Posts by kc0arf

Hello,

I moved this request out of the Tutorial section... the thread was misplaced, and belongs here.

Second, we do not do your homework. We will assist with your posted program, helping you work the kinks out. But we will not do your assignment, that is unethical for you to ask us to, and unethical for us to supply it to you.

PLease send us your code. If you do not know where to start, send us your psuedo code. Let's work on this and learn how to do it, not how to get it done without doing it.

Christian

Hello,

This one is going to be dependant on the OS. For example, in linux, I can read the raw data on the parallel port by doing some things with the hardware in C, and "read" the port. I take a look at the high (voltage up) and low (no volts) and determine an "answer".

BUT

You are trying to do serial information, so the data is going to be "organized". Your 10 bits might have 1 start bit, 8 data bits, and a stop bit. Your code will probably be OS dependant.

I would suggest doing a google search on this. For me, it would be Linux (as my Mac has USB and that is something else entirely) so I would search on "Linux Serial Port Programming" and I found this:

http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Serial-Programming-HOWTO/index.html

If you do lift sample code, you should in your comments credit the source of the algorithm.

Christian

Hello,

I think you are going to be out of luck. You might try seeing if the guy you read about who has it working on his eMac has contact information available. If so, write him and he might return back with some thoughts too.

Christian

Hello,

It is spelled beans.

And no, your efforts to learn C++ are not going to go to waste. You should be learning coding style, learning that comments are just as important as the actual code, and learning about data structures and algorithms. Perhaps even efficient code... there are many ways to do things.

Continue to grow with C++. You might not ever master it, but you will learn a lot of things from it.

Christian

Hello,

I am not sure how the OS is going to detect thrashing. I know that I can detect it by looking at logs, and looking at the size of the swap file, and seeing what is going on in real time. If your logs show that the CPU is waiting, and your I/O systems are busy, you know something is not right.

As for your bitserve question, I no longer have my OS book handy to look that information up. Sorry there.

Christian

Hello,

The website from LiteOn doesn't list Mac OS X as a supported operating system. While that may not necessairly suggest that it won't work, it doesn't shine to nicely on the subject. A lot of devices are cross-platform.

You can look into the System Profiler found on your system volume, and inside the Applications --> Utilities folder. See if the System detects it within there.

If you have another Mac around, you might be able to try it and see if the component works there. If not, you might need to wait around until OS X 10.4 and see if it is supported there.

Let us know,

Christian

Hello,

For completeness of the topic, can you tell us what the HP person said?

Christian

Hello,

I wonder if Starfish is a gal? :)

Hope all goes well with the computer.

Christian

Hello,

Assuming your content is legal, you can set up a Linux, a Mac, or a Windows computer to be an FTP or Web server. Mac OS X has it built in, Linux you can install it easily, and if you have Windows Professional, I am sure you can find some freeware or shareware to get the desired functionality.

All the people looking for your stuff will need is an IP number, and to know if they should use FTP or Web applications.

But YOU will need to ensure that the server is secure. Do you want everyone to get to it? Do you need username/passwords? Did you make sure no one can write to your server, so that some schmuck on the internet doesn't fill your server up with child porn, and then calls the cops on you? Having a computer on the internet is a responsibility, ya know.

I do not know what you intend to share, but assuming you are on a cable / dsl link, it is going to take people a while to move something like a CD-ROM through the wire. Off the top of my head, I think I did that one time and it took around 6 hours to move the CD-ROM. ISP's throttle back the "upload" side of things, unless you purchase their business plan package.

Christian

Hello,

I am preferring Novell E-Directory to Active Directory. I have not tried the LDAP extensions though to see if I can get Linux and Mac OS X to follow one big login scheme though.

I also like Novell's ability to restrict file storage quotas across the Enterprise.

Christian

Hey Tek,

Maybe. I recently bought this one back to life because of reviewing materials for a certification upgrade. I will have to note for the record that my main server box is a RH Linux 9.0 server, and the main desktop is a Powerbook G3 running OS X.

