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Tom Scola - May 17, 2006 5:56:33 am PDT #8106 of 10003
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.

Have you tried resetting it, by holding down the menu and the middle button for a few seconds?


Consuela - May 17, 2006 6:02:10 am PDT #8107 of 10003
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix

I have not yet, since I couldn't remember how to do that. Will try.

Thanks Tom!


DCJensen - May 18, 2006 4:03:39 am PDT #8108 of 10003
All is well that ends in pizza.

I ran across this the other day and I have been curious as to how to default my "my computer" to EXPLORE in Windows rather than OPEN for a long time, but never spent any real time trying to find out.

Double-click on My Computer.
Go to Tools, Folder Options, then File Types.
Find the file type of FOLDER with extension of (NONE).
Click Advanced, Explore, then Set Default.


Tom Scola - May 18, 2006 5:32:24 am PDT #8109 of 10003
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.

A picture of the new Apple Store on 5th Ave: [link]


Gudanov - May 18, 2006 7:25:33 am PDT #8110 of 10003
Coding and Sleeping

Just a tip since I was stupid enough not to think of of it earlier. I had port 22 open in my home firewall so I could use SSH to reach my home computer if I needed something from it, or to start stuff. My logs showed it was getting attacked on a consistent basis, but the attempts were pretty feeble and hadn't broke though.

Tip, don't use the default port for SSH. I can just about smack myself for not thinking of that when I set it up.


Tom Scola - May 18, 2006 7:32:44 am PDT #8111 of 10003
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.

I noticed that happening on my system, too. For a while I had to put a rule on my firewall to restrict incoming port 22 to known networks. I haven't noticed it happening much recently. There's been one attempt in the past month.


Gudanov - May 18, 2006 7:55:00 am PDT #8112 of 10003
Coding and Sleeping

Choosing a random port seems to have ended attacks, but it hasn't been very long yet.


sarameg - May 19, 2006 5:55:46 am PDT #8113 of 10003

This might be mindnumbingly obvious, but I don't use this sort of ftp client. WinSCP3 uses some sort of ssh, correct? And can it be told to NOT do this? (Server doesn't play nice with sftp/ssh stuff.)

edit: OK, it looks like it is an ssh dooverdingy. So it won't play nice.


thegrommit - May 21, 2006 4:17:32 am PDT #8114 of 10003
Um.

Is 512MB enough memory on a Intel based Mac running OSX? The machine will be used to test browser compatibility of a javascript-heavy site and (possibly) run automated testing software.


DCJensen - May 21, 2006 6:30:12 am PDT #8115 of 10003
All is well that ends in pizza.

Depends on how much the automated software sucks up memory, of course. A good rule of thumb is buy what you can afford, but non-Apple vendors will give you a better price for extra ram.

I'm told OSX starts using excess memory to cache hard drive data to improve performance, so the more you have...

I've noted a lot of people recommending 1gb, mainly because you never know when you're going to need the extra, so grab what you can in advance.