Need advice/help on broken drive!

I have a 13' White Macbook, bought it the back end of 07.
I stupidly spilt some hot chocolate over it a few months ago but thankfully everything worked fine after I dried it out. The CD drive took a little work, it would only eject the CD so far so had to pull it out. Then I found it wouldn't finish CD's when I burnt them. Anyway I thought I could live with that and would buy a cheap external CD burner.
Anyway now I have a CD stuck in it. It won't even eject to a certain point and the drive won't recognise a CD in it. I have looked everywhere and tried every suggestion but it just won't happen! I have pretty much given up.
My main question is which external drive should I go for? I want to burn and play CD/DVD's and more my also big requirement is I want to play Sims 3 when it arrives next week. Can I do this with any drive or will I need some specific requirements?
My nearest Mac store is a good couple of hours away so I can't simply go to the genius bar, hence me asking on here.
Any suggestions would be great!
Thanks in advance!

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A http://www.patchburn.de/ patched drive that the software is compatible with, or one from http://www.macsales.com/ will do the trick. http://www.xlr8yourmac.com/ has a good guide for external drives that are fully compatible.

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Really need advice/help please

I am importing VHS movies and I need advice on procedures, I am really stuck so any advice given will be very helpful.
I have my VCR connected to a ADVC300 analog to digital convertor, which is hooked up to my macbook.
I am using iMovie 08, but have the previous one installed iMovie HD 6.
I have no problem importing the footage... it comes in as a DV file (which I believe I need in order to edit footage later on).
My problem is:
1) The size of the DV is HUGE. Is this the format that I need to edit to later put on DVD by converting to mp4?
2) I am a total novice, so is iMovie the best for doing the import? I have Final Cut Express, but I am not sure how to use it.
3) I also have QT Pro, but after I am done doing an import and transfer the DV file to my back up drive... I cant seem to get the import to pull up in iMovie again. Do you have to do the editing right away after the import or you loose the ability in iMovie?
4) My HD space on my computer is almost full and I thought that I deleted the DV file off my computer after transfering it to a backup drive. I went into Movies, and iMovies and deleted it... but it must be stored somewhere else, because I have like 60 GB used still?
Thank you SO MUCH!!!!

1) The size of the DV is HUGE. Is this the format that I need to edit to later put on DVD by >converting to mp4?
Yes, DV is huge. You really need an external drive. The hugeness of DV is not an issue for iDVD. iDVD will convert the DV or MP4 into MPEG2 for encoding on the DVD. If you get iMovie 09, you can send DV to iDVD. In iMovie 08, you share as an h.264 file and that goes to iDVD. In my experience, not much difference.
2) I am a total novice, so is iMovie the best for doing the import? I have Final Cut Express, but I am >not sure how to use it.
Yes, iMovie 08/9 is the best. You can easily edit in iMovie 08. However if you later want to edit in FCE, you can access these files from FCE. If you import into FCE, iMovie can't see them.
3) I also have QT Pro, but after I am done doing an import and transfer the DV file to my back up >drive... I cant seem to get the import to pull up in iMovie again. Do you have to do the editing right >away after the import or you loose the ability in iMovie?
In iMovie, click VIEW/EVENTS BY VOLUME. You should see your external drive in the Event Library list. You can drag your file from your internal drive to the external drive by dragging and dropping the icon for your event onto the icon for the external drive. If you do it this way, iMovie will still see it.
4) My HD space on my computer is almost full and I thought that I deleted the DV file off my >computer after transfering it to a backup drive. I went into Movies, and iMovies and deleted it... but >it must be stored somewhere else, because I have like 60 GB used still?
It might be in your trash. Try emptying your trash.

Question - Need Advice Regarding Second Hard Drive On HP Pavilion dv7t-4100 Notebook PC

