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16:02 by David Krutsko?.

This would portray to Peggys question if there are any other free 3D modeling tools out there, the answer to that is that yes there are, two of them include: XSI 4.2 Mod tool (http://www.softimage.com/default.aspx)

and milkshape 3D (http://www.swissquake.ch/chumbalum-soft/)

Personally i would high recomment the XSI 4.2 mod tool, I personally use 5.0 advanced but i found out that the mod tools works as good. It really all depends on what your doing, because again xsi is better for games, but again can be used for everything. (just listened to the podcast today, and thought i should mention that.)

04:48 by Ann Elizabet?.

22:22 by Cisally?.

18:18 by Michelle?.

WINFIXER Can someone help me with Winfixer. I have it on my computer and don’t know how it got there. Is it an OK program? I tried to remove it, but it won’t remove?

16:39 by Helga?.

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07:29 by Julio Ohep?.

Sorry this is so late, but I listen to the podcast.

Regarding Mac sync and PDAs, I own a Treo 650 and it syncs perfectly with my Mac with free software from Palm and Apple.

What Palm has said is that it will not continue to develop Macintosh compatible syncing, but the current version works just fine with Palm Desktop and Apple’s iSync.

If you like the Palm OS, go ahead and buy a Treo and don’t waste money on third party software.

-Julio Ohep
Caracas, Venezuela

14:38 by Philbert?.

Another free 3D option would be Wings3D from http://www.wings3d.com It’s intended for sub-division modeling, but can make sharp corners. Also while it’s not free Lightwave 3D is possibly the best 3D program available and they’ve just reduced their prices quite a bit.

15:56 by Cisally?.

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17:08 by Tony C?.

About whether or not to buy the extended warranty for a Sony Vaio laptop that covers accidental dropping, slipping liquids, etc?

Take it from a person with experience, buy the accidental warranty insurance for $249.00. The standard warranty does not cover damage to the screen on a laptop. About 3 years ago I bought a brand new laptop for around $1200 from Dell and poo poo’ed the idea of accident insurance. Within a month my screen cracked. To this day I have no idea how, I never dropped it, I just pulled it out of the bad and there was a strange crack. Anyway I called Dell and of coarse it wasn’t under warranty. They wanted over $900 to replace the screen (nearly the cost of the computer itself). I finally found a place on the web that replaced it for $600.

Another friend of mine had a similar experience, he spilled the cup of coffee that he had sitting next to the laptop. Ended up soaking through the keyboard and he had to have someone replace the motherboard for a similar price.

Buy the accident insurance …

06:35 by Chris Taylor?.

Hey Leo some info for you. an earl;y feburary episode from KFI had a lady with a computer that was getting spyware even after a RECOVERY disc install. Just wanted to let you know some info on this. First I am guessing as I only have what I heard on your radio show to go on but I THINK she is NOT having a spyware problem but a perfectly NORMAL problem.

I heard 3 issues. 1 popups 2 Messenger 3 Updates

First Popups. This is ESPECIALLY if she is on a cable modem. there is a function for sending messages over a network and they will appear as a windows popup. this is normal (not good but normal) for an unprotected machine especially one on a cable modem. IT is annoying but NOT dangerous more on this later

2 Messenger. Microsoft by default turns on MSN messenger. even when the user figures out how to disable it after installing SP2 microsoft DISABLES your uninstall and reinstalls it and turns it back on (cute ehh) so this is also NORMAL

Here is how to fix this goto the windows folder and then the INF folder (if you dont see inf goto view folder properties and enable hidden and system folders) find the file here calls sysoc.inf and open this in notepad goto edit and do a REPLACE for the word “hide” with no quotes and BLANK in the replace with and click REPLACE ALL

Save the file. NOW open add remove control panel. NOW you will see messenger in windows components and be able to delete it. (yup they HIDE it from you to make it harder to remove it and with windows file protection you can not just outright deletel it)

Third the updates. well also when you RECOVER a system windows UPDATE it both turned on automatically and WELL behind in its updates since your recovery CD was made some time ago. so yes your gonna get LOTS of updates notifications telling you new ones are available and or are being installed. so this is all perfectly normal.

