wasted hard drive space in computer lab
hi not sure if this is the right forum however i was wondering if it was possible to make a transparently contiguous virtual volume out of the unused hard drive space in a computer lab EG: 15 computers with on average 8gb free space (after allowing ample room for the os and applications) making a total of 120gb and up to what what Mac OS does assimilator work with?? Al -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ Using a Mac? Free email more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
ATIRagePro.kext - My OS X Hack Dies...
Background : Lombard 333, OS 10.1.5, OS 9.2.2 (Separate Partitions) I performed the ATIRagePro.kext hack on my Lombard 333 and was staggered to see the performance difference of OS X 10.1.5 So I kept my old ATIRagePro.kext for a few days and everything seemed fine. Sods Law dictated that the day I trashed it and restarted the Kernel panicked at bootup, right after the ATIRage drivers came up. Anyone out there want to contact me off list and send me a copy of the file again (I've yet to work out a way of editing a .kext file in OS9.) Cheers, Antony. -- == == = = Antony N. Lord = http://antonylord.com = = [EMAIL PROTECTED] = Perth, Western Australia = == = == -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ Using a Mac? Free email more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
Re: ATIRagePro.kext - My OS X Hack Dies...
Background : Lombard 333, OS 10.1.5, OS 9.2.2 (Separate Partitions) I performed the ATIRagePro.kext hack on my Lombard 333 and was staggered to see the performance difference of OS X 10.1.5 So I kept my old ATIRagePro.kext for a few days and everything seemed fine. Sods Law dictated that the day I trashed it and restarted the Kernel panicked at bootup, right after the ATIRage drivers came up. Anyone out there want to contact me off list and send me a copy of the file again (I've yet to work out a way of editing a .kext file in OS9.) Cheers, Antony. You can d/l the modified k.ext from my Public folder on iDisk - handle is 'pb5300' The author has published a revised version for Jaguar - works with more cards (PCI Beige, for instance). Not Wallstreet yet, he reckons, but will publish more as he tests more. I love the fact I can watch VCDs (using MacVCD X) and QT movies full-screen, full-frame. Cheers, RD Remy Davison Contributing Editor/News Editor, Insanely-Great Mac http://www.insanely-great.com mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] RD's PowerBook page: http://www.macpowerbook.com -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ Using a Mac? Free email more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
233Å@/ 13.3 wallstreet display cable
Hi, I've read G-Books for quite a while and am grateful for all the helpful information here. I've used a 300mHz Wallstreet for about three years now and still really enjoy it. Recently I acquired a Wallstreet 233/13.3. This is the model with no L2 cache and a problematic video cable. A friend gave the 'book to me because it had the white screen of death for him. I opened up the display case, peeled back the tape and the cable looked fine. All I did was to gently push it a bit more firmly into its connector. To my amazement, so far it is has cured the snow patterns that were showing on the display. I'm sure the problem will reappear, so I'm prepared to go in again in the near future to fix it again. ## Any advice on how to fix this problem more permanently? It wasn't clear to me how the cable was connected on the display side so I didn't try to take it out. It just looked a bit skewed so I pushed in the side that seemed to be out of kilter. I'm really happy that it works now but am not confident how long this fix will last or if I'll be so lucky the next time. Any advice will be much appreciated! thanks, kevin -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ Using a Mac? Free email more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
Re: OS X file extension warnings
Phillip, I think something has gotten convoluted along the way. =) The constant annoyance I was referring to was clicking the file name twice. I think it was Amber who was asking about how to bypass that Are you sure you want to change . . .? dialog, and I was just commenting that running a script would bypass the dialog and that Jaguar did not include an option to make the computer stop asking. I didn't know that you could drag Script Menu up to the menu bar (although looking at that sentence now, it seems obvious that this is the case.) . . . I have been using Script Runner manually all this time, so thanks for letting me know about that! --Courtney On Wednesday, August 28, 2002, at 08:47 AM, Phillip Burk wrote: Courtney, Are you running 10.2? I'm fairly certain this applies for earlier versions but I'm now running 10.2 and don't have another machine handy for reference. If you go to the Applications = AppleScript folder, there is a menu item called Script Menu.menu. Drag that to your menu bar. You'll get a little icon that functions as a script launcher. Open a Finder window containing the files to which you wish to append .html. Click on the AppleScript menu and choose Finder Scripts = Add to Finder Names. You'll get a little window prompting you to enter the text you wish to add as a prefix or suffix... You'll probably need to refresh the window by either closing it and reopening it or clicking elsewhere and then back on it. But the file icons and their extensions should be changed. Also, David, not to pick nits, but if you click on the filename when selecting it in the Finder and THEN click and move on the filename you'll be able to rename it. Granted, it's TWO clicks, but not three... On Tuesday, August 27, 2002, at 08:11 