Guinea Pigs Needed ;-)

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          JSP’s built against JSPFrame produce significantly less Java code and can be
          easily understood by both HTML and Java developers.
          Built on the MVC approach, JSPFrame is a developer extensible framework with user
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          TomCat 3.2x, WebLogic 6 and OrionServer.
          Fully documented, JSPFrame includes a demonstration application to get you started.
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          with Monowai. Visit http://www.monowai.com/jspframe for further information or send
          an email to jspframe@monowai to register your interest.
          HaH

Alice when you use HyperlinkShader, are you shading just your CSS files or the iWeb file too. I would not use this application on your iWeb file as the "file" they're referring to here is the index.xml file within your domain file. Eeek. I don't want any third-party messing with that.
I reviewed the source code they posted at their web site and nowhere did I find any reference to manipulation of the TemplatesInfo.plist file. That's the file that would have to be altered to remove registration of your third-party templates. Well, that's the file that tells iWeb to include the template in the list. The actual files have to be installed to the template directory as well.
If it isn't too much trouble, recreate the situation on your machine and send me your PLIST file once the templates have been booted out of the list. Also, check this path and let me know if the actual template files are missing:
/Applications/iWeb/Contents/Resources/Shared/
All of my templates are installed to this folder, but other developers may not be using the 1.1 installation location so theirs may be in the old location:
/Applications/iWeb/Contents/Resources/English.lproj/Templates/About Me/
/Applications/iWeb/Contents/Resources/English.lproj/Templates/Blog/
/Applications/iWeb/Contents/Resources/English.lproj/Templates/Movie/
...and so on...
If the templates are still in the folder(s) that's one thing. If they've been unregistered in the TemplatesInfo.plist, that's another. There's no reason that HyperlinkShader should be going anywhere near either of these things. They're totally unrelated.
Suz

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NIWeek Session, Guinea Pigs Needed

If you have an application that didn't turn out as well as you had
hoped, please consider turning it into fodder for our NIWeek session --
The Good, Bad, and Ugly.
The idea is that Christina Rogers or myself will attempt to resolve your
issues and present them during the session. Of course your app will be
kept anonymous, no fingers pointed or snickering. We will hopefully be
able to show how the app could have been written more clearly, more
efficiently, or with a better UI. It will be a very interactive session
allowing audience members to comment as well, and hopefully everyone in
attendance will learn something.
So if your app seems like good a good guinea pig, please consider
submitting it to [email protected], otherwise I'll ke
ep asking.
Greg McKaskle

Alice when you use HyperlinkShader, are you shading just your CSS files or the iWeb file too. I would not use this application on your iWeb file as the "file" they're referring to here is the index.xml file within your domain file. Eeek. I don't want any third-party messing with that.
I reviewed the source code they posted at their web site and nowhere did I find any reference to manipulation of the TemplatesInfo.plist file. That's the file that would have to be altered to remove registration of your third-party templates. Well, that's the file that tells iWeb to include the template in the list. The actual files have to be installed to the template directory as well.
If it isn't too much trouble, recreate the situation on your machine and send me your PLIST file once the templates have been booted out of the list. Also, check this path and let me know if the actual template files are missing:
/Applications/iWeb/Contents/Resources/Shared/
All of my templates are installed to this folder, but other developers may not be using the 1.1 installation location so theirs may be in the old location:
/Applications/iWeb/Contents/Resources/English.lproj/Templates/About Me/
/Applications/iWeb/Contents/Resources/English.lproj/Templates/Blog/
/Applications/iWeb/Contents/Resources/English.lproj/Templates/Movie/
...and so on...
If the templates are still in the folder(s) that's one thing. If they've been unregistered in the TemplatesInfo.plist, that's another. There's no reason that HyperlinkShader should be going anywhere near either of these things. They're totally unrelated.
Suz

My MacAir has to go in for hardware repair, and I was told that if diagnostics couldn't trigger the error, it would be returned to me to guinea pig the specifics with a log. Why can't the crash reports generated by the computer itself be used?

My MacAir has to go in for hardware repair, and I was told that if diagnostics couldn't trigger the error, it would be returned to me to guinea-pig the specifics with a log. Why can't the automatic crash reports generated by the computer itself be used? I would think they would be the most accurate and specific record of incidents, and could easily be identified with the computer serial number. What am I missing in this scenario?

What you're missing is that diagnostics software doesn't cover everything in any laptop made by anyone.
Intermittent problems, and genuine hardware induced faults typically, or course, are hard to pinpoint.
jet fighter planes contain 1000s of sensors and multimillion dollar live diagnostics and still can't "see" more than 60% of hardware potential faults.
Lucky you, the Air however contains extremely few parts, there isnt much to diagnose on one.
The Air contains 90% fewer parts than a typical laptop from a mere 7 years ago.

