Simple solution to a complicated problem!

I have several other posts on here being desperate for help trying to download iTunes. First I would get an error telling me that it was an invalid Win32 applicatoin. Then I would get one telling me that the connection with the server was reset. I spent 3 days and many hours trying everything to fix the problem.
Here's how I fixed it... my husband downloaded iTunes on his laptop and sent me the file through AIM.
I have no idea why it worked this way... I was just mins away from wiping my hard drive clean... but it did and it's working fine! So if you're having problems downloading, try it this way! I was so frustrated that I was about to send back my iPod and get a regular MP3 player... I can't believe it actually worked!!

Seems like a DNS problem, and that is what has been ranted to chek in another recent similar post.
I have pointed my computer to the two local DNS servers on my AD network. My computer is wired into the network and has a permanent DHCP reservation so the IP address will remain constant.
Am I heading down the right path?
Is the .local what is causing the hostname conflict?
much thanks
You are heading in the right direction and sound like you are one step away. You note that you pointed the server to the internal DNS servers but you did not reveal if you created a DNS record for your server. Let's say your domain is thedavidkid.local. Your OS X Server wants to have a name also. Lets say mountain.thedavidkid.com. It also really wants a reverse name in your DNS. So go to your AD environment and assign this system a fully qualified domain name pointing to the IP address you have assigned the system. When creating the record, ensure that you also create a reverse record.
Now, that that is done, confirm your work from the OS X Server.
nslookup mountain.thedavidkid.com
nslookup ip.ad.re.ss
The first one should show you the IP address of the server. The second (replace ip.ad.re.ss with the actual IP Address) should return the host name of the server. If you get these, then reboot your server.
Once it starts, open Terminal again and fix any issues you may have caused by running:
sudo changeip -checkhostname
If this comes back and tells you all is good, then go on to make your OD Master. If it yells at you that there is a hostname or IP mismatch, use the suggested correction to correct the problem (pretended with sudo).
Once you have the identity crisis sorted out, then create you OD Master.
By the way, for 20 devices, you sure you want Profile Manager? Have you looked at Apple Configurator and supervision mode?

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I need a solution of this complicated problem to finalize my final project

