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(Thanks Ed. It does seem to be a PuTTY prob. If anyone knows of a GUIish SFTP that can handle SSH well, I'd appreciate it. I've found a few that look like they might fit the bill but they're expensive. I haven't looked around too thoroughly yet though.)

― JuliaA (j_bdules), Wednesday, 14 January 2004 19:41 (twenty-one years ago)

How would I be able to scan a whole painting, say one that is 22 by 18 inches? Obviously, it won't all fit in an A-4 scanner. Is there some kind of hi-tech industrial scanning machine, or is a digital camera the answer?

― jel -- (jel), Wednesday, 14 January 2004 19:41 (twenty-one years ago)

how FAR shall i hurl the phone?

― Orbit (Orbit), Wednesday, 14 January 2004 19:43 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't know the Bluetooth client on the Mac, but do you have to set the Mac to be discoverable too? (Or have you already done that?)

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Wednesday, 14 January 2004 19:59 (twenty-one years ago)

(See this is why I'm not a big fan of Bluetooth, really, though this keyboard I'm using is pretty cool.)

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Wednesday, 14 January 2004 19:59 (twenty-one years ago)

iSync scans for a device and says "no device found".
Perhaps I should *crush* the phone instead.

― Orbit (Orbit), Wednesday, 14 January 2004 20:07 (twenty-one years ago)

i know of one person who told me how to fix this once before--but i forgot how. it was something very simple.

i am staring at the phone as if it is a turd in the zen rock garden of computing.

― Orbit (Orbit), Wednesday, 14 January 2004 20:15 (twenty-one years ago)

first of all do you have a bluetooth preference pane in system preferences?

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 14 January 2004 20:58 (twenty-one years ago)

That was the key. I didn't. I downloaded, installed and restarted using the latest Apple Bluetooth. Finally I got a Bluetooth icon in the preferences pane. Then I enabled it, and paired the devices.

Some mysteries remain:
It had me enter a passcode for the phone and computer and when it did this the first time it said I wouldnn't have to remember it, that it need only be entered once. However everytime I sync, both the computer and the phone ask for the passcode. A minor thing, but puzzling.

I successfully synced with iCal, to the phone, Fabulous!

New problem:
For some reason, even though I tell iSync to update all contacts, it doesn't. Now I am stuck with how to get iSync to grad all my contacts from the Address Book.

Thanks for listening to me scream :-)

― Orbit (Orbit), Wednesday, 14 January 2004 22:17 (twenty-one years ago)

Julia, you could try using Mindterm.

― bert (bert), Wednesday, 14 January 2004 22:23 (twenty-one years ago)

(thanks bnw a kind a accomplice has offered me 9 + 10 + jaguar + panther but i must first wait for my new memory to come in.)

― Mary (Mary), Wednesday, 14 January 2004 22:52 (twenty-one years ago)

stry looking at the pref's in address book and iSync, there are some governing syncing. I haven't got my computer with me soI can't tell you off the top of my head.

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 14 January 2004 22:56 (twenty-one years ago)

I cannot pierce the proxy

― Ed (dali), Thursday, 15 January 2004 00:42 (twenty-one years ago)

That sounds almost Shakespearean.

― N. (nickdastoor), Thursday, 15 January 2004 00:51 (twenty-one years ago)

I have punctured, tunneled and pierced

― Ed (dali), Thursday, 15 January 2004 01:36 (twenty-one years ago)

In the past few days every time I open Google another search engine opens as well. It is not a "pop-up" so my pop-up thing (from Panicware) doesn't prevent it. It is this website: "search-company.com"

How the hell do I get rid of these parasites as my Explorer has to close and I lose the stuff I'm writing regularly when it appears?

Any ideas, anyone?