What is going on with the new update? It's a nightmare, poor wifi, facetime disconnects, maps are horrendous..are we guinea pigs and not product users anymore?

What is going on with the new update? It's a nightmare, poor wifi, facetime disconnects, maps are horrendous..are we guinea pigs and not product users anymore?

lll wrote: I think that this iOS was release a little bit to soon..
Yes, but they had to get the iPhone 5 into the channel, and iOS 6.notReadyYet was all they had.

Guinea Pig VIs for NIWeek Session

We have been asked to repeat the NIWeek session -- The Good, the Bad,
and the Ugly.
Basically it is the review and attempted improvement of LV diagram code
by a member of the LV development team. The presentation is typically a
slide or two of overview for an application, then jumping into LV to
look at the before and after code. The audience members get into the
act as well, and hopefully everyone learns something in the process.
To do this requires VIs that someone is willing to offer up for review
-- we call them our guinea pigs. We will remove the hints about
ownership and will keep everything anonymous.
If you have an application that you wish had turned out better, maybe
its performance was less than you'd hoped, maybe t
he UI is a bit homely,
perhaps there were features you wanted to add that seemed impossible or
really hard to do in LV. You can send the VIs directly to me using the
address Greg.McKaskle at ni.com along with a descriptive email of what
the app did, what it didn't do, what was hard, etc.
Thanks in advance.
Greg McKaskle

Greg,
Most of the applications I've written have turned out less then I
anticipated (they're still ok, imho)... Is there a maximum size of the
application? (Would 600 vi be too much?)
Is it a good idea to do an improvement session in the newsgroup? NIWeek is
just too far away for me.
Regards,
Wiebe.
"Greg McKaskle" wrote in message
news:Qg0hc.3324$[email protected]..
> We have been asked to repeat the NIWeek session -- The Good, the Bad,
> and the Ugly.
>
> Basically it is the review and attempted improvement of LV diagram code
> by a member of the LV development team. The presentation is typically a
> slide or two of overview for an application, then jumping into LV to
> look at the before and after code. The audience membe
rs get into the
> act as well, and hopefully everyone learns something in the process.
>
> To do this requires VIs that someone is willing to offer up for review
> -- we call them our guinea pigs. We will remove the hints about
> ownership and will keep everything anonymous.
>
> If you have an application that you wish had turned out better, maybe
> its performance was less than you'd hoped, maybe the UI is a bit homely,
> perhaps there were features you wanted to add that seemed impossible or
> really hard to do in LV. You can send the VIs directly to me using the
> address Greg.McKaskle at ni.com along with a descriptive email of what
> the app did, what it didn't do, what was hard, etc.
>
> Thanks in advance.
> Greg McKaskle
>

Why do "Professionals" use us guinea pigs for Beta BS?

No rollback to the 3.6.16, most add-ons don't work, you close it and run utilities and it says close it first, but you look hard and must reboot, doctors "practice” medicine until the other “Professionals” in law practice sue practicing medicine goof ups and Survey says #1 cause of death in the US Iatrogenic Death, doctors. We can’t even “test drive” this happy horse, and opt out. Now that is what is wrong, as in this phrase, “New & Improved, designed by Professionals, Labor Saving Devices.”, "designed by" is the only thing right and that is 100% wrong. The Professionals have us 120 Trillion in debt, yet they blame the unwashed masses, their victims, Firefox has joinedthem, truly “Professionals” and how we labor at Labor Saving Devices. @ my initials, art oshea.

I had to call off my evil twin brother shown below, he called Guido, the uh, legitimate businessman, (bookmaker) and wanted to whack all Professionals. I had to beg them off. He is very unhappy with Firedfox 4.0 @ my initials, art oshea

Mini vs. G4 400 difference ...need new machine

Hello,
I am looking for real world advice from mini users.
My current machine is a g4 400. Believe it or not I make my living doing imaging, design, web work. My major tools are PhotoShop, InDesign, Illustrator, GoLive, Painter, etc.
As you might imagine my current machine has trouble but being the cheap ******* that I am I have held out. I have been trying to hold out for the new Intel G5 towers but I don't think I can hold out any longer and need to get a machine in the next month or so. I will look at the Intel G5 towers later after they come out. I am not interested in being a guinea pig with the new Intel minis and how they are going to work with my software.
So here is my question-
Will I see significant performance differences between my current machine (G4 400 tower with 1.5 gigs of RAM and a couple of hard drives) and a current Mac Mini?
How does the Mini do with a 20"-24" LCD displays?
Would the Mini be a good interim machine between what I have and a G5 tower in another year or so? Or will there not be any real difference between what I have and the current minis?
Comparision to G5 iMacs?
Thanks for your help.

