Should I bother?

Yesterday, i got my ipod out of my pocket to see the screen had broken beneath the outer case, my ipod would no longer play music, and that it wouldnt turn off, even with soft reset. My computer also no longer detects my ipod. Although i dont know the cause of this, we can call it accidental damage.
Is it worth me sending this to be repaired on warrenty having owned it for 6 months, or will they refuse on broken lcd/accidental damage grounds?
Thanks very much
iPod 30 gb Video 5th Gen Windows XP

danjkerry,
Since you don't know why your iPod broke, and I am sure that you didn't do it on purpose, I would reccommend that you go to your local Apple store (if there are Apple stores in the UK. I wouldn't know, I have never been to England) and they should be able to do one of two things:
1. Send it in an have it repaired
2. OR, Give you a new one on the spot
Hope it all goes well for you
Brand
DELL 4600 Windows XP Apple iPod, 5G, 30GB, white/ iPod with color display/ 4th Gen. iPod/ iPod Shuff.

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Text should appear both in chinese and english language in smartform-Urgen

Hi All,
In my requirement in smart form, the standard text and values to be printed should appear both in english and chinese language.
When my login language is EN(English), I cannot able to see the chinese text , but only the english text.
If login in Chinese language, I can able to see the both the Chinese and English text in print preview, even then in printout the chinese text is missing.
Please let me know what will be the problem.
What printer i can use to get both chinese and english text.
Thanks in advance
Saravana

