What did They Do To This Forum?

What happened to the Apple Support Communities? I don't understand it at all.
It used to be so helpful, but, not anymore!
Will they ever change back to a more user friendly format?

OGELTHORPE wrote:
Yes there has been a radical change and there are still many issues to be addressed and rectified.
The WHOLE forum needs to be rectified now.
But slowly things are improving.
Um, no they are not.
You can safely assume it will be several months before a status quo level will be achieved. I base this on my personal experience on system design and implementation.
That is if there is anyone still in this catastrophe of a forum when / if they fix it.
Try to be patient.
I'm definitely NOT going to hold my breath waiting for this mess to be fixed.
And maintain a sense of humor.
The only thing I find funny about all of this, is that Apple thought they were making a step forward, when they really just alienated most of the people on the forum.

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WHAT IS THE POINT OF THIS FORUM?

What is the point of this forum when over half the questions go unanswered?
In fact, what is the point of creating and selling a product that so many people can't even install without an expert looking over their shoulder?
This really sucks! I am really sorry that I elected a major in Oracle Development.

Erin,
There are reasons for doing controlled releases, and your implementation experience with prior upgrades is one of them.
Doing an upgrade requires the management of the underlying repository, the underlying repository has changed significantly from 309 to 902 owing to the introduction of OID and other significant changes to the architecture.
Running a controlled release allows Oracle to ensure that the final upgrade scripts when made publicly available are as solid and bug-free as possible whilst allowing those customers who wish to upgrade sooner rather than later and take part in the feedback process can do so with the knowledge that Oracle can help them should they come across any issues.
We currently have over 150 customers running the upgrade scripts and providing feedback, so much so that we are hoping to release them publicly in the very near future.
On another note, I should point out that in your post you are referring to DB upgrade versions and not Application Server upgrade versions..

When I bought my Mac they gave me a free hp printer. My mac is a 10.7 and the printer is for 10.6 and below.... so why did they give me this printer? Can I use it somehow or should I ask for a different one that is compatible with my computer?

When I bought my Mac they gave me a free hp printer. My mac is a 10.7 and the printer is for 10.6 and below.... so why did they give me this printer? Can I use it somehow or should I ask for a different one that is compatible with my computer?

Can I use it somehow or should I ask for a different one that is compatible with my computer?
No, that's not necessary.
You Mac most likely sat in inventory before it was sold so the latest drivers were not installed.
If you tried using the printer and couldn'tget it to work, go here > http://www8.hp.com/us/en/support-drivers.html
If this is a USB connected printer, make sure it's connected to your Mac, then at that link click: Detect Your Product
Download and install drivers for v10.7 / Lion.

What video effect did they use in this music video?

What video effect did they use in T-Pain's - Best Love Music Video
Here is the music video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wmD3M-BfVo
You can tell there is a certain effect that they applied to it. It could be a camera tracker or a camera smoother. I just plainly don't know at this point. I would like to "try" and recreate it if I could with your help.
Thanks in advance.

That's simple parralax animation to give the illusion that the camera would be very close to the talent while keeping the background in frame. Nothing magic there, given that all the backgrounds are artificial and have been added in post, anyway.

What is the function of this forum?

I have been following this forum since I bought an Xperia Neo V and this was about three months ago. From the time I started reading threads on, I just see the same problems are being told again and again, and almost none of them could be able to find a solution. If Sony wouldn't listen to customers, why did they started this forum?
Solved!
Go to Solution.

that's interesting, you based it on only 3months and you didn't looked on all the threads that are marked as answered, to each it's own, if that's your opinion
I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it.
Voltaire
Don't forget to mark the Correct Answers & Helpful Answers
"I'd rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not." Kurt Cobain (1967-1994)

What's Going On With This Forum? Posted comments wait for a moderator

They wait, and wait, and wait, and wait.
Whose policy is this to screen everything before allowing posts to show up? Is that a Toshiba policy? What is Toshiba afraid of? If this is a Toshiba policy, I object. I object very strongly. Strongly enough that I'm just about tempted to pack up the mini notebook and ship it back to B&H and buy a different brand where the manufactor doesn't censor the support forum.
Let's see if this shows up.

