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Inkjet Printer/Airport Network Questions 628 Views / 2 Replies  
I have a couple of difference but related questions.

I currently have an airport network and an Epson C80 connected to it via a D-Link DP-101 ethernet print server.

I can print to it reliably...
Posted by unimacs, on Dec 29, 2003 at 03:59 PM, in Networking
Cro-Mag Rally: GamePads / Racing Wheel 459 Views / 0 Replies  
My 4 year old son loves this game, but using the keyboard is a little awkward.

I'm looking at getting a gamepad or wheel for him. Any recommendations? Will a wheel work?

I know that Cro-Mag...
Posted by unimacs, on Dec 12, 2003 at 12:37 PM, in Gaming
Fancy or not, you can't get redundant power... 4,476 Views / 54 Replies  
Fancy or not, you can't get redundant power supplies in any current Apple product that I know of and many people consider them a requirement for an enterprise class server.

Your comment about...
Posted by unimacs, on Apr 17, 2003 at 04:21 PM, in macOS
Java is one of the leading languages used in... 2,486 Views / 36 Replies  
Java is one of the leading languages used in creating Enterprise class dynamic web sites.

Server side Java is huge. If I couldn't do Java development on my Mac, I'd have to by a damn PC.
Posted by unimacs, on Jan 30, 2003 at 04:02 PM, in macOS
Apple could make OS X less risky... 4,029 Views / 101 Replies  
by including a reasonable backup solution to *every* Mac user and maybe even providing some inexpensive backup hardware.

At least give the .Mac Backup program the ability to backup to Hard drives...
Posted by unimacs, on Jan 13, 2003 at 04:54 PM, in macOS
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</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 nickm:
<strong>Straight...
Posted by unimacs, on Jul 25, 2002 at 10:34 PM, in macOS
Oh, and one more thing... There's another... 699 Views / 45 Replies  
Oh, and one more thing...

There's another reason I like Macs. Like I said, I use PC's all day, - I've had one one my desk for 12 years. They've not always been running DOS or Windows and they may...
Posted by unimacs, on Jun 9, 2002 at 12:37 AM, in macOS
I don't you can say that Macs are better than... 699 Views / 45 Replies  
I don't you can say that Macs are better than PCs. Neither is the reverse true. There was a time when you could argue that the Mac had the better UI hands down, but that ended when 95 came out. Now...
Posted by unimacs, on Jun 8, 2002 at 11:44 PM, in macOS
</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Geneva,... 1,271 Views / 65 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 KellyHogan:
<strong>Not...
Posted by unimacs, on May 30, 2002 at 09:43 PM, in macOS
Well I'm all for truth in advertising, but why... 14,712 Views / 497 Replies  
Well I'm all for truth in advertising, but why stop at iBook stuff? How would you change any reference to the word "secure" in any of MS's product literature?

They would never gloss things over to...
Posted by unimacs, on May 15, 2002 at 03:06 PM, in macOS
So they aren't buying current iBooks. What are... 14,712 Views / 497 Replies  
So they aren't buying current iBooks. What are they going to do when the next gen ibook only has 16 MB on the graphics card? This is promoting sales? I don't think so.



How do you con somebody...
Posted by unimacs, on May 15, 2002 at 02:49 PM, in macOS
I know very well that there are disappointed... 14,712 Views / 497 Replies  
I know very well that there are disappointed iBook owners, but I don't see that translating into more sales for Apple. It seems to me that it's more of a reason not to buy an iBook or even the higher...
Posted by unimacs, on May 15, 2002 at 01:54 PM, in macOS
Does anyone else not buy the "Apple is crippling... 14,712 Views / 497 Replies  
Does anyone else not buy the "Apple is crippling QE on older hardware" theory for business reasons?