Introduction
This project revolves around an important text processing task, text compression. In particular, you will be required to encode a sequence of words read from a source file into binary strings (using only the characters 0 and 1). It is important to note that text compression makes it possible to minimize the time needed to transmit text over a low-bandwidth channel, such as infrared connection. Moreover, text compression is helpful in storing large documents more efficiently. The coding scheme explored in this project is the Huffman Coding Scheme. While standard encoding schemes, such as Unicode and ASCII, use fixed-length binary strings to encode characters, Huffman coding assigns variable-length codes to characters. The length of a Huffman code depends on the relative frequency of its associated character. Specifically, Huffman coding capitalizes on the fact that some characters are used more frequently than others to use short codewords when encoding high-frequency characters and long codewords to encode low-frequency characters. Huffman coding saves space over state of the art fixed-length encoding and is therefore at the heart of file compression techniques in common use today. Figure 1 shows the relative frequencies of the letters of the alphabet as they appear in a representative sample of English documents.
Letter     Frequency     Letter     Frequency
A     77     N     67
B     17     O     67
C     32     P     20
D     42     Q     5
E     120     R     59
F     24     S     67
G     17     T     85
H     50     U     37
I     76     V     12
J     4     W     22
K     7     X     4
L     42     Y     22
M     24     Z     2
Figure 1. Relative frequencies for the 26 letters of the alphabet.
Huffman coding and decoding
Huffman’s algorithm for producing optimal variable-length codes is based on the construction of a binary tree T that represents the code. In other words, the Huffman code for each character is derived from a full binary tree known as the Huffman coding tree, or simply the Huffman tree. Each edge in the Huffman tree represents a bit in a codeword, with each edge connecting a node with its left child representing a “0” and each edge connecting a node with its right child representing a “1”. Each external node in the tree is associated with a specific character, and the Huffman code for a character is defined by the sequence of bits in the path from the root to the leaf corresponding to that character. Given codes for the characters, it is a simple matter to use these codes to encode a text message. You will have simply to replace each letter in the string with its binary code (a lookup table can be used for this purpose).
In this project, you are not going to use the table given in Figure 1 to determine the frequency of occurrence per character. Instead, you will derive the frequency corresponding to a character by counting the number of times that character appears in an input file. For example, if the input file contains the following line of text “a fast runner need never be afraid of the dark”, then the frequencies listed in the table given in Figure 2 should be used per character:
Character          a     b     d     e     f     H     i     k     n     O     r     s     t     u     v
Frequency     9     5     1     3     7     3     1     1     1     4     1     5     1     2     1     1
Figure 2. The frequency of each character of the String X.
Based on the frequencies shown in Figure 2, the Huffman tree depicted in Figure 3 can be constructed:
Figure 3. Huffman tree for String X.
The code for a character is thus obtained by tracing the path from the root of the Huffman tree to the external node where that character is stored, and associating a left edge with 0 and a right edge with 1. In the context of the considered example for instance, the code for “a” is 010, and the code for “f” is 1100.
Once the Huffman tree is constructed and the message obtained from the input file has been encoded, decoding the message is done by looking at the bits in the coded string from left to right until all characters are decoded. This can be done by using the Huffman tree in a reverse process from that used to generate the codes. Decoding the bit string begins at the root of the tree. Branches are taken depending on the bit value – left for ‘0’ and right for ‘1’ – until reaching a leaf node. This leaf contains the first character in the message. The next bit in the code is then processed from the root again to start the next character. The process is repeated until all the remaining characters are decoded. For example, to decode the string “0101100” in the case of the example under study, you begin at the root of the tree and take a left branch for the first bit which is ‘0’. Since the next bit is a ‘1’, you take a right branch. Then, you take a left branch (for the third bit ‘1’), arriving at the leaf node corresponding to the letter a. Thus, the first letter of the coded word is a. You then begin again at the root of the tree to process the fourth bit, which is a ‘1’. Taking 2 right branches then two left branches, you reach the leaf node corresponding to the letter f.
Problem statement
You are required to implement the Huffman coding/decoding algorithms. After you complete the implementation of the coding/decoding processes, you are asked to use the resulting Java code to:
1.     Read through a source file called “in1.dat” that contains the following paragraph:
“the Huffman coding algorithm views each of the d distinct characters of the string X as being in separate Huffman trees initially with each tree composed of a single leaf node these separate trees will eventually be joined into a single Huffman tree in each round the algorithm takes the two binary trees with the smallest frequencies and merges them into a single binary tree it repeats this process until only one tree is left.”
2.     Determine the actual frequencies for all the letters in the file.
3.     Use the frequencies from the previous step to create a Huffman coding tree before you assign codes to individual letters. Use the LinkedBinaryTree class that we developed in class to realize your Huffman coding trees.
4.     Produce an encoded version of the input file “in1.dat” and then store it in an output file called “out.dat”.
5.     Finally, the decoding algorithm will come into play to decipher the codes contained in “out.dat”. The resulting decoded message should be written to an output file called “in2.dat”. If nothing goes wrong, the text stored in “in1.dat” and the one in “in2.dat” must match up correctly.

jschell wrote:
I need a solution of this complicated problem to finalize my final project The solution:
1. Write code
2. Test code3. If test fails, debug code, then go to step 2.

A Simple Solution to the Slowness Problem

Here is a simple solution that worked for me and will probably work for a lot of other people too. Hold down the ALT key when you open iPhoto. iPhoto then allows you open a new library or choose from your existing libraries. If you open a new library you can download images from your camera into the new library. Presto! You have a small number of photos to work with and iPhoto chugs merrily along with no slowness whatsoever. You want to go to another library? Simple: close iPhoto, then reopen it while holding down the ALT key again. Choose the library you want. I have hunted high and low for a solution to the slowness problem for months. This is far and away the best one I have found.
If you have a lot of photos in your existing library, you will need to divide it up into smaller libraries. I suggest making a library for each month of photos. If iPhoto is still slow on a particular library, divide that library into smaller libraries. This is time consuming, but at least you only have to do it once. It is worth it to get iPhoto back.

