OpenGL , even worst !!

Hi , I just bought PNY NVIDIA Quadro 4000 for windows . I want to use it with Premiere Pro CS5.5 and After Effects CS5.5.
In Premiere things were very nice and as expected , BUT in After Effects not even close to acceptable !!!
Should not the ( Quadro ) give me speed and quality ??? , There is no difference at all in performance and (especially in the quality ) compared with my old ( Geforce 9600 GT ) !!!
Please tell me I am wrong , and I did not spent money for nothing , tell me if I need to adjust any settings in the NVIDIA Control Panel or in After Effects .

You didn't waste your money, you just didn't do the research before the purchase.
The Basha wrote:
Well , it's about time to build an ( After Effects ) that is bearable and doesn't take to the (after life) to render a clip !!!
Premiere uses a different playback engine becaus it is a video editor.
After Effects is a compositing system that process every pixel on the screen through a series of filters. OpenGL does not help do that. It never really has.
Rendering speed is relative to your time in this business and you're apprently new. It wasn't all that long ago that AE needed a weekend to apply one effect to one layer. today's machines are nothing less than miraculous as far as I'm concerned.

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IOS4.0.1 is even worst than iOS4.0!!!

what the ****!!!! why apple became like that! back up problems not even staff of Apple come resolve!!
zzzzzzzz..............................

Steve and company,
Well you have done it again. I downloaded the ios4.0.1 Update and of course it has not fixed the issues that I have with the Nike + application. I am sure that you all have heard about the issues users have had with this application ever since the ios4.0 Update. What gives, can't you guys and gals at Apple get it together.

File browser "Finder" even worst then Windows Explorer :(

Does any body know something like Norton Commander for Mac (free version)?

Have a look at muCommander > http://www.mucommander.com It needs Java. There are also other applications > http://superuser.com/questions/168239/os-x-what-norton-commander-clone-you-can-s uggest

OpenGL Ps CS5 died after CS6 beta

Using Ps CS5 12.04 on win7x64, 12GB, Radeon 6780 1GB, dual HDD and dual monitors since last Oct when I bought this new PC and its always been fine with openGL even with extensions added and dual monitors in workspace setup.
Still worked same most of the time while I also had CS6 Ps beta installed and running...CS6 always ran openGL et al in advanced mode just fine.
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But when I close and restart Ps for next session; the setup starts as left but openGL not running again. It is a repeatable startup cycle if I want the advantages of openGL.
I tried deleting/turning off all (2) extensions except Kuhler (may have to try that) (I have no plugins in x64). Made no difference.
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I'll get Ps CS6 soon but will leave CS5 installed a long time...and it seems like a false hope that a CS6 install will fix CS5 openGL...and a big hope CS6 openGL will run just fine like it did in beta.
Doug.S

Have seen this exact problem on the forum about 3-4? days ago. Can't remember the solution but had to do with driver. Here is explaination of what you are seeing.
The GPU Sniffer
To help guard against Photoshop crashes related to bad GPU hardware or drivers, Photoshop employs a small program called the GPU Sniffer. Every time Photoshop is launched, Photoshop launches the sniffer. The sniffer runs rudimentary tests of the GPU and reports the results to Photoshop. If the sniffer crashes or reports a failure status to Photoshop, Photoshop will not use the GPU. The Use Graphics Hardware checkbox in the Performance panel of the Preferences will be unchecked and disabled.
The first time the sniffer fails, Photoshop will display a dialog indicating that it has detected a problem with the GPU. On subsequent launches the dialog will not appear unless the Photoshop preferences are reset.
If the user corrects the problem, either by replacing the video card or by updating the driver, then the sniffer will pass on the next launch and the Use Graphics Hardware checkbox will be enabled and returned to its previous state (enabled or disabled).

