Zcm 10.2 stability = happiness

I was so fed up with zcm 10.1, I installed the 10.2 beta 2 and deployed it to half a classroom. The difference was astonishing! The teacher gave me a report at the end of the day, and she said that there were NO incidents on the side with the new beta. As where the 10.1 had it's hourly crashes all day.
I was happy to hear that and REALLY looking forward to the 10.2.
We have been struggling with 10.1. I do not have it deployed everywhere yet. The most trouble I get from 10.1 is when it's in a environment where users log in and out within a hour from each other like Students. It does not like that. We get very little trouble from the Elementary School, but that is because they login as one user (student) for the whole day.
Just sharing my experience. Can't wait for 10.2.

It only takes me about 25 seconds to completely log in. Only 7 seconds for the login screen to disappear and start processing everything. The zcm agent is processing a couple of DLU, couple of Roaming, and a group Policy.
I'm still having a couple of computers "Log Out" of their own. I also found some bugs like the printer policy is deleting itself if you have "delete all printers except zenworks managed printers"
Originally Posted by jsealey
Can you tell me whether 10.2 has helped with the boot times on the machines. 10.1 is horrible with this and it's holdig us back from deploying it to everyone. It currently takes between 3 and 6 minutes for the PC's with ZEN 10.1 to boot up.

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Zenworks Adaptive Agent conflicting with ZENNTSRV.EXE?

Good morning - We are running Zenworks 2 on Windows 2000 (don't laugh) across several thousand workstations, with the Novell Client 4.90 SP2 upgraded from 4.83 SP3. That part of it works fine.
I have pushed out the Zenworks Adaptive Agent version 10.1.0.0 to all workstations to install upon login in order to get a handle on exactly what we have out there on machines that are not compatible with our new ZCM 10.1 installation.
Herein lies the rub - not every time, but with increasing coincidence we are seeing ZENNTSRV.EXE crashing with a The instruction at "0x77fcae88" referenced memory at "0xfffffffd". The memory could not be "read". message at the point at which the Zenworks Adaptive Agent starts commences its installation.
Once the Zenworks Adaptive Agent is installed, we have noticed the crash. I wonder if anyone else has experienced this, or what suggestions you guys could make to get around this at the user end.

Thanks for the reply. I did not make it clear that I intend to keep Zenworks 2 on our Windows 2000 machines and use the inventory-only agent on that platform.
The inventory-only agent from ZCM 10.1 is happy to coexist with Zenworks 2, but on a significant number of machines we find that this crash occurs. It does seem to be the 4.90 SP2 clients only.

Problems with n8-response time , stability and use...

ive been using n8 for a couple of months now and some times i really think this can do better
the text editor for messages has the keyboard options just bellow space. i so want that to change because space is a very frequently hit and if i type fast then almost always end up getting the keyboard changed to qwerty .i use alpha numeric off course but why cant this be the same as the s60 one....used to work great on my 5800
2nd the response gets annoyingly slow if i hit the applications folder
and again by instinct i end up pressing it double and entering the video editor. i know it can be optimized and would love to see it in the update cause its a matter of quick response. applications and folders should open quick and stability still needs work after the 2 minor updates nokia gave
3rd its not stable. some times the notification widget stops notifying although there have been missed events. the WLAN connection widget is bonkers , i was at home and it was showing connection to my uni's AP which is miles away. and it has a mind of its own. also the connection is some how suspended and pages just wont open,same in the case of ovi store. Nokia need to fix that
if nokia just work on the interface so the fone just flows with fingers then its a damn good fone. im having issues but dont want to let go of it
camera is great but the interface needs work
symbian3 is new and the is room for a lot of improvment

the N8 is a great phone and I'm happy whit it but I must agree with the 2nd part....the respons is sometimes really slow but not painfully and it's really not that offten..
and I fully agree what you said about camera interface, the camera itself is a great, picures are great in the dark sometimes can be better but the interface is not that good and the cameraphone as N8 shuld have a interface that match camera
sorry but bad english