Hi
See the attached 2 OSS notes for your problem
OSSNote:960341
Symptom
In some device types (e.g HPLJ4, HPLJ5) you experience non-uniform character spacing in the PDF document after the PDF conversion of SAPscript or Smart Forms documents, using HELVE or TIMES fonts. You want to know the reason.
Other terms
CONVERT_OTF, SAPscript, Smart Forms
Reason and Prerequisites
The problem is not due to an error in the PDF converter but due to the fact, that the printer font, underlying the device type (e.g. Univers or CG Times in PCL-5 device types), is not available for the PDF converter and is either not available in Adobe Reader. The PDF converter has to try to simulate the layout of the printer font by means of a font which is predefined in Adobe Reader. This is done by assigning the letter widths of the printer font to the font used in Adobe Reader.
The PDF file contains a table with letter widths, used by Adobe Reader in the output of text, for each used printer font (except PostScript fonts).
Example:
%Charwidth values from HP4300 HELVE 060 normal
/Widths
[ 278 333 500 633 633 1000 758 333 333 333 633...
Adobe reader converts this width table, by modifying the space between each character, so that the specified letter width (= space between the current and the next letter) is kept.
This 'Simulation' of printer fonts results in the sometimes visible irregular spaces in PDF.
The PDF converter always uses the Helvetica Adobe PostScript font for the display of HELVE and the Times Roman Adobe PostScript font for the display of TIMES. However, for these Adobe PostScript fonts, Adobe Reader often uses a Windows TrueType font, which differs slightly from the original PostScript font.
Solution
Workaround: Use the POST2 PostScript device type or the PDF1 PDF device type for the PDF conversion of documents in the Latin-1 character set. They both use the Adobe PostScript fonts Helvetica or Times Roman for the HELVE/TIMES printer fonts.
Header Data
Release Status: Released for Customer
Released on: 30.06.2006 12:44:06
Priority: Recommendations/additional info
Category: Consulting
Primary Component: BC-CCM-PRN Print and Output Management
Secondary Components: BC-SRV-SCR SAPscript
OSS Note: 776507
Symptom
Documents printed via SAPscript or SmartForms do not print with correct special characters, e.g. ### prints instead of Japanese or Russian characters. What to do?
Other terms
SAPscript, SmartForms, printing, device types, OTF
Reason and Prerequisites
Help required to choose proper fonts in a SAPscript or SmartForm
Solution
When using SAPscript or SmartForms to print (or email or fax) a form from a business application, many factors influence the outcome of the actual text within the form. All these factors must be checked in order to ensure a correct printout:
1) The language version of the form used to produce the printout.
Example: If you want to print a French invoice, you need to have a FR version of your SAPscript or SmartForms invoice form RVINVOICE01. And the application program must specify the corresponding language key (FR) when calling the SAPscript or SmartForms API.
2) The font selections specified in the form (possibly also in a SAPscript style or SmartStyle used in a form).
Example: In a SAPscript form or a SmartStyle you need to specify HELVE if you want to print German text in Helvetica (or similar) font. If you want to print Japanese text, HELVE is not a valid choice but you need to specify a Japanese font like JPMINCHO in your Japanese form.
3) The output character set of the device type
Every printer in transaction SPAD has a "device type" assigned. Device types used by the spooler for printing support only one single specific output character set. All text from the form has to be converted (using SAP's built-in character conversion mechanism) to this output character set.
A character set can typically support either a single language (e.g. Shift-JIS which supports only Japanese) or a set of languages (e.g. ISO 8859-1, which supports Western-European languages). It is possible that a given language (such as German) can be supported by several output character sets, e.g. you may use either ISO 8895-1 (Latin-1) or ISO 8859-2 (Latin-2) to represent German text. This is so because both character sets contain the special characters used in German.
Example: HPLJ4000 is a HP LaserJet device type supporting the ISO 8859-1 (Latin-1) character set. ISO 8859-1 can be used to represent e.g. Dutch, English, French, German, Spanish, Swedish but NOT Russian or Japanese.
As a consequence, it is ok to use HPLJ4000 to print English, German French etc. but not for Japanese or Russian.
4) The set of available printer fonts for a given device type
When formatting a document, SAPscript and SmartForms perform an automatic mapping of the font definitions in the form (e.g. "HELVE 14 point bold") and the available printer fonts of the device type. A replacement printer font is chosen, should the specified font selection not be available in the device type. Now this replacement can be problematic if a language-specific font, such as Chinese CNSONG, is specified in a form and it gets replaced by a font which does not support this language, e.g. COURIER.
To solve this problem, font families in SE73 have language attribute assigned, e.g. some fonts are characterized as being suitable only for certain languages. And when a replacement has to be chosen because the original font from the form is not available in the device type, a replacement font is chosen which has the same language attributes.
