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We're using eShox 3.9 and it works okay after... 1,644 Views / 4 Replies  
We're using eShox 3.9 and it works okay after tons and tons of hacking.

eShox 4 is in beta an supposedly will be released "real soon now", but I wouldn't hold my breath. It is a complete rewrite...
Posted by foamy, on Dec 6, 2005 at 07:32 PM, in Developer Center
No problems with dropped connections here, but I... 1,751 Views / 25 Replies  
No problems with dropped connections here, but I did notice the fake new signal indicator. Before if I had 2 bars I was solid. Now if I have 2 bars it is like having one or zero before the upgrade....
Posted by foamy, on May 10, 2005 at 01:09 PM, in macOS
Thanks guys! I *should* have thought to... 2,327 Views / 36 Replies  
Thanks guys!

I *should* have thought to cmd-R for refresh.... duh.
Posted by foamy, on May 2, 2005 at 01:02 PM, in macOS
Is there are way to add 3rd party widgets to the... 2,327 Views / 36 Replies  
Is there are way to add 3rd party widgets to the dashboard bar?


Is there a way to refresh widget content? E.g. I have the yahoo traffic widget and the only way I can get new info is to close...
Posted by foamy, on May 2, 2005 at 12:24 PM, in macOS
I've been looking into this as well (haven't yet... 575 Views / 3 Replies  
I've been looking into this as well (haven't yet made the move) and I think we are going to end up colocating instead of renting a dedicated server. You can colo for as little as 25.00 per month if...
Posted by foamy, on Mar 6, 2005 at 08:30 PM, in macOS
That's what I think. Set a limit for the smallest... 1,151 Views / 20 Replies  
That's what I think. Set a limit for the smallest *and* largest sizes. I would choose 16 and 128 pixels for my limits.

I think it's a great idea and since eye candy is involved, Jobs would...
Posted by foamy, on Feb 23, 2005 at 11:35 AM, in macOS
Drag the .mbox file onto BBedit and it will show... 2,332 Views / 2 Replies  
Drag the .mbox file onto BBedit and it will show a list of all the files that make up your .mbox. Double click on the 'mbox' file and you'll see the contents in one long file.
Posted by foamy, on Jan 27, 2005 at 12:37 PM, in Applications
Thanks. I'll check those out... I had never heard... 648 Views / 4 Replies  
Thanks. I'll check those out... I had never heard of any of them!
Posted by foamy, on Jan 19, 2005 at 06:22 PM, in Applications
HTML editor suggestions? 648 Views / 4 Replies  
Does any OSX HTML editor allow for selection of HTML containers?

That is, if you have a nasty mess of nested tables, each with many TR elements, it is often excruciating to find the corresponding...
Posted by foamy, on Jan 19, 2005 at 02:23 PM, in Applications
Canvas is the Corel Draw for Mac. ... 1,277 Views / 26 Replies  
Canvas is the Corel Draw for Mac.

http://www.deneba.com/
Posted by foamy, on Jan 7, 2005 at 01:50 AM, in Applications
DNS fixed here too. /me jumps for joy! ... 7,862 Views / 120 Replies  
DNS fixed here too.

/me jumps for joy!

:thumbsup:
Posted by foamy, on Dec 16, 2004 at 01:42 AM, in macOS
If it fixes that damn DNS issue I'll jump for joy. 7,862 Views / 120 Replies  
If it fixes that damn DNS issue I'll jump for joy.
Posted by foamy, on Dec 15, 2004 at 07:13 PM, in macOS
I still use CocoaMysql all the time, but once I... 611 Views / 4 Replies  
I still use CocoaMysql all the time, but once I needed an SQL program that could read in XML files and the only one I found was Navicat (http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/13371)
...
Posted by foamy, on Dec 5, 2004 at 02:08 PM, in Applications
You might ask over at the Ambrosia Software... 1,534 Views / 26 Replies  
You might ask over at the Ambrosia Software forums.

I distinctly remember someone there saying that games often override double-buffering. Having said that, you might be out of luck if it has to...
Posted by foamy, on Dec 5, 2004 at 01:59 PM, in macOS
Go with OSX. You're leaving now and he'll be... 2,037 Views / 53 Replies  
Go with OSX.

You're leaving now and he'll be leaving in the future. Knowing a lot of biologists, I am one, I think it will be much easier for the *next* person to admin the server if it is OSX....
Posted by foamy, on Nov 7, 2004 at 12:03 AM, in macOS
I haven't done this in a while, but you *may*... 804 Views / 8 Replies  
I haven't done this in a while, but you *may* need to change your permissions after you copy the contents back to your new install.

If you do need to, you can do it from the terminal

sudo chown...
Posted by foamy, on Oct 17, 2004 at 08:44 PM, in macOS
Sounds like you installed the serverlogistics... 568 Views / 4 Replies  
Sounds like you installed the serverlogistics package.

