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Vexing connectivity problem with chase.com 575 Views / 0 Replies  
My business and personal banking is mostly done with chase.com. Up until about a year ago, I had no problem reaching my accounts pages on chase.com (actually, chaseonline.com) with Safari. Suddenly,...
Posted by captiva, on Apr 29, 2007 at 03:49 PM, in Networking
okay, will do, f1000. I do have a tiny manual... 1,489 Views / 9 Replies  
okay, will do, f1000. I do have a tiny manual that came with my hub thing and I think I know where to set this in its web-based admin panel.

BUT ... what about my iMac's broken Network icon in the...
Posted by captiva, on Jul 7, 2006 at 02:30 PM, in Networking
More info .. It's now able to find my iDisk.... 1,489 Views / 9 Replies  
More info ..

It's now able to find my iDisk. The Network icon still isn't working.

However, I can connect to other macs on the network via the Connect To: command.

Why is this? What's the...
Posted by captiva, on Jul 5, 2006 at 11:27 AM, in Networking
indigomac, while waiting for your reply I went... 1,489 Views / 9 Replies  
indigomac, while waiting for your reply I went ahead and gave it a shot on two of the computers. I made a new location in Sys Prefs, config'd it manually, but It didn't work (I think because my DNS...
Posted by captiva, on Jul 5, 2006 at 11:23 AM, in Networking
thank you ... so it's just that simple? Do I need... 1,489 Views / 9 Replies  
thank you ... so it's just that simple? Do I need to restart the macs or the router or whatever afterwards in order to get it to "take"?

Do I need to do anything special with the router ... it...
Posted by captiva, on Jul 4, 2006 at 11:01 PM, in Networking
Simple question: How to assign a static IP to my Macs 1,489 Views / 9 Replies  
We had a power outage in my home office network, and when the power came back up, all the Mac's IP addresses (normally assigned by DHCP) were different than what DHCP had given them for the past...
Posted by captiva, on Jul 3, 2006 at 11:46 AM, in Networking
You're talking about spot colors... which are... 827 Views / 17 Replies  
You're talking about spot colors... which are difficult to do in Photoshop, or any paint program.

Yes, 2-color printing is more economical and widely done of course. But those 2 color pubs usually...
Posted by captiva, on Oct 24, 2003 at 09:33 AM, in Art & Graphic Design
think this one will work? ... 623 Views / 8 Replies  
think this one will work?
http://www.mycableshop.com/sku/CDVI-MMDL2M.htm?x=22&y=13

My eyes started crossing when I was reading their little essay about the diff. kinds of DVI connections avail....
Posted by captiva, on Oct 22, 2003 at 06:49 PM, in Mac Notebooks
hmmm okay, thanks for that info! I'll check out... 623 Views / 8 Replies  
hmmm okay, thanks for that info! I'll check out amazon and a couple other places.

cap
Posted by captiva, on Oct 22, 2003 at 06:18 PM, in Mac Notebooks
$100 vs $11? egads which kind do you use (if... 623 Views / 8 Replies  
$100 vs $11? egads

which kind do you use (if you do)?

cap
Posted by captiva, on Oct 22, 2003 at 05:03 PM, in Mac Notebooks
DVI cable for Al 15" powerbook? 623 Views / 8 Replies  
I bought a new Alum 15" powerbook which has DVI output. It comes with a DVI to VGA connector for VGA monitors. But no DVI to DVI monitor cable.

I bought a NEC/Mitsubishi 1920 flat panel monitor...
Posted by captiva, on Oct 22, 2003 at 03:27 PM, in Mac Notebooks
>>1. Open Displays (with both monitors active).... 628 Views / 4 Replies  
>>1. Open Displays (with both monitors active). Click the "Arrangement" tab.
Drag the little menu bar onto the monitor you want.>>

Oh yeah, baby! That did it. I guess I hadn't gotten the hotspot...
Posted by captiva, on Oct 20, 2003 at 06:05 PM, in Mac Notebooks
Dual display questions 628 Views / 4 Replies  
I made the leap last week and sold my G4 Quicksilver ... my main produciton Mac... and put the money towards a new 15" Al Powerbook.

Okay so now I have it hooked up at my workstation. It's...
Posted by captiva, on Oct 20, 2003 at 04:57 PM, in Mac Notebooks
it helps if you draw a thin line between every X... 1,342 Views / 25 Replies  
it helps if you draw a thin line between every X number of number/letters, matching the boxes they're supposed to go in.

why they couldn't add spaces just to make it a little easier to...
Posted by captiva, on Oct 9, 2003 at 07:33 AM, in Art & Graphic Design
thanks, I will take a look at the man pages. ... 534 Views / 5 Replies  
thanks, I will take a look at the man pages.

