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Still having absolutely horrific flash issues with all browsers. Chrome, Safari and Firefox will all just crash after a while, sometimes the page won't even have any flash on it and the page will just error showing the 'Oh Snap' page. Most of the time it happens when I'm viewing a flash video though. iTunes will sometimes get on the action too and just crash, I mean every time one of these programs crash I can just reopen it straight away but its just very very irritating. Oh and sometimes if I'm really lucky the whole system will crash and just restart. This normally happens when I have 10+ tabs open +itunes +word. Surely this shouldn't happen on a Mid 2011 Mac Mini with 8GB of RAM right? I've uninstalled all browsers and installed them again. I've deleted flash then reinstalled. I've used another profile on the actual computer, and the other day I reinstalled mountain lion. Nothing seems to help, just asking for any last bits of advice before I bite the bullet and make a genius bar appointment  Any help would be fantastic.
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Aug 30, 2012 22:29
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I mean the next step I'd take is checking the logs to see if anything is happening, but that can be somewhat of an esoteric journey. At this point if I was just recommending something I'd say an OS reinstall in case something is corrupt, followed by a visit to the genius bar for sure. Not necessarily in that order, I'd probably make the visit first actually since they might comb through your logs for you or something. I don't really know what goes on behind the desk at a genius bar. My educated guesses would be either bad RAM or OS corruption, but that's such a huge blanket to throw over a problem. Very vague. I'm not sure if RAM is a user servicable part in a Mac Mini, but If you wanted to test RAM yourself you could probably just start taking out a stick at a time, booting the machine and seeing if the problem persists. Try different combinations of the sticks, see if you can narrow down which might be faulty (it might not be RAM as well, of course) e: Maybe try something like this as well: http://osxdaily.com/2011/05/03/memtest-mac-ram-test/ some kinda jackal fucked around with this message at 22:39 on Aug 30, 2012 |
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Aug 30, 2012 22:33
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Choadmaster posted:Well, Apple can suck my balls. I just tried to go to Safari's Activity window to download a youtube vid and what the gently caress, it ain't there no more. Why remove such a useful feature? (Yes, feedback already submitted.) Hey thanks for letting me know that that page exists. I just left a bunch of feedback on Safari 6's new web inspector. The network tab is so crippled that the browser is now unusable for development. Problems include:
I don't really know what they were thinking. I really like the rest of the new functionality (the debugger in particular is really great) and the design, but some of the things that are missing are fundamentally necessary for development.
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Aug 30, 2012 22:52
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Martytoof posted:I mean the next step I'd take is checking the logs to see if anything is happening, but that can be somewhat of an esoteric journey. At this point if I was just recommending something I'd say an OS reinstall in case something is corrupt, followed by a visit to the genius bar for sure. Not necessarily in that order, I'd probably make the visit first actually since they might comb through your logs for you or something. I don't really know what goes on behind the desk at a genius bar. Holy poo poo, I think you've got it. Just ran Memtest and my mac almost had a heart attack, the fan went crazy and terminal just shut itself down, looks like it's faulty RAM. Thanks a bunch dude! Gonna have to try and send this back and get some more in. Thanks for the help man, you're a hero!
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Aug 30, 2012 23:04
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Well I think that's certainly a good place to start looking. Try pulling sticks and see if you can identify which bank is bad. If it's aftermarket then take it back to the stock RAM it shipped with. Certainly glad it put you on the right track 
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Aug 30, 2012 23:07
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This is gonna be a really stupid question but how do I test the RAM? Can it run on just one stick or will I have to put a single 4GB one and the stock 1GB in? Once against sorry to be an idiot, and to think, there was a time when I was tech savvy!
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Aug 30, 2012 23:15
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Echoes posted:This is gonna be a really stupid question but how do I test the RAM? Can it run on just one stick or will I have to put a single 4GB one and the stock 1GB in? Once against sorry to be an idiot, and to think, there was a time when I was tech savvy!
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Aug 30, 2012 23:25
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I found out something useful if anyone is running Filevault 2. If your drive is encrypted and you hold down option at boot, you'll notice that the recovery partition doesn't show up. But it's still accessible by holding down Command-R on boot.
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Aug 30, 2012 23:36
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Tenterhooks posted:Dumb question, but software isn't tied to a country, right? I'm in the UK and, holy poo poo if this'll work, Photoshop CS6 usually costs us £667 ($1050). It will install, activate, and run, but Adobe is cranky about providing support to out-of-region software. (It's also against the reseller contract to ship it out of region, so you may need to use a friend or a freight forwarder.) Come up with a good story if you ever need technical support. Perhaps you were on extended holiday in New York, for example. Or temporarily living with an American relative while they recovered from a heart transplant.
