MacOS X a dog or just in need of a good bitch slap?
Dr Phred
(Moderator)
– December 10, 2007 10:05AM
Can't keep a good topic down....
-Swine Flu free since...cough, cough...
bahamut
– February 16, 2008 05:00AM
so wtf is going on here? all of these news stories (
http://www.mariasguides.com/2008/02/14/mac-os-x-1052-adds-dvd-or-cd-sharing/ ) say that 10.5.2 adds disk sharing for any mac. yes, i can see it does. but i want to borrow my 10.5.2 mini's dvd drive for my optical driveless mbp. i put in a cd but i don't see it appear on my desktop. how is this supposed to work? eh? there's no documentation i can finde.
Dr Phred
(Moderator)
– February 16, 2008 05:56AM
-Swine Flu free since...cough, cough...
bad articles. Apparently the sharing only works to connect to a Macbook Air.
El Jeffe
– February 16, 2008 06:24AM
What a journey.
what is or was that freeware sharing software? I used to use it a long time ago. Share or points or something.
This looks like what I used to use.
http://www.hornware.com/sharepoints
Is that what you're looking for?
What a journey.
Cloudscout
– February 16, 2008 06:56AM
˙pɹɐoqʎǝʞ ʎɯ ɥʇıʍ ƃuoɹʍ ƃuıɥʇǝɯos sı ǝɹǝɥʇ ʞuıɥʇ ı ?ɹǝʇndɯoɔ ʎɯ ɥʇıʍ ǝɯ dlǝɥ ǝuoǝɯos uɐɔ
Leopard lets you customize your shared directories without third party tools now.
El Jeffe
– February 16, 2008 08:23AM
What a journey.
I know, but I thought if it was buggy, that might still be viable.
What a journey.
El Jeffe
– February 16, 2008 08:42AM
What a journey.
I'm just now finding/exploring and enjoying the ability to capture web page 'parts' into the dashboard. Now, one downside, I snapped a shot of a streaming audio link at the BBC, but it only plays when dashboard widgets are up/visible. Anyway to make the dashboard thingies persistent, on the desktop let's say, and toggle them present/hidden?
What a journey.
bahamut
– February 16, 2008 06:25PM
An Apple genius once told me that it was a bad idea to use the dashboard since it slowed down macs too much. He suggested avoiding installing any widgets and deactivating any that are curretly enabled.
El Jeffe
– February 16, 2008 06:37PM
What a journey.
that's just brilliant. don't use a major 'selling' point, eh?
WAIT!
Okay, I just happened to peek behind the widget of the audio clip. It actually has a checkbox to play audio ONLY in dashboard (or not). Hey, it works now. My bad.
What a journey.
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 02/16/2008 06:40PM by El Jeffe.
Cloudscout
– February 17, 2008 01:20PM
˙pɹɐoqʎǝʞ ʎɯ ɥʇıʍ ƃuoɹʍ ƃuıɥʇǝɯos sı ǝɹǝɥʇ ʞuıɥʇ ı ?ɹǝʇndɯoɔ ʎɯ ɥʇıʍ ǝɯ dlǝɥ ǝuoǝɯos uɐɔ
Wonderful.
I guess my video card just isn't compatible with Leopard... and since I didn't discover the problem until after the warranty was up on my machine, I have to pay for a new card.
I hate you, Steve.
Madaracs
– February 18, 2008 11:52AM
Ooh! Scary! Scary! Don't we look mean? You can't see me! But I can see you!
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Cloudscout
I hate you, Steve.
Yeah, me too! Steve!
Dr. Strangelove
– February 19, 2008 07:57AM
baha, there's an ongoing thread on the TidBITS Talk mailing list called "beachballitis" where people are discussing problems similar to yours. Someone posted this today:
I've found the two big causes of BeachBallitis for me have been that it's dwindling free space on my startup drive, which doesn't sound like a problem in your case, or, a few times, it was a disguised case of TooManyFontitis.
How many fonts do you have installed? I had hundreds installed and couldn't figure out why my machine was running so slow; disabling all but the essential fonts solved my problem.
I seem to recall you have lots of fonts installed? Maybe that's part of what's going on.
Madaracs
– February 20, 2008 03:01PM
Ooh! Scary! Scary! Don't we look mean? You can't see me! But I can see you!
The last update for my Mac caused it to hang for about 1 minute 30 with no movement from the little progress wheel. It finally completed but it was a bit scary.
El Jeffe
– February 20, 2008 03:12PM
What a journey.
I'm still amazed at what my kids' G3 gumdrops can do. I just updated Tiger again tonight on one of them. Not bad for such old systems.
What a journey.
El Jeffe
– February 22, 2008 06:47AM
What a journey.
Sophos (antivirus) podcast concerning Mac OS X vulnerabilities.
http://podcasts.sophos.com/en/sophos-podcasts-026.mp3
Comments? This guy sounds like he's crying wolf. No proof of anything.
What a journey.
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 02/22/2008 06:48AM by El Jeffe.
bahamut
– February 22, 2008 04:49PM
thanks for the tidbits talk link although i have 30gb available and not that many fonts...
going to get a new drive tomorrow and see how it goes.
Cloudscout
– March 01, 2008 06:30PM
˙pɹɐoqʎǝʞ ʎɯ ɥʇıʍ ƃuoɹʍ ƃuıɥʇǝɯos sı ǝɹǝɥʇ ʞuıɥʇ ı ?ɹǝʇndɯoɔ ʎɯ ɥʇıʍ ǝɯ dlǝɥ ǝuoǝɯos uɐɔ
Interesting. You can hook up an external USB drive to a Time Capsule box and use it for backup.
Still can't back up to a USB drive on an AirPort Extreme, though.
ddt
– March 01, 2008 07:21PM
can you designate the internal TC drive for backing up one computer, and the attached USB drive for backing another computer on the same network?
dd
johnny k
– March 03, 2008 06:40AM
ddt, I would say almost certainly, as it's something that each client chooses. When you select a backup volume from the Time Machine preference panel, it recognizes the Time Capsule, and then you choose a drive under it.
Baha, yeah, since it just keeps backups in normal browseable folders, doesn't seem a big deal to just copy over to another drive. Though if it's over the network, it's slooow... would be nice if you could designate an attached drive as a backup-backup that it automatically dumps to (with full USB2.0 speed) every so often, or whenever it's attached. Or am I asking for a mirrored RAID 1?
Simon
– March 06, 2008 02:54PM
Now that apple has bit the bullet and licensed activesync, do you think they will roll that functionality into the full mac os x versions of those apps? I think it would be a smart thing to do and will definitely give them a boost in the enterprise market.
