MY IMAC IS FREEZING DURING BOOT ARGHHHHH. LAST BACKUP WAS TWO WEEKS AGO AND DISK UTILITY CREATE IMAGE IN RECOVERY MODE IS FREEZING AT AROUND %5
ANY INFOS ON DISKWARRIOR? MIGHT THIS HELP ME?
― diamonddave85, Thursday, 14 November 2013 15:20 (ten years ago) link
Maybe your logic board is borked
― 乒乓, Thursday, 14 November 2013 15:24 (ten years ago) link
ive reset SMC and PRAM and those didn't help.. that's about all the hardware troubleshooting i know how to do ):
― diamonddave85, Thursday, 14 November 2013 15:56 (ten years ago) link
Do you have a clone of your hard drive
What happens when you try to boot from your backup
― 乒乓, Thursday, 14 November 2013 15:56 (ten years ago) link
Definitely the shift-lock key.
― pplains, Thursday, 14 November 2013 16:08 (ten years ago) link
unfortunately i opted against the bootable copy for space considerations so i just have a CCC files-only backup that's over two weeks old.. which is better than nothing but i'd rather get those 2 weeks back. lesson learned i guess /:
― diamonddave85, Thursday, 14 November 2013 16:32 (ten years ago) link
Dang
― 乒乓, Thursday, 14 November 2013 16:54 (ten years ago) link
I'm all about time machine these days
― mh, Thursday, 14 November 2013 17:11 (ten years ago) link
so like, everything i've bought on iTunes now shows up on my phone with the little cloud download logo.
and if I shuffle all the songs on my iPhone it includes those songs
annoyed
― eris bueller (lukas), Wednesday, 20 November 2013 16:16 (ten years ago) link
There's a setting in prefs to disable that. Under Music iirc
― stet, Wednesday, 20 November 2013 16:41 (ten years ago) link
OH THE AGONY OF CHOICE thanks stet
― eris bueller (lukas), Wednesday, 20 November 2013 17:10 (ten years ago) link
New desktop system sifting very much toward my old Windows complaint.
Would you like to install updates now or later tonight? HOW ABOUT WHEN I FEEL LIKE IT.
Can't wait for Clippy to show up and ask me for my mobile number.
― pplains, Wednesday, 20 November 2013 17:12 (ten years ago) link
it's 2013, Clippy's already listening to your mobile calls
― Euler, Wednesday, 20 November 2013 17:19 (ten years ago) link
― eris bueller (lukas), Wednesday, November 20, 2013 11:16 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
ya i hate this
― socki (s1ocki), Wednesday, 20 November 2013 17:22 (ten years ago) link
turn it off
― mh, Wednesday, 20 November 2013 17:31 (ten years ago) link
how about apple turns it off.
seriously, when I get in my car, the radio's where I left it. the windshield wipers don't come on in case it's raining. it doesn't ask me if I want to put it in drive now or after i back up.
it does lock my doors automatically, and yes, i hate that.
― pplains, Wednesday, 20 November 2013 17:47 (ten years ago) link
Lol otm just turn it off
― caek, Wednesday, 20 November 2013 17:48 (ten years ago) link
http://i39.tinypic.com/2m6mydy.jpg
― sleepingbag, Wednesday, 20 November 2013 17:51 (ten years ago) link
you turn it off
― socki (s1ocki), Wednesday, 20 November 2013 17:56 (ten years ago) link
i will literally fedex my phone to you and pay for return shipping if you turn it off.
― socki (s1ocki), Wednesday, 20 November 2013 17:57 (ten years ago) link
Instead of turning it off you should try complaining on message boards until Apple modified it and pushes out a new iOS update for you to download
― Homo schaduwkabinet (Stevie D(eux)), Wednesday, 20 November 2013 22:59 (ten years ago) link
GTA 5 gave me $500,000 in virtual dollars. Apple can do the same.
