Desperate need of advice on harddrive issues!

Hello! I'vet got a Macbook pro 13" 2,26 ghz with an Hitachi HTS545032B9SA02.
Ive noticed that the coloured ball that spins has been occuring many times. I made the xbench benchmark on my harddrive and got a result around 45. My OS X version is 10.5.8 I noticed that many other with the same OS version got much higher score and that some with lower os version got better score. How come? Is there something wrong with my computer? I ran disc control, but it doesnt show anything. What to do? Has anyone ran xbench? What did you get? Also my harddrive is ticking sometimes, is that bad? It is a very low, subtile ticking.

I'm not familiar with xbench, but here is a utility that will give you a really detailed analysis of the physical state of your hard drive:
http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/32454
You can download the demo and run it several times for free. If you click on "Show all", you can see the hard drives errors in detail.
Any noise from a hard drive is worrisome--be sure to keep a good, up to date backup in case your drive does fail.
Also, check on your RAM. If you run out of free space on your RAM, them Mac will have to use the hard drive to do what RAM normally does. One easy way to monitor this is to open Activity Monitor and use the dock icon to monitor RAM while you work.
Also, be sure your drive is not getting too full--it's good to keep 15%-20% free space on it.
Good luck!

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Hello,
First: I've experienced the same problem with my iPhone 5. I've bought a new charger and it still did the same thing. I went to the Apple Store to get my iPhone checked out and they said that the pins inside my iPhone we're damaged, and I had to get a replacement.
~ Josh

In desperate need of a new laptop! Should I go with the MBP Retina, MBP, or MB Air?

I am in need of a new computer, but I have no idea which one I want to get. I really need some advice. Here is all the info I think you all would need to help me out:
Currently I have a 15-inch 2008/2009 Macbook Pro with these stats:
4.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
8 GB 1067 MHz DDR3
500 GB SATA hard drive with 122 GB not in use
Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce 9400M 256 MB
I use my computer for:
Fairly heavy e-mail and word processing
About 50 GB of music in my iTunes library
Moderate photoshop and illustrator use
Moderate photo editing
Light video editing (in imovie)
Heavy internet use (rarely have less than 10 tabs open at a time)
Light game playing (Sims etc)
I like my computer to be fairly portable and light, but I wouldn't sacrifice everything else for the lightest computer on the market. However, I do find my current Mac Book Pro to be too heavy.
Computers I am considering:
Macbook Pro 13"
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Macbook Air 13"
(not sure of which configuration on any of them, though)
These are my thoughts about my options:
MBPro 13inch:
PRO: Lighter than my current mac
PRO: Fairly inexpensive (as far as macs go)
PRO: upgradability (if I ever wanted to)
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MB Air:
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PRO: It's very aesthetically pleasing.
CON: Not customizable (again, I'm kind of undecided on this)
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Walk into an Apple Store or call the online Apple Store. The sales staff will be more than happy to help you with your concerns and help you make your decision.

In need of advice/help.

I am having some serious issues with my MacBook.
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Another thing is I cannot run more then one application at a time. I am a graphic design major and I need to be able to run Adobe CS2 programs. For example, Say I am running In-Design and I need to make a fix in Photoshop, In-Design will quit. I have tried so many things to fix this but nothing works.
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Stacey, I pointed you to an app called Temperature Monitor that will give an accurate temperature reading of your MacBook.
Never EVER use your MacBook on a pillow or a blanket that can block airflow. I have no doubt that is adding to the problem.
Download and install the firmware updates as well as Temperature Monitor found HERE. That way we can know what temps we are talking about. There is no way to tell if they are high if you cannot give us a reading.

Business Delegate pattern - need some advice

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thanks in advance
Raphael

Thanks for your reply. This however, I understood. My concern is regarding my application in regards to business delegate pattern. You see I have this class (simplified for clarity):
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miner78 wrote:
Need some advice....I just bought the new retina MacBook Pro (2,199 model) and after reading about the ghosting or burn in issues that some users are experiencing I am starring to wonder if I made the right decision. I am still waiting for my laptop to come in so I can still cancel my order. I'm seriously considering opting for the non-retina MacBook Pro instead. This will be my first Mac and I will mainly be using it to browse the web and do photo editing (I'm an amateur photographer) I know the non-retina doesn't not come with SSD and wondering how much of difference that makes. Any advice, suggestions will be welcomed
That's incorrect:
Order online and for a fee you can have an SSD.