PM, Courtney Simpson wrote: First, let me wholeheartedly agree with your rant David. I rename files all the time, and this is a constant annoyance. Second, I know next to nothing about scripts, but I do know that if you use one to modify file extensions, you do bypass that annoying Are you sure? dialog. You'd think that the machine would believe me after thousands of extension changes. And for anyone that is wondering, no, Jaguar does not fix this problem. But it will give you a map to Apple Headquarters in Cupertino, California, should you need to speak to someone personally about this matter. = --Courtney On Tuesday, August 27, 2002, at 10:39 AM, David Deckert wrote: On Tuesday, August 27, 2002, at 10:39 AM, Brian Scott Oplinger wrote: Just off the top, I'm wondering if an AppleScript droplet that changes the last part of any file name to html when something's dropped on it might work. Sometimes such automatic doings have a way of bypassing Finder dialog boxes. Even if it doesn't prevent the dialog box, I'd think it would still help save you some time. snip rantMy pet peeve is modifying filenames in X. Click name. Click name second time so Finder knows you mean the name, as opposed to the icon. Click a third time because you don't want all the text selected. That's 300% more clicks than is necessary. It's OK if you want an all-new name because now all the text is selected the first time, but I usually only want to change one or two characters./rant -David Hi all, Whenever I add a file extension to an exisitng file (such as .html) OS X asks, Are you sure you want to add the extension whatever to this file? Usually I'm doing it because I've downloaded an updated version from Fetch, which gets saved as file.html.1, and I'm removing the .1 after having trashed the earlier version. Does anyone know how to stop this message from appearing? It's really annoying aftera few times. Its more than really annoying, and it can't be stopped. Brian Humor [is] something that thrives between man's aspirations and his limitations. There is more logic in humor than in anything else. Because, you see, humor is truth. --Victor Borge A kiss that speaks volumes is seldom a first edition. --Clare Whiting The Human Spirit can never be paralyzed. If you are breathing, you can dream. --Michael Brown Find something you're passionate about and keep tremendously interested in it. --Julia Child AIM: LoveTheVeinedOne ICQ# 54672644 -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive:
Re: Wallstreet hard drive woe
Hi, The drive I want to install is 9.5 mm high. Will that present any problems? Thanks for your response. John Callahan Remy Davison wrote: This is a little off subject, but does anyone have any idea of where I can find a list of hard disk drives compatible with my Powerbook G3 series Wallstreet? I won a Fujitsu MHR2020AT drive on E-Bay and for the life of me I can't find out whether it will work or not. Grateful for any help. Thank you, John Callahan Not off topic at all. The short answer is: anything 2.5 wide and with an IDE connection will work. Full stop. The Wallstreet is 19mm high inside and most older HDs are a max of 17mm. Newer ones are either 12.5 or 9.5mm. Cheers, RD Remy Davison Contributing Editor/News Editor, Insanely-Great Mac http://www.insanely-great.com mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] RD's PowerBook page: http://www.macpowerbook.com -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ Using a Mac? Free email more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ Using a Mac? Free email more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
Re: admin isn't root
If you have Administrator privileges (and have auto login so you can start without entering the password), you can... Open System Preferences, then Users, then select yourself and click on Edit User. In the window that opens, click on the Password tab and it will allow you to reset the password. This method will change the password of that admin account, not the root account. I don't think the root user account will even be listed. -David -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ Using a Mac? Free email more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
Re: admin isn't root
At 11:52 AM 8/28/2002 -0400, you wrote: If you have Administrator privileges (and have auto login so you can start without entering the password), you can... Open System Preferences, then Users, then select yourself and click on Edit User. In the window that opens, click on the Password tab and it will allow you to reset the password. This method will change the password of that admin account, not the root account. I don't think the root user account will even be listed. If you have access with another account go to Applications - Utilities - NetInfo Manager (I think, writing this from roommate's PC) In the menus you will find Authenticate, it may bug you to set a root password. Do so now. Then load terminal (Applications - Utilities) type: su hit enter. Then input your root password. Then type: passwd [username] don't type the brackets Now enter your new password for the username you typed previously. It will have you confirm it. Your password is changed. DO NOT change your password from within NetInfo Manager. That is an encrypted password (often called hashed). -- Ryan -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ Using a Mac? Free email more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
Re: wasted hard drive space in computer lab
