EMI 2/6, 6/2 etc. Anyone using these?

I'm ready to upgrade to Logic Studio and would like to know if the old Emi 2/6 (A 2/6) or 6/2 usb interfaces will work in Leopard with Logic Studio (or Express/Garageband)
Thanks

I have been using the a6|2m, but one of the last updates (I can't tell exactly which) have now made the interface unusable: After a few bars of recording, I get distortion and delay of 1/2 sec. Also, the Audio-Midi-Setup and Logic don't work together anymore, e.g. if I change in Audio-Midi-Setup to 2 recording channels, Logic still offers six (or if I change to 96kHz, Logic doesn't notice the change, which produces quite strange output).
Can anyone using the a6|2m confirm this problem?
I've tested the interface with an older system (10.4.9) and a PC, on both systems it worked perfectly, so hardware faults can be excluded.

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Looking at the first link in this thread, if you are talking those protectors, they look like they could protect the screen, however, they'd do little to protect the unit in case of a fall because they are so thin. I'd use the protectors in combination with a case from Marware, such as the Sportssuit on:
http://www.marware.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/Marware.woa/5/wa/selectedCategory?cata logCatID=182

Western Digital Caviar Black 1TB drive - anyone using these in internal bay

Just a side thread to a current discussion I've started (http://discussions.apple.com/forum.jspa?forumID=1125&start=0) to try to see if anyone can report positive results using a Western Digital Caviar Black in their Mac Pro, especially if they're doing so as the Startup Disk.
I have horrible performance with a new one and want to see if others have had good or bad experience.

Out of curiosity did you prepare the drive properly? Most new bare drives have not been partitioned for use on the Mac and also are formatted FAT32. Consider doing the following;
Extended Hard Drive Preparation
1. Open Disk Utility in your Utilities folder. If you need to reformat your startup volume, then you must boot from your OS X Installer Disc. After the installer loads select your language and click on the Continue button. When the menu bar appears select Disk Utility from the Installer menu (Utilities menu for Tiger or Leopard.)
2. After DU loads select your hard drive (this is the entry with the mfgr.'s ID and size) from the left side list. Note the SMART status of the drive in DU's status area. If it does not say "Verified" then the drive is failing or has failed and will need replacing. SMART info will not be reported on external drives. Otherwise, click on the Partition tab in the DU main window.
3. Set the number of partitions from the drop down menu (use 1 partition unless you wish to make more.) Set the format type to Mac OS Extended (Journaled.) Click on the Options button, set the partition scheme to GUID (only required for Intel Macs) then click on the OK button. Click on the Partition button and wait until the process has completed.
4. Select the volume you just created (this is the sub-entry under the drive entry) from the left side list. Click on the Erase tab in the DU main window.
5. Set the format type to Mac OS Extended (Journaled.) Click on the Options button, check the button for Zero Data and click on OK to return to the Erase window.
6. Click on the Erase button. The format process can take up to several hours depending upon the drive size.
I have seen elsewhere some mention that WD drives have some configuration jumpers. You might check the information about the drive's configuration at the WD support site to be sure that the drive is correctly configured (if there is a need to do so, that is.)

Has anyone used these FW design libraries?

Hi,
I was wondering if anyone who used the FW UI stencils from uilibraries.com can provide some feedback/insights about them.
Thanks!

Looking at the first link in this thread, if you are talking those protectors, they look like they could protect the screen, however, they'd do little to protect the unit in case of a fall because they are so thin. I'd use the protectors in combination with a case from Marware, such as the Sportssuit on:
http://www.marware.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/Marware.woa/5/wa/selectedCategory?cata logCatID=182

Anyone using non Apple ram with standard heatspreaders?

Hi,
Is anyone using non standard Apple ram with normal sized heatsink/heatspreaders and if so have you had any problems?
I can find ram for the same spec that works but they only have the standard thin silver heatspreader attached and am concerned about running temps etc.
If anyones using these modules without problems, please post here!
Thanks.

