Re: [CGUYS] OS X maintenance routines

2007-07-30 Thread Snyder, Mark
Wow!  So you haven't seen any of the modern Macs.  If memory serves,
that model was early 1990s.  Mac OS X is based on FreeBSD Unix now,
which has changed it quite a lot.  The maintenance is for system files
that can get corrupted, typically with file permissions.   You owe
yourself another look to see what we are talking about!

Mark Snyder
-Original Message-

Just wondering since I haven't had a mac since my 6360...Maintenance for
what?



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Re: [CGUYS] Browser Stats [was: Re: Apple Posts Record Quarterly Profit]

2007-07-30 Thread John DeCarlo
I try to keep mine saying Linux, but there was one site I was using
regularly about a year ago that required me to tell it I was using IE on
Windows.  I forgot about it until this thread came up.  Now I have changed
it back to the default.  Yow!

On 7/30/07, b_s-wilk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Browser stats can be wrong, and they often are.

 There are still too many sites with browser sniffers that use them to
 redirect visitors or to block them. As a result, many of us who use
 browsers and operating systems that poor developers deem to be unworthy,
 have to mask our identities, or use a different OS in emulation or
 switch computers briefly just to view those awful sites. Sometimes we
 don't have a chance to switch back immediately.



-- 
John DeCarlo, My Views Are My Own



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Re: [CGUYS] Can you hear me now? [was: iPhone vs. IT: Clash of the Culture Titans]

2007-07-30 Thread Jeff Wright
Yes Michael.  They should be able to understand me and I should be able to
understand them.  I really don't care where they are on the planet, just be
able speak *clearly* in the same language as the caller.

It's what I am *paying* the company they work for, for them to do.  Is that
really so hard for you to understand? 

 -Original Message-
 Right!  They all should get used to you.  The typical attitude
 of _some_ Americans!   *sigh*
 
 You can't understand them because they speak with a
 different _accent_.  So what chance of Americans have in
 understanding others if they speak a different language
 altogether?



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Re: [CGUYS] OS X maintenance routines

2007-07-30 Thread Jordman
I leave my Macs on for days or weeks and sleep them most of the time 
that they are not being used. I just installed Anacron to stay on top of 
routine maintenance. I think this site has a pretty good discussion of 
Mac maintenance.

http://www.macattorney.com/ts.html

Jordan

Steve Rigby wrote:
  Are Mac OS X maintenance routines supposed to be run for each and 
every user of a given machine, or can a single administrator run the 
routines and have the results be of equal benefit to all users?


  I have spent some time on the 'net trying to resolve this question, 
and decided to check with the experts here instead.


  Steve





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Re: [CGUYS] iPhone vs. IT: Clash of the Culture Titans

2007-07-30 Thread Paul Meyer
My problem with overseas support is that they seemed to be sworn on pain of
death to never pass a customer on to a supervisor or some other higher up. 
That may be incidental to being overseas.  Though companies that are support
oriented tend to want to keep their support operations close to home, and
that could be the causal chain.

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Sent: Monday, July 30, 2007 7:17:13 AM
Subject: Re: [CGUYS] iPhone vs. IT: Clash of the Culture Titans

On 7/30/07, Rev. Stewart Marshall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Slow down one of the reasons we cannot understand them is that they
 cannot speak English well enough to handle support calls.

Jeff's comment was about the _accent_.  Had it been about the tech
support workers not being able to speak English, I wouldn't have
touched it with a ten foot pole.

You've read way too much into my exchange with Jeff so I'm leaving the
rest of your e-mail untouched (except the very end).


 Oh the capiche remark was his attempt at being cute. (your comment
 was uncalled for,

Jeff's capiche remark was directed at me.  (Perhaps, unintentionally but,)
it came across to _me_ as condescending.  Hence my comments; and I
dismissed it with an 'I don't care whatever ...'  IMHO, it was his
remark that was uncalled for.

 not start an ethnic war over a comment that was a reflection of poor
 hiring practices and the shipment overseas of all sorts of computer
 support jobs.

