What is your desktop?

I wonder what are you using...
Please also add a comment and describe your desktop - especialy when you choose "other window manager".

after using fvwm for a rather long time i noticed i spent way too much time messing around with the config and after i didn't like xfce 4.2 i found the 4.4 (svn) branch fit my needs pretty good so i switched some months ago.
-> xfce4-svn

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What is the correct way to set up your email accounts in your desktop computer?

In an effort to resolve all sorts of strange behavior taking place with my email, I've been looking into the settings for icloud and Mail, the app. Is there a difference between the "mail, contacts &calendars" settings in system preferences of your desktop computer and the actual account settings in Mail, the app?
More specifically, do I only enter my individual email accounts in the account settings for Mail, and only the icloud settings for my me account in the system preferences section?
I hope I'm making sense because I need help desperately.
Thanks in advance

To answer the OP's original question.
Both the System Preferences -> Mail, Contacts and Calendars AND the Mail.app -> Accounts route both take you to the system preferences pane.
Just so you can confirm it, try both methods to get to the accounts list, and at the top left of the particular window you'll see 'Show All' which takes you back to System Prefs.
I think it's just apples way of getting everyone to the right place i.e. those who are use to using system prefs and those who are used to setting up accounts in their mail apps
That's good old apple and their user friendly interfaces for you

What's YOUR Idea of an "Ideally Organized HD?

What's YOUR Idea of an "Ideally Organized HD?"
I've been giving this a lot of thought lately. Whereas it is obvious that OSX organizes your hard drive better than anything on Windoze, especially when you consider the power derived from using Spotlight, I have been wondering exactly WHAT, WHAT does an Ideally Organized Hard Drive look like? What are it's properties? I don't mean how it should look specifically to YOU, the single user. I mean what does an ideally organized Hard Drive look like to everyone running OSX? (which is everyone). What are some of the components of a ideally organized hard drive? What does it look like/feel like? Not necessarily in order of importance, I'll start this one off:
An Ideally Organized Hard Drive Has These Properties (feel free to add your ideas):
1) All the music, documents, apps, pictures and movies go into their designated locations, just for starters. You may even want to create another main Category such as I did, and call it "All Talk & Sound FX". Here's where I stick my voice, and talk radio, and verbal jokes etc. for example.
2) There are NO identical (duplicate) files, but the thorough and profuse use of Alias files are implemented. {{{if you have duplicates, and you update the one, you necessarily have to update the other, otherwise, you don't have duplicates anymore, right? But if you use an Alias, no matter which file, original or Alias, that you update, BOTH files are updated.}}}
3) The HD is organized for EASY Backup on a daily basis: Everything new gets placed into an "Everything New" file (call it what you want) on the Desktop, then this one folder is backed up daily, saved onto an external HD, then loaded back and now actually saved onto the HD as new stuff just once a week (in accordance to #1); this is the outcome from doing a Restore from this backed-up "Everything New" folder. Everything goes into this "Everything New" folder on a daily basis; however, Applications are installed immediately whereas everything else just gets popped into the "Everything New" folder for holding.
4) Many files are annotated in the Get Info Window with easy to find key words and comments. Spotlight will do the rest my friends!
5) A DMG of the HD (a perfect Clone which is achieved using your Tiger Disk--Disk Utility) is done on a weekly basis (heck, all you have to do is launch the software at night, go to bed, have an automatic shutdown on your Mac for about 3.5 hours later (for a 23GB DMG Disk Image)). {{Note that a Restore from the "Everything New" folder must be done first!, prior to making the DMG}} When this Disk Image is made, it will have All of your Preferences, All of your newly installed applications, All of your Bookmarks, All of your new additions to iCal, All of your new Addresses, EVERYTHING, and therefore these specific folders do NOT have to be backed up **separately** by using this process as I describe.
Once a week you will Restore from this DMG (which takes an hour if you have previously verified/mounted this image), then delete the week-old Backup of the "Everything Folder", because your HD now now has all these files added to it (remember, the key here is to do a Restore from the "Everything New" folder first, before you made the most recent DMG). You can now also delete any old Disk Images that you want, because you will be making more! (I always keep 2 or 3 on hand). You can now also delete any old "Everything New" backups from your External, because you will be making more of these backups as well!
6) Your Hard Drive should utilize the copious amount of custom icons, in order to quickly spot and identify files/folders.
7) You have created shortcuts (Alias') on the HD, which point to spots on the External HD, (which is not only used for Backup as recently described) to facilitate the transfer of large files (example: AIFF's) to/from the external HD. My External HD has a working "Powerbook" folder where these files are saved to, keeping my internal HD at a bare minimum of growing size, yet the files are easily uploaded/downloaded between the external and internal, and viewed, when the External is attached (of course) to the internal.
8) The hard drive lacks any sensitive material whatsoever, i.e. passwords are kept on an external hard drive, and new ones are backed up daily to the Everything New folder. Using a free program such as Password Vault also strengthens this area of security and organization. If the Passwords are kept to an external location, and yet are easily accessed by an Alias, then they are 100% safe to reside on the External, since the External would have to be attached in order for the passwords to be read.
9) Maintenance is run routinely on the HD, using a program such as Onyx, especially before and after the disk image process. You can also schedule Onyx to run the Apple maintenance scripts automatically, when you are asleep. Also part of this maintenance would be running a program such as Disk Warrior, before and after the disk image process. Onyx and Disk Warrior go hand in hand, and although you will not "see" (visually) HOW your HD has been organized more efficiently, you will experience the benefits of using Disk Warrior (faster/more responsive), which organized your HD Directory automatically.
10) Another nice little Utility is SpeedTools, which has a great program for Defraging files. Yes, I've found that Disk Defrag does work. Point #10 does nothing for "organizing", however I make this point because Disk Defrag does indeed help your HD to run more efficiently (thus faster).
*** Ohh by the way, maybe I'm saying the following as a joke, maybe I'm not. But if you follow my suggestions above, you wouldn't be so paranoid about downloading the latest update to Tiger (or Leopard when that comes out) because the old "Archive & Install" option becomes obsolete. If you run into trouble NOW, using my methods, you now have the peace of knowing that you have a perfectly Cloned Disk Image of your valuable, ideally organized Mac HD, residing on an external drive and just waiting to be called into action! ***
Finally, please note that I am not telling you how to organize your hard drive, I am only suggesting this as one way to do it, and the way that I do it. If you have something totally different from this, but it works for you, please post that. If you want to add to what I've said, go right ahead! But if you don't agree with something I've said, then by all means offer your own suggestion and be civil about it! Thanks!
~ Vito

