My MPB 17 (Week 23) Review
I'm a long-time powerbook user, and just upgraded from a 15" AlBook (first generation) to a 17" MacBookPro. Here is a brief list of the good, bad and ugly. I'd consider myself a power user (programmer & database development, lots of VirtualPC / Parallels use) so my perspective may not be that of the average user.
The MacBook:
17" with 120gig drive, one gig of RAM, matte display.
I upgraded to 2 gigs of RAM with a generic RAM stick from a local vendor.
The Good
• Delivery / Shipping -- was quoted 10 days from order to arrival, the MBP actually arrived within 48 hours. It made it from Shanghai to my doorstep in under 23 hours! Perhaps FedEx should get credit for this. However, my coworker's order did not fare so well (see below).
• Noise -- this is one of the quietest laptops I've owned or used (over a dozen in my life). Several friends (all who can hear the "Mosquito" sound that's been on the net lately) could not hear any high frequency noise. If you max out both processors, there is a very slight fan noise. Hard drive is whisper quiet. There is a very slight "morse code" sound from the CPU, but it's only audible if you put your ear to the macbook, and it is much, much quieter than the similar sound that my G4 AlBook has.
• Screen -- big & bright. In terms of brightness & saturation, it makes my apple 20" Apple LCD display look a little washed out. Previously, I would have called the 20" display "the best I'd seen". The viewing angle is, of course, better on the 20".
• Build quality -- the case is good, screen closes evenly, lid is even (but see below)
• Speed -- it's fast. Way fast.
The Bad
• Heat -- using CoreDuoTemp, I'm seeing temps of about 60C to 65C when idle, which seems high to me. However, if I max out both processors, the temp won't go above 85C, and I can hear the fans turn on. The bottom of the case gets blazing hot, noticeably hotter than my 15" AlBook (which I thought was hot). All in all, I can live with this -- in practice it means no using on lap while wearing shorts.
• Migration Assistant -- after transferring over 60 gigs of data, I had some problems:
1. My spotlight index was fubard. Searches in Mail would only find about a dozen mail messages for a certain keyword (where I know there are 1000s of matches).
2. Static IP address problems -- I had a couple of static IP address network configs which did not seem to work right after transfer. I re-built these from scratch which seemed to fix the problem.
• Delivery / Shipping -- a coworker ordered a CTO macbook at the same time, and his has now been in FedEx's system for 3 days, and mysteriously was routed to Indiana from Anchorage (for delivery to Southern California). Mine came directly from Anchorage to SoCal.
The Ugly
• Screen Hinge -- if I tilt the macbook towards me, at around 45 degree tilt the screen will start to close. If I'm not paying attention, and tilt it further, it slams shut with some speed. This makes it unusable when lying down in bed or on the couch. Reading these forums, it looks like this may or may not be a design or build flaw. I may call apple to get their perspective on a fix.
• Screen bezel is sharp -- yesterday, the screen slammed shut on me and actually cut my thumb! The inner lip of the aluminum bezel is very very sharp. On my 15" AlBook, it's not quite as sharp, and the screen stays open so it's not an issue. I'm not the litigious type, lucky for Apple.
• Freezes & Kernel Panic -- I've had two freezes and one kernel panic in 48 hours. All three incidents happened within 5 minutes of waking from sleep, and two of the incidents happened when using a non-Apple wireless network (an old netgear box). One happened before I added the 2nd RAM stick. I've turned off hibernate, turned off IPV6, and things seem a little better now.
Summary
If I can't solve the kernel panics & freezes, the machine will be unusable. I'm hoping that these are software bugs that can be fixed by 10.4.7. I'm not sure if I can live with the loose screen hinge. Otherwise, the machine is quite good. I'll report back in a week or so with more thoughts...
MacBook Pro 17 Mac OS X (10.4.6)
Update: after writing my first post, I had another kernel panic, while using Airport.
Since then, I've rebooted, turned off Airport and plugged into a wired ethernet network. I've been running Parallels, surfing the net, streaming iTunes music, reindexing Spotlight and re-building large mailboxes in Mail. After several hours I'm panic-free. I've also run extensive RAM tests that came back clean.
Based on these symptoms (which other folks seem to share), I'm suspecting these kernel panics are due to some sort of Airport driver bug.
FYI, here are a couple of panic logs from /Library/Logs/panic.log
Thu Jun 15 22:00:00 2006
panic(cpu 0 caller 0x0019C9EF): Unresolved kernel trap (CPU 0, Type 14=page fault), registers:
CR0: 0x8001003b, CR2: 0x202d2d21, CR3: 0x00d81000, CR4: 0x000026e0
EAX: 0x036d3ac0, EBX: 0x037c7280, ECX: 0x00107f00, EDX: 0x0040c220
ESP: 0x202d2d21, EBP: 0x00107edc, ESI: 0x00000000, EDI: 0x00000000
EFL: 0x00010002, EIP: 0x202d2d21, CS: 0x00000008, DS: 0x00000010
Backtrace, Format - Frame : Return Address (4 potential args on stack)
0x107d78 : 0x128b5e (0x3bbf84 0x107d9c 0x131bbc 0x0)
0x107db8 : 0x19c9ef (0x3c13b4 0x0 0xe 0x3c116c)
0x107e68 : 0x197b8d (0x107e7c 0x107edc 0x202d2d21 0xf7f40048)
0x107e74 : 0x202d2d21 (0xf7f40048 0x10 0x317a0010 0x10)
0x107edc : 0x37f2e2 (0x375f700 0x37c7280 0x0 0x107f00)
0x107f0c : 0x38f5d8 (0x37c7280 0x0 0x107f6c 0x128dbf)
0x107f4c : 0x6f75b2 (0x3aacc00 0x0 0x37c7280 0x0)
0x107f7c : 0x6f7673 (0x375f700 0x0 0x3761f80 0x51)
0x107f9c : 0x658c01 (0x375f700 0x0 0x3761f80 0x51)
0x107fbc : 0x3ac6fa (0x3761b80 0x0 0x3761a80 0x51)
0x107fec : 0x197c93 (0x51 0x2500be98 0x2500be98 0x2000007f)
0x2500bf44 : 0x1990f4 (0x0 0x0 0x3175768d 0x216)
0x2500bf64 : 0x135d78 (0x0 0x0 0x2500bf94 0x135798)
0x2500bfd4 : 0x197a29 (0x0 0xffffffff 0x36bed48 0x37c7280) Backtrace terminated-invalid frame pointer 0x0
Kernel loadable modules in backtrace (with dependencies):
