Re: [OT] Looking For OS X Troubleshooting Suggestions

2012-09-13 Thread Scott Rossi
I did just now. If you're a conspiracy theorist, these lines, which appear dozens of times, are pretty good: 9/12/12 10:51:46 PMMasterControlProgram connection attempt made. 9/12/12 10:52:25 PMMasterControlProgram ** WE ARE __NOT__ CONNECTED ** I was concerned for a moment until I

Re: [OT] Looking For OS X Troubleshooting Suggestions

2012-09-13 Thread Pierre Sahores
Scott, I had the same kind of problems on one of my MacBook Pro (i7 2.66 Ghz 4Go RAM OS X 10.6.8) while it never occured on the second one (i5 2.4 Ghz 4 Go RAM OS X 10.7.4). The sole solution i found to stop having its fan running 5500 RPM all over the day, even when the processor was in

Re: [OT] Looking For OS X Troubleshooting Suggestions

2012-09-13 Thread Heather Nagey
Scott, Until recently I was working on a Mac Mini with a very similar setup and very similar issues. I managed to give it a new lease of life for a while, by backing up pretty much all my files elsewhere and then deleting them from the mini - clean desktop, clean downloads, clean documents… I

Re: [OT] Looking For OS X Troubleshooting Suggestions

2012-09-13 Thread Mike Bonner
I'll second the heat check. If your mini is like mine it doesn't take much to push it up into the area of cpu throttling. This is a 2011 model and currently I have it on a laptop cooler with the bottom of the case nudged open. Made a huge difference. Also installed fanspeed and adjusted

Re: [OT] Looking For OS X Troubleshooting Suggestions

2012-09-13 Thread stephen barncard
Drives seem to fail more slowly these days when they do - they use to 'just go' but now with big buffers and error correction, the drives just try to jam the data over and over until they get it without errors - or eventually not. However most of the drives of today seem really reliable - more

Re: [OT] EULA and legality

2012-09-13 Thread Richmond
On 09/13/2012 12:03 AM, Bob Sneidar wrote: heh heh a little like, Ask 10 psychiatrists for a diagnosis and you will get 20 opinions. Roses are red, violets are blue, I'm schizophrenic, and so am I. On Sep 12, 2012, at 1:36 PM, François Chaplais wrote: Put three lawyers in a room and they

Re: [OT] Looking For OS X Troubleshooting Suggestions

2012-09-13 Thread François Chaplais
If you have external drives, you may check their power adapter. One of mine got a too old one day; I checked it was responsible by swapping it with another adapter. So I ordered another power adapter and my data remained on the disk. Best François Le 13 sept. 2012 à 11:09, stephen

Re: [OT] EULA and legality

2012-09-13 Thread Richmond
On 09/13/2012 02:54 AM, Peter W A Wood wrote: Richmond On 12 Sep 2012, at 23:03, Richmond wrote: A bicycle cannot be used to brew coffee, and I am absolutely sure that anybody claiming that the fact that their bike cannot be used as a coffee-maker is in some way unfair would be laughed out

RE: [OT] EULA and legality

2012-09-13 Thread Lynn Fredricks
On 09/13/2012 12:03 AM, Bob Sneidar wrote: heh heh a little like, Ask 10 psychiatrists for a diagnosis and you will get 20 opinions. Roses are red, violets are blue, I'm schizophrenic, and so am I. Now get on your bike and make me some coffee, Richmond :-) Best regards, Lynn Fredricks

how to test in-app purchase

2012-09-13 Thread paolo mazza
Hi all, I have 2 questions about in-app purchase with LiveCode: First, how can I test the in-app purchase in my iOS app before uploading my application to the app store? I created a test user... but I can not understand how can I test the in-app purchase . Then, the in-app purchase

Re: [OT] Looking For OS X Troubleshooting Suggestions

2012-09-13 Thread Bob Sneidar
Scott, your hard drive is failing. What happens is, when the OS detects a bad block or sector on the hard drive, there are routines in place to attempt to move the data to another location. This is a very high priority system event, even higher than mouse clicks. You will not be able to

Re: [OT] Looking For OS X Troubleshooting Suggestions

2012-09-13 Thread Bob Sneidar
If spotlight is failing it is because it has encountered bad blocks in the indexing process, and the attempt to relocate the data has failed. Read my prior post. I'm really good at this stuff. It's what I do for a living. Bob On Sep 12, 2012, at 10:07 PM, Scott Rossi wrote: The Spotlight

Re: [OT] Looking For OS X Troubleshooting Suggestions

2012-09-13 Thread Mike Bonner
Oops, meant page-outs. On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 2:58 AM, Mike Bonner bonnm...@gmail.com wrote: I'll second the heat check. If your mini is like mine it doesn't take much to push it up into the area of cpu throttling. This is a 2011 model and currently I have it on a laptop cooler with the

