New MB experience :-)

I saw the new MacBook announcement and called the local Apple store which happened to have some in stock. So I ran down at lunch and picked one up. I am a long time mac user, starting in the 68k days. I have a 15" MB PRO that was one of the W8609 serial numbers. It just got back from Apple after having the logic board replaced to quiet the whine. In the interim I bought a 17" MB PRO but immediately sold it becuase it was both too big and had some display quality issues that concerned me. My daughter has a 12" iBook G4, so I am familiar with it as well.
So now, here I am on a MB, at roughly 1/2 the price. I've been using it for a couple of hours. My observations:
The screen is excellent. It is useless in direct sunlight, but I don't use the computer in direct sunlight so that doesn't concern me. It is much better than the iBook.
The keyboard is very different than both the iBook and MB PRO. I like it, but that is totally subjective. It is a bit noisy, but I am a pounder.
There is no latch, that is very cool, and in my experience is the most frequent think to break on the iBook/Powerbook.
The trackpad is big and works well.
It doesn't make any serious whine, just like the MBP17 and good MBP15. I've been running linux in a Parallels VM for about an hour and the heat isn't bad. It is different than the MBP. First, the surface temperature is better. This is likely because they don't consider the poly a heatsink like the aluminum is. But the bad news is the fan runs more often and makes some more serious fan sounds than the 15 & 17 do. Very subjective, but right now I think I prefer the fan running to the Aluminum sizzle. I am wearing shorts with the MacBook in my lap and I don't find it uncomfortable.
I have a dell 24" LCD and I plugged it into the MB using a miniDVI-DVI adapter and it ran the dell at 1920x1200 with no issues in dual monitor mode. I am not a gamer, so I like the GMA950 graphics because they are cooler and use less power. Hence the longer battery life on the MacBook.
The magsafe adapter is smaller than the PROs.
I immediately added a GB of RAM, removing one of the 256MB dimms and replacing it with a 1GB dimm for a total of 1.25. The memory access is via the battery compartment and was quite easy.
The bottom line: It's a screaming deal. You get a lot of computer for a little money and it runs the world's greatest laptop OS.
If you don't like the occasional whir of a fan, and like a cooking utensil, buy the pro. But seriously, the pro is all about the display and graphics controller, plus the ability to get a 7200RPM drive. If you like the MB form factor, 1280x800 is good enough, and like polycarb, then go for it.
MB PRO 15.4, MB (white 2.0) Mac OS X (10.4.6)

You say you have seen the old iBook, have you been
able to see them side by side, my iBook colour is a
bit washed out for me (when next to my 17" and my 20"
CinemaDisplay) would you say the MacBook is a better
quality display than the iBook?
I have not seen them side by side, my daughter is at school. I can tell you without seeing them side by side that the macbook is much better. The color is great. I know what you mean by 'washed out' on the ibook.
In a darker room do you get reflections on the screen
if your in front of it?, I dont mind reflection if
I'm off to one side.
The reflections aren't there straight on. The viewing angle of the display isn't as good as the PROs and the reflections are worse from an angle. You wouldn't want a light behind you in a dark room.
How is that keybaoad, it looks odd to type on?
It's noisy, but I love the way it feels. I am a IBM thinkpad keyboard fanatic, and this is not dissappointing in comparison. That said, keyboards are very subjective.
When just working away and after a full battery
charge, what it the battery remain time saying? Apple
are not saying the run times.
I'm still charging. I'll post something in about 20 minutes on what the display indicates with a full charge. I wouldn't put much in those numbers though.
On the MacBook can you set the CPU speed in energy
saver like on my iBook, or is that just a thing of
the past now?
No CPU speed, just battery saver, normal, and better performance.

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My new laptop experience

Hello Everybody,
Every time that I buy a present for myself, I like to share the experience with others.
Since non of my friends understand much about Computers, and my new notebook experiences NEEDED to be shared, i have decided to post it in here:p.
Before Reading: I am not an English native speaker and i am not very into technology, if I had made some mistake please try to understand.
For my birthday I wanted a new computer, since I needed a Windows laptop to work in some projects with my classmates. I had to get the notebook from the USA since it was already sold out in Taiwan. After using it for a couple of weeks it still surprises me. AND GOOD SURPRISES!! Not the usual disappointments that I get with IT products.
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Clean palm rest
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stefan1975 wrote:well i think both [extra] and kdemod work just fine after trying them both for kde4.3 .... but you really think [extra] has more kde devs then kdemod? i think not. the problem with the kdemod upgrade to 4.3 was related to the change in packaging in [extra].
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I just wrote up a very long post and I seem to have trouble posting it -- "Cannot post now" error, even though I can post in the testing forum. This is a short post to see if it works...