com.apple.driver.AppleAPIC(1.1.0)@0x6f6000
com.apple.driver.AppleACPIPlatform(1.0.4)@0x657000
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOPCIFamily(2.0)@0x565000
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOACPIFamily(1.2.0)@0x653000
Kernel version:
Darwin Kernel Version 8.6.2: Thu Apr 13 18:48:29 PDT 2006; root:xnu-792.9.59.obj~1/RELEASE_I386
Fri Jun 16 10:38:50 2006
panic(cpu 0 caller 0x0034FD9C): mbuf address out of range 0x80
Backtrace, Format - Frame : Return Address (4 potential args on stack)
0x24eb3cd4 : 0x128b5e (0x3bbf84 0x24eb3cf8 0x131bbc 0x0)
0x24eb3d14 : 0x34fd9c (0x3db980 0x80 0x24eb3d54 0x196fd8)
0x24eb3d34 : 0x350143 (0x36b69200 0x1 0x37aee18 0x0)
0x24eb3d54 : 0x233063 (0x36b69200 0x1 0x0 0x1)
0x24eb3e14 : 0x222007 (0x36b69200 0x14 0x24eb3f14 0x9719ce)
0x24eb3e54 : 0x223a8b (0x36b69200 0x14 0x11 0x0)
0x24eb3f64 : 0x211109 (0x36b69200 0x36b69200 0x42cb5c 0x135798)
0x24eb3fa4 : 0x1f773d (0x3cb4804 0x36b69200 0x36bf4816 0x1)
0x24eb3fd4 : 0x197a29 (0x0 0x0 0x376aef0 0x134aec) Backtrace terminated-invalid frame pointer 0x0
Kernel version:
Darwin Kernel Version 8.6.2: Thu Apr 13 18:48:29 PDT 2006; root:xnu-792.9.59.obj~1/RELEASE_I386
Mac OS X (10.4.6)
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I had an experience this week with the MacBook Pro that I thought I'd share with prospective purchasers...
Let me just say at the outset that I'm a committed Apple customer, having bought a number of powerbooks over the years, most of which I've been very happy with.
As anyone reading this board will know, it's exciting when a new computer comes out, but it can also be a bit scary when you make the decision to buy it because you dread the prospect of ending up with a lemon.
The trouble is Apple's apparent policy of considering a box with a 'broken seal' to be non-returnable (or at least, so the "resellers" tell us). With the exception of certain outlets, when you buy a mac, you don't really know what you're getting until you hand over your money (usually a sum in the four digits) and then if you're not entirely satisfied, you're stuck dealing with someone over the phone at Apple, somewhere across the continent...
Here in Vancouver, only one retail chain/store that I know of offers a 2 week, full refund, no questions asked kind of arrangement on all Apple products. For some reason, I was never wise enough to take advantage of this (until this week). My own worst experience of being stuck with a bad machine (well, really, my only one) was my purchase of the rev c titanium two or three years ago (867mhz -- was that rev c?). The squeal from the fans was notoriously bad, and for someone who spends a lot of time working on their powerbook in quiet settings, this was disasterous. There was ultimately no solution, and I ended up selling the thing a few months after I bought it for about half of what I had paid for it.
I didn't intend to buy a Macbook Pro yesterday, but on Monday, I tinkered with one at the store, and was surprised by how superior it seemed to the Powerbook. When I read about the Macbook Pro, I didn't think the new features added up to much, but after trying one out, it made quite an impression on me.
The screen is beautiful, the build quality and thinness of the computer -- even though it's slight -- is really neat. The speakers are also a quantum leap above what is found the PB. But more than anything, it was the speed that won me over and made me think: yes, I want this, now. I don't care about how few applications are universal... this is awesome...
But in the store, with the ambient noise, much is concealed. I decided to buy the 1.83 at the store that offers the refund and I took it home -- feeling no sense of commitment. I discovered that it was a unit made during the 8th week of production (using the site mentioned elsewhere this board) and I was weary about the "whine" issue.
In the quiet of my home office, it was a drastically different computer -- and it was really, really unfortunate -- because I wanted to keep this computer -- I wanted very much to justify keeping it. In short, this thing isn't ready for prime time. When it is, great; I'll buy one.
First, the fan. There is a fan in the top left corner of the motherboard that whirrs and squeals like a vaccuum -- constantly. I had a headache within about 20 minutes. The fan is so loud, it cuts down the amount of sound you hear coming out of the speakers, unless you crank them right up.
Second, the screen, although it's beautiful, it has a very narrow viewing angle, almost as though it can't be seen in its entirely from any given horizontal angle (this is something I couldn't really notice until I brought it home and reclined in my comfy office chair with it). Also, the screen itself appears to be more limited in its ability to tilt back than the powerbook. But I could live with this.
What I couldn't live with, and what broke the deal for me, was the drastically loud buzzing and static sound to be heard when the computer was on battery. (This was not a 'whirring sound', or a squeal, it was a buzz, as in a wire shorting, or radio static, but suprisingly loud.) It was simply unusable on battery. There is no way it could be used in a seminar, a quiet office, or the library. I thought initially that it might have had to do with the battery needing to be calibrated, so I tried to run down the battery. After about ten or fifteen minutes, I gave up trying, because the sound was so obnoxious.
So, unhappily, I took it back to the store this morning, and got in a chat with the manager (who I was friendly with and who was exceedingly patient with me). I explained to him that on the Apple boards, there was discussion about how some of the units made after week 12 didn't have these problems. I then asked if I could take a look at his stock of MPBs -- to look at the serial numbers to see if I could find one made after week 12. (He thought it was a strange idea, and even stranger that I knew how to figure this out, but invited me to do so.)