When you say:

nidump passwd . > passwd.txt

...do you mean I should literally type in a period and a right chevron (.>)? Or is that a placeholder...
Posted by captiva, on Oct 4, 2003 at 10:21 AM, in macOS
Can I copy/paste users/groups to a 2nd Mac? 534 Views / 5 Replies  
If we have set up shared access to a partition on a Mac for 3 users...by using Users to create the user accounts and NetInfo to create a new group for those users and allowing read/write on the...
Posted by captiva, on Oct 4, 2003 at 08:51 AM, in macOS
straightedge, any resolution of your glyph... 1,342 Views / 25 Replies  
straightedge, any resolution of your glyph problem?

I'm a Quark 6 user/authorized trainer and yesterday received 2 calls from XP6-using clients (designers) reporting the same problem with their...
Posted by captiva, on Oct 2, 2003 at 08:26 AM, in Art & Graphic Design
----- until ultimately the whole word has been... 762 Views / 8 Replies  
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until ultimately the whole word has been changed into a beautiful single Zapfino custom glyph
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This is VERY COOL. Thanks! I'm doing an OS X seminar for designers and will use that......
Posted by captiva, on Sep 21, 2003 at 01:16 PM, in macOS
Thanks for the info. I would assume that if you... 797 Views / 4 Replies  
Thanks for the info. I would assume that if you installed an app in your user folder, then there'd be no way that other users, admins or not, could access it, right? Even if you put an alias to it in...
Posted by captiva, on Sep 20, 2003 at 08:33 AM, in macOS
Where does the Applications folder go? 797 Views / 4 Replies  
Where does the Applications folder go in OS X?

Simple question... should be.

There's a long OT thread going on in one of software listservs .. InDesign... I follow.

It started as a request...
Posted by captiva, on Sep 20, 2003 at 08:11 AM, in macOS
thanks pat! I will try that. also thanks for... 461 Views / 2 Replies  
thanks pat!

I will try that. also thanks for the info about the Finder. I always wondered about that.

cap
Posted by captiva, on Jul 22, 2003 at 06:15 PM, in macOS
Need help troubleshooting Finder 461 Views / 2 Replies  
Running 10.2.6 with no major problems.

This morning I clicked on a Finder window while in IE 5.2 and noticed that the Finder appeared to quit, then restart on its own. That is, everything cleared...
Posted by captiva, on Jul 22, 2003 at 12:24 PM, in macOS
Faster import into Mail from Eudora? 538 Views / 3 Replies  
After a year of sticking with good ol Eudora on 10.2.X I decided I couldn't live with the spam anymore...

So I fired up Mail for the first time and told it to import my mailboxes.

The problem...
Posted by captiva, on Jul 21, 2003 at 08:44 AM, in Applications
pageins and pageouts 469 Views / 1 Replies  
I've been reading around that I should keep my pageouts at 0. But which number does that refer to? When "top" says "3649(0) pageouts" ... what does the (0) mean vs the 3649?

FWIW I'm on a 768Mhz...
Posted by captiva, on Jun 25, 2003 at 09:33 AM, in macOS
doh! After your message I just went back to... 2,389 Views / 9 Replies  
doh!

After your message I just went back to try again...

I had been dragging the desktop file from above /users. When I dragged *my* (user) desktop to the dock, it worked.

thx
cap
Posted by captiva, on May 8, 2003 at 11:40 AM, in macOS
how to add desktop to dock? 2,389 Views / 9 Replies  
I read this tip someplace recently and can't find where. I thought I had it memorized, but it's not working.

The guy said something like, you know how hard it is to locate something on the desktop...
Posted by captiva, on May 8, 2003 at 11:27 AM, in macOS
thanks all. I downloaded Mount and then thought... 1,092 Views / 4 Replies  
thanks all. I downloaded Mount and then thought I'd give Disk Copy one last try.

I looked in Prefs and noticed there were none for Disk Copy. Meaning, when I dragged the .plist for disk copy to...
Posted by captiva, on Apr 14, 2003 at 10:44 PM, in macOS
Can't run Disk Copy :-( 1,092 Views / 4 Replies  
I doubleclicked on a .dmg file I just downloaded (BBEdit 7.03) and the initial DiscCopy screen opened briefly (nothing filled in the fields), then it went away, then an Alert message: "The...
Posted by captiva, on Apr 14, 2003 at 03:38 PM, in macOS
How to delete Previous Systems folder 611 Views / 2 Replies  
When I upgraded to Jaguar I had it do a fresh install, so it put my old 10.0.4 (never booted into) System folder into a folder called Previous Systems.

