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Thanks, Bill. The Apple website must have been swamped but I did finally get to see the new toys and all the specs. It's brilliant. Alex | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be January 25. The LCS Web page is http://www.kymac.org. | List posting address: mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu | List Web page: http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup
MacGroup: Adding a floppy drive to a blue white G3?
It was probably a stupid waste of money but I just won the bidding for an old PowerBook Duo on eBay. So now I need to download the public OS 7.5.3 images from Apple and put them on some floppies to install onto the Duo (includes a DuoDock that has the 1.4 MB superdrive in it). But the G3 blue white that I own has a ZIP drive, not a floppy. What is the easiest way to add a floppy drive to this thing? I see those USB floppy drives at CompUSA--will those work on a Mac? It's running OS X.3 if that makes any difference. --- Rex. | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be January 25. The LCS Web page is http://www.kymac.org. | List posting address: mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu | List Web page: http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup
MacGroup: Adding a floppy drive to a blue white G3?
?^/?aldazo Rex.Baldazo at cnet.com wrote: It was probably a stupid waste of money but I just won the bidding for an old PowerBook Duo on eBay. So now I need to download the public OS 7.5.3 images from Apple and put them on some floppies to install onto the Duo (includes a DuoDock that has the 1.4 MB superdrive in it). But the G3 blue white that I own has a ZIP drive, not a floppy. What is the easiest way to add a floppy drive to this thing? I see those USB floppy drives at CompUSA--will those work on a Mac? It's running OS X.3 if that makes any difference. --- Rex. No, not a waste of money at all (well depending on how much you paid ; ) The Duos were really cool. I remember drooling over 'em years ago. Really nice bright display on the color ones. I have a Duo and not even sure if it works (don't have the power brick and cord. I bought a USB floppy drive and I think they are all compatable (at least I THINK they are). It works great. You are welcome to borrow mine unless you think you may need to buy one to use on an ongoing basis. Stuart = Louisville At-home Dads (L.A.D.s) Bringing together stay-at-home fathers, their children and their families. 502-426-5376 LouisvilleLADS-owner at yahoogroups.com __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be January 25. The LCS Web page is http://www.kymac.org. | List posting address: mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu | List Web page: http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup
MacGroup: Adding a floppy drive to a blue white G3?
Thanks for the info. And thanks for the offer, but I'm thinking I'll need the floppy every now and then so I'm looking to buy one. --- Rex. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner-macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu] On Behalf Of Stuart Ungar Sent: Wednesday, January 12, 2005 9:26 AM To: macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu Subject: Re: MacGroup: Adding a floppy drive to a blue white G3? ?^/?aldazo Rex.Baldazo at cnet.com wrote: It was probably a stupid waste of money but I just won the bidding for an old PowerBook Duo on eBay. So now I need to download the public OS 7.5.3 images from Apple and put them on some floppies to install onto the Duo (includes a DuoDock that has the 1.4 MB superdrive in it). But the G3 blue white that I own has a ZIP drive, not a floppy. What is the easiest way to add a floppy drive to this thing? I see those USB floppy drives at CompUSA--will those work on a Mac? It's running OS X.3 if that makes any difference. --- Rex. No, not a waste of money at all (well depending on how much you paid ; ) The Duos were really cool. I remember drooling over 'em years ago. Really nice bright display on the color ones. I have a Duo and not even sure if it works (don't have the power brick and cord. I bought a USB floppy drive and I think they are all compatable (at least I THINK they are). It works great. You are welcome to borrow mine unless you think you may need to buy one to use on an ongoing basis. Stuart = Louisville At-home Dads (L.A.D.s) Bringing together stay-at-home fathers, their children and their families. 502-426-5376 LouisvilleLADS-owner at yahoogroups.com __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be January 25. The LCS Web page is http://www.kymac.org. | List posting address: mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu | List Web page: http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be January 25. The LCS Web page is http://www.kymac.org. | List posting address: mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu | List Web page: http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup
MacGroup: Macworld coverage
News.com has a bunch of Macworld coverage, including some video clips: http://news.com.com/2009-7354_3-5520284.html | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be January 25. The LCS Web page is http://www.kymac.org. | List posting address: mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu | List Web page: http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup
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What kind of monitor would one need for that new mac-mini? The ones apple store sells are terribly expensive and large -20 inch screen. I have a friend who is interested in one of those new ones, but the monitor would have to be a lot cheaper. - Also : I still own my Mac 6400/200 with keyboard, Apple style writer , the whole caboodle. Is anybody interested? It has a floppy disk drive.I thought of keeping it for sentimental reasons, but at my age I have to scale down. Is anybody interested ? It only has the dial-up modem in it, so I don't think I would want to fool with it. Maybe some kid might use it. Marta On Jan 12, 2005, at 9:47, Rex Baldazo wrote: News.com has a bunch of Macworld coverage, including some video clips: http://news.com.com/2009-7354_3-5520284.html | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be January 25. The LCS Web page is http://www.kymac.org. | List posting address: mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu | List Web page: http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be January 25. The LCS Web page is http://www.kymac.org. | List posting address: mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu | List Web page: http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup
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Should work with any standard PC-compatible VGA monitor, which are dirt-cheap these days. Though if you have a hi-definition TV with the DVI adapter you can connect it there as well. I think that's one of their target markets, people who want a DVD/music server for their fancy new hi-def TV. --- Rex. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner-macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu] On Behalf Of Marta Edie Sent: Wednesday, January 12, 2005 10:04 AM To: macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu Subject: Re: MacGroup: Macworld coverage What kind of monitor would one need for that new mac-mini? The ones apple store sells are terribly expensive and large -20 inch screen. I have a friend who is interested in one of those new ones, but the monitor would have to be a lot cheaper. - Also : I still own my Mac 6400/200 with keyboard, Apple style writer , the whole caboodle. Is anybody interested? It has a floppy disk drive.I thought of keeping it for sentimental reasons, but at my age I have to scale down. Is anybody interested ? It only has the dial-up modem in it, so I don't think I would want to fool with it. Maybe some kid might use it. Marta On Jan 12, 2005, at 9:47, Rex Baldazo wrote: News.com has a bunch of Macworld coverage, including some video clips: http://news.com.com/2009-7354_3-5520284.html | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will be January | 25. The LCS Web page is http://www.kymac.org. | List posting address: mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu | List Web page: http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will be January | 25. The LCS Web page is http://www.kymac.org. | List posting address: mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu | List Web page: http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be January 25. The LCS Web page is http://www.kymac.org. | List posting address: mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu | List Web page: http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup
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It doesn't have to be a high def tv right? Any kind of modern TV I'm assuming. As soon as shops have them, and I can figure out when I'll not have to pay for Tiger, I plan to get one for work and one for home :) It's 3 times better than my powerbook spec-wise, and the powerbook is still pretty much all I need. I put a monitor aside for it at work a week ago now; though I'm a bit worried that the 19 monitor will crush the tiny box. On the insane side, I have a very tiny mouse (logitech), a tiny keyboard (happy hackers keyboard) and would just need one of the tiny projectors to have a complete mobile solution that's lighter than my laptop :) Only downside would be that it needs a wall for the projector, and 2 power sockets. Still, it'd be pretty cool. Hen On Wed, 12 Jan 2005 07:09:44 -0800, Rex Baldazo Rex.Baldazo at cnet.com wrote: Should work with any standard PC-compatible VGA monitor, which are dirt-cheap these days. Though if you have a hi-definition TV with the DVI adapter you can connect it there as well. I think that's one of their target markets, people who want a DVD/music server for their fancy new hi-def TV. --- Rex. -Original Message- From: owner-macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu [mailto:owner-macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu] On Behalf Of Marta Edie Sent: Wednesday, January 12, 2005 10:04 AM To: macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu Subject: Re: MacGroup: Macworld coverage What kind of monitor would one need for that new mac-mini? The ones apple store sells are terribly expensive and large -20 inch screen. I have a friend who is interested in one of those new ones, but the monitor would have to be a lot cheaper. - Also : I still own my Mac 6400/200 with keyboard, Apple style writer , the whole caboodle. Is anybody interested? It has a floppy disk drive.I thought of keeping it for sentimental reasons, but at my age I have to scale down. Is anybody interested ? It only has the dial-up modem in it, so I don't think I would want to fool with it. Maybe some kid might use it. Marta On Jan 12, 2005, at 9:47, Rex Baldazo wrote: News.com has a bunch of Macworld coverage, including some video clips: http://news.com.com/2009-7354_3-5520284.html | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will be January | 25. The LCS Web page is http://www.kymac.org. | List posting address: mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu | List Web page: http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will be January | 25. The LCS Web page is http://www.kymac.org. | List posting address: mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu | List Web page: http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be January 25. The LCS Web page is http://www.kymac.org. | List posting address: mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu | List Web page: http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be January 25. The LCS Web page is http://www.kymac.org. | List posting address: mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu | List Web page: http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup
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On Jan 12, 2005, at 10:04, Marta Edie wrote: What kind of monitor would one need for that new mac-mini? The ones apple store sells are terribly expensive and large -20 inch screen. I have a friend who is interested in one of those new ones, but the monitor would have to be a lot cheaper. - Also : I still own my Mac 6400/200 with keyboard, Apple style writer , the whole caboodle. Is anybody interested? It has a floppy disk drive.I thought of keeping it for sentimental reasons, but at my age I have to scale down. Is anybody interested ? It only has the dial-up modem in it, so I don't think I would want to fool with it. Maybe some kid might use it. Bring it to the swap meet, maybe? Bill -- next part -- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: smime.p7s Type: application/pkcs7-signature Size: 2373 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://www.math.louisville.edu/pipermail/macgroup/attachments/20050112/189d253a/attachment.bin
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Bill, the weight !! and I have a crushed arm! - And why doesn't that new mac mini come with the Tiger? It says it has Panther in it. Can you have Tiger pre-installed? Marta On Jan 12, 2005, at 10:24, Bill Rising wrote: On Jan 12, 2005, at 10:04, Marta Edie wrote: What kind of monitor would one need for that new mac-mini? The ones apple store sells are terribly expensive and large -20 inch screen. I have a friend who is interested in one of those new ones, but the monitor would have to be a lot cheaper. - Also : I still own my Mac 6400/200 with keyboard, Apple style writer , the whole caboodle. Is anybody interested? It has a floppy disk drive.I thought of keeping it for sentimental reasons, but at my age I have to scale down. Is anybody interested ? It only has the dial-up modem in it, so I don't think I would want to fool with it. Maybe some kid might use it. Bring it to the swap meet, maybe? Bill | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be January 25. The LCS Web page is http://www.kymac.org. | List posting address: mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu | List Web page: http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup
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On Jan 12, 2005, at 10:09 AM, Rex Baldazo wrote: Should work with any standard PC-compatible VGA monitor, which are dirt-cheap these days. Though if you have a hi-definition TV with the DVI adapter you can connect it there as well. I think that's one of their target markets, people who want a DVD/music server for their fancy new hi-def TV. My very first thought when I learned of the new mini-Mac was that this would be the perfect front-end for a home video setup. I just finished making a MythTV machine (a Linux Tivo clone with open source software) and MythTV allows other machines on the network to share video. There is a Mac OS X Myth font end, and this would be a perfect little box to use it. The problem I have is that $500 is a little steep to turn it into just a Myth slave. | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be January 25. The LCS Web page is http://www.kymac.org. | List posting address: mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu | List Web page: http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup
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On Jan 12, 2005, at 10:34, Marta Edie wrote: Bill, the weight !! and I have a crushed arm! Bring pics to the swap meet? - And why doesn't that new mac mini come with the Tiger? It says it has Panther in it. Can you have Tiger pre-installed? I'd guess so, once Tiger is released. Might have to wait to get the OS on it Bill -- next part -- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: smime.p7s Type: application/pkcs7-signature Size: 2373 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://www.math.louisville.edu/pipermail/macgroup/attachments/20050112/11f8f979/attachment.bin
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On Jan 12, 2005, at 10:43, Lee Larson wrote: On Jan 12, 2005, at 10:09 AM, Rex Baldazo wrote: Should work with any standard PC-compatible VGA monitor, which are dirt-cheap these days. Though if you have a hi-definition TV with the DVI adapter you can connect it there as well. I think that's one of their target markets, people who want a DVD/music server for their fancy new hi-def TV. My very first thought when I learned of the new mini-Mac was that this would be the perfect front-end for a home video setup. I just finished making a MythTV machine (a Linux Tivo clone with open source software) and MythTV allows other machines on the network to share video. There is a Mac OS X Myth font end, and this would be a perfect little box to use it. The problem I have is that $500 is a little steep to turn it into just a Myth slave. True enough, but it might be a lot less complicated and a lot less time consuming than building your own (as you already did). Of course, is there really a need to have that fast a processor in a Tivo? Then again, if it had a wireless card and bluetooth in it, it could be used to work on another networked computer while sitting in front of the TV. Bill -- next part -- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: smime.p7s Type: application/pkcs7-signature Size: 2373 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://www.math.louisville.edu/pipermail/macgroup/attachments/20050112/398877d7/attachment.bin
