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yeah, 60deg is ok, but most people don't get anywhere near that. i don't get what the problem is. system temps are also hitting 50degrees. i have three case fans. i'm currently OCing to 2.2ghz, but i'm scared to go any higher because i have such high temps at stock voltage. it's... odd.

― g-kit (g-kit), Friday, 7 May 2004 12:48 (9 years ago) Permalink

I've got a free months trial of AOL (yes yes.. but i'm moving house in a month and getting broadband) and everytime i get disconnected my computer reboots. It's not the worm that was going round.

― don (don), Friday, 7 May 2004 16:12 (9 years ago) Permalink

Ack! OK, so last night something went totally wrong with my iBook. I'm not even sure what -- there was a spinning cursor for a while, then the screen froze and lines went across it (almost like what used to happen my logic board fried every few weeks -- I have that era of iBook). Now when I restart it the monitor stays dim (although if I point-n-click blindly enough, I am usually able to log into my account) (I have my iBook set up to have different accounts).

So I have no clue what's wrong, but thanks to AppleCare I'm not too worried. What I am worried, though, is that it will take a week or so to set up, and there are some files I'd like to have during that time (like, say, my resume!). Is there any way to use my roommate's iBook to access my iBook's harddrive? (I don't think I had "allow networked login" set up, grrrr.)

Thanks!

― Casuistry (Chris P), Saturday, 8 May 2004 15:49 (9 years ago) Permalink

yeah! use a firewire cable. shut down your ibook and restart it, while holding down "t" on the keyboard.

then attach a fw cable to both your computers and your hard drive will appear on roomie's desktop. don't forget to eject it before you shut down though! (shut down your computer by pressing the power button)

― s1ocki (slutsky), Saturday, 8 May 2004 15:52 (9 years ago) Permalink

Also I tried hooking up a PC monitor using the doohickey but it complained that it wasn't getting any signal. Is this perhaps a clue? It was very annoying anyways since I figured, I'm able to log in, maybe it's just ("just") the monitor. But maybe it's some video display card? That might be easier to solve. But first things first.

xpost Sweet! I thought there was a way! OK, hopefully she'll get home soon.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Saturday, 8 May 2004 15:54 (9 years ago) Permalink

yeah, it's proven very useful for me on many an occasion!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Saturday, 8 May 2004 15:57 (9 years ago) Permalink

I´m getting the following error while trying to get into soulseek. It appears to be working for other people. I´m on a friend´s computer and I´m desperate for some new music. Assistance would be monumentally appreciated.

"could not find server address. If your internet connection is up, this might be a problém with your name resolution service. please try again later"

― hmmm (hmmm), Sunday, 9 May 2004 11:14 (9 years ago) Permalink

Should be "could not resolve server address". oops

― hmmm (hmmm), Sunday, 9 May 2004 11:43 (9 years ago) Permalink

sorted now. just down loaded new version.

― hmmm (hmmm), Sunday, 9 May 2004 12:28 (9 years ago) Permalink

apples be breaking down so much!

― cozen (Cozen), Sunday, 9 May 2004 12:57 (9 years ago) Permalink

break it up break it up break down

― ken c (ken c), Sunday, 9 May 2004 13:40 (9 years ago) Permalink

Hey Sean, remember at Henry's Hunan you said that if I had a special Airport [thing] that came with all the newest Macs, I wouldn't need a really expensive official Apple Airport [thing], and that I could actually get wireless internet with an ugly but inexpensive [thing]? Well...what were you talking about again?

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 12 May 2004 19:50 (9 years ago) Permalink

Ah. Okay. Basically Airport is Apple's name for WiFi or 802.11 wireless networking, so it should be completely compatible with WiFi solutions that are available from other manufacturers like Linksys or D-Link or whatever. If you wanted to set up a wireless home network but you can find an access point or Cable/DSL wireless router available for less money than the Airport base station, don't feel that you have to buy the pretty Apple-branded version.

Airport Extreme is the new version of Airport, and it's the same as 802.11g (from what I can tell). The Airport Extreme base station is $199 - 249 depending on whether you get the modem and antenna port; since you can get other 802.11g routers for as low as $100, you may want to check that shit out instead.

If you've got the basic version of Airport (ie no Extreme) then you probably have 802.11b on your notebook, so getting the Extreme or 11g version of the wireless router won't be all that important unless you're planning to upgrade your notebook down the road. Since cable and DSL connections are already slower than even the 802.11b (basic Airport) setup, you're not going to be gaining anything by overspending here. And getting an 802.11b router may be a bit cheaper than 11g...but probably not by much.

