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Comment on Sandy Bridge-E Intel 2011 Socket confirmed working with Hackintosh by Does your Hackintosh run with Sandy Bridge-E? - Quora

Does your Hackintosh run with Sandy Bridge-E? - Quora — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 18:47:00 +0000

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Comment on AMD Radeon HD 7970 still not accelerated in 10.7.3 but usable on Hackintosh by When will the AMD Radeon 7970 (or 7950) work with Apple Macs or Hackintosh? - Quora

Mon, 06 Feb 2012 18:44:07 +0000

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Comment on Panasonic GH2 Driftwood/Vitaly Patches 176Mbps AVCHD Intra up to 244Mbps Intra: A poor man’s RED? by nanofunk

nanofunk — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 15:54:53 +0000

@af films: all the props should go to driftwood for his work. i only blogged about this. see his profile here for more information: http://vimeo.com/user2930807

Comment on 2011 Macbook Pro and SATA III 6Gbps, Optibay: two HD drives – setup explained by nanofunk

nanofunk — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 15:46:22 +0000

@Ray: the “original” optibay is overrated. we purchased 4 “cheap knockoffs” and are perfectly happy with it. why paying more for the same material? the optibay is also built quite cheap. the “knockoffs” as you called it, are mounted inside the MBP anyway, so you will never see them. nanofunk can totally recommend using “knockoffs”, since we never experienced any problems so far.

Comment on Panasonic GH2 Driftwood/Vitaly Patches 176Mbps AVCHD Intra up to 244Mbps Intra: A poor man’s RED? by af films

af films — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 07:37:55 +0000

beautyful work man thanx

Comment on 2011 Macbook Pro and SATA III 6Gbps, Optibay: two HD drives – setup explained by Ray

Ray — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 23:17:56 +0000

the link that says ‘get an optibay’ points to some horrible cheap knockoffs, only MCE Technologies makes and owns the OptiBay kit. just FYI peeps

Comment on Mac OSX Lion 10.7 System Freezes: kernel: IOSurface: buffer allocation size is zero (console message) by Lawrens

Lawrens — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 09:02:24 +0000

Well the problem still persist after uninstalling its drivers and unplugging my tablet, sigh.

Comment on Mac OSX Lion 10.7 System Freezes: kernel: IOSurface: buffer allocation size is zero (console message) by Lawrens

Lawrens — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 08:57:41 +0000

I’ve started getting this error recently just 2 days ago, I’ve never had this problem before, and the only thing I’ve changed was hooking up a new Wacom tablet (pen & touch), installed its software/drivers, it might’ve installed another program called Adobe Air (I really don’t know what that is but I’ve seen a pop up before that I closed).

I’m using Chrome also, since it auto updates (along with flash), I don’t know if an update started messing with my system.

My kernel_task will grow in size until it reaches 300-400mb and would slow my system to a crawl until I terminate Chrome and its flash plugin, then its memory usage will go back to 200, so as many have pointed out, it’s flash related.

I’d just like to post this comment because for me, I’m pretty sure this problem started popping up just 2 days ago after I installed a new wacom tablet, I’m aware some probably doesn’t have the tablet hooked up, but I thought maybe it could help pinpoint the problem and maybe it has to do with the input devices others have. What I’m going to do is uninstall the wacom driver, unhooking it and see if the problem continue after a few hours.

Comment on iPhone 4S / Canon 5d MKII Side by Side Comparison by frans d

frans d — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 12:33:13 +0000

Howsit – thanks for the comparison.
I am looking for a cine style for Iphone 4s so that i can flatten the image to match my Technicolor cine style on my 7d.
Filmic pro can be used on the Iphone to set frame rate, lock exposure, lock focus and white balance. It would have been a perfect little app, if it allowed manual settings for sharpness, contrast, saturation and tone.

Comment on Mac OSX 10.7 Lion updating annoyances: Scolling, Versioning and no TRIM! by nanofunk

nanofunk — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 08:36:50 +0000

foofoo: TRIM is not handled by OSX. They only enabled it for some of the drives but not all of them. Look up TRIM at wikipedia if you don’t believe me.

Comment on Apple MacBook Pro Quad Core (early 2011) i7: fast powerhorse with design flaws and hardware issues by FH

FH — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 02:41:41 +0000

AnandTech compared the high-end early 2011 MBP to the low-end late 2011 model, which has a lower processor and less graphics memory). Why are you so shocked at the result? It’s hardly a fair comparison.

Comment on Mac OSX 10.7 Lion updating annoyances: Scolling, Versioning and no TRIM! by foofoo

foofoo — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 21:59:53 +0000

TRIM is not required on Mac OS X, Mac OS handles that.
BTW.: Modern SSD drives handle that on the controller level. The OS doesn’t have to do anynthing. Enabling TRIM in this cases even has the reverse effect: slower driver.

