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2006 / WebDAV on external ethernet HDD?

« on: July 26, 2006, 04:01:41 AM »

Hey Chris.

Thanks. I already have WebDAV running on my PowerMac. It works nicely, but when the Mac is shut down, the files aren't available.

You point with apache is a good one. Didn't think about it. So probably, that won't be possible.
And does anyone know of iCal hacks/plug-ins to make the calendar file available throught normal LAN?

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2006 / WebDAV on external ethernet HDD?

« on: July 24, 2006, 07:12:58 AM »

I want to share an iCal calendar on my local network. However, since my webhost doesn't support WebDAV, I don't have a local file server and I don't let my computers run 24/7, I was wondering if it was possible (somehow) to make WebDAV work on an external ethernet HDD.

At the moment I am running WebDAV on my PowerMac. Since I am about to purchase the Lacie d2 ethernet mini 250GB HDD, I thought it was nice to use the HDD for the shared iCal calendar. Or are there iCal plug-ins to enable other network protocolls (others than WebDAV)?

Any ideas?

Thanks!

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2006 / Multiple Users: Login without password

« on: July 19, 2006, 09:07:47 AM »

QUOTE(kps @ Jul 16 2006, 06:16 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

If I understand you correctly, you just want to click the user name in the login screen and go directly to their respective desktop?

That's how I would like it the be. If it's needs hacking the system, it won't be worth the hassle.


gunug, I would like to keep the password for software installation, So that wouldn't be the way I would like it to have.



Hey kelly. How are you doing?
The board is blasting fast. Great!

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2006 / Multiple Users: Login without password

« on: July 16, 2006, 09:56:26 AM »

Hi all.

I have to users on my PowerMac. What I would like is, that on the login screen, there's no password request. There's nothing to hide, just different settings, so I find it unneccessary to check for the password.

Is there a way to disable the password check on login?

Thanks!

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2004 / "Gimp" Scan for scanners?

« on: February 07, 2004, 04:54:59 AM »

You might wanna try Silverfast. The HP 5300cse is not specifically mentioned, but the 5100c is, so perhaps it is compatible.

I haven't tried Silverfast myself, yet, but it was recommend by Heidelberg (my scanner manufacturer) after they discontinued the development of their scanning software.

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2004 / Very OT: I love you in 10 languages

« on: January 31, 2004, 07:51:35 AM »

QUOTE(ejc @ Jan 31 2004, 6:55 AM)

Hi,

Your referenced site gives "Russian - Ya tebya liubliu".

By chance I have met quite a few Russians over the years. Their alphabet is, of course cyrillic, but if a Russian speaks the phrase "I love you" it comes out as "Ya lyublyu tibya". Even allowing for the change into Roman characters one can see that their word order is not the same as your source.

Peace

eric j

 Yep. That's true.
The words are in the wrong order.

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2004 / ibook memory upgrade

« on: January 29, 2004, 03:33:06 PM »

Upgrading RAM is extremely simple.

Here's a movie:

http://www.info.apple.com/usen/cip/html/ib...ry.cip.mov.html

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2004 / The almost forgotten artist

« on: January 28, 2004, 03:05:50 PM »

Yes indeed.
She was a very important person for the Macintosh GUI.
Among other things, she designed the famous DogCow Clarus (in the Cario font).

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2004 / Players

« on: January 28, 2004, 09:06:59 AM »

MPlayer is the best player available.

http://mplayerosx.sourceforge.net/

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2004 / Keynote Link

« on: January 06, 2004, 04:15:07 PM »

Pretty disappointing.

Garageband is cool, no doubt, but I have no use for it. Hence, I won't pay the $49.

Final Cut Express 2 - don't do video editing (and if I did, iMovie would be good enough).

New version of iPhoto - I don't even own a digital camera (although I am heavily thinking about buying one).

New version of iDVD - my Macs don't have a SuperDrive.

New iPod mini - That one really annoys me! I was hoping for a ~$150 iPod. Not a tiny 4 GB 250 bucks iPod! The normal iPod is small enough in my opinion. Just not the price. Therefore, my plans to buy an iPod are on ice again.

And why did they discontinue the 10 GB iPod? Instead of re-releasing the 15GB model for the same price, they could have kept the 10GB model and give a discount of perhaps $50 or $75 or so!

XServe G5? Cool. But for an individual completely senseless and way too expensive. Although I like the rack-enclosure better than the G5 tower. Makes it look a lot more powerful!

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2004 / Keynote Link

« on: January 06, 2004, 11:29:30 AM »

Also http://www.macrumors.com

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2004 / iPod Battery?

« on: January 05, 2004, 11:06:58 AM »

I thought this website was pretty good.

It covers most of the current issues of the iPod battery.


Personally, I believe that just because a couple of devices fail doesn't mean that the entire product is bad.

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2004 / PM5500 keeps ejecting CD-ROM

« on: January 05, 2004, 11:03:46 AM »

A 48x TDK was fine. I didn't try anything else yet.

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2004 / PM5500 keeps ejecting CD-ROM

« on: January 05, 2004, 08:00:29 AM »

QUOTE

It could be the brand of CD blank.
The old CD-Rom in the 5500 may be very sensitive to the newer fast-burned CDRs and it just doesn't like the Samsung?

I'll buy a different brand and try again. I don't know at what speed the TDK was burnt, but it was also a 48x CD-R media.

QUOTE

Assuming  that the drive is an Apple original and running on Apple drivers?

Yes. Both.

QUOTE

Or, shot in the dark here, is File Exchange extension activated on her system?

The extension is definitely activated. I didn't touch the extensions after the installation and I am 99.9% sure she didn't either.

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2004 / PM5500 keeps ejecting CD-ROM

« on: January 05, 2004, 05:07:24 AM »

I have a rather strange problem with the PM5500 of my sister.

When I re-installed the OS a week ago (MacOS 9.1, all minor updates installed), I backuped all of her stuff via network. Unfortunately, I forgot some files and the computer was already back at her place. So I simply burned them on a CD-R disk.

However, when I now try to insert the disk into the 5500, the disk is ejected instantly without even appearing on the desktop. I first thought that something went wrong while buring the disk, but in my computers, it works perfectly and burning the CD again didn't help either. I really can't think of a reason, since if the CD was the problem, I'd expect the system to tell me (something like "can't read the disk. do you want to initialize it?"). But that doesn't happen.

I also thought that it might be the fault of the CD-Rs (Samsung 48x), perhaps because they are 48x speed. But a 48x TDK worked (not mine).

Anyone have an idea what the problem is?

Thanks!