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).
@Mark the MD,
To paraphrase Winston Churchill:
“if you’re twenty and not a liberal, you have no heart; if you’re forty and not a conservative, you have no brain”
Sooooo, being as that I’m approaching forty………..
Mark
P.S. I’m not sure I completely get the “anal disorder” thing other than you associating the word anal with conservative. Do anal disorders keep you out of the military? If so, you know more about these disorders than I. In the future, could you at least try to be slightly witty?
“and getting the regulars that come here worked up about my sexuality”
You think that’s what I was doing? Oh… I’d crush you like a grape, little man.
That picture of rush makes him look like Knight Rider.
Sort of a lumpy, golf-cart driving Knight Rider, but…
Awww, poor Rush. Take some pills to ease the pain.
Rush!, Time Machine is flawed in concept
For over 20 years Apple did not provide any sort of OS based backup method. People manually backed up files or even used automated software to do so.
In OS 9 days it was a simple matter to simply copy the System Folder to another drive using the Finder. Today we can’t do that.
The reason Apple introduced Time Machine is because of gradual introduction of the building blocks for Digital Rights Management, aka “copy protection” schemes. Which require hiding and protecting parts of the OS and/or EFI firmware. So with Time Machine, Apple can choose what gets backed up, instead of the whole drive, OS and all, like it used to be. This is why a Time Machine drive is not boot-able.
First it started with OS X not being able to be simply copied via the Finder, next computers with Extensible Firmware Interface (EFI) where introduced with the announcement of Apple’s switch to Intel processors. Intel, Microsoft , AMD and others have gotten together to place restrictions on what a user can do with their own computer. EFI is pre OS boot shell environment that can: contact the internet; read and move files around on the drive, intercept OS and software calls to hardware (to prevent a copy of a c.d. for instance) and it’s chief purpose; to monitor machines remotely via the internet to verify DRM schemes. All this occurs independently of the OS and even BEFORE THE OPERATING SYSTEM EVEN LOADS. So through EFI your drive can be observed via the internet, what software you have, files etc. (why you should be encrypting your drive via System Preferences). The industry, led by Intel, has designed computers that eventually will NOT WORK IF NOT CONNECTED TO THE INTERNET.
Because of this the reason Time Machine is flawed is because Apple is deciding what you should be allowed to backup. Instead of you deciding what should be backed up.
Apple has decided to limit what you backup and the users nature is to want to backup everything.
Apple doesn’t really want you to be able to make a duplicate boot-able drive in case of hardware failure and the users nature is to have a alternate duplicate of a drive so they can immediately get back with a working OS, all their files and applications in place in a mater of seconds. Instead of hours or days with a total rebuild and backup from Time-Machine.
What is the solution since we are unable to simply copy our entire boot drives via the Finder? Use cloning software.
Cloning software copies EVERYTHING, from one drive to another on the bit level. Not based upon OS or Time Machine preferences or limitations.
The two best cloning softwares are Carbon Copy Cloner and Super-Duper! Both can be auto-mated to clone your entire boot drive and update it for you whenever you wish. This offers a much superior backup experience compared to the flawed Time-Machine. To boot from a clone of a boot drive, simply hold option while the drive is hooked up and a choice of boot drives is given.
So if your under deadline, your hard drive fails to boot the computer. Simply hook up the clone and ‘hold option boot’ and you have lost little time, just the things you haven’t cloned from the last time.
Cloning is the best method. Until Time-Machine is boot-able and offers the superior experience and reliability of cloned drives, it’s flawed in my opinion.
I just love this guy. If we only could get Rush Limbaugh to Norway. We need someone to clean up the politics here.
You make my day.
ChrissyOne,
Like a grape?
Are you some sort of martial arts expert or possibly a “full-sized” woman?
MD
Rush Limbaugh was disqualified from Vietnam-era draft due to a pilonidal cyst.
He’s gay right ? Because he sure dresses like one.
@gheem macdaddy
WELL SAID MATE.
MDN really rocks on theses sort of issues, I get a better understanding of American politics here, than from all the papers or the goggle box.
Here it is focused … sharp.
@ron
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We should all better go and learn chineese, now… English speech might soon be left for history!
Can you speak or write Chinese, French, German, Spanish, etc?
Oh! Or then, perhaps, it should be prohibited for all nonAnglo-Saxon natives to express himself in an american-english speeking forum? 8x
PS |o| I guess, the problem is: many people don’t master their very own language and send poorly corrected texts…
@SKY LARK
Same for me!
I’m always flabergasted when i read about these Democrates and Republcans discussions… From the outside, it’s 2 names for exactly the same mentality… Maybe it would be a good thing for America to add some more political parties in the ring and have some more choice when voting…
@ Rush Rules
You seem to be in a bit of a state. You need to get back on your medication.
RUSH: We’ll be updating 30 computers to Leopard by April 1st and using Time Machine to back them all up to a big Xserve. I’m the first test. I’ll let you know what we figure out keep checking back here, if I find a solution. I’ll post it. We MUST have e-mail backup so that will be a priority mission.
I also wanted to use Back to My Mac, and will be testing that also.
My home computers are all on Airport.
here’s an email answer. Rush, I dont know if you will get to this but here goes. The problem youre having lies in the time of email server you are using. If it is hotmail, then you are using pop3. That’s crappy. You want to switch to an email service that uses IMAP. Gmail uses IMAP. I hate hotmail for it. Hopefully that solves your problem.
I’ve used Apple Computers since September of 1981. I have been a conservative since….well, probably since I was born. I am a dyed in the wool Republican. My house contains 7 running, networked Macs including the 2008 Mac Pro.
Rush is great and I listen to him, on the radio, whenever I can. I think you liberals on here should take note that Rush, who is a heck of a lot more reasonable, isn’t slamming Jobs because he is Liberal. He recognizes they have differences and it’s not about Politics but Macs. You guys are trying to make political issue out of someone asking for help on the platform you use! Dumb!
1. If he needs more than simple screen sharing, buy a copy of Remote Desktop.
2. It’s good he uses Macs, it’s better than being an uneducated PC bigot.
3. He’s still a hypocrite drug using deluded right winger.
I can’t understand why people vote the wrong way, but they do.
If I can figure out the right way to vote, why can’t everyone else?
They must just be stupid.
But… from watching all those smug Mac/PC commercials, I thought Macs didn’t HAVE problems!
Okay, here’s the sick and twisted little mind I have…
Rush isn’t the only controversial “political” figure to profess his love for Macs–Al Sharpton is also a big fan. Do the conservative MDN readers have any nice things to say about Sharpton’s Mac fandom? Let’s hear it…
On a similar note, MDN has been bloviating for years that Apple should pay Rush as a pitchman—how about this for a series of commercials:
In much the format of the old Howie Long/Teri Hatcher ads, Al Sharpton and Rush Limbaugh in seeming but unstated domestic bliss together extol the virtues of the Mac. Rush can show Al how easily he made a photo album of their latest trip to Atlantis. Al can show Rush how easy it is to find in Spotlight that video of the bar mitzvah they went to last week that Rush thought he lost. Finish up with the tagline that Macs have been bringing people together for over two decades.
I thnink that it is funny how LEFT wing everyone thinks the Democrats are. In Canada, they would would be so RIGHT wing that they would compete for Neo-facism. That said, I hope that the Democrats win in November and that Michael Moore Rules!
Oh, and get some Universal Healthcare already!!
Rush, as an avowed Republican, I respect your following your nose toward excellent computing, even if many of its adherents think “Think Different” can only mean think liberal.