― pplains, Wednesday, 20 November 2013 23:20 (ten years ago) link
Hey people! my dad has a line on a used rmbp for $1250 and a used 2011 mbp for $1000. I'm trying to talk him into getting the retina with future proofing as my argument. Am I correct in thinking the retina is a much better deal? What other talking points should I be considering?
― the late great, Wednesday, 20 November 2013 23:58 (ten years ago) link
accessing network shares (i.e. my synology box) has become a nightmare, no matter what protocol i use :(
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 2 January 2014 21:24 (ten years ago) link
the only way i can get anything to work is Cmd-K then accessing my box via "cifs://" which i don't like to do, because that's the protocol for corny indie fucs
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 2 January 2014 21:34 (ten years ago) link
xposting from ITR because FUCK APPLE:
FYI Apple computers are really fucking annoying when something goes wrong with themMy 2009 iMac's DVD drive began to refuse to eject CDs the other day. I took it into the Genius Bar to have them get the CD out, which they were able to do. However, the drive now thinks it has a blank DVD in it even though it's empty. Furthermore, the drive makes horrible grinding noises every time the computer wakes up. I can replace the internal drive for over $150 or I could buy an external drive for cheaper; I can't get a Super Drive though because the firmware EXPRESSLY FORBIDS them from working together. Finally, the support for the machine is about to be end-of-life'd anyway due to its age.Oh, and also the display is starting to show discoloration and will cost something like $500 to replace if I decide to do so.If this had happened with a PC, I could have opened the DVD drive myself and replaced it myself, resolving this whole fucking thing in maybe 90 minutes. Speaking of which, I may be getting a PC this weekend because this fucking machine irks me.
My 2009 iMac's DVD drive began to refuse to eject CDs the other day. I took it into the Genius Bar to have them get the CD out, which they were able to do. However, the drive now thinks it has a blank DVD in it even though it's empty. Furthermore, the drive makes horrible grinding noises every time the computer wakes up. I can replace the internal drive for over $150 or I could buy an external drive for cheaper; I can't get a Super Drive though because the firmware EXPRESSLY FORBIDS them from working together. Finally, the support for the machine is about to be end-of-life'd anyway due to its age.
Oh, and also the display is starting to show discoloration and will cost something like $500 to replace if I decide to do so.
If this had happened with a PC, I could have opened the DVD drive myself and replaced it myself, resolving this whole fucking thing in maybe 90 minutes. Speaking of which, I may be getting a PC this weekend because this fucking machine irks me.
― lunchtime tiara (DJP), Tuesday, 4 February 2014 15:47 (ten years ago) link
buy a pc and if you want to get rid of windows use Linux - apple is a waste of money - unless you'r e rich
― Brian Eno's Mother (Latham Green), Tuesday, 4 February 2014 15:55 (ten years ago) link
lol optical drives
― caek, Tuesday, 4 February 2014 15:58 (ten years ago) link
if you have a way of digitizing 2000+ CDs that doesn't require an optical drive, I'm all ears
― lunchtime tiara (DJP), Tuesday, 4 February 2014 16:04 (ten years ago) link
throw them out and start again. print is dead.
― caek, Tuesday, 4 February 2014 16:12 (ten years ago) link
even worse, digitizing 2000 vinyl records
― Brian Eno's Mother (Latham Green), Tuesday, 4 February 2014 16:13 (ten years ago) link
you can't use a generic USB cd/dvd burner?
― Nhex, Tuesday, 4 February 2014 16:13 (ten years ago) link
I can, yes. I still need to make an appointment to have them disconnect the internal DVD drive so that it stops attempting to claw its way out of the case every time I start up.
― lunchtime tiara (DJP), Tuesday, 4 February 2014 16:15 (ten years ago) link
borrow half a dozen external drives, rip six discs at a time, give drives back when done
― mh, Tuesday, 4 February 2014 16:16 (ten years ago) link
my macbook has a optical drive spasm at weird times too - like if I go to open a file or something - maye its looking at all possible places a file could be or something
also my OS is obsolete and I cannot upgrade due to hardware - F U apple!!