Comment on Caution with Promise Pegasus Thunderbolt RAID 6x3TB (18TB) or 6x4TB (24TB) modification. 6x5TB (30TB) possible as of January 2012? by Johnny C

Johnny C — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 15:23:55 +0000

I updated the drives to 4TB samples I had in my Promise Pegasus R6… wow, it screamed and had a lot of capacity… until I left the unit all night and all my data was destroyed, the RAID Groups disappeared and I had a bunch of blinking lights on the box! Don’t do it!

Comment on Promise Pegasus Thunderbolt RAID system for high-speed data demands: 6x3TB for a total of 18TB (mod) by KLO

KLO — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 01:42:58 +0000

I can confirm that my R6 is not stable with 3TB Hitachi Deskstar 7K3000s installed. The drives are all identical — same build, same firmware, etc. The array worked for about 10 weeks and then crapped out. The data are not recoverable.

Comment on OSX Lion: “Can’t download the additional components needed to install Mac OS X” SOLUTION by Manuel

Manuel — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 17:19:22 +0000

Thank you so much for that post – it really saved my day! After countless attempts to reinstall Mac OS X Lion to a clean HD using a bootable DVD (which were always greeted by the “Can’t download the additional components” message after a few minutes), and even testing the RAM with Memtest86 (-> all good), removing all but 4 GB RAM from my iMac finally let me reinstall Lion without a problem.

Comment on Mac OSX Lion 10.7 System Freezes: kernel: IOSurface: buffer allocation size is zero (console message) by IOSurface: buffer allocation size is zero « Mo Firouz

IOSurface: buffer allocation size is zero « Mo Firouz — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 23:24:53 +0000

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Comment on OCZ Vertex 3 Fail: “Runtime corruption detected on SSD” and why SSD drives are not safe yet. by Si Edkins

Si Edkins — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 21:07:29 +0000

I have the same drive and started to get Grey screens. I didn’t realise what it was but I will contact Vertex about this.

Hit me up on my email to discuss this further.

Comment on kernel[0]: IOSurface: buffer allocation size is zero – A never-ending story about Adobe failing to get their Flash Player and Adobe Air Plugin to work on Mac OSX in a “normal” way. by Anonymous

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Comment on 2011 Macbook Pro and SATA III 6Gbps, Optibay: two HD drives – setup explained by OCZ Vertex 3 Fail: “Runtime corruption detected on SSD” and why SSD drives are not safe yet. | nanofunk.net

Fri, 23 Dec 2011 19:31:04 +0000

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Comment on Mac OSX Lion 10.7 System Freezes: kernel: IOSurface: buffer allocation size is zero (console message) by nanofunk

nanofunk — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 15:38:19 +0000

more than 6 months after the issue was reported, (and we have Apple Mac OS X 10.7.2 and 10.7.3 in beta) there is still no update on this issue from Adobe. Please write your concerns to the Adobe Forums in the existing thread to have them fix the issues! Especially for SSD owners this is unacceptable!

Comment on Apple MacBook Pro Quad Core (early 2011) i7: fast powerhorse with design flaws and hardware issues by Apple 15-inch MacBook Pro (Late 2011) is slower in every category than the early 2011 model | nanofunk.net

Wed, 21 Dec 2011 12:49:38 +0000

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Comment on Mac OSX Lion 10.7 System Freezes: kernel: IOSurface: buffer allocation size is zero (console message) by R Seipp

R Seipp — Sun, 18 Dec 2011 22:36:18 +0000

I’m having similar problem with Lion & Chrome and only when I try to play the Chrome widget “Dead Frontier” and a Facebook game that requires the Unity web player plug-in. My Intel Mac-Mini dead crashes with no warning and then restarts. The only notification I get that a crash took place is in Console:

12/18/11 5:02:27.000 PM kernel: Previous Shutdown Cause: 3

Chrome and any other programs I had running automatically start back up.
Chrome, though, at the top asks me if I want to reopen the page that crashed–I say No-of course.

Also it that Unity plug-in crashes in Safari and Firefox too, when I try to play the Facebook game Margaritaville. It’s only a Beta version so it’s not a browser problem in THAT case. Regardless, Chrome and Lion behave STRANGELY. I get weird warning messages occasionally about going to well-known safe websites like Google that it might not really be Google. I hit “ignore” but it is annoying. But if I restart my mac warnings go away for about 6 hours.

