You can follow my search for help here…
Apple – Support – Discussions – Finder Repeatedly Crashing… …
While I’m waiting Time Machine is taking me back to before everything went wrong!
Monthly Archives: June 2008
Commodities…
“Apple appears to have other plans to further innovation around its Multi-Touch platform that will reduce its reliance on chip designs conceived largely by third parties.”AppleInsider | Steve Jobs: it’s time we design our own iPhone and iPod chips
If you read the business papers, they give the impression that all hardware is now a commodity, that everything is assembled from off the shelf parts. Either they’re wrong or Apple is about to change that.
It just shows that very few things are really commodities.
Failed isn’t the right term…
“By that measure, the US has been stagnant since the oil shocks of the early 70s. Absolutely no growth in income for the primary wage earner. Has globalization failed us completely?”John Robb’s Weblog: Broken Incomes
I think I understand the point but we got to this place by choice.
In the early 80s western governments decided that the way forward was for us all to work more. That way we would beat communism and save the world. There would be no central planning, no social controls and we’d all work a lot harder.
If we want to move away from the current model, it’s not just about measuring wealth. It’s about how we value the different roles in society and how we value intangibles.
If John wants to start that fight; fine. I think that he knows what he’ll be doing for the rest of his life!
iMac Finder dies…
Since I updated to the latest versions of Quicktime, iMove etc. yesterday the Finder on my iMac is repeatedly crashing. This includes the icons in the top right hand corner of the screen disappearing and then reappearing every 15 seconds.
Other applications crash when launched at well.
I managed to stop the Finder window crashing by moving from using Coverflow to the standard directory listings but the icons at the top right still crash and the machine is unusable! Firefox and Safari seem unaffected.
Any ideas of how to solve this would be gratefully received!
Lets see what the chances are of a blog request for help are; all the “A Listers” (a.k.a. Scoble) say this is the future of support and recommendations. How does it work for the rest of us?
They do…
Didn’t know this…
“Fon has to provide special VPN tunneling technology in the UK for the UK secret services to investigate suspected criminals and terrorists when they log on to our WiFi signal.”
Why are European governments able to do more for less when it comes to National Security?
And to be honest I’m not too comfortable now that I know that it exists. Are all Fon’s the same? Or is this just included in boxes sent to the UK?
Tell us more… please!
Paul Krugman of the 1950s…
“But Europeans are divided by language, culture, even food. They tend to be reluctant to move even within nations: Francophone and German-speaking Switzerland are segmented labor markets. So how can the euro work?”
Will the Polish plumber save the euro? – Paul Krugman – Op-Ed Columnist – New York Times Blog
He needs to get out more! In my office half the people I work with are migrants of one sort or another; the Euro where people didn’t move because of the food died about 20 years ago.
Let’s see the vice-sausage being made…
Joho the Blog » Let’s see the vice-sausage being made
An interesting point and I’d love to see it happen. Why won’t it?
…because he’d probably get Hillary through the popular vote! She is the only candidate for VP with structure in place to get the vote out.
If you leave too long between the beta and the product…
…someone copies your tool.
Look around by Google
And they managed to do this without breaching a patent?
Time to recommend…
A couple of months ago I put Mozy on the iMac at home.
For those that don’t know what Mozy is; you need to learn today. Most of us backup our data, we’ve already had the sinking feeling of a hard drive failure and now backup to an external drive. However, what happens when the house burns down?
Generally people think that this is a stupid point; however, I remember talking to a friend who lost her house when a Christmas tree caught file. Years later, the thing that she still missed…. her photos! Our photos are now digital and therefore can be saved, if they’re backed up to a second location. Mozy offers that second location in Utah, USA!
Before going further, you have to pay for Mozy but at $5 a month for unlimited storage (more on that later) it’s a bargain.
Initially it was the beta software and basically didn’t work. It was slow, I had trouble selecting what to backup without the software crashing and just to add to the pain there was a performance difference on the machine. I was about to ask for a refund when the v1.0 was launched.
This solved the majority of issues (although the initial scan for files is slow) and I’m now the proud owner of 50 Gb of data on the other side of the world. Peace of mind at last.
One final point, the space is unlimited but there are limits on how much you can upload every day. Therefore, backing up you’re complete DVD collection will be difficult.
All in all! Well worth a Starbucks a month.
Safety…
“Two nurseries in Kent, England are fingerprinting parents as they drop off and pick up kids “for safety.”
English nurseries fingerprinting parents “for security” – Boing Boing
You have to ask the question. Why can’t they just remember the faces of the parents? How many kids are there in this place? Hardly sounds like a personalized service for your child; do they have to wear name tags?