Al wrote: hi not sure if this is the right forum however i was wondering if it was possible to make a transparently contiguous virtual volume out of the unused hard drive space in a computer lab EG: 15 computers with on average 8gb free space (after allowing ample room for the os and applications) making a total of 120gb In practical terms: No. What you're talking about is a distributed RAID. Could it be done? Yes. There is some network-centric computing research that also involves divvying up drive space, but it is a configuration nightmare, to say the least. Now you could, with an insanely complicated scheme of NFS mounts, do this as 15 separate volumes. -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ Using a Mac? Free email more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
Re: OS X file extension warnings
Courtney, Ah, see what happens when one walks into a discussion that has been going on for some time? Thanks for the clarification. BTW, you COULD click on the filename then hit the Return key which then allows you to edit the filename. On Wednesday, August 28, 2002, at 10:01 AM, Courtney Simpson wrote: Phillip, I think something has gotten convoluted along the way. =) The constant annoyance I was referring to was clicking the file name twice. I think it was Amber who was asking about how to bypass that Are you sure you want to change . . .? dialog, and I was just commenting that running a script would bypass the dialog and that Jaguar did not include an option to make the computer stop asking. I didn't know that you could drag Script Menu up to the menu bar (although looking at that sentence now, it seems obvious that this is the case.) . . . I have been using Script Runner manually all this time, so thanks for letting me know about that! --Courtney On Wednesday, August 28, 2002, at 08:47 AM, Phillip Burk wrote: Courtney, Are you running 10.2? I'm fairly certain this applies for earlier versions but I'm now running 10.2 and don't have another machine handy for reference. If you go to the Applications = AppleScript folder, there is a menu item called Script Menu.menu. Drag that to your menu bar. You'll get a little icon that functions as a script launcher. Open a Finder window containing the files to which you wish to append .html. Click on the AppleScript menu and choose Finder Scripts = Add to Finder Names. You'll get a little window prompting you to enter the text you wish to add as a prefix or suffix... You'll probably need to refresh the window by either closing it and reopening it or clicking elsewhere and then back on it. But the file icons and their extensions should be changed. Also, David, not to pick nits, but if you click on the filename when selecting it in the Finder and THEN click and move on the filename you'll be able to rename it. Granted, it's TWO clicks, but not three... On Tuesday, August 27, 2002, at 08:11 PM, Courtney Simpson wrote: First, let me wholeheartedly agree with your rant David. I rename files all the time, and this is a constant annoyance. Second, I know next to nothing about scripts, but I do know that if you use one to modify file extensions, you do bypass that annoying Are you sure? dialog. You'd think that the machine would believe me after thousands of extension changes. And for anyone that is wondering, no, Jaguar does not fix this problem. But it will give you a map to Apple Headquarters in Cupertino, California, should you need to speak to someone personally about this matter. = --Courtney On Tuesday, August 27, 2002, at 10:39 AM, David Deckert wrote: On Tuesday, August 27, 2002, at 10:39 AM, Brian Scott Oplinger wrote: Just off the top, I'm wondering if an AppleScript droplet that changes the last part of any file name to html when something's dropped on it might work. Sometimes such automatic doings have a way of bypassing Finder dialog boxes. Even if it doesn't prevent the dialog box, I'd think it would still help save you some time. snip rantMy pet peeve is modifying filenames in X. Click name. Click name second time so Finder knows you mean the name, as opposed to the icon. Click a third time because you don't want all the text selected. That's 300% more clicks than is necessary. It's OK if you want an all-new name because now all the text is selected the first time, but I usually only want to change one or two characters./rant -David Hi all, Whenever I add a file extension to an exisitng file (such as .html) OS X asks, Are you sure you want to add the extension whatever to this file? Usually I'm doing it because I've downloaded an updated version from Fetch, which gets saved as file.html.1, and I'm removing the .1 after having trashed the earlier version. Does anyone know how to stop this message from appearing? It's really annoying aftera few times. Its more than really annoying, and it can't be stopped. Brian Humor [is] something that thrives between man's aspirations and his limitations. There is more logic in humor than in anything else. Because, you see, humor is truth. --Victor Borge A kiss that speaks volumes is seldom a first edition. --Clare Whiting The Human Spirit can never be paralyzed. If you are breathing, you can dream. --Michael Brown Find something you're passionate about and keep tremendously interested in it. --Julia Child AIM: LoveTheVeinedOne ICQ# 54672644 Phil Burk Systems Support Technician Wiley Publishing, Inc. 10475 Crosspoint Blvd Indianapolis, IN 46256 317.572.3049 phone
Jaguar installed - my first thoughts
I just installed Jag on my iBook DVD 500. So far I am very impressed with it. Installation took about 45 minutes. I did the erase disk option for installing, so everything was fresh. Office seems to run the same. I had heart that it has slowed down considerably under Jag, but I have not noticed any lag. The new Mail seems robust, as does the address book. I selected all in my Entourage address book, drug them to the desktop, and then drug them all into the Address Book. No problem. The speed boost is quite significant. I am very happy with it. Although I haven't had a chance to chat with anyone with iChat yet, it looks good ;) Also, it is good to be back home! Walt -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ Using a Mac? Free email more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