Happy Mac Day To Me

Happy Mac Day To Me!!!
Its been 4 years since I brought home my G3 Graphite iMac. How time flys. I remember needing a computer. I had lost my job, my wife started working from home, and I was attending college part time. This meant the Gateway was now hers for the purpose of work. I was thinking about another Gateway, maybe a Dell. I also remembered that Comp USA had this neat little section for Apple. This section stood out from the rows of generic pc’s. This section was in a word cool.
It was different. From the carpeted floor, to Nanosaur on the iMacs to the aura that one would feel a sense of quality. The look and feel of these computers was well, superior. “Just looking” I would say to the helpful sales people. These machines are gorgeous, but a little tough on the budget. But I liked the seamless appearance and interface of the Mac. Even if they were an all in one. The pcs were just clones of each other, take off the manufactures label and you couldn’t tell one from the other. Pcs had no where near the software or extras like on the Macs.
Then it happened Mac World 2002. The incredible g4 iMac was released to an unsuspecting world. I pounced...on the g3. It was seriously marked down. All that power, speed and all those applications. I just couldn’t resist.
On January 12th 2002 I brought home my graphite 40 gb, 256 mb 600 mhz iMac. And immediately panicked!!! What was I thinking? I didn’t know Apple! Certainly I didn’t know this OS X stuff! No applications from Windows would work with this this THING! Right? I had seven days to see if I liked this Apple iMac, if not it goes back in the box and I get a nice safe Windows PC running 2000 or better yet XP. Day 1, 2, 3 went by. The box only feet away. Back to Apple store I thought. Back to the Apple store. I’ll just pick it up and put it in the box. Truth be told it almost happened. Divine intervention I speculate.
Some where around day four, my wife, she’s pretty smart, told me 2 magic words. Learning Curve. The box slowly got pushed aside. My iMac started to become...cool again, I didn’t know it could do that, Wow that was easy! This iTunes is awesome (V. 2), This is really cool!!! Words of praise started to come from my work area in the recently refinished basement. The box disappeared. It got donated to give an old Tangerine iMac that was loaned to me safe passage to a school in need of good working computers. Day 7 came and went. I think I was playing with iTunes, Quicken 2002, Nanosaur, and of course I was online, at the same time! My new trusty friend, my iMac was here to stay!!! The fun had just begun.
I started to learn and LOVE OS X. I switched back and forth between OS 9 and OS X. I found that I liked the stability of OS X that much more. I do like OS 9. I started to learn then love the applications. Most of my associates degree assignments were done on my iMac. Thank God for spell check!!! My job search changed from knocking on doors and reading the paper to e-mailing resumes and internet searches. Macintosh became an integral part of my life. Even Charlie, my tabby cat is learning OS X. He has the file renaming down to a science. Chelsea, the kitten loves HP printers. Cats! Must be the whole feline theme.
I look back on these past four years as a wonderful period of my life. My iMac was and is a big part of that. My Mac and my Jeep pick up with plow stand out as the two best purchases I have ever made. It snows a lot in Ma. Since I bought my iMac an iBook found a home here last Christmas. For a birthday present an iPod Photo resides here. My darling wife who after 15 plus years of crashes, viruses, as well as hang ups, and blue death screens from Windows 3.1 to 2000, switched. November 1, 2005 her Mac Mini arrived. Two days later she, (had to go to work due to job change) was saying “What took me so long, this is great” and “I love my Mac!!!” Told you she’s smart. She’s spreading the word. The Gateway has since been put out to pasture. That, by the way arrived on a Halloween. What does that tell you. Scary!
Now, just after Mac World 2006 the future looks bright. Strong leadership, bold innovation, and a sense of optimism and excitement. So if their is anyone on the fence here is a little advice from a former procrastinator. The question isn’t whether to buy a Mac or not, but which Mac to buy. Go to an Apple store,Comp USA, or other authorized reseller. Talk to them, tell them your wants and needs. No pressure, just a pleasant experience to say the least. Buy what suits YOU. You will not go wrong. You will be very, very happy that a Mac calls your place home.
I'll post this in Tiger as well.
Thank you all at Apple and the discussion boards too!
God Bless,
Lee Janerico

