I had the Application Enhancer running as well as Fruit Menu. AE was used to turn off the brushed metal appearance on Safari, but I reverted to using Camino again anyhow. I have a feeling AE was causing it by touching X11 when it shouldn't have. I also disabled Fruit Menu, and am not sure if I am going to reinstall either one. Running my X11 apps in a stable enviornment is more important then rearranging my Apple menu or undoing the stupid UI design decisions Apple has been doing lately.
I had similar issues, and sent my crash log to someone at Apple to look at. A few hours later, I had the response of "stop unsanity from patching X11". Aka, one of the hacks to OS X that I installed from Unsanity.com was causing problems. I pulled all of them out, and the last beta started working fine.
I need to send the crash log over to those folks so they can narrow down what was happening.
I recently loaded a new system using a slipstreamed XP SP1 disc, and was having no luck joining my Samba domain with 2.2.7a. I tried the registry patches included for both 2.2.7a and TNG, and had no luck, kept getting odd errors. I downloaded and compiled 2.2.8, wiped my computer name from smbpasswd and passwd, and had no problems. So there is more to gain from the upgrade then just security.
The T68i can go three days with Bluetooth on, but not active. Hooking it into something like this quickly drains power. My phone was fully charged this morning, and after all day today it is now down to the yellow area of the battery, and states 17h of standby time left.
It is a cool idea though. I'm working on having my leave area script lock both my Mac, and the XP PC next to it. I just need to decide the best way to script the telnet session to the XP box without leaving my password open for anyone to see. Anyone know how to send NTLM authentication to the XP Telnet server?
Installed it on my G4 Cube Thursday when it was released, and it didn't touch my dock, break the clock, or do anything else wrong. It didn't even remove my Jaguar style X from the About This Mac screen like most of the other OS X updates.
I'd like to archive some of my IMAP mail into a subfolder called "archive" with a duplicate tree layout under it. Anyone know an easy way to do this, while keeping mail that is not X days old where it is.
No, really, it is for the modern LAN gamer. Many are realising their huge ass 10 bay tower cases are a pain to haul around. So people are looking at cases like the Shuttle XPC series to cure this issue. And a GeForce FX high end card will not fit in one, due to the AGP slot being the second slot in the system.
Of course the FX dosen't really impress me all that much. Nothing solid has been released in the way of benchmarks, so I'll continue to enjoy my Radeon 9700 for now. I'll skip whatever replaces the 9700 and the FX, and upgrade with the next gen card. By then, I figure some games might need the power again to run at 1280x960 with all the settings to high.
I know exactly why it's silent. Apple used engineering to build a convection cooling system similar to the one used in all the late model CRT iMacs. It works well, all the way up to 800mHz PowerPCs. Beyond that, upgrade kits do come with a single fan to put in the bottom, but thats there as a precaution only. (Since not all home machines sit in nice 62 degree controlled rooms).
And as far as space, Paramount uses 16 G4 cubes in fairly tight places to drive the displays seen on Enterprise. Unfortunatly the photos are down, but the article is still out there at TrekNation.
Discussions with the local Apple Reseller before I bought my G4 Cube off eBay tended to point to issues with the sensitivity of the power button being the leading problem with the Cubes, and not heat. I've run D.net on my cube 24/7 while it's been in summer heat, and the CPU diode never reached above 72C (Sure, that seems quite hot for a processor, but it's still within limits, and is reported from the chip, and not a diode nearby).
And I'd love to see a melted cube, as lexan takes quite a bit of heat to melt. That, and the fact that a metal shell seperates the lexan from the core of the computer.
Speaking as someone who is posting this from a G4 Cube, it wasn't and isn't that great a machine. All it has for a video connector in the back is an ADC connector
Hmm, odd. Maybe you should look again at this supposed cube you are posting from. All G4 Cubes came from the factory with an ATI Rage 128 with ADC and VGA ports, an ATI Radeon with the same ports, or a GeForce 2 MX with the same ports.
