Handoff is not enabled by default despite having Bluetooth 4.0

I currently have a 2011 macbook air that for some reason does not support handoff, despite having hardware capable of running it. I have Bluetooth 4.0 (The requirement for Handoff), but the option to enable handoff does not appear. Could anyone tell me why it is not available? Is it because there is some other hardware that is needed? Or is it because Apple chooses to make older computers obsolete on purpose?

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Hello.
Is it me or is Mountain Lion's firewall not enabled by default? I didn't check in the preinstalled 10.7.x before I upgraded to it. I find that weird and puzzled why Apple did that if that was by design.
Thank you in advance.

fowlerryan wrote:
Apple's firewall is disabled by default in mountain lion. I think this might be because of its new appl protection thing. Once the firewall is activated it will only open apps which are downloaded from the app store without questioning you. If you download an app from the web and have the firewall on, you will have to right click on the app and click open (for first time use only) to let the firewall know this is a safe app that you chose to download.
It may seem not having firewall on by default is silly but I think there would be far more complaints by people on here that they cant open their apps that they downlaoded from the web.
Hope it helps!
Ryan
Sheesh, and Apple is trying to make our newer Mac OS X systems more vulnerable like Windows before it came with firewalls enabled.

My 160GB ipod classic stopped whilst playing music and will not turn back on despite having almost a full battery. I have tried connecting to itunes and a docking station but will not turn on at all - HELP?!

My 160GB ipod classic stopped whilst playing music and will not turn back on despite having almost a full battery. I have tried connecting to itunes and a docking station but will not turn on at all - HELP?!
I've had this from new for 2 years, the battery life is excellent and lasts for days so I know it's not a power issue as it was fully charged that morning. No signs of connection in itunes, it's not showing as a connected device.
Can anyone please help?

Hi gscoops,
Welcome to Apple Support Communities.
You may find the steps in our iPod Troubleshooting Assistant helpful:
http://www.apple.com/support/ipod/five_rs/classic/
Best,
Jeremy

Syslog not enabled by default in systemd setup

I installed Arch Linux from the 2012.10.6 iso, using systemd, and following the new, lengthy instructions. Made separate partitions for /var, /boot, and /home. Used btrfs on all of them. The system works fine, so far, except that most of the log files are missing. dmesg works. I intend this machine to be a server, so it has php-fpm and Apache, but not X Windows.
This is what I have in /var/log:
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Have you read e.g. https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Sy … md_Journal ?
The last paragraph of your post was unnecessary as it's a rant and the issues you raised were covered multiple times already.