I will be doing more testing with this Novell 6.0.5 server (SP 5 installed) and see if I can get it and WIndows 2003 server to play nice. Maybe start some wars on Group Policy vs. Zenworks. See if I can make a mail loop between Outlook and Groupwise, and see who wins.

I am also seeing a new Novell Groupwise for Mac OS X beta out there for evaluation. I am going to work on that next.

Christian

Hello,

We can't!

The idea of a community such as DaniWeb is for a group participation and learning by solving the problem. It is also unethical for A) us to do your homework, and B) for you to accept our work as your homwork. No! Your post also looks like a take-home exam. It is fortunate that your teacher/professor didn't put in contact information on the attachment, or someone who was really ethically motivated could have contacted him and caused you a lot of trouble.

What can we do?

You are the student. We can make suggestions to your code, and help correct it, but the guts of the code have to be yours. Spend an hour, and start with either a basic flow chart, or write down some psudeo-code (code that is not correct, but gets the idea) and we will build from there.

Anyone who just emails you the answer is not working with the spirit of learning, regardless of any impending deadlines.

We await your code submission...

Christian

Hello,

So, it was working last week, and it is not this week. Have to ask what changed. Did you install any new software, or run Windows Update and install things from there? Are your IP addresses on both sides still the same? Can the computer ping the IP Phone?

I would work to make sure that the network is working properly before you start tearing into the VoIP stuff. It is possible that DHCP or something changed an address around.

Let us know,

Christian

Hello,

"help wanted" is a forum for people to post classified ads, such as "I need help and want to hire someone." Your post belongs in the Windows security forum, and I am sending it there for review...

System services may be found on 2000/XP computers by looking into the CONTROL PANELS --> ADMIN TOOLS --> COMPUTER MANAGEMENT or SERVICES. I prefer the Computer Management screen, as you can also see the logs here, and go deeper into an investigation.

As I am not the pro on Spyware (My Mac doesn't seem to get any of it!), I'll leave you in the capable hands of the Windows Security group. They are a great bunch of people, and probably know all about this...

Christian

Hello,

If you do go to OS X, your best bet is to get to OS X 10.2 (Jag) or 10.3 (Panther). The orig OS X (you said you had 10.0) and 10.1 had serious printing issues (SLOW!) and other little things up with it (my Powerbook had non-optimized video resulting in a very slow computer. Quicktime movies were horrible!).

Also, if your computer came with 8.x, there is a good chance it is an older computer, meaning it might not have ample memory and hard drive. For X to run nice, you need at least 256 MB of Ram. It will run with less, but you will pay for that in performance that your older computer (am guessing PPC 604 or 603 series) cannot really afford.

Christian

Hello,

How old is this computer? Are you rather good with computers, or just starting out?

It may be possible to reset your BIOS with jumpers on the motherboard. If you are just starting out though, it might be over your head on trying to find them.

Typically, 2000/XP wants to boot from a CD-ROM and load from there. If your computer is too old where booting from a CD-ROM is not an option, on 2000 at least, there is a directory that has a program on there that will let you make 4 good-old floppy disks to help along with your installation.

But a larger question is this: how old is your computer? If it is in the generation that does not boot from the CD-ROM, perhaps the computer is too weak to run XP. yeah, it might load it up, but you may grow old waiting for it to do so.

Let us know about the age of your computer, and how much memory and disk is available.

Thanks,

Christian

Hello,

It is possible that you have a bad second disk, or that you got caught up in the graphical installer but could not see what you were installing.

I did YDL on my G3 Laptop last year, and liked the environment. It is quite similar to RedHat. I like OS X better due to the "macness" and smooth desktop navigation, but YDL is a nice nice OS. If I had to choose OS 9 or YDL, I would use YDL, assuming all I needed to work would work (such as palm, printing, internet).

Try doing it all in Text. See where it gets you. If not, re-download disk 2 and try again. To be honest, I have done a lot more Text installs than graphics.

Let us know how it works.

Christian

Hello,

The older DOS PKUNZIP might work for you. I wonder if WinZip has something like that available too.

