Recent content by wildwell

^^^ +1 Especially a Toshiba external drive. G-Tech, LaCie, CalDigit, and some Promise drives come pre-formatted for OSX, but I'd still reformat them using my own system anyway. This is also a great time to make decisions regarding partitioning, encryption, and what other systems you might...

Is your external drive not mounting?

I know you said you reset the PRAM, but did you try that early on? If you've been experiencing problems loading while the spinning indicator was going on the gray apple screen, then you're having difficulty loading the kernel, or the system. It's maybe an intermittent problem if you were...

Sure you can, I do. Apple TV can only play your media content if its in iTunes, and Apple TVs are super picky about file formatting. I use Handbrake to re-encode the video files, it has presets for both generations of Apple TV. Then just drop your files into iTunes for playback on your Apple...

Next big consumer tech company to see sock's surge... Samsung?

OK, problem somewhat sovled. Adobe's CS5 & CS6 software suites don't support GPU acceleration on ATI Radeon HD series cards.

That's what you'd think, but my contacts at Apple say it's a believable problem, especially when third party software is involved. I'm leaning towards a bad card though. We build these computers regularly for HD and UHD video work, and the HD 5870 is a common GPU choice. Mountain Lion's been...

Has anyone had, or heard of a problem utilizing the on-board v-RAM of their Radeon HD 5770 or HD 5870 video cards in OSX 10.8 Mountain Lion? These are the two video card options currently available from Apple in the Mac Pro towers. I have a client experiencing driver support problems, but I...

Ahh, I see. It would have helped if you mentioned you were using Ubuntu. :whistle: I lost correct functionality with some of the function keys on my 15" Macbook Pro right after upgrading from Ubuntu 12.10 to 12.04 too. A quick edit of the alsa-base.conf file solved my problem, fixing both...

It's called, "Disk Utility." Initializing is to build partions tables for given formats on a disk. This is most easily done in Mac OSX using the Disk Utility application, Applications/Utilities/Disk Utility. Although OSX 10.7 Lion and 10.8 Mountain Lion can dynamically partition a disk (and...

Yeah, that's a bad sign. You can call LaCie directly if you want to know specifically what the beeping indicates, but it doesn't indicate anything good. :??: As ss202sl said, back up your data and replace, ASAP!

Yeah, Zynga's suppose to have a horrid work environment, especially if you were an employee that chose to hold his stock instead of cashing it out right after the IPO when so many other employees did.

PBS gets most of it's federal funding from a National Science Foundation grant. I don't think the president has the authority to dictate the recipients of NSF grants, but he and congress can cut the NSF's budget. Of course, how would it sound if Romney said he wanted to "Cut funding to the...

Is your laptop successfully booting into other operating systems?

Lion needs a GUID/GPT partition map to boot. I don't know how to set it up from Windows, but you can set up your dual boot from the Mac side. If you've got all your data backed up, boot from your Lion disk and use the disk utility to make a GUID partition on your drive for OSX. This can be...