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Jon B. - Aug 12, 2005 10:49:10 am PDT #3987 of 10003
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!

The Phillips DVP642 DVD player has fans here (including me), so I thought I'd share this deal. Refurbished players for $36: [link]


§ ita § - Aug 12, 2005 12:24:00 pm PDT #3988 of 10003
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Confirmation: of the TiVo download (yesterday's news) and DirecTV dropping TiVo (isn't that last year's news, almost?).


Jessica - Aug 13, 2005 7:45:00 am PDT #3989 of 10003
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

What's a good free FTP program for Mac? I've been using Cyberduck, but the latest version has some major bugs in it.


NoiseDesign - Aug 13, 2005 6:13:33 pm PDT #3990 of 10003
Our wings are not tired

FTP services are built into the finder in OS X. Under the "go" menu in the finder do a connect to network and just use "ftp://" and it will open in a regular window. For more stuff I use Fetch but that's not free.


tommyrot - Aug 13, 2005 6:35:08 pm PDT #3991 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

FTP services are built into the finder in OS X.

How long has that been there?


NoiseDesign - Aug 13, 2005 7:02:07 pm PDT #3992 of 10003
Our wings are not tired

FTP services have been in the finder since the beginning of OS X but they were more limited until 10.2 or 10.3.


tommyrot - Aug 13, 2005 7:05:08 pm PDT #3993 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

And here I was, using command-line ftp all this time....


Jessica - Aug 13, 2005 7:05:15 pm PDT #3994 of 10003
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

FTP services are built into the finder in OS X. Under the "go" menu in the finder do a connect to network and just use "ftp://" and it will open in a regular window. For more stuff I use Fetch but that's not free.

I'm getting "error #43" when I do this.


NoiseDesign - Aug 13, 2005 7:08:06 pm PDT #3995 of 10003
Our wings are not tired

That's odd. Are you perhaps behind a firewall that is messing with FTP services.


Eddie - Aug 13, 2005 11:35:01 pm PDT #3996 of 10003
Your tag here.

I did some googling for "error 43 ftp mac" and came up with several references to "error -43" in this context. Is that in fact the error number, MINUS 43?

If so, this says Error -43 is File Not Found:

One instance where this esoteric knowledge becomes practical is in conjunction with MacsBug's error command, which returns a short description of cryptic Mac OS error numbers. If a program complains that "an error -43 occurred" you can identify the error number by popping into MacsBug, typing "error #-43", and pressing Return:

$FFD5 #-43 fnfErr - File not found

The application is telling you it tried to open a file, but couldn't find it. Depending on the program, this might be caused by a missing extension, plug-in, or document, but at least it gives you something to go by.

Offhand, I'm wondering if spaces in the filename aren't the culprit.