seperated on my 48 datafiles, spreaded over 8 LUN/VG/disks. But I see LESS throughput on disk's and MAXDB-Kernel uses only ONE of ten's cpu-cores (approx 80% - 120% of 1000%).
The throughput or cpu-usage doesn't change when I use 2 or 4 or 10 or 16 R3load' processes in parallel. The "result" is always the same: approx. 3,5 GB Export-Dump and 1 CPU MAX-DB Kernelprocess is used !
so the BIG Question for me: WHERE is the bottleneck ?? (RAID-5 Disk-LUNS mirrored with LVM ???)
on HP-UX scsi_queue_depth_length I'v increased default value from 8 to 32 to 64 to 128 --> no impact
2nd question:
I'v read OS-Note 1327874 - FAQ: SAP MaxDB Read Ahead/Prefetch, and we are running MAXDB 7.7.07.19! (MaxDB 7.8 is not suppored via PAM for IA64 640-UC-Kernel) and as far as I understood, this parameter will no HELP me on EXPORT with primary-key-sequence ! is this correct? THUS: which parameter HELPS for speeding up Export-Runtime?
MAXCPU is set to 10, but ONLY 1 of them is used??
so this post is for ALL MAXDB GURU'S!
who will be intrested to contriubte on this "high-sophisticated" migration-project with 1.5TB MAXDB-Database-size and ONLY 24h Downtime !!
all tips and hints are welcome and I will give us coninued updates to this running project until WE did a successfull migration job.
PS: Import is not yet started, but should be done within vSphere 5 and SLES 11 SP1 on MAXDB 7.8 ....and of yours in parallel to export with migration monitor, BUT again a challenge: 200km distance from source to traget system !!!
NICE PROJECT;
best regards Alfred

Hi Alfred,
nice project ... just some simple questions:
Did you open a message at SAP? Maybe you could buy some upgrade support, this could be usefull to get direct access to the SAP support...
Which byte order do you use? I know Itanium could use both. But it should be different, otherwise you would use a backup for the migration.
And the worst question, I do not even want to ask: What about your MAXCPUS parameter? Is it set to more than 1? This could be the problem why only one CPU is used.
Best regards
Christian

How can I add songs from my internal library to my external backup library without losing ratings and comments?

Hi, I have some 30.000 Songs in my constantly growing internal library and another 25k in my external backup library. I noticed that I lost all my ratings when fusing my libraries the last time.
As ratings and comments are essential for my work as a radio dj: How can I fuse libraries or add songs from my internal to my external library and keep ratings and comments and: How can I make sure, iTunes adds ratings and comments from songs I still have in my internal library to the same songs (without ratings and comments) in my external library? Thanks a lot for your help!

I use http://decimus.net/Synk to keep my iMac's iTunes synchronized with the backup iTunes folder on an external disk. Any changes I make are automatically synced to the backup. You might find it useful.

IPhoto "titles" and "comments"

Hey,
I am making a slideshow in iDVD with a lot of pictures that im importing from iPhoto. My problem is that the names of the pictures (when I show "titles and comments") are too large and cover important parts of the image. I also noticed that the "comments" was smaller than the "titles". So is there a way for Automater to replace all the "comment" sections with what is in the "title" section for all my pictures in iPhoto? I have never used Automater so any help would be great.
-church7mouse
iBook G4 Mac OS X (10.3.9)

Create a workflow with a "Run AppleScript" action and replace the (* Your script goes here *) with the following AppleScript. The easiest way to do that is to click on the link, which will open AppleScript Script Editor, and then copy and paste it into the "Run AppleScript" action.
For this action to work properly you must make sure that before you run the Automator action only the album of interest is selected and not a photo in that album.
click here to open this script in your editor<pre style="font-family: 'Monaco', 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; overflow:auto; color: #222; background: #DDD; padding: 0.2em; font-size: 10px; width:400px">tell application "iPhoto"
set theAlbum to selection
set thePhotos to every photo of first item of theAlbum
repeat with aPhoto in thePhotos
set theOldTitle to title of aPhoto
set title of aPhoto to comment of aPhoto
set comment of aPhoto to theOldTitle
end repeat
end tell
</pre>
PowerBook 12" Mac OS X (10.4.8)

Print & Preview of iBook does not show titles and comments.

iphoto used is 6.0.6 (322) I Don't know if this is a 10.4.11 or 10.4.4 problem.
problem: iBook prints contain pictures but not title or comments using Epson C60 or HP 1530 printers. Titles and comments are not visible in "preview" but picture is ok. Mac used is an intel Core Duo with system 10.4.4.
However, prints are ok, i.e., have title, comment, picture using the same HP 1530 or an Epson Stylus Photo 1250 on a Pwr PC G4 with system 10.4.11.
The Intel is the preferred unit.
Thanks, CB

problem: iBook prints contain pictures but not title or comments using Epson C60 or HP 1530 printers. Titles and comments are not visible in "preview" but picture is ok. Mac used is an intel Core Duo with system 10.4.4.
However, prints are ok, i.e., have title, comment, picture using the same HP 1530 or an Epson Stylus Photo 1250 on a Pwr PC G4 with system 10.4.11.
How are you previewing the the book? Have you tried the apple suggested methof for previewing books - http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1040
LN

Keywords, Titles, and Comments don't travel - Sharing Pics with my PC

What gives with iPhoto. Love it. Problem though. All the work I've put into adding key words, titles, and comments are only good in iPhoto.
Why is this? Wouldn't those things be considered metadata and be stored in the file and then travel with that file?
So... here's the kicker. If iPhoto doesn't do this - I probably need to switch programs. My house and family and work are all PC environments. We all swap photos pretty regularly.
I look like I suck if my photos are all titled DSC-09874. This especially ***** if I know I've spent hours upon hours applying tagging pics with keywords and comments - only to find out I'm the only person to ever see them.
I need some direction here from some iphoto gurus. What should I do?

