A thread for boring computer questions.

What is the difference in speed between the two?

A little backstory-I currently have my Powerbook anchored to cable modem in the corner of my house, but considering long-term costs I am thinking of getting Airport (our only phone jack is in the kitchen) and switching to DSL. I just worry about everything slowing down.

http://images.apple.com/airportexpress/images/index_speed12162002.gif

http://images.apple.com/airportexpress/images/index_speed12162002.gif

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try HERE maybe you can find out what kind of speed difference to expect for the privilege of saving a paltry $40 a month

I've actually got a Linksys that I'm about to hook up in a week or two, to a home network of two (2) macs. Do I actually need to mess about with MAC spoofing? I actually have zero idea abbout setting it up, all I know is that I can point my browser to the router's address and there's some web-based admin form.

type: telnet hostname/IP

Ken L: yeah but you can also just go to your web broswer and type in telnet://your.address.here and it'll work too, launch the program for you if you don't want to remember to find terminal.

A) If you are doing the MAC cloning you have to have your computer physically linked to the router, do not do it over wireless.

B) If you are updating the software for the hardware you also cannot do this over wireless.

C) You cannot do B anyway using a Mac.

Not paying attention to these three steps will result in your router being completely fried. The upshot is that they send you a replacement immediately, for free, because their website DOES NOT TELL YOU THAT YOU CANNOT UPDATE SOFTWARE USING A MAC.

Or you could just use encryption and/or limit access to known MAC addresses like everyone else does.

The I386 folder most likely, because it's not guaranteed; it's just a name, but almost certainly contains the installation files for Windows. This is not the same as the windows installation itself, which will be in c:\windows\ or c:\winnt most likely. I take it you bought your PC with Windows pre-installed by a vendor such as Dell?

What it does is if you want to install some new feature of Windows that are not installed by default, it can install it from the I386 directory rather than from the Windows CD. Assuming you have a Windows CD (and a CD player), then that will suffice and you don't really need the I386 directory.

Alternatively, if you're worried about it, you could try compressing the I386 directory (right click, properties, advanced, compress files...)

I got a plotter, today, for free.

problem is, I think, the plotter's driver doesn't work with anything beyond windows 98 and I have XP.

is there a way of running a copy of 98 from inside XP?? or something??

what else could I do?

I looked online (a bit) and was told it wouldn't work.

I think I may have found a driver that will work.

how boring!!

If you can find a driver for say NT4, then there's a possibility, but even at that it's probably likely to fail.

Have fun anyway.

A "plotter" you say! Do they still exist! You'll be coming home with a drum printer and a wireless next.

I think I have found an NT-based driver that, apparently, "works very well with XP".

since I dropped & broke my external hard drive, on sunday, I have no copy of autoCAD to give it a whirl with, though!!

ta!

Either that or everyone on slsk has become a total asshole and stopped sharing, and no one is interested in my files either. The first option seems totally sensible to me, knowing people, but the second seems strange especially considering the new albums I just added.

http://chris.schleifer.net/ssX/

so much better than nicotine, or the win client

-- fe zaffe (fezaff...) (webmail), March 28th, 2005 10:31 AM. (fezaffe) (link)

Seems like I'm getting better search results than ever. Maybe it's just time to get off Nicotine.

Basically in either program (I dl'd ssX) I'm getting search results (slowly) but they're all greyed out and can't download. Now, I actually pay the $5 a month for slsk so this shouldn't be happening; I haven't used slsk in a while though, not heavily at least. But previously, like say 3 months ago when I last used it for several searches, virtually everything showed up as dl-able to me. Did they change the policy, like you don't skip the queue anymore? Am I doing something wrong, like should I be changing my settings, upping the speed limits or something?

OTOH like I said no one is dl'ing off of me either which is really unusual and is leading me to believe the problem is on my end.

The FAQ says something about ports needing to be opened--now I haven't changed anything with my hardware or software that I am aware of (which is why a port problem seems weird to me--it worked three months ago just fine) and have no idea how to check and see if these ports are open??

the Network Utility under Apps -> Utilities can also help you figure out which connections on what ports are working and what else is going on.

also i don't see the ports they're talking about in apple's preset list of ports?

what about the ports on the router?

they should be open automatically but it was my impression the FW was on by default on OS X, most of the time. Dunno.

recently installed mandrake 10.1 and up til today it was playing nicely with my network. today, however (after re-booting into windows for a while) i seem to be having problems with host name resolution (?) - i can successfully ping the other comps IP addy's but cannot ping their names. and smb4k will not see the computers so that i can browse their shares. i don't so far know of any other way to browse the other computers.

any ideas?

ps i also have wanted to ask here for help on getting a ssk client and dc client running. where i'm stalled out there is: things wanted me to install glibmm.. ok so that would not go without libsigc++. I successfully installed this, but still when i try to configure the glibmm it says that it cannot find the libsigc++ and that i should try to 'add the directory containing `sigc++-2.0.pc'
to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
No package 'sigc++-2.0' found'

so i don't know how to do that. currently the sicg++-2.0.pc file is in /usr/local/lib/pkgconfig

also i don't really understand what's the best way to go about adding packages to the OS... what is the best procedure in terms of where to download the files to, where to unzip them, where to do the configure and install stuff, etc.

(My comp crashes frequently and I'm running out of ideas to explain why - and thinking conflicting IRQs might be at the bottom of it)