MacGroup: mini-Mac for brainrot
On Jan 12, 2005, at 11:03 AM, Bill Rising wrote: True enough, but it might be a lot less complicated and a lot less time consuming than building your own (as you already did). Of course, is there really a need to have that fast a processor in a Tivo? Then again, if it had a wireless card and bluetooth in it, it could be used to work on another networked computer while sitting in front of the TV. Those DVRs such as the Tivo can get away with cheap, slow processors because they put the video encoding and decoding onto custom cards. That's what I did in my MythTV by using a PVR-350 tuner card; it handles MPEG2 on the fly while hardly bothering the processor at all. I think the cute little Mac might be right on the edge of what it can do, if you feed it an MPEG2 stream for HDTV. It doesn't have any expansion slots to add a fancy coprocessor card. On the other hand, the G4 does have those AltiVec capabilities that speed up MP3 stuff an awful lot. This could be a whole market for Apple. | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be January 25. The LCS Web page is http://www.kymac.org. | List posting address: mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu | List Web page: http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup
MacGroup: mini-Mac for brainrot
I am not familiar with the Tivo, but hear it costs $10.00 a month for 100 hours of copying, the other DVR using Dish is supposed to only cost $ 5.00. Is there no way just to pay for how much you would copy? I am in the lookout for one of those, too, because i want to add this German Channel and only Dish TV has it. - I am dreaming of that new little mac- mini, a flat screen with dish input for my German TV and a DVR attached as well. Does that sound ok? or am I way out here? or do I have brainrot? Marta -- next part -- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: cat and Mac.JPG Type: image/jpg Size: 13278 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://www.math.louisville.edu/pipermail/macgroup/attachments/20050112/d6085d9a/attachment.jpg -- next part -- On Jan 12, 2005, at 12:39, Lee Larson wrote: On Jan 12, 2005, at 11:03 AM, Bill Rising wrote: True enough, but it might be a lot less complicated and a lot less time consuming than building your own (as you already did). Of course, is there really a need to have that fast a processor in a Tivo? Then again, if it had a wireless card and bluetooth in it, it could be used to work on another networked computer while sitting in front of the TV. Those DVRs such as the Tivo can get away with cheap, slow processors because they put the video encoding and decoding onto custom cards. That's what I did in my MythTV by using a PVR-350 tuner card; it handles MPEG2 on the fly while hardly bothering the processor at all. I think the cute little Mac might be right on the edge of what it can do, if you feed it an MPEG2 stream for HDTV. It doesn't have any expansion slots to add a fancy coprocessor card. On the other hand, the G4 does have those AltiVec capabilities that speed up MP3 stuff an awful lot. This could be a whole market for Apple. | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be January 25. The LCS Web page is http://www.kymac.org. | List posting address: mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu | List Web page: http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup
MacGroup: mini-Mac for brainrot
On Jan 12, 2005, at 12:57 PM, Marta Edie wrote: I am not familiar with the Tivo, but hear it costs $10.00 a month for 100 hours of copying, the other DVR using Dish is supposed to only cost $ 5.00. Is there no way just to pay for how much you would copy? I am in the lookout for one of those, too, because i want to add this German Channel and only Dish TV has it. - I am dreaming of that new little mac- mini, a flat screen with dish input for my German TV and a DVR attached as well. Does that sound ok? or am I way out here? or do I have brainrot? I don't know about the brainrot. The Mac Mini is of limited use within a video system because there's no way to poke a tuner inside it. You can use an external USB or Firewire tuner, but then you're getting back to the problem of many boxes with spaghetti all over the place. My idea was that I could use it for a front end machine. The MythTV machine I built does all the Tivo-like stuff (and more), and contains both a back end and a front end. The back end software is responsible for grabbing the video off the cable and encoding it to the hard drive. The front end software shows the canned video on the TV screen. The back end software can also send video over the network to any other front end running on a different machine. The Mac Mini would make a nice little machine to put in the family room with the front end software. It could grab the video off the back end machine, which could be anywhere in the house. It wouldn't make a very good back end machine because of the inelegant tuner solutions. | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be January 25. The LCS Web page is http://www.kymac.org. | List posting address: mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu | List Web page: http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup
MacGroup: mini-Mac for brainrot
