Re: Specific Web Page inability to access
Brett Carboni wrote: I've been trying to access a specific web page ( http://www.philbaker.net/ ) and everyone seems to be able to get it but me. Even contacted the webmaster but am assured it is working. Is this a conspiracy or is my Mac sick or both? Using 17 Powerbook connected with Telstra Bigpond Cable running 10.3.8. Tried Safari, Explorer and Firefox. I can get everything else, and my friends can get this site ( i.e. you don't need to check it). I gotta say that there isn't much in the way of actual content there, so why would you bother :-) Some actual useful help perhaps: * Did you open a terminal and try to ping it? ping www.philbaker.net * Did you turn off all your caches and try to force-reload it? Also does anyone have a TiBook 15 667MHz for sale. Condition not important except the screen. (Broke a friends screen last night - arghhh - just moved it one inch backwoods). Some friend you are :-) Ah, the penny drops, you broke their screen, now you're praying for forgiveness :-) -- Onno Benschop Connected via Optus B3 at S34°32'27 - E146°24'35 (Leeton, NSW) -- ()/)/)()..ASCII for Onno.. |?..EBCDIC for Onno.. --- -. -. --- ..Morse for Onno.. Proudly supported by Skipper Trucks, Highway1, Concept AV, Sony Central, Dalcon ITmaze - ABN: 56 178 057 063 - ph: 04 1219 - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Iphoto Horder Needs Help
I'm running iPhoto 5.0 Being a horder, I have 5,000 photos in the library. Things seem to be running very sluggish, (scrolling, launching etc). Have rebuilt the database, run macjanitor and diskwarrior etc. Too many photos? On Severin's advice I have downloaded iPhoto Library Manager, also downloaded MorePhotoLibs version 1.2.2, mentioned in iCreate mag. Would either of these solve my problem? Any advice would be gratefully accepted please. Ta Rod -- Rod BLITVICH Head of Learning Technologies Balcatta Senior High School Apple Educator of Excellence 2002 - 2003 Amy and Sam's Dad [EMAIL PROTECTED]0409 681 256 http://www.apple.com.au/education/hed/products/ibook/balcatta.html --- Support bacteria -- it's the only culture some people have.
Re: Personal Web Sharing
Tim Law wrote: Hi, I'm having the same problem. I'm running 10.3.8 on an eMac. Following the previous posts in this thread and I have searched for a file called httpd.conf and a folder called httpd or etc with a nil return for any of them. Does this mean something is not installed as it should be?? No, it just means they are invisible files. There is at least 2 ways to get at them. First, if you know exactly where they are you can press SHIFT+APPLE(COMMAND)+G. This is also under the 'Go' menu in the finder. Type in the address ie Library/WebServer/Documents and press enter. httpd.conf lives in private/etc/httpd The other way is for when you do not know where an invisible item is. At the Finder press APPLE+F Search in: Specific places tick your boot drive only. Search for items whose: Visibility: visible and invisible items AND (press the little + to add another criteria) Name is: httpd.conf(or whatever you are looking for.) Now select the httpd folder and press APPLE+I and give yourself ownership of it to allow editing of httpd.conf Back up httpd.conf before making changes(of course!) Back up httpd.conf before making changes(of course!) Back up httpd.conf before making changes(of course!) Then open it by dropping it onto TextEdit and find (APPLE+F) the line: DocumentRoot /Library/WebServer/Documents Change it to: DocumentRoot /Users/Tim Berners-Lee/Sites (or whatever your username actually is;) Save it and return the permissions on the httpd folder to how they were before, owned by 'System'. It will now load index.html from your Sites folder when you use: http://localhost/~Tim Berners-Lee/ (or whatever your username actually is;) Now, it might be just me, but this is not 'simple', strong yes, simple no. Admittedly I did not have to install anything, Windoze style, but 'Mums and Dads' would find this too much, too 'fiddly'. Without WAMUG I would have failed to do it at all I imagine. HTH Paul
Re: Iphoto Horder Needs Help
Rod, Have your run the latest Software Update? The latest version is 5.0.1 Cheers, Peder on 26/2/05 8:55, Rod Blitvich at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm running iPhoto 5.0 Being a horder, I have 5,000 photos in the library. Things seem to be running very sluggish, (scrolling, launching etc). Have rebuilt the database, run macjanitor and diskwarrior etc. Too many photos? On Severin's advice I have downloaded iPhoto Library Manager, also downloaded MorePhotoLibs version 1.2.2, mentioned in iCreate mag. Would either of these solve my problem? Any advice would be gratefully accepted please. Ta Rod
Re: Personal Web Sharing
On 25/02/2005, at 10:41 PM, Steve Woods wrote: On 25/02/2005, at 10:05 PM, Tim Law wrote: Following the previous posts in this thread and I have searched for a file called httpd.conf and a folder called httpd or etc with a nil return for any of them. The httpd folder lives in /etc , which is hidden by default. To edit httpd.conf, you'll need to use either the command line (Terminal), or an application that can open hidden files. TextWrangler from BareBones software is an excellent tool for this, and it's free! http://www.barebones.com/products/textwrangler/index.shtml But it does need OSX 10.3.5 according to the System Requirements ! Excludes me ! My 10.3.4 is not Broke , so I have not fixed it ! Bob
Re: Personal Web Sharing
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Sat, Feb 26, 2005 at 12:30:21PM +0800, Robert Howells wrote: But it does need OSX 10.3.5 according to the System Requirements ! Excludes me ! My 10.3.4 is not Broke , so I have not fixed it ! While it is true, as you have stated, that 10.3.4 does not have any financial troubles, versions 10.3.5 through 10.3.8 including many important changes like the following: - Repairs three or four flaws in Safari that allow websites to masquerade as other websites (e.g. impersonate a banking or commerce website). - Solves two problems with the display of web/e-mail graphics and QuickTime that could cause programmes to either crash or give access to remote attackers. - Solves a kernel panic that could occur when dialing or connecting to your ISP via your internal Apple modem or when using an external, wireless USB broadband modem (Apple's words). - Addresses DNS-related slowness in Safari and Mail. - Solves many risks associated with Personal Web Sharing.