The G4 Cube was an awesome machine. It was nearly as powerful as the high end desktops, but also dead silent. The PC industry is now making machines that try to fit the market of small, powerful, and quiet with Shuttle boxes and such. The Cube died because Apple could not price the thing properly to sell, and never marketed it's main advantages. It didn't die due to any technical fault.
And returning to an On Topic discussion, I see no reason to kill the 17 inch iMac. Talking to a local Apple Reseller, it's still selling like hotcakes. It's the only model in the iMac lineup to offer DVD burning, and more and more people are getting into this.
MY SIM is unlocked last I checked, hmmm... How durable are they? I can see noticible tracks left in the card from being used for a few years now (and being removed out of boredom several times).
Thats somewhat of a pain, but a possibility I suppose.
Same here, this is why my cell phone has been my only phone for the past 4 years. I've had two telemarketers call, both from companies I have services from (Credit card and TV service). Before they even got far into the call, I interrupted them with "Do you know this is a cell phone?" Their response was to apologize and promptly hang up. Telemarketing to cell phones is against the law in the US.
To answer the question of the poster, Vox.Link was another product that worked with the same Nokia phones, plus some Motorola and Ericsson phones. Their website is www.vox2.com, though right now I can't resolve the IP.
Since these devices all seem to be a bit behind modern phones, anyone know if it's possible to have two GSM phones on the same phone number? That way, I can stick the Nokia 5100 into this device, but continue to carry around my small 8200 phone.
"This is what the Empeg software has used for years."
But remember, everyone here thought the empeg was too expensive. Noone ever bothered to stop and think that hardware was not the only cost. The software and remote that is easially usable while driving had to cost something too...
Oh well, I'm happy with my units, and will be for many years to come. With GPS navigation coming into its own on the unit, the dynamic volume compression, and ever developing API and 3rd party programs, the newness of my empeg still has not worn off.
With Presto's demise last week, who knows what will happen to the rights to Journeyman Project 4. The script exists, but not much beyond that. The developers were waiting on permission to make it after Myst III, but instead worked on Whacked for the XBox.
By what I understand, yes Raid 6 is a standard, and has been for a long time. Only recently has it become affordable enough to implement. On Proliant equipment, it's referred to as "Advanced Data Guarding". Basic principal of it is the pairty data is actually two different algorythms, taking up two drives worth of space, and requires 4 drives minimum.
The 5xxx series controllers that support this contain a PowerPC chip for the calculations, instead of the old standard of an Intel i960 (aka 486).
RAID now means Redundant Array of Independant Devices, as more then hard disks use RAID technology now.
For example, a Comp^H^H^H^H HP Proliant DL580 G2 server could have 4 hard drives running RAID 6, Hot Plug memory running RAID 1, and an external 4 tape drive setup running RAID 5.
Nope, one IMAP account in Mail still results in the subfolders being inaccessable.
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I have to agree with Shacknews on this whole Doom 3 issue. Why are major news sites even talking about it? There has probably been a leak of many of the recent games (hell, I saw two different leaks of UT2K3), and no news site talked about those. Why is Doom 3 different? Sure, it's a very hyped game, but spreading news about the illegal alpha complete with links to download it?
In case anyone missed it, the comment above is from one of the lead audio engineers for SonicBlue. (Aka, what was empeg is now the only audio department in SonicBlue now).
The new line of IBM drives (I thought they got out, but apparently not) offer features like 8mb cache, and tag command queuing. While SCSI will still beat IDE in some way or another, IDE is getting closer.
As everyone else has said though, shoehorning IDE into SCSI won't change much. But, it does have one advantage that I can see. It might be cheeper to get one of these converters for an old SCSI system, like older Macs.
*cough* Too bad Apple slapped in higher frequency memory into the new G4s (DDR) without increasing the bandwith to the CPUs.
