From dledger at ivdcs.demon.co.uk Sun Jun 1 00:29:16 2008 From: dledger at ivdcs.demon.co.uk (David Ledger) Date: Sun Jun 1 01:04:20 2008 Subject: [X4U] PRAM Battery Research & Test In-Reply-To: <20080601063859.1D950263A8C7@listserver.themacintoshguy.com> References: <20080601063859.1D950263A8C7@listserver.themacintoshguy.com> Message-ID: >From: Jon >I shut down the Pbook, removed the battery and unplugged the >adaptor cable. And waited about an hour for that capacitor to >discharge. Then I reconnected the power adaptor and >pressed the start button. >The PowerBook started normally, chimes and all. I got a >message about an incorrect time, but while I was reading the >message the clock reset to correct time. >And the same results should be seen on any desktop Mac >without a PRAM battery or with a dead one. In other words, >no disaster, minor inconvenience. This was easiest to >demonstrate on a portable, but through the years I've used >desktops with dead batteries (Mac and dark side) with >similar outcomes. After a while, it's a big PITA, but that's all. May not be relevant, but a laptop 'knows' that it has a disc, and how to access it. A G5/Pro can have extra disc interface cards fitted and the built in ones don't have to have a drive attached. More information is needed to find a default boot drive. I'm just comparing with how non-PC systems work in general. David -- David Ledger - Freelance Unix Sysadmin in the UK. HP-UX specialist of hpUG technical user group (www.hpug.org.uk) david.ledger@ivdcs.co.uk www.ivdcs.co.uk From chowse at charter.net Sun Jun 1 02:26:30 2008 From: chowse at charter.net (Charles Howse) Date: Sun Jun 1 02:26:42 2008 Subject: [X4U] Re: PRAM Battery Research & Test In-Reply-To: <66F05B1C-2F71-48A9-8316-A4DDD9DADA22@comcast.net> References: <0A4FB179-6848-46E9-B1EB-7D0C8414A99C@mac.com> <42F48C71-5805-447F-ABCF-96AC50437EFD@mac.com> <66F05B1C-2F71-48A9-8316-A4DDD9DADA22@comcast.net> Message-ID: <3B969B24-C74C-4552-8555-F8DB0AEE4844@charter.net> On Jun 1, 2008, at 1:33 AM, Ed Gould wrote: > I am not, because just look at the example WINDOWS (not to compare > it with APPLE). > I will have to agree somewhat that if the design specs calls for > replacing a battery every so often then there *SHOULD* be a clear > message at Boot up (or when the failure occurs) indicating that the > battery *MUST* be replaced ASAP *AND* if that is indeed the case it > should be easily accessible for *ANYONE* to do so. Anything else and > you are back to windows mentality. Macintosh's are designed to be > user friendly and displaying a simple message at boot time is simple > and straight forward. What I cannot address is if it fails during > use. That means some smarts that need to be in the firmware and the > software to recognize the failure. I'm getting in on this thread a little late, so forgive me if this has already been discussed. I haven't had to do any MB maintenance on my PowerMac yet. I'm a switcher, and haven't taken a close look at the MB. Are we talking about the nickel-sized battery that keeps the clock running (among other things) when the computer's off? If so, in the Windows world, a sure sign the the battery is gone is that the computer can't find the Hard Drive when booting, and after replacement, we would have to go through the BIOS and re-configure it. What, if anything, has to be done after replacing the PRAM battery on a MAC? -- Thanks, Charles http://bubbabbq.homeunix.net From randy at macattorney.com Sun Jun 1 04:25:12 2008 From: randy at macattorney.com (Randy B. Singer) Date: Sun Jun 1 07:58:13 2008 Subject: [X4U] Re: PRAM Battery Research & Test In-Reply-To: <3B969B24-C74C-4552-8555-F8DB0AEE4844@charter.net> References: <0A4FB179-6848-46E9-B1EB-7D0C8414A99C@mac.com> <42F48C71-5805-447F-ABCF-96AC50437EFD@mac.com> <66F05B1C-2F71-48A9-8316-A4DDD9DADA22@comcast.net> <3B969B24-C74C-4552-8555-F8DB0AEE4844@charter.net> Message-ID: <489610E8-2499-45AE-A6BD-631A08C76465@macattorney.com> On Jun 1, 2008, at 2:26 AM, Charles Howse wrote: > I'm getting in on this thread a little late, so forgive me if this > has already been discussed. > > I haven't had to do any MB maintenance on my PowerMac yet. I'm a > switcher, and haven't taken a close look at the MB. Are we talking > about the nickel-sized battery that keeps the clock running (among > other things) when the computer's off? Yes, though in most modern desktop Macs it is a cylindrical battery that looks sort of like a short AA battery. http://www.academ.com/info/macintosh/no_cage_660av.jpg > > If so, in the Windows world, a sure sign the the battery is gone is > that the computer can't find the Hard Drive when booting, and after > replacement, we would have to go through the BIOS and re-configure it. > > What, if anything, has to be done after replacing the PRAM battery > on a MAC? In most models...nothing. Some models require you to press the Cuda reset button on the logic board to reset the Cuda chip. Most settings, such as date and time, are automatically reset via the Internet. ___________________________________________ Randy B. Singer Co-author of The Macintosh Bible (4th, 5th, and 6th editions) Macintosh OS X Routine Maintenance http://www.macattorney.com/ts.html ___________________________________________ From john.kiss at comcast.net Sun Jun 1 06:50:41 2008 From: john.kiss at comcast.net (John Kiss) Date: Sun Jun 1 08:29:37 2008 Subject: [X4U] How much can it cost In-Reply-To: <426908CB-4E41-433D-A57B-2AE400844097@macattorney.com> References: <380BC349-8333-4248-9587-ED52425F461E@pandora.be> <426908CB-4E41-433D-A57B-2AE400844097@macattorney.com> Message-ID: On Jun 1, 2008, at 2:00 AM, Randy B. Singer wrote: > I've heard from users who have had the same type of problem that you > are experiencing and who at first told me that their PRAM battery > tested out fine. But in the end their problem wasn't resolved until > they replaced the battery with a new one. > > In my mind, if you have a battery that is known to routinely give > out in about three years, and you are experiencing the type of > problems that are typical of a drained battery, and your battery is > three or more years old, not replacing that $5 battery is penny wise > but pound foolish. Good advice. When checking a battery it should always be tested under load, i.e. in the circuit. If you tested it out of the computer that can give you faulty readings because even a near-dead battery can show normal voltage. From jessup at san.rr.com Sun Jun 1 07:13:01 2008 From: jessup at san.rr.com (Daly Jessup) Date: Sun Jun 1 08:33:55 2008 Subject: [X4U] Re: PRAM Battery Research & Test In-Reply-To: <3B969B24-C74C-4552-8555-F8DB0AEE4844@charter.net> References: <0A4FB179-6848-46E9-B1EB-7D0C8414A99C@mac.com> <42F48C71-5805-447F-ABCF-96AC50437EFD@mac.com> <66F05B1C-2F71-48A9-8316-A4DDD9DADA22@comcast.net> <3B969B24-C74C-4552-8555-F8DB0AEE4844@charter.net> Message-ID: Charles, >What, if anything, has to be done after replacing the PRAM battery on a MAC? Nothing at all, if you have the Date/Time set to update automatically. The first time you start up after replacing the battery, the system will go find the correct date and time. If your Date/Time System Pref is NOT set to set date and time automatically, then you would need to go reset them. As far as I know, that's all that might need correcting after replacing the battery. Daly ---------------------- From jleo at projectsupport.com Mon Jun 2 14:55:21 2008 From: jleo at projectsupport.com (Jesse Leo) Date: Mon Jun 2 14:57:47 2008 Subject: [X4U] Ichat Av behind a firewall In-Reply-To: <20080520065713.4CD7423613B0@listserver.themacintoshguy.com> Message-ID: Hi all, We're trying to get ichat AV working from within our office to the outside world. Per Apple's website we've opened up all of the ports on our Firewall that they recommend, but still no luck. Does anyone have any experience in getting this to work? Thanks, Jesse From lstnmt at bresnan.net Mon Jun 2 15:07:49 2008 From: lstnmt at bresnan.net (Jens Selvig) Date: Mon Jun 2 15:07:59 2008 Subject: [X4U] Ichat Av behind a firewall In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <41F12ECF-24E2-4A4D-A05F-64D4DE511532@bresnan.net> Can you text chat? Which OS? Jens On Jun 2, 2008, at 3:55 PM, Jesse Leo wrote: > We're trying to get ichat AV working from within our office to the > outside > world. Per Apple's website we've opened up all of the ports on our > Firewall > that they recommend, but still no luck. Does anyone have any > experience in > getting this to work? Jens Selvig ...Lost in Montana... From lists at mac.com Wed Jun 4 12:29:45 2008 From: lists at mac.com (Neil) Date: Wed Jun 4 12:30:06 2008 Subject: [X4U] .Mac Homepage Public Folder Message-ID: I uploaded a sample file to my .mac home page public folder. I asked a friend who uses Windows XP to try to download the file. He sees it there and clicks on the download button but instead of starting the download, the site gives him an error message: "We're sorry, but we can't find the HomePage you've requested. It's possible that: ? The address was entered incorrectly. Check your spelling and try again. ? The .Mac member of this name has either created a page and removed it or has never published a HomePage. ? There is no .Mac member of this name. If you'd like this member name for yourself, sign up for a .Mac account right now and have your own HomePage in minutes." It happens to him every time. Does anybody have any ideas why or what I can do about it? Thanks. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/pipermail/x4u/attachments/20080604/5f25cbfa/attachment.html From lists at mac.com Wed Jun 4 12:55:20 2008 From: lists at mac.com (Neil) Date: Wed Jun 4 12:55:39 2008 Subject: [X4U] .Mac Homepage Public Folder In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <6694321A-025E-44DB-9AB1-7FE624797439@mac.com> By the way, I don't seem to have the problem when I try to download from my Mac. The problem is when my friend tries to download from WinXP/MSIE. On Jun 4, 2008, at 3:29 PM, Neil wrote: > I uploaded a sample file to my .mac home page public folder. I > asked a friend who uses Windows XP to try to download the file. He > sees it there and clicks on the download button but instead of > starting the download, the site gives him an error message: > > "We're sorry, > but we can't find the HomePage you've requested. It's possible that: > ? The address was entered incorrectly. Check your spelling and try > again. > ? The .Mac member of this name has either created a page and removed > it or has never published a HomePage. > ? > There is no .Mac member of this name. If you'd like this member name > for yourself, sign up for a .Mac account right now and have your own > HomePage in minutes." > > It happens to him every time. Does anybody have any ideas why or > what I can do about it? Thanks. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/pipermail/x4u/attachments/20080604/3e0ac1c3/attachment-0001.html From nanc at spoolman.com Wed Jun 4 13:00:42 2008 From: nanc at spoolman.com (Nancy Spoolman) Date: Wed Jun 4 13:01:02 2008 Subject: [X4U] .Mac Homepage Public Folder In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <98C74390-3CC4-4D97-B273-145CD64EA5A3@spoolman.com> Do you have quotes, or an apostrophe in the name of the URL? I f you do, make sure it is encoded in UTF-8. I like GoLive. I refuse to give it up. However, I use iWeb for all my podcasts, etc. I cataloged all the Tiger podcasts I did using GoLive and put it on my website in the school district I work. Two links refused to work and I got the same message. I tried to get GoLive to encode the URL in UTF-8, but no matter what I changed and did, it wouldn't work. So, I finally went to iWeb and changed the title so there were no " or apostrophe's in it. Nanc > On Jun 4, 2008, at 1:29 PM, Neil wrote: > > I uploaded a sample file to my .mac home page public folder. I > asked a friend who uses Windows XP to try to download the file. He > sees it there and clicks on the download button but instead of > starting the download, the site gives him an error message: > > "We're sorry, > but we can't find the HomePage you've requested. It's possible that: > ? The address was entered incorrectly. Check your spelling and try > again. > ? The .Mac member of this name has either created a page and removed > it or has never published a HomePage. > ? > There is no .Mac member of this name. If you'd like this member name > for yourself, sign up for a .Mac account right now and have your own > HomePage in minutes." > > It happens to him every time. Does anybody have any ideas why or > what I can do about it? Thanks. > _______________________________________________ > X4U mailing list > X4U@listserver.themacintoshguy.com > http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/mailman/listinfo/x4u > > Seven Cent Deals - Great legacy stuff Great Legacy Price > http://www.drbott.com/prod/db.lasso?cat=Seven+Cent+Deal > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/pipermail/x4u/attachments/20080604/10599be5/attachment.html From nanc at spoolman.com Wed Jun 4 13:01:38 2008 From: nanc at spoolman.com (Nancy Spoolman) Date: Wed Jun 4 13:01:56 2008 Subject: [X4U] .Mac Homepage Public Folder In-Reply-To: <6694321A-025E-44DB-9AB1-7FE624797439@mac.com> References: <6694321A-025E-44DB-9AB1-7FE624797439@mac.com> Message-ID: Again, make sure his browser is encoding in UTF-8. (I think that's what it is.) nanc On Jun 4, 2008, at 1:55 PM, Neil wrote: By the way, I don't seem to have the problem when I try to download from my Mac. The problem is when my friend tries to download from WinXP/MSIE. On Jun 4, 2008, at 3:29 PM, Neil wrote: > I uploaded a sample file to my .mac home page public folder. I > asked a friend who uses Windows XP to try to download the file. He > sees it there and clicks on the download button but instead of > starting the download, the site gives him an error message: > > "We're sorry, > but we can't find the HomePage you've requested. It's possible that: > ? The address was entered incorrectly. Check your spelling and try > again. > ? The .Mac member of this name has either created a page and removed > it or has never published a HomePage. > ? > There is no .Mac member of