I realized upon further checking that the 6th-gen airport isn't covered in this list, and I'm not sure what the software specs for it are (which versions of the utility will manage it). It's quite possible it's the same as the other generations. The current version of the Airport Utility requires OSX 10.7 (release 2011).
My friend who had the Airport Express is a total techno doofus, but she's a great tenor saxophone player. She uses her Mac primarily for music playback. She couldn't figure out how to get the Airport Express working and asked me to come over and set it up. Though the Airport Utility on her Mac would talk to the Airport Express, there were numerous warnings to not use it, and things were acting badly enough that it was probably good advice. I did get things working, but it's all a kludge.
She eventually hired a guy who most does Mac audio installations to come in and configure her system. I had her with a separate preamp, active crossover and separate power amps for her mains and sub-woofers. This guy came in and ditched all of the electronics except for the sub-woofer amp and replaced it all with a single ginormous Pioneer piece of gear. It was networked and did the Airport streaming from her Mac. It also did active equalization of the room and had a built-in active crossover for the sub-woofer. Had a manual big enough to choke your Great Dane. Not my style, but it all works for her and I don't have to fool with it.
I have a friend who had a 4 year old Mac laptop. He was big into recording his own music with ProTools. When he got a new iPhone 6, iTunes wouldn't work with it. He was instructed to upgrade Mac O/S, which did get his iTunes working but then broke ProTools. 4 years of recording work was lost unless he purchased a new ProTools license.
So what you're really complaining about here is a 3rd-party software package (ProTools) not working on a recent operating system release? How exactly is that Apple's fault?
For years Apple was seen as the platform of choice for graphics artists and musicians. They really were the core constituency for a very long time. ProTools is the music industry standard for music production and editing. When you buy ProTools on Apple, you're buying the whole platform and should reasonably expect it to be sustainable over the useful life of the hardware. To ask who is responsible here is a very good question.
From where I sit, I look at Apple and the apps you get for it as a platform. If the software vendor isn't keeping their product current through at least a 5 year life cycle, where does that responsibility lie? What kind of support does Apple provide to its vendors? This is one of those things where you'd love to be a fly on the wall, listening in to certain conversations. It's never a simple this guy or that guy dropped the ball.
I love being able to take my CD collection and rip it to a free, open source standard, like flac. And then being able to play that back on my hi-end system and not have to worry if it will be compatible when I upgrade my gear or music software 5 or 10 years from now. I love that I'm not tied into a commercial service like iTunes, or any of the others (Spotify, Tidal, etc). For me music is something best heard played by live musicians, or failing that, on a great system in my home. I've always felt that there's too much snake oil in consumer technology - overpriced cables, music services, gear and proprietary standards.
I just like being more hands-on, with open standards, whether it's audio or computing.
I have a friend who had a 4 year old Mac laptop. He was big into recording his own music with ProTools. When he got a new iPhone 6, iTunes wouldn't work with it. He was instructed to upgrade Mac O/S, which did get his iTunes working but then broke ProTools. 4 years of recording work was lost unless he purchased a new ProTools license.
Another friend had a Mac Laptop old enough that she couldn't upgrade it to the current rev of Mac O/S. When she purchased a new Airport Express, the version of the Airport Utility on her laptop wasn't compatible. She had to borrow an iPad from a friend to manage the Airport Express, which is just a home router. Every other home router on the planet is managed through a web browser GUI, but Apple makes you use their proprietary utility and that's how it is with everything Apple. It's all proprietary and you pay through the nose for it.
I run a hi-end audio system at home and for a music server, I have a 10 year old Intel laptop running Ubuntu using the free, open source Banshee music server/manager. Nobody leaves my home without envy after hearing my rig. Linux software works fine on older gear and doesn't obsolete itself the way Apple products do.
