I HATE APPLE

lol let me know when that drive starts making buzzing sounds on spinup
depending on your avg weekly rip volume it sounds like you could be 6 mos out from a replacement part

Conceivably. As I'm thinking of ripping a hell of a lot more, I'd be just as happy to get some sort of external drive recommendation.

(As for buzzing sounds on spinup, oh it happens from time to time all right...should note that the drive's under a year old, replacement for the original after it seized up with a DVD in it -- still have AppleCare on the whole thing for another year and a half, happily.)

since yesterday's update safari seems to have settled down a bit, it only wants 300MB today :(

and have you tried cache cleaner yet?

ah thanks for teh reminder!

the system info box on that says I have a 486! that's encouraging

WTF?!

for reals

oh and while i'm at it 10.5.2 had better fix the itunes artwork screensaver :(

ok i did something stupid - a few weeks ago i had to delete something from my keychain (a wifi password that had changed), and that proved so easy that i thought i'd delete a couple more things too. unfortunately it seems like i deleted *everything*. this seems to mean that every time i launch mail, safari, ichat etc (although not firefox, for some reason) i have to type my login password, which is pretty annoying. i've tried keychain first aid, both verify and repair, and neither seem to do anything. what should i do?

smash.

delete the "login" keychain, create a new one with exactly the same password as your user account.

I haven't even worked out what keychain is for yet.

I have another dumb question - my iMac won't connect to the internet if I use Safari, or try and do a Software Update, yet Firefox works totally fine. I can't see anywhere in Safari menus to configure anything about how to connect. Any idea what the problem could be?

ismash

what does safari say? does pinging google work?

I just get Page Cannot Be Displayed or whatever.

But if I use Firefox, it works. I guess the Software Update uses the same connection config that Safari is using because that won't work either, I get some server error on that.

delete the "login" keychain, create a new one with exactly the same password as your user account.

awesome! thanks a ton, that's been driving me crazy.

Well whatever is in the "or whatever" is kinda the clue to fixing it! What happens when you type ping google.com into the terminal?

well firefox is working so I imagine he'll be able to ping stuff

i bet it's a proxy setting

just spent $120 on a new macbook battery yesterday :/

that's what I'm betting too, but I wanted to check it wasn't *just* Firefox that had the proxy settings. This happens at my uni. xp

i just used time machine to restore a couple fukd files and omg works so great fu retrospect lololololol !!!!

while we're at it, one of the reasons I still don't use safari is because there's still seemingly random websites that don't show up, according to a set of criteria that Safari is really frickin' tight-lipped about.

But hey, lookie here, I have three other browsers! Hey, never mind, it's all good.

so i guess "Colonel Poo" (eeuggh) should look in Firefox prefs -- Advanced -- Network -- Configure How Firefox connects to the Internet

note what's there and put the same thing into System prefs -- Network -- Show: whichever connection you're using (Airport or Ethernet, probably) -- Proxies

safari still wants nearly 500mb to look at ilx, digg and the guardian and yes that is the RSIZE

dg didn't you hear me before when i said safari (and other apps) will take as much memory as it can find and that this isn't necessarily a bad thing? we are not in the days of OS9 where every program gets allocated a bare max/min of memory

it's necessarily a bad thing when the system hangs and there's masses of pageouts going on

i'm also amazed at how butthurt people get about this issue! no other browser does this

firefox ftw

DG maybe you have a special version of Safari that Steve Jobs pushes on software updates to people who criticize Apple products publically?

i'd hate to be fake steve in that case

OK I'm on the Mac now and in my Firefox settings it's on "Direct connection to the internet".

Under System Prefs - Network it did have Web Proxy ticked, so I unticked that thinking maybe it was the opposite, that it was set to use a proxy that doesn't exist, but unfortunately the problem remains.

If it helps, the error I get when I try to do a Software Update = A networking error has occurred: timed out (-1001).Make sure you can connect to the internet, then try again.

If I open a terminal, and ping google.com I get a response.

Ooh actually, Safari now works. So I think Tracer was right - that was part of the problem - for some reason use proxy was ticked when it shouldn't have been.

