Re: Problems with Big Sur

Even the simple mode is somewhat obtuse…at least to me. I have not had any incidents of needing support so can’t comment there although I have seen more complaints about support than one would think there would be. You’re right…he does release a lot of updates. I wasn’t knocking the

Re: Problems with Big Sur

I own it…and it works…and pretty much supports any scanner you may have. That said…the interface is…obtuse at best and the number of options in it are myriad. In addition the author…at least according to a lot of posts I’ve seen…isn’t very service oriented and isn’t interested in reducing the

Re: What would be an equivalent to Time Capsule now ?

A Time Capsule is just an AirPort Extreme (or maybe just an Airport depending on it’s age) with a drive built in…I think in the setup you can set up hours when MAC addresses can connect…or maybe you have to do it by device names, can’t remember. However…unless I’m misremembering you can set up

Re: problem with Calculator app

You might try coping the app from another working machine after deleting it from the one that doesn’t work…or my real suggestion is just to buy a copy of PCalc. Or even LaunchBar…it will do quick calculations for you when it pops up as will that other similar launcher that I can’t remember the

Re: What would be an equivalent to Time Capsule now ?

The fewer management options might make it worth keeping the TM server on an older OS...at least until Apple stops doing security patches for a business setting...but for SOHO use that is t as big of a deal probably. WiFi is slower, but again for home use laptops are rarely wired connections.

Re: What would be an equivalent to Time Capsule now ?

I’m not sure what you’re referring to in regards to WiFi Time Machine - don’t. If it’s a laptop and its doing TM to the mini then isn’t that wifi TM? I don’t know of any good reason not to do TM over wifi…granted it’s slower than a plugged in drive and it backs up to a .dmg instead of a Finder

Re: Restoring an AFPS volume to a non-AFPS volume

> Does anyone have experience with "dd" or some other tool to make a copy of an > AFPS drive to a non-AFPS drive? Haven’t actually tried it…but CarbonCopyCloner and SuperDuper both duplicate volumes file by file and make them bootable…so I imagine either would do the trick. SD in the free

Re: iOS apps without iTunes

Actually...I already own Server but Sharing and Caching got moved into High Sierra...as well as Time Machine Server IIRC...no Server needed anymore. neil The three kinds of stress…nuclear, cooking and a& Jello is the key to the relationship. > On Jul 10, 2018, at 23:24, Macs R We wrote: >

Re: iOS apps without iTunes

So…following up on this a bit since iTunes doesn’t do apps anymore, iOS 12 will be out in a month or two I guess, I’ve still got limited bandwidth living in my RV, and we’ll probably be updating our iPhones in November when we get back to FL for the winter. I’m working on how to best update my

Re: USB flash drive installer for macOS

Actually… It depends on what you want your USB installer to do. If you want a bootable USB installer then you need to use one of the applications that will make a bootable one or use the technique available on the web to use the makeinstallmedia command from terminal. If you just want to put

Re: Microsoft Office 2011 on macOS High Sierra

How about Filemaker 11? I haven’t upgraded because my needs are few and the upgrade fee just hasn’t been worth it. I have just a few databases and most of them I could replace with Excel…but my check register one that has some things in it for helping balance the account and to automatically

Re: Microsoft Office 2011 on macOS High Sierra

For labels I just went to the Avery site and they have templates for Word and other apps to do the labels…as well as a dedicated app if you want to go that route. > On Oct 2, 2017, at 5:47 PM, Macs R We wrote: > > For years, I've used an envelope/label printing app

Re: Best way to duplicate a directory on a mac?

It’s not a command line thing…but CarbonCopyCloner will do that for you pretty nicely. I think it uses sudo ditto underneath it all…or maybe rsync, not really sure. It typically gets pretty high marks on actually cloning everything. > On Jul 23, 2017, at 11:55 AM, Michael

Re: Where's my booklet?