Comment on Promise Pegasus Thunderbolt RAID system for high-speed data demands: 6x3TB for a total of 18TB (mod) by nanofunk

nanofunk — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 12:17:48 +0000

we tested a setup with 3TB drives (seagate barracuda XT, hitachi deskstar) although, we did not have the hardware for more than a week, so i cannot tell about any long term issues. as with any other raid setup (except the drobo) the drives have to be EXACTLY the same build. mixing drives will NOT WORK. we heard of some other people upgrading their drives without any issues. the drives were filled with data and erased several times. as with any other product, keep in mind that the promise pegasus is quite new and there can be issues of course. also, wait for firmware updates, as there can be of course also issues with the main hardware unit! @TheArchitect: did you post a ticket in the promise knowledge base? I did not see anything there...

Comment on Promise Pegasus Thunderbolt RAID system for high-speed data demands: 6x3TB for a total of 18TB (mod) by TheArchitect

TheArchitect — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 19:48:08 +0000

Not only is this not supported by the company. I have this exact setup and it crashed and ate 2 of the drives and is estimated 17k to recover the data. Anyone reading this. DO RESEARCH THIS ARTICLE IS WRONG.

Comment on Mac OSX Lion 10.7 System Freezes: kernel: IOSurface: buffer allocation size is zero (console message) by LCPGUY

LCPGUY — Sun, 04 Dec 2011 21:03:07 +0000

I must agree with Jan. When I switched to OmniWeb, the messages disappeared. IMHO, OmniWeb is the best browser anyway, so why not use it instead of Safari?

Comment on Mac OSX Lion 10.7 System Freezes: kernel: IOSurface: buffer allocation size is zero (console message) by Mark Twang

Mark Twang — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 09:05:54 +0000

30/11… still the same issue here (OS X Lion 10.7.2, Safari 5.1.2, Flashplayer 11.1.102.55).

Comment on Promise Pegasus Thunderbolt RAID system for high-speed data demands: 6x3TB for a total of 18TB (mod) by Urs

Urs — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 19:53:51 +0000

We configured Pegasus R6 with 3 TB Hitachi drives and RAID 5 w/o spare. Our customer experienced a big problem: After copying over 11 TB the volume disappeared and could not be accessed after rebooting the system. All data was lost. He did this a few times and it looks like there is a big problem when the Pegasus R6 has more 11 TB of data. Any idea? According to Promise support Pegasus is not compatible with 3 TB drives.

Comment on Mac OSX Lion 10.7 System Freezes: kernel: IOSurface: buffer allocation size is zero (console message) by Jan

Jan — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 11:33:37 +0000

The reason for them is problems with Flash, I get most of these error when using Youtube.
Solution: join HTML5 project on youtube – youtube will use HTML5 rather than flash to play videos. At this point using the system becomes bearable.

Then to reduce these errors that are left try using OmniWeb instead of Chrome/Forefox/Safari. With Omniweb I dont get a sigle error of this type!

Comment on Mac OSX Lion 10.7 System Freezes: kernel: IOSurface: buffer allocation size is zero (console message) by DeanDMX

DeanDMX — Sat, 29 Oct 2011 18:17:28 +0000

I’m still getting these messages on 10.7.2 with Flash version 11.0.1.152 installed.

Comment on Mac OSX Lion 10.7 System Freezes: kernel: IOSurface: buffer allocation size is zero (console message) by Eric

Eric — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 23:50:32 +0000

I have the issue but I never installed flash on my Lion MBP. But I have Chrome, so there is a copy somewhere…

Comment on Mac OSX Lion 10.7 System Freezes: kernel: IOSurface: buffer allocation size is zero (console message) by nanofunk

nanofunk — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 07:21:47 +0000

Bryce, does it still happen with flash player 11 final and the 10.7.2 update?

Comment on hackintosh: XPC Bootloader Can Boot Mac OS X 10.7 Lion by nanofunk

nanofunk — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 11:25:14 +0000

@pascah87: what are the steps you took? did you create a boot cd in the way described?

Comment on hackintosh: XPC Bootloader Can Boot Mac OS X 10.7 Lion by nanofunk

nanofunk — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 11:24:12 +0000

@honey: only core2duo processors and newer. recommended are the core i processors of intel.

Comment on hackintosh: XPC Bootloader Can Boot Mac OS X 10.7 Lion by pascah87

pascah87 — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 13:06:46 +0000

hi… i try to install my leon 10.7, but its dosnt bootable..do you have any solution for my problem?
my spec : acer aspire timeline x 4820 G core i-3 ati radeon hd 6370 M..

Comment on Four Thirds Lenses on MFT (Micro Four Thirds) Cameras: but is there a way to mount FT on Canon EF? by folio5

folio5 — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 09:11:56 +0000

An adapter for Four-Thirds lenses to Canon EF type lenses is plainly not possible. MFT have a smaller image circle than Canon EF mount lenses, the projected image from the Four-Thirds or Micro Four Thirds lens will not fill the sensor on the 5d MK II or any other full frame camera. You get a circular image in the middle, surrounded by a black rectangle. So the short answer is: NO.