I want to cancel my membership. I need assistance to address this issue

I want to cancel my membership. I need assistance to address this issue. It seems that they have made a repeating loop of unhelpful links to prevent you from canceling a membership. Any advice? --Travis

Moving this discussion to the Adobe Creative Cloud forum.
Adobe you suck! cancel me please contact our support team directly at Contact Customer Care to cancel your membership. If you are not being given the option to chat with a member of our support team then please utilize a different web browser. Which web browser and version are you currently using?

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I am trying to start Puzzlepirates and i believe its somethings to do with java, when i go to download it i just see a red X in the corner and this is the java console message,
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c: clear console window
f: finalize objects on finalization queue
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h: display this help message
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m: print memory usage
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p: reload proxy configuration
q: hide console
r: reload policy configuration
s: dump system and deployment properties
t: dump thread list
v: dump thread stack
x: clear classloader cache
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java.lang.NullPointerException
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Exception in thread "Thread-9" java.lang.NullPointerException
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java.lang.NullPointerException
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     at sun.applet.AppletPanel.run(Unknown Source)
     at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)
Exception in thread "thread applet-Downloadlet" java.lang.NullPointerException
     at sun.plugin.util.GrayBoxPainter.showLoadingError(Unknown Source)
     at sun.plugin.AppletViewer.showAppletException(Unknown Source)
     at sun.applet.AppletPanel.run(Unknown Source)
     at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)
Please help as much as you can or as little i desperatly need help.

Oi mate there's no need to be nasty, i was asking why
and you just throw it in my face,Nobody is throwing anything in your face. You threw a stack trace at us and said Java is broken help me.
Well Java is not broken.
The Java program you are running is broken.
But we don't know what it is doing and where it is broken. Only the people with the source for the program (puzzlepirates) can help you.
It is not my fault if they won't help you or told you Java is broken.
and it seems that the java is not working or
something else is wrong on my computerAs a wild guess there is something wrong with the DNS on your machine or proxy or something like that. This is a guess based on the UnknownHostException. But again that is only a guess and the best guess one can make based on the information present.
The problem I think is that their applet tries to do something but doesn't account for connections like yours and is blowing up because of that.
Again only a guess and in the end really does nothing to solve your problem. If you want to solve this problem email the stack trace and perhaps my comments in this post about the UnknownHostException to puzzlepirates and ask them for help.
Nobody else can help you but them.

Need expert advice on buying new macbook pro 15 inch

Hi I Am a digital textile designer and planning to buy my first retina macbook pro. I need expert advice, which model should i buy 15 inch base model or with dedicated graphics card. i will use macbook for digital designing on Adobe photoshop and multi tasking. so now really confused is intel iris pro graphics will handle heavy files on photoshop or Nvidia GT750 m will good for heavy work. I am working on very large resolution file like 10 to 15k in resolution approx 1 GB in file size with lot of filters is being use while designing. Which model will handle above task well and last longer.

Look at the specifications here:
http://store.apple.com/us/buy-mac/macbook-pro
You may be confusing the quad core CPU with the Graphics processor.
It should have no difficulty in running Adobe Photoshop.
Ciao.

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Hi Folks,
Need your help in this Issue.
We are getting an Error ---- "Person-address" data doesn't exist while correcting the Address inconsistency through transaction BP in SAP SRM 7.02.
Kindly suggest any SAP notes on this specific issue.
Regards,
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Hello Keith,
Yes, I have 2 structures in the Query, with Posting periods structure is in the rows restricted by periods and Key fig structure.I did the way you said, but it is not working.
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Hai,
IDOC to JDBC (Staging table)
IDoc is pushed in to XI.
XI maps IDoc to staging table structure
XI does the look up of other database tables while mapping.
How to do the database look up???
XI inserts data in to staging table with the status new.
Scenario 2
JDBC to JDBC
XI selects the data from staging table.
XI maps the data from staging table to the Actual table.
XI inserts data in to the Actual Table and sends the status to SAP Processed successfully
If it fails in this mapping it needs to send the status as Error with the message to SAP
I want to do this as single scenario using BPM and I want to send status to SAP once the data is successfully loaded in to the actual table or it fails in mapping at any stage.
Need expertise advice to do this and how to do the database look up?
Thanks in Advance

Hi,
Almost every thing has been said, you can also refer to this for Lookups,
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/cf/406642ea59c753e10000000a1550b0/content.htm
For the second part, you may consider an alert.
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/people/michal.krawczyk2/blog/2005/09/09/xi-alerts--troubleshooting-guide
/people/aravindh.prasanna/blog/2005/12/23/configuring-scenario-specific-e-mail-alerts-in-xi-ccms-part--1
This weblogs might help you.
Regards,
Anirban.

