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MacGenius
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posted May 11, 2002 10:15     Click Here to See the Profile for MacGenius   Click Here to Email MacGenius     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
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posted May 11, 2002 10:19     Click Here to See the Profile for MacGenius   Click Here to Email MacGenius     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
MacGenius's Q&A

If you go to RatShack, you've got questions, they've got blank stares.

Come to MacGenius, and the truth shall be yours.

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posted May 11, 2002 10:47     Click Here to See the Profile for MacGenius   Click Here to Email MacGenius     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
For More Info...

My email address is
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posted May 11, 2002 13:30     Click Here to See the Profile for mephisto   Click Here to Email mephisto     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
quote:
Originally posted by MacGenius:

I've been a programmer since I was ten years old,

Mackie
(MacGenius)


so was I.
What was your first language?
What do you speak natively (you know what i mean)?
do you like RISC processors?

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posted May 15, 2002 12:35     Click Here to See the Profile for MacGenius   Click Here to Email MacGenius     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
My first language was Basic. Then I learned C. But I hardly do any coding anymore since that great OOP program RealBasic came out. Yes, I code natively. Yes, RISC processors ROCK! Ask anything, I'll be glad to awnser it.

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posted May 17, 2002 07:23     Click Here to See the Profile for omega996   Click Here to Email omega996     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
quote:
Originally posted by MacGenius:
My first language was Basic. Then I learned C. But I hardly do any coding anymore since that great OOP program RealBasic came out. Yes, I code natively. Yes, RISC processors ROCK! Ask anything, I'll be glad to awnser it.

MacGenius
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since we're in the same geographic area, do you know of any decent mac groups that get together? i was thinking about checking out the OC UG's mac meeting, but i dunno...

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posted May 21, 2002 15:36     Click Here to See the Profile for MacGenius   Click Here to Email MacGenius     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote

The [virtual] one I used to go to is IoMUG (Internet Only Mac User Group). It's nice because you don't have to go to all the meetings, it doesn't cost anything, and you can talk to the other people by sending email. I quit it, though, because I got too much junk. You might like to check it out

There's also a REAL one called CHOMP who meet in La Verne every second Thursday of the month. (Send email to [email protected] for more info.)

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posted May 24, 2002 10:08     Click Here to See the Profile for MacGenius   Click Here to Email MacGenius     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Of course, you're in Brea...I don't know of any around your area.

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posted May 24, 2002 17:59     Click Here to See the Profile for Ti     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
If you are worried about remaining a newbie, I would recommend responding to this post.

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posted May 30, 2002 10:35     Click Here to See the Profile for MacGenius   Click Here to Email MacGenius     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Nice try, Ti...now I am [Drumroll please]

GEEK LARVA!

Ta-da!

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posted June 04, 2002 20:28     Click Here to See the Profile for iballoondesign   Click Here to Email iballoondesign     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Oh MacGenius, at my workplace where they have all PC/IBM by use with DSL network by use ethernet. I wonder if I able to share/connect ethernet to my iBook (white edition)?

I did open in Mac OS X by use network and change to ethernet and it won't connect. I asked the someone who setup network for PC, he said, he simple plug ethernet in all computer - no setup. Except on Mac! :-(

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posted June 05, 2002 12:30     Click Here to See the Profile for MacGenius   Click Here to Email MacGenius     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
If the PC network is setup, its easy - goto the Network Browser, then click on the Appletalk triangle, then click on the server you want. This trick applies for MacOS 9 or earlier...Sorry, a system error occured. "MacGenius" is not carbonized. Restart / Resume?

MacGenius

Hey, you said 'dang you' at my Mac G5 post so what do you expect?

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posted June 05, 2002 13:55     Click Here to See the Profile for iballoondesign   Click Here to Email iballoondesign     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
It doesn't work. Do I suppose I am use DHCP. Maybe NetGear FS108 doesn't support well, I guess?

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posted June 06, 2002 13:15     Click Here to See the Profile for MacGenius   Click Here to Email MacGenius     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Sorry, If this doesn't help I can't help you. A MacLab I often goto has about 60 (at last count) Mac G4's (500MHz dual-proc, OS 9) connected to the PC lab (600MHz P3) downstairs. There's a WinNT server that we can connect to by using the tactic described above.

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posted June 06, 2002 16:22     Click Here to See the Profile for Rednivek     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
How do I create a ppp connection to the Internet for my Palmpilot, which has a bluetooth module, with a Mac running OS X? What software should I use? What hardware?