― Brian Eno's Mother (Latham Green), Tuesday, 4 February 2014 16:16 (ten years ago) link
also they were playing "How Soon Is Now?" while dude at the Genius Bar was running diagnostics and I was singing along and dude looked up at me, grinned, and asked "Rockin' out to some Depeche Mode, huh?"
I mean, come on
― lunchtime tiara (DJP), Tuesday, 4 February 2014 16:19 (ten years ago) link
going to use this opportunity to share that I spent ten minutes thinking my computer was fucked up because I kept putting a blu-ray disc in the blu-ray drive I'd installed, and it kept ejecting the wrong drive tray
it turns out the blu-ray drive was the top one and I was just repeatedly putting a bd in the dvd drivexp
lolol
― mh, Tuesday, 4 February 2014 16:20 (ten years ago) link
YOushoudl have said "yes I LOVE depeche mode, especially when they had Lol Tolhurst!!"
― Brian Eno's Mother (Latham Green), Tuesday, 4 February 2014 16:22 (ten years ago) link
haha perfect
― lunchtime tiara (DJP), Tuesday, 4 February 2014 16:25 (ten years ago) link
LOOOL kids these days xps
― sleeve, Tuesday, 4 February 2014 16:26 (ten years ago) link
this "kid" was mmmmmmmmaybe 3 years younger than me
or he's led an extraordinarily tough life, dude was weathered
― lunchtime tiara (DJP), Tuesday, 4 February 2014 16:27 (ten years ago) link
always thought it was " I am the sun and the air" transcendental Moz
why would apple name its shithead minions "geniuses" - to make them more hate-able?
― Brian Eno's Mother (Latham Green), Tuesday, 4 February 2014 16:31 (ten years ago) link
my gf's ipad had the "phantom dock connector" issue where the sound would not switch back to the internal speaker. apple incredibly gives you no way to manually force the device to use its own speaker. (just how stupid this is: you could trick the device in skype to use the internal speaker but as soon as you try most any other app - back to 'dock connector'). resetting it didn't work. restoring it didn't work. jailbreaking it and deleting one stupid preference file, that worked. -_-
― bnw, Tuesday, 4 February 2014 16:43 (ten years ago) link
I'll buy an ipad when they are 20 bucks
― Brian Eno's Mother (Latham Green), Tuesday, 4 February 2014 16:50 (ten years ago) link
I recently opened up my macbook pro and replaced the optical drive with an SSD. It's really not that hard to open up and remove it. Macsales sells drives and probably suplies instructions.
― dan selzer, Tuesday, 4 February 2014 16:51 (ten years ago) link
you could open the imac and just disconnect it?
― dan selzer, Tuesday, 4 February 2014 16:52 (ten years ago) link
at this point I'd be game to do that; I didn't see a clear way into the machine, which is why I took it to the Genius Bar
― lunchtime tiara (DJP), Tuesday, 4 February 2014 16:54 (ten years ago) link
― lunchtime tiara (DJP), Tuesday, February 4, 2014 10:19 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Haha, you met one of the guys who used to live inside Napster.
I'm tired of simple things like not being able to take a screenshot of a DVD. Not being able to charge Apple products with the 3rd-party USB ports that I've been using for years prior to Mavericks. Not having an "Always Deny" option for keychain passwords. Fucking having to hit the Alt button now to view MY LIBRARY.
I've already talked about the colors and tagging. I'll settle down instead.
― pplains, Tuesday, 4 February 2014 17:10 (ten years ago) link
colors and tagging issue SUCKS.
I think Onyx or some other free utilities let you make the library folders permanently visible.
― dan selzer, Tuesday, 4 February 2014 17:15 (ten years ago) link
― lunchtime tiara (DJP), Tuesday, February 4, 2014 11:54 AM (20 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
http://www.ifixit.com/Device/iMac
― caek, Tuesday, 4 February 2014 17:16 (ten years ago) link