Re: New iBooks Announced
As always it looks like Apple have released an updated iBook. The price seems to remain the same, well as far as I can tell, but the specs have increased! I take it the new iBooks won't be able to run quartz extreme? (BTW, can the current iMacs, or is this a feature for 'power' users who have G4's with slots etc? Might be necessary as the differences between high and low end look blurred nowadays). Brett Carboni Tsunami
Re: New iBooks Announced
on 21/5/02 9:48 AM, Brett Carboni at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I take it the new iBooks won't be able to run quartz extreme? (BTW, can the current iMacs, or is this a feature for 'power' users who have G4's with slots etc? Might be necessary as the differences between high and low end look blurred nowadays). Brett Carboni Tsunami Actually the new iBooks should able to run Quartz Extreme just fine. The Apple page says 32 megs vram for best performance it doesn't say that cards with less memory won't take advantage of Quartz Extreme. -- The universe is a figment of its own imagination.
Re: New iBooks Announced
On 21/5/02 9:48 AM, Brett Carboni [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As always it looks like Apple have released an updated iBook. The price seems to remain the same, well as far as I can tell, but the specs have increased! I take it the new iBooks won't be able to run quartz extreme? (BTW, can the current iMacs, or is this a feature for 'power' users who have G4's with slots etc? Might be necessary as the differences between high and low end look blurred nowadays). OK, lets just straighten this out... Quartz Extreme Required... ATI Raedon, nVidia GeForce 2MX or better AGP 2x or better 16MB VRAM or better Recommended AGP 4x or better 32MB VRAM or better Regards Matthew Healey -- Matthew Healey Information Systems Western Orthopaedic Clinic [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: +61 (08) 9489 8700 Fax: +61 (08) 9381 8300 Suite 213 25 McCourt Street Subiaco 6008 Western Australia
Help with MacOS X Server?
Is there anyone out there who would be willing to help me get a Mac OS X Server set up? I'm completely confused and looking for someone that can come to my place and help me set it up. -- Enter any 11-digit prime number to continue...
Re: STOP - Zapping the PRAM and Rebuilding the Desktop - STOP
Quoting from a message that Greg Hosking contributed in August 2000 about (among other things) Zapping the PRAM: just for the record, I was quoting an article (or something), not my words as such... greg Resetting the PRAM should only be tried in cases where PRAM-resident settings are not sticking. These settings include startup disk, keyboard control panel settings (repeat rate, delay until repeat), sound level, memory control panel settings (RAM Disk, Virtual Memory, Disk Cache, 32-bit Addressing), mouse control panel settings (double-click speed, tracking speed), selected AppleTalk port, highlight color, default printer, Date Time Control Panel (Time Zone, Daylight Savings Time ONLY), General Controls (Folder Protection, Insert Blink, Menu Bar blink ONLY), plus undocumented features. Keep in mind that resetting the PRAM resets ALL of those settings to their defaults and causes the customer to have to reset any that he customized. The following control panels are not affected by zapping PRAM: Energy Saver, File Sharing, Text, Numbers, Speech, PPP, TCP/IP and many others. Resetting PRAM can affect ADB and serial port issues and little else. Finally from the same message from Greg: Rebuilding the Desktop: worked 0% of the time that it was tried. It was tried 54% of the time. Deleting Preferences: worked 3% of the time that it was tried. It was tried 38% of the time. Zapping the PRAM: worked 5% of the time that it was tried. It was tried 77% of the time. If you want to read Greg's message in full: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/wamug/message/7217
sporadic drag n' drop
Hi all drag drop seems to be all weird @ the moment. I thought it was just entourage, but there seems to be a few applications that will drag drop, and a few that won't: normal Drag Drop: finder quark photoshop bbedit explorer broken Drag Drop: Entourage Interarchy GoLive 5.0 got me stuffed: any suggestions as to what might be going on here? tia greg Hi all a simple question with a simple solution, I'm sure: Entourage has ceased to perform drag n' drop: drag-copying text, draggin messages to folders, draggin files onto emails as attachments etc etc, all have stopped working, while drag drop works fine in all other applications. Any ideas much appreciated! (archive, ms support page, entourage help were no help) Powerbook Lombard, OS 8.6, 320Mb, Entourage 2001 (9.0) Greg
Weird Internet Sharing Problem - fixed
For posterity and to possibly help others in the future ... Many thanks to Brian who helped me solve the problem I was having getting my brother-in-law's Mac to share an ADSL connection through an XP box using M$ Internet Connection Sharing. Brian gave me the tip that it was probably the MTU. Setting this down to 1470 (from the default of 1500) sorted out most problems (haven't had time to check everything). I used IPNetTuner to do this in OS9. Thanks Brian and thanks to others who spent time thinking about it and sending me suggestions. Cheers Greg
Fwd: chooser force quit
Not sure of the cause David but your date/time settings are wrong and that can cause all sorts of bugs. See your date as shown below: Date: Fri, 01 Jan 1904 02:44:08 +0800 Regards Reg X-eGroups-Return: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Apparently-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: David Hudleston [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mailing-List: list [EMAIL PROTECTED]; contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] Delivered-To: mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] List-Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 01 Jan 1904 02:44:08 +0800 Subject: chooser force quit When I link into a client's network on site using the appleshare in chooser I make the connection okay but I have to force quit the chooser to continue working. -- ___ 'The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher regard those who think alike than those who think differently.' Friedrich Nietzsche ___ Reg Whitely Ph: 08 9920 5032 Principal Fax: 08 9920 5118 Chapman Valley Primary School Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] PO Nabawa, WA, 6532 Website: Soon [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
TCP/IP Problems
I've been using OSX 10.1 for sometime after using OS 9.2.1. The transition was smooth but unfortunately I can't use OS X with a number of functions, particularly my bank!! I have to use 9.2 for that but in the last 5 days it's come to grief refusing to log on to my server through TCP/IP. I get an error message The file TCP/IP preferences could not be opened because it is locked or being used by another application Going through the control panels gives the same response. I've checked the archives and help but no solutions. Suggestions please. Adrian
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Re: Telnet
On Tue, 2002-04-30 at 17:11, Scott wrote:
Does anyone know how to make a script to telnet to an IP, authenticate
(login / pass) and then reconnect every 8 hours or whenever the connection
is lost.