HP COMPUTERS WORST AFTER SALES SERVICE

This is to inform that not only your dealers cheat people by giving wrong information about HP product to sell HP products but your customer care service is even worst. Today I got a call from your Customer Relations Case Manager [Personal Information Removed] regarding my complain for HP SLATEBOOK X2 POOR BATTERY LIFE She is telling me that nothing can be done about your complain. SHE called me at 2:43 pm on 25/9/2013 and told me now nothing can be done about this now you also know that no tablet can give 12 to 14 hrs of battery backup. Then after argueing with her about the misleading information given to me by HP dealer TECHSMART SYSTEMS PVT.LTD SALES OFFICE about the battery back [Personal Information Removed] told me that has the dealer given me in writing that the tablet would give me 12 to 14hrs of battery backup or given me any specs sheet regarding this I said no but I am sure of this that their salesman said sir I can confirm you that the tablet will give you between 12 to 14 hrs of battery backup. I also told her that good battery back is the main criteria for me to buy the HP SLATEBBOK X2 tablet. Then she told me sorry sir we cannot do anything about this now and put my phone on hold and 2 to 3 mins disconnected my phone.
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Mapping/invoking key codes in a GameCanvas's main game loop.

I'm trying to bind some diagonal sprite movement methods to the keypad. I already know that I have to map out the diagonals to key codes since key states only look out for key presses in the upper half of the phone (d-pad, soft buttons, etc...). Problem is, how do I invoke them in the main game loop since a key state can be encapsulated in a method and piped through the loop? What makes this even worst is a bug that my phone maker's game API (Siemens Game API for MIDP 1.0, which is their own implementation of the MIDP 2.0 Game API) has, in which if I override the keyPressed, keyReleased, or keyRepeated methods, it will always set my key states to zero, thus I can't move the sprite at all. Also, it seems that my phone's emulator automatically maps key states to 2, 4, 6, and 8, so my only concern is how do I map the diagonal methods into 1, 3, 7, and 9, as well as invoking them in the main game loop? Enclosed is the example code that I've been working on as well as the link to a thread in the Siemens (now Benq Mobile) developer's forum about the bug's discovery:
http://agathonisi.erlm.siemens.de:8080/jive3/thread.jspa?forumID=6&threadID=15784&messageID=57992#57992
the code:
import com.siemens.mp.color_game.*;
import javax.microedition.lcdui.*;
public class ExampleGameCanvas extends GameCanvas implements Runnable {
private boolean isPlay; // Game Loop runs when isPlay is true
private long delay; // To give thread consistency
private int currentX, currentY; // To hold current position of the 'X'
private int width; // To hold screen width
private int height; // To hold screen height
// Sprites to be used
private GreenThing playerSprite;
private Sprite backgroundSprite;
// Layer Manager
private LayerManager layerManager;
// Constructor and initialization
public ExampleGameCanvas() throws Exception {
super(true);
width = getWidth();
height = getHeight();
currentX = width / 2;
currentY = height / 2;
delay = 20;
// Load Images to Sprites
Image playerImage = Image.createImage("/transparent.PNG");
playerSprite = new GreenThing (playerImage,32,32,width,height);
playerSprite.startPosition();
Image backgroundImage = Image.createImage("/background2.PNG");
backgroundSprite = new Sprite(backgroundImage);
layerManager = new LayerManager();
layerManager.append(playerSprite);
layerManager.append(backgroundSprite);
// Automatically start thread for game loop
public void start() {
isPlay = true;
Thread t = new Thread(this);
t.start();
public void stop() { isPlay = false; }
// Main Game Loop
public void run() {
Graphics g = getGraphics();
while (isPlay == true) {
input();
drawScreen(g);
try { Thread.sleep(delay); }
catch (InterruptedException ie) {}
//diagonalInput(diagonalGameAction);
// Method to Handle User Inputs
private void input() {
int keyStates = getKeyStates();
//playerSprite.setFrame(0);
// Left
if ((keyStates & LEFT_PRESSED) != 0) {
playerSprite.moveLeft();
// Right
if ((keyStates & RIGHT_PRESSED) !=0 ) {
playerSprite.moveRight();
// Up
if ((keyStates & UP_PRESSED) != 0) {
playerSprite.moveUp();
// Down
if ((keyStates & DOWN_PRESSED) !=0) {
playerSprite.moveDown();
/*private void diagonalInput(int gameAction){
//Up-left
if (gameAction==KEY_NUM1){
playerSprite.moveUpLeft();
//Up-Right
if (gameAction==KEY_NUM3){
playerSprite.moveUpRight();
//Down-Left
if (gameAction==KEY_NUM7){
playerSprite.moveDownLeft();
//Down-Right
if (gameAction==KEY_NUM9){
playerSprite.moveDownRight();
/*protected void keyPressed(int keyCode){
int diagonalGameAction = getGameAction(keyCode);
switch (diagonalGameAction)
case GameCanvas.KEY_NUM1:
if ((diagonalGameAction & KEY_NUM1) !=0)
playerSprite.moveUpLeft();
break;
case GameCanvas.KEY_NUM3:
if ((diagonalGameAction & KEY_NUM3) !=0)
playerSprite.moveUpRight();
break;
case GameCanvas.KEY_NUM7:
if ((diagonalGameAction & KEY_NUM7) !=0)
playerSprite.moveDownLeft();
break;
case GameCanvas.KEY_NUM9:
if ((diagonalGameAction & KEY_NUM9) !=0)
playerSprite.moveDownRight();
break;
repaint();
// Method to Display Graphics
private void drawScreen(Graphics g) {
//g.setColor(0x00C000);
g.setColor(0xffffff);
g.fillRect(0, 0, getWidth(), getHeight());
g.setColor(0x0000ff);
// updating player sprite position
//playerSprite.setPosition(currentX,currentY);
// display all layers
//layerManager.paint(g,0,0);
layerManager.setViewWindow(0,0,101,80);
layerManager.paint(g,0,0);
flushGraphics();
}EDIT: Also enclosed is a thread over in J2ME.org in which another user reports of the same flaw.
http://www.j2me.org/yabbse/index.php?board=12;action=display;threadid=5068