Hello Edmund
To be honest I don't understand your question. As I can see you have posted 40 times until now.
Be honest and tell us how often you saw message like this:
*Please note, your reply will need to be approved by a moderator before it is posted in the forum.*
Probably first time now. I have noticed that sometimes forum is closed for postings but there must be some reason why moderator do this. At the moment you can write what you want.
There is no reason for panic or comments about Toshiba policy.
Every serious forum has own policy and this forum is more than serious. Isnt it?
So it is nothing unusual and it can be done due to some technical or any other reason.
Look a little bit what people write here and you will find very critical postings but nothing is blocked or edited by Toshiba so I think this forum is free and democratic. Your posting is also published.
In my opinion it is the best evidence that your critic and opinion about this forum and Toshiba forum policy is completely unjustified. Do you agree with me?
Good luck!

What'sgoing to happen to this forum??

Now that most of Creator's functionality is available in Netbeans Visual Web Pack, what's going to happen to this forum? I imagine there's overlap between Netbeans forums and this one, but long term, are there plans to consolidate what is clearly a converging community? I'd hate to have the knowledge chain broken by confusion in the ranks...

Java Studio Creator isn't going away. Creator and VWP serve different but overlapping communities. Each product has its own channel for providing community support. Creator has this forum and VWP uses the [email protected] alias, accessible through http://www.netbeans.org/community/index.html. To clarify the relationship between the two closely related products, see the FAQ " Should we all move to NetBeans Visual Web Pack now from Java Studio Creator?" at http://wiki.netbeans.org/wiki/view/VwpFAQShouldwemigrate

I cannot get sound from apple TV. Has anyone had the same experience and what did they do?

Hi, I recently bought Apple TV 2nd gen. I can, after a while, get access to my library but when I start to play movies I cannot get sound. Has anyone had a similar experience? If so what did you do to overcome the problem?

Do the movies contain both stereo and 5.1 audio.
Have you tried toggling the Dolby Digital setting or the Audio Output setting.

What did they do in post processing to get this effect?

Hello,
Can anyone please let me know what post processing they did to this photo to get this effect?
Thank you very much.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/49570868@N05/7795414518/in/photostream

Effect? It just looks like a well-executed, natural-looking photo shot with a good wide angle lens to me. Indeed it's very nice.
At one time I might have said they did noise reduction and maybe some HDR work, but with modern gear and great converters like Camera Raw (especiually considering the current set of adjustment abilities), it's not inconceivable to get an image like that right out of a raw file. Landscapes often benefit from increased color saturation, and I can imagine the Clarity control might have helped make the air just seem very clear. It's possible they cloned- (or spot-healed-) out any little bits of debris visible to give the image a very clean feel.
It's also sharpened nicely for web presenetation. There's even a lot of detail in the 2048 pixel version, though at that size you start to see sharpening halos.
Clear, wide angle landscapes with light reflections, not to mention pretty clouds and all the colors of the spectrum, can be very nice indeed, as this shot underscores.
-Noel

My itouch is disabled, when I tried to restore it, it came up with Error code 3094. Has anyone had this code appear, and what did they do to solve it?

My itouch is disabled, when I tried to restore it, it came up with Error code 3094. Has anyone had this error code appear for them before and how were they able to fix it?
Thank You

See SIMPLE easy solution for 1015 3094 3014 21 error

What did they do to iMovie?

Is it just me, or does iMovie have LESS ability in terms of transitions, titles, etc.? What happened to the "Star Wars" title effect? WHat happened to all the old transitions? WHat happened to the ability to choose between different views in the timeline? Also, I can no longer control audio fading of audio throughout a project (make it louder, then quieter, then louder, then quieter). WHy do all my transitions need to be the same length (this is very limiting) Am I over reacting? AM I overlooking the fact that these things can be done and I just don't see them? Are there work arounds? ANy feedback would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks

I agree with the current wave of posts suggesting that people send feedback to the following link:
http://www.apple.com/feedback/imovie.html
I have sent a lengthy post to feedback this am suggesting that the next update to iLife 08 reinsert iMovie 06 and call it iMovie Classic, etc and then renaming iMovie 7 to be Movie Express. That would broaden the iLife suite with an additional app and better inform users as to what is going on. It would also appease those who want to do things in such a simple manner that they don’t even need an iMovie level app but something along the lines of some third party s/w that does almost exactly what this new version of iMovie does.
I suppose I wish I could be so skilled in my video taking that I wouldn’t even need to edit my video. Simply import and encode. But what about all the special effects, transitions, motion, etc? The edit/addition of audio, ,etc? Using GB to do such things as well as inserting chapter makers is a very obtuse work around.
As it is now, people are in an uproar over the change, seeing it as a mixed message as to what Apple has in store for the future of their video editing apps, not only iMovie, but also FCE and FCS, etc. This can be particularly upsetting for people in education who have been touting iLife as a very easy to use method for creating/editing video. For Apple to have done what it has done with no heads up or explanation as to the why fors, etc leaves many people in the lurch. To me the education market is just to important a market for Apple to make significant changes to s/w & h/w and not inform its' customers. Too many people are making financial decisions that will have a significant financial impact on Apple if it does not go about the informing process in the right fashion.
So it then becomes incumbent on the customer base to let the vendor know what it wants. So we do need to reply to feedback. Maybe Apple will hear/listen and do the right thing. Then again maybe it won’t. I do believe that we are all aware that ranting/venting on the forums only leads to threads being locked, deleted or otherwise removed.
Bob

How did they color grade this shot?

Hi all,
I'm working in CS5.5, and I'm hoping to get a color grade similar to the one at 0:55 in this video (well, actually the finished product at 1:18, but the example actually starts at 0:55):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHJJpBzqIic
Can anyone tell me what exactly is going on here? What tools are they using to achieve this shot?
Thanks,
Matt

It says right on the link that they used Magic Bullet Suite.
Did you need specific instructions on how to set up the negative high contrast layer and then use that as a track matte for color correcting just a portion of the shot? If you do not have Magic Bullet try adding the curves effect and then move the black point from the bottom left to the top left and the white from the top right to the bottom right. Now adjust the curve. Use this as a track matte for an adjustment layer.
Another option would be to use Colorama and apply the negative preset and adjust the position of the black and white pointers on the wheel.
Another option would be to use selective Color . . .
There are a million ways to do this. It's sometimes called the Pleasantville effect. Try Googling that.

What is the Purpose of this Forum?

If it is to reduce traffic by driving people away, forcing them to log on simply to read to see if there is an answer to their question, or to see if there is a question they might be able to answer, then you guys are on the right track!
If the original idea of having people help each other is still around, forcing them to log in just to read is "dumb as a bag of hammers" (local expression).
Have seen this brain-dead stunt pulled in other forums (e.g. OCWORKBENCH) - after a few weeks, they usually figure it out.
Sheesh.

Who are you talking to?
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If it is to reduce traffic by driving people away, forcing them to log on simply to read to see if there is an answer to their question, or to see if there is a question they might be able to answer, then you guys are on the right track!
One can take many opinions, and make observations but sarcastic posts like this don't belong in these forums and I wont tolerate them here, it does nothing but start problems. If you have problems with the way MSI does things then I suggest you take it somewhere else, because no one from MSI will see this. You've been told before that this is a user to user forum and you know the rules.
This thread is closed for obvious reasons.

Recent Repair - What did they fix?

My wife's iBook recently crashed, and since it was out of warranty we sent it in as a flat rate depot repair... my question is how do you decipher what they did?
The Service Details form that came back with the computer lists the following under the service description and parts section:
631-0342 SVC, ECN, Q72B, REED SWITCH
630-7386 PCBA, MLB, Q72B, 1.33GHZ, REV1
631-0171 SUBASSY, AP EXT/BT, 11CHNL, Q

Josh:
It would have been helpful if you gave us more details about the specs of the iBook. In any case, here's what I make of it:
The first set of numbers are parts numbers.
The first item is the reed switch, which was serviced.
The next item refers to the logic board
and the final item refers to Airport Extreme.
What they actually did, you will have to ask them.
Cheers
cornelius

How did they pull off this animated image on Facebook?

Link here
Can someone tell me how they pulled this off? Even in the newsfeed, we see the animation. This is a first for me in many years of using Facebook.
It's not just renaming a .GIF to .JPG -- we've all tried that, it doesn't work.
But this guy managed to pull it off somehow.

Guess what?
Same trick, different day, different way.
-Noel

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