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/58058 Background: I support a number of my clients via VNC screen sharing. This requires port forwarding to be set up at locations that use home routers or are otherwise NATted. Setting up port forwarding relies on knowing the LAN IP address of the machine you want to forward to. Many of my clients have a model of DSL modem that supports port forwarding, but whose DHCP doesn't support reserving static LAN IP addresses for known machines by their MAC addresses. This means I cannot guarantee that the same machine is going to get the same LAN IP address. Many of these people travel with their laptops, so just hard-coding a manual IP address into their machines isn't a good solution. I know that Locations solves this issue for the technically literate, but managing that is beyond most of these folks. The telco tech told me that Vista and XP have a feature whereby you can specify a canned IP address for your machine (after some timeout, I would suspect) in the event that DHCP doesn't gran Macs R We 2008-11-28T21:08:51 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.macosx.general/58057 We are NFSv3 mounting a hierarchical storage system on MacOSX Leopard workstations (on 100-baseT network until the economy improves so we can get a new switch). When you try to use a file that is staged to tape, you get a popup asking if you want to disconnect, and the log has messages of the form: 11/28/08 8:51:45 AM kernel nfs server x:/y: resource temporarily unavailable (jukebox) If you ignore the messages, and the tape robot hasn't broken (again!), eventually you get the data you wanted. 1. what happens if you are batch processing overnight with the login screen visible? Last night I had a bunch of crash reports from askpass. 2. has anybody worked out better /etc/nfs.conf values? I'm trying: $ cat /etc/nfs.conf # see man 5 nfs.conf # after editing, use "mount_nfs configupdate" to set the new values nfs.client.mount.options = rw,hard,intr,bg,vers=3,proto=tcp # how long to wait (sec, default=12) before reporting "not responding" nfs.client.initialdowndelay = 60 nfs.client.nextdowndelay = 180 Th George N. White III 2008-11-28T17:56:22 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.macosx.general/58056 Is there a way to simply create smart folders on the contents of any arbitrary folder available ? From the doc, and my tests, it is only possible to do smart folders on the disk itself or on the home folder (ie the folder that is opened when a new Finder window is created). Which means that one needs to actually change the Finder preferences to create a smart folder on another folder. Like, I want to create a smart folder that shows me the files I downloaded this week. I change the Finder preferences so that it opens Download by default, then I create a new smart folder with "Where from=http" and "Last Modified this week". But then I need to change back my Finder preferences so that it opens on my real home folder... Any trick that does not involve playing with Finder preferences ? Jean-Christophe Helary ------------------------------------ http://mac4translators.blogspot.com/ Jean-Christophe Helary 2008-11-17T07:09:04 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.macosx.general/58054 Haven't seen a message in 3 days... is the list down? LuKreme 2008-11-12T19:44:59 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.macosx.general/58049 There is a discussion of Eudora and other mail programs on MacInTouch that reminds me again of some of the reasons why I don't use Mail.app. Can anything be done? Is anyone at Apple interested or do they only care about new glitzy bling? One thing that bugs me (and many others) is that when I am reading an email it is unnecessarily awkward to go to the next message in the mailbox ('F' in T'bird). Is that a limitation of Cocoa, letting only the currently top window process receive entries? And I would like to see received messages and my responses in the same mailbox, even though the leading brand doesn't do that either. William Ehrich 2008-11-08T15:52:15 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.macosx.general/58042 I just got an external FW 1TB drive, preformatted with NTFS, and am having difficulty getting Disk Utility to format it Mac OS Extended (Journaled). Here is the entry in the log file: Nov 7 14:10:46 Disk Utility[3449]: Disk Utility started. Nov 7 14:12:03 Disk Utility[3449]: Preparing to erase : “ProDrive” Nov 7 14:12:03 Disk Utility[3449]: Partition Scheme: Master Boot Record Nov 7 14:12:03 Disk Utility[3449]: 1 volume will be erased Nov 7 14:12:03 Disk Utility[3449]: Name : “ProDrive” Nov 7 14:12:03 Disk Utility[3449]: Size : 931.5 GB Nov 7 14:12:03 Disk Utility[3449]: Filesystem : Mac OS Extended (Journaled) Nov 7 14:12:04 /System/Library/CoreServices/Finder.app/Contents/MacOS/ Finder[134]: StatusMonitor::volumesChangedCallBack returned -47 Nov 7 14:12:07 Disk Utility[3449]: newfs_hfs: /dev/rdisk3s1: partition size not a multiple of 4K. Nov 7 14:12:07 Disk Utility[3449]: Volume Erase failed with the error: \n\nThe underlying task reported failure on exit. Jonathon Kuo 2008-11-07T22:46:05 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.macosx.general/58018 There used to be a status bar at the bottom of each Mail compose window, showing how large your message will be when you send it (w/ attachments). I can't see how to get it to display. Did it get dropped in a recent update? Jonathon Kuo 2008-11-04T01:41:56 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.macosx.general/58013 When I do a search in Mail, I usually get much more entries than really exists. Test: All mails with a certain subject are in a specified mailbox (for the test, that are 14 entries). OK I search for that certain string in "subject" of all mailboxes. OK Correctly, all mails in the said mailbox show up (should be 14 mails, and they are there). OK BUT: in the result list there are much more mails, the result list shows 31 mails. Those "additional" mails do not show their respective mailbox, nor do they show a text in the body nor a header. In fact, they seem to be "faked" copies of the correct mails. This is annoying as I have therefore to scroll through a long list to find my mails. Does anybody know about that mail.app behaviour and how to stop it? Thanks for a hint Rudolf -- Watch out: If there's no necessity to make a law, there's a necessity to make no law. This mail is from: Rudolf O. Durrer 6365 Kehrsiten Rudolf O. Durrer 2008-11-03T14:21:45 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.macosx.general/58008 Starting today, Mail refuses to remember my accounts passwords... I've checked all sort of things on the net, like Keychain related issues, I've reinitialized said Keychain, I've fiddled with Mail's settings, but nothing gave me any positive result. In any case, when I enter the account preferences and type a password, I see black dots there, then I move to another account, Mail asks me to save, but when I come back, the black dots are not there anymore... There are no Mail related data sets in Keychain Access so I can't fiddle there either. I'm really at loss. Any idea what needs to be done ? Jean-Christophe Helary Jean-Christophe Helary 2008-10-30T15:31:42 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.macosx.general/58003 Hi All, I have an Apple TV, just got it. I see it in iTunes and I can sync, but can I sync and then take the movies off my mac? I have all my movies on a Time Capsule, I copy them to my Mac to sync, but I dont want them staying on my mac, taking up way to much of my valuable space! Thoughts? -Jason J. Todd Slack 2008-10-29T15:55:24 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.macosx.general/57995 HI All, I have a situation where I would like to only be able to launch Mail.app from a terminal using 'sudo' or 'su' (I am logged in as another user than this). I tried making this work, I obviously dont have the shown and chmod done correctly. Does anyone know how to accomplish this? -Jason J. Todd Slack 2008-10-24T11:13:32 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.macosx.general/57989 Hi All, Does anyone know how I might be able to automatically start a few VM's from a shell script? -JAson J. Todd Slack 2008-10-24T00:53:49 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.macosx.general/57972 Hi All, Can I set an x-no-archive header on every outgoing e-mail in Apple Mail? I dont see how. -Jason J. Todd Slack 2008-10-23T02:22:11 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.macosx.general/57969 Is Leopard less stable than Tiger? Occasional random panics, maybe once a fortnight. Stefano Stefano Mori 2008-10-22T23:00:53 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.macosx.general/57950 _______________________________________________ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk-sc6jspJ1wlD3oGB3hsPCZA< at >public.gmane.org http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk Mark Smith 2008-10-20T10:18:25 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.macosx.general/57949 _______________________________________________ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk-sc6jspJ1wlD3oGB3hsPCZA< at >public.gmane.org http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk Mark Smith 2008-10-20T10:04:07 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.macosx.general/57878 I was going to order a new MB today but just before ordering, I discovered they don't come with firewire. I need firewire because my portable audio devices are FW based. Apple is probably right that most MB users don't *need* FW, but ... <http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/10/17/Apple_users_rage_over_missing_FireWire_1.html > Kevin Callahan 2008-10-17T19:14:00 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.macosx.general/57876 Is there a way in OSX 10.5.5 to reset an SD card's read-only status to read/write? We're using 4GB SD cards to transfer certain files between OSX and Windows systems that are not networked. Sometimes the cards (FAT16 formatted) get set to read-only status, even if 'gracefully' unmounted. The little read-only switches on the LHS are set to read/ write. Disk Utility shows that the cards are read-only, but gives no way to change it. Jonathon Kuo 2008-10-16T20:02:31 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.macosx.general/57875 _______________________________________________ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk-sc6jspJ1wlD3oGB3hsPCZA< at >public.gmane.org http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk list boy 2008-10-15T16:17:33 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.macosx.general/57872 Hi all, A friend just got a MacBook Air and is distressed about the lack of a Kensington lock port on it. Have any of you Air owners out there found a substitute? (and yes, it's obvious why the lock port isn't there, just wondering if anyone has found an alternative, a quick google for Macbook air lock didn't seem to find anything but complaints about the lack of the port) Thanks, Mike mikecap-ee4meeAH724< at >public.gmane.org 2008-10-14T21:24:49 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.macosx.general/57869 _______________________________________________ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk-sc6jspJ1wlD3oGB3hsPCZA< at >public.gmane.org http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk Kevin Callahan 2008-10-13T16:34:10 Search the mailing list at Gmane query http://search.gmane.org/?group=$group=gmane.comp.macosx.general