To my utter surprise, he said, "in fact, we just got three new units in today, right here." There were three on the floor, still in the manila boxes (i.e., the plain brown boxes), cold from having come right off the delivery truck. All three of them made during week 12, (factory W8).
We opened up one up, booted it up, and unfortunately, it was the very same story. A slightly less audible fan whine (but then I was listening to it in the store), but a noticable buzz from the battery.
Fortunately, I was refunded my money. I thanked and apologized copiously to the manager, and we parted company. I left the store feeling both good and disappointed. I wanted to keep one, but at least where I'm at, it seems too risky to buy one anywhere else in town without a "buyers' remorse" arrangement.
Sorry for the long-winded story. In short, I think the MPB needs another few months before its ready for those super-picky customers like me.
Powerbook 1.67" SuperDrive HiRes Mac OS X (10.4.5) Video iPod
Powerbook 1.67" SuperDrive HiRes Mac OS X (10.4.5) Video iPod
Powerbook 1.67" SuperDrive HiRes Mac OS X (10.4.5) Video iPod
Powerbook 1.67" SuperDrive HiRes Mac OS X (10.4.5) Video iPod
Powerbook 1.67" SuperDrive HiRes Mac OS X (10.4.5) Video iPod
Powerbook 1.67" SuperDrive HiRes Mac OS X (10.4.5) Video iPodserial number (written on the ouside box or found on the Apple menu about this maccclick two times on version ) :
W86XX,
Where W8 is Shangai (plant), 6 is 2006, and XX the week of production.
By the way the screen buzzing sound can be fixed by Apple. See other threads related to bad inverter and buzzing sound. -
Ok, so the honeymoon is over....(a week in review)
It's been a week since I purchased the iPhone and so far I have been delighted with the product. I've read the horror stories about problems with activation, e-mails,battery life, and countless other topics that I read about in this forum and in all fairness I have not yet encountered a major problem.
The peformance of the phone is what I've expected from apple. True there is room for improvement but what you have right now, this phone kicks azz.
Some of my reviews of the services and features of the iPhone:
AT&T- Activation was slow, but I expected that. I had to wait 2hrs. for the activation but once the phone the fun begins. I have made over 80 calls, the longest was 30mins. No one was dropped volume was loud and clear.
E-mail- Set-up 2 accounts: .Mac & SBCglobal. No problemo here with sending and recieving.
Safari- In some of the hot spots it's a little slow at home it's acceptable, not as fast as the desktop or laptop but when its at EDGE mode, I just cringe. Cut and paste...apple need to work on that real soon.
TextMsg- I'm not much of a texter but I have adapted to the touch screen easily. I use a similar screen at work but with practice, my typing errors has been cut down.
iPod- It's an iPod. I don't plan to listen to music on my phone that much. I have a Nano and the 60gb for that.
Camera- I'm a snob when it comes to this because I'm an avid photographer. If you're not shooting a DSLR like the Nikon D-200 you're shooting crap.
Google Map- Not exactly GPS but it's a useful tool. I was able to zoom in at my home in satellite mode, scary stuff
I know there are some other features I didn't mentioned but like I said, the overall performance iphone has been really good. Overall grade would be an A-
Mac OS X (10.4.10)My wife and I have had ours for a week and we are THRILLED with the phones.
AT&T - Mine took nearly 30 hours to activate, my wife's 7. I was angry at 1st about this but once the phone was working, I was happy. We left verizon and our chocolate phones for the Iphone and could not be happier. I have not experienced any connection issues, though my wife has had on instance of losing the service altogether. We found out it was an AT&T glitch that deactivated her phone, then reactivated it. Odd, and happened once.
Email - This is the MAIN reason I have the Iphone. I can get my emails anywhere and its a joy to send and receive email. Love the touch keyboard and can type amazingly fast on it now. My buddy has a $500 blackberry but I like my Iphone so much more.
Safari - Have not had one single crash and no problems at all. EDGE is slow as heck, but my WIfi is fast. Im happy so far and Apple has announced a flash plug in coming with the 1st update.
Text - AMAZING! SO much better than my chocolate. Again, the keyboard is so cool, and easy to use.
Ipod - Best Ipod Apple has made, BUT 8GB is not enough, plus I do not want to drain my battery using the Ipod. I have 2 nanos to cover my music. Coverflow and the album art plus touch interface is amazing. Im sure Apple will release a new Ipod like this. If so, Im in.
Camera - I too am a camera snob and use a Leica M8 (sold my D200) and the camera in my Iphone will not get much use except to maybe take a pic of a contact for my contact list. Its good for a phone though.
Google Maps - I have used this 4 times in the past week and LOVE IT! Amazing app to have with you on the go.
After 1 week I give this Iphone an A. I have found it a joy to use, I have had no major issues (low volume appeared to fix itself), and the touch screen has been flawless in operation. Anyone who bashes the Iphone has not really used it or given it a chance. Updates are coming, including flash, and other cool things. Anyone who says a Blackberry pearl is a better phone is crazy. If I was offered $1k and a pearl for my Iphone I wouldn't do the trade. Sorry. -
I am producing a weekly music review podcast. The page's information is on is http://haveyouheardmusic.blogspot.com
The feed for the project is http://feeds.feedburner.com/haveyouheardmusic
My feed was rejected from itunes and podcastalley (but not Digg). PCA throws an error that says something similar to "File does not exist" in reference to my rss enclosure.
Everyone is able to subscribe to the feed manually. My podcast validates at podcast validating sites.
I need help to fix my feed so I can submit my podcast to Podcast Alley and iTunes.
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As far as I can see from my system, this is a simple HTML document, with some links to other HTML document on the same directory, dealing with the Oracle HTTP server. The file was probably deleted by mistakes, and should not affect the server work. The simplest solution will be to just copy it from another OHS.
Regards,
Arie. -
Am I doing the right thing of selecting MBP instead of rMBP?
