MacGroup: CRON Jobs on Laptops

2004-05-07 Thread Ed Wiser
Henri You might want to try this for pdf's and Safari: http://www.schubert-it.com/pluginpdf/ -Original Message- From: Henri Yandell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, May 07, 2004 1:05 AM To: macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu Subject: Re: MacGroup: CRON Jobs on Laptops The

MacGroup: CRON Jobs on Laptops

2004-05-07 Thread Henri Yandell
The upshot for myself was that the cron tabs were not necessary to run. I've got more space wasted in the PDFs that Safari insists on downloading to open up in Preview than the cron-tab would save me. By a factor of 10 :) Still, nothing against anacron. Just seems to be something that has been

MacGroup: CRON Jobs on Laptops

2004-05-07 Thread Ed Wiser
Jerry, I just use Macaroni it set up to run when you are using your laptop and knows what has been done and what needs to be done as far as maintenance tasks. http://www.atomicbird.com/ -Original Message- From: Jerry Yeager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, May 07, 2004 12:31 AM To:

MacGroup: More GRASS

2004-05-07 Thread Bill Holt
You overestimate my competence with OSX, Jerry. I still haven't found out where X-windows is, never the less how to fire it up. Or is it X-11? Something with an X in it. As much as I look forward to diving into this, it is recreational and will have to wait until at least Saturday. I have some

MacGroup: CRON Jobs on Laptops

2004-05-07 Thread Jerry Yeager
Actually that was not intended to be directed at you specifically. I got a message from someone that wanted to know about crons and laptops and how to get them to run if you leave the laptop turned off. So I thought to share that same knowledge with 'the whole gang'.