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:
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).
“REgarding the email back up problem…a thought….
Could it be that Rush is using Netscape or Hotmail or Googlemail or…?”
or could it be that he is really the moron many of us keep saying he is and he just can’t read RTFM?
yeah, pretty much.
angela: how is he a bigot?
“i love the women’s movement, especially when i can watch it wiggle from behind.” -Rush
any other questions you fascist bigot defending jerk?
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Liberalism is a mental disorder!
The HATE that comes from you liberals is so becoming!!
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I am not a liberal (or “progressive” if you prefer), but Rush dserves the political hate because, frankly, he wants it, that’s what has made him rich.
But if you want APPLE to do well… you want him to get his problems fixed and be happy. He’s got a huge audience, and he’s pretty much a mac fanboy.
Though the 10.5.2 release seems to show–to many–that Apple does NOT ignore all those bug reports. They just take time and have to be prioritized.
btw, politically, if you are a Hillary fan, you’ve got to know that Rush is secretly dying to see her elected. That’s simple showmanship and business. (I firmly believe in keeping politics off of non-political boards.)
Fascism– is a radical authoritarian political philosophy that combines elements of corporatism, totalitarianism, extreme nationalism, militarism, anti-communism and anti-liberalism. – Benito Mussolini
Now you too can know what fascism is. Hmm? Anti-liberalism. That must mean Republicans that don’t like or hate Liberals are fascists – Mussolini should know.
September 28, 2003: “I think what we’ve had here is a little social concern in the NFL. The media has been very desirous that a black quarterback do well. There is a little hope invested in McNabb, and he got a lot of credit for the performance of this team that he didn’t deserve.” —Rush Limbaugh, suggesting on ESPN’s Sunday NFL Countdown that Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Donovan McNabb got more credit than he deserved. BACKTRACK: “My comments this past Sunday were directed at the media and were not racially motivated.” SUCCESS? Of course. Yes, he was forced to quit the ESPN gig, but otherwise he just kept on being Rush Limbaugh.
I’m sure a lot of conservatives use Macs. I think it’s great that Rush Limbaugh reads MDN.
> On one machine…, 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.
Well, I don’t know what the problem is, but if it works on one of them (and the Macs are identical), Rush should disk image or clone the one that works onto a bootable external drive, and duplicate that disk on the other Macs. He’s sounds like a competent and knowledgeable Mac user, so I’m sure he’s tried the more typical solutions.
I’m suprised more Conservatives don’t use Macs. I mean, come on, they are known for their simplicity.
@ For Angela
Lets put in the definition in wikipedia.
Fascism is an authoritarian political ideology (generally tied to a mass movement) that considers the individual subordinate to the interests of the state, party or society as a whole. Fascists seek to forge a type of national unity, usually based on (but not limited to) ethnic, cultural, racial, religious attributes. Various scholars attribute different characteristics to fascism, but the following elements are usually seen as its integral parts: nationalism, statism, militarism, totalitarianism, anti-communism, corporatism, populism, collectivism, autocracy and opposition to political and economic liberalism.
Just because you are for the military, have pride for your country, and support capitalism does NOT make you a fascist. That is asinine. Please tell me how Rush is a Fascist. He has a different opinion than you, get over it.
@ trex67
Like airAmerica does not do that too… i mean… like ever…
lol
The anti-Rush Limbaugh vitriol is boring. Lets see what happens!!!
“Feminism was established to allow unattractive women easier access to the mainstream.”
Rush Limbaugh
@ David
Conservative do not (and should not) use Macs because of Apple’s motto: Think Different.
Nothing is more antithetical to conservative ideology than being different. Or thinking.
When I worked in a certain store I tried to help the customers the best I could.
Sometimes it was easier said than done. With very difficult customers they would often say something like, “I know Steve Jobs!!! I’ll call him and you’ll be in trouble!!” or some such crap.
I’d usually tell those snotty types when they get Steve on the phone to tell him I said hello.
I like Rush and respect him, but his rants do get out of hand.
He needs to call a professional Mac support specialist (like myself) to come over and have a look see and let them take care of the problem.
I dont think Macs are associated with then ‘left’ as much as people just don’t like Macs being associated with someone as polarizing as Limbaugh. I don’t mind that he likes Macs or he endorses Macs. It’s about one of the sanest things he says.
I just can’t stand that he is a blatant opportunist, who doesn’t practice what he preaches, is an elitist asshole and essentially whips people into an unnecessary frenzy in order to inflate ratings for his show (read: make money) at the expense of rational dialogue.
Rush is Zune Tang! Look dude, sorry you are having problems, hope Apple gets on it and fixes them. Also, don’t pay attention to some of the idiots around here that bag on you just because of your views. Good luck, and maybe 5.3 will address it!
I never thought this was possible but Rush is actually dumber than I thought. His entire view is myopic. Because he doesn’t hear back from Apple, this means that the bug reports go nowhere. Dumb things happen to dumb people Rush.
“Why should Blacks be heard? They’re 12% of the population.
Who the hell cares.” -Rush Limbaugh
@Welcome to the mainstream Angela
““Feminism was established to allow unattractive women easier access to the mainstream.”
Rush Limbaugh”
If you’re really that stupid to believe that HE believes that, then there is no helping you. Rush gets a kick out of idiots like you who take him seriously. You obviously don’t listen to the show so really you don’t know what you are talking about.
“”Why should Blacks be heard? They’re 12% of the population.
Who the hell cares.” -Rush Limbaugh”
Please tell me when Rush said that.
I’m using this as the inspiration for my new screenplay, “When Straw Men Collide”. I’m hoping to get Ron Jeremy to play Rush.
“I just can’t stand that he is a blatant opportunist, who doesn’t practice what he preaches, is an elitist asshole and essentially whips people into an unnecessary frenzy in order to inflate ratings for his show (read: make money) at the expense of rational dialogue.”
Are you kidding me? Take a look at what 80 percent of the readers on the blog before this said about Rush using Mac.
I think Rush needs to rethink how he is doing his stuff. Back to My Mac and Time Machine might not be the way to go. And with Mail?
I don’t think Time Machine was designed to be able to go on a different Mac and be able to get old files off it. Maybe if he dedicated ONE machine to be the central repository of his stuff, but wouldn’t opening something on a remote mac Mail and changing it, it wouldn’t be reflected in the remote Machines Time Machine, but rather, the one he’s currently using?
I think there has to be something to allow him to effectively use his setups better. I can only imagine the version control issues he might have with documents…..
Oh yeah…
Rush Limbaugh?
You’re a jerk. Yeah, a real knee-biter.
-c
I don’t have a problem with Rush’s conservatism, and he’s too reliant on freedom of speech to be a real fascist. However, he is a supreme hypocrite. And just for you, sweet, sweet Angela, I’m going to back that up by reminding everyone that before he was caught illegally obtaining prescription drugs, Rush Limbaugh said on his show that anyone caught violating the drug laws ought to accused, convicted and sent to prison. That is hypocrisy pure and simple – sorry to break the news to you, Angela dear.
So you’re saying you don’t like looking at women from behind? Do I understand you correctly?
You know, one thing Rush has always said is that one of the left’s biggest problems is that they have absolutely zero sense of humor. If these posts don’t demonstrate that in SPADES…