I got my first UNIX sysadmin gig in '89. Had a Zenith Z29 dumb terminal off of a serial line to a Pyramid computer. We had Fujitsu Eagle disk drives that weighed about 300 pounds and had about 1 megabyte per pound of data density. They hung off off a Sun 180 acting as a file server. Backups were done directly to open reel tape. In that first job I once spent 3 days loading UNIX onto an AT&T 3B2. It came off of 8" floppy disks and I had to sit there and swap these things in/out for 3 days.
I later worked at Sun Microsystems as a sysadmin, '92-94. We worked with prototype Sparc Center 1000 and 2000 machines in our server room. They worked with trays of 1.3GB disk drives off of a differential SCSI board. The 2000 (code named Dragon) had a max capacity of 1 TB of disk. When your drives are 1.3 GB drives, that's a LOT of drives. All of the RAID back then was done in software with a Sun product called On-line Disk Suite. Worked pretty well. There were a lot of people at Sun who wanted to kill it in favor of Veritas Volume Manager, but it worked too well and just refused to die.
Command line? Oh c'mon. Of course we work at the command line when it makes sense. If you're not comfortable working at the command line, you should go back to managing Windows servers.
My employer gave me an Apple Mac to use, which I hate. But it's that or Windows, which I also hate. I much prefer Ubuntu running the Windowmaker window manager. The Mac is adequate as a desktop, but I'd never spend money on a product that expensive with a 3 year useful lifespan. After 3 years, most anything Apple won't work with anything Apple which is new, which is why people keep buying the latest Mac toys that come out. It's a great business model, one which Microsoft ran for years.
Computers are toys. I get paid for playing with toys all day long. It's not a bad way to make a living.
A bit more than 40 years ago, the military tried to develop a one-size-fits-all aircraft to be used by all of the services to replace the F-4 Phantom. It was the F-111. It ended up being too big to launch from aircraft carriers and not suitable for dog-fighting, but people thought it was cool because of the swing-wings. An expensive plane that ended up with little real use. There is also a fascination with technology in the military, with the notion that new tech gives you a significant edge. When you have to develop new tech throughout the platform, it gets expensive and inevitably you find flaws and problems you just can't overcome. Not that this doesn't happen in the private sector either. Remember the Apple Newton?
As for the A-29, pilots loved the A-10, which was essentially a flying tank. It had an armoured cockpit and was the first aircraft engineered to be shot at and keep fighting. What's not to love?
The original comment here had to do with single issue voting. I agree with Trump's suggestions regarding H1-B visas, but that certainly wouldn't get me to vote for him. Just as Hillary's primary qualification for president is that she's Hillary, Trump's primary justification is that he's Trump. Kind of like why Kim Kardashian is famous and why we're supposed to care.
With the exception of Bernie Sanders, pretty much everyone else is saying, or not saying, is intended to cater to some given voter demographic. Sanders is the kind of throw-back who says what he thinks that is substantive and lets you agree or disagree with him.
Trump says what he says just get your attention (assuming he any reason for saying what he says).
Hillary says whatever her focus groups and managers tell her to say. None of us have any real idea what she truly believes other than she wants power, which really is what most of those on both sides only care about.
Clearly you didn't see Catwoman! Halle Berry in a skin-tight black leather suit with kitty ears, doing with her butt what should be done with a butt like that, and saying "Rowwerrr!"
If you saw that, you'd remember it.
Scarlett Johansson in a skin-tight black suit is an Honorable Mention next to Halle Berry.
I got a couple of free tickets for a pre-screening of the new FF4 movie. I enjoy pretty much any of the comic book movies, but this one was pretty sad. The story line and the characters were cliche and contrived. Nothing about the characters of the story was believable, and the science was beyond bad. Ya gotta wonder who the moron was that wrote this story and the morons who approved it.
Even Catwoman was better. How much better? It has Halle Berry in a skin-tight leather outfit with kitty ears going "Rowwerrr!" And she's a lady who has a butt and knows what to do with it. With character development like that, who needs to remember the story line? There was a story line there, wasn't there?
