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).
@madgune
Rush continually credits Mac for being a great computer. In fact he raves. He was not “BITCHING”. You people just can’t stand to be civil when it comes to him.
@ angela
“However I should point out that there is unbelievable hypocrisy in the left as well.”
Yes… and? I’m waiting? That’s like saying that everybody tells a lie at some point in their lives. Well, duh. But were talking about a specific person and a specific act of hypocrisy. You’re more than welcome to bring up any “Lefty” who is guilty of hypocrisy, but to just blanket statement that it exists is horribly obtuse. Be specific if you’re going to criticize.
And just because somebody else is a hypocrite is no excuse for Rush’s appallingly hypocritical statement. Which he made on national radio. Heard by tens of thousands of people. In rest homes and trailer parks across the land.
@ Chuck you farley
“Does anyone listen to that wind bag anymore?”
Why yes they do. In fact he is STILL number 1.
just tried from mail, and restored an email from october.
It automatically created a new folder named “Time Machine” holding just the one restored email. Perfect.
just went back and selected multiple messages. Just fine.
One problem solved. I know someone at my office that could have used this yesterday. They lost the email that told them to cancel a daily report. Now that the requester is short 18k, they claim they didn’t ever ask for the daily report to be cancelled… three months ago.
@ mullman
“You said conservatives where boring.”
I never said any such thing. I said name 10 funny conservatives. When you’ve done that, maybe you could name a few with listening skills.
If it were only true
Republicans stand for:
1. They stand for small government.
2. They stand for not killing babies before they are born.
3. They stand against terrorism.
4. They stand for small government that stays out of your lives.
5. They stand for strong fiscal policy.
6. They stand for capitalism.
7. They stand for freedom.
8. They stand for the free market.
As a Responsible Liberal –
1. Hey, I’m for a more efficient government – let’s do that instead. Let’s start with transparency. Who is spending what and where. That goes for EVERY one that gets a check from MY taxes and yours – Military included. \sarcasm-What about military vouchers like Bush Sr. created for education /sarcasm. This current Republican CONTROLLED government has definitely NOT gotten smaller.
2. I’m all for sex education – hopefully we can avoid unwanted pregnancies and not rely on religious fear to direct sex un-education. Everyone agrees abortion is a terrible form of birth control.
3. We’re all against terrorism. And who was that terrorist guy Bush let get away – oh yeah Ben Laden. It’s been 6 years now? (“Frankly I don’t think about him any more – George W. Bush”)
4. All for less government in our lives. Like wiretapping (how’s that for “government getting in your life”). I won’t even get into sex in your own bedroom. Or is that a church intrusion? Hard to tell these days.
5. Strong fiscal policy? Well, I haven’t seen that in the last 8 years of Republican control. But I’m definitely for it.
6. I’m all for responsible Capitalism – not at the expenses of the environment or neglect of people that are less fortunate than others. Hey, were trying to create a decent society, not a purely Darwinian system where the weak die on the streets.
7. I’m all for Freedom – apparently Republicans don’t think we’re free enough unless we are being watched by the government – to make sure we are free – from terrorism (“There is such a thing as too much Freedom – George W. Bush”)
8. All for a free market – I work for myself – what about you?
You should get some better information and clear your head of single minded ignorant right wing propaganda.
@ Montex
“Yes… and? I’m waiting? That’s like saying that everybody tells a lie at some point in their lives. Well, duh. But were talking about a specific person and a specific act of hypocrisy. You’re more than welcome to bring up any “Lefty” who is guilty of hypocrisy, but to just blanket statement that it exists is horribly obtuse. Be specific if you’re going to criticize.
And just because somebody else is a hypocrite is no excuse for Rush’s appallingly hypocritical statement. Which he made on national radio. Heard by tens of thousands of people. In rest homes and trailer parks across the land.”
Ask and you shall recieve.
First of all, the claim to be open-minded. I think this thread and the last says it all.
The claim to be against hate, while supporting hatred of Republicans/Conservatives.
Michael Moore insists that corporations are evil and claims he doesn’t invest in the stock market due to moral principle. But Moore’s IRS forms, viewed by Schweizer, show that over the past five years he has owned shares in such corporate giants as Halliburton, Merck, Pfizer, Sunoco, Tenet Healthcare, Ford, General Electric and McDonald’s.
Staunch union supporter Rep. Nancy Pelosi (Calif.) has received the Cesar Chavez Award from the United Farmworkers Union. But the $25 million Northern California vineyard she and her husband own is a non-union shop.
Pelosi has received more money from the Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees union than any other member of Congress in recent election cycles.
The Pelosis are also partners in a restaurant chain called Piatti, which has 900 employees. The chain is – that’s right, a non-union shop.
Ralph Nader is another liberal who claims that unions are essential to protect worker rights. But when an editor of one of his publications tried to form a union to ameliorate miserable working conditions, the editor was fired and the locks changed on the office door.
Self-described socialist Noam Chomsky has described the Pentagon as “the most vile institution on the face of the earth” and lashed out against tax havens and trusts that benefit only the rich.
But Chomsky has been paid millions of dollars by the Pentagon over the last 40 years, and he used a venerable law firm to set up his irrevocable trust to shield his assets from the IRS.
Air America radio host Al Franken says conservatives are racist because they lack diversity and oppose affirmative action. But fewer than 1 percent of the people he has hired over the past 15 years have been African-American.