A quick Google turned this up…http://macintoshhowto.com/pages-and-publishing/create-booklet-and-el-capitan.html > On Jun 15, 2017, at 4:07 PM, Carl Hoefs > wrote: > > How

Re: Where's my booklet?

Are you sure you didn’t install some app that included that option? My up to date Sierra doesn’t have that option in the pdf pulldown. > On Jun 15, 2017, at 2:37 PM, Carl Hoefs > wrote: > > Preview.app, accessible via the top menu: > File -> Print -> PDF

Re: Printer coma issue

Gotta be something flakey about that particular Epson model’s firmware…I would get a different make or at least another model. > On Feb 8, 2017, at 3:08 AM, Macs R We wrote: > > Does anybody have any provocative ideas? ---

Re: iTunes 12.2

12.3 is out…download directly from apple.com/itunes . > On Jun 30, 2015, at 2:20 PM, Kevin Callahan wrote: > > Trying to set up Apple Music, but it requires iTunes 12.2. > When you click to upgrade, you get upgraded to 12.1 > > Is 12.2 not available yet?

Anybody Running Yosemite Server

Hi folks; got an issue with my mini running Yosemite Server and hope somebody can give a hand. It’s a current generation mini. I upgraded from an older mini running ML and ML Server. After hooking the new mini up I ran Migration Assistant to migrate everything from the old one to the new one

iCloud Drive -- Ready for Prime Time

Ok, now that the dust has settled and all my devices are updated to both iOS 8.x and Yosemite…what’s the best scoop on iCloud Drive, should I or shouldn’t I? Along with many of us, I skipped it during the iOS 8 upgrade (iPhone 5s and iPad Air) but I haven’t really seen any recommendation for or

Re: iMac CD slot access

I haven't looked at an iMac in awhile but IIRC if you can get it to fall over against the rubber you can (if you're lucky) maybe slip a butter knife in and pull it out. Not a high probability though. neil The three kinds of stress…nuclear, cooking and ahole. Jello is the key to the

Re: iMac CD slot access

I’m guessing not…although if you can see it through the slot you might be able to slip a thin knife blade or something in and tease it out. You might need to turn/tilt it to get the card to slid up against the entry slot first. It’s gonna be one of those “ya gotta get lucky” things I think.

Re: migrating from iWeb to ... ?

AFAIK there isn’t anything that will migrate from iWeb. It’s not quite as cheap as some of the other options…but for absolutely maximum ease of use then I would take a look at http://squarespace.com…they've got excellent templates and although you can’t really import from iWeb into anything

Re: migrating from iWeb to ... ?

On Nov 1, 2014, at 9:39 PM, Kevin Callahan kc...@mac.com wrote: BTW: does WP generate responsive sites? Not sure what you mean by responsive… --- There are only three kinds of stress; your basic nuclear stress, cooking stress, and A$$hole stress.

Re: a few Apple RAID questions

in Mavericks. Of course, I'm hoping to be wrong about the latter, so perhaps someone else will chime in. Thanks, Gregg On Oct 26, 2014, at 9:37 PM, Neil Laubenthal n...@laubenthal.net wrote: On Oct 26, 2014, at 6:16 PM, Dinse, Gregg (NIH/NIEHS) [C] di...@niehs.nih.gov wrote: 1. When

Re: Merging iPhoto libraries

Me too. Depending on what Photos is I may end up moving to LR instead. Don't like it as much as Aperture but it may end up being the only game in town. At least we don't need to worry about Adobe supporting it. neil The three kinds of stress…nuclear, cooking and ahole. Jello is the key to the

Re: Restoring account from TM onto a different machine

This will work, but Migration Assistant is easier. 1. Make sure no account on new machine with same name. 2. Plug in TM drive and manually copy the home directory to /Users. 3. Create new user with right name and answer yes to the question about using the existing home directory. neil

Re: please recommend a laser printer

On Aug 12, 2014, at 10:18 PM, Dinse, Gregg (NIH/NIEHS) [C] di...@niehs.nih.gov wrote: Hi, I need to buy a laser printer that works well with the latest MacOSX. Can you please recommend one (or more)? I'm not sure whether I want a color laser printer or a black and white, so please

Re: A 14 GB log file

On Jul 17, 2014, at 9:28 AM, list boy i.am.list@gmail.com wrote: Just found one, here: ~/Library/Containers/com.apple.mail/Data/Library/Logs/Mail Filename is something along the lines of “blahblahblah-imap.gmail.com.txt” Any speculation on what-importance/why-a

Re: iTunes 11: no internet radio????

The sun goes down so that it will be 5 o'clock…because that means it's beer o'clock…although I usually use the old it's always 5 o'clock somewhere that I learned in the navy. neil The three kinds of stress…nuclear, cooking and ahole. Jello is the key to the relationship. On Mar 3, 2014,

Re: how do I put some (or all) of home directory on second disk?

On Dec 16, 2013, at 1:48 PM, Dinse, Gregg (NIH/NIEHS) [V] di...@niehs.nih.gov wrote: I'd like to put some or all of my home directory on a second disk (a 3-TB hard drive). If you’re going to move it then I would personally probably move the whole thing. To do that; duplicate the homedir

Re: Swap file tracking

On Dec 4, 2013, at 12:41 PM, list boy i.am.list@gmail.com wrote: Anyone know if there's a way (via the console/Terminal) to track swap file size, over time? You can ls /private/var/vm of course…but I don’t think the actual size of the swap files in there goes down unless you reboot in

Re: Swap file tracking

There's a lot to be said for that. neil The three kinds of stress…nuclear, cooking and ahole. Jello is the key to the relationship. On Dec 4, 2013, at 13:19, Jochem Huhmann j...@gmx.net wrote: stuff all the memory sticks into your machine that it can take

Re: Restore from Time Machine Backup to disk image or folder?

Yes, the deleted files will be in earlier dated backups from before you deleted them. Merging in the deleted files is harder. It could probably be scripted with AppleScript or a terminal script but I'm not a programmer so can't really advise you there. neil The three kinds of stress…nuclear,

Re: Restore from Time Machine Backup to disk image or folder?

You should be able to open the backup folder on the drive, navigate to the latest dated/timed backup, and copy that off to wherever you want to store it. If you use the Time Machine interface it's not that easy; but just copy it in Finder and all will work fine. Don't worry about the fact that

Re: Decent Twitter Syncing

Thanks Scott, I will give Tweetbot a try. neil The three kinds of stress…nuclear, cooking and ahole. Jello is the key to the relationship. On 2012-12-21, at 15:01, Scot Hacker shac...@birdhouse.org wrote:. Yes - Tweetbot for both desktop and iOS does a very good job of this - even

Decent Twitter Syncing

Is there a decent app that correctly syncs tweets (unread, etc) across both Mac OS and iOS. I've been using Echofon for quite awhile but sync recently broke (again) and they don't seem very inclined to fix it…so I'm looking for something else that has a consistent interface across both

Lost Finder Sound Effects

Anybody got an idea why Finder Sound effects don't work for me ay more? I've checked everything in Sound System Prefs and it's set to internal speaker, max volume, mute off in a couple of places, and I can double click alert sounds and hear them in the internal speakers on my MBP Retina. Other

Re: Worth upgrading Airport and Switch?

Nah, it was my topic originally and it's close enough as they say. TTFN: neil On Dec 8, 2012, at 13:56, H J heywoodj...@yahoo.com wrote: --- I Again, my apologies if this is too far off-topic. ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list

Re: combining user accounts from two macs?

I have only one suggestion which would get the permissions working correctly; and even with this you may run into some strange permissions issues. On the new machine; don't create the account that you want to merge the two other accounts into yet. Immediately after creating the first admin

Re: Worth upgrading Airport and Switch?

I never did get a clear answer to one of my previous questions so thought I would distill just that one out and make sure I understand everything. With my current setup I have my WiFi Ranger router which only has 100Mb switch ports. Hooked up to this I have a 100Mb switch and hooked up to that

Re: Worth upgrading Airport and Switch?

Thanks. I was pretty sure that was correct but I was a sysadmin, not the network engineer in my previous life:-) --- There are only three kinds of stress; your basic nuclear stress, cooking stress, and A$$hole stress. The key to their relationship is

Re: Worth upgrading Airport and Switch?

Maybe you're right; although it seems like my Time Machine backups are taking a lot longer than they used to before we moved into the RV. I was using the same Airport Extreme and a different but still non gigabit switch…and was backing up to an iMac then vs a Mini now but overall a pretty

Worth upgrading Airport and Switch?

Hi; I wonder if anybody has made a similar transition to what I'm thinking about…and if so was there any increase in overall throughput. My wife and I live in an RV and are thus dependent on either wifi from the campground or our Verizon air card for external internet access. I can't really do

Strange Stuff on Rebuild

Hello again; another question for the group. I recently had to rebuild my MBP Retina from scratch due to an SSD failure that was replaced under Applecare. After installing the OS and reinstalling apps from both the App Store and .dmg files I copied my old home directory back then recreated my

Re: Worth upgrading Airport and Switch?

On Nov 17, 2012, at 3:20 PM, Macs R We macs...@macsrwe.com wrote: The architecture of your in-house switch/wifi/router will easily affect your traffic rates inside the RV. Obviously, it won't do anything for access to the greater internet. Sounds like you know this. Yeah, I figured if I

Re: Strange Stuff on Rebuild

--- There are only three kinds of stress; your basic nuclear stress, cooking stress, and A$$hole stress. The key to their relationship is Jello. neil On Nov 17, 2012, at 3:45 PM, Macs R We macs...@macsrwe.com wrote: Although OS X / Darwin / Unix

Solve File Share Issues?

I have a mini running ML as the file server in the RV we live in full time. A shared folder provides the destination for files saved from two daily driver MBPs my wife and I have, the shared folder is mounted at login on both laptops using an AppleScript with the mount afp// syntax. I have

Re: USB Lion thumb drive

The MBP is lion capable, right? You can always copy the installer image to the MBP and runt it from there. neil The three kinds of stress…nuclear, cooking and ahole. Jello is the key to the relationship. On 2012-07-07, at 2:51, LuKreme krem...@kreme.com wrote: I have a 8GB USB thumb

Re: Why can't I empty the trash?

On Jul 4, 2012, at 6:49 PM,7/4, Dinse, Gregg (NIH/NIEHS) [V] wrote: Hi, Often I try to empty the trash and I get a message that a file can't be deleted because the application that opened it is still in use (or something like that). Frequently the file is a PDF. In many cases, the

Re: Upgrade to gigabit switch worth it?

Thanks for the comments all of you; as I suspected the gig switch won't help much so I'll just stick with the 10/100 one I already have. I realize that using a cable for the laptops would backup faster via Time Machine; but then Im only backing up /Users anyway. The apps and operating system

Re: Little Snitch

On Apr 28, 2012, at 3:07 PM,4/28, Dinse, Gregg (NIH/NIEHS) [E] wrote: Was I doing something wrong or did I need to change certain settings? Do other Little Snitch users spend all their time dismissing popups or does this eventually calm down over time? It does that for a week or two

Re: Time Machine and Package Contents

On Mar 8, 2012, at 10:14 PM,3/8, LuKreme wrote: Depends on the image. Sparebundles are directories of band files, so are wonderful for TimeMachine. Most virtual machines use single files for their data, so this is why it is best to exclude them. Thanks all; looks like anything that is

Re: iPad 3: More of the same?

On Mar 7, 2012, at 3:16 PM,3/7, Nathan Sims wrote: Maybe it's just me, but I think Apple forgot to add anything new to the iPad 3, its just more of the same: - Upgraded processor - Higher-density display - Slightly upgraded camera - 4G cell connectivity I would call this iPad 2.5,

Re: Lion Server vs Lion

On Feb 19, 2012, at 9:57 PM,2/19, LuKreme wrote: On Feb 18, 2012, at 18:51, Neil Laubenthal n...@laubenthal.net wrote: Disabled doesn't mean done though According to Apple it does. Your info will even go back to saying OS X instead of OS X Server. Apple does have a KB article

Re: Lion Server vs Lion

On Feb 17, 2012, at 1:44 AM,2/17, Ashley Aitken wrote: Hi Neil, Firstly, I am not an expert on Lion Server - I have never used it although I have read about it and in the short term will probably install it on one of our Lion machines to check it out further. Two things though: 1.

Re: Lion download

No, you don't. The App Store just downloads the installer app to Applications. Once it is done,make a copy of the installer app somewhere as it deletes itself afterward. Run the app to do the install . . .as always make sure you have a backup just in case before upgrading. neil The three

Re: Upgrading an air?

i think the ram is soldered to the motherboard . . .but OWC has SSD upgrades for at least the current model I am pretty sure. I haven't compared the price difference; but OWC's largest offering was bigger than Apple's larger offering. The SSD just plugs into the board directly . . .so I

Re: Upgrading an air?

I don't think you have to worry about the SSD wearing out . . .sure, it has a finite life but it's way more than the number of years before the computer is replaced. On Dec 24, 2011, at 7:05 PM,12/24, William Ehrich wrote: How hard to replace that? It and the SSD are most likely to wear out.

Re: SSD drive lifetime in new mac air?

I do not remember the details but I read an analysis of this by a respected tech site abut a year ago before I upgraded to an SSD in my MBP. It is true that the memory locations in an SSD wear out but the drive sets aside about 10% of capacity for this. The calculations showed that even with

Re: Thoughts on 10.7 now?

Those might be good arguments . . .but there are a couple of countering ones as well. On Dec 19, 2011, at 1:34 PM,12/19, Nathan Sims wrote: 1. No optical disc slot (no one wants to carry around an external drive) Can't remember the last time I used mine for anything . . .and I've had at least

Re: new user setup

Not exactly sure what you're asking . . .but I'll take a stab at it. Your everyday user account should _not_ have admin rights . . .by default the first account you created when you installed has admin rights. So . . .if that's your everyday account then just create another account, give it

Re: new user setup

On Nov 22, 2011, at 1:36 PM,11/22, Arno Hautala wrote: There needs to be at least one admin. This, by default, is the only user. There's no need for a separate standard user, aside from good practice. Good practice is the best reason to have one . . .having to put in a different

Re: Lion restore partition

Yes. neil The three kinds of stress…nuclear, cooking and ahole. Jello is the key to the relationship. On 2011-11-17, at 12:52, William Ehrich ehr...@clear.net wrote: Instead of Lion's internet dependent little recovery partition can I simply use disk utility to 'restore' InstallESD.dmg

Re: subscribing to calendar events

iCloud should work . . .it even works with Windows as long as it's Vista or 7. On Nov 16, 2011, at 4:11 PM,11/16, Kevin Callahan wrote: A friend of mine wants to set up an online calendar where people, across platform (computers and mobile devices) can subscribe to events and be alerted.

Re: iCloud and Me cards on multiple devices

You may be able to export the calendar in iCal and import it into a new or different calendar. On Nov 9, 2011, at 2:52 PM,11/9, LuKreme wrote: What I can't seem to do, which IS a problem, I move an iCal calendar from one account to another.

