Welcome to the MacNN Forums.

If this is your first visit, be sure to check out the FAQ by clicking the link above. You may have to register before you can post: click the register link above to proceed. To start viewing messages, select the forum that you want to visit from the selection below.

You are here: MacNN Forums > Search Forums > Search Results

Showing results 1 to 50 of 51
Page 1 of 2 1 2 >
Search: Posts Made By: rwhiffen
Thread Thread Starter Last Post Replies Views Forum
stats not showing up? 590 Views / 6 Replies  
I re-joined team macnn, but I don't seem to be showing up in the stats. Do I need to do anything special?

Account data for rwhiffen (http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/show_user.php?userid=8782183)
...
Posted by rwhiffen, on Jan 7, 2008 at 08:08 PM, in Team MacNN
I don't think I follow you. You want to install... 739 Views / 2 Replies  
I don't think I follow you. You want to install windows software on your HP-UX installation and run it from the command line? Or do you want to do a remote call to a windows OS host?

There is no...
Posted by rwhiffen, on Oct 12, 2006 at 10:38 AM, in macOS
To plug it into your stereo you'll need a... 1,258 Views / 3 Replies  
To plug it into your stereo you'll need a mini-stereo jack to two RCA plug cable. Just about anywhere that sells audio cables have 'em.

Yes, you can plug the ariport via ethernet. I'll look...
Posted by rwhiffen, on Nov 3, 2005 at 12:40 PM, in Networking
To plug it into your stereo you'll need a... 1,258 Views / 3 Replies  
To plug it into your stereo you'll need a mini-stereo jack to two RCA plug cable. Just about anywhere that sells audio cables have 'em.

Yes, you can plug the ariport via ethernet. I'll look...
Posted by rwhiffen, on Nov 3, 2005 at 12:30 PM, in Networking
I suspect there is an I/O pending to the scanner.... 801 Views / 6 Replies  
I suspect there is an I/O pending to the scanner. Like other's suggested, unplug the scanner when this happens to see if the processes are then killable. When a process has a pending kernel-level...
Posted by rwhiffen, on Oct 24, 2005 at 01:00 PM, in macOS
cupsd is common unix printer service daemon. ... 10,235 Views / 2 Replies  
cupsd is
common unix printer service daemon.

try this on your mac in safari:
http://127.0.0.1:631

or

http://localhost:631
Posted by rwhiffen, on Oct 20, 2005 at 10:29 AM, in macOS
Well that's kind of what I was talking about. ... 2,908 Views / 11 Replies  
Well that's kind of what I was talking about. You can move off of port 25, but you have to have a relay or some other gateway upstream that does the port 25 to port relay for you. The rest of the...
Posted by rwhiffen, on Oct 20, 2005 at 10:21 AM, in macOS
There's also a few free linux and unix shell... 2,783 Views / 23 Replies  
There's also a few free linux and unix shell accounts available too:

http://freeshell.org
http://nixsys.bz
http://www.atshell.com

There are more around. You can get try out a lot of...
Posted by rwhiffen, on Oct 20, 2005 at 12:12 AM, in macOS
Unfortunately, there's no easy way to do that. ... 2,908 Views / 11 Replies  
Unfortunately, there's no easy way to do that. You can easily change the port. Unfortunately, everyone sending mail to you won't know where you've moved to. And outbound will still have to go over...
Posted by rwhiffen, on Oct 19, 2005 at 11:55 PM, in macOS
Jellyfissh simply envokes terminal.app with the... 1,181 Views / 8 Replies  
Jellyfissh simply envokes terminal.app with the ssh string entered. It's not jellyfissh that's doing it.

For example, when I run my freeshell.org book mark, it opens terminal.app and runs:
ssh...
Posted by rwhiffen, on Oct 19, 2005 at 11:50 PM, in macOS
whoops... double post... gave me a SQL connect... 1,561 Views / 17 Replies  
whoops... double post... gave me a SQL connect error last time, but went anyway....
Posted by rwhiffen, on Oct 18, 2005 at 10:46 AM, in Mac Desktops
And lower still! ... 1,561 Views / 17 Replies  
And lower still!
http://www.macnn.com/articles/05/10/18/imac.upgrade.price.drop

Now it's $450 for the 700/800 mhz... but they've dropped the free shipping.