Rowwerr!!!!
Kate Mara is cute enough, but she definitely ain't no Halle Berry.
I stopped recording on my Revox A77 open reel back in the 90s. I got some excellent recordings on it, but it had limited headroom and was a bit noisy. I now record onto a 6 year old laptop running Windows 7 and a USB audio interface at 96khz/24 bit resolution. I use inexpensive Behringer cardiod condensor mikes and then do a little EQ in post editing and get some very good results. Most of what I record is my wife's string quartet and sometimes my brass band, Horns a Plenty.
www.hornsaplenty.org
I still play vinyl as I've been into audio since Nixon was president. I started playing big band trumpet back then as well.
Being an audiophile means you have a deep emotional connection with the music and you want to recreate it as clearly and failthfully as can at home. It's not about having the most expensive gear. It's about playing back music in such as way as to recapture the experience and emotion from the original performance.
I think if I were to purchase most everything I have today, it would run me about $8k in total. No excessive cables. I run 14 gauge zip cord, but even then I run about about 200 feet of cable, so even with Parts Express 14 gauge zip cord, that's still a chunk of change. I run four 25 foot long cable runs on each side as I use 4 channels of amplification on each side as per the spec for the Linkwitz Orion loudspeaker design. The Linkwitz designs give you sound reproduction that is truly unsurpassed by anything anyone makes, at any price. I like the big Avalon and MBL loudspeakers, but they cost anywhere from $20k to $50k, not to mention the way expensive amps needed to drive 'em. The Linkwitz designs are things that us ordinary human beings can afford without having to sell your house. Do a Google search on Linkwitz LX521. You can't get better sound and this is something anyone who has a full-time day-job and a real love for music can afford.
Dude... A minidisc recorder? You can still get media for them? They haven't been current in 20 years. That's like running your web server on a Sun Sparc 2. Do you still run the Netscape web browser?
I don't know about the one-point stereo microphone though. Since you're obviously a headphones guy, have you ever looked into doing binaural recordings? Get yourself one of those foam heads and a couple of mike elements. Now hang THAT from your fishing rod and you'll be cool.
that audiophile either means "wealthy" or "sucker" or maybe both...
It means neither. There are plenty of wealthy suckers out there who have to have "the best" because it proves their wealth and how they're just better than everyone else. They're the same people who drive luxury automobiles, wear a $3500 Apple watch or show off their trophy wife. That doesn't make them audiophiles.
A real audiophile is someone who loves hearing music as real as they can make it and also values what a dollar can bring. It's the DIY guys who are your "real audiophiles". None of the ones I know use anything more than 14 gauge zip cord for speaker wire, but they build some really awesome loudspeakers for a fraction of retail. They also never set foot in Best Buy. Pay a visit to the Madisound web site, the Linkwitz Labs website, or Parts Express.
If you think good sound can be had from ANY set of headphones, then that's just ignorance.
Every time I see an article on slashdot about audiophiles, it's ALWAYS about stupidly overpriced cables. I think they're as silly as anyone here does, but dontcha think that this whipping boy is getting a little old? It's kind of like pointing fingers and laughing at Kim Kardashian who is famous for nothing more than being famous, or Donald Trump's hair.
W. C. Fields was right when he said there's a sucker born every minute and some of them throw their money away on fancy cable. So what?
I'll bet that most everyone here who dumps all over the fancy cables also has a crap audio system of their own, or thinks that they know what good sound is because they bounced for expensive headphones. Sorry guys, but listening to iTunes on headphones doesn't qualify you to declare your superiority about anything audiophile. A real audiophile isn't someone who lusts after $50,000 loudspeakers or buys the stupid cables we've been talking about.
A real audiophile is someone who builds his own power amps or loudspeakers. A real audiophile gets some microphones and goes out recording music at live events, brings it home and gets a faithful recreation on the home system. A real audiophile is someone who combines a love for music and a love for getting their hand "dirty" with the engineering of sound reproduction. That has little to do with stupid cables or excessively expensive gear of any kind.
If you want to experience startlingly realistic audio reproduction and not have to take out a 2nd mortgage on your home, check out the DIY designs at Linkwitz Labs.
Back in the early 90s, many Sun workstations used the Quantum 105 hard drive, which had a sticking problem with its main bearings. Many times a machine would get powered down and when powered on again, the drives would fail to spin up. Many people would try to pick the machine up and drop it on the table. What I found worked for me was to open the case, loosen the drive from its mount, and with the machine powered on, give the drive a little twist which got the platter moving again and it would then spin up.
I used to work as a sysadmin at Sun Microsystems in the early 1990s. One day I got a ticket from an enginneer who had an external disk drive hanging off of his Sparc Station. He complained that the drive was noisy and was probably going to die. He wanted a replacement. I walked by his office and he had a meeting going on with a couple of guys. As with many of us, he had stuff piled all over his desk. Sitting on top of his disk drive was a plastic business card holder. When I removed the business card holder, the noise went away...
Hi Tatsu!
There really was no way to respond to your earlier post. You must have been having a bad day. What I wrote is what I know to the best of my understanding. Apple makes some very pretty products, but I see little functionality that distinguishes Apple from the alternatives. What has always disturbed me about Apple is that everything they sell costs nearly twice what it does from everyone else, and they justify it by claiming theirs is a superior product. Furthermore the Apple Fan Boys seem to see themselves as being superior themselves for having chose Apple products. That's great for Apple because it gets people spending a lot of money, and then spending more to continually upgrade because their products are not backwardly compatible. And this is all because Apple products are superior?
The two stories I cited are examples of what I see are fundamental flaws in the Apple Way and I feel should give people a reason to step back and re-think the whole paradigm.
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Eat meat. Celebrate life at the top of the food chain!
Now it's "bio-hacks". How much longer before you get your iPhone embedded in your head? Before you get the Google mind extension app?
This is how the Borg get their start.
I realized upon further checking that the 6th-gen airport isn't covered in this list, and I'm not sure what the software specs for it are (which versions of the utility will manage it). It's quite possible it's the same as the other generations. The current version of the Airport Utility requires OSX 10.7 (release 2011).
My friend who had the Airport Express is a total techno doofus, but she's a great tenor saxophone player. She uses her Mac primarily for music playback. She couldn't figure out how to get the Airport Express working and asked me to come over and set it up. Though the Airport Utility on her Mac would talk to the Airport Express, there were numerous warnings to not use it, and things were acting badly enough that it was probably good advice. I did get things working, but it's all a kludge.
She eventually hired a guy who most does Mac audio installations to come in and configure her system. I had her with a separate preamp, active crossover and separate power amps for her mains and sub-woofers. This guy came in and ditched all of the electronics except for the sub-woofer amp and replaced it all with a single ginormous Pioneer piece of gear. It was networked and did the Airport streaming from her Mac. It also did active equalization of the room and had a built-in active crossover for the sub-woofer. Had a manual big enough to choke your Great Dane. Not my style, but it all works for her and I don't have to fool with it.
I have a friend who had a 4 year old Mac laptop. He was big into recording his own music with ProTools. When he got a new iPhone 6, iTunes wouldn't work with it. He was instructed to upgrade Mac O/S, which did get his iTunes working but then broke ProTools. 4 years of recording work was lost unless he purchased a new ProTools license.
So what you're really complaining about here is a 3rd-party software package (ProTools) not working on a recent operating system release? How exactly is that Apple's fault?
For years Apple was seen as the platform of choice for graphics artists and musicians. They really were the core constituency for a very long time. ProTools is the music industry standard for music production and editing. When you buy ProTools on Apple, you're buying the whole platform and should reasonably expect it to be sustainable over the useful life of the hardware. To ask who is responsible here is a very good question.
