Henri You might want to try this for pdf's and Safari: http://www.schubert-it.com/pluginpdf/
-----Original Message----- From: Henri Yandell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, May 07, 2004 1:05 AM To: macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu Subject: Re: MacGroup: CRON Jobs on Laptops The upshot for myself was that the cron tabs were not necessary to run. I've got more space wasted in the PDFs that Safari insists on downloading to open up in Preview than the cron-tab would save me. By a factor of 10 :) Still, nothing against anacron. Just seems to be something that has been blown out of proportion. Hen On Fri, 7 May 2004, Jerry Yeager wrote: > Recently there was some discussion about how to edit cron tabs to run > the system admin tasks at a time of the user's choosing rather than the > times Apple chose for us all. The upshot of that discussion was to get > MacJanitor and just remember to use it. But, the larger question of how > to run cron tasks at other times or on portables was left unanswered. > In the *nix world many folks use Anacron. This has been recently ported > to OS-X and is available at: > > http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/unix_open_source/anacron.html > > > Jerry > > > > | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will > | be May 25. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. > | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> > | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup> > | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be May 25. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup> | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be May 25. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>