Lee, Thanks for all the info., I am building and want to do some of what you are suggesting, I don't understand a tenth of it, but Apple rules in this house and if I can get done what you are imply then I need to find the back end solution. If you have more to share keep it coming. Many thanks, John R. On Jan 12, 2005, at 1:19 PM, Lee Larson wrote: On Jan 12, 2005, at 12:57 PM, Marta Edie wrote: I am not familiar with the Tivo, but hear it costs $10.00 a month for 100 hours of copying, the other DVR using Dish is supposed to only cost $ 5.00. Is there no way just to pay for how much you would copy? I am in the lookout for one of those, too, because i want to add this German Channel and only Dish TV has it. - I am dreaming of that new little mac- mini, a flat screen with dish input for my German TV and a DVR attached as well. Does that sound ok? or am I way out here? or do I have brainrot? I don't know about the brainrot. The Mac Mini is of limited use within a video system because there's no way to poke a tuner inside it. You can use an external USB or Firewire tuner, but then you're getting back to the problem of many boxes with spaghetti all over the place. My idea was that I could use it for a front end machine. The MythTV machine I built does all the Tivo-like stuff (and more), and contains both a back end and a front end. The back end software is responsible for grabbing the video off the cable and encoding it to the hard drive. The front end software shows the canned video on the TV screen. The back end software can also send video over the network to any other front end running on a different machine. The Mac Mini would make a nice little machine to put in the family room with the front end software. It could grab the video off the back end machine, which could be anywhere in the house. It wouldn't make a very good back end machine because of the inelegant tuner solutions. | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be January 25. The LCS Web page is http://www.kymac.org. | List posting address: mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu | List Web page: http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be January 25. The LCS Web page is http://www.kymac.org. | List posting address: mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu | List Web page: http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup
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Apple Profits Quadruple As IPod Sales Soar 1/12/2005 5:30:00 PM SAN JOSE, Calif., Jan 12, 2005 (AP Online via COMTEX) -- Apple Computer Inc.'s first-quarter earnings more than quadrupled, dramatically exceeding Wall Street expectations, based on strong holiday sales of laptop computers and its wildly popular iPod music players. For the three months ended Dec. 25, Apple said it earned $295 million, or 70 cents per share. In the same period last year, the company earned $63 million, or 17 cents per share. Revenue for the quarter was $3.49 billion, up nearly 75 percent from $2 billion in the year-ago quarter. Analysts surveyed by Thomson First Call had projected earnings of 49 cents a share on revenue of $3.18 billion. We came in quite a bit stronger than we guided, and I'd attribute that to the fantastic results of iPod, said Peter Oppenheimer, Apple's chief financial officer, said in a telephone interview. Apple announced Wednesday that it shipped a record 337,000 iBook laptops in the last quarter. It shipped 4.58 million iPods, a 525 percent boost from the holiday quarter of 2003. Before the earnings report, Apple shares climbed 90 cents, or 1.4 percent, to $65.46 in Wednesday afternoon trading on the Nasdaq Stock Market. In after-hours trading, the shares jumped 11 percent to $72.60. The earnings came a day after Apple introduced a cut-rate computer the size of a paperback. The 40-gigabyte Mac mini will cost $499, an 80-gigabyte model $599. The units, which go on sale Jan. 22, mark Apple's most brazen attempt to woo entry-level technology shoppers away from computers that rely on the Microsoft Windows operating system. Apple has just a 3 percent share of the U.S. computer market, and company executives say they're aiming with the Mac mini to woo PC users who may have felt Apple products were too high-priced. The bare-bones minis are smaller than even some standalone external computer drives and do not come with monitors, mice or keyboards. Apple also introduced Tuesday the tiny iPod shuffle, which starts at $99 and seeks to maintain Apple's dominance in the portable music business. The shuffle is a flash memory-based digital music player, which is more durable and lightweight than other iPods, which use hard drives for storage. IPods have made Apple a Wall Street darling since their debut in 2001. In the past year, Apple stock has tripled on strong sales of the iPod, which is emerging as one of the 21st century's first cultural icons. Chief Executive Steve Jobs said Tuesday that Apple has sold more than 10 million iPods since October 2001. He said Apple holds 65 percent of the hard drive-based portable music player market but just under a third of the total market. Financial and industry analysts generally hailed the two relatively affordable new products and braced for scorching sales. In a research report issued Wednesday, Darcy Travlos of Caris Co. called the new items nothing short of brilliant. New products will contribute positively to both revenue and margins, Travlos wrote. Apple is in front of the curve. Jeff Slyn, Owner SLYN Systems Peripherals (502) 426-5469 serving Kentuckiana clients 7 days a week since 1985! -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.math.louisville.edu/pipermail/macgroup/attachments/20050112/406c9d13/attachment.html