From where I sit, I look at Apple and the apps you get for it as a platform. If the software vendor isn't keeping their product current through at least a 5 year life cycle, where does that responsibility lie? What kind of support does Apple provide to its vendors? This is one of those things where you'd love to be a fly on the wall, listening in to certain conversations. It's never a simple this guy or that guy dropped the ball.
I love being able to take my CD collection and rip it to a free, open source standard, like flac. And then being able to play that back on my hi-end system and not have to worry if it will be compatible when I upgrade my gear or music software 5 or 10 years from now. I love that I'm not tied into a commercial service like iTunes, or any of the others (Spotify, Tidal, etc). For me music is something best heard played by live musicians, or failing that, on a great system in my home. I've always felt that there's too much snake oil in consumer technology - overpriced cables, music services, gear and proprietary standards.
I just like being more hands-on, with open standards, whether it's audio or computing.
I have a friend who had a 4 year old Mac laptop. He was big into recording his own music with ProTools. When he got a new iPhone 6, iTunes wouldn't work with it. He was instructed to upgrade Mac O/S, which did get his iTunes working but then broke ProTools. 4 years of recording work was lost unless he purchased a new ProTools license.
Another friend had a Mac Laptop old enough that she couldn't upgrade it to the current rev of Mac O/S. When she purchased a new Airport Express, the version of the Airport Utility on her laptop wasn't compatible. She had to borrow an iPad from a friend to manage the Airport Express, which is just a home router. Every other home router on the planet is managed through a web browser GUI, but Apple makes you use their proprietary utility and that's how it is with everything Apple. It's all proprietary and you pay through the nose for it.
I run a hi-end audio system at home and for a music server, I have a 10 year old Intel laptop running Ubuntu using the free, open source Banshee music server/manager. Nobody leaves my home without envy after hearing my rig. Linux software works fine on older gear and doesn't obsolete itself the way Apple products do.
http://foldoc.org/GCOS
I got my first UNIX sysadmin gig in '89. Had a Zenith Z29 dumb terminal off of a serial line to a Pyramid computer. We had Fujitsu Eagle disk drives that weighed about 300 pounds and had about 1 megabyte per pound of data density. They hung off off a Sun 180 acting as a file server. Backups were done directly to open reel tape. In that first job I once spent 3 days loading UNIX onto an AT&T 3B2. It came off of 8" floppy disks and I had to sit there and swap these things in/out for 3 days.
I later worked at Sun Microsystems as a sysadmin, '92-94. We worked with prototype Sparc Center 1000 and 2000 machines in our server room. They worked with trays of 1.3GB disk drives off of a differential SCSI board. The 2000 (code named Dragon) had a max capacity of 1 TB of disk. When your drives are 1.3 GB drives, that's a LOT of drives. All of the RAID back then was done in software with a Sun product called On-line Disk Suite. Worked pretty well. There were a lot of people at Sun who wanted to kill it in favor of Veritas Volume Manager, but it worked too well and just refused to die.
Command line? Oh c'mon. Of course we work at the command line when it makes sense. If you're not comfortable working at the command line, you should go back to managing Windows servers.
My employer gave me an Apple Mac to use, which I hate. But it's that or Windows, which I also hate. I much prefer Ubuntu running the Windowmaker window manager. The Mac is adequate as a desktop, but I'd never spend money on a product that expensive with a 3 year useful lifespan. After 3 years, most anything Apple won't work with anything Apple which is new, which is why people keep buying the latest Mac toys that come out. It's a great business model, one which Microsoft ran for years.
Computers are toys. I get paid for playing with toys all day long. It's not a bad way to make a living.
Yup! Best USAF ground attack aircraft ever made.