this name. If you'd like this member name > for yourself, sign up for a .Mac account right now and have your own > HomePage in minutes." > > It happens to him every time. Does anybody have any ideas why or > what I can do about it? Thanks. _______________________________________________ X4U mailing list X4U@listserver.themacintoshguy.com http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/mailman/listinfo/x4u Seven Cent Deals - Great legacy stuff Great Legacy Price http://www.drbott.com/prod/db.lasso?cat=Seven+Cent+Deal -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/pipermail/x4u/attachments/20080604/36709b3a/attachment.html From lists at mac.com Wed Jun 4 13:46:58 2008 From: lists at mac.com (Neil) Date: Wed Jun 4 13:47:05 2008 Subject: [X4U] .Mac Homepage Public Folder In-Reply-To: <98C74390-3CC4-4D97-B273-145CD64EA5A3@spoolman.com> References: <98C74390-3CC4-4D97-B273-145CD64EA5A3@spoolman.com> Message-ID: <6DD23235-F977-45EA-8E34-EA31C9AD6B13@mac.com> It isn't my URL. I just dragged the file to my public folder and .Mac creates the web page and the download URL. Here is the link: http://homepage.mac.com/disco On Jun 4, 2008, at 4:00 PM, Nancy Spoolman wrote: > Do you have quotes, or an apostrophe in the name of the URL? I f you > do, make sure it is encoded in UTF-8. From lists at mac.com Wed Jun 4 13:47:32 2008 From: lists at mac.com (Neil) Date: Wed Jun 4 13:47:39 2008 Subject: [X4U] .Mac Homepage Public Folder In-Reply-To: References: <6694321A-025E-44DB-9AB1-7FE624797439@mac.com> Message-ID: <691FC6E2-768B-42F0-A7C4-7D3AC2E52DCB@mac.com> Do you know how to do that in MS Internet Explorer? I'm sure he wont know. On Jun 4, 2008, at 4:01 PM, Nancy Spoolman wrote: > Again, make sure his browser is encoding in UTF-8. (I think that's > what it is.) From railfan at telus.net Wed Jun 4 14:13:41 2008 From: railfan at telus.net (M. Milligan) Date: Wed Jun 4 14:13:54 2008 Subject: [X4U] Super mouse acting oddly Message-ID: <66D9541E-FF67-4283-8489-DA92D616EF38@telus.net> I have an iMac 2.8MHz, 4GM RAM, with the Bluetooth mouse & keyboard. I've noticed lately, the cursor of the mouse seems to take off by itself when no one is touching the mouse, or when I'm scrolling over to an icon, it seems to take off in another direction. Any suggestions as to what's occuring? I thank you all in advance. Murray From edgould1948 at comcast.net Wed Jun 4 18:33:52 2008 From: edgould1948 at comcast.net (Ed Gould) Date: Wed Jun 4 18:37:46 2008 Subject: [X4U] .Mac Homepage Public Folder In-Reply-To: <6DD23235-F977-45EA-8E34-EA31C9AD6B13@mac.com> References: <98C74390-3CC4-4D97-B273-145CD64EA5A3@spoolman.com> <6DD23235-F977-45EA-8E34-EA31C9AD6B13@mac.com> Message-ID: On Jun 4, 2008, at 3:46 PM, Neil wrote: > It isn't my URL. I just dragged the file to my public folder > and .Mac creates the web page and the download URL. Here is the link: > http://homepage.mac.com/disco > > This is a guess here... could it be the "-" in the file name? I > have seen this issue on other systems. Unfortunately I do not know > anything about the "other" systems except special characters like > "-" do not seem to work. Ed From edgould1948 at comcast.net Wed Jun 4 18:38:22 2008 From: edgould1948 at comcast.net (Ed Gould) Date: Wed Jun 4 18:42:07 2008 Subject: [X4U] Question that might pertain to quite a few MAC users Message-ID: The "rumor" going around that my ISP is going to put limits on downloads per month. Is there a way (or application) that will give me some idea what I am currently using in downloads bytes per month? Ed From jessup at san.rr.com Wed Jun 4 19:05:10 2008 From: jessup at san.rr.com (Daly Jessup) Date: Wed Jun 4 19:06:12 2008 Subject: [X4U] .Mac Homepage Public Folder In-Reply-To: References: <98C74390-3CC4-4D97-B273-145CD64EA5A3@spoolman.com> <6DD23235-F977-45EA-8E34-EA31C9AD6B13@mac.com> Message-ID: >On Jun 4, 2008, at 3:46 PM, Neil wrote: > >>It isn't my URL. I just dragged the file to my public folder and >>.Mac creates the web page and the download URL. Here is the link: >>http://homepage.mac.com/disco I would take out all spaces (use an underline in their place) and take out the "#" symbol and the spaces around it, replacing the "#" with a hyphen. Try not to use any special characters in file names, avoid spaces, and you'll probaby have a better time So these could be named: CoolWhips_2-Basics.mp4 and CoolWhips_4-Crossbow.mp4 with no loss of comprehensibility, and great gain in compatibility. Daly ---------------------- From lists at mac.com Wed Jun 4 20:30:50 2008 From: lists at mac.com (Neil) Date: Wed Jun 4 20:34:01 2008 Subject: [X4U] .Mac Homepage Public Folder In-Reply-To: References: <98C74390-3CC4-4D97-B273-145CD64EA5A3@spoolman.com> <6DD23235-F977-45EA-8E34-EA31C9AD6B13@mac.com> Message-ID: <54B260B4-A164-4DD4-AA14-5D252795E572@mac.com> OK, I took out the spaces. I'll find out tonight if it worked. Thanks. On Jun 4, 2008, at 10:05 PM, Daly Jessup wrote: >> On Jun 4, 2008, at 3:46 PM, Neil wrote: >> >>> It isn't my URL. I just dragged the file to my public folder >>> and .Mac creates the web page and the download URL. Here is the >>> link: >>> http://homepage.mac.com/disco > > I would take out all spaces (use an underline in their place) and > take out the "#" symbol and the spaces around it, replacing the "#" > with a hyphen. Try not to use any special characters in file names, > avoid spaces, and you'll probaby have a better time > > So these could be named: > CoolWhips_2-Basics.mp4 > and > CoolWhips_4-Crossbow.mp4 > > with no loss of comprehensibility, and great gain in compatibility. > > Daly From rfcee at earthlink.net Wed Jun 4 20:39:17 2008 From: rfcee at earthlink.net (Ray Choiniere) Date: Wed Jun 4 20:40:12 2008 Subject: [X4U] Super mouse acting oddly In-Reply-To: <66D9541E-FF67-4283-8489-DA92D616EF38@telus.net> References: <66D9541E-FF67-4283-8489-DA92D616EF38@telus.net> Message-ID: On Jun 4, 2008, at 2:13 PM, M. Milligan wrote: > I have an iMac 2.8MHz, 4GM RAM, with the Bluetooth mouse & keyboard. > > I've noticed lately, the cursor of the mouse seems to take off by > itself when no one is touching the mouse, or when I'm scrolling over > to an icon, it seems to take off in another direction. > > Any suggestions as to what's occuring? Hi Murray; I had some of the same trouble, and it gradually seemed to get worse. My solution was simply to change the mat I was using the mouse on. Right now it's working smoothly, with very few skips or twitches, on my plain ol' beech-laminate desktop! I'm guessing that the mouse has trouble reading certain variations when they come under the optics and when it loses its place (so to speak) it just gets squirrelly. But on a surface that has variations that the mouse is comfortable with it does fine; no skipping. If I'm correct, the interesting thing is that surfaces that are full of handy variations for the mouse are not necessarily very varied to my eyes. I've even had some success using the Supermouse on plain tying paper! So I suggest you start by fiddling with a few surfaces and just see what happens. Hope this is helpful. Ray From brettnlis at bigpond.com Wed Jun 4 21:45:17 2008 From: brettnlis at bigpond.com (Conlon Brett) Date: Wed Jun 4 21:45:41 2008 Subject: [X4U] Super mouse acting oddly In-Reply-To: <66D9541E-FF67-4283-8489-DA92D616EF38@telus.net> References: <66D9541E-FF67-4283-8489-DA92D616EF38@telus.net> Message-ID: <1C797C59-0564-46A5-97D2-0B1185614E6F@bigpond.com> Yes, normally I'd say it was the mouse mat but at the college I teach at they use all Microsoft mice (cheap & nasty but 3 button...) and they all have the tendency to make the cursor sproing off into one of the monitor corners... very distracting when you're doing on-screen demonstrations... Cheers, Cojcolds On 05/06/2008, at 7:13 AM, M. Milligan wrote: > I have an iMac 2.8MHz, 4GM RAM, with the Bluetooth mouse & keyboard. > > I've noticed lately, the cursor of the mouse seems to take off by > itself when no one is touching the mouse, or when I'm scrolling over > to an icon, it seems to take off in another direction. > > Any suggestions as to what's occuring? > > I thank you all in advance. > > Murray > _______________________________________________ > X4U mailing list > X4U@listserver.themacintoshguy.com > http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/mailman/listinfo/x4u > > Seven Cent Deals - Great legacy stuff Great Legacy Pricehttp://www.drbott.com/prod/db.lasso?cat=Seven+Cent+Deal From maclist at analogdigital.com.au Thu Jun 5 01:29:05 2008 From: maclist at analogdigital.com.au (Christopher Collins) Date: Thu Jun 5 01:29:22 2008 Subject: [X4U] Question that might pertain to quite a few MAC users In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <455E4703-2117-41D9-9AC2-C7D7A1A19323@analogdigital.com.au> I have a widget that queries my ISP and brings in my Peak and OFF-Peak downloads per month. I know I have seen them for a bunch of other Australian ISPs as well. I would think there would be stuff available for American ISPs as well. try google or apple.com/downloads cjc On 05/06/2008, at 11:38 AM, Ed Gould wrote: > The "rumor" going around that my ISP is going to put limits on > downloads per month. > > Is there a way (or application) that will give me some idea what I > am currently using in downloads bytes per month? > > Ed From maclist at analogdigital.com.au Thu Jun 5 01:32:10 2008 From: maclist at analogdigital.com.au (Christopher Collins) Date: Thu Jun 5 01:33:01 2008 Subject: [X4U] .Mac Homepage Public Folder In-Reply-To: <54B260B4-A164-4DD4-AA14-5D252795E572@mac.com> References: <98C74390-3CC4-4D97-B273-145CD64EA5A3@spoolman.com> <6DD23235-F977-45EA-8E34-EA31C9AD6B13@mac.com> <54B260B4-A164-4DD4-AA14-5D252795E572@mac.com> Message-ID: <731073DB-C52A-4892-B80D-A9478A32FCE6@analogdigital.com.au> Has he tried it in another browser, such as Firefox? Or only in Internet Explorer? Try and identify if it is IE. IE never plays by the rules. Try Safari for Windows as well. Very fast. Very Compatible! cjc From simon-lists at ldml.com Thu Jun 5 03:24:21 2008 From: simon-lists at ldml.com (Simon Forster) Date: Thu Jun 5 03:24:32 2008 Subject: [X4U] Question that might pertain to quite a few MAC users In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: On 5 Jun 2008, at 02:38, Ed Gould wrote: > Is there a way (or application) that will give me some idea what I > am currently using in downloads bytes per month? In all likelihood your gateway device will give you usage stats. Certainly my old Netgear and current Thomson Speedtouch DSL gateways give me such info. Once I do the math, over the last 5 days I've been averaging 0.2GB sent each day with 1GB being received. HTH Simon From jessup at san.rr.com Thu Jun 5 05:14:31 2008 From: jessup at san.rr.com (Daly Jessup) Date: Thu Jun 5 05:39:42 2008 Subject: [X4U] Question that might pertain to quite a few MAC users In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: >On 5 Jun 2008, at 02:38, Ed Gould wrote: > >>Is there a way (or application) that will give me some idea what I >>am currently using in downloads bytes per month? Simon answered: >In all likelihood your gateway device will give you usage stats. >Certainly my old Netgear and current Thomson Speedtouch DSL gateways >give me such info. Once I do the math, over the last 5 days I've >been averaging 0.2GB sent each day with 1GB being received. Simon, how do you access that information? I have a cable modem to which I attached an Airport Extreme (white "flying saucer" type) and all our computers access the internet via the Airport Extreme. Is there some way to find out our stats for the household using that setup? If not, if I were to attach the cable modem directly to my computer, how would I get the stats from that? Daly ---------------------- From simon-lists at ldml.com Thu Jun 5 06:20:25 2008 From: simon-lists at ldml.com (Simon Forster) Date: Thu Jun 5 06:21:18 2008 Subject: [X4U] Question that might pertain to quite a few MAC users In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <8B5B64F4-C611-4B77-90B5-6016AF407122@ldml.com> On 5 Jun 2008, at 13:14, Daly Jessup wrote: >> On 5 Jun 2008, at 02:38, Ed Gould wrote: >> >>> Is there a way (or application) that will give me some idea what I >>> am currently using in downloads bytes per month? > > Simon answered: > >> In all likelihood your gateway device will give you usage stats. >> Certainly my old Netgear and current Thomson Speedtouch DSL >> gateways give me such info. Once I do the math, over the last 5 >> days I've been averaging 0.2GB sent each day with 1GB being received. > > Simon, how do you access that information? I have a cable modem to > which I attached an Airport Extreme (white "flying saucer" type) and > all our computers access the internet via the Airport Extreme. Is > there some way to find out our stats for the household using that > setup? If not, if I were to attach the cable modem directly to my > computer, how would I get the stats from that? I'm not familiar with how cable operators work over in the US but you'd need to log into your cable modem and pick up the details from there. Can you log into the cable modem? Here, I've allocated my gateway device the internal IP of 192.168.0.1 so I just need to point a browser at that IP, supply a username and password and I can screw up the settings as I see fit. Although to really fubar things I download the config file, manually tweak it and then upload it. This allows you to muck things up that the nice GUI hides from you. It's great. Sorry. Digression. Assuming you haven't changed things too much, look at the info supplied by your ISP along with the cable modem when you first got it. It should give you log-in details. ATB Simon From jessup at san.rr.com Thu Jun 5 06:28:05 2008 From: jessup at san.rr.com (Daly Jessup) Date: Thu Jun 5 06:29:55 2008 Subject: [X4U] Question that might pertain to quite a few MAC users In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: >>In all likelihood your gateway device will give you usage stats. >>Certainly my old Netgear and current Thomson Speedtouch DSL >>gateways give me such info. Once I do the math, over the last 5 >>days I've been averaging 0.2GB sent each day with 1GB being >>received. > >Simon, how do