If only the damn thing would hurry up and be available. It's a very
cool idea, but I'm not too hopeful of every having one.
Hen
On 1/20/06, Marta Edie martaedie at mac.com wrote:
It ought to come with all new Macs. A designer joy!!!. I hope Jobs
ruminates about this one.
Marta
On Jan 20,
Obviously you can setup Linksys B as a subnetwork. But in that case
you would find that the two machines on the subnetwork were not
viewable from the rest of your network. Possibly you could change the
netmask on your top network, but now you're into the kind of network
juggling that's worth
Also known as the What's on your dock? game. You know, the one you
play when you look over someone's shoulder at their Mac and check to
make sure you know all of the icons.
Non-standard things sitting on my dock:
OmniGraffle Pro (love this program)
Firefox/Thunderbird (still giving Safari and
On 1/3/06, Marta Edie martaedie at mac.com wrote:
Lee, and you all-- thanks for all this insight. I shall need a life
extension to study all of this, But seriously, is it better to leave
your computer on constantly? I thus far I usually turn mine off at
night, but then, maybe I should only
On 12/30/05, Jerry Freeman x12 at insightbb.com wrote:
As you noticed those keys are used for other functions on a laptop.
Go to Systems Prefs/Dashboard and Expose, and remap the triggers for
Expose.
They're already mapped, but something else was taking over.
Digging a bit further [and
As a by product of a new job, I have a new powerbook and can get back
into the world of the Mac. It's a shiny new 15 and it's amazin how
just getting off the clunky old titanium and decripit dell has kicked
me into development life again.
It's my first time in Tiger though, and I've hit a few
There's been a recent increase in some worm or other, maybe Slammer?
I've been getting a lot more of these to all three different email
setups (personal, gmail and work). Surprising how easily they seem to
be getting through the various spam protection, though gmail is doing
a pretty good job.
As
will agree that helping a Mac-o-phile in the education system is
very deserving.
Thanks for the many offers to take it off my hands :)
Hen
On 11/7/05, Henri Yandell flamefew at gmail.com wrote:
I'm clearing things out of the house and one of the lucky emigrants is
a CRT style iMac.
Looking
I'm clearing things out of the house and one of the lucky emigrants is
a CRT style iMac.
Looking on Apple's site I'm pretty sure it's:
---
iMac
(Slot Loading) 1999-10 Blueberry 350 MHz Slot loading CD-ROM drive, 6
GB hard drive
---
Lowest denominator in these cases can be to install unix on windows. ie) Put
Cygwin on the machine, you'll get OpenSSH's server daemon which comes with
SFTP by default. Not run it before, but I imagine it should work.
If you search for ssh servers for windows, you might find that they quietly
Every OS X already has two mouse buttons, click and ctrl-click. Apple
are just finally accepting that it's simpler to put the ctrl on the
mouse and not the keyboard if you're going to argue that a mouse is a
necessary device. Then again, was that just a feature that turned up
in OS X as a
On 6/6/05, Bill Holt billholt at iglou.com wrote:
As a dedicated user and developer since March 1984, who's promoted the
platform at almost every opportunity, I hate it that the following song
is what comes to mind: Our D I V O R C E, become final today
Mine was a month ago, the
Hopeful to find a reason to want to upgrade to Tiger, I scan-read
through the article. By page:
1 - Introduction
Waffle
2 - Background
More waffle
3 - Tiger's new look
Look and feel tweaking. Mail
Perfect, thanks Dan :)
Hen
On 5/3/05, Dan Crutcher dcrutcher at loumag.com wrote:
Perhaps I'm misunderstanding the question, but wouldn't making an alias
of a network drive and placing it on your desktop (or wherever)
accomplish much the same thing? Especially if you clicked the Options
Yeah, I've VNC going between the Mac Mini (server) and my powerbook (client).
I'm using Chicken something or other as the client and OSXVNC or
something as the server.
It doesn't work too well for me because the Mac Mini is for playing
video and the VNC connection gets confused when I attempt to
Did I see something saying that Tiger had network mapped drives?
That might be a Windows-only term. It's the ability to set Z: to be a
drive that is shared elsewhere on the network.
In OS X, I would expect it to be like using the Finder-Go-Connect
Server and having the subsequent icon always
For those who are now on Tiger, I wonder if you could answer a question for me.
Dashboard looks very interesting, every demo I've seen of it seems to
have you pressing a key to see the Dashboard. Is it possible to attach
a Dashboard gadget to the background? Or do you always have to move to
a
Mine was :)
I'm also disapointed whenever I have a hamburger at a place that isn't
W.W.Cousins. It reminds me that breaking my Cousins-only-burger rule
is a terrible thing to do.
Hen
On 4/29/05, Rex Baldazo Rex.Baldazo at cnet.com wrote:
I hope what I said vis-a-vis the Apple/CompUSA employees
On 4/27/05, Rex Baldazo Rex.Baldazo at cnet.com wrote:
Depends a lot of course on the site, but one reason some sites do that
is they really don't get a lot of traffic via the front door so they use
that as a brand identity page. I've usually heard it called a splash
page, kinda like how some
Wow, the World Premier is in Louisville on Hurstborne? I'm stunned.
CompUSA will open the doors as thousands poor in to head to the back 2
rows of Apple products where their eager and experienced sales staff
will have the ever-useful answer of:
I'm afraid I'm not really a Mac person, if you come
On 4/23/05, Lee Larson llarson at louisville.edu opined:
On Apr 23, 2005, at 1:55 PM, Henri Yandell made the negative
observation:
I'm toying with the idea of building a new front end machine based
around an Epia M1 motherboard. This is a tiny motherboard with
built-in accelerated s
Just a quick tip.
If you're attaching your Mac-Mini to a TV (after getting the necessary
adapter from Apple), you'll want to visit the color-calibration page.
Although it had chosen an option called NTSC, I found that calibrating
it gave me a much, much nicer feel, though still not perfect as it
On 4/21/05, John Robinson profile at aye.net wrote:
Lee, I have just read with great interest your article in the Access
concerning Myth, so timely for what I am doing at this time in trying
to build a home and utilize a system like you describe.
I'm slowly building such. My first target has
On 4/21/05, Marta Edie martaedie at mac.com wrote:
John, I know much less than you , and yet have all these crazy ideas
- I had the same thoughts as I read the Access article. I did get this
new small TV and the Dish channel to get the German TV Channel. It is
a Philips, HDV ready, has this
On 4/19/05, Bill Rising brising at louisville.edu wrote:
On Apr 19, 2005, at 10:17, Henri Yandell wrote:
Thanks, I'd noticed people complaining that there were issues but had
put it down as a minor thing. Glad I've been too lazy to kick off the
update on my laptop, as it's where I do all
Thanks, I'd noticed people complaining that there were issues but had
put it down as a minor thing. Glad I've been too lazy to kick off the
update on my laptop, as it's where I do all my Java development :)
An utterly broken Java would have been a severe problem.
Hen
On 4/19/05, Rex Baldazo
Oooo. A new location?
Much as I've wanted to support the local shop, the pain of getting tothe
bardstown road location from either downtown or out in the stickshas always
meant that the online equivalent is so much easier. Plusthe limited weekend
hours made things harder.
However, the new
I'm all for dual-cpu G4's :)
(Yeah, I know you said dual-core, but the parallel rumour to the G5
powerbook is the dual powerbook :) ).
That said, things would still be 32-bit and all the marketing to
convince us that 64-bit boxes are necessary would be wasted.
Hen
On Wed, 02 Mar 2005 12:30:31
Hardest part with Brian's offer is the introduction of the mac mini
(more about that in a bit). Sorry Brian, but you're priced the same as
a new mac mini, and it's a slightly better box.
Opera is a long term alternative browser that has a free with adverts
version and a commercial version (30
Hadn't noticed anyone really mentioning these on the list yet, so
thought I'd gush over the new arrival (sorry Mactown, I couldn't help
myself and ordered one 3 or 4 weeks ago).
It arrived last night, so obviously unpacking the box, marvelling at
the usual apple box-design, setting it up and
I tried watching it for about 5 minutes before I switched off. Now I
just goto '61' out of habit before remembering how ugly it is and
switching over.
One of the techs, Dan Huard, had an interesting blog entry fter he
left on all that went wrong. They had him using employees/friends to
make fake
It means 80 minutes of AIFF formatted music; such that you could put
the CD into a CD player and hear music coming out. There's no
compression on AIFF so it takes up lots of space.
Your 97MB is of compressed mp3's, so the 80 minutes label on the box
doesn't apply. Throw as many as you want on
/2 anyway, can be handy when you're playing with
obscure OSes.
