Posts by kc0arf

Hello,

THEORETICALLY, yes. There is a project out there called NDISWRAPPER that I had to use with Fedora 3 to get my wireless card to work properly. Do a search on nDISWRAPPER and see if it is something that you would like to get into. be aware it is not going to be a simple install. You might need to research other things to get it to function correctly.

Christian

Hello Ben,

Welcome to DaniWeb. Good to hear from you.

We do have a webmaster forum here at DaniWeb. Perhaps you would post your question there, so that the dedicated community that frequently visits can look into your site.

Thanks,

Christian

Greetings,

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I miss PASCAL.

Hello,

Nothing wrong to being new to computing. There is no embarassing question out there, except perhaps if the computer is not working properly when the power is off.

Go back to Expose, and click on the drop down boxes that you see next to the windows. You will find a little - setting. That turns off / disables that corner. In essence, means " do nothing "

Enjoy,

Christian

Hello,

Couple things at play here.

1) If you are going to send out attachements to the Windoze world, you need to add on the 3 letter extension so that the files map properly. For example, jpg files need to be filename.jpg

2) If you are sending large graphics files (1024 x 768) or larger, there is a magic number where some windows viewers are cropping out the image, perhaps only showing the center of it. Have the Windows person try to open it in another program, or crop your image so that it is not so large.

3) Email might not be your best answer to distribute these graphics. You might wish to send them via a website... upload them somewhere, and have your friends go click for them.

Let us know...

Christian

Hello,

Oh wow.. 8.6 has been done for a few years now.

You might need to rebuild the desktop in order to get the program to fire off properly. It is also possible that support for those links might not be available in IE 5.1 under OS 8.6

Do the websites show properly in Netscape?

Christian

Hello,

Welcome to DaniWeb.

I have not tried to do the USB networking with DSL. See if your DSL device has an ethernet port on it, and if so, you might be able to plug your computer in via the network jack instead.

If not, perhaps the USB device came with a driver disk. Did you need to install software on the iMac to get it to work properly first?

Let us know,

Christian

Hello,

In order for samba to work properly, you need to have the following:

* Proper hardware setup (network cables, switch/hub)
* Proper protocol setup (ip number scheme)
* They should be part of the same workgroup
* The smb services started properly.
* Samba users mapped to Linux users.

You might have better configuration options using webmin as a configuration tool, or SWAT.

If you have more troubles, look on DW for a samba setup guide. I know there is one here... I am just not able to go dig for it at the moment.

Christian

Hi,

I thought I would add too that you will need a mono-spaced font in order for the ASCII art to appear legit. If you have a proportional font in there, it could cause alignment issues. That is the main reason we want to see CODE tags on the code pasted here at DW.... it forces a mono-space font for alignment.

Christian

Hi there,

I think by having such a long signature, you are violating the spirit of what a signature line is supposed to be. I hope that the "expanded version" of it will shrink when your contest has run it's course. As it stands now, it is running long, and will begin to annoy people as you participate in more forums.

As for the debate on Microsoft.... I am not a particular fan of their software or policy, but I have to admit that I earn a living fixing and maintaining their OS on our company's servers. While I feel the Mac is superior of a desktop, and Linux is superior of a server, the marketplace still favors Microsoft, and the exposure of the bugs within.

I think you can make a really safe and secure Windoze installation... it is going to take a lot of work and skill. I also think you can make a secure Linux box too, but that too requires skill in what packages to install and what to avoid. I also wish I could configure the SMB protocol to work on a different set of ports like I can with Appletalk, so that I can filter out the masses, and firewall a specific port from a specific address.

I do not like Microsoft Office and the macro viruses, nor the access to the address book for the viruses and scripts to run free. This is where I think Groupwise has a …

Hello,

Welcome to DaniWeb. I hope you enjoy your time here.

I removed your email address because it is against forum policy to solicit answers to a private address... there are good chances that if you have a question concerning Macintosh applications, that someone else out there has the same question. To keep the community healthy, we encourage all discussions to remain on the Forum level here, so that all may have access to the solution you seek.

Of course, that may make things difficult if personal information is involved... but your question is on a high level that such a revelation is not likely.

Please visit our Mac forum here and ask your question there. More Mac people who frequent that forum, myself included, can then concentrate on it.

Welcome again to DaniWeb.

Christian

Hello,

I would be VERY surprised if you had a serial based scanner. More than likely, it is a SCSI scanner that is on your 25 pin port. Unless you have a special expansion card in your computer, Mac serial ports were always round, or the old DB-9 connector on the very first Macs out there.

Most likely, you will need a SCSI card for your G4, and move the software over to that computer. If it is all OS 9 based though, that could put a crunch on your workflow on an OS X G4. Then again, your G4 could also be in OS 9, and working fine for you too.