Okay...you lost me...I thought that's what I was doing?
If you mean try hitTestPoint ala this:
wally2.addEventListener(Event.ENTER_FRAME, letsSee);
function letsSee(event:Event)
          // create a for loop to test each array item hitting wally...
          for (var i:Number=0; i<iceiceArray.length; i++)
               // if you don't hit platform...
          if (wally2.hitTestPoint(iceiceArray[i].x, iceiceArray[i].y, false)) {
          wally2.y -= 5;}
                      return;
That's not working either.

HELP! Stuck in a Loop after Erase & Install Tiger 10.4

Here's what happened:
My old G4 PPC PowerMac suddenly started running everything (including on startup) very slowly. A weird sound was coming from the HD? (not sure) but it sounded like it was constantly doing something. The sound was a regular: chik, chik, chik...glikglik.
*Did a Verify for Disk Permissions & HD Volume, found a load of problems & tried to fix from my Tiger CD/DVD Install disc on startup.
*No luck...as there was an "Incorrect number of thread records" & Volume could not be fixed.
*Backedup everything onto external HD
*Did Erase & Install Tiger 10.4
*Everything seemed fine (the weird sound stopped) so I started installing all standard Updates- Java etc & my iTunes music.
*Weird sound returned but not as constant, so I did a Verify & fixed Disk Permissions and HD Volume from my Tiger CD/DVD Install disc on startup again. Successful this time. Volume was fine.
*Used Onyx to do verify Volume. Volume fine.
[Bare with me;)]
*Started to import all my backup files. The weird sound returned with a vengence! Argh! Everything slowed down even worst than before.
*Decided to Erase & Install again. Done, but now I'm stuck in the Welcome to Tiger loop: Welcome Tiger animation which crashes halfway through, then takes me to settings for language, location, Mac sign in...loops back again to Welcome.
I am a complete dummy when it comes to computers, so have tried to follow instructions/advice to the T. I don't have a clue what is going on. Please anyone out there, help!

Best to ask about hardware questions on the appropriate hardware forum. That said...
Unless for some reason you want to keep hold of an old computer for specific features not present in a newer computer it is almost always cheaper to buy a newer used computer rather than upgrade hardware in an old one. Since you're talking upgrading multiple features that is almost certain.
A consideration: Snow Leopard is now out. This is pushing pre-Intel Macs towards into obsolescence. I already see a number of software vendors who say they do not support Tiger any more. Some may soon start saying they no longer support pre-Intel Macs. Although I find my G4 and Tiger to still be perfectly usable, if my G4 were to die today and I was interested in a used computer I might seriously look at a used Intel Mac. There's a bit of a jump at the PPC + Tiger to Intel + Leopard-plus boundary and it will become more noticeable soon. If you can afford it I would suggest not being more than one big generation behind in terms of software and hardware, and in this case maybe not even one major generation in terms of hardware. To summarize, if it were me I would be looking for a used early Intel Mac running Leopard currently so I could ensure there still being support for the next few years.
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Windows Graphics 20 times slower than Linux Graphics?