PS CS5(64) OpenGL Drawing Not Enabled by Default

Hello! I have a PC I built last fall (PC2) I'm now grooming to be my main PC. I'm preparing to rebuild my current main PC (PC1). PC2 will soon have to do the heavy lifting. PC2 has a performance problem; I noticed when I was going through Photoshop CS5 (64-bit) preferences. On the Performance page, GPU Settings area, Enable OpenGL Drawing is not checked by default. (In my retiring PC1 Enable OpenGL Drawing is checked by default and the video adapter is listed in the area.)
I have this related oddity I hope we can troubleshoot: When I drag to move or resize a window in PC2 only the outline moves or resizes until the mouse button is released. (In my PC1, the windows move /resize as they are dragged.) Any ideas where to start looking for the cause?
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Disable Indexing
Indexing is supposed to make it quick and easy to find things on your computer using Windows Search (that little box at the upper-right of Explorer windows).
But when you think about it, does it make sense to read all the files on your disk, extract everything you could possibly want to search for, and store it on that same disk another way? To even consider indexing providing better performance than just searching the files, Microsoft must be picking and choosing the data they think you'll want to look for (excluding data you WON'T want to search for), where you'll want to search, and in what kinds of files, and in fact they are. How could they know everything you'll ever want to search for?
They can't. Not everything is indexed, and never will be!
Try this: Create a simple text file on your disk, in a temporary folder. Call it "FindMe.log" and put in the text "This file contains important tax information". Now navigate to that folder with Explorer and enter the word "tax" into the Search box at the upper-right. Enter any of the words in that file! Windows Search will not find the file, because it simply does not LOOK in .log files by default, and there's no fallback strategy - Windows Search simply does not index nor search for information for some kinds of files. Incredible!
All it takes is ONE TIME searching for something you know is there and NOT finding it to destroy your confidence in Windows Search.
And so they scan through your files endlessly, pick out the strings you might someday search for, and store them in yet another set of files (the "index"). As though your computer has nothing better to do.
Not only is the basic premise of this wrong, but it's not even implemented very well. The index often becomes corrupted, and so Microsoft has provided functions for you to clear and regenerate it. Just what you wanted to be doing - NOT.
Consider these shortcomings:
Some file types are simply not indexed or searched by default – e.g., .log files, and there's no fallback. If you create a new file type no one's seen before, its contents will not be indexed.
Only strings they think you are likely to search for are indexed.
Because of poor implementation, indexing will miss things in some file types that are indexed – e.g., older Microsoft Word documents or files containing Unicode text (Microsoft's own invention).
Indexes often become corrupted and the Windows Search results fall out of date or it stops finding things entirely.
Indexing operations use computer time, increase disk wear, and interfere with your own access to your files.
In summary, indexed Windows Search operations in Windows 7 simply can't be trusted to find your data in your files when it's critical, and so they're essentially useless. Searching for filenames using Windows Search actually can be occasionally useful (though the syntax to ensure it searches only filenames is a bit tricky), but this doesn't require indexing.
Moreover, indexing can actually interfere with file operations, causing your system to report disk corruption, because of an implementation error in indexing and NTFS (search the web for "Atomic Oplock", for example).
So indexing should simply and utterly be disabled. This won't actually stop you being able to try Windows Search - on the contrary with indexing off Windows 7 will actually search your actual files (within the limitations listed above) just when you tell it to, and (since indexing isn't implemented very well) it may actually INCREASE the probability that you might find what you're looking for.
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Click Start and enter services in the search box.
When Services (with little gears) comes up, click it.
Scroll down to the Windows Search service.
Right click it and choose Properties.
Change the Startup type to Disabled.
Click [ Stop ] to stop the service.
Click [ OK ].
Click Start and enter index in the search box.
When Indexing options comes up, click it.
Click the Advanced button.
Click the [ Rebuild ] button to delete the index.
It is a good idea to reboot after this.
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Open a Windows Explorer window.
Choose Tools – Folder Options.
Click the Search tab.
Click the button next to "Don't use the index when searching in file folders for system files (searches might take longer)".
Click Start and type group policy into the search box.
When Edit Group Policy comes up, click it.
Navigate to User Configuration – Administrative Templates – Windows Components – Windows Explorer.
Enable the Turn off Windows Libraries features that rely on indexed file data entry.
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HKCU\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Explorer
DisableIndexedLibraryExperience = 1

New ipad will not sync with itunes, despite having sufficient capacity

Trying to sync our brand new iPad 3 with our Mac's iTunes. iTunes keeps giving me blurb:
"The iPad cannot be synced because there is not enough free space to hold all of the selected items."
HOWEVER, the rainbow capacity bar at the bottom of iTunes shows that we are attempting to sync 27.95 GB worth of stuff, leaving 17.6 GB of free space.
That doesn't look "full" to me....!
What now?

I have the same problem!
My PC crashed and I had to upgrade my motherboard. Music and photos are still intact as they were stored on a separte hard drive (but had to re-do some playlists!). The apps were affected so I had to download purchased apps again from iTunes, not much of a problem there.
Now that I've tried syncing the iPad to my PC, I got the same error as Tiki's that "The iPad cannot be synced because there is not enough free space to hold all of the selected items."
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IMac will not load internnet sites despite it having all green lights on the Network Diagnostics screen. In other words there is a valid internet signal going into the iMac, but the machine will not load sites. Help? iOS 10.9.5

iMac will not load internet sites, despite having all green lights (strong WiFi signal etc) on the Network Diagnostics screen. in other words there is a strong
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iOS 10.9.5 does not exist.
iOS refers to the operating system on iPhones, iPads, and iPod Touch.
10.9.5 was never a version of a Classic operating system.
10.9.5 was a version of Mac OS X, and is 13 years newer than Classic.
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Most common Wifi issues
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Mercury CUDA not enabling when using NVIDIA GeForce GTX 285 on Apple Mac Pro after Mavericks install