Re: root password
On 8/28/02 9:45 AM, Herbert Goodfriend at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you have Administrator privileges (and have auto login so you can start without entering the password), you can... Open System Preferences, then Users, then select yourself and click on Edit User. In the window that opens, click on the Password tab and it will allow you to reset the password. I currently run OS X in single-user mode. I do have administrator priveleges. But my user (amber) and the root user are two different things. The root user is not enabled in OS X by default; I enabled it when I got this computer, but haven't used it in about two months. I tried NetInfo Manager, but it only allows you to change the password by entering the current password first (and then creating a new one). It's not a *huge* deal, since I have no need to login as root most of the time, but it does make me nervous because my husband, a UNIX-head, said, Well, in UNIX, if you forget your root password, you're screwed! Reinstall! This is a Mac... there's gotta be an easier way! -- *** Amber Rhea *** [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.tangerinecs.com /\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign \ / No HTML/RTF in email X No Word docs in email / \ Respect open standards! -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ Using a Mac? Free email more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
Re: root password
Amber Rhea wrote: I currently run OS X in single-user mode. I do have administrator priveleges. But my user (amber) and the root user are two different things. The root user is not enabled in OS X by default; I enabled it when I got this computer, but haven't used it in about two months. I tried NetInfo Manager, but it only allows you to change the password by entering the current password first (and then creating a new one). It's not a *huge* deal, since I have no need to login as root most of the time, but it does make me nervous because my husband, a UNIX-head, said, Well, in UNIX, if you forget your root password, you're screwed! Reinstall! This is a Mac... there's gotta be an easier way! No you're not running OS X in 'single user mode'. That is a special startup option, one that lands you at a console prompt, as root automatically. You should be able to run the passwd command then. What *you're* doing is running OS X in autologin mode, where you're automatically logging in as one user. This is also why *all* root passwords for our systems here in the College are written down, and stored in a locked file cabinet that *two* people have the keys to. (Actually, the password for my Mac is on a particular piece of scrap paper in my desk drawer, but if you've gotten that far into my house, I'm long past worrying about you logging onto my Mac as root...;-) -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ Using a Mac? Free email more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
Torx for Pismo HD? (was: Re: Wallstreet hard drive woe)
But, I digress. Get a Torx #8 screwdriver from Sears, put in a larger, faster HD, and your PB will be good as new. Listers, Is Torx8 the size needed for removing the Pismo drive too? Last time I had the keyboard up, I noticed that the drive was fastened with those damnable torx screws. Now, months later, I'm wanting to upgrade mine, but haven't a full torx set to try out, and I don't want to lug my Pismo to the hardware store to check for fit. Thanks in advance, --Jim. -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ Using a Mac? Free email more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
Re: Torx for Pismo HD? (was: Re: Wallstreet hard drive woe)
On 28/08/02 15:58, Jim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But, I digress. Get a Torx #8 screwdriver from Sears, put in a larger, faster HD, and your PB will be good as new. Listers, Is Torx8 the size needed for removing the Pismo drive too? Last time I had the keyboard up, I noticed that the drive was fastened with those damnable torx screws. Now, months later, I'm wanting to upgrade mine, but haven't a full torx set to try out, and I don't want to lug my Pismo to the hardware store to check for fit. I'm pretty sure that it's a Torx 8 too. -Laurent. -- === Laurent DaudelinDeveloper, Multifamily, ESO, Fannie Mae mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Washington, DC, USA * Usual disclaimers apply * choke v.: 1. [common] To reject input, often ungracefully. NULs make System V's lpr(1) choke. I tried building an EMACS binary to use X, but cpp(1) choked on all those #defines. See barf, gag, vi. 2. [MIT] More generally, to fail at any endeavor, but with some flair or bravado; the popular definition is to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ Using a Mac? Free email more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
Re: Torx for Pismo HD? (was: Re: Wallstreet hard drive woe)
Jim wrote: But, I digress. Get a Torx #8 screwdriver from Sears, put in a larger, faster HD, and your PB will be good as new. Listers, Is Torx8 the size needed for removing the Pismo drive too? Last time I had the keyboard up, I noticed that the drive was fastened with those damnable torx screws. Yes it is. Just replaced the HDD in someone's a month ago. -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ Using a Mac? Free email more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
Re: wasted hard drive space in computer lab