Hi,
I'm a game developer and am getting my first Mac computer just to jump into iOS game development. I currently have a Core-i3 17" laptop and it's doing what I want but can't make iOS files. I'm not sure what to do with my current machine when I get the Mac, maybe I keep it for our game development team, maybe not.
I spent 3 weeks reading reviews and forum boards regarding MBP and rMBP and finally chose MBP but as I've read more MBP reviews, reviewers despite saying that MBP is a good machine, say that it's the last iteration of Apple in the design and "a thing from the past".
Let me tell you about my thought process and hopefully people can help me:
Display:
rMBP's best thing against MBP is it's display, which I don't think I have any use for. I usually work with text editors to write code and almost never watch movies with my laptop's screen and always connect it to my TV via HDMI and no game engine is Retina-enabled as of now and I don't have images that fit that display nor I do film editing or intensive photography/Photoshop. So if I get the Retina display, I'll mostly switch it to 1440x900 in order to "work" with most softwares and as I'll be still using Windows alot, the 2880x1800 has no usage there as none of the softwares that I work there updated themselves. But it's IPS/LPS technology will be lovely for me and I don't forget first time I saw one of those 27" Apple monitors that blew me away.
rMBP wins here but I'm afraid it will hurt me more than being useful to me.
HDD:
I'll surely install Windows there so a 256Gb SSD will fill up way easily. I'll keep a lot of stuff on my machine and getting a better external drive helps but if I get rMBP I'll have to buy one, which adds another $100 or $200.
Also give that if you fill up an SDD, you'll lose performance gradually, I'll probably have to invest around $200 to get an external HDD if I end up with rMBP.
Also I want to install games on Windows to use it's GPU and with 256Gb, that will suffer if you use more than it's %85, it will be a waste. I know I can install games on external drive but that's not cool.
Yes SSD is fast, and my helps my work and loading games but I think here the size matters more than speed.
So MBP wins here. (I can later change MBP's optical drive to an SSD and put my OS'es there)
Upgradibility:
Since I'll probably leave for a teaching job and there are not apple stores there, if I want to repair my machine, I'll have to use unauthorized repairs so fixing MBP's are hard already, give the glued battery and soldered RAM, makes it almost impossible.
And also if I get rMBP, I'll have to panic and upgrade RAM at least, even though even games do not need that amount of RAM and when they do, my GPU will be the bottle neck years before that.
(Very nice article regarding thsii: http://ifixit.org/2763/the-new-macbook-pro-unfixable-unhackable-untenable/)
MBP clearly wins here.
Weight & Size:
Yes I, like most people, prefer a lighter machine but since I'm to a 17" HP and an old Core Due Toshiba, I think the 15" MBP will be light enough and that extra lightness is not mandatory for me.
rMBP wins but goes to some extra points that MBP aldready has.
Optical Drive:
I almost do not use it, so I can live without one. But I like the fact that I, apparently, can remove MBP's super drive and put an SSD there, maybe I'll do this like in about a year or so that I'll upgrade it's RAM, give that I take MBP.
MBP wins, because I can remove the optical drive and put whatever I want instead.
Resale value:
rMBP wins, clearly. Because most people's brains are in their eyes.
Possible error:
rMBP is first generation and new batch of a new electronic product and we've already heard and read about defected machines and me living overseas will make it even worse if anything shows up.
One of the things that I don't like about MBP is that I feel like I'm buying a last-generation thing because clearly Apple's aim is towards Retina and SSD but I'm going against it. Maybe I'm all wrong and should trust Apple.
So what do you think on this? Please be specific as you like, I hate general sentences without proof. And if you compare things, please show some website or proof for it so it will be easier to talk on a solid base/accusation.
Thanks in advance. It will be my first Mac that I'm buying with a looot of savings, that's why I'm scared a bit.Ordered 7/16/2012 the 2012 15.4" Macbook Pro (NON retina)
With:
2.6GHz i7 CPU
1GB GPU
HR Antiglare Screen
750GB 7200 RPM HDD (soon to be replaced with Crucial M4 SSD with a fresh install of Mountian Lion)
I really wanted the rMBP but just could not see the real value of the Retina display when the (HR) 1680 X1050 is really ideal for me. I also have the late 2011 Macbook Air that has 1440 X 900 resolution, it's not antiglare and not glossy either. I also have a 2006 Black Macbook with 1280 X 800 and it's not antiglare and not glossy. If the rMBP offered a antiglare display I'd probably still be deciding (took 3 weeks already).
The thoughts that keep me on the fence between the 15" rMBP and 15" MBP was "I need to buy the future and not invest in the past".
And since I made the decision Im glad I did (15" MBP Antiglare).
my Pros/Cons list
rMBP MBP
Speed X X (tie, if add SSD)
Expansion X
Weight X
Generation X (decided long ago to NOT buy 1st generation anything, if possible)
Repairability X
Resale X (not sure here but makes since, new beats old)
Antiglare X
Cost X
Ports X (FW800, Gigabit Ethernet, DVD/CD drive)
Value X -
Bug in details view: index columns not shown correctly, stops at 4th column
I do have two indices on a table which are shown in the details view. In the column 'columns' only the first 4 columns are shown that belong to the index.
If I choose an index in another detail view, all columns are shown correctly.
Where to report this bug?I just realized this was an issue today.
Once one knows that only 4 columns are shown in the summary and that you have to click on the index name for any index that shows 4 columns to see if there are more, well that extra click is pretty simple and not a big deal.
The problem is BEFORE one knows of this. For weeks, when reviewing some indexes created by others, I was under the wrong impression about some indexes because I thought they only had the 4 columns shown. I didn't know at that time that I had to select the index and look at the detail section.
It wasn't until I just happened to click on one of them and saw more columns listed that I realized there was a bug. And yes, as far as I'm concerned, this is a bug not a feature.
At an absolute minimum, there should be something done so users know they have to look at the details. Perhaps the heading could be changed to "Columns (up to 4)" or the ellipsis or (more) could be added as someone else suggested. Even just an additional comma would help. I can't imagine why it was written to stop at 4 anyway - why does that make any sense?
