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rcurl
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response 100 of 127:
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May 21 16:37 UTC 2007 |
How does one save the configuration (SSID and WEP) for future connection
of a Mac laptop to a wireless base station?
I can connect, but could not find the way to save the configuration for
later connections.
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gull
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response 101 of 127:
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Aug 22 16:54 UTC 2007 |
Let it add the info to your keyring.
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rcurl
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response 102 of 127:
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Aug 22 18:53 UTC 2007 |
How is that done? If you can tell me, I can try it the next time that Mac
laptop is available to me (in a week or so).
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gull
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response 103 of 127:
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Aug 22 18:59 UTC 2007 |
It's been a while since I did it, so I don't remember. I think it was a
checkbox or a dialog query when I first signed on the the secured network.
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rcurl
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response 104 of 127:
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Aug 23 05:32 UTC 2007 |
I looked for that but nothing was apparent.
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rcurl
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response 105 of 127:
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Sep 5 19:47 UTC 2007 |
A game application that I used now and then stopped working. When clicked
on, the icon "exploded" as usual, and a spinning wait icon appeared, but
then everything stopped and the app did not open. Thinking the app had
gotten damaged, I download a new one, but that did exactly the same thing.
Therefore the problem appears to be in my OS 10.3.9 system.
I therefore downloaded the 19.3.9 installer again, and ran it. I had
expected that it would give me a dialog because I was reinstalling it on
top of the same installed system. But it went ahead, and installed it.
However doing so did not help the game app to work: it failed to open in
exactly the same manner.
In hunting for info on the Apple site for reinstallation, I found mention
of reinstalling with an "erase and install", but no explanation or
instructions for that.
Should I have done something different to reinstall a fresh copy of the
system?
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rcurl
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response 106 of 127:
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Sep 7 18:31 UTC 2007 |
Further to #105: my cosole.log file contains the following after I try to upen
the subject game:
Mac OS X Version 10.3.9 (Build 7W98)
2007-09-07 14:01:26 -0400
2007-09-07 14:02:46.905 MahJong Solitaire[359] AppKitJava: uncaught
exception NSInvalidArgumentException (*** -[NSCFDictionary
setObject:forKey:]: attempt to insert nil value)
2007-09-07 14:02:46.905 MahJong Solitaire[359] AppKitJava: exception
= *** -[NSCFDictionary setObject:forKey:]: attempt to insert nil
value
2007-09-07 14:02:46.906 MahJong Solitaire[359] AppKitJava:
terminating.
Does this offer any clues as to how I could correct the fault?
I have discovered from further reading that reinstalling the 10.3.9
upgrade does not replace the current System, and whatever bug there is in
it that causes the problem. I need to use an install disc, which could do
an "archive and install", a function not in the upgrade. I can buy such an
10.3.5 install disk on Ebay, and then would have to upgrade and update to
10.3.9 with downloads.
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rcurl
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response 107 of 127:
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Oct 7 20:46 UTC 2007 |
(Must not be many Mac users listening in here. But just in case.....)
Does Mac OSX "Tiger" (10.4) support the Classic interface? I am running
10.3.9, which does, but I could not find any mention of Classic (9.2.2) in
the Tiger user's guide.
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nharmon
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response 108 of 127:
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Oct 8 12:20 UTC 2007 |
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't "Classic Interface" really a
dual-boot setup?
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rcurl
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response 109 of 127:
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Oct 8 14:09 UTC 2007 |
Not sure what "dual boot" means, but one can choose the startup sys in the
System Preferences in OS 10.3. Also, in OS 10.3, if one starts an OS 9
app, "classic" starts up automatically. There is also a OS 9 menu in the
menu bar. Does OS 10.4 have those?
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gull
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response 110 of 127:
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Oct 8 19:15 UTC 2007 |
10.4 supports the Classic environment on PPC Macs, but not on Intel Macs.
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rcurl
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response 111 of 127:
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Oct 8 19:45 UTC 2007 |
Thanks!
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rcurl
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response 112 of 127:
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Dec 21 06:49 UTC 2008 |
Terminal in Mac OS 10.4 under File has an Open choice where ssh and sft
servers can be saved after being created in Connect to Server. I just
discovered that OS 10.5 doesn't have that option, and you choose a server
in a menu in Connect to Server. In setting up servers in that menu I made
some mistakes, but these were saved too. I'd like to delete them. How can
I do this?
I did notice that the most recently used server goes to the top of the
list, so bad ones eventually settle to the bottom, but there must be some
way to remove those bad ones.
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rcurl
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response 113 of 127:
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Dec 24 20:41 UTC 2008 |
Well, here's another OS X question: In Alpine on Grex I would like to select
a URL viewer. In Setup there one may make a choice but entering the path to
a viewer after URL-Viewers = ..... How do I write the path to a particular
viewer application in Mac OS X?
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rcurl
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response 114 of 127:
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Dec 25 17:02 UTC 2008 |
Or can that only be done if I'm running Alpine ON the Mac?
Here's a puzzle I encountered on a MacBook running OS 10.5: I was using
Terminal to connect to a UM server and copying URLs from messages in Pine
to paste to Firefox. I was going between Terminal and Firefox in the Dock.