Maybe the Software Update is set up wrong somewhere...

Sorry to bug people with dumb shit when I could probably google for it... I'm completely new to Macs.

delete the "login" keychain, create a new one with exactly the same password as your user account.

ok, it's back again :-( Safari and Skype are both demanding the login password again - is there anything else I can try, or am I going to have to resort to the Genius Bar?

Pageouts are fine. It's pageins that cause thrashing.

keychain properties, timeout

Since I installed Leopard, I can't burn DVD9s aka DL-DVDs anymore, It gives an "internal target failure" message. Anyone else get this?

show us the text you get in System Profiler > Disc Burning

(you can get sys profiler quickly by holding 'alt' while opening the apple menu)

you might have firmware issues - did you upgrade the optical drive, or did it come with the mac - and what model mac?

Thanks Alan--

it's a an intel core MBP. I had no problems burning DLs efore upgrading to Leopard and three different programs get fuxored in what seems like the same way when I try it now.

MATSHITA DVD-R UJ-857E:

Firmware Revision: ZA0E
Interconnect: ATAPI
Burn Support: Yes (Apple Shipping Drive)
Cache: 2048 KB
Reads DVD: Yes
CD-Write: -R, -RW
DVD-Write: -R, -R DL, -RW, +R, +R DL, +RW
Write Strategies: CD-TAO, CD-SAO, DVD-DAO
Media: Insert media and refresh to show available burn speeds

I have a number of these entries showing up on my phone bill and I wondered if anybody has an understanding of what's going on here:

11-Feb-08 14:03:58 Accessing other sites £0.00
11-Feb-08 14:03:58 WAP Chat £0.00
11-Feb-08 13:44:33 Accessing other sites £0.00
11-Feb-08 13:44:33 WAP Chat £0.00
11-Feb-08 13:32:44 Accessing other sites £0.00
11-Feb-08 13:32:44 WAP Chat £0.00
11-Feb-08 12:50:32 Accessing other sites £0.00
11-Feb-08 12:50:32 WAP Chat £0.00

I've never had these before btu I'm on an iPhone now - which obviously has Edge, and though I've not configured it it seems to be letting me access it. Why is it doing this persistently, in the background? I.e. is this how Edge works? Obviously I'm not too fussed given that it's not costing me anything but I want to know how it works (in case it does start costing me something). Also would I be able to get push e-mail (via Gmail) using Edge? I.e. if it keeps on accessing like this, can I configure push to harness this?

Sorry, very noobish but I've never used internet on a phone and so have no understanding how it works.

All right, I'm starting to get sick of a little something here -- am ripping some discs and about every sixth disc or so, iTunes will contact the CDDB as per usual and then refuse to display the disc anywhere, and neither will the desktop or Finder window. I end up having to fully restart the computer, at which time the disc will appear on the desktop with the appropriate CDDB info. Any way I can get the disc to appear on the desktop/in iTunes properly without having to go through a full restart?

-- Ned Raggett, Wednesday, January 16, 2008 12:13 AM (3 weeks ago)

Ned -

don't know if you solved this problem, but you should be able to see the cd by using Disk Utility and mounting it that way.

Noted -- I switched to an external and while the problem still recurs at a couple of points it's not a worry as much now.

http://www.tuaw.com/2008/02/11/10-5-2-in-software-update-right-now/

about to take the PLUNGE

hey they fixed the itunes screensaver

duh I can't believe I needed Ned to make me think of just buying an external DVD-R instead of dealing with Apple Store bullshit. cristian vogel can just sit in my iMac forever, see if I care.

ok the menubar time machine icon is rad. I can hit alt+click "browse other disks" to restore from other attached volumes

10.5.2 finally fixed the maddening MacBook loses WiFi connection bug that has been driving me up the wall for almost a year. At least so far it has...

L-Tom, there's a way to get stuck discs out of even iMac drives. I used a dental tool last time I did this, but you can probably use a paperclip.

God the wifi instability was annoying

lc, yeah, I know, I was using a credit card to some success but this one was being a bitch so I just left it in. external drive is in the mail for probably a lot less than the 1 hours' worth of "Genius" labor