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Aug 31, 2012 00:15
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Gordon Cole posted:I don't really know what they were thinking. I really like the rest of the new functionality (the debugger in particular is really great) and the design, but some of the things that are missing are fundamentally necessary for development. I had just gotten used to the Chrome/Safari inspector. Back to Firefox...
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Aug 31, 2012 00:34
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Does anybody have any experience using Examguard on a Mac? I can't find any solid resourses online, tech support has been horrible, and I'll soon have to take exams through it for ASU, so I would like to be sure it'll work on my Air. It seems like a pretty terrible little program but I have no choice but to use it for this online class I'm taking. Thanks guys
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Aug 31, 2012 00:36
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Molten Llama posted:It will install, activate, and run, but Adobe is cranky about providing support to out-of-region software. (It's also against the reseller contract to ship it out of region, so you may need to use a friend or a freight forwarder.) Cheers. I took the risk and purchased it. So far everything seems fine - got an email letting me know it's on backorder and should ship in a week or so. I'll hopefully not need tech support (managed all through college / various jobs without it over the years) but that info is good to know. If it installs ok, should I expect upgrading to be tricky when the time comes?
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Aug 31, 2012 00:55
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Tenterhooks posted:If it installs ok, should I expect upgrading to be tricky when the time comes? As far as I know, the upgrade installer will accept any valid serial number or previous install. I don't think it should be an issue. Edit: Just asked a colleague who moved here from the UK. He had no problem upgrading his UK CS4 using US CS5. Presumably it also works in the reverse situation.
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Aug 31, 2012 01:41
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Modern Pragmatist posted:That was always a pain in the rear end anyhow. I use clicktoplugin which allows you to right-click to download and save the video. Sadly, while that works for YouTube (and is actually what I'd already done by the time I wrote my post) there isn't a plugin for every downloaded webpage resource on any random site I might need to pull something from. The Activity window was useful for just about anything on any site, even stuff loaded by plugins (which Safari's and Firefox's web inspectors/page resources windows don't list). That window was a tool without equal, and its disappearance just flat out sucks.
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Aug 31, 2012 01:54
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Is there any way to prevent duplicate network drives from showing up on my desktop when I start my computer? This is annoying: 
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Aug 31, 2012 14:47
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Figure out what's using them/trying to mount them I guess. One of those is probably mounted at /Volumes/TV-1 (or "TV 1") and something may have used/saved that path in the past and could be the culprit. I'd look into your login items first, then uh, maybe something shows up in the console logs.
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Aug 31, 2012 18:56
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Lexicon posted:I do use 1Password with the file stored in Dropbox. I'm reaching a bit here, but is it possible the number was leaked through this or some other vector like a misbehaving browser extension? Do you have the master password enabled on this? I believe you have to if you want it encrypted. Source: http://help.agilebits.com/1Password3/change_master_password.html
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Sep 1, 2012 01:21
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I feel like I'm in the eighties when I have to deal with file systems. Why do I have to deal with that poo poo on a modern computer? I have a samsung TV that only supports NTFS, but all my computers are macs. A long time ago I used NTFS3g to copy files from mac to pc, but now it seems that is dead. Do I have to buy some third party software to move files from mac to ntfs? I now there is some kind of built in, but disabled and possibly system wrecking, way of copying to NTFS. Should I stay away from that?
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Sep 1, 2012 20:22
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Where does the App Store save the Install Mountain Lion.dmg to? I'd like to symlink it to a folder on my external hard drive so that I can update through the App Store but not have that 4GB tied up on my dinky 64GB SSD.
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Sep 1, 2012 22:31
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Rubiks Pubes posted:Where does the App Store save the Install Mountain Lion.dmg to? I'd like to symlink it to a folder on my external hard drive so that I can update through the App Store but not have that 4GB tied up on my dinky 64GB SSD. In the Applications folder.
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Sep 1, 2012 22:34
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Rubiks Pubes posted:Where does the App Store save the Install Mountain Lion.dmg to? I'd like to symlink it to a folder on my external hard drive so that I can update through the App Store but not have that 4GB tied up on my dinky 64GB SSD. I don't understand. Doesn't it delete itself after you install ML? Why do you need to keep it?
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Mu Zeta posted:I don't understand. Doesn't it delete itself after you install ML? Why do you need to keep it? I think it does. I can understand keeping the installer around in case you have a second (or third) computer, or in case you want to re-install later. Especially if you have a slow internet connection.
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Sep 1, 2012 23:31
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I moved it to my external to begin with, but when the last update (10.8.1 I think) came out the App Store tried to re download the entire installer. Someone in the thread here said it was to update the install image, which seems dumb.
