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hmm, seems online to me! did you pick a username/pass?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 21 January 2004 02:18 (twenty-one years ago)

yes

― the Eskibox (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 21 January 2004 02:20 (twenty-one years ago)

I am Nordicskillz. who else is gonna use a dumb name like that?

― the Eskibox (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 21 January 2004 02:21 (twenty-one years ago)

Separate question - how much memory (percentage-wise) should one leave free in order to prevent computer messing up? I have too many apps on here I think, and now Tracer's hoonja doonja thread makes me want even more.

― the Eskibox (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 21 January 2004 02:24 (twenty-one years ago)

this I don't know! but try a different username maybe.

and are you connecting to server.slsknet.org:2240 ?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 21 January 2004 02:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Yes. X11 is telling me this when I run nicotine, what does it all mean?:

"Nicotine supports "psyco", an inline optimizer for python
code, you can get it at http://sourceforge.net/projects/psyco/
Cannot set locale
You do not have Python Vorbis bindings installed.
Others will not be able to see the lengths and the bitrates
of Ogg Vorbis files that you share. You can get the from
http://www.andrewchatham.com/pyogg/.
If you're using Debian, install the python-pyvorbis package.

Nicotine supports a country code blocker but that
requires a (GPL'ed) library called GeoIP. You can find it here:
C library: http://www.maxmind.com/app/c
Python bindings: http://www.maxmind.com/app/python
(the python bindings require the C library)"

― the Eskibox (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 21 January 2004 02:31 (twenty-one years ago)

that shouldn't bother you, I got that too, it's like options and stuff.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 21 January 2004 02:32 (twenty-one years ago)

Oops, you were right. I was using the wrong server address...

STILL...I'm up, baby! No looking back!

― the Eskibox (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 21 January 2004 03:31 (twenty-one years ago)

yay!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 21 January 2004 03:34 (twenty-one years ago)

what's your nick? nordicskillz?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 21 January 2004 03:34 (twenty-one years ago)

nordicskilla now . come and tell me how this thing works!

― the Eskibox (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 21 January 2004 03:36 (twenty-one years ago)

the main thing to remember with nicotine is that you need to Apple key and click to bring up the contextual menus

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 21 January 2004 06:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Mary, you turn on your firewall through the sharing system preference pane in OS X. You shouldn't need to worry about SOCKS unless you use a proxy server.

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 21 January 2004 06:59 (twenty-one years ago)

I solved my cable problem: My TV is now directly by my bed in a Japanese business hotel-stylee. The cables I just shoved behind my dresser. Bnw forget to bring OSX last night but maybe he will remember today. It's nice to have a non-crashing-all-the-time computer now.

― Mary (Mary), Wednesday, 21 January 2004 13:29 (twenty-one years ago)

(Also: I have a backlog of Cutie magazines that I really should stop holding on to.

― Mary (Mary), Wednesday, 21 January 2004 13:37 (twenty-one years ago)

I went and reinstalled the dev tools and then actually managed to install the damn thing smoothly and cleanly! Hurrah!

Now I need to figure out what now. Thanks, all.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 21 January 2004 16:22 (twenty-one years ago)

I had to install dev tools twice when I upgraded to panther. Little glitches.

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 21 January 2004 21:01 (twenty-one years ago)

panther roxx!! i can't tell the difference!! cept exposé obv! do i look like a feeb yet?!!!1

― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 21 January 2004 21:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Brushed metal Finder! In better news, it doesn't explode if you change networks without disconnecting all the servers you're hooked up to, hurrah!

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 21 January 2004 21:10 (twenty-one years ago)

haha 'brushed metal finder' isn't a new feature! bloody mac owners.

― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 21 January 2004 21:19 (twenty-one years ago)

No, it's a virus. Anyway it's more than just brushed metal, it's redesigned.

Hey, OK, now I'm on slsk and my life would be complete EXCEPT I can't seem to browse certain people and they can't browse me. What's up with that?

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 22 January 2004 00:09 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't think I am happy with the idea of browsing people.

― N. (nickdastoor), Thursday, 22 January 2004 00:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Well, ain't you the gentleman.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 22 January 2004 00:12 (twenty-one years ago)

I picked out my external cdr drive today -- Lacie firewire only. Then I needed a firewire card. At the Apple store they had a firewire pc card with 3 firewire slots, but it was for Windows. I asked a genius and was told it might work for Mac, tho a non-genius told me I should go to Comp Usa and get a card for Mac.

Question: (I have USB 1.0) When I get this PC card, should I get it for firewire only? They also have one's for USB 2.0 and firewire together. Can you envision any circumstance in which I will need to use USB 2.0? Or shall firewire suffice? Also, how many ports do I need?

God, the Soho Apple store at 6 o'clock in evening is a frightening place. The lecture on image ready was overflowing, the sales clerks were either military men or surfers, and customer desperation was at a fever-pitch.

― Mary (Mary), Thursday, 22 January 2004 00:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Also is there any way to convert WMA files to MP3s?

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 22 January 2004 01:19 (twenty-one years ago)

ok here's a dumb computer question, maybe ed knows the answer:

when I empty the trash, I often find that the finder shows that I have LESS space left on my hd, rather than more! why the heck is this?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Saturday, 24 January 2004 20:09 (twenty-one years ago)

by the way, who are you on slsk casuistry? I will add you to my very special list!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Saturday, 24 January 2004 20:10 (twenty-one years ago)

TV card question: I've had an ATI TV Wonder installed on my mobo for a while, but the durned thing isn't showing up in device manager -- and now I've read that in order to use the ATI Multimedia Center software, I need to have an ATI graphics card installed (I'm using an NVidia card instead). The site sez, "An ATI graphics card must be installed as the primary display adapter under Windows. This does not pertain to the ATI TV Wonder™"

I went so far as to install the MMC program anyway to see if ATI is kidding about the graphics card requirement, but it seems to quit on me w/o so much as an error message. Is the lack of the ATI graphics card at the root of this problem?

― Leee Majors (Leee), Saturday, 24 January 2004 20:21 (twenty-one years ago)

mary, any cardbus card will work.

slocki, Mac OS X takes a very relaxed attitude to polling. Polling is when the system ask the drive what's going on, it uses system resources. OS X only polls when is absolutely necessary. So your hard drive space display will only be updated when you do something like empty the trash of get info on drive. OS X also gobbles up hd space at a fair old whack for its own nefarious purposes so when the drive space display updates it takes into account what OS X has taken as well as what you have deleted.

― Ed (dali), Saturday, 24 January 2004 21:00 (twenty-one years ago)

ahh, of course, thanks ed.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Saturday, 24 January 2004 21:02 (twenty-one years ago)

I am "cafard".

― Casuistry (Chris P), Saturday, 24 January 2004 21:55 (twenty-one years ago)

I mentioned this on another thread, but I have problems with avi files. Basically, my Mac hates them. Quicktime doesn't play them (I have 6/Pro), am I missing a codec or something? I also want to convert them to mov/mpeg files so that I can burn CDs and watch on my DVD player, which has mpeg playback (maybe mov too but I've never tried). I have Avi2Mov for this purpose which CAN work though most avi files seem to playback with sound only and the conversion outputs mov files which do the same thing.

I hope some of that was clear.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Sunday, 25 January 2004 00:46 (twenty-one years ago)

my computer hates them too! why?!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Sunday, 25 January 2004 00:47 (twenty-one years ago)

try VLC, i had it on my comp already so maybe it comes w. the machines.

― cozen (Cozen), Sunday, 25 January 2004 00:52 (twenty-one years ago)

for playing .AVIs that is. (it even plays divx too = my collection of the entire seinfeld repertoire).

― cozen (Cozen), Sunday, 25 January 2004 00:53 (twenty-one years ago)

how do you use iDisk? do you have to pay for it?

― cozen (Cozen), Sunday, 25 January 2004 00:58 (twenty-one years ago)

I think iDisk is about $100 a year. Lyra recommended it on another thread. It seems like a pretty good deal.

Should I turn on my firewall? If yes: Should I leave any ports open? If yes: which ones?

― Mary (Mary), Sunday, 25 January 2004 01:13 (twenty-one years ago)

Did you try mPlayer, nordic?

― Ed (dali), Sunday, 25 January 2004 06:39 (twenty-one years ago)

iDisk is part of .Mac, and I recommend it as a nice way to back up stuff. :-) Also, you can put up webpages at http://homepage.mac.com/yourusername. iPhoto will make nice little auto-generated slideshows with thumbnails & everything for you to post up there...so far I've used it to post vacation photos that I'm too lazy to hand html-code & put up on my main webpage.

Anyway. If you have .Mac, you can use "Backup" on your computer & tell it to copy out the files that you want saved to the iDisk once a week or so... I just back up my Documents folder & my email once a week so that when my disk dies a horrible death I won't lose too much.

And I had my first ever visit to an Apple store today; my ibook's power charger conked out & I got to go spend $75 on a new one. I have Applecare, so now I'm wondering if perhaps a new charger might have been covered under that, though...

― lyra (lyra), Sunday, 25 January 2004 07:26 (twenty-one years ago)

lyra, probably. i hope you didn't spend money on another apple one.

― Ed (dali), Sunday, 25 January 2004 08:22 (twenty-one years ago)

ed, in versiontracker's OSX section, both mplayer and mplayerOSX are offered--do you have a preference? is there one in particular you are talking about?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Sunday, 25 January 2004 17:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Mplayer works great for playing (thanks ed, btw), but does it convert?

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Sunday, 25 January 2004 17:06 (twenty-one years ago)

mplayer's goyish?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Sunday, 25 January 2004 17:08 (twenty-one years ago)

mplayer os x

― Ed (dali), Sunday, 25 January 2004 18:27 (twenty-one years ago)

sorry to keep bugging you with questions, ed, but do you mean this:

http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/16623

or this:

http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/14851

― s1ocki (slutsky), Sunday, 25 January 2004 20:10 (twenty-one years ago)

top one, i.e. this http://mplayerosx.sourceforge.net/

― Ed (dali), Sunday, 25 January 2004 21:02 (twenty-one years ago)

thanks ed!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Sunday, 25 January 2004 21:11 (twenty-one years ago)

it turns out that the prob w/ my laptop's hard drive is probably mechanical.

I will hold on to it--perhaps, in a few years, I will win the lottery or be rich of my own accord and I be able to get my photos back.

― RJG (RJG), Sunday, 25 January 2004 21:14 (twenty-one years ago)

Does no one know a thing about my TV card issues?

― Leee Majors (Leee), Monday, 26 January 2004 00:43 (twenty-one years ago)

anyone know why i try to open a wmv file in netscape i get a page with a bunch of crap on it.

and why can't i login to sites that require logins like ilx with explorer on an xp system.

― Chris V (Chris V), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 20:13 (twenty-one years ago)

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