http://blog.gmane.org/gmane.comp.macosx.general hourly 1 1901-01-01T00:00+00:00 http://gmane.org/img/gmane-25t.png http://gmane.org http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.macosx.general/57579 _______________________________________________ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk-sc6jspJ1wlD3oGB3hsPCZA< at >public.gmane.org http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk Rudolf O. Durrer 2008-09-06T12:12:28 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.macosx.general/57570 Can someone try and duplicate this. You will need a Mac and a separate machine running Windows: Set up some shares on your mac, enable windows sharing. Set up some shares on your PC. Mount that shares FROM the PC on the Mac. Try to mount the shares FROM the Mac on the PC. I've tried this with two windows machines (XP SP2 and XP SP3) and an X- Box, and none of them can access the smb shares on the mac, and haven't been able to since 10.5.2. In fact, the machine shows up in the network neighborhood on the PCs (WORKGROUP) but there are no shares shown there, though it takes a long time for the windows machines to time out. I even reinstalled the OS from scratch at one point, created a new admin user, logged in as that user, setup the shares and it still didn't work. My Mac is a MacPro quad core with an 8800 (I mention this because it IS an issue with the system installer... I can't boot off the Leoaprd dvd without removing the 8800, and the problems appear to coincide to some extent) and 6GB of RAM and 2.5TB of total discs (4 SATA, 1 eSATA, 1 USB2 for Time Machine). LuKreme 2008-09-05T19:09:04 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.macosx.general/57567 _______________________________________________ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk-sc6jspJ1wlD3oGB3hsPCZA< at >public.gmane.org http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk Rudolf O. Durrer 2008-09-05T18:19:05 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.macosx.general/57565 Does anyone know of a OSX program/utility/tool to analyze the apache access log file for origination IP addresses and generate a graphical map showing where visitors to the website are coming from? Thx, Russ R.L. Grigg 2008-09-05T16:44:19 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.macosx.general/57564 I have a strange thing in Mail.app Of certain mails, I have more than one copy, in different mailboxes. To clean that out, I search in the "subject" field of messages for the respective text and get the mails. But: Mail.app shows MUCH more mails than they really are. A lot of them do not show, which mailbox there are in, and deleting them does not move them to the trash. Also, they show no body. But I can mark them, sort them, etc. Where is this behaviour coming from?? Rudolf Rudolf O. Durrer 2008-09-04T11:24:51 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.macosx.general/57561 How does Mail.app decide, which entry belongs to a thread or not. I observe sometimes, that some messages, which respond to a certain subject, are left out when activating thread showing, but others not Rudolf Rudolf O. Durrer 2008-09-04T00:55:22 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.macosx.general/57560 Howdy All, I'm trying to help out with our boy's school assembly sound track. A parent burned a song to a DVD (as a DVD movie) but the teacher wants it on CD to play in the CD player. I extracted the audio from the DVD with Mac the Ripper and got an MPA file (MPEG Audio). I then added that song to my iTunes library. It plays fine. I made a playlist with that one song and attempted to burn it to an audio CD. It burns successfully (there is an aiff file) but when playing it there is no sound. Any suggestions? Why would it play fine in iTunes but not burn to an audio CD? I don't believe there is any DRM involved. Thanks for any assistance. Cheers, Ashley. -- Ashley Aitken Perth, Western Australia Skype/iChat: MrHatken (GMT + 8hrs!) Ashley Aitken 2008-09-04T00:38:06 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.macosx.general/57526 Is it ok to buy AppleCare from a different country than the one I purchased the Mac from? Will I still be able to register the AppleCare for the Mac in the country of purchase? Will AppleCare cover apply in the country of purchase? I believe AppleCare is an international service, i.e. provides international cover, so I would hope the answer to all of these questions is yes, but I would just like someone who has done this to confirm. Thanks, Ashley. -- Ashley Aitken Perth, Western Australia mrhatken at mac dot com Skype Name: MrHatken (GMT + 8 Hours!) Ashley Aitken 2008-09-02T23:54:15 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.macosx.general/57521 _______________________________________________ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk-sc6jspJ1wlD3oGB3hsPCZA< at >public.gmane.org http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk Kevin Callahan 2008-09-02T20:19:34 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.macosx.general/57514 I have had more than my fair share of crashes with my DUAL It seems most often it happens when I've selected something in iTunes. This