It says:

US Ground FREE [ADD...
Posted by rwhiffen, on Oct 18, 2005 at 10:37 AM, in Mac Desktops
Sapper46123, Did you get this to work? ... 654 Views / 2 Replies  
Sapper46123,

Did you get this to work? Another thing to consider is your 'workgroup' name. On the PC, go to "System Properties" (control panel or right click on my computer) and view the...
Posted by rwhiffen, on Oct 11, 2005 at 08:42 PM, in Networking
The SSH encrypts the entire packet payload. So... 610 Views / 3 Replies  
The SSH encrypts the entire packet payload. So they will have no visiblity into what the conversations inside the SSH tunnel are. Which doesn't mean they can't block your home IP, it just means...
Posted by rwhiffen, on Oct 5, 2005 at 04:00 PM, in macOS
Don't know what to tell ya. The .profile and... 871 Views / 12 Replies  
Don't know what to tell ya. The .profile and .bash_profile aren't referenced when bash is launched via xterm's on a 10.4 default install. Since you're running tcsh you're either not running 10.4 or...
Posted by rwhiffen, on Oct 5, 2005 at 12:03 AM, in macOS
Do you get good transfer rates outside of... 1,672 Views / 13 Replies  
Do you get good transfer rates outside of bittorrent? It might be a simple network thing. Try going to one of those connection speed test sites like http://www.dslreports.com/tools and see what...
Posted by rwhiffen, on Oct 4, 2005 at 09:28 PM, in Networking
To change your shell: ... 705 Views / 8 Replies  
To change your shell:
http://forums.macnn.com/archive/index.php/t-141539.html

But be careful. Some installer scripts might assume the shell you're running to be tcsh... Small risk, but it is...
Posted by rwhiffen, on Oct 4, 2005 at 09:16 PM, in macOS
Unix Commands Unique to Darwin... 599 Views / 0 Replies  
Found this link on del.icio.us today:

http://www.matisse.net/OSX/darwin_commands.html

A list of unix commands that are unique to Darwin. Some are obvious like:

/Developer/ToolsGetFileInfo...
Posted by rwhiffen, on Oct 4, 2005 at 08:55 PM, in macOS
For reasons I can't understand the local .profile... 871 Views / 12 Replies  
For reasons I can't understand the local .profile isn't sourced when you run a new xterm. Here's the workaround I used:

Put:

test -r /sw/bin/init.sh && . /sw/bin/init.sh

in the global...
Posted by rwhiffen, on Oct 4, 2005 at 08:49 PM, in macOS
I've replaced the apple syslog with syslog-ng in... 4,644 Views / 3 Replies  
I've replaced the apple syslog with syslog-ng in the past:

http://www.balabit.com/products/syslog_ng/

Syslog-ng is very cool, because it does per-host logging so you can have a separate...
Posted by rwhiffen, on Sep 29, 2005 at 10:50 AM, in macOS
On your mac, run a terminal and run "ifconfig -a"... 9,184 Views / 9 Replies  
On your mac, run a terminal and run "ifconfig -a"

You'll get a dump of all your interfaces. In my example en0 is inactive and en1 is active:
en0:...
Posted by rwhiffen, on Sep 29, 2005 at 10:22 AM, in Networking
hmmmm that's strange. Wonder why your X11.app... 1,162 Views / 7 Replies  
hmmmm that's strange. Wonder why your X11.app isn't allowing local apps to pop to it. If you open X11.app and open an xterm, you can run "xhost +" which will disable authentication for that...
Posted by rwhiffen, on Sep 21, 2005 at 09:32 PM, in macOS
Somethings wrong with your fink me-thinks.... ... 1,162 Views / 7 Replies  
Somethings wrong with your fink me-thinks.... Because my imac just gave me the following for a binary install:

Reading Package Lists...
Building Dependency Tree...
The following extra packages...
Posted by rwhiffen, on Sep 20, 2005 at 12:32 PM, in macOS
Did you ever get this fixed? I've been a bit... 8,426 Views / 13 Replies  
Did you ever get this fixed? I've been a bit tied up and haven't been to the forums in a while.

Two things to check: The hostname your dad has for your mac, and the FQDN. Some NFS...
Posted by rwhiffen, on Sep 20, 2005 at 11:54 AM, in macOS
Yeah, if you don't do it as root, you get... 8,426 Views / 13 Replies  
Yeah, if you don't do it as root, you get "operation not permitted" or some other 'no soup for you' type error.