I wonder if you could instead of getting a bunch of .ZIP files, if your source could send you ONE zip file with everything inside it.

You cannot just go PKUNZIP *.ZIP as your files would be placed in the working folder and be mingling with your .ZIP files too. That would be bad.

Good luck on this one.

Hello,

I was gone today. My apologies to the thread.

Yes, I meant a come here to the website, and let's talk.

Where to save the files off... do you have a server that this computer is connected to? If so, move the data files to the server. If not, is there someone at your workplace that has an external cd-rom burner, such as an iOmega Zip burner thing? Or an external tape drive and run with Retrospect?

Personally, I am in Wisconsin. A Cheesehead. If I wanted to doctor my Apple Logo in the avatar, I would put a cheesehat on that. But that could look too weird. :)

Yeah. Network is the easiest solution to the backup problem. If you are low on diskspace, talk to the computer guy there to see if you can "borrow" for a temp timeframe some space. give yourself 2 weeks to do this, and get the data out of there, so that he can reclaim it in the short term, and you will remain in good favor with him.

Christian

P.S. If someone wants to track you, they can always pull your DNS logs, or plop a network sniffer on the computer. We used to do that all the time to kids in a computer lab, and made a point of educating them with letters to their parents and detention. It all depends on how much work the administrator wishes to do, and what scripts he/she comes up with to automate the process.

Hello,

First, just a side comment... never ask something in caps. Long gone are the days of caps only input, and it looks like you are yelling at us.

Next, what history are you refering to? Internet Explorer? Mozilla? Cookies? There are a bunch of things that you would need to do upon logoff to ensure your objective.

A better idea though would be to password the computer so that only you can access it. Or, if you are doing illegal / immoral things, perhaps you should re-think your computer uses. It would be A LOT easier to physically secure the computer so that no one else can use it except for you.

Christian

Hello,

What you might need is a means to track the processes over time, very similar to Unix/Linux TOP command, that will show you how much CPU time is consumed since the computer was booted. Your screen above shows an instant snapshot, but looking at it, we cannot see how much total time was "eaten".

Not sure where you could find such a utility. But I used TOP on my Mac OS X computer, and found that my Palm Desktop was rather greedy. It now only runs when I need it.

Christian

Hello,

Zach, OS 9 was a nice OS to work with. Properly installed and configured, you too can have a lasting pleasent experience with it. I'm sorry to hear that you are having problems with OS 9... perhaps if you posted to the Mac Forum, we could look at the issue together.

Tek, you are evolving beyond the simple Windoze paradigm. You seek elegance; you want your computing time to be used to generate useful work instead of debugging things and finding out why this certain thing doesn't work.

No computer OS is perfect; the Mac OS comes pretty damn close. Compare all the Windoze (in)Security topics and all the requests for help in the forums.

I have seen word documents have problems with underlining on a Windoze box. Sent the document to a Mac. Didn't change a damn thing. Printed just fine. Print driver? Office version? Font problem? I dunno. I didn't care. The Mac did it right. There have been a number of times in a lab environment that people couldn't get something to print or display properly on the PC... took it to the Mac, and it flowed nicely.

As for cost, yes, a Mac will cost a little more initially. But when you purchase the PC, you do not see the costs of time on the phone with support people, or time installing and upgrading various spyware packages and antivirus. Yes OS X needs a firewall -- it has an easily …

Hello,

I did not find such a file on my 10.3.4 computer... then again, I have one of the oldest computers that can run OS X.

Who owns the file? What group?

I would suggest that the file is not bothering you, aside from the nagging question of where did it come from. You might wish to run Disk Utility and do a scan and permissions thing on it.

Otherwise, let sleeping dogs sleep...

Christian

Hello,

This should be pretty straightforward.

First, you need to create two data structures in memory. They will be the same structures, but one will be the master file data, and the other will be the transaction file.

Couple things for you to think about:
* Array or linked list?
* Look up the string compare function to see how to compare account numbers
* How will you handle bad data in the transaction file?
* When the program is done, write out the memory to a flat file.

