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).
@TowerTone
I bow to you.
@Ampar
She was insulting for no reason what-so-ever. Usually when somebody tells another person “who cares” when the other person is insulting, it means “ignore them”.
And yes I am a newbie. Do I get a gold star sticker?
@ derek
No most of us don’t “hate Republicans so much.” Although I do chafe at the constant stream of invective against the mythical “commie libs”. Look up the terms “false generalization,” “strawman argument,” and “logical fallacy.” Then review your previous post.
@ angela
I care what Chrissy thinks is funny. Oh, and Rush — if he believes what he says — is a bigot. (The transcripts are there, just read them — I have.) If he doesn’t, as you had suggested he’s trolling for a reaction, then he’s whore. Which is worse?
“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.”
Rush obviously didn’t actually believe he was going to call. He wasn’t serious. God you have no sense of humor. Rush didn not think he was special.
@TowerTone
“Another Conservative for Obama in ’08…and Mitt in ’12”
I’m struggling big time this election as well.
Possibly Obama for me as well, cannot vote for the maverick McCain.
IMHO Rush is entertainment for the most part.
America is all about someone being successful in what they can do best, and Rush has certainly done that – kudos to him.
20 some years ago I was a huge Rush fan and a relative wrote him a letter. He sent me an autographed photo and I thought that was very cool, it is here in my office.
@Hm
“@ angela
I care what Chrissy thinks is funny. Oh, and Rush — if he believes what he says — is a bigot. (The transcripts are there, just read them — I have.) If he doesn’t, as you had suggested he’s trolling for a reaction, then he’s whore. Which is worse?”
Its called Sarcasm or humor. He is not a bigot. He’s an entertainer. So actors playing in a movie are whores? You make no sense.
I’m one of those lib commies but Rush now has a little bit of a soft spot in my heart for talking Mac.
Congrats, MacDailyNews!
“MacDailyNews.com” was mentioned today on the most listened to radio talk show in America, broadcast on over 600 radio stations nationwide!
Thanks, Angela
And since you are a newbie here, I’ll vouch for ChrissyOne for always being true to her convictions. She is, after all, the coolest bike riding, camera snapping, bass playing, Mac using, quick witted dude-ess that I know of. Whatever that means.
A real swinger
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Lol. I think that says it all.
No problem TowerTone.
Let’s all take a moment to thank God for creating the two liberal Democratic, hippie capitalists Steve Jobs and Steve Woz, who in turn created Apple computers in liberal, hippie Northern California.
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.
Schedule? What schedule? TimeMachine follows its own schedule. It’s either on or off.
Steve should let the racist, drug-addled bigot stew. The Mac Community does not need conservative idiots. Well, to be fair the world would be better off without them and their stupidity…
Go to hell Rush …. why don’t you go and score some more oxycontin …. Steve Jobs hates you … go buy a freaking Dell ….
@Ag
“The Mac Community does not need conservative idiots. Well, to be fair the world would be better off without them and their stupidity…”
I am no Rush Limbaugh but am conservative and easily contribute $20K or so in Apple’s coffers every year. Capitalism is all of us choosing the products we deem best. Apple, as any company, needs all of us.
The people that hate Rush are the same ones that want ANOTHER Clinton in the WH. The first Clinton rode the coattails of policys enacted way before he came into office then drug the Presidency through one scandal after another. Sorry, I don’t want the Wife that enabled him to be sitting there while he diddles the staff. Of course women will vote purely on the fact that the Candidate has boobs and is missing a appendage, yada, yada yada, you’ve all heard it before. Not that I think Bush has been great, there’s just NO WAY I’d ever want another Clinton in the office.
And Rush, no matter whether you like him or not, has a right to speak his mind and use his Mac in peace. You iddiots wishing him bad are just being petty and childish. Even though I’m sure Hillary is a XP/Vista user I always hope that an old dog could learn new tricks.
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@ angela,
If Rush were portrayed as a comedian/actor by most of his supporters, I would agree with you. But he’s not. If he were attempting to entertain, rather than influence, I would also agree with you. But again, he’s not. You must be familiar with the term “ditto-heads.” Rush is listed/marketed/listened-to as a political activist. He is a major contributor to the demise of real political dialog in the country.
And no, I’m not crazy. But I am a carrier…
Rush loves Mac and hates MacCain!
What a jackass. He bitches about Apple on his show because of those two problems?!? He made it sound like he couldn’t print or check his email or something.
What an asshat.
Fsck all crybaby liberals!
Does anyone listen to that wind bag anymore?
Spread the hate Rush, spread the hate.
mullman
I know what you mean. It is not that I don’t admire McCain. I do. As a Democrat though. Seriously.
When I was growing up in the 60’s, his persona was my idea of a Democrat, and I can respect him for that.
But not as a Republican.
So why would I vote for Obama? “Civil” war. And by that, I honestly mean “with civility”.
At some point in our near future, America will have to face whether or not we actually are the “Beacon on the Hill” to other nations. Our economy and military will have to remain strong for this to happen. But first, we need to clean out the closet. Get it organized. And the sooner, the better.
I have never really accepted that America could actually have a viable third party. I think I see a way now.
It would allow Republicans to go back to being conservative, and Democrats to be strong on social issues but not weak on defense, and without dragging both parties into Socialism.
Give the far left what they want in the form of the most liberal candidate there is (who also seems to be honest..that is a very important element. This won’t work with the Clinton’s in power).
President Obama. I’m serious. Let’s get it over with.
And I don’t mean send him up there just to rip him to shreds. Actually try to work with him in Congress. The proof will be in the pudding.
We would have to stop short of expanding entitlements, as that can never be changed.
If it is as disastrous as Carter was, then there will be a viable Democrat to challenge him, and they will have to be to the right of Obama, which will allow the Republicans to move back to where they should be, which is not to send someone like McCain up there.
Now, I wouldn’t expect Obama to just sit it out after losing to Mark Warner (did I print that out loud?). That is where the third party could actually begin to assert itself, by running a President for re-election. The Socialist Party. They won’t be called that, of course, and it can include many of the groups that the Democrats are getting tired of listening to, not to mention the ones that are getting tired of the Democrats ignoring them after the elections are over.
Now this is not a class structure (rich, poor, middle class) or racial (black, white, mixed) but an actual separation of ideas and ideals. And it is the ONLY way that the uber-libs will ever get any real power, ’cause the Clinton’s damn sure don’t care about you.
For y’alls consideration.
Thanks
So, that’s the master plan, Tower Tone? You left out the religious right. Where do they fit in? Will they become a 4th party?
@Hm
If Rush were portrayed as a comedian/actor by most of his supporters, I would agree with you. But he’s not. If he were attempting to entertain, rather than influence, I would also agree with you. But again, he’s not. You must be familiar with the term “ditto-heads.” Rush is listed/marketed/listened-to as a political activist. He is a major contributor to the demise of real political dialog in the country.
And no, I’m not crazy. But I am a carrier…
Rush is considered a political comedian to his supporters. However I do agree with you that he has influence. HOWEVER, his supporters ARE NOT racist and would not listen to HIM if he was racist. He is continually taken out of context. He has continually had his comments twisted.