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).
What? This nonsense hasn’t gotten to 2 pages yet?
“Just because you are for the military, have pride for your country, and support capitalism does NOT make you a fascist. “
No, it doesn’t, but when the LEADERS take it to an extreme level, then yes, it is.
Just for the record, I lean left politically, but I believe in a strong military, just not the irresponsible way it has be used, also capitalism, but not at the expense of morality and principles, and also pride for your country, so long is it doesn’t blind you to the point of lacking objectivity. So does that make me a retard?
Oh, 2 pages. There, that’s more like it. Let the sophomoric vitriol continue.
“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.”
I 100% agree with you montex. That was hypocritical. I have no problem agreeing with leftist when they are right. However I should point out that there is unbelievable hypocrisy in the left as well.
“Rush Limbaugh still waiting for Steve Jobs”
In a frilly, pink teddy with a come hither gaze?
Your Mussolini quote is true – however, Benito ran a National Socialist party. What part of socialism don’t you understand. Fascism – socialism – communism are all cut from the same fabric. I think Limbaugh argues for debate, to understand where you stand relative to ease of running a complex state and personal freedom.
You are nothing more than polemic thinker or is that an ignorant thinker. Montex this applies to you as well.
As an Apple user since 1989 and a former badged engineer I think Apple users should help Apple users regardless. If knew the answer to Rush’s problem I would try to help.
If you are not aware, the Church of Satan also uses Apple and if they posted a question I would more than likely also try to offer a solution even though I am a Presbyterian (Protestant) and could not differ more with their purpose.
http://www.churchofsatan.com/Pages/Apple.html
True Apple fans would aid true Apple fans, IMHO.
-mullman
“In a frilly, pink teddy with a come hither gaze?”
Oh thanks… I was just about to eat, jackass. ;P
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60%+ of my wife and I’s friends are very liberal. Teachers and other very stereo typical very liberal people. ALL of then would never bash Limbaugh that way. They would say they disagree with him as they do, but NEVER the HATE you guys show. They know we are very Republican and we still go out together. I bet all you very verbal HATE throwers have never had lunch with a Republican let alone called one your friend!! Think about it….. You act as you are so compassionate. If you really are, go out and ask a Republican to lunch or dinner and be friendly for God sake!! Somehing tells me you couldn’t break that “shell” of self-righteous high brow liberalism. Come on! Hug a Republican! And say you care for him or her!!
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@ macromancer
No, it doesn’t, but when the LEADERS take it to an extreme level, then yes, it is.
—Explain to me how Rush has taken it to the extreme.
Just for the record, I lean left politically, but I believe in a strong military, just not the irresponsible way it has be used, also capitalism, but not at the expense of morality and principles, and also pride for your country, so long is it doesn’t blind you to the point of lacking objectivity. So does that make me a retard?
—Explain to me how Rush is for capitalism taking morality and principles out of our everyday life. Explain to me how Rush’s pride for his country connects to fascism.
No you’re not a retard.
“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…”
Name 10 intentionally funny conservatives. I can think of 1 – P.J. O’Rourke. But it’s true, there a sticks up asses on both sides.
@ ChrissyOne
I’m conservative and was always the class clown.
Come on now, you can make it to 3 pages.
I swear, this is worse than the “Official World of Warcraft Forums.”
QQ some more, ya noobs!
Time Machine archives are tag with the MAC address of the primary interface of the machine that the archive is for. So even though he thinks the five other macs are the same, to Time Machine they are different. What he can try to do with 10.5.2 is to enable the Time Machine icon in the menu bar, hold down the option key while he clicks on the menu and the “Enter Time Machine” menu item will change to “Browse other time machine disks”. That may enable the other 5 macs to see and use the time machine archive that he created on another mac. Or there is a way to change the MAC address in the Time machine archive to the MAC address of the next machine he wants to restore a mail box on.
Sounds like a third party opportunity.
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I don’t understand why you guys hate republicans so much.
They stand for small government.
They stand for not killing babies before they are born.
They stand against terrorism.
They stand for small government that stays out of your lives.
They stand for strong fiscal policy.
They stand for capitalism.
They stand for freedom.
They stand for the free market.
Democrats think government is the solution.
Democrats think its ok to kill babies.
Democrats are weak on terrorism.
Democrats love huge government.
Democrats love the redistribution of wealth.
Democrats think that corporations are the worst thing to happen to the USA.
Democrats think its ok to steal from the rich and give to the poor… because “its just not fair”.
DEMOCRATS HAVE NO IDEA WHAT ‘PERSONAL RESPONSIBILTY’ IS.
There are problems with certain DSL
/ Cable internet providers devices which will cause the problems that he is
referring to. These include devices from Sprint / Embarq. Since Rush I think
lives in Florida, as do I, this could be the problem. If the DSL Modem is
switched to Bridge Mode, the problems will be resolved! I had the same
problem with my DSL modems.. Basically, you end up with NAT on top of NAT
and it will only work intermittently.
@ mullman
So you were class clown… and that makes you Chris Rock?
I am with you derek, but save your keystrokes.
@ ChrissyOne
You said conservatives where boring.
Does being named Chrissy make you Chrissy Moon?
Who cares what Chrissy thinks is funny. Don’t waste your time you guys.
Well said, derek!
But Rush should know Mr. Jobs has 2 companies to run and that there are plenty of Mac IT people in the NYC area that are able to take care of his Mac problems.
Have his man Snerdley give them a call.
Hey! Look at me!!! I just a plain old country Conservative.
I have no problems with most of what Rush says. I have enough sense to check my facts, regardless of who I hear something from. I listen to Ed Schultz when I get a chance, also. Big deal.
Most of the quotes I have read here of Rush’s were actually for comedy, or at least to be entertaining. Get over it.
As far as the Mail problem, I have always had good luck with .Mac rebuilding everything.
Obviously he could be using someone besides Apple for mail, but it also keeps my AOL in line.
Apparently he has his own server for mail. Reckon?
I guess I’m lucky I don’t have problems like his…..
I really do enjoy watching “open mindedness” in action here. Proves most of our theories about “uber libs” are true.
7:06 PM Quote about Rush at ESPN. You actually typed all that and still didn’t understand it. No wonder you can’t grasp what Conservatism is all about.
Most of my hardcore football buddies agreed. It wasn’t that McNabb wasn’t good, and has gotten better since. It is that the media fawned over him just because he was black, just as they are doing over Barack.
Now will what I just said be interpreted as racist? Probably, but only by people who use racism as a crux and take it out of context for a junior-high attempt at winning arguments.
Is he a decent guy? Yes!…but he ain’t no Mitt Romney.
-Another Conservative for Obama in ’08…and Mitt in ’12
“Who cares what Chrissy thinks is funny.”
I do. And so do many long time posters, newbie.
This is clearly rude on the part of Rush Limbaugh. Just because he’s a celebrity, and a hard cord neo-con, he somehow thinks he deserves to be answered by Steve Jobs. Isn’t this called special treatment, the thing he continually denegrates for groups that he claims want “special treatment” such as gays wanting to marry or pass hate crimes bills? What a son of a bitch.
@ derek
Republicans stand for Freedom??? Who’s?
You seem to stand for knee-jerk, right-wing gibberish.