Thanks, Mac Genius!

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posted June 07, 2002 15:36     Click Here to See the Profile for MacGenius   Click Here to Email MacGenius     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Actually, you don't need a Mac - as long as the PalmPilot has a modem. Detailed Instructions coming soon!

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posted June 09, 2002 20:26     Click Here to See the Profile for MacGenius   Click Here to Email MacGenius     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
OK Rednivek -

Hardware
�Palm III or later, or any PalmPilot clone
�Palm Modem, or your bluetooth reciever

Software
�Palm OS
�Web Browsers for Palm (Proxiweb, etc.)

Instuctions
�Install the browser.
�Tap Applications > Prefs
�Tap the Menu in the upper right corner, tap "Network"
�Select your service from the Service menu.
(If it isn't there, tap Menu > Service > New and write the name)
�Type your username, password, and isp phone #
� Launch ProxiWeb

�ROCK and ROLL

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posted June 12, 2002 03:18     Click Here to See the Profile for ilovemydualg4   Click Here to Email ilovemydualg4     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
how do i get my airport card to work in YDL 2.2 in an ibook

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posted June 18, 2002 14:08     Click Here to See the Profile for MacGenius   Click Here to Email MacGenius     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
---Please ignore this crap below---

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posted June 18, 2002 15:44     Click Here to See the Profile for ilovemydualg4   Click Here to Email ilovemydualg4     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
///start insulting rants


quote:
Originally posted by MacGenius:
ilovemydualg4,

I need some more info on that. Give a more accurate description of what you want to accomplish, and what prevents you from doing it.


hummmm..... i want to install an AIRPORT card (you do know what it is, eh?) in my IBOOK (a MAC LAPTOP) in YDL 2.2 (YELLOW DOG LINUX ) and it doesn't work becuase I CAN'T CONFIGURE IT WHICH I WHY I'M ASKING YOU (What is PREVENTING me_)

i thought my post was rather self-explanatory, but if you are just stalling, i figured out how to do it, enduldge yourself in my (in)finite wisdom:
su to root, then
cd /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts [ENTER]
to make it easy, we'll use the ethernet config

cp ifcfg-eth0 ifcfg-eth1 [ENTER]
that copies the file to an eth1 file for the airport

pico ifcfg-eth1 [ENTER]
type that and then fill in the blanks for the config
then, you MUST change 'DEVICE=eth0' to 'DEVICE=eth1' so that it is for the airport card!

then quit pico, and make sure you have the wireless-tools package
rpm -qi wireless-tools [ENTER]
if you see a bunch of junk there about the package, it is installed

find out what the base station name is, then type
/sbin/modprobe airport [ENTER]
next, get the hex encoded key for the base station and type
/sbin/iwconfig eth1 essid "My Network Name" enc ABCD123456 [ENTER] (replacing the name and code)


Now, give it a test by restartign the network drivers:
/etc/rc.d/init.d/network stop [ENTER]
/etc/rc.d/init.d/network start [ENTER]

finally to make sure that the driver starts automatically, type
echo "/sbin/modprobe airport" >> /etc/rc.d/rc.local [ENTER]

if you used the hex key, use this also
echo "/sbin/iwconfig eth1 essid \"My Network Name\" enc ABCD123456" >> /etc/rc.d/rc.local [ENTER]

that would do it

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Oh MacGenius, at my workplace where they have all PC/IBM by use with DSL network by use ethernet. I wonder if I able to share/connect ethernet to my iBook (white edition)?

I did open in Mac OS X by use network and change to ethernet and it won't connect. I asked the someone who setup network for PC, he said, he simple plug ethernet in all computer - no setup. Except on Mac! :-(



your response is a bit shaky macgenus....


in os 9 use the tcp/ip control panel to make sure that it is all set to dhcp, in os x use "network" in system prefs, and make sure that ethernet is selected

if there is a proxy, then it won't work unless you find out what it is, and enter it into your browser

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originally miss-answered by macgenious
If the PC network is setup, its easy - goto the Network Browser, then click on the Appletalk triangle, then click on the server you want. This trick applies for MacOS 9 or earlier...Sorry, a system error occured. "MacGenius" is not carbonized. Restart / Resume?


don't listen to him, what he is saying is absolute crap
in os x you can type in a server address for SMB, but you can't connect to anything of a windows server without the use of a program like dave.... besides, that would in no way help you go on the internet

IN MACGENIUS'S SET UP, he alludes that he is connecting to a win nt server, which has the option of loading appletalk.... not win 9x or win me or win xp or win 2k pro or anything else, and it takes server resources so most people don't enable it
appletalk is installed in mac os 10.1 so your so called "trick" (aka pointing out the obvious) works in 10.1 if you have appletalk turned on....


please, man, if you are going to post a "qanda" do it only if you are half knoledgable

///end insulting rants

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posted June 18, 2002 15:55     Click Here to See the Profile for ilovemydualg4   Click Here to Email ilovemydualg4     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
in case of denial....

