Posted on 02/13/2008 7:49:00 PM PST by Swordmaker
Partial transcript from The Rush Limbaugh Show yesterday:
Rush: For those of you watching on the Dittocam today at RushLimbaugh.com, you've probably seen me pretty animated here during the break talking to the broadcast engineer and my trusty aide-de-camp and chief of staff, H.R. I didn't want to bring this up. I hadn't thought I was gonna bring it up. You know, I'm a big Mac guy. I love Macs, and I've got four Mac Pros. They're the top-of-the-line Mac Pros, maxed out. And they just had a new system upgrade, went to 10.5 Leopard, and they've had two upgrades since October. Yesterday brought 10.5.2, which was loaded. It was a big, big update. I've been having two problems since I went to Leopard that I hoped this update would solve, and it didn't solve them; and it's frustrating. I'm telling these guys. I've worked patiently. I've been very patient with my Apple rep, with my developer rep, and they're working hard on it, but nothing gets done! All use file reports and get lost in the Apple bureaucratic system -- and occasionally a good-intentioned, good-hearted Apple rep will get on the phone, try to solve it, and will say, "Yep. It's the same problem I'm having on my machine." They're having the same problem at Apple that I'm having here, but it's supposed to work.So I'm asking these guys during the break, "Do you think I ought to put out a plea to Steve Jobs? I know he's politically opposite of me, but just to say, "Mr. Jobs, please, I just ordered six brand-new Mac Pros: four for me and two as gifts; maxed out, Blu-ray drives. I've loaded 'em up. Our whole office here is Mac, and I just want it to work because I love them -- and these two things that aren't working would seem to me, as a novice, to be a simple fix, but they're not." So I was telling these guys, "Do you think I ought to make an appeal, a direct appeal to Steve Jobs from behind the Golden EIB Microphone? 'Mr. Jobs, please help me.' I know we don't agree on anything. You love Algore -- and by the way, I've got no problem with him now, but can you put me to somebody that can get this going, because I know it's gotta work for most people. What am I doing wrong?" Maimone said, "You don't understand it. Jobs has you tagged. He's making sure your computers don't work. If you put out this appeal to Steve Jobs and ask him to help, his reply is going to be, 'Mr. Limbaugh. Do us a favor and endorse Windows.'" (laughter)
Full transcript, in which Limbaugh never does get around to identifying his two problems, here.
[UPDATE: 2:55pm EST: According to MacDailyNews Reader "Tommy Boy," Rush has identified his two problems: Back to My Mac (can connect using direct IP sharing but not using Back to My Mac) and Time Machine (cannot restore mailboxes).
Rush Limbaugh still waiting for Steve Jobs
February 13, 2008 - 06:05 PM EST
Rush Limbaugh is still waiting for Apple CEO Steve Jobs to help him out with a couple of issues he's having with his many Apple Macs. In the meantime, Rush has identified his two issues:
Partial transcript from The Rush Limbaugh Show today:
Rush: Did Steve Jobs call, Snerdley? Well, I didn't expect Jobs to call. I thought maybe somebody from his office would. Look, I own a lot of Macs. I love them. I knew this was going to happen to you. The blogs... There's all kinds of Apple-Mac blogs, and they hate the fact that I'm a Mac guy. They do. They despise it, because Macs are associated with the left. So whenever I talk about my Macs, you can go to some of these blogs and they're gnashing their teeth and banging the keyboards, and when I yesterday expressed that I was having just a couple problems with 10.5.2, the new OS update, one guy wrote in a blog, "May you see the spinning beach ball of death for the rest of your life!" Now, the spinning beach ball in a Mac is when the processor gets clogged and slowed down and your task is not completed. This guy wished for a spinning beach ball for eternity for me. He hoped that my Mac would freeze. Ha! Well, I haven't checked them all, but I figure that somebody will call. I own enough these things. Our office here is equipped with them. Sigh... I know if I call I won't get through, because it just won't happen.Anyway, I just checked a Mac website, MacDailyNews.com, and they've got the transcript from my program yesterday posted with some comments. Some of them were okay. Some of the other comments, "I hope he never gets the problem fixed." But one of the guys says -- I didn't identify the two problems -- "Why don't you identify the problems? Maybe we could do a work-around. Maybe we could help you, Rush, why don't you tell us what the problem is?" "I think Rush is smart enough to fix his own problems." I'll tell you what the problems are. But it's going to be Greek to those of you who don't use Macs and I don't want to spend a whole lot of time with this. But here we go. Two things. Back to my Mac, screen sharing, doesn't work. It's intermittent on occasion. Now, I got six computers on the network, maybe it's only meant to go back and forth one computer to the next. And the second thing, and this is the biggie, because I have found a work-around to screen sharing back to my Mac not working, direct access to my IP address I can do it without Back to My Mac, but they've got this great new backup program called Time Machine.