Need Network Advice: Multiple IP numbers.

Hello I need some advice on setting up my office's network. I have a small amount of network knowledge, mostly just setting up my home networks and our offices simple existing network. Right now we have Verizon internet. The network looks like this -
1 static IP -> Verizon Modem/Router -> 24port gig switch -> wired to 8 offices -> connected to 8 computers.
We are canceling Verizon and getting Comcast with 5 IP addresses. Our goal is to continue using a network like we have, but add a server on the side for clients and remote employees to drop files. We have 2 mac mini's ready for the task of being servers with OSX Tiger on them. I would like to set one or both of them up as FTP servers, so we can hand out login/pass info and people can ftp into them to drop stuff or pick stuff up.
Anyone have any advice for how to setup a network with multiple IP addresses? Do I need more than 1 router? Which router is best for Mac, because we will need a new one to replace verizons. Any advice on where I can find information on setting up the FTP server on our mac mini with Tiger? I've looked around, but I don't think the sites I found were using Tiger, menus weren't exact and I couldn't get it to work.
Thanks for the help!
Our office is ALL mac, 5x_8-core 2x_imac 2x_macpro 2x_mini

You don't need a "Gigabit router". It's way, way overkill (and $$$$$$) for your network.
The Comcast link is going to max out at about 15-20mpbs, so any router with 100mpbs links is going to be more than sufficient.
As it happens, I wouldn't get a router anyway. Comcast are going to provide you with a router (they need to in order to terminate the RG-58 cable connection they drop and provide an ethernet port (that ethernet port, BTW, will be 100base-T).
What you really need is a firewall. One that can handle multiple public IP addresses and allow specific incoming traffic (e.g. the FTP servers).
I would recommend something from NetScreen. You may be able to pick up one of their NetScreen 5GTs pretty cheap now they're end of life (I have several of these around my network, including one in the exact same configuration you're talking about here). Failing that the SSG-5 would be sufficient.
They also have the advantage of being able to run as a VPN endpoint should you need that functionality.
At the end of the day your network topology would look something like:
Comcast router -> (NetScreen) Firewall -> Switch -> Clients
All the clients will connect to the switch and can talk amongst themselves at gigabit speeds. Any internet traffic would pass from the switch to the firewall and out to the big bad world.

I need some advice...

Hi, I'm not quite sure where this topic should go exactly as it isn't about a specific topic. So plz fogive me if it's wrongly placed in your opinion.
Anyway, I've been a long time fan of Linux and I don't want to have to stop using it. I've just recently converted my whole computer to a linuxbox only system, as I was running winxp(uke) before and couldn't stand it. It would lag during simple tasks like going from one directory to another and for no apparent reason, which aided me in my conversion. Enough about winblows, I don't need to tell you guys why it sucks, we all have our reasons. But there is just one thing bothering me now... and that is gaming. I am a huge fan of gaming and have been doing so for quite some time now (years) and well... gaming on linux hasn't been too pleasant for obvious reasons.
1) the games I play except for quake3 are written and made to run solely on a winblows workstation.
2) Wine and Winex3 have limited, but growing support for a range of games.
3) Lastly the main game I would like to play (Steam CS 1.6) doesn't like to run on linux due to its constant updates, which throws WInex3 out of wack. Where it could have been working the day before but due to the update it no longer runs.
I'm thinking of just making a partition for winxp(uke) so that I can game, but this isn't something I'm totally willing to do.
Basically I need some advice and/or suggestions that anyone is willing to share with me.
Thank you in advance.
BTW: I'm not new to linux, I've been using it for almost 2 years now and have tried ALL of the distro's you can think of. (Arch is my distro of choice at the moment, along with slackware.)

