HT1424 is it a good idea to install a VPN on iphone 4

Is it a good idea to install a VPN apps on iphone 4?Is it necessary?

Flash is necessary for many sites. Just keep it updated and don't worry about a virus.

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It is a good idea to install Adobe Reader XI on Vista?

Hi everyone? I'm a user of Adobe Reader X 10.1.6, and my computer has Vista Home Premium installed.
I installed the Adobe Reader XI manually, and seems to work fine, , but I recently read that the Reader XI version is not supported on Vista.
I would like to know if my Reader XI experiment on Vista was a good idea. Should I expect some system unstability or some functions (i.e. printing) not working properly?
Sincerely yours.
K. Adam.

If you have already installed it, and it works fine, I'd suggest to leave it on. Reader XI is not designed to not work on Vista; it just hasn't been tested on Vista, and is therefore not officially supported.

Hi. Is it a good idea to install Lion on an ibook from 2007?

I have an old ibook which has stopped working - the 'file' icon with a question mark appears when I turn on.
A local Tech shop says the machine is still good - they think I should change the hard drive and upgrade to a new operating system - Lion or Mountain Lion.
Can such an old machine take this? Is this solution a good idea?
Thoughts much appreciated.
Thanks

Hi, and welcome to Apple Support Communities.
The last iBook was discontinued in 2006.
You must have a MacBook if you got it in 2007?
Check out iBook models here:
http://www.everymac.com/systems/apple/ibook/index-ibook.html
and MacBook models here:
http://www.everymac.com/systems/apple/macbook/index-macbook.html
Which Mac is it?
If it's truly an iBook (which has a PowerPC processor), then it is not compatible with anything past Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard).

Is it a good idea to install an SSD as the main drive and a regular HD for data?

Please help me make the best decision on making my machine faster without having to purchase a new one!

Nothing is going to make that system any faster. The Speed of any system it determined by the speed of the CPU, RAM and Graphic processor. The speed of the hard drive or SSD has little to do with the overall speed of the system.
Yes with a faster hard drive and certainly with a SSD the system will boot faster and load programs faster, and with some programs that use the storage media (HDD or SSD) to store files while running, which will SEEM to make the whole system faster, but in reality it is not. The CPU and memory can only do so much in any given time period. With newer systems that speed is faster then with older system and there is nothing you can do to make an older system as fast as a newer system with a more modern, faster, CPU and faster RAM.

Would it not be a good idea for Apple to block an iPhone from being restored if in lost mode?

Surely there should be more protection against this kind of thing. I lost my iPhone at the weekend, I believe it fell out of my pocket when I slipped over. I have searched for it where I slipped but cannot find it anywhere so I can only assume someone has picked it up. I immediately went on to iCloud to try and locate the phone, which worked for about a minute until the phone ran out of battery. The location backed up my suspicion that it had been picked up. I then turned on lost mode hoping that it may secure my phone a bit, to later find out that all it takes is for someone to restore the phone on iTunes and I won't be able to track it anymore.
I hope that the person that found my phone may be a good Samaritan and either hand it to the police or if they manage to charge it will see the message I have attempted to leave on lock mode and return it to me, however, I fear that will not be the case.
Would it be that hard for Apple to implement something that would stop a phone from being restored, when in lock mode, until the phone has lock mode turned off?

In the second and third paragraphs where I mentioned 'lock mode' I actually meant to write 'lost mode!'

Is it a good idea to use the A/C adapter without the battery installed?

Hi everyone!
I have a question. When using my iBook, is it a good idea or is it adviceable to power my iBook using the A/C adapter only, without the battery installed - for the purpose of preserving my battery? I tend to use my iBook heavily and as a desktop computer replacement.
My iBook is a G4 1.33 Ghz 12" model running OS X Version 10.4.10 and my peripherals are optical mouse, keyboard, powered speakers and an external hard drive.
Thanks.
iBook G4 Mac OS X (10.4.10)

Well the service manual says:
"Warning: Never turn on the computer unless all of its internal parts are in place and it is fully reassembled. Operating the missing parts can damage the computer or cause injury."
Without a battery in place the battery connector would be exposed and things always find their way into the opening. I've heard of people keeping a bad battery in place just for that reason. Also if you keep it plugged in all the time it won't lose it's date/time.
If you check "set Date & Time automatically" in the "Date & Time" system preferences the iBook will automatically reset the time if you have a internet connection.
Richard

Why does it take so long for microsoft to incorporate good ideas into programs, but then after they do no one elses software will work on the system?