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A bit of background:
I'm a seasoned IT guy and have a nice network set up at home that caters for my needs (most of the time).
Without going into too much detail, I have my own DHCP/DNS server and I run a Webserver for personal use.
I have Virgin Broadband - which work most of the time.
I've also just had BT Infinity installed so I should always have Internet access no matter which ISP is having issues.
I was hoping to be able to access my webserver externally from either my BT or Virgin. I didn't think this would be an issue.
It still all works fine through my Virgin connection. I use dynamic DNS (no-ip.org) to get to my server.
On the Virgin Superhub - I have DHCP switched off and all my machines (except one at the moment) get the Virgin router assigned as the Internet gateway (via my own DHCP server).
My test machine gets a the BT HomeHub 3 assigned as the Internet gateway (also from my own DHCP server) and I have switched off DHCP on Home Hub.
Before I move onto my issue, I have to say that the above network setup works flawlessly.
The Virgin Router is on 192.168.0.1, The Home Hub is on 192.168.0.2. (subnet 255.255.255.0)
They are on the same network but because DHCP it switched off on both routers - everything is happy.
I can access my Server from the Internet via my no-ip.org address and it all works great.
The issue:
I thought it would be relatively simple to configure the BT Home Hub 3 to access my server from the Internet.
Hmmm. Port Forwarding seems to be the issue. It just doesn't work reliably enough. Sometimes it works, then sometime it stops working. Right now it's not working.
At first I though it was just me, not configuring it correctly. But no.
Then I started reading this forum and found there are reports of issues with port forwarding going back a year.
I don't know if that a good or bad thing - an issue running that long must be on the verge of getting fixed right?
Or any issue running that long without resolution probably has no simple resolution or just isn't a priority (for BT) maybe.
My Question:
(and I think I already know the answer)
Has anyone got a sure fire way of configuring the HomeHub3 so the port forwarding works?
Or should I just throw in the towel now and buy a Dual Wan Router?
One last note:
This morning my Infinity Broadband Speed dropped from
38Mb down/6Mb Up (measured several times yesterday)
to
0.7Mb down/0.3Mb Up (yes those decimal points are in the right place)
And I haven't got a clue why.
I power cycled the HomeHub and it returned to normal. Does this happen to other people?
Cheers
Graeme.
Graeme

Bullitt wrote:
the port on your network is defined by lan ip address and port number eg 192.168.1.10:80
you cannot forward this outbound port twice
There is no "port on my network" A port is associated with a IP address not a network.
My webserver listens an port 80 - requests from the Internet for http are port forwarded by the router (either BT Homehub or Virgin Superhub) to port 80 at address 192.168.0.5 (in my case).
If I am trying to access my webserver from the Internet, I point my browser at the WAN IP address of my router (again it doesn't matter which one - BT or Virgin) and the router port forwards the request to my Webserver. Each router can do this independently.
"you cannot forward this outbound port twice"
As explained above - It's an inbound port not an outbound port.
I appreciate you are trying to be helpful but just telling me something is not possible without explaining why its not possible doesn't really help me.
As I said before, this was working fine, then it stopped working but only when trying to access my webserver via the BT Router. It still works fine from my Virgin Router. I used WireShark and port mirroring on my switch to prove that the Home Hub as stopped port forwarding inbound traffic to my webserver.
This is a problem with port forwarding on the Homehub, not my network setup. Looking at other posts on this forum - I'd suggest I'm not the only one having problems.
To be honest, it's the least of my problems with the HomeHub right now. I'm far more concerned with the fact that twice today I've had to power cycle it because the throughput has dropped from 38Mbit-down/6Mbit-up to <1Mbit-down/<1Mbit-up. It's a known problem, BT are working on it, yet I still am paying full price for a product that should never had made it out of Beta test.
Graeme

Rvs4000 1.3.1.0 new user experience - part two

thorough documentation - too much to ask for?
besides the lack of explaining what the log levels are, why not fully disclose reference info on the various messages one might see with an explanation of how one might use them to administer one's network?
for example, what are these security warnings telling me?
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nrf

