Thread: frozen, again

Originally Posted by d@rk51d3

Must admit, without Macs, my paycheck would be smaller.

if only doing macs i would starve..

so you do what with macs that is such an issue??

Boss buys a new one every year.

I spend about a day a fortnight sorting something out.
Last week was a crash that wiped out email accounts, printers and network settings.

Before that was an inability to backup photo albums.(simply)

Folders and files disappearing.

PDF files that won't open on a mac,

She'll often run off to the Apple store to get things sorted. They tell her it can't be done. She'll then bring it to me and it gets done.

She currently runs 2 macbook pro's and an air. A new unit will be joining the fold soon.

Then there's her Iphone, and Ipads.......

She gave dad one of her old pro's which seems to be ok.

I inherited a "Big Al", 17" powerbook g4. Just gave it a full wipe and fresh install of Tiger 10.4.11. So far so good, apart from the lack of PowerPc support.


Maybe she's just an IT jinx?

not normal behavior in my experience

she running outlook for mac?

she running a 3rd party antivirus package?

backing up photos depends on the program but usually it is pretty straight forward.

Standard mail.

No antivirus........ due to the standard rumors/beliefs.

This particular machine using iphoto. Won't backup photos in their folders, just dumps them all loose into one folder. Had to export into folders I prepared earlier on an external HDD. Not a huge issue, just not as simple as it should be (drag&drop), especially when it's several gigs spread over dozens of folders.

It's all good. Gives a new learning curve, an inside job out of the weather, and helps pay the bills.

I'm finding the Mac OS does have some pretty nifty features though..... but also some completely "left of field" ways of doing things too, that can leave windows users struggling to come to grips with.

Absolutely not normal. I look after a site that currently runs 3 XServes, 40 iMacs of various ages, 15 MacBooks, 10 iPhones and a couple of iPads. Apart for the on going issues with syncing Portable Home Directories back to the servers - which is mainly down to the inability of users to read and understand simple dialogue boxes - it's pretty much trouble free. Had two hard drives die in 2 Y.O. iMacs and a 4 y.o. server hard drive give up the ghost last year, prior to that it had been 2-3 years since any hardware failures.

Preview should open any PDF except Portfolio's. Acrobat reader is the fall back for that.

Don't use iPhoto much, but had a quick look at the "Browse Backups" in iPhoto. That looks for Time Machine backups, so Apple are obviously working on the assumption you are regularly backing up everything using Time Machine rather than manually backing up. The export functions are designed for saving out to sharing formats rather than backing up hence the "dump", so I'd be looking at either directly copying the Pictures folder, or using Time Machine.

cheers
Paul

if i brought an apple product to work, i would be shunned by my team.

Originally Posted by Eevo

if i brought an apple product to work, i would be shunned by my team.

and how is the c64 demo team these days?






on a serious note, what is it you work with eevo?

Originally Posted by incisor

on a serious note, what is it you work with eevo?

generally
severs are running SuSe
our bus servers use weblogic
our enablers use jboss