Case in point: I can not use Xp any longer since it is not supported by microsoft, and latest lan driver requires xp service packs which are no longer available for XP or Vista. So my old software as of April 2014 is now worthless as internet access software(microsoft
will not provide support or service packs for xp). So I get a new pc with WIN7 op system installed and try to do traditional backups to protect myself should my system crash in the future. (usually this means cloning a hard drive or installing Faronics Deep
Freeze to protect my op system in case of catastrophic failure.) I try to install and use some of these utility software types including Acronis Disk Director 12, Avanquest Perfect Image, Partition Commander 10, and others True Image Hdd utility for cloning
hdds. Most of these I try to run turn out to be useless, and I get pop-up messages saying my software is incompatible with win 7 op sys! I am wondering if it is the software or the fact the op system is 64bit (not 32 bit) which means that if you buy any other
software to help with utilities it will be worthless because most are written for 32 bit systems not 64. No one tells you these warning signs when you buy the pc with the 64 bit software already installed. But for a Toshiba 15" computer that normally
costs 400$ and I can get it at Goodwill used computer store(1stStreet and Fairview in Santa Ana, Ca.) for 175$ I can not complain. Being an unemployed electronic technician, I have to stretch my dollars as far as they will go...Another frustrating thing is
I buy this device made by Apricorn Driveware that allows users to hookup a second hdd using a usb cable and a three connector module that will allow the user to connect any hard drive sata or ide or the 3rd type. I try to run it and make a backup copy of internal
hdd but I get error messages saying it can not copy hdds when there are minor differences such as total mbs on each drive or slightly different hardware issues such as my pc has 580 gb internal drive and replacement backup drive is 380gb. Such as shame because
hardware setup is a good idea but without compatible software it is useless! Perhaps if I was using it on my old xp op systems I would have fewer problems with software compatibility issues. I really hate the fact that MS does not provide support for known
good op systems like xp say 20yrs? When the products and markets change so fast they run the risk of alienating customers who can not financially keep up with technology changes especially during an economic depression such as the one we are in now( they predict
it will last 20 yrs). a curious thing about the Acronis disk director 12 software I installed. It seemed I could not get partion size on hdd to change no matter what I did. I found out that if I CHANGED THE DATA BLOCK SIZE ON THE NTFS PARTITION FROM 4 KB TO
2 KB THAT I WAS NO LONGER LIMITED BY THE SOFTWARE FROM SHRINKING THE HDD PARTITION FROM 300GB DOWN TO 100GB. Once this item was changed on the hard drives the Disk Director 12 software (Acronis) was able to shrink the partition size to what I wanted.

Due to phenomenal development in Windows, Microsoft released 4 generations of operating systems, succeeding Windows XP. Hence, on various aspects, Windows XP becomes too old to be used practically these days. So the support was pulled out.
I do agree that Windows XP is the most successful operating system ever, so far. But, later versions added more features, enhanced security and compatibility. Moreover, at this point, Windows XP becomes more vulnerable, although security patches are made.
Ultimately, we need to move to a more secure, feature-rich and highly compatible operating system.
With improved features in newer versions of Windows, the NTFS filesystem has also been improved, adding new features. Hence, certain feaures that are not availble in Windows XP are available in Windows 7, again, in Windows 8.1. So is the disk management
features.
As for Acronis Disk Director, it's a third party software and hence we can't comment on the features/its working.
Balaji Kundalam

I want to use a fantom diamond as an external hard drive for my mac, is this a good idea?

Using a Macbook pro, with Snow Leopard (I think), and my memory is full so I want to store my stuff on an external hard drive. I found a 2T Fantom Diamond EHD, but I'm now learning that I have to convert to NTFS-3g. I'm not computer savy so I want to know if this is a good idea, or should I look for something different. Also, can I set up the EHD as the default path for itunes?

This is not the forum for MacBook Pro owners.
You just need to reformat the drive in Disk Utility and erase the drive and have Mac HFS.
If you did need to use NTFS then you would not want -3G but Paragon NTFS for OS X x. 10.0
Or buy something that isn't pre-formatted to Windows NT file system.
First though make sure you have backups of your system. TimeMachine being used now?
http://macperformanceguide.com/Mac-TimeMachine-drive.html
http://www.apple.com/support/timemachine/
Maybe cleanout some files you don't need.
Install a larger notebook hard drive even.
http://www.macsales.com/firewire has a lot of choice in Mac compatible drives and enclosures so you don't need to worry about Fantom not working at some point.
https://discussions.apple.com/community/notebooks/macbook_pro
https://discussions.apple.com/community/mac_os/mac_os_x_v10.6_snow_leopard

Is it safe (or even a good idea) to download Wine for Mac OSX? Windows apps on Mac

I've been considering "Wine" lately, it sounds great, but I don't know if its safe to download. Would it expose my computer to malware?
Even if it does work fine it seems very difficult to install.
Has anyone had any experience with Wine?
Thanks!