Of the two systems, the one I tend to pick to use is the upgraded G4. The slightly slower performance is easily offset by multiple, faster drives, two or more more displays, the extra RAM, the ease of adding in Airport, choice over internal optical drive, available slots for expansions cards, audio input, multi-boot capabilities etc. But there ARE downsides to the upgrade path too.
Most obvious is that there's only USB1.1 unless you add a USB2.0 card. That the original video card is woefully inadequate these days without adding a second or replacing it. That the faster the processor upgrade added, the less stable the system tends to be. That however fast and flexible you make it, it's still an old computer with a finite life ahead.
Of the uses that you list, the only one that causes me to doubt the mini's capabilities is Photoshop. Even then, if it's a reasonably casual use, a mini with 1Gb RAM would be perfectly OK... a bit sluggish opening files and in general because Photoshop likes a fast drive with plenty of space, but for the majority of us it would work perfectly well. If you're use is more pro than hobby, that may well not be the case however, and that's where the flexibility of an upgraded G4 might work rather better.
I like my mini and I've used it for a lot of fairly demanding tasks - it's a very capable system that really suffers far less than people generally suggest from it's slower drives etc. Most people - including many who decry it - would find it more than capable of performing the tasks they would need of it. I've certainly been impressed by mine. But the upgrade option for an older G4 does have the benefit of giving you the choice of what aspects of the system you need to focus most upon. For instance, I wanted to be able to run 2 or 3 displays, sometimes a TV, from mine, simply because I find it helpful to have an application's primary window on one screen and the toolboxes on the other, or ethereal on one, an administrator terminal server session on a second, and mail processing on the third - easier to see everything without switching systems or windows.... so I just bought a used Radeon 7500 PCI card and added it - cost $30, and more than adequate. I wanted reliable and fast drives and the ability to multi-boot for testing, so I put three 7200rpm drives in it, each one bootable. I wanted Airport for occasional use, so I put a card in it, but if I need the card for something else (a G4 FP iMac for example) I can easily pull it out again. I occasionally need to back up a directory, but since it's done at 2am, I didn't need anything fast, so I spent $20 on a discontinued Pioneer A104 DVD burner that a dealer had lying around. And while speed is always useful, I knew that a really fast processor wasn't going to be all that important, so I put in a 1GHz unit that does the job exceptionally well and wasn't a silly price. I also had RAM that was out of a couple of disused P3s, and put that in the G4 and it works just fine, maxed out at 2Gb.
Whether to buy a mini or upgrade the G4 depends on a lot of factors - but above all don't forget that your G4 has no warranty whereas a new mini will, and Applecare can also be added to give you 3 year's cover. For business use that could be important too.

Working photographer needs help with hard drives and raid O decisions

Hi new here and also new to Mac well almost new been 20 years since i had a mac. i have a Mac Pro Book and this led to ordering the MacPro since I am a working photographer i made a complete switch in platforms so i have some questions and such but I did place a order on Friday for a 2.66 4gbs of Ram , 2 500 gb hard drive and a 30 in monitor and of course the ATI 1900 XT card so yes i am waiting like many for that card.
I put initial 4gb of ram since running CS2 will at least take a max of 3gb's in the memory cache . i plan on getting 2gbs more from OWC since that seems to be the only 3rd party ram at the moment that is working correctly from reading some of the threads here. Having 6gbs is a no brainer really given the amount of Raw processing that i do along with PS work plus having e-mail and other apps open at the same time. The ram to me is the easy part although expensive . My biggest issue is what to do with the 2 hard drive slots and Raid O or not but I will start a thread on that. But i will have 6gbs total for now and the bottom line is you can never have enough ram still holds true.
Now on to my diliemma with hard drives. I did have a raid O scsi 10k rapture and and 10 k scratch on my Dell box and I am just not sure what to do here. i ordered the 2 500 gb hard drive and I may just put them on the storage side of things than get 2 WD 150gb 10 k Sata drives. Now i could Raid O them for 300 gb and get a performace boast that way or i could keep them seperate and put everything on 1 150 drive and ue the second for scratch only. What i don't know is what Mac perfers and what works better. Not worried so much about failure of drives, thats just life in the big city stuff and you just have backups. What i more worried about is performance versus a waste . seems to me that Raid O may not even be needed with these new Intel boxes with all the horsepower going on. Now the other think I notice is the WD 150gb 10 k drives are 1.5 and not 3.0 so is it really faster than the 7200 3.0 single hard drives. I read barefeats shoot out and it seems just getting the right drives in 7200 and Raid O them maybe the answer.
Okay i am not the biggest geek on the planet but I do know my stuff but this is a area that i look for more knowledge on this. So if i can get some sound advice in this area. i know there are many photographers out there like me pushing hundreds of images that could use the same advice. Now let's leave the money end out , folks sometimes think more with there wallet than what works best not that I am opposed to saving money but after spending over 7 k already on this system it becomes a moot point. LOL
www.guymancusophoto.com