time, I was playing back a Stravinsky file that I'd purchased from iTunes and the music just stopped, the beachball appeared .. and eventually, I lost all control of my machine: some apps I can bring to front, but things like FINDER, Terminal and others are lifeless. I always have to reboot. Every time I look in the Console for around the time of the crash, I see the launching of /usr/sbin/ocspd in this case, the crash or lockup happened around 5:03 or 5:04 (see image in this email) i think this has something to do with opening my keychain .. perhaps it was when iTunes was verifying the protected file I was playing ? hard to say, since the file was already playing some 20 seconds before the lockup. My system was most of the way through a 1.5 Gig Time Machine backup when it occurred (and I let that time machine backup complete before I rebooted) WHen I set up my dual, I moved some keychains over from my MBPro. Instead of importing or combining the keychains I already had running on my Dual, I added the MBPro keychain as another keychain. I could be way off base here, but I think it's somehow related. Usually, when I reboot my machine and if I launch Mail, or Skype, I get a popup panel asking if the app can have access to a keychain. I never had this issue on any other machine prior to this Dual. Thoughts ? K _______________________________________________ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk-sc6jspJ1wlD3oGB3hsPCZA< at >public.gmane.org http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk Kevin Callahan 2008-08-30T00:21:26 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.macosx.general/57509 Hi, I have had Time Machine running for about 6-8 months on 2 computers. In the last month or so, I get an error panel once in a while, say every 4-7 days or so. The error panel says: Time Machine Error. Unable to complete backup. An error occurred while copying files to the backup volume. After getting this message, I go to the Time Machine icon in the menu bar and tell it to do an immediate backup. This seems to work without an error. This has happened on both an iMac with the backup going to an external FW drive and on a PowerMac with the backup going to an internal SATA drive. Is this normal? If so, what causes it? If it's not normal, do you think it's a software or hardware problem? Is it likely (or unlikely) that my Time Machine backups are corrupted in some way? Thanks, Gregg Gregg Dinse 2008-08-29T16:25:15 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.macosx.general/57504 Are others having a problem purchasing from the iTunes store right now? I'm just trying to download a free iP**ne app and I'm getting an alert about a store problem with credit. ? K Kevin Callahan 2008-08-28T22:23:50 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.macosx.general/57503 Hi All, Are HDs connected via USB particularly unstable? I don't usually use them but lately, two different HDs, connected to two different Macs which are normally on all the time, in different locations, using USB, and come back four days later, and they're both frozen/panicked. Coincidence or expected? Stefano Stefano Mori 2008-08-28T21:30:52 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.macosx.general/57502 I run disk utilitiy to repair access rights. Often, I get a message, I do not understand the meaning (not b'cause it's German...): "Die Zugriffssteuerungsliste wurde gefunden, jedoch nicht für „private/var/root“ erwartet.", which translates into something like: "The access rights list had been found, but for „private/var/root“ not expected". No action (ignoring, repairing or so) is signalled. This happens for several folders. Do I have to care about that? Rudolf Rudolf O. Durrer 2008-08-27T17:56:58 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.macosx.general/57497 _______________________________________________ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk-sc6jspJ1wlD3oGB3hsPCZA< at >public.gmane.org http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk Candy Eve, The Task Force 2008-08-26T19:38:10 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.macosx.general/57484 So I'm about to kick my ISP out of my house for annoying me one too many times (mainly by using stupid technical support people who know less than I do and insisting that things are working when they're not). This means that for a while I'm going to be using my 3G Modem as my only broadband connection. The problem is that I only have a 1G a month transfer limit on it (Hey £5 a month, I'm not complaining). So what I'm after is a program I can use to track my usage over a month, and ideally alert me when I get near my limit (because the charges for going over the limit are ASTRONOMICAL). Does anybody have any suggestions for where I might find such an app? ....or I'm not adverse to some scripting if there's a way using the command line tools. Note: it needs to be limited to a single network adapter so I can still transfer files on my home network and not screw up the numbers. Ta Paul Paul Sargent 2008-08-26T11:48:02 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.macosx.general/57477 Uugh.. I've run into this problem - someone moves a file into the shared folder (not creates it already there, so ACL wouldn't work - I don't think), and it gets stuck with the permissions of the original owner. And so another user can't import it into Mail, because Mail for some reason won't import things that don't have write permission (don't ask my why..) Folder actions is one idea, but I don't know how (or if) permissions can be set from AS directly. AS can run shell scripts, but has to open Terminal to do so (I'd like to keep Terminal closed, as this isn't my Mac). ACL might be able to do it somehow, but I'm not familiar with most of ACL. Upgrading this particular computer to Leopard right now is not really an option (my mother would go nuts I think..) A cron job would probably be easiest, or a Folder Action if permissions can be set from AS without resorting to Terminal. A cron job would require that the Mac is on to execute (or execute it like every 5 minutes), but it is most of the time anyway, due to what I think is a bug in the Bluetooth hardware where a mouse will essentially wake the mac up to check in or something, and then the computer won't put itself back to sleep.. AARGHH! Is there a way to do "unix folder actions"? Ie a shell script that would execute whenever a file is added to a directory? I know about setting up a separate drive (or disk image) and then setting it to "ignore permissions" - WHY didn't Apple allow you to do this for separate folders (especially as UNIX sees directories and volumes as almost the same thing). It seems like the default group permissions (read/write) should deal with this, but it doesn't for some reason. If I changed the group ownership of /Uses/Shared from it's current wheel (don't know WHY it's set to wheel, but it is) to admin, would that allow that to work? (The odd thing is, the Shared folder on MY Mac - just recently reinstalled the system, and didn't touch permissions on anything - DOES have the Shared folder's group set to admin) Why hasn't OSX done this from day one? A shared folder should be just that - shared. Meaning read/write/maybe-execute permissions on anything created in/moved to/etc in it. Jim Jim Witte 2008-08-24T23:58:50 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.macosx.general/57473 Stumped. Bought 2 2nd gen Shuffles for parents, and couldn't get either to properly do what I've been able to with my Nano: sync with a smart playlist (just audio podcasts, no video). I figured I was missing something, and picked one (a 1MB 2nd Gen) up from Apple's refurb store. But the problem persists, and now I'm getting worried that this might be some feature lack (especially after reading various posts). I guess my question is what is the trick to getting the Shuffle to automatically sync with podcasts upon plugging it in? I have it set to "autofill" from a smart playlist (I call it "daily news") that has been syncing fine with my nano. I plug it in, for a second iTunes says "syncing iPod," nothing transfers, then a second later it says "sync is complete" And why does the Shuffle need "Autofill" and not just (a la the other iPods) allow automatic syncing with designated podcasts? OS X 10.4.11 iTunes 7.6.2 iPod firmware 1.04 (restored to factory sets, even though its brand new) list boy 2008-08-22T12:14:35 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.macosx.general/57467 I ran iEatBrainz (http://musicbrainz.org/) and ran it through a playlist to fingerprint a bunch of songs and get artisst/album info. This works fine, but when I try to update the tags, I get the following error: Can’t make «class pDID» of {«class cFlT» id 35417 of «class cLiP» id 25125 of «class cSrc» id 51 of application "iTunes"} into type string. (-1700) I ran it again and selected only about 30 songs to update, and got the same error. OK, fine, I ran it again and selected just one song to update. You guessed it: Can’t make «class pDID» of {«class cFlT» id 35417 of «class cLiP» id 25125 of «class cSrc» id 51 of application "iTunes"} into type string. (-1700) OK, so maybe it's the first song in the list that is the problem.... Can’t make «class pDID» of {«class cFlT» id 37976 of «class cLiP» id 25125 of «class cSrc» id 51 of application "iTunes"} into type string. (-1700) Sigh. The app has no way to recover from this error, btw, and must be force-quit. LuKreme 2008-08-20T02:44:35 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.macosx.general/57455 What file server works best for Leopard clients? Openfiler? NASLite? FreeNAS? Which protocol: NFS or SAMBA? Any locking issues with multiple clients? Robert La Ferla 2008-08-18T01:20:56 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.macosx.general/57444 Hi everyone, I have a friend who has a lot of old data on HFS formatted Zip disks (from an ancient machine running System 7), and has recently gotten a new iMac running Leopard. Before I tell her to get a USB zip off of ebay, can someone confirm that 10.5.x can still read old HFS (not HFS +) disks? I've tried googling, but can't find a definitive answer. Thanks! Mike mikecap-ee4meeAH724< at >public.gmane.org 2008-08-15T19:35:50 Search the mailing list at Gmane query http://search.gmane.org/?group=$group=gmane.comp.macosx.general