Nothing sounded like spyware from what I heard except the pop ups which are not dangerous only annoying. I never have this problem because I am behind a firewall which stops that crap but also once she has windows fully updated it will also go away since microsoft turns off that “feature” which most users never have a need more anyway.

So tell her to just update windows all the way uninstall messenger and all should be well again.

Good Luck GREAT show and Great Podcasts!

Chris Taylor
http://www.nerys.com/

23:01 by Bill R?.

There was a question about buying the damage warranty when buying laptops… my advice is to BUY the accidental damage warranty.

If you transport your laptop more than a little bit you will drop, or spill, or someone will bump your system eventually. This has happened to me a couple of times in the last 10 years and in the first instance the bill was over $1K (yike!), in the other instances (with warranty) it was $0 …

The last bit of “don’t forget” advice is to stick to brands that have good support for where you travel. There’s no point in getting a great store warranty from a San Diego eBay store if you live in Chicago.

12:13 by Greg Randis?.

How about GIMP? It is completely free.

23:34 by Don’t Think Fruitcake?.

I thought the top story of the week was the vulnerability at the MuckWorld Magazine where anybody could get all their subscriber info. Perhaps not as that has nothing to do with kissing $teve’s behind.

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14:04 by Kyle Petree?.

For Mike in St Louis about hooking up his laptop to his plasma TV you can use the InFocus LiteShow. It uses regular 802.11b wireless. It just plugs into the DVI port on the back of the TV and connects to your wirelessly networked laptop.

http://store.infocus.com/escalate/store/DetailPage?pls=infocus&bc=infocus&pc=LP-LITESHOW&tab=desc&clist=017080322b69:16afb500140075&ret=Accessories-Wireless&pls5catname=Accessories-Wireless

14:02 by Mike from STL?.

xp99 - ‘video’ isn’t what we’re after - we want to just simply show the laptop’s desktop and the program that is running on it. So, rather than running a 10′-20′ DVI cable strung across the table, I’d like to (from the point of view of the TV) take the DVI cable and convert it to Cat5, then pass that through an access point so my laptop can connect to it. Does that make sense? We’ll be running simple AutoCAD programs, and Google Earth for presentations. I like the idea of having a macMini sitting pretty just under the TV (maybe mounted), and just run Chicken of the VNC full screen. That just might work. The thing is, we want to present what is on the laptop, not just control the stuff on another computer.

13:52 by Ron Lewis?.

re the call re the Cell Phones at 1:40pm CA time. Leo mentioned the MDA Phone for T Mobile. Cingular offers the same phone. The Cingular version is called the Cingular 8125. The actual mfgr is HTC - it’s their product called the Wizard - I don’t have this phone, but two friends bought this recently and they love it

13:48 by xp99?.

For the guy that wants to output the laptop to the plasma wirelessly, consider this.

With 1080p output, the dual link dvi cable can use up to 9.9 Gbps of bandwidth. Now right now 720p uses only about 2.5 Gbps of bandwidth or so. But this means that programs like VNC and RDP will ONLY work with showing the desktop and other stuff like powerpoint slides. But if you want to show video, you can’t do it wirelessly. There is simply not enough bandwidth available coming out from a laptop’s network connection to show video playing from a laptop over a tcp/ip network.

13:41 by oepapel?.

@mabfab

I just did an online search for Sony Vaio batteries. (Google “sony vaio battery”). Depending on the model, the cost for a battery was $60 to $170. Not knowing which Vaio you are looking at, I can’t narrow it down any more but I think the $249 quote for a battery was a little high. I don’t know if this will factor into your decision or not. I just thought you might like to know. Good luck with your new laptop.

13:37 by Martin?.

Just for the audio, and i use a mac, is it compatible ?

13:35 by SparkieInParadise?.

Streaming? DLink makes wireless HD media players - such as the DSM-520

13:33 by Martin?.

Airport express

Im looking to use my speakers at the opposite of my room. Is there a way to play divx, dvd or anything else other than itunes via the Airport express ? If no… it’s a quite expensive toy to play music in wireless.

13:17 by Jeff in Santa Ana?.

Leo is now trying to emulate Mark & Marc with these trivial non-techie guests.

That’s one reason I stopped listening to their Windoze-only show.