Ok your question is if you should RAID O the two 150GB Raptors or not.
I think it was wise for you to get a couple of them for a boot drive with "Time Machine" coming in the next version of Mac OS X. The second drive would make a excellent bootable backup and eliminating downtime if a boot drive dies on you one morning.
In fact any boot drive cloning software that is Mac Intel ready now would do you good.
Now Barefeats has run some tests, and I can pretty much back up what they say from my own experience.
Mac OS X and apps can be helped only so much by a faster boot drive, and a single 10,000 RPM Raptor is enough, RAID O a pair is overkill.
If you install everything on the boot Raptor and keep your space hogging files (except iTunes) in new folders on another drive, even a 7,200 RPM 500GB, the two drives combined is faster as there is nearly no wait. Both drives can be accessed at the same time. Keeping the boot drive slim keeps the stylus (arm) moving as little as possible to get all the small reads/writes Mac OS X needs.
I RAID O-ed my boot drives because 74GB was the largest they had at the time, so combining them gave me speed and larger storage. I hardly use the speed, it only comes in handy if by rare chance I duplicate a 20GB folder, then I can do it in half the time of a 7,200 RPM drive.
Some of the drawbacks of a RAID O set, especially as a boot drive is that I have to auto-clone the whole set to a external drive regularly (I actually do a couple). Since the data path is separated with a RAID O, any drive failure results in total data loss.
So if you RAID O those 150GB Raptors, your going to have to clone 300GB to a external drive (or another internal) regularly, like once a week. This will take considerable time and you can't use the machine while the cloning process is going on. Sure auto-cloning software like DeJaVu can be used at night/weekends, but why bother cloning more than you have to for no big speed increase?
However if your messing with huge Photoshop files that spill over your CS2 3GB RAM limit (you need to have a "scratch" thats as fast as RAM), duplicating large files and other heavy duty drive work, then a boot RAID O will come in handy. Just remember your initial performance of 185 MB p/s will drop about 20-25% when those drives are 3/4 filled. Still 140 MB p/s is extremely good and a no worry situation.
What is worrysome is anything below 80MB p/s (I'm talking uncached 4K write speeds under X-Bench) with a new boot drive and then as time elaspes that boot drive gets filled up and loses half or more of it's inital speed. 30 MB p/s is really slow. Beachball H&LL.
http://www.barefeats.com/hard33b.html
Do Erase W/Zero in Disk Utility all new drives before laying data on them. Drives get subjected to shock which causes bad sectors on the drive. Driver software uses your data as a guinea pig to test the sectors (which you might not be able to recover the file). Zeroing does this without your data, rewriting the bad sector map so your writes are much improved, OS is more stable. etc.

I need volunteers for a dangerous mission!