If no fonts for the language in question exist in the device type, the resulting font will not be able to print the special characters and you will see "wrong" output characters in the printout.
Note on SAPscript/SmartForms Print Preview:
The OTF Print Preview available in Windows GUI (e.g. from transaction SP01) will sometimes not show the "wrong" characters which appear on the final printout. Here is the reason: since the Print Preview runs in Windows environment, it will use Windows fonts to represent the actual printer fonts. A Windows font typically has more available characters (i.e. covers more character sets) than are actually available in a printer's resident font.
A typical example where the Print Preview will differ from the printout is here: if you have a Chinese PCL5 printer such as CNHPLJ4 and use the Western Latin font COURIER in your document, the print preview will show you Chinese characters if you (by accident) tried to format Chinese characters in COURIER font. This is because Windows will automatically choose a font that can output Chinese characters (which is actually not Courier). But when you print the job on an actual PCL5 printer with resident Western and Chinese fonts, the Courier font will not print any Chinese characters but Western special characters instead, because the printer's resident Courier font does not include Chinese characters.
Rule of thumb: all Asian device types (e.g. CNHPLJ4, JPHPLJ4, JPPOST, KPHPLJ4) support not only Asian fonts but also COURIER, HELVE and TIMES fonts. But these Latin fonts can only be used to print English text, not Chinese/Japanese/Korean characters.
Which fonts are suitable for a given language?
Language(s):            Font family to use in a form:
Latin-1 (Western Europe/Americas) *******
DE,EN,FR,ES,NL,SV       COURIER, HELVE, TIMES
                        (LETGOTH, LNPRINT)
Latin-2 (Central Europe) ****************
PL, CZ                  COURIER, HELVE, TIMES
ISO 8859-4 (Baltic) *********************
ET, LT, LV              COURIER, HELVE, TIMES
ISO 8859-5 (Cyrillic) *******************
BG, RU, SR, UK          COURCYR, HELVCYR, TIMECYR
ISO 8859-7 (Greek) **********************
EL                      COUR_I7, HELV_I7, TIME_I7
ISO 8859-8 (Hebrew) *********************
HE                      COURIER, HELVE, TIMES
ISO 8859-9 (Turkish) ********************
TR                      COURIER, HELVE, TIMES
Simplified Chinese **********************
ZH                      CNHEI, CNKAI, CNSONG
Japanese ********************************
JA                      JPMINCHO, DBMINCHO, DBGOTHIC
Korean **********************************
KP                      KPBATANG, KPDODUM, KPGULIM
                        KPGUNGSE, KPSAMMUL
Traditional Chinese *********************
ZF                      TWDPHEI, TWMING, TWSONG
Thai ************************************
TH                      THANGSAN, THDRAFT, THVIJIT
Arabic (Unicode systems only) ***********
AR                      ANDALE_J
Verify your output by examining the OTF data
When analysing printing problems of this type, be sure to check the OTF data which gets produced by SAPscript or SmartForms. OTF or "Output Text Format" is the intermediate page-description format generated from SAPscript or SmartForms. OTF will contain the final printer font names and character set/language identifiers which help to solve the problem. OTF will even name the form and the language of the form used to create the output.
The easiest way to do this is to create a spool request from your application, run transaction SP01, use menu
Goto->Display Requests->Settings
and choose
Display Mode: Raw
Now display your spool request. If this is a SAPscript or SmartForms spool request, you will see OTF data. Each line represents one OTF command, every command starts with a 2-character cmd identifier and possibly some cmd parameters follow.
Here is an excerpt from a sample OTF file where we highlight the most interesting commands:
//XHPLJ8000    0700 00000000001
IN04EALEXTEST_ZEBRA
IN05%PAGE1
OPDINA4 P 144 240 1683811906000010000100001
IN06%WINDOW2
MT0024401289
CP11000000E
FCHELVE 120 00109XSF100SF101110000067E X
UL +0000000000000
SW00067
CT00000000
ST0453037Dieses SF hat Stil ALEXTEST_ZEBRA mit
The 1st line with the // (Control) command reveals the device type usedto print: HPLJ8000
//XHPLJ8000    0700 00000000001
The 2nd line (IN = Info command) shows the name and (internal 1-char)language key of the form:
IN04EALEXTEST_ZEBRA
In this case it is the English (E = EN) SmartForm ALEXTEST_ZEBRA
The OP-line (OP = Open Page) gives the page format used in the form, it is DINA4 Portrait orientation:
OPDINA4 P 144 240 1683811906000010000100001
The CP (CodePage) cmd shows the SAP system codepage used to code the text and the active language. In our case it is codepage 1100 and language E = EN = English.
CP11000000E
Finally, the FC-cmd (Font Call) lists a printer font selected within SmartForms. Please note that every SmartForm has a designated default SmartStyle under "Form Attributes->Output Options". In addition, every text node can have a SmartStyle attached (which will override the definitions from the default style for the text). In our case the resulting printer font that was selected is HELVE 12.0 pt bold-off, italic-off.
FCHELVE   120 00109XSF100SF101110000067E X
Header Data
Release Status: Released for Customer
Released on: 22.08.2005 09:57:20
Priority: Recommendations/additional info
Category: Customizing
Primary Component: BC-CCM-PRN Print and Output Management
Secondary Components: BC-SRV-SCR SAPscript
BC-SRV-SSF Smart Forms
reward if useful
regards,
ANJI