This is the first time I've come to this forum so I'm not sure how to request an enhancement. I'll read a few other threads and see if I can tell. -
Do new dual cores ship with 10.4.3 or........
Finally after 2 years of lurking in this forum, I have ordered a DC 2.0. I am new to Mac and have about 2 weeks to review what to do first...etc. I am wondering if I'll need to do updates to the OS or firmware before doing anything else, such as removing the MS office Test Drive to put the full version on. One thing I'm getting ahead of time is a UPS.
I ordered an internal airport card to connect wirelessly via (hopefully) a Linksys wireless router connected to my husbands PC (cable connection). If I have to upgrade to 10.4.3 or do a firmware upgrade, would it be better to download it ahead of time to a CD before trying the wireless connection - as there may be something in the upgrade to make it more compatible.
Would love to have a smooth setup...have really enjoyed these forums and all the enthusiatic help here.One thing I'm getting ahead of time is a UPS.
With my Quad received on Dec 1, I'm using a 1000VA Belkin UPS. It is the same UPS I used with my MDD Dual 867 and !9" CRT, plus misc Firewire drives and RX600 printer. I've exchanged the coumputer with the Quad (very quiet) and the monitor with a 20" Cinema. The UPS seems to be holding it's own. I, along with some others posted some links for recommendced UPSs in another thread.
If I have to upgrade to 10.4.3 or do a firmware upgrade,
would it be better to download it ahead of time to a
CD before trying the wireless connection
AS others have described, I just booted up, did the personal install on my Quad, then let it do the appropriate D/Ls and updates. You do elevate to 10.4.3 this way, plus any others that are needed. I cannot remember if wifi and/or bluetooth were updated. It was after all of this that I started addng my programs and files.
Your wireless should work fine for doing all of the D/Ls as this takes place after you insert your service provider settings. -
Delivering on your top feature requests!
Dear Adobe EchoSign community --
As Fall starts to settle in, [at least in the Northern Hemisphere], I wanted to share progress we've made on your feature requests. As context, our team sits down weekly to review your top feature requests that come from our community sites, our support, and our 1:1 conversations. Year to date, we've already delivered more than 80 of your top feature requests: Enterprise administration, API flexibility, improvements to our fields and more.
A partial list of the most-requested features delivered include:
Refreshed and new clients for Android and iOS
New sign-only role : control who has signing privileges, and who can send agreements
Batch user creation: enable/disable accounts
Ability to update & edit your published widgets
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EchoSign signature stamps on documents through text tags and form authoring
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Sending documents with phone authentication
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Allow signature delegation through the API
and more.
Over the remainder of the Fall, our key focus areas include the new Salesforce1 release, expanding our enterprise administration capabilities, building out the REST API, and the constant work on the SaaS infrastructure to increase performance, availability, and security. We have more to here.... we know! So keep the feedback and ideas coming. And thank you for your engagement and use of Adobe EchoSign. Hope to see you at Dreamforce '14.
-- Jon "JP" PereraEvita,
Yes, you can still vote on Accepted. (You can even vote for "Scheduled for release...", because sometimes we need to move features from one release to the next)
Accepted means that it sounds feasible to do and we can do it, but "when" has not been established. Please add votes to help that decision.
Rejected Just that, we have no plans to do this. I don't revisit rejected on the Exchange.
(However, some features that have been rejected have been discussed on the forum and we've reconsidered. We have also changed "rejected" to "accepted" on previous occasions, but only based on discussions here. Some features rejected have very poor explanations as to the problem users are trying to solve)
Open We haven't read them or made any decision on them.
Awaiting Community Votes means just that. Someone has proposed a feature and no-one else seems to be interested.With the long list of features, we do need to prioritize and some features requested are obscure, so we want more feedback from the community. More votes and feedback from the community helps. We sometimes get 10 points from some folk and zero from others for the same feature.
Please note that except for the Open features, the others we have touched and added feedback.
Problems I have with the feature requests is lack of clarity in the request and more than one request described in a single request. The extra features get lost and others can't vote on them.
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Fraudulent Skype Charge to Credit Card
At least once a week, I review my credit card charges posted to my account. Today, I noticed a charge for $25 posted by Skype Communications initiated on Jan 7, 2015. I do have a Skype account; however, there is no billing information on file nor have I ever purchased anything from Skype. I contacted my credit card company about this matter and they concluded my credit card information had been compromised. Therefore, I will be receiving a new account number and cards this week. I'm not sure if I am a random target, but I figured I'd share this info on this board.
Hi and welcome to the Skype Community,
Please take a look here to verify credit card charges allegedly coming from Skype. These instructions help you determine whether these charges were based of valid Skype order or if your credit card info was used fraudeulently and which actions you should take in each case: Why has my credit/debit card been charged by Skype when I haven't made a Skype purchase?
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Quality Manager - Clearing Unscored Call recordings
Probably a very basic question, but unfortunately I'm not yet familiar with this product.
Some of our supervisors wish to clear out a backlog of "Unscored" recordings from the list in Quality Management Desktop, so that they can start with a clean slate the following week.
Can anyone advise how to do this? I've searched documentation and googled but haven't had much luck.Hi
The unscored reports will eventually disappear.
You set different retention periods for scored and unscored recordings in the admin tool.
The idea is that you might for example set:
2 weeks for unscored
1 week for scored
Then your scored recordings would disappear after being available for a week for review, and the unscored ones will be around longer to allow time to get round to scoring them.
The scores are then kept on file (along with answers to the rating questions etc) for reporting purposes.
The retention periods are configured on the Workflow in QM Desktop Administrator...
Regards
Aaron
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Hi All
I have a MacBook and below are the symptoms of its malfunctioning :
On startup its gives chime sound with bad resolution of apple logo and load bar goes up to approx. 25% and white screen comes up.