Looks to me like you've got a name resolution issue. For example, your dad has one...
Posted by rwhiffen, on Sep 5, 2005 at 08:09 PM, in macOS
I've never tried it under MacOS X, but in... 8,426 Views / 13 Replies  
I've never tried it under MacOS X, but in solaris, AIX and Linux, this means the server won't let you mount, not the local directory. So ensure that the -o rw=ip.of.you.mac (or hostname if you have...
Posted by rwhiffen, on Sep 4, 2005 at 11:05 PM, in macOS
On the TCP/IP panel, I'd go into advanced and... 9,184 Views / 9 Replies  
On the TCP/IP panel, I'd go into advanced and increase the metric for the ethernet card. It's probably defaulted to 1 for both of them. So the windows box sees both interfaces have a cost of 1, but...
Posted by rwhiffen, on Sep 2, 2005 at 01:55 PM, in Networking
Sweet! Free shipping. That's good to know. The... 1,561 Views / 17 Replies  
Sweet! Free shipping. That's good to know. The straight up $548 price tag makes it much more interesting to me. I'll have to start saving my pennies.
Posted by rwhiffen, on Aug 26, 2005 at 10:36 AM, in Mac Desktops
Just be carefull about the DNS settings. The... 713 Views / 4 Replies  
Just be carefull about the DNS settings. The problem I've seen in the past when you lock your PC's to IP's the DNS settings can get messy. If you your DHCP it's fairly automatic. Comcast's DNS...
Posted by rwhiffen, on Aug 26, 2005 at 09:50 AM, in Networking
How are you going to connect the mini to the... 622 Views / 4 Replies  
How are you going to connect the mini to the linksys wireless router? If you're going to go wireless into the linksys, you need to get the AE built-in card, or some 3rd party wifi adapter. Itunes...
Posted by rwhiffen, on Aug 11, 2005 at 03:49 PM, in Networking
Yeah... It has to do with IP address name... 9,184 Views / 9 Replies  
Yeah... It has to do with IP address name resolution I suspect. I never got it to work with aliases the way I'd want. I suspect it was finding the airport version of the share and defaulting to...
Posted by rwhiffen, on Aug 9, 2005 at 10:03 PM, in Networking
I'd try the xlr8yourmac.com db search: ... 439 Views / 1 Replies  
I'd try the xlr8yourmac.com db search:

http://forums.xlr8yourmac.com/drivedb/search.drivedb.lasso

Find out who's had good luck.

I replaced my 15" imac HD with a 160Gb drive (16Mb cache, made...
Posted by rwhiffen, on Aug 9, 2005 at 10:37 AM, in Mac Desktops
speed difference 15" 800mhz vs 17" 1ghz G4 440 Views / 1 Replies  
Anyone out there know of a website that gives some bench marks on the 17" 1Ghz (Airport Extreem and PC2100 RAM) model imac vs the original 800Mhz 15" imac? PC Retro in the northern virginia area has...
Posted by rwhiffen, on Aug 9, 2005 at 10:28 AM, in Mac Desktops
Yeah, the IP addresses are the 'secret sauce'... 9,184 Views / 9 Replies  
Yeah, the IP addresses are the 'secret sauce' that makes it all work. I do this exact thing between my iMac and wife's laptop. You have to put an address that isn't routable but also isn't on the...
Posted by rwhiffen, on Aug 9, 2005 at 10:15 AM, in Networking
After reading the question again, I think it... 638 Views / 3 Replies  
After reading the question again, I think it might be simpler to do

curl -z <time> http://some-url

From the curl manual:
TIME CONDITIONS

HTTP allows a client to specify a time condition...
Posted by rwhiffen, on Aug 9, 2005 at 10:05 AM, in macOS
The curl util will do that for you: ... 638 Views / 3 Replies  
The curl util will do that for you:
http://curl.haxx.se/ is where you can D/L it. There's a binary version for Mac OS X so you dont' have to compile it yourself. It's also in fink, probably...
Posted by rwhiffen, on Aug 9, 2005 at 10:01 AM, in macOS
I've only seen one REDCOM switch in real life,... 703 Views / 2 Replies  
I've only seen one REDCOM switch in real life, and never actually worked on it, but it needed a funky line card in the PC to control it. If you've got the kind with a MCI card that has an RS-232...
Posted by rwhiffen, on Aug 5, 2005 at 01:25 PM, in macOS
I'd take a little internet egg on my face over a... 1,705 Views / 20 Replies  
I'd take a little internet egg on my face over a failed hard drive any day.