damn in the entire collage there has to 4 or 5 terabytes going begging i find it hard to believe unix doesn't have a simple cmd line that says make all free network hard drive space one contiguous volume ;) maybe mac os x server has some tricks up it sleeves?? Al Bruce Johnson relpied: In practical terms: No. What you're talking about is a distributed RAID. Could it be done? Yes. There is some network-centric computing research that also involves divvying up drive space, but it is a configuration nightmare, to say the least. Now you could, with an insanely complicated scheme of NFS mounts, do this as 15 separate volumes. Al wrote: hi not sure if this is the right forum however i was wondering if it was possible to make a transparently contiguous virtual volume out of the unused hard drive space in a computer lab EG: 15 computers with on average 8gb free space (after allowing ample room for the os and applications) making a total of 120gb a -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ Using a Mac? Free email more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
Re: wasted hard drive space in computer lab
Al wrote: damn in the entire collage there has to 4 or 5 terabytes going begging i find it hard to believe unix doesn't have a simple cmd line that says make all free network hard drive space one contiguous volume ;) maybe mac os x server has some tricks up it sleeves?? Not likely. Such a system would be really hard to manage. What happens in your theoretical distributed file storage when a computer is shut off? A drive goes south? A user is doing a really disk-intensive task? The user simply deletes the files to make room for *their stuff*. Worse you and the user each write a 10 gb file to that disk that only has 10 gb left? There are distributed database systems that work quite well; with the appropriate setup I can write an Oracle application that will access data on systems literally around the world. (I've known people who do this, in fact) I could, with lots of programmatical Junkyard Wars-like bodgering, bash a distributed Oracle installation into what appeared like a large single drive, but the client software, Oracle Server, is a wee bit on the heavy side. (Ours takes up slightly over 1 gig of disk space, which is just the server and associated software, not the databases) and is a *wee* bit complicated to run. P2P filesystems like Kazaa and Gnutella manage to ditribute files around to different systems like what you're talking about but the latency in finding a specific file is horrible, and they scale even worse. Napster style models, with distributed filestorage and centralized file indexing work far better and scales far better than Gnutella, but a centralized index gives you a centralized point of failure. And none of these models deal well with systems that get turned off, and none of these will split a file too large to go on one node across more than one. (oh, I *could* do it on a sufficiently advanced Oracle setup, but that's a corrolary of Clarkes Law: Any sufficiently advanced OODBMS is indistinguishable from Magic. And if I could do that, Larry himself would be offering me the use of his Mig for the weekend and such ;-) Push come to shove, if I had to make one of these beasts, I'd make it using the Napster model with a honking fast database server for indexing, like Oracle or postgres running on a box doing nothing but that, with a real fast network pipes, along with some small client running on the 'network storage devices', aka everyone else's computer. That said, when alls done, it's easier and cheaper just to buy bigger drives or standalone NSD's for your network, which is why people use file servers instead of some distributed file system. When you have a million node filesystem, you have a million security holes into your server. Gives me heebie-jeebies thinking about it. and backups, YIKES! I don't *want* to think about backups! When sysadmins are very very bad they go to places like that when they die, and get to be sysadmins in hell, and get stuck with Windows. Windows 1.0. On a Packard-Bell. A broken Packard-Bell. -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ Using a Mac? Free email more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
Re: wasted hard drive space in computer lab
thanks Bruce i appreciate your patience in explaining this it certainly belongs in the to impractical basket regards Al -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ Using a Mac? Free email more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
Wallstreet CDRW
Anyone have any experience putting one of those Matsushita CDRW's into a Wallstreet? They seem to go pretty cheap on ebay, and I remember reading about it before I owned one but now I don't see any info. Is it a direct plug in and just replace the faceplate or do you have to disassemble the drives and swap the guts out? Feel free to email me off list if you have instructions or whatever. thanks -- JSH -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ Using a Mac? Free email more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
Re: Wallstreet CDRW
please post replies to the list as i am curious about this also Al Jeff Hubatka wrote: Anyone have any experience putting one of those Matsushita CDRW's into a Wallstreet? They seem to go pretty cheap on ebay, and I remember reading about it before I owned one but now I don't see any info. Is it a direct plug in and just replace the faceplate or do you have to disassemble the drives and swap the guts out? Feel free to email me off list if you have instructions or whatever. thanks -- JSH -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ Using a Mac? Free email more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