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What is the best micro 4/3 DSLR? - Quora — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 10:28:37 +0000

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Comment on Mac OSX Lion 10.7 System Freezes: kernel: IOSurface: buffer allocation size is zero (console message) by Bryce

Bryce — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 16:54:25 +0000

Just reporting the same error that other users have had, even after updating to flash player 11 beta. Fans are spinning like crazy and temperatures are up pretty high. I’m going to try uninstalling flash player, but this isn’t a solution; its just a stopgap measure even IF it’s successful.

here’s a sample:

Sep 27 07:35:20 The-Golden-Ratio-3 kernel[0]: HFS: Very Low Disk: freeblks: 0, dangerlimit: 77
Sep 27 07:36:35 The-Golden-Ratio-3 kernel[0]: (default pager): [KERNEL]: default_pager_backing_store_monitor – send LO_WAT_ALERT
Sep 27 07:37:00 The-Golden-Ratio-3 kernel[0]: IOSurface: buffer allocation size is zero
Sep 27 07:37:08 The-Golden-Ratio-3 kernel[0]: macx_swapoff SUCCESS
Sep 27 07:37:08 The-Golden-Ratio-3 kernel[0]: (default pager): [KERNEL]: default_pager_backing_store_monitor – send LO_WAT_ALERT
Sep 27 07:37:51 The-Golden-Ratio-3 kernel[0]: IOSurface: buffer allocation size is zero
Sep 27 07:39:17 The-Golden-Ratio-3 kernel[0]: macx_swapoff SUCCESS
Sep 27 07:46:08 The-Golden-Ratio-3 kernel[0]: IOSurface: buffer allocation size is zero
Sep 27 07:53:51 The-Golden-Ratio-3 kernel[0]: IOSurface: buffer allocation size is zero
Sep 27 07:55:51 The-Golden-Ratio-3 kernel[0]: IOSurface: buffer allocation size is zero
Sep 27 09:43:38 The-Golden-Ratio-3 kernel[0]: IOSurface: buffer allocation size is zero
Sep 27 09:44:13 The-Golden-Ratio-3 kernel[0]: IOSurface: buffer allocation size is zero
Sep 27 09:44:51 The-Golden-Ratio-3 kernel[0]: IOSurface: buffer allocation size is zero
Sep 27 09:46:40 The-Golden-Ratio-3 kernel[0]: IOSurface: buffer allocation size is zero
Sep 27 09:47:19 The-Golden-Ratio-3 kernel[0]: IOSurface: buffer allocation size is zero
Sep 27 09:47:49: — last message repeated 2 times —

I have tons of space on my hard drive, and tons of free ram too. I’m not sure if it’s related, but “fseventsd” in Activity Monitor is using a HUGE amount of virtual memory (1.52GB). Repaired disk permissions on my drives, verified my disk and the external as well. Still nothing.

Comment on Excessive Logging on Mac OSX 10.7 Lion: Repair the Keychain to solve the issues. ( deny file-read-data ) by Klaus @ TechPatio

Klaus @ TechPatio — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 14:03:13 +0000

UPDATE – It seems it worked after I removed the adobe Datak keychains, I had like 5 or 6 of them in my keychain. Since removing them, the console has not given me the error since.

Comment on Excessive Logging on Mac OSX 10.7 Lion: Repair the Keychain to solve the issues. ( deny file-read-data ) by Klaus @ TechPatio

Klaus @ TechPatio — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 10:23:42 +0000

Initially I thought this worked for me, but it turns out it didn’t :(

I’m not running an English version of Lion, but the place you need to repair the keychain is the window where you get two options, to “check/verify” and “repair”, and you have to enter your password below your username too, right?

Comment on Excessive Logging on Mac OSX 10.7 Lion: Repair the Keychain to solve the issues. ( deny file-read-data ) by Mike

Mike — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 23:46:12 +0000

Did not work for me. I ran KeyChain First Aid and no problems were reported. Earlier I had deleted one Adobe Datak keychain. The console log continues to report many Adobe Air messages. System also locks up forcing a hard reboot to get control back. All of this started with 10.7. Recently updated with 10.7.1 – no change.

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Comment on Should I use Trim Enabler on Lion for the OCZ Vertex (3)? No! (Benchmarks inside) by andre

andre — Sun, 28 Aug 2011 10:46:36 +0000

Sorry for my bad english. you mean the driver of the vertex or disable support trim lion? I plan to purchase a vertex 3 as soon as I arrive I should mount it without updating the firmware or upgrade it? thanks

Comment on Canon 5D MKIII (MK3) Announcement Imminent? by folio5

folio5 — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 08:27:21 +0000

while i personally think the new canon EOS 5D MKIII will be a great piece of hardware, it won’t work with magic lantern out of the box for sure. also the price will be higher. furthermore, i think it is still a good deal to buy a mk2 NOW, since prices cannot drop for much.