I've migrated two Arch boxes, manually, from devfs to regular static /dev. I decided to write a script to automate the process.
This thing is dangerous. I have yet to test it on any of my own boxen, so I'm looking for people who
1) Want to move to static /dev from devfs (obviously)
2) Don't mind reinstalling if my script borks their machines
3) Like giving feedback
The tarball is here. Untar it, cd into the directory, and run ihatedevfs from that directory. You must be in that directory when you run it. Also, being root helps
Also, obviously, you must have built a kernel with devfs disabled that you're ready to boot into.
Here's the code just for anyone who wants to see something scary :twisted:
ihatedevfs:
#!/bin/sh
# ihatedevfs - Michael Baehr <[email protected]>
# Usage: Run this on any arch linux system (as root) and you will find the infernal devfs
# replaced with a real man's /dev, and the necessary changes to various sytem files made so
# that you can actually use your system afterwards.
# This is a hack. I am not responsible for any loss of data, computer, life, pets, or sanity
# that may result from usage of this shell script.
# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 as
# published by the Free Software Foundation.
STARTDIR=`pwd`
if [ $UID -ne 0 ]; then
echo "You must be root before I let you fuck up your system irreparably."
# Damn straight
exit
fi
FSTAB=/etc/fstab
MENU_LST=/boot/grub/menu.lst
MAKEDEV=$STARTDIR/MAKEDEV-1.7
SNDDEVICES=$STARTDIR/snddevices
DEVTOOL=$STARTDIR/iloveflatdev
INITTAB=/etc/inittab
SECURETTY=/etc/securetty
GROUP=/etc/group
NEWDEV=/mnt/temporary/dev
add_groups()
echo audio::420:root >> $GROUP
echo floppy::421:root >> $GROUP
echo dialout::422:root >> $GROUP
remount()
if [ ! -e /mnt/temporary ]; then
mkdir /mnt/temporary
fi
i=`mount | grep "on / " | sed s: .*on.*::`
# Get the current root partition and remount it at /mnt/temporary
mount $i /mnt/temporary
# Copy our scripts into the chroot, just in case
# we're on a different partition (home?)
cp $MAKEDEV /mnt/temporary/dev/
cp $SNDDEVICES /mnt/temporary/dev/
cp $DEVTOOL /mnt/temporary/dev/
find_corresponding_node()
i="$(file $1 | awk '{print $4}' | sed -e 's?/?\/?')"
# Find major/minor numbers for this devfs node
for j in "$(file $NEWDEV/* | grep $i | sed -e s/:.*//)"; do
# Find the corresponding node in our new /dev directory
echo $j | awk '{print $1}' | sed s:/mnt/temporary::g
# We only want the first, so break out
break
done
update_fstab()
for i in $(grep ^/dev $FSTAB | sed s/ .*//); do
file $i | grep cannot >& /dev/null
if [ ! $? -gt 0 ]; then
# Node doesn't exist, don't replace it in fstab
continue
fi
j=`find_corresponding_node $i`
echo $j
sed -i s:$i:$j: $FSTAB
done
update_menu_lst()
for i in $(grep root= $MENU_LST | sed -e s/.*root=// -e s/ ro//); do
j=`find_corresponding_node $i`
sed -i s:$i:$j: $MENU_LST
done
update_ttys()
sed -i s:vc/:tty:g $INITTAB
sed -i s:vc/:tty:g $SECURETTY
cleanup()
cd $STARTDIR
umount /mnt/temporary
rm -r /mnt/temporary
add_groups
remount
# We need to chroot in order to create the device nodes,
# as one of the scripts, (snddevices), is stupid
chroot /mnt/temporary /dev/iloveflatdev
rm /mnt/temporary/dev/iloveflatdev
# We don't need this script cluttering up /dev, now do we? Nah.
update_fstab
update_menu_lst
update_ttys
cleanup
# Done. Pray.
iloveflatdev
#!/bin/sh
# We use two scripts to populate /dev. One of them is MAKEDEV
# which comes our way via Linux from Scratch, and the other one
# is snddevices, from alsa-driver.
# Both of them want a few groups to exist that aren't part of Arch's
# default setup, so we create them first
cd /dev
./MAKEDEV-1.7 generic
./snddevices
rm MAKEDEV-1.7
rm snddevices
mkdir pts
mkdir shm
# Boh.
:idea: 8) :? :!:
Thank you guinea pig Itachi for pointing out my first fatal, system-borking bug! ( /me updates the script, heh )
Edit2: And second bug. :twisted:
Both fixed, don't worry. Oh, and his sytem booted fine

You're too kind.
Edit: Current things I need to fix:
1) Doesn't fix /etc/conf.d/gpm and /etc/X11/XF86Config to point to the new pointer devices (/dev/psaux instead of /dev/misc/psaux)
2) Doesn't distinguish between block and character devices, which seems to be a problem with cdroms

PCI video capture cards needed for mdd...

Hi guys,
just want to get opions about pci video capture cards out there that can be used on a MDD running either 9.2.2 or X Tiger.
I basically need to transfer old analog Hi8 video to DV format. and the default card doesn't have video in/out.
I don't might purchasing software that may be required... either old or new, or if iMovie is enough just tell me if it is required to support the HD.
thanks

Be careful to get a money back guarantee on any Avid Video capture cards. I assisted a wedding videographer who spent seventeen thousand dollars on an elaborate capture and editing system based on NuBus cards for 8100 PPCs and the company never got it to work properly without constant crashing. I am sure that Avid has gone on to produce some quality equipment based on lessons learned in the 1990s but that 8100 generation of cards was worthless.
I am interested in doing the same thing you are looking for so I will post back with what I find. Just avoid being the guinea pig for some company who does not have the details worked out.
Jim~

No need to ground when installing RAM?