The x86 platform is faster period. Sure, the PowerPC chips will outpreform the x86 chips when they are evenly clocked. But good old Motorola just can't advance the PowerPC platform, so Apple is reduced to doubling up the CPUs again to try to keep people buying. Hopefully this stall in CPU speed won't last as long as the 500mHz G4 stall did.
As much as I love OS X, it will never gain the market accpetance it needs unless Apple does something drastic soon.
Just curious, is there a way to have Roaming profiles similar to Windows, where it logs in using the server profile, but if it's offline, it uses a local cached copy. Once it's back on the same network as the server, it updates the cache.
This would be nice on a laptop for example that might just be away from the home network at any time.
Apple licensed AOL's instant messaging service, MS tried to steal it.
Hmm, lets spin this another way:
Apple begged AOL to allow iChat to exist without the problems of the protocal changes that killed Trillian for a while, while MS tried to use the same AIM protocal to help unify IM as ordered by the US government when AOL merged with Time Warner. Also, MS has been the only company to actually alert Trillian's creators ahead of time about a server change that might break Trillian.
Oh, and don't forget that iChat and future AIM clients are incompatible with Trillian and other thrid party clients.
Apple has done just about as many nasty things as MS. They just don't have the market share for many people to notice and take action. I love OS X, but I feel it was only born out of competitive necessity.
Every MS OS since 98 supports uPnP addressing. While it won't cure all, it will get rid of the need to set IP addresses. Just set the system to DHCP, and let it time out. It will then have a 169.254 address. Windows boxes on the same network should then also see each other as their names. Same with Mac OS. All these new protocals for easy setup simply add easier finding of resources, but the basic IP part has been there for years.
Compaq Insight Manager allows you to set times of day for different pagers/e-mail addresses, allowing you to either ignore problems at night, or have a second/third(and so on) admin set up.
CIM can be integrated into non CPQ enviornments as well, though it takes a bit of work. It's all free though (as in beer, not speech).
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I had the Application Enhancer running as well as Fruit Menu. AE was used to turn off the brushed metal appearance on Safari, but I reverted to using Camino again anyhow. I have a feeling AE was causing it by touching X11 when it shouldn't have. I also disabled Fruit Menu, and am not sure if I am going to reinstall either one. Running my X11 apps in a stable enviornment is more important then rearranging my Apple menu or undoing the stupid UI design decisions Apple has been doing lately.
I had similar issues, and sent my crash log to someone at Apple to look at. A few hours later, I had the response of "stop unsanity from patching X11". Aka, one of the hacks to OS X that I installed from Unsanity.com was causing problems. I pulled all of them out, and the last beta started working fine.
I need to send the crash log over to those folks so they can narrow down what was happening.
I recently loaded a new system using a slipstreamed XP SP1 disc, and was having no luck joining my Samba domain with 2.2.7a. I tried the registry patches included for both 2.2.7a and TNG, and had no luck, kept getting odd errors. I downloaded and compiled 2.2.8, wiped my computer name from smbpasswd and passwd, and had no problems. So there is more to gain from the upgrade then just security.
No need to use click at, just use:
keystroke return
Though I did need a 3 second delay between the password loop for it to work properly.
The T68i can go three days with Bluetooth on, but not active. Hooking it into something like this quickly drains power. My phone was fully charged this morning, and after all day today it is now down to the yellow area of the battery, and states 17h of standby time left.
It is a cool idea though. I'm working on having my leave area script lock both my Mac, and the XP PC next to it. I just need to decide the best way to script the telnet session to the XP box without leaving my password open for anyone to see. Anyone know how to send NTLM authentication to the XP Telnet server?
Installed it on my G4 Cube Thursday when it was released, and it didn't touch my dock, break the clock, or do anything else wrong. It didn't even remove my Jaguar style X from the About This Mac screen like most of the other OS X updates.
I'd like to archive some of my IMAP mail into a subfolder called "archive" with a duplicate tree layout under it. Anyone know an easy way to do this, while keeping mail that is not X days old where it is.
