Im a PC user very interested in the Mac

I was thinking about buying a lower-end version and tryin to upgrade it. Is this worth it?
Also, is the processor speed very noticeable? Like, is there a big difference between a 1.33 or so to a 2.0?
Thanks
Toshiba Laptop Windows XP

John I have an iBook (1Ghz) and a 2Ghz MacBook. So I'm probably qualified to answer your question.
You will notice a real speed improvement between the two machines (the MacBook) being much faster. Whether there is any benefit in buying the MacBook depends on what you use it for. For word processsing there will be little practical difference. I can't type any faster on the MacBook than I can on the iBook. Only you can work out if the extra speed is worth the extra dollars.
If the iBook has 256 MB of Ram I would advise upgrading it (easily done) to at least 768 Mb. The only other relatively easy upgrades is installation of an airport card (if it doesn't already have one). Obviously you would only do this if you had a need to connect wirelessly. If the iBook is second hand check how much charge the battery holds or be prepared to buy a replacement battery.

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Please, the battery of my mac air does not last more than two hours, it's been over 30 days I sent for technical assistance and nothing! I am very disappointed with the mac air, I had a very different expectation of apples products!!

Please, the battery of my mac air does not last more than two hours, it's been over 30 days I sent for technical assistance and nothing! I am very disappointed with the mac air, I had a very different expectation of apples products!!!

Maybe the problem is not your MB Air......
Try these:
Make sure bluetooth is turned off if you're not using it.
Set your screen brightness to 4 bars.
See what's loading in your login items. Delete the ones you don't need.
Open Activity Monitor - under All Processes see what's using most of your CPU's resources.
Highlight the ones with the highest %CPU and hit quit process.
Remember that when Apple says that your battery should last 7 hours, they tested it just browsing the web and not have anything open in the background and screen is set at 50% brightness.

Prevent Certain Users From Shutting Down the Mac

Hello,
I have a group of Mac Minis which are secured in an equipment rack. When someone shuts the computer off, the rack has to be moved and the Mac powered-on, manually. This is not as easy as it may seem. Is there a way to remove the "Shutdown" item from the Apple menu. I need the "Logoff" and "Reboot" the options to still be available. I do nt have an OS X server, from which to project these settings from Workgroup Manager. Is there some .plist I can edit, or permission I can change?
Thanks

Not possible without hacking the system and even then it is not foolproof. If you Google something like mac os x disable shutdown you'll get an idea of the situation.
And if you could remove the command from the Apple menu there is still the key combination to deal with.
If this is a social problem, users mistakenly shutting down the system then maybe education would be a better approach to take.
If it is willful or the inconvenience of this being done is very great then maybe you should suggest getting the serve for $20 just to have the ability to handle this.
regards
Message was edited by: Frank Caggiano - it does appear that tinkertool says it does address the 'shutdown option in the finder'. Interesting to see if this is the Apple menu. Worth a shot

User Contributed Tips in the Mac Pro Displays and the Mac Pro forum

*The following User Contributed Tips are located in the Mac Pro > Displays and the Mac Pro forum:*
None at this time.
*The following related tips are located in other areas of Apple Discussions:*
a brody - Using a second Mac as a display for a first
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1587927
Publish date: July 7, 2008
See also User Tips Library

You can use the two graphics cards, but it's only useful if you have more than two displays. It won't give you higher speed.

Multiple users of Mail on the Mac session

Before switching from PowerMail to Mail, I'd like to know if there's a way with Mail to store my emails in a separate folder from those of my wife so that I could access only my emails when I open Mail and my wife could only access hers. For example, can I create two Mail folders in the ~/Library (or somewhere else) and put an alias in the Dock to force Mail to open my wife's or mine without having to create different user profiles and switch between Mac sessions? Thanks!

Thanks. I guess I'll have to pay for the upgrade and stick with PowerMail until Apple makes the creation of separate profiles part of Mail, which I don't expect to see in the near future. Too bad. But I really want to avoid creating different user accounts on my Mac. Does anyone know of a client that offers the possibility for multiple email profiles that would also happen to be freeware?

You can permanently delete from the list of those that purchased we are not interested? The mac app store?