And this been happening for almost 2 weeks now. OS : Yosemite
Model : MacBook Pro (15-inch, Early 2011)
Apple Service Centre Report :
Found machine boots with the scramble video.Did the SMC reset tried to boot the machine found the same issue.Tried with the reseating the ram still the same issue.Tried with the removing the airport card and tested still the same issue.Tried with the extrema os still the same issue.Tried with the MLb reseating still the same issue.Tried in the minimal config still the same issue.Therefore sending the quote for MLb.note-Need to test the machine post replacement of the part.
Resolution suggested by Apple Service Centre : Replacement of SVC,PCBA,MLB,2.0GHZ(Exchange)
I googled and found below links :
http://appleinsider.com/articles/14/01/16/owners-of-late-2011-macbook-pros-repor t-critical-gpu-failures-system-crashes
http://appleinsider.com/articles/14/08/12/apple-ignores-calls-to-fix-2011-macboo k-pro-failures-as-problem-grows
If this issue is common for MacBook 2011 early model, shouldnot apple do something about it?
Is there any way I can get in touch with apple and express my concern?
Thanks
AnkurThe same thing happened to my MPB 2 weeks ago. After a few minutes it turned on and has been fine since.
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Transferred Bill went on Credit report immediately
I am making an attempt to resolve my issue before taking further action. I transferred my account from my husbands for a couple weeks and cancelled it. I owed $155. I kept getting a summary for over $250. I wanted to get the discrepancy straightened out before paying. I finally got someone on the line at Verizon Wireless that understood what error had taken place about 2 months later. I had spoken to 3 or 4 agents to get the issue straightened out. The issue was never resolved even though I was told it was over and over again. Once I got the corrected bill ( 2 months later) I still had never seen a detailed bill and was told this is what I would get. I called again- 5th or 6th time by now and was promised I would get a detailed bill. About 4 months into the ordeal I finally got the detailed bill. I am very busy, it took me a couple weeks to review the bill. I called to pay the bill and they could not find my account, every time they entered it, it came up under my husband. I tried to go through the special over due bill link and the payment went to my husbands current account. I was not aware this had happened until I got a letter from a collection agency, I called Verizon the day I received it and they said the previous payment was posted to my husbands account. Okay fine! I called the collection agency and paid them. Finally my payment went to the right bill and everything was squared away! Until a couple weeks later, I got an email saying my credit score was going down 50 points. WHOA!!! I went on credit karma to see what was going on, it was Verizon wireless. I spent hours talking to the billing department trying to get them to understand that I paid this before it went to collections, it took months to get my balance and detailed bill. Also the day it went to collections, it was sent to the bureaus. This is where I seriously feel a violation is being made by Verizon Wireless. I cannot find any law or regulation allowing this. How is this permitted? I paid the agency the day I got the first bill! It was reported to transunion etc. 10 days later!
Hi ArnettH,
The bill is now accurately showing as paid since I paid the collection agency. When I paid on my account originally I paid what I thought the amount was at the time which didn't specifically match the exact amount owed. Therefore, they didn't allow that documentation as proof of payment prior to collections. Even though it is for the same phones that were on both accounts and I made the payment from my personal account. I sent all of the documentation I had. I am very upset about the practice of sending an account to the credit bureaus the day it leaves your office. I was told this is the procedure. I paid the exact amount owed to the collection agency since they were able to locate my account immediately as opposed to the numerous phone calls I made and could not get my account pulled up by your reps because the phone was still active. I now know they needed to look by my name, a couple of them must have been newer, when I said you have to look me up by my name or my husbands account will come up, they refused to do so!
I never had an issue paying my bill, it is my bill, I owed it. I wanted to know what I was paying for and make sure it was correct. For 2 months they had one of our lines active that we had shut off. I was told I would be credited for that and it took them another 2 months to credit me correctly for their error. Mainly because they couldn't find the account or accurately make the updates when I did find someone that would look me up correctly. I spent hours on the phone trying to explain my side and why I felt this should not have gone to collections. I don't feel that calling again would get anywhere. Is this truly the practice- to send someone to the bureau the day you send an account to the collection agency? I was a supervisor at a collection agency and I have never heard of such a selfish, mean, cruel, anti-customer service thing to do. Most companies allow 30 days for payment prior to turning into the bureau. I thought it was the law!
We currently have 6 active lines with Verizon with 15 megs of data. We have had Verizon for many years- we have always been very good customers. We only have Verizon now because that is the service we can get in our home. Well guess what, we are getting ready to move and are very ready to give our 6 lines of service and $400 a month to another company!
December 20- switched 4 lines to my own name from spouse.
December 24th- He asked if I would continue to pay the entire bill while we were separated. I had the bills joined back together. I was told I would have fees and charges and would receive a final bill.
I cancelled one of the lines that was no longer on contract.
I asked if it would be itemized because I would no longer be able to look online. I was told yes final bills are itemized.
Around January 15th I got a summarized bill for an amount that seemed to be very high. I called and was again promised an itemized bill.
February 10th- I got another summary with an additional amount which was higher than the previous bill. I called and was told that I still had an active line, this was the line I cancelled.
March - April 15 - Various phone calls ranging in results from they couldn't find me or refused to find me to promising to send an accurate bill with the correct amount.
End of April- Finally received an itemized bill that appeared to be accurate with incorrectly billed amounts refunded.
Mid May- Paid the bill to the special link to recovery I had saved on my computer. I did not have the exact amount with me so I paid what I believed to be accurate.
June 7- Received collection bill
Looked at my husbands account and noticed the amount I paid was applied to his account.
Called the collection agency and paid them, the same day I got the first notice.
June 9th- The bill that was paid to collections a few short days after they received it showed up on my credit bureau as unpaid and remained showing unpaid for 2 months.
July- Spoke to Verizon multiple times for hours pleading and begging for understanding so that my credit would not be ruined. Pointing out, I am still a current customer and all of the lines are still active and Verizon took months to get my account straight to NO RESOLUTION!! For an additional 2 months or more my account still showed unpaid. Once it finally showed paid, my credit score went up about 3 points with a total new damage of about 47 points for this debacle with Verizon!