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Wednesday, 12 May 2004 20:33 (9 years ago) Permalink

ok...and why would I want the Airport modem and antenna thing? I don't really get what those are for.

thanks, btw!

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 12 May 2004 20:37 (9 years ago) Permalink

I don't know whether this link will work but here's a cheaper and probably rock-solid option:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0001D3K8A/qid=1084397463/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1_etk-electronics/103-9923206-1101432?v=glance&s=electronics&n=172282

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Wednesday, 12 May 2004 20:38 (9 years ago) Permalink

This isn't a question, but I succeeded in not only networking my new powerbook to my old PC (only took me 1.5 hours to get it going) BUT also got slsk/nicotine running on the same new powerbook. Whoot! Who's your daddy?

― Aaron W (Aaron W), Wednesday, 12 May 2004 20:39 (9 years ago) Permalink

Sean, what if I already have a router? Aren't there little "bridge" doo-dahs that are, like, half that price?

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 12 May 2004 20:59 (9 years ago) Permalink

What you need, my friend, is an access point...but unfortunately they're nearly as much as the full-on wireless routers. The good thing with an access point is you just plug it into your router and away you go. (Well, yeah, configure your WEP settings so bastards don't break into your network, etc.)

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Wednesday, 12 May 2004 21:03 (9 years ago) Permalink

Amazon sez the Linksys 11g access point is $80, and the 11b access point is $60:

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00007KDVJ/qid=1084399427/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i1_xgl23/103-9923206-1101432?v=glance&s=electronics&n=507846

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00005854B/qid=1084399475/sr=8-2/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i2_xgl23/103-9923206-1101432?v=glance&s=electronics&n=507846

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Wednesday, 12 May 2004 21:04 (9 years ago) Permalink

Do you know if you have a router? What are the telltale signs?

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 12 May 2004 21:10 (9 years ago) Permalink

Well, for one thing you're being routed.

I saw a D-Link access point (b, not g) at my local supermarket for $40 (after rebate) or maybe it was $30?

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 12 May 2004 21:19 (9 years ago) Permalink

what?

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 12 May 2004 21:27 (9 years ago) Permalink

I know!

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 12 May 2004 21:44 (9 years ago) Permalink

What?

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 12 May 2004 21:48 (9 years ago) Permalink

I know!

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 12 May 2004 21:49 (9 years ago) Permalink

Typical configuration on the way in from the net:

The Internet <--> cable or DSL modem <--> optional: router <--> your computer

If you're plugging your computer directly into your modem, you don't have a router. If you have a box with multiple Ethernet ports on it between your modem and your computer, you probably have a router.

The new DSL/cable broadband sharing routers are great because it logs onto the net for you (especially if you have DSL connection that requires PPPoE authentication, because it means you don't have to use that dumb and unreliable software client that DSL providers stick you with) and then uses network address translation to change your IP #s in your inner network. This means that people can't waltz directly into your computer from the outside world, they have to hack a bit first (this one is especially true if you're on a cable modem connection, where a direct connection of your computer into your modem might well result in your computer showing up in the networks of other people plugged into cable modems in your neighborhood).

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Wednesday, 12 May 2004 22:37 (9 years ago) Permalink

I do not have a router.

When I try and unpack dmg files of games and stuff, I get a failure message that says "invalid checksum". What does that mean?

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Thursday, 13 May 2004 01:01 (9 years ago) Permalink

no wait, they are img files.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Thursday, 13 May 2004 01:01 (9 years ago) Permalink

The nice thing about the sirport is that it can act as a firewall, router and a print server for your whole wired and unwired network. There are still other products that do t all this for cheaper but none of them look like a UFO.

― Ed (dali), Thursday, 13 May 2004 10:26 (9 years ago) Permalink

That's the great thing about Apple products though: pretty basic parts put into a case designed to look like a white shiny mushroom = profit blitzkrieg.

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Thursday, 13 May 2004 13:22 (9 years ago) Permalink

By the way, "invalid checksum" probably means the file was corrupted somewhere along the way, and that error message is telling you that the error checking mechanism built into the to decompression application is telling you that not all the numbers are adding up. If the decompressed files seem fine, don't worry about it.