Oh, really?  Please go back and check.  His comment was about
accents and knives.  And, he said No, I *don't* have a problem
with overseas tech support.



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Re: [CGUYS] iPhone vs. IT: Clash of the Culture Titans

2007-07-30 Thread Paul Meyer
If my mother-in-law is any example, that ones that try hardest
to blend into upper-middle class suburbia and decry all the foul
language on HBO are actually right of the Sopranos. ;

- Original Message 
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Subject: Re: [CGUYS] iPhone vs. IT: Clash of the Culture Titans

all Italians are NOT...

sheesh

Mike

On 7/29/07, mike [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 It's Italian...Jeff was being ironical.

 And no, all Italians are straight from the Godfather.

 Mike

 On 7/29/07, Michael Fernando  [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 
 
  And, what's with the Capiche?  Is that mafia-speak?
  You lecturing me?  Whatever ...
 
 




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Re: [CGUYS] OS X maintenance routines

2007-07-30 Thread mike
I've seen em plenty and used them a little, I just haven't bought one
because I can't justify the cost.  I also didn't know you had to run nightly
'maintenance' to keep the thing from having corrupted files.

BTW, I don't want to start a cost debate...among other things I get at least
half my pc parts which I build myself for free and the other half at cost.
I spent my extra money on buying a more expensive mp3 player because it had
a much nicer interface etc...an ipod.  Two of em.

Mike

On 7/30/07, Snyder, Mark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Wow!  So you haven't seen any of the modern Macs.  If memory serves,
 that model was early 1990s.  Mac OS X is based on FreeBSD Unix now,
 which has changed it quite a lot.  The maintenance is for system files
 that can get corrupted, typically with file permissions.   You owe
 yourself another look to see what we are talking about!

 Mark Snyder
 -Original Message-

 Just wondering since I haven't had a mac since my 6360...Maintenance for
 what?


 
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Re: [CGUYS] OS X maintenance routines

2007-07-30 Thread Phil Marchetti
Steve, To answer your other question, the so called cron jobs (old  
name) need only be run
once for each Mac computer. No need to run them for each user account  
if that's what

you mean.

Phil Marchetti

On Jul 29, 2007, at 2:43 PM, Steve Rigby wrote:

  Are Mac OS X maintenance routines supposed to be run for each and  
every user of a given machine, or can a single administrator run  
the routines and have the results be of equal benefit to all users?


  I have spent some time on the 'net trying to resolve this  
question, and decided to check with the experts here instead.


  Steve


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Re: [CGUYS] How do I play WVX on OS 10.4 Macs ?

2007-07-30 Thread b_s-wilk

mike [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió:


It's not broken.  Works fine on windows, it's just a webmaster who is
shortsighted about his potential visitors.



Yes, it's broken.

The Internet is designed to be operating system and browser neutral, 
within reason. I don't expect webmasters to make sites compatible with 
1994 browsers, but newer sites should be compatible with fairly current 
browsers and OS's, mostly following W3C standards.


Web developers who deliberately or ignorantly design sites that only 
work in Internet Exploder for Windows have broken sites. There's no IE 
for Macs beyond v.5 and no IE for Linux at all. IE for  Windows 95/98 
may not work with sites designed for IE/XP either. Designers with bad 
code deserve to lose visitor and money.


Yes, of course it's broken. Ask the webmaster to fix the site.

Betty



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Re: [CGUYS] OS X maintenance routines

2007-07-30 Thread Tom Piwowar
Maintenance of the file system with scheduled utilities is a *nix thing
to increase file reliability that goes way back.

Actually if you read those scripts you will see that all they do is 
rotate log files. OS X would make Commander Ductape proud. It logs almost 
everything you do. Those log files grow very large so the maintenance 
scripts archive the old and start a new log file. Different log files 
grow at different rates so that is why you hace daily, weekly, and 
monthly scripts.

At present the log files to not get emailed to Homeland Security. They 
probably didn't think of doing it yet.