Program should execute both for F8 and F9

Hi All,
I have a requirement that my program should execute both for F8 and F9.
I have developed it as a report as the selection-screen contains 'Select-Options' and they want the Multiple Selection Button.
I know that if I develop it as a Module pool, my problem is very easily solved.
But since they want the Multiple-Selection button for Select-options which we cannot provide in a Module-Pool I am forced to develop a report.
Please let me know if its possible to execute the program with both F8 and F9 function keys, while F8 can be the normal execute button, there is no need of any button for F9, that is a F9 key press is enough. The Report should execute if the user presses F8 or F9 key on the Key-board.
Hope I am clear.
Please help me with your suggestions.
Thanks in Advance.
Edited by: Dagny on Apr 1, 2009 6:57 AM

Hi, Dangy
I dont think you can do with f9 fkey,
but you can do with ctrl+f9 , if ur client like this..
this are some available FKeys.
Freely assigned function keys
F5
F6
F7
F8                             ONLI       Execute
Shift-F1                       DOCU       Program Documenta...
Shift-F6                       SCRH       Selection Screen ...
Shift-F7                       ALLS       All Selections
Shift-F8                       FEWS       Chosen Selections
Shift-F9
Shift-Ctrl-0
Shift-F11
Shift-F12
Ctrl-F1                        FC01       <SSCRFIELDS-FUNC...>
Ctrl-F2                        FC02       <SSCRFIELDS-FUNC...>
Ctrl-F3                        FC03       <SSCRFIELDS-FUNC...>
Ctrl-F4                        FC04       <SSCRFIELDS-FUNC...>
Ctrl-F5                        FC05       <SSCRFIELDS-FUNC...>
Ctrl-F6                        LVUV       User Variables...
Ctrl-F7
Ctrl-F8
Ctrl-F9
Ctrl-F10
Ctrl-F11
Ctrl-F12
Ctrl-Shift-F1
Ctrl-Shift-F2
Ctrl-Shift-F3
Ctrl-Shift-F4
Ctrl-Shift-F5
Ctrl-Shift-F6
Ctrl-Shift-F7
Ctrl-Shift-F8
Ctrl-Shift-F9
Ctrl-Shift-F10
Ctrl-Shift-F11
Ctrl-Shift-F12
Just execute ur program, and go to system>status->in SAP data , there is GUI status-> dbl clik in ur gui status and assign Fcode for ctrl+f9 and handle the same in user command.
I hope it will solve ur problem.

Should I bother yet? - G4-933 Mac Pro

Hi All,
Given that I use mainly graphic software - Photoshop, Illustrator, Indesign, Freehand on my G4-933. And given that the mac Pro will be running these under Rosetta - should I bother upgrading yet or wait till these apps are all universal - est spring 2007?
For example the Macworld test shows that speed wise the MP2.66 model is comparable with a Dual G4-1.42 in photoshop.
Should I consider some other upgrade path in the mean time?
Grateful for any thoughts on the matter.

If you can afford to upgrade to 6GB RAM, maybe in a couple months, no I would not wait at all.
2GB for Rosetta
4GB for Photoshop
2.66 or 3GHz model
Throw in some SATA drives for your work
Yes, it will be better, but take a look at today's
http://www.macrumors.com and link to Barefeats
http://www.barefeats.com
how much RAM did MacWorld have? not 6GB probably which seems to be essential for what you want. You could wait. You've waited this long
I have not seen a Mac I want or like this much - ever!

Should I bother updating firmware?

Hi, I just picked up a G5 Dual 1.8 PPC, Boot ROM is 5.1.5f0. I noticed that there is a new update 5.1.5.f8. Although it say it's only for uniprocessors, I've read that others who have dual processors, have been able to update. Should I bother updating? Do I really need to? I haven't notice any issues with the G5 so far. But then again, I don't really know what I should be looking for, if anything. The only thing I've noticed is that on start-up I hear the fan do a quick little rev, then the system is quiet. I only made note of that because the G5 I have at work doesn't make a sound, even on startup. But then again, it's a newer dual 2.7.
I've also read that you don't have to remove 3rd party ram prior to updating. Is this true?
Thanks.

I apologize. I did not mean to dis you or your knowledge.
I take it this way, when a vendor offers a firmware revision, it simply makes sense to install it. There are always improvements. I have never had the whine issue and for the most part I'm very happy with my MBP. The call I made to Tech Support was due to the lack of "insistance" on Apple's part on whether or not someone should install this. Also, because the rumor mill was suggesting you NOT install it unless you were doing Boot Camp, which I just did not believe to be the case (again, because a next revision will also include this code). Now, with Apple not saying anything "official" about some of the whine issues et al, it only makes sense to me (and my engineers here) that they would put out incremental updates, because they have had some success in fixing things in the lab, so to speak, and want to see the general users reaction ("Hey, my sound works now!" - that kind of thing.) I have no doubt that Apple has many people scanning these forums all day, simply because they have to. This is a good way to find things. That certainly will not get an official reaction though, and those waiting for that, will just have to wait. Until the whine, for example, is universal (and I don't mean software wise!) - there will be no statement. So, the best "statement" that Apple is making, is by releasing updates.
Bob

Do most phone browsers support HTML? Should I bother with WML?

Does anyone know what percentage of browsers on phones support HTML? All the phones I have tested with support minimal HTML (cheap and expensive). Should I bother doing a web interface with WML if I can do it with HTML?
Thanks

Hi applecore_eater,
When Leopard came out, machines were shipping with Tiger for 3-5 months after it's release. So the fact that you bought a machine with Leopard still installed is not uncommon, especially considering we're not even a month into release. Matter of fact, I'd be surprised to see a lot of machines (unless CTO) that are coming with Snow Leopard.
The battery issue is not specific to Snow Leopard or the MacBook Air. I've deployed SL to about 15-20 MacBook Airs and all of them have been perfectly fine (batteries).