I have always been under the impression that when you are handling RAM chips/installing more memory you are supposed to ground yourself as a build up of static electricity can be harmful. However the instructions for installing memory for the iMac make no mention of this.
Is this an urban legend, something that used to be the case but no longer is for some reason, worthwhile doing but the ram upgrade instructions neglegently fail to mention it, ....?
Thanks

Absolutely - plus the rather remote possibility of a toasted logic board - I've seen it happen. Of course, working in IT I see things that the average person rarely does. Like mouse droppings on a mobo, ants living behind the class screen of an LCD, and roaches in a floppy drive.
But my favorite? A guinea pig - alive - inside a Dell. The owner was installing a new graphics card when he was called away by his daughter, frantic that her pet had gotten out of its run. Some time later, having failed to find her guinea pig, he returned to the computer, fitted the case (which is where he was interrupted). The computer failed to start and in a panic brought it to work for my students and me to fix. I opened the case and there was Laura!

What's a good USB 3.0 hub?

I've got a late 2012 Mac mini. Mavericks OS (10.9.4). I have lots of USB devices, most of them of the 2.0 variety, a couple 3.0. I bought an inexpensive "USB 3.0" hub, and it causes the Mac not to wake from sleep mode. Instead it just powers off, and I have to unplug it from the wall before it will reboot. So I've gone back to my old 2.0 hub for the majority of my gear, but I've got a couple of drives that want 3.0 connections to function efficiently.
From what I can tell, it's the mixing of USB 2.0 and 3.0 that is causing problems. I'm not sure if the ports on the mini are paralleled, or are on separate power and driver chips. But so far, I can keep 3.0 devices plugged into the computer and 2.0 into my hub. That's fine 'til I need to plug in a 3.0 flash drive. I cannot make it work with the two hubs - I still have the same "no wake up" issue, unless nothing is plugged into the 3.0 hub. SO...
Who makes a robust USB 3.0 hub? The Belkin sold at the Apple website has roundly terrible reviews. I'd rather not be a guinea pig again. Does anyone have serious experience with these? It's not enough that you have one and it works. I'd like to know that you understand the workings a bit better than I do, and maybe can even explain to me what might be causing this incompatibility.
Thanks.

Re: Is there a USB 3.0 Hub that really works with the Mac Mini?

Xbox 360 to iMac, lets finish this once and for all!

Hello Everyone!
New to the forum here and I joint to get a finalised answer to a question I've heard people bickering about for ages! (hopefully the answer will come from someone who has done it/tryed it, not just someone who is going to create a theory of what would work!)
So I want to use my iMac as a screen for my Xbox 360, because, well, it would be awesome!
I have so far heard too many different things, for example, if I have a new 27" iMac (which i do) that its possibly just a single wire, mini DisplayPort to HDMI.
Another thing i have read said, it can only be a single mini DisplayPort to HDMI as long as i have 8GB of Ram.
Another has said I need to get a complete video converter to run through my mini DisplayPort that would cost around 150 pounds.
I'm a student and cant really afford to be wrong other wise I would guinea pig this myself, so what im asking for here is someone to lay the smack down. Which is it, if any?!
Does anyone even know if it has been successfully done yet!? And if it has, to how much success, does it have high lag? Because the guys at AppleCare Support were pretty sure it has been, but they were not allowed to recommend me anything because there is no official Apple fix for it. . . . Hence the reason why i was directed here. . .
Thanks in advance!

The answer is behind Door #3. It is a very expensive proposition.
The two way mini-DisplayPort on the 27" iMac will only accept DisplayPort signaling. So you need a device that has DisplayPort video output, such as a new MacBook Pro which can be attached to the iMac with a simple m-DP to m-DP cable. If you have a device with a DisplayPort video port you can attach it to the iMac with a DisplayPort to m-DP cable. But if the device has any other video output, then you need a video converter to convert the signal to DisplayPort. And most of these converters can only supply 720p to the iMac. One very expensive one can do 1080p.
You can get the converters from Kanex and Atlona.
http://www.kanexlive.com/products/kanexXD.html
http://www.atlona.com/Atlona-HDMI-to-Mini-DisplayPort-Converter-and-Scaler.html
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FrameMaker 11 trial version crashing on save and cross-reference insertion