Hello, you present all applications, often useless toys or free appthat you bought to try but then once you have deleted? In Mac app store in the "Purchased" remain very pretty after a little practice ...you can not delete those that we really sure that will not be restoring your mac? because otherwise it becomes a long line ofuseless and idiotic and outdated app that does not use anymore.
I apologize for my English is not perfect.
thank you very much
Raffaele P.

Raffaele2521 wrote:
hopefully in an update of the Apple store ... The same goes foriphone ... where I downloaded about 150 programs and many of them useless!
thanks for the help
greetings from italy
We can but live in hope...
Cheers...

PC user thinking of converting to mac.

Hello i am a fed up PC user who likes doing video, some gaming, surfing for info, but mostly making video on the computer imported from the camcorder, mostly racing video with fast motion. My question is , is the IMAC a great computer for my purpose, and yes it will be equiped with 2 G of ram. How reliable is this operating system really. And Imovie is it a good editting program which will allow me to create many special effects etc. How often do they freeze up and is this a fast computer. Many thanks for your honest answers.

GreyFoxx,
Running multiple programs simultaneously is no problem and very stable. The Mac OS X does that very well, very stable. Why are the prices so "high?" Prices are a bit deceiving. Its hard to look at Dell, for example, and see a 'complete' system running less than $1000 (or less) and then look at say the iMac 17" that runs about $1300. If you want a low end PC prices favor the PC market. If you want/need a graphics system or anything other than a "low end" product the Mac pricing is actually quiet reasonable. For example, take a look at this comparison between the Mac Pro and a similarly configured Dell: http://www.systemshootouts.org/shootouts/desktop/2006/0809_dt3200.html
Note the Dell didn't include a monitor.
You can do a simple Google search of 'PC vs Mac' and read others opinions. I'm not trying to sell you a Mac. In fact I work with Dell equipment on a daily basis and their stuff is good with few exceptions. Personally, I've grown to dislike Windows based systems (PCs) over the years. I use Linux in my job as well and found it to be superior in many respects. Macs run off a UNIX derivative. As a result you don't need to worry about spyware, viruses, etc. If you're into video or photo production there is nothing better than a Mac for these tasks. Final Cut Express/Pro and Aperture are some of the best applications available.
What am I telling you? Do some research and determine what it is you need to do with whatever system, find the software you need to do your work. That will tell you which systems might work for you. I'd recommend you go to an Apple store and chat with one of their guru's do the same with an IT Pro for the PC side. And, ask questions here.
~Steve

Is the Mac OS really this easy to crack?

My wife, a therapist, has been required to use computer equipment and file encription that is HIPAA compliant for medical privacy issues. She was told by her trainers that the mac had little to no security and was easily cracked. I was surprised and I told her the mac was pretty secure. I googled teh issue.
It would seem, from the following link, that I may have been very wrong. Is it really this easy to get into a stolen mac? Can the system password be so easily circumvented? If this is true, even I, who know next to nothing about computer programming, could hack a mac and get to all the data.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOq3aiRb57Y

This is not specific to the Mac. Any time a hacker has physical access to any computer - Mac, Windows, Linux, whatever - data can be accessed almost trivially.
The only exception to this is data that is properly encrypted. Such data cannot be accessed by a hacker, provided that the encryption is strong, and that the password is strong and not stored somewhere that the hacker can access. On a Mac, you can accomplish this with FileVault, as Bob mentions. Automatic login must be disabled, and the user password must be strong. This will keep an attacker out of your data... unless they can get you to subvert your own system by installing malware, but that's very rare on the Mac.

How to get the MAC address of other hosts in local net

1. Is there any kerner or user function to get the MAC address of other hosts in local net?
2. ire_route_lookup() can only lookup MAC in routing table(arp -a),Is there any way to enable it to find out all MAC of hosts in the local net?
Best Regards
Hann

ChristianEC wrote:
Hi,
I am looking for a way to get the MAC address of a PXI RT controller. I know that there is a VI to do this, but I am looking for a solution for a dll (C-Code).
I use the "Call library node" to call this dll and want to make sure that it is only used on a specific PXI.
Since the VI provides the functionality, I am wondering if it is also available to be called from C-Code?
Thank you,
Christian
If it is available in LabVIEW it is probably available in CVI, which you could then build into a DLL (if there isn't one available already).
CLA, LabVIEW Versions 2010-2013

"The CREATE USER statement must be the only statement in the batch" in SQL Azure - why? what to do?

