Forum: Geeks' Lounge  Dec 3rd, 2006 |
| Replies: 13 Views: 1,327 Departure from DaniWeb
Hello Community,
I just wanted to write and say goodbye. With the coming of parenthood, and some other things beyond my control, I am departing DaniWeb and the Community. I wish you all well.
To... |
| Forum: Geeks' Lounge Oct 27th, 2006 |
| Replies: 7 Views: 1,464 |
| Forum: Geeks' Lounge Oct 27th, 2006 |
| Replies: 5 Views: 1,197 Re: Firewall Trouble
Hello,
With knowledge --> power --> responsibility.
It is unethical to circumvent the firewall in place at your institution. Once you mature, you will understand why.
I used to IT consult in... |
| Forum: Geeks' Lounge Oct 27th, 2006 |
| Replies: 8 Views: 1,532 Re: My parents
Hello,
This one really depends on the family dynamics, and what the items in question are all about. You mention paying bills... did they take a vacation, and want you to pop for it, or did their... |
| Forum: Geeks' Lounge Oct 9th, 2006 |
| Replies: 14 Views: 2,691 Re: Can you pass the US citizenship test?
Hello,
I missed #8 too.
I found, however, that some of the questions were misleading. Without spilling the beans on the exam, there are challenges on some of the terms of office, and along the... |
| Forum: PHP Sep 26th, 2006 |
| Replies: 3 Views: 8,858 Re: How to install mysqli extension
Hello,
I realize this thread is older, but it is also incomplete. How do you install it on other OS's, such as Linux or Mac OS X? The writer did not specify an operating system, and we need to be... |
| Forum: Geeks' Lounge Aug 8th, 2006 |
| Replies: 32 Views: 5,546 Re: Best Blogger - Vote Now!
Hello,
It is an unfortunate turn of events with the Blog contest.
To MovieLad, I wish you well on your external projects (the move and adoption), but I also wish for you a period of reflection on... |
| Forum: Mac tips 'n' tweaks Aug 4th, 2006 |
| Replies: 13 Views: 5,682 Re: Making Tiger lighter for a G3
Hello,
If you are interested in exploring a bit, you could try installing linux onto the computer. Not sure if it will support the wireless cards or not, but it may give you something to work with,... |
| Forum: Mac tips 'n' tweaks Aug 4th, 2006 |
| Replies: 3 Views: 5,431 |
| Forum: Mac Software Aug 4th, 2006 |
| Replies: 9 Views: 4,060 Re: Looking for advice on a good isp for mac
Hello,
This is a nice post / topic.
A Mac should work with any ISP that a PC works with, unless you have one that specifically does something Windows only, such as needing Microsoft or Citirix VPN... |
| Forum: Mac Software Aug 4th, 2006 |
| Replies: 2 Views: 3,347 Re: DVD burning tool
Hello,
I agree that iDVD is the answer to your needs. Gotta be careful when you burn a disk... sometimes you are just burning a bunch of files (a la data backup) and other times, you are making an... |
| Forum: Web Browsers Jul 14th, 2006 |
| Replies: 1 Views: 1,178 Re: outlook outbox
Hello,
Is this Outlook, or Outlook express? As your question is in the web browsers section, it implies you are using a web browser to look at your Microsoft Outlook email on some exchange server. ... |
| Forum: Mac tips 'n' tweaks Jul 11th, 2006 |
| Replies: 5 Views: 1,963 Re: Mac 7100/66av OS9 Lost the G3
Hello,
I think he is referring to the Daystar (or comparable) accelerator card that could be installed inside of a PMac 7100.
The original 7100 was a 66 MHz PPC 601, not a G3 processor. If... |
| Forum: OS X Jul 11th, 2006 |
| Replies: 17 Views: 3,432 Re: Virus on Mac OS X?
Hello,
A Mac is a computer, and even under OS X, a very cool and awesome OS, it is possible to get a virus. Not likely, but possible.
If you are running on Mac OS X as a local administrator, you... |
| Forum: Darwin, X11 and BSD Jun 15th, 2006 |
| Replies: 8 Views: 5,559 Re: 0 file in root?
Hello,
Yes, it is dangerous to delete a 0 byte file.
Linux / Unix scripts allow you to touch a file, meaning, make a file, and have it filesize=0. Programs can do that to keep track of things,... |
| Forum: Mac Rumors and Reports Jun 15th, 2006 |
| Replies: 2 Views: 2,978 Re: New intel chip iMacs
Hello,
Rosetta is working well from what I can tell. I do not have firm application profile numbers, but Eudora, Firefox, and a number of others are working well and responsive on my MacBook. ... |
| Forum: Mac Rumors and Reports Jun 15th, 2006 |
| Replies: 34 Views: 10,105 Re: Windows on a mac?!
Hello,
I like the idea of virtualization: give me a window with Windoze on it, and all the meyhem can occur inside of it, and leave the filesystem things to OS X.
I need to do more research on... |
| Forum: OS X Jun 15th, 2006 |
| Replies: 5 Views: 17,111 |
| Forum: OS X Jun 15th, 2006 |
| Replies: 2 Views: 969 Re: Panther problems
Hello,
Did you open the Monitors control panel, and adjust the display? Perhaps the settings are not correct, such as stuck in 800x600 @ 256 colors.
Were you running OS X before, or did you have... |
| Forum: OS X Jun 15th, 2006 |
| Replies: 1 Views: 893 |
| Forum: OS X Jun 15th, 2006 |
| Replies: 1 Views: 2,295 Re: Help loading fonts
Hello,
I am not sure if OS X will work with OS 9 Font Suitcases or not. I have taken .TTF files from the OS 9 computer and put them on OS X without a problem.