Might want to read this article and it has some good information to help you decide.

Has anyone used a USB device server with a DAQmx or NI-VISA USB device?

Hi,
I have an application where I need to communicate with USB devices (some through DAQmx, others through NI-VISA) that will be more than 15 feet away from the controlling PC. I could use USB-ethernet-USB dongles, but I also see that there are USB-over-ethernet device servers available (like this one: http://www.usbgear.com/computer_cable_details.cfm?sku=USBNET-400&cats=104&catid=187%2C188%2C104%2C65...). Has anyone used these or similar USB device servers successfully with LabVIEW?
Thanks,
JasonP

http://forums.ni.com/t5/Multifunction-DAQ/Does-NI-offer-USB-extension-solutions/td-p/381873
http://forums.ni.com/t5/Dynamic-Signal-Acquisition/Using-a-quot-USB-2-0-extender-over-Cat-5-quot-to-...
http://forums.ni.com/t5/Multifunction-DAQ/Can-I-use-a-USB-Extender-with-USB-6008-or-cDAQ/td-p/920361
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National Instruments

Has Anyone Used the WD My Book External Drives for Time Machine?

I'm thinking of getting the Western Digitial 1 or 2 TB My Book (Pro Edition 2 or Studio Edition) External Drives for use with 2 MacPros. Has anyone used these and could I use them with Time Machine? Would I have to reformat them for Time Machine?
Thanks!
Ashley

You may, and probably want to format them, even if not TM use, I would anyway. Not everyone is happy with MyBook Pro and TM.
I buy bare FW devices and add disk drive of choice, or just use OWC
http://www.macsales.com/firewire and works well.
FW800 is also better on the new Mac Pro
http://www.barefeats.com

Anyone use the Sony MDRV-700 DJ headphones with nano?

Anyone use these with the nano? Did they work well?
http://www.warhogsaudioshop.com/ProductImages/Product%20Pictures/Sony%20Pro-Audi o/MDRV700DJ.jpg
I like big headphones, and want to hear from folks that have used them with their nano.
Thanks for your contributions in advance,
-D.R.

I use Sony MDR-V6 headphones with the nano, and they sound great. These are the same as Sony Pro MDR-7506 (although often the MDR-V6 can be found for less money). These are actually great headphones for sound from nearly any gear (especially at the price), and they provide good isolation.
I don't know how the V-700 headphones work, but I'd stay away from them under the fear that they would be similar to the V-600s which are awful.
You will look ridiculous walking around in MDR-V6 cans unless you are in a recording studio. I hide in my office or at home with them and walk around with either buds (which unfortunately don't work with my ear shape very well - no bass) or Koss Sporta Pro (muddy and too much bass, but somehow musical and adequate for the task if exercising or walking about with ambient noise, plus you can set them around your neck when you aren't using them so they don't take pocket/bag space.)

Anyone using either Camera: Logitech / Microsoft?

I am considering buying a webcam w/microphone for my PowerMac.
I have looked at two:
Logitech STX
http://www.logitech.com/index.cfm/webcam_communications/webcams/devices/352&cl=u s,en
and the
Microsoft VX-3000
http://www.microsoft.com/hardware/digitalcommunication/ProductDetails.aspx?pid=0 01&active_tab=systemRequirements
Anyone using these cameras with success?
I am used to my DIgital camera, but it keeps falling off the monitor
Dwaine
PowerMac Dual 2GHz G5 Mac OS X (10.4.9)

Hello Singitloud
With 10.4.9, if you decide to buy a USB webcam, you will want a "UVC" camera. Which manufacturer's UVC cam is a matter of your choice, but be sure to look for a "UVC" model so you do not need to add additional drivers. You can find some more info in this post:
http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=4266538#4266538
If you plan to use your webcam with iMovie, too, you will want a Firewire model. iMovie (and other apps that require Firewire DV input) will not be able to use the USB cams, including the new UVC ones.
There are a couple of currently available Firewire cams listed in this post by Defcom(UK) here:
http://discussions.apple.com/click.jspa?searchID=-1&messageID=4684786
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Jim
Mac OS X (10.4.9) G5 DP 1.8 External iSight