I'm getting an error on a line in the middle of a larger sql script, only in SQL Azure.
IF NOT EXISTS (SELECT * FROM sys.database_principals WHERE name = N'foouser')
CREATE USER [foouser] FOR LOGIN [foouser] WITH DEFAULT_SCHEMA=[dbo]
GO
Error: "The CREATE USER statement must be the only statement in the batch."
I don't actually understand what 'the only statement in the batch' means.
What is a batch? Is it a SQL file? Is it related to a 'GO' statement or an 'IF' statement? What is the reason for the error? And how do I avoid it?
Thanks,
Tim

>IF...ELSE imposes conditions on the execution of a Transact-SQL statement
I understand the general purpose of an If statement. I could let go of our definition of statement counting disagreeing too except that because of the error I'm stuck.
It's less important for Create User but what I am really puzzled over now is a very similar issue how am I supposed to do a safe version of CREATE LOGIN, when I don't know whether a login has been previously created on the server or whether I
am setting up the database on a clean server?
IF NOT EXISTS (SELECT * FROM sys.server_principals WHERE name = N'foouser')
CREATE LOGIN [foouser] WITH PASSWORD = 'asdfasdf'
GO
If I try and execute this script, it throws the same error as above.
The first unworkable workaround idea is to omit the if statement
CREATE LOGIN [foouser] WITH PASSWORD = 'asdfasdf'
GO
But if the login already exists on the server (because a similar script was already run), then the script throws an error.
The second unworkable workaround idea is to do
DROP LOGIN [foouser]
GO
CREATE LOGIN [foouser] WITH PASSWORD = 'asdfasdf'
GO
Obviously this throws an error in the second block if the login doesn't already exist on the server.
The third workaround idea I have is to go conditional by putting an IF condition around DROP instead of CREATE:
Unfortunately that doesn't work for me either!
"The DROP LOGIN statement must be the only statement in the batch"
(This is despite the fact that 'drop login' is listed on the
supported commands page, not the partially supported page..?! Which disagrees with the notes on
this page.)
Anyway the real question I am interesting in addressing is: is there actually a way to have a 'Create/Delete login
if exists' operation which is SQL-Azure compatible and doesn't throw me error messages (which messes with the sql execution tool I am using)?
If there is no way, I would like to believe it's because it would be a bad idea to do this. But in that case why is it a bad idea?
Tim

Oracle Forms Performance very slow on the internet

Hi ,
We have developed a form application with forms Developer 10g and deployed it on a ORACLE 10g AS. If the user runs our application over intranet there is no any network problem or not any performance decrease occurs. However if we deploy our application over WAN or internet, the startup time of the forms become Very Slow.
What we can use to make it faster , is there any other tools we have to learn like APEX or JDeveloper , what is the best solution , should we forget the Developer for ever and starting with other tools with fast performance on the internet , if so , what we have to learn , please help us , its common problem .
any help please ,

Interesting thread....
You asked whether "Forms" is the right product for the job. Well, the answer to that question will depend entirely on exactly what functionality you need and your skill-set. One advantage of using Forms over other Oracle products is that, in my opinion, Forms allows you to create simple or complex applications very quickly, with limited development experience. The downside to using Forms however, is that it does use a fairly thick client making startup slower than other applications. Generally, Forms is not very well suited for Internet deployments although it can and has been done. If your goal is to use a product which is easy to work with and is appropriate for Internet deployment, you may want to consider Apex. The downside to Apex is that unlike Forms, Apex generates what I like to call static html pages. Meaning once a page is displayed for the end-user, the data on it remains the same until the user forces interaction with the server again, but in this case the entire page would be refreshed in order to realize the changes. In the case of Forms, any content displayed to the end-user can be change without completely refreshing their view. I like to refer to Forms as a living application because unlike Apex, it can easily respond to most user inputs and/or server side changes almost in real-time. If you want this "live" experience, Forms might be the way to go, although at the cost of some startup performance. Alternatively, Oracle ADF can also give you a similar live-like experience. However, ADF will require a broader skill-set (pl/sql, java, html, etc), whereas with Forms you could get away with only knowing pl/sql although java knowledge would be helpful.
The views expressed in this thread are my own and do not necessarily reflect the views of Oracle.