Hi,
I currently have a HP Pavilion dv7t-4100 Notebook PC, and my hard drive failed (luckily while still under warranty!). So I contacted HP support and they are in the process of sending me a replacement hard drive, so that I may install it. When I opened the back of the notebook, I realized that a second hard drive could be installed, if desired. I would be interested in doing this! My current primary drive was (and will be again) a Toshiba 1 TB Internal hard drive Serial ATA-300 2.5" 5400 rpm, model MK1059GSM. I understand (from reading a previous post) that for the second hard drive, I will need to purchase a "2nd HDD Caddy & Cable for HP dv7-4000, dv7-5000, dv7t SE" (the purchase link the tech in the other post referred to was http://www.newmodeus.com/shop/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=345); and now I need to decide on the size (and other stats) of the hard drive that I will buy to install and used as the secondary drive. The HP customer service rep I spoke with on the phone about my primary drive replacement said that it is usually recommended to not go any higher (in capacity) than the primary drive, for the second drive, to ensure a more "stable" system (but I am not sure about the level of"technical" knowledge he has about the inner workings of the notebooks). However, from my upgrading experiences with desktop PCs, I was usually able to go as high in capacity as I could/desired; as long as the physical size of the drive was the same, and it was compatible with my system. And I usually did choose to go with a larger capacity second drive, as this was where most of my data and media files were stored (with the primary being used for mostly operating system and system files). This is my first time "upgrading" a Notebook, so I wanted to check with the techs here on the board- would it be a problem for me to go with a secondary drive larger than my primary drive's 1TB capacity? Also, are there any other factors to consider and keep in mind when selecting a second hard drive? Any advice and replies will be greatly appreciated. Thanks so much for your help with this! -Brian

You should be able to go as high as 2TB.
I also own a,(Older), DV7 notebook which has dual drive capability.
I bought my caddy from the place recommended and got everything needed including screws !
I matched the capacity in mine with an exact same hard drive and have never had a problem.
Minor battery life noticable but that was it.
Your system BIOS is what will hold you back from say a 3TB drive.
You can go to HP site and check the specs on your model and find out for 100 % sure.
HP Support & Drivers | United States
I would recommend doing what I did and match the drive exactly.
Good day !

Need advice on new hard drive for Time Machine, and have Firewire questions

I have an Intel iMac 2.66GHz with 500GB internal drive. I am going to buy an OWC 1TB drive to use for Time Machine.
I also have an older 160GB external drive with Firewire 400. I'd like to continue using it for extra storage, and would like both the iMac's internal drive and the 160GB external drive to be backed up to the new drive.
OWC's 1TB drive is available with Firewire 400 & USB 2. For an additional $30, it will also have Firewire 800. If I get the Firewire 800 drive and daisy-chain the iMac > new 1TB drive > old 160GB drive, will the iMac to 1TB drive run at 800, or will the 160GB drive's limitation of Firewire 400 pull the speed of the whole connection down to 400? (If the latter is true, then it would be a waste of money to get Firewire 800.)
Also, will it make much difference whether I use Firewire 800 or 400 for a drive dedicated to Time Machine?
Finally, the 1TB drive with a 32MB cache costs $20 more than one with a 16MB cache. Is a 32MB cache worth the extra expense for using with Time Machine?
Thanks!
Message was edited by: Patrick Houlihan

Patrick Houlihan wrote:
If I get the Firewire 800 drive and daisy-chain the iMac > new 1TB drive > old 160GB drive, will the iMac to 1TB drive run at 800, or will the 160GB drive's limitation of Firewire 400 pull the speed of the whole connection down to 400? (If the latter is true, then it would be a waste of money to get Firewire 800.)
I believe it will operate the entire bus at the slowest speed, but can't say for sure.
Finally, the 1TB drive with a 32MB cache costs $20 more than one with a 16MB cache. Is a 32MB cache worth the extra expense for using with Time Machine?
I went with the cheaper, smaller cache OWC drives for my backups on the theory that if caches speed repeated access of the same data, and a backup is always a single-pass stream of non-repeating data, then with a backup the data that goes in the cache doesn't need to be fetched again and therefore the cache isn't much help for backups. I'd love to hear if that's true.
I didn't answer the one about FireWire 800 for Time Machine because my Time Machine backups are over the network to Time Capsule. However, having a faster Time Machine drive interface should be faster. FireWire 800 certainly speeds things up for non-Time Machine backup software like SuperDuper which I also use.