AlexCox, can you clarify that once you get the default model out and save it in the temp var, that your ONLY access to the data is then through temp and never through the JList methods?
Quick question for everyone: Are any of you using JList.setListData to set you initial dataset? I think that is where the bug lies. When I do not use it and start with an empty list, I am able to add to that list, and then remove from that list using the following line:
((DefaultListModel)myList.getModel).remove(###);
And this cast works everytime.
But when I start that list out with some data such as:
myList.setListData(myStringArray);
and then try to execute the above line, boom! I get the ClassCast exception.
I think setListData creates a whole new model which is an inner class to JList (which seems stupid when DefaultListModel seems made for this).
Just my thoughts on where the problem lies. I'll add my data directly to the list and see if that works better.
PK

Simple solution to iChat AV 10.4.3 Problem

I know I will receive lots of criticism from certain quarters but there is a very simple solution to the countless problems that thousands of iChat users are getting - go back to 10.4.2.
Clearly there is a major problem with 10.4.3 and iChat AV, and I have been searching this forum for the last 2 weeks to try and solve it. I have read so many posts that talk about opening ports and various reconfigurations of the router and in the majority of cases these have not been successful and are far too complicated for the vast majority of Mac users.
This is clearly a major problem, there are over 800 views of one thread alone. This must just be the tip of the iceberg, there must be tens of thousands of users who no longer can get iChat working. Apple really need to take note of this and do something about it. Mac users expect stuff to work out of the box - iChat used to - now it often doesn't.
Reading all the posts the problem is very complicated. In my own case I can use iChat AV with some of my friends and not with others. All of us are on 10.4.3. After days of frustration I re-installed 10.4 out of the box and upgraded it to 10.4.2. It all now works fine, just as it did before the dreaded upgrade.
The solution is simple - just re-install 10.4.2 and come back here and tell me it now works.
PowerMac G4 Mac OS X (10.4.2)

Hello David,
I cannot agree with you I am afraid. iChat works fine for me on 10.4.3. I am sure it works fine for many others too. There are some set up issues, they seem to get resolved pretty quickly in here.
Not a criticism as such David - But suggesting that the best fix is a retro grade one is perhaps not the best resolution to a problem.
I am not saying I can fix your problem - there are many here better than me at sorting out problems ( I won't name names but they know who they are! ) :-)))
Why not post back with some more information about the problem. The set up there. Any error messages you get.... I'll bet you a Pound of Apples and a large Pineapple that some one can get you chatting happily on 10.4.3.
Now theres a challenge!!!
Best regards
Ian

GB 1.0 & 1.1 quitting immediately...a simple solution!

I realize this is not a "new" topic, but it has plagued me for several years and I finally found the cure. I did a search on this very problem (on the Apple site under Support>Garageband 1.0/1.1>+"GB quits after a brief flicker of the "Finder"+) and it came back with a strange but true answer. If your clock is set incorrectly, this will happen every time. If your battery is going bad, the clock starts giving dates from the last century! In my previous posts concerning this topic my solution was to "zero" the drive and reinstall everything.... Ciao!

I only have the iPad2, I recently updated to 7.0.4 the pages version 2.1 I can not open anything. Is there a simple solution to fix this problem? Only the iPad2 comments will help

I have an iMac that I purchased back in 2010 and over the past 9 month or less my computer just started shutting down while someone was in the process or working on it. What could this come from? Is there a simple solutions to this problem?

I have an iMac that I purchased back in 2010 and over the past 9 month or less my computer just started shutting down while someone was in the process or working on it. What could this come from? Is there a simple solutions to this problem?

Which model iMac do you have? http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1758 How to identify iMac models
Which OS is currently installed?
Check out KB Articles: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3964 Intel-based Macs: Resetting the System Management Controller (SMC) and http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1379 Resetting your Mac's PRAM and NVRAM
If not of the above works and you have AC, call them. Let them deal w/it. Otherwise, take your iMac down to your local AS or an AASP. Diagnostic testing is FREE!
You can also research for a solution on YouTube's "How To" website and iFixit.

ITunes won't open after downloading software update. Macbook Pro OSX10.6.8 Simple solution?

iTunes won't open after downloading software update. Macbook Pro OSX10.6.8 Simple solution? And by the way, this is apparently a common problem and Apple has completely failed to warn in advance or offer a quick straightforward solution - used to be a good company, but it's becoming just another crappy screw-the-consumer corporation.

