Sweet. Being the conduit for help is almost as good as being able to help.
BTW, DH would love to hear how it works out. He knows a couple of the people who work on that dd-wrt project but hasn't had an opportunity to try it out himself.
Prepare to uncouple -- uncouple.
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-t - Mar 31, 2007 8:54:28 pm PDT #1087 of 25496
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Kevin - Apr 01, 2007 1:47:24 am PDT #1088 of 25496
Never fall in love with somebody you actually love.
I'm thinking of buying a G5 iMac, as they're cheap on eBay nowadays. Does this sound sensible?
Jon B. - Apr 01, 2007 4:21:41 am PDT #1089 of 25496
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
ita: My Mac Mini sees my main PC via my wireless network as \Binky (which is the name of my main PC). Is that what you're looking for? I haven't tried to access the Mini from my PC.
t edit There should be two back slashes in front of Binky
Rob - Apr 01, 2007 5:08:29 am PDT #1090 of 25496
ita, have you tried using Bonjour? I installed in on the PC in my house and can now refer to machines as machinename.local.
Kevin - Apr 01, 2007 5:17:45 am PDT #1091 of 25496
Never fall in love with somebody you actually love.
Well, I bid £400 for an iMac G5 17" with 160gb HDD and 1gb of RAM. I've no idea how supported they still are, but I hope lots.
§ ita § - Apr 01, 2007 5:23:55 am PDT #1092 of 25496
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
My Mac Mini sees my main PC via my wireless network as Binky
What on the PC are you accessing? I can see the share on Zoe just fine, but if I try and ping Zoe or use any other TCP/IP protocol to connect to it, I need an IP address.
Rob, does your PC see the Macs and do the Macs see the PCs with names via TCP/IP? I mean, is it mutual?
Either way, though, my TiVo is left out in the cold.
le nubian - Apr 01, 2007 5:45:13 am PDT #1093 of 25496
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
I have an iTunes question - is there a way to adjust how much of a podcast needs to be played for it to be considered "not new"? I have my iPod setup only to sync new podcasts, but I'd like them to remain new until I've listened to the whole thing! For podcasts longer than my average commute, it's very annoying to have them deleted from the iPod before I've finished listening. (I can manually mark them unplayed in iTunes to get them back, but then I also have to manually scroll through to find where I left off.)
Jessica,
I have a feeling you probably need to change the ipod setting to sync all your podcasts. Or, you probably should use a smart playlist (or regular playlist) to control how your podcasts behave. Those are the two possibilities I can think of.
For my podcasts, I have two playlists on which I rely:
1) a smart playlist that targets the 40 most recent podcasts (and I select out certain podcasts that I listen to more leisurely) and I set that to update automatically
2) I manually create a playlist where I pick the 5-10 podcasts I want to listen to during a commute if there is a particular order I care about that day.
Sometimes I use #1, sometimes #2 - depending on my mood.
Rob - Apr 01, 2007 5:54:04 am PDT #1094 of 25496
Rob, does your PC see the Macs and do the Macs see the PCs with names via TCP/IP? I mean, is it mutual?
Yes.
Either way, though, my TiVo is left out in the cold.
I think Tivo supports Bonjour.
Jon B. - Apr 01, 2007 6:02:09 am PDT #1095 of 25496
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
What on the PC are you accessing? I can see the share on Zoe just fine, but if I try and ping Zoe or use any other TCP/IP protocol to connect to it, I need an IP address.
Ah, OK, I'm only doing shares.
-t - Apr 01, 2007 6:19:15 am PDT #1096 of 25496
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Tivo does support Bonjour, though I have had trouble with Tivo randomly restarting itself when I was using Bonjour as part of iChat. Using Bonjour in conjunction with VNC doesn't seem to have the same problem.
I didn't know it was available for PCs, though. That's interesting.
While I'm here: DNS via dd-wrt