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rcurl
response 111 of 127: Mark Unseen   Oct 8 19:45 UTC 2007

Thanks!
rcurl
response 112 of 127: Mark Unseen   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.
rcurl
response 113 of 127: Mark Unseen   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?
rcurl
response 114 of 127: Mark Unseen   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?
?

rcurl
response 115 of 127: Mark Unseen   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? 
rcurl
response 116 of 127: Mark Unseen   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. 
arthurp
response 117 of 127: Mark Unseen   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.
rcurl
response 118 of 127: Mark Unseen   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.
arthurp
response 119 of 127: Mark Unseen   Oct 13 07:00 UTC 2009

Sounds like reboot and run the file system check tools.
rcurl
response 120 of 127: Mark Unseen   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.

rcurl
response 121 of 127: Mark Unseen   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? 
arthurp
response 122 of 127: Mark Unseen   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.
rcurl
response 123 of 127: Mark Unseen   Jan 21 21:32 UTC 2010

DHCP. Thanks for the suggestions. 
rcurl
response 124 of 127: Mark Unseen   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.
rcurl
response 125 of 127: Mark Unseen   Mar 7 06:05 UTC 2010

New question: 

We have a CD-ROM that we would like to copy on the MacBook. It is 
protected in some fashion. The original opens a video menu after the CD 
is inserted and one can view an assortment of videos. We burned a copy 
of the CD but the copy does not open to the menu, though it appears to 
have exactly the same files (unless it has hidden files). How can we 
hack our way past the copy protection? I can open any of the files on 
the disc in Terminal for editing (which will show hidden files), but I 
don't know what I should look for.

rcurl
response 126 of 127: Mark Unseen   Mar 8 23:13 UTC 2010

Problem solved. I discovered the "DVD Ripper". That's after I looked up the
file extensions - .VOB, .IFO and .BUP - to see what they are. This led me to
discover that I have iMOVIE and iDVD on this computer: undiscovered (or at
least unvisited) worlds...
rcurl
response 127 of 127: Mark Unseen   Apr 24 05:12 UTC 2010

How can I print to a printer on ethernet from OS X Terminal? lpstat or lpq
don't find any printers on the network. I get an "Unable to connect to server"
error.
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