I'm a software developer but I don't know enough to argue the technical issues around QE and...
Posted by unimacs, on May 15, 2002 at 01:40 PM, in macOS
You're right of course about DHCP, I was... 746 Views / 32 Replies  
You're right of course about DHCP, I was mis-remembering (sounds like a Bushism). The trouble with configuring the clients with a 2000 host is that static IPs *don't* work, although they can with a...
Posted by unimacs, on May 15, 2002 at 12:55 PM, in macOS
Well, it needs to be documented or it's almost... 746 Views / 32 Replies  
Well, it needs to be documented or it's almost worthless and of course tested, so I think it's a much bigger job than 30 minutes, but no, it wouldn't take that long to do.

The thing is that there...
Posted by unimacs, on May 14, 2002 at 11:44 PM, in macOS
Just because I know you all are wondering where... 746 Views / 32 Replies  
Just because I know you all are wondering where unimacs comes down on this issue (what, you weren't?), I just have to comment.

We all tend to view things from our own perspective. Take the above...
Posted by unimacs, on May 14, 2002 at 11:27 PM, in macOS
If this weren't true, would the thread be any fun... 14,712 Views / 497 Replies  
If this weren't true, would the thread be any fun at all? I mean really. Imagine if two pages ago Kelly were to have said: "Well, moki obviously knows his stuff, and his reasoning seems sound, so I...
Posted by unimacs, on May 14, 2002 at 07:47 PM, in macOS
If you really want to get a sense of the... 664 Views / 29 Replies  
If you really want to get a sense of the performance of 10.2, I'd install it on an internal drive. My cube is slower even in 10.1 when it's booted of a firewire drive. Different Mac models also have...
Posted by unimacs, on May 11, 2002 at 09:39 AM, in macOS
My comments as an iBook and Cube owner: 1.... 439 Views / 12 Replies  
My comments as an iBook and Cube owner:

1. There are technical problems with throwing a Radeon or GeForce 3/4 in an iBook, namely heat and power drain, it's not just Apple being cheap.

2. We...
Posted by unimacs, on May 10, 2002 at 11:40 AM, in macOS
If you check some other threads you will see that... 576 Views / 49 Replies  
If you check some other threads you will see that Quartz Extreme isn't the performance ehancement in Jaguar. If I had to guees, I'd say the jump from 10.1 to 10.2 even without Quartz will be about...
Posted by unimacs, on May 7, 2002 at 02:52 PM, in macOS
It's good to know I'm not the only one who thinks... 693 Views / 31 Replies  
It's good to know I'm not the only one who thinks that. We have an older more colorful ibook and are in the market for a new laptop. While I was never that thrilled about the shape of the old ibook,...
Posted by unimacs, on Jan 20, 2002 at 11:24 PM, in Mac Notebooks
10.1 - where did the serial ports go (tty.modem and tty.printer) 442 Views / 0 Replies  
I've got a Cube with a Griffin CubePort installed in place of the factory modem. Under 10.0.x, it worked fine with kermit, it showed up as /dev/tty.modem.

Now with 10.1, that device is gone. If I...
Posted by unimacs, on Oct 19, 2001 at 02:32 AM, in macOS
good to know I haven't lost my knack for double... 634 Views / 20 Replies  
good to know I haven't lost my knack for double posting.

[ 10-03-2001: Message edited by: unimacs ]
Posted by unimacs, on Oct 3, 2001 at 02:43 AM, in macOS
It's nice to know you can leave for a couple of... 634 Views / 20 Replies  
It's nice to know you can leave for a couple of months, come back and still see the same issues being discussed, -makes one feel right at home again ;)

Don't know if this helps or not but with X...
Posted by unimacs, on Oct 3, 2001 at 02:41 AM, in macOS
I don't know how this works in 10.1 but in... 3,828 Views / 291 Replies  
I don't know how this works in 10.1 but in Windows it actually works very well. If you cut a file, it's icon is grayed until you complete the operation with a paste. It doesn't move anywhere until...
Posted by unimacs, on Jul 21, 2001 at 11:29 PM, in macOS
Poll Results: Most wanted apps and features 323 Views / 0 Replies  
Several weeks ago I asked MacNN readers to list the 3 features they most wanted to see in OS X and the the 3 apps they wanted to see native versions of.