Try moving a single font, such as... |
| Forum: OS X Jun 15th, 2006 |
| Replies: 5 Views: 1,518 Re: Help!!!
Hello,
I love my MacBook too!
You won't be able to run Classic applications on it, nor will Classic / OS9 programs work with it. If you have such programs, go get your older computer, optimize it... |
| Forum: IT Careers and Business Apr 28th, 2006 |
| Replies: 22 Views: 5,817 Re: Certifications? 4 Year Degree? Both?!
Hello,
I would seriously consider getting OUT of IT. Why? Because of the lack of respect of the position in the corporate world. Take a look at recent articles in Network Computing or Information... |
| Forum: OS X Apr 28th, 2006 |
| Replies: 8 Views: 2,604 |
| Forum: Geeks' Lounge Apr 28th, 2006 |
| Replies: 4 Views: 1,433 Re: Funny Philosophical Photos
Hello,
The problem is that the creator gives no credit to the despair.com where the words are from. I would call that a copyright violation, and steer clear of it.
Christian |
| Forum: Windows NT / 2000 / XP / 2003 Apr 27th, 2006 |
| Replies: 5 Views: 14,994 Re: Microsoft Visual C++ Runtime Library
Hello,
I have moved this thread, and am assuming that you have a Win 2K or XP computer that this is happening on. My guess is that you have a registry issue.
Not knowing what is causing the... |
| Forum: OS 7 / 8 / 9 Mar 14th, 2006 |
| Replies: 1 Views: 4,570 Re: Administrative Password Forgotten
Hello,
Mac OS 9 and earlier do not have the "multiple users" paradigm that OS X does, therefore, there is no master password that needs to be reset under OS 9. If you are in OS X, and in Classic,... |
| Forum: OS X Mar 14th, 2006 |
| Replies: 3 Views: 3,888 Re: Pagemaker 6.5 and Mac OS X Tiger
Hello,
Just be aware that the new intel Macs do not support classic. If you are going to get into the intel world, that will stop you.
Whatever the case, make sure you get plenty of memory for the... |
| Forum: OS X Mar 14th, 2006 |
| Replies: 8 Views: 7,298 Re: Good FTP Server for Mac OSX Server
Hello,
Mac OS X is a BSD unix, and you may find packages out there like vsftpd to take care of your issue. Unfortunately, I do not have direct experience with OS X server to offer something more... |
| Forum: OS X Mar 14th, 2006 |
| Replies: 1 Views: 7,002 Re: Word Macro Virus on Mac OSX
Hello,
In your case, the Word Macro virus does all it's damage in Microsoft Word -- and it is on a different layer than the OS. A Macro virus should not affect your OS X install, unless you open... |
| Forum: OS X Mar 14th, 2006 |
| Replies: 2 Views: 942 Re: Help
Hello,
Clean install. You may also consider partitioning your drive into two, so that you can have a System volume, and a Data location.
Christian |
| Forum: OS X Mar 14th, 2006 |
| Replies: 3 Views: 1,317 Re: burning pics to cd on OS10.0.1
Hello,
You can also use a USB thumbdrive, or put the computer on a network, and transfer the files via wire. Worst case would be a USB floppy drive onto a disk...
Also, I had a Powerbook G3 and a... |
| Forum: OS X Mar 14th, 2006 |
| Replies: 5 Views: 1,419 Re: Where's that 2gb disappeared to?
Hello,
I think it is a great time to make a backup of your current data, and then rebuild the system from scratch. Yes, moving everything to the Applications folder was a bad idea -- I amazed that... |
| Forum: OS X Mar 14th, 2006 |
| Replies: 2 Views: 1,988 Re: Setup new printer error message
Hello,
Welcome to DaniWeb. Hope that you find the community nice and useful.
First, I need to point out a quick note to you -- Macs are not MACs. A Mac is a Macintosh computer, and a MAC is a... |
| Forum: DaniWeb Community Feedback Mar 7th, 2006 |
| Replies: 38 Views: 2,950 Re: Condensing all the Forums!!
Hello,
I think the levels are fine right where they are, especially for the Tech Talk forums. I feel that if you lump everything together per category, that you are going to get lost in questions... |
| Forum: Networking Hardware Configuration Mar 3rd, 2006 |
| Replies: 8 Views: 2,779 |
| Forum: Storage Mar 3rd, 2006 |
| Replies: 17 Views: 18,826 Re: New install of XP - No hard drive found
Hello,
Windows XP does not know how to interact with your SATA hard drive, and/or controller.
When you first start booting the XP CD-ROM, you will see a little message splash along the bottom of... |
| Forum: Storage Feb 28th, 2006 |
| Replies: 1 Views: 3,195 Re: External Hard Drive Formatting
Hello,
I think you have it reversed... Macs from long ago recognized FAT and FAT32, so they could access PC disks, and copy files from them. Unless you had special software on your PC, you could... |
| Forum: Networking Hardware Configuration Feb 28th, 2006 |
| Replies: 23 Views: 11,799 Re: Best way to build a LAN?
Hello,
Just to toss some fire... if you have Windows Firewall up, or another good firewall, the ICMP packets may be blocked, meaning that your ping test will fail.
After reading all this, I think... |
| Forum: Windows NT / 2000 / XP / 2003 Feb 21st, 2006 |
| Replies: 3 Views: 1,519 Re: Windows Server 2003 problem
Hello,
You might have an OS issue, and / or a permissions issue. Is your W2K3 server completely patched and up to date?
The next time this happens, have the Windows user login on a Mac, and see if... |