Comment on Promise Pegasus Thunderbolt RAID system for high-speed data demands: 6x3TB for a total of 18TB (mod) by Khoren

Khoren — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 08:52:33 +0000

where your location and how i can order 18 TB version and how mach the unit price

Comment on Promise Pegasus Thunderbolt RAID system for high-speed data demands: 6x3TB for a total of 18TB (mod) by Khoren

Khoren — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 08:51:58 +0000

where your location and how i can order 18 TB version and how mach the unit price

Comment on Mac OSX Lion 10.7 System Freezes: kernel: IOSurface: buffer allocation size is zero (console message) by aliquis

aliquis — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 12:02:14 +0000

I thought that the Flash 11 beta had solved this, but I now think not. To test I uninstalled Flash completely and after a couple of hours the freeze recurred (while I was using Powerpoint). No buffer allocation size error in Console. If fact there is nothing at all in Console recorded from the time of the freeze or immediately before.

Comment on Mac OSX Lion 10.7 System Freezes: kernel: IOSurface: buffer allocation size is zero (console message) by nanofunk

nanofunk — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 10:13:42 +0000

@mo: keep in mind that chrome uses its own internal flash player! check the version here: http://www.adobe.com/software/flash/about/

Comment on Excessive Logging on Mac OSX 10.7 Lion: Repair the Keychain to solve the issues. ( deny file-read-data ) by Tess

Tess — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 03:56:50 +0000

I repaired the keychain as you suggested, and it worked …thanks so much for your help! The excessive logging came to a halt, and the keychain app showed which file it repaired.

Comment on Mac OSX Lion 10.7 System Freezes: kernel: IOSurface: buffer allocation size is zero (console message) by Mo

Mo — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 19:21:32 +0000

Hello. Thanks for the post!

I updated to the latest Flash Beta 11d1.98, with Chrome 13 and 10.7.1 on MBA (no TRIM Enabler). I have yet to have this issue again, but I’ll report back if it happens!

Thanks again,
Mo

Comment on Excessive Logging on Mac OSX 10.7 Lion: Repair the Keychain to solve the issues. ( deny file-read-data ) by Redarm

Redarm — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 20:08:36 +0000

Didn’t work for me. All keychains were fine, but I had a couple Adobe Datak keychains, which I deleted (and references). That did it.

Comment on Mac OSX Lion 10.7 System Freezes: kernel: IOSurface: buffer allocation size is zero (console message) by nanofunk

nanofunk — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 08:32:21 +0000

@rainer: do you have an SSD or TRIM enabler?
@dd it can also be another adobe product, such as adobe AiR. what does Console.app say?
@rick: yes, i have console open. what do you mean with “io error”?

Comment on Mac OSX Lion 10.7 System Freezes: kernel: IOSurface: buffer allocation size is zero (console message) by rick

rick — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 08:27:29 +0000

I’m seeing weird freezes and similar messages in kernel.log. Do any of you ever have terminal open when this happens? I notice i can `ls` and see files, but trying to read a file gives me an input/output error.

Comment on Mac OSX Lion 10.7 System Freezes: kernel: IOSurface: buffer allocation size is zero (console message) by dd

dd — Mon, 15 Aug 2011 17:29:33 +0000

this happens to me and i don’t have flash installed. seems to happen whenever i use facebook or skype for more than a few minutes… it’s terrible and my mba (mid 2008, clean lion install) is pretty much unusable! i’m gonna take it to the apple store and see what they say…

Comment on Mac OSX Lion 10.7 System Freezes: kernel: IOSurface: buffer allocation size is zero (console message) by Rainer

Rainer — Mon, 15 Aug 2011 15:48:19 +0000

Have that problem with frequent temporary freezes but think that it is not flash related. Have flash-blocker installed in Safari.
I do not see any related message in Console. Sometimes the CPU fan spins up, but activity monitor does not show any load peaks.

Comment on Mac OSX Lion 10.7 System Freezes: kernel: IOSurface: buffer allocation size is zero (console message) by JP Hansen

JP Hansen — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 23:23:58 +0000

New beta is out..

Comment on Mac OSX Lion 10.7 System Freezes: kernel: IOSurface: buffer allocation size is zero (console message) by Andrei

Andrei — Sat, 06 Aug 2011 18:21:44 +0000

Reproducible.