Lee
It certainly took some time, but every day's a Happy Mac Day! I started using Apple with a strange Apple2 running DOS in 1980 something.. possibly before 85, but cannot stretch the neurones that far. Bought a Mac+ (512K ram on system 5... wow) then a SE30, Centris610 then went mad on a PM8500, PM9600 and now started collecting imacs and other strange things like Newton Message Pads that nobody wants to know. OS9 is a wonderful thing, Hypercard is magic, GUI fun, and OSX is all very well, but itfor me is not as exciting as firing up my old SE from 1989-90, running up OS6 and watching things happen on a paper white screen... yes, I AM WIERDperson, but I am exstatically happy with my Macs

Happy Mac Day To Me A Success Story.

Happy Mac Day To Me!!!
Its been 4 years since I brought home my G3 Graphite iMac. How time flys. I remember needing a computer. I had lost my job, my wife started working from home, and I was attending college part time. This meant the Gateway was now hers for the purpose of work. I was thinking about another Gateway, maybe a Dell. I also remembered that Comp USA had this neat little section for Apple. This section stood out from the rows of generic pc’s. This section was in a word cool.
It was different. From the carpeted floor, to Nanosaur on the iMacs to the aura that one would feel a sense of quality. The look and feel of these computers was well, superior. “Just looking” I would say to the helpful sales people. These machines are gorgeous, but a little tough on the budget. But I liked the seamless appearance and interface of the Mac. Even if they were an all in one. The pcs were just clones of each other, take off the manufactures label and you couldn’t tell one from the other. Pcs had no where near the software or extras like on the Macs.
Then it happened Mac World 2002. The incredible g4 iMac was released to an unsuspecting world. I pounced...on the g3. It was seriously marked down. All that power, speed and all those applications. I just couldn’t resist.
On January 12th 2002 I brought home my graphite 40 gb, 256 mb 600 mhz iMac. And immediately panicked!!! What was I thinking? I didn’t know Apple! Certainly I didn’t know this OS X stuff! No applications from Windows would work with this this THING! Right? I had seven days to see if I liked this Apple iMac, if not it goes back in the box and I get a nice safe Windows PC running 2000 or better yet XP. Day 1, 2, 3 went by. The box only feet away. Back to Apple store I thought. Back to the Apple store. I’ll just pick it up and put it in the box. Truth be told it almost happened. Divine intervention I speculate.
Some where around day four, my wife, she’s pretty smart, told me 2 magic words. Learning Curve. The box slowly got pushed aside. My iMac started to become...cool again, I didn’t know it could do that, Wow that was easy! This iTunes is awesome (V. 2), This is really cool!!! Words of praise started to come from my work area in the recently refinished basement. The box disappeared. It got donated to give an old Tangerine iMac that was loaned to me safe passage to a school in need of good working computers. Day 7 came and went. I think I was playing with iTunes, Quicken 2002, Nanosaur, and of course I was online, at the same time! My new trusty friend, my iMac was here to stay!!! The fun had just begun.
I started to learn and LOVE OS X. I switched back and forth between OS 9 and OS X. I found that I liked the stability of OS X that much more. I do like OS 9. I started to learn then love the applications. Most of my associates degree assignments were done on my iMac. Thank God for spell check!!! My job search changed from knocking on doors and reading the paper to e-mailing resumes and internet searches. Macintosh became an integral part of my life. Even Charlie, my tabby cat is learning OS X. He has the file renaming down to a science. Chelsea, the kitten loves HP printers. Cats! Must be the whole feline theme.
I look back on these past four years as a wonderful period of my life. My iMac was and is a big part of that. My Mac and my Jeep pick up with plow stand out as the two best purchases I have ever made. It snows a lot in Ma. Since I bought my iMac an iBook found a home here last Christmas. For a birthday present an iPod Photo resides here. My darling wife who after 15 plus years of crashes, viruses, as well as hang ups, and blue death screens from Windows 3.1 to 2000, switched. November 1, 2005 her Mac Mini arrived. Two days later she, (had to go to work due to job change) was saying “What took me so long, this is great” and “I love my Mac!!!” Told you she’s smart. She’s spreading the word. The Gateway has since been put out to pasture. That, by the way arrived on a Halloween. What does that tell you. Scary!
Now, just after Mac World 2006 the future looks bright. Strong leadership, bold innovation, and a sense of optimism and excitement. So if their is anyone on the fence here is a little advice from a former procrastinator. The question isn’t whether to buy a Mac or not, but which Mac to buy. Go to an Apple store,Comp USA, or other authorized reseller. Talk to them, tell them your wants and needs. No pressure, just a pleasant experience to say the least. Buy what suits YOU. You will not go wrong. You will be very, very happy that a Mac calls your place home.
Originally posted in the iMac g3 section but i wanted to share with potential switchers.
Thank you all at Apple and the discussion boards too!
God Bless,
Lee Janerico

