My boyfriend has nothing but problems with his Linksys, and I have had nothing but ease with my Netgear.
Oh, I wish those council guys would let me have an hour alone in the room with her, if I was larger and had grenades.
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javachik - Oct 26, 2009 10:55:14 am PDT #11515 of 25501
Our wings are not tired.
le nubian - Oct 26, 2009 11:09:23 am PDT #11516 of 25501
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
so clearly I'm the lucky son of a gun with linksys.
Gris - Oct 26, 2009 11:11:17 am PDT #11517 of 25501
Hey. New board.
I have used Netgear, Linksys, D-Link, and Apple Airport routers with mixed success all around. At the moment I'm using an Airport Extreme (with a printer and 1TB drive attached for network sharing/Time Machine) and it seems to be doing the best job of any I've used, but my parents have had really good luck with their Linksys, too.
I don't think I trust any brand more or less than any other. I think of the whole thing as more or less a lottery.
NoiseDesign - Oct 26, 2009 12:02:03 pm PDT #11518 of 25501
Our wings are not tired
I had good luck with Linksys in the past, but yeah, their recent stuff has not worked for me.
Currently the home network employs two models of Airport Extreme and a D-Link dual band system. They have all been pretty solid. The D-Link especially so, it hasn't hiccuped a single time that I'm aware of.
In my rental inventory I have a few Netgear 802.11g routers that get pulled in and out of racks all the time and they have been nice and reliable as well.
§ ita § - Oct 26, 2009 1:37:28 pm PDT #11519 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I like my Linksys with DDWRT on top. I've had one catastrophicish failure, but a full reset solved it. Was a pain, though.
Atropa - Oct 27, 2009 10:18:58 am PDT #11520 of 25501
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Does anyone have any suggestions for how to do a bulk rename of files in a folder on a Mac? Pete is going crazy trying to figure this out.
amych - Oct 27, 2009 10:21:44 am PDT #11521 of 25501
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Automator has a Rename Items thingie that's fairly good.
le nubian - Oct 27, 2009 10:24:14 am PDT #11522 of 25501
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
Jilli,
automator is an option, you also might try Hazel (you can use the free trial to do what you need to do). Hazel rocks the house.
Atropa - Oct 27, 2009 10:25:37 am PDT #11523 of 25501
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Automator has a Rename Items thingie that's fairly good.
Apparently it's not so great for bulk renaming. Or at least, that's what his experience has been so far.
Tom Scola - Oct 27, 2009 10:27:36 am PDT #11524 of 25501
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
It's one of the weaknesses in Mac OS X. There are 3rd party programs available to do batch renames, notably Name Mangler and A Better Finder Rename.
If it's a one-off thing, let me know what you want done, and I can write a script for you pretty quickly.