It is a good idea only if the applications you want to run work in Wine. Not everything does so you are going to have to test it first.
Allan

Deploying Server Based Software-Good Idea?

Hi,
We need to deploy a variety of components to 200+ different sites around the country-about 120MB total. The software includes:
1. A JDK
2. An application server
3. A web services server
4. JDBC drivers
5. Our wars/jars
6. Configuration files, etc.
We have always distributed by burning a CD and shipping it to each location. We have also considered sending out detailed instructions for downloading each component from the appropriate web site but this process is, as expected, prone to user error. Just finding the correct version of the JDK is too confusing for most of our customers. Things need to be simple.
How about deployment via Web Start? Is it an appropriate use to load server software at a remote location?
David

Hi David,
I've actually done some research in this area in terms of building a new product. IMHO, the answer is yes, this is a good idea, but no, tools designed to update client-side GUI applications (like Web Start or my company's DeployDirector) are not really appropriate in this case.
The problem is not so much the initial install as it is the subsequent updates.
The difficulty with updating a server application is that it's always running -- client-side applications are usually started and stopped, which creates a convenient time to update. For server-side applications, you'd need to have some way to ensure that you don't update while in the middle of a transaction, some way of handling users that are connected to the app, some way of queuing transactions until the update is complete, etc.
Updating (and even the initially installing) remotely may be difficult due to security as well. Some companies may block you from getting anywere near the servers from a remote locations.
There's also business issues; some places may be wary of having an external company change things on their systems. Some places have set times when they release new systems into production. There's also the issue of handling what happens if the update fails for some reason -- how do you track, diagnose and fix that remotely?
Because this is your own product and your own customers, you may not encounter all these problems. But updating server software is a much messier issue than updating client software.
OTOH, if the main thing you are worried about is the installing and configuring the software initially (i.e., no auto-updating) then you're probably best off with an installer package like InstallAnywhere. I think they have a way of letting your break up the download into smaller components and then handling all the configuration for you.
Sonal
Product Manager - DeployDirector
[email protected]

Thinking of converting a secondary DC & replica DFS into a Hyper-V host - a good idea?

Hello!
I am trying to minimize the amount of server hardware regarding adding more servers to our domain (2008 R2).
We have a quite new and strong (2x 6-core xeon with 24GB RAM) secondary DC server in our 2008 R2 domain. I am trying to come up with a better plan to utilize this machine's resources which was a bit of an overkill for just an AD, DNS and DFS services.
Do you think it would be a good idea to demote that server, erase it, install 2008 R2 in Hyper-V mode and then add the AD service with DNS and DFS in Virtual mode and more (separate) virtual servers for other various purposes - thinking of Remote Desktop
Services specifically for now, it can't run on same physical server as AD which is a slight problem as we are not planning on getting any hardware anytime soon.
Can MS Exchange also run on Hyper-V? That would be a plus as well if it could.
Thanks for insights.
I am new to Hyper-V, never tried it before. Also forgot to mention, we use 2008 R2 Standard licenses, not enterprise/datacenter whatever.

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=3512
is this the "regular free Hyper-V" you mentioned? is it a standalone OS that needs no key?
anyways, the question stands, I am not sure I can use the physical and virtual keys (from 2 standard licenses) in VMs, i'd certainly like to... 4 VMs sound really good, much better than 2.
that is the old one, there is a new 2012 R2 version for datacenters
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-US/evalcenter/dn205299.aspx
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that's an evaluation software ... 180 days license or something? or worse, a beta version?
I'm talking about production environment in live business ...
reviewed the 2008 R2 licensing and it seems that no matter the approach, each of Standard licenses allows only for a single VM...
EDIT:
OK, that is a full feature version, free and supposedly an RTM, which is good. might consider it for future.
either way, legally speaking, the licensing problem with 2008 R2 STD still exists, because officially you can use only 1 STD license per VM. As far as I understand from legal standpoint, one cannot use both physical + virtual keys (from a single 2008
R2 license) for two separate VM guests, no matter how, it probably is not OK (even though it may work and activate properly).

Why are flash buttons not a good idea?

I'm trying to figure out a problem I'm having with flash
buttons (mainly that I don't want users to have to click twice to
make them work), and I keep seeing posts (particularly by Murray)
asking if the poster knows that flash buttons aren't a good idea.
However, I was unable to find an explanation as to
why they are a bad idea. Can anyone explain this to me in
layman's terms? I'm very new to Dreamweaver and web development in
general. I'm developing an intranet site for a specific group of
users where accessibility is not a huge concern.
Thanks!