I primarily live in my mail application. I use it for my word processing. The only time I open word processing is when somebody sends me something in a Word document or whatever. I don't use the phone because of my hearing. E-mail is everything, and Time Machine will not restore e-mail mailboxes. Restores everything else but that, and ought to restore either a single message or a whole mailbox, and it won't. On one machine, this one here in New York, I have found a way to restore a single message or a multiple list of messages from wherever the Time Machine archive is, but on none of my other five machines does that work. They're identical. So, Mr. Jobs, there's got to be somebody who can -- this is major. I'm not calling it a bug. They just left it out of the operating system. To not back up -- and, by the way, when you open Time Machine in your mail program, it says, "Click restore" to back up your in-box or to back up the message you had selected. So it was supposed to, it just doesn't do it. And there's a whole thread at the Apple site of people having the same problem. But posting the problem on the website is not going to solve anything. It's like filing a bug report, goes out to the ether, nobody ever sees it, you never hear.
Full article here.
MacDailyNews Note: So, Rush's problems are: Back to My Mac (can connect using direct IP sharing but not using Back to My Mac) and Time Machine (cannot restore mailboxes). Apple, the spinning beach ball is in your court.
In the meantime, here's what we've found so far:
According to Apple's Mail 3.0 Help: Recovering mailboxes and their content:
If you set up Time Machine to back up files on your computer, your mailboxes and the messages, notes, and to-do items they contain have been backed up regularly, based on the schedule you set for Time Machine. You can use Time Machine to quickly recover previous versions of your mailboxes and their content.
To recover information using Time Machine:
1. Make sure Mail is the current application.
2. Click the Time Machine icon in the Dock.
Time Machine displays available backups. Use Time Machine to locate the information you want to recover.
Restoring files backed up with Time Machine
Time Machine backs up all mailboxes and their contents. When you use Time Machine to browse backups, you can preview individual items in the Notes and Drafts mailboxes, but not in other mailboxes, before restoring the mailboxes. To-do items are backed up as part of iCal; you must use Time Machine with iCal to restore them.
If you have archived mailboxes, you can import the archive file to restore previous versions.
For the other issue, this might be a helpful starting point:
Using Back to My Mac in Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard;
Requirements to use Back to My Mac;
Setting up your computers for Back to My Mac.
And, for the record, we don't hate the fact that Rush Limbaugh is a Mac guy (although some of our readers certainly do seem to have an issue with Rush's choice of platforms).
I keep telling Rush to upgade to XP PRO.
I can't address the Mail.app problem because I use Entourage, but I use Back To My Mac all he time without problems. Because BTM operates over the Internet, I bet that Rush's problem has to do with access through his station's corporate firewall. Ports need to be opened up to allow use of this feature.
I just ordered six brand-new Mac Pros: four for me and two as gifts; maxed out, Blu-ray drivesSo, uh, how do I get on his list?
Accessing by IP works, but Back To My Mac doesn't. BTMM is an implementation of dynamic DNS, so it's very likely that something's blocking the dynamic DNS resolution even if access by IP is allowed.
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