You and everyone else that takes the time to read, and understand what I said, and can benefit from this, is WELCOME! ; )
By the way, I forgot to mention. I use "Micon" a little terrific freeware program (from VersionTracker) to make (initialize) my custom icons. I also use Graphic Converter to make my own original icons of anything I like. Don't underestimate the value in making your own custom icons-- they really stand out from the "standard old blue".
~ Vito

Forms and validations - here's some of my ideas, what are yours?

One of the big things still missing from the JFX space (especially where JEE is concerned) is forms and form validations. Maybe you guys have been luckier but at least 80% of the screens I've had to build in my career have been boring old forms - enter data in the fields, validate them and hit submit.
So, I've been hacking around on this to try and get a pattern and hopefully some reusable classes for doing this in JavaFX. I have something that works but the code is verbose and less than elegant. I'm hoping some of you guys might want to kick around some ideas on this with me here. If we can come up with something that works, I'd like to either include it in [url http://www.zenjava.com/jfx-flow/]JFX Flow, or put it out as a separate open source project (whichever makes more sense).
What I think needs to be supported:
* Map between a normal Java bean and the fields on a form
* Validate the data, i.e. specifying the constraints on a field and then checking those constraints
* Show a validation summary at the top of the form
* Highlight individual fields if they have validation errors
* Support auto-validation, i.e. the validation highlights and messages will instantly update as the user types
Some extra restrictions:
* The data input will ideally be a normal bean and so it won't have observable values on it. In most projects I use, the beans are coming from the server and sometimes may be shared between desktop client and a jsp/web client, or even be a third party API so they can't be changed. End result: we don't want any JFX complexities or dependencies in our server code (design leak). This rule could be bent but only as a last resort.
* The validations must be defined relative to the normal data bean not a JFX model or controller, etc. This is so the bean can be validated on the server as well as the client. The server must do validation to prevent dodgy data getting in (never trust a client). Ideally we don't want to be specifying the validations in two places (i.e. once for the client and once for the server) as this creates maintenance problems and weakens the integrity of the system over time.
* Ideally the validation mechanism will be based on [url http://java.dzone.com/articles/bean-validation-and-jsr-303]JSR 303 - Bean Validations as this is quite nice. This is flexible however if there is a suitable alternative that integrates better.
To give us something to reference in conversation, I've created a small working sample. This is only meant to be a rough starting point (at best) and I'd really like to get feedback on both the code (i.e. should we have a 'presentation model', how could bindings be better used, etc) and the general way I'm representing errors (i.e. should we use tooltips to show errors, or actually show the errors next to the field, should we use border colours or put a little exclamation mark over the field, should the fields be auto-validated or only validated on submit, etc).
The example is a single form for editing a person. It has three fields, first name, last name and gender. When the form is blank, auto-editing is off. When the user submits the form it is validated and from that point on auto-validating is on. Error fields are highlighted with a style change, and a tooltip is added with details (I think we can do better - what's your ideas?).
I have used all plain Java to keep thngs simple, but I'd be looking for the end result to translate to FXML as well. I've also coded everything into the one class but the eventual goal would be to have the common stuff moved out to reusable base classes, etc.
Here's a workspace with some example code in it: http://code.google.com/p/jfxee/source/browse/trunk/jfxforms/
Here's a running deploy of that code: http://zenjava.com/demo/form/forms.html
(edit: I've moved the code to its own project and changed the url for the launch - the values above are the new, correct ones)
Looking forward to hearing some thoughts on this topic.
Edited by: zonski on 01-Dec-2011 13:41