13:09 by mabfab?.

thanks Dusan. that is very logical and I did not approach it from that aspect. thank you very much. I’m not working right now so that is a lot of money but by breaking it down as you did, makes a lot of sense.

12:54 by Jon ?.

this is from quake4.ravengames.com

“A Beta update for Quake 4 is now available. This update is recommended for Windows users with Intel Hyper-Threading Technology (HT Technology) enabled processors, multiple processors, or systems with a dual core processor.”

12:54 by daemmett?.

why have something shipped

12:53 by Dusan Maletic?.

A bit different thought on 300$ 3yr warranty from Sony: If you use your laptop a lot it is worth it because of the battery alone. Battery will die within that period and I do not think Sony is allowed to give you as replacement anything but the new one (not true for some other comp.parts, but for batteries they can recycle the container at best). Also, more you use it, more chance for failure, particularly HD and particularly Sony… So about 50$ covers possible accidents and is worth it in my opinion. Now if you are using laptop slightly, you’ll likely sell it before the battery dies and the likelyhood of something else fails after the regular warranty (most real build problems will show within that time), is miniscule. Also, think about non-Sony options. Maintaining PCs for others I learned that Sony laptops, although glitzy, are toward the bottom tier in reliability (and even worse for support). That is from personal experience, interpret at your own…

12:52 by daemmett?.

take Ken’s advise and buy it there,why has somethings shipped to this country and then take it back to where it was made?

12:44 by .

For Cheryl in Hemit:

Don’t buy anything before your daughter goes to Korea, could get lost or damaged in transit. Also, when I was in Korea you could buy the latest greatest tech stuff for less than half the price in the states.

12:32 by jpierce007?.

For the lady that has a daughter going to Korea, there are buy one get one free web cams at Office depot for $30

12:28 by Bojan?.

But for multicasting with QT Broadcaster you will need access to a streaming server or a multicast-enabled network.

12:27 by Bradley?.

http://home.comcast.net/~lowellstewart/lostify/

OS X program for editing the metadate in files for using in itunes. It’s a perfect way to add TV shows from bittorent into your ipod

12:26 by CalExplorer?.

Video Streaming to the Web.. How about video streaming to your Blog. Try using Vlog It!

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Check it out here at Serious Magic they have other broadcast tools also.

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12:21 by Bojan?.

Quicktime Broadcaster is nice solution for broadcasting. And it’s free.

http://www.apple.com/quicktime/broadcaster/

12:20 by mabfab?.

thanks Oepapel (re extended warranty)

12:14 by firefoxfan28?.

I think I found spyware in HP software. It is called NetSpy and I don’t know where to report the spyware. Anyone has any ideas, please, tell me.

12:09 by bob uk?.

Hi.

Is anyone having problems with the KFI stream.
I get the advert at the begining, then nothing.
Thanks in advance.

 Bob

12:05 by dhgdh?.

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12:01 by oepapel?.

“it costs $300 for 3 years and will replace the battery once which costs $249.00. “

Just buy another battery NOW and keep $50 in your pocket. The battery that you would get as a replacement would be a factory reconditioned or a refurbished one with a reduced capacity.

As a bonus, you can probably buy a higher capacity battery instead of the stock battery. All batteries die eventually and if you use it daily it could die within the 3 years.

Then again, if you are prone to accidents, maybe you should buy the extended warranty.

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11:56 by akern233.

I found a great way to get IRC on a dvd player, live.

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11:53 by Jon - Lexington Park MD?.

conver = convert

11:52 by Jon - Lexington Park, MD?.

For the girl who wanted to conver here jpeg to something else, I would be suprised if XnView could not do the job. This was the best FREE picture utility program I have seen. It can be found at www.download.com. I haven’t used in a while because I just don’t do much with pctures anymore but I just check and it is still available.

11:43 by Tim Hulme?.

Re: Blender - per the features listing it reads and writes the following file types:

TGA, JPG, PNG, Iris, SGI Movie, IFF, AVI and Quicktime GIF, TIFF, PSD, MOV (Windows and Mac OS X)

11:41 by Bole Car?.

Blender does work with JPEGs.

11:40 by mabfab?.