Go ahead and code this out. If you need more help, please show us some psuedo code, and let us help. We cannot go too much further in assistance, as it would violate DaniWeb homework policy.

Christian

Hello,

As I was re-developing my Netware 6.0 server on the home network, I found this utility:

http://www.scrippscollege.edu/~dept/it/zen/RconsoleJ-OSX-Install.dmg.sit

that allows me to run Remote Console on my Macintosh (OS X 10.3.4). the colors come through very nice, and I can move from screen to screen. This is truly a wonderful port.

I would have went up directories to find a description of the tool, but the webpages come up with no information.

Enjoy,

Christian

Hello,

An excellent question! Samba will allow you to mount the Microsoft network onto the Redhat Linux box.

I do not have time today to do this and write it all out for you. I will add it to the list; perhaps Thursday.

Christian

Hello Tim,

Great work on solving it. Yes, find would work too. I should have thought of that. Damn.

Great work!

Christian

Hello,

This is the C++ forum; your request involves Visual Basic, and that is why I moved the post to that forum.

It is also the rule at DaniWeb that we do not do your homework; we will help debug your code, we will help you design your program, but we cannot supply you the completed project. That is unethical for you to ask, and unethical for us to provide.

Please provide your information, and we can get to work with you. As I am not a vb programmer, I will have little else to say.

Christian

Hello,

Memory issues under the Mac 9 model are different than OS X. Mac 9 applications had a place to define how much memory an Application would use. This is changed under OS X... now the system allocates memory, just as you would expect from any other OS to do. OS X is a port of Unix, right along the lines of FreeBSD.

Mac 9 extensions have been replaced by Unix-like daemons. As they are programs, of course they consume memory.

OS X also uses the system drive (default) to store a swapfile. I have not tried to define a specific swap partition -- perhaps on my next installation I will try that out.

Christian

Hello Dani,

I think that you have a nice balance of talented moderators with your drive to handle the business end of the site. Everyone here has their own role -- I go after limited C++ support, look for abuses in the new threads, get deep and dirty in the Linux forum, and see the Mac forum as paradise for me. Other equally skilled, but in different areas, go after Windows (in)Security, Web Design, and whatnot.

The staff invests time and energy into the community because we like it here, and we have something to contribute, and something to grow with. Do not feel bad that you are not everywhere. A burnt out admin will flame out the community. I would cut out a chunk of work that is your role, and stick with it. Remember to eat, bathe, and go on vacation.

Christian

Hello,

I am a daily user of Mozilla Firefox on the Mac OS X platform. They had a kink in their previous release that interferred with DaniWeb details, but that has been fixed. I think it was a problem with the OS X version... the Linux one worked just fine.

Dani is a Safari lover. Which is Great.

Christian

Hi,

I know this post is way old, but E-Directory is a Novell solution, and Active Directory is Microsoft.

You will probably find a product to make the migration... I seem to think that Server 2000 and Server 2003 include a tool to migrate user accounts and so forth. This is a BIG STEP, and you will want to test it out in a lab first, and keep a replica of e-dir off line in the event you need to back out and cut your losses.

Christian

Hello,

grep or sed might have some functionality you are looking for. Also consider ls -al instead of ls -l because you will miss anything in a hidden directory (a .directory) if you are just in the -l mode.

This is a doozie of a project. Too sleepy to think right now. Grr.

Christian

Hello,

I think for sanity's sake, we should save the data from the hard drive, and do a re-install. That way, you get a good solid chance to see the OS, and learn about it from the ground up.

You would not be able to install linux on the Mac and preserve the files on the desktop. The installation would format that particular partition, and you would lose the files. You could format everything and put YellowDogLinux on the Mac, and that would work, but you will find that OS X has a very nice interface and works so well with what a Mac is meant to be.

YellowDogLinux is a fine product; it is great for older machines that cannot run OS X well (such as this Powerbook G3 333 Mhz that I have here!) but as a Desktop OS, it isn't completely finished as the Mac OS X is.