Comment on Mac OSX Lion 10.7 System Freezes: kernel: IOSurface: buffer allocation size is zero (console message) by aliquis

aliquis — Sat, 06 Aug 2011 10:24:59 +0000

The new Flash beta seems to have reduced the problem but not eradicated it. Just had a freeze right in the middle of writing an email in Apple Mail. Very strange.

Comment on MacBook Pro Early 2011 freezes and kernel panics: revert to 32bit to have a stable system by iMac (2010) Freezing with 8Gb of RAM « ScienceTechBlog

iMac (2010) Freezing with 8Gb of RAM « ScienceTechBlog — Tue, 02 Aug 2011 15:18:22 +0000

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Comment on Mac OSX Lion 10.7 System Freezes: kernel: IOSurface: buffer allocation size is zero (console message) by aliquis

aliquis — Tue, 02 Aug 2011 14:45:57 +0000

Thanks nanofunk wil give it a try. Only use Safari anyway, but have installed new Flash.

Comment on Excessive Logging on Mac OSX 10.7 Lion: Repair the Keychain to solve the issues. ( deny file-read-data ) by Rob Record

Rob Record — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 22:15:10 +0000

Thankyou SO much!

Comment on Mac OSX Lion 10.7 System Freezes: kernel: IOSurface: buffer allocation size is zero (console message) by nanofunk

nanofunk — Sun, 31 Jul 2011 07:13:34 +0000

@aliquis we had the same issue here which disappeared after installing flash beta 11.0 from adobe labs and using safari instead of chrome — chrome seems to come with its own version of flash, so switching to safari solves issues for now.

Comment on Mac OSX Lion 10.7 System Freezes: kernel: IOSurface: buffer allocation size is zero (console message) by aliquis

aliquis — Sat, 30 Jul 2011 11:53:43 +0000

I’ve had this problem intermittently for some months on a 5-year-old C2D MBP. Sometimes the screen just freezes (except for the mouse) and sometimes the screen goes black and everything seems to freeze. Hard reboot necessary. Thought Lion might cure it but if anything it’s got worse. Same buffer allocation message in console. Driving me insane.

Comment on Mac OSX Lion 10.7 System Freezes: kernel: IOSurface: buffer allocation size is zero (console message) by El Duque

El Duque — Sat, 30 Jul 2011 06:41:59 +0000

I installed “Trim Enabler” and I am having temporary system freezes which I think is coming from Safari.

I installed the Flash 11 beta, we’ll see how that goes. It’s definitely something Trim Enabler caused.

Comment on Mac OSX Lion 10.7 System Freezes: kernel: IOSurface: buffer allocation size is zero (console message) by Turadg Aleahmad

Turadg Aleahmad — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 21:17:50 +0000

Same here. I hope Adobe or Apple can speak up. The dumps of these messages slow my system to a crawl and spin up the fan.

Comment on Apple MacBook Pro Quad Core (early 2011) i7: fast powerhorse with design flaws and hardware issues by nanofunk

nanofunk — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 10:33:06 +0000

@Danny Richmond: there are also the Speck MacBook Pro Cases, which i personally like more. We have two of the satin black covers - they perfectly keep scratches away, so you have a perfectly vanilla notebook with a high resell value.

Comment on Mac OSX Lion 10.7 System Freezes: kernel: IOSurface: buffer allocation size is zero (console message) by hugo

hugo — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 10:28:55 +0000

we are having the same issue here. tested with macbook pro early 2011 and lion.
flash player version 10,3,181,36 – google chrome canary.

Comment on Apple MacBook Pro Quad Core (early 2011) i7: fast powerhorse with design flaws and hardware issues by Danny Richmond

Danny Richmond — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 08:48:31 +0000

I believe nothing could beat this beast in term of performance. Design wise, it’s classical and no other pc laptop able to match with the unibody aluminum case. However, the worst part of the MacBook Pro is also the aluminum case. It is very prone to scratches cause by day to day usage especially using outdoor. I would suggest to get it cover up by skinstyler.com wrist rest products. They help to reduce the sharpness edge of aluminum case and also protect it from scratches. Do check out their classical designer collection to match with MacBook Pro http://www.skinstyler.com/wrist-rest-protection-cover-skin-designer-collection-c-26_25.html

Comment on Mac OSX 10.7 Lion updating annoyances: Scolling, Versioning and no TRIM! by Alex

Alex — Sat, 23 Jul 2011 19:28:37 +0000

you have to scroll your mousewheel up to actually move the on-screen content down
that’s actually wrong: with new feature the onscreen content moves in the same direction with your mouse scrolling, while before it used to move up when mouse scrolled down. =)

Comment on 2011 Macbook Pro and SATA III 6Gbps, Optibay: two HD drives – setup explained by Mac OSX 10.7 Lion updating annoyances: Scolling, Versioning and no TRIM! | nanofunk.net

Fri, 22 Jul 2011 10:08:57 +0000

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Comment on MacBook Pro Early 2011 freezes and kernel panics: revert to 32bit to have a stable system by moebius22

moebius22 — Sun, 17 Jul 2011 16:32:10 +0000

What is with this company?! I bought a 2010 MacbookPro 17′ used from the Apple store and had freezing problems. I returned it DOA and got my money back hoping this would be fixed for the 2011 model.