Look in /Library/StartupItems/ and move the MySql folder somewhere else.
Posted by foamy, on Sep 30, 2004 at 02:00 PM, in Applications
if ($mobile_phone && $computer) { ... 726 Views / 14 Replies  
if ($mobile_phone && $computer) {
exchange($data);
}
else
{
do nothing;
}

HTHs!
Posted by foamy, on Sep 30, 2004 at 01:56 PM, in Applications
Thank you! Now Firefox is my permanent browser. 1,126 Views / 17 Replies  
Thank you! Now Firefox is my permanent browser.
Posted by foamy, on Sep 15, 2004 at 11:55 AM, in Applications
The 1.0 preview release of Firefox really kicks... 1,126 Views / 17 Replies  
The 1.0 preview release of Firefox really kicks ass. I have stopped using Safari, Camino and Mozilla.

If we could just get some decent widgets I'd be happy. They don't even have to be Aqua, just...
Posted by foamy, on Sep 14, 2004 at 11:09 PM, in Applications
Weird. I just downloaded it and found it... 5,749 Views / 75 Replies  
Weird. I just downloaded it and found it annoyingly slow compared to Firefox.

Anyone else think Firefox is much faster?
Posted by foamy, on Sep 8, 2004 at 01:45 PM, in Applications
A bloated app with features I use everyday and... 1,060 Views / 12 Replies  
A bloated app with features I use everyday and can't live without. I'll keep PathFinder, thanks.
Posted by foamy, on Jul 16, 2004 at 04:03 PM, in Applications
No. Next question. 913 Views / 21 Replies  
No.

Next question.
Posted by foamy, on Jun 6, 2004 at 11:36 PM, in Applications
Grrrrrr Indeed! That is the one and only reason I... 829 Views / 14 Replies  
Grrrrrr Indeed! That is the one and only reason I don't use Transmit!

Perhaps they could make it so that if you dragged it to the drop down menu above the "my stuff" pane it would be put in that...
Posted by foamy, on Apr 23, 2004 at 03:46 PM, in Applications
We have MacVector and GCK. I don't like either of... 9,319 Views / 17 Replies  
We have MacVector and GCK. I don't like either of them for day to day use.

I got DNA Strider for OSX and I'm pretty happy.

DNA Strider is the Cricket Graph of DNA analysis programs. They both...
Posted by foamy, on Apr 21, 2004 at 07:48 PM, in Applications
I used to use Summary (http://summary.net/). It's... 495 Views / 3 Replies  
I used to use Summary (http://summary.net/). It's not free, but easy to use and the help is good.
Posted by foamy, on Apr 12, 2004 at 06:36 PM, in Applications
In case you are no longer the owner of the files... 1,625 Views / 11 Replies  
In case you are no longer the owner of the files you might also need to change owner

chown -R username ~ (replace username with your short username)
Posted by foamy, on Feb 24, 2004 at 09:50 PM, in macOS
Select text to superscript. Hit Shift-Apple and +... 720 Views / 4 Replies  
Select text to superscript. Hit Shift-Apple and +

Select text to subscript. Hit Shift-Apple and -
Posted by foamy, on Feb 24, 2004 at 03:07 AM, in Applications
If you are working in Mol Bio, then stick with... 3,824 Views / 46 Replies  
If you are working in Mol Bio, then stick with Office and shell out the $$$ for a decent graphing program. If you need fancy equations, then try something else.

I did my 200 page dissertation in...
Posted by foamy, on Feb 13, 2004 at 08:29 PM, in Applications
I just thought I might hijack this thread for a... 768 Views / 4 Replies  
I just thought I might hijack this thread for a moment and pass on my experiences with the Brother HL1440.

I print to a HL1440 using a cheapo Hawking Technologies print server (attaches directly...
Posted by foamy, on Dec 19, 2003 at 02:57 PM, in macOS
This is the primary reason I switched from... 3,484 Views / 71 Replies  
This is the primary reason I switched from Safari. I haven't submitted the slow https: bug for Safari because it *has* to have been submitted a million times and Apple *has* to know about it. OTOH,...
Posted by foamy, on Dec 10, 2003 at 05:47 PM, in Applications
Looks great and the pubmed search works well, but... 4,860 Views / 58 Replies  
Looks great and the pubmed search works well, but I can't get it to associate a PDF with a reference.

I put in a reference, then went to "browse for PDF", found the corresponding PDF, but when...
Posted by foamy, on Dec 8, 2003 at 05:43 PM, in Applications
I used This... 1,044 Views / 10 Replies  
I used This (http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/19266) little utility to export my Safari bookmarks to Firebird. Worked like a charm and I really like what Firebird has become.

One...
Posted by foamy, on Dec 4, 2003 at 02:06 PM, in Applications
You could also do the validation with PHP on the... 811 Views / 14 Replies  
You could also do the validation with PHP on the server side if you prefer, since you'll be processing your form for the login anyway.

The following works for .com, .gov, .edu, .net, .mil and...
Posted by foamy, on Nov 30, 2003 at 07:10 PM, in Developer Center
Yep DNA. I spent the last hour trying to get... 606 Views / 6 Replies  
Yep DNA.