Its rather important because its the only thing stopping me from fully using
OSX. I had an applescript that did this with ³MacTelnet² in OS9.
Since you're running an operating system capable of running perl, I've
just spent the last hour making this little script for you:
---START SCRIPT
#!/usr/bin/perl
# v1.0 - May 1, 2002 by Onno Benschop - ITmaze
# Use this wherever you like, just leave the credit alone.
#
# Usage: telnet.pl host user passwd
#
# Purpose: keep a telnet connection open
#
# Script will connect to host with user and password. As soon
# as the connection dies, it reconnects. To keep some connections
# alive longer, it issues an $idleCommand each $idleTime seconds.
#
# If you want to just run this in the background, then add at
# the end of the command, eg:
#
# telnet.pl host user passwd
#
use Net::Telnet;
$idleCommand = 'date' ; # command to run to keep alive
$idleTime = 5*60 ; # idle time in seconds
sub telnet_connect {
($host,$user,$passwd)[EMAIL PROTECTED];
$telnet = new Net::Telnet ( Timeout=10,
Errmode='return',
Prompt = '/\$ $/i');
$telnet-open($host);
$telnet-login($user, $passwd);
while () {
$telnet-cmd($idleCommand) ;
sleep($idleTime) ;
}
}
sub telnet_use {
print Usage: telnet.pl host user passwd\n ;
}
if (!$ARGV[2]) {
telnet_use;
} else {
while () {
telnet_connect ;
}
}
END SCRIPT
You will need to download the Net::Telnet perl module from cpan. The
manual is here:
http://www.perldoc.com/cpan/Net/Telnet.html
The software is here:
http://www.perl.com/CPAN-local/authors/id/J/JR/JROGERS/
Save the script in a file called telnet.pl, then do: chmod +x telnet.pl.
Finally, just type ./telnet.pl and it should say: Usage: telnet.pl host
user passwd. Run it with appropriate parameters and it will connect
everytime it is disconnected and will issue the idleCommand every
idleTime period.
For those of you wondering why it took so long, it's because my native
tounge is not perl (I try to avoid it like the plague :-). I needed to
first find out why telnet -l username hostname didn't work as expected,
it's supposed to login with your supplied username, but then it prompts
for a password - not good. Then I figured that I could probably write a
script, and seeing that it was unlikely that Scott had PHP installed, I
figured that using perl would be simpler. Then went looking for
something that allowed me to telnet using perl, then needed to figure
out how to get command line parameters to the script, since I didn't
really want Scott to have to change the script.
At first I was unable to get the Net::Telnet module to work. I was presented
with many different errors when trying to install the module in the command
prompt (segmentation error, Perl Library incomplete, package incomplete,
etc.) I didn¹t believe any of these to be true however. The package was
complete and I was quite sure that the OSX Perl Libraries would be too.
I managed to get the Net::Telnet module to install but had to be logged in
as root. I also found a file called perl.h that was not in the OSX Perl
Libraries in the latest release of Perl off a CPAN ftp server.
I placed the perl.h file in the System/Perl/Darwin/CORE folder. (all this
also has to be done logged in as root otherwise you get an error saying the
folder and files cannot be modified) I then tried to install the Net::Telnet
module again.
It works up to the part where you use the make command to create the man
file. I got an error saying No such command I ignored it and tried the
script as I didn¹t think the man file was essential.
I logged back in under my normal account.
I saved the above script (v1.0 - May 1, 2002 by Onno Benschop - Itmaze) in
XperlEdit v1.2 into the Home folder.
I then ran the script and it worked fine but did not display anything in the
Terminal window. (If this does not work make sure that the Telnet.pl file
you have saved does not contain any html or other characters)
The script keeps the telnet session open like it should. It has been running
now for a bit under 24 hours.
Regards,
Scott
Re: Fwd: chooser force quit
Not sure of the cause David but your date/time settings are wrong and that can cause all sorts of bugs. See your date as shown below: Date: Fri, 01 Jan 1904 02:44:08 +0800 If your machine keeps losing track of the time/date it may be worthwhile getting a new PRAM battery installed (even if it is a new TiBook). Have fun, Shay -- === Shay Telfer Perth, Western Australia Technomancer Sponsor WA's Solar Car Opinions for hire [POQ] Sungroper [EMAIL PROTECTED] fnord http://sungroper.asn.au/