Need advice helping raising my Fico score (571)

Hi guys, Long time lurker, first time poster. Long story short, I had a chapter 7 bankruptcy discharged September 2014. At that time, my Fico score rose 9 points to 584. Since that time, my Fico score dropped to 544, and has seen a very mild increase up to today’s date at 574. I don’t have any of my own credit cards, although I am an authorized user on all of my fiancés Credit Cards. Between her and I we have two installment (auto) loans. She has the following Credit Cards, with the credit limits in the first column, with our typical balances in the next column (first 5 cards are paid off in full each month by due date, the last 4 cards have running balances on them that are targeted to be paid off at various points in the next year) : American Express Blue Cash Everday: $2000 $200 10.0% Target Visa Credit Card: $6500 $600 9.2% Wal-Mart Mastercard: $6000 $400 6.7% Toys R Us Mastercard: $8000 $200 2.5% Kohl's Credit Card: $1500 $100 6.7% Kay Jewelers Credit Card: $7650 $700 9.2% will be paid off on 10/1/15Best Buy Credit Card: $3000 $2900 96.7% will be paid off on 2/10/16Citi Diamond Preferred Card: $8800 $7800 88.6% will be paid off on 6/3/15Capital One Card: $7000 $3300 48.5% will be paid off on 9/30/16 My question is: Do I need to add credit cards for just me, instead of being an authorized user on her cards? All of the cards I am added as an authorized user for are added to my credit report, and I thought with having multiple balances reporting each month that my score would change, but it really hasn’t at all. Does my bankruptcy really keep my score weighed down so much? Today I applied for a Capital One Quicksilver1 Unsecured card and was approved with a $1000 limit and I will start using that monthly. Should I apply for additional cards just under my name? I know that keeping most if not all cards below a 10% utilization rate is key, and we are trying to get there and hopefully won’t have any outstanding balances in one years time. However, I am curious as to what tips and advice I can get at helping raise my score. I figured that my score would be higher than it currently is, but clearly I am not doing the right things in raising it. Our plan is to purchase a new home next fall (she currently owns our current home just under her name), but by the time we are married next summer, it would be nice to have both of our incomes considered for a new house loan, and I certainly won’t help out that situation with my garbage credit rating. Thanks guys.

NormanFH wrote:
sanders_tj wrote:
I was approved for $1000 limits on both the Quicksliver One card and the Platinum. Those both should be sent to me in the next week or two. We will be starting to move the charges we currently use on the Target credit card (groceries), the Toys R Us card (dinner, activites, etc.) and the Wal-Mart Card (fuel) over to the AmEx card in order to take advantage of the cash back so there won’t be much of a balance (if any at all) on any of those 3 cards. I figured instead of paying some of our utility type bills such as cell phone, cable, internet, gas, electric, etc. I would put those on my Quicksilver One card and pay them off each month, just as I would normally do with the cash in our checking account. I don’t know what I will use the Platinum card for, but I’ll find a use for them. As for the first reply I received, yes, some of the balances are high on a few cards. Those aren’t charges of us just racking up debt for fun. Life happened (child custody case with my ex, vet bills, etc.). As I already stated, we have a payment schedule set up to pay off those high balances within the next year. Normally, we don’t carry that high of debt on our cards. And best of all, we don’t miss payments. EDIT: Is there no effect to my credit report (or is the effect not as substantial?) if I am an authorized user as opposed to the sole card owner?Remove yourself from the AU status on the four cards that have the high balances. No sense in letting those balances hurt both of your scores.PIF before the statement closing date ALL cards except for one. Allow that one card to report a balance of under 10%. That strategy will always put you in maximum FICO score territory. Request CLI's on both Cap One cards after the third statement. Don't wait for the credit steps. You will still get a credit steps auto increase at the sixth month+1

Need advice helping raising my Fico score (574)