Hello,
I am working on a java application to visualize 3D crystal structures. The atomes in the structure are drawn with "DrawOval" and "FillOval". Most of the processor time is spent on these two commands. Since I want to draw several thousands up to tens of thousands of atoms in real time, performance is a serious issue.
The program works well, however I made the following observance: The code running on Windows XP is about 20 tims slower (approx. 100 ms/frame vs. 5 ms/frame) than the same code running on the same computer under Linux!
Why is there such a big performance difference?
Is there a way to have the same performance on the windows machine as on the linux machine?
Is it necessary to use a different way to display circles?
Hardware: AMD dual Athlon, NVidia GeForce4 Ti 4400.
Thanks a lot for your help!

I should say I'm surprised that there is such a big difference in performance, but if you want really great performance you might want to look into using OpenGL, even if you only do 2D graphics. 3D drivers are usually more optimized than the 2D counterparts (simply because of greater demand, unless you look into HighEnd CAD graphics cards).
Obviously OpenGL will only be faster if you've got accelerated 3D drivers for every platform.

Mac Pro 2.0 outperforming Mac Pro 2.66, WHY?

Ok Guys, I am stumped here and hopefully someone can shed some light.
I have 2 Mac Pros: System 1 - 2 x 2.66 with 9GB of memory and System 2 - a recently acquired 2 x 2.0 with 5 GB of memory.
System 1 has banks filled as follows:
Riser A
Bank 1: 2gb
Bank 2: 2Gb
Bank 3: 512
Bank 4: 512
Riser B
Bank 1: 2gb
Bank 2: 2Gb
Bank 3: empty
Bank 4: empty
In System 2, I installed snow leopard after reformatting a 500 GB WD (7200rpm)caviar drive w/16 MB cache. There is also a 2nd WD drive (1 TB, 7200 Rpm)
Having plans to upgrade the 2.O Mac pro, I decided to compare it against my "faster" Mac pro 2.66. I took a video file that is 1hr 23 mins. It took 56 mins to render in IDVD coming from ImovieHD. Knowing that the 2.66 is significantly faster than the 2.0, I was thinking it would take maybe 44 mins to complete on the Mac Pro 2.66... to my surprise it took 1 hr 49 mins.
Thinking that the benefits were due to snow leopard. I backed up the system, reformatted the drive and installed Snow leopard and all my apps on the Mac Pro 2.66. I did the same test, the performance was even worst - it took 2 hrs 3 mins. After dropping the F-bomb a couple times I started looking at other things.
The Mac Pro 2.6 has 2 x 1 TB 7200 drives the OS drive has a 32 GB cache the other drive a 16 Mb cache.
The memory in the 2.0 is configured as follows:
Riser A
Bank 1: 1gb
Bank 2: 1Gb
Bank 3: 512
Bank 4: 512
Riser B
Bank 1: 512
Bank 2: 512
Bank 3: 512
Bank 4: 512
The video files on both systems are located on the non-OS file but I create the disk image from IDVD to the desktop on the OS Volume. The workflow is identical on both systems.
Both video cards are the stock Nvidia 7300. All drives are 7200 rpm. Why is my Mac Pro 2.0 outperforming the MacPro 2.66 with almost twice as much memory? I even filled the two empty slots on the MAC pro 2.66 thinking that is why it was taking a hit, it did not help.
Any good suggestions welcome.

