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http://pleasefixtheiphone.com/problems/view/6330/ 5,376 Views / 49 Replies  
http://pleasefixtheiphone.com/problems/view/6330/
Posted by Thanar, on Jan 29, 2009 at 05:26 AM, in iPhone, iPad & iPod
Luck you, having access to Genius Bar.... 1,240 Views / 13 Replies  
Luck you, having access to Genius Bar. Unfortunatelly, I am in Greece, iPhone is supported by Vodafone around here, and asking for a replacement would mean having to switch back to my old phone,...
Posted by Thanar, on Jan 28, 2009 at 06:50 AM, in iPhone, iPad & iPod
Interesting site, osiris... Although most of the... 1,240 Views / 13 Replies  
Interesting site, osiris... Although most of the "fixes" are "whishes", actually.

I have opened a request right there regarding all bluetooth issues, but needs a bit of a push:...
Posted by Thanar, on Jan 27, 2009 at 03:55 PM, in iPhone, iPad & iPod
Eager to see whether this update fixes (some of)... 1,240 Views / 13 Replies  
Eager to see whether this update fixes (some of) the bluetooth issues lots of people are facing...
Posted by Thanar, on Jan 27, 2009 at 03:13 PM, in iPhone, iPad & iPod
I really don't see how you can ommit serious bugs... 5,376 Views / 49 Replies  
I really don't see how you can ommit serious bugs of the iPhone, and rumble about stuff that aren't really that necessary. That said, I take it that noone of you guys ever faced bluetooth issues.
...
Posted by Thanar, on Jan 27, 2009 at 01:17 PM, in iPhone, iPad & iPod
As a matter of fact, I have opened a thread... 153,023 Views / 1,309 Replies  
As a matter of fact, I have opened a thread discussing the possible bug I am facing, in BOINC's dev forums, here (http://boinc.berkeley.edu/dev/forum_thread.php?id=2413). You may want to have a look,...
Posted by Thanar, on Jan 14, 2008 at 07:02 PM, in Team MacNN
I've been a Mac user for over 10 years. I've done... 153,023 Views / 1,309 Replies  
I've been a Mac user for over 10 years. I've done extensive debugging. Already tried lots of possible solutions, e.g. disk/permissions repair, fresh OS install, 10.5 / 10.5.1, on airport / on...
Posted by Thanar, on Jan 14, 2008 at 03:35 PM, in Team MacNN
First off, Happy New Year, everybody! I just... 153,023 Views / 1,309 Replies  
First off, Happy New Year, everybody!

I just came back from the states, with a new MacBook in hand. However, no matter how hard I try to setup BOINC on this machine, it doesn't seem to work as it...
Posted by Thanar, on Jan 13, 2008 at 03:27 PM, in Team MacNN
Hello, I have a somehow similar issue here,... 766 Views / 6 Replies  
Hello,

I have a somehow similar issue here, although it looks like it's exactly the opposite. I have an WSXGA+ ViewSonic TFT (1680x1050 native) and I am trying to connect it to my Intel MacMini...
Posted by Thanar, on Oct 29, 2007 at 12:52 PM, in macOS
Todd, try the renice command in Terminal 153,023 Views / 1,309 Replies  
Todd, try the renice command in Terminal
Posted by Thanar, on Oct 28, 2007 at 05:35 PM, in Team MacNN
The seti client process is set as "nice" by the... 153,023 Views / 1,309 Replies  
The seti client process is set as "nice" by the BOINC manager since the beggining of the project, which I believe is good, since the idea is that somebody uses seti@home as a screensaver (well,...
Posted by Thanar, on Oct 26, 2007 at 03:30 AM, in Team MacNN
I had forgotted how much faster Alex' builds... 153,023 Views / 1,309 Replies  
I had forgotted how much faster Alex' builds really are! Blazing fast compared to the stock workers... Congratulations on your great optimizations, Alex!

Regarding the issue I've been facing for...
Posted by Thanar, on Oct 25, 2007 at 10:42 AM, in Team MacNN
I will try v8 on my G4s and see if the problem I... 153,023 Views / 1,309 Replies  
I will try v8 on my G4s and see if the problem I was having recently regarding the restart of work units when the processor usage % was set lower than 100% persists. This was the only reason I...
Posted by Thanar, on Oct 25, 2007 at 07:03 AM, in Team MacNN
An update: I think I am giving up on Alex'... 153,023 Views / 1,309 Replies  
An update:

I think I am giving up on Alex' builds, since on my Mac Mini I had another failed task:
Sat Aug 25 23:50:37 2007|SETI@home|[file_xfer] Started download of file...
Posted by Thanar, on Aug 26, 2007 at 12:18 PM, in Team MacNN
Finally, the WU exited again, twice, so I reset... 153,023 Views / 1,309 Replies  
Finally, the WU exited again, twice, so I reset the project. I got the exact WU back from the server. If it does it again, I will switch back to the stock client which works fine under 50% CPU (I...
Posted by Thanar, on Aug 24, 2007 at 04:30 AM, in Team MacNN
OK, I think I have some more information on the... 153,023 Views / 1,309 Replies  
OK, I think I have some more information on the restarting issue... Just now, the client paused (although there was no visual feedback from BOINC manager), processor activity near zero, accumulated...
Posted by Thanar, on Aug 23, 2007 at 01:19 PM, in Team MacNN
Looks like something is a bit wrong with Alex'... 153,023 Views / 1,309 Replies  
Looks like something is a bit wrong with Alex' client regarding to its ability to work right with the processor usage percentage under 100%. As you can see from the massages abstract below, I had a...
Posted by Thanar, on Aug 23, 2007 at 01:08 PM, in Team MacNN
I must apologize. Indeed, I downloaded v7.1 again... 153,023 Views / 1,309 Replies  
I must apologize. Indeed, I downloaded v7.1 again and this time it works fine, reporting as 5.27 under the manager. I guess I downloaded a wrong version yesterday, since I went directly to Alex'...
Posted by Thanar, on Aug 23, 2007 at 05:34 AM, in Team MacNN
OK, people, I am now officially puzzled with all... 153,023 Views / 1,309 Replies  
OK, people, I am now officially puzzled with all those client versions. I used to use Alex' clients, but since BOINC started downloading newer versions of the non-optimized client by itself, I let it...
Posted by Thanar, on Aug 22, 2007 at 04:10 PM, in Team MacNN
Talking about modding, I was thinking whether the... 1,004 Views / 6 Replies  
Talking about modding, I was thinking whether the 3D objects could be edited to more simple forms, in order to make the game playable to G4s. Anyone knows where the object files are stored? Did a...
Posted by Thanar, on Jul 18, 2006 at 09:22 AM, in Gaming
I believe the graphics don't get drawn, until a... 153,023 Views / 1,309 Replies  
I believe the graphics don't get drawn, until a graphics window is called, in which case, even after closing the graphics window the corresponding process remains open. That said, I believe that if...
Posted by Thanar, on Jun 26, 2006 at 04:54 PM, in Team MacNN
I would like to share Bob's query about whether... 153,023 Views / 1,309 Replies  
I would like to share Bob's query about whether putting the custom wisdom file in the project's directory adds something to the calculation speed or not. I would like to note that there is NO...
Posted by Thanar, on Jun 22, 2006 at 04:45 PM, in Team MacNN
Updated my online wisdom file using the latest... 153,023 Views / 1,309 Replies  
Updated my online wisdom file using the latest test executable... wisdom file for iBook G4 @ 1.2 (http://homepage.mac.com/rtouris/thanar/temp/wisdom_iBookG4_1.2GHz.zip).

The worker (v5, G4 opt.)...
Posted by Thanar, on Jun 12, 2006 at 02:04 PM, in Team MacNN
OF COURSE you should switch to v4 on the G5! What... 153,023 Views / 1,309 Replies  
OF COURSE you should switch to v4 on the G5! What Alex said is that there are no G5-specific optimizations in v4 yet, but there are more than enough when compared to the stock worker.

Regarding...
Posted by Thanar, on Jun 3, 2006 at 07:40 PM, in Team MacNN
Had this one for quite sometime now... wisdom... 153,023 Views / 1,309 Replies  
Had this one for quite sometime now... wisdom file for iBook G4 @ 1.2 (http://homepage.mac.com/rtouris/thanar/temp/wisdom_iBookG4_1.2GHz.zip).