At some point in going back and forth I noticed that the Terminal icon in
the Dock was showing the name Firefox, but it was bringing up Terminal, so
I didn't think much of it at the time. However after the computer had been
shut down and restarted, Terminal had disappeared from the Dock - and,
apparently, from the computer! Find found nothing called Terminal. This
seemed strange so I ran Disk Utility (everything was OK) and thought I
would have to reinstall Terminal. But in the middle of the night it came
to me that perhaps Terminal had gotten renamed and, sure enough, in the
morning I found it in the Utilities folder but with the name Firefox!
Renaming was easy and things were back to normal.
How did Termenal get renamed Firefox while I was swiching between the two
applications?
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rcurl
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response 115 of 127:
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Mar 29 06:08 UTC 2009 |
Any Mac OSX users around here. Questions don't get answers. Trying again
anyway, since the Adobe online support system is useless unless one has a
support contract.
I created a bunch of PFD of images in a HP scanner. Adobe Acrobat 9 will open
them, but Adobe Reader 9 will not. Or rather, it opens them as a solid gray
page.
The PDFs created by the scanner are in PDF ver. 6.x, so I tried using the
Optimizer in Acrobat to make one "compatible" with Acrobat 9, but this did
not help the Reader to open the PDF. Suggestions?
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rcurl
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response 116 of 127:
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Mar 31 05:07 UTC 2009 |
Sure is lonesome around here....
But I found the solution....Adobe Acrobat and Adobe Reader are incompatible.
If I want Acrobat available for its editing and other functions, Reader must
not be installed. Adobe doesn't tell you this anywhere, as far as I could
find. They could even build an automatic warning in the software to tell you
if both are installed....but no. I got conirmation of this by a long google
search with a variety of search terms.
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arthurp
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response 117 of 127:
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Sep 10 04:43 UTC 2009 |
Wow, that is silly about reader/acrobat...
No pretty quiet around here. It's not like the old days.
Got a real strange look from someone the other day while wearing my grex
shirt. I had to explain that there was a time before IM.
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rcurl
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response 118 of 127:
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Oct 4 05:43 UTC 2009 |
I ran the Sophos 7.0.5 Anit-Virus scan on my OS 10.4.11 laptop and
received the following errors:
New volume detected at /
Error: corrupt file at: /Applications/Parallels Desktop.app.
Error: threat detection engine found an unrecognised file format at:
/Applications/Stuffit Install/StuffItStandard2009.dmg.
Error: corrupt file at: /Applications/MacLinkPlus
Deluxe.app/Contents/MacOSClassic/MacLinkPlus Modules.
Error: corrupt file at: /Users/ranecurl/Documents/Parallels/Windows Vista.pvm.
Error: corrupt file at: /Applications/Papers.app.
Can anyone tell me what "corrupt" means in this regard?
I do have Windows Vista, which can run under Parallels, installed. This
might be seen as a corrupt Mac file (?). The other stuff is all OSX.
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arthurp
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response 119 of 127:
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Oct 13 07:00 UTC 2009 |
Sounds like reboot and run the file system check tools.
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rcurl
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response 120 of 127:
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Oct 13 19:23 UTC 2009 |
I had not run "fix permissions" first in Disk FirstAid. Next time I will
do that before running the virus check.
But, what might the scan consider as "corrupt"? That was my question.
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rcurl
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response 121 of 127:
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Jan 14 22:01 UTC 2010 |
I've been backing up a MacBook on a wired LAN with Mac G4 using
Retrospect. I've done this several times, but suddenly I get a "client
not visible on network" dialog. I get this with the MacBook connected to
the LAN ethernet hub with different cables. I've run the Disk Utility on
the MacBook - and the MacBook firmware has also been updated. The
MacBook will print to a printer on the LAN. I also cannot conect
directly to the MacBook from the G4 anymore, as I could before to share
files (the connection attempt times out).
What should I look for to fix this?
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arthurp
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response 122 of 127:
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Jan 21 06:21 UTC 2010 |
How are your IPs assigned? Static or DHCP?
From command prompt you can try to find the hardware address of each
machine. In Linux the command is /sbin/ifconfig. Probably the same for
you.
If the IPs are similar except for the ending part try to ping A from B
and B from A. You may be able to determine something with the 'arp'
command after the ping. If there is physical connectivity between the
machines and the IPs are correct there will be an arp entry. If there
is a problem like a deaf or mute card/cable/port, then you will likely
end up with a blank or incomplete arp entry for one of the directions.
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rcurl
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response 123 of 127:
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Jan 21 21:32 UTC 2010 |
DHCP. Thanks for the suggestions.
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rcurl
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response 124 of 127:
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Mar 7 06:00 UTC 2010 |
I took the MacBook to the Apple Genius Bar at Briarwood and they (eventually!)
found out that its firewall had been turned on. Neither my wife or I
intentionally turned it on, but sometimes when new virus software downloads
there is a dialog about security. One of us may have hit the wrong button.
However this only allowed me to make a file sharing connection to the MacBook
from the G4. Retrospect would still not make a connection. Therefore I
uninstalled Retrospect (and its client on the MacBook) and installed an
upgrade. SUCCESS. I think what happened that at some time in the past, perhaps
with a firmware upgrade on the MacBook, the Retrospect client on the MacBook
was made inoperative.
So all is sunshine again....except the CD drive on the G4 doesn't work
anymore. Sigh.
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