Rush Limbaugh Begs Steve Jobs For Bug Fixes 689
jlgolson writes "Yesterday, Rush Limbaugh complained on his radio program about some problems that he was having with his Mac: 'Mr. Jobs, please help me. I know we don't agree on anything ... But can you put me to somebody that can get this going, because I know it's gotta work for most people. What am I doing wrong?' Eventually he shared that he was running into actual problems with Time Machine and Back to My Mac. Can you fix them?"
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It's news because it's a known issue with Time Machine that now a high profile user is raising. And it's now something that might get fixed.
Whether you like Rush or hate him (I find him amusing), I'm actually quite interested that he not only uses Macs, but has a network of them.
Of course, there will be the standard set of "evil people use Macs?" If someone actually says it in a new way, I may find that entertaining as well.
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Be interesting to see how quickly Apple coughs up a fix...
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I'd say, "You're new here, aren't you?" but your slashdot ID is 100k lower than mine.
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Argueing about 100K UIDs... whippersnappers..
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Q: What's the difference between Rush Limbaugh and the Hindenburg?
A: One is a flaming Nazi gas bag, the other is a dirigible.
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Rush Limbaugh and his chauffeur were out driving in the country and accidentally hit and killed a pig that had wandered out on a country road.
Limbaugh told the chauffeur to drive up to the farm and apologize to the farmer.
They drove up to the farm, the chauffeur got out and knocked on the front door and was let in. He was in there for what seemed hours. When he came out, Limbaugh was confused about why his employee had been there so long.
"Well, first the farmer shook my hand, then he offered me a beer, then his wife brought me some cookies, and his daughter showered me with kisses," explained the driver.
"What did you tell the farmer?" Limbaugh asked.
The chauffeur replied, "I told him that I was Rush Limbaugh's driver and I'd just killed the pig."
Disclaimer: this joke is not original...
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Niggardly comes from a Scandavian language, and just happens to sound similar a racist term that refers to black people. Other then sounding similar, there is no connection. On the other hand, "ricer" is a derogitory term for Japanese, that then applied to a subset of the Japanese, that then applied to people who were similar to that subset regardless of race. Because the origin of the term is racist, it has racist connotations that niggardly d
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Send Al Gore with a new AirBook and a missing-manual.
Seriously, I'm fairly conservative and _I_ would listen to that radio show (though I don't listen to Rush's show normally). Would be great publicity for all involved and *gasp* might have some serious dialogue on important issues. But like I said, that's about as likely as this thread not turning into a
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Yeah, there's plenty of moderate opinions (known in America as "the left"), but the amount of right-wing posts and moderation here seems a little strange. (election year?)
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They also think that they are being quite successful thanks to their wit and they can't see why everybody cannot do the same, and consequently wonder why they should pay for social security. Hence, they lean to the right. Techies are not very good with empathy, usually.
However, when the whole planet catches on and starts threatening their job, they call for government intervention.
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Yeah, and everybody knows that the conservative right is all about the "science and technology" based solutions. They have no use for "faith" or "religion" based solutions.
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Like bridges and monster trucks, the more widely disseminated the religion, the more massive the suspension.
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You're still abdicating way too much control.
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OTOH that's not the whole story. The terms don't mean the same thing. eg. in the UK Christians, if they're anything, tend to be associated with what we call le
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2) Open debates.
3) Ideas founded on reality, instead of fear.
4) Although many things are, you can't pretend everything is somehow neutral. Some things are right, and some things are wrong.
Wouldn't you agree that sometimes there is a wrong way and sometimes there is a right way?
5) Your leaders. (that's enough right there)
6) Republican values tend to come from "faith based organizations," as opposed to open discussion and debate.
7) Enough homophobia to shake a stick at.
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Last I checked, the United States is doing quite well. Our government hires about 15% of the population directly, and has another 20-25% of the population hired under direct contract work. These are rough numbers, but I did spend a while working in
7) Enough homophobia to shake a stick at.
I really fail to see the relevance here. (Some) right wingers hate gays, (some) left wingers hate men, the middle class, whites, Christians and their own country. How does anyone of that automatically verify someone's beliefs?
My guess is that the GP is noting that, in the US, the political right tends to rally behind anti-gay candidates (both the government officials, and their voters). The GP is making a generality here, for sure, but the generality is at least backed up by the fact that the majority of the political right has this sentiment (or such candidates would not consistently win the vote).