Should I bother with a Ipod Touch

I have a Windows Phone with a built in mp3 player, although I'm thinking about buying Ipod Touch 4th Generation. Should I bother? The only difference is one has a phone and is ran by Windows and the Ipod is ran by Apple and has a better app store. Now should i bother buying an Ipod?

I would add another consideration:
If you buy an iPod, or any Apple device, you will have to subject yourself and your computer(s) to the true horror that is iTunes...quite simply the worst piece of software ever written. Horrible interface...you are constrained on how and where you can store *your* data, and youy have far fewer format choices with an Apple device than you do with a Windows or an Android device. As you can tell from the tone of this post, I, like millions of others, hate iTunes, but it is a fact of life if you are going to own an Apple product.
If you find my post useful or informative, please click the icon below with the plus sign and star to give kudos. Thank you!

Should display both Spanish and English lang. at a time in BEx analyzer

Hi All,
I need to display both Spanish and English lang. in Bex analyzer.
InfoObject is language dependent.
Ex: For material it should display description in Spanish and English at a time.
Am only able to display one at a time.
Please suggest.
Regards,
Sandeep.

Hi Sandeep,
As Kodandapani mentioned it’s not possible to display both languages same
time as its mapping to same T table where LANGU is part of key.
I recommend you to create an attribute or maintain another table for other
language to display at a time.
if anybody get any better ideas then pl share.
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Should I bother with Aperture

I'm a avid iphoto user and have about 20+ gigs of photos on my MBpro. I don't presently own a camera that shoots raw but expect to buy one in the next year or two. A photographer is going to give us a thousand pics from our recent wedding weekend and I wanted to know whether I should ask for them in raw or jpeg. I know iphoto can import raw but is it worth it to buy Aperture to possibly edit the pics? I fiddle with the histogram settings in iphoto quite a bit.
Second question: is Aperture easy to administer? We are running out of room on our hardrive and will probably have to store some photos on an external drive. Is this complicated? Time Machine has nearly filled our 300gig external drive and so we will probably need to buy a larger external drive soon. Should I stick with iphoto or progress to Aperture?
Any advice would be great. thx

By all means get your wedding pix in RAW format. In fact the photog almost surely has the pix in RAW+JPEG, so he/she should be willing to deliver in both formats at no cost difference. In addition to allowing huge latitude in post-process editing, RAW captures contain more image data.
I strongly recommend that every digital photog with adequate computer hardware first spend $33 and work through the tutorial CD Apple Pro Training Series: Aperture 1.5 (Apple Pro Training) by Orlando Luna and Ben Long (Paperback - Oct 18, 2006). Have the CD and a MacIntel with minimum 2 GB RAM (preferably more) prior to ordering the Aperture trial so you don't waste time of the 30 day trial. Note that the value is in the tutorial, not in using the book as a manual.
IMO trying Aperture without the tutorial's guidance is a waste of time, leading to bad habits and/or just not getting it.
Note that you probably should ignore Shell's confusing post above; IMO Shell is just confused.
When you do go to buy a DSLR, note that there is always a delay from the time any brand new DSLR is introduced until various software supports the new model's RAW conversions. Different RAW converters variously show up sooner/later, and different RAW converters work better/worse with different models. E.g. Adobe's Nikon D300 conversions are out now but apparently do not do a very good job.
Typically the time frame is 1-3 months, so the very earliest adopters of new models may have to wait a month or two to convert their RAW images. All good DSLRs have a RAW+JPEG capture choice, however, so even the earliest adopters can manage images immediately.
Safely storing 20,000+ images using a laptop as a base is complicated. No way around that reality. Aperture provides several mechanisms (vaults, projects, etc.) that assist in the the process, and there are regularly threads here on the topic.
-Allen Wicks

Virus protection with Mac OS 10.4.7 - should I bother?

I've purchased (but not opened) Virus barrier x4 from Intego. Is it worth using this with my iMac and/or MacBook or should I exchange it for that fascinating programme I saw on another shelf in the Apple store?