Lee:
What a beautiful story! And how well you tell it!
In a sense your story is every mac user's story, only the names and details are different. We love our macs, even when they challenge us.
Thank you for reminding us of the satisfaction and thrill of owning a mac.
Good luck.
cornelius
Pismo400, 100 GB 5400 Toshiba internal, 1 GB RAM; Pismo 500 OS 10.4.3 Mac OS X (10.3.9) Beige G3 OS 8.6

ZCM 11.3 Windows Client Net 4.0 requirement

Installed 11.3 Server upgrade yesterday. Install went great, no noticable issues new features look good. Started to roll out 11.3 client most are failing with Net 4.0 not found and is required. Check on a number of computers (All Win 7 sp1 64 bit) ran zac ps and verified Net 4.0 is on computers. Net 4.5 shows up as a choice to install but based on error message it wants Net 4.0. Any ideas on where or what to look for to resolve the error????

I downloaded one of the "Full" 11.3.0 Agents and extracted it.
It contains the .NET 4.0 Intall (Not 4.5).
I have not yet tried installing it on a device w/o .NET but I'm guessing
perhaps it was not a full .NET 4.0 install on the devices or something
along those lines.
On 2/27/2014 1:36 PM, pwolff2000 wrote:
>
> Just finished installing Net 4.5 on a half dozen workstations, and now
> the 11.3 client is installing. Checked again on the failing
> workstations, they have Net 4 Client, which I assume is not the entire
> Net 4.0 framework. Just another bump on the road to ZCM happiness!
>
>
Craig Wilson - MCNE, MCSE, CCNA
Novell Technical Support Engineer
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These thoughts may not be shared by either Novell or any rational human.

Stability of a database created on Oracle 10g Release 10.1.0.3

Hello Friends,
I would like to confirm if Oracle 10g Release 10.1.0.3 is a suitable platform to create Database.
I have heard from a couple of DBAs that it is not a stable release to be creating and administering a Prod d/b and they recommend highly to migrate to 10.1.0.4.
I have very recently configured a 10g d/b on 10.1.0.3 on AIX 5.2 ML 6 platform.
I would like to know if anyone have administering D/bs n 101.0.3 have hit on bugs & whether its worth doing the migration to 10.1.0.4.
Thanking you all in Advance
Cheers...RCube