you access that information? I have a cable modem to >which I attached an Airport Extreme (white "flying saucer" type) and >all our computers access the internet via the Airport Extreme. Is >there some way to find out our stats for the household using that >setup? If not, if I were to attach the cable modem directly to my >computer, how would I get the stats from that? Oops, I wanted to correct this. I actually forgot: we replaced our flying saucer with a newer "n" model a few weeks ago. Daly ---------------------- From jleo at projectsupport.com Thu Jun 5 07:08:09 2008 From: jleo at projectsupport.com (Jesse Leo) Date: Thu Jun 5 07:08:44 2008 Subject: [X4U] Ichat Av behind a firewall In-Reply-To: <20080604195552.57DA3271F926@listserver.themacintoshguy.com> Message-ID: "Can you text chat? Which OS? Jens" Hi Jens, The Mac inside the firewall is running Tiger 10.4.11, the Mac outside is running the latest version of Leopard. Normal text-based iChat works fine. Any ideas? Thx, Jesse From ken at schneider.net Thu Jun 5 08:44:39 2008 From: ken at schneider.net (Ken Schneider) Date: Thu Jun 5 08:48:38 2008 Subject: [X4U] Re: X4U Digest, Vol 46, Issue 2 In-Reply-To: <20080605020609.CDACD272FB94@listserver.themacintoshguy.com> References: <20080605020609.CDACD272FB94@listserver.themacintoshguy.com> Message-ID: When I want someone to download a file I put on my iDisk, I give them the URL to my Public folder. Yours should look something like this - http://idisk.mac.com/disco-Public > I uploaded a sample file to my .mac home page public folder. I > asked a friend who uses Windows XP to try to download the file. He > sees it there and clicks on the download button but instead of > starting the download, the site gives him an error message: From ken at schneider.net Thu Jun 5 08:58:53 2008 From: ken at schneider.net (Ken Schneider) Date: Thu Jun 5 09:08:31 2008 Subject: [X4U] Re: .Mac Homepage Public Folder In-Reply-To: <20080605155000.C1DEF275A6AC@listserver.themacintoshguy.com> References: <20080605155000.C1DEF275A6AC@listserver.themacintoshguy.com> Message-ID: <5FDDACB5-B8B3-4192-B0AD-28A732E26617@schneider.net> When I want someone to download a file I put on my iDisk, I give them the URL to my Public folder. Yours should look something like this - http://idisk.mac.com/disco-Public > I uploaded a sample file to my .mac home page public folder. I > asked a friend who uses Windows XP to try to download the file. He > sees it there and clicks on the download button but instead of > starting the download, the site gives him an error message: -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/pipermail/x4u/attachments/20080605/a3b1bf1f/attachment.html From paul.moortgat at pandora.be Thu Jun 5 09:20:15 2008 From: paul.moortgat at pandora.be (Paul Moortgat) Date: Thu Jun 5 09:22:28 2008 Subject: [X4U] How much can it cost In-Reply-To: References: <720DA2FC-A3F8-466A-B7F2-B0336A42E513@pandora.be> Message-ID: <62D08942-98C2-4912-B72A-90ECF386F808@pandora.be> I just changed the battery. At first nothing happened. Then I used o- c-p-r and after the second try the G5 works again. I had to wait a few days for the battery, but this is not the US. Thanks. Paul Moortgat From lists at mac.com Thu Jun 5 10:09:41 2008 From: lists at mac.com (Neil) Date: Thu Jun 5 10:10:17 2008 Subject: [X4U] .Mac Homepage Public Folder In-Reply-To: References: <98C74390-3CC4-4D97-B273-145CD64EA5A3@spoolman.com> <6DD23235-F977-45EA-8E34-EA31C9AD6B13@mac.com> Message-ID: <6E695CD5-1875-4F78-9A20-7F3EA843FFE4@mac.com> It looks like you were right. I took out the space and #. Now, my friend is able to download to his WinXP PC. So, WinXP doesn't allow filenames with spaces and #? Thanks. On Jun 4, 2008, at 10:05 PM, Daly Jessup wrote: >> On Jun 4, 2008, at 3:46 PM, Neil wrote: >> >>> It isn't my URL. I just dragged the file to my public folder >>> and .Mac creates the web page and the download URL. Here is the >>> link: >>> http://homepage.mac.com/disco > > I would take out all spaces (use an underline in their place) and > take out the "#" symbol and the spaces around it, replacing the "#" > with a hyphen. Try not to use any special characters in file names, > avoid spaces, and you'll probaby have a better time > > So these could be named: > CoolWhips_2-Basics.mp4 > and > CoolWhips_4-Crossbow.mp4 > > with no loss of comprehensibility, and great gain in compatibility. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/pipermail/x4u/attachments/20080605/823177e5/attachment.html From railfan at telus.net Thu Jun 5 10:26:40 2008 From: railfan at telus.net (M. Milligan) Date: Thu Jun 5 10:27:00 2008 Subject: [X4U] Mighty Mouse problems Message-ID: <8268E777-266D-43AC-8FBF-EE062C968A1B@telus.net> Thanks to the comments. I changed the batteries and I've changed the mouse pad. See what happens. From railfan at telus.net Thu Jun 5 10:28:03 2008 From: railfan at telus.net (M. Milligan) Date: Thu Jun 5 10:28:21 2008 Subject: [X4U] Larger cursor on screen? Message-ID: How can I change my mouse curser size to one that's really large. I have a 24" screen and I'd like a larger cursor. I accidently hit a key pad combination one day and a really larger cursor showed up. I didn't know what I did and I couldn't reverse it. Any one help me? Murray From douglist at macnauchtan.com Thu Jun 5 10:39:43 2008 From: douglist at macnauchtan.com (Doug McNutt) Date: Thu Jun 5 10:40:52 2008 Subject: [X4U] Larger cursor on screen? In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: At 11:28 -0600 6/5/08, M. Milligan wrote: >How can I change my mouse curser size to one that's really large. I have a 24" screen and I'd like a larger cursor. Mousepose by Boinx is really for doing presentations but it does help to find my cursor on four screens when it happens to be in an editor with that absolutely tiny insertion bar. What I'd really like is a cursor that gets large after it remains static a few seconds. -- --> From the U S of A, the only socialist country that refuses to admit it. <-- From gmajudi at gmail.com Thu Jun 5 11:04:01 2008 From: gmajudi at gmail.com (J Vansickle) Date: Thu Jun 5 11:04:20 2008 Subject: [X4U] Larger cursor on screen? In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 10:28 AM, M. Milligan wrote: > How can I change my mouse curser size to one that's really large. I have a > 24" screen and I'd like a larger cursor. > > I accidently hit a key pad combination one day and a really larger cursor > showed up. I didn't know what I did and I couldn't reverse it. > > Any one help me? > > Murray > System Preferences Universal Access Mouse and Trackpad Judi -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/pipermail/x4u/attachments/20080605/eaaa3f66/attachment.html From stermarc at mac.com Thu Jun 5 11:36:25 2008 From: stermarc at mac.com (Marc Stergionis) Date: Thu Jun 5 11:36:53 2008 Subject: [X4U] Parallels "XP" -- no network Message-ID: Was able to get XP running on my Macbook by using a fresh Virtual PC Windows XP document on my AL PB as the target OS install file for Parallels. So XP is running but I have no internet access! IE in XP reports cannot find server. No matter what I do, in Internet options > connections > setup I get no connection. Whether it's a simple "connect to the internet," or "set up a home or small office network" No joy. It seems to go through the motions of joining a network, but still no connection. In the device manager, XP says Parallels Network Adapter is installed but may not work correctly. The device cannot start (code 10). However I"m using Airport extreme and I don't know if it's referring to that or to an ethernet adapter. XP was getting internet access when installed via VPC on my AL PB. I'm running OS 10.5.3, Parallels 3.0 (build 5600). What's the trick to getting a network connection? -- Marc Stergionis From lstnmt at bresnan.net Thu Jun 5 12:12:33 2008 From: lstnmt at bresnan.net (Jens Selvig) Date: Thu Jun 5 12:12:47 2008 Subject: [X4U] Larger cursor on screen? In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: You might try "mouse locator" . http://www.2point5fish.com/ It gives an indication of where the mouse is. Jens On Jun 5, 2008, at 11:28 AM, M. Milligan wrote: > How can I change my mouse curser size to one that's really large. I > have a 24" screen and I'd like a larger cursor. Jens Selvig ...Lost in Montana... From lstnmt at bresnan.net Thu Jun 5 13:58:37 2008 From: lstnmt at bresnan.net (Jens Selvig) Date: Thu Jun 5 13:58:51 2008 Subject: [X4U] Ichat Av behind a firewall In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: I have Mac OSX 10.5.3 My iChat id is j j s i i i@mac.com but remove the spaces. I don't normally run iChat but I will for a while. I use an Airport N router and I can either video or text chat. Jens On Jun 5, 2008, at 8:08 AM, Jesse Leo wrote: > "Can you text chat? Which OS? > > Jens" Jens Selvig ...Lost in Montana... From pandcsealy at internode.on.net Thu Jun 5 14:13:23 2008 From: pandcsealy at internode.on.net (Peter Sealy) Date: Thu Jun 5 14:13:25 2008 Subject: [X4U] Larger cursor on screen? In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <29BDBCE8-96CE-4FEE-A544-9C4AE46A41BD@internode.on.net> System Prefs>Universal Access>Mouse>Cursor Size On Fri 158 Jun,, at 3:28 AM, M. Milligan wrote: > How can I change my mouse curser size to one that's really large. I > have a 24" screen and I'd like a larger cursor. > > I ......... Peter Sealy Thurgoona AUSTRALIA From lists at sofstats.com Thu Jun 5 15:59:29 2008 From: lists at sofstats.com (Rod Buchanan) Date: Thu Jun 5 15:59:55 2008 Subject: [X4U] Parallels "XP" -- no network In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <3ED576E9-2657-4B4A-A798-B3B077901C46@sofstats.com> On Jun 5, 2008, at 1:36 PM, Marc Stergionis wrote: > Was able to get XP running on my Macbook by using a fresh Virtual PC > Windows XP document on my AL PB as the target OS install file for > Parallels. Try switching the network adapter from shared to bridged (or bridged - > shared). Seems like I had the same problem at work after updating to build 5600. HTH, -- Rod The box said "Use Windows 95 or better," so I got a Macintosh From jessup at san.rr.com Thu Jun 5 17:50:06 2008 From: jessup at san.rr.com (Daly Jessup) Date: Thu Jun 5 17:54:49 2008 Subject: [X4U] Question that might pertain to quite a few MAC users In-Reply-To: <8B5B64F4-C611-4B77-90B5-6016AF407122@ldml.com> References: <8B5B64F4-C611-4B77-90B5-6016AF407122@ldml.com> Message-ID: Ed Gould asked: >>>>Is there a way (or application) that will give me some idea what >>>>I am currently using in downloads bytes per month? Simon answered: >>>In all likelihood your gateway device will give you usage stats. >>>Certainly my old Netgear and current Thomson Speedtouch DSL >>>gateways give me such info. Once I do the math, over the last 5 >>>days I've been averaging 0.2GB sent each day with 1GB being >>>received. Then I asked: >>Simon, how do you access that information? I have a cable modem to >>which I attached an Airport Extreme (white "flying saucer" type) >>and all our computers access the internet via the Airport Extreme. >>Is there some way to find out our stats for the household using >>that setup? If not, if I were to attach the cable modem directly to >>my computer, how would I get the stats from that? And Simon said: >I'm not familiar with how cable operators work over in the US but >you'd need to log into your cable modem and pick up the details from >there. Can you log into the cable modem? How do you do that? Using what program? >Here, I've allocated my gateway device the internal IP of 192.168.0.1 How did you do that? >so I just need to point a browser at that IP, supply a username and >password and I can screw up the settings as I see fit. Although to >really fubar things I download the config file, How do you do THAT? >Assuming you haven't changed things too much, look at the info >supplied by your ISP along with the cable modem when you first got >it. It should give you log-in details. I don't know. I got a cable modem about 12 or 13 years ago. They have replaced it twice since then, and the current one is also our phone receiver thingie. Anyway, they have never given us any documentation since the original install, and maybe not even then. I know how to access Linksys routers, but that's all I know. I don't think I have ever even thought of accessing a cable modem and I meant it, what do you use? A browser? Something else? Daly ---------------------- From jessup at san.rr.com Thu Jun 5 17:54:16 2008 From: jessup at san.rr.com (Daly Jessup) Date: Thu Jun 5 17:55:12 2008 Subject: [X4U] .Mac Homepage Public Folder In-Reply-To: <6E695CD5-1875-4F78-9A20-7F3EA843FFE4@mac.com> References: <98C74390-3CC4-4D97-B273-145CD64EA5A3@spoolman.com> <6DD23235-F977-45EA-8E34-EA31C9AD6B13@mac.com> <6E695CD5-1875-4F78-9A20-7F3EA843FFE4@mac.com> Message-ID: >It looks like you were right. I took out the space and #. Now, my >friend is able to download to his WinXP PC. So, WinXP doesn't >allow filenames with spaces and #? Thanks. I don't know about that. Maybe it should be adding codes to account for the spaces, or something. But my experience leads me to always, as a general policy, name files and folders without spaces or special characters. So then I never have to think about it. I know that I developed that policy some time in the distant past when I was having trouble because of spaces and/or special characters. It makes me crazy when clients name dated folders with slashes in them, like "invoices 6/07-6/08". Don't DO that! You're going to run into Windows limitations or Unix limitations or something or other somewhere down the line, so I think it's best just to avoid the issue. Everyone can tolerate underlines and hyphens. Daly ---------------------- From edgould1948 at comcast.net Thu Jun 5 19:53:20 2008 From: edgould1948 at comcast.net (Ed Gould) Date: Thu Jun 5 19:56:59 2008 Subject: [X4U] Question that might pertain to quite a few MAC users In-Reply-To: References: <8B5B64F4-C611-4B77-90B5-6016AF407122@ldml.com> Message-ID: On Jun 5, 2008, at 7:50 PM, Daly Jessup wrote: > ----------------------SNIP______________________________ > How do you do THAT? > >> Assuming you haven't changed things too much, look