Quick Ideas:

1) Consider purchasing a used Mac G3 that still has the SCSI board inside. Setup the scanning station on that computer, and keep your G4 and other computers moving along as normal.

2) Purchase a SCSI card for your G4

2a) If your G4 is OS X, and your scanning software is OS 9 based, you may have some challenges. On my G3 laptop, running OS X, I need to boot into OS 9 to scan -- classic mode does not work for me to do this function. Thankfully, I scan rarely.

2b) If your G4 is OS 9, you should be able to get a card for it, and have it work under OS 9, and setup your scanning software with it.

I think the most viable …

Hello,

I wonder if you have the "wind tunnel" G4 that sounds quite, um, loud. The hum could have been the fan cycling on and causing some internal vibration. Curious what happened too that the apple bong sound is gone on startup.

Did you open the case, and see anything out of whack?

Curious indeed.

Christian

Huh? /me confused
I can draw a straight line in Photoshop just fine?

Hi,

A straight line on a 30, 45, 60, 90 degrees will work by holding down the shift or control keys... do not remember which at this moment. But try to trace out a line that changes directions, such as tracing a rastor image of a map, and tracing the highways out. You will find that the tool does not do a clean job of it at all.

Or try to do a Visio like document in Photoshop. It is just not designed for the vector graphics that are desired.

Christian

Hello,

I am not sure if this thread belongs here... there are rules about buying and selling on DaniWeb, and unfortunately at the moment I cannot go there and be sure.

Definately NO PIRACY will be tolerated though, so please do not offer where to upload it or download it, or any serial numbers or that sort of thing.

Christian

Hello,

Please do not hijack the discussion at hand... the circle comments were completely different than the triangle. It's just not fair to the thread starter.

Christian

Hello,

I do not have one of these units myself, but wondering if something might be up in the cabling. i hope you have tried to reboot the system with it all wired together to see if that will do it for you. Although Firewire and USB should not matter about the state of affairs when power cycled, it might cure what you arae having trouble with.

You might also consider re-installing the softwarae.

Christian

Hello,

Need a little more information to help you.

1) Are you running any firewall software on the Windows XP computer itself?

2) Are you trying to connect to any of the servers outside of a firewall, or are you at work, trying to connect to an internal server?

3) Are you able to ping the addresses you are trying to connect to?

4) Are you able to browse out on the internet using IE or Firefox to connect to these places.

I am thinking the following --

A) It is possible that a firewall is preventing outside connectivity attempts. Not sure if XP SP2's neato firewall will do that to you.

B) Perhaps your company's firewall is preventing the connection

C) There might be a problem with your IP scheme, or the addresses not correct.

D) There might be a DNS problem. Addresses not looking up, that sort of thing.

I would first be checking to see if ftp.your.spot resolves to 123.123.123.2 (replace with what the real IP numbers should be) and be sure that you have access to the ports.

Let us know,

Christian

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Hello,

There are a number of sites out there that have browser restrictions... you would see it more on the Mac and Linux, unfortunately, and even a couple of generations of DaniWeb had funny things happen too.

IE is evil, but some places, such as banks, or if you have particular installation needs into Windoze, IE is necessary.

You cannot, for example, manage a System Update Server (SUS) with Firefox. Novell doesn't care what browser, from what I can tell, with their stuff.

I would download AdAware, and load it, and get all of the updates. I would then boot into safe mode, and run the program a couple times, and get rid of any critters in there. I would then also look at a Spyware package, and scan them too in safe mode. After all that, then run HiJackThis. And then post into our Spyware, Viruses, and Critters forum (not sure if critters is in there, but it should be)

Christian

Hello,

He was doomed from the start. An ineffective subject line.... Please what? I hope he takes the chance to actually learn from this, and not to merely copy things. I also hope that no one gives him the easy way out.

Christian

Hello,

Check out this article: http://www.kernelthread.com/mac/osx/arch_fs.html

To summarize, OS X Default filesystem is HFS+ and you will want to use that for your main partitions. There are pieces of software out there that insist on being installed onto an HFS+ partition.

OS X will read NTFS. Won't write to it. Why? Most likely because of the security model... a Mac would need to be aware of the NT filesystem and permissions structure in order to effecitvely read and write to the disk. That is not easy to do, as how would a Mac predict both NT Workstation and Domain permissions when it is not "active"?

What I would do is get your mac, and then setup a small network to offload the data onto a different disk drive, or to CD-ROM / DVD Rom. Then again, if this is your only copy of the data, you do realize you are begging for hard disk failure and the collapse of it all.

To answer:

Mac OS X will read your NTFS Data.

Apple has in the past given reductions / free updates to those who purchase in within a certain timeframe of the next OS release. I would call a Mac store and ask them personally what the latest policy is.