Hi guys, Long time lurker, first time poster. Long story short, I had a chapter 7 bankruptcy discharged September 2014. At that time, my Fico score rose 9 points to 584. Since that time, my Fico score dropped to 544, and has seen a very mild increase up to today’s date at 574. I don’t have any of my own credit cards, although I am an authorized user on all of my fiancés Credit Cards. Between her and I we have two installment (auto) loans. She has the following Credit Cards, with the credit limits in the first column, with our typical balances in the next column (first 5 cards are paid off in full each month by due date, the last 4 cards have running balances on them that are targeted to be paid off at various points in the next year) : American Express Blue Cash Everday: $2000 $200 10.0% Target Visa Credit Card: $6500 $600 9.2% Wal-Mart Mastercard: $6000 $400 6.7% Toys R Us Mastercard: $8000 $200 2.5% Kohl's Credit Card: $1500 $100 6.7% Kay Jewelers Credit Card: $7650 $700 9.2% will be paid off on 10/1/15Best Buy Credit Card: $3000 $2900 96.7% will be paid off on 2/10/16Citi Diamond Preferred Card: $8800 $7800 88.6% will be paid off on 6/3/15Capital One Card: $7000 $3300 48.5% will be paid off on 9/30/16 My question is: Do I need to add credit cards for just me, instead of being an authorized user on her cards? All of the cards I am added as an authorized user for are added to my credit report, and I thought with having multiple balances reporting each month that my score would change, but it really hasn’t at all. Does my bankruptcy really keep my score weighed down so much? Today I applied for a Capital One Quicksilver1 Unsecured card and was approved with a $1000 limit and I will start using that monthly. Should I apply for additional cards just under my name? I know that keeping most if not all cards below a 10% utilization rate is key, and we are trying to get there and hopefully won’t have any outstanding balances in one years time. However, I am curious as to what tips and advice I can get at helping raise my score. I figured that my score would be higher than it currently is, but clearly I am not doing the right things in raising it. Our plan is to purchase a new home next fall (she currently owns our current home just under her name), but by the time we are married next summer, it would be nice to have both of our incomes considered for a new house loan, and I certainly won’t help out that situation with my garbage credit rating. Thanks guys.

I was approved for $1000 limits on both the Quicksliver One card and the Platinum. Those both should be sent to me in the next week or two. We will be starting to move the charges we currently use on the Target credit card (groceries), the Toys R Us card (dinner, activites, etc.) and the Wal-Mart Card (fuel) over to the AmEx card in order to take advantage of the cash back so there won’t be much of a balance (if any at all) on any of those 3 cards. I figured instead of paying some of our utility type bills such as cell phone, cable, internet, gas, electric, etc. I would put those on my Quicksilver One card and pay them off each month, just as I would normally do with the cash in our checking account. I don’t know what I will use the Platinum card for, but I’ll find a use for them. As for the first reply I received, yes, some of the balances are high on a few cards. Those aren’t charges of us just racking up debt for fun. Life happened (child custody case with my ex, vet bills, etc.). As I already stated, we have a payment schedule set up to pay off those high balances within the next year. Normally, we don’t carry that high of debt on our cards. And best of all, we don’t miss payments. EDIT: Is there no effect to my credit report (or is the effect not as substantial?) if I am an authorized user as opposed to the sole card owner?

Need advice on External Hard Drive

I have an old iMac (6+ years old) with 500GB which is essentially full and an old Time Capsule (5+ years old) with 1TB. (I also have 2 MBPs but I don't back these up). Now I am finally ready to do a "technology refresh" and am looking at the newest iMac 27" with 3TB Fusion disk and a new backup device. So I am considering one of the LaCie devices (either the LaCie 4TB Prosche Design or the LaCie 3TB (or 4TB) USB/Thunderbolt device. I am unsure which way to go with this. I am very open to suggestions on this particular choice.
I plan to move my many iPhoto libraries and iTunes library from the old iMac to the new iMac by just copying them using a Thunderbold cable as this is the only data I really want on the new system. I will re-install all Apple and Third Party apps. My husband will inherit my old iMac which will then have lots of free disk space after deleting the iPhoto Libraries. (He's stil a Windows guy so I'm using this approach to get him "converted" - he is not really a power user - mainly financial stuff and of course there is no Apple version of his perferred app - I will get to try either CrossOver or BootCamp).
I would then use the new EHD with TM to backup both iMacs. I would retire my old TC as I don't use it as a router and I find backing up via WiFi just too slow - TM also seems to slow down the whole system when running. Perhaps I could keep the old TC and use it to back up both MBPs but I consider the user data on them "transient" - i.e. I move important stuff to my iMac.
All feedback on my plans most welcome.

If you want to use Time Machine to backup all these computers, then you will likely need more than 2 TBs of storage. A TM backup drive should have at least twice the capacity of the drives it backs up. Therefore if you have 5 computers with total drive capacity of 2 TBs, then your TM backup drive will require a capacity of at least 4 TBs. Or you need to have more than one 2 TB backup drive. TM, however, can only backup to one drive at a time.
A centralized backup system for all the computers would suggest some type of wireless network storage solution. In order to get, say, 4 TBs of storage you would need a RAID enclosure that could support up to four 1 or 2 TB drives that could be configured into a striped RAID to provide the storage needs for a TM backup-based configuration. Preferably a box from Synology may work since they support Mac formatted drives and OS X which will be essential in order to use Time Machine. Synology is one of the few NAS developers that provide a TM based backup solution. Normally TM will not work with any NAS device except a Time Capsule.
iTunes and iPhoto libraries can be shared amongst all local network users as long as the computer with the libraries is online. Simply open iTunes' or iPhoto's preferences, click on the Sharing icon in the toolbar, then enable library sharing.