Some tidbits:
RAM should be in quad and paired across Risers.
4 x 2GB (or 4 x 4GB) is your best as far as memory bandwidth
6 DIMMs is not ideal (8 DIMMs properly paired is okay but higher latencies)
Higher density RAM also shows improvements.
HARD DRIVES are an easy investment and can be used in whatever system you need now or later.
7.2k drives are fine, yours are on the old side.
Especially that 500GB model.
SATA III, latest models, show 20% improvement, 64MB cache
4 WD Caviar Black 640GB @ $70 eachm or 1TB to 2TB ($85-170)
boot from one, and stripe the other two or three.
You probably aren't ready to throw SSDs in, nor do you want $200-275 for 10K WD VelociRaptors (300-600GB) which are fast and make nice drives for system, scratch, and of course in arrays.
Other throught - cpu upgrade project 5300: get a set of 5355s off ebay and have an 8-core frenzy for $400 the set.
2006 Mac Pro Clovertown (Quad core) CPU Swaps Revisited
2006 Mac Pro Quad-Core CPU Upgrade report (5350's OC'd to 3.3GHz)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOF435jCg8E
http://www.xlr8yourmac.com/archives/jan11/011311.html#S28002
- search cpu upgrades
http://www.xlr8yourmac.com/cpucards.html
Time to replace those 7300s, if they aren't ready to bulge and blow a capacitor already. Shame that there really are few choices, 5770 or... 5770.
OS drive should be lean, fast, and just OS and apps
data or media drive
editing drives
higher capacity drives w/ 64MB cache are a plus, just being 3rd generation of Caviar Black line improvements rather than 4 yr old 500GB 16MB cache model
+Tried to break-down and decipher your setup and results for my own use:+
System 2
Installed snow leopard
500 GB WD (7200rpm)caviar drive w/16 MB cache.
2nd WD drive (1 TB, 7200 Rpm)
Mac pro 2.O against my "faster" Mac pro 2.66.
video file is 1hr 23 mins. It took 56 mins to render in iDVD coming from ImovieHD.
I was thinking it would take maybe 44 mins to complete on the Mac Pro 2.66... to my surprise it took 1 hr 49 mins.
Thinking that the benefits were due to snow leopard. I backed up the system, reformatted the drive and installed Snow leopard and all my apps on the Mac Pro 2.66.
I work with a 2006 2.0 and a 2009 4-core 2.66GHz and the difference between the two is noticeable enough to consider upgrading my 1,1 to 5355s, 4 x 2GB (or more), and 5770, JUST so it can 'compete' on equal footing with $2k Mac Pro Special:
http://store.apple.com/us/browse/home/specialdeals/mac/mac_pro
Or for just $1800
http://macperformanceguide.com/blog/2011/20110123_MacProBargain--macpro.html

My Revolution is Slow at doing everything... how do I fix this....

This is my 3rd Lg Revolution and let me say that I will no longer look into buying LG phones. I had an even worst experience with the LG Envy Touch. For starters my phone operates at 3G a lot and I live in a 4G city.
There are times when the I cannot get the phone to unlock, the screen will not slide up, it does sense that u are touching it because it glows brighter and vibrates. So I have to restart it.
Moving through the home screens can take forever. There are times when the icons are abnormally big, or when I click and icon such as my e-mail it will take me to txting and it will do this multiple times back to back, then finally it will take me to my e-mail and this also happens the other way around. The alarm clock app that came on the phone has a stop clock function and it will stop working if the phone goes idle. Just bringing up my apps takes a lot longer than when I first got my phone.
When I go to text the keyboard takes forever to come up and then when you type nothing shows up, but the phone is vibrating noting that it is picking up the commands... and about 5 seconds later the beginning of what I have typed shows up. But then it will choke up again once I got it going, in the middle of typing. There have been many of times recently that the phone freezes on the keyboard and reboots itself. Sending a text is a whole other issue it takes a good 4-5 minutes to even send the message, many of times picture messages take longer or fail to send. I have also had many of times when others send me text messages and I only receive the first part of their message, because the message will say "(1/3)" or something it has only happened a couple of times with other VZW customers txting me but mostly with Sprint Customers. Aside from this lately I have been not receiving messages from people who say they have sent them, and they will show me that it has sent from their phone. But there is no trace of it ever being received on my phone.
The Facebook app has not worked since the last software update, it continually says there is "no internet connection", which there is because I usually am coming just coming from my e-mail or a web page. So I have deleted the app to free up some space and have begun to use m.facebook.com and now I use touch.facebook.com, which has worked a little smoother, I am not sure of the difference. But when using either one I cannot upload pictures. It would be nice to know what is wrong.
The internet is probably my most concern because I pay for this monthly and because of it moving so slow. I find myself on my computer more than anything or holding out to get home to the computer. When I visit a page only part of it will load and most of the time these are mobile web pages or when I scroll the part of the top portion of the page gets stuck sometimes the internet icon won't respond and the phone freezes and reboots itself.
Lastly cannot fix the [10]Database error with the backup assistant and it has been like this for a while, I just hope it is still backing up my contacts.
I have tried a lot of things to get the phone to run a little quicker such as deleting apps and moving the ones that will allow it to the SD card, clearing the cache both on the internet and on apps, deleting history, deleting old texts, further limiting the amount of e-mails stored on the device. I have also taken the phone in store both in Springfield, MO and St. Louis, MO because I usually have problems after traveling back and forth. They can never tell me how to fix it or the will attempt the same things I have done and still no fix and sometimes it even makes it worse. Or sarcastically, even better, they will take it behind the counter in some room and moments later tell me I have to be sent a new phone or that mine will no longer boot-up and I loose everything that wasn't on the SD card
WILL SOMEONE PLEASE HELP ME FIX SOME OF THESE THINGS OR AT LEAST HELP ME MAKE THE PHONE RUN FASTER WITH LESS GLITCHES... THERE IS NOT AN HOUR THAT GOES BY THAT I DO NOT ENCOUNTER SOME PROBLEM WITH THIS PHONE... THANK YOU!!!(for making it through my life story)
P.S. VZW PLEASE DO AWAY WITH THE LG INTUITION AND GET THE SAMSUNG GALAXY NOTE 2...