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posted June 19, 2002 09:31     Click Here to See the Profile for MacGenius   Click Here to Email MacGenius     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
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posted June 19, 2002 10:12     Click Here to See the Profile for ilovemydualg4   Click Here to Email ilovemydualg4     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
quote:
Originally posted by MacGenius:
---Please ignore this crap above---

what? i answered the persons question and mine
and then i corrected you
what is wrong wtiht that?
i warned you it would be rude

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OK, MacGenius, a chance to prove your worth, if you can figure this one out.

I'm using a 56k dial-up connection under Mac OS 9.1, with Remote Access 4.0 and Open Transport 2.7.6. Typically, the first connection of every day disconnects after something like 15 minutes, but all further connections are OK. I did e-mail my ISP, but the solutions they suggested made no difference or were generally unhelpful, and when I later replied, I heard nothing back.

The thing is, though, that this never used to happen. My only guess is that it came about when I upgraded Open Transport via Software Update, but neither downgrading that, nor clearing my MacTCP DNR file, made any real difference, so I know neither what changed (ISP PPP server?) and what to do to fix it (maybe an alteration of my modem script?).

So, any clues?

- Uilleann

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posted June 20, 2002 12:05     Click Here to See the Profile for iballoondesign   Click Here to Email iballoondesign     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Can apple computer connect with firewire with other apple computer? If so, how?

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posted June 20, 2002 16:51     Click Here to See the Profile for Bregalad   Click Here to Email Bregalad     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
quote:
Originally posted by iballoondesign:
Can apple computer connect with firewire with other apple computer? If so, how?

At the present time Apple does not recognize a FireWire connection as a network connection. Windows, on the other hand, does. Apple's approach is to only use FireWire to connect a Mac to a "dumb" peripheral and use the Mac to control that peripheral. This applies well to DV cameras, hard drives, CD burners, iPods, etc., but makes computer to computer connection impossible because both machines would be trying to control the other.

It IS, however, possible to connect one Mac to another via FireWire. The trick is to turn one of the two machines into a "dumb" peripheral first. If you boot a modern Mac with the 'T' key held down on the keyboard it will boot into Target Disk Mode. Essentially your Mac boots up as nothing more than a hard drive (or drives). You can then plug the target mode Mac into a Mac booted normally and use its hard drive the same as you would any external FireWire drive.

Target Disk Mode is a modern variation on SCSI Disk Mode, a very similar capability that used to be a special feature of PowerBooks. Back in the SCSI days Apple sold a special SCSI cable that would automatically trigger disk mode when a PowerBook was booted.

Maybe in the future Apple will implement networking via FireWire, but I wouldn't hold my breath waiting for Steve Jobs to change his view on this issue.

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posted June 20, 2002 18:32     Click Here to See the Profile for ilovemydualg4   Click Here to Email ilovemydualg4     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
quote:
Originally posted by Bregalad:
At the present time Apple does not recognize a FireWire connection as a network connection. Windows, on the other hand, does. Apple's approach is to only use FireWire to connect a Mac to a "dumb" peripheral and use the Mac to control that peripheral. This applies well to DV cameras, hard drives, CD burners, iPods, etc., but makes computer to computer connection impossible because both machines would be trying to control the other.

It IS, however, possible to connect one Mac to another via FireWire. The trick is to turn one of the two machines into a "dumb" peripheral first. If you boot a modern Mac with the 'T' key held down on the keyboard it will boot into Target Disk Mode. Essentially your Mac boots up as nothing more than a hard drive (or drives). You can then plug the target mode Mac into a Mac booted normally and use its hard drive the same as you would any external FireWire drive.

Target Disk Mode is a modern variation on SCSI Disk Mode, a very similar capability that used to be a special feature of PowerBooks. Back in the SCSI days Apple sold a special SCSI cable that would automatically trigger disk mode when a PowerBook was booted.

Maybe in the future Apple will implement networking via FireWire, but I wouldn't hold my breath waiting for Steve Jobs to change his view on this issue.


elaborating, there are such usb products which will allow such a thing to happen, though they are terribly slow. (i found amac compatible one a long long time ago in a galaxy far away, but if you want, i suppose i could find it)

My recommendatoin: a 10$ ethernet "cross-over' cable-It is a regular ethernet cable with some pins moved arround, so you can connect one computer dirrectly to another's ethernet card, without the use of a hub. If you buy a full duplex 100mb/sec fast ethernet cable, then your through put will be about 200mb/s idealy, which is about half of what firewire can provide, though this is cheaper and easier.

Also, I believe that new(er) macs have "autosensing" ports, in which you can use a regular cable as a crossover, but I don't know what model started including this, so it's easiest just to get the crossover cable

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posted June 21, 2002 11:59     Click Here to See the Profile for MacGenius   Click Here to Email MacGenius     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
ilovemydualp4 uses INTERNET EXPLORER?

Sheesh, and we know what's his next computer's gonna be.

And he is so damn lazy that he is asking us what Fahrenheit 451 is about! if you don't want to read or watch it, don't. Just a suggestion. And don't go around asking us!

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quote:
Originally posted by uilleann:
OK, MacGenius, a chance to prove your worth, if you can figure this one out.

I'm using a 56k dial-up connection under Mac OS 9.1, with Remote Access 4.0 and Open Transport 2.7.6. Typically, the first connection of every day disconnects after something like 15 minutes, but all further connections are OK. I did e-mail my ISP, but the solutions they suggested made no difference or were generally unhelpful, and when I later replied, I heard nothing back.

The thing is, though, that this never used to happen. My only guess is that it came about when I upgraded Open Transport via Software Update, but neither downgrading that, nor clearing my MacTCP DNR file, made any real difference, so I know neither what changed (ISP PPP server?) and what to do to fix it (maybe an alteration of my modem script?).

So, any clues?

- Uilleann


well, apparently, mac genius doesn't want to redeem himself, he only wants to hold a grudge to me, but I can do that too, so it's ok.
What I would think this is is that there is a reconfiguration that happens when you connect. Then, the rest of the day, you have that config stored temporarilly. However, when you shut it down, you will loose those settings. Just a theory....

And btw mac genius.... in mac os x, the best browser out there in my opinion is ie 5.2 hacked to use google instead of msn search. omni web icab and opera are unstable/lack suport of many plugins, etc. netscape 6 just has problems..... though this is from msft, it's not like im paying for it, or supporting msft at all

my 2 cents

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posted June 21, 2002 18:11     Click Here to See the Profile for Bregalad   Click Here to Email Bregalad     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
quote:
Originally posted by ilovemydualg4:
And btw mac genius.... in mac os x, the best browser out there in my opinion is ie 5.2 hacked to use google instead of msn search. omni web icab and opera are unstable/lack suport of many plugins, etc. netscape 6 just has problems..... though this is from msft, it's not like im paying for it, or supporting msft at all

Unfortunately you are supporting msft by filling server logs with IE entries and thus contributing to the belief that web sites need only be coded to work properly with one browser. It was the same way when Netscape produced the dominant browser and sites were "best viewed with Netscape Navigator". I do not want a one browser world no matter how good that browser is so I use a variety.

My browser use by platform in order of frequency:
MacOS X - Mozilla 1.1a, OmniWeb 4.1b6, IE 5.1, Navigator 0.28
Windows 2000 - Opera 6.0.3, Mozilla 1.0, IE 5.5
MacOS 9 - Opera 5.0, IE 5.1

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posted June 21, 2002 18:34     Click Here to See the Profile for uilleann   Click Here to Email uilleann     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Quoting ilovemydualg4:
well, apparently, mac genius doesn't want to redeem himself, he only wants to hold a grudge to me, but I can do that too, so it's ok.
It would, nevertheless, be much better if this didn't have to be turning into a war zone.

What I would think this is is that there is a reconfiguration that happens when you connect.
Maybe, but then, the same problem would recur every time I reboot or restart after a crash, and it doesn't. It would sound like a PPP server problem (and that would account for it coming about when I don't recall doing anything to the Mac (unless it really was the OT/URLaccess upgrade), but then, what's it keeping about me that just disappears if I've been offline for quite a number of hours? It is a bit odd - I don't even know what triggers the auto-disconnects, I'm assuming its an idle time-out gone wrong at their end. I know other people have heard of PPP problems with Macs, but that was un Undernet, and it can be hard trying to get information out of Undernet #macintosh users.

