Dan writes, "Aside -- Please do not invent quoting methods. Please quote text normally: use a "> " at the beginning of each line quoted. Most email clients will do this automatically for you when you reply. Manually enclosing whole areas of text in angle-brackets <> does not make it obviously quoted to the eye. Nor is it automatically recognizable as quoted text by the mail client. And worse- it makes the Mac think there might be a URL in there, so it spends time trying to analyze it."
Ummmm-HUH? I've been on LEM lists since 2003 and NOW there's a problem with how I post? The <quoted comments in here> method is how I saw it done on mailing lists (LEM and ones I'd been on in the mid and late 1990s) originally. I didn't invent it, I learned it from being on email lists. My emailer, Thunderbird, brings up a blank body with no quoting at all when I hit reply, so I paste in the text I'm replying to. I recall it being the same for my prior emailer, ClarisEmailer, as well. (I do this for ALL email, not just list email). Yes I've noticed the "changes" in how other posters post over time and I usually find it confusing, so I kept with what I originally learned so at least I can understand my own posts! LOL But, OK, if the "<quoted text all goes in here>" method actually confuses the Mac to think there's an URL, I'll just use quotation marks and not the brackets. (Or maybe I'll just paraphrase who I'm quoting so I don't have to worry about any kind of quotations!) See, now you're driving me to invent! Anyhow, back to Mac stuff, you said I could find out if my QS drive had spun down if there was less noise from the box, and that I should "open the drive to hear it spin up." The answers to that are: 1. The QS has always been a nice quiet machine -- I almost never hear it at all. The only noisy component of my collection here is the external HD, which is on all the time so I can make immediate backups whenever I have to, and that thing is loud enough to make eveything else seem absolutely dead silent. 2. Respectfully, no, I can't open up the QS's drive. Remember I can't do anything mechanical, and even if I could, I'd hesitate about doing it with the QS powered on, which, for the drive to spin up or down, it would have to be. Right? Or maybe I'm just totally not getting this. And even so, if the machine is on, the HDs are good (I know they are) and the network is set up properly, if the drive did spin down/go to sleep while I wasn't using it, it would awaken/spin back up next time I accessed it, wouldn't it? Thanks for the instruction on Finder Preferences, Sidebar pane to get the QS to show the Network in the sidebar. It works great. :-) Mounting aliases of HDs from networked Macs seems to be pointless, though. I had the QS's HD Nucleolus mounted on the Mini and I made an alias of it. It worked, as in I could get in and at all the files by clicking on the alias, but it kept popping up the original "real" icon for the HD -- so why bother with the alias? And while I was able to fix the QS's Network settings since killing that bug (thank you for the lock-clicking in Security tip), The QS's other HD will still not remount on the Mini at all (it's greyed out when I go to select it), and the Mini will only occasionally and temporarily mount on the QS. (it "disconnects"!) Oh well, even though there are still these couple of minor issues, having the Mini up and running, and the network/KVM system AT ALL, is so vastly better than the way it was before, so perhaps I should just shut up and learn to live with the minor issues! Thanks, ~Yersinia. -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