Christian

Hello,

I support Dani on this. Signatures are not to be mistaken for shortcuts around advertising rules, regulations, and earnings for the host site.

To be honest, I would prefer a single line of text 2 80 characters for a signature. Why? Save costs for the bandwidth, avoid cpu-intensive graphics on the page, and prevent other user issues. A BBS that i have been on since 1990 has 5 lines, 80 characters, only pure text. It has served ISCA for years...

Christian

Hello,

We have to assume you have the best of intentions here.

If you have power over the box, you could write a crontab to have you send an email per minute x 24 x 7 and that will be a lot of emails.

Let it run over night.

You could also build something like majordomo, and have that one email be a list with that test message in there, and see if that does it for you.

See, we have to be careful about legitimate uses / ideas here. Email spamming is a large problem on the internet today, and we don't want to give too many ideas on how this is done.

Christian

Hi,

Yep. Agree with Yellow. Laptops are NOT designed to be expanded in that function. Now, you might find a PCMCIA video output card for various devices, but as a rule, laptops are closed designs.

Christian

There are times that you will want to connect one hub to another hub -- packet sniffing -- is one reason that I have done it. Hook in the computer you want to sniff on one side... the connection to the network on the other end, and a packet sniffer in the middle. Note that for packet sniffing, you cannot use a switch!

And DMR, yeah, have seen it too many times. Also punch blocks where the BOZO let the twists out of the ethernet cables, and we had some pairs over 12" long with no twists in them at all. Then they wonder why the network fails.

The hammer of knowledge did educate on that day.

Christian

Hello,

When you refer to the C: or the D: in the Windoze world, you are actually looking at a local partition of hard drive space, or a network volume.

Macs see ANY storage space as a volume, meaning the boot partition, or another storage location, a USB store device, or even a Floppy Disk! They are all seen as volumes.

Your friend has too much stuff stored on the drive. Do not just randomly delete files; do an intelligent reduction of the hard drive of old documents that he is no longer using.

CHristian

Hello,

I thank GOD that Iowa State didn't make us program entire programs in assembly. That is what a compiler is for. Granted, I would never encourage someone to be ignorant and avoid learning something new, I have to wonder why some places still make programming difficult like that.

I agree with Narue that Assembly is not a good first language idea. I started with Pascal, went to C, then C++, and then got a semester of assembly where we took pre-assembled code and optimized it for more efficient execution.

Perl is a great language to get into. I wish I knew it along with awk and sed. Powerful Unix / Linux utilities. You might also want to learn about expect.

Enjoy coding,

Christian

Hello,

It could be line noise, or the amplification / deamplification of the sound. You will want to use line in and line out if possible, and high quality shielded cables. It would even help if you could ground the units together.

IF you still have noise, you can purchase an isolation transformer, and wire yourself an adapter. I do that with some of my ham radio circuits to cut down on hums.

Christian

Hi,

You can have a cascade of hubs connected via their uplink ports.

ASCII ART TIME

HUBu <--> HUBu <--> HUBu <--> HUBu <--> HUB <--------Mac

Uplink ports are nothing more than "built in" crossover connections. You take a normal hub port, and place it into a connection of an Uplink port on a different hub upstream.

Thou shalt not:

* Connect 2 hubs together via normal ports and normal wires
* Connect a hub and a computer together via uplink port and normal wire
* Use uplink ports and crossover cables

It is bad networking practice to have more than one or two uplink ports in the chain between the PC and the "route out", because all of the traffic of that hub is being supplied by that one uplink port. Performance can fall apart in a hurry.

In most office environments, little hubs can be used at the user's desk to avoid the expense of running wires through the walls. You would connect the little hub to the main system via the uplink port, and have the user's computer and perhaps laptop wired into the system via the remaining ports.

What you don't want to see is a hub in the cube, uplinked to a hub for the department, uplinked to a hub for the floor, uplinked to a hub in another closet, uplinked to the main computer room.

Christian

Okdokie.

Christian

Hi there,

You betcha. I stumbled across it a few months ago, and have been tinkering with the idea of having a domain controller linux box. It will probably wait a bit though, as my main box is RH 9, and one of these days, we will make the migratory jump to Fedora (or SuSE, all depending), and I may take my bites on a fresh install of Samba.

Glad to help.

Christian

Hello,

I am thinking your hard drive is fried. I am curious though as to the environment you are keeping the machine in.... I have had a Powerbook G3 from 1999 and have replaced the hard drive just once in the computer's lifetime.

Good Luck,

Christian

Hello,

Just be sure to look at the ports on your hub. Some of them have an UPLINK port, which is designed for HUB to Hub connections. Of the hubs that I seen with said port, the one immediately next to it is often "dead".

