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Beta 2 1,840 Views / 17 Replies  
Beta 2 still loops (in background, using 100% CPU but still strangely functional) if it hits an RSS feed it dislikes. The ones I've isolated as causing problems have all contained a character outside...
Posted by car1son, on Jun 16, 2005 at 08:43 PM, in Applications
It works like this in my house: "I have to... 4,407 Views / 97 Replies  
It works like this in my house:

"I have to look up a recipe."

"Not now, I'm listening to the symphony."

"But I need the recipe."

"I'm listening to the symphony."
Posted by car1son, on Jun 5, 2005 at 11:45 AM, in macOS
1. Install Tor (http://tor.eff.org/). Hides IP... 629 Views / 2 Replies  
1. Install Tor (http://tor.eff.org/). Hides IP addrss, but doesn't guarantee a US address. Also, probably doesn't have bandwidth for streaming video.

Sign up (i.e., pay) with Guardster...
Posted by car1son, on Jun 4, 2005 at 10:31 PM, in macOS
I've run into a couple of RSS feeds I had... 1,840 Views / 17 Replies  
I've run into a couple of RSS feeds I had bookmarked that cause Omniweb 5.1.1beta1 under Tiger to either crash or loop 100% CPU when it checks it - which can cause it to crash even when not obviously...
Posted by car1son, on May 16, 2005 at 12:20 AM, in Applications
Re: Unidirectional LAN 711 Views / 2 Replies  
It's probably the DLink router refusing to bridge AppleTalk. I had a similar issue with a Linksys.

Mac OS 8.6 file sharing server software only runs the older AppleTalk over Ethernet protocol. ...
Posted by car1son, on Jan 21, 2005 at 01:51 AM, in Networking
Re: OW5.0 final AppleScripting Bookmarks 41,696 Views / 520 Replies  
Has anyone done any AppleScript for OmniWeb involving bookmarks?
Every attempt I've made to access the "Bookmark" class it give me the error message: NSCannotCreateScriptCommandError. I can't tell...
Posted by car1son, on Aug 29, 2004 at 03:23 PM, in Applications
I downloaded it with Safari. Listening to... 10,779 Views / 153 Replies  
I downloaded it with Safari.

Listening to World.com news and NPR news.

Yeah. iTunes running under Windows under Virtual PC.

Thanks for not sharing.

Duh.
Posted by car1son, on Apr 29, 2004 at 12:25 PM, in Applications
Me, neither. I looked more closely at the... 10,779 Views / 153 Replies  
Me, neither.

I looked more closely at the Apple iTunes 4.5 page, and in a small box on the right side it says "(Windows only)" next to that feature. (link)...
Posted by car1son, on Apr 28, 2004 at 11:16 PM, in Applications
Its seems you're getting an IP from the Linksys... 1,038 Views / 7 Replies  
Its seems you're getting an IP from the Linksys network properly, and even the UDP broadcast packets sent by Rendezvous are making it to your Airport-connected Mac. But for some reason connection...
Posted by car1son, on Apr 28, 2004 at 04:10 PM, in Networking
Re: router + wireless connection please HELP 506 Views / 1 Replies  
You need to disable the "Distribute IP Addresses" on the Airport Admin Util's Network tab, so it serves IP addresses from the router. I'd also connect a dual-ethernet ABS to the router via the ABS's...
Posted by car1son, on Apr 28, 2004 at 03:53 PM, in Networking
Re: frustrating wtih file sharing 745 Views / 10 Replies  
If using the Airport Base Station (or other router), you need to set up port forwarding. (Read here.) (http://homepage.mac.com/car1son/static_port_fwd_intro.html)
Posted by car1son, on Apr 26, 2004 at 09:44 PM, in macOS
Re: airport admin access at 2 miles done, iTunes share possible ? 570 Views / 2 Replies  
With the older versions of iTunes this could be easily done by just setting up port forwarding on your home router and opening the home firewall for iTunes's sharing port (3689). Unfortunately Apple...
Posted by car1son, on Apr 25, 2004 at 07:24 PM, in Networking
Re: Linksys 802.11b router + ABS = some networking weirdness 1,038 Views / 7 Replies  
I use exactly this setup - a LinkSys BEFW11S4 (v1) and an Apple ABS (Snow in my case) in my home. Seems to work fine for me: (full description and config info)...
Posted by car1son, on Apr 25, 2004 at 07:14 PM, in Networking
Re: Help! Is my connection exposed? 706 Views / 14 Replies  
I'm not sure why previous replies assume you have an Airport / wireless connection. (Perhaps a previous post?) If you do have an Airport, disregard this.