The argument over whether this is a "virus" or not seems purely semantic. It's malware, of course, but does it really matter what type of malware it is?
Some more quotes for anyone interested from Rob Griffiths at MacWorld
Is this a virus, a worm, malware, or a Trojan horse?
Technically, it’s a bit of everything. It’s a virus, in the sense that it attaches itself to other executable code on your Mac. It’s a worm, in that it attempts to self-replicate and spread from machine to machine. It’s a piece of malware, because it can do bad things to your computer. Basically, it’s a piece of malware that’s delivered via a Trojan horse and then acts in both viral and wormy ways.
In what manner is this viral?
A virus is a self-replicating program that spreads by inserting copies of itself into other running apps. Leap-A does just that, through the use of the InputManagers folder, as described in Andrew Welch’s analysis. Eventually, it will infect any Cocoa application you launch. And, due to a bug in its code, those infected apps will no longer run! However, Leap-A is not a true virus, in that it cannot spread from machine to machine without human intervention.
What does Apple have to say about all this?
Here’s what the company told my colleague Peter Cohen:
Leap-A is not a virus, it is malicious software that requires a user to download the application and execute the resulting file. Apple always advises Macintosh users to only accept files from vendors and Web sites that they know and trust. We have a guide to safely handling files received from the Internet.

My bank has offered me Kaspersky Anti-Virus 2011 for Mac for Free, should I bother?

Thoughts?
I am a reasonably experienced Mac user, have never had a problem (that I am aware of) with security on my iMac.
I'm erring towards, what's the point, why bother.
But I thought I would throw it out there?
Perhaps another question is, what steps should I ensure that I have done to MAXIMISE the security that is built into OSX?
I am running 10.6.8
Thanks,

Chipstix wrote:
what steps should I ensure that I have done to MAXIMISE the security that is built into OSX?
Don't do any online banking with amounts your not comfortable losing.
Keep the bulk of your funds entirely on your banks electronic systems accessible only in person and transfer as needed to less secure accounts that are on ATM/checking/debit card type accounts.
It annoys my bank to no end that I come in once every month or two to transfer money and gets some cash, but it puts people to work and I don't get ripped off.
If you've read the horror stories I have where people's entire online accounts gets transferred to another country with little enforcement or extradition, you would do the same.
Mac's are a bit more secure than Windows, but it's really just smarter choices playing on Roulete, eventually you play long enough the House takes your money no matter how good your luck or skill is.
So the smart choice is don't play, or only take to the table what your willing to lose.
All your doing with installing anti-virus on a Mac is cleaning the Windows files if you got malware on them, it's not doing you a bit of good.
OS X already has XProtect watching for malicious trojans, and your not a dumb smuck that will install a trojan, so there is currently no need for anti-virus, causes more problems that it solves as Apple changes things all the time, which throws off the anti-virus software and gives errors, false positives or hozes the system, even creates security vulnerabilites!
There is new malware all the time, operating systems are flawed, especially Lion. It's like Apple is capitalizing on all the free security support of the computer community and just throws a unproven OS X version out there and allows it's user base to be guinne pigs.
https://threatpost.com/en_us/blogs/apple-ships-mammoth-security-update-101311

HR ACTION- BDC should update both 0000 and 0001 or should not commit at al

Hi,
I have a requirement in which a action is to be performed. Action could be terminate, hire, or anything.
Consider HIRE action, in hire action info type 0000 and 0001 should be updated.
I have recorded to save info type 0000 first and then 0001 as the pe the standard action simply using SHDB. Now the problem is when running the program for few employees it save infotype 0000 and then errors out in 0001. But in this case data is already created in 0000 and 0001 is not created.
Is there any option that will make the BDC to update both the info types 0000 and 0001 or none at all in case of error in any one?
Thanks in advance,
Akash

You can commit at last , i have an idea say for example you hve to do bdc for two transactions
pa20 , pa30(I am just using HR terms i am not quite familiar with it )
If i use call transaction method then i will code like as below
if flag = x
call t-code pa20.
call t-code pa30.
then
if flag = x (ie no error in bdcmsgcoll)
commit work (at last )
Regards
Bhanu

Update memory in 2006 iMac...should I bother?

