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My msn messenger has stopped working & I have no idea why. Even my sysadmin guy cant figure it out. I have re-installed it, but still it says that either my username or password is wrong & or that messenger is not working, when I know that both are correct & it's running fine! most annoying!

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Tuesday, 20 January 2004 09:04 (twenty years ago) link

is it possible to customise the Find (Windows key+F) facility on Windows XP so the Browse does not appear right down the bottom under all of the network drives? Coz it strikes me as the daftest place for it to be - contrast it to its NT equivalent where there is actually a Browse button.

― MarkH (MarkH), Tuesday, 20 January 2004 09:10 (twenty years ago) link

Casuistry I'm almost positive you're using the wrong developer tools for 10.3.2. Make sure you're using the Xcode CD that came with Panther as that has the latest version of GCC and the X11 SDK that you need.

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Tuesday, 20 January 2004 09:17 (twenty years ago) link

I will try reinstalling the development tools off the Xcode disc. There might be things lingering on the computer from 10.2 screwing with things, I don't know. Is there any diagnostic I can do to see if something isn't installed properly?

― Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 20 January 2004 16:15 (twenty years ago) link

Hoho! gcc not working! Packages all over the place! That sounds somewhat familiar! At least debian has an excuse for this, come on sort it out apple!

I still haven't had a chance to try Andy's mame roms cd so cannot report back on further xmame "fun" :)

― Sarah (starry), Tuesday, 20 January 2004 16:25 (twenty years ago) link

funny you should mention it, but fink is debian's package management system ported to OS X.

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 20 January 2004 16:29 (twenty years ago) link

Oh dear :) I did note dpkg above :) *giggle*

Starting off with dpkg not even installed isn't good, although I must say I prefer apt-get if I know exactly where the package I want is.

― Sarah (starry), Tuesday, 20 January 2004 16:35 (twenty years ago) link

it was an upgrade to dpkg that went skrewy

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 20 January 2004 16:36 (twenty years ago) link

I thought you people who pay for operating systems shouldn't have to do this kind of thing :)

― Sarah (starry), Tuesday, 20 January 2004 16:42 (twenty years ago) link

We only do it when we're looking to not pay for OTHER things.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 20 January 2004 16:52 (twenty years ago) link

hi,

I have my laptop hard drive [w/ corrupted OS on] connected as the secondary master on my flatmate's PC. it picks it up in the BIOS and recognises its size, etc., but how on earth do I get it to, like, have an icon in 'My Computer'? it seems like it should appear automatically. the device manager says there's a prob with the secondary IDE controller but I don't know what to do about a prob w/o explanation and googling anything about it seems impossible as there are so many pages about so many ways of installing so many IDE devices.

: (

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 20 January 2004 20:28 (twenty years ago) link

did you set the jumpers on the secondary drive to 'slave'. This could be the problem if you didn't.

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 20 January 2004 20:31 (twenty years ago) link

since I am connecting it to the secondary IDE port [where the CD-ROM drive is usually connected] if I set it to slave then it appears, in the BIOS, as secondary slave, w/o a secondary master, and nothing appears, for me, in 'My Computer'. I thought about getting a male-female connecter so that I could connect it as a primary slave but would this make much of a diff?

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 20 January 2004 20:35 (twenty years ago) link

if it's on the secondary bus with 'no CD-ROM' then it should be a master not a slave. Each bus needs a master before it's gets a slave.

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 20 January 2004 20:37 (twenty years ago) link

yep, that's what I thought. so, it is a secondary master but not so that I can see it. it kind of wants a 'hard disk controller' [like a driver for it, I guess], in the device manager, but uhhhh?

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 20 January 2004 20:38 (twenty years ago) link

could it be something to do w/ my drive being NTFS and Windows 98 [on the desktop] being FAT32 [probably]?

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 20 January 2004 20:43 (twenty years ago) link

very probably. Have you tried using a linux rescue disk to repair the drive?

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 20 January 2004 21:16 (twenty years ago) link

http://www.bitdefender.com/bd/site/presscenter.php?menu_id=25&n_id=58
http://www.tux.org/pub/people/kent-robotti/looplinux/rip/

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 20 January 2004 21:19 (twenty years ago) link

When I get home, I will come back to this thread with all-new fink/nicotine-related problems! See you all later!

― the icebox (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 20 January 2004 21:26 (twenty years ago) link

that bit defender looks good, Ed, but, everytime I try to download it, it fucks my modem and I have to reset the computer. even if it didn't, it would take, like, 8 hours to download it.

: (

thanks anyway.

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 20 January 2004 21:56 (twenty years ago) link

recovery is possible has floppy sized images

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 20 January 2004 21:56 (twenty years ago) link

oh no, not you too adam!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 21 January 2004 00:59 (twenty years ago) link

How do I turn on my firewall? What are SOCKS?

― Mary (Mary), Wednesday, 21 January 2004 01:43 (twenty years ago) link

oh no, not you too adam!

Yes, my apologies, friends. I'll cut to the quick - finally downloaded and installed everything, I'm in x11 but nicotine won't connect to the server. I'm almost there! Just give me a little push over the finish line! Could it be that the server is just down? I'm fairly new to slsk so maybe this is the case.

― the Eskibox (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 21 January 2004 02:17 (twenty years ago) link

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

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

yes

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

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

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

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 years ago) link

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 years ago) link

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 years ago) link

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

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

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 years ago) link

yay!

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

what's your nick? nordicskillz?

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

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

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

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 years ago) link

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 years ago) link

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 years ago) link

(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 years ago) link

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 years ago) link

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

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

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 years ago) link

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 years ago) link

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

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

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 years ago) link

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

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

Well, ain't you the gentleman.

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

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 years ago) link

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

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

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 years ago) link

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