Re: iCloud and Me cards on multiple devices

Don't think you can. The iCloud account is a single account and as such can have only one 'me' entry. Get a second iCloud and you can share the calendar (and address book I think) with each other. neil The three kinds of stress…nuclear, cooking and ahole. Jello is the key to the

Re: iCloud and Me cards on multiple devices

options in Address Book or the iCloud site . . .so I'm hoping that sharing the calendar works. On Nov 8, 2011, at 11:36 AM,11/8, Arno Hautala wrote: On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 11:14, Neil Laubenthal n...@laubenthal.net wrote: Don't think you can. The iCloud account is a single account

Re: Apple Working on Allowing the Merging of Multiple Apple IDs

On Oct 15, 2011, at 11:09 PM,10/15, LuKreme wrote: I setup all the iOS devices with one iTunes store account and gave everyone their own iCloud account for now. We'll have to see how that works. That makes much more sense to me than Ashley's approach…now if they would only allow iTunes IDs

Re: Does screen sharing require wired or Apple wireless connection?

Google Magic Packets . . .if the third party router supports them via wireless then you should be able to send one. Generally they a sent from the command line in Terminal, but you can easily whip up an AppleScript to send them using the do shell script command. Once the magic packet has

Re: Does screen sharing require wired or Apple wireless connection?

On Sep 4, 2011, at 4:18 PM, Macs R We wrote: The sleeping Mac stays visible on an Apple router because the Apple router kindly takes over the Bonjour advertising for it. No non-Apple router will do that, at least until you get into the Cisco or Mikrotik programmables. Good description

Re: survey: what software from Mac App Store do you using?

On Aug 30, 2011, at 8:41 AM, Ashley Aitken wrote: . . .and a server or two (old Macs never die they just become servers) I'm glad I'm not the only one that happens to:-) --- There are only three kinds of stress; your basic nuclear stress, cooking

Re: Printing from iPad

Thanks . . .looks like it will do the trick; I'll check out the demo and see how I like it On Aug 6, 2011, at 4:54 PM, Kevin Callahan wrote: Have you checked out Printopia? http://ecamm.com/mac/printopia/ It might give you most or all of what you need. If not, maybe make a request?

Printing from iPad

Looking for easier ways to print from iPad to a pdf and store the pdf on my file server back home. I found Airprint activator and the CUPS-PDF printer package which allow this but give little control over where the pdf file ends up. Ideally . . .would like to be able to print to a specific

Re: running SL inside VMWare Fusion under Lion -- Rosetta still work?

Regular SL won't install on VMWare or Parallels (at least it wouldn't the last time I tried maybe 3 months ago) . . .if it works that would allow me to keep SL around for the 1 or 2 Rosetta required apps I haven't gotten rid of. Has anyone tried running VMWare on Lion and run SL in it

Re: Archival encryption to DVD?

An encrypted .dmg file on DropBox works wonderfully. DropBox does have some security issues . . .but anything that's already encrypted is perfectly safe. Amazon's S3 service through JungleDisk also works wonderfully (as would any of the other cloud file sharing services). On Jun 9, 2011, at

Re: Tired MacBook Pro

Looks like a nice machine . . .although I would buy the stock drive and replace it with an OWC SSD. Cheaper and faster than the Apple provided SSD, although reportedly the new ones are coming with a faster SSD. However . . .if doesn't like to start means an OS problem . . .a clean install of

Re: deleting files

Is file on a network share? If it is the file will be deleted immediately. On Feb 27, 2011, at 3:10 PM, William Ehrich wrote: Why does cmd-delete sometimes delete immediately (after a warning) instead of moving to trash? --- There are only three

Re: how to revert to iTunes 10.1.1 ?

Only if you manually revert all the other pieces . . .there's a lot more to iTunes than just the application; and it would be very difficult to get all the pieces. The only way to reliably roll back is reinstall the OS and then all of the iTunes updates except 10.1.2 . . .unless you happened to

Re: Best wireless source

I'm presuming you want an iPhone . . . The real answer is that all wireless phone companies suck . . .but a different one sucks depending on where you live. For instance . . .ATT gets really bad press in the San Francisco and New York areas. However, part of that is due to (a) the demand the

Re: installing Snow Leopard via Shared optical drive , a disk image, or via FW Target mode

Use Disk Utility to restore the Snow Leopard DVD to USB thumb drive . . .then boot from the thumb drive and install. You are using either the disk that shipped with your MBP or a retail Snow Leopard DVD . . .right? If it's the disk that shipped with some other model it won't work on the MBP.

Re: installing Snow Leopard via Shared optical drive , a disk image, or via FW Target mode

You don't actually need to create an image at all . . .just restore the installation DVD to either a partition on an FW drive or a partition on a USB stick. On Jan 7, 2011, at 10:16 AM, LuKreme wrote: No no, you create the image and then RESTORE it to the FireWire disc. You boot the laptop

Re: installing Snow Leopard via Shared optical drive , a disk image, or via FW Target mode

Yeah . . .but if you have a SL retail DVD . . .just Restore it to a partition on the USB stick (you need about 12 or 14 GB for the DVD . . .boot from the stick with the Option key and run the installer. However . . .if your current OS install is working fine just use CarbonCopyCloner to dupe

Re: Snow Leopard Exposé Bug - Anyone Else?

From the terminal . . .killall Dock. On Nov 18, 2010, at 9:28 AM, William Ehrich wrote: On Nov 17, 2010, at 1:06 PM, lrr wrote: Killing the Dock fixes it briefly. Is there any fix? How can you kill the dock? --- There are only three kinds of

Re: Giving up on Safari ...

I would have said extensions . . .until you sad that the Chrome had caught up . . .guess I need to look and see if I can replicate all of the extensions I care about with Chrome. On Nov 13, 2010, at 12:43 PM, Scot Hacker wrote: Out of curiosity, what remaining reasons are there to use Safari

Re: lion

On Oct 23, 2010, at 1:56 AM, Macs R We wrote: We maintained this impasse until I thought of giving her another hint: The keyboard is the thing you TYPE ON. I think everybody that's ever done support can understand that . . . My best was the brand new SES4 (very senior executive type) I got

Re: Mac Mini and EyeTV as a DVR?

I've got a mini set up on our HDTV for watching internet streamed stuff . . .but nothing for grabbing/recording things off of the TV. We've got Cox cable and although it appears that one could stream the output of the set top box through an EyeTV the vast majority of the channels are encrypted

Re: WPA capability

Well . . .WEP is better than no encryption at all. It's easy to break but you do have to deliberately go out of your way to do so . . .so it will provide some protection against casual sniffing and war-driving since a casual sniffer won't bother to try and crack it and a war-driver will just

Re: WPA capability

Nope. You have to choose one of the other. On Jul 30, 2010, at 2:12 PM, Jonathon Kuo wrote: Is it possible to set up an Airport Extreme base station to handle both WEP and WPA2 connections? --- There are only three kinds of stress; your basic

Re: Question about Mac Developer Program

Yes, it's included in the $99 Dev package . . . the only issue is that the serial number only lasts for 6 months . . .they issue a new serial number before the old one expires. I've done some testing with it myself. -- neil Quoting Thomas Andersson m...@thomasandersson.com: I need to

Re: Syncing Twitter Clients

I would assume that most people only follow people they're interested in…and therefore try to keep up. There are probably people that follow thousands of others that this obviously won't work for though. On Apr 4, 2010, at 11:45 AM, LuKreme wrote: Well, this exposes one of the 'faults' of

Re: Syncing Twitter Clients

Thanks . . .that was what I concluded as well. I'm surprised that with the mixed platforms we use these days that individual apps don't sync between say Twitteriffic for iPhone, iPad, and Mac. On Apr 3, 2010, at 12:37 PM, Jared Earle wrote: This is not something that Twitter manages; you

Re: First impression: Working with the new 27 iMac

I've seen suggestions along this line for years . . .since for a lot of people the Mac Pro is too much expansion/cost . . .and suggesting that Apple would sell a lot of machines say twice the size of a mini with single slot and a 3.5 inch drive (or possibly 2 drive bays). While there's