It sounds to me like your cable company...
Posted by car1son, on Apr 18, 2004 at 04:40 PM, in Networking
Re: Connecting PC to AE Base via LAN Port? 515 Views / 2 Replies  
No, the patio is cool. :cool:

When the PC was connected to the DSL service, it was probably set up to use "PPPoE" to connect to the DSL service. Your AEBS is not managing the PPPoE connection to...
Posted by car1son, on Apr 16, 2004 at 09:46 PM, in Networking
Re: Re: Re: Network Hades! 783 Views / 10 Replies  
So, not working. :hmm:

I assume you went to that webpage and filled in the Manual IP address as suggested. Since you have an existing router and an Internet connection, you should switch back to...
Posted by car1son, on Apr 15, 2004 at 01:42 PM, in Networking
Re: Network Hades! 783 Views / 10 Replies  
See if this page (http://homepage.mac.com/car1son/os9x_net_n_filesharing.html) helps.
Posted by car1son, on Apr 11, 2004 at 12:09 PM, in Networking
I should have tried this in the other direction. ... 9,941 Views / 96 Replies  
I should have tried this in the other direction.

When receiving this via OS X Mail, virus.mp3 appears with a generic Application icon and a quicktime control slider. Clicking the slider actually...
Posted by car1son, on Apr 9, 2004 at 08:14 PM, in macOS
I sent it trhough myy ISP's SMTP server (as my... 9,941 Views / 96 Replies  
I sent it trhough myy ISP's SMTP server (as my ISP account) and retrieved it from my .Mac account. The OS X Mail and Entourage v.X MIME encodings are clearly cabable of preserving the bogus CFM info....
Posted by car1son, on Apr 8, 2004 at 09:49 PM, in macOS
It excludes non-Mac eMail. I tried sending it to... 9,941 Views / 96 Replies  
It excludes non-Mac eMail. I tried sending it to myself from OS X Mail and retrieved it with Entourage v.X, and it's still an application. However, as expected, uploading it via FTP and downloading...
Posted by car1son, on Apr 8, 2004 at 06:39 PM, in macOS
Just for my edification... how would a file with... 9,941 Views / 96 Replies  
Just for my edification... how would a file with bogus CFM arrive on your system? Doesn't that require a complex structure rather than a flat file, meaning MacBinary or Stuffit or MIME encoding (or...
Posted by car1son, on Apr 8, 2004 at 05:46 PM, in macOS
Re: Word X Font Substitution 730 Views / 1 Replies  
Default Substitutes are stored in your home Library/Preferences/Microsoft/Word Font Substitutes.

Edit from Word Preferences, Compatibility tab, click "Font Substitution" button.
Amazingly, you...
Posted by car1son, on Apr 7, 2004 at 01:25 PM, in Applications
Ah. Yeah, the local affiliates both stream... 1,859 Views / 13 Replies  
Ah. Yeah, the local affiliates both stream Quicktime here, too. But not all the shows are carried locally, and I'm an on-demand kind of guy ;) I can always buy them from Audible... then they play in...
Posted by car1son, on Apr 2, 2004 at 07:15 PM, in Applications
Can you listen to NPR in iTunes? When I visit the... 1,859 Views / 13 Replies  
Can you listen to NPR in iTunes? When I visit the NPR site, I only get a Windows Media / Real Player choice. :hmm: Entering a URL like...
Posted by car1son, on Apr 2, 2004 at 05:26 PM, in Applications
What program are you using it for your backups? (... 442 Views / 2 Replies  
What program are you using it for your backups? ( and what format is the new hard drive formatted in? HFS+?)