at the info >> supplied by your ISP along with the cable modem when you first got >> it. It should give you log-in details. > > I don't know. I got a cable modem about 12 or 13 years ago. They > have replaced it twice since then, and the current one is also our > phone receiver thingie. Anyway, they have never given us any > documentation since the original install, and maybe not even then. > I know how to access Linksys routers, but that's all I know. I > don't think I have ever even thought of accessing a cable modem and > I meant it, what do you use? A browser? Something else? > > Daly > ---------------------- > Daly: I have a friend who has to come over every once in a while and sign into my router to change some settings. I do not remember how he does it other than he puts the IP address in the URL of Safari and does some setting changes. Ed From edgould1948 at comcast.net Thu Jun 5 19:59:03 2008 From: edgould1948 at comcast.net (Ed Gould) Date: Thu Jun 5 20:02:45 2008 Subject: [X4U] .Mac Homepage Public Folder In-Reply-To: References: <98C74390-3CC4-4D97-B273-145CD64EA5A3@spoolman.com> <6DD23235-F977-45EA-8E34-EA31C9AD6B13@mac.com> <6E695CD5-1875-4F78-9A20-7F3EA843FFE4@mac.com> Message-ID: On Jun 5, 2008, at 7:54 PM, Daly Jessup wrote: >> It looks like you were right. I took out the space and #. Now, >> my friend is able to download to his WinXP PC. So, WinXP doesn't >> allow filenames with spaces and #? Thanks. > > I don't know about that. Maybe it should be adding codes to account > for the spaces, or something. But my experience leads me to always, > as a general policy, name files and folders without spaces or > special characters. So then I never have to think about it. > > I know that I developed that policy some time in the distant past > when I was having trouble because of spaces and/or special > characters. It makes me crazy when clients name dated folders with > slashes in them, like "invoices 6/07-6/08". Don't DO that! > > You're going to run into Windows limitations or Unix limitations or > something or other somewhere down the line, so I think it's best > just to avoid the issue. Everyone can tolerate underlines and hyphens. > > Daly > ---------------------- > Daly: I do a lot of uploading and downloading to/from Badongo. Every once in a while someone (probably from windows land) uploads a file that the MAC people just cannot d/l. The person has to re upload it to take out certain characters (I am sorry I don't remember which characters those are). Badongo is a nice and free place to upload and download files from, but they do not currently use FTP and depend on HTTP so a few files get mangled and the process has to be redone. They are talking about replacing HTTP with FTP but will see when/if that happens. Ed From gl1 at mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk Fri Jun 6 01:31:14 2008 From: gl1 at mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk (Graham) Date: Fri Jun 6 01:32:38 2008 Subject: [X4U] Parallels "XP" -- no network Message-ID: <4848F5D2.9040404@mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk> Marc, I have had a problem similar to this on our work based Macs, but they have 2 real network interfaces, so the issue maybe different. What does the Mac network preferences say? Our problem was that the 'Parallels NAT' and 'Parallels Host-Guest' prefs where mis-configured, a restart of the machine cured it. My home based personal laptop works fine wired and wireless, I will check to see what the prefs say. Also what does the Parallels VM setup say for network? Graham. ------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 8 Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2008 12:36:25 -0600 From: Marc Stergionis Subject: [X4U] Parallels "XP" -- no network To: Mac OS X for Users Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Was able to get XP running on my Macbook by using a fresh Virtual PC Windows XP document on my AL PB as the target OS install file for Parallels. So XP is running but I have no internet access! IE in XP reports cannot find server. No matter what I do, in Internet options > connections > setup I get no connection. Whether it's a simple "connect to the internet," or "set up a home or small office network" No joy. It seems to go through the motions of joining a network, but still no connection. In the device manager, XP says Parallels Network Adapter is installed but may not work correctly. The device cannot start (code 10). However I"m using Airport extreme and I don't know if it's referring to that or to an ethernet adapter. XP was getting internet access when installed via VPC on my AL PB. I'm running OS 10.5.3, Parallels 3.0 (build 5600). What's the trick to getting a network connection? -- Marc Stergionis From simon-lists at ldml.com Fri Jun 6 01:49:48 2008 From: simon-lists at ldml.com (Simon Forster) Date: Fri Jun 6 01:49:57 2008 Subject: [X4U] Question that might pertain to quite a few MAC users In-Reply-To: References: <8B5B64F4-C611-4B77-90B5-6016AF407122@ldml.com> Message-ID: On 6 Jun 2008, at 03:53, Ed Gould wrote: > > On Jun 5, 2008, at 7:50 PM, Daly Jessup wrote: >> ----------------------SNIP______________________________ >> How do you do THAT? >> >>> Assuming you haven't changed things too much, look at the info >>> supplied by your ISP along with the cable modem when you first got >>> it. It should give you log-in details. >> >> I don't know. I got a cable modem about 12 or 13 years ago. They >> have replaced it twice since then, and the current one is also our >> phone receiver thingie. Anyway, they have never given us any >> documentation since the original install, and maybe not even then. >> I know how to access Linksys routers, but that's all I know. I >> don't think I have ever even thought of accessing a cable modem and >> I meant it, what do you use? A browser? Something else? First go round would be a browser directed at the internal IP of your router (which you can dig out from network preferences). You can give that a go and see where you get to. After that, I'm not too sure what to suggest wrt the cable modem as it'd involve looking around and trying a few things depending on what turns up. So if you can't get in through the browser, let's write that off as a process. After that we're back full circle to see what info you can dig out of the Airport Extreme. I've got an Airport Express here which seems to offer some logging capabilities - but quite how extensive they are and how I take full advantage, I know not. I'm guessing I'd need to use SNMP to get log details and then analyse that. I don't have the time to look into that. Maybe someone else can step in? Simon From simon-lists at ldml.com Fri Jun 6 02:04:00 2008 From: simon-lists at ldml.com (Simon Forster) Date: Fri Jun 6 02:04:08 2008 Subject: [X4U] Question that might pertain to quite a few MAC users In-Reply-To: References: <8B5B64F4-C611-4B77-90B5-6016AF407122@ldml.com> Message-ID: > > Maybe someone else can step in? Alternatively, take a look at . I know nothing about this prog but it looks like it may do some of what you want. HTH Simon From kuestner at macnews.de Fri Jun 6 03:49:12 2008 From: kuestner at macnews.de (B. Kuestner) Date: Fri Jun 6 03:49:38 2008 Subject: [X4U] Larger cursor on screen? In-Reply-To: <29BDBCE8-96CE-4FEE-A544-9C4AE46A41BD@internode.on.net> References: <29BDBCE8-96CE-4FEE-A544-9C4AE46A41BD@internode.on.net> Message-ID: > System Prefs>Universal Access>Mouse>Cursor Size Isn't it amazing, though, how ugly OS X scales the mouse pointer? Bj?rn From paul.moortgat at pandora.be Fri Jun 6 05:12:11 2008 From: paul.moortgat at pandora.be (Paul Moortgat) Date: Fri Jun 6 05:12:56 2008 Subject: [X4U] How much can it cost In-Reply-To: References: <720DA2FC-A3F8-466A-B7F2-B0336A42E513@pandora.be> Message-ID: <1C24D56E-83B9-4258-AC07-2D2277225CBC@pandora.be> The problem returned. I worked with my G5 yesterday and this morning. Could put him to sleep and wake up again. This noon after a wake-up, I got a frozen cursor and and each attempt after was a black screen. So after changing the battery, it lasted not even a day. What strikes me is that it did work. If the motherboard or a processor is the problem, why then did it work? Paul Moortgat From lstnmt at bresnan.net Fri Jun 6 05:24:49 2008 From: lstnmt at bresnan.net (Jens Selvig) Date: Fri Jun 6 05:25:11 2008 Subject: [X4U] How much can it cost In-Reply-To: <1C24D56E-83B9-4258-AC07-2D2277225CBC@pandora.be> References: <720DA2FC-A3F8-466A-B7F2-B0336A42E513@pandora.be> <1C24D56E-83B9-4258-AC07-2D2277225CBC@pandora.be> Message-ID: <98270B71-376E-4BAB-9956-EC0FDCB7513C@bresnan.net> On Jun 6, 2008, at 6:12 AM, Paul Moortgat wrote: > The problem returned. I worked with my G5 yesterday and this > morning. Could put him to sleep and wake up again. This noon after > a wake-up, I got a frozen cursor and and each attempt after was a > black screen. So after changing the battery, it lasted not even a > day. What strikes me is that it did work. If the motherboard or a > processor is the problem, why then did it work? You might try disconnecting all periphrials, extra internal hard drives that you may have added and remove any non apple memory cards. See if you still have the same problem. If the G5 does work OK in this stripped down configuration you could start adding stuff back on until the crashes return. Slow process. :) By the way, I assume you have at least your data files backed up in case at some point the computer becomes inoperable in the extreme. Jens Jens Selvig ...Lost in Montana... From paul.moortgat at pandora.be Fri Jun 6 05:38:56 2008 From: paul.moortgat at pandora.be (Paul Moortgat) Date: Fri Jun 6 05:39:56 2008 Subject: [X4U] How much can it cost In-Reply-To: <98270B71-376E-4BAB-9956-EC0FDCB7513C@bresnan.net> References: <720DA2FC-A3F8-466A-B7F2-B0336A42E513@pandora.be> <1C24D56E-83B9-4258-AC07-2D2277225CBC@pandora.be> <98270B71-376E-4BAB-9956-EC0FDCB7513C@bresnan.net> Message-ID: <6176EE87-E97F-4144-AED5-A83A8058344E@pandora.be> I did a backup last night before I went to sleep when all still worked and I was possible to wake the G5. I'm back to the iMac 2.8 with the HD from the G5 in an external casing via a FW cable. The only thing is that all the icons are scrambled. I've a 30" monitor, and this is a 24" iMac. Paul Moortgat On 06 Jun 2008, at 14:24, Jens Selvig wrote: > On Jun 6, 2008, at 6:12 AM, Paul Moortgat wrote: > >> The problem returned. I worked with my G5 yesterday and this >> morning. Could put him to sleep and wake up again. This noon >> after a wake-up, I got a frozen cursor and and each attempt after >> was a black screen. So after changing the battery, it lasted not >> even a day. What strikes me is that it did work. If the >> motherboard or a processor is the problem, why then did it work? > > > You might try disconnecting all periphrials, extra internal hard > drives that you may have added and remove any non apple memory > cards. See if you still have the same problem. If the G5 does work > OK in this stripped down configuration you could start adding stuff > back on until the crashes return. Slow process. :) > > By the way, I assume you have at least your data files backed up in > case at some point the computer becomes inoperable in the extreme. > > Jens > > > Jens Selvig > ...Lost in Montana... From lstnmt at bresnan.net Fri Jun 6 05:46:31 2008 From: lstnmt at bresnan.net (Jens Selvig) Date: Fri Jun 6 05:47:05 2008 Subject: [X4U] How much can it cost In-Reply-To: <6176EE87-E97F-4144-AED5-A83A8058344E@pandora.be> References: <720DA2FC-A3F8-466A-B7F2-B0336A42E513@pandora.be> <1C24D56E-83B9-4258-AC07-2D2277225CBC@pandora.be> <98270B71-376E-4BAB-9956-EC0FDCB7513C@bresnan.net> <6176EE87-E97F-4144-AED5-A83A8058344E@pandora.be> Message-ID: <5FED9CD8-B9AF-4B0F-AE8E-D323C1A35ED4@bresnan.net> What do you mean by "all the icons are scrambled?" Do you mean just out of place or do you mean the icons don't display correctly? I have always been a big proponent of not using the desktop as a filing system. Jens On Jun 6, 2008, at 6:38 AM, Paul Moortgat wrote: > I did a backup last night before I went to sleep when all still > worked and I was possible to wake the G5. I'm back to the iMac 2.8 > with the HD from the G5 in an external casing via a FW cable. > The only thing is that all the icons are scrambled. I've a 30" > monitor, and this is a 24" iMac. > > Paul Moortgat > > On 06 Jun 2008, at 14:24, Jens Selvig wrote: > >> On Jun 6, 2008, at 6:12 AM, Paul Moortgat wrote: >> >>> The problem returned. I worked with my G5 yesterday and this >>> morning. Could put him to sleep and wake up again. This noon >>> after a wake-up, I got a frozen cursor and and each attempt after >>> was a black screen. So after changing the battery, it lasted not >>> even a day. What strikes me is that it did work. If the >>> motherboard or a processor is the problem, why then did it work? >> >> >> You might try disconnecting all periphrials, extra internal hard >> drives that you may have added and remove any non apple memory >> cards. See if you still have the same problem. If the G5 does work >> OK in this stripped down configuration you could start adding stuff >> back on until the crashes return. Slow process. :) >> >> By the way, I assume you have at least your data files backed up in >> case at some point the computer becomes inoperable in the extreme. >> >> Jens >> >> >> Jens Selvig >> ...Lost in Montana... > _______________________________________________ > X4U mailing list > X4U@listserver.themacintoshguy.com > http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/mailman/listinfo/x4u > > Seven Cent Deals - Great legacy stuff Great Legacy Pricehttp://www.drbott.com/prod/db.lasso?cat=Seven+Cent+Deal Jens Selvig ...Lost in Montana... From jessup at san.rr.com Fri Jun 6 05:25:51 2008 From: jessup at san.rr.com (Daly Jessup) Date: Fri Jun 6 05:48:43 2008 Subject: [X4U] Question that might pertain to quite a few MAC users In-Reply-To: References: <8B5B64F4-C611-4B77-90B5-6016AF407122@ldml.com> Message-ID: Simon wrote: >First go round would be a browser directed at the internal IP of >your router (which you can dig out from network preferences). What I get in the network preferences appears to be