Need Advice on External Hard Drive Error

I just purchased the OWC 750g External Firewire HD for my Imac G4, plugged it in and it appeared in my Finder. The User Guide says that I need to use Disc Utility to repartition the drive, which I did, in 3 partitions - two to be bootable drives for my iBook and iMac (160g each) and the 3rd to hold data from both computers (the remaining 378g). However, after completing this and hitting "partition" I got the 'Partition failed - Could not unmount disk' message. Any clue ... I'm not extensively techno savvy but I do my best!
Thanks!
Sorry - I'm new at posting, so this appeared a few times in the wrong place

Probably something as simple as a restart of the iMac would be enough to remind the iMac that it's okay to unmount the drive.
Remember to use "Mac OS Extended ... (Journalled)" as the format for normal Mac use and as you have PowerPC Macs you should use "Apple Partition Map". Bear in mind you'd need to reformat for booting an Intel Mac.
cheers
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Need advice (help!) Can I get files from Time Machine to a PC

My Mac book's HD I think is dead. I have an external HD with Time Machine back ups on it. I really NEED to get my address book contacts off and onto my back up PC, for right now. Is there even a way to do that?? and while Im at it what about iTunes library?
Please tell me there is a way.

Chad,
I must disagree with Nerowolf on this one. You should be able to get the items you need off the drive, even connected to a PC.
Contrary to what Nerowolf believes, Time Machine stores backups as standard, complete files; it does not make "incremental" backups in the traditional sense. Each and every backup includes every file from the source, and each one is a complete file.
The trick with Time Machine is that the data associated with those many, many files is only copied to the drive once, and each "iteration" of the same file links to that single copy of the data. The process whereby this occurs is called "multiple hard links," and the resultant files are called "multi-linked files."
You need not be concerned with all this. The important point is that the files are seen as normal files to you and to the OS.
The real problem, however, is that those files are stored on a volume formatted as HFS+, and Windows cannot normally access this file system. If you attempt to connect your Time Machine drive to a PC, it will want to format it. If you really need to access the drive, you'll need something like MacDrive, a PC utility that allows Windows to mount and access HFS+ volumes. Look for it on Versiontracker.com (in order to use it, you'll need to pay for it).
CAVEAT: I do not know with certainty that MacDrive includes compatibility with Multi-linked files. Multi-linking is part and parcel of the HFS+ file system format, so there may be no problem, but you might want to double-check to make sure Multi-linked files are fully supported in MacDrive.
Scott

Need advice/help on Quicktime Pro

Hi. I'm trying to help a friend with a video project and I'm having a bunch of trouble. I've been using a variety of software, but I'm hoping that Quicktime Pro (Quicktime 7) can do what I want.
Here's the situation:
My friend has a five minute audio file that he wants to upload to YouTube. He also wants a still image to appear while the audio plays.
I created the image for him in Photoshop Elements - it was a doctored photo of two people. When I added the photo (a PNG) into Imovie 11, the image quality of the photo looked worse. The photo looked "softer" (it was less sharp) and the contrast was lower. However, I uploaded it to YouTube anyway, as a test. The finished video on YouTube looked even worse -- the colors were all orangey.
However, the orangey issue was less important than the softness issue. So, I decided to see if Quicktime Pro could do what I want. I own it, but I've barely used it. So, I opened the photo in Quicktime Pro and it looked just fine -- exactly as it had in Photoshop Elements. I then recorded myself using my Mac's microphone just to create an audio file to add the to the still image. I opened that audio file in Quicktime Pro, then copied and pasted the audio into the movie containing the still image. I then saved the movie.
I am running Lion, and I opened the movie in Quicktime Player (not Quicktime Pro) and it also played just fine. The photo looked right and it played the audio as well. So, I decided to then "Share" the movie to YouTube from within Quicktime Player. It didn't work -- I got an error saying "Operation Stopped The operation is not supported for this media." I got the same error when I trying to export the movie within Quicktime Player. Also, IMovie would not successfully import it.
I tried using Handbrake as well to export it into a different format, and that gave me an error too.
So, I'm not sure what is going wrong. Again, the movie plays just fine in Quicktime Pro and Quicktime Player -- the still image displays properly throughout the entire audio -- but I can't seem to export it or share it.
Any advice is appreciated.
Thanks.
Mirsky