At Devoxx I did some straw man prototype that you might find useful (or hopeless, I'm not sure which, I did it in a hurry :-)). I followed some principles that I was influenced by years back by JGoodies, but I haven't looked at the JGoodies stuff in forever and know it isn't all the same. But anyway, like I said, I'm not sure it is actually useful but maybe there is something genius hidden in there.
I have a Validator, which is just a simple SAM:
import javafx.scene.control.Control;
* @author Richard
public interface Validator<C extends Control> {
    public ValidationResult validate(C control);
}The idea is that it is given a Control, it will validate that control, and then return a ValidationResult. ValidationResult is actually only needed in cases of errors, since returning null indicates success, so the following is somewhat of a crock but you could rename it ValidationError or something and remove the "SUCCESS" type and there you are.
public class ValidationResult {
    public enum Type { ERROR, WARNING, SUCCESS }
    private final String message;
    private final Type type;
    public ValidationResult(String message, Type type) {
        this.message = message;
        this.type = type;
    public final String getMessage() {
        return message;
    public final Type getType() {
        return type;
    }For good measure I threw in a ValidationEvent.
import javafx.event.Event;
import javafx.event.EventType;
* @author Richard
public class ValidationEvent extends Event {
    public static final EventType<ValidationEvent> ANY =
            new EventType<ValidationEvent>(Event.ANY, "VALIDATION");
    private final ValidationResult result;
    public ValidationEvent(ValidationResult result) {
        super(ANY);
        this.result = result;
    public final ValidationResult getResult() { return result; }
}Because Control's don't presently have the notion of validation built in, I created a ValidationPane which is like a specialized StackPane, where there is a bottom layer, the control, and a glass pane layer. And from CSS you can style it however you like. The ValidationPane has a CSS style class set in case of errors / warnings. So without augmenting controls, the idea is that a ValidationPane subclass would exist to wrap each type of control you needed to validate. It did this because somebody has to wire up the listeners to the control to react on text input etc, and so I thought I'd like that encapsulated in something reusable, and there it was.
import javafx.beans.DefaultProperty;
import javafx.beans.property.ObjectProperty;
import javafx.beans.property.ReadOnlyObjectProperty;
import javafx.beans.property.ReadOnlyObjectWrapper;
import javafx.beans.property.SimpleObjectProperty;
import javafx.beans.value.ChangeListener;
import javafx.beans.value.ObservableValue;
import javafx.event.EventHandler;
import javafx.scene.control.Control;
import javafx.scene.layout.Region;
* @author Richard
@DefaultProperty("content")
public abstract class ValidatorPane<C extends Control> extends Region {
     * The content for the validator pane is the control it should work with.
    private ObjectProperty<C> content = new SimpleObjectProperty<C>(this, "content", null);
    public final C getContent() { return content.get(); }
    public final void setContent(C value) { content.set(value); }
    public final ObjectProperty<C> contentProperty() { return content; }
     * The validator
    private ObjectProperty<Validator<C>> validator = new SimpleObjectProperty<Validator<C>>(this, "validator");
    public final Validator<C> getValidator() { return validator.get(); }
    public final void setValidator(Validator<C> value) { validator.set(value); }
    public final ObjectProperty<Validator<C>> validatorProperty() { return validator; }
     * The validation result
    private ReadOnlyObjectWrapper<ValidationResult> validationResult = new ReadOnlyObjectWrapper<ValidationResult>(this, "validationResult");
    public final ValidationResult getValidationResult() { return validationResult.get(); }
    public final ReadOnlyObjectProperty<ValidationResult> validationResultProperty() { return validationResult.getReadOnlyProperty(); }
     * The event handler
    private ObjectProperty<EventHandler<ValidationEvent>> onValidation =
