I guys,

I added a new acl into the squid.conf file and now the service will not start. I have taken out what I put in and re-saved then rebooted the server. Still no joy. The error tells me it is...

Morning Guys and Gals,

I have this script below for changing proxy settings, I have about 70 machines to run this on so this is why im doing it this way (any other ideas welcome). The script bombs...

Morning Guys and Gals,

I am not too hot in this area so would like some advice. I have a machine with loads of stuff on it and need to get it all onto another machine. Ideally i want to just make...

Afternoon folks,

A strange one here but here goes. I have 48 POP3 accounts set up in outlook express, each account has a folder and then a rule pointing to backup in this folder. problem is...

Night Watch is a fantastic book (and film) Written by Sergei Lukyanenko. Its the first book in a trilogy. I am reading the second one now - Day Watch!

thanks for that guys. will test that out and update!!

gn0m3

Afternoon people,

I have a laptop at home which connects to my wireless network via a usb dongle. I am sorting out a friends machine which is a tower and I want to run automatic updates, virus...

i have a full time job remember, 3 a week is fine for me because i can only do evenings and weekends. just some extra cash....it all adds up!

i usualy get anywhere between 2-5 clients a week. sometimes its more and sometimes its less, but on average 3 a week. i was looking at your other post about charging and i charge £30 ($60) an hour....

that kind of stuff is fine but you might have problems being found. thats why i suggested local advertising - its always yielded me good results!

I do pretty much the same thing outside of my day job. i usually advertise in my Local Library's, news agents even a free paper called the friday ad (available in the UK). think about where people go...

Afternoon folks,

I have got to put together a liability waiver for contractors to sign who are coming to our site to do work. my boss basically wants them to sign something saying if they screw...

done the pin one too guys. mine is a little more stupid, mainly down to me not understanding how stuff works!! about 10 years ago I bought a computer from a car boot sale, took it home plugged it in...

or you could use NeoOffice which is a port of OpenOffice, its pretty stable and you dont have to use X11.....

Morning Folks, I need to change permissions on a whole bunch of machines using Apple remote desktop and the "unix" function. Ive got so far but got stuck, here is what i need.

The below code...

Morning Guys,

I am looking for some advice for a piece of mac audit software. At my last company we used Numara's Audit Tool, this however is fairly expensive because of support!! Have any of you...

try booting up off a live cd and saving the data to an external source. I use Knoppix and it works great!

thanks once again for your help on this one guys, another problem solved.

gn0m3

Hi Folks,

I have a Quicksilver mac which a department needs OS9 and X on, X is working fine with its manual IP settings and from the "connect to server" menu i can access the server they need. The...

thanks Lomoco, that worked great. Thanks also for your suggestion cryptq, but when run the front window got closed down which was the window i needed, i tried playing around with the code but could...

thanks for that guys, will try it out later, have been off ill for the last week so sorry for not responding...

gn0m3

Morning Folks,

think this is my first post of the new year, so Happy New Year.... i have got a small applescript i have written (see below), it is connecting to a telnet session, but opens two...

Intel Imac at work and at home as well as a G4 QuickSilver at Home as a music and video machine. Fujitsu laptop at home running Xp and SuSe and a P4 running Server 2003 for testing purposes!

1) Give up smoking (so far so good)
2) Get my Photography site up and running!

These are the two im most likely to triumph in, others can wait!!

I am getting a couple of copies for our IT department to have a play with early next year, i played around with the RC1 (i think) beta and it was ok, buggy but nice to see something thats been a...

Giving up date is Jan 1st 2007, new years resolution and all that! Cigarettes in the UK are expesive compared to other EU countries and by the sounds of it the states too! 20 Marlboro Lights are...

so i see from your tag. i live near Leatherhead, do you know it??

Sounds good, i would like to meet the guys who contribute so much and have assisted me when ive been having problems! Jan 07 sounds good, anywhere in london is good (except maybe Brixton!!)

I live in Surrey, which is about 40mins by train from London. where I live USED to be a sleepy town but over the last 10 years its got more commercial which has been great for house prices! born and...

Morning Guys,

I am just configuring a few useful widgets on my test mac and I am having trouble getting some that need internet access to work. For example the conversion utility using currency...

it points to a user who uses a Mac, i have been through all her proxy settings and network config but cannot find any reference to me? any more ideas?

Morning Folks,

my work pc is networked up and all access is controlled by a main active directory users account. This morning so far my account has been locked out 5 times with no reason as far as...

Thanks for that. the reason i need to have both is because we have 10 macs running Panther and 10 running tiger so for testing and troubleshooting purposes i need both! there isnt a lot installed the...

Hi Folks,

I have Panther (10.3.9) running on a G4 on 1 partition, is there an easy way of creating a new partition so i can install tiger as well but without losing the Panther install and all the...

Hi, and thanks for the response. Its a Dell Precision 670. No its not Hot-Swappable. Maybe i was being optimistic, i tried a test by taking out another stick of RAM in there then putting it back in,...

Morning Folks,

When RAM is removed / Added to/from a system, does it create a log in the event viewer? And if so what ID is it given?

Thanks,

gn0m3

thanks for the reply's guys, will be doing a bit more research on this over the next few days, but thanks for the heads up!

gn0m3

Afternoon Folks (i guess that depends where you are!),

Can someone point me in the right direction on the legality of keylogging employees computers at work. A good friend of mine called me last...

thanks for the advice, in the end i created a small apple script which sorted it right out. will put below in case anyone else has this issue!

set telnet to "telnet -K ip address"
tell...

Hi Folks, hope this is in the right section.

I need to Telnet to a machine from OSX, the machine is a linux box, when i do this from the terminal (or iterm) it connects but prompts me immediately...