Re: Personal Web Sharing
On 26/02/2005, at 10:02 AM, Paul Kitchener wrote: Tim Law wrote: Hi, I'm having the same problem. I'm running 10.3.8 on an eMac. Following the previous posts in this thread and I have searched for a file called httpd.conf and a folder called httpd or etc with a nil return for any of them. Does this mean something is not installed as it should be?? No, it just means they are invisible files. There is at least 2 ways to get at them. First, if you know exactly where they are you can press SHIFT+APPLE(COMMAND)+G. This is also under the 'Go' menu in the finder. Type in the address ie Library/WebServer/Documents and press enter. The other shortcut I find useful is when you an application open e.g. TextEdit. Go to the usual Open... dialog box, then type / . Don't worry, there's no text box to type this in, but then the Go to the folder panel will slide out and you can type the exact file or folder. It's nice in that it tries to anticipate what file it will be i.e. try typing in /e , pause for a second or two, and it autocompletes it as /etc/ . If you goto such a folder in either Finder or Open... dialog, then you can explore its contents, so you really only need to know the top-level hidden folders e.g. etc, usr etc. Quite often these system files will have different, stricter permissions from your Home folder -- thank God, otherwise like with Windoze you'll find all manner of virii and hackers doing funky things with your beloved Mac system. So you might not be able to save it back with TextEdit, but you can certainly Save As... to the desktop then copy it over, and change the permissions back to what they were with the Get Info... command from Finder. Cheers, Glen Low --- pixelglow software | simply brilliant stuff www.pixelglow.com
Re: Running out of disk space
On 25/02/2005, at 10:44 AM, Michael Schmidt wrote: Hi! Yes, I am only copying my own photos folder - nothing to do with iPhoto because I've heard that the iPhoto files have to stay where they are. I guess I'm stuck because I'm also finding it difficult to even move my documents folder. I'm not touching anything to do with system files. All I really want to move to the new drive is: pictures, movies, music, my own documents and an extra folder I created simply called downloads. I'll go home from work this afternoon and try out all the suggestions so far. I'll have a look at see how the firewire drive has been formatted and maybe start again. Isn't iTunes a mean when it comes to moving the folder?! Took me two goes! All 18GB worth of songs! Hmm... If you're willing to take a slight technical risk, it's actually possible to get the entire User hierarchy onto a separate drive. The technical risk is how this would interact with a Firewire drive (ans: I don't know). I've done this on my own G5, where I installed a smaller, faster boot drive, and left the larger, slower original drive as User drive which has all the user data I have (both internal drives). Some advantages of this: 1. If you move computers or have to reformat your system drive or reinstall from scratch your system, your data is safe. 2. Probably faster to run, especially on a G5 or if the two drives are on different busses -- as your case, the internal bus and the external Firewire bus. The system can be loading system files and data files simultaneously for example. 3. Lets you use the second drive transparently. I hardly have to think about fetching stuff from the second drive -- It Just Works (TM). It needs some minor investigation and a quick change to a single system file, and you're all set. Email me if you're interested or if you think the group would find it useful. Also, if you're comfortable with the command line, there's a couple of ways of mirroring or copying an entire drive or portions thereof without the use of any third-party utilities: ditto -- copies everything, resource forks and Mac-related metadata, etc. rsync -- copies only flat files, but you can make it do things like selective backups. Great for automatic backups between computers. Cheers, Glen Low --- pixelglow software | simply brilliant stuff www.pixelglow.com
Re: Personal Web Sharing
On 26/02/2005, at 2:12 PM, James Devenish wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Sat, Feb 26, 2005 at 12:30:21PM +0800, Robert Howells wrote: But it does need OSX 10.3.5 according to the System Requirements ! Excludes me ! My 10.3.4 is not Broke , so I have not fixed it ! While it is true, as you have stated, that 10.3.4 does not have any financial troubles, versions 10.3.5 through 10.3.8 including many important changes like the following: - Repairs three or four flaws in Safari that allow websites to masquerade as other websites (e.g. impersonate a banking or commerce website). - Solves two problems with the display of web/e-mail graphics and QuickTime that could cause programmes to either crash or give access to remote attackers. - Solves a kernel panic that could occur when dialing or connecting to your ISP via your internal Apple modem or when using an external, wireless USB broadband modem (Apple's words). - Addresses DNS-related slowness in Safari and Mail. - Solves many risks associated with Personal Web Sharing. That is all probably TRUE .. HOWEVER If you have a spare hour or so to spend you could go and peruse various problems other people have experienced with the various updates following 10.3.4 : - Start here : - http://www.macintouch.com/panreader37.html through to :- http://www.macintouch.com/panreader55.html Actually I was going to try out 10.3.8 but the combo download I received was flawed and would not make an Installer. Checksum did not add up ! Have fun Bob