            new SimpleObjectProperty<EventHandler<ValidationEvent>>(this, "onValidation");
    public final EventHandler<ValidationEvent> getOnValidation() { return onValidation.get(); }
    public final void setOnValidation(EventHandler<ValidationEvent> value) { onValidation.set(value); }
    public final ObjectProperty<EventHandler<ValidationEvent>> onValidationProperty() { return onValidation; }
    public ValidatorPane() {
        content.addListener(new ChangeListener<Control>() {
            public void changed(ObservableValue<? extends Control> ov, Control oldValue, Control newValue) {
                if (oldValue != null) getChildren().remove(oldValue);
                if (newValue != null) getChildren().add(0, newValue);
    protected void handleValidationResult(ValidationResult result) {
        getStyleClass().removeAll("validation-error", "validation-warning");
        if (result != null) {
            if (result.getType() == ValidationResult.Type.ERROR) {
                getStyleClass().add("validation-error");
            } else if (result.getType() == ValidationResult.Type.WARNING) {
                getStyleClass().add("validation-warning");
        validationResult.set(result);
        fireEvent(new ValidationEvent(result));
    @Override
    protected void layoutChildren() {
        Control c = content.get();
        if (c != null) {
            c.resizeRelocate(0, 0, getWidth(), getHeight());
    @Override
    protected double computeMaxHeight(double d) {
        Control c = content.get();
        return c == null ? super.computeMaxHeight(d) : c.maxHeight(d);
    @Override
    protected double computeMinHeight(double d) {
        Control c = content.get();
        return c == null ? super.computeMinHeight(d) : c.minHeight(d);
    @Override
    protected double computePrefHeight(double d) {
        Control c = content.get();
        return c == null ? super.computePrefHeight(d) : c.prefHeight(d);
    @Override
    protected double computePrefWidth(double d) {
        Control c = content.get();
        return c == null ? super.computePrefWidth(d) : c.prefWidth(d);
    @Override
    protected double computeMaxWidth(double d) {
        Control c = content.get();
        return c == null ? super.computeMaxWidth(d) : c.maxWidth(d);
    @Override
    protected double computeMinWidth(double d) {
        Control c = content.get();
        return c == null ? super.computeMinWidth(d) : c.minWidth(d);
}And finally the TextInputValidatorPane instance good for any TextInputControl. I think.
import javafx.beans.InvalidationListener;
import javafx.beans.Observable;
import javafx.beans.value.ChangeListener;
import javafx.beans.value.ObservableValue;
import javafx.scene.control.TextInputControl;
* @author Richard
public class TextInputValidatorPane<C extends TextInputControl> extends ValidatorPane<C> {
    private InvalidationListener textListener = new InvalidationListener() {
        public void invalidated(Observable o) {
            final Validator v = getValidator();
            final ValidationResult result = v != null ?
                v.validate(getContent()) :
                new ValidationResult("", ValidationResult.Type.SUCCESS);
            handleValidationResult(result);
    public TextInputValidatorPane() {
        contentProperty().addListener(new ChangeListener<C>() {
            public void changed(ObservableValue<? extends C> ov, C oldValue, C newValue) {
                if (oldValue != null) oldValue.textProperty().removeListener(textListener);
                if (newValue != null) newValue.textProperty().addListener(textListener);
    public TextInputValidatorPane(C field) {
        this();
        setContent(field);
}This should also be usable as is from FXML since you can easily wrap a TextInputValidatorPane around a TextField, and CSS does all the styling, so I think it all just works. You probably need to have some library of sophisticated Validators which know how to read text from a TextField and compare against the validation annotations, but otherwise it should work well enough. Anyway, in the actual implementation I think I would omit the ValidationPane stuff completely and just build that part into the controls / skins. Like I said, this was a quick hack but seemed to get the "how do I visualize validation errors" part of the problem solved.
Richard