When you are ready, plan a day to rebuild this machine. Get the data off, and then come see us. :) If you want me personally around, I am usually around during the day - central daylight time. I am between jobs.

Christian

Hello Peter,

Agree with incissor on his discussion. I would include personal information such as phone number, email address, and address. I hope that you have them on your internal copy, but left it off for the web for privacy reasons. Get rid of the big RESUME on the top -- they know that it is a resume.

Also, leave out the boilerplate PAST: PRESENT: stuff. As Incissor suggested, order things chronologically. Yes check spelling too -- although American / British English have their own colourful expressions :)

You mention programming, but do not specify any programming languages.

You might also want to go to your college's guidence department, and ask an opinion there. Do not be in a hurry to submit a rushed resume -- take the time to get it right. This is your first impression.

Christian

Hello,

I find this extremely useful. Thank you for the change.

Christian

Hello,

I assume that you were using this data under NT/2000/XP and you have a new OS running NT/2000/XP. If this is the case, you have a new version of NT/2000/XP running, and are just being blocked by the OS.

See, even though the account names are the same (Administrator), there is an invisible mapping within windows that generates a hairy digit number letter thing that is the real user ID.

You could make an ID for a user "Jenny". Save a file, only readable by her. Remove "Jenny". Make another ID "Jenny". The accounts are named the same, but they are VERY DIFFERENT. Windows does this (as does Unix and Mac) so that someone can leave the company, and a new person with the same ID name can come in, and there won't be a security compromise.

How do you get around it?

Administrators have the ability to "take ownership" of files and folders. You will need to login to that computer as the administrator, go to the folder / file in question, and then bring up the properties window. From there, find the security information, and take ownership of the files.

Now, if you encrypted the files under NTFS, you could be in another ballpark. I have not simulated how to fix that condition.

Christian

Hello,

I assume you are on a cable modem or a DSL. Moving stuff upstream at that rate is pretty good (66.7 Kbytes/sec). A lot of ISP's throttle back the uploads, as they do not want their customers (YOU!) to be running a server on their line and making a profit. That means you qualify for their business packages... and that will cost some.

Be careful that you do not cause a concern due to heavy traffic. It is very very easy for the ISP to monitor how much traffic you generate, and sniff it out.

But technically, you can try to port manipulate as much as you want. It is still the same NIC card, and I bet that will remain your bottleneck. You could always ask the cable company for a second cable modem, and then throw a second NIC card in the server....

Christian

Hello,

Does the OS try to format the disk? If so, it is being recognized as a device, but not the internals. What does System Profiler have to say about the device?

OS 9 should recognize it, unless you used something besides HFS or HFS+ to format the device. It is possible that your upgrade caused a problem.

You can also try disk tools in OS X to look at the volume. Is the drive seen in there? DO NOT use NORTON under OS 9 to help with this.

Christian

Hello,

Thank you for the link. I printed it out, and am going to look at it today. If I may ask, what is your background? Are you a CNA/E? MCSE? A+? I am CNA and MCP.

Christian

Good Morning,

It is possible to work with zip files on the Mac. While it is not the traditional Stuffit format, there are Zip programs out there for the Mac, and most of them Shareware.

My guess is that you have some sort of segmenting going on, although I am not sure. Why? Because You unzipped the archive, the single archive, and now have all the .p01 .p02 .p03 files. Perhaps you have an installation sets of disks, or maybe these are pages to a postscript program.

This could help. Download a file typer utility, such as:

http://www.frederikseiffert.de/filetype/

Don't change anything, but find out what the file types of the .p01 ... files are. They may be defined, they might not be. BUt they might hint to where they belong.

Christian

Hello Maan,

We can't!

You are asking us to send our completed work for you to accept, perhaps adjust a bit, and then submit it as your own. That causes 3 problems: you failed to learn something, it is unethical for us to do for you, and it is unethical for you to accept our work.

We can offer ideas, but anyone who responds with a completed project has shortchanged your education, and with the ethics involved, could get you thrown out of school.

Christian

Hello,

We can't!