Re: [OT] Looking For OS X Troubleshooting Suggestions

2012-09-13 Thread Paul Hibbert
Scott, From my own experience I would totally agree with Bob. I'm also pretty sure you can install a copy of your OS on a USB memory stick, you may need a reasonable size stick, but they are not too expensive now and it should help you determine where the error lies, you'll also see how fast

Re: [OT] Looking For OS X Troubleshooting Suggestions

2012-09-13 Thread -=JB=-
About a year ago the hard drive on my mac mini failed. I would be using the computer and all of a sudden things would slow down for a little bit and then run normal again. I can't remember if there was a beachball showing but it might have been. You should back up your drive now if you haven't

Re: [OT] Looking For OS X Troubleshooting Suggestions

2012-09-13 Thread Jerry Jensen
I agree with Bob and Stephen. This looks like a failing drive. I just had similar symptoms happen on a server (yikes!) with a failing drive that was external, connected via FireWire. It isn't even necessarily trouble with an internal drive. I'm also a fan of Carbon Copy Cloner (bombich.com).

Re: has anyone worked on in-app purchase through google?

2012-09-13 Thread Dr. Hawkins
Finally getting back to this . . . On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 3:50 AM, Ken Corey k...@kencorey.com wrote: That said, the integration with ejunkie was painless. The trickiest part was figuring out what the app should do upon registration. It looks useful and economical, but . . . it appears to be

Re: [OT] Looking For OS X Troubleshooting Suggestions

2012-09-13 Thread Richmond
On 09/13/2012 08:48 PM, -=JB=- wrote: About a year ago the hard drive on my mac mini failed. I would be using the computer and all of a sudden things would slow down for a little bit and then run normal again. I can't remember if there was a beachball showing but it might have been. You

what does and doesn't get complied in a standalone?

2012-09-13 Thread Dr. Hawkins
After many recent posts, I'm starting to wonder: what does and doesn't get complied in a standalone? Several messages have suggested, if I'm reading them write, that the main stack is compiled, while the others, even if password protected, are interpreted at runtime. Am I getting that right?

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2012-09-13 Thread Jim Hurley
-- Message: 6 Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2012 08:53:37 -0700 From: Bob Sneidar b...@twft.com To: How to use LiveCode use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Subject: Re: [OT] Looking For OS X Troubleshooting Suggestions Message-ID: e6ae58af-e925-49d7-853e-1420d6524...@twft.com

Re: what does and doesn't get complied in a standalone?

2012-09-13 Thread Richard Gaskin
Dr. Hawkins wrote: After many recent posts, I'm starting to wonder: what does and doesn't get complied in a standalone? Several messages have suggested, if I'm reading them write, that the main stack is compiled, while the others, even if password protected, are interpreted at runtime. Am I

Re: what does and doesn't get complied in a standalone?

2012-09-13 Thread Peter Haworth
The answer lies in the terminology I think. If you have a stack file that contains a main stack and several substacks, then all of them are compiled into the standalone. On the other hand, if you are using the so called splash screen approach that has one stack file with a main stack that then

Skanky ways to play MP3 on Windows XP

2012-09-13 Thread Ben Rubinstein
I'm having trouble using the player object on Windows XP to play audio. MP3 files play in the Windows Media Player; WAV files play in LiveCode if I import them as audioclips. (MP3 files of course have never worked as imported audioclips.). But using the player object, on either WAV or MP3

Sending an email with a file attachment

2012-09-13 Thread Peter Haworth
I notice that revMail does not have a way to attach a file to the email it creates. Is there perhaps a plugin or library that will provide that functionality? Pete lcSQL Software http://www.lcsql.com ___ use-livecode mailing list

OT: Supercomputer built from Raspberry Pis and Lego

2012-09-13 Thread Mark Wieder
http://boingboing.net/2012/09/13/supercomputer-built-from-raspb.html Professor Cox adds: “The first test we ran – well obviously we calculated Pi on the Raspberry Pi using MPI, which is a well-known first test for any new supercomputer.” No further comment because mine's *still* backordered.

Re: Sending an email with a file attachment

2012-09-13 Thread Matthias Rebbe
Peter, Sarah Reichelt´s smtp library can help. http://www.troz.net/rev/index.irev?category=Library#stacks Regards, -- Matthias Rebbe matthias (at) rebbe.tk Tel: +49.5741.31 -- Life is too short for boring code Am 13.09.2012 um 21:44 schrieb Peter Haworth p...@lcsql.com: I notice

Re: [OT] Looking For OS X Troubleshooting Suggestions

2012-09-13 Thread Dar Scott
I mentioned temperature. There are some temperature monitor applications out there. Some work. Somebody mentioned thrashing. I think that is likely, too. Even more likely. Perhaps most people do not upgrade the RAM in their mac minis, but do upgrade systems and tools and work on bigger