The problem is, though, that the stability of the product is directly tied to unique aspects of your environment and unique aspects of your applications. If you are a relatively vanilla shop, doing relatively vanilla things, with relatively vanilla hardware, any version of Oracle is going to be stable. Any instabilities ought to show up during development and testing, in which case you can log an appropriate TAR and/or upgrade to a more recent patchset.
Most of the people that encounter problems in any release are doing something unusual. They may be pushing some sort of limit, they may have some esoteric hardware or software setup, they may have a particular application that wants things "just so".
There is a strong reporting bias towar folks reporting problems with any release. No one posts to a newsgroup to say "Hey, my 10g database is doing great today". The people that are most vocal are those that have encountered a problem. The folks that had problems with earlier releases have, for the most part, worked around them or upgraded-- the folks that are still running 7.3.4 are generally very happy with their database, it's been running for years without a problem. Was 7.3.4 more stable than 9.2, 10.1, 8.1.7, etc? Of course not.
I guess my point here is that no one can tell you with any confience that any version of Oracle is stable enough for your particular situation. Were I a betting man, I'd bet that it was. The only way to know for sure, though, is to test.
Justin
Distributed Database Consulting, Inc.
http://www.ddbcinc.com/askDDBC

Stabilizing video?

Does anyone have a good way of batch stabilizing video shot with an iPhone? I've tried iMovie but the only way I can get the stabilization is to edit a movie together & export it.
My preference is to have a batch converter that analyzes & exports new files (or some way of stabilizing while I'm videoing in the first place).
I know that manually stabilizing each movie yields the best results, but time will prevent me from doing that and I'd be happy with a batch converter.

Sorry realised the description of the video and issue is vague
Original Video: http://youtu.be/AbaebrGwYFE
Stabilised Video: http://youtu.be/RcCdDB18FV8

Uninstalled snow leopard and went back to leopard. happy again!!!!!

battery life is much better. macbook not getting hot and fan doesnt come on anymore. no more spinning wheel.
dont think i will be updating to snow leopard in a while

I had a MBP and iMac running Leopard and after upgrading to SL I too am have a litany of problems (it's not in my imagination and I'm not interested in trying a bunch of different things to try to fix them; doing so may only create more problems as new updates come out to fix those... then I have to potentially unfix my fixes to let Apple's fix fix things, get it?) and I would like to go back to Leopard.
I have Time Machine backups for both systems (MBP on 10.6 and iMac on 10.6.1) from BEFORE the upgrade to SL. I have backups on the TMs AFTER the upgrade to SL. I have no other backups (no bootable images.)
So, my actual question is: has anyone been in a similar position and successfully gone back to Leopard AND restored the TM backup to get them (at least from a user-data perspective) back to a current state?
I know I can't completely restore a post-upgrade backup (that would bring me back to SL), but I would like to go back to Leopard and get back all user data (email, itunes, iphoto, browser settings/bookmarks, etc.)
Has anyone actually done this and can recommend a path of least resistance to get there?
My wife, who was just about sold on going all-out Mac is now considering going back to WinXP and this is screwing with my grand all-Mac strategy... (I was very happy with the stability and trouble-free nature of OS X... not now)

Happy MBP owners - please post!

Hi all! I've been away from Apple Discussions forum for a while, but am intrigued by the MacBook Pro. It is disconcerting to see all the issues regarding whining and heat - I know there have to be lots of happy owners out there, so would really appreciate hearing from some of you.
Thanks.

Hi Shazza,
I've got a MBP that arrived in early March. And I've got the CPU whine and, since the latest firmware update, heat issues. Yet I'll still post as a happy MBP owner! The machine ROCKS...I've used XP on other laptops, mostly IBM ThinkPads, which are also nice machines, and also Linux. My other laptop is currently an IBM T43 ThinkPad with Fedora Core 5. None of them hold a candle to the Mac's stability, performance (hello, I can listen to iTunes and NOT have it stutter or hiccup when I try to do other things), and overall jam-packed-full-of-features OS and hardware.
I'm currently writing this on my defective MBP in Safari, while checking corp. e-mail in Lotus Notes on Windows XP SP2 using Parallels Workstation beta2, listening to music on iTunes, and I have my password manager (Password Gorilla), a terminal, iCal, MSN, Yahoo! Messenger, iChat AV and Mail all running as well. Bluetooth syncs now with my Nokia 9300 Communicator, and I'm working out the modem scripts to use the EDGE capabilities as well for when I can't find WiFi. Keynote and Pages are AWESOME; forget M$ Office.
Go ahead and make your order. You will be pleased.
PS - Apple is sending me a brand new replacement MacBook for this one.
MacBook Pro 1.83 Mac OS X (10.4.5) 1 GB/100 GB HDD 7200 RPM