Ted Kennedy has fought for the estate tax and spoken out against tax shelters. But he has repeatedly benefited from an intricate web of trusts and private foundations that have shielded most of his family’s fortune from the IRS.
One Kennedy family trust wasn’t even set up in the U.S., but in Fiji.
Another family member, environmentalist Robert Kennedy Jr., has said that it is not moral to profit from natural resources. But he receives an annual check from the family’s large holdings in the oil industry.
Barbra Streisand has talked about the necessity of unions to protect a “living wage.” But she prefers to do her filming and postproduction work in Canada, where she can pay less than American union wages.
Bill and Hillary Clinton have spoken in favor of the estate tax, and in 2000 Bill vetoed a bill seeking to end it. But the Clintons have set up a contract trust that allows them to substantially reduce the amount of inheritance tax their estate will pay when they die.
Billionaire Bush-basher George Soros says the wealthy should pay higher, more progressive tax rates. But he holds the bulk of his money in tax-free overseas accounts in Curacao, Bermuda and the Cayman Islands.
Schweizer writes: “Liberals claim to support affirmative action but don’t practice it. They support higher taxes but set up complicated tax shelters to avoid paying them. They claim to be ardent environmentalists but abandon their cause when it impinges on their own property rights.
“The reality is that liberals like to preach in moral platitudes. They like to condemn ordinary Americans and Republicans for a whole host of things – racism, lack of concern for the poor, polluting the environment, and greed.
“But when it comes to applying those same standards to themselves, liberals are found to be shockingly guilty of hypocrisy.
But you’re right, that doesn’t make Rush’s hypocrisy and less. However Rush has taken full responsibility for what he did and apoligized over the air to the country. Can we say the same for the list above? No.
No, Jake. Why would they?
@ angela
My previous post had less to do with Limbaugh and more a commentary on this country’s leaders. I think he is just an opportunist who likes to whip people in a frenzy to stir his ‘base’ get higher ratings. The sad result of that is increased polarization among people on the left and right.
I have some friends who claim to be very republican and I claim to be more liberal relatively. At the end of the day, they have traits that Id call way more liberal (smoking pot and deliberately stealing music online) than I have but they have extreme conservative tendencies from a fiscal standpoint and regarding government interference of businesses. But theyd rather label me liberal (people who are conservative love their labels) since i dont agree with them on those sort of issues.
My big beef is the way this admin has run the country, the military, the economy over the last year years, and in particular the absolute shredding of civil liberties in the name of their security, and the fear mongering they have fomented to achieve such. Does that make me an extreme liberal? No. does it mean that i fear for the future of this country. Yes.
Sadly you cannot voice opposition to this admin without being labeled an idiot liberal. The people doing such are doing themselves and everyone else a disservice by being ignorant and not taking time to reall think about what’s going on.
@macromancer
“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.”
Funny, a quick rewrite and it could describe your sides’ candidates:
I just can’t stand that he/she is a blatant opportunist who doesn’t practice what he/she preaches. He/she is an elitist and essentially whips people into an unnecessary frenzy in order to inflate poll numbers for his/her campaign (read: get power) at the expense of rational dialogue.
That wasn’t hard at all, and I didn’t even have to swear!
@ Driver
“The people that hate Rush are the same ones that want ANOTHER Clinton in the WH.”
Dude – you are way out of touch! Haven’t you been paying attention? Hillary is getting her a** handed to her in the caucuses and primaries. In my state of Washington, every single district went for Obama. As in all of them. In my own precinct it was 4 to 1 for Obama. And in case you hadn’t noticed, Seattle is one of the most “Lefty” cities in the country.
Then again, if you are one of those crazy, right-wing nutjobs that thinks G.W. Bush is the greatest American hero of all time… then I’m just wasting my keystrokes.
@macromancer
You have every right to voice your opinion about the administration. I am not a fan of Bush but certainly don’t think he is a bad as many leftist make him out to be.
Lets be friends macromancer
angela…
I starting to think that is one of Rush’s Top Ten All-Time Favorite Babe Names…..
…or it is going to be.
@ angela
“But you’re right, that doesn’t make Rush’s hypocrisy and less. However Rush has taken full responsibility for what he did and apoligized over the air to the country. Can we say the same for the list above? No.”
I see you are practiced in the art of Straw-Man Arguments. Bravo. You have served your masters well and you shall be rewarded.
It’s all bunk, of course. Just a distraction to keep people from looking at what the Bush Administration is up to. And you ditto heads fall for it every time.
@montex
You asked me to provide examples and now your complaining? Make up your mind.
And yeah, I don’t really support the Bush Adm. that much. So what you just said is utter bullsh1t.
LOL, thank you Tower.
I’d love to post more insults to driver and angela, but I’ve got some polemics in the oven.
kthxbye
The longer I’m around, the more I think Einstein nailed it—and all of us:
«Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I’m not sure about the former.»
We love you too montex.
Good argument Hm…
windbag… not worth reading about. Rush sucks.
“windbag… not worth reading about. Rush sucks.”
LOL. Then why are you here?
@ TT
You rock. But you knew that.
This reminds me of the comments generated by the article showing Karl Rove with an iPhone.
Rush is one of us (a Mac fan) and those of you who slam him for his views and his previous prescription drug addiction are way off base. These are pretty personal attacks and show how small your minds really are.