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Thursday, 13 May 2004 13:24 (9 years ago) Permalink

'That's the great thing about Apple products though: pretty basic parts put into a case designed to look like a white shiny mushroom = profit blitzkrieg.'

Plus out of the box, 'It just works' functionality.

― Ed (dali), Thursday, 13 May 2004 14:00 (9 years ago) Permalink

Except when it doesn't. ;)

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Thursday, 13 May 2004 14:10 (9 years ago) Permalink

Specifically with the Airport Extreme base station, anyhow, a lot of users were claiming that it requires regular restarts. I know that's something that a lot of non-Apple wireless devices also require, too; I just think that the legendary Apple "it just works" thing is definitely much less true today than it used to be.

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Thursday, 13 May 2004 14:13 (9 years ago) Permalink

No experience of 802.11, but bluetooth was a charm beyond belief. There are plenty of minor irritants in OS X, line not being able to restrict swap file size.

― Ed (dali), Thursday, 13 May 2004 14:53 (9 years ago) Permalink

I have a boring computer question! I have a brand new Powerbook with lots of free memory and a cable modem...so why is Safari soooooooooooooooooooo sloooooooow?

― Antmusic78 (Antmusic78), Friday, 14 May 2004 12:54 (9 years ago) Permalink

Repair your permissions! (Use Disk Utility.)

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 14 May 2004 16:10 (9 years ago) Permalink

Hmmm...I was just going to say, I'm also having this problem. Switched to Firefox and it's still ridiculously slow.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 26 May 2004 02:36 (8 years ago) Permalink

I was hoping this would be you!

Sadly you've denied me the pleasure of giving you useless advice.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 26 May 2004 04:30 (8 years ago) Permalink

I have. How?

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 26 May 2004 04:34 (8 years ago) Permalink

Because I already gave the proper advice! Otherwise I would have told you to slip a little cocaine into the keyboard or something.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 26 May 2004 04:35 (8 years ago) Permalink

Because I have seen your haircut, and I know you have access to cocaine.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 26 May 2004 04:35 (8 years ago) Permalink

Are you okay?

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 26 May 2004 04:36 (8 years ago) Permalink

Oh I see, that was a joke at my haircut's expense? You're saying I have a "cocaine haircut"?

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 26 May 2004 04:37 (8 years ago) Permalink

That only someone so self-deluded that they were probably on cocaine would have a haircut like the one on my head?

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 26 May 2004 04:38 (8 years ago) Permalink

Is that what you're saying?

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 26 May 2004 04:39 (8 years ago) Permalink

Because really I'm very sober and humble, I'm just afraid of going bald.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 26 May 2004 04:40 (8 years ago) Permalink

Okay, well I'm pleased that's settled.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 26 May 2004 04:41 (8 years ago) Permalink

And posted to ILX for posterity.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 26 May 2004 04:41 (8 years ago) Permalink

Okay, now I have a novel to get back to. Good night.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 26 May 2004 04:42 (8 years ago) Permalink

Skipping 1446 messages at this point... Click here if you want to load them all.

urm... not to make ira glass mad but um... here:
tpparty.com/447.mp3

― Philip Nunez, Tuesday, 25 September 2012 02:36 (7 months ago) Permalink

Thanks, I'm actually more interested in figuring out why this isn't working. So following the trail, it actually looks like these two podcasts in question (TAL and Sound Opinions) do come from different servers, so that isn't the common link I thought it might've been.

― heated debate over derpy hooves (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 25 September 2012 02:44 (7 months ago) Permalink

Before I give up again for now, one last silly question. Is it possible that its an issue with just my provider? Like Comcast is just having issues with these particular servers? Does that even make sense?

― heated debate over derpy hooves (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 25 September 2012 02:46 (7 months ago) Permalink

You could be having packets being dropped between you and the host. Open up a terminal and ping the domain.

― svend, Tuesday, 25 September 2012 02:47 (7 months ago) Permalink

i was able to get it pretty fast so i think it is something on your end (either comcast or your setup)
i dunno if comcast still caps people's bandwidth? have you tried the ol' turn off router, turn back on litany?

― Philip Nunez, Tuesday, 25 September 2012 02:49 (7 months ago) Permalink

No packet loss coming back when I pinged the domains.

― heated debate over derpy hooves (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 25 September 2012 02:54 (7 months ago) Permalink

Everything else I download has been absolutely fine, I mean just now I downloaded another podcast that was twice the size of TAL and it was done in about 45 seconds.