2 slots NOT a bit deal
No, really, it is for the modern LAN gamer. Many are realising their huge ass 10 bay tower cases are a pain to haul around. So people are looking at cases like the Shuttle XPC series to cure this issue. And a GeForce FX high end card will not fit in one, due to the AGP slot being the second slot in the system.
Of course the FX dosen't really impress me all that much. Nothing solid has been released in the way of benchmarks, so I'll continue to enjoy my Radeon 9700 for now. I'll skip whatever replaces the 9700 and the FX, and upgrade with the next gen card. By then, I figure some games might need the power again to run at 1280x960 with all the settings to high.
I know exactly why it's silent. Apple used engineering to build a convection cooling system similar to the one used in all the late model CRT iMacs. It works well, all the way up to 800mHz PowerPCs. Beyond that, upgrade kits do come with a single fan to put in the bottom, but thats there as a precaution only. (Since not all home machines sit in nice 62 degree controlled rooms).
And as far as space, Paramount uses 16 G4 cubes in fairly tight places to drive the displays seen on Enterprise. Unfortunatly the photos are down, but the article is still out there at TrekNation.
Discussions with the local Apple Reseller before I bought my G4 Cube off eBay tended to point to issues with the sensitivity of the power button being the leading problem with the Cubes, and not heat. I've run D.net on my cube 24/7 while it's been in summer heat, and the CPU diode never reached above 72C (Sure, that seems quite hot for a processor, but it's still within limits, and is reported from the chip, and not a diode nearby).
And I'd love to see a melted cube, as lexan takes quite a bit of heat to melt. That, and the fact that a metal shell seperates the lexan from the core of the computer.
Speaking as someone who is posting this from a G4 Cube, it wasn't and isn't that great a machine. All it has for a video connector in the back is an ADC connector
Hmm, odd. Maybe you should look again at this supposed cube you are posting from. All G4 Cubes came from the factory with an ATI Rage 128 with ADC and VGA ports, an ATI Radeon with the same ports, or a GeForce 2 MX with the same ports.
The G4 Cube was an awesome machine. It was nearly as powerful as the high end desktops, but also dead silent. The PC industry is now making machines that try to fit the market of small, powerful, and quiet with Shuttle boxes and such. The Cube died because Apple could not price the thing properly to sell, and never marketed it's main advantages. It didn't die due to any technical fault.
And returning to an On Topic discussion, I see no reason to kill the 17 inch iMac. Talking to a local Apple Reseller, it's still selling like hotcakes. It's the only model in the iMac lineup to offer DVD burning, and more and more people are getting into this.
MY SIM is unlocked last I checked, hmmm... How durable are they? I can see noticible tracks left in the card from being used for a few years now (and being removed out of boredom several times).
Thats somewhat of a pain, but a possibility I suppose.
I HATE telemarketers.
Same here, this is why my cell phone has been my only phone for the past 4 years. I've had two telemarketers call, both from companies I have services from (Credit card and TV service). Before they even got far into the call, I interrupted them with "Do you know this is a cell phone?" Their response was to apologize and promptly hang up. Telemarketing to cell phones is against the law in the US.
To answer the question of the poster, Vox.Link was another product that worked with the same Nokia phones, plus some Motorola and Ericsson phones. Their website is www.vox2.com, though right now I can't resolve the IP.
Since these devices all seem to be a bit behind modern phones, anyone know if it's possible to have two GSM phones on the same phone number? That way, I can stick the Nokia 5100 into this device, but continue to carry around my small 8200 phone.
"This is what the Empeg software has used for years."
But remember, everyone here thought the empeg was too expensive. Noone ever bothered to stop and think that hardware was not the only cost. The software and remote that is easially usable while driving had to cost something too...
Oh well, I'm happy with my units, and will be for many years to come. With GPS navigation coming into its own on the unit, the dynamic volume compression, and ever developing API and 3rd party programs, the newness of my empeg still has not worn off.
