[CGUYS] Wireless antenna question

2007-10-28 Thread Steve Rigby
I would like to be able to access a couple of nearby public wireless systems. My computer is located on the ground floor of my home, and I cannot get a good enough signal at that location. However, on my upper floor, or in the attic, with a directional antenna, I can get a signal that is ro

Re: [CGUYS] Wireless antenna question

2007-10-28 Thread mike
You need a wireless bridge to connect the two signals. Last time we set this up we used a buffalo router flashed with DDWRT. http://www.dd-wrt.com/dd-wrtv2/index.php The flashing might be a little heavy duty for what you want to do, but you need at least a router that will allow bridged mode. I

[CGUYS] No Classic in Leopard! Help!

2007-10-28 Thread Alvin Auerbach
Sandbagged by an Apple with a Leopard in its mouth! What a Jobs! No mention by Apple that Leopard will not support Classic on my iMac G5, and I didn't heed your advice and ordered the thing from Amazon! :( [I was salivating over Time Machine and Spaces.] Does this seem okay? Partition my iMac

Re: [CGUYS] Apple Will Not Provide Safari 2.0.2, or 2.0.3, or 2

2007-10-28 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Tom Piwowar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>Don't waste your time with Safari, it's a bad browser. I will spare you a >>diatribe on just how bad it is. > >No Safari is not a "bad browser." It is different in some respects from >somebody else's favorite browser, but that does not make it bad. Havin

Re: [CGUYS] No Classic in Leopard! Help!

2007-10-28 Thread Jordan
David Pogue of the NY Times has a rundown of some of the new ways things work in 10.5 that you might find interesting. http://www.nytimes.com/indexes/2007/10/25/technology/circuitsemail/index.html * ==> QUICK LIST-COMMAND

Re: [CGUYS] Wireless antenna question

2007-10-28 Thread Tom Piwowar
>Is there a way for me to be able to locate an antenna upstairs, and >have its received signal wirelessly transmitted to my computer located >on the lower floor? I have not looked into this myself, but I have read that this is a common problem with municipal WiFi. Their signal is okay outside

Re: [CGUYS] No Classic in Leopard! Help!

2007-10-28 Thread Tom Piwowar
After almost 7 years of Apple telling us that Classic is a temporary solution, I can't really complain. You can do as I do, I'm typing this on a PowerMac 7300 that runs OS 9 just fine. A $99 accelerator card makes this Mac run very nicely. It is networked with my OS X Macs to pass information b

Re: [CGUYS] Apple Will Not Provide Safari 2.0.2, or 2.0.3, or 2

2007-10-28 Thread Tom Piwowar
>The problem with Safari is that it fails to meet accepted standards with >regard to rendering of HTML, support for the HTTP protocol, etc. You mean like being the first browser to pass the W3C's ACID2 test? www.webstandards.org/2005/10/31/we-love-to-see-you-smile/ But that was 2 years ago, how

Re: [CGUYS] Standards & Flash

2007-10-28 Thread Tom Piwowar
>It doesn't matter whether Windows has 51% or 92% of the traffic. >Standards are for the rest of us who choose not to use Windows for many >reasons, not just for Windows users... On Friday night's BBC World the news reader said Apple had a 40% share of the US computer market. (Yes, I rewound my

Re: [CGUYS] Apple Will Not Provide Safari 2.0.2, or 2.0.3, or 2

2007-10-28 Thread Roger D. Parish
At 3:11 PM + 10/28/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snippage] The problem with Safari is that it fails to meet accepted standards with regard to rendering of HTML, support for the HTTP protocol, etc. I'm using the Safari 3.0b beta. It passes the ACID2 compliance test. It's JavaScript implem

[CGUYS] Best AntiVirus Software

2007-10-28 Thread Jay Montero
AVG spoken here. Tried Avast, ClamWin, F-Prot, Norton, a few others. * ==> QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in <== * ==> the body of an email & send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <== * Join the list: S

Re: [CGUYS] Standards & Flash

2007-10-28 Thread Rev. Stewart Marshall
I think a high percentage of newspaper and printing professional have always gravitated to the Mac. Even our local home town paper uses Mac's and this guy is a tightwad. Stewart At 01:55 PM 10/28/2007, you wrote: They might get laughed at even at MS. A few years ago I had an employee who us