Re: Misc OSX q's

On Thu, 13 Nov 2008 17:19:57 +0000, thewildrover@xxxxxx (Andy Hewitt)
wrote:

T i m <news@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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As others have mentioned I use iStatMenus for the activity monitering.

I needed the HDD activity indicator so it was MenuMeters for me.

Out of interest, what is it you need to see that iStat doesn't do? I
have an icon up with two arrows that flash activity, as well as a pop-up
that shows disk usage, and an activity graph.

Oh, well just HDD activity on the menu bar itself (rather than having
to pull anything down, I'm interested in activity not history), I
didn't see that happen with iStats?

Ok and I've found the 'Keep in Dock' setting and enabled it on most
things. Q though. aMSN: If I close the main window with the red button
it asks me if I want to quit and if I say yes it does and if I say no
it doesn't (or even go away). In Skype clicking on the red minimizes
it to the Dock, what I'd expect (want) aMSN to do? I've looked
through the settings on aMSN and cant see any mention of 'Close to
Dock' ?

That's very unusual behaviour, although I don't like Skype myself. I've
tried using it to contact Mum by video chat, and it's pretty awful, most
of the interface is pretty awful too. I use iChat and GoogleTalk now,
and that works fine.

I can try iChat now but haven't tried GoogleTalk yet.

I really only use Skype for voice. I occasionally chat to a game
player in Denmark and it's as clear / stable as a local telephone
call.

Normal behaviour should be:

Red button, close window.
Yellow button, minimise to Dock.
Green button, maximise window.

However, some programmers do other things, so that many unexpected
things can happen. Such as some apps quit when you use the red button,
and the green button doesn't always maximise as expected.

Well I;'I'm still at the stage with OSX where I have no real
expectations as to exactly what will happen when I press what and
often find myself effectively closing stuff twice (one with the red
button and again with quit from the dock or from the menubar (if that
app is showing at the time).

Also, I think I've seen the Mini not reconnect to my AP when it wakes
up? Haven't I read this quite a bit on here, is this not unheard of
(and is there a solution outside not letting it sleep)?

This has been a problem, and certainly something I used to suffer with
using A.N.Other wireless router. I now have a full AirPort system, and
have no such trouble now.

Strange, are you suggesting there is more to it than the client
machine? I ask because all my other devices connect first time (Win /
Linux / Palm / Voip phone) and the Mac connects quick enough when I
manually select my AP?

IIRC there's a selection to automatically join 'known' networks in
Tiger. In Leopard it just connects. But yes, I found that certain
combinations of client machines and router can have various levels of
reliability.

Ok. In XP I can set a priority list for WiFi networks and I was
looking for something similar (and thought I found it at one point).

The Belkin G router I put in my sister's wouldn't work with Windows any
better than with my Mac. The Buffalo is equally good on both, although
sometimes it wouldn't connect after a sleep.

With my recent playing with Linux I have found more compatibility
issues between WiFi card make / model and my Fritz router
particularly. Certain cards simply won't show that router at all and
some will show it under Windows but not under Linux (and visa versa).
Funnily I've recently replace the same make / model of card in a mates
setup for similar reasons.

I now have a MacBook, using 'N' wireless, along with matching Airport
Extreme and Airport Express boxes, all updated to latest, and I very
rarely have any problems at all. So much so that I don't even bother
using Ethernet anymore.

;-)

That's pretty much as I am here (subject to weeding out the 'rouge
cards etc). The 3 main PC's are hard wired but most of the laptops are
wireless. I've also recently upgraded a <cough> 'remote link' I
provide for the old lady I mentioned previously. It has been running
very reliably via a pair of Netgear ME102 (not a fighter plane) for a
couple of years now but gradually they have faded away. I now have a
Belkin Gaming adaptor at her end (first trailed at Dad's on his old
iMac) and now a similar box at this running as an AP.


Although Linux may work anyway, doesn't it use CUPS printing? - which is
what OSX uses.

Erm, it might do, luckily it supported my actual printer
out_of_the_box so didn't need to play with it much.

Cheers, T i m


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