Accessing a user email address from the database

Hi,
I really need help with the following.
I am adding functionality where users can set reminders that will then be sent to them by email when the reminder is due. I am going to utilise dbms_job to do this. My problem is that I am using apex authentication and users for the rest of the application and I need to retrieve the email address from apex. I cannot use wwv_flow_users as the email will be sent from a job in the database therefore there will be no current logged in user / workspace / session.
There must be some way of accessing an internal apex table / view or something that can tell me what the email addresses of my users are without being signed into an apex session.
Please help, this is quite urgent.
Thank you in advance.
Lee

Hi,
Glad to see that you've found.
However would be very interesting to know how to retrieve user list without being in an Apex workspace.
i would do as follows:
When the first user of the day log into apex you could update a static table containig the email (taken select into from www_flow_user once a day).
Then via a trigger you could start your batch proc, that needs updated email.
Is not clean at all, but probably if your firm isn't too big this approach could work.
By the way if you find how to retrieve the email not using www_flow_user, would be very nice to know.
Message was edited by:
Marcello Nocito

Other user can not see the data from the workbook

Hi Friends,
I created a workbook with some worksheets in a Business area. The owner of the workbook has no problem to view all the worksheets and get all the data returned.. I granted all the neccessary privileges to other users ,they could see the workbook, but no data returnd for the query results. Tried refresh the worksheet, same no data retrieved.Checked the SQL inspector and the plan, it showed the correct paths and execution plan without any errors there. The same query run in SQL plus by other users returned data correctly.
By the way, I had a summary folder in the workbook. During the troubleshooting, I dropped this summary folder, still the same no data return for other users.
Any body happen to know the cause or has some ideas on this issue?
The discoverer administrator verson is 9.0.4.00 and the PLUS /Viewer is 9.04.45.02.
Thank you very much,
J.K

Hi All
The scheduling of reports, as you have probably noticed, requires that the scheduling privilege within Discoverer Administrator tool be granted to the user NOT to a role. Scheduling will not work if you attempt this. The reason for this is that these two SYS grants must go to a user:
GRANT SELECT ON SYS.V_$PARAMETER
GRANT EXECUTE ON SYS.DBMS_JOB
The user will also need to have these grants:
CREATE PROCEDURE,
CREATE TABLE,
CREATE VIEW,
EXECUTE ANY PROCEDURE,
UNLIMITED TABLESPACE on user's tablespace
My new Discoverer 10g Handbook, which I would recommend to anyone working with Discoverer, explains scheduling in detail and even tells you how the tables and views that are used to store the results work. You won't find this information anywhere else, as you will see if you read some of the five reviews that have been left on Amazon.com. For more information about the book please look here:
http://learndiscoverer.com/books/books.htm
The PUBLIC grants are not having any impact. All these do is ensure that ALL users have the same basic privileges. You can just as easily grant these to any role of your choosing and it will work just fine.
By the way, because the PUBLIC role is the MINIMUM privileges that a user can have you might want to consider reducing the end user Discoverer privileges afforded to PUBLIC. By default, all users can Create and Edit workbooks, share workbooks, save workbooks and so on. This is far too rich a set of privileges for the basic user, who in most cases will be a VIEWER user. Whenever I create a new EUL I always recommend that my client reduces the PUBLIC user's privileges and then create new roles for more advanced VIEWER and PLUS users, adding privileges as required.
Thus, my basic VIEWER, aka PUBLIC, has only these privileges:
Collect Query Statistics
Item Drill
Drill Out
My advanced VIEWER has this additional privilege:
Save Workbooks to Database
My basic PLUS user has all of the above, plus these (pardon the pun):
Create/Edit Query
Create Link
and my advanced PLUS users get everything, which means they now get these as well:
Grant Workbook
Schedule Workbooks
I also remove the Save / Save As Actions link from Viewer which prevents the basic VIEWER users from knowing that it is there. In essence, because these users no longer can click the Save link and because they do not have the Save to Database privilege, they will not be prompted to save within Viewer no matter what they do. This now makes 10.1.2 Viewer work the same way as previous versions.
Even though the Save link is not there, my advanced Viewer users will be prompted to save if they have made any changes. This therefore allows you to have two classes of Viewer, one who can save and one that cannot.
I hope this helps
Regards
Micahael Armstrong-Smith

I am a new mac user and I switch to mac due to the graphics that it brings. I do website in pc and I heard iweb is the best.NOW i heard that iweb will be discontinue. so what is the best application there for website using MAC OSX lion?