cheers,

Rich
Posted by rwhiffen, on Aug 4, 2005 at 10:59 PM, in Mac Desktops
There isn't much to clunk in the fans.... That... 1,705 Views / 20 Replies  
There isn't much to clunk in the fans.... That sounds more like the hard drive heads. Any chance it sounds like a metalic clunk? Also do you have the power saving settings set for turning off the...
Posted by rwhiffen, on Aug 4, 2005 at 01:35 PM, in Mac Desktops
If you’re really desperate, you could get a cheap... 1,722 Views / 3 Replies  
If you’re really desperate, you could get a cheap external WinTel USB WiFi dongle, buy Mac OS drivers from ioXperts:
http://www.ioxperts.com/products/80211b_X.html
and build a dish out of a wok...
Posted by rwhiffen, on Aug 4, 2005 at 09:42 AM, in Networking
You might want to check out Bochs and try running... 1,549 Views / 12 Replies  
You might want to check out Bochs and try running some of the x86 distributions on it.
http://bochs.sourceforge.net/
The 2.2.1 verison was released in July and there's an OS X .dmg installer. ...
Posted by rwhiffen, on Aug 3, 2005 at 02:46 PM, in macOS
I think it'd be a good idea to check the local... 1,549 Views / 12 Replies  
I think it'd be a good idea to check the local paper or monster.com etc. for jobs in your area before picking the OS. For example, if there aren't any linux jobs in your area, you might get more...
Posted by rwhiffen, on Aug 3, 2005 at 08:53 AM, in macOS
:err: too pricy for me too... 1,561 Views / 17 Replies  
I agree. With a 1.25Ghz mini coming in at $499 - with faster DRAM, better video (same VRAM amount though) and 17" LCD's being $150 it's hard to swallow the upgrade cost. The only advantage I see is...
Posted by rwhiffen, on Aug 2, 2005 at 11:34 AM, in Mac Desktops
Re: About to be dumped from the Dfold top 10? 957 Views / 14 Replies  
Doh... For some reason I had it in my head that the seti race was going 10-1 to 11-1... not 10-10 to 11-10.

Anyway.... when the seti race is done, dFold could use some power if you can spare it......
Posted by rwhiffen, on Nov 3, 2002 at 12:56 PM, in Team MacNN
About to be dumped from the Dfold top 10? 957 Views / 14 Replies  
Looks like in the next 7 days we'll be dropped to 10th place in dFold... Out of the single digits. 50 some odd days after that we're going to be out of the top ten all together.

We can catch...
Posted by rwhiffen, on Nov 3, 2002 at 12:50 PM, in Team MacNN
</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Geneva,... 612 Views / 12 Replies  
</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Geneva, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="1" face="Geneva, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif">Originally posted by jbcool:
<strong>Now...
Posted by rwhiffen, on Jun 29, 2002 at 08:15 PM, in Team MacNN
Whoops! fixed it today... I had [email protected]... 25,809 Views / 379 Replies  
Whoops! fixed it today... I had [email protected] join team macnn... I'll migrate it to [email protected] once I'm sure it was only that one box... Another 200 blocks a day, plus 6712 for team...
Posted by rwhiffen, on Feb 26, 2002 at 09:53 PM, in Team MacNN
Oh! Oh! Yay for Me too! :D I can't believe how... 25,809 Views / 379 Replies  
Oh! Oh! Yay for Me too! :D I can't believe how much differences my iMac G4-800 makes over my G3-500.... like 5 million keys/s difference.

I've got it running on a Dual P-II 450 Win2k for like...
Posted by rwhiffen, on Feb 26, 2002 at 01:51 AM, in Team MacNN
http encapsulation for RC5 proxy servers? 416 Views / 1 Replies  
Is it possible to use the macnn proxy servers via HTTP encapsulation? I currently have some machines behind a firewall and would rather not modify the ruleset to allow the dnetc client out on its own...
Posted by rwhiffen, on Jan 26, 2002 at 02:25 PM, in Team MacNN
running dnetc all in ram? 411 Views / 1 Replies  
hey all,

I'd be interested in running the dnetc client in memory, rather than storing the buffers to disk. I've got a Gig of ram in my iMac and I'm getting anoyed hearing my hard drive spinning...
Posted by rwhiffen, on Dec 7, 2001 at 12:52 AM, in Team MacNN
Showing results 1 to 50 of 51
Page 1 of 2 1 2 >
 
Top
Privacy Policy
All times are GMT -4. The time now is 11:28 AM.
All contents of these forums © 1995-2017 MacNN. All rights reserved.
Branding + Design: www.gesamtbild.com
vBulletin v.3.8.8 © 2000-2017, Jelsoft Enterprises Ltd.,