A bit more than 40 years ago, the military tried to develop a one-size-fits-all aircraft to be used by all of the services to replace the F-4 Phantom. It was the F-111. It ended up being too big to launch from aircraft carriers and not suitable for dog-fighting, but people thought it was cool because of the swing-wings. An expensive plane that ended up with little real use. There is also a fascination with technology in the military, with the notion that new tech gives you a significant edge. When you have to develop new tech throughout the platform, it gets expensive and inevitably you find flaws and problems you just can't overcome. Not that this doesn't happen in the private sector either. Remember the Apple Newton?
As for the A-29, pilots loved the A-10, which was essentially a flying tank. It had an armoured cockpit and was the first aircraft engineered to be shot at and keep fighting. What's not to love?
Just across the estuary, in the city of Alameda, is the High Scores Interactive Arcade Museum. They've been there for over 2 years now.
http://www.highscoresarcade.co...
Very cool joint.
Everyone is entitled to make up their own minds, including those leaning on a fence. You can't be free unless you allow others to be free as well.
If someone wants to vote for Trump (or anyone else for that matter) because of a single issue, then that's their right.
Like it or not, all those people you've seen on the Jerry Springer show have a vote that counts just as much as yours.
The original comment here had to do with single issue voting. I agree with Trump's suggestions regarding H1-B visas, but that certainly wouldn't get me to vote for him. Just as Hillary's primary qualification for president is that she's Hillary, Trump's primary justification is that he's Trump. Kind of like why Kim Kardashian is famous and why we're supposed to care.
With the exception of Bernie Sanders, pretty much everyone else is saying, or not saying, is intended to cater to some given voter demographic. Sanders is the kind of throw-back who says what he thinks that is substantive and lets you agree or disagree with him.
Trump says what he says just get your attention (assuming he any reason for saying what he says).
Hillary says whatever her focus groups and managers tell her to say. None of us have any real idea what she truly believes other than she wants power, which really is what most of those on both sides only care about.
Actually, no...
Rowwerrr!
Clearly you didn't see Catwoman! Halle Berry in a skin-tight black leather suit with kitty ears, doing with her butt what should be done with a butt like that, and saying "Rowwerrr!"
If you saw that, you'd remember it.
Scarlett Johansson in a skin-tight black suit is an Honorable Mention next to Halle Berry.
Whew...
I got a couple of free tickets for a pre-screening of the new FF4 movie. I enjoy pretty much any of the comic book movies, but this one was pretty sad. The story line and the characters were cliche and contrived. Nothing about the characters of the story was believable, and the science was beyond bad. Ya gotta wonder who the moron was that wrote this story and the morons who approved it.
Even Catwoman was better. How much better? It has Halle Berry in a skin-tight leather outfit with kitty ears going "Rowwerrr!" And she's a lady who has a butt and knows what to do with it. With character development like that, who needs to remember the story line? There was a story line there, wasn't there?
Rowwerr!!!!
Kate Mara is cute enough, but she definitely ain't no Halle Berry.
www.hornsaplenty.org
I still play vinyl as I've been into audio since Nixon was president. I started playing big band trumpet back then as well.
Being an audiophile means you have a deep emotional connection with the music and you want to recreate it as clearly and failthfully as can at home. It's not about having the most expensive gear. It's about playing back music in such as way as to recapture the experience and emotion from the original performance.
I think if I were to purchase most everything I have today, it would run me about $8k in total. No excessive cables. I run 14 gauge zip cord, but even then I run about about 200 feet of cable, so even with Parts Express 14 gauge zip cord, that's still a chunk of change. I run four 25 foot long cable runs on each side as I use 4 channels of amplification on each side as per the spec for the Linkwitz Orion loudspeaker design. The Linkwitz designs give you sound reproduction that is truly unsurpassed by anything anyone makes, at any price. I like the big Avalon and MBL loudspeakers, but they cost anywhere from $20k to $50k, not to mention the way expensive amps needed to drive 'em. The Linkwitz designs are things that us ordinary human beings can afford without having to sell your house. Do a Google search on Linkwitz LX521. You can't get better sound and this is something anyone who has a full-time day-job and a real love for music can afford.