I am a new mac user and I switch to mac due to the graphics that it brings. I do website in pc and I heard iweb is the best.NOW i heard that iweb will be discontinue. so what is the best application there for website using MAC OSX lion?

It is now confirmed that iWeb, and iDVD, has been discontinued by Apple. This is evidenced by the fact that new Macs are shipping with iLife 11 installed but without iWeb and iDVD.
On June 30, 2012 MobileMe will be shutdown. However, iWeb will still continue to work but without the following:
Features No Longer Available Once MobileMe is Discontinued:
◼ Password protection
◼ Blog and photo comments
◼ Blog search
◼ Hit counter
◼ MobileMe Gallery
All of these features can be replaced with 3rd party options.
I found that if I published my site to a folder on my hard drive and then uploaded with a 3rd party FTP client subscriptions to slideshows and the RSS feed were broken. If I published directly from iWeb to the FPT server those two features continued to work correctly.
There's another problem and that's with iWeb's popup slideshows. Once the MMe servers are no longer online the popup slideshow buttons will not display their images.
Click to view full size
However, Roddy McKay and I have figured out a way to modify existing sites with those slideshows and iWeb itself so that those images will display as expected once MobileMe servers are gone. How to is described in this tutorial: #26 - How to Modify iWeb So Popup Slideshows Will Work After MobileMe is Discontinued.
It now appears that the iLife suite of applications offered on disc is now a discontinued product and the remaining supported iApps will only be available thru the App Store from now on. However, the iLife 11 boxed version that is still available at the online Apple Store (Store button at the top of the page) and those still on the shelves of retailers will include iWeb and iDVD. Those two apps were listed in small, gray text on the iLife 11 box that I bought.
Personally, if I didn't already have a copy I would purchase one to have it for reinstallation purposes if ever needed.
This might be of some interest to you at this time: Life After MobileMe.
OT

My MacBook Pro is running very slow with the wheel constantly spinning. Can anyone please help?!?!

My MacBook is running very slow and the wheel is constantly spinning. It's not just using the internet as it takes forever to start, open programs, etc. It is even taking me a long time to type in this question as the spinning wheel keeps coming up. Below is the EtreCheck.   I would appreciate it if someone could please help me!
EtreCheck version: 1.9.15 (52)
Report generated September 7, 2014 at 11:30:33 PM EDT
Hardware Information: ?
MacBook Pro (13-inch, Mid 2012) (Verified)
MacBook Pro - model: MacBookPro9,2
1 2.5 GHz Intel Core i5 CPU: 2 cores
4 GB RAM
Video Information: ?
Intel HD Graphics 4000 - VRAM: (null)
Color LCD 1280 x 800
System Software: ?
OS X 10.9.4 (13E28) - Uptime: 0 days 5:3:7
Disk Information: ?
TOSHIBA MK5065GSXF disk0 : (500.11 GB)
S.M.A.R.T. Status: Verified
EFI (disk0s1) <not mounted>: 209.7 MB
Macintosh HD (disk0s2) / [Startup]: 499.25 GB (425.17 GB free)
Recovery HD (disk0s3) <not mounted>: 650 MB
MATSHITADVD-R   UJ-8A8
USB Information: ?
Apple Inc. FaceTime HD Camera (Built-in)
Apple Computer, Inc. IR Receiver
Apple Inc. BRCM20702 Hub
Apple Inc. Bluetooth USB Host Controller
Apple Inc. Apple Internal Keyboard / Trackpad
Thunderbolt Information: ?
Apple Inc. thunderbolt_bus
Gatekeeper: ?
Mac App Store and identified developers
Kernel Extensions: ?
[not loaded] com.sony.driver.dsccamFirmwareUpdaterType00 (1 - SDK 10.6) Support
Launch Daemons: ?
[loaded] com.adobe.fpsaud.plist Support
[loaded] com.google.keystone.daemon.plist Support
[loaded] com.microsoft.office.licensing.helper.plist Support
Launch Agents: ?
[loaded] com.google.keystone.agent.plist Support
[running] com.sony.SonyAutoLauncher.agent.plist Support
User Launch Agents: ?
[failed] com.apple.CSConfigDotMacCert-[...]@me.com-SharedServices.Agent.plist
User Login Items: ?
iTunesHelper
Internet Plug-ins: ?
FlashPlayer-10.6: Version: 14.0.0.176 - SDK 10.6 Support
QuickTime Plugin: Version: 7.7.3
Flash Player: Version: 14.0.0.176 - SDK 10.6 Support
Default Browser: Version: 537 - SDK 10.9
o1dbrowserplugin: Version: 5.4.2.18903 Support
SharePointBrowserPlugin: Version: 14.4.4 - SDK 10.6 Support
googletalkbrowserplugin: Version: 5.4.2.18903 Support
Audio Plug-ins: ?
BluetoothAudioPlugIn: Version: 1.0 - SDK 10.9
AirPlay: Version: 2.0 - SDK 10.9
AppleAVBAudio: Version: 203.2 - SDK 10.9
iSightAudio: Version: 7.7.3 - SDK 10.9
iTunes Plug-ins: ?
Quartz Composer Visualizer: Version: 1.4 - SDK 10.9
3rd Party Preference Panes: ?
Flash Player Support
Time Machine: ?
Time Machine not configured!
Top Processes by CPU: ?
      3% WindowServer
      0% mdworker
      0% Microsoft Excel
      0% aosnotifyd
Top Processes by Memory: ?
115 MB Microsoft Excel
115 MB Safari
70 MB Mail
68 MB com.apple.WebKit.WebContent
66 MB com.apple.IconServicesAgent
Virtual Memory Information: ?
1.71 GB Free RAM
1.46 GB Active RAM
161 MB Inactive RAM
685 MB Wired RAM
353 MB Page-ins
0 B Page-outs

1. This procedure is a diagnostic test. It changes nothing, for better or worse, and therefore will not, in itself, solve the problem. But with the aid of the test results, the solution may take a few minutes, instead of hours or days.
Don't be put off merely by the seeming complexity of these instructions. The process is much less complicated than the description. You do harder tasks with the computer all the time.
2. If you don't already have a current backup, back up all data before doing anything else. The backup is necessary on general principle, not because of anything in the test procedure. Backup is always a must, and when you're having any kind of trouble with the computer, you may be at higher than usual risk of losing data, whether you follow these instructions or not.
There are ways to back up a computer that isn't fully functional. Ask if you need guidance.
3. Below are instructions to run a UNIX shell script, a type of program. As I wrote above, it changes nothing. It doesn't send or receive any data on the network. All it does is to generate a human-readable report on the state of the computer. That report goes nowhere unless you choose to share it. If you prefer, you can read it yourself without disclosing the contents to me or anyone else.
You should be wondering whether you can believe me, and whether it's safe to run a program at the behest of a stranger. In general, no, it's not safe and I don't encourage it.
In this case, however, there are a couple of ways for you to decide whether the program is safe without having to trust me. First, you can read it. Unlike an application that you download and click to run, it's transparent, so anyone with the necessary skill can verify what it does.
You may not be able to understand the script yourself. But variations of the script have been posted on this website thousands of times over a period of years. The site is hosted by Apple, which does not allow it to be used to distribute harmful software. Any one of the millions of registered users could have read the script and raised the alarm if it was harmful. Then I would not be here now and you would not be reading this message.
Nevertheless, if you can't satisfy yourself that these instructions are safe, don't follow them. Ask for other options.
4. Here's a summary of what you need to do, if you choose to proceed:
☞ Copy a line of text in this window to the Clipboard.
☞ Paste into the window of another application.
☞ Wait for the test to run. It usually takes a few minutes.
☞ Paste the results, which will have been copied automatically, back into a reply on this page.
The sequence is: copy, paste, wait, paste again. You don't need to copy a second time. Details follow.
5. You may have started the computer in "safe" mode. Preferably, these steps should be taken in “normal” mode, under the conditions in which the problem is reproduced. If the system is now in safe mode and works well enough in normal mode to run the test, restart as usual. If you can only test in safe mode, do that.
6. If you have more than one user, and the one affected by the problem is not an administrator, then please run the test twice: once while logged in as the affected user, and once as an administrator. The results may be different. The user that is created automatically on a new computer when you start it for the first time is an administrator. If you can't log in as an administrator, test as the affected user. Most personal Macs have only one user, and in that case this section doesn’t apply. Don't log in as root.
7. The script is a single long line, all of which must be selected. You can accomplish this easily by triple-clicking anywhere in the line. The whole line will highlight, though you may not see all of it in the browser window, and you can then copy it. If you try to select the line by dragging across the part you can see, you won't get all of it.
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dylibs Apps Font\ issues Inserted\ dylibs Firewall Proxies DNS TCP/IP Wi-Fi Profiles Root\ crontab User\ crontab 'Global login items' 'User login items' Spotlight Memory Listeners Widgets Parental\ Controls Prefetching SATA Descriptors );N3=${#l[@]};for i in 0 1 2;do l[N3+i]=${p[5+i]};done;N4=${#l[@]};for j in 0 1;do l[N4+j]="Current ${p[29+j]}stream data";done;A0() { id -G|grep -qw 80;v[1]=$?;((v[1]==0))&&sudo true;v[2]=$?;v[3]=`date +%s`;clear >&-;date '+Start time: %T %D%n';};for i in 0 1;do eval ' A'$((1+i))'() { v=` eval "${c1[$1]} ${c2[$2]}"|'${c1[30+i]}' "${s[$3]}" `;[[ "$v" ]];};A'$((3+i))'() { v=` while read i;do [[ "$i" ]]&&eval "${c1[$1]} ${c2[$2]}" \"$i\"|'${c1[30+i]}' "${s[$3]}";done<<<"${v[$4]}" `;[[ "$v" ]];};A'$((5+i))'() { v=` while read i;do '${c1[30+i]}' "${s[$1]}" "$i";done<<<"${v[$2]}" `;[[ "$v" ]];};';done;A7(){ v=$((`date +%s`-v[3]));};B2(){ v[$1]="$v";};for i in 0 1;do eval ' B'$i'() { v=;((v['$((i+1))']==0))||{ v=No;false;};};B'$((3+i))'() { 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Copy the selected text to the Clipboard by pressing the key combination command-C.
8. Launch the built-in Terminal application in any of the following ways:
☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)
☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.
☞ Open LaunchPad. Click Utilities, then Terminal in the icon grid.
Click anywhere in the Terminal window and paste by pressing command-V. The text you pasted should vanish immediately. If it doesn't, press the return key.
9. If you see an error message in the Terminal window such as "Syntax error" or "Event not found," enter
exec bash
and press return. Then paste the script again.
10. If you're logged in as an administrator, you'll be prompted for your login password. Nothing will be displayed when you type it. You will not see the usual dots in place of typed characters. Make sure caps lock is off. Type carefully and then press return. You may get a one-time warning to be careful. If you make three failed attempts to enter the password, the test will run anyway, but it will produce less information. In most cases, the difference is not important. If you don't know the password, or if you prefer not to enter it, press the key combination control-C or just press return three times at the password prompt. Again, the script will still run.
If you're not logged in as an administrator, you won't be prompted for a password. The test will still run. It just won't do anything that requires administrator privileges.
11. The test may take a few minutes to run, depending on how many files you have and the speed of the computer. A computer that's abnormally slow may take longer to run the test. While it's running, there will be nothing in the Terminal window and no indication of progress. Wait for the line
[Process completed]
to appear. If you don't see it within half an hour or so, the test probably won't complete in a reasonable time. In that case, close the Terminal window and report what happened. No harm will be done.
12. When the test is complete, quit Terminal. The results will have been copied to the Clipboard automatically. They are not shown in the Terminal window. Please don't copy anything from there. All you have to do is start a reply to this comment and then paste by pressing command-V again.
At the top of the results, there will be a line that begins with the words "Start time." If you don't see that, but instead see a mass of gibberish, you didn't wait for the "Process completed" message to appear in the Terminal window. Please wait for it and try again.
If any private information, such as your name or email address, appears in the results, anonymize it before posting. Usually that won't be necessary.
13. When you post the results, you might see an error message on the web page: "You have included content in your post that is not permitted," or "You are not authorized to post." That's a bug in the forum software. Please post the test results on Pastebin, then post a link here to the page you created.
14. This is a public forum, and others may give you advice based on the results of the test. They speak only for themselves, and I don't necessarily agree with them.
Copyright © 2014 by Linc Davis. As the sole author of this work, I reserve all rights to it except as provided in the Use Agreement for the Apple Support Communities website ("ASC"). Readers of ASC may copy it for their own personal use. Neither the whole nor any part may be redistributed.

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