ZCM Satellite server on SLES11 Proxydhcp crashes

We've set up three SLES11 servers (Patterns Base and Minimal + xorg-x11-libs-32bit, pam-32bit, libstdc++33-32bit and libstdc++43-32bit) And loaded ZCM Satellite on all three.
The installs go fine, and function without issue for a while and then the proxy-dhcp service will crash out and not restart. We can manually start it and be back up and running for several hours without issue.
I enabled debug level 4 logging on one and checked it after a crash, the log simply stops without error message or reasoning.
I've launched the daemon by hand in a screen session with the -d option to keep it from daemonizing and remain in the foreground, It ended with the message of 'Terminated' which implies it decided or something told it to shut down.
Code:
Received packet on 10.13.1.149:4011
DHCP_ACK sent to 10.13.1.149:4011
Received packet on 10.13.1.149:68
Received packet on 10.13.1.149:68
Received packet on 10.13.1.149:68
Received packet on 0.0.0.0:68
DHCP_OFFER sent to 255.255.255.255:68
Received packet on 0.0.0.0:68
Received packet on 10.13.1.177:4011
DHCP_ACK sent to 10.13.1.177:4011
Received packet on 10.13.1.177:68
Received packet on 10.13.1.177:68
Received packet on 10.13.1.177:68
Terminated
Any ideas?

Alright, downloaded the lastest greatest Sun Java, installed without a problem. xplat agent is running, communicating, happy. And our proxydhcp was just shut down again. I checked and couldn't find a loader-messages log, Is that just on the primaries?
I did notice the following in the CentralStore log for this server
Code:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" standalone="no"?>
<Message>
<MessageId><![CDATA[ImagingServer.pDHCP.stop]]></MessageId>
<Severity><![CDATA[2]]></Severity>
<Time><![CDATA[1300304789839]]></Time>
<Source><![CDATA[6ca9181e095544e382665afb32d9cb85]]></Source>
<ComponentName><![CDATA[ISSRoleHandler ::editCall]]></ComponentName>
<MessageType><![CDATA[0]]></MessageType>
<MessageParams/>
</Message>

Is anyone 100% happy with Creative Cloud?

Cost, quality of products, stability, access. Your thoughts?

Well...i speak for myself...i'm not happy with the CC subscription. The main reason to subscribe is that at this moment is the only way to go, so there is no choice. I've experienced a lot of issues with After Effects with a complete rebuilt of my system to make it works. Other people is still waiting for a solution...but no update from Adobe yet.

UPGRADING?? What 45nm board/processor/ram/PSU/VC combo for stability and speed?

