That is... odd. Maybe it's not compatible with the big ones? I doubt that's it, but i got nothing else. Sorry.

Anyone know a chat client for Mac that does MSN Messenger?

It has:
* AOL Instant Messenger (Including ICQ and .Mac)
* Jabber (Including Google Talk and LiveJournal)
* MSN Messenger
* Yahoo! Messenger (Including Yahoo! Japan)
* Bonjour (Compatible with iChat)
* MySpace IM
* Gadu-Gadu
* Novell Groupwise
* QQ
* Lotus Sametime

In the interest of spring cleaning... at what point do you ditch old software boxes/manuals/discs? I have a bookcase of stuff. Games. Work Apps. Utilities. All from Mac OS8 and earlier. The Pac-rat in me is saying "NNoooooo!!!". But I have books and no shelf space, and