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Sep 1, 2012 23:43
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Rubiks Pubes posted:I moved it to my external to begin with, but when the last update (10.8.1 I think) came out the App Store tried to re download the entire installer. Someone in the thread here said it was to update the install image, which seems dumb. It's like a 7MB update if you have the installer on your HD. It makes sense if you have a 1TB HD but not a 64GB SSD
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Sep 2, 2012 00:04
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Bob Morales posted:It's like a 7MB update if you have the installer on your HD. It makes sense if you have a 1TB HD but not a 64GB SSD It was 7megs for me and I don't have the installer on my SSD.
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Sep 2, 2012 00:20
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Mu Zeta posted:It was 7megs for me and I don't have the installer on my SSD. Hrm, I thought I heard people bitching on another forum for that reason. Now that I think about it, I didn't have the installer and it was only 7MB as well, did it on lovely hotel wifi.
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Sep 2, 2012 00:29
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So I just got back home from a vacation, and while I was on that vacation I hosed up my iTunes library by deleting some of my favorite songs by deleting a sizable playlist. I get home, and try to restore it from my Time Machine backup. First it complains that there's not enough space. Fair enough, it's like 120 gigs, and I'm on a MBPr, so my SSD can't fit it. I delete the damaged iTunes library and empty the trash. Now the Finder and Time Machine are saying there's still not enough room. But this is after a restart even, and my SSD is showing something like 230 gigs free, and my library is still around 120 gigs free. Anyone know why it's saying this? It was saying it trying to copy over a number of files, that I could copy over fine one by one, or just by a few folders at a time. Right now I'm copying over my music, but I have over 1,000 artist folders at this point, so it's going to be slow manual work.
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Sep 2, 2012 02:59
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gently caress, I didn't know I was using an Internet Explorer clone. Thanks ADP for letting me know!quote:Thank you for your email, which is regarding accessing the commuter benefits link. Please be aware that in order to be able to access the Commuter Benefits, you must be using Internet Explorer 7.0 or higher or Firefox 5 and higher. Internet Explorer clones (such as Mac-Safari) will not work to access our web site or download our forms.
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Sep 2, 2012 03:11
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withak posted:gently caress, I didn't know I was using an Internet Explorer clone. Thanks ADP for letting me know! Oklahoma's unemployment site will literally only work on Internet Explorer. When I got laid off last summer, I had to go to the library to file every week. My house is mac only.
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Sep 2, 2012 03:21
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withak posted:gently caress, I didn't know I was using an Internet Explorer clone. Thanks ADP for letting me know! Dang, I really like using Mac-Safari! Makes me wonder if I should just give up using Mac-OS, such an obvious windows clone.
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Sep 2, 2012 04:01
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ConfusedUs posted:Oklahoma's unemployment site will literally only work on Internet Explorer. For future reference, MS makes available VM builds of Windows with IE for web testing. You can download one and run it for something like this.
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Sep 2, 2012 04:42
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mediaphage posted:For future reference, MS makes available VM builds of Windows with IE for web testing. You can download one and run it for something like this.
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Sep 2, 2012 04:55
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You didn't search hard enough
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I'm on my parents' Snow Leopard 10.6.8 machine and am having a problem with the Java plugin. If I navigate to a site in Safari with a Java applet, I am told that Java is not installed or not enabled. In Firefox it works. The installed Java is version 1.6.0_33-b03-424 according to Java preferences in /Applications/Utilities. Applets/web start is enabled. Safari has Java enabled in its own prefs. I can start Web start apps, they run without issues. I've checked for Flashback and not found anything.
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Sep 2, 2012 12:10
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Or, for that matter, there's always the fact that Windows can be run for 30 days in a trial mode, so if only need for temporary use....
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Sep 2, 2012 12:36
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Evis posted:Do you have the master password enabled on this? I believe you have to if you want it encrypted. Source: http://help.agilebits.com/1Password3/change_master_password.html Definitely. I didn't even know it was a possibility to not have a master password.
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Sep 2, 2012 13:38
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Bob Morales posted:It's like a 7MB update if you have the installer on your HD. It makes sense if you have a 1TB HD but not a 64GB SSD What? I said in my post it tried to re download the entire 4GB installer to my SSD (which is the main drive in my Air). I don't want that to happen with every update.
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Maybe something went wrong, because I certainly didn't have the installer and it was still a 7MB update.
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Sep 2, 2012 19:03
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ok this is awesome. Trying this out, thanks!
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Has anyone had luck getting a G9x mouse to play well with OSX? I'd love to get the side buttons working.
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