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).
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Thanks!
(and when I was younger, I rolled…cause I had the steady hand)
You’re just jealous…admit it! Rush buys as many Macs as he wants to…and always buys them maxed out! Cutting edge.
@ TT
I quit rolling, too. Ran out of binkys.
What you call “HATE” is actually disgust with you and frustration that you wasting perfectly good air with your breathing. Kindly sod off.
I ran out of serotonin….
@ SMacSteve
Rush has built an entire career out of petty, personal attacks. We’re just returning the favor.
Now if you’ll excuse me, I’m all in against Bill Bennett at blackjack.
@ TT
Bah, enjoy it while you’re young, I say. I’m sure when I’m old they’ll have even better drugs to fill the gaping void.
Or sex bots. I really can’t wait for sex bots.
Hmmmm
That string of so called facts from Angela sound organized and rehearsed. Isn’t Ann short for Angela? . . . Could we possibly be being had by Ms. Coulter?
I thought I smelled rotten fish.
“I’m sure when I’m old they’ll have even better drugs to fill the gaping void”
Yes. And they will be called “suppositories”….
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This type of news is numbing and mindless. Politics aside, it is really beyond Rush to simply call Apple Care and get it sorted out? Give me a break.
“Funny, a quick rewrite and it could describe your sides’ candidates:”
Funny, you seem to think you know my politics.
Independent.
Period.
I’d actually consider voting for a republican if they wouldn’t nominate one that wants to rewrite the constitution based on the Bible or bomb Iran/leave troops in Iraq for 100 more years.
Sadly the McCain vote is a vote for 4 more years of what we’ve stewed in for 7+ already. More spending that we cannot afford. More intrusion. More war. More fear mongering.
And BTW thank you for proving my point about how conservatives LOVE to label people the first chance they get. It was like clockwork.
“those of you who slam him for his views and his previous prescription drug addiction are way off base. “
No he deserves every bit of criticism he gets for spouting off how anyone doing drugs illegally should be thrown in jail and locked up, and then doing an about face when the shoe is on the other foot.
It’s always different when its you. I’d have a shred of respect for him if he had ever recanted his statement and showed a little humility.
“conservatives LOVE to label people”
Are you labeling me a labeler?….
How ironic.
Who can have faith in a Party who’s two biggest pundits are Rush Limbaugh and Ann Coulter.
The absolute scary thing about it is that there is a percentage of the nation devoid of individual thought who can only regurgitate the poison spewed from these two.
Listen to Rush’s show – it’s monothematic-group thought at it’s very best.
Daaaam.
DataPotato, layyin’ down the lawww.
Rush,
Don’t let the liberal weenies / socialists that post here get you down. I’m a diehard conservative, I love Macs, and everybody in my office (about 40 physicians) has moved over to Macs. I guess it goes without saying that those 40 physicians also all work for a living and are therefore Republicans. As you know, liberalism is a mental disorder that is hard to cure, and we physicians can’t afford to be impaired in this way.
MD
Talk about me on the radio Rush!!!
I have an idea…
Those of you who want to discuss politics, or bash other people, go find a website just for that.
That way, when you come to this site, hopefully that crap will be all out of your system, and we can have an on-topic discussion, mkay?
For the record, I am neither to the right, nor to the left. I am an educated individual, and I prefer to make my choice based on issues, rather than simply voting for my party.
I am a registered republican, but only because I find myself just to the right of center.
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Rush,
I’m a die-hard tool and can’t be bothered to think for myself. Thanks for saving me the time for three hours everyday! You’re the voice of quiet, scholarly dignity in a world of brain-diseased baby-eating liberals. You’re even better than David Duke. Please accept my body to penetrate as you desire. One day, I’d love to drink your sweet, sweet man-chowder on a bed of fragrant flower petals. Until then, I’ll hear your divine voice echoing through my dreams.
-ditto
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Party of Two
Rush,
Please forgive me for what I just said. It is I that is the toolshed. I’m a lonely girl who has too much time on my hands, and I spend an inordinate amount of my day perusing the “Comments” section of MDN, trying to think up witty responses to comments, and getting the regulars that come here worked up about my sexuality. Secretly, I realize that liberalism isn’t truly tolerant and that it ultimately leads to fascism.
Sorry again,
ChrissyUno
P.S. From this day forward, I’m going to vote for God-fearing leaders and I’m going to get no more body piercings or tatoos.
Mussolini?!! you quote a stark raving lunatic to support your ideological left leanings? OMG no wonder liberals are stupid, and besides that you should look up definitions of words when quoting people from “cross the pond, liberal in Europe is not anything like it is here, or don’t you bother to pay attention to the world? Watch British parliament once and while and you might notice that liberal and conservative opponents are the exact opposite as here. BTW did you ever notice how close “ideological” is to “idiot”?
Rush, if you’re reading this, come back from the Dark Side.
Vote for Obama.
So, liberalism is a mental disorder?
What’s conservatism… an anal disorder? It must be. It’s what kept Rush out of military duty.