Is it recommended to buy an extended warranty for a Sony Vaio laptop that covers accidental dropping, slipping liquids, etc.

it costs $300 for 3 years and will replace the battery once which costs $249.00. Is it worth it? Any thoughts? Thanks.

11:33 by Juan Carrillo?.

What is the name of the song clip that was playing at approximately 11:26 just prior to the question about the PC freezing from Donald from Walnut?

11:29 by anonymous.

WHAT IS THE WIKI WORD?

11:25 by d?.

what no stream today

11:10 by seyeguy?.

showtime

10:10 by Syd?.

They live in the decade of the government. This did not happen to the private agencies that were faster than any govt agency except Coast Guard.

06:37 by Jim?.

How is it possible in the Katrina affair that there wasn’t a secure website where emergency data could be posted?

It is beyond belief to read that Brown was dependent on the telephone to transmit his news that a levee was breached, and that 3 hours later the governor didn’t know about it.

What decade are these people living in?

21:51 by Johnny Macfixit please?.

WHAT’S WRONG WITH MACS and OS X for:

Friday, March 03 2006 @ 03:20 PM PST
(courtesy of macfixit.com)

Covering these topics:

    * Release Notes/Upgrade Recommendations
    * General purpose workarounds
    * Reverting (downgrading) to Mac OS X 10.4.4
    * Acard-connected drives still have problems
    * AirPort issues: Problems joining; spontaneous disconnects
    * Black boxes around items — fix
    * Brightness control issues
    * Trackpad cursor getting “stuck”
    * Finder slowness — fixes
    * FireWire drive issues
    * Front Row: Movie Trailer Server not responding
    * iChat issues
    * iMac Core Duo (Early 2006) video issue fixed
    * Increase in “NSUrlErrorDomain: −1005″ errors in Safari
    * Keychains: Issues adding, more
    * Keyboard/Mouse issues
    * Loss of internal speakers
    * Loss of sound from RealPlayer, Flash
    * Mighty Mouse problems
    * Missing menu items
    * Network slowness
    * Photoshop CS2 freezing
    * PowerBook G4 audio looping/echo problem fixed
    * Preview.app issues, fix
    * Printer issues, fixes
    * Problems burning DVD media
    * Problems importing tracks in iTunes
    * Problems with Palm synchronization — fix
    * Safari problems
    * Security refinement in this release
    * SoundSticks not functional
    * Special permissions messages can be ignored
    * (Intel-specific) video distortion
    * (Intel-specific): Duplicate “Open With” items

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Security Update 2006–001 (#2): Problems connecting to Windows shares; Menu items missing; more

Users are reporting some minor issues after applying Security Update 2006–001.

Problems connecting to Windows shares MacFixIt reader Rob Sprinkle reports an issue connecting to SMB shares after the update:

“After installing Security Update 2006–001 on a PowerMac G4 running OS 10.3.9, connectivity to a Windows Storage Server 2003 was lost. When trying to connect, the following error message occurs: “The Finder cannot complete the operation because some data in “smb://nas/cgpublic” could not be read or written. (Error code −36).”

“Prior to this installation, there was no trouble connecting. Shared folders on other Windows 2000 and 2003 servers is not a problem.”

In some cases, this issue can be caused by the fact that the Mac OS X 10.4.x (Tiger) SMB client only uses encrypted passwords by default, and the Windows server only accepts plain text passwords, as described in Knowledge Base article #301580.

Menu items missing Several readers have reported missing menu items after applying the update.

MacFixIt reader Mike writes:

“After installing the PowerPC version of the security update and rebooting, three of my menu bar items were no longer in the menu bar (ichat, applescript, and MenuMeters). I had to re-enable them in their respective properties panels to get them back. Otherwise no problems.”

In many cases, this issue can be resolved by re-applying the combo updater for the version of Mac OS X you have installed on your system form Apple’s downloads page.

VPN issues One reader reports VPN issues after installing Security Update 2006–001.

He writes:

“I am having one major problem since the update: I need to use Apani’s Contivity (née Nortel) VPN software and Lotus Notes, yet they no longer function very well. Prior to 10.4.5, I would sometimes have trouble sending mail with this set up, but 10.4.5 seemed to fix this problem. This security fix seems to have completely killed my ability to send Notes email through the VPN. Also, I had the first hard system crash in the longest time. FWIW, I repaired permissions and verified my disk before installing this update, and no other applications were running (except daemons, of course) during the update.”

If you are experiencing a similar issue, please let us know.

Previous coverage:

    * Apple releases Security Update 2006–001 for PowerPC and Intel: Prevents “Zero-day exploit”, guards against “Leap-A”

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Mac OS X 10.4.5 (#14): Problems mounting FireWire drives — potential fixes; Issues adding keychains; more

Problems mounting FireWire drives — potential fixes Several users are reporting issues mounting FireWire hard drives after the update to Mac OS X 10.4.5. For some users, the issue stared with Mac OS X 10.4.4 and persisted with Mac OS X 10.4.5, and for others the issue is new with the latter.

Many users are reporting the issue with LaCie FireWire hard drives. We’re not sure if this is a coincidence, or indicative of an actual issue with this drive brand.

We should note that various FireWire issues can be caused by outdated firmware. Run Software Update and make sure there are no firmware updates available for your Mac.

Also, as with previous instances of this issue, some users have reported success by performing a hardware reset that involves holding down the power key for 10 seconds or so while the system is off.

Another fix is to disconnect all FireWire devices from the Mac (and from their external power sources if necessary), shut down the Mac then wait for about 10 minutes. After this period, connect all FireWire devices, turn your Mac back on and check for persistence of the issue.

Fix for Preview.app issues We previously reported issues opening some PDF files in Apple’s Preview.app after the installation of Mac OS X 10.4.5.

It now appears that, in some cases, these issues can be resolved by deleting a plug-In installed by the Adobe CS suite.

MacFixIt reader Richard Dutchik writes:

“The name of the file is ‘AdobePDVViewer 7.0.5′ and can be found in the Library folder. Once this file is removed, preview will work correctly.”

Black boxes around items — fix A handful of readers have reported that black boxes periodically appear around items in the Finder — including icons and menu items — after updating to Mac OS X 10.4.5.

In most cases (as previously noted), this issue is caused by the user inadvertently activating VoiceOver functionality (or the option inexplicably being turned on by the incremental Mac OS X update). You can toggle this capability by pressing the Command (?) and F5 keys simultaneously.

Issues adding keychains Several users have experienced issues adding keychains after the update to Mac OS X 10.4.5.

In some cases these issues can be corrected with the use of the Keychain Access application, located in Applications/Utilities. Under the “Keychain Access” menu select “Keychain First Aid” then verify and repair if necessary.

Problems with Palm synchronization — fix Some users are reporting issues with Palm device synchronization (through the Palm HotSync function) after updating to Mac OS X 10.4.5.

Some readers have been able to resolve the issue by uninstalling their current Palm software, then re-installing the latest version from Palm’s Web site.

This can be accomplished launching the Palm Desktop installer and choosing “Uninstall” instead of “Easy Install”.

If you no longer have the original installer, you can download it here. After uninstalling the current Palm software, re-install it from the linked installer.

Alternatively, you can delete the following files (if they exist):

    * ~/Documents/Palm/Users
    * ~/Library/Preferences/com.palm.Desktop.plist
    * ~/Library/Preferences/ByHost/com.palm.HS.T.S.xxxxxxxx.plist
    * ~/Library/Preferences/ByHost/com.palm.HS.T.PC.xxxxxxxx.plist
    * ~/Library/Preferences/ByHost/com.palm.HS.T.USB.xxxxxxxx.plist

then re-attempt installation with the aforementioned installer.

Increase in “NSUrlErrorDomain: −1005″ errors in Safari Several users have noted an increase in random “NSUrlErrorDomain: −1005″ errors in Safari after updating to Mac OS X 10.4.5.

This error indicates a problem with recognizing dynamically determined URLs, and is usually cured temporarily by a simple reload of the page.

Some users have had success resolving the issue by clearing Safari’s cache (from the “Safari” application menu) or clearing the browser history (from the “History” menu).

Re-installing combo updater can resolve some keyboard/mouse issues The versatile workaround of re-installing the Mac OS X combo updater (PowerPC, Intel — which we recommend in the “General Workarounds” section of our initial coverage for every incremental Mac OS X release — works to resolve a number of odd keyboard and mouse issues occurring after the update, including inversion of mouse buttons.

Re-installing combo updater for iChat issues Several users have also reported that re-installing the Mac OS X combo updater (PowerPC, Intel) resolves some issues with iChat that occur after the update, particularly “iChatAgent” warnings.

Re-installing combo updater for missing menu items Re-installation of the Mac OS X combo updater (PowerPC, Intel) has also helped users resolve issues with menubar items disappearing.

Previous coverage:

    * Mac OS X 10.4.5 (#13): Problems with Preview; Printer issues (cont.); Acard-connected drives still have problems
    * Mac OS X 10.4.5 (#12): Front Row: Movie Trailer Server not responding; Problems importing tracks in iTunes; more
    * Mac OS X 10.4.5 (#11): (Intel-specific) Screen distortion; Cursor getting “stuck”; More printer problems, fixes
    * Mac OS X 10.4.5 (#10): More on Epson printer problems; Processor performance setting missing; more
    * Mac OS X 10.4.5 (#9): Another fix for network slowness — re-applying the combo updater; SIIG FireWire card not working; more
    * Mac OS X 10.4.5 (#8): Finder slowness — check for problematic startup items
    * Mac OS X 10.4.5 (#7): Finder slowness may be Spotlight related; Network slowness — More on DNS entry fix; more
    * Mac OS X 10.4.5 (#6): Network slowness — More fixes; turning off IPv6 can solve other networking problems; Slow Finder operation — another fix; more
    * Mac OS X 10.4.5 (#5): Slow Finder interface operation — possible fixes; Confirmation for network slowness fix; more
    * Mac OS X 10.4.5 (#4): Network slowness — possible fix; Slow Finder operation; More on Mighty Mouse problems; more
    * Mac OS X 10.4.5 (#3): Mighty Mouse issues — won’t scroll down; Special permissions can be ignored; more
    * Mac OS X 10.4.5 (#2): General purpose workarounds; Reverting to 10.4.4; USB Overdrive broken, now fixed; QuickTime problems; more
    * Apple releases Mac OS X 10.4.5 in PowerPC, Intel, Server versions

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iPhoto 6.0.2 (#2): Photos do not display (blank screen) in Edit and other viewing modes

MacFixIt reader John McNamara reports an issue where photos in iPhoto 6.0.2 (and earlier versions) display only as a blank (black) screen when viewed in edit mode or in a slideshow

John writes:

“Lots of folks, including me, are having trouble with pictures in iPhoto being displayed as all-black (i.e. blank) in full screen mode. It occurs with full screen editing, slideshows, etc.”

Some users have suggested that the version of the AppleAppSupport.framework file, located at:

    * /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/AppleAppSupport.framework/

indicates whether or not the problem will occur — if the version of this file is 1.2, the problem will exist; if the version of this file is 1.4, the problem will not exist.

One user has posted a mirrored copy of version 1.4 of the AppleAppSupport.framework.

However, this workaround has not proved successful for all users.

We previously reported this issue and workaround in our initial iPhoto 6.0 coverage, and the problem has yet to be resolved.

If you are experiencing a similar issue, please let us know.

Previous coverage:

    * Apple releases iPhoto 6.0.2

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Intel-based Macs (and possibly PowerPC-based Macs, too): Incorrect file copy status (#2)

We previously reported on a troubling issue where file transfers that appear to be completed actually result in only a portion of the specified files being copied.

We’ve now received more information from the reader who originally reported the issue, indicating that the problem is not restricted to Mac OS X 10.4.5 but affects Mac OS X 10.4.4 for Intel as well (and possibly other versions of Mac OS X).

“I spoke to an Apple second tier technician, who said he was unaware of any reports of this issue, but asked if I would test using only a fresh install of 10.4.4 instead of 10.4.5.

“This morning I erased the drive again, and this time, only installed the OS from the DVD, 10.4.4, with no additional updates.

“I then followed the same procedure as before, using the same drive and the same set of files. I logged onto the eMac, selected only the Firewire drive in question, created a new folder on the local HD called “Firewire Backup”, selected all the files on the FW drive and dragged them into the new local folder.