Re: Skanky ways to play MP3 on Windows XP

2012-09-13 Thread Michael Kann
Greetings Ben, I'm using Vista to play an mp3 file in the same folder as my stack. On our other computer we used to have XP, but now have Windows 7. I didn't remember having any problem play mp3's from XP, but don't think I have a stack for that scenario. If you want the Vista script I can

Re: how to test in-app purchase

2012-09-13 Thread Andrew Henshaw
You just log out of the store on your phone, and then re-log in using your test account (in settings) You then go to your app, and purchase the in-app purchase using your test account. As its in the list, it will let you do it. If it doesnt work, give it 24 hours and try again. It seems

Re: Sending an email with a file attachment

2012-09-13 Thread Peter Haworth
Thanks Matthias, I'll take a look. Pete lcSQL Software http://www.lcsql.com On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 1:07 PM, Matthias Rebbe matthias_livecode_150...@m-r-d.de wrote: Peter, Sarah Reichelt´s smtp library can help. http://www.troz.net/rev/index.irev?category=Library#stacks Regards, --

Re: Sending an email with a file attachment

2012-09-13 Thread Peter Haworth
Looks like that won't help. The purpose for this is for a user of my software to send an email to support and to automatically attach a file to the email that contains information about the user's environment. Sarah's stack requires the name of the SMTP server and since that will be different on

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2012-09-13 Thread Bob Sneidar
Hi Jim. I didn't mean to imply I knew more, as I can see that may be how my post looked. I say that to give people confidence in following my IT advice. Sorry if it sounded like I was being condescending. That being said, the internal SATA interface is always going to be faster that an

Re: what does and doesn't get complied in a standalone?

2012-09-13 Thread Bob Sneidar
I would only add that the mainstack is not editable, and seems to be incorporated into the app itself, whereas substacks (with the option to keep substacks separate option checked in the Standalone Apps settings) and stack files are individual files located in a folder in the app bundle on a

Re: Sending an email with a file attachment

2012-09-13 Thread Matthias Rebbe
Peter, you could try to use the smtp server which is responsible for your emailaddress. Your server normally will accept emails for your emailaddress. I write normally, because there are cases where this will not work. For example if your smtp server uses reverse dns to check the sender.

Re: Sending an email with a file attachment

2012-09-13 Thread Matthias Rebbe
Am 14.09.2012 um 00:14 schrieb Matthias Rebbe matthias_livecode_150...@m-r-d.de: Your server normally will accept emails for your emailaddress. Of course your server accept email to your address. It was meant to be Your server normally will accept emails to your address without

Re: Sending an email with a file attachment

2012-09-13 Thread Warren Samples
On 09/13/2012 04:21 PM, Peter Haworth wrote: The purpose for this is for a user of my software to send an email to support and to automatically attach a file to the email that contains information about the user's environment. Sarah's stack requires the name of the SMTP server and since that

Re: Sending an email with a file attachment

2012-09-13 Thread Bob Sneidar
Can you use On-Rev for mail sending? On Sep 13, 2012, at 3:38 PM, Warren Samples wrote: On 09/13/2012 04:21 PM, Peter Haworth wrote: The purpose for this is for a user of my software to send an email to support and to automatically attach a file to the email that contains information about

Re: Sending an email with a file attachment

2012-09-13 Thread Peter Haworth
All good ideas. Also, I'm not sending emails invisibly. The option to email support gathers all the environment info and supplies it to revMail as the message with a few blank lines at the top for the user to give details of the problem. Pete lcSQL Software http://www.lcsql.com On Thu, Sep

Re: Sending an email with a file attachment

2012-09-13 Thread Peter Haworth
Thanks Warren. I'm beginning to think Matthias' idea of putting the environment data on the clipboard and asking the user to paste it into the email client of his/her choice may be the easiest and safest way to do this. Pete lcSQL Software http://www.lcsql.com On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 3:38 PM,

Re: Getting rid of a stack password

2012-09-13 Thread Peter Haworth
The reversion to password protected happens the next time I run Livecode and load the stack, not loading it again in the same run of livecode. Pete lcSQL Software http://www.lcsql.com On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 12:48 PM, J. Landman Gay jac...@hyperactivesw.comwrote: On 9/13/12 2:40 PM, Peter

Re: [OT] Looking For OS X Troubleshooting Suggestions

2012-09-13 Thread Kay C Lan
On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 1:09 AM, Paul Hibbert l...@pbh.on-rev.com wrote: I'm also pretty sure you can install a copy of your OS on a USB memory stick, you may need a reasonable size stick, but they are not too expensive now and it should help you determine where the error lies, you'll also

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2012-09-13 Thread Kay C Lan
On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 3:07 AM, Jim Hurley jhurley0...@sbcglobal.netwrote: But I have one more very sophisticated diagnostic test I perform. I listen. Every so often, the HD on my Mac Mini squeaks for a few minutes. That can't be good. Are you sure it's the HD, that would be very very