With Presto's demise last week, who knows what will happen to the rights to Journeyman Project 4. The script exists, but not much beyond that. The developers were waiting on permission to make it after Myst III, but instead worked on Whacked for the XBox.
By what I understand, yes Raid 6 is a standard, and has been for a long time. Only recently has it become affordable enough to implement. On Proliant equipment, it's referred to as "Advanced Data Guarding". Basic principal of it is the pairty data is actually two different algorythms, taking up two drives worth of space, and requires 4 drives minimum.
The 5xxx series controllers that support this contain a PowerPC chip for the calculations, instead of the old standard of an Intel i960 (aka 486).
RAID now means Redundant Array of Independant Devices, as more then hard disks use RAID technology now.
For example, a Comp^H^H^H^H HP Proliant DL580 G2 server could have 4 hard drives running RAID 6, Hot Plug memory running RAID 1, and an external 4 tape drive setup running RAID 5.
Nope, one IMAP account in Mail still results in the subfolders being inaccessable.
I have to agree with Shacknews on this whole Doom 3 issue. Why are major news sites even talking about it? There has probably been a leak of many of the recent games (hell, I saw two different leaks of UT2K3), and no news site talked about those. Why is Doom 3 different? Sure, it's a very hyped game, but spreading news about the illegal alpha complete with links to download it?
In case anyone missed it, the comment above is from one of the lead audio engineers for SonicBlue. (Aka, what was empeg is now the only audio department in SonicBlue now).
The new line of IBM drives (I thought they got out, but apparently not) offer features like 8mb cache, and tag command queuing. While SCSI will still beat IDE in some way or another, IDE is getting closer.
As everyone else has said though, shoehorning IDE into SCSI won't change much. But, it does have one advantage that I can see. It might be cheeper to get one of these converters for an old SCSI system, like older Macs.
They confuse frequency with bandwidth.
*cough* Too bad Apple slapped in higher frequency memory into the new G4s (DDR) without increasing the bandwith to the CPUs.
The x86 platform is faster period. Sure, the PowerPC chips will outpreform the x86 chips when they are evenly clocked. But good old Motorola just can't advance the PowerPC platform, so Apple is reduced to doubling up the CPUs again to try to keep people buying. Hopefully this stall in CPU speed won't last as long as the 500mHz G4 stall did.
As much as I love OS X, it will never gain the market accpetance it needs unless Apple does something drastic soon.
Just curious, is there a way to have Roaming profiles similar to Windows, where it logs in using the server profile, but if it's offline, it uses a local cached copy. Once it's back on the same network as the server, it updates the cache.
This would be nice on a laptop for example that might just be away from the home network at any time.
Apple licensed AOL's instant messaging service, MS tried to steal it.
Hmm, lets spin this another way:
Apple begged AOL to allow iChat to exist without the problems of the protocal changes that killed Trillian for a while, while MS tried to use the same AIM protocal to help unify IM as ordered by the US government when AOL merged with Time Warner. Also, MS has been the only company to actually alert Trillian's creators ahead of time about a server change that might break Trillian.
Oh, and don't forget that iChat and future AIM clients are incompatible with Trillian and other thrid party clients.
Apple has done just about as many nasty things as MS. They just don't have the market share for many people to notice and take action. I love OS X, but I feel it was only born out of competitive necessity.
Every MS OS since 98 supports uPnP addressing. While it won't cure all, it will get rid of the need to set IP addresses. Just set the system to DHCP, and let it time out. It will then have a 169.254 address. Windows boxes on the same network should then also see each other as their names. Same with Mac OS. All these new protocals for easy setup simply add easier finding of resources, but the basic IP part has been there for years.
Compaq Insight Manager allows you to set times of day for different pagers/e-mail addresses, allowing you to either ignore problems at night, or have a second/third(and so on) admin set up.
CIM can be integrated into non CPQ enviornments as well, though it takes a bit of work. It's all free though (as in beer, not speech).