Can you record a video from your desktop screen in HD with QuickTime Pro ?

I need to play a video on my computer and record it in the highest possible quality. I came across a program called CamStudio that says it can record your desktop in HD - so I wasnt sure if QuickTime Pro 7 can do that as well.
If someone is also familiar with what kind of computer or monitor i should play my video off of for best quality - i welcome answers to that as well.

QuickTime Player Pro can't record the screen.
QuickTime X can record the screen (but only all of it and not just a window). It's a part of Snow Leopard.

Can you convert your desktop site plan into the phone & tablet version w/o re-creating the pages?

Can you convert your desktop site plan into the phone & tablet version without re-creating the landing pages? This seems too extensive to have to re-design each page?

Cwsnell,
On your nav bar there is a shorcut to other pages.
The most effecient way I have found to do this from the phone layout,
click on the page icon shown above
type in the name of the page (and select the desktop version as indicated by the icon of the monitor)
select all on that page (CTRL A / Command A) and copy (CTRL C / Command C)
revert back to the phone layout page and paste (CTRL V / Command V)
then resize, delete what you dont need, make any other edits and your done!
There is not a way to copy a page entirely over. The mobile version should have less information and less imagery to enable fast load times.
-SiteSpot

Can you add the entire content of your desktop to the allowable locations in flash player?

can you add the entire content of desktop to the allowable locations in flash player? when i click 'add' to allowable locations and type in file:///C:/Documents and Settings under website (i know it's not the website but where else would it be added) it doesn't show up in the overall list of allowable 'sites'.

Hi radwh,
Are you talking about trying to add your desktop to Flash Player's trusted locations? If so, you use the "Advanced" tab on the Local Settings Manager to designate folders and files as trusted. (Full path is Advanced->Developer Tools->Trusted Location Settings.) Here's a link to the documentation for that: http://help.adobe.com/en_US/FlashPlayer/LSM/WS6aa5ec234ff3f285139dc56112e3786b68c-7ff0.htm l .
Hope this helps, and get back to me with further details if this is not what you were asking.
Thanks,
KALTechWriter

What Apple Remote Desktop is NOT?

Is there a way to run a Remote Server at my home computer and then connect to it from my MacBook Air when I'm on the go? My computer at home is on a dynamic IP via cable modem and router. So I have no fixed IP to connect to.
However I know there are remote desktop apps for iPad and iPhone that are able to connect to their server software running on your Mac at home, regardless of it's IP. I've been having trouble finding one for desktop OSX clients. iOS4 can't be the only OS that has this.
Thanks for any assistance to my newbie self.

iOS apps that have this capability do because they are run through some hosted service and do not connect directly to the computer. The hosted service is responsible for tracking any IP address changes. You can use a similar service, such as LogMeIn, if what you want is to be able to take control of your home system, or something like Slink if you want other services. Or you can as Templeton suggested set your desktop up with DynDNS or a similar dynamic IP/domain name service so that you can connect to the system by using just a domain name.
Regards.