Anyone using blogger w/personal web sharing etc

i'm probably asking for the impossible. but I am hosting my website off my own computer using tiger and my cable modem (not Server, just plain single user Tiger). and it works quite nicely.
I have a blog on blogger (with blogspot) that I would like to move to my computer to streamline it with the site, plus get rid of the nav bar etc. I have ftp access turned on, but I can't get the pages to publish. I keep getting a login error. I know that the username and password are correct so I'm guessing that it's something in the path etc.
anyone done what I'm trying to do or is it totally impossible.

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Has anyone used Malwarebytes or anything similar to protect Mac from virus etc

Has anyone used Malwarebytes or something similar to scan Mac for virus and other security and effiency problems?

I should have been more specific, I wasn't given a Mac to keep, I was given a Mac to clean up. I have almost 20 years experience working with personal computers and I've worked on every major OS that's been released during that time (OS/2, every version of Windows since 3.1, Linux, Mac OS, Unix). I no longer work in a shop specifically fixing computers but my family still gives me their computers to look at whenever they have issues. My cousin just gave me her laptop since she was unable to fill out any web forms that would try to verify her e-mail address, plus she kept getting pop ups to run some MacKeeper software. Had this been a computer I received second hand I would have re-installed the OS regardless of the state it was on, but since she needs the files on her computer for school I figured it'd be much easier to run a Mac OS equivalent of Malwarebytes than to backup everything and re-install the OS.
Unfortunately when you search the internet for a Malwarebytes alternative for Mac OS, the majority of the time you just get posts from people saying "Macs are super secure, don't worry about it you won't get infected", which is a completely useless response for someone whose computer is infected. The rest of the posts responding to people who ARE infected are much like your response "Just re-install the OS" but that doesn't address the underlying issue of what's infecting the computer for those people who can't afford to lose everything. I was eventually able to Google the symptoms of this issue and determine that it was a trojan known as DownLite or VSearch. Once I found where it was located I opened up a terminal, ran sudo su to elevate myself to root, deleted the VSearch folder and files from the terminal, ran ps ax | grep VSearch to find the running application and did a kill -9 [pid] to terminate the app (rather than rebooting.)
Once that was all done I was able to use Chrome and Safari without all of the popups and hijacks. It took all of 5 minutes once I knew what the underlying issue was but I was really hoping to find a program like Malwarebytes so I could just let it scan the computer and tell me "These applications are malicious..." especially since my cousin installed a lot of stuff I would consider junk on her laptop and I didn't want to delete things that are just harmless junk (since she might use them.) Since I ended up having to do this all manually I'm just hoping there's nothing else lingering on the computer that didn't have visible symptoms.

Has anyone used JAAS with WebLogic?

