VincibleAndy

Modem talks to the ISP (modulate - demodulate; it is what does the encoding/decoding over the cable/fiber to the ISP) and a router just routes the data around. Be it to the wireless, the Ethernet, etc.

This I know, as I have seen it. Both the lying on eBay and the reselling of 3rd party parts under the OEM marker. But in this specific case he knew it was 3rd party and even had to re-glue part of it before installing it into the guys machine. Stuff like that just drives me crazy, if its 3rd party, just ask the customer if that's what they want.

Do any of you guys have any weird or interesting stories from when you worked at a tech support or computer repair company? I have too many to count, but a couple I find interesting are: 1) My boss replaced some dudes Retina MBP screen with a 3rd party one from eBay for cheap but told him it was OEM from Apple and charged him as such. This happened often and I would voice my objection and tell customers when I knew about it, he didn't like that, but whatever. The screen had various issues like going back until you did a couple reboots or resets or the colors shifting the longer it was on. He kept bringing it back for repair and I told the guy it was obviously a bad screen and will be replaced under warranty. While I was out my boss gave him the laptop back saying the screen had been replaced and everything was Aye-Okay! It wasn't replaced and the issues continued. The dude kept coming back every couple days, no idea why he would come back even after that first time, but whatever. After a few more times my boss told him that he AGAIN sent it to Apple for replacement and it was good to go. The next day it had issues, he brought it directly to Apple who told him there was no record of any repairs and that since it had major 3rd party replacement parts, they wouldn't touch it now. Furious he flies into the shop and starts threatening lawsuits at me (he was a Hollywood-type Producer). My boss ended up having to "cut a deal" with the dude and my paycheck was late that week; great place to work. 2) Same boss noticed the company was going well so we bought a $2k MakerBot printer. His goal to build a life-sized BB-8 replica. Pretty cool idea at the start. Anyway, having no patience, it didn't go anywhere. Blaming the printer for every mistake and making no attempt to learn the machine. Just dumping more money into more parts and accessories for the printer. After months of no longer using it, he bought 2 more at the same prices as the original. They are both still unopened, in the box as far as I know. He was trying to market the company as a 3D Printing service but had to turn away the people who actually wanted the service as he was in no position to do that. Most people turned us down as he wanted to charge $15 an hour to print, which was more than he was willing to pay me to work there. He also tried to sell his half finished, poorly done BB-8 model to someone for a few grand, who laughed at him thinking he was joking around. He got furious with the person and refused them service in the shop. Hope these weren't too boring or long winded. I have MANY more stories from this place, as working there was absolutely ridiculous, but I am curious is this is a common theme in this industry? Also, I thankfully do not work there any longer or in that industry.

I wouldn't advise stopping your search. While searching you can often meet people who will have something for you down the line or know someone who will. That line of work is lousy with jobs via word of mouth. Simply putting it out there that you have these skills can often be enough to land a job or two. Someone needs that service quick, someone knows you can do it. Its not a very clear cut answer but in my experience and in what I have seen, that's how most of it ends up working, at least for a while. Since you're still in school that means you don't have to put all your effort into finding work at all times, so you can better deal with the waiting and trying.

Updated the iSCSI set up of the FreeNAS Server.

At the studio that I am working at we have set up a FreeNAS server and it has been working great. We use Fiber Channel cards and iSCSI to push to the Machines. When we set this up a few months back we had Two Machines running as clients. Both machines are identical 2010 Mac Pro Towers (souped up quite a bit). We added a 3rd, identical machine with an identical fiber card. This machine does not talk to the server! The machine sees the card, the connections, everything. But the server doesn't seem to "push" the iSCSI drives to it. If we install one of the Fiber cards from the two working machines it mounts right away. We thought it was a bad card, got a few more and we get the same result. The FreeNAS server only pushes to the two original machines. No where can I find this same problem or even how to add the machine to FreeNAS. From my knowledge I don't have to as long as its networked as the other two working machines. We have tried every combination of hardware and software to no avail. We dual boot Windows 10 on these as well and the two "working" cards mount up just fine, no configuration, but any other card does not. There is almost no chance that out of the 6 cards we have now, only two happen to work! Have also tried every combination of the SFPs from the cards too, no change. If anyone has any idea how to fix this or even get us on the track to fixing it, it would be incredibly appreciated. This has been driving us insane! Thank you all very much in advance! *EDIT* The cards are LSI 7204EP-LC 4Gb Cards and the switch is a 4Gb Fiber Channel Switch. The two working machines needed NO configuration to accept the target drives and work no matter the configuration of the switch, even directly connected.

You are reading this wrong. The shortcut changes to a mini version of the icon of the corresponding app.

These were both very helpful, although the feature doesn't seem to be that fine tuned to how she uses the phone. We are looking to turn this feature off but where the setting was in iOS 8 and 9 is no longer in iOS 10... Some looking around and searching online and in the settings has lead no where. Again, if anyone knows where this setting is, that would rock! Thanks!

We thought that too, but it doesn't seem to be that consistent. At the moment of this comment it was facebook even though that wasn't what was used last on the phone.

My girlfriend updated her iPhone 5s to iOS 10 last weekend. Afterwards she noticed that she sometimes sees a small pokemon/pokeball icon in the bottom left corner of the lockscreen. If she clicks on this, it seems to let her shortcut to the Pokémon Go app. She has also seen this with Chrome, and as I am writing this with Facebook. It does not seem to be consistent with the most recently used app, currently open app, or anything like that. This bothered me as I wanted to know why (Android user, myself) this was showing up the way it was. I looked it up on the Google and I found one forum post somewhere where a user claimed it was location based. Their lockscreen gets the Pokémon Go shortcut whenever they go to a park, but otherwise seems random. It was the only person who I have seen have any explanation at all. Maybe this is something very common in iOS and we only recently noticed it. I myself don't use iOS and haven't since the second gen iPod Touch was released. (I tried to get a screenshot but at the time I got to this part in the post, the shortcut wasn't there...) If anyone has any idea what this is or how it works, I would appreciate it. Is bothering me!

Is it possible to dual boot Samba or FreeNAS on a Mac Pro Server like this? Because if so then Maybe that's how I should go about doing it. As long as the other Macs/Windows machines can connect using fiber, that's fine. (I agree that Macs suck but this is what I have to work with right now. I don't get to choose if we spend the money to overhaul the entire studio)

At the production studio I recently started to work we are trying to repurpose a 2009 Mac Pro Tower to be a simple file server for us. We added a compatible Fiber Channel Card (an Apple brand one, no less) and it is recognized in the system perfectly, as are the ones in the other 2010 Mac Pro Towers we use as editing Bays. We have OS X Server El Capitan installed onto the server and all up to date. I can start XSAN on the Server but it fails to initialize with Error Code 13. I have looked and cannot find this error code in reference to Server/XSAN. After this error though, it shows that XSAN has been configured an is running fine. It then allows me to add a volume to the XSAN but at the same time it does not. It wants me to add a LUN to the list but I do not have any nor does it allow me to create one. Documentation on this is sparse in my research. I am looking to Just share the internal drive(s) on the machine over fiber as Ethernet is far too slow for our purposes. We plan on having a more robust solution in the future using these same fiber cards but for now we don't have a large NAS or something similar. Hoping some of you guys have some advice or help for me on this front. Apple stuff always seems to be so difficult when it comes to self configuration with little documentation to find. Thank you! We are losing our minds over here....

I have recently started freelancing heavily for a small production company here in LA. They have a setup of (4) 2010 Mac Pros fairly maxed out. They all have 4GB Fiber cards installed and networked but they are compatible with 10.6.8 at most. They haven’t been using them for anything lately, but with the addition of myself we will be pulling in a lot more work with very large 4K Raw video files + Proxies. We are looking to upgrade the systems to work with the fiber system again so we can have (1) Mac Pro be the storage server and the rest of them just attach to it (for now, a larger SAN/NAS will be the goal later, but that will also need these new fiber cards). *MAIN QUESTION* Does anyone here know of a good fiber card(s) that works with a Mac Pro 2010/2012 Model and 10.10/10.11? Our research hasn’t been very fruitful, as there seems to be very little documentation that’s consistent. We have contacted companies that could help but they are very protective of their information so they can charge over a grand per machine minimum to install a mid-range fiber card. One card we have found that looks to work fine is the LSI7204EP. It has enough speed for what we are doing (10GB would be cool but we don’t pull nearly that much, this isn’t LTT) and the price is right. However, the price seems low so we are just wanting to be very sure first. Personally I don’t like using the Mac Systems but that’s how it is here now when I work out of the studio. Any information or advice is very appreciated! Thank You!

I tried a couple things from that link to no avail...AT FIRST! I rebooted several times and then got busy and was going to deal with it later. Today an update was pushed to my Surface Book for the touchpad and after restart, boom; Drives gone from explorer. So possibly those fixes helped and it just didn't show until now? Weird stuff, and Thank you, again!

They don't show up in the Disk Manager but that link you sent looks very promising. I will try these and report back, Thank you very much!