― heated debate over derpy hooves (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 25 September 2012 02:54 (7 months ago) Permalink

if you have a wireless setup, the QOS might be messed up? Also, if you got it already, I'm going to remove it for fear of Sarah Vowell showing up at my doorstep with a billy club.

― Philip Nunez, Tuesday, 25 September 2012 02:56 (7 months ago) Permalink

Go ahead and take it down, thanks, I wouldn't wish her on you.

― heated debate over derpy hooves (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 25 September 2012 02:57 (7 months ago) Permalink

this might be a long shot but type this in a terminal and see if it downloads faster that way:

curl -O http://audio.soundopinions.org/podcasts/sooppodshow356.mp3

― Philip Nunez, Tuesday, 25 September 2012 03:03 (7 months ago) Permalink

Started out decent, but within about 30 seconds it was estimating 11 hours to finish.

― heated debate over derpy hooves (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 25 September 2012 03:06 (7 months ago) Permalink

Oh well, thanks for the suggestions, I'm giving up for tonight. This is giving me a headache. I keep hoping it'll magically clear up the next day, but after 2 weeks I don't think that is likely.

― heated debate over derpy hooves (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 25 September 2012 03:08 (7 months ago) Permalink

4 months pass...

crossposted from the RSS thread I bumped a little while ago

The way Firefox handles RSS feeds, as folders full of links to the constantly updating list of stories, is perfect for me. In almost every other respect, I've started to loathe Firefox. Is there ANY way to get Safari or Chrome to do this, either via a setting I haven't figured out or a plug-in or extension?

― Dr. Alfred P. Falfa (WilliamC), Monday, 4 February 2013 17:29 (3 months ago) Permalink

Never used it, but try Foxish for Chrome?

― Bob-omb The Videogame Industry! (Will M.), Monday, 4 February 2013 18:08 (3 months ago) Permalink

Haven't tried it, but this seems to do it: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/rss-live-links/hcamnijgggppihioleoenjmlnakejdph?hl=en

"you can set up REAL bookmark folders with REAL bookmarks a-la REAL Firefox Live Bookmarks."
For REALs

― Øystein, Monday, 4 February 2013 18:14 (3 months ago) Permalink

Thanks -- I think that might be the one.

― Dr. Alfred P. Falfa (WilliamC), Monday, 4 February 2013 18:50 (3 months ago) Permalink

I need some help with Windows 8: I've just updated to it, and I tried both Avira's and Avast's free antivirus software, but they both kept crashing Windows, because apparently they aren't fully compatible with 8 yet. The Avast homepage suggested a patch to fix the problem, but that didn't help, the crashes continued... So I uninstalled it, and at the moment I'm using Windows 8's own anti-virus/anti-malware application, Windows Defender. Are there any free antivirus software that would be absolutely compatible with Windows 8, or should I just trust Windows Defender is good enough at protecting my computer?

― Tuomas, Wednesday, 6 February 2013 20:19 (3 months ago) Permalink

I've found AVG to work well. I still use Windows 7, but it is supposed to be compatible with 8.

― Lee626, Wednesday, 6 February 2013 20:52 (3 months ago) Permalink

I dunno, after Avira and Avast I googled info on other software, and I found comments where people say AVG kept crashing Windows too.

― Tuomas, Wednesday, 6 February 2013 21:03 (3 months ago) Permalink

you should be fairly ok as long as you don't download anything, and sequester the stuff you do download. there's no guarantees though.

― Philip Nunez, Wednesday, 6 February 2013 21:05 (3 months ago) Permalink

Everything crashes Windows

― Lee626, Wednesday, 6 February 2013 21:31 (3 months ago) Permalink

I never had any crashing problems with Windows 7, so I guess the problem is that antivirus companies haven't yet managed to adjust their products well enough to Windows 8, and/or that Windows 8 simply isn't very good at working with third-party applications. Most of the other apps on my computer have continued to work fine, though, without any need to update or patch them, so I guess it's more of a case of the former. I wonder how long it'll take them to make their antivirus software fully compatible with 8? (I guess they aren't in a terrible hurry to fix problems in product they give out for free...)

