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TheHeretic
69,407 posts
125 months
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Podie said: Seems OK.
My concern is duff hardware. If that's the case I want to sort it before the warranty expires! Sounds like a Kernel panic, or something of that ilk. Run diagnostics, and see if that flags anything up.
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Podie
38,586 posts
145 months
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Is this the Apple version of BSOD?
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TheHeretic
69,407 posts
125 months
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Podie said: Is this the Apple version of BSOD? No idea, I've never seen it.
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Stu R
19,585 posts
85 months
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Podie said: Is this the Apple version of BSOD? Pretty much.
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F1GTRUeno
1,969 posts
88 months
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Yeah that's what mines done.
Diagnostic probably won't show up anything and if you take it to the Genius Bar they'll try and scare you into buying a new one.
Mines working okay-ish at the minute but if you go on Youtube or doing anything other than web browsing the it freezes, the screen flickers and you basically have to shut it off immediately before that screen comes up and it does a kernel panic.
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TheHeretic
69,407 posts
125 months
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F1GTRUeno said: Yeah that's what mines done.
Diagnostic probably won't show up anything and if you take it to the Genius Bar they'll try and scare you into buying a new one.
Mines working okay-ish at the minute but if you go on Youtube or doing anything other than web browsing the it freezes, the screen flickers and you basically have to shut it off immediately before that screen comes up and it does a kernel panic. So get it looked at. You have something wrong.
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F1GTRUeno
1,969 posts
88 months
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I did get it looked at. He couldn't find anything in diagnostics so suggested it was the logic board that was f  ked and £600 to fix. Then suggested I should just replace it with a new MacBook given the age of the machine. I don't have £600 so can't fix it.
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PJ S
9,212 posts
97 months
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CommanderJameson
21,007 posts
96 months
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(disclaimer: I haven't browsed the links in the post above this one, so if I'm just repeating a subset of what's there, apologies) My experience of kernel panics is that they are caused, in very roughly decreasing order of probability, by: - Bad memory
- Overheating due to a clogged ventilation system, or a failing/failed fan
- A badly reassembled system causing a marginal connection somewhere
- A power problem such as a PSU on the cusp of failure
- A failing system board
- A faulty CPU
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F1GTRUeno
1,969 posts
88 months
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And suddenly, it lives! Previously had to run the hardware test on startup to prevent a kernel panic (which is weird enough in itself). But now it'll just start normally and run normally, even Youtube and other flash videos that would previously cause it to s t itself are fine. What the hell?
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Pot Bellied Fool
1,544 posts
107 months
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A quick iCloud question please...
A friend of mine currently uses an exchange mailbox for synching calendars etc with his iPhone but is aware that it's a strange way of doign things for a small biz and would like to know if my suggested iCloud way would work.
Both he & his wife have iPhones. There's an Office Pc and an iPad.
Is it simply a matetr of setting them all to use the same Apple ID in iCloud and they'll all sync contacts & calendar?
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Stu R
19,585 posts
85 months
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Pot Bellied Fool said: A quick iCloud question please...
A friend of mine currently uses an exchange mailbox for synching calendars etc with his iPhone but is aware that it's a strange way of doign things for a small biz and would like to know if my suggested iCloud way would work.
Both he & his wife have iPhones. There's an Office Pc and an iPad.
Is it simply a matetr of setting them all to use the same Apple ID in iCloud and they'll all sync contacts & calendar? Yup, pretty much. I've found Google Calendars a better alternative, but they both work in the same way.
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Pvapour
6,282 posts
123 months
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is there any way of getting the current euro exchange rate displayed in the top right display area? where the time, wi-fi etc is displayed.
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TheHeretic
69,407 posts
125 months
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Pvapour said: is there any way of getting the current euro exchange rate displayed in the top right display area? where the time, wi-fi etc is displayed. If you download geektool you can customize your display with whatever you want, however you want. A bit like this, (but with euro exchange rate, etc) 
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craigjm
2,344 posts
70 months
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Pvapour
6,282 posts
123 months
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thanks guys, have it as a widget already but would like it on display whilst using full screen for surfing etc, love the full custom job to but again i'd need to switch to desktop to see it. if it's displayed along with time etc then it'd be a simple cursory glance, lazy? me? nah 
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LordGrover
18,819 posts
82 months
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I think icurrency plus in the app store does this, along with many other features, but it ain't free to try. 
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theboyfold
8,415 posts
96 months
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Ladies and gents of the Mac world, I have an issue with Time Machine I've got a setup similar to this one where I have a sparse bundle setup on a Windows Home Server machine. I thought I set up the bundle to be limited to 300gb (it's a 2tb RAID), however, it's now over 450gb and I can't control the bloody thing. Does anybody have any idea how I can control Time Machine? It says it will delete backups when the disk is full!
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surfymark
820 posts
101 months
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theboyfold said: Ladies and gents of the Mac world, I have an issue with Time Machine I've got a setup similar to this one where I have a sparse bundle setup on a Windows Home Server machine. I thought I set up the bundle to be limited to 300gb (it's a 2tb RAID), however, it's now over 450gb and I can't control the bloody thing. Does anybody have any idea how I can control Time Machine? It says it will delete backups when the disk is full! To be honest I don't know how this sparse bundle thing work but I know by default Time Machine will fill the disk you show it. As far as I know there is no configuration to stop this from happening. The best way people have found around this is to set up a separate partition just for Time Machine. HTH M
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CommanderJameson
21,007 posts
96 months
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surfymark said: To be honest I don't know how this sparse bundle thing work but I know by default Time Machine will fill the disk you show it. As far as I know there is no configuration to stop this from happening.
The best way people have found around this is to set up a separate partition just for Time Machine.
HTH
M Correct in all aspects. Time Machine is designed to use a single volume. I have my TM backups on a separate external disk.
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