A thread for boring computer questions.

The fstab file format is dead simple: one line per filesystem, with the following fields: device (or network share), mountpoint, filesystem type, options, dump number and fsck number. For network shares, set the last two to zero. All the listed filesystems will be mounted on boot, unless noauto is included in the options column. If you put user or users in the options column, non-root users will be able to mount that filesystem.

Any questions?

i really like the look of arial in cleartype. however, my monitor displays poorly with cleartype on. are there tt fonts that simulate the cleartype ones? i don't even know if that question makes sense. The cleartype arial looks close to the font used in ableton live, which i tried to identify - there are some fonts in the program folders with (i think) an .fon extension. i saw some font converters on the web, but they warned of quality loss so that doesn't seem like such a great idea.

where are the best places to browse fonts?

windows doesn't seem able to use any old font as a system font either. are there any ways to force other fonts into windows?

is that right? (this is all theoretical - i prob couldn't figure out what the hell was going on with a programming language, nor do i want to pay for it, nor is this important ;-)

Also, are there any webmail sites that can also check your webmail on another host? Like my mac.com email cant be accessed from all browsers for some reason

PS - I got my laptop to actually LOAD for the first time in MONTHS the other day. I "renamed" some "devices"!

OK I just changed lots of 1's and 0's about and did DEVICEHIGH stuff HOW MUCH DO YOU ALL PH333333R ME NOW?

No I had nothing better to do :(

I admit now it will load all I can do is play Dopewars.

Phil - there's a Google mirror somewhere where I expect you'll be able to search on http proxy or http tunnels - I've lost all my URLS. However the majority of them are blocked even in my dodgy local council so I expect CHINA will have them blocked as well. If you search ILX you should be able to pull it up. Oh I'm no help. If it's any consolation I'm blocked from practically everything here as well... try getting a Yahoo account - they've got a POP3 thing enabled but I doubt that helps you with yr webmail.

however, my monitor displays poorly with cleartype on.
I haven't seen a monitor yet where it actually improved things. All it's ever done for me is hurt my eyes squinting at the results.

my mum and dad have an imac, a g3 one (its about 3 yrs old), aqnd they want to back up all their docs etc, tyo install mac os 9. so they buy a cd writer, an iomega external one, one of those big purple things, and try and burn all their stuff onto cd. the software it comes with is called hotburn and is shit. it generally seems to be going ok, and in theory the disc has been burned, but then doesnt play in the internal cd drive. apparently those internal cd drives are pretty tempramental. so maybe it just doesnt like it. but i want to burn music onto cd. first i try to burn a copy of a cd ive already got, thru hotburn. again, the internal cd doesnt rtecognise the disc as having anything on it. but neither does any other hifi or anyhting we have. which it should, rihght? i mean, it should be able to be played as a cd. i def. burned it as a 'music cd'. so i found toast somewhere and tried tha. but that refused to recvognise the existence of the iomega writer.

even itunes doesnt seem to like the iomega thing. sure, its ugly, but whats with all the hate?

so, can anyone think why the cds we are burning are not being recoginsed by anything. there is stuff on them, because the cd writer recognises them and can play them, whther theyre data oir music, but not anything else.

whats the solution?

If your mac has firewire, take the iomega drive back to the shop and I'll lend you my yamaha drive.

I thin, ambrose your problem lies with the fact that the version of toast you have does not support the iomega drive and that later versions of toast need OS 9. You kind of have a circular problem, you might not be able to get this drive working at all.

Find out how much stuff is irreplaceable, stuffit into a .sit file and mail it or upload it somewhere.

will tell you how to swap it over

Cleartype is designed for TFT displays, using subpixel anti aliasing.

http://arstechnica.infopop.net/OpenTopic/page?a=tpc&s=50009562&f=67909965&m=2030990365&r=2610982565#2610982565

Try the cleartype adjuster in this thread.

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if they don't work go to http://www.cwonline.co.uk/ and search for tv tuner

What if I wanted to save money by just getting a video in without the tuner? And would the PC thing be possible in any way?

Chris, in theory yes, and I think its a doddle with XP.

Depends entirely upon the software controllers on the Windows side of things. It's all 802.11b, so there's no technical reason why you couldn't. I imagine a Windows-user here will have more to say.

(I've used a couple of other places too but now they're either a lot more expensive than Scan or don't stock the brands/models I was hoping for. Maybe I have to choose between good returns policy, competitive pricing and wide stock with good availability. But in the meantime, I'd be very grateful for any recommendations. Thanks!)

http://www.dabs.com

Also, does PySoulSeek work?

Also, it says I need to right click and save on Gabba.net butbutbut Mac mice only have ONE BUTTON (WTF?!) how do I download the shizzing new Dizzy Rascal track from Gabba?

pYSoulSeek is apparently a bit tricky and Graham reported than it had stopped working for him entirely.

To right click on a Mac, sometimes holding it down longer works (always a bit confused by this) but if that fails then Ctrl+click will do it.

Ctrl+click works but I don't know how to download tracks from Gabba. It just ended up downloading some weird .asp file.

Ed, wake up.

First install the dev tools cd that came with your mac, get any updates from http://www.apple.com/developer

You need to get apple X11, and the X11 SDK availible from http://www.apple.com/macisx/x11

then you need to get fink from http://fink.sourceforge.net and install as instructed.

then you need to install the pysoulseek package in fink from the unstable tree

Launch the fink commander app and choose preferences fron the Fink Commander menu, check use unstable. Then from the commands menu choose selfupdate-cvs. Then choose update-all from the commands menu. Then select the pysoulseek package from the packages list and choose the Install command. Say yes to installing any other packages it may require, this may take a while.

Then open up the X11 application choose terminal from the application menu type in pysoulseek and press return, if that doesn't work type

cd /sw/src/pysl.......... the dots indicate the name of the pyslsk directory you can just type in pysls after the src and press tab, it will complete the name

in that folder type

python2.3 ./pyslsk

and press return

Unfortunately, since the death of Audiogalaxy, there has been no Mac client that's great for obscurer stuff. Nothing as good as SoulSeek, anyway. It's the worst thing about Macs.

Right, I figured out how to download off Gabba but now I've lost the the "this is downloading; this is how much is downloaded thus far" box. Grr.

Unfortunately using pysoulseek means you have to leave the pretty and set of to the ugly dark side of OS X's unix core

iSwipe is about to introduce OpenFT support for non-registered users. Does anyone know about OpenFT - would it be really great if everyone used it? It seems to be in very early stages of development and thus generally requires the kind of tomfoolery Ed details above to get it up and running.