The question mark "?" character is one of those special characters to the Unix command...
Posted by car1son, on Mar 25, 2004 at 12:55 PM, in macOS
Re: unable to unlock even new keychains 529 Views / 6 Replies  
In that case try a general repair permissions: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=152064 . Sounds like the security helper app isn't kicking in.
Posted by car1son, on Mar 25, 2004 at 12:35 PM, in macOS
Re: need help w/ keychain 529 Views / 6 Replies  
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106973
Posted by car1son, on Mar 24, 2004 at 06:43 PM, in macOS
Re: Port Forwarding for Belkin routers 474 Views / 2 Replies  
I got this 404 (http://homepage.mac.com/car1son/ghoser777_not_found404.jpg) . The nature of that error, which includes your host name, suggests I was able to get through your router to your Apache...
Posted by car1son, on Mar 23, 2004 at 05:17 PM, in Networking
I'm curious about the error message IE reported:... 1,349 Views / 16 Replies  
I'm curious about the error message IE reported: "can't connect theh folder".

Did you get prompted for a user name and password before you received that msg?

Having port 21 open should suffice...
Posted by car1son, on Mar 23, 2004 at 11:51 AM, in macOS
As surprisingly contrary to the Mac convention as... 888 Views / 11 Replies  
As surprisingly contrary to the Mac convention as this may seem, you will discover that it doesn't matter what Database you click on to open Entourage. Entourage will always open the Database...
Posted by car1son, on Mar 23, 2004 at 12:48 AM, in Applications
Try updating MS Office... 888 Views / 11 Replies  
Try updating MS Office (http://www.microsoft.com/mac/downloads.aspx) to at least v10.1.2 (or 10.1.5 if you have the time.) 10.1.2 contained improvements to database rebuild/recovery features. (BTW,...
Posted by car1son, on Mar 22, 2004 at 06:28 PM, in Applications
Re: Entourage Crashing 710 Views / 2 Replies  
I have two suggestions:

There's been some buzz on forums about a mal-formed spam message that apparently crashes Entourage's junk mail filter. You might have that pending on your mail server. ...
Posted by car1son, on Mar 18, 2004 at 01:55 PM, in Applications
Re: Using Airport and Laserjet over ethernet 659 Views / 3 Replies  
If connecting to the Airport Base Station is inconvenient (because of location), I think you should be able to configure your OS X system to use the airport for your Internet traffic while...
Posted by car1son, on Mar 17, 2004 at 09:56 PM, in Networking
Re: PPPoE connection disconnects ? 573 Views / 2 Replies  
Which OS are using?

In OS X, in the Network pane of a system preferences on, under the PPPoE tab, there's a button labeled "PPPoE Options". If you click that, you'll find an option to disconnect...
Posted by car1son, on Mar 17, 2004 at 09:40 PM, in Networking
You can change the password of an account with... 649 Views / 5 Replies  
You can change the password of an account with the System Preferences, "My Account" pane. Just click the "Change ..." button next to "My password". You will need to also provide your current...
Posted by car1son, on Mar 17, 2004 at 01:21 PM, in Networking
Re: Passwords for Networking? 649 Views / 5 Replies  
You do understand that when you are on one computer accessing a remote file server on another computer, that you enter a user account name and password valid on the remote server computer, not a...
Posted by car1son, on Mar 16, 2004 at 11:25 PM, in Networking
Windows XP has a slightly different recovery... 1,538 Views / 11 Replies  
Windows XP has a slightly different recovery technique: you make your own password recovery disk for each installation. (Of course, you need to remember to make that password recovery disk before...
Posted by car1son, on Mar 16, 2004 at 11:45 AM, in macOS
Re: Re: Re: With MAC Address Filtering, Is WPA Unnecessary? 979 Views / 11 Replies  
I'm just using WEP myself (no WPA on my equipment/software right now). My web browsing, when using anything sensitive, is SSL-encrypted (HTTPS) end-to-end, my personal and company data is on...
Posted by car1son, on Mar 12, 2004 at 05:52 PM, in Networking
Re: With MAC Address Filtering, Is WPA Unnecessary? 979 Views / 11 Replies  
Consider this :

After I've cracked your WEP encryption, cloned your MAC address, and scryed your un-broadcasted SSID, I can join your wireless network. Once I'm in, I'm probably inside your...
Posted by car1son, on Mar 12, 2004 at 04:45 PM, in Networking
Re: With MAC Address Filtering, Is WPA Unnecessary? 979 Views / 11 Replies  
Anyone willing and able to penetrate your WEP encryption would have no trouble penetrating your MAC address filtering.
read more)...
Posted by car1son, on Mar 12, 2004 at 11:56 AM, in Networking
Re: Want to stay open, but know "who" is using bandwidth 764 Views / 9 Replies  
What brand is your WiFi router? Apple? Airport Monitor (http://www.trulycertifiable.com/) might help.

You could probably do a pretty good job frustrating would-be file sharers using Port Mapping...
Posted by car1son, on Mar 8, 2004 at 10:34 PM, in Networking
Yeah, my assumption/speculation/flight-of-fancy... 1,119 Views / 10 Replies  
Yeah, my assumption/speculation/flight-of-fancy is they took over ViaVoice to get the customers for IBM's Windows edition of ViaVoice for their Dragon: Naturally Speaking product, and got stuck with...
Posted by car1son, on Mar 8, 2004 at 10:14 PM, in macOS
Thanks, sandsl. It's always good to hear a... 1,119 Views / 10 Replies  
Thanks, sandsl. It's always good to hear a success story. I've read a number of messages regarding ViaVoice not working with 10.3, but you're the first person to actually write straight out that it...
Posted by car1son, on Mar 8, 2004 at 01:08 PM, in macOS
Here is a walk-through... 862 Views / 14 Replies  
Here is a walk-through (http://homepage.mac.com/car1son/static_port_fwd_intro.html) to setting up your LinkSys with port forwarding for running a server at home.
Posted by car1son, on Mar 8, 2004 at 12:34 PM, in Applications
Re: Mac vs ViaVoice 1,119 Views / 10 Replies  
Given that IBM fobbed off ViaVoice on ScanSoft, who make the Dragon Naturally Speaking for Windows, I'm not sure you should expect any further work on the Mac ViaVoice.

You might move on with...
Posted by car1son, on Mar 5, 2004 at 10:10 PM, in macOS
Re: Re: Re: Re: Entourage and Hotmail account... 701 Views / 12 Replies  
FWIW, Office 10.1.2 is sufficient to use Hotmail from Entourage. When the Hotmail access protocols were changed in late 2001, MS originally released (well after the Windows update!) a stand-alone...
Posted by car1son, on Feb 28, 2004 at 01:09 PM, in Applications
Re: 2Wire HomePortal+Airport set-up? 701 Views / 2 Replies  
I suspect the issue is that your ABS is putting your laptop on a different subnet than the built-in router function in your DSL modem. Easiest solution would be to turn the ABS into a "bridge"...
Posted by car1son, on Feb 27, 2004 at 01:55 PM, in Networking
Ah - I wasn't sure if he'd turned off DHCP in the... 1,947 Views / 4 Replies  
Ah - I wasn't sure if he'd turned off DHCP in the LinkSys's LAN settings (Advanced/DHCP tab in LinkSys config screen) or whether his ISP (cable, I presume) had turned off their DHCP server and given...
Posted by car1son, on Feb 23, 2004 at 11:08 PM, in Networking
Re: Setting up Linksys wireless router without DHCP? 1,947 Views / 4 Replies  
Oddly, 192.168.1.100 is the first IP address LinkSys's LAN DHCP will automatically assign (with default settings), so 192.168.1.2 might be a better choice for a static IP address.

And...
Posted by car1son, on Feb 22, 2004 at 10:55 PM, in Networking
Re: Another firewall already running!? 650 Views / 1 Replies  
In Panther, use of any ipfw commands, so your ipfw filters don't match the OS X Firewall's predictions, results in this message.

Try "sudo ipfw flush" to clear it all out.
Posted by car1son, on Feb 13, 2004 at 09:46 PM, in Networking
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