Re: G5 dual imacs ?

[Phillip McGree]

Hiya,

A desktop Power Mac G5 will be outstanding for video work.

One of the new G5 iMacs will be ok for video work, but not as 
expandable as the desktop G5.  ie the iMac only accommodates the one 
hard drive, limited RAM expansion, and you can't easily upgrade the 
DVD burner every time a faster or better one comes out (ie Pioneer 
108).


Even the base model 1.8 GHz Power Mac G5 will do video work fine. 
The iMac G5 will do video work ok, and it is a heap cheaper than a 
Power Mac G5.  ie Power Mac G5 1.8 (ie $3599) plus a 20" LCD screen 
(ie $2299) makes a total of $5898.  The top iMac G5 (ie 1.8GHz single 
processor and 20" LCD) costs a heap less, at $3199.00.



Regards,
Phil



Hello,

A friend of mine who produces videos is thinking of upgrading his 
old imac to the new G5 dual processor. He wants to know if there are 
any problems with this move, and any idea of the improvements he 
will see.


Does anyone have any experience in using these machines for movie editing?

Thanks.



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Re: Connecting to remote W2K server

[Craig Ringer]

On Sat, 2004-10-02 at 19:57, Antony N. Lord wrote:

>  From what I can Google Samba is now known as CIFS? And CIFS uses port 
> 3020 (TCP/UDP)

I thought it was port 445 myself, but it wouldn't be the first time I
was wrong ;-)

> * Punch holes in firewall at home on the necessary ports
> * Punch holes in firewall at work on the necessary ports
> * Use the "virtual server" setting of the work firewall to point 
> requests on port 3020 to the IP of the W2K box

My personal attitude to that is "eek".

If you want to use SMB/CIFS I'd be rather strongly inclined to suggest
using some form of VPN. Among other things, many ISPs block the use of
SMB over the Internet due to the number of worms that exploit
internet-exposed SMB servers.

Of course, most VPN setups cost money. One notable exception is the use
of SSH to securely tunnel services across the Internet. On that note, I
was astonished to discover today that SMB may be tunneled over SSH. It
doesn't seem to need UDP or anything but port 139. I'm working on Linux,
but the general principles still apply:

# ssh -L 139:$INTERNAL_SMB_SERVER_IP:139 $FIREWALL_HOST
# mount -t smbfs //127.0.0.1/sharename /mnt/tmp
# ls /mnt/tmp
ad archive
...
...

It's also possible to tell SSH to forward SMB from a high port on your
local machine. This is good if you wish to also run Windows file sharing
on your mac, since you will not be able to use forwarded SMB and run
Windows file services at the same time. Whether OS/X can make use of
that, I'm not so sure of. Ideally you should be able to enter something
like "\\127.0.0.1:8181\sharename" in Connect to Server, but I have no
idea if this works. Google may be of assistance. Alternately, possibly
'mount' from the command line can do it if Connect to Server can not.

If using SSH (which, despite how it sounds, looks like it should be
quite simple) to tunnel SMB doesn't appeal, you also have options like
IPSec and PPTP. Depending on what your work's firewall is and other
factors, these may cost money - possibly considerable amounts.

Alternately, it might be worth trying to find a nicer client for SFTP.

By the way, I'm a quite surprised the FTP integration in the Finder
doesn't extend to sftp actually. Apple use ssh in an attempt to secure
AFP now, after all - it's clearly not a tack-on extra in MacOS/X.

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Re: Connecting to remote W2K server

[Shay Telfer]

I have a remote server (W2K server) at work I would really like to 
connect to (for working on shared files).


I would like to be able to connect from both my OS X box here at home.

Obviously there are no problems doing this inside the office - 
everything is fine at that end.


I have previously set up cygwin / sftp on the W2K server and this 
currently works fine (from home using Fugu or the command line) 
although probably isn't as nice (although perhaps more secure).


You can tunnel ports through ssh, assuming there's some form of ssh 
server on the Windows box. Or check out OpenVPN




Note that I haven't dealt with tunnelling any windows services over 
these, or using a Windows box as an ssh or openvpn server.


Have fun,
Shay
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Connecting to remote W2K server

[Antony N. Lord]

I have a remote server (W2K server) at work I would really like to 
connect to (for working on shared files).


I would like to be able to connect from both my OS X box here at home.

Obviously there are no problems doing this inside the office - 
everything is fine at that end.


I have previously set up cygwin / sftp on the W2K server and this 
currently works fine (from home using Fugu or the command line) 
although probably isn't as nice (although perhaps more secure).


My exact knowledge on how this all "works" isn't as good as it should 
be and probably represents one of the hurdles in me actually getting 
it to work.