I don't know about the one-point stereo microphone though. Since you're obviously a headphones guy, have you ever looked into doing binaural recordings? Get yourself one of those foam heads and a couple of mike elements. Now hang THAT from your fishing rod and you'll be cool.
For the win...
that audiophile either means "wealthy" or "sucker" or maybe both...
It means neither. There are plenty of wealthy suckers out there who have to have "the best" because it proves their wealth and how they're just better than everyone else. They're the same people who drive luxury automobiles, wear a $3500 Apple watch or show off their trophy wife. That doesn't make them audiophiles.
A real audiophile is someone who loves hearing music as real as they can make it and also values what a dollar can bring. It's the DIY guys who are your "real audiophiles". None of the ones I know use anything more than 14 gauge zip cord for speaker wire, but they build some really awesome loudspeakers for a fraction of retail. They also never set foot in Best Buy. Pay a visit to the Madisound web site, the Linkwitz Labs website, or Parts Express.
If you think good sound can be had from ANY set of headphones, then that's just ignorance.
W. C. Fields was right when he said there's a sucker born every minute and some of them throw their money away on fancy cable. So what?
I'll bet that most everyone here who dumps all over the fancy cables also has a crap audio system of their own, or thinks that they know what good sound is because they bounced for expensive headphones. Sorry guys, but listening to iTunes on headphones doesn't qualify you to declare your superiority about anything audiophile. A real audiophile isn't someone who lusts after $50,000 loudspeakers or buys the stupid cables we've been talking about.
A real audiophile is someone who builds his own power amps or loudspeakers. A real audiophile gets some microphones and goes out recording music at live events, brings it home and gets a faithful recreation on the home system. A real audiophile is someone who combines a love for music and a love for getting their hand "dirty" with the engineering of sound reproduction. That has little to do with stupid cables or excessively expensive gear of any kind.
If you want to experience startlingly realistic audio reproduction and not have to take out a 2nd mortgage on your home, check out the DIY designs at Linkwitz Labs.
Yep. Stiction. I just couldn't figure out how to spell it. Thanks!
Back in the early 90s, many Sun workstations used the Quantum 105 hard drive, which had a sticking problem with its main bearings. Many times a machine would get powered down and when powered on again, the drives would fail to spin up. Many people would try to pick the machine up and drop it on the table. What I found worked for me was to open the case, loosen the drive from its mount, and with the machine powered on, give the drive a little twist which got the platter moving again and it would then spin up.
I used to work as a sysadmin at Sun Microsystems in the early 1990s. One day I got a ticket from an enginneer who had an external disk drive hanging off of his Sparc Station. He complained that the drive was noisy and was probably going to die. He wanted a replacement. I walked by his office and he had a meeting going on with a couple of guys. As with many of us, he had stuff piled all over his desk. Sitting on top of his disk drive was a plastic business card holder. When I removed the business card holder, the noise went away...
Hi Tatsu! There really was no way to respond to your earlier post. You must have been having a bad day. What I wrote is what I know to the best of my understanding. Apple makes some very pretty products, but I see little functionality that distinguishes Apple from the alternatives. What has always disturbed me about Apple is that everything they sell costs nearly twice what it does from everyone else, and they justify it by claiming theirs is a superior product. Furthermore the Apple Fan Boys seem to see themselves as being superior themselves for having chose Apple products. That's great for Apple because it gets people spending a lot of money, and then spending more to continually upgrade because their products are not backwardly compatible. And this is all because Apple products are superior?
The two stories I cited are examples of what I see are fundamental flaws in the Apple Way and I feel should give people a reason to step back and re-think the whole paradigm.
The 3 years of studio recordings can be recovered if my friend purchases a new ProTools license...
Spend, spend, spend...