And btw mac genius.... in mac os x, the best browser out there in my opinion is ie 5.2 hacked to use google instead of msn search. omni web icab and opera are unstable/lack suport of many plugins, etc. netscape 6 just has problems.....
iCab 2.8 is stable, and does me well, albeit slower than IE at rendering. IE is a nice browser (very fast) but it tends to crash the Mac with five empty nested bomb dialogs. Sadly, I had to abandon it. Yet, iCab's extra features do compensate there. All isn't actually well in the Windows world either; IE for Windows is less featured in some respects than the Mac version (e.g. no download manager, no cookie list, etc).

I certainly concur with Bregalad there, though. Despite some sites that my sister wants to see needing IE or Netscape (and MSN sends her to them, yes, she installed MSN on my Mac :P grr...buggy thing), and the same for iTools (iCab runs the plug-in, but that is not enough), I refuse to make iCab masquerade as IE or NS (although I might let it do so just for my sister's sites via filtering). I don't know either whether it'll make a scrap of odds (though there is a growing amount of alternative browsers around, especially in Mac OS X), or why sites demand you use IE or NS? I guess the latter is because the don't want the hassle of answering e-mails from people saying "your site won't do X, Y and Z in WhizzoWeb" or whatever. Not that I see why sites should ever be complicated enough that any browser should ever cause problems (KISS), except perhaps SSL.

- uilleann

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posted June 22, 2002 05:28     Click Here to See the Profile for ilovemydualg4   Click Here to Email ilovemydualg4     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
i think then that maybe it is aproblem with what your isp changed, and that needs to be reset the first tiem that you connect each day.

btw, my browser doesn't id itself as internet explorer, when i hacked it to use google, i also changed what it ids itself as

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Bregelad, I wouldn't hold your breath waiting for Apple to allow Firewire to be used for networking, as Ethernet handles that a lot better (longer range and cheaper). It's only done on Windows because Windows users are too cheap to buy a $10 ethernet card as well as their firewire cards (whereas both are built in as standard on Macs).

Firewire (or even SCSI) target disk mode is very handy though, especially if you have a Powerbook or iBook.

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posted June 22, 2002 15:00     Click Here to See the Profile for MacGenius   Click Here to Email MacGenius     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
originally posted by ulieann:
problems with 56K connection

The first step is to figure out if your Mac or your account is the problem. Try loggin on from a different terminal, or change ISP's.

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MacGenius
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From: Mars
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posted June 22, 2002 15:05     Click Here to See the Profile for MacGenius   Click Here to Email MacGenius     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Oh, and by the way (ilmdg4) - let's not make this a war zone, but admiring my comic at the Suggestion box and then saying that what i'm saying is total crap, is a very, very stupid idea.

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ilovemydualg4
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posted June 22, 2002 19:00     Click Here to See the Profile for ilovemydualg4   Click Here to Email ilovemydualg4     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
quote:
Originally posted by MacGenius:
Oh, and by the way (ilmdg4) - let's not make this a war zone, but admiring my comic at the Suggestion box and then saying that what i'm saying is total crap, is a very, very stupid idea.

'never did, i can forgiv and forget if you can

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MacGenius
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posted June 24, 2002 18:24     Click Here to See the Profile for MacGenius   Click Here to Email MacGenius     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
yeah you did...like my comic. Go to Forums > Suggestion Box > The official GC desktop picture and scroll to bottom.

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posted June 25, 2002 06:48     Click Here to See the Profile for ilovemydualg4   Click Here to Email ilovemydualg4     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
allow me to clarify-
i denied calling it all total crap, but didn't deny complimenting your comic

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Rednivek
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posted June 25, 2002 18:05     Click Here to See the Profile for Rednivek     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
MacGenius...

I want to use the Palmpilot via Bluetooth to the Mac and get ppp access.

I dont want to use a modem, as I dont have one.

How do I do this? What software config do I use to enable the bluetooth module on the Mac (with OS X) to give a ppp connection to the Palm?

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uilleann
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posted June 26, 2002 03:43     Click Here to See the Profile for uilleann   Click Here to Email uilleann     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Rednivek: I know I'll get flamed for posting this *G* but you did say, "How do I create a ppp connection to the Internet for my Palmpilot...What hardware?" One could argue that the answer to the question of what hardware you need would be... a Palm modem ;)

*runs ducking*

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