Hi everyone,
I've recently started a new position. My prior background was heavily DITA, and I'd describe my FrameMaker experience as late beginner or early intermediate. The new position uses FM exclusively though, so I've been on a steep learning curve lately.
I'm using the trial version of FrameMaker 11, downloaded about two weeks ago, until the PO for my full FM 11 license is processed. I'm working in book and document files that have been upgraded, I believe, from FM 9 to FM 10 and then from FM 10 to FM 11. All of my colleagues are still using FM 10, with a mind to upgrade to FM 11 in the spring as our new budget comes through (I am, so to speak, the FM 11 guinea pig for the group).
My workstation is a brand new HP Elitebook laptop running Windows 7 64-bit (I believe our IT department downgraded it from Windows 8). Windows is fully up-to-date. My trial version of FM 11 is 11.0.1.382 and also up-to-date as of this message.
My issue: FM 11 randomly crashes several times a week, sometimes once a day or so, sometimes when I try any of the following:
Saving all files in a book (using Shift + the File menu command)
Saving individual document files (generally using the Save icon in the tool bar)
Attempting to insert a cross-reference (placing the insertion point within the document, then opening the Cross-Reference tool in the right-hand side bar)
The crash takes the appearance of FM freezing for several seconds, then the dreaded message window opening with the words "FrameMaker has detected a serious error and must quit", with columns of error codes below.
I've googled and binged and not found anything for this issue in FM 11, so I thought I'd post here. I have tried the following, based on somewhat similar discussions I've seen for crashes in earlier versions of FM)
Mif-washing the files
Working in the Structured FrameMaker interface instead of the Unstructured
Neither of these has worked. FM 11 trial continues to crash. It doesn't happen often; I'd say that I'm able to successfully able to perform the above tasks 20 times or so, with the crash on the 21st. But on a busy day, that's a few crashes a day.
To mitigate damage, I have autosave set to every two minutes and gotten in the habit of only having one or two documents open, instead of all in a book, to minimize the number of recovery files I need to process.
After one of the initial crashes, I did as Adobe asked and forwarded the crash report to them for troubleshooting.
My colleagues are watching all this very closely, and my troubles might influence our decision to upgrade from FM 10 to FM 11. So any insight into this issue would be appreciated!
Cheers,
Eric

Eric,
The multitude of unesolved x-refs may due to the font issues when updating the book. During an update, if the files aren't open, FM tries to open them in the background but if it encounters an error like a missing font, it skips the file and then any x-refs to that file are unresolved. This can cascade to make things look really worse than they are.
What is your default printer when you start FM? It should be the Adobe PDF prnter instance. If not, then you might want to insatll the Sundorne SetPrint utility (http://www.sundorne.com/FrameMaker/Freeware/setPrint.htm) thta will automatically set this for your FM sessions only.
One other place where fonts can hide is in table definitions. The catalog stores the font information (and not just the explicit paratag) of the cells in the header and first row. As Jeff mentions, you need to check the MIF file in detail. An excellent tool for quickly browsing your MIF is Graham Wideman's Mifbrowse (http://www.wideman-one.com/gw/tech/framemaker/mifbrowse.htm).