I spent the last hour trying to get that exact syntax to work, but gave up and just strung them all together one after another.

My knowledge of regular expressions is only as good as...
Posted by foamy, on Nov 21, 2003 at 05:40 PM, in macOS
I found a perl tutorial that gave me some hints... 606 Views / 6 Replies  
I found a perl tutorial that gave me some hints and ended up with

perl -pi.bak -e 's/.*G{5,}.*$//; s/.*C{5,}.*$//; s/.*A{5,}.*$//; s/.*T{5,}.*$//; s/^\s*$//' filename

I'm sure there is a more...
Posted by foamy, on Nov 21, 2003 at 05:04 PM, in macOS
simple command line question? 606 Views / 6 Replies  
Hi,

I would like to scan a large text file (50MB) and remove all lines conating a specific string, lets say "aaaaa". I don't really care about saving those lines, just getting rid of them from the...
Posted by foamy, on Nov 21, 2003 at 02:34 PM, in macOS
The register globals bit got me with Panther as... 1,216 Views / 15 Replies  
The register globals bit got me with Panther as well. I haven't had a chance to update all my scripts as of yet, but I did find the extract command got me up and running quickly so that now I can...
Posted by foamy, on Nov 7, 2003 at 02:24 PM, in macOS
I used Complete Mysql to reinstall mysql after... 666 Views / 7 Replies  
I used Complete Mysql to reinstall mysql after the upgrade to Panther. Linkage (http://www.serverlogistics.com/mysql.php)

Everything went well and it was the easiest migration thusfar. Complete...
Posted by foamy, on Nov 2, 2003 at 10:02 PM, in Applications
For those of you who feel like the Desktop is a... 2,406 Views / 29 Replies  
For those of you who feel like the Desktop is a replacement for the shelf, try out PathFInder for a little while and you'll see that the Desktop is no shelf.

I really love the Panther Finder, but...
Posted by foamy, on Oct 26, 2003 at 01:14 PM, in macOS
Great video moki. I figured this was an... 6,101 Views / 62 Replies  
Great video moki.

I figured this was an appropriate thread to post the following Expose tidbit which I haven't seen mentioned previously.

If you invoke expose with F9, then hit tab, it cycles...
Posted by foamy, on Oct 24, 2003 at 12:49 PM, in macOS
bmedina. Thanks! Worked like a charm. 655 Views / 4 Replies  
bmedina. Thanks! Worked like a charm.
Posted by foamy, on Oct 22, 2003 at 12:30 AM, in macOS
.bashrc + panther = no go 655 Views / 4 Replies  
I swear I saw a thread in here on bash and converting tcsh aliases to bash aliases, etc and I'm sure that thread would answer my question, so if you know of that thread, just point me there. (yes i...
Posted by foamy, on Oct 21, 2003 at 10:05 PM, in macOS
DOH! What a tool I am. /me skulks away to... 584 Views / 5 Replies  
DOH! What a tool I am.

/me skulks away to D/L the Panther Dev Tools
Posted by foamy, on Oct 21, 2003 at 03:09 PM, in macOS
Installed Panther and X11...where's 'make'? 584 Views / 5 Replies  
Title says it all. I installed Panther and X11 and went to compile something and there's no 'make' command.

%>which make gives:
no mysql in /bin /sbin /usr/bin /usr/sbin

Did I miss installing...
Posted by foamy, on Oct 21, 2003 at 02:31 PM, in macOS
help(teach) me (to) compile this app? 627 Views / 2 Replies  
Only having a limited knowledge of compiling UNIX apps, I have immediately run into problems compiling an app that I need. The authors say that it compiles on linux, IRIX, Solaris, AIX, Cygwin, etc...
Posted by foamy, on Oct 19, 2003 at 08:56 PM, in macOS
re: moving files in the terminal I created... 3,113 Views / 66 Replies  
re: moving files in the terminal

I created 1024 empty files, then tried to mv them in the terminal.

The response, "too many arguments" and the files don't get moved. Same command on 10 files...
Posted by foamy, on Oct 18, 2003 at 01:32 PM, in macOS
I tried it and ended up not using it after... 1,304 Views / 6 Replies  
I tried it and ended up not using it after running into the same problem I have encountered with all the "prepackaged" eCommerce solutions I have tried.

The problem I always encounter is...
Posted by foamy, on Oct 10, 2003 at 11:30 PM, in Applications
I couldn't agree more. I regularly use... 2,506 Views / 18 Replies  
I couldn't agree more.

I regularly use Canvas or Illustrator to make figures for scientific manuscripts, presentations, etc. and both of these are massive overkill for my needs. I tried...
Posted by foamy, on Sep 25, 2003 at 11:16 AM, in Applications
Yeah, I tried the fonts panel in the prefs and I... 2,442 Views / 4 Replies  
Yeah, I tried the fonts panel in the prefs and I have the fonts I like selected, however, if the page specifies a font then Safari uses that font. In Camino, for example, there is a button that...
Posted by foamy, on Sep 19, 2003 at 10:59 AM, in macOS
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