Check out the specs if something goes fishy.

Christian

Hello,

Either that or see if you have it on backup somewhere.

Christian

Hello,

I think you are asking for OS X drivers....

Do a google search on Firewire Direct OS X and see what it says.

Christian

Hello,

You may look here:

http://us2.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-HOWTO-Collection/samba-pdc.html#domain-example

Christian

Hello,

I am wondering if your computers are saving with the file extensions (hello.doc, picture.psd, quarkthing.qpd) and his is not.

If it were OS 9, I would say a desktop file needs to be rebuilt, but this is OS X, and that should not be the case anymore.

Is it still happening?

Christian

Hello,

My guess is a hardware failure, but the computer working with a blank CD really casts a doubt on it. I would take the computer into a dealer, and ask them about it... what I would want to do is swap the CD-ROM with a different one, and see if the behavior is the same. If so, then there is something wrong at the software level.

Christian

Hello,

This is definately an interesting scenerio. I got around it by using eGroupware on the Linux server, and having everyone do things via a web client. I also issued a certificate so that the communications would be encrypted. But that also means that everyone else would have to change with you, and that could be a problem.

As you do not have an exchange server, I am guessing that people's Outlook calendars are stored locally to the C: ... perhaps if they have roaming profiles, they would make it to the server. Still.... that could be a risk if the machine dies.

Let us know if you have solved it. Sounds like a neat expirement to try working on.

Christian

Hello,

I was under the impression it could handle authentications, as I thought it could mimic a domain controller. I'll have to look into that too! Right now, my samba accounts on Linux are matched accounts with the Windoze domain, and matched passwords.

Christian

Hello,

ZAPPING the PRAM is akin to zapping the BIOS on the Wintel machines. Remember to go through your control panels (or system prefs) after a successful bootup to re-personalize items that may have been defaulted with the zap. Also check the time too!

Christian

Hello,

If you don't mind, would you tell us more about your computer? How much memory RAM does it have installed? How large is the hard drive? You might also want to think about what types of programs you want to run on it... are you all in the OS X world, ord do you have one or two reasons to remain in OS 9?

I would definately FORMAT CLEAN the hard drive, and build the computer from scratch. You should have received the system disks with the unit. You do not want to have any previous owner's spooks to come along with the unit. Build it from scratch.

I agree to target 10.2 or 10.3 The first two versions of OS X were struggles, as any new OS would be. 10.1 was not a disaster, but you could grow old waiting for printouts.

Christian

Hello,

I am lax, and am sorry for being gone so long.

To save the data off, you need to either find a CD-ROM burning solution, or a network solution. Let us know if you have either available to you. WIth the network, you can setup another computer to receive the contents via the network cable. With the CD-ROM unit, you can save your data off the hard drive onto the CD disk.

Christian

Hello,

I would also look beyond Norton for your protection. My fiancee is running AVG, and I run Sophos on my Mac. Norton is easy to setup, but it comes at a price.

I would also break with IE and start using Firefox for a web browser. IE and Outlook Express are invitations for problems.

Christian

Hello,

Please post your code. Let's take a look at it. Please use CODE tags when you do it, so that it is nice and clean to read.

Christian

Hello,

For future reference, you might want to explain more on what the problem is... there are a variety of evaluations, and you did not specify which one was the faulty one.

I have a problem with this line:

if area (area>0);

What are you trying to evaluate here? Did you realize that by placing the ; after the expression, that you don't have a "then" part?" I think you need to re-work this evaluation/control logic.

Christian

Hello,

The problem with GIMP is that it is limited to 256 colors... a lot of photo touch-up work should be done in the thousands or millions of colors range. I tend to use thousands, as well, the eye cannot detect more subtle changes. Then again, some of the more artsy people will want millions, and have room for alpha channels and other perks.

Photoshop is the industry leader in picture manipulation, but it lacks CAD-like tools to draw a straight line! You have to use Illustrator to do the line work... but then again, there are times, such as when you are drawing a map, that the Illustrator tools do not work so well either.

I would encourage you to take a look at Canvas... it has a blend of the raster (photoshop) and vector (illustrator) and can save an a lot of different formats. It has a 15 day demo program online... download it and check it out. If you do go for it, you will invest about $350 or so for it (not $800 that photoshop wants). FOr making maps, it was a great program to work with.

Give it a run.

Christian

Hello Diane,

What is the website that you are having so much trouble with?

It has been a while since I have been in OS 9 for regular work... have migrated my things to OS X already. I do have to go to 9 in order to scan with my SCSI scanner though.

Let us know how well it is working,

Christian

Hello,

I am really curious what Samba running on OS X would do in terms of being a Domain controller. Unfortunately, I do not have spare OS X hardware to try it out with.

I do like Samba on Linux though... :)

Christian