Hen
On Sun, 16 Jan 2005 12:54:49 -0500, Marta Edie martaedie at mac.com wrote:
Please elaborate on the difference between a usb mouse and a ps/2
keyboard
Marta
On Jan 16, 2005, at 12:42, Henri Yandell wrote:
On Fri, 14 Jan 2005
On Fri, 14 Jan 2005 17:47:26 -0500, Rob Kersting laffmakr at aye.net wrote:
Now you're getting the idea.
The number one purpose of the Mac mini is to replace Wintel boxes. That
means, you take it home, unplug your keyboard and monitor from the Wintel
POS and plug it into the Mac mini and
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
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
Just to show how much OS X has hit the Techie/Linux crowd:
http://www.thinkgeek.com/oreilly/tshirts/70f9/
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
You're welcome :)
While OS X comes from one company, and Windows comes from one company,
Linux comes from many companies in the form of what are called
distributions. You can build your own distribution from scratch if you
want and distribute it without cost (ignoring cds, marketing,
It's a long shot, but I just installed a 120GB drive too, and it had a
series of jumper options (Master, Slave, Other one), and then another
series of jumper options that did the same, but restricted the size to
32GB. I presume for old legacy machines that have problems.
Anyway, you might
As I understand it, yes.
If a neighbour has an 802.11b card, and accidentally joins your system,
your pure 802.11g system will slow down to accomodate it. It's that
impressive a technology :)
Hen
On Tue, 30 Nov 2004, Bill Micou wrote:
Hey Group,
If I upgrade my airport base station to a
On Sun, 21 Nov 2004, Lee Larson wrote:
PPS/ If anyone's planning to build one of these things, time's a wasting. The
new copyright agreements made between the RIAA and the TV card manufacturers
will make it a lot harder to do so in a few months.
That's just for HD tuners right? I
On Sun, 21 Nov 2004, Lee Larson wrote:
On Nov 21, 2004, at 7:15 PM, Henri Yandell noted:
That's just for HD tuners right? I considered the idea but I don't own HD
and my eyesight is too poor to make owning HD worthwhile :)
That's right. Starting July 1, 2005 all HD signals will have
Have you really had problems with tree's of switches?
I have a 4-port wireless router, and plug 2 5-port switches and an 8-port
hub into it.
I've never had any problems due to this approach and it is more useful
than just having a single 16-port switch in that I can have the machines
further
Another option is a wireless router; such as Apple's Airport. Worth
getting now if they think they would use it. Netgear, D-Link, Linksys also
sell such things, cheaper than Airport.
I doubt that a router would have any mac-specific problems. All the major
network manufacturers make them. I'd
I did the same with a Logitech usb mini mouse. Very nice, very small, and
no batteries to worry about.
Hen
On Mon, 15 Nov 2004, Green, Cathy wrote:
I had a similar question, but after pricing them, I ended up going
with one that is not wireless, but very compact and a heckuva lot
This was posted on Slashdot and some have suggested that it's complete
bollocks and comes from a very wrong article.
They say it is only for registrar transfers that remain under the same
owner. So if you decide to move your domain name from NetSol to GoDaddy.
They also point out that what it
On Thu, 4 Nov 2004, Lee Larson wrote:
On Nov 4, 2004, at 6:45 AM, MTYREE at aol.com multiquestioned:
Can my iMac (G3 400 MHz, slot loading) use either PC100 or PC133 memory
modules?
What's the max? (Apple says 512 MB, but vendors say 1 GB).
thanks!
It should work with either PC100
If you ever happen to goto England, there is a superb Gorilla sanctuary in
Kent (SE England). It's named Howletts and is one of the few
enclosed-animal areas I've seen where the animals don't seem trapped (the
Rhino enclosure at Louisville Zoo is so depressing).
The founder (John Aspinall)
(Carrie writes...)
Henri and I are happy to report that Nathan Henri Yandell was born Friday,
October 22, 2004 at 3:19 p.m. He weighed in at 9lb 2oz and
measured 20 1/4 inches long.
There are pictures and more info at Nathan's website:
http://baby.yandell.org/
We are all looking forward
Anyone know of a good site to buy old stuff, specifically an airport card
for a G3 iMac 350mhz?
Of course, for all I know, there are only two types of aiport card out
there and I should be able to take the one from my laptop and stick it in
the iMac. In which case, anyone know where I'd get
cards for $100. You may need a $25 airport
card adapter as well.
Ward
Ward Oldham, MacDude
MacTown
1041 Bardstown Road
Louisville, KY 40204
502-485-1243
ward at mactown.us
http://www.mactown.us
From: Henri Yandell bayard at generationjava.com
Reply-To: macgroup
(I don't know specifics, but this should be close enough, based on
journaling on linux)
Journaling is a file-system feature whereby every change to the file
system is kept in a journal. So say you create a new file named BOB, there
will be the file named BOB, the pointers that say where BOB
Sounds like a tool that should exist. An OS X centric diskspace analyser.
On the command line side, if you open the terminal, you can do:
df -h
which will show you the space used on all mounted systems (partitions,
cd's, usb thumbdrives, .dmg files etc).
Also:
du -sh */
in your
Ditto.
My guess is either it's a buggy spammer/virus or testing that an email
address doesn't bounce. Been happening for 6 months or so at least.
Hen
On Sun, 17 Oct 2004, Ronald Pitt wrote:
On 10/17/04 7:03 PM, George H. Yankey jeffco13 at bellsouth.net wrote:
I keep getting this kind of
There's also:
http://pearpc.sf.net
which has been around for a year or so. Never tried to install it.
Both of them seem to be virtual-machine style emulators, which means you
need an OS to run them on. Pear will run on Linux and Windows (though
looks chiefly Linux) and is free, while Cherry
Two words: Laptops and Games.
I have Windows boxes because I still like to play PC games (though the
XBox is curing me of that somewhat).
I have a Mac laptop because Linux on a laptop is a pain in the arse
(hardware support is touch and go).
Otherwise, Linux rocks :) The main reason: no
I'm pondering ebaying a bit to find the cheapest flat-screen iMac I can.
Does anyone happen to know the CPU speed they began at? And did the old
tv-style iMac's end at the same CPU speed?
Thanks,
Hen
| The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will
| be September 28. The LCS Web
Linked to the previous question (trying to get a cheap imac setup in the
kitchen), I have one of the original iMacs and am wondering if I can get
airport to work with it.
Googling, I found a page that suggests that Airport cards were only usable
from the 'Kihei architecture' onwards, which
The only plus side I have for SD is that with PDAs, SD are good for the
data storage while CF is good for modems, wireless and other plugins.
PDAs seem to be a dying industry though, so that's not such a big deal.
Hen
On Mon, 4 Oct 2004 harryjb at bellsouth.net wrote:
I am looking for a
Do .wav files have codecs? I seem to recall there not just being one type
of .wav but am not sure. Will try to remember to ask a few sound experts
at work.
I'd test it on a Windows box and see if it's the Mac's fault or the file's
fault.
Hen
On Tue, 31 Aug 2004, John Robinson wrote:
Jerry,
You may want to edit out the 'recent' :)
There's also an airplane joke out there about what if operating systems
ran airlines:
http://amused.the-i.org/os-airlines
http://www.fur.com/nighty/os2.html
http://www.jestsandjokes.com/show.php3?joke=130
http://www.sunvv.com/english/article_2443.html
Cc me if you want. I hack with perl a lot.
Hen
On Fri, 27 Aug 2004, Jerry Yeager wrote:
Hello Rob,
If there are any notable $amounts involved, drop me a note.
Jerry
On Aug 27, 2004, at 8:31 AM, Robert Kersting wrote:
Any Perl-ists out there who could help me debug a
In addition to this, the reason is probably age.
Older stuff tends to use lower port numbers. Most of the backbone of the
Internet proper are all under 100, with occasional variants being over,
often for use with SSL (IMAP/SSL, POP/SSL, HTTP/SSL aka HTTPS).
There's also a security feature on
If anyone wants a gmail invite (Google webmail), I've one left.
Hen
On Tue, 17 Aug 2004, Marta Edie wrote:
John, I believe , in order to send mail from your own mailbox and also
receive mail in a hotel that has highspeed access, you need webmail ,
or , as I had to do before I had a .mac
OS X seems to run postfix all the time, though nothing on port 25 (SMTP).
I assume the postfix stuff it is running is only for outgoing mail queues
via the 'mail' command (automated apple scripts), but no real clue.
It'll take me a bit of digging around in the /etc/postfix/ configurations,
but
If you're looking for Colocation when you get to Kentucky, I've had good
service and pricing from Iglou. 100 dollars for 4u, with I think a 59
dollars for 1u starter price.
Hen
On Mon, 16 Aug 2004, Dan Johnson wrote:
I thought some of you might be interested in this Mac based BBS. The
first
Any rumour/opinion/insider knowledge on whether Keynote will ever get an
upgrade?
Has it been upgraded but doesn't do it through the automatic one?
Hen
On Sat, 14 Aug 2004, John Robinson wrote:
Mike,
From past messages I think the line of thinking is to do it after an
install, I have not
On Sat, 7 Aug 2004, Bill Holt wrote:
Those of you who don't make any of the meetings are missing out. Each one
is like a mini-seminar: well presented, interesting and generally even
useful! I would admit to feeling guilty for not chipping in on any thus
far, but if I did I'd get snagged
at erdos.math.louisville.edu
Subject: Re: MacGroup: Fwd:
Hen, That is what happens to me also. No sender and no address.
George
On Saturday, July 31, 2004, at 01:02 PM, Henri Yandell wrote:
I've received a few of these at work, though oddly not on my noisier
spampot of a personal email.
They appear
Heh, just beat my reply :) Rewriting:
Gecko engine.
Camino splintered off before Firefox came about when Mozilla was pretty
clunky on OS X (and possibly still trying to support OS 9?). I expect it
to die someday or fold back into Firefox, but I have no idea on the group
dynamics and technical
http://www.apple.com/macosx/tiger/ lists information about the next
version of OS X, available in the first half of 2005.
One interesting bit is the blurb about 64-bit support. I wonder if at some
point this will mean that a release of 10.X will not work on G3s and G4s.
Hen
| The next
On Mon, 28 Jun 2004, Ward Oldham wrote:
We can come close . . . but no cigar. Current education prices fall
slightly under our cost. But we can get close, particularly once you
consider shipping charges (which you don?t pay here) and the free tech
support you get here with your purchase.
I'm teaching at Bellarmine at the moment and also pondering the dual 1.8
G5. Okay, drooling :)
Anyone know if MacTown are able to offer the Apple educational discount,
or do I have to get it online?
Hen
| The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will
| be July 27. The LCS Web page
On Sat, 12 Jun 2004, John Stone wrote:
On Fri, 11 Jun 2004, Henri wrote:
What exactly would be the restrictions on just hooking the modem up to the
airport? His network would be safe from external attacks, unless they
got into the airport, but he'd not be able to play online games or run
On Fri, 11 Jun 2004, Jerry Yeager wrote:
The original Airport does not have the hardware firewall functions
built into it. It does have a NAT server that can offer some protection
against script kiddie attacks.
What exactly would be the restrictions on just hooking the modem up to the
Let's focus on some specifics.
Pick a couple of the sites which seem the worst [Washington Post/BBC?] and
email the url/locations of the pages where you enter your email address
[as I'll admit to being too daft to know which they might be].
I assume the address is the insightbb.com one [unsure
Is this a specific site Marta, or many? Your comment below seems to
suggest that you're getting this with many sites now.
If it is many, then the suggestion that maybe you have a space or
some-such in your autofill seems like the only reasonable one.
If it's just the one site, then a coding
OpenOffice seemed to install easily for me. I grabbed a dmg file, did the
usual dmg thing and when I run it, it runs X11 [XWindows] for me
automatically.
I'm unsure if X11 is a default install or if I install it as a part of the
Developer pack or a custom install. I thought it was default
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
On Tue, 4 May 2004, Bill Holt wrote:
Thanks Jerry,
I don't understand why anyone would object to these people selling a
compiled, easy-install version of an OS program.
[a kind of round about answer to why people would object, with hopefully
lots of explaining for anyone else listening]
, isn't
the matter that simple?
Bill
From: Henri Yandell bayard at generationjava.com
Reply-To: macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu
Date: Tue, 4 May 2004 13:06:35 -0400 (EDT)
To: macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu
Subject: Re: MacGroup: Processor temp and cron job - can't finds
On Windows it's called Virtual Memory and is an option you can modify. On
Linux it's something you choose the size of when setting up the system and
is called swap [probably the same for most UNIXes].
As a real easy one liner:
Swap/Virtual-memory is when the computer runs out of real memory and
As I'm looking, thought I'd list exactly what the nightly-task/cron tab is
doing.
[look at /etc/crontab first]
The directories:
/etc/periodic/daily/
/etc/periodic/weekly/
/etc/periodic/monthly/
each contain scripts that run when the time period in crontab occurs. They
have names like
Could do with deleting:
http://members.aye.net/~lcs/
as Google still picks it up, which was how I looked to see what was on on
Tuesday yesterday.
Best would be to put an apache redirect in for all children of the lcs
directory, but that's not always possible with an ISP, so easiest would be
to
The last three are SSH and not SSL. Very similar names, but unless they
have similar algorithms underneath, not of any similarity. SSL is also
known as TLS as that is its standard name.
I use SSH Agent quite happily. Very good tool.
Hen
On Thu, 22 Apr 2004, Jerry Yeager wrote:
Would these be
Ignore that. I missed Lee's change of thread name.
Sorry,
Hen
On Sat, 24 Apr 2004, Henri Yandell wrote:
The last three are SSH and not SSL. Very similar names, but unless they
have similar algorithms underneath, not of any similarity. SSL is also
known as TLS as that is its standard name
, 2004, at 8:08 PM, Tony LaFemina wrote:
Henri Yandell wrote:
You may not be one of them, but I think there are a few on the list
that are security conscious. I never understood the reasoning behind
I've a healthy level of paranoia :) I worry about what will probably
happen rather than what
Wish I could help, but the OReilly AppleScript book is still sitting on
the floor at Chapter 3. I haven't found a reason to use AppleScript for
myself, so it's just a toy for me.
I agree with Bill that it looks quite painful.
Hen
On Wed, 21 Apr 2004, Harry Jacobson-Beyer wrote:
I've been
Cookies are useful for remembering passwords, if the site itself offers to
remember them and not the browser, or just to remember who you are.
They're also quite essential in maintaining a stateful session with a
server so that you don't have to tell it who you are every time you hit a
button.
It mainly saves a bit of diskspace and wipes out some personal information
that you might want to be seen.
I've recently noticed that Safari often claims a site can't be found, but
on hitting refresh it happily finds it. Am unsure if it's an issue with my
DNS server or with Safari itself. It
Rumours suggest the 2 years it took to get a G4 in a laptop are likely to
be repeated. Then again, other rumours have suggested that as IBM have the
G5 happily working in blade servers or 1u's now, that it's only a minor
voltage issue to get it in a laptop.
18 months til the next powerbook
You''ll be horrified to hear that 8 hours a day is the minimum :) I think
I spend a minimum of 12 hours a day, maxing at around 16 and I still wish
the earth was a bit further out and we had 30 hour days so I could
actually learn something about the Mac and not just pretend it's simply
a unix
Not really a Mac question, but y'all get it anyway.
My iPod's headphone connection crackles a fair bit [on multiple
headphones] and I'm figuring it's gotten filled with dust/grit. Anyone got
ideas for cleaning it?
Thanks,
Hen
| The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will
| be
I got one of these a year ago or so and it has one pain in the arse
feature. It cancels open inactive connections after a few minutes. This
largely affects me on telnet and ssh sessions, but could be a problem for
other applications.
9 months ago there wasn't a workaround, but maybe someone has
. However now it does not power on at
all, and still no recharging light on the power cable.
Is this what a dead battery looks like? Should a powerbook run without a
battery but with mains power attached?
Thanks,
Hen
On Sun, 18 Jan 2004, Lee Larson wrote:
On Jan 18, 2004, at 7:54 PM, Henri Yandell
for a lack of mains
power to empty the machine of power. So not only do I have a dying
battery, but I have a power cable I can't fully trust.
*prepares to pony up cash soon*
Hen
On Tue, 20 Jan 2004, Henri Yandell wrote:
My previous email was strangely prophetic. Woke up this morning to find
After 3 years, my powerbook's battery holds about an hours worth of power.
I imagine this is due to the large amount of time I've used it with it
plugged into the wall-socket.
I'm wondering what I could have done to make the battery last longer.
Whenever in reach of a socket [and without a need
So what's the reason for wanting OS X server?
Is Panther restricted to only allow a certain number of internal
connections or is OS X server basically a lot of gui tools for an admin to
use?
Bearing in mind that if I ever aquired an Xserve and put it to use as an
Internet server, I would only
My wife's hankering after a dual-G5 box, and I'm hankering after an
Xserve, so I'm wondering if I can kill two birds with 1 stone.
Does anyone have any opinion on the feasibility of an Xserve as a desktop?
It seems to have the necessary firewire [for adding on drives], so my main
areas of
A friend of mine back in the UK just got a new iMac, but is finding the
ethernet port is not working for outgoing connections when attached to the
hub. I have some vague memory that when 10.3 was released, it caused pain
to iMac and iBook users, but as I have a powerbook I didn't pay a lot of
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