the IP address of my Airport Extreme. It's the 10.0.1.1 on which the rest of the network IP addresses is based. What I get from going to is the external IP address, and I assume that is the one that belongs to the cable modem. That one actually doesn't show up in my Network prefs (I'm running Tiger). But anyway, I can't reach either one with a browser. I looked around in Console and also in Airport Utility. There's lots of interesting stuff there, but no apparent way to find traffic logs, or access to the cable modem or Airport. But your suggestion of the Net Monitor tool might turn out to be just the thing. Thank you for a good suggestion. Daly ---------------------- From jessup at san.rr.com Fri Jun 6 05:50:00 2008 From: jessup at san.rr.com (Daly Jessup) Date: Fri Jun 6 05:51:47 2008 Subject: [X4U] How much can it cost In-Reply-To: <6176EE87-E97F-4144-AED5-A83A8058344E@pandora.be> References: <720DA2FC-A3F8-466A-B7F2-B0336A42E513@pandora.be> <1C24D56E-83B9-4258-AC07-2D2277225CBC@pandora.be> <98270B71-376E-4BAB-9956-EC0FDCB7513C@bresnan.net> <6176EE87-E97F-4144-AED5-A83A8058344E@pandora.be> Message-ID: >I did a backup last night before I went to sleep when all still >worked and I was possible to wake the G5. I'm back to the iMac 2.8 >with the HD from the G5 in an external casing via a FW cable. >The only thing is that all the icons are scrambled. I've a 30" >monitor, and this is a 24" iMac. > >Paul Moortgat You can go to the View menu in the Finder and choose "Clean Up" and that should put them into some kind of order. Then I would suggest making a couple of folders for the Desktop and moving icons into them to relieve stress on your Finder. Daly ---------------------- From tim at timgarcia.net Fri Jun 6 06:42:14 2008 From: tim at timgarcia.net (Tim Garcia) Date: Fri Jun 6 06:49:00 2008 Subject: [X4U] Unsubscribe me please Message-ID: Thanks, Tim Garcia www.timgarcia.net +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/pipermail/x4u/attachments/20080606/3843a1f2/attachment.html From dledger at ivdcs.demon.co.uk Fri Jun 6 06:11:56 2008 From: dledger at ivdcs.demon.co.uk (David Ledger) Date: Fri Jun 6 07:07:28 2008 Subject: [X4U] .Mac Homepage Public Folder In-Reply-To: <20080606104956.15A282791A68@listserver.themacintoshguy.com> References: <20080606104956.15A282791A68@listserver.themacintoshguy.com> Message-ID: >From: Daly Jessup >You're going to run into Windows limitations or Unix limitations or >something or other somewhere down the line, so I think it's best just >to avoid the issue. Everyone can tolerate underlines and hyphens. The only restrictions Unix has is that you can't include a '/' in a filename. You can even use control characters - backspace, newline and carriage-return can give interesting results when they're displayed. It's still best to keep to those characters that don't have to be quoted to represent them to a shell. The commonest problem is spaces because they delimit arguments in lists and have to be quoted to a shell. David -- David Ledger - Freelance Unix Sysadmin in the UK. HP-UX specialist of hpUG technical user group (www.hpug.org.uk) david.ledger@ivdcs.co.uk www.ivdcs.co.uk From dledger at ivdcs.demon.co.uk Fri Jun 6 06:26:57 2008 From: dledger at ivdcs.demon.co.uk (David Ledger) Date: Fri Jun 6 07:07:38 2008 Subject: [X4U] Question that might pertain to quite a few Mac users In-Reply-To: <20080606104956.15A282791A68@listserver.themacintoshguy.com> References: <20080606104956.15A282791A68@listserver.themacintoshguy.com> Message-ID: >From: Simon Forster >On 6 Jun 2008, at 03:53, Ed Gould wrote: >> On Jun 5, 2008, at 7:50 PM, Daly Jessup wrote: >>> ----------------------SNIP______________________________ >>> How do you do THAT? >>> >>>> Assuming you haven't changed things too much, look at the info >>>> supplied by your ISP along with the cable modem when you first got >>>> it. It should give you log-in details. >>> >>> I don't know. I got a cable modem about 12 or 13 years ago. They >>> have replaced it twice since then, and the current one is also our >>> phone receiver thingie. Anyway, they have never given us any >>> documentation since the original install, and maybe not even then. >>> I know how to access Linksys routers, but that's all I know. I >>> don't think I have ever even thought of accessing a cable modem and >>> I meant it, what do you use? A browser? Something else? > >First go round would be a browser directed at the internal IP of your >router (which you can dig out from network preferences). You can give >that a go and see where you get to. After that, I'm not too sure what >to suggest wrt the cable modem as it'd involve looking around and >trying a few things depending on what turns up. > >So if you can't get in through the browser, let's write that off as a >process. > >After that we're back full circle to see what info you can dig out of >the Airport Extreme. I've got an Airport Express here which seems to >offer some logging capabilities - but quite how extensive they are and >how I take full advantage, I know not. I'm guessing I'd need to use >SNMP to get log details and then analyse that. I don't have the time >to look into that. Looks like the problem is that Daly has a cable modem and a router, and it's been suggester that she log in to the cable modem. Many (most?) modern routers incorporate the modem function in the router. Mine does. It's quite possible that the cable modem has no login from the LAN side. My ADSL modem / router shows the WAN traffic info because it's all in the same box. The cable modem is a cable signal to ethernet converter, so the LAN side is ethernet, so it has an IP address. How difficult it is to find that address, and whether or not it has a built-in webserver listening on that address depends on the specific hardware. The router may keep the information required though, and it may be available through _its_ web interface. What I've referred to as a router may in fact be a switch (or hub), but then there would be no DHCP and all networked devices would have to have their IP addresses manually configured. This is an unlikely solution for an ISP to offer. David -- David Ledger - Freelance Unix Sysadmin in the UK. HP-UX specialist of hpUG technical user group (www.hpug.org.uk) david.ledger@ivdcs.co.uk www.ivdcs.co.uk From paul.moortgat at pandora.be Fri Jun 6 07:17:36 2008 From: paul.moortgat at pandora.be (Paul Moortgat) Date: Fri Jun 6 07:17:51 2008 Subject: [X4U] How much can it cost In-Reply-To: <5FED9CD8-B9AF-4B0F-AE8E-D323C1A35ED4@bresnan.net> References: <720DA2FC-A3F8-466A-B7F2-B0336A42E513@pandora.be> <1C24D56E-83B9-4258-AC07-2D2277225CBC@pandora.be> <98270B71-376E-4BAB-9956-EC0FDCB7513C@bresnan.net> <6176EE87-E97F-4144-AED5-A83A8058344E@pandora.be> <5FED9CD8-B9AF-4B0F-AE8E-D323C1A35ED4@bresnan.net> Message-ID: <6E894384-8897-4621-92A6-B1E3B93222B4@pandora.be> To place the icons from a 30" screen on a 24" screen, they've to move somewhere. But when I return to my G5, they all are on their normal place. I just leave them where they are. Scrambled in some way. Paul Moortgat On 06 Jun 2008, at 14:46, Jens Selvig wrote: > What do you mean by "all the icons are scrambled?" Do you mean just > out of place or do you mean the icons don't display correctly? I > have always been a big proponent of not using the desktop as a > filing system. > > Jens > > > On Jun 6, 2008, at 6:38 AM, Paul Moortgat wrote: > >> I did a backup last night before I went to sleep when all still >> worked and I was possible to wake the G5. I'm back to the iMac 2.8 >> with the HD from the G5 in an external casing via a FW cable. >> The only thing is that all the icons are scrambled. I've a 30" >> monitor, and this is a 24" iMac. >> >> Paul Moortgat >> >> On 06 Jun 2008, at 14:24, Jens Selvig wrote: >> >>> On Jun 6, 2008, at 6:12 AM, Paul Moortgat wrote: >>> >>>> The problem returned. I worked with my G5 yesterday and this >>>> morning. Could put him to sleep and wake up again. This noon >>>> after a wake-up, I got a frozen cursor and and each attempt >>>> after was a black screen. So after changing the battery, it >>>> lasted not even a day. What strikes me is that it did work. If >>>> the motherboard or a processor is the problem, why then did it >>>> work? >>> >>> >>> You might try disconnecting all periphrials, extra internal hard >>> drives that you may have added and remove any non apple memory >>> cards. See if you still have the same problem. If the G5 does work >>> OK in this stripped down configuration you could start adding >>> stuff back on until the crashes return. Slow process. :) >>> >>> By the way, I assume you have at least your data files backed up >>> in case at some point the computer becomes inoperable in the >>> extreme. >>> >>> Jens >>> >>> >>> Jens Selvig >>> ...Lost in Montana... >> _______________________________________________ >> From macsys at mac.com Fri Jun 6 07:40:58 2008 From: macsys at mac.com (wilkinw) Date: Fri Jun 6 07:42:28 2008 Subject: [X4U] Terminal, Automator or AppleScript In-Reply-To: <6E894384-8897-4621-92A6-B1E3B93222B4@pandora.be> References: <720DA2FC-A3F8-466A-B7F2-B0336A42E513@pandora.be> <1C24D56E-83B9-4258-AC07-2D2277225CBC@pandora.be> <98270B71-376E-4BAB-9956-EC0FDCB7513C@bresnan.net> <6176EE87-E97F-4144-AED5-A83A8058344E@pandora.be> <5FED9CD8-B9AF-4B0F-AE8E-D323C1A35ED4@bresnan.net> <6E894384-8897-4621-92A6-B1E3B93222B4@pandora.be> Message-ID: I am looking for a terminal command, Automator, or AppleScript that will let me change the label to a specific color recursively to all files and folders on a hard drive. I have found it in Automator but it will only do it to one file and folder and not all, thanks in advance, Wayne. From randy at macattorney.com Fri Jun 6 08:45:49 2008 From: randy at macattorney.com (Randy B. Singer) Date: Fri Jun 6 08:46:06 2008 Subject: [X4U] How much can it cost In-Reply-To: <1C24D56E-83B9-4258-AC07-2D2277225CBC@pandora.be> References: <720DA2FC-A3F8-466A-B7F2-B0336A42E513@pandora.be> <1C24D56E-83B9-4258-AC07-2D2277225CBC@pandora.be> Message-ID: <655BF968-5692-4134-8FAE-DD2C29079675@macattorney.com> On Jun 6, 2008, at 5:12 AM, Paul Moortgat wrote: > The problem returned. I worked with my G5 yesterday and this > morning. Could put him to sleep and wake up again. This noon > after a wake-up, I got a frozen cursor and and each attempt after > was a black screen. So after changing the battery, it lasted not > even a day. What strikes me is that it did work. If the > motherboard or a processor is the problem, why then did it work? It may be that there is/was more than one problem going on here. Its also possible that your brand new battery is bad. I've seen that happen. They can sit on the shelf for years. ___________________________________________ Randy B. Singer Co-author of The Macintosh Bible (4th, 5th, and 6th editions) Macintosh OS X Routine Maintenance http://www.macattorney.com/ts.html ___________________________________________ From dicb1 at mac.com Fri Jun 6 10:08:28 2008 From: dicb1 at mac.com (rbiessener) Date: Fri Jun 6 10:08:35 2008 Subject: [X4U] Larger cursor on screen? In-Reply-To: References: <29BDBCE8-96CE-4FEE-A544-9C4AE46A41BD@internode.on.net> Message-ID: Yes, how unMac like! That is, really, really ugly! -- Dick Many friends were there. Dusk preceded piano. Voice lifted in song. On Jun 6, 2008, at 5:49 AM, B. Kuestner wrote: >> System Prefs>Universal Access>Mouse>Cursor Size > > Isn't it amazing, though, how ugly OS X scales the mouse pointer? > > Bj?rn_______________________________________________ > X4U mailing list > X4U@listserver.themacintoshguy.com > http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/mailman/listinfo/x4u > > Seven Cent Deals - Great legacy stuff Great Legacy Price > http://www.drbott.com/prod/db.lasso?cat=Seven+Cent+Deal From billwhite at mac.com Fri Jun 6 10:17:02 2008 From: billwhite at mac.com (Bill White) Date: Fri Jun 6 10:17:21 2008 Subject: [X4U] Terminal, Automator or AppleScript In-Reply-To: References: <720DA2FC-A3F8-466A-B7F2-B0336A42E513@pandora.be> <1C24D56E-83B9-4258-AC07-2D2277225CBC@pandora.be> <98270B71-376E-4BAB-9956-EC0FDCB7513C@bresnan.net> <6176EE87-E97F-4144-AED5-A83A8058344E@pandora.be> <5FED9CD8-B9AF-4B0F-AE8E-D323C1A35ED4@bresnan.net> <6E894384-8897-4621-92A6-B1E3B93222B4@pandora.be> Message-ID: On Jun 6, 2008, at 10:40 AM, wilkinw wrote: > I am looking for a terminal command, Automator, or AppleScript that > will let me change the label to a specific color recursively to all > files and folders on a hard drive. This one-liner will do it in AppleScript: tell application "Finder" to set label index of every item in entire contents of (choose folder) to 3 Note: the "3" here is arbitrary and can be any integer from 0 (no label) to 7 (gray by default). HTH, Bill From paul.moortgat at pandora.be Fri Jun 6 11:35:30 2008 From: paul.moortgat at pandora.be (Paul Moortgat) Date: Fri Jun 6 11:35:42 2008 Subject: [X4U] How much can it cost In-Reply-To: <98270B71-376E-4BAB-9956-EC0FDCB7513C@bresnan.net> References: <720DA2FC-A3F8-466A-B7F2-B0336A42E513@pandora.be> <1C24D56E-83B9-4258-AC07-2D2277225CBC@pandora.be> <98270B71-376E-4BAB-9956-EC0FDCB7513C@bresnan.net> Message-ID: Beats me. I don't know. That G5 works with my external backup HD. I could start the G5 by starting up and holding the open CD drive button. It's weird, but it worked a few times. I used DW and TT, but no problems are found. He's working a little slower than normal. The sound is normal. The Mac works as long as I leave it on. For the moment I can restart without problems. For how long I don't know. I'm not moving my HD back to the G5 right now. I'll do more tests. Paul Moortgat On 06 Jun 2008, at 14:24, Jens Selvig wrote: > On Jun 6, 2008, at 6:12 AM, Paul Moortgat wrote: > >> The problem returned. I worked with my G5 yesterday and this >> morning. Could put him to sleep and wake up again. This noon >> after a wake-up, I got a frozen cursor and and each attempt after >> was a black screen. So after changing the battery, it lasted not >> even a day. What strikes me is that it did work. If the >> motherboard or a processor is the problem, why then did it work? > > > You might try disconnecting all periphrials, extra internal hard > drives that you may have