Re: Running out of disk space
Original Message From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: wamug@wamug.org.au Subject: Re: Running out of disk space Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2005 15:17:59 +0800 Email me if you're interested or if you think the group would find it useful. I'm buying an ATA Controller card soon so I'm quite interested in this. Cheers Paul
External Firewire 800 enclosure-drives comments please
Hi, I'm thinking of getting a firewire 800 enclosure but could do with some guidance as to the better makes, where to get them and how much is it likely cost for an enclosure and a large (around 300-400G) HD. Is there a great speed improvement in the 800 over the 400? Most important, are they reliable? thanks Brian
Re: Running out of disk space
On 26/02/2005, at 4:04 PM, Paul Kitchener wrote: Original Message From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: wamug@wamug.org.au Subject: Re: Running out of disk space Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2005 15:17:59 +0800 Email me if you're interested or if you think the group would find it useful. I'm buying an ATA Controller card soon so I'm quite interested in this. The basic procedure is detailed here: http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20040716153639236 I wanted to make it slightly simpler, orient it towards User data, and less technical, so: 1. Initialize your second drive as Users, and copy over any existing Users directories over to it. You can use ditto or drag/drop from the Finder if you logged on as that user, just make sure the permissions follow those of the existing Users directory. 2. As a fall-back plan, empty out the existing Users directory on your old drive. Just leave the minimum files and directories for the main user there. (You can do this after 5, if step 5 didn't work, but you have to fix up the fstab to see the original directories again.) 3. Restart your OS X system with the second drive attached. When reboot is OK, check the log through the Console app for the UUID of the second drive. This is a combination of letters and numbers like this 299D6731---B090-9B0D4508, is unique and assigned when the disk is initialized. 4. Edit the /etc/fstab file. Add a line which says: UUID=299D6731---B090-9B0D4508 /Users hfs rw 1 2 That's spaces before /Users and between /Users, hfs, rw, 1 and 2. 5. Reboot again. This time the system should be picking up your home directories from the second drive. This procedure is good for any sort of partitition you want, e.g. for Applications, or for swap space like the original article wanted, or even something funky like /Users/glenlow/Music for your iTunes stuff. And if the fstab trick ever fails, you still have the intact, minimal directories on your old drive. If you're daring and have a few Macs available, you might try sharing a Firewire disk between them in this fashion (no I haven't tried that last scenario so don't sue me if your data is fried...) Cheers, Glen Low --- pixelglow software | simply brilliant stuff www.pixelglow.com
Re: Iphoto Horder Needs Help
The Help file suggests iPhoto should handle up to 25,000 photos. On further contemplation I think my troubles have only started since I upgraded to iLife 05 several days ago. I think I may replace my iPhoto library with my backup copy. Has anyone else experienced problems since upgrading to iPhoto 5? Rod on 26/2/05 8:55 AM, Rod Blitvich at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm running iPhoto 5.0 Being a horder, I have 5,000 photos in the library. Things seem to be running very sluggish, (scrolling, launching etc). Have rebuilt the database, run macjanitor and diskwarrior etc. Too many photos? On Severin's advice I have downloaded iPhoto Library Manager, also downloaded MorePhotoLibs version 1.2.2, mentioned in iCreate mag. Would either of these solve my problem? Any advice would be gratefully accepted please. Ta Rod -- Rod BLITVICH Head of Learning Technologies Balcatta Senior High School Apple Educator of Excellence 2002 - 2003 Amy and Sam's Dad [EMAIL PROTECTED]0409 681 256 http://www.apple.com.au/education/hed/products/ibook/balcatta.html I just got lost in thought. It was unfamiliar territory.