― Tuomas, Thursday, 7 February 2013 09:37 (3 months ago) Permalink

Why did the BBC news page just shrink in Chrome? Not in any other browser, and fiddling with Chrome's settings via 'zoom' doesn't help (just makes the font bigger on the settings page :/)

― ljubljana, Sunday, 10 February 2013 15:46 (3 months ago) Permalink

1 month passes...

why can i suddenly not save textedit files? it's TEXTEDIT, nothing ever goes wrong in textedit, there's nothing TO go wrong. anyway i open up my macbook and start working on some documents and they are fine and then for absolutely no reason and out of nowhere suddenly it won't let me save as i work - no explanation, just a box that says this file cannot be saved. and then autosave goes a bit nuts yelling at me that it can't work and the problem needs to be resolved.

this has happened before intermittently but i've always managed to get it working again, but this weekend it KEEPS HAPPENING even when the problem seems to go away for a while. i've tried repairing permissions and deleting the "autosave information" folders in my library and it keeps coming back and i NEED IT TO NOT DO THIS and HELP PLEASE

― flamenco drop (lex pretend), Sunday, 31 March 2013 09:11 (1 month ago) Permalink

Finally going to have to buy a new computer ... have been thinking about it for a while but my computer crashed yesterday and wouldn't start without a system recovery (meaning I've lost everything on it).

Any recommendations?

My (fairly random) budget was £500. But I can go up without too much stress if need be.

Want to be able to email, write documents, store some (but not loads) of music and compile/burn CDs.

I'm thinking of also buying a camera so I'll want to be able to do some photo stuff but not really sure what.

Would prefer not a laptop. Had a potter around PC World and there seemed to be some okay computers around £350-£500 but couldn't really distinguish between them. Bonus points for neatness/compactness but not essential.

Any ideas?

― djh, Monday, 1 April 2013 18:33 (1 month ago) Permalink

did you already do the system recovery? your data could still be retrievable if you boot from a CD.

― Philip Nunez, Monday, 1 April 2013 18:35 (1 month ago) Permalink

I've already done the system recovery (admittedly, in a slight panic).

― djh, Monday, 1 April 2013 18:42 (1 month ago) Permalink

i dunno if a mac mini is under £500, but i would get that in lieu of thinking about the tons of PC options out there,
or I might just get a new hard drive instead, if the machine is otherwise OK.

― Philip Nunez, Monday, 1 April 2013 19:26 (1 month ago) Permalink

Thanks Philip.

The machine is seven or so years old - it's slow, noisy and has been throwing up error messages for a while.

Quite a few people have been suggesting getting a Mac - I used to be "brand loyal" but moved over to a PC after my last Mac froze on a daily basis.

― djh, Monday, 1 April 2013 19:38 (1 month ago) Permalink

Anyone know if any PCs have a function similar to Apple's "Time Machine" - which, if I'm understanding this - automatically backs up your computer contents?

― djh, Tuesday, 2 April 2013 19:07 (1 month ago) Permalink

3 weeks pass...

OH god help me ILX I am going totally crazy here in Kyrgyz Republic using a WiFi connection from my hotel on a MacBook Pro using Safari. I can surf the web- sorta- as in I can see cnn.com, ILX (duh), and various google queries work, but . . . .

I can't get Gmail to load - like, at all- as in, I never get to see the page where I could enter my account info- I just search for it and nothing ever loads

I can't get my university employer email server site to load (J0hns H0pkins Un1versity)

I can't get Facebook to load

BUT I CAN STILL USE THE WEB. What. The. Fuck. I am assured that, unlike China where I have been for the past eleven days, there is no government censorship or firewalls or other monkeying around with web use. So it's not something external. Is it my computer? Some kind of network setting? Some kind of browser setting? Some Flash issue? I have already resent DNS settings in Network Preferences as per the suggestions of some forums. I haven't seen my inbox in three days and while yeah I am on sabbatical it's still a big no- no in my line of work to have no way to see my inbox, let alone wanting to be in touch with my bf while I am clear across the world in Central Asia, etc.

Help me ILX! You're my only hope!

― the tune was space, Saturday, 27 April 2013 15:40 (3 weeks ago) Permalink

You mentioned resetting dns, but have you tried changing it to someone else? Google (8.8.8.8 & 8.8.4.4) or opendns (208.67.222.222 & 208.67.220.220) might help. I've defo had similar problems as a result of crappy isp dns servers before..

(Or, could it be related to crappy hotel wifi having problems with ssl..?)

― sktsh, Saturday, 27 April 2013 16:27 (3 weeks ago) Permalink

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