[abcusers] Connecting Macs(was RE: Macs and recording )

[Mickey Sadler]

Hi All,

I usually just lurk and learn.

From the pen....er, uh, keyboard of Wil Macaulay:

From: Wil Macaulay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Tue Feb 4, 2003  11:09:17  PM US/Eastern
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Macs and recording (was Re: [abcusers] BarFly for Mac OS X)
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

<SNIP>

Another topic that's hard  to  get  straight  info  on  is  what  can
actually be done with the wireless ports.

The standard airport thingy is for wireless ethernet.  You can use it
to connect to a base station which is connected to the internet via
modem or dsl.  There's also Bluetooth, about which I know absolutely
nothing.  As far as I know, if you want to connect to the internet
while you're out in the woods you will still have to use a cell phone,
although there are a variety of interfaces which could potentially
be used to connect the computer to the phone.

Bluetooth is a short-range, high-ish speed interface which would be used to connect to a
(Bluetooth enabled) cellphone, such as many of the newer Nokia and Ericsson models. From
there you can connect to the internet

In my house I have highspeed internet via Bell Sympatico DSL, which arrives at a magic
black box in the basement. This is attached to a wireless router which then attaches to
two Macs (an old beige G3 minitower and a Rev B iMac) via ethernet, and also has a print
server with a parallel port that attaches to a salvaged HP LaserJet III. The wireless
part allows me to connect two iBooks anywhere in the house to the Internet and to print on
either of the printers.

I can also connect one of the iBooks to the Internet via modem and then share the internet
connection with the other one via modem.

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I have the 15 inch iMAC and my daughter has a iBook. I have an AirPort (located in the basement) connected with it's internal modem to the phone line. Hard wired to the ethernet port is a Mac Performa 6205CD. I also have a Centris 610 (I think) stored away that has an ethernet port on it. These two will be used in the workshop to tinker with CNC type stuff.

I never have to shut down, I just close the lid and it sleeps, then when I open it up and
plug in to another network, I can connect without having to reconfigure and reboot. Uptime
measured in weeeks, not hours... I bought a copy of Virtual PC so I can run Windows 2000
if I really need to...

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I am running Virtual PC on the iMAC. I don't use it much, but there are a couple of programs I run that that do not have a Mac equivalent. I hope they will be ported to Mac someday.

About the only time anything is shut down is when new software is installed and a restart is required.

I will also be building a MIDI controller to play my Wurlitzer 950 electronic organ and drive it from the iMAC. That is one of the neat things about abc - I can easily transcribe and arrange music to my taste, save it as MIDI and (I hope) drive the Wurlitzer with it. I even have a choice of abc versions on the same computer - Windows/DOS versions, Unix/Linux versions, BarFly Classic Mac version and now with BarFly OS X, Mac version.

Well, back to lurking,

Mickey

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Mickey E. Sadler
Dublin, Ohio

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