Is it possible to import bookmarks from your desktop to your mobile device

I would like to copy the bookmarks on my desktop to my galaxy s4

I had a similar problem and tried Sync. It didn't help much. So I experimented.
This works pc to phone, I don't know the other direction.
1. On your desktop computer save all your bookmarks as an HTML file.
2. Open the HTML file in any editor that supports links (even MS Word).
3. Scroll through and delete everything you don't want.
4. If you want to add text do so.
5. Save the result as an HTML file.
6. Use whatever method you have to move or copy the file to your phone.
7. Select the file and choose to open with Firefox.
Now all your links are available, sectioned off as you desire, can be activated as links, and then saved as regular bookmarks if you wish.
A moderate pain in the butt, but that's what we get when we expect a small minimalist slab of metal to act like a BIG computer.

HT5170 What is Remote Desktop client 3.5.3?

What is Remote Desktop client 3.5.3?

Remote Destop Client is built-in to the mac os operating system. Like paw said, long as it's off in system preference sharing it can not be used to connect to your computer. It's like the cup holder in your car, it's there, regardless if you chose to use it or not.
Some times Software Update will not offer another update until the currently offered update is installed. So while you may not use Remote Desktop Client, you may want one of the other updates that relies on that Remote Desktop Client update being installed.
Software Updates can also improve the security of your computer. So while your not using Remote Desktop Client, the udpate could improve the security of your computer as a whole.

What's your Favorite Encoding Settings & Tags Question?

Happy Holidays folks,
I have some CD's to digitize. I am curious of the best way to do this ...
Q: What is your Favorite Encoding Settings for CD's for your desktop? IOS device?
ALSO...
TAGS with various formats...
Q: What encoding settings do YOU use for listening on mobile devices for CD digitization?
For me I am thinking that I will create 256 Stereo AAC files for IOS, but also then create .aif files to store for desktop players etc.
I didn't know that .aif's can store tag info....
It seems that .aif files can store the TAG info that come in through iTunes - but where is the info stored:
1 - right on the .aif file?
2 - just in iTunes database?
3 - just Spotlight?
4 - or ?????
If I copy the file to another hard drive on another computer - will it retain the tag info with aif?
I seems that when I try that save tag info with .wav format - that it doesn't store it - is that true?
I am curious to find out about tags with .aif - .wav etc.....
Also does Apple Lossless play on PC / Lynux?

revDAVE wrote:
Happy Holidays folks,
I have some CD's to digitize. I am curious of the best way to do this ...
Q: What is your Favorite Encoding Settings for CD's for your desktop? IOS device?
My favorite? MP3 at 256.
It seems that .aif files can store the TAG info that come in through iTunes - but where is the info stored:
1 - right on the .aif file?
2 - just in iTunes database?
3 - just Spotlight?
4 - or ?????
Tag data is stored in the file. This includes information like Title, Artist, Year, etc.
Some of the data you see is library data, not tag data, and is stored in the iTunes library rather than in the individual song file. This includes things like Date Added, Last Played, Play Count, etc.
Also does Apple Lossless play on PC / Lynux?
Apple Lossless can play on a PC running iTunes for Windows. iTunes does not run on Linux, however.

What version of Desktop Manager should I be using?

I have the Sprint 8330 and Vista with Outlook2007, what version of Desktop Manager should I be using?

molarchs wrote:
Could it be that my Outlook is from Microsoft Office 2000?
Yes, exactly, which is why I asked several posts back... what version of Outlook are you using". We ask questions for good reasons.
You will need DM version 4.2 Service Pack for Outlook 2000.
OR, upgrade the Outlook to 2003 or better and use DM 4.7
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Identifying what kind of desktop i have

how can i identify what kind of desktop i had when i was married. we had one desktop in which i was one of the users on it. my husband was the administrator. now that we are divorcing and i no longer live there i want to know if there is a way to make sure all my stuff is removed from it. especially like pictures from iphoto, documents saved.... it's scary because he is a computer guy and i don't want him finding things that i had on there.

Hopefully, you can log into your husbands account. Open Accounts or Users & Groups preferences. Click on the lock icon and enter his admin password. Select your user account from the list and then click on the Delete [-] button button. Opt to remove the acount using Secure Erase for one pass.
This will remove your account and all your files that were stored in that account. But you cannot perform this remotely. You must gain access to the computer. He has probably already been in your account if you knew the password.

