Re: ARD alternate VNC server software

2021-08-27 Thread George N. White III
a client that worked with ARD, and often broke with new Apple OS versions. -- George N. White III ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com https://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk

Re: Repairing a user account

2021-05-05 Thread George N. White III
ts that are replacing older fonts, so be prepared to look for a replacement if one of your "signature" fonts turns out to be the problem. Take note of the advice to create the new user with the same uid and gid. -- George N. White III ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com https://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk

Re: Gray screen of death

2019-04-10 Thread George N. White III
p my 2010 MacBook Pro 7,1 I get a gray screen of death. > > > "unexpected SIGKILL of init with reason -- namespace 9 code 0x1 > description none" > > Does this mean a mobo issue, or the HDD is kaput? > > There's no recovery partition

Re: Find or build a calendar server

2018-12-22 Thread George N. White III
gged down with MacOS specific tweaks, and you would have to track bugs/updates yourself, plus worry that your port may have bugs that don't affect linux users. > > I'd hate to have to run a Linux VM, given that this Mini also has to run a > Windows 10 VM 24/7. > > On Dec 22, 2018, at

Re: Find or build a calendar server

2018-12-22 Thread George N. White III
//packages.debian.org/search?keywords=radicale -- George N. White III ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk

Re: antivirus/malware ?

2018-01-09 Thread George N. White III
s that the OS vendor can't mitigate and that > it draws excessive resources. There are more issues than those, of course. > > <https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/01/technology/kaspersky-lab-antivirus.html> has the long answer. -- George N. White III <aa...@chebucto.ns.ca> Head of St. Marga

Re: antivirus/malware ?

2017-12-19 Thread George N. White III
per protection to > only allow App Store apps (and previously installed app) to run. > > Mine is set to require signed applications, or else manual authorization. > The OP may have a belt, but his customer is within their rights to ask for suspenders too. If the OP is subject t

Re: can't uncheck box in Finder Preferences

2015-01-03 Thread George N. White III
Some systems are reported to be getting automatic updates of ntp. It wouldn't be a big surprise to find that the automatic updater is buggy as this may be the first time Apple has used it for large scale updating. On Fri Jan 02 2015 at 3:11:10 PM Dinse, Gregg (NIH/NIEHS) [C]

Re: software (or terminal commands) for assessing disk I/O

2013-12-15 Thread George N. White III
___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk -- George N. White III aa...@chebucto.ns.ca Head of St. Margarets Bay, Nova Scotia ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com

Re: Worth upgrading Airport and Switch?

2012-11-18 Thread George N. White III
/macosx-talk -- George N. White III aa...@chebucto.ns.ca Head of St. Margarets Bay, Nova Scotia ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk

Snow Leopard DNS startup message DNS seems to be available

2012-05-29 Thread George N. White III
these messages? -- George N. White III aa...@chebucto.ns.ca Head of St. Margarets Bay, Nova Scotia ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk

Re: Web site availability

2011-09-13 Thread George N. White III
.wordpress.com/2011/03/14/small-shell-script-to-check-webserver-availability/ -- George N. White III aa...@chebucto.ns.ca Head of St. Margarets Bay, Nova Scotia ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman

Re: password management

2011-09-12 Thread George N. White III
before the screen saver kicks in, so the key is whether you have trained yourself well enough to follow the above advice while running for your life. Unless you suspect something you might not know your password had been stolen. -- George N. White III aa...@chebucto.ns.ca Head of St. Margarets

Re: The new Mac mini

2011-08-03 Thread George N. White III
the support headaches. It makes sense for Apple to drop branded products in favor of 3rd party commodity accessories. -- George N. White III aa...@chebucto.ns.ca Head of St. Margarets Bay, Nova Scotia ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com

Re: USB GPS dongle on OSX?

2011-05-26 Thread George N. White III
units are good for one and not the other. USB is problematic for time as the protocol has latency problems. GPS on ships has to deal with rapid changes in attitude, but slowly changing position. -- George N. White III aa...@chebucto.ns.ca Head of St. Margarets Bay, Nova Scotia

Re: Mounting drives at /

2011-05-13 Thread George N. White III
a union stack. Note that only the top layer is writable. -- George N. White III aa...@chebucto.ns.ca Head of St. Margarets Bay, Nova Scotia ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk

Re: OS X is ten years old today

2011-03-27 Thread George N. White III
a track record. -- George N. White III aa...@chebucto.ns.ca Head of St. Margarets Bay, Nova Scotia ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk

Re: Homebrew vs. MacPorts vs. Fink

2011-02-26 Thread George N. White III
or rsync. 2. 3rd party software. In my field (remote sensing), many 3rd party tools are built using libraries from macports, so changes are needed to use fink or homebrew when building such packages. -- George N. White III aa...@chebucto.ns.ca Head of St. Margarets Bay, Nova Scotia

Re: Homebrew vs. MacPorts vs. Fink

2011-02-26 Thread George N. White III
party dynamic libraries.In some cases it is easier to use libraries and headers from an existing application (e.g., by copying the compiler flags) than it is to generate portfile that works across a range of systems. -- George N. White III aa...@chebucto.ns.ca Head of St. Margarets Bay, Nova

Re: AppleCare Protection Plan (for iMac): Is it worth it?

2010-11-02 Thread George N. White III
supply. OTOH, a Mac Pro at work had a disk fail. AppleCare replaced with a disk that died almost immediately, then took 6 weeks to deliver the replacement for the replacement, so I ended up buying a retail disk to get the system back in service. -- George N. White III aa...@chebucto.ns.ca Head

Re: Troublesome 2TB drive

2010-09-13 Thread George N. White III
that is the problem. -- George N. White III aa...@chebucto.ns.ca Head of St. Margarets Bay, Nova Scotia ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk

Re: restore system ?

2010-08-28 Thread George N. White III
of the time, but the latest Java developer preview broke it and it won't launch :) Have you tried IBM Lotus Symphony beta 3? It is a fork of OOo with pretty major changes so will have a different set of bugs. -- George N. White III aa...@chebucto.ns.ca Head of St. Margarets Bay, Nova Scotia

Re: Internet Connect goes crazy

2010-04-14 Thread George N. White III
. -- George N. White III aa...@chebucto.ns.ca Head of St. Margarets Bay, Nova Scotia ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk

Re: Overtemp shutdown reset

2010-03-19 Thread George N. White III
.                            http://macsrwe.com ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk -- George N. White III aa...@chebucto.ns.ca Head of St. Margarets Bay, Nova Scotia

Re: First impression: Working with the new 27 iMac

2010-02-17 Thread George N. White III
On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 10:07 PM, Ashley Aitken mrhat...@mac.com wrote: On 17/02/2010, at 7:41 AM, George N. White III wrote: Separate components simplify problems of thermal management and allow you to replace just the part than broke.   ...  Screens and hard disks are generally the first

Re: GPS framework for OSX?

2010-02-12 Thread George N. White III
collection/storage for use with OpenDMTP. -- George N. White III aa...@chebucto.ns.ca Head of St. Margarets Bay, Nova Scotia ___ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk