Maxent isn't the solution

I just purchased a refurb Mac Mini and a large external Maxtor FW drive with the intention of using it as a music server using my standard old TV for a display. As it sits in the living room next to my sound system and TV it all made sense though I wish the Mini had a digital audio output.
After a couple of days the TV began to show its limitations as a computer display. I looked into the Apple displays, but without having the ability to use it as a TV monitor that idea was out.
So I was at Costco and I fell for it. There was a very nice-looking Maxent MX-26X3 screaming out Buy me, buy me. The salesman told me that, although the blurb sign said DVI input and not for MAC[sic], their marketing guys dont know what theyre talking about. He said it would probably work with DVI on my Mac.
Not!
I tried both the RGB (with the Apple DVIRGB converter) and the DVI (with an AR DVI cable) inputs with both my Mac Mini and my less than two-year-old PB G4 (both running OS X 10.4.2). Nothing worked.
I finally spoke with a support person at Maxent who clearly stated that the machine does not work with Macs. Period.
Ill be returning the Maxent later in the week.
Its a nice looking TV, but if you want a simple solution for both TV and LCD Mac Mini monitor this isnt the one.
Maybe Im asking for too much in the $700 - $900 price range. Any good ideas for a reasonably priced, 26 LCD that would work as both a TV, a Mac Mini monitor and have HDTV capability?

I can't believe you actually got in touch with anyone representing Maxent.
I am trying to use a Maxent plasma with my mini as well.
Mine is the EDTV model. MX-42VM11. It works fine with my PC.
The mini actually displays the gray startup screen just fine but the monitor display goes blank when it tries to display the desktop.
Also, I can make it work by the following method:
Let the mini boot completely while hooked to a standard monitor. Then simply unplug the cable from the mini and hook to the plasma. It then works fine until the next reboot.
So, the Maxent will work with the Maxent plasma.
This is where I don't really know enough about how the Mac works as I am much better with the PC.
I am still trying to define exactly what is happening when the failure occurs and what the differences are when using the DVI input vs the RGB input of the Maxent.
I briefly tried DisplayConfigX one evening but saw no improvement or change in behavior. I must play with it more and also plan on trying SwitchResX for comparison sake.
I read in one forum that the two apps behave a bit differently.
At this point, I have to believe that my Maxent will work with the mini unless someone can tell me specifically why it won't.
Craig

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Hi All,
I have been working on converting the standard eBS Sales Invoice report to BIP over the past few weeks. I started to use the solution on Tim's blog:
http://blogs.oracle.com/xmlpublisher/2007/03/27/
For those people who haven't looked this, the solution uses variables to set and calculate the number of transaction rows to be displayed on a page. Filler rows are also inserted to pad out the page should the number of transaction rows be less that the number to be displayed on a page (if using this be careful though as there is a problem with the way the filler rows work as pointed out by Mike Parr in the comments of the blog http://blogs.oracle.com/xmlpublisher/2007/03/anatomy_of_a_template_ii_heade.html).
This solution is fine if the size of the data in the transaction row is never long enough to cause it to wrap within a column. For example, in the Sales Invoice, it is common for the Invoice Line Description to wrap 3 or 4 lines within the column. When this happens, the rows per page method goes out of the window as the number that can physically fit on the page is reduced due to the single data row spanning multiple layout rows.
I have had a good play around with fixing table row heights but to no avail. Also had a look at some of the standard RTF templates available in the latest release of R12. but couldn't find an example where this problem is addressed. I am 100% sure that someone must have hit this before so any advice and/or solutions would be greatly appreciated.
Perhaps the solution for this could be incorporated into a future blog post or example?
Cheers,
Jon.

Yep agreed. With fixed width fonts you could determine how many characters will display on a line but there is no telling where the word wrapping will occur. Suppose you could get really clever and use the position of the spaces to determine where the wraps will occur, then work out how many rows the line will take up (gulp!). Anyway, using fixed width fonts like courier will make the report look rubbish so I want to avoid this.
A response from the Oracle bod's wouldn't go a miss on this? Tim, et al?
Cheers,
Jon.

IMac is running slow again after upgrading Memory to 6 GB 800 MHz DDR2 SDRAM. Mail is especially slow. I have searched the community info, but I am really a novice and most of the solutions appear to be beyond my level of proficiency. Please help!

I am at a loss. even after reading other questions and responses. After upgrading to Mt. Lion, everything on my iMac slowed down. I knew more memory would be needed, so I went from 2G to 6G. That worked for awhile, but now, about 3 weeks later, things are slowing down again. Mail is especially slow, when moving from one message to another, and also just plain typing is delayed in mail. iPhoto has had the spinning wheel issue since change to Mt. Lion, but it eventually stops and the app itself is functional, so this is just annoying as much as anything.
Any easy, simple to follow instructions would be appreciated. Is it better for a novice to take to the Genius Bar or to an approved Mac repair center in my area, rather than attempt some of the solutions I've seen offered here. And, if I do, what's the likelihood the issues will be resolvable?? Clearly, I am not the only one with this issue ...
Thanks for any help you can offer.