I understand there are rules and you have to be fair. There are also extenuating circumstances and situations that do not fit into a perfect box. I feel I had one of those. I expected a human to review my human situation and encountered no real person that was allowed to have a mind of their own and make a decision that made sense! -
Streaming videos slow from sites that recently worked OK.
Video streaming from some sites, e.g., http://www.ussoccer.com/News/Referee-Programs/2011/09/Referee-Week-in-Review-Wee k-28.aspx, and others,
recently working normally. Now, extremely slow streaming to current 2011 21" iMac, old G4 'mushroom' Mac and Intel Powerbook (core duo).
BUT THEY JUST RIP ON AN iPad! SpeedTest shows about 10 Mbps download. Similar slow result for wired ethernet connection and over Airport.It's an intel Mac, 2.66GHz running os10.5.8. I normally use Safari unless it crashes- then I use Firefox. Safari is 5.0.6 and Firefox is 3.0.6. Both Safari and Firefox have had their fair share of crashing recently, but it doesn't seem like the video streaming problem lies in the browser. The computer itself seems to run very hot during video, which I'm sure is relatively normal, but maybe it's been overheating or something. If I let it cool off for a bit the picture gets better but still not close to perfect. I just want my iBook G3 back- that thing worked like a charm for 7 years haha
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ODSI 10Gr3 audit logs common/time question
Hi
With ODSI10GR3, We are investigating delays in processing of some DB2 Inserts
Inserst occur daily but th eproblem happens maybe once in a week
A review of the audit log during teh problem occurance shows the following
Comon/time is taking 33 seconds
common/time {
timestamp: Mon Mar 01 10:21:36 PST 2010
duration: 33323 }
with compile time being ~ 14 sec and insert time being ~ 4 seconds
Is it possible that things such as full gc ooccuring can impact this time?
We increased tx timeout to 120 seconds to avoid the timeout but would like to investigate further on this.
Thanks Much for any info
Best
####<Mar 1, 2010 10:22:09 AM PST> <Info> <ODSI> <qa-sc-eibapp02.corp.test.com> <ds_ms2> <[ACTIVE] ExecuteThread: '1' for queue: 'weblogic.kernel.Default (self-tuning)'> <service.uateibsads> <> <> <1267467729490> <BEA-000000> <ClientDataspace> <DSPAuditEvent timestamp: Mon Mar 01 10:21:36 PST 2010 severity: FAILURE id: ClientDataspace:48:Mon Mar 01 10:21:36 PST 2010 {
common/application {
user: service.uateibsads
name: ClientDataspace
eventkind: update
server: ds_ms2
query/performance {
compiletime: 14869
update/relational {
source: CBS_DB2_DS
sql: INSERT INTO "S109935E"."C@CR538"."C@CUNEW01" ("C@STATUS", "C@SEQNBR", "CUBK", "CUNBR", "CUSTAT",
"CUALT", "CUNA1", "CUNA2", "CUNA3", "CUNA4", "CUNA5", "CUNA6", "CUZIP", "CUZIP2", "CUZIP3",
"CUZIP4", "CUSHRT", "CUSSNR@", "CUSSTY", "CUCLPH", "CUHMPH", "CUBUPH", "CUPOFF", "CUSOFF",
"CUPOF1", "CUPOF2", "CUOPDT", "CUTYPE", "CUTYP", "CUSIC", "CUSEX", "CURACE", "CUOWN", "CUYREM",
"CUINC", "CUSRIN", "CUBDTE", "CUDEP", "CUCTC", "CUCTCT", "CUCIRA", "CUMNBR", "CUNTID", "CUUSR1",
"CUCLNK", "CUUSR3", "CUCDCH", "CUCDCN", "CUCDCD", "CUCMCH", "CUCMNR", "CUCMCD", "CUCVSH",
"CUCVCN", "CUCVCD", "CUCATH", "CUCATN", "CUCATD", "CUCLNG", "CUCCCD", "CULGLR", "CUCWHP",
"CUCPSP", "CUCTXN", "CUCPRF", "CUSHKY", "CUITLD", "CUPSTL", "CUACOM", "CUBRCH", "CUMIDT@",
"CUMRTS", "CUMAIL", "CUSOLI", "CUSOCI", "CUCPNA", "CUBPNA", "CUPERS", "CUSALU", "CUFAX",
"CUTELX", "CUTXAN", "CUDOCF", "CUDCDT", "CUTINU", "CUTADT@", "CUWPRT", "CUCECD", "CUCELM",
"CUEXTF", "CUMTND", "CUCNCD", "CUMARK", "CUEMPL", "CUINQ", "CUMNT", "CUCENS", "CUCODT", "CUDEDT",
"CUACCD", "CUBYR1", "CUBYR2", "CUPREF", "CUJBDT", "CUJDDT", "CUEMA1", "CUEMA2", "CUOPT",
"CUOPTD", "CUSPFG", "CUOENTTYP", "CUCENTTYP", "CUAMDT", "CUESDT", "CUENA1", "CUENA2", "CUENA3",
"CUENA4", "CUENA5", "CUENA6", "CUEPST", "CUEZIP", "CUEZIS", "CUEZP3", "CUEZP4", "CUAAPL",
"CUAAKY", "CUAREC", "CUASTA", "CUANA1", "CUANA2", "CUANA3", "CUANA4", "CUANA5", "CUANA6",
"CUAZP1", "CUAZP2", "CUAZP3", "CUAZP4", "CUAPSD", "CUASTR", "CUASTP", "CUASTS", "CUAFLG",
"CUARFG", "CUCLS", "CURISK", "CURDT1", "CURSK2", "CURDT2", "CUCRLN", "CUCRDT", "CUCRFR",
"CUCRND", "CUCRPR", "CUFSDT", "CUFSFR", "CUFSND", "CUSALE", "CUCSTS", "CUNETI", "CUPRJI",
"CUASST", "CUCURA", "CUCASH", "CUACCR", "CUMKTS", "CUREAL", "CULIFE", "CUINVN", "CUFIXA",
"CULIAB", "CUCURL", "CULTRM", "CUNETW", "CUDIRL", "CUINDL", "CUDIRT", "CUINDT", "CUREDB",
"CULCRO", "CUOTHA", "CUOTHL", "CU5WHP", "CUIWHY", "CUWHEX", "CUFILL", "CUREC1", "CUSTAD",
"CUFRN1", "CUCHIB", "CUCHID", "CUCLOB", "CUCLOD", "CUCCDD", "CUCDD1", "CUCDD2", "CUCHD1",
"CUCHD2", "CUCHP1", "CUCHP2", "CUCHP3", "CUCHP4", "CUCOL1", "CUCOL2", "CUCOL3", "CUCOL4",
"CUCCDT", "CUCCYD", "CUCTYD", "CUCIDB", "CUCDIR", "CUCIND", "CUCSEC", "CUCUNS", "CUCILD",
"CUCOPN", "CUCTOD", "CUCNON", "CUCHGO", "CUCRNB", "CUCQAG", "CUCQHU", "CUCQHI", "CUCQLO",
"CUCQDD", "CUCQDT", "CUDPD1", "CUDPD2", "CUDPD3", "CUDPDP", "CUDPD", "CUIPD", "CUUPD", "CUCAGY",
"CUCIAM", "CUCIAY", "CUCPAM", "CUCPAY", "CUCLTC", "CUCLSO", "CUUCMO", "CULCCA", "CUDRSD",
"CUFACS", "CUINDS", "CUIPDS", "CUSECS", "CUUNSS", "CUDPDS", "CUUCMS", "CUBDIR", "CUBCMO",
"CUTHR1", "CUTHR2", "CUTHR3", "CUTHR4", "CUTHR5", "CUFIV1", "CUFIV2", "CUFIV3", "CUFIV4",
"CUFIV5", "CUTEN1", "CUTEN2", "CUTEN3", "CUTEN4", "CUTEN5", "CUTWN1", "CUTWN2", "CUTWN3",
"CUTWN4", "CUTWN5", "CUTHI1", "CUTHI2", "CUTHI3", "CUTHI4", "CUTHI5", "CUSEV1@", "CUSEV2",
"CUSEV3", "CUSEV4", "CUSEV5")
VALUES (?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?,
rowsmodified: 1
time: 3655
common/application {
exception: Transaction timed out after 29 seconds
BEA1-000021E917F59C34B15A
update/service {
procedure: InsertNewCIF
arity: 1
dataservice: ld:CoreBankingSystem/LogicalServices/CreateNewCIF.ds
script: declare namespace ns0="ld:CoreBankingSystem/LogicalServices/CreateNewCIF";
declare namespace ns1="http://www.test.com/schemas/client/cbs/logical";
declare variable $__fparam0 as element(ns1:NewCIF)* external;
{ return value ns0:InsertNewCIF($__fparam0); }
common/time {
timestamp: Mon Mar 01 10:21:36 PST 2010
duration: 33323 }1) Is it possible that there is a database lock preventing the insert from being committed?
2) What does the audit look like for a successful update?
3) Notice that the "compile time" is non-zero. This indicates that the plan was not cached. Likely because it is the first time this was executed after the server was started. So not only do you have the extra query compilation time, there would also be time for loading classes and other initialization. (but 12 seconds of loading an initialization seems like a lot). Given that increasing the tx time to 120 seconds solves the problem (it does solve the problem, doesn't it?) I would say that this is the issue.
4) Given that you just started the server (right? see (3)), it's not likely this is due to GC. But you could enable gc verbose to see. -
Failing to buffer video - common problem?
I uploaded a video to CS Review through Premiere CS 5.5 for customer review today. I used the 2 Mbit option, as we are all on at least 20Mbit connections.
However, on the CS Review site the video (12 minutes long approx) is interrupted with the following error ever 10 seconds or so:
Failing to buffer video.
The server is not responding quickly enough to play back this video. Playback will continue when buffering is complete. [UnableToBuffer]
Is this due to lack of bandwidth on the CS Review site (csreview.acrobat.com)? Is this a common problem, or just a temporary situation? Right now the whole CS Review is providing a very sub-par experience for our customers. It seems like a nice idea, but needs to work if we are going to be paying for this come next year.My client is having the same problem -- but I encoded for the lowest level, the 1 Mbit option. We've been using it for a couple weeks now, reviewing some 20 different timeline segments -- from 3-4 minutes to 30 minutes long. She's getting these buffer messages all the time -- and it's also frequently just freezing up.
Of course, we're not sitting next to our clients -- so we can't tell whether they're clicking the same buttons too many times ... what's going on in their computers ... variations in their server connections ... etc. We're stuck here in a "the customer is always right" situation. We're providing a service to these folks and they don't like it when we waste their time.
But in general -- yeah, this is a super idea -- and lots of things do work well (relatively quick encoding, good image quality, eliminating the need for my client to write down any timecode numbers, being able to print a PDF record of what you're doing, having folder and project options at the CS site). So you're definitely on the right track.
But ... clients find it hard to play the files back and forth. The single-frame back & forth button is useful in some situations -- but clients want to be able to scroll back and forth to find in/out cues, etc. And this part of it is very clunky.
And if there's a glitch, we're not able to help them -- they're stuck. The CS site just does whatever it does, and things grind to a frustrating halt.
Maybe this should be a program you sell us, where we run it from our computers and our own websites. Or maybe it can be run from a faster, more responsive site.
This particular client of mine has given it a really good tryout. But now we're going back to me encoding & uploading files to my own website ... emailing her a link ... having her download the file to her computer, where she can easily play it, scroll back and forth, etc. This is also a clunky, time-consuming solution -- so it's not ideal. But at least we have control over the process and we can fix it when something doesn't work correctly.
I'd love to use the CS site -- I think it's a great idea. Yes, I'd certainly pay for it. I've tried it with a dozen clients for various size projects. It's been OK for a few -- unuseable for others -- clunky and slow for others. Needs more work.
Please fix it -- there's a huge market for this. If the Adobe version doesn't work, someone else will surely offer the same thing -- maybe as a program that we run ourselves.
I'm definitely an Adobe fan and I would love for this thing to work well.
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