added and remove any non apple memory > cards. See if you still have the same problem. If the G5 does work > OK in this stripped down configuration you could start adding stuff > back on until the crashes return. Slow process. :) > > By the way, I assume you have at least your data files backed up in > case at some point the computer becomes inoperable in the extreme. > > Jens > > > Jens Selvig > ...Lost in Montana... From paul.moortgat at pandora.be Fri Jun 6 13:29:40 2008 From: paul.moortgat at pandora.be (Paul Moortgat) Date: Fri Jun 6 13:29:55 2008 Subject: [X4U] How much can it cost In-Reply-To: <98270B71-376E-4BAB-9956-EC0FDCB7513C@bresnan.net> References: <720DA2FC-A3F8-466A-B7F2-B0336A42E513@pandora.be> <1C24D56E-83B9-4258-AC07-2D2277225CBC@pandora.be> <98270B71-376E-4BAB-9956-EC0FDCB7513C@bresnan.net> Message-ID: <25178A4D-E2C3-4248-824C-D70EE03E2EA3@pandora.be> On my Mac OS X (10.5) Install Disc 1 from the iMac I found "Apple Hardware Test Read Me". When I double click it nothing happens. It has the Preview icon on it with the words PDF under it. When I drag it to Preview also nothing happens. When I do a comm-I I see it's an app file, but it will not open or show any sign of activity. On the 10.5 DVD is something similar. Will not open either. How can I check my hardware? Paul Moortgat From ritemehere at gmail.com Fri Jun 6 17:26:22 2008 From: ritemehere at gmail.com (ritemehere@gmail.com) Date: Fri Jun 6 17:26:47 2008 Subject: [X4U] itunes won't import to itunes music folder Message-ID: <20DA4D89-571B-4DF7-8092-EA74D1858F6E@gmail.com> hi - i am having a problem where itunes is importing into ~music/ itunes rather than into ~music/itunes//itunes music. this has been going on for about a week, the older music is where it should be. my music is stored on an NAS - a buffalo linkstation attached to an airport extreme. i have an alias from the NAS itunes in the local music folder that itunes points to. I've had this set up a while and it's always worked. i don't know if it matters but i was locked out of itunes twice recently - the message "the disc is locked or you don't have sufficient privileges". solved that by replacing the itunes data file with a backup. thanks for the help. i appreciate it, eric From jessup at san.rr.com Fri Jun 6 16:10:21 2008 From: jessup at san.rr.com (Daly Jessup) Date: Fri Jun 6 17:53:32 2008 Subject: [X4U] Larger cursor on screen? In-Reply-To: References: <29BDBCE8-96CE-4FEE-A544-9C4AE46A41BD@internode.on.net> Message-ID: >Yes, how unMac like! That is, really, really ugly! > >-- Dick >Many friends were there. >Dusk preceded piano. >Voice lifted in song. > > >On Jun 6, 2008, at 5:49 AM, B. Kuestner wrote: > >>>System Prefs>Universal Access>Mouse>Cursor Size >> >>Isn't it amazing, though, how ugly OS X scales the mouse pointer? Im not sure what you guys are talking about. Do you mean the white border pixels around it? Daly ---------------------- From jessup at san.rr.com Fri Jun 6 16:07:58 2008 From: jessup at san.rr.com (Daly Jessup) Date: Fri Jun 6 17:53:37 2008 Subject: [X4U] Terminal, Automator or AppleScript In-Reply-To: References: <720DA2FC-A3F8-466A-B7F2-B0336A42E513@pandora.be> <1C24D56E-83B9-4258-AC07-2D2277225CBC@pandora.be> <98270B71-376E-4BAB-9956-EC0FDCB7513C@bresnan.net> <6176EE87-E97F-4144-AED5-A83A8058344E@pandora.be> <5FED9CD8-B9AF-4B0F-AE8E-D323C1A35ED4@bresnan.net> <6E894384-8897-4621-92A6-B1E3B93222B4@pandora.be> Message-ID: >On Jun 6, 2008, at 10:40 AM, wilkinw wrote: > >>I am looking for a terminal command, Automator, or AppleScript that >>will let me change the label to a specific color recursively to all >>files and folders on a hard drive. > >This one-liner will do it in AppleScript: > >tell application "Finder" to set label index of every item in entire >contents of (choose folder) to 3 > >Note: the "3" here is arbitrary and can be any integer from 0 (no >label) to 7 (gray by default). Bill, this is very interesting. How do you identify the folder for the command? I've tried every kind of path format I can think of, but nothing is accepted. How do you do it? Daly ---------------------- From billwhite at mac.com Fri Jun 6 18:21:07 2008 From: billwhite at mac.com (Bill White) Date: Fri Jun 6 18:21:22 2008 Subject: [X4U] Terminal, Automator or AppleScript In-Reply-To: References: <720DA2FC-A3F8-466A-B7F2-B0336A42E513@pandora.be> <1C24D56E-83B9-4258-AC07-2D2277225CBC@pandora.be> <98270B71-376E-4BAB-9956-EC0FDCB7513C@bresnan.net> <6176EE87-E97F-4144-AED5-A83A8058344E@pandora.be> <5FED9CD8-B9AF-4B0F-AE8E-D323C1A35ED4@bresnan.net> <6E894384-8897-4621-92A6-B1E3B93222B4@pandora.be> Message-ID: >> This one-liner will do it in AppleScript: >> >> tell application "Finder" to set label index of every item in >> entire contents of (choose folder) to 3 >> >> Note: the "3" here is arbitrary and can be any integer from 0 (no >> label) to 7 (gray by default). > > Bill, this is very interesting. How do you identify the folder for > the command? I've tried every kind of path format I can think of, > but nothing is accepted. How do you do it? > > Daly Daly, the "choose folder" AppleScript command will prompt you for the folder you want to start with. Simply navigate to it and continue. Bill From edgould1948 at comcast.net Fri Jun 6 18:23:55 2008 From: edgould1948 at comcast.net (Ed Gould) Date: Fri Jun 6 18:27:31 2008 Subject: [X4U] G5 going to sleep intermittantly Message-ID: I have a G5 which seems to go to sleep vary intermittently and can not figure out why. The first example is when I run my back ups I *MUST* move the cursor every 30 minutes or so or else the backup will stop. Of course the minute I move the mouse it starts back up again. There are several programs running at the time like BOINC and a weather program that does a net inquiry every 10 minutes or so. At night I leave my system running all the time and getting mail every 10 minutes and a news reader that runs every 60 minutes the going to sleep has only occurred once in the 2 years I have been doing this. The sleep time is set for *NEVER* FWIW I am running 10.4.11 and have 4GB of RAM The external drives are all FW 2.7Gh dual Any ideas? Ed From Technophobic_Tom at comcast.net Fri Jun 6 19:07:55 2008 From: Technophobic_Tom at comcast.net (Technophobic_Tom@comcast.net) Date: Fri Jun 6 19:08:10 2008 Subject: [X4U] Re: How much can it cost In-Reply-To: <20080607005345.81AB527BA6FA@listserver.themacintoshguy.com> References: <20080607005345.81AB527BA6FA@listserver.themacintoshguy.com> Message-ID: On 6/6/08, Paul Moortgat wrote: >To place the icons from a 30" screen on a 24" screen, they've to >move somewhere. But when I return to my G5, they all are on their >normal place. I just leave them where they are. Scrambled in some >way. Write a little script doing the following: 1. Select all the items on the DeskTop that will be appearing there "permanently." 2. Click-'n-hold on one of icons. 3. Move the whole collected selection ever so slightly in any direction. 4. Then click on any clear space on the DeskTop. 5. Turn this into an application (applet). Establish two such scripts. One for each screen size. What the script does: 1. Selects the icons wherever on the DeskTop they may be. 2. & 3. Moves the icons from the position they were to the new location, i.e., the location you want them "permanently." 4. Allows you to run the script from the Finder. If you remove any of the icons from the DeskTop, the script will stop with an error saying something couldn't be found. So if you plan to remove anything save the script in standard form before you save it as an application. Heck, do it anyway. Standard form can be edited; application form can't. Before you start, open the Script Editor (in the AppleScript folder) and read the Help file. From nickscalise at cox.net Fri Jun 6 19:33:52 2008 From: nickscalise at cox.net (Nick Scalise) Date: Fri Jun 6 19:34:04 2008 Subject: [X4U] G5 going to sleep intermittantly In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: On Jun 6, 2008, at 8:23 PM, Ed Gould wrote: > I have a G5 which seems to go to sleep vary intermittently and can > not figure out why. > > The first example is when I run my back ups I *MUST* move the cursor > every 30 minutes or so or else the backup will stop. Of course the > minute I move the mouse it starts back up again. > There are several programs running at the time like BOINC and a > weather program that does a net inquiry every 10 minutes or so. > > At night I leave my system running all the time and getting mail > every 10 minutes and a news reader that runs every 60 minutes the > going to sleep has only occurred once in the 2 years I have been > doing this. How dusty are the insides? If the machine is getting to warm, it will want to sleep. -- Nick Scalise nickscalise@cox.net From edgould1948 at comcast.net Fri Jun 6 20:22:23 2008 From: edgould1948 at comcast.net (Ed Gould) Date: Fri Jun 6 20:25:59 2008 Subject: [X4U] G5 going to sleep intermittantly In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <119B7B9A-05D6-4B4B-BD54-45C61BE7DF90@comcast.net> On Jun 6, 2008, at 9:33 PM, Nick Scalise wrote: > On Jun 6, 2008, at 8:23 PM, Ed Gould wrote: > >> I have a G5 which seems to go to sleep vary intermittently and can >> not figure out why. >> >> The first example is when I run my back ups I *MUST* move the >> cursor every 30 minutes or so or else the backup will stop. Of >> course the minute I move the mouse it starts back up again. >> There are several programs running at the time like BOINC and a >> weather program that does a net inquiry every 10 minutes or so. >> >> At night I leave my system running all the time and getting mail >> every 10 minutes and a news reader that runs every 60 minutes the >> going to sleep has only occurred once in the 2 years I have been >> doing this. > > How dusty are the insides? If the machine is getting to warm, it > will want to sleep. > Nick, Interesting question I had not given too much thought about. The hardware monitor that I run says the temperature is at 29.8C pretty much all the time. I do spray the insides every 6 months. I don't smoke so any dust is from the room. Thanks for the idea and I will take a look at the temperature when I run my backups Saturday and let everyone know. Ed From stermarc at mac.com Fri Jun 6 20:32:03 2008 From: stermarc at mac.com (Marc Stergionis) Date: Fri Jun 6 20:32:17 2008 Subject: [X4U] Parallels "XP" -- no network In-Reply-To: <3ED576E9-2657-4B4A-A798-B3B077901C46@sofstats.com> References: <3ED576E9-2657-4B4A-A798-B3B077901C46@sofstats.com> Message-ID: At 5:59 PM -0500 6/5/08, Rod Buchanan wrote: >On Jun 5, 2008, at 1:36 PM, Marc Stergionis wrote: > >>Was able to get XP running on my Macbook by using a fresh Virtual >>PC Windows XP document on my AL PB as the target OS install file >>for Parallels. > >Try switching the network adapter from shared to bridged (or bridged >-> shared). Seems like I had the same problem at work after >updating to build 5600. Where is the option located to change the adapter (bridged/shared)? -- Marc Stergionis From stermarc at mac.com Fri Jun 6 20:37:29 2008 From: stermarc at mac.com (Marc Stergionis) Date: Fri Jun 6 20:37:46 2008 Subject: [X4U] Parallels "XP" -- no network In-Reply-To: <4848F5D2.9040404@mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk> References: <4848F5D2.9040404@mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk> Message-ID: At 9:31 AM +0100 6/6/08, Graham wrote: > >I have had a problem similar to this on our work based Macs, but >they have 2 real network interfaces, so the issue maybe different. >What does the Mac network preferences say? Our problem was that the >'Parallels NAT' and 'Parallels Host-Guest' prefs where >mis-configured, a restart of the machine cured it. My home based >personal laptop works fine wired and wireless, I will check to see >what the prefs say. Also what does the Parallels VM setup say for >network? Parallels NAT and Parallels Host-Guest both had green buttons next to them in Mac Preferences. I restarted the entire Mac and still did not get an XP network connection. The two Parallels net preferences both remained green through restart. -- Marc Stergionis From lists at sofstats.com Fri Jun 6 22:06:50 2008 From: lists at sofstats.com (Rod Buchanan) Date: Fri Jun 6 22:07:21 2008 Subject: [X4U] Parallels "XP" -- no network In-Reply-To: References: <3ED576E9-2657-4B4A-A798-B3B077901C46@sofstats.com> Message-ID: On Jun 6, 2008, at 10:32 PM, Marc Stergionis wrote: > At 5:59 PM -0500 6/5/08, Rod Buchanan wrote: >> On Jun 5, 2008, at 1:36 PM, Marc Stergionis wrote: >> >>> Was able to get XP running on my Macbook by using a fresh Virtual >>> PC Windows XP document on my AL PB as the target OS install file >>> for Parallels. >> >> Try switching the network adapter from shared to bridged (or >> bridged -> shared). Seems like I had the same problem at work >> after updating to build 5600. > > Where is the option located to change the adapter (bridged/shared)? "Edit -> Virtual Machine" I think. I'm at home and the Mac w/ Parallels is at work so I'm working from aging memory. :) -- Rod "At Intel, quality is number 0.9999999998876875" From kuestner at macnews.de Fri Jun 6 23:41:59 2008 From: kuestner at macnews.de (B. Kuestner) Date: Fri Jun 6 23:42:20 2008 Subject: [X4U] Larger cursor on screen? In-Reply-To: References: <29BDBCE8-96CE-4FEE-A544-9C4AE46A41BD@internode.on.net> Message-ID: >>>> System Prefs>Universal Access>Mouse>Cursor Size >>> >>> Isn't it amazing, though, how ugly OS X scales the mouse pointer? >> >> Yes, how unMac like! That is, really, really ugly! > > Im not sure what you guys are talking about. Do you mean the white > border pixels around it? If you scale the mouse pointer via Universal Access as advised, the edges are jagged, not smooth. That just doesn't fit into OS X's polished UI. Bj?rn From randy at macattorney.com Fri Jun 6 23:50:05 2008 From: randy at macattorney.com (Randy B. Singer) Date: Fri Jun 6 23:50:16 2008 Subject: [X4U] Larger cursor on screen? In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: On Jun 5, 2008, at 10:28 AM, M. Milligan wrote: > How can I change my mouse curser size to one that's really large. I > have a 24" screen and I'd like a larger cursor. You might