It would help to know versions here. I'm guessing your update put an older version of something into a place where a newer version of something iTunes put in there existed. Updating an earlier OSX version to 10.6.8 is still only updating to system software that was issued several years ago. If you are running some slightly newer version of iTunes issued subsequent to 10.6.8 and you just updated to 10.6.8 you may have put in an older version of something iTunes uses. Anyway, I'm guessing here until we know exactly what you did.

T520 Sound Issues...Latency Spikes...SIMPLE SOLUTION !!

Hello All,
Many of us T520 owners have had problems with skipping/cracking/distorted audio as a result of DPC Latency Spikes. I have been reading every available thread on the topic and I found a simple solution in a T420 thread that I wanted to share with any T520 users that may have overlooked it.
The Latency Spikes experienced by many users (including myself) were caused by the Ethernet Driver (Intel 82579LM Gigabit Adapter). The current T520 is loaded with Intel driver version 11.12.38.2001. However, if you revert to version 11.12.36.0 the issue disappears. You can download the driver directly from the HP website. (It is no longer available on the Lenovo Support Page)
Thanks again to the original T420 poster and GOOD LUCK!
Moderator Note: Links fixed.

Just bought a NEW T520 with nVidia 4200 , i5 , 4GB, 500GB (7K2 rpm)....
Had before Y560p, & resplved problems with that by reversing the bios to an older one, I didn't found it on Lenovo web, but hte guy from Thailand sended it to me on e-mail (he had problems too).
So it was OK but I wanted the best U can buy... & bought T520.... Had a BIG problem on a gig 1st time a used it ...
Music just stopped for a second or two.... big spike in latency monitor (I started it before work)... then I put to OFF WiFi (on the switch - left side). OK for about 45 min, then AGAIN.... I have gone crazy .... bought a double priced laptop & have problems again ??!?! Is that possible ?!?!?
BTW the drivers on my LAN card are : 11.15.16.0
Anyone know the answer for this ? Thanks in advance, while I'm reconsidering (not glad about that cose I love the Lenovo brand) buying the Apple Mac Book Pro...

My Notes duplicate as I am typing them and then I have to delete the excess notes. Also, Notes no longer synch to my iPhone. Is there a simple solution?

My Notes deplicate as I am typing them and then I have to delete them. Also, Notes no longer synch to my iPhone. Is there a simple solution to these problems?

Jimyyz2 -
In the Accounts system preference you can see which accounts are being used.
Where are you storing your notes? If you show the folders list (View->Show folders list) you should see a header that has the account name of where the notes are stored. What does it say?

Poor design on the hard shell... but there's a simple solution / suggest

Do you like using the Micro's hard shell casing as a desk-prop? Are you annoyed that you have to unplug and re-plug the headphones from the jack every time you want to take it out (to change the battery, for instance)?
So am I. Plus, I noticed that in the picture of the wireless headphone transmitter mount there is not such inconvinent bar. Inspired by this, I found a simple solution: Cut a path for the jack through that narrow bar of plastic at the top of the shell. It doesn't seem to weaken the shell, and it frees you up to insert and remove the Micro without fear of wearing out your headphone jack.
It's easy enough to fit, but making it this way at the factory should be something for Creative to consider for the next production run.

I'm not saying cut the whole **bleep** top off, just a small channel through it for the headphone jack; there is still the majority of the top to keep the pressure on from above. Plus, most the resistance is from the bottom and two thicker bands of foam-like ,material on the lateral sides of the case. The tope seems a little superfluous, as shown by the willingness to skip that part in the wireless headphone transmitter base.
That being said, I use the shell as a desk prop far more than as a belt clip, so I may have just never (ie: not yet) come across a belt-clip problem with it after I cut away the headphone jack channel. My major worry is htat I haven't filed the edges down and this might speed the shell's breakage somehow...
anyway...

After downloading mountain lion the internet does not start automatically after start or restart but if I use diagnostics it starts is there a simpler solution

After downloading mountain lion the internet does not start automatically after start or restart but if I use diagnostics it starts is there a simpler solution?

Extensions can sometimes be the cause of problems. If the problem does not occur in Safe Mode, then you can disable your extensions one-by-one until you find out which one is causing the problem. See [[Troubleshooting extensions and themes]]

I am suddenly logged out from whatever program or app i am working on and i have to log back in. one solution suggested is to reset or restore of my IOS software which is quite an involved endeavor. anyone knows of the cause and simpler solution?

i find that i am suddenly logged out of program or an app or website, and i am back to the HOME screen. i have to log back in and sometimes i find back exactly where i left off, some stuff i have entered or written, or sometimes i have to start all over again and re-enter data or write back what i seem to have lost.
i tried a different browser and it does not solve the problem. i tried different apps, website and programs and it happens anywhere and at any app, program or website.
apple staff suggested a complete restore of the IOS software, which is quite an involved process. does anyone know of any possible causes and a simpler
solution without having to reset the entire IOS 7.0.6

Hello Philly,
I believe that when you reset your ipod(command given from the computer, right?) touch WHILE the ipod was updating, It cleared the system in the middle of writing files, thus corrupting(equivalent of cutting of in the middle of a sentence) the basic running system.
I suggest you go to an apple store and ask for a technical diagonosis in person. they may offer to help if the problem is fixable. If your ipod is still under warrenty, i would guess it would be free/low cost.
~Remember, I am just giving an educated guess on limited information

HT5312 Ok look these solutions are super complicated and I tried all of them and they don't work I just wanna buy a song ok just one song and it won't let me cause I don't have my questions and a answer from a robot is not going to help me so a real pers

Ok look these solutions are super complicated and I tried all of them and they don't work I just wanna buy a song ok just one song and it won't let me cause I don't have my questions and a answer from a robot is not going to help me so a real person plz

There are no robots here. Everyone here is a "real person", a user just like you. How about telling us what the problem is that you are experiencing when you try to buy a song? If you mean that you have forgotten your security questions, go to:
https://appleid.apple.com/
Click "Manage My Account", sign in, and go to the Password and Security section. If you've forgotten your answers, there should be a link just under the security questions fields where you can have a reset email sent to your Rescue email address. If the link for the email doesn't appear, as can happen if you didn't set a rescue email address or (apparently) have a .Mac email address, see the user tip created by Kappy, another user here, on how to proceed:
https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-4551
Regards.

Seriously, Stop the DUPLICATE Madness! Is there a fix for my duplicate songs on my iPad? Like really, I don't have time to drag and delete my songs. Does Apple really have a simple solution to this bug?

Seriously, Stop the DUPLICATE Madness! Is there a fix for my duplicate songs on my iPad? Like really, I don't have time to drag and delete my songs. Does Apple really have a simple solution for this bug? It's been 5-months, I currently do not have quick access to a sync, I thought iMatch for Christmas would solve the problem but it appears that doesn't solve anything either....help please! If I listen to my kid's lula-bye song in duplicate for another night I'm going to seriously loose it on Little Boy Peep. Like really Apple do I need to call IN and pay for this problem?

The possible problem appears to me that songs that were previously loaded onto the iPad device from Mac were duplicated when I started to sync with iCloud. An album will contain one song from the iPad that was originally loaded on sync with Mac and another that will appear either with a little iCloud icon next to the song greyed out or a DUPLICATE song.
I had hoped iMatch would solve the issue magically, but that does not appear to be the case.

Looking for a simple solution: setting up a reply posting board

Hi.. I use dreamweaver and am looking for a fairly simple
solution...
How can I set up so viewers can post a comment after an
article and the only validation needed is registering by email?
ANy suggetsions would help ...
my user rating of dreamweaver is 5 out of 10.. 10 being
professional.
SImilar to this link
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/01/17/entertainment/main2365259.shtml
Thanks
-Luis

Hi OrganicBooks, and a warm welcome to the forums!
NAS seems to be all the rage these days, but having tried most backup methods available, I use Tri-Backup...
http://www.tri-edre.com/english/tribackup.html
To backup any/all of my computers to Firewire drives on any other Networked Computer.
This method requires the Computers to be running, though it has an option to start the backups when they show up on the network.

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