Enemy Territory is an excellent game, and it is totally free.
I haven't played the free game from the US Army, but heard it is really good, and is totally free.
I bought Return to Castle Wolfenstein, which plays perfectly in Single player mode, but I have some trouble in multiplayer mode (and I'm not an expert either).
I bought Unreal Tournament 2004, which plays perfectly in both single player and online, but I simply suck at the game.
I bought Never Winter Nights because I know the company has a linux version you can download once you have a registered copy. I havent installed it yet, though, been playing UT2004.
Doom3 is supposedly going to have a linux installer on the CD's, like UT2004 does.
Anygame that uses OpenGL graphics instead of DirectX will prolly run under WINE or WINEX, or be easy for the original company to port (if they choose to).
There are some "up and coming" linux only OpenGL games, light flightgear (a flight simulator), and a couple of 'massive online games".
Betweet RTCW, EnemyT, Never Winter Nights, UT2004, and soon Doom3 - I have enough games to play, and thats without buying winex.
Fergettabout Windows! You simply don't need it anymore.
If you are determined to run Windows, get a removeable drive bay, and just swap boot drives when you want to swtich. Or use GRUB if you want to select from multiple OS's.
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I need some advice about the macbook pro and iPhone 5. I took a video on my iPhone and tried to email it it said it was too big to send? So i downloaded it to my macbook pro and tried to mail it to no avail? The macbook tells me the server won't let it th

I need some advice about the macbook pro and iPhone 5.
I took a video on my iPhone and tried to email it it said it was too big to send? So i downloaded it to my macbook pro and tried to mail it to no avail? The macbook tells me the server won't let it through other mail goes through any ideas how to resize it or what it might take to send it?

I agree with LowLister, the best option for you to share the video online is to upload it to your online storage account for example : Box, Dropbox, SkyDrive (All of them provide free storage beginning from 2GB).
You can upload the files which you want to share in this online storage and then they have sharing options in which you'll will get the link of the file to be sent and send the email. You're good to go!
Tip : You can store multiple files for backup purposes.

Need your advice on making family videos without losing quality

I need your advice. I don't know where to put my question because I don't know which piece of software I need (so I am posting this in a few places on the forum: sorry). That is exactly the question, I guess.
I have a couple of digital cameras that I use to make family videos. They both produce .avi files. Sometimes I use an iPhone that produces .mov files. So after my children and grandchildren visit, I end up with a bunch of these little videos. I want to combine them into longer videos that I can watch more conveniently on my Apple TV 2 or put on a DVD to send my kids or to my elderly mother-in-law to watch. I know how to combine them using iMovie HD, but that process seems to radically degrade the resolution and/or image quality. The original .avi files are 1024x768 and are very clear and sharp. I can't watch these .avi files on my ATV2 so I've been using Quicktime Player 10.0 to open them and then save them as .mov files. Once I import these files into iTunes, I can watch them on my ATV2 and they too look great on my tv (since they have the same resolution as the original .avi files): sharp and clear. But after I use iMovie HD to combine them (the .avi files) into an .m4v file, they're down to 640x480, and don't look near as good. And the DVD made from this file using iDVD looks equally bad and blocky.
I think what I want to know is, can I change some parameters on iMovie HD to produce files that are as high quality as the original .avi and .mov files? Or if not, what software do I need to accomplish this? I'm not interested in "fancy" movies. These are just home movies, but they are important to us. Should I upgrade my iMovie to do this? Or get Quicktime Pro? Or what? I'd appreciate your advice. I'd like to keep the process as simple as possible.

This is my workflow. I'm sure you will get a variety of opinions, but all I can say for my AVI clips, I've had excellent results for viewing on AppleTV.
I use iMovie HD 6 for organizing the clips into short movies, 15 minutes +/-. Clips are imported into iMovie as DV files. Once the movies are completed, I Export from iMovie as Full Quality, which results in a my-movie.dv file.
I then open the dv file in MPEG Streamclip. There I use the MP4 and iTunes settings for screen ratio and bit rate. 4:3 for Standard Def and 16:9 for High Def. Sounds complicated, but once you open MPEG Streamclip, the settings are simple to figure out.
The main thing to remember about quality is not to upscale your video. If the resolution is 640x480 SD, do not export higher than 640x480.
Here are a couple of screenshots using MPEG Streamclips "Export to MP4" setting:

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