I'm not sure exactly which iMac I have..it says it's a 5,1 but that doesn't seem to fit the categories. It's intel, has a CD slot, and two 512 667MHz memory dealies.
So it seems pretty sluggish lately, even though I've transferred my photo library to my Time Machine backup ext. disk, and that did help.
So is it worth it to buy the max of memory, which is just 2gigs, I think? After 6 years am I heading for a demise anyway?
Any advice is welcome! Thanks.

MichelPM, you have complicated my Maclife! Here is what I have under hardware overview:
Model Name:
iMac
Model Identifier:
iMac5,1
Processor Name:
Intel Core 2 Duo
Processor Speed:
2.16 GHz
Number Of Processors:
1
Total Number Of Cores:
2
L2 Cache:
4 MB
Memory:
1 GB
Bus Speed:
667 MHz
Boot ROM Version:
IM51.0090.B09
SMC Version (system):
1.9f4
Hardware UUID:
00000000-0000-1000-8000-0016CB9E1E35
I just discovered that I can indeed play a DVD, but whether I can burn one--have no idea. I'll see whether I can figure that out. I think I put CD in my first post because I knew I had that, and can burn a CD--and that was one of the choices on the Apple site for 2006 models, as you know. You are dealing with a member of the platinum age here. As in hair color.
Meanwhile, I should add that we bought this through the Apple education store--we both work/ed at the university.

Should I bother with SAFARI?

I recently got this iBook with SAFARI installed so I've been trying it out. Up til now its been Explorer which I've had no real complaints about despite many views to the contrary.
So far I'm sadly unimpressed, nay peeved at how badly it works/doesn't. I've yet to scan thru the threads on this topic and without getting into my specific complaints at this point, I'll listen keenly to any general advice re. using Safari, staying with Explorer, trying some other browser. I have given Firefox a bit of a look see.
I'm a low-demand user--text, small graphics, minimal gaming, iTunes audio file-sharing.

Oh the discusion god is with me today. Look what popped up: a two-page "safari-slow browsing" thread dating back a couple months. So I'm not alone in this am I?
So is this a little Apple secret nobody wants to 'fess up to or what?
I've already gleaned Camino and iCab recommendations thru some other threads.
And I've been beginning to suspect 3rd party anti-viral programs as I did adopt a more cautious (but uninformed) approach and add Norton Antivirus v. 9.0 concurrent with upgrading to Panther and trying out Safari. There seems to be an old Virex program lurking somewhere too as its icon pops up at start-up but being fairly novice at these things I haven't ventured into removing it. I'll ask another thread but any advice here is welcome. Can I just drag the file/folder to Trash and dump?
Advice re. anti-virus requirements is also appreciated and I'll get another thread on this too.
Still 'Internet Exploder' (as a new discussion friend so charmingly calls it) beats Safari and Firefox hands down for loading pages and must surely be negotiating with the same anti-viral programs. Please keep in mind I'm operating at a fairly low-performance level both in terms of my machines and use needs. So we're talking what takes
several seconds (2-10 usually) in IE takes 5-20 secs in Safari and Firefox. I'm a patient guy and don't mind a bit of a wait but its the stupid stuff like crashing on Apple sites like this one that really annoy me.
"So I don't have enough experience to list too many
for instances."
The other slow Safari thread (you can see current posting today) sites lots of examples that reflect my neophyte experience so it really does bring me back to my first question:
Should I really bother with Safari?

Migrating to Openbox from Flux; Should I bother?

Hello guys!
I'm a pretty happy Fluxbox user. I have my keybinds, my own custom made theme, a quite long apps file that gets everything going the way I want when I login.
Thing is, I do not use any of the things Flux has that Open doesn't, meaning the toolbar and the dock. Quite honestly, I even turned off the buttons from the titlebar (maximize is Alt+D, close is Alt+F4, why bother clicking? ) I do everything from the keyboard and use Conky for a much better looking clock.
So now that you get what kind of user I am, here's the motivation behind my question: Flux's keygrabber has been locking up on me (and taking away the menu) lately, leaving me with two options: restart X or mash my keyboard until I find a combination that unlocks it and resolves the problem.
So, do I migrate to Openbox? I like the look of it for the following reasons:
- it seems better maintained
- the configuration files seem to make more sense
- it doesn't have anything I don't need (toolbar, dock)
- is EWMH compliant
- has dynamic menus
Do you Openbox users confirm them all? Or should I stay put until either of 'em gets more of an edge over the other? Again, I want a speedy, minimalist and highly configurable mouse driven (no ion and ratpoison, thanks) window manager with sensible defaults (no fvwm, thanks).
Can anybody please help? I tend to obsess over this inane stuff, but I don't want to spend the time migrating my configs to Openbox only to find out it's exactly the same.