I've had almost every issue you've had. Finally on Friday the screen blacked out. It was obviously still charged, since I could hear the message ring, but when I tried to light up the display it didn't light so I was unable to get to it unless I removed the battery. Then, as soon as the display timed out, I couldn't get it lit up again without removing battery. I had the same slow movements throughout the display as well as slow text messaging. Every issue you had other than the alarm clock (that always worked well).
I took it in yesterday and, after over an hour spent there with a 'professional', I still had no answers. He told me to come home and copy everything from my sd card to my computer, then re-format my card. Well, my phone didn't even recognize that I had an sd card installed!! Nor did my computer!
So then I got to experimenting...I removed the card and viola!!!!!! The phone worked GREAT! It's never worked so fast! I then installed my husbands sd card to see if it was my phone's card reader or my card. Turns out that the phone still worked great with his card installed and it did recognize his card in my phone. So, my conclusion is that I need a new card. I couldn't believe the difference in speed of everything! It's like a brand new phone!
As for the hard reset...I did that over the weekend, before I could get to a verizon store. It didn't work at all.
I'd say, do the same thing I did and see if that works. Can't hurt!!! Please keep me posted. I'd like to see what you find out
Good Luck!!!!

I bought a 27 inch iMac that I must constantly send to repairs. How do I get my money back?

I bought this imac at the end of last year.
After 3 months the screen started to get smudges all over the place, and since I work in video production, thats just something I cannot have.
I sent my computer to get repaired, and they replaced the screen. It's been 2 months, the screen is getting burned again, and now it crashes constantly, I get the "white screen of death", it doesnt boot up, then the screen starts to flickr like a strobe light. I try again, and then the screen turns all blue, like a blue screen you get using a windows based PC. Now I luckly managed to boot it up, and came straight here, and if I manage to finish this post without it crashing again its a great deal of luck.
I called the apple call centre, and they said that apple somehow managed to replace my screen with another defected one (yes, they actually told me that) AND that I probably also have a defected seagate hard drive that they are replacing in all the imacs bought from 2009 to 2012. They also said that its "weird" that they didnt replace it the first time it went to repairs.
I do all my work on this computer, and I can't manage to constantly be without it to send it to repairs, and that is probably whats going to happen, till my warranty voids, then I will be the proud new owner of a 27 inch brick.
Im extremely dissapointed at apple. I was willing to pay 2000 euros for a computer, because then I would "pay for quality" of the product, and get good service. Well the product obviously has severe problems, and the customer service is even worst. They told me all that ridiculous stuff that puts apple in a shameful position, and also shoved me aside to deal with my problem with someone else. They said the only way I could "try" and get my problem fixed, Is if I send an actual letter (because apparently people still do that) to the Apple Europe Headquarters in Ireland. I live in Portugal.
Before the apple europe headquartes in Ireland ask me to send a pigeon to the United States, I would like to say that i'm probably never going to buy products from Apple ever again. I'm not the only person with this problem, and people close to me are having exactly the same problems and feelings twords apple. If I get my money back, maybe I will still buy my music from iTunes, that at least hasn't given me any problems...yet..