Greetings all.
See from Aaron Yuri's list of compatible MBs my wife now gets my Nov'06 [a fast end of line] P975X PUE.
Not sure why MSI designed it without 45nm support - but that's a cat I cannot skin - so never mind!
Want 'stable' and fast - no overclocking needed - just brute force speed and graphics representation of time-series on-line financial data.
Use is primarily as a 24/7 equities data - calculations and graphs of 2D value [Y] vs time[X] data.
Continue WINXP SP3 for stability and compatibility with many Video cards and programs.
HDs: RAID 0 on two WD RE Caviars 320 gb drives for excellent R/W speed [Backup nightly w 1TB NAS].
Graphical display will be a quad-DVI linked to 4x24" flat panel screens.
Would appreciate Reccys as to:
1) MSI board - proven stable for the new 45 nm chips, with great PCI-E or PCI EXp2 VideoCard support.
2) PSU - more than adequate but also very 'quiet'?
3) CPU [looking at the E8200 - as quad CPUs just not yet ready for most Softs to justify price premium]
4) v. stable RAM [DDR 2 or 3?] - Here I need big time help as I want forward looking but need no hassles with new issues that are not yet stable. [Nov06 -my 975X had many hassles with 800 RAM] No sense going to DDR3 yet I think.
finally - if anyone out there has experience with:
5) quad-dvi Video card? Looking at the NVidia Quadros and ATIs
- workstation or high end multi-monitor graphics.
I see Asus has the new quad-Ati base EAAH3870X2 but many 2D packages do not use this - so may stick to workstation cards.
[I have tried doubling up on 2x-DVI cards -seems they need to be absolutely identical or all kinds of hassles installing them] - so we will stick to a good 2D card - like the PNY NVS 440 or the ATI Radeon
Thanks folks for the feedback and reccys for Stable and very fast.
k2

Quote from: NovJoe on 21-May-08, 21:37:46
Sure, if you can wait further, the P45 series seems to be a good grab as well. I'm anticipating for it.
NOVO JOE - yes - but here is my concern and I was just wondering also about the P45.
BUT - I jumped in Nov06 - for the P975X PUE - after some great Reccys all around - and I ended up fighting the darn thing for a couple of months with memory issues...Took me about 3 months to get it frigging stable- and with RAID ... So I was concerned that the P45 also was early - and also at a premium price. I want something for 2 to 3 years - til the next IMPT generation comes along. SO was going to get a sterling performer with stability - and not spend a lot of time building it to work....
If you all have any insight into the upcoming P45 that looks like we might not have this sort of start up issues - I'm happy to listen. Have seen some reviews so far - all pretty good - just don't have days and weeks to fritter with it....

Various 4G / 5G stability problems and now my iPod is USB 1.1 only!

Hi,
I bought a brand new iPod a week or two ago and it worked fine for one sync. Then the battery was running low (because I'd been using it!) so I plugged it in and iTunes synced automatically and the battery charged. after the sync I hit "eject" in iTunes so that the battery would just charge.
I returned to find that the iPod was still mounted! Very strange. I ejected again..... and it seems that what was happening was when the iPod was ejected it simply rebooted and when it came back up was mounted automatically again!
I ejected and unplugged the iPod and it was no longer stable - I would get to the menu and almost to play a song and it would reset. It seemed like my speed was the limiting factor (i.e. the iPod would only stay up for n seconds), rather than it crashing because I tried a particular function.
I saw this unstable behaviour with my old iPod (4G, firewire on this same machine) too where I had to reflash it to get it working again reliably.
So, I reflash the (new) device with the iPod Updater software downloaded for me by Software Update. It resets, and all seems well, with the rather catastrophic exception that now the iPod is only recognised as a USB 1.1 device according to System Profiler! The transfer speed is very very slow.
This is really a bit of a showstopper for my user experience. I have tried:
- Resetting my computer
- Changing the cable (I have two USB2.0 cables and 1 USB2.0/Firewire cable which I have tried all of)
- Changing USB ports (including taking ALL my USB devices away and plugging the iPod directly into the back of the desktop machine)
- Reflashing the iPod again
I have NOT tried:
- re-downloading the iPod Updater from Apple and using that (I'm downloading it now)
So.... the questions are:
- Has the firmware updater somehow made my iPod appear to be a USB1.1 device?
- Or is this a hardware fault and I need to return the iPod to be fixed?
- Is this stability problem a commonly observed one?
- If so what can I do to avoid it?
Thanks in advance,
Neil.
Powermac G4 MDD Mac OS X (10.4.7)

Cannot reproduce presumed fixed

I have a 3 year old MacBook Pro with MAC OSX 10.6.8, iPhoto '09 version 8.1.2 and have downloaded two software programs: one is Aperture 3.2 and the other is Photoshop Elements 9 (which I got from a friend who didn't need it). I am totally happy with the