Has anyone used JAAS with Weblogic? I was looking at their example, and I have a bunch of questions about it. Here goes:
Basically the problem is this: the plug-in LoginModule model of JAAS used in WebLogic (with EJB Servers) seems to allow clients to falsely authenticate.
Let me give you a little background on what brought me to this. You can find the WebLogic JAAS example (to which I refer below) in the pdf: http://e-docs.bea.com/wls/docs61/pdf/security.pdf . (I believe you want pages 64-74) WebLogic, I believe goes about this all wrong. They allow the client to use their own LoginModules, as well as CallBackHandlers. This is dangerous, as it allows them to get a reference (in the module) to the LoginContext's Subject and authenticate themselves (i.e. associate a Principal with the subject). As we know from JAAS, the way AccessController checks permissions is by looking at the Principal in the Subject and seeing if that Principal is granted the permission in the "policy" file (or by checking with the Policy class). What it does NOT do, is see if that Subject
has the right to hold that Principal. Rather, it assumes the Subject is authenticated.
So a user who is allowed to use their own Module (as WebLogic's example shows) could do something like:
//THEIR LOGIN MODULE (SOME CODE CUT-OUT FOR BREVITY)
public class BasicModule implements LoginModule
private NameCallback strName;
private PasswordCallback strPass;
private CallbackHandler myCB;
private Subject subj;
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                         subj = subject; //NOTE: THIS GIVES YOU REFERENCE
TO LOGIN CONTEXT'S SUBJECT
                                                 // AND ALLOWS YOU TO PASS
IT BACK TO THE LOGIN CONTEXT
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                         strName = new NameCallback("Your Name: ");
                         strPass = new PasswordCallback("Password:", false);
                         Callback[] cb = { strName, strPass };
                       //HANDLE THE CALLBACKS
                         callbackHandler.handle(cb);
                  } catch (Exception e) { System.out.println(e); }
     //LOG THE USER IN
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subj.getPrincipals().size() + " Principals");
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               return true;
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I tested the above code, and it fully associates the Subject (and its principal) with the LoginContext. So my question is, where in the process (and code) can we put the LoginContext and Modules so that a client cannot
do this? With the above example, there is no Security. (a call to: myLoginContext.getSubject().doAs(...) will work)
I think the key here is to understand JAAS's plug-in security model to mean:
(Below are my words)
The point of JAAS is to allow an application to use different ways of authenticating without changing the application's code, but NOT to allow the user to authenticate however they want.
In WebLogic's example, they unfortunately seem to have used the latter understanding, i.e. "allow the user to authenticate however they want."
That, as I think I've shown, is not security. So how do we solve this? We need to put JAAS on the server side (with no direct JAAS client-side), and that includes the LoginModules as well as LoginContext. So for an EJB Server this means that the same internal permission
checking code can be used regardless of whether a client connects through
RMI/RMI-IIOP/JEREMIE (etc). It does NOT mean that the client gets to choose
how they authenticate (except by choosing YOUR set ways).
Before we even deal with a serialized subject, we need to see how JAAS can
even be used on the back-end of an RMI (RMI-IIOP/JEREMIE) application.
I think what needs to be done, is the client needs to have the stubs for our
LoginModule, LoginContext, CallBackHandler, CallBacks. Then they can put
their info into those, and everything is handled server-side. So they may
not even need to send a Subject across anyways (but they may want to as
well).
Please let me know if anyone sees this problem too, or if I am just completely
off track with this one. I think figuring out how to do JAAS as though
everything were local, and then putting RMI (or whatever) on top is the
first thing to tackle.

Send this to:
newsgroups.bea.com / security-group.

What kind of throughput should I expect? Anyone using AQ in high volume?

Hi,
I am working with AQ in a 10.2 environment and have been doing some testing with AQ. What I have is a very simple Queue with 1 queue table. The queue table structure is:
id number
message varchar(256)
message_date date
I have not done anything special with storage paramteres, etc so it's all defalt at this point. The I created a stored procedure that will generate messages given message text and number of times to loop. When I run this procedure with 10,000 iterations it runs in 15 seconds (if I commit all messages at the end) and 24 seconds if I commit after each message (probabliy more realistic).
Now, on the same database I have a straight table that contains one column (message varchar(256)). I have also created a similiar storage procedure to insert into it. For this, 10,000 inserts takes about 1 second.
As you can see there is an order of magnitude of difference so I am looking to see if others have been able to achieve higher throughput than 500-700 messages per second and if so what was done to achieve it.
Thanks in advance,
Bill

Yes, I have seen it. My testing so far hasn't even gotten to the point of concurrent enqueue/dequeue. So far I have focused on enqueue time and it is dramatically slower than a plain old database table. That link also discussed mutliple indexed organized tables being created behind the scenes. I'm guessing that the 15X factor I am seeing is because of 4 underlying tables, plus they are indexed organized which adds additional overhead.
So my question remains - Is anyone using AQ for high volume processing? I suppose I could create a bunch of queues. However, that will create additional management on my side which is what I was trying to avoid by using AQ in the first place.
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Anyone using a 4K monitor with FCP X?