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[CGUYS] CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L [EMAIL PROTECTED]

2007-07-30 Thread Kee, Arnold
CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L [EMAIL PROTECTED]



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Re: [CGUYS] OS X maintenance routines

2007-07-30 Thread Jordman
I said it was a good discussion. I didn't say I did any of them except 
Anacron, which checks way too often, but should do what I wanted.
For the uninitiated it covers a lot of ground in one place, and 
information is good.

But I guess it is written by and for lawyers.

Tom Piwowar wrote:

I think this site has a pretty good discussion of Mac maintenance.
http://www.macattorney.com/ts.html



Pretty terrible actually. 

Looks like it was written by a hypochondriac (or a lawyer?). Few of this 
listed items can be considered maintenance. These are repair methods 
that are run for specific reasons. Running them for no reason at all is 
at best a waste of time. It could actually break something that was not 
previously broken. IF IT AIN'T BROKE, DON'T FIX IT!


The one useful item is the reference to SMARTReporter, but even 
SMARTReporter runs way too frequently. It runs every few minutes when 
once an hour or even once a day would suffice.


  




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Re: [CGUYS] Can you hear me now? [was: iPhone vs. IT: Clash of

2007-07-30 Thread Rev. Stewart Marshall
Tom a heavy accent is doable, but one where you cannot understand the 
person is unacceptable.


Moving the support stuff off shore is a companies 
prerogative.  However they have a responsibility to make sure folks 
can speak English well enough that people can understand them.  (One 
of the requisites for these folks being hired is CAN YOU SPEAK ENGLISH!)


I worked phone support at one time and I know you have to speak 
clearly and distinctly so folks can understand you.


I live in a region of the country where dialects can render a person 
unintelligible.  Phoning a local store can be a chore to try and 
understand what is being said.


I am a public speaker and it is incumbent upon me to speak so 
everyone can understand me.  Speech is a required course in seminary.


I have a member who hails from Paris, Texas.  But you would not know 
it to speak to him.  He does radio and has a classic radio announcers 
speech pattern.


Lousy phone service is no excuse for any 
company  Domestic or foreign


Stewart


At 05:38 PM 7/30/2007, you wrote:

Today I spent an hour in touch-tone hell trying to get a form that JP
Morgan Chase refuses to post on their website. The call center was in
Chicago. The English was standard American. The service was LOUSY. So
what's your point? Should I be happy because I was abused in standard
American English? Many times I got excellent support from someone with a
heavy regional accent. Should I insist that it was unacceptable just
because the person had an accent?


Rev. Stewart A. Marshall
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Prince of Peace
Ozark, AL  SL 82



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Re: [CGUYS] OS X maintenance routines

2007-07-30 Thread Steve Rigby

On Jul 30, 2007, at 3:10 PM, Tom Piwowar wrote:


Actually if you read those scripts you will see that all they do is
rotate log files.


  What is the exact meaning of the numerical values that are logged 
within the MacJanitor window when I run that utility.  They appear as 
something similar to:


steverigby 16.02
taffymillar  12.50

  The individual users name is followed by a number, as indicated above.

  Steve



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Re: [CGUYS] OS X maintenance routines

2007-07-30 Thread Paul Meyer
How do I get control of the log files. I am running out of space
and that is mostly RSS feeds but I am looking for anything else
I can clear out while I am it.

- Original Message 
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Sent: Monday, July 30, 2007 3:10:41 PM
Subject: Re: [CGUYS] OS X maintenance routines

Maintenance of the file system with scheduled utilities is a *nix thing
to increase file reliability that goes way back.

Actually if you read those scripts you will see that all they do is 
rotate log files. OS X would make Commander Ductape proud. It logs almost 
everything you do. Those log files grow very large so the maintenance 
scripts archive the old and start a new log file. Different log files 
grow at different rates so that is why you hace daily, weekly, and 
monthly scripts.

At present the log files to not get emailed to Homeland Security. They 
probably didn't think of doing it yet.



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