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Thanks, Dan and Lee for your help. I got to a stuck place, however. Dan, you said: Once you manually set your computer's local IP, go back to the router interface and its port forwarding screen. This will allow you to open specific ports to the local computer to which you manually assigned an IP number. It should be pretty obvious how to do this. If you used 192.168.0.2 for the computer, for that IP number you would forward port 548 for personal file sharing and the 20-21 range for FTP. While accessing the Netopia interface, I went to ConfigureAdvancedInternal Servers (set ports). This was the only choice that mentioned or dealt with ports. There, there was only one dialogue box titled Internal Servers. It said, ?Enter a value from 1 to 65534 to disable the server?, then there were two input boxes, ?Web (HTTP) Server Port? . . . And a default 80 in the box (which I presume is for the web!), and ?Telnet Server Port? . . . And a default 23 in the box (which I presume is the one I need to fool with). I didn?t see a way to assign a port to a particular LAN address, however. I knew this was not something I wanted to mess with, so I quit. Am I in too deep? I haven?t tried www.dyndns.org yet, but that seems the way to go. Thanks, Robert -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.math.louisville.edu/pipermail/macgroup/attachments/20050112/2cb251a3/attachment.html
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As I'm not familiar with the interface of a Netopia router, I can't be of much help. My experience has been with Linksys routers and I assumed that all of these Cable/DSL routers had pretty much the same features. Does anyone out there who uses Netopia routers know if/where those routers would allow/set up port forwarding? Thanks, Dan and Lee for your help. ?I got to a stuck place, however. ? Dan, you said: Once you manually set your computer's local IP, go back to the router interface and its port forwarding screen. This will allow you to open specific ports to the local computer to which you manually assigned an IP number. It should be pretty obvious how to do this. If you used 192.168.0.2 for the computer, for that IP number you would forward port 548 for personal file sharing and the 20-21 range for FTP. While accessing the Netopia interface, I went to ConfigureAdvancedInternal Servers (set ports). ?This was the only choice that mentioned or dealt with ports. ?There, there was only one dialogue box titled Internal Servers. ?It said, ?Enter a value from 1 to 65534 to disable the server?, then there were two input boxes, ??Web (HTTP) Server Port? . . . And a default 80 in the box (which I presume is for the web!), and ?Telnet Server Port? . . . And a default 23 in the box (which I presume is the one I need to fool with). ?I didn?t see a way to assign a port to a particular LAN address, however. ?I knew this was not something I wanted to mess with, so I quit. Am I in too deep? ?I haven?t tried www.dyndns.org yet, but that seems the way to go. Thanks, Robert | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be January 25. The LCS Web page is http://www.kymac.org. | List posting address: mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu | List Web page: http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup
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On Wed, 12 Jan 2005 11:03:18 -0500, Bill Rising brising at louisville.edu wrote: On Jan 12, 2005, at 10:43, Lee Larson wrote: On Jan 12, 2005, at 10:09 AM, Rex Baldazo wrote: Should work with any standard PC-compatible VGA monitor, which are dirt-cheap these days. Though if you have a hi-definition TV with the DVI adapter you can connect it there as well. I think that's one of their target markets, people who want a DVD/music server for their fancy new hi-def TV. My very first thought when I learned of the new mini-Mac was that this would be the perfect front-end for a home video setup. I just finished making a MythTV machine (a Linux Tivo clone with open source software) and MythTV allows other machines on the network to share video. There is a Mac OS X Myth font end, and this would be a perfect little box to use it. The problem I have is that $500 is a little steep to turn it into just a Myth slave. True enough, but it might be a lot less complicated and a lot less time consuming than building your own (as you already did). Of course, is there really a need to have that fast a processor in a Tivo? Then again, if it had a wireless card and bluetooth in it, it could be used to work on another networked computer while sitting in front of the TV. If you've built the server as Lee has, building a front-end can't be that complicated. Trying to use an X-Box is probably a bit complicated, but the current cheap choice. Is there any kind of remote control that would work with the mini mac? Fast processor in the Tivo-clone is worthwhile. More cpu, the more recording and playing you can do at the same time. The ultimate setup I've heard of is to have yet another machine as the medium-term+ storage so that hard-drive pain doesn't cause problems with recording/playing. That said, I'm still trying to get the Hauppage card to work in Windows so I can be happy it's good and go back to getting MythTv to recognise it. Myth installed pretty easily, but the damn card's playing at being invisible. Hen | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be January 25. The LCS Web page is http://www.kymac.org. | List posting address: mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu | List Web page: http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup
