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Quote: Originally Posted by rob_06 Do you have any third party system add-ons? not sure what you mean by this Quote: Originally Posted by rob_06 Once started does it affect any apps in any way? the only thing i have noticed, other tha…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Mr. H Find your install disk that came with the computer, stick it in the DVD drive, restart and hold down the "D" key. This will boot you into the hardware test. Run the full suite (will take a good while) and report …
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hey marvin you're a star. this script does exactly what i want it to do, and so far is working without any problems. thanks so much, you have really improved my workflow!! nick
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hey marvin thanks a lot for the command. how would i use this in a folder action? do i have to put it in a script? sorry for being a bit thick in this regard nick
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ok, so i have separated the wireless-n from the wireless-g by buying a draytek vigor 120 modem to use with my Time Capsule, for a purely wireless-n network for the Macs which is working well, and by attaching my netgear wireless-g router to the TC i…
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everything is working well with the Draytek 120. Thanks for the advice. nick
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Quote: Originally Posted by Carniphage Hi Nick, This is a newer version of the modem I use with my Airport Extreme. As far as I can tell, it is unique in having an internal PPPoA to PPPoE bridge. http://www.draytek.co.uk/products/vigor120.…
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thanks carniphage i just thought of using the wireless on the netgear router and indeed can access the internet on my iPhone and use it as a remote to control my Mac Pro on the wireless-n network. the trouble I am having is that the wireless s…
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thanks. so, if i connect an old wireless g router to the main base station then it will still be linked to the local network, i.e. i will be able to use my iPhone (connected to the g network) as a remote to control my Mac Pro (connected to the n ne…
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putting this one line before the script worked: tell application "System Events" to if not (process "iTunes" exists) then return
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Quote: Originally Posted by aresee This is probably the problem. I do not know how standard wireless network extension is. But I would expect it, or Apples' implementation, is not very standard. You might get better results if you had your TC be …
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it may be that the airport card has gone bad, but i want to eliminate other possibilities before buying a new card. i have checked the connections to the card in the mac pro, wire 2 going to the first terminal, wire 3 to the second terminal and n…
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Quote: Originally Posted by lenny What mac are you using when you try to delete that sparse bundle? i have tried deleting the sparse bundle from both the mac pro and the macbook air
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i now think this issue is related to the recent leopard graphics update as per this article: http://www.macfixit.com/article.php?...80218135820123 i still haven't managed to resolve the issue. i am unable to perform an archive and install as …
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i don't have an old pc/mac lying around. would i get the same speeds plugging an ethernet drive such as the LaCie 1.5TB Ethernet Big Disk Hard Drive into the airport base station? and if so, what sort of speeds can i expect? thanks
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Quote: Originally Posted by Carniphage The limiting factor is not the USB port or the Wireless network. It's the feeble processor in the Airport Extreme base station. You can make it's life easier by formatting the drive as HFS. You might be ab…
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thanks it is a USB 2.0 drive. I have tried copying using a Gigabit ethernet cable as well and get around 6MB per second which is still slow for Gigabit. Is the only way to get fast speeds for backups to get an ethernet capable drive or NAS? ho…
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thanks okay, now i need to know what a gigabit wire network is, is this a normal ethernet network with 100Mbps? say i connect to a NAS such as the Lacie NAS with an ethernet connection. would i just connect this to my router via ethernet and it…
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thanks for the advice, i don't know what multi-forked file storage means, so i don't know if i need it. specifically i want to have 1.5TB of storage (ideally 2 x 750GB) on my network, which will probably be wireless. Drive A will be for bac…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Dogcow Check out iVisualize it has many plugins that do what you want. If you want to learn Quartz Composer you can edit them or make your own. http://web.mac.com/vogelbusch/iWeb/Site/iVisualize.html Doesn't iT…