Now when I’m just about to buy a 2011 MacbookPro 17′ for school (I’m a film student who edits) I find out about this.

So what should I do?

Buy a 2011 and hope it’s fine, or buy ANOTHER 2010 and hope it’s fine?

Any suggestions?

Comment on Max/Msp for Live with Ableton Live 8.1 Final REVIEW (max for live) by nanofunk

nanofunk — Fri, 08 Jul 2011 13:34:50 +0000

there is a very good tutorial from cycling74 on creating synths: see http://cycling74.com/2007/08/20/1729/ for more information!

Comment on Apple MacBook Pro Quad Core (early 2011) i7: fast powerhorse with design flaws and hardware issues by nanofunk

nanofunk — Fri, 08 Jul 2011 13:28:40 +0000

yes, we are still updating this post. still, if you are concerned about stability you should use a 32bit kernel. if you are running 10.6.8 you should not have any issues with the 64bit kernel – if you do, please let us know! the SATA “problem” does not apply to the MacBook Pros. The HDD runs on a SATA 6GBPs port, the optical drive on a SATA 3GBPs port. See our post on 32bit Kernel setting for more information: http://www.nanofunk.net/macbook-pro-early-2011-freezes-and-kernel-panics-revert-to-32bit-to-have-a-stable-system/

Comment on MacBook Pro Early 2011 freezes and kernel panics: revert to 32bit to have a stable system by Links 06/2011 | Per Anhalter durch die Technik

Links 06/2011 | Per Anhalter durch die Technik — Thu, 30 Jun 2011 18:18:39 +0000

[...] MacBook Pro Early 2011 freezes and kernel panics: revert to 32bit to have a stable system | nanofunk… As we already blogged some time ago, we had severe overheating issues and frequent kernel panics with our early 2011 models of the MacBook Pro Core-i7 quad. Still, after the updates there are crashes from time to time – the early 2011 models are far away from being stable machines to use for serious work. [...]

Comment on Apple MacBook Pro Quad Core (early 2011) i7: fast powerhorse with design flaws and hardware issues by vc

vc — Mon, 13 Jun 2011 02:25:10 +0000

hi, is anyone still using this post?
its 13th of june, any news yet?
new models have a different number?
is this problem solved on new models?
what about SATA problem ?

Comment on Apple MacBook Pro Quad Core (early 2011) i7: fast powerhorse with design flaws and hardware issues by Tyler

Tyler — Tue, 03 May 2011 21:00:43 +0000

@Jack I have the same issue with the black and gray lines after mbp does NOT wake from sleep. I’m running a 13″ mpb I’ve had for 5 days. Apple support is suggesting it may be an application I have called Air Display. Do you have this app, or have you found another solution to this problem?

Comment on Apple MacBook Pro Quad Core (early 2011) i7: fast powerhorse with design flaws and hardware issues by Rudy

Rudy — Tue, 03 May 2011 05:59:05 +0000

Wow was really excited to get a new Macbook Pro 17″ this year, as I’d been saving up and my 2006 model has been having some serious issues (not to get too sidetracked but it is a Dual Core, and the heat has caused the metal around the frame of the screen to warp and distort and finally crack since I need to close the damn thing). Looks like I’ll have to wait till the next model! I bet apple makes a new one to coincide with there OSX 10.7 Lion release…

Comment on Apple MacBook Pro Quad Core (early 2011) i7: fast powerhorse with design flaws and hardware issues by x130844

x130844 — Wed, 20 Apr 2011 19:38:25 +0000

I don’t believe heat is really the problem nor the GPU.
I can get my 15″ 2011 very hot due to GPU intensive stuff and the yes > /dev/null
No problem.
From a cold boot, i can install 2 big software at the same time (virtualbox installing ubuntu + Eclipse installation). It would then hard lock up.

The issue I think is with the SATA controller, when i do too many file access at the same time, that’s when it locks up. Then the fans start to spin like if something was stuck in a loop.

Comment on hackintosh: XPC Bootloader Can Boot Mac OS X 10.7 Lion by honey

honey — Wed, 20 Apr 2011 13:17:48 +0000

is this possible to run this version of mac in core 2 duo or any other proc….

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Chris Marra — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 10:20:48 +0000

How do I get my free Reverb?