Any advice is appreciated.
The description of your work flow is different from that which I would use. However, be that as it may, the key problem appears to be the default 15 fps frame rate automatically used to merge the photo and audio data. If you export the merged data directly from QT 7 Pro to any option which allows you to change the frame rate, the file which is then produced does not trigger the export stoppage in other applications. I successfully tested exports at 24 and 30 fps in both the QT X and HandBrake apps without problem.

Installing Leopard on a new HD on my MacPro tonight need advice; HELP!

I am installing Leopard tonight on a new WD 400GB HD on my Mac Pro. I also have Tiger on a different HD on my MacPro.. which I will keep untill I am sure Leopard is running properly.
I have a few basic Questions on how I should go about the installation:
1. Should I remove the jumper ( if it has one installed) that came with the new Western Digital 400GB SATA II HD drive even though it will be a master.. I had heard that SATA II HD's didn't need jumper settings on a MacPro...
2. Before I install Leopard should I format the drive in Tiger for HFS+ Journaled? or will the Leopard install program do that for me?
3. To start do I just put the CD in and shut down and restart the MacPro and then point the Lepoard DVD at the new drive ? (which I will name Leopard)
On boot after installation is it the command or option key that I press on boot to select between starting in Tiger or Leopard?
Thanks...

You shouldn't have a problem. There's no license checking by the Leopard install

Need advice with internal DVD Drive

Hello, my dvd drive reads CD's but not DVD's (Movie or Data). It makes a clicking sound then ejects the DVD which made me think it was a hardware failure, but when I put in a CD,it is fine. I've deleted the dvd.plist and ran permmission fixer. Any ideas, or should I just get a new drive.

Go here and scream at Apple for refusing to address this ongoing issue. Explain the issue(s) you are having. -
http://www.apple.com/macosx/feedback/
People keep starting new discussion threads on this same old problem. If you have the money to go out and spend around $20 (US) on a DVD lens cleaner, please post your result here.
I posted the following response yesterday in a similar thread:
I realize this isn't a forum for venting, but I'm really getting sick of this ongoing issue. Where is Apple in all of this? Read on, if you want to see how far back this goes.
I have an older G5, purchased in November 2003, with a Pioneer Stupordrive which exhibits the same awful behavior. I've been following these G5 Superdrive discussion threads for nearly a year, and I've tried most of the suggestions offered. None have worked for me, and it appears that there are a large number of Mac owners with similar DVD drive problems.
My Stupordrive used to mount and play ALL DVDs. That lasted for about 1-1/2 years from purchase. Now it plays some retail DVD movies, but not others. It burns DVDs just fine, but won't read them (see below). Sometimes it ejects them, other times it just sits there trying to mount with the "unfomatted floppy" sound until I manually eject via the eject key (takes two tries). I have used various brands for burning, including the over-priced DVD-R's (4x) from the Apple store. No problems with burning or reading CDs. I will try Verbatim, but seriously doubt it will make any difference. The worst part of this is that I have about 25Gb of unreachable DATA on DVDs.
This problem seems to be prevalent, and is independent of OS version, purchase date, or configuration. Before I go out and spend money (even $40) on a new drive, I want to be sure it will not behave the same way because of some fundamental flaw in the G5 architecture or the OS.
I have an ancient Micron PC that's six years old with its original DVD player. Guess what; it mounts and plays/reads every DVD I put in it, including those I burned on the Mac.
Can anyone suggest a drive that will work on the G5 and last for more than a year or so?

