A thread for boring computer questions.

With a Blue Microphones Snowball Microphone and Garage Band, can I record and edit interviews on a Mac? Do I need anything else? Does anyone have recommendations for things like microphones for interviews?

So is there anything you can do about spammers spoofing your e-mail account? I have an old yahoo account that I only use for like mailing lists and for site where I don't want to put my main address out there. About a week ago I started getting about 20-30 "undeliverable failure" messages back per week. I've changed the password three times since then (using very strong 14-16 character strings, but I'm still getting about the same amount - no more, no less really. They aren't coming from or going to anyone on my contact list and I see no other signs of a virus, which is why I'm leaning towards my (admittedly generic) e-mail address just being spoofed from somewhere else.

"About two weeks ago"

I don't think the password makes a difference...they're not actually sending the emails from your account (you don't see them in the sent box, right>) I think there's nothing you can do but wait it out. At least that's the tech support I got from Yahoo back when I had a yahoo account and this would happen like very 2 months or so.

Oh yeah, I knew the password wouldn't have mattered once I figured out it wasn't actually a virus or something... but that is always my first instinct when I discover something weird. My research told me pretty much what you are saying, but I thought I'd check in with the ilx knowledge base. Thanks.

Lot of it around. Been getting a bunch of those for my Gmail account just recently. They go straight into spam, so not a problem, but would be nice if they moved onto spoofing someone elses address soon.

Bit of a long shot this one but anyway... The text size in my Skype chat window is ridiculously small (I'm using a high res Macbook pro).

'Command +' blows up the text just fine but in doing so kills the auto-scroll function. Incoming messages are therefore invisible until I've manually scrolled down with the mouse to view them.

Frustrating to say the least!

change the chat font size in preferences?

been havin a right old time with the old chat fonts

Anyone used freenas, clearos, or openfiler?

ok so i have this external HD, USB, seagate

it was always a biiiiit wonky... if it didnt get ejected properly sometimes it would wait a LONG time to mount,a nd need to be unplugged and sit on its own before it did. eventually, it always did.

i went away for a couple of weeks and came back and now it just won't mount at all. OSX cant see it. Disk Utility neither, DiskWarrior treither. can I do anything abotu this ish??

i have unplugged it and replugged it many times. let it set. rebooted.

'the worx'

do you need the data on there?

well... it's not 100% croosh, but i would lose a lot of my music library if it goes.

so basically, i'm willing to do a bunch of annoying shit to get it back, but not pay thousands of bucks.

yeah, my suggestion was going to be wipe and repartition. that gives you a working drive unless there's something physical wrong with the drive.

downside of course is you lose your t swift/cocorosie collection. have you tried reading the drive on another mac? do you know if it's a hfs or windows partition (if the latter then try a windows pc too).

it's a windows partition so my ps3 could read it.

i care more about the physical data than the physical drive itself - but how could i even repartition it if it won't mount at all?

if my cocorosie mp3s disappear, caek... i dont know what i'll do

ah good point. if disk utility can't see it then something is up. definitely try another machine.

p.s. let me know once you've got it up and running and i will send you an mp3 of this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Exm8bKidg4Y

sweet - if i can get some bonus cocorosie mp3s out of this, that would be dope

Can your PS3 read it?

ooohh great question

don't look like it :(

Sounds borked.

:(

Try a different USB cable!

one step ahead of you buddy

:(

(seriously, USB cables can be uppity)
Also try plugging the drive into different USB ports on the Mac. The ext HDD on my PC will only play nice with one particular port.

two steps ahead of you buddy

:(

PC tech in me says the USB->(SATA/IDE) interface has probably croaked but the drive itself is still OK, so crack open the housing and plug the HDD directly into the PC - but you're using a Mac, so are outside of my area of experience.

:(

It does have an SATA (I think that's what it is) port.

Anyone done this with a Mac? Procedure with a PC is to drink coffee and swear a lot.

open the case. inside you will find almost certainly find a hard drive with a regular SATA interface. either find a desktop PC or Mac to connect it to, or find/buy a USB caddy (check size of drive first, most of these will likely do: http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&DEPA=0&Order=BESTMATCH&Description=enclosure&x=0&y=0)

sorry mean to link here: http://www.newegg.com/Store/SubCategory.aspx?SubCategory=92&name=External-Enclosures

Prosoft Data Rescue. Had a drive once where the directory or whatever was so fucked that Disk Warrior wouldn't even mount it to be able to fix it. Data Rescue saw it, let me save all my files, then I wiped the drive clean, reformated, and I'm still using it. And all data was saved, but some of it was in weird places.

s1ocki can you open a terminal and run "diskutil list" with the faulty drive attached and paste the output here?

/dev/disk0
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: GUID_partition_scheme *500.1 GB disk0
1: EFI 209.7 MB disk0s1
2: Apple_HFS Macintosh HD 499.8 GB disk0s2

so basically just my internal

appreesh the efforts btw

prosoft cant seem to see it arrrrgh

this is the weird one i have

http://thydzik.com/how-to-disassemble-a-seagate-freeagent-pro/

http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&q=seagate+freeagent+pro+not+mounting+mac&aq=5v&aqi=g-v2&aql=&oq=seagate+freeagent+pro+not+moun&gs_rfai=

maybe this has something to do with it??

http://seagate.custkb.com/seagate/crm/selfservice/search.jsp?DocId=213059&NewLang=en

i am getting nowhere

Is the drive making any weird-arse noises?

caek otm, buy another usb enclosure just to check if its the drive or the case

no it's not making any noises, it's very quiet

too quiet!!!

No clicking? No?

Swap enclosure otm btw. If the drive is that quiet it's probably not connected to anything.

it must feel... so... alone

btw I just bought a 2Tb drive for backups as a result of this thread.

ha.

thankfully, my important stuff is largely backed up via a time machine/dropbox double-whammers.