The idea of a community such as DaniWeb is for a group participation and learning by solving the problem. It is also unethical for A) us to do your homework, and B) for you to accept our work as your homwork. No!

What can we do?

You are the student. We can make suggestions to your code, and help correct it, but the guts of the code have to be yours. Spend an hour, and start with either a basic flow chart, or write down some psudeo-code (code that is not correct, but gets the idea) and we will build from there.

Anyone who just emails you the answer is not working with the spirit of learning, regardless of any impending deadlines.

We await your code submission...

Christian

Hello,

I would have to disagree with Freesoft_2000's comment that C++ is heavily dependant on Windows Operating System.

C++ is cross platform -- Macintosh, Linux, Microsoft, Unix, and VAX/VMS to just get started. Granted, the user-interfaces might need to be ported (Windows has different API than Macintosh), but a terminal-only application written for one should work with minimal effort somewhere else.

I agree with other things though -- Multiple languages if you can do it. It would also not hurt to get involved with some shell scripts, such as bash or expect. On my linux boxes, I have bash scripts managing c++ programs...

Enjoy,

Christian

Hello,

I don't have the articles handy, but Novell's e-directory is faster and more reliable for an Enterprise environment than Active Directory. e-directory, or NDS as it was called, has been around since the mid 1990's, and offers a lot of management options for the Enterprise. NDS can manage disk quotas across the enterprise; AD does it on a server by server basis. NDS, in my opinion, has better tools and greater stability and functionality.

AD is not a deadbeat product, however. AD is tied into MS Exchange for Address book information. AD is a well needed step from the NT4 days of server islands out there without Enterprise management. AD can easily be setup to work with WAN sites and their often slow connections.

Perhaps to help us out, you might wish to tell us a bit more about your company, and what your needs are. What is important to you? Email? Printing? Citrix support? Different name spaces on the file servers?

Also, in order to attract comment to this topic, I am breaking your question into a new thread, so that others may notice it, and generate comments.

And between you and me, I would take the Novell.

Christian

Hello Starfish,

All is not lost. A Mac is a damn good computer, and I have a feeling with a little tender care, you are going to shine, and be quite happy to be using it.

The big thing here is that we need to know your OS Version. OS 9 is very different than OS X.

1) Printing -- need to know your printer type (HP LaserJet, Epson Stylus?) What are you printing to? How is it connected (Network, USB, SCSI?)

2) CD-R -- Are you able to read CD-ROMS with it? What happens if you put in a music CD?

3) Compressing -- Yes, Stuffit is the big compression technology out there, although if you are running OS X, you can use the compress command from the terminal window. Almost all people use Stuffit. If you are running OS 9, you can also use Compact Pro. I have to see if someone ported LHA for Mac OS X.

4) PDF -- The Mac LOVES PDF. If you take a screen capture in OS X, it is in PDF form. You do not need Adobe Acrobat Writer to generate PDF files... the OS will do it for you (granted, you will not have advanced control over them, such as dpi of embedded pictures, but you will generate PDF on the fly). Acrobat Reader 6.x is available for the Mac... go get it! By default, the program called Preview will open .pdf files and …

Good Morning,

To check your system logs, you need to go into the Control Panel --> Admin Tools --> Computer Management. Inside there are a good amount of tools. Look for the Event Viewer, and you will find at least three log types. Look in the Application logs and the System Logs.

I would also be curious if the problem is a profile problem. Do you have another user account on the XP box that you can try Windows Media Player with? Make yourself a new account, and see if it plays for you within that new account.

Christian

Hi,

I don't think so either. I have done the dual monitor thing, and really enjoy it, but having separate keyboards and such won't work. The serial / USB busses would have no idea which monitor belonged to what process.

Nope.

Christian

Hello,

Did this just start happening, or has it been a problem for a while now? If it just started, have you recently done any system patches, or installed new hardware?

Also check your system logs. I am assuming you are working with a modern Windows here. Do the logs report any strange activities? Of course they show your system restarting... but any other errors coming up?

Christian