― C J (C J), Saturday, 17 January 2004 19:37 (twenty-one years ago)

tried ad-aware?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Saturday, 17 January 2004 19:52 (twenty-one years ago)

try ad-aware for starters

http://www.lavasoftusa.com/

xpost

― Ed (dali), Saturday, 17 January 2004 19:53 (twenty-one years ago)

CJ - if you do a google search on "search-company.com" (maybe in conjunction with 'spyware') you'll find plenty of advice on getting rid of it.

― N. (nickdastoor), Saturday, 17 January 2004 19:57 (twenty-one years ago)

I now have a total of 320 RAM. After I get OS X and broadband, will I need firewall, or does it come included? Can I download it free anywhere? (Is it fairly safe to go without virus protection for the Mac, like the computer dude told me today?)

― Mary (Mary), Saturday, 17 January 2004 20:28 (twenty-one years ago)

OSX has a built in firewall, it is simple and easy to turn on.

― Ed (dali), Saturday, 17 January 2004 21:15 (twenty-one years ago)

If NYU doesn't offer you free or heavily discounted virus software, I'll eat your hat.

― Ed (dali), Saturday, 17 January 2004 21:17 (twenty-one years ago)

They said they would give it (virus software) to me for free, but that I didn't need it. Stingy bastards don't like to part with anything. Here is the Kangol.

― Mary (Mary), Sunday, 18 January 2004 03:50 (twenty-one years ago)

macs are pretty virus free

― Ed (dali), Sunday, 18 January 2004 04:36 (twenty-one years ago)

aren't there NO known OSX viruses? (yet?)

― s1ocki (slutsky), Sunday, 18 January 2004 17:28 (twenty-one years ago)

that would be weird since there must be a fair number of UNIX viruses

― anthony kyle monday (akmonday), Sunday, 18 January 2004 17:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Btw, you can 'stop' iTunes by hitting command - .

― Sean (Sean), Monday, 19 January 2004 06:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Hey, I have a question! I run Windows XP, and my harddrive space has been getting pretty low. I had like about 1.2 GB left the other day, and then a few hours later I checked and I had 3.5 GB left! Uh oh. I don't remember deleting anything; certainly not something over a Gig in size. I want to know if there might be any sort of cache or something in windows that could reach a very large size. I remember once I turned off some sort of hidden folders option and found this folder with tons of stuff in it that I thought I had long-since thrown away, but I forgot how to find that folder again. Does anyone know what I'm talking about? :)

― Dan I. (Dan I.), Monday, 19 January 2004 07:48 (twenty-one years ago)

OK I have 9 now -- I will have to get 10 from another benefactor. How do I install? Just insert and follow the directions?

― Mary (Mary), Monday, 19 January 2004 08:24 (twenty-one years ago)

Yes. Dialog boxes will walk you through everything.

― Sean (Sean), Monday, 19 January 2004 09:44 (twenty-one years ago)

I have tried and tried and tried, under Jaguar and now under Panther, to install Soulseek. I install fink, and then "fink selfupdate", and it craps out. Here's the end of the transcript:

main.c: At top level:
main.c:351: warning: `okpassshortopts' defined but not used
make[2]: *** [main.o] Error 1
make[1]: *** [all-main] Error 2
make: *** [all-recursive] Error 2
### execution of failed, exit code 2
Failed: compiling dpkg-1.10.9-200 failed

Any idea what is going wrong or how I can fix it? I have deleted and reinstalled /sw several times now. Or can I just copy /sw from someone else who has it working?

― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 19 January 2004 21:14 (twenty-one years ago)

weird. you did all the other proper steps, right?

did you try poking around the slsk boards to see if anyone else had the same problem?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 19 January 2004 21:20 (twenty-one years ago)

Dan, that's is swap files being deleted when no longer needed. Modern OSs like to keep a lot of HD space as 'virtual' memory.

Causistry, I'm working on yours.

― Ed (dali), Monday, 19 January 2004 21:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Causistry,

Try running

sudo apt-get update

then sudo apt-get upgrade

then sudo fink selfupdate-rsync

― Ed (dali), Monday, 19 January 2004 21:47 (twenty-one years ago)

I poked around the fink website, since it seemed like a problem with fink (I have tried to install nicotine after failing to update fink, but unsurprisingly it has failed).