That was about 3 months ago and it occurred...
Posted by captiva, on Apr 11, 2003 at 08:04 AM, in macOS
Missing Finder features 628 Views / 5 Replies  
Hmph. I've only been using OS X (jag) regularly for a couple months so maybe these items are available but I can't figure out where/how.

Or maybe there's a utility? let me know

--In a Finder...
Posted by captiva, on Mar 24, 2003 at 12:28 PM, in macOS
Success, finally! I didn't want to post... 1,096 Views / 26 Replies  
Success, finally!

I didn't want to post again until I had another go-round with my ISP to make sure it wasn't my fault. After *numerous* back and forths, we've finally got it working. So I'm...
Posted by captiva, on Mar 12, 2003 at 01:03 AM, in Applications
Here's the contents of my etc/ssh_config file on... 1,096 Views / 26 Replies  
Here's the contents of my etc/ssh_config file on my hard drive:

# $OpenBSD: ssh_config,v 1.15 2002/06/20 20:03:34 stevesk Exp $

# This is the ssh client system-wide configuration file. See
#...
Posted by captiva, on Mar 6, 2003 at 09:31 AM, in Applications
well I have learned a lot so far but the solution... 1,096 Views / 26 Replies  
well I have learned a lot so far but the solution is still out of grasp. Very frustrating.

I deleted from my local .ssh folder the remaining identity and identity.pub. I emptied the trash.

I...
Posted by captiva, on Mar 6, 2003 at 12:02 AM, in Applications
yeah I can see the sshd_config file but I can't... 1,096 Views / 26 Replies  
yeah I can see the sshd_config file but I can't cat it... permission denied. I did a "ls -l" on it:
-rw-r----- 1 root root 676 Mar 3 16:30 sshd_config

... is there some sort of...
Posted by captiva, on Mar 5, 2003 at 11:13 PM, in Applications
>>>12. Collect for output now does fonts ... 2,468 Views / 59 Replies  
>>>12. Collect for output now does fonts

Quark 5 has had this feature since first released. Works great.

cap
Posted by captiva, on Mar 5, 2003 at 06:07 PM, in Applications
Thank you so much, geekwagon and chicken, for all... 1,096 Views / 26 Replies  
Thank you so much, geekwagon and chicken, for all that info. It definitely helps.

I downloaded/installed TinkerTools, turned on "show invisibles" and found that both my identity and identity.pub...
Posted by captiva, on Mar 5, 2003 at 05:56 PM, in Applications
Here you go. Some notes about my keys appear... 1,096 Views / 26 Replies  
Here you go. Some notes about my keys appear after.

[silverg4:~] captiva% ssh foobar.com
Permission denied.
[silverg4:~] captiva% ssh -vv [email protected]
OpenSSH_3.4p1, SSH protocols...
Posted by captiva, on Mar 5, 2003 at 09:35 AM, in Applications
almost, not quite there 1,096 Views / 26 Replies  
thanks again for all the info. Now I understand why Fetch always said "get" and 'put" (wondered about that terminology...)

Okay back to ssh. I notified my host that I had followed their instrux. ...
Posted by captiva, on Mar 4, 2003 at 09:07 PM, in Applications
thanks everyone for all that help. I spent the... 1,096 Views / 26 Replies  
thanks everyone for all that help. I spent the weekend going through some Terminal tutorials and have a better grip on it now.

A few related questions...

Following your instrux, I ran the...
Posted by captiva, on Mar 3, 2003 at 07:36 PM, in Applications
thanks envoy... I gave it a skim-through, looks... 1,096 Views / 26 Replies  
thanks envoy... I gave it a skim-through, looks very helpful. Will go through it tonight.

still need to know about the identity.pub (noticed it wasn't mentioned in the tutorial)... that's not a...
Posted by captiva, on Feb 27, 2003 at 05:58 PM, in Applications
hmmm, okay. So "Terminal" *is* an ssh program? I... 1,096 Views / 26 Replies  
hmmm, okay. So "Terminal" *is* an ssh program? I thought I needed some sort of specific "ssh" program. (Like NCSATelnet didn't do ssh, I had to look for something else...)

I'm taking a "Terminal...
Posted by captiva, on Feb 27, 2003 at 05:31 PM, in Applications
ssh (secure telnet) help 1,096 Views / 26 Replies  
Hey there, I'm new to OS X (installed Jaguar last week) and now I need to know about ssh to log onto a remote host. Hope this is the correct forum... my post qualifies for about 4 of them... let me...
Posted by captiva, on Feb 27, 2003 at 05:10 PM, in Applications
 
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