Been using the same setup since CS5 with the Mercury CUDA running perfectly. After recent upgrade of OS X to 10.9 Mercury CUDA is no longer available and only lets me run with the OpenGL or software options. Im using a NVIDIA GeForce GTX 285 for apple computers. Here are the results for the GPUSniffer program in the latest Premiere Pro 7.1.0 files. The LAST line make me chucle because it the first on the list of supported card in the "cuda_supported_cards.txt" file. Anybody else seen this?
--- OpenGL Info ---
Vendor: NVIDIA Corporation
Renderer: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 285 OpenGL Engine
OpenGL Version: 2.1 NVIDIA-8.18.27 310.40.05f01
GLSL Version: 1.20
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   Shaders 444: 1
   Shaders 422: 1
   Shaders 420: 1
--- GPU Computation Info ---
Found 1 devices supporting GPU computation.
OpenCL Device 0 -
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found a link from a couple of days ago on a creative cow forum post one of the poster saying they are from adobe stating this
Re: Mercury Playback Engine MacPro
by Peter Garaway on Nov 12, 2013 at 9:49:16 am
Hi Wendell,
Sorry for the inconvenience. NVIDIA is currently working on drivers that support CUDA on Mavericks 10.9 with some of the older NVIDIA cards such as the GTX 285 and the Quadro 4800.
For others interested, the Quadro 4000, K5000 and GTX 680 ect... work with CUDA in 10.9.
Best,
Peter Garaway
Adobe
Premiere Pro
I have latest CUDA drivers, so i guess i am just waiting till a proper update that have the fixes to support my card.

Mail account for: shortname is not enabled

After migrating over from 10.5, my Open Directory users are unable to access email. All other services are working. The recurring pattern is "mail account for: <shortname> is not enabled". Any ideas, even crazy ones?
[Mail Access log]
auth(default): od(pseudonym,127.0.0.1): auth mech=CRAM-MD5
auth(default): od(pseudonym,127.0.0.1): username=pseudonym, challenge=<[email protected]>, response=df109a3ef93c61c1e2b7fc4fb1f67fa4
auth(default): od(pseudonym,127.0.0.1): mail SACL is enabled; overriding settings in user record
auth(default): od(pseudonym,127.0.0.1): found user in local table: user=pseudonym
auth(default): od(pseudonym,127.0.0.1): mail account for: pseudonym is not enabled
auth(default): client out: FAIL 113 user=pseudonym
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<string>Apple Mail 1.0</string>
<key>kAutoForwardValue</key>
<string></string>
<key>kIMAPLoginState</key>
<string>IMAPAllowed</string>
<key>kMailAccountLocation</key>
<string>server.example.org</string>
<key>kMailAccountState</key>
<string>Enabled</string>
<key>kPOP3LoginState</key>
<string>POP3Allowed</string>
<key>kUserDiskQuota</key>
<string>0</string>
</dict>
I've already had to update the dovecot.conf once <http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3792>, but I can't tell if this is on the Dovecot side or the OD side.

Many thanks to Apple Enterprise Tech Support.
The access control list for mail was not set to all users and groups.
To fix:
(1) In Server Admin, select the server.
(2) Select the 'Access' panel.
(3) Select the 'Mail' service'
(4) Set the radio button to 'Allow all users and groups'.
Previously I'd had mail restricted to 'only users and groups below'.

Any negative impact to having DEBUG enabled by default in PRODUCTION

Newbie to PL/SQL DEBUG, are there any downsides to having DEBUG enables by default for all packages in PRODUCTION?
Performance? Security Risk? Stability?

Usually you want debug on in an development environment and debug off in a production environment.
Main reason certainly is performance. I'm not aware of any major security issues. Although simply that those debug messages might include data is a little security hole by itself. For example: Some projects require that neither admin nor developer have access to the "real" data. This could be circumvented with debug messages.
You also might want to check out some white papers from http://www.oracle.com/technology/tech/pl_sql/index.html . Among others the [Conditional Compilation in Oracle Database 10g Release 2 (10.2) (PDF)|http://www.oracle.com/technology/tech/pl_sql/pdf/plsql_conditional_compilation.pdf] has some thoughts about the debug topic.
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Firefox plays video, but no sound. when I type about:plugins in location bar, it shows the firefox default plugin is not enabled. When I look at my plugins, it says it is enabled. I have uninstalled 3.6 and re-installed with the same result.

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Make sure you have the Latest Version of iTunes (v11.1.5) Installed on your computer
iTunes free download from www.itunes.com/download
Then... Restore as New (not backup) and Re-Sync your Content.
Restoring > http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1414
SYNCING with iTunes > http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1386

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Check to see if the "silent" switch is turned on. This is either the hardware switch next to the volume control or a software switch on the "recent apps" tray depending on how you have your iPad configured (Settings > General).
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