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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).
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Answer: Win XP Pro.
So that will fix Rush’s email problem?
Great!
I’d love to see him do some Mac commercials.
He’d get such a kick out of it.
On the other hand why should they pay him when he gives them so much free ad time?
oh, too late.
Rush, still dig you.
mac ping!
I hear less of RUSH since I retired that when I “worked”. At least with 10.5 I can download him to my Christmas present
I thought Macs were perfect. I thought nothing ever went wrong with them. I thought Leopard was the greatest OS ever, etc.
What happened?
Is this real or is it from The Onion or Scrappleface?
Nothing... there are two brand new applications included with OSX.5 Leopard that need some tweaking. Several people posted on Mac Daily News that their Macs were working fine with those Apps. Rush may be having some problems that are related to his network. Like any OS, Apple's is a work in progress... it's just farther along than any other toward perfection. ;^)>
The first two statements are products of your imagination.
The third one is demonstrably true, but even the "greatest ever" falls short of perfection.
Let me put it this way, if I count only people who pay for their own computers, both for personal use, and to run small business, like Rush (and my wife) once they have used a Mac, they will rarely go to Windows.
They're not perfect, they're just better than Windows or Linux for the typical user.
It could be worse.... He could be dealing with a problem that he reported to Microsoft...
Heck, I’m still waiting on a bug fix for the Microsoft Fortran Compiler that I opened in 1981 when working on a TRS-80!
Mark
I know you know this, but I don't think the average Freeper realizes how much Apples blow the PC out of the water. It is ASTONISHING at the level of sphistication these macs reach.
400% more RAM than the top PC boards can handle. TWICE the processing power...up to 4 TB of storage...unbelievable!
ALSO unbelivable is the fact that the top of the line MAC PRO with all the options (except modem) weighed in at an astonishing TWENTY SEVEN THOUSAND DOLLARS!!!
For the amount of Macs ElRushbo bought, they should have provide concierge service for him
Back when we supported Mac’s I worked with guy that was and ultimate liberal.Accordint to him, If we could make are clothes out hemp they would never wear out. It could be turned into fuel to replace oil and if we spend the money needed marijuana and plants from the Rain Forrest could cure all are medical problem. Almost every major invention was stolen by white men. Including gravity and civilization. For many this type of thinking has become associated with Apple. I am sure this very upsetting for Bill Gates who is just as nutty on these ideas as Steve Jobs or any ardent tree hugging apple user.
I emailed El Rushbo and told him if he REALLY needed support, to come to FR and post a note to Swordmaker...
LOL!
Yikes! I had to go to the Apple store just to see how someone could manage to spend $27k on a Mac. Start by making it superfast for $11,400, and spend from there! I got off easy recently when my wife got her new Mac Pro!
What did you leave out? I got $28,090.90... of course I had to include everything except the kitchen sink to get to that number... including dual 30" Cinema Displays and every software package offered. Maybe you left out one of the displays? Or did you go for capacity rather than speed for the four drives, selecting 1 TB drives rather than 15,000RPM 300MB drives? You actually can go higher... the MacPro will support up to EIGHT of those displays if you really want. Just add three more graphics cards and buy six more displays...
Let's see what a matching dell would cost...
Oh, rats... they won't let me put in anymore than 4GB of RAM in their online configurer. But they are charging $696 for each 2 Gigabytes extra of the 800MHz SDRAM... so 28 More Gigabytes is $9744 that we have to add to match the 32GB of the ultimate MacPro...
Oh, Rats, again... they only can control 3 of the SAS drives compared to the MacPro's 4... Well, if they could, it would be $519 extra... so weill add that, to match.
Upgraded out the wazoo Dell Precision T7400 to match as close as possible the MacPro, also out the wazoo..... $14,765.00
ADD 28 GBytes of SDRAM......................................................................................................................................... 9,744.00
ADD Extra SAS 300GB Hard drive................................................................................................................................. 519.00
ADD Second 30" LCD Monitor..................................................................................................................................... 1,199.00
TOTAL .................................................................................................................................................................... $ 25,472.00
It's well known you don't buy RAM from Apple... get it from a 3rd Party supplier who sells high quality RAM. So let's buy our Mac without memory for $18,400 and get our 32 GBs of SDRAM from PCConnection for a mere $7150 making a total of $25,550.00.
Also, let's buy the SAS drives for our MacPro from Dell... that let's us deduct $280 per drive or $1120 = MacPro.......... $ 24,430.00
Let's buy our memory for the Dell from the same PCConnection source at $7150 to make it more fair = Dell Precision $ 23,633.00
The Dell is just $797 less expensive than the Mac... and that is without all the free software that comes with the Mac. If we were to drop the second monitor from the equation, the difference would only be $297. What do you know. The Mac is competitive with the Dell.
Oh, and the Mac really does have four drives while the Dell can only support three... alas... and I don't think it really can support 32GBs of SDRAM...
You do get what you pay for...
Yikes! I had to go to the Apple store just to see how someone could manage to spend $27k on a Mac. Start by making it superfast for $11,400, and spend from there! I got off easy recently when my wife got her new Mac Pro!
You forgot to add a surcharge to make the Dell capable of running the Mac OS. I mean, the Mac will run Windows, so it’s only fair... ;)
In appearance only, the fact that it's a tower, but similarities to regular PCs stop there. It's a workstation, so you have to compare it to other workstation-class systems.
Does anyone sell a good Solid State Disk of the sort available (for a kilobuck) in the Mac Book Air, packed in the form accepted by the Mac Pro and other towers? Four of those puppies should make a system - and the purchaser's wallet - really scream.
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