I have a 3 year old MacBook Pro with MAC OSX 10.6.8, iPhoto ’09 version 8.1.2 and have downloaded two software programs: one is Aperture 3.2 and the other is Photoshop Elements 9 (which I got from a friend who didn’t need it).
I am totally happy with the way iPhoto organizes my photos and how I can work with iMovie to create slide shows with music from iTunes, etc.
I have been shooting mostly high resolution jpegs and I continue to learn more and more about photography, post processing etc. I realize that the small adjustments I can make in iPhoto are good, and are adequate most of the time. However, a have started to experiment with shooting RAW images and would like to go the next step, ie. post processing.I am totally technically challenged and need SIMPLE, INTUITIVE programs and am certainly NOT anywhere ready for Photoshop CS whatever!
After having these programs sit on my computer, I decided to try to see if I could figure them out. When I opened Aperture, this is what first comes up.
“Welcome to Aperture 3.2
Your library needs to be upgraded to work with this version of Aperture. Once upgraded, you will not be able to use this library with previous versions of Aperture.
Upgrading a library from previous versions of Aperture 3 generally takes a few minutes or less, though larger libraries will take longer. After that, Aperture 3.2 will upgrade your library's thumbnails, but you can use the application during that time.
Tip: To open a different library, quit Aperture and hold the Option key down while starting Aperture
Current Library Location:
Jadzia (home) -----Pictures------Aperture Library
QUIT UPGRADE”
I have heard horror stories about moving your entire library to Aperture, ending up with 2 libraries, etc. etc. hence my previous reluctance in attempting Aperture. In addition, many of my photography friends are saying: Go with Lightroom 3.....you’ll love it!
So here is my dilemma. I don’t want to mess around with my iPhoto library. All I want to be able to do, is to isolate a few photos, export them to Aperture, Elements, and work on them there, then bring them back into iPhoto.
Can I do this? Should I forget about Aperture and Elements and look at purchasing yet another program like Lightroom?

Export those few photos via the File ➙ Export ➙ File Export menu option with Kind = Original to the Desktop. Then import them into the Aperture library. That would keep one copy in your iPhoto library and another in your Aperture library to edit, etc.
You can use Photoshop Elements 9 from within iPhoto as your editor of choice. However, if you edit a raw file in iPhoto with PSE9 the resulting edited version must be saved outside the iPhoto Library and imported back in as a new file. For editing jpegs just do a Save (not a Save As) and it all will be kept within iPhoto.
Using Photoshop or Photoshop Elements as Your Editor of Choice in iPhoto.
1 - select Photoshop or Photoshop Elememts as your editor of choice in iPhoto's General Preference Section's under the "Edit photo:" menu.
2 - double click on the thumbnail in iPhoto to open it in Photoshop. When you're finished editing click on the Save button. If you immediately get the JPEG Options window make your selection (Baseline standard seems to be the most compatible jpeg format) and click on the OK button. Your done.
3 - however, if you get the navigation window
that indicates that PS wants to save it as a PS formatted file. You'll need to either select JPEG from the menu and save (top image) or click on the desktop in the Navigation window (bottom image) and save it to the desktop for importing as a new photo.
This method will let iPhoto know that the photo has been editied and will update the thumbnail file to reflect the edit..
NOTE: With Photoshop Elements the Saving File preferences should be configured as shown:
I also suggest the Maximize PSD File Compatabilty be set to Always. In PSE’s General preference pane set the Color Picker to Apple as shown:
Note: to switch between iPhoto and PS or PSE as the editor of choice Control (right)-click on the thumbnail and select either Edit in iPhoto or Edit in External Editor from the contextual menu. If you use iPhoto to edit more than PSE re-select iPhoto in the iPhoto General preference pane. Then iPhoto will be the default editor and you can use the contextual menu to select PSE for your editor when desired.
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