Need Advice / Help

HI.. i have a program here that works as a simple chat program...
i have Strider.java as the server and Hiryu.java as the client...
my question is, althoug it is already running, the server and client
can't meet each other.
the server can't detect if there's a connection or the client can't connect
i can't see if there's really a connection happen..
could they please help me solve my problem. i have here
the codes of my program..
//Strider.java
import java.io.*;
import java.net.*;
import java.awt.*;
import javax.swing.*;
import java.awt.event.*;
public class Strider extends JFrame implements ActionListener
ObjectOutputStream output;
ObjectInputStream input;
String msg;
JTextField txtfld;
JTextArea txtarea;
public Strider()
Container c = getContentPane();
c.setLayout(new FlowLayout());
txtfld = new JTextField(10);
txtarea = new JTextArea(10,20);
txtfld.addActionListener(this);
c.add(txtfld);
c.add(new JScrollPane(txtarea));
setSize(230,250);
show();
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sendData(e.getActionCommand());
public void runStrider()
ServerSocket server;
Socket connection;
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try {
server = new ServerSocket(5000, 100);
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txtarea.setText("Waiting for someone to connect");
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input = new ObjectInputStream(connection.getInputStream());
txtarea.append("\n Got I/O Streams \n");
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msg = (String) input.readObject();
txtarea.append("\n" + msg);
txtarea.setCaretPosition(txtarea.getText().length());
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txtarea.append("\nUnknown Object type received");
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txtarea.append("\nUser Terminated connection");
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input.close();
connection.close();
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catch(EOFException eof){
System.out.println("Client terminated connection");
catch(IOException io){
io.printStackTrace();
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try{
output.writeObject("Server>>" + s);
output.flush();
txtarea.append("\nServer>>" + s);
catch(IOException cnfex){
txtarea.append("\nError writing Object");
public static void main(String[] args)
Strider app = new Strider();
app.addWindowListener(
new WindowAdapter()
public void windowClosing(WindowEvent e)
System.exit(0);
app.runStrider();
//Hiryu.java
import java.io.*;
import java.net.*;
import java.awt.*;
import javax.swing.*;
import java.awt.event.*;
public class Hiryu extends JFrame implements ActionListener
ObjectOutputStream output;
ObjectInputStream input;
String msg;
JTextField txtfld;
JTextArea txtarea;
public Hiryu()
Container c = getContentPane();
c.setLayout(new FlowLayout());
txtfld = new JTextField(10);
txtarea = new JTextArea(10,20);
txtfld.addActionListener(this);
c.add(txtfld);
c.add(new JScrollPane(txtarea));
setSize(230,250);
show();
public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e)
sendData(e.getActionCommand());
public void runClient()
Socket client;
try {
txtarea.setText("Attempting Connection\n");
client = new Socket(InetAddress.getByName("127.168.2.109"), 5000);
txtarea.append("Connected to:" + client.getInetAddress().getHostName());
output = new ObjectOutputStream(client.getOutputStream());
output.flush();
input = new ObjectInputStream(client.getInputStream());
txtarea.append("\n Got I/O Streams \n");
msg = "Server>> Connection Successful";
output.writeObject(msg);
output.flush();
do{
try{
msg = (String) input.readObject();
txtarea.append("\n" + msg);
txtarea.setCaretPosition(txtarea.getText().length());
catch(ClassNotFoundException cnfex){
txtarea.append("\nUnknown Object type received");
}while(!msg.equals("Server>> Terminate"));
txtarea.append("\nUser Terminated connection");
output.close();
input.close();
client.close();
//++counter;
catch(EOFException eof){
System.out.println("Client terminated connection");
catch(IOException io){
io.printStackTrace();
public void sendData(String s)
try{
output.writeObject("Client>>" + s);
output.flush();
txtarea.append("\nClient>>" + s);
catch(IOException cnfex){
txtarea.append("\nError writing Object");
public static void main(String[] args)
Hiryu app = new Hiryu();
app.addWindowListener(
new WindowAdapter()
public void windowClosing(WindowEvent e)
System.exit(0);
app.runClient();
}