There was some overlap. For example,...
Posted by unimacs, on Jul 9, 2001 at 01:23 AM, in macOS
One other big difference between a NEXTSTEP style... 512 Views / 12 Replies  
One other big difference between a NEXTSTEP style shelf and the desktop is that in NEXTSTEP there was a single icon (a hand holding a deck of cards) that represented a collection of files. So you...
Posted by unimacs, on Jul 7, 2001 at 11:09 PM, in macOS
If you just want UNIX, LinuxPPC might be a better... 461 Views / 8 Replies  
If you just want UNIX, LinuxPPC might be a better option than X for an older machine. I have an old Quadra that I run Debian Linux on.
Posted by unimacs, on Jul 5, 2001 at 04:31 PM, in macOS
Well I took a look around after seeing that... 461 Views / 8 Replies  
Well I took a look around after seeing that article and found that some folks claim to have X running on 604's which I didn't realize was even possible. The speed was stated to be "Not as bad as you...
Posted by unimacs, on Jul 5, 2001 at 03:31 PM, in macOS
Linux is a sensible replacement for an SGI... 1,884 Views / 141 Replies  
Linux is a sensible replacement for an SGI running IRIX. The question is whether Linux is a more sensible replacement for a Mac running OS 9 than OS X is. If the Mac in question is too slow for X,...
Posted by unimacs, on Jul 5, 2001 at 02:40 PM, in macOS
Oh I agree, - I'm the slob. I'm much more... 1,249 Views / 63 Replies  
Oh I agree, - I'm the slob. I'm much more inclined to sweep everything under the desk to the dock or close windows altogether then to arrange them like Terri does. The dock works OK for me because I...
Posted by unimacs, on Jul 3, 2001 at 09:50 PM, in macOS
I like OS X and don't mind that some people... 1,884 Views / 141 Replies  
I like OS X and don't mind that some people don't. There are two moderators in this forum, -each with different opinions of X that when combined roughly match how the community as a whole feels about...
Posted by unimacs, on Jul 3, 2001 at 05:11 PM, in macOS
I never claimed that no one else could possibly... 1,249 Views / 63 Replies  
I never claimed that no one else could possibly like them and no, I have not adapted my work style to windowshade in such a fashion. I can't imagine taking the time to arrange all the windows like...
Posted by unimacs, on Jul 3, 2001 at 03:45 PM, in macOS
Regarding the likelyhood of the existence of a... 954 Views / 46 Replies  
Regarding the likelyhood of the existence of a 3rd party JVM for OS X on March 24th:



You're nuts ! ;)

Sun being upset at Apple for dragging their feet on Java doesn't mean that they are...
Posted by unimacs, on Jul 3, 2001 at 02:58 PM, in macOS
regarding Apple being responsible for Java on the... 954 Views / 46 Replies  
regarding Apple being responsible for Java on the Mac:



Ask yourself a question. If Apple were not responsible for implementing the Java Virtual Machine on OS X, do you think there would be...
Posted by unimacs, on Jul 3, 2001 at 01:40 PM, in macOS
It's more than incremental upgrade. It's a final... 461 Views / 9 Replies  
It's more than incremental upgrade. It's a final release, -not a beta. The previous version for OS X was just a preview. I'd say it's fairly important. Not too many other applications as commonly...
Posted by unimacs, on Jul 3, 2001 at 11:28 AM, in macOS
I don't really know much about C#, but I do know... 954 Views / 46 Replies  
I don't really know much about C#, but I do know about java. Here's an opportunity to educate me. Some of the big advantages of java are:

