Re: OT: lost everything, macbook and its HD broken.

2007-01-15 Thread Jim Ault
Andre, Very, very sorry to hear about your dire circumstances. There are a few times when having to reprogram an app or two can be a good thing, but not the whole working environment. If you get back up and running, let me know. It is so easy for me to set up an area on my web host for file sto

Design stack as Desk accessory ...

2007-01-15 Thread Jean-Pierre
I create a stack . It ' s a virtual keyboard for child. Can I use it in another application like Word or Claris? If anyone can show me the way to do this ... thanks ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url

Re: OT: lost everything, macbook and its HD broken.

2007-01-15 Thread Alex Shaw
Hi Andre The same thing happened to my old ibook recently. I didn't get the noise but the S.M.A.R.T. status of the HD was "failed". I was only able to retrieve the data by booting up a live cd of Ubuntu (PPC) & followed the instructions below.. http://jclark.org/weblog/2005/05/24/ubuntumoun

Re: OT: lost everything, macbook and its HD broken.

2007-01-15 Thread Brent Anderson
Hello. There are data recovery specialists that can take even a dead drive and extract the data off of it. Their services usually are aimed for corporations with hefty bankrolls, but you may be able to find someone who can do it within your budget. A google for "Data Recovery" will point

Re: OT: lost everything, macbook and its HD broken.

2007-01-15 Thread Dan Shafer
Andre, Wow, man, I am sorry to hear this. It reminded me once again of the necessity of keeping thiings backed up. I'm pretty meticulous about it but every once in a whlie I let it slide. Hope your woes can be solved soon. Dan On 1/15/07, Andre Garzia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Friends, I w

OT: lost everything, macbook and its HD broken.

2007-01-15 Thread Andre Garzia
Friends, I was here coding some AJAX programs and developing libraries, my macbook just made a strange mechanical noise and then it was dead... when tried to boot, it made lots of mechanical noises and it never booted again. The noises are comming from the hard drive. I am assuming I lost

Re: OT: SSH on OS X

2007-01-15 Thread J. Landman Gay
Sarah Reichelt wrote: Now about the issue of dynamic WAN IPs. There are a few services you can sign up with for free that act sort of like a DNS service for private routers. They allow you to log in to an account name instead of an IP number, and will re-route the name to the current WAN IP of yo

Re: Very weird bug, crashes mac os x.

2007-01-15 Thread Sarah Reichelt
I am invoking a script from the command line in MacOS X. It executes fine till the end. Then I can briefly see some malloc() errors before the whole screen goes blue and everything reboots, all apps close, no saving whatsoever. No way to replicate this bug. The script is dead simple. The error is

Re: OT: SSH on OS X

2007-01-15 Thread Sarah Reichelt
Now about the issue of dynamic WAN IPs. There are a few services you can sign up with for free that act sort of like a DNS service for private routers. They allow you to log in to an account name instead of an IP number, and will re-route the name to the current WAN IP of your home router. Every t

Re: OT: SSH on OS X

2007-01-15 Thread Brent Anderson
Hello, Before finishing this thread, it is important to note that this technique applies to any service that you are trying to serve to the internet (www, ftp, ssh, my-favorite-internet-game) etc. Thanks, Brent Anderson CMSEC ___ use-revolution ma

Re: StackRunner and MySQL

2007-01-15 Thread Ken Ray
On Jan 15, 2007, at 4:38 PM, Sieg Lindstrom wrote: I am trying to use StackRunner 1.5 to run a stack created with Revolution 2.7.4. (on a PPC Mac). I use this stack to manage data in a MySQL database. The stack runs fine when opened with Revolution, but when I open with StackRunner none of

StackRunner and MySQL

2007-01-15 Thread Sieg Lindstrom
I am trying to use StackRunner 1.5 to run a stack created with Revolution 2.7.4. (on a PPC Mac). I use this stack to manage data in a MySQL database. The stack runs fine when opened with Revolution, but when I open with StackRunner none of the MySQL queries work and instead I get error messages; al

Very weird bug, crashes mac os x.

2007-01-15 Thread Andre Garzia
Folks, I am invoking a script from the command line in MacOS X. It executes fine till the end. Then I can briefly see some malloc() errors before the whole screen goes blue and everything reboots, all apps close, no saving whatsoever. No way to replicate this bug. The script is dead simpl

Re: OT: SSH on OS X

2007-01-15 Thread Sarah Reichelt
Since it was off topic, we transferred the conversation to a private email thread. Here are the emails that were exchanged following the last public post. Thanks for that Brent & Jacque. I want to set that up for myself some time, so it was good to follow the path. Cheers, Sarah __

Re: OT: SSH on OS X

2007-01-15 Thread J. Landman Gay
Sarah Reichelt wrote: I don't know about anyone else, but I am very interested in this thread and would like to see it remain on list. Okay, I guess I owe it to the list to say what went wrong and how I solved it. I did solve it, by the way, because having to write everything up for Brent in

Re: [OT] 37signals book on web app development.

2007-01-15 Thread Joe Lewis Wilkins
JB, I have to agree with Andre. We have so many MBAs and bean counters controlling what is being done at the highest levels, mostly with very little in the world practical knowledge/experience that they need to be shown/told how to get out of the "book learning" and into the Real world. Wha

Re: OT: SSH on OS X

2007-01-15 Thread Brent Anderson
Hello. Since it was off topic, we transferred the conversation to a private email thread. Here are the emails that were exchanged following the last public post. It's fine if you contact me privately. If your router is claiming to be forwarding correctly, then I'm not sure where the hang

Re: [OT] 37signals book on web app development.

2007-01-15 Thread Andre Garzia
JB, at least here in Brazil, we need those advises in big, bold, marquee- sized, letters! I've seen junior companies on my university conduct five or more meetings during a week window without no pratical application... common sense, is never, enough! ;-) PS: right now, I am struggli

Re: [OT] 37signals book on web app development.

2007-01-15 Thread jbv
Hi Andre, Do we really need such advices as "Don't have meetings" or "Design the interface before you start programming" or even "Build something you can manage" ? I thought these things were known for years if not decades (except by Microserfs perhaps)... JB > Folks, > > many here are wantin

Re: OT: SSH on OS X

2007-01-15 Thread Sarah Reichelt
I don't know about anyone else, but I am very interested in this thread and would like to see it remain on list. Cheers, Sarah On 1/16/07, J. Landman Gay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Brent Anderson wrote: > Hello. Thanks very much for the response. > > It's very easy to set up SSH on your Mac

Re: OT: SSH on OS X

2007-01-15 Thread J. Landman Gay
Brent Anderson wrote: Hello. Thanks very much for the response. It's very easy to set up SSH on your Mac (System Preferences > Sharing > Check "Remote Login" box) but you may have a few pitfalls in the way if you're trying to connect from anywhere other than your local network. You didn't

Re: OT: SSH on OS X

2007-01-15 Thread Brent Anderson
Hello. It's very easy to set up SSH on your Mac (System Preferences > Sharing > Check "Remote Login" box) but you may have a few pitfalls in the way if you're trying to connect from anywhere other than your local network. You didn't specify too much detail, but I would assume you're tryin

[OT] 37signals book on web app development.

2007-01-15 Thread Andre Garzia
Folks, many here are wanting to join the web app bandwagon. I suggest reading the "Getting real" book by 37signals which is by far the most successful start-up enterprise in this camp today. They out of nowhere created or provided the means for creation of: Ruby on Rails, prototype librar

Re: Rev standalones and terminal services

2007-01-15 Thread Chris Sheffield
Thanks, Luis. Unfortunately, they're not using RDC. I did find out that in most cases where customers are having problems is when using Citrix. Anyone familiar with that? On Jan 15, 2007, at 8:56 AM, Luis wrote: Hiya, If they're using RDC (Remote Desktop Connection) there is an option u

Re: Rev standalones and terminal services

2007-01-15 Thread Luis
Hiya, If they're using RDC (Remote Desktop Connection) there is an option under the 'Local Resources' tab to manage how the sound behaves. If this option is not visible then click the 'Options>>' button in the connection window. You can have a look yourself by typing 'mstsc' (without the quotes

Rev standalones and terminal services

2007-01-15 Thread Chris Sheffield
My company has several customers who are trying to run our application through terminal services. From what I understand, everything seems to be working okay, except for the fact that they're not hearing any audio. I'll admit that when it comes to terminal services, I'm somewhat ignorant. C

Re: Display a text on a movie (Ludovic Th?bault)

2007-01-15 Thread henk
Hi Ludovic, set the alwaysbuffer of your movie to true and you can put text fields on top of it. Henk >Thanks, but i want add text in Rev. > >I've made a little stack to sync subtitles, and there is a video >preview, but actually, subtitles are outside the video because i can't >put it on the vide

Re: image overlay

2007-01-15 Thread Viktoras Didziulis
Mark, Ian Thanks a lot! Import/export snapshot is exactly what I was looking for. Viktoras ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http

Re: image overlay

2007-01-15 Thread Ian Wood
Have a look in the docs for 'import snapshot'. New in 2.7 was the ability to take snapshots of objects and groups, keeping the alpha channel intact. Ian On 15 Jan 2007, at 11:58, Viktoras Didziulis wrote: Is there a simple way to make an overlay of 2 or more different sized images into a

Re: image overlay

2007-01-15 Thread Mark Smith
Viktoras, check out the 'import snapshot' command. Best, Mark On 15 Jan 2007, at 11:58, Viktoras Didziulis wrote: Is there a simple way to make an overlay of 2 or more different sized images into a single image ? What I am seeking for is overlaying a small map image on a larger one, displa

image overlay

2007-01-15 Thread Viktoras Didziulis
Is there a simple way to make an overlay of 2 or more different sized images into a single image ? What I am seeking for is overlaying a small map image on a larger one, displaying them and then saving this view as a single image. Are there any screen capture functions for a defined region in Re

Re: Dr. Strangelove (or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love XML)

2007-01-15 Thread Martin Blackman
I reckon people get put off by the long revXML function names and all the parameters. But if you are fortunate enough to have Galaxy, it makes things easier - you type the first few characters then use the autocomplete function! Before long you will find loops such as the following to be second na