There is a program that will do it but it's a bit expensive for just that feature, iView MediaPro. However, you can use it is its 21 day demo mode do write the keywords and comments of the photos you have today back to the original files (not the modified but the original). Tutorial #1 describes how to do that.
I suggest you post that as a feature request at http://www.apple.com/feedback/iphoto.html. The more requests for that the better.
Do you Twango?
TIP: For insurance against the iPhoto database corruption that many users have experienced I recommend making a backup copy of the Library6.iPhoto database file and keep it current. If problems crop up where iPhoto suddenly can't see any photos or thinks there are no photos in the library, replacing the working Library6.iPhoto file with the backup will often get the library back. By keeping it current I mean backup after each import and/or any serious editing or work on books, slideshows, calendars, cards, etc. That insures that if a problem pops up and you do need to replace the database file, you'll retain all those efforts. It doesn't take long to make the backup and it's good insurance.
I've written an Automator workflow application (requires Tiger), iPhoto dB File Backup, that will copy the selected Library6.iPhoto file from your iPhoto Library folder to the Pictures folder, replacing any previous version of it. You can download it at Toad's Cellar. Be sure to read the Read Me pdf file.

Can't see review stars and comments of clothing websites

Example #1= "Landsend.com", click "men", click "pants"
http://www.landsend.com/ix/mens-clothing/Men/Mens-Pants/index.html?seq=1~2~3&catNumbers=1~23&visible=1~2~1&cm_re=D-4-8&pageSize=72
Can see pants and pictures, but where the usual 1-5 *s are, it says "Rating". I click on the "Men's Pleat Front Traditional Fit No Iron Dress Twill Trousers" (the first pants picture/option, Item # 426850-A61) and up pops all of the information EXCEPT the photo/s that should be on the left, and the "Views + Reviews" with all of the comments under that.
Example #2= "underarmour.com", "Men", "Accessories", "Backpacks and Bags", "UA Hustle Storm Backpack"
http://www.underarmour.com/shop/us/en//pid1238440-040#bv-reviews
Can see "****1/2* (2) Read All Reviews" but the reviews are missing and when I click on "Read all Reviews", the screen moves down, but nothing else changes and the reviews are not there.
Example #3= "eddiebauer.com", "Men", "Shirts", "Classic Fit Legend Wash Oxford Shirt - Solid Short Sleeve"
http://www.eddiebauer.com/EB/Men/Shirts/index.cat
Under "Men's Shirts", I see the stars and how many people have rated it [ex.- *** (17)]. If I click on the ratings/stars or on " Classic Fit Legend Wash Oxford Shirt - Solid Short Sleeve", the next page shows up-
http://www.eddiebauer.com/catalog/product.jsp?ensembleId=44679&&categoryId=9&categoryName=SHIRTS&pCategoryId=2&pCategoryName=MEN&gpCategoryId=1&gpCategoryName=EB&catPath=~~categoryId=9~~categoryName=SHIRTS~~pCategoryId=2~~pCategoryName=MEN~~gpCategoryId=1~~gpCategoryName=EB&viewAll=n&pg=1&cmPathInfo=null
...however, the stars, ratings, and comments are not there. The picture/s of the shirt are there, as well as the size, color, add to bag, etc.
On Amazon, I can see the ratings and comments. This tends to be a problem with clothes companies and their customer service has not been able to tell me why I can't see what should be there. Internet Explorer Does show the missing info; I haven't tried Chrome. I want to work with Firefox. Any suggestions?

On the first page, next to the word ratings, I get five sailboats (blue is good, gray is not good). This image is from the external site "landsend.ugc.bazaarvoice.com". Can you see the images if you load them directly? Here's an example: http://landsend.ugc.bazaarvoice.com/2008/2_8/5/rating.gif
When I click through for the pants, the first image that shows on the left is this one: [http://s7.landsend.com/is/image/LandsEnd/426850_AJ13_FF_KHA?fmt=jpeg,rgb&qlt=80,1&op_sharpen=0&resMode=sharp2&op_usm=0.5,1,3,0&icc=sRGB%20IEC61966-2.1,relative&iccEmbed=1&rgn=0,0,2000,3000&scl=5.882352941176471]. If you click it directly, does it work?
If you CANNOT view those images directly, the sites might be blocked. Check out the first section of this article: [[Fix problems that cause images to not show]].
If you CAN view those images directly, but not when embedded on the main Lands End site, you might have blocked "third party" images. You can check that here:
(1) In a new tab, type or paste '''about:config''' in the address bar and press Enter. Click the button promising to be careful.
(2) In the filter box, type or paste '''perm''' and pause while the list is filtered
(3) If the value is not 1 (and the line is bold), right-click '''permissions.default.image''' and choose Reset.
If the above fails, it could be an add-on issue. Could you try Firefox's Safe Mode? That's a standard diagnostic tool to bypass interference by extensions (and some custom settings). More info: [[Troubleshoot Firefox issues using Safe Mode]].
You can restart Firefox in Safe Mode using
Help > Restart with Add-ons Disabled
In the dialog, click "Start in Safe Mode" (''not'' Reset)
Any difference?

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