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2007 / The Rumor Mill: Less than a 867MHz G4 won't run Leopard!
« on: September 26, 2007, 12:45:39 AM »
Never fear, I am confident XPostFacto will be updated to allow Leopard to run on some older Macs.
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2006 / Need to make Mac web browser identify itself to FTP server as Windows
« on: September 09, 2006, 07:14:03 PM »QUOTE(D76 @ Sep 9 2006, 02:55 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Contact the guy again to find out whether he's got the thing set up to require Active X. If he does, no browser spoof will work.
I suspect he may not know whether or not this is the case.
Thank you, Paddy, I will try Safari Enhancer.
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2006 / Need to make Mac web browser identify itself to FTP server as Windows
« on: September 09, 2006, 01:36:51 PM »
Hello, I'm back.
I've run into a problem at work. I need to transfer files back and forth with a remote server that only wants to communicate with a Windows machine doing FTP through Internet Explorer. I have tried doing FTP with Internet Explorer on the Mac, other FTP programs on the Mac, and other FTP programs on Windows. Nothing works except Internet Explorer on a Windows machine, which works perfectly. I don't know why this is. Neither does the owner of the server, but as it is necessary for his business and since it is working satisfactorally for him as it is, he refuses to monkey with something he does not understand.
As arguing with weather produces no results, I have been doing this the way the server wants and have been using Internet Explorer on a Windows machine at work to do any necessary transfers with this server. Soon, though, I may need to be able to do these transfers from my home. I do not want to buy a Windows box just to do these file transfers. I thought I had read before that there was a way to make Safari or some other Mac browser identify itself to servers as a different browser or platform. Does anyone know if it is possible for one to pass itself off as Windows Internet Explorer? This might be all I need to get this job done.
Thank you. And how has everyone else been?
Andrew Gapstr.
I've run into a problem at work. I need to transfer files back and forth with a remote server that only wants to communicate with a Windows machine doing FTP through Internet Explorer. I have tried doing FTP with Internet Explorer on the Mac, other FTP programs on the Mac, and other FTP programs on Windows. Nothing works except Internet Explorer on a Windows machine, which works perfectly. I don't know why this is. Neither does the owner of the server, but as it is necessary for his business and since it is working satisfactorally for him as it is, he refuses to monkey with something he does not understand.
As arguing with weather produces no results, I have been doing this the way the server wants and have been using Internet Explorer on a Windows machine at work to do any necessary transfers with this server. Soon, though, I may need to be able to do these transfers from my home. I do not want to buy a Windows box just to do these file transfers. I thought I had read before that there was a way to make Safari or some other Mac browser identify itself to servers as a different browser or platform. Does anyone know if it is possible for one to pass itself off as Windows Internet Explorer? This might be all I need to get this job done.
Thank you. And how has everyone else been?
Andrew Gapstr.
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2004 / Graphite iMac DV's Internal CD/DVD has died.
« on: January 25, 2004, 09:51:49 PM »
Someone recently gave me a Pacific Digital X-treme 52, 52x24x52x external USB CD/RW drive. It works out of the box as a read-only drive, no additional drivers needed with OS 10.2.8. This is good, because without a CD drive I couldn't load any drivers anyway! It's not bootable, but it's better than nothing. It would be nice to be able to burn CDs with it, but when a blank CD is inserted a dialogue box comes up asking what I want to do with that disk, open with Finder, iTunes, or DiskCopy, each of which in turn tell me the drive is not suppurted by that application.
The CDs that come with this drive have no Mac drivers and Pacific Digital's website does not seem to have anything suggesting any Mac support for this model exists. But it can read CDs, which means the Mac recognizes its existence, partly knows what to do with it, and can communicate with it. It isn't a piece of completely unrecognized hardware.
So does anyone have any suggestions as to how I might be able to get the iMac to be able to use the writing capabilities of this drive?
Thank you,
Andrew Gapstr.
The CDs that come with this drive have no Mac drivers and Pacific Digital's website does not seem to have anything suggesting any Mac support for this model exists. But it can read CDs, which means the Mac recognizes its existence, partly knows what to do with it, and can communicate with it. It isn't a piece of completely unrecognized hardware.
So does anyone have any suggestions as to how I might be able to get the iMac to be able to use the writing capabilities of this drive?
Thank you,
Andrew Gapstr.
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Nice forum! (atmosphere-like) Bernie 'sent' me, told me I could like it here and it was a better deal than bying 'mac 4 dummy' books as I intended!
Hi Stef,
While the people in this group have been an invaluable resource and great friends to me from the beginnings of this forum (and even earlier, at that other place), I also can not recommend Macs for Dummies highly enough. The author, David Pogue, is one of the sharpest knives in the drawer regarding mac problems and how to solve them, and he has an entertaining, easy to read style. I recommend getting a copy of Macs for Dummies or his Missing Manual for whatever OS you are using, or some similar book such as The Macintosh Bible if you find another one you prefer. This is because someday, sooner or later, you may run across a problem preventing you from booting up or getting online and getting help here. When that happens, you'll be glad to have that book in your hands.
Happy New Year,
Andrew Gapstr.
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2004 / Graphite iMac DV's Internal CD/DVD has died.
« on: December 19, 2003, 12:06:58 PM »
External Firewire sounds good to me. I just need to be sure that I can use it to boot from a startup CD if need be, preferably into both OS 9 and OS X. I don't really care about DVD capability, but a drive that can write to RW disks would be useful.
If anyone out there has such an External Firewire CDRW drive, would you please try an experiment for me: insert a system startup disk in it and select that drive as your startup drive. Then power off your Mac and restart it, and see if it will boot up from the CD. Powering off is important because some drives, such as my ZIP drive, will not boot up from a full cold start, but will allow a Mac to restart from it if it is selected as a startup disk and the Mac is restarted without powering off. I need to be sure that if I ever need to start up cold from a CD that I am not SOL. If you can (or can not) do this with your external Firewire drive, please reply here and let me know which drive you have.
Thank you,
A. G.
If anyone out there has such an External Firewire CDRW drive, would you please try an experiment for me: insert a system startup disk in it and select that drive as your startup drive. Then power off your Mac and restart it, and see if it will boot up from the CD. Powering off is important because some drives, such as my ZIP drive, will not boot up from a full cold start, but will allow a Mac to restart from it if it is selected as a startup disk and the Mac is restarted without powering off. I need to be sure that if I ever need to start up cold from a CD that I am not SOL. If you can (or can not) do this with your external Firewire drive, please reply here and let me know which drive you have.
Thank you,
A. G.
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2004 / Graphite iMac DV's Internal CD/DVD has died.
« on: December 18, 2003, 12:15:20 PM »
The slot-loading CD/DVD read-only drive in my graphite iMac has died. I'd appreciate recommendations for replacements. The way I see it, I have two options:
1. Replace the internal drive. I have opened up beige Macs to do this sort of transplant surgery, but this seems to be a very different matter with non-flatscreen iMacs. I don't want to break the case. Is this something that can be disassembled then reasembled with a reasonable chance of success? Are bootable replacement drives that will fit and work here readily available from Apple or third party sources? As long as I have to replace this anyway, a writeable drive would be nice. Will installing a CDRW drive internally work on an iMac which originally only had a read-only drive?
2. Get an external USB or Firewire CDRW. This would certainly be easier than opening up the case, but I do need a bootable drive. Are there any available that anyone can recommend?
Thank you in advance for your help in this time of difficulty.
Merry Christmas,
Andrew Gapstr.
1. Replace the internal drive. I have opened up beige Macs to do this sort of transplant surgery, but this seems to be a very different matter with non-flatscreen iMacs. I don't want to break the case. Is this something that can be disassembled then reasembled with a reasonable chance of success? Are bootable replacement drives that will fit and work here readily available from Apple or third party sources? As long as I have to replace this anyway, a writeable drive would be nice. Will installing a CDRW drive internally work on an iMac which originally only had a read-only drive?
2. Get an external USB or Firewire CDRW. This would certainly be easier than opening up the case, but I do need a bootable drive. Are there any available that anyone can recommend?
Thank you in advance for your help in this time of difficulty.
Merry Christmas,
Andrew Gapstr.
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2003 / Thunderbird.
« on: November 13, 2003, 03:08:18 PM »
I thought this was going to be about this.
Thunderbird., If you haven't tried it and have a.......
I don't want to know!
A. G.
Thunderbird., If you haven't tried it and have a.......
I don't want to know!
A. G.
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2003 / OT: Wristband Phone
« on: November 08, 2003, 07:11:03 AM »QUOTE(krissel @ Nov 6 2003, 10:14 PM)
Well now, that brings new meaning to "stick it in your ear".
Or "Talk to the hand."
A. G.
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2003 / OT: Guess the picture
« on: November 05, 2003, 03:16:53 PM »
It looks like a paired-string instrument, but all the strings look to be the same diameter, so it's not a 12-string guitar. I think lutes have five string pairs, but I don't know if they are all the same diameter. Hammer dulcimers have single strings that double back, creating an effective double string. But neither lutes nor hammer dulcimers are bowed, I think. Some viols have paired strings, but I think their strings are of different diameters.
Just thinking out loud, as it were. I'm probably no closer here than I was with the burnt wire and the cobwebs.
A. G.
Just thinking out loud, as it were. I'm probably no closer here than I was with the burnt wire and the cobwebs.
A. G.
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2003 / FCC enforcing Do Not Call List
« on: November 04, 2003, 09:37:13 AM »
Dave Barry wrote about telemarketers recently. You can read the whole column here.
excerpt:
A. G.
excerpt:
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...In August, I wrote a column about the National Do Not Call Registry , which allows you to go to an Internet site (www.donotcall.gov) and register your phone number. The plan is that most telemarketers would then be prohibited from calling you.
...in my August column, I printed the toll-free telephone number of one of these groups, the American Teleservices Association.... It turned out that a lot of you were eager to call up the telemarketing industry. Thousands and thousands of you called the ATA.... I would have called the ATA myself to express my feelings, but the ATA finally had to disconnect its phone number.
Really.
...I don't know what the legal status of the Do Not Call registry will be when you read this column. But it appears that the telemarketers plan to continue their efforts to save the planet by fighting for the right to call people who do not want to be called.
I realize that this makes many of you angry. I realize that many of you would like to, once again, let the telemarketers know how you feel. And I am, frankly, tempted to reveal to you here that the American Teleservices Association (www.ataconnect.org/) seems to have a phone line working (at least for now) at 317-816-9336.
But would it be right to reveal this? I mean, yes, you could call the ATA again. But the ATA surely doesn't WANT you to call again. It's inconvenient! And to insist on calling somebody who doesnt want to be called, even if you have the legal right to call, well, that's just plain rude....
...in my August column, I printed the toll-free telephone number of one of these groups, the American Teleservices Association.... It turned out that a lot of you were eager to call up the telemarketing industry. Thousands and thousands of you called the ATA.... I would have called the ATA myself to express my feelings, but the ATA finally had to disconnect its phone number.
Really.
...I don't know what the legal status of the Do Not Call registry will be when you read this column. But it appears that the telemarketers plan to continue their efforts to save the planet by fighting for the right to call people who do not want to be called.
I realize that this makes many of you angry. I realize that many of you would like to, once again, let the telemarketers know how you feel. And I am, frankly, tempted to reveal to you here that the American Teleservices Association (www.ataconnect.org/) seems to have a phone line working (at least for now) at 317-816-9336.
But would it be right to reveal this? I mean, yes, you could call the ATA again. But the ATA surely doesn't WANT you to call again. It's inconvenient! And to insist on calling somebody who doesnt want to be called, even if you have the legal right to call, well, that's just plain rude....
A. G.
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2003 / OT: Guess the picture
« on: November 03, 2003, 09:28:27 AM »
It looks like an old cloth-insulated electrical wire.
And it looks like it's been in a fire, but not recently, as the spiders have had ample time to build some egg-coccoon webs on it, and the little spiders have already hatched and gone.
A. G.
And it looks like it's been in a fire, but not recently, as the spiders have had ample time to build some egg-coccoon webs on it, and the little spiders have already hatched and gone.
A. G.
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2003 / Panther First Impressions
« on: October 29, 2003, 11:06:59 AM »QUOTE(giantmike @ Oct 26 2003, 7:39 PM)
...I got it for $20....
Where and how, please?
A. G.