Yeah, Neal I understand what you mean as far as having some mechanism to translate the messages to a more readable format. The problem with that would require more code to be included in the firmware and more CPU power to process the information. This would cause the device to be more expensive and also slow down the processing of packet information. The log system is made up of different code modules that are designed to inspect different parts of network traffic which adds more complexity. Just to follow one of your examples given concerning NIC duplex, if the NICs do not negotiate proper speed / duplex there would be no readable traffic passing through because we would have collisions. So it would be impossible to get information from the other NIC. All we would be able to capture is the default negotiation of our own NIC and nothing else.
Some of the message outputs are built into the code and relate directly to the TCP information. So taking these messages and translating them would mean more code and even then it would be extremely difficult to execute. What would be nice is if the log told us in a more readable format what "Threshold"; as you stated, was breached to at least point the administrator in the right direction.
The problems you are mentioning are not specific to our equipment however, this will hold true accross other manufacturers and you will also be able to see similarities with logging on a Linux box with IP Tables.
I know I am not really answering your concerns directly, but I can tell you that Cisco does look at the forums and suggestions posted are taken into account. What you can do, is do a google search or look into the O'Riley books for a more in depth look at the TCP packet structure. I do not mean for this to come accross in a rude or "blowing you off" manner, just as a personal suggestion.

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Compact Chat View: If you can live without your chat message having some whitespace around them to give them room to breathe you can now increase your "message per inch" ratio drastically by activating "Compact Chat view" in Skype Options - "IM & SMS" - Advanced settings. Also don't miss out on the other available tweaks to the UI we wrote about earlier.
Toggle for large emoticons: Some users prefer not to show emoticons sent in an individual messages in a larger size. You can find an option to toggle this in the Skype Options - "IM & SMS" - "IM appearance"
Toggle for unread messages: You can now quickly switch between your conversations that contain unread messages and all by using the dropdown on top right of your "Recent" list. See the screenshot on the right
Touch scrolling: If you are sporting a device with a touch screen like a tablet you can now use vertical finger swipes to scroll in conversations. Better have a screen wipe at hand all the time though
Disabling chat formatting: Especially role players using Skype have shared that they'd prefer the new text formatting options introduced in 6.22 to not apply to their IMs. This formatting is based on the use of wrapping parts of the message in characters like *, _ or ~. You can disable this permanently for all of your chats, by sending the following chat command to any of your chats:
/setupkey *Lib/Conversation/EnableWiki 0
To enable the formatting again please use this command:
/setupkey *Lib/Conversation/EnableWiki 1
This setting doesn't seem to stick reliably in 7.0 over restarts of the app. Skype is looking into this.
Please give the new 7.0 version a spin and customize Skype layout and design closer to your liking. We are looking forward for your feedback.

What's new in Process Control 2.5?

Hi,
I'm looking for information about what is new in Process Control 2.5(compare to the 2.0 version)
Thank you in advance for your help,
Regards,
Julien

The key innovation of PC 2.5 is the user experience. The highlights of this innovation are:
A new user experience based on work centers which mimics the way compliance and business users actually work
A combination of top session management and sidebar navigation leads to cleaner, more intuitive design
Broad availability of relevant contextual information as appropriate, in the form of documents and links
Pervasive search functionality, with list filtering and sorting capability to deliver information as the user needs it
Automated testing
Delivered scripts cover Financials, Procure to Pay, Sales and Distribution, and more...
Rule parameters passed to scripts extract data from the source ERP system and return evaluation results with related issues or exceptions to Process Control
Query-based scripts use SAP Query to provide additional flexibility
Use of standard SAP and customer-created reports can be returned as part of evaluation and marked as requiring review to determine whether the evaluation passed or failed
ANd much much more

IE 10 blank new tab and missing favourites problem only when requiring a proxy for first page visit