instead like: OmniDazzle http://www.omnigroup.com/applications/omnidazzle/ ___________________________________________ Randy B. Singer Co-author of The Macintosh Bible (4th, 5th, and 6th editions) Macintosh OS X Routine Maintenance http://www.macattorney.com/ts.html ___________________________________________ From stermarc at mac.com Fri Jun 6 23:57:11 2008 From: stermarc at mac.com (Marc Stergionis) Date: Fri Jun 6 23:57:37 2008 Subject: [X4U] Parallels "XP" -- no network In-Reply-To: References: <3ED576E9-2657-4B4A-A798-B3B077901C46@sofstats.com> Message-ID: At 12:06 AM -0500 6/7/08, Rod Buchanan wrote: >On Jun 6, 2008, at 10:32 PM, Marc Stergionis wrote: > >>At 5:59 PM -0500 6/5/08, Rod Buchanan wrote: >>>On Jun 5, 2008, at 1:36 PM, Marc Stergionis wrote: >>> >>>>Was able to get XP running on my Macbook by using a fresh Virtual >>>>PC Windows XP document on my AL PB as the target OS install file >>>>for Parallels. >>> >>>Try switching the network adapter from shared to bridged (or >>>bridged -> shared). Seems like I had the same problem at work >>>after updating to build 5600. >> >>Where is the option located to change the adapter (bridged/shared)? > >"Edit -> Virtual Machine" I think. I'm at home and the Mac >w/Parallels is at work so I'm working from aging memory. :) Not bad, that's exactly where it was, and adding the network setting in the Virtual Machine window got me connected. Cool! -- Marc Stergionis From paul.moortgat at pandora.be Sat Jun 7 03:31:38 2008 From: paul.moortgat at pandora.be (Paul Moortgat) Date: Sat Jun 7 03:31:56 2008 Subject: [X4U] Apple Hardware Test Message-ID: <80BBC315-4E46-46D6-A636-9216358A0AE8@pandora.be> Where can I get this? I find something like that on the Leopard DVD I bought, but I can make it work. Even if I use Startup Manager, there's nothing to see. I need to test my G5 who gives me troubles. He's working now, but for how long? I might replace the new battery I just bought with another new one. Paul Moortgat From kuestner at macnews.de Sat Jun 7 07:19:20 2008 From: kuestner at macnews.de (B. Kuestner) Date: Sat Jun 7 07:42:28 2008 Subject: [X4U] Apple Hardware Test In-Reply-To: <80BBC315-4E46-46D6-A636-9216358A0AE8@pandora.be> References: <80BBC315-4E46-46D6-A636-9216358A0AE8@pandora.be> Message-ID: <72CFFFF4-BD5E-48BD-9004-FE135C9BE18B@macnews.de> Try putting in your original install DVDs and then start while pressing and holding D. Bj?rn From macsys at mac.com Sat Jun 7 07:24:38 2008 From: macsys at mac.com (wilkinw) Date: Sat Jun 7 07:46:30 2008 Subject: [X4U] Terminal, Automator or AppleScript In-Reply-To: References: <720DA2FC-A3F8-466A-B7F2-B0336A42E513@pandora.be> <1C24D56E-83B9-4258-AC07-2D2277225CBC@pandora.be> <98270B71-376E-4BAB-9956-EC0FDCB7513C@bresnan.net> <6176EE87-E97F-4144-AED5-A83A8058344E@pandora.be> <5FED9CD8-B9AF-4B0F-AE8E-D323C1A35ED4@bresnan.net> <6E894384-8897-4621-92A6-B1E3B93222B4@pandora.be> Message-ID: Thanks everyone, Bill. Exactly what I was looking for, works like a charm, Wayne. From dledger at ivdcs.demon.co.uk Sat Jun 7 07:19:50 2008 From: dledger at ivdcs.demon.co.uk (David Ledger) Date: Sat Jun 7 08:04:51 2008 Subject: [X4U] Larger cursor on screen? In-Reply-To: <20080607065736.1DF1327CA736@listserver.themacintoshguy.com> References: <20080607065736.1DF1327CA736@listserver.themacintoshguy.com> Message-ID: >From: "B. Kuestner" >>>> Isn't it amazing, though, how ugly OS X scales the mouse pointer? >If you scale the mouse pointer via Universal Access as advised, the >edges are jagged, not smooth. That just doesn't fit into OS X's >polished UI. There is an option to smooth the output. Universal Access is intended for those with poor eyesight whose eyes will antialias the image. There's no point in using CPU cycles removing jaggies that the intended user can't see anyway. If you can see the jaggies, just be glad your eyesight is good enough to do so. David -- David Ledger - Freelance Unix Sysadmin in the UK. HP-UX specialist of hpUG technical user group (www.hpug.org.uk) david.ledger@ivdcs.co.uk www.ivdcs.co.uk From jessup at san.rr.com Sat Jun 7 07:53:51 2008 From: jessup at san.rr.com (Daly Jessup) Date: Sat Jun 7 08:23:00 2008 Subject: [X4U] Terminal, Automator or AppleScript In-Reply-To: References: <720DA2FC-A3F8-466A-B7F2-B0336A42E513@pandora.be> <1C24D56E-83B9-4258-AC07-2D2277225CBC@pandora.be> <98270B71-376E-4BAB-9956-EC0FDCB7513C@bresnan.net> <6176EE87-E97F-4144-AED5-A83A8058344E@pandora.be> <5FED9CD8-B9AF-4B0F-AE8E-D323C1A35ED4@bresnan.net> <6E894384-8897-4621-92A6-B1E3B93222B4@pandora.be> Message-ID: >>>This one-liner will do it in AppleScript: >>> >>>tell application "Finder" to set label index of every item in >>>entire contents of (choose folder) to 3 >>> >>>Note: the "3" here is arbitrary and can be any integer from 0 (no >>>label) to 7 (gray by default). >> >>Bill, this is very interesting. How do you identify the folder for >>the command? I've tried every kind of path format I can think of, >>but nothing is accepted. How do you do it? >> >>Daly > >Daly, the "choose folder" AppleScript command will prompt you for >the folder you want to start with. Simply navigate to it and >continue. Wow! How elegant! Amazing. Thank you. Daly ---------------------- From edgould1948 at comcast.net Sat Jun 7 20:43:21 2008 From: edgould1948 at comcast.net (Ed Gould) Date: Sat Jun 7 20:49:43 2008 Subject: [X4U] Macworld's Five Mac maintenance myths Message-ID: <1869777B-DB28-4C1A-9F01-118FB9F43725@comcast.net> Thought everyone might be interested in this item on Macworld. http://www.macworld.com/article/133684/2008/06/maintenance_intro.html From randy at macattorney.com Sat Jun 7 21:56:21 2008 From: randy at macattorney.com (Randy B. Singer) Date: Sat Jun 7 21:56:35 2008 Subject: [X4U] Macworld's Five Mac maintenance myths In-Reply-To: <1869777B-DB28-4C1A-9F01-118FB9F43725@comcast.net> References: <1869777B-DB28-4C1A-9F01-118FB9F43725@comcast.net> Message-ID: <5187CCAA-0DC3-4426-AB6E-5AEE1F8DF20F@macattorney.com> On Jun 7, 2008, at 8:43 PM, Ed Gould wrote: > Thought everyone might be interested in this item on Macworld. > > http://www.macworld.com/article/133684/2008/06/maintenance_intro.html Yes, that is an interesting article. Thanks Ed. In fact, I've been updating my Web site (slowly) and I just wrote a section specifically about that. Here it is FWIW: Note #2) Routine Maintenance Or Troubleshooting Technique? A couple of well-known Macintosh authors have recently said that many of the procedures listed on this Web page, such as Repairing Permissions, are not what they consider to be routine maintenance, but rather they are best reserved to be used as troubleshooting techniques when your Macintosh shows signs of decreased performance or starts acting in an unusual manner. They say that you can go a long time without having to perform any of the procedures that I list here. http://www.macworld.com/article/133684/2008/06/maintenance_intro.html I can?t say that they are wrong. However, I compare it to checking and adjusting the air in the tires of your car. Do you do that regularly, or do you wait until your tires start to show signs of unusual wear and/or your car starts to handle poorly? Many people do the latter, and I can?t say that they are wrong in doing so. What if it only took about ten minutes to check and adjust the air in your car?s tires, and you didn?t have to get your hands dirty, or leave the comfort of your home to do so? Would you then consider it a good idea to do it regularly, especially considering the benefits of increased gas mileage, better handling, longer tire life, etc.? It seems to me that it would be well worthwhile to do so. That is where my feelings are as far as the procedures on this Web page. You can do them all quickly (see below), easily and painlessly, and there is just about no downside to doing them. But the upside to doing routine maintenance is that your Macintosh will always be running at its best, and you may even avoid some nasty problems down the road. You can decide for yourself if the extremely modest investment of time and effort is worthwhile to you. ___________________________________________ Randy B. Singer Co-author of The Macintosh Bible (4th, 5th, and 6th editions) Macintosh OS X Routine Maintenance http://www.macattorney.com/ts.html ___________________________________________ From edgould1948 at comcast.net Sat Jun 7 22:39:03 2008 From: edgould1948 at comcast.net (Ed Gould) Date: Sat Jun 7 22:42:57 2008 Subject: [X4U] Macworld's Five Mac maintenance myths In-Reply-To: <5187CCAA-0DC3-4426-AB6E-5AEE1F8DF20F@macattorney.com> References: <1869777B-DB28-4C1A-9F01-118FB9F43725@comcast.net> <5187CCAA-0DC3-4426-AB6E-5AEE1F8DF20F@macattorney.com> Message-ID: <33DE93E1-BDAA-43D0-8EF4-9FD073AB5449@comcast.net> On Jun 7, 2008, at 11:56 PM, Randy B. Singer wrote: > ------------------------ > SNIP--------------------------------------------------------- > Yes, that is an interesting article. Thanks Ed. > > In fact, I've been updating my Web site (slowly) and I just wrote a > section specifically about that. Here it is FWIW: > > > > Note #2) Routine Maintenance Or Troubleshooting Technique? > > A couple of well-known Macintosh authors have recently said that > many of the procedures listed on this Web page, such as Repairing > Permissions, are not what they consider to be routine maintenance, > but rather they are best reserved to be used as troubleshooting > techniques when your Macintosh shows signs of decreased performance > or starts acting in an unusual manner. They say that you can go a > long time without having to perform any of the procedures that I > list here. > > http://www.macworld.com/article/133684/2008/06/maintenance_intro.html > > I can?t say that they are wrong. However, I compare it to checking > and adjusting the air in the tires of your car. Do you do that > regularly, or do you wait until your tires start to show signs of > unusual wear and/or your car starts to handle poorly? Many people > do the latter, and I can?t say that they are wrong in doing so. > > What if it only took about ten minutes to check and adjust the air > in your car?s tires, and you didn?t have to get your hands dirty, > or leave the comfort of your home to do so? Would you then > consider it a good idea to do it regularly, especially considering > the benefits of increased gas mileage, better handling, longer tire > life, etc.? It seems to me that it would be well worthwhile to do so. > > That is where my feelings are as far as the procedures on this Web > page. You can do them all quickly (see below), easily and > painlessly, and there is just about no downside to doing them. But > the upside to doing routine maintenance is that your Macintosh will > always be running at its best, and you may even avoid some nasty > problems down the road. You can decide for yourself if the > extremely modest investment of time and effort is worthwhile to you. > > > ___________________________________________ > -----------SNIP_____________________ Randy, I read some of the blog that discussed the article and there was a few tangent comments made about oil changes. There seems to be two sides to the discussions, Preventive Maintenance or trouble shooting. I used to make a living as an IBM type systems Programmer and (at one time) they would ship you (every month) several thousand fixes you were expected to put on your system. Some of them were yawners (something was spelled incorrectly) and some of them were *EXTREMELY* important to put on (can cause system crashes if not put on). I could go on for two hours describing all of the type of issues that they sent out fixes for. There were mainly three different philosophies for these fixes let them "cook" for a month and then apply or put the important ones on ASAP to stop any outages before it happened the third one was don't put fixes on for problems you don't have (or don't know you are having). The problem with the last one is that some people would go for 2 years before putting the (now) about 30,000 (that number is conservative) fixes on. Then it gets interesting when you put that number of fixes on at one time, things break (applications or OS). Then its fight the every bug that is known and find some that are "new". It comes down to how competent the people are (at figuring out what is broken believe me at times it *REALLY* does get obscure) that are applying the fixes. On one hand you have to keep reasonably current or when you do run into bugs its already been reported and fixed. Those are at times clear cut at other times it can be tea leave reading. I think it just comes down to what your installation can take a outage for. Some installations are not online and an outage is a ho hum others if the shop has an outage it is $100,000.00 (US) a minute or more). Ed From randy at macattorney.com Sat Jun 7 23:22:25 2008 From: randy at macattorney.com (Randy B. Singer) Date: Sat Jun 7 23:22:40 2008 Subject: [X4U] Macworld's Five Mac maintenance myths In-Reply-To: <33DE93E1-BDAA-43D0-8EF4-9FD073AB5449@comcast.net> References: <1869777B-DB28-4C1A-9F01-118FB9F43725@comcast.net> <5187CCAA-0DC3-4426-AB6E-5AEE1F8DF20F@macattorney.com> <33DE93E1-BDAA-43D0-8EF4-9FD073AB5449@comcast.net> Message-ID: On Jun 7, 2008, at 10:39 PM, Ed Gould wrote: > I read some of the blog that discussed the article and there was a > few tangent comments made about oil changes. I loved reading the tangent about oil changes. Folks get really worked up about this issue. On the one hand, it's true, scientific studies have shown that you don't need to change your oil every 3,000 miles...every 7,000 should do fine. On the other hand, the comment that folks who change their oil religiously every 3,000 miles never seem to have to rebuild their engines, is empirically true. It's another one of those things that folks have to decide for themselves. ___________________________________________ Randy B. Singer Co-author of The Macintosh Bible (4th, 5th, and 6th editions) Macintosh OS X Routine Maintenance http://www.macattorney.com/ts.html ___________________________________________ From cybarb at mac.com Sun Jun 8 04:23:21 2008 From: cybarb at mac.com (Cy Frankovich) Date: Sun Jun 8 04:18:44 2008 Subject: [X4U] Macworld's Five Mac maintenance myths In-Reply-To: References: <1869777B-DB28-4C1A-9F01-118FB9F43725@comcast.net> <5187CCAA-0DC3-4426-AB6E-5AEE1F8DF20F@macattorney.com> <33DE93E1-BDAA-43D0-8EF4-9FD073AB5449@comcast.net> Message-ID: On Jun 8, 2008, at 2:22 AM, Randy B. Singer wrote: > It's another one of those things that folks have to decide for > themselves. New technology. It's not your grandfather's motor oil. Cy cybarb@mac.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Message-ID: Anyone know if it's possible to pop off the tops of the keys on the newest Apple keyboard? The real thin one? The "yoo" key and the "period" key are no longer working on mine Perhaps becase of a cleaning cloth a little too damp Thanks, David From peterstj at earthlink.net Mon Jun 9 05:31:43 2008 From: peterstj at earthlink.net (Peter Saint James) Date: Mon Jun 9 05:34:12 2008 Subject: [X4U] Keyboard warranty In-Reply-To: <6DE344A9-7D0D-49AD-8F1F-C243FCEAF076@ca.rr.com> References: <6DE344A9-7D0D-49AD-8F1F-C243FCEAF076@ca.rr.com> Message-ID: <2E3329C8-140B-4271-8588-C053458F47F7@earthlink.net> On 8 June2008, at 10:51 PM, Crandon David wrote: > I know it's a little off topic, bt for the life of me, I can't find > anywhere on Apple's site what the warranty is for the new wired > keyboard I just prchased All of the sdden the "yoo" and the > "period" keys don't work Does anyone know? > I don't know the exact terms of the warranty, but Apple tends to like to keep their customers happy. If I were in your shoes, I wouldn't hesitate to ask for a replacement. Peter From paul.moortgat at pandora.be Mon Jun 9 16:02:46 2008 From: paul.moortgat at pandora.be (Paul Moortgat) Date: Mon Jun 9 16:03:34 2008 Subject: [X4U] New iPhone Message-ID: <9DF4EACF-7D1D-4A59-8072-D56494DB4F0F@pandora.be> At last in Belgium. Twice as fast and half price. Paul Moortgat From lstnmt at bresnan.net Mon Jun 9 16:07:57 2008 From: lstnmt at bresnan.net (Jens Selvig) Date: Mon Jun 9 16:08:16 2008 Subject: [X4U] New iPhone In-Reply-To: <9DF4EACF-7D1D-4A59-8072-D56494DB4F0F@pandora.be> References: <9DF4EACF-7D1D-4A59-8072-D56494DB4F0F@pandora.be> Message-ID: But higher monthly rates? On Jun 9, 2008, at 5:02 PM, Paul Moortgat wrote: > At last in Belgium. Twice as fast and half price. Jens Selvig ...Lost in Montana... From kuestner at macnews.de Mon Jun 9 21:31:42 2008 From: kuestner at macnews.de (B. Kuestner) Date: Mon Jun 9 21:31:59 2008 Subject: [X4U] New iPhone In-Reply-To: <9DF4EACF-7D1D-4A59-8072-D56494DB4F0F@pandora.be> References: <9DF4EACF-7D1D-4A59-8072-D56494DB4F0F@pandora.be> Message-ID: <6AAE1E00-92BD-422D-86FA-57F0839A0482@macnews.de> > At last in Belgium. Twice as fast and half price. I assume that's because Apple now allows that the prices is partially paid by the carrier. So it isn't really cheaper. It just looks cheaper, but you pay through your contract with the carrier. Bj?rn From mark at MARKHEATH.NET Tue Jun 10 00:29:20 2008 From: mark at MARKHEATH.NET (Mark) Date: Tue Jun 10 00:32:55 2008 Subject: [X4U] New iPhone In-Reply-To: <6AAE1E00-92BD-422D-86FA-57F0839A0482@macnews.de> References: <9DF4EACF-7D1D-4A59-8072-D56494DB4F0F@pandora.be> <6AAE1E00-92BD-422D-86FA-57F0839A0482@macnews.de> Message-ID: On Jun 9, 2008, at 11:31 PM, B. Kuestner wrote: >> At last in Belgium. Twice as fast and half price. > > I assume that's because Apple now allows that the prices is > partially paid by the carrier. So it isn't really cheaper. It just > looks cheaper, but you pay through your contract with the carrier. > > Bj?rn > > No there are no subsidies the price is actually cheaper. 700MHz iBook G3 1.33GHz iBook G4 640MB Ram 512 MB Ram OS 10.3.9 OS 10.4.6 "Laugha while you can monkeyboy." Dr. Lizardo(Bukaroo Bonzai) From mattgregory33 at gmail.com Tue Jun 10 04:30:15 2008 From: mattgregory33 at gmail.com (Matt Gregory) Date: Tue Jun 10 04:30:28 2008 Subject: [X4U] New iPhone In-Reply-To: References: <9DF4EACF-7D1D-4A59-8072-D56494DB4F0F@pandora.be> <6AAE1E00-92BD-422D-86FA-57F0839A0482@macnews.de> Message-ID: This is definitely a standard subsidized phone deal ... http://www.att.com/gen/press-room?pid=4800&cdvn=news&newsarticleid=25791 "The new agreement between Apple and AT&T eliminates the revenue- sharing model under which AT&T shared a portion of monthly service revenue with Apple. Under the revised agreement, which is consistent with traditional equipment manufacturer-carrier arrangements, there is no revenue sharing and both iPhone 3G models will be offered at attractive prices to broaden the market potential and accelerate subscriber volumes." "In the near term, AT&T anticipates that the new agreement will likely result in some pressure on margins and earnings, reflecting the costs of subsidized device pricing, which, in turn, is expected to drive increased subscriber volumes." -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/pipermail/x4u/attachments/20080610/0b7f1760/attachment.html From tlmiller at mac.com Tue Jun 10 06:28:38 2008 From: tlmiller at mac.com (T.L. Miller) Date: Tue Jun 10 06:29:49 2008 Subject: [X4U] New iPhone In-Reply-To: <6AAE1E00-92BD-422D-86FA-57F0839A0482@macnews.de> References: <9DF4EACF-7D1D-4A59-8072-D56494DB4F0F@pandora.be> <6AAE1E00-92BD-422D-86FA-57F0839A0482@macnews.de> Message-ID: <20080610132838.62474246@smtp.mac.com> On 6/10/08, at 6:31 AM, B. Kuestner kuestner@macnews.de said: >I assume that's because Apple now allows that the prices is partially >paid by the carrier. So it isn't really cheaper. It just looks >cheaper, but you pay through your contract with the carrier. Yes, in the US, AT&T is subsidizing the iPhone. The new US iPhone prices make it much cheaper than the similar iPod Touch. Tom Miller .................................................. "The only time we see the middle of the road is as we run from side to side." R.O.Clark ................................................... From list-themacintoshguy at fsck.net Tue Jun 10 08:22:38 2008 From: list-themacintoshguy at fsck.net (Eugene) Date: Tue Jun 10 08:22:50 2008 Subject: [X4U] .Mac Homepage Public Folder In-Reply-To: References: <20080606104956.15A282791A68@listserver.themacintoshguy.com> Message-ID: <20080610152238.GB333@Macintosh-2.local> >Daly Jessup wrote: >> You're going to run into Windows limitations or Unix limitations or >> something or other somewhere down the line, so I think it's best just >> to avoid the issue. Everyone can tolerate underlines and hyphens. > On Fri, Jun 06, 2008 at 08:11:56AM CDT, David Ledger wrote: > The only restrictions Unix has is that you can't include a '/' in a > filename. You can even use control characters - backspace, newline and > carriage-return can give interesting results when they're displayed. It's > still best to keep to those characters that don't have to be quoted to > represent them to a shell. The commonest problem is spaces because they > delimit arguments in lists and have to be quoted to a shell. Many apps do poorly with filenames containing underlines. Even though lots of people prefer to use an underline as simple replacement for a space character, apps tend to see the underline as another alphanumeric character and fails to see it as a word delimiter. By default, just about every Unix editor does this (including vi and emacs) as well as most GUI apps. -- Eugene http://www.coxar.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/ From healyzh at aracnet.com Tue Jun 10 08:26:40 2008 From: healyzh at aracnet.com (Zane H. Healy) Date: Tue Jun 10 08:27:05 2008 Subject: [X4U] New iPhone In-Reply-To: <20080610132838.62474246@smtp.mac.com> References: <9DF4EACF-7D1D-4A59-8072-D56494DB4F0F@pandora.be> <6AAE1E00-92BD-422D-86FA-57F0839A0482@macnews.de> <20080610132838.62474246@smtp.mac.com> Message-ID: At 9:28 AM -0400 6/10/08, T.L. Miller wrote: >Yes, in the US, AT&T is subsidizing the iPhone. The new US iPhone prices >make it much cheaper than the similar iPod Touch. In the short term, in the long term it is far more expensive since you have to pay for the AT&T cell plan. I went just short of 10 years with my previous cell phone, and as a result have a *very* cheap plan, I for one am not willing to give that up in order to switch to AT&T. Zane -- | Zane H. Healy | UNIX Systems Administrator | | healyzh@aracnet.com (primary) | OpenVMS Enthusiast | | MONK::HEALYZH (DECnet) | Classic Computer Collector | +----------------------------------+----------------------------+ | Empire of the Petal Throne and Traveller Role Playing, | | PDP-10 Emulation and Zane's Computer Museum. | | http://www.aracnet.com/~healyzh/ | From jwarms at mac.com Tue Jun 10 09:08:24 2008 From: jwarms at mac.com (Jon Warms) Date: Tue Jun 10 09:08:38 2008 Subject: [X4U] Cancelling Mouse Action Message-ID: <6405A073-6BC6-4C6B-A7AE-6C3063BA9A6C@mac.com> From the very first Mac OS, it had been possible to cancel a mouse action by dropping the object in the menu bar. This no longer works, the object is dropped on the window under the menu bar (often the desktop). In other words, you used to be able to change your mind on a click-drag operation by dragging and dropping the object on the menu bar. In Leopard (10.5), is it possible to cancel a mouse action "in flight"? From healyzh at aracnet.com Tue Jun 10 09:22:23 2008 From: healyzh at aracnet.com (Zane H. Healy) Date: Tue Jun 10 09:22:55 2008 Subject: [X4U] .Mac Homepage Public Folder In-Reply-To: <20080610152238.GB333@Macintosh-2.local> References: <20080606104956.15A282791A68@listserver.themacintoshguy.com> <20080610152238.GB333@Macintosh-2.local> Message-ID: At 10:22 AM -0500 6/10/08, Eugene wrote: >Many apps do poorly with filenames containing underlines. >Even though lots of people prefer to use an underline as >simple replacement for a space character, apps tend to see >the underline as another alphanumeric character and fails >to see it as a word delimiter. By default, just about every >Unix editor does this (including vi and emacs) as well as >most GUI apps. That is interesting as I've used the underbar for half of forever on UNIX, VMS, Windows, various versions of the Mac Operating systems, and a bunch of other OS's. I've NEVER had a single problem with any program using it. I would be interested in knowing exactly what you're trying to describe here. Zane -- | Zane H. Healy | UNIX Systems Administrator | | healyzh@aracnet.com (primary) | OpenVMS Enthusiast | | MONK::HEALYZH (DECnet) | Classic Computer Collector | +----------------------------------+----------------------------+ | Empire of the Petal Throne and Traveller Role Playing, | | PDP-10 Emulation and Zane's Computer Museum. | | http://www.aracnet.com/~healyzh/ | From douglist at macnauchtan.com Tue Jun 10 13:11:10 2008 From: douglist at macnauchtan.com (Doug McNutt) Date: Tue Jun 10 13:12:16 2008 Subject: [X4U] .Mac Homepage Public Folder In-Reply-To: References: <20080606104956.15A282791A68@listserver.themacintoshguy.com> <20080610152238.GB333@Macintosh-2.local> Message-ID: At 09:22 -0700 6/10/08, Zane H. Healy wrote: >At 10:22 AM -0500 6/10/08, Eugene wrote: >>Many apps do poorly with filenames containing underlines. >>Even though lots of people prefer to use an underline as >>simple replacement for a space character, apps tend to see >>the underline as another alphanumeric character and fails >>to see it as a word delimiter. By default, just about every >>Unix editor does this (including vi and emacs) as well as >>most GUI apps. > >That is interesting as I've used the underbar for half of forever on UNIX, VMS, Windows, various versions of the Mac Operating systems, and a bunch of other OS's. I've NEVER had a single problem with any program using it. I would be interested in knowing exactly what you're trying to describe here. > >Zane The point is that the underline character IS NOT a delimiter. In UNIX it's used in place of the space that IS a delimiter. The whole point is to distinguish different file names in a list without having to quote filenames or escape each space that's part of a file name. I think Zane would like to see an example of some English text which does use the underscore as a delimiter. Something like underscore as a unary minus operator in APL, for instance. -- --> The best programming tool is a soldering iron <-- From jessup at san.rr.com Tue Jun 10 18:22:32 2008 From: jessup at san.rr.com (Daly Jessup) Date: Tue Jun 10 18:58:58 2008 Subject: [X4U] .Mac Homepage Public Folder In-Reply-To: <20080610152238.GB333@Macintosh-2.local> References: <20080606104956.15A282791A68@listserver.themacintoshguy.co m> <20080610152238.GB333@Macintosh-2.local> Message-ID: Eugene wrote: >Many apps do poorly with filenames containing underlines. >Even though lots of people prefer to use an underline as >simple replacement for a space character, apps tend to see >the underline as another alphanumeric character and fails >to see it as a word delimiter. By default, just about every >Unix editor does this (including vi and emacs) as well as >most GUI apps. This surprises me. I've worked in Unix at a very light level, but still, Unix, for the last 20 years. I still don't know any Unix except to kind of navigate around and copy things and stuff like that, but I have never run into a problem with underlines. Is this a particular "flavor" of Unix you are talking about? But anyway, okay, if there's some flavor that doesn't like underlines, then maybe it's safer to stick with hyphens for all separators? Daly ---------------------- From edgould1948 at comcast.net Tue Jun 10 21:37:18 2008 From: edgould1948 at comcast.net (Ed Gould) Date: Tue Jun 10 21:41:14 2008 Subject: [X4U] Apple Cracks down on IPHONE hackers Message-ID: <6EEDC634-5BC7-4EA2-AFF1-3D545DF577E8@comcast.net> An anonymous reader writes "It looks like Apple and its wireless operator partners have finally [0]figured out a way of cracking down on iPhone unlockers by making it a requirement to sign up for a contract before you can get your hands one. "It's obvious why this has happened though. This method means you're tied into a contract, or you're paying O2 and Apple a massive wad of cash for the privilege of owning a 3G iPhone. We're disappointed about this decision, but it does make business sense." Both ATT in the US and O2 in the UK are [1]implementing the new activation system on Jul