What's most amusing to me is how many of the anti-gay candidates end up rubbing people's ankles in the bathroom (senators, leaders of the christian coalition, etc). Not that the left is any better. I only wish that such political folks would work a little more to understand themselves, and that their constituents would work a little more to understand their leader. That shall continue to be my wish...
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Having lived in a couple of the worst inner cities in the US, and visited the third world, I can tell you haven't.
"Open debate only works when no possibility is dismissed out of hand."
What a ridiculous statement. Let us consider at length the possibility that your brain is made of turnips. We can't have an open debate if we dismiss this out of hand. Do you think trepanation would be the best route for investigation?
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Ah, that's right, because you're self-absorbed, whored-out assholes.
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Cramer, of Kudlow and Cramer, is a shill and villain. He himself admits that at times he has manipulated reporters to get a better stock price for himself. (That goes back to my First LAW: Trust no-one on television.)
Tax breaks for oil companies? It's actually a suspension of wack-ass royalties or a method of paying a company back for royalties they have to pay to another government on oil. Otherwise, they don't drill or do neat things like bitumen reclamation because it would take at least fifteen years to break even. (Unless you don't like plastics, nuclear materials, and your car I would look elsewere.) It's an attempt to balance out gov't interference with more gov't interference. Sort of like tax rebates, not the optimal solution but better than a sharp stick in the eye. (Disclosure: I work for one of the top 10 oil companies in the world. I used to work for a largish movie studio, trust me, Hollywood's fucking you hard. The oil guys are generally cleaner about their business.)
I'm atheist, and I'm anti-gay marriage. Not in the ceremonial sense of the word. I think you can do whatever you like as far as ceremonies are concerned. However, I do think that the gov't should encourage breeding amongst people who are productive as they tend to produce more productive people. (There is a bell curve here, the 2nd generation wealthy tend to be schleps.) Gay's have a particularly hard to cross threshold regarding the breeding thing. It's inconvenient and inefficient for them.
Flag burning sucks. What a bestial and primitive way to express yourself. It is protected speech. If only I could get punching people like that in the nose declared protected speech. Almost makes me as angry as those wack-ass evangelicals screaming at soldier's funerals.
As an atheist, I have never found it difficult to express my views. As a rule atheists spend more time attempting to restrict religious people than the reverse. Mucking about with Christmas and Hannukah traditions is just rude. Your argument is a bit of a canard. Atheists need to spend less time trying convert people and more time showing that you can lead a moral and kind life without a paternal heirarchy based on imaginary friends.
Just one conservative guy's $0.02.
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I'm atheist, and I'm anti-gay marriage ... However, I do think that the gov't should encourage breeding amongst people who are productive as they tend to produce more productive people. (There is a bell curve here, the 2nd generation wealthy tend to be schleps.) Gay's have a particularly hard to cross threshold regarding the breeding thing. It's inconvenient and inefficient for them.
This struck me as somewhat disconnected from the reality of marriage in this country. First of all, the *only* requirement for marriage in this country is that one person is a man, and the other is a woman (and they're not related). There is nothing requiring both parties to be productive members of society, nor is there a requirement of compatibility in a marriage, nor is there any restriction whatsoever on breeding. There are plenty of statistics to show that the most "productive" members of society (a
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a. He's serious
2. There are people who actually believe him.
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iii. He can't make his mind up which numbering system to use for ordered lists. The bastard!
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00000101. profit
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As far as the "general case" goes, I would just quote Thomas Mann: "Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil."
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What it is is a high visibility problem by someone with a huge soapbox to talk about them from. I'd be shocked if Apple's PR types didn't treat this one with kid gloves, and use it for the marketing opportunity that it has the potential of being...
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Fixed.
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My Macbook PRO 10.5.x (now on 10.5.2) locks up a lot more often than my XP machine does. XP almost never locks up.
But my Mac works correctly when it's not locked up. My XP machine often has problems. CD lower filter driver conflicts, explorer locking up because I close Acronis True image interface, Explorer extremely slow when I right click on a folder with WinZip explorer extensions turned on....
The Mac locks up on stupid stuff - like listening to a CD/watching a DVD or usi
Time Machine restores Mail Just Fine (Score:4, Informative)
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It's not difficult to do manually, either. I've duplicated the contents of Mail.app's mailboxes between computers without problems (basically, I didn't want to download a large set of IMAP mailboxes again) - you just need to know which files to copy. I think I cheated and did the whole of ~/Library/Mail along with ~/Library/Pre
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Nope, they improved support for Spotlight and things like that, but it's still one giant file that gets updated anytime anything changes.
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It's the Reese's Peanut Butter Cups of Internet flame wars. I predict a global meltdown of the entire Net within a week.
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;)Sera
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HITLER!
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Mistaken identity (Score:4, Funny)
But from a glance at the last name I, for just a brief second, saw the article title as
"Steve, what happening? Look, I've got some problems with my Mac here, it's being a bit of a bother... yeah... so if could you come in on Saturday to fix it, maybe even Sunday... that would be terrific... mkay?"
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"Yes, Mr. Limbaugh, if you just open a terminal right now
And so on.
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You could make it simpler, though -- give him a few scripts to run on each computer in his network, entitled "defect_patch_432553.sh".
"You may get a few warnings, and you'll need to enter your password to authorize the changes -- yes, that's pretty normal when you're applying a custom patch like this, since it needs to make some changes to the underlying operating system, which is protected. Ah, it's all done now? Excellent."
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Yes, but it removes the possibility of leading Mr. Limbaugh realistically on to step (xiv), the Infernal Dance of Data Recovery - namely, him dancing around on the charred remains of his former abused Macintosh, stark-bollock-naked, covered in animal grease, recovery CDs stuffed up his backside, singing the Swedish national anthem.
Backwards.
Y'see, you have to pace your technical advice properly. What's the use of destroying all his data in one f
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Oh what, it isn't supposed to apply to him?
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1.) Screen Sharing - Use VNC. http://www.redstonesoftware.com/products/vine/server/vineosx/index.html [redstonesoftware.com]. Its free, easy to use, and if someone whines about it being insecure - kick them, hard.
2.) Email backup with Time Machine - You failed to mention just what email program you are using, I fear you may be using Apple Mail. If so you have you have my condolences as Apple Email is not truly an email program, but some sort of psychological test program designed at driving its users insane. I suggest using thunderbird - http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/thunderbird/ [mozilla.com]. There are many add-on for backup email. Again its free and easy to use.
Somewhere along the line Apple got this reputation that ANY thing they make is solid gold and perfect in all ways. I can assure you this is very much not true. Hopefully this helps and lets you get back to your insane rantings.
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Apple Mail has worked fine for our users for a number of years, the big advantage is obviously its integration with OS X features like the address bo
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The bugs may not be fixable... (Score:3, Informative)
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Rush Limbaugh uses a Mac? (Score:5, Funny)
Rush asks a Democrat for help??? (Score:3, Funny)
After attacking democrats for years, he finally gives in to pleading to a prominant corporate democrat for help. Boy, I love the sweet smell of irony in the morning.
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I hope he gets ignored by apple because going on your radio show and addressing yourself to the man in charge of apple is no way to get tech support. Maybe his listeners will come up with some fixes, and frankly I hope they do because then anyone having the same problem will benefit from hearing it on the air.
Re:Fie on Rush (Score:4, Informative)
Its been my experience that the people that most vocally accuse Limbaugh of hate speech have not formed that opinion through their own experience of listening to the show, but rather through what other media and Limbaugh's political opponents report that he said. Is that the case with you?
Lets take the Michael J Fox story that you mentioned as an example. Mr. Limbaugh stated on-air that he thought Michael Fox had exaggerated his Parkinson's symptoms in a political ad, and that he had done so for theatric benefit. It was clearly in Fox's best interest to make his disease look as debilitating as possible, and his tremors in the ad were much more pronounced than we usually saw from him. Limbaugh said that he would be the first apologize to Fox if that wasn't the case. But guess what? Rush was right. Fox later admitted that he purposely skips his medication before public events like this so people will see his worst case symptoms. Here [akamai.com] is a video clip of him admitting this.
So was that hate speech, or was it an attempt to inject more honesty in a charged political debate? Unfortunately, the partisans have already made their minds up on the answer to that.
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-Jeff
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Bottomeline: there's a bit more to him than meets the eye. Yes, he's a zealot, offensive, etc., but he is not useless. Everyone has something to offer, and we must glean what we can from all people in our lives whether we meet them in person, watch them on tv or listen to on the radio, or even read their thoughts from a book. Even Hamlet found Claudius intriguing at times.
Nietzsche had to look into the abyss to discover it looked back....
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I don't think you know what "liberal arts" are. Liberal Arts in the academic context has nothing to do with political affiliation, and more to do with an academic philosophy based on balancing practical knowledge with more esoteric cultural studies and arts. Thus you can't just go to school for your MBA, you must also take some humanities. A Liberal Arts school is one with a
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you are criticizing Rush Limbaugh because you think he insults people, and you chose to do that by... insulting him?
Hey jackhole, get a clue. When a bloated gasbag spews lies about an advocate for people with a debilitating disease, you're goddamned right he gets insulted. And when Rush mocks the disease's effects [alternet.org] , shaking his body spastically around on camera to mimic Fox's illness, oh holy crap does he deserve to be insulted. Shakespeare didn't write enough insults for sick bastard whores like Rush Limbaugh.
But guess what? Rush was right. Fox later admitted that he purposely skips his medication before public events like this so people will see his worst case symptoms. Here is a video clip of him admitting this.
Guess what, you brain-dead moron? In that video clip Fox denies what he supposedly admitted, saying explici
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Please give Rush Limbaugh the benefit of actually reading what Michael J. Fox said--he's admitting to 'tinkering' with his meds--but he did it not to be 'theatrical', but rather to be 'uncomfortable' during his presentation. [...] I'm left with the impression that Fox *did* (at one time) deliberately 'tinker' with his medications...
Here's what Fox actually said:
Fox is explicitly denying the "impression" that you claim you have. You are using a quote from Rush Limbaugh, who chopped off the preface "It isn't as if," which gives the quote the exact opposite meaning.
And then you chastised me for not using the "entire quote." Wow.
I mean maybe you want to say Fox is a big liar or whatever, but to selectively edit his quote to pretend he's saying the exact opposite of what you say he's saying...? C'mon.
What Fox was saying was that he didn't do anything special with his meds that way, but (as he's explained elsewhere) he has good days and bad days, and it did seem somehow appropriate for him to be having a kind of bad day on that particular day. These two things can both be true.
I know you already said you like Glenn Beck, but... try to think for yourself please. Sheesh.
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And I just finished up a lengthy back and forth with a Ron Paul guy - so that's saying something.
No one denies that bugs are a part of life. No one denies that we all have experience with them. The article is noteworthy - and Slashdot assigns it primarily, and appropriately - to the "it's funny" tag because, well, it's funny to hear a national talk show host discuss not only bugs with software, but to discuss them quite specifically. It's a
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I have a son. I'm just one step away from a child abuser, and should be equated with child abusers?
And I've had sex with a woman (see above), does this leave me one step away from being a rapist and misogynist?
Yup, entirely vapid post, you got it right.
It's been my experience that many of the people that hate Rush the most are genuinely intolerant of dissenting opinion, recommend that he (and others 'like him') b
Re:Why does he get a personal forum on Slashdot? (Score:5, Insightful)
Rush is definitely a hyperpartisan, but he's an opinion man. Most of what he says is just opinion. He's not comparable to Rwandan massacres, and he's probably more accurate than Air America, (I enjoy both, but Rush is a lot more chill, frankly).
Rush is following a high tradition: free speech. Yeah, I disagree with a lot of it, but I wish all hyperpolitical folks did their work with such a sense of humor about them. I certainly don't think he's dangerous. He's been attacked by censors who are linked to powerful political dynasties, and a lot of the "hate radio" label has come from them. They are your enemy, my friend. They wan tto shu Rush up so they gain some miniscule political advantage. Let Rush speak, and feel free to speak against him. That's what democracy looks like.
It's sad that liberals aren't all like me, and willing to let everybody give their best argument. I don't pretend anyone has all the answers, so no one out there can claim to always be right and Rush to always be wrong. Listen to him sometime, an be serious about it. He's full of goading and he's biassed as all hell, but he really isn't that angry.
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Bugs are a part of life in the software world -- they're annoying and painful, but like death and taxes, there's no way of avoiding their existence.
Is that a truth, or the way you (and most of the software industry) thinks right now?
I think it's the later. Claiming that bugs are simply there and you should take it like a man are cheap excuses to avoid the less sexy, more structured and more formal methods that do exist and are proven to produce code that, while it isn't without bugs entirely, has a bug count several orders of magnitude lower than the way most of us write code.
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