We are having a very strange situation with one (only) of our 64bit 2008r2 remote desktop session host servers. The problem we are having is that when any new tab or window is opened it must first open a page that is in the
internet options -> connections ->LAN settings -> Advanced -> Exception. Do not use proxy server for addresses beginning with
Area. OR ELSE....
The entire contents of the favourites menu below "Organize favourites" is missing, though the favourites explorer bar, and tool bar display the links, but they cannot be opened in the current tab and will not create a new tab when you click open
in new tab. HOWEVER, this problem is instantly resolved if you manually type into the address bar and visit a site that is in the proxy exception list. Then that tab starts to function normally, the favourites menu is populated and works, and so
does the favourites explorer bar, and toolbar, and other websites can be visited.
This is extremely problematic. Looking at the proxy server logs, when the problem is happening no attempt is made at contacting the proxy server.
Ways we've encountered this problem
If the user has the option set that a new tab opens the 'new tab page' then any new tab experiences the problem.
If the browser is set to open the user's home page(s) then any of the home pages that are not in the exception list may or may not open successfully. But again any of them that opened a page that was not in the proxy exception list will experience
the problem
when a user tries to click on a website link from an email or document that is not in the proxy exception list, as this opens a new window or tab and it is just blank.
when a website not in the exception list tries to open a new window/tab
This problem is happening for all users on that RD session host server, including domain admins, except for THE domain/enterprise administrator. Our other 2008r2 64bit RD session host servers and windows 7 machines with the same version of IE
installed on it does not have this problem.
We have tried deleting all IE data, resetting IE, re-registering the ieproxy.dll with the regserv32 command and the problem continues.
Our proxy settings for each user is coming from the group policy setting of 'computer config -> policies -> Administrative Templates -> Windows Components -> Internet Explorer -> Make proxy settings per-machine = enabled'
and THE domain administrator choosing to enable the proxy server and disable automatic proxy detection.

Hi,
Since you have tried many methods like deleting all IE data, resetting IE, and it works well on other Windows 7 machines, the problem might be some clients didn’t respond to the group policy.
Try to update the group policy with this command at the clients ”gpupdate /force”.
And check whether the client is infected with virus, some virus might cause this issue too.
Regards
v-yamliu

New MacBook Pro 'sees' WLAN but won't allow to select

Hi
So I just arrived home with a new MacBook Pro and tried to set up my inbuilt airport to connect to my wireless router and no cigar. So frustrating. My old MacBook and iMac are able to connect to the wireless router via inbuilt airport but not my new MacBook Pro. I have tried using the assistant and diagnostics and have achieved no joy. The weird thing is that WLAN comes up as an option and I select it wherever possible but when it comes to the last screen in network preferences, where you select the Network Name, it allows me to select it and then in less than a second it reverts back to 'no network selected'. Go figure.
So it clearly can see my WLAN. I have tried to see what setting are different on this MacBook Pro (accessing internet via cable as no other choice at the moment) and my old MacBook and can't see anything obvious. But then again there's not a lot of settings.
Any insights would be greatly appreciated. I love Macs and have been a user/owner for eons but this new one is really frustrating me. Not the usual warm and fuzzy oh I have a new Apple experience. Disappointing.
Fingers crossed one of you out there can help me discover the joy again :-)
Thalia
P.S. I am using an older Belkin wireless router that my MacBook and iMac can recognise in a heart beat.

looks like I hit the nail on the head with that one. Fact is I'm back to 10.5.2 and NO more Airport connectivity issues.
I have 2 black macbooks, a 15 Pro and 2 macmini's. I've had to roll back 2 of them for the same reason, 10.5.3 clearly breaks Airport connectivity reliability, no ifs ans or butts about it.
I'd like to use automator, 10.5.3 fixes many of the problems with that I've experienced but I cannot go to it as wireless is the only way I have to connect.
Here is what my system.log looks like AFTER rolling it back with Archive & Install:
Jul 16 11:51:07 Macintosh kernel[0]: sleep
Jul 16 11:51:07 Macintosh kernel[0]: System Wake
Jul 16 11:51:07 Macintosh kernel[0]: Previous Sleep Cause: 5
Jul 16 11:51:07 Macintosh kernel[0]: EIR is not supported.
Jul 16 11:51:11 Macintosh kernel[0]: AirPort: Link Up on en1
Jul 16 11:51:11 Macintosh configd[34]: AppleTalk startup
there is NO Airport Beacon Lost as before, no connectivity problems. My daughter has a brand new white macbook she bought last week, she has a WRT54G Linksys and doesn't have any problems with connectivity, her boyfriend bought a 15" Pro at the same time, he upgraded to 10.5.3 he immediately started having problems (there IS a reason new ones come with 10.5.2), he rolled his back and it works again.
I've done this several times, apple may know about it but they haven't come out with any fix that I know about. I reported it to them the day 10.5.3 came out. I am not upgrading again until I see a patch that specifically says it addresses Airport reliability.
I don't run parallels, or any other virtual machine, hard enough keeping a vigrin OS up to date. The only 3rd party software I run is Firefox and Office 2004.

New MB experience :-)

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