i'm sory for the inconvinience, here's the formated one..
it's not really my intention.. my mistake..
still, would they help me please?
//Strider.java
import java.io.*;
import java.net.*;
import java.awt.*;
import javax.swing.*;
import java.awt.event.*;
public class Strider extends JFrame implements ActionListener
ObjectOutputStream output;
ObjectInputStream input;
String msg;
JTextField txtfld;
JTextArea txtarea;
public Strider()
Container c = getContentPane();
c.setLayout(new FlowLayout());
txtfld = new JTextField(10);
txtarea = new JTextArea(10,20);
txtfld.addActionListener(this);
c.add(txtfld);
c.add(new JScrollPane(txtarea));
setSize(230,250);
show();
public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e)
sendData(e.getActionCommand());
public void runStrider()
ServerSocket server;
Socket connection;
int counter = 1;
try {
server = new ServerSocket(5000, 100);
while(true){
txtarea.setText("Waiting for someone to connect");
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txtarea.append("Connection" + counter + "received from:" + connection.getInetAddress().getHostName());
output = new ObjectOutputStream(connection.getOutputStream());
output.flush();
input = new ObjectInputStream(connection.getInputStream());
txtarea.append("\n Got I/O Streams \n");
msg = "Server>> Connection Successful";
output.writeObject(msg);
output.flush();
do{
try{
msg = (String) input.readObject();
txtarea.append("\n" + msg);
txtarea.setCaretPosition(txtarea.getText().length());
catch(ClassNotFoundException cnfex){
txtarea.append("\nUnknown Object type received");
}while(!msg.equals("Client>> Terminate"));
txtarea.append("\nUser Terminated connection");
output.close();
input.close();
connection.close();
++counter;
catch(EOFException eof){
System.out.println("Client terminated connection");
catch(IOException io){
io.printStackTrace();
public void sendData(String s)
try{
output.writeObject("Server>>" + s);
output.flush();
txtarea.append("\nServer>>" + s);
catch(IOException cnfex){
txtarea.append("\nError writing Object");
public static void main(String[] args)
Strider app = new Strider();
app.addWindowListener(
new WindowAdapter()
public void windowClosing(WindowEvent e)
System.exit(0);
app.runStrider();
//Hiryu.java
import java.io.*;
import java.net.*;
import java.awt.*;
import javax.swing.*;
import java.awt.event.*;
public class Hiryu extends JFrame implements ActionListener
ObjectOutputStream output;
ObjectInputStream input;
String msg;
JTextField txtfld;
JTextArea txtarea;
public Hiryu()
Container c = getContentPane();
c.setLayout(new FlowLayout());
txtfld = new JTextField(10);
txtarea = new JTextArea(10,20);
txtfld.addActionListener(this);
c.add(txtfld);
c.add(new JScrollPane(txtarea));
setSize(230,250);
show();
public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e)
sendData(e.getActionCommand());
public void runClient()
Socket client;
try {
txtarea.setText("Attempting Connection\n");
client = new Socket(InetAddress.getByName("127.168.2.109"), 5000);
txtarea.append("Connected to:" + client.getInetAddress().getHostName());
output = new ObjectOutputStream(client.getOutputStream());
output.flush();
input = new ObjectInputStream(client.getInputStream());
txtarea.append("\n Got I/O Streams \n");
msg = "Server>> Connection Successful";
output.writeObject(msg);
output.flush();
do{
try{
msg = (String) input.readObject();
txtarea.append("\n" + msg);
txtarea.setCaretPosition(txtarea.getText().length());
catch(ClassNotFoundException cnfex){
txtarea.append("\nUnknown Object type received");
}while(!msg.equals("Server>> Terminate"));
txtarea.append("\nUser Terminated connection");
output.close();
input.close();
client.close();
//++counter;
catch(EOFException eof){
System.out.println("Client terminated connection");
catch(IOException io){
io.printStackTrace();
public void sendData(String s)
try{
output.writeObject("Client>>" + s);
output.flush();
txtarea.append("\nClient>>" + s);
catch(IOException cnfex){
txtarea.append("\nError writing Object");
public static void main(String[] args)
Hiryu app = new Hiryu();
app.addWindowListener(
new WindowAdapter()
public void windowClosing(WindowEvent e)
System.exit(0);
app.runClient();
}

Need advice/help with Derogatory reporting from Wells Fargo Bank (Wells Fargo is the DEVIL)

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LeeRivers wrote:
The story goes like this … my monthly payment amount due suddenly changed from $150.00 (even) per month to $150.80. Because I obtain online only statements and was busy with life (taking care of mom with dementia etc) I didn’t realize the change and logged in for a few months and only paid $150.00. Wells Fargo subsequently reported me as “30 days past due" for the months of June & July 2014 for the $1.60 balance. Really Wells Fargo????It is unfortunate but it is accurate and they're under no obligation to remove. All you can do is to try to escalate but that may not even lead to a removal. LeeRivers wrote:
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