Ed, thanks! I'll give it a whirl.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 19 January 2004 21:47 (twenty-one years ago)

best place for help with fink is

http://forums.macosxhints.com/

― Ed (dali), Monday, 19 January 2004 21:56 (twenty-one years ago)

OK, well, that didn't seem to help.

"sudo apt-get update" transcript ended with this:

Failed to fetch file:/sw/fink/dists/local/main/binary-darwin-powerpc/Packages File not found
Failed to fetch file:/sw/fink/dists/stable/main/binary-darwin-powerpc/Packages File not found
Failed to fetch file:/sw/fink/dists/stable/crypto/binary-darwin-powerpc/Packages File not found
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
E: Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored, or old ones used instead.

I wasn't sure whether this was an error I should worry about or not, so I continued on with the other steps, but the fink selfupdate ended the same way it had before.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 19 January 2004 22:18 (twenty-one years ago)

hmm

try sudo fink index

― Ed (dali), Monday, 19 January 2004 22:22 (twenty-one years ago)

OK. Then what?

― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 19 January 2004 22:23 (twenty-one years ago)

then the three commands I said above

― Ed (dali), Monday, 19 January 2004 22:24 (twenty-one years ago)

% sudo apt-get update

Err file: local/main Packages
File not found
Ign file: local/main Release
Err file: stable/main Packages
File not found
Ign file: stable/main Release
Err file: stable/crypto Packages
File not found
Ign file: stable/crypto Release
Hit http://us.dl.sourceforge.net 10.3/release/main Packages
Hit http://us.dl.sourceforge.net 10.3/release/main Release
Hit http://us.dl.sourceforge.net 10.3/release/crypto Packages
Hit http://us.dl.sourceforge.net 10.3/release/crypto Release
Hit http://us.dl.sourceforge.net 10.3/current/main Packages
Hit http://us.dl.sourceforge.net 10.3/current/main Release
Hit http://us.dl.sourceforge.net 10.3/current/crypto Packages
Hit http://us.dl.sourceforge.net 10.3/current/crypto Release
Failed to fetch file:/sw/fink/dists/local/main/binary-darwin-powerpc/Packages File not found
Failed to fetch file:/sw/fink/dists/stable/main/binary-darwin-powerpc/Packages File not found
Failed to fetch file:/sw/fink/dists/stable/crypto/binary-darwin-powerpc/Packages File not found
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
E: Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored, or old ones used instead.

(Same as before.)

― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 19 January 2004 22:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Thanks for running a "reasons to avoid Macs" clinic for us, guys!

― Bryan (Bryan), Monday, 19 January 2004 22:32 (twenty-one years ago)

have you installed anything so far? or just fink?

if just fink try sudo apt-get upgrade

― Ed (dali), Monday, 19 January 2004 22:33 (twenty-one years ago)

i'm having trouble inserting pix

― johnny fitz (johnny fitz), Monday, 19 January 2004 22:34 (twenty-one years ago)

reason's to avoid linux more like.

― Ed (dali), Monday, 19 January 2004 22:39 (twenty-one years ago)

Perhaps. Ok, thanks for running a "reasons to avoid computers entirely" clinic, guys! Better? ;-)

― Bryan (Bryan), Monday, 19 January 2004 22:41 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, this is a fairly wonky thing I'm trying to do, and apparently I've having a fairly wonky problem.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 19 January 2004 22:53 (twenty-one years ago)

ed, thanks for that, because that seems to have worked for me (the fink upgrade)!

― anthony kyle monday (akmonday), Monday, 19 January 2004 22:55 (twenty-one years ago)

best of luck, casuistry--I installed nicotine on my powerbook last week and man, oh man.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 19 January 2004 22:56 (twenty-one years ago)

sudo apt-get upgrade
Password:
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 19 January 2004 22:59 (twenty-one years ago)

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