Re: Help, my MacBook Pro is getting overwhelmed (long)

In article <0001HW.C3CDD901027E0D51F01846D8@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Randy Howard <randyhoward@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

You could still have it go to sleep to save power
when not in use that way.

Believe me, I would love to do it that way.

Three problems though.

Power company in these rural areas is 'flaky'.
Sometimes power is out for days.


I do not trust UPS devices, already had a
Tripp-Lite catch on fire, fortunately I was
here at the time to put the fire out.


At times my trips are over a month long, I get
nervous about keeping anything powered on, even
in low-powered sleep mode.
Among other concerns, we have more than our share
of lightning strikes here.



You might also investigate the option in system
preferences, entitled "Restart automatically
after a power failure". I think this sets a
firmware option controlling power management
behavior, similar to most PCs.

Thing is, that is unlikely to work.

The Vista partition of the Mac Mini is shut down
in a "normal" fashion, by turning the Mac Mini off
by telling Vista to Hibernate.

Not likely that OS X would interpret that
as a power failure.

Vista is told to hibernate _while_ the Timbuktu
application is open and running on the Vista
desktop. It has to work that way because of
various bugs in Vista, and probably corresponding
associated bugs in Timbuktu.

ONLY Timbuktu version 8.6.0 will work with Vista.

Later Windows versions of TB2, such as ver' 8.6.5
will not work, according to Netopia, its creator.



Another complication is that when the Mini
does power on, it boots up in the Vista OS,
so in not likely to "see" anything that was
set in OS X system preferences.

When the Mac Mini _does_ power up in the
Vista partition, the Timbuktu app' _has_ to
be up and running on the Vista desktop, otherwise
I will not be able to grab control of Vista.

It has already worked okay in a trial ethernet wired
hookup, but I have not tried it over the Internet yet.

In short, the present Vista OS is a mess, but I
have to work with Vista when dealing with hospital
administrators.



Assuming I get this all to work in the "real world",
then I still have to try to offload all my
Final Cut Studio app' from my MacBook Pro.

That FCS stuff app' likely be offloaded to my big
desktop Mac Pro inside my house.

(at least 50 GB of FCS "stuff" to be offloaded
from my long suffering little MacBook Pro)

....but I do not have the foggiest idea whether or not
I will be able to run FCS remotely from a mobile Mac.

I am a rank novice when it comes to FCS.


Anyhow, like you said, it is an interesting project.

Mark-
.

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