E72 talk with the nokia customer care

i tried to talk to them with all the problems we E72 users are facing, but seems somehow that they either keep avoiding the question, or don't answer the question, but give answers that slightly have something to do with the question. either way their replies don't help whatsoever.
I tried to ask them to send a software engineer to look at our problems, I asked twice and they didn't answer both times.
[Sent: 06/09/2010 03:06:25 PM]
Hi, I read that there is a new release for the E72, v51.018. From current posts in Nokia's discussion page, many of the problems that existed in v22.007 and v31.023 were not resolved in v51.018.
Furthermore, i read that program versions such as for Adobe Reader, the program did not update as v51.018 suggested.
Is it possible to release the full firmware fixes? Many people are confused as to what the 450 fixes were, since a lot of current problems have yet to be resolved.
"Altogether 450+ errors are fixed"
Would you also be able to request an engineer to the Nokia Discussion forum in order to clear up any misunderstandings that current E72 owners have? that would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
Nokia Reply [Sent: 06/09/2010 03:06:25 PM]
Thank you for emailing the Nokia Care Contact Center.
We apologize for the confusion that we may have caused you. In response to your inquiry about the availability of the latest software update for your Nokia E72, please be informed that update availability is based on many things, including existing Nokia device software version, country, and operator. It may be due to one of these variables that your Nokia device is not eligible for updates.
Please note that your mobile service provider, operator, or carrier may not have approved the latest Nokia device software available.
Nokia produces many different variants of each product (for different countries and languages) and not all variants have the latest Nokia device software. It is our priority to update all variants as quickly as possible, and we apologize for any delay.
New software may become available at a later date and to get a notification when new software is available for your device, register with My Nokia and subscribe to email or SMS notifications.
New Nokia device software is released on a regular basis, but please note that not all countries and operators support the latest version.
Kindly refer to the link below to manually check for the latest available software update for your handset:
http://www.nokiausa.com/get-support-and-software/software/device-software-update/can-i-update
We greatly appreciate your patience.
Should you have questions or concerns please do not hesitate to email us back and we will be more happy to assist you. To ensure proper handling of your case, kindly continue using the current subject line.
[Sent: 09/09/2010]
So, each E72 that has a v51.018 update are all completely different updates depending on the various E72 (singapore, North America, etc)? FOr the E72 that already have the v51.018 update available, many people have said that they are still experiencing problems that have been present since earlier firmwares.
Is there a location where we can see what changes are made on the varient E72 updates? Currently I have an E72-2 (North America) and I saw that the update is not out yet for the North American version.
Nokia Reply [09/09/2010]
Thank you for emailing the Nokia Care Contact Center.
In response to your inquiry, we are sorry to inform you that the specifications of the latest firmware is not available to our website. However you can check the latest firmware of your device on our website. I will be providing you the link for you to visit for more updates regarding our software updates:
http://www.nokiausa.com/get-support-and-software/software/device-software-update/can-i-update
THIS REPLY DIDN'T HELP ME AT ALL
Sent [11/09/2010]
On that website you provided, I did not see any message updates regarding software updates, merely whether my E72 model is eligible for a firmware update. Can you provide me the link with Nokia message updates regarding current firmwares? Also, there hasn't been much support on the nokia discussion forum about the current problems that the new firmware is experiencing. What is the update on that?
Is there any way of downgrading? many people have said that the out-of-the-box firmware version was the most stable and that the v31.022 and v51.018 were very unstable compared to the original.
Thanks.
Nokia Reply [11/09/2010]
Thank you for emailing the Nokia Care Contact Center.
In response to your inquiry, we really do want to help you with your problem because we know how important it is to you that your device will work well. However, we are sorry to inform you that there is no way for us to downgrade a device once it has already updated into a newer updates. We recommend that you send your device to our repair center for us to evaluate your device. We will be providing you our repair instructions below:
1. On your computer, visit the link below:
http://www.nokiausa.com/get-support-and-software/repair-and-recycle/repair/repair-locator
2. Key in your device's IMEI/serial code or WLAN number and your Zip code.
3. You will see the information about the warranty of your device. Please note that if you are unable to check the warranty information of your device, kindly select its model number and enter the product code to determine the repair options.
4. On the lower part of Repair Options, under Nokia Repair Center Standard Repair, kindly click on Repair Form.
5. You will see the detailed repair instructions. Kindly fill out and print the repair form. The complete address of our authorized repair center is also included in the repair instructions.
Sent [11/09/2010]
I just went to the web link you provided, and it said that my warranty is still valid, however it has given me 10 days to mail in my device, otherwise i need to provide proof of purchase. Did i accidentally activate something? I merely input my serial number to see what my options are.
At this time, my phone has no problems, as i have not upgraded the firmware, BUT i am stresing that other owners of E72 are experiencing firmware issues, and I am asking if there is any way for a software engineer to investigate these issues so that future firmwares will have many issues solved that customers have found?
Nokia Reply [11/09/2010]
Thank you for emailing the Nokia Care Contact Center.
We apologize for any inconvenience that we may have caused you. In response to your queries, we would like to inform you that you did not activate anything when you verify the warranty of your Nokia E72. No need to worry about the online warranty verification.
In regard to the firmware update, updating the software of the handset will fix minor and major software issues that is causing and can cause issues. It is not our intention to provide more problem with the update that we are releasing. The main goal of the updates is to improve the device’s general performance.
basically the conversation went in a full circle.. its obvious the firmware is to IMPROVE the performance of the E72, but it would be very helpful if a software engineer can SEE the problems that we are facing. Basically we are the guinea pigs who are testing the software stability, and they are the ones programming.. If they are not going to look at the problems we have exploited, there will be no solutions for this phone.
Questionz, E72

25-Aug-2008 03:39 PM
grschinon wrote:
Romania is a member state of the European Union. As such you have a 24 month guarantee on the phone that any Nokia Care Point is bound to honour. If they refuse to repair your phone under warranty simply because you've had it for more than 48 hours, ask them for that in writing and send it to Nokia headquarters in Finland.
Also note that no Nokia representatives follow these user-to-user forums in a professional capacity. There are forum moderators, but they have no function other than their title.
Do you have a contact of Nokia headquarters in Finland to send e-mail ( it's can help me if i get a troubles with my N95 )?
Nokia! Take a care for me and we real say THANK YOU NOKIA and you can collect a more money

Guinea Pigs Needed ;-)

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