Consider these scenarios -
1. I don't have Flash installed. I don't get the benefit of
your Flash
navigation element.
2. I am a search engine spider. I don't get the benefit of
your Flash
navigation element.
Need I say more? 8)
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> I'm trying to figure out a problem I'm having with flash
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> don't want users to have to click twice to make them
work), and I keep
> seeing
> posts (particularly by Murray) asking if the poster
knows that flash
> buttons
> aren't a good idea. However, I was unable to find an
explanation as to
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layman's
> terms? I'm very new to Dreamweaver and web development
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> developing an intranet site for a specific group of
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> accessibility
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Roaming (ethernet connected base station) and wireless extended network at the same time. Good idea?

I have a Time Capsule (6th gen.) which is my main base station. I also have a number of airport extremes around the house. I only use them in the client mode, i.e. they just join the network so that I can stream audio to devices connected to them.
As I had bad reception in the garden, I installed my old dual-band airport extreme (4th gen) in the garden shed. All Apple articles I read on the topic convinced me that roaming (ethernet connected base station) is much better than wireless extending because you don't lose throughput. As I had no ethernet in the shed, I used two powerline adapters to bring ethernet there and I connected my airport extreme.
Then I had to re-install all the airport expresses (as I had also changed the name of the network) and I noticed that the default option of the Airport utility is to make them extend the network wirelessly instead of just joining to it. I did not do it, but I am wondering. Is it a good idea? As they are in different rooms than the Time Capsule, of course the network there is not as strong as close to the Time Capsule. I still get "good enough" connection, but I will I have an improvement if I allow every Airport Express to extend the network as well? Or will I have problems with the throughput. My idea is not to do it and keep the net as simple as possible, i.e just extend it with roaming in the garden where I really need it and let the airport expresses in client mode.

As usual AirPort Utility is trying to be clever. It is proposing what Apple thinks most people will want to do with it, and most of the time it succeeds.
Having the Expresses "wirelessly extend" the Time Capsule's wireless network will increase your wireless network service area and should not introduce new problems. If that is not what you want to do though, you can certainly return to AirPort Utility and select "join a wireless network". It is a simpler configuration, and simpler is better for home wireless networks.
Wireless > Network Mode > Join a wireless network.

Is Indexing HD a good Idea?

I use PowerPC G4; run OS X 10.5.8 Leopard. I just installed a new Hard Drive. It is a good idea to index the new HD? How would you go about starting an indexing session?

You may me interested in Find Any File from: http://apps.tempel.org/FindAnyFile/
Find Any File is a program for Mac OS X that lets you search for files on your disks.
Contrary to Spotlight, it does not use a database but instead uses the file system driver's fast search operations, where available. This lets you search for file properties such as name, dates, size, etc, but not for file content (use Spotlight or EasyFind for that).
Find Any File can find files that Spotlight doesn't, e.g. those inside bundles and packages and in inside folders that are usually excluded from Spotlight search.
Finally, it is quite fast. A search only takes a few seconds on an internal hard disk or SSD. Try for yourself!
Find Any File doesn't replace Spotlight, but it complements it greatly:
If you search for content, such as in e-Mails, PDFs, Word docs etc., use Spotlight.
If you search for files by name, size or date, use FAF, as only then you can be sure that everything available is found.

Flashback: Might be a good idea to change password

Here
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/04/06/widespread-computer-virus-indicates-mac -users-no-longer-safe/?ref=technology
We see "The malware infects computers in one of two ways. In some cases, users receive a pop-up prompt purporting to be from Adobe Flash asking them to install an update and type in their password** - hence the Trojan’s name, “Fakeflash” or “Flashback.”
Flashback: Might be a good idea to change password. Question is, if user enters password to get into Mac OS, why should they ever have to enter it again? In Windows, aside from login, password is never asked for.

You don't go into the details as to why the account was suspended ... that background might be helpful since you're asking others for their opinion. In general it sounds like the account was "deleted" at which point all mail is bounced because the address no longer exists -- but Verizon holds the name in reserve for some period of time to prevent someone from re-registering it in case an error was made and for some level of security, I suppose.
Anyhow ... on your commentary about not using an @verizon.net address as your primary address ... I think you will have this with many providers. Hotmail, Yahoo, and Gmail all do this if you terminate the account (they do have a suspended account due to inactivity feature which operates differently, but pretty much do the same thing for deletions and such. I don't use the @verizon.net account as my primary for a different reason however -- my primary address is provider agnostic. I can move providers (although I'm quite happy with FiOS at the moment) -or- if at some point down the road I have to move out of Verizon territory, my email address will not need to change. I used this little fact to my advantage when I moved from Comcast to Verizon a few years ago -- no one knew I changed providers because my email address didn't change. Now .. I don't use one of the free services for email, I own my own domain name (about $10/year from the likes of GoDaddy) and have my domain hosted on the Google Apps tier (but even without that, GoDaddy will do basic forwarding for you of any email address to whatever mail account you're presently using). Something to think about.

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