Is anyone using FCP X on a 4K monitor? I'm thinking about getting a Dell 4K monitor as my main monitor but I'm a little worried the user interface support on 4K is weak. I think everything is going to look super tiny.
Has anyone already experienced this?
Thanks!

So I have my new Mac Pro set up. 8-Core, 32 gigs RAM, Dual 700 GPUs, 512 gig internal Flash drive.
I purchased the 27" Thunderbolt display as my main Final Cut Pro X screen and I have the Dell UP2414q 4K monitor plugged in as the Viewer display.
I have the Dell set to "Best for Display" and it works fine. I have some 4480 x 1920 RED footage and I have the FCP X Viewers on the Dell. The footage is set to 100% and it bleeds a little off the sides, as it should since the monitor is 3820 wide. It's at its native resolution.
The user interface elements of the second monitor are at normal size - the menu bar, the FCP X view options. Buying a 4K monitor and using Best for Display gives you the desktop the size of a typical 1080 monitor, but it all looks like a Retina display. It's very crisp.
So if you want a second monitor to hold a ton of Adobe palettes, and have a very large desktop, I'd recommend getting a Thunderbolt display, beause this display behaves like a 1080 monitor in that regard. If you want a 4K monitor specifically for color grading 4K footage at the native size so you can see all the artifacts and things you wouldn't see with the footage at 50%, this Dell monitor is fine and it's $890 on Amazon. It's not a professional color grader's monitor, obviously, but it does well for me.
I took some 4480 x 1920 RED footage that had a sky that was gray (the famous Mercedes in the mountains footage). I used the color picker color correction in FCP X and was able to select that sky very easily. I can see why the fat 4K footage is so great in regards to color grading. Because you don't have the massive color gradiation and artifacts you get in the more compressed media, when you use the color picker, it selects a very large, clean, section of the sky. I was able to quickly make the sky more saturated and blue and play it in real time (Better Performance) it's it's perfectly clean with no halos around the tree branches as they move into the foreground of the sky. Very nice!
Nice feature in FCP X is all the effects, transitions, etc., have a "4K-ready content only" button at the top so it only presents you with effects and transitions that work with 4K footage.
It took a lot of time calibrating this Dell monitor. It has the Adobe RGC color space built in but when I set it to that and set the OS X Display color option to Adobe RGB, it all had a very slight purple/pink huge. Very slight. Whites were not pure white like they are on the Thunderbolt and my blue sky had a tinge of pink to it.
I calibrated it with advanced options in the OS X Display preferences. I then connected my Samsung HD LED TV into the HDMI port of the Mac Pro and set it as my A/V display in FCP X. I was able to do the custom color setting on the Dell monitor itself and lower the saturation and RGB values. It took about 15 minutes to get it looking right. Now, I don't see the very slight purple/pink tink. My blue sky looks blue, etc., and it looks exactly how it will look on DVD and Blu-ray and projectors at film festivals.
The Samsung LED TV was a breeze to use. As soon as I plugged it into the HDMI port of the Mac Pro, the displays changed and OS X went to 1920 x 1080 60hz. The color was set to an HD color preset (I forget the number and I disconnected it). Arranging the multiple monitors is as you'd expect, just works.
BTW, I have 2 10 TB 5Big Lacie Thunderbolt 2 hard drives. They are about $1K each at 10 TBs. I have one for my footage and one as a backup with Time Machine. No formatting necessary - just plug them in and go. I plugged in the first one, told OS X no for Time Machine. Plugged in the second one, told Time Machine yes. Renamed the second drive "Backup". I turned off hard drive sleep becuase it's annoying. You hear it spin up, spin down, spin up, etc. as you work.
I used the AJA benchmark and this is what I got with 16 gig test file, 4K video simulation:
Write 740.3 MB/s
Read: 849.1 MB/s
Fast!
FCP X loads in 4 seconds on this system off the internal Flash drive.
Cheers!