“The copy process ran for about 5 hours. After showing that 153.xx GB of 153.xx GB was complete, the window again disappeared without any reported errors, indicating that all files had successfully copied over.

“I then did a side by side comparison of the two directories. I first checked the number of root folders, then opened one subdirectory for each visible folder in each location. Unfortunately, the numbers differed at that point. Checking how they differed, I found that several of the folders now had warnings on them in the local folder, and when a Get Info was done on the folders, they were shown as ‘No Access,’ and so had not opened. Although these were not their original permissions, I reset the permissions to read and write, opened the subdirectories and compared again. Still, there appeared to be additional missing files unaccounted for by the incorrect permissions.

“I continued to check until I found the first set of missing files. They were files, not folders, one subdirectory down from root. They had no special permissions I could see. Three files had simply not copied over, and no errors had been reported during the copy process. When I manually dragged them to the local folder, they copied without complaint.

“At that point, I realized that any further subdirectories could not be trusted to have had their contents copied over.

“So it seems this issue is not related to the 10.4.5 update.”

If you’ve experienced a similar issue, please drop us a line at late-breakers@macfixit.com.
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iTunes 6.0.4 (#2): Problems with shared playlists

Problems with shared playlists Several users have reported an issue where they are unable to view shared playlists under iTunes 6.0.4. Upon clicking a shared playlist, in some instances, the selection simply reverts back to the user’s main library without any error indication.

The problem is most pronounced when attempting to access shared playlists stored on Windows systems.

If you are experiencing a similar issue, please let us know.

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    * Apple releases iTunes 6.0.4

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eMac logic board failures

A growing number of users are reporting failure of the logic boards in eMacs. eMac models introduced in 2004 appear to be the most commonly afflicted.

The problem generally starts with series of system-wide freezes — not kernel panics or unexpected applications quits, but rather incidents where the cursor freezes and any operations grind to a halt; and/or visual distortion on the display.

A recent post by Apple Discussions poster Alan Dove describes the current situation:

“I just got off the phone with several Apple folks in a row, and here’s the eMac screen-freezing situation as of 2 March. Apparently there haven’t been enough reports of this defect yet to prompt Apple to issue an exception or recall on it, but the tech support staff exhausted all of the options troubleshooting it and agreed that it’s probably a hardware problem. Likely culprits include the logic board and (oddly) the power supply. According to Customer Relations, that means that if the machine is out of warranty, you’re on the hook for a repair that will likely run more than the machine is worth. However, if they later determine that it’s worthy of a recall, they’ll make that retroactive and reimburse people who paid for the repair (assuming those people call back and ask for that reimbursement). So place your bets.”

Some users have reported that deleting all the files (and, in particular, the file ATIRadeon8500GLDriver.bundle) in the following directory:

    * /System/Extensions/ATI

can provide temporary relief for some symptoms. Note that in order to delete these files (which are system extensions for the eMac’s graphics subsystem) you must boot into Safe mode by holding down the Shift key while your Mac is starting up.

08:07 by Robert Ilbrink?.

Many times friends call me to resolve their networking problems. Rather than having to ask them to open various tools (network settings, ping, netstat or try to use telnet on a specific port), I would like to be able to give them a freeware tool that will analyse the network like this: When you start the tool, it will show the network data as it is (IP, DNS, Gateway, etc) and put a check or X next to each entry. It can start

with pinging 127.0.0.1, then e.g. pinging the gateway. If anything is wrong here it will suggest how to correct this. It will then try to ping

e.g. www.google.com to check if the DNS resolution and the default gateway works. again if anything does not work it shows

suggestions on how to correct this. Then you can try to use the failing application and trace the network traffic. If e.g. the first IP-sync message never receives a reply (start of handshake), you can check the domain and IP, the ping, the traceroute, etc. etc.

In other words something that will walk the average Joe through connection/dns/firewall problems…

Does anyone have an idea? I have looked a packet filters (I have used snoop for decades, but this is way too complex for others) I also use ActivePorts (great tool), but it doesn’t help when a user has e.g. a vpn connection problem but the rest works fine…

Regards