There are a few other possible causes of generalized slow performance that you can rule out easily.
Reset the System Management Controller.
If you have many image or video files on the Desktop with preview icons, move them to another folder.
If applicable, uncheck all boxes in the iCloud preference pane.
Disconnect all non-essential wired peripherals and remove aftermarket expansion cards, if any.
Check your keychains in Keychain Access for excessively duplicated items.
Boot into Recovery mode, launch Disk Utility, and run Repair Disk.
If you're booting from an aftermarket SSD, see whether there's a firmware update for it.
Otherwise, take the steps below when you notice the problem.
Step 1
Launch the Activity Monitor 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 Activity Monitor in the icon grid.
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Click the heading of the % CPU column in the process table to sort the entries by CPU usage. You may have to click it twice to get the highest value at the top. What is it, and what is the process? Also post the values for % User, % System, and % Idle at the bottom of the window.
Select the System Memory tab. What values are shown in the bottom part of the window for Page outs and Swap used?
Next, select the Disk Activity tab. Post the approximate values shown for Reads in/sec and Writes out/sec (not Reads in and Writes out.)
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If you have more than one user account, you must be logged in as an administrator to carry out this step.
Launch the Console application in the same way you launched Activity Monitor. Make sure the title of the Console window is All Messages. If it isn't, select All Messages from the SYSTEM LOG QUERIES menu on the left. If you don't see that menu, select
View ▹ Show Log List
from the menu bar.
Select the 50 or so most recent entries in the log. Copy them to the Clipboard (command-C). Paste into a reply to this message (command-V). You're looking for entries at the end of the log, not at the beginning.
When posting a log extract, be selective. Don't post more than is requested.
Please do not indiscriminately dump thousands of lines from the log into this discussion.
Important: Some personal information, such as your name, may appear in the log. Anonymize before posting. That should be easy to do if your extract is not too long.

I HAVE FOUND THE SOLUTION FOR THE FIRMWARE UPDA

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for all of you that fall in this...
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... i believe you will forgive this little silly joke of mine
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How to copy and paste the solution files of SharePoint 2010 from one machine to another machine?

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I was working with SharePoint 2010 in one of my Virtual machines.Now that the lease for my Virtual Machine is going to expire, I want to shift the entire contents of the project to another machine (local) with SharePoint 2010. Also, I want the pages
in the other machine to be editable.
How can I copy the solution files to the other machine? And I want the exact path where the files are located, so that I can shift them to the other machine.
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...that's not a good approach.
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Why isn't the apogee working

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I get annoying spam in the Spam Detector from a sender that I will refer to as XYZ for this question. Using Settings/Email Settings/Filters, I added a new filter "If From Contains XYZ delete" and saved the new filter. Today I got another spam in the Spam Detector from the same XYZ sender. Why isn't the filter causing this email to be automatically deleted? Thanks for any suggestions.
I think that the Spam Detector runs before your custom filters, and custom filters only work on the inbox folder. If Spam Detector moved it from the inbox before the filters were run, then the filter wouldn't delete it.
If a forum member gives an answer you like, give them the Kudos they deserve. If a member gives you the answer to your question, mark the answer as Accepted Solution so others can see the solution to the problem.
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Why isn't the filter working?

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HT1222 ipad apps 1 I lost all after I installed new windows and I tried to connect it between your computer and iPad, what's the solution? (Please Inbox : Bambangtjio@yahoo.o.id) Thanks

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When the Blackberry started to use Bluetooth the "gold standard" was using Microsoft's
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The problem report needs to be resolved or it wont go away. Read the manual, call Dell,
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Make the best investment you can make for your Blackberry, buy a media card.
All the memory in the BB is dynamic, this facilitates the functions of the phone.
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Store all media and files on the media card, and you will have a smooth running device.
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media a snap. You will need the USB adapter that came with it, but you can get that at
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On the Blackberry go to the options icon,click then scroll up to ABOUT.
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Send it back to me and I can tell you what size card you can get.
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No Internet during power outage - Isn't the battery in the NTU supposed to keep the circuit up?

During yesterday's power outage in Northern Virginia I lost all Internet connectivity; yet my NTU battery was up but my Verizon router was saying the cable wan was down. Why?
Isn't the NTU battery supposed to keep the circuit up in case of power failure? if is not, why did I spend $30 replacing it when it failed since Verizon is too cheap to replace it, even though we all pay them those outragous bills every month.
Why, Why, Why
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Vuser wrote:
During yesterday's power outage in Northern Virginia I lost all Internet connectivity; yet my NTU battery was up but my Verizon router was saying the cable wan was down. Why?
Isn't the NTU battery supposed to keep the circuit up in case of power failure? if is not, why did I spend $30 replacing it when it failed since Verizon is too cheap to replace it, even though we all pay them those outragous bills every month.
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I do not know the security questions and when do I apply for the questions do not come to on Emile rescue!! What is the solution..?

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I am un able to send mail as it gets stuck in my outbox. I am sure the solution is simple but need help?

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Safari make "safari left of unforeseen way" and not open the application. What's the solution ?

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There is no need to download anything to solve this problem.
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does anyone have any other ideas to try or observations on compatibility between iPhone, Samsung, and HTC for international SMS?
International texting can be a crap shoot. It's not a question of phone compatibility but of carrier interoperability. I regularly text from my iPhone to my (domestic) colleagues (who all have Samsungs) and to a friend with and HTC (an old one, too) without difficulty.
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I'm not sure there really is such thing as an orphan text. If a text isn't deliverable, the carrier deletes it from it's system. SMS is quite a robust system.
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I have vague memories of people saying that a trailing space at the end of the text made a difference when they had similar problems. It was a couple of years ago. (Honestly, this problem doesn't come up that often!). I don't recall if putting in the traling space helped, or removing it helped. It may also just have been magical thinkning.
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No one from Apple monitors these forums, so it isn't the place to voice complaints or suggestions. Go here:
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IPOD Not Recognized By Windows XP - The Solution!!!

Hi folks,
I came across the solution to this problem over on the Microsoft website and it instantly cured my problems. Here are the steps:
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Go to the program icons near the clock and right click the usb icon and "safely remove hardware" will appear and click it. stop it and select " apple ipod"
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