Comment on Free TC Electronic M30 Reverb Plugin Download by Chris Marra

Chris Marra — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 10:15:57 +0000

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Comment on Apple MacBook Pro Quad Core (early 2011) i7: fast powerhorse with design flaws and hardware issues by Jack

Jack — Sun, 10 Apr 2011 17:18:55 +0000

I haven’t even had a chance to deal with the overheating issue. My 15″ Macbook Pro suffers from not being able to wake from sleep. This only happens when the machine goes to sleep with the cover open. A press on the keyboard or trackpad does nothing, the machine freezes and is unresponsive. Eventually get a screen with distortion and gray and black lines.

Comment on 2011 Macbook Pro and SATA III 6Gbps, Optibay: two HD drives – setup explained by Solid-State Drives: What is the best SSD (solid state drive) setup for new MacBook Pros? - Quora

Thu, 31 Mar 2011 11:03:10 +0000

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Do the new 2011 Apple Macbook Pros have SATA 6gbps interfaces? - Quora — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 10:51:15 +0000

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Comment on Apple MacBook Pro Quad Core (early 2011) i7: fast powerhorse with design flaws and hardware issues by 2011 Macbook Pro and SATA III 6Gbps, Optibay: two HD drives – setup explained | nanofunk.net

Thu, 31 Mar 2011 10:37:43 +0000

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Comment on Apple MacBook Pro Quad Core (early 2011) i7: fast powerhorse with design flaws and hardware issues by vibnwis

vibnwis — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 08:37:35 +0000

Hi John, Can you recall who the tech support is? with that you refer his statement to another tech support if it is true. Very interested to know what other tech supports of Apple say.

Comment on Apple MacBook Pro Quad Core (early 2011) i7: fast powerhorse with design flaws and hardware issues by Lars

Lars — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 20:57:20 +0000

@john
I hope you told them exactly this. Fucking incredible.

Comment on Apple MacBook Pro Quad Core (early 2011) i7: fast powerhorse with design flaws and hardware issues by john

john — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 14:31:52 +0000

I returned my macbook because of the heating issue.

When I called Apple for this, they said its not a laptop, its a portable. It is not designed to keep on the lap. Did i just pay 2000$ for a laptop, but since Apple does not call it laptop, too bad?

I dont care if you change the terminology. It still is s fking laptop.

I am not going to pay 2000$ for a system which you tell me how to use. What else? Apple tells me I can only use my 2k machine 4 hours a day because its healthy and its not designed to run for more than 4 hrs a day.

Comment on Apple MacBook Pro Quad Core (early 2011) i7: fast powerhorse with design flaws and hardware issues by frank

frank — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 10:17:08 +0000

i am experiencing the same problem with a 2.2ghz 15 inch apple macbook pro. hope this gets sorted out fast. the 10.6.7 update did not solve my issues.

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Sat, 12 Mar 2011 17:48:20 +0000

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Comment on Max/Msp for Live with Ableton Live 8.1 Final REVIEW (max for live) by riccardo

riccardo — Tue, 15 Feb 2011 01:37:09 +0000

how to build a simple synth?!! PLEASE MAKE A TUTORIAL!

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nanofunk — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 17:24:07 +0000

there is a current offer on amazon that includes a 500$ coupon when buying the TC Electronic PowerCore PCI express. This might be interesting for people that also want to get tons of plugins with their PowerCore.

Comment on Beta: Ableton Live 8.1 with Max/Msp for Live by ivan

ivan — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 22:08:33 +0000

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Comment on Max/Msp for Live with Ableton Live 8.1 Final REVIEW (max for live) by nanofunk

nanofunk — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 04:15:58 +0000

Thanks for the pointers, Stefan! I will update the patches as soon as possible! since I am currently in Malaysia with poor internet access this might take some while…

Comment on Max/Msp for Live with Ableton Live 8.1 Final REVIEW (max for live) by Stefan Tiedje

Stefan Tiedje — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 06:49:41 +0000

in your simple delay, you should leave the maximum delay time fixed (set it high, maybe half a minute [tapin~ 30000] and no user changeable number box) and better include a control for the feedback (which is fixed in your example…)

In all patches: using presentation mode is way better than hide on lock…

Comment on Beta: Ableton Live 8.1 with Max/Msp for Live by nanofunk

nanofunk — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 20:19:50 +0000

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nanofunk — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 10:01:44 +0000

another sneak peek can be found here: http://vimeo.com/5895673

“This is an excerpt from the documentary ‘Totally Wired’, featuring the analogue genius that is Ken Macbeth, of Macbeth Studio Systems. Ken talks about what inspires him, his vision for the M5 synthesiser, and making noise. Set in Edinburgh, Scotland.”