What is your MacPro's boot time?

What is your MacPro's boot time ( seconds) from Gong to opening of the user log-in screen?

I actually do not use the signon screen (I am the only user) and Gong to Desktop with Address book and iCal open is about 15 seconds.
It's actually funny that you ask this, as I noticed that in the last 3 weeks, my boot time actually came down to 15 seconds from 25 or so, and this after I restarted Raid on my disks, so it's getting faster... must be the bits getting in line!
This might vary from user to user depending on how much RAM you have, the POST memory step is dependent on the amount of RAM you have, the more you have, the longer the boot time!

What is your theory on what happened with ASUS Transformer Prime and BB?

This is my theory:
First preorder batch 11/22:
BB opened up for preorders based on expected date of anticipated 12/9 ship date. The buyers at BB that orders from vendors did not buy any preorder stock from ASUS in Champagne on first order. I gotta bleive that the reason that the Champagne prime is not shipping from BB is a "buyer" error. They filled their first allotment of preorders. That is why BB shiped out grey from the first wave of preorders. Other vendors got both- why did BB only get grey? The buyers always think they know what we want or will order and only ordered grey in the request to ASUS. They got caught with their pants down when Amazon cancelled the orders on 12/2 and EVERYONE affected jumped on BB.com and ordered the champagne which was available as the next wave.
Amazon fallout 12/2:
Best buy opened up another set of preorder allotment - 2nd wave, and got hit hard real fast with preorders that they were not prepared for, or had stock for.
ASUS is filling initial preorder requests from the resellers in the order that the resellers requested too. BB was offering that in the next wave of preorders, but they probably took too many orders at once, and they put in another order to ASUS around the 12/9 delay ship date and ASUS was not taking them at that time (delays due to Wifi reported) .
ASUS 12/9 wifi report delay in shiping:
ASUS was cought in a delay with reports of wifi range problems and either stopped taking orders, or recallled/replaced shipment with others. Once ASUS took orders again from the reseller they are shipping daily based on the preorder backlog. Asus is responsible for the delay in accepting orders from vendors, and BB had a buyer error, by either waiting too long to put in the first wave of orders, or not ordering enough, and now they are in the back of the vendor reseller line waiting on ASUS to get to them.
12/19:
The date of irst ship came and BB shipped all it ordered from first wave and could not get anymore from ASUS in the second wave to cover the Amazon fallout system overload. They were left in the back of the line of all other vendors becuse no reseller could get a second next wave fulfillment until all others got their first waves fulfilled. The 12/9 delay kept next waves from being fulfilled, and that is why inventory is trickling into the other resellers and BB can only get a few more at a time. BB ordered champagne on a next wave delay.
The thing that bugs me in to no end is how is a person that ordered grey on 11/28 at BB still on backorder, but a 12/05 grey order has shipped and delivered?? This is not ASUS fault, That is poor business operations on BB.
That is my "perfect storm" theory- what do you think? What is your theory?

That is pretty close to what I think happened.
It does seem pretty clear that Best Buy never initially ordered and Champagne Primes. I have combed through the threads at this site and others and haven’t seen one person receive a Champagne Prime from BB. Meanwhile people who bought from other resellers like New Egg and Amazon have received Champagne Primes.
The mismanagement of shipping out orders chronologically has to be maddening for the people who ordered the Grey Primes. I do feel for these people that ordered the same exact product before others who now have their Prime, but will still don’t have their items.
The communication from Best Buy had been terrible. Screwing up the orders in the 2 examples are somewhat forgivable to me, but the miscommunication and what seems to be deceitfulness that Best Buy has exhibited is not. They just seem not to care about the customer any more. From my experience, prior to the release I was lead to believe my order would be ready to ship on 12/18. Then it went on backorder with no real reason why. Two (12/18 and 12/22) of three calls to customer service reps indicated that my Champagne Prime would still arrive by today (12/23), with the other call rep (12/20) saying she basically had no when my item would be in. Then yesterday afternoon a post from a customer care rep on these boards confirming that I am basically hosed because I choose BB to fulfill my Prime preorder.

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