From what I can Google Samba is now known as CIFS? And CIFS uses port 
3020 (TCP/UDP)


In theory what I need to is

* Punch holes in firewall at home on the necessary ports
* Punch holes in firewall at work on the necessary ports
* Use the "virtual server" setting of the work firewall to point 
requests on port 3020 to the IP of the W2K box


Is it as simple as that? I'm sure there are more ports than that - 
reading on Samba shows use of ports 137, 139, 445 and 1024 also.


I've installed Sharity on my OS X box to play with as well - reading 
seems to suggest it is required (or is at least more helpful) for 
working with CIFS.


All input would be warmly welcomed!

Cheers, Antony.
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Re: video cards?

[Robert Howells]

On 02/10/2004, at 6:41 PM, Murdoch Allen wrote:


Ok  to t6hose in the know a quick question

Which is better a voodoo 3 card  or rage 128 ??


If you are using Panther, forget the Voodoo. There are no drivers

Bob



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video cards?

[Murdoch Allen]

Ok  to t6hose in the know a quick question

Which is better a voodoo 3 card  or rage 128 ??

Re: Keyboard Shortcut

[Nancy McIntyre]

Read in the digest 2/10/04 - from Peter Sealy



Has anyone been able to write a Keyboard Shortcut using System
Prefs>Keyboard & Mouse>Keyboard Shortcuts?


 Howdy Peter,

I tried to duplicate your problem on 10.3.5 - fairly new on emac out of 
the box - and found that the dialog box won't accept any keystroke 
combinations that are already reserved for other actions.
Once I hit on a novel combination, the "add" button lit up nice and 
blue.

Hope this helps,

Nancy M

G5 dual imacs ?

[Ian Bacon]

Hello,

A friend of mine who produces videos is thinking of upgrading his old 
imac to the new G5 dual processor. He wants to know if there are any 
problems with this move, and any idea of the improvements he will see.


Does anyone have any experience in using these machines for movie 
editing?


Thanks.

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merely indifferent.
Carl Sagan

Re: iMac G5 Troubleshooting Assistant

[Rod]

On 2/10/04 7:42 AM, "Richard Kay" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> In addition to information on diagnostic LEDs and self-installable
> parts, Apple has now launched the iMac G5 Troubleshooting Assistant.
> 
> The Web-based support solution helps iMac G5 owners troubleshoot
> problems with their new desktop. It covers common questions about the
> new iMac and also walks owners through a series of time-tested
> instructions to help resolve support issues.
> 
> Additionally, if you get stuck while using the assistant, you can click
> the "chat with a support agent" button to talk to a real person (every
> day from 6:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. PT).
> 
> http://www.apple.com/support/imac/assistant/
> 
> rmkay

As long as you have another machine that can get on the Net :-)

I could imagine the number one question is "I can't get on the Net"!

I guess that is a good reason to keep an old, Net-capable computer in the
cupboard.

Seeya

Rod!

iMac G5 Troubleshooting Assistant

[Richard Kay]

In addition to information on diagnostic LEDs and self-installable 
parts, Apple has now launched the iMac G5 Troubleshooting Assistant.


The Web-based support solution helps iMac G5 owners troubleshoot 
problems with their new desktop. It covers common questions about the 
new iMac and also walks owners through a series of time-tested 
instructions to help resolve support issues.


Additionally, if you get stuck while using the assistant, you can click 
the "chat with a support agent" button to talk to a real person (every 
day from 6:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. PT).


http://www.apple.com/support/imac/assistant/

rmkay

Re: Help for Help

[Adam Lippiatt]

Peter

I followed the first tip at the help page - removing the help files to 
see if one of them was causing the problem.  It was the AirPort.help 
file.  Everything works just fine now.


Thanks very much for the advice.

Adam

On 01/10/2004, at 7:06 AM, Peter Sealy wrote:



On 01/10/2004, at 8:01 AM, Adam Lippiatt wrote:


Hi

Every time I open the help viewer, it starts up but then immediately 
crashes (OS10.3).  I have repaired the disk and also rebuilt the 
directories using Disk Warrior, but that has not helped.  Just 
wondering if anyone knows what the next step should be (system 
reinstall - or can you somehow replace individual programs)?


Try here for some advice 
. I have not had the 
problem you describe but it has been several times discussed on the 
Apple Support Discussion Boards and the advice offered in that web 
site has been recommended. You have not identified which version of 
10.3 you are running but if it is pre-10.3.5 I would recommend an 
update to the latest as I think that does resolve problems with the 
Help Viewer. If you still can not fix it contact me and I have a 
couple more solutions which I have saved which may assist.


.

Peter Sealy
Thurgoona AUSTRALIA