The client works like a charm, btw... What's more,...
Posted by Thanar, on Jun 2, 2006 at 05:00 PM, in Team MacNN
If the communications has been deferred for a... 153,023 Views / 1,309 Replies  
If the communications has been deferred for a particular ammount of time, there is no way of forcing connection to the servers, you'll have to wait... Actually, there is a way, by modifying some xml...
Posted by Thanar, on May 23, 2006 at 05:58 AM, in Team MacNN
halimedia, Downloading boog's WU and... 153,023 Views / 1,309 Replies  
halimedia,

Downloading boog's WU and starting work on that could be a little tricky... It involves poking around with a handful of BOINC client's xml files. I wouldn't suggest such a strategy. In...
Posted by Thanar, on May 21, 2006 at 06:53 AM, in Team MacNN
Just finished a quick benchmark between the stock... 153,023 Views / 1,309 Replies  
Just finished a quick benchmark between the stock 5.13 and boog's 5.13 versions. Seems like boog's version is just 3% faster... Could it be that it's just the same? Just for the records, I left the...
Posted by Thanar, on May 19, 2006 at 07:24 PM, in Team MacNN
halimedia's idea is a great one. Any one of us... 153,023 Views / 1,309 Replies  
halimedia's idea is a great one. Any one of us could test the same WU twice, e.g. make a simple duplicate of your BOINC folder, test the speed using the official worker and then using boog's. That's...
Posted by Thanar, on May 19, 2006 at 04:53 PM, in Team MacNN
Does the -9 error pop up after the WU computation... 5,363 Views / 96 Replies  
Does the -9 error pop up after the WU computation is completed, or sometime in the middle? I am almost at 50% of an enchanced WU right now and the stderr file is still empty... Should I let it...
Posted by Thanar, on May 15, 2006 at 05:58 PM, in Team MacNN
Checking boog's worker right now under BOINC... 5,363 Views / 96 Replies  
Checking boog's worker right now under BOINC 5.4.9 CLI... Working on an enhanced WU, guess it will take some time... Will wait for the premier result and then modify the app_info in order to include...
Posted by Thanar, on May 15, 2006 at 04:36 PM, in Team MacNN
lepetitmartien, try memtest under singlu-user... 5,363 Views / 96 Replies  
lepetitmartien, try memtest under singlu-user mode and remove extra memory DIMMs to make sure it's not h/w related. Yet it seems that's you've run upon a h/w problem...
Posted by Thanar, on May 11, 2006 at 12:26 PM, in Team MacNN
Well, regarding the new BOINC manager, it seems... 5,363 Views / 96 Replies  
Well, regarding the new BOINC manager, it seems crap as well, afaik. I have the same issue as before: When I'm on batteries, computation doesn't pause, although it reports otherwise under the...
Posted by Thanar, on May 10, 2006 at 07:47 AM, in Team MacNN
No trouble at all with seti enhanced, here. Have... 5,363 Views / 96 Replies  
No trouble at all with seti enhanced, here. Have been running for a couple of days on my iBook G4. Of course, no WUs sent yet... I don't see the need for a hybrid xml file, though, since for the past...
Posted by Thanar, on May 9, 2006 at 03:14 PM, in Team MacNN
The wisdom file was created by the fft2_test... 122,444 Views / 970 Replies  
The wisdom file was created by the fft2_test application to the folder the command was run from in the Terminal. If you did the test under single user mode, you should have mounted a volume first...
Posted by Thanar, on May 6, 2006 at 08:08 PM, in Team MacNN
I have a bigfft_wisdom file from my iBook G4 @... 122,444 Views / 970 Replies  
I have a bigfft_wisdom file from my iBook G4 @ 1.2 Ghz right here (http://homepage.mac.com/rtouris/thanar/temp/bigfft_wisdom_iBookG4_1.2GHz.zip), if anyone is interested. That's for the alpha 5.3...
Posted by Thanar, on May 6, 2006 at 09:33 AM, in Team MacNN
So; I take it that the new Seti@Home... 122,444 Views / 970 Replies  
So;

I take it that the new Seti@Home Enhanced clients for Mac OS X include some optimizations over the previous S@h official versions? Any common tricks between the new S@h-ench. clients and Alex'...
Posted by Thanar, on May 5, 2006 at 04:56 PM, in Team MacNN
Did you chmod +x your executable? If not, give it... 122,444 Views / 970 Replies  
Did you chmod +x your executable? If not, give it a try...
Posted by Thanar, on Apr 25, 2006 at 07:21 AM, in Team MacNN
It's been sometime since I was using SETI@home... 122,444 Views / 970 Replies  
It's been sometime since I was using SETI@home back in '99. I decided to give it a try once more, since I heard there were quite a few PPC-optimized workers around. I finally managed to set it up and...
Posted by Thanar, on Apr 19, 2006 at 04:18 PM, in Team MacNN
I am facing a similar problem. It happens just as... 677 Views / 5 Replies  
I am facing a similar problem. It happens just as soon as the display dims and has an occurrence of around 1 out of 100 times. It usually happens when I press a key on the keyboard after the display...
Posted by Thanar, on Feb 9, 2004 at 05:11 PM, in Mac Notebooks
Well, I guess that at least SOME of the drives... 812 Views / 11 Replies  
Well, I guess that at least SOME of the drives inside the iBook G4s are buggy.

I'll get a replacement as soon as I can and then go ahead and rent some tens DVD and do some more testing...

Thanx...
Posted by Thanar, on Jan 26, 2004 at 09:28 AM, in Mac Notebooks
It is a slightly different problem, but thanx for... 812 Views / 11 Replies  
It is a slightly different problem, but thanx for your reply.

What you said about drive/media incompatibility interests me most. Any additional info?

The DVDs that wouldn't stay into the...
Posted by Thanar, on Jan 20, 2004 at 07:33 PM, in Mac Notebooks
iBook G4s have slot-loading drives the DVDs... 812 Views / 11 Replies  
iBook G4s have slot-loading drives

the DVDs were not dirty
Posted by Thanar, on Jan 20, 2004 at 07:08 AM, in Mac Notebooks
OK, I guess I wasn't clear enough on my first... 812 Views / 11 Replies  
OK, I guess I wasn't clear enough on my first post, so let me rephrase:

On both iBooks, the DVDs in question DO NOT EVEN MOUNT! They all eject 10-20 seconds after insertion!

So this is a...
Posted by Thanar, on Jan 19, 2004 at 08:58 PM, in Mac Notebooks
Nope, you are wrong... All DVDs were region... 812 Views / 11 Replies  
Nope, you are wrong...

All DVDs were region 2 coded.
Furthermore, I have seen several similar reports on Apple's discussions.

Any more ideas?
Posted by Thanar, on Jan 19, 2004 at 02:51 PM, in Mac Notebooks
iBook G4: DVD Playback Problem 812 Views / 11 Replies  
Hello,

I have a 12" iBook G4, as well as a 14" one. I have rented 10 DVDs, but I found that half of them (the same ones) do not play on both iBooks. However, they play fine on a PowerBook 15" and...
Posted by Thanar, on Jan 19, 2004 at 02:26 PM, in Mac Notebooks
As a matter of fact, there is a new build out,... 992 Views / 6 Replies  
As a matter of fact, there is a new build out, but wont work under 10.2. It has been pulled due to the fact. As soon as at least ONE person is working on Myth3, we will get out update. Eventually.
...
Posted by Thanar, on Sep 8, 2002 at 05:59 PM, in macOS
Of course I did! Both of them! I was using a more... 992 Views / 6 Replies  
Of course I did! Both of them! I was using a more recent beta build of Myth 3. When I reverted to the original, the situation was a lot better, but still after a 6-hours game I had a kp after a long,...
Posted by Thanar, on Sep 8, 2002 at 04:42 PM, in macOS
10.2 still not stable enough... 992 Views / 6 Replies  
Today I upgraded to OS X 10.2. It is a great leap forward, undoubtely. However, I still thing it lacks big time in matter of stability when dealing with openGL applications.

I was having problems...
Posted by Thanar, on Sep 7, 2002 at 08:22 PM, in macOS
QuickTime 6 Preview is out, but still no sign of... 1,194 Views / 12 Replies  
QuickTime 6 Preview is out, but still no sign of any deinterlacing feature build into QuickTime. Any newer ideas regarding exports?
Posted by Thanar, on Jul 11, 2002 at 11:03 AM, in Art & Graphic Design
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