Is anyone using a 1252 ap in bridge mode with channel bonding?

Is anyone using a 1252 ap in bridge mode, with channel bonding?
I had a question a while ago from a customer with regards to bridging with a 1252 ap to increase throughput for a wireless link he was using, from the throughput improvements in 802.11n. At the time I spoke to Cisco Pre-Sales, and they indicated that the bridge function in the 1252 exists for 'testing' purposes. I advised our customer that although it should be possible to implement, we may run into difficulties with TAC support ect. in the event of problems with the link.
Can anyone comment if this is a Cisco validated/approved design now?
Also, has anyone done this and tested the throughput achievable?
Has anyone bridged both 2.4Ghz and 5Ghz radios on a 1252?
The reason I ask is I've seen a note about a Cisco 5Ghz 802.11n bridge being launched.
Thanks in advance.
Alex.

Hi All,
Thanks for all the feedback; I have finally done some throughput testing with the 1252's. Please note, this is very rough, just to give an idea on throughput that's achievable, and what you can enable. Did this a few weeks back, and have now wiped the cnf, so dont have the show runs any more....
The two devices were set up a few feet apart, with the standard 2dBi and 3dBi antenna.
All tests done on the 5GHz radio with Autonomous AP IOS.
I did data transfers via a laptop either end of the link; transferring data using the Test TCP utility (wasn't going for scientific tests, just getting some idea of throughput).
802.11a @ 54mbs (20Mhz chan) WGB - root to non root = 2.43 - 2.5MB/Sec = 19.44 - 20 Mbps
802.11a @ 54mbs (20Mhz chan) WGB non root to root = 2.42 - 2.44MB/Sec = 19.44 - 20 Mbps
802.11n @ 'n' rates( 20Mhz chan) WGB root to non root = 6.18 - 6.33MB/Sec = 49.44 - 50.64 Mbps
802.11n @ 'n' rates ( 20Mhz chan) WGB non root to root = 4.77 - 5.00MB/Sec = 38.16 - 40 Mbps
802.11n @ 'n' rates ( 40Mhz chan) WGB root to non root = 8.59 - 8.58MB/Sec = 68.64 - 68.64 Mbps
802.11n @ 'n' rates ( 40Mhz chan) WGB non root to root = 6.35 - 7.20MB/Sec = 50.8 - 57.6 Mbps
802.11n @ 'n' rates ( 40Mhz chan) Bridge root to non root = 9.73 - 10MB/Sec = 77.84 - 80 Mbps
802.11n @ 'n' rates ( 40Mhz chan) Bridge non root to root = 8.40 - 8.57MB/Sec = 67.2 - 68.56 Mbps
So basically, as per the above posts, you can implement bridging on the 1252's and utilise the 802.11n rates and features, SGI, Spatial Streams and Channel Bonding etc, to achieve higher throughput.
Also, as per the above posts, this is still not supported by Cisco, so, in my case, I'd be highlighting that to customers straight off, but don't see it as too much of an impediment to deploy, as long as the customer weighs up the risks.
On a side note, I attended a Cisco session recently, and was told that the 802.11n Bridge, (the 1430?) was on hold indefinitely. My feeling is that this makes it more pressing that Cisco introduces support for bridging on the 1252.
Get in the ear of your local Wireless SE's, the more they hear it, the more they'll moan to the Wireless BU in San Jose! ;-)
Bridging with 802.11n has some interesting possibilities, I worked with Alvarion 5GHz bridges 6 or 7 years ago, that could do 'near LOS' - Worked well in cities, using reflection of the RF from buildings. I had never heard of 802.11n back then, but I'm guessing Alvarion was using MIMO to achieve good non-LOS connectivity in the 5GHz band.
Cheers,
Alex.

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