Alright, after the positive responses I gave Openbox a shot. Not expecting much, I copied my key bindings over from fluxbox, I figured that having gmrun as my trusty companion, everything would be fine from there.
First comment: Wow, this really feels snappier. It seems to be a somewhat faster to switch between desktops now. Anyhow, there's probably no way to realistically measure this, so this shouldn't be treated as hard evidence.
I have two and only two problems with Openbox so far:
1) Media keys don't work. Traditionally I use xmodmap to bind them to X86Audio[Play|Stop|Mute], and then Fluxbox to bind them to mpc [toggle|stop] and amixer sset and so on. I've checked xev and the keys are binded fine, what's going on then? I've bound them in my rc.xml as follows:
<keybind key="XF86AudioRaiseVolume">
<action name="Execute"><execute>amixer sset PCM 1+</execute></action>
</keybind>
<keybind key="XF86AudioLowerVolume">
<action name="Execute"><execute>amixer sset PCM 1-</execute></action>
</keybind>
<keybind key="XF86AudioMute">
<action name="Execute"><execute>amixer sset Master toggle; amixer sset PCM toggle</execute></action>
</keybind>
<keybind key="XF86AudioPlay">
<action name="Execute"><execute>mpc toggle</execute></action>
</keybind>
<keybind key="XF86AudioStop">
<action name="Execute"><execute>mpc stop</execute></action>
</keybind>
<keybind key="XF86AudioPrev">
<action name="Execute"><execute>mpc prev</execute></action>
</keybind>
<keybind key="XF86AudioNext">
<action name="Execute"><execute>mpc next</execute></action>
</keybind>
<keybind key="XF86WWW">
<action name="Execute"><execute>firefox</execute></action>
</keybind>
2) Startup of programs and automatic placement. When Fluxbox starts it starts 8 copies of urxvtc. 4 in desktop 0, 4 in desk 3. They're placed by the pixel in relation to the corners of the screen. I do this through the apps file like so:
[startup] {urxvtc}
[app] (urxvtc)
[Position] (LOWERRIGHT) {180 78}
[Deco] {TINY}
[Workspace] {0}
[end]
Picture 8 of these plus the entries to lauch Firefox and Thunderbird on their desktop, Gaim in another and ncmpc in another. How do I do this in Openbox? I could migrate the actual running of the programs to .xinitrc, but the placement is even more important than starting the applications.
So, to sum it up: help!

Should I bother updating to Sol 10 u6?

Hi all,
A question I have never really gotten a straight answer to, from anyone (not Sun, not community locals, nor documentation).
Should I actually go to the trouble of UPDATING my Solaris 10 u3 hosts to u6 via taking the hosts down, then booting from the u6 media, then (if it works!) selecting the upgrade install?
The reason I ask is because, as I've noticed in my patching schedules, all the updates (including kernel/zfs genesis style stuff) all seem to come through anyway. Is there really any point to actually trying to UPDATE the host to u6 when the patches seem to keep it in line anyway? (I use PCA, patch check advance, if anyone is interested).
I know the question seems obvious/simple enough, but again, nobody has ever been able to give me a straight reasoning or a definite +"yes you must"+ or +"no, don't bother"+ style answer, let alone some reasons for/against.
Any help would be appreciated.

zebrac,
Yes, you are correct that if you apply all the patches your system will be patched and up to date. What you won't have though is ( from what I understand by reading patch cluster documentation) is that you won't have the latest features. These are only available if you are on a given release base, and are not added in, even if you if you apply a full patch cluster. I.e. in u6 Sun added a bunch of ZFS stuff, but also added SSE3+ instruction support for x86 processors, and SHA256/SHA512 crypto capabilities to everyone. In u5 they added additional power management support, xVNC and Trusted Extensions.
Here is the release details for all the releases: http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/817-0547?l=en
We just moved our 10 machines or so up to u6, and although we have had some problems on the x86 side, for the most part everything has gone well. Of course with all new releases, there are issues, but that's why we back everything up first! =D
Hope that helps,
Dave
P.S. Console upgrade! AFAIK, it's the only option that offers the upgrade path.

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