1. Portability.
While it hasn't *quite* gotten to the...
Posted by unimacs, on Jul 3, 2001 at 10:06 AM, in macOS
Why release Appleworks final before MWNY? 461 Views / 9 Replies  
So the carbonized Appleworks final is now out. It include translators for Word and Excel, - cool. Now I can read Word documents that people email to me on my home computer without jumping through...
Posted by unimacs, on Jul 2, 2001 at 11:59 PM, in macOS
Despite some big improvements, java on the client... 954 Views / 46 Replies  
Despite some big improvements, java on the client side still has some issues to iron out in my opinion, but on the server side, java is huge. A lot of web sites (like the ones I've developed for)...
Posted by unimacs, on Jul 2, 2001 at 11:37 PM, in macOS
Regarding my almost irrational hatred of... 1,249 Views / 63 Replies  
Regarding my almost irrational hatred of windowshade...



booboo,

If windowshade were still an option alongside of minimize, I wouldn't advocate taking it away. And Apple can bring it back...
Posted by unimacs, on Jul 2, 2001 at 09:45 PM, in macOS
Today Macosrumors is saying that 9.2 and 10.1... 1,241 Views / 96 Replies  
Today Macosrumors is saying that 9.2 and 10.1 will be released during MacWorld, for what it's worth.

Personally, I think there'll be at least a demo, with perhaps some benchmarks and maybe a...
Posted by unimacs, on Jul 2, 2001 at 05:40 PM, in macOS
Regarding colored widgets and the colorblind,... 1,249 Views / 63 Replies  
Regarding colored widgets and the colorblind, I'll have to say that I was wrong, but I was just relaying what another colorblind person had said.

Regarding colors are good for tech support...

...
Posted by unimacs, on Jul 2, 2001 at 04:28 PM, in macOS
I was talking about advantages of the stoplight... 1,249 Views / 63 Replies  
I was talking about advantages of the stoplight widgets in general, not graphite. Obviously, if you use graphite, you lose any advantage or disadvantage that color would provide, but the default is...
Posted by unimacs, on Jul 2, 2001 at 02:11 PM, in macOS
If grandma has a reasonable speedy machine and... 407 Views / 8 Replies  
If grandma has a reasonable speedy machine and just wants to send email, maybe browse the web, I'd be tempted to go with X. Grandmas hate to reboot just because an app crashed.

I actually think...
Posted by unimacs, on Jul 2, 2001 at 11:59 AM, in macOS
Oh man, do I hate windowshade. You're not alone.... 1,249 Views / 63 Replies  
Oh man, do I hate windowshade. You're not alone. I always considered it rather an embarassment that this was the best Mac OS could do to hide a window.

I can see how in certain lines of work and a...
Posted by unimacs, on Jul 2, 2001 at 11:45 AM, in macOS
The SC800 is not supported under X, so the... 625 Views / 14 Replies  
The SC800 is not supported under X, so the utility doesn't see my printer. Thanks for the tip though :)
Posted by unimacs, on Jun 30, 2001 at 10:42 AM, in macOS
Scott, Get a CF card reader, they're cheap... 625 Views / 14 Replies  
Scott,

Get a CF card reader, they're cheap and make life easier.
Posted by unimacs, on Jun 30, 2001 at 10:33 AM, in macOS
It has everything to do with preemptive vs.... 625 Views / 14 Replies  
It has everything to do with preemptive vs. cooperative multitasking. OS X will not allow an app to take total control like that. I agree that Epson did not write the software correctly, but they're...
Posted by unimacs, on Jun 30, 2001 at 10:30 AM, in macOS
A new conclusion: My printer didn't work... 625 Views / 14 Replies  
A new conclusion:

My printer didn't work under classic because I had appletalk turned off in X. So now I feel quite a bit better about classic. It's quite impressive really. Sort of a like virtual...
Posted by unimacs, on Jun 29, 2001 at 10:45 PM, in macOS
booboo, checkout the first post and you will see... 1,692 Views / 132 Replies  
booboo, checkout the first post and you will see that one was just being very energetic about sticking to point of this thread, i.e. flaming

And BTW: You both suck!
Posted by unimacs, on Jun 29, 2001 at 06:33 PM, in macOS
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