MGG 277: Mail Tips, Secure Backups, Finding Preferences
Mac Geek Gab — Apple Tips, Tricks, and Troubleshooting
Dave Hamilton, Pilot Pete & Adam Christianson
4.8 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 4 August 2010
⏱️ 70 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | The Mac Geek G Thanks folks and welcome to a sunny afternoon edition of the Mac Observers |
| 0:28.4 | Mack Kitkav, hailing here from Durham, New Hampshire, I am Dave Hamilton. |
| 0:33.0 | And here, New Hampshire. I am Dave Hamilton. And here, Fearfield, Connecticut, John F. Ron, it's not quite sunny, it's kind of cloudy, but I'm hoping for some nice |
| 0:39.2 | storms this evening. |
| 0:41.8 | Hey, speaking of storms, and many of you will hear this too late but last night which would be Tuesday |
| 0:48.4 | the third and tonight Wednesday the fourth people in the northern hemisphere in the |
| 0:56.9 | states and I'm not sure if Europe will get it I think Europe, will have the possibility of being able to see the |
| 1:05.6 | northern lights. There was some solar activity, two periods of solar activity |
| 1:11.1 | over the last several days that have this whatever it is and |
| 1:15.9 | I'm going to screw it up if I try to explain it so I'm not going to explain it. |
| 1:19.0 | But whatever it is that would cause the Northern Lights is coming in and people are seeing it you know |
| 1:25.0 | Toronto was reported to have seen it last night there was some areas in |
| 1:28.5 | Germany last night that we're seeing it and and there's reports that you know it might get as far down as Maine |
| 1:34.1 | and you know kind of middle of New Hampshire which is really really far south for |
| 1:39.7 | for that's north. That's solar activity I just got 12 you know I mean solar activity is the |
| 1:48.2 | after after that extreme solar activity it's a end of times so if you get this in time |
| 1:52.2 | check it out but but yeah, I know they were they were they were |
| 1:57.2 | reporting that this could happen. They say yeah, they say the sun goes through periods of like, you it waxes and wanes in terms of its |
| 2:05.4 | activity and things are we're in a where we've been we just came out of a 10 year |
| 2:09.6 | period where it was kind of very low and it was actually a very quiet, quiet period as far as quiet periods go. |
| 2:16.0 | So now apparently we're heading back into a more active. |
| 2:20.0 | So expect all your radios and all that stuff to, you know, start malfunctioning with the solar flares. |
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