I have some news on my situation, and some news on the problem of the screen itself.
First, this still could be wrong, but here is a possible explanation for the screen problem:
http://www.hardmac.com/news/2011/04/05/investigation-of-the-marks-on-the-imac-sc reen
It seems that the mac is overly sensitive to dust, but the only dust that actually goes in, is a very thin kind that you have pretty much everywhere. Maybe the heat from the computer makes the dust stick or something, I don't know.
Anyway, I wen't to the store where I purchased my 27'' imac, and asked to talk to the manager (it's one of those big chain stores, like best buy, but in this case its called "Fnac"). Apparently I was terrebly missinformed by pretty much everyone, including "Fnac" employees. It appears that I am in fact protected by portuguese law, and everytime I get a new component replaced, I get a new 2 year warranty for it (in Europe you always get 2 year warranty for everything, instead of 1). And, after the 3rd attempt to fix a recurring problem, I can in fact demand the money back, or a replacemement new product. There is still some glitchy stuff on that matter though. The manager said there is this problem in pretty much in every retailer everywhere - there are 2 kinds of stores that sell apple products: there are those stores that are just intermidiates between apple itself and the customer, witch means that for every product they sell, they only own a small percentage of it; and there are those who buy apple products, to resell them to their costumers. On this second kind of stores (like Fnac, and probably BestBuy and such), where they resell, they have to give you the money back because the law says so (since they own the products they sell). But Apple on the other hand doesn't allow it. So basicly, they have to give me the money back or a new product first, and then ask apple for permission and hope for the best, because if they dont give permission, the store will loose the money the product is worth.
My problem is "kind of" solved though. Now I know that even in the worst case scenario, I can keep replacing the screens once or twice a year, witch is not really great because I'll not be able to work on it for around 2 months in every year. It's still bad for apple, and its sad that the ones who actually solved my problem was the europe consumer laws, the portuguese government, and the store. Apple, a company that at this moment makes more money then the united states, doesn't have a solution for me, and doesn't agree with the solutions the other ones gave me.
Thanks for all your help and opinions. They gave me some perspective.
I will still be on the lookout for more answers, and if anyone has the same problem I can use my experience to help them.

Interactive Report - comparing user entered text field against a table field - the comparison is not finding a hit when it should.

Example
User enters 12345 in a pre filter ----- item_number field and this value exist in the table but its defined as VARCHAR2(2000).
No match is found. Do I need to define this text field in a certain way so that a match occurs - say in the element or source for P1_ITEM_NUMBER.
How does a user entered value of 12345 match a value in the table of 12345 - defined as a varchar2(2000).
Thanks

Why are you storing numbers in a varchar2?
This is bad designing. (storing date information in a varchar2 field is even worst.)
99% of the time, when the number 12345 does not match the string '12345', it is because the value in the table is actually ' 12345'
Run the following SQL command in the SQL workshop. (you'll need to adjust to match schema,table,column names)
select item_number, length( item_number) as string_length
from schema_name.table_name
If '12345' does not have a string_length of 5, then you have bad data in your database.

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ITunes Match for selected music

Hello everyone,
Hope you are all enjoying your holiday, whatever it may be
Here's a tricky one for you. I've thought about this for a long time, but I can't figure a way to do it, so maybe someone knows of a way. So, I use my MBP for my dj gigs, and I have one iTunes music collection in a external drive that I carry along containing it. This collection contains only music that I use to play when working, mostly electronic stuff, mostly singles and EPs.
Then, at home, the iMac has the main iTunes library, with all genres and all the stuff I listen on a daily basis, but not music I use for work, and this machine is registered with iTunes Match. Now, I would like to have the tracks I use for work to also be in the cloud, but I wouldn't want to mix them up with my general music collection, and even worst, I wouldn't want the iTunes library in the MBP to become filled with rock and classical music that I never play at my gigs.
Hope you are getting what I mean. Do you know of any way I could have all tracks in iTunes Match (general music and work music) but only have each to show up on their respective machine? Or is iTunes Match a "entire-collection-or-no-collection" kind of deal, and once you authorize one computer to your account you can't control what tracks will end up in it?
Thank you so much for reading!

Now that we're in the topic, could you help me with one more thing? So let's say I merge both libraries and upload my "work" tracks to iTunes Match. Having in mind that I have lot's of metadata associated with those tracks, like comments that describe the track's mood, key, bpm and a lot more, which are essential when I'm looking for the next track to play, what will happen to that metadata if for some reason the local copies are deleted and I need to get them again from iTunes Match? Do they maintain all the metadata? Or will I get just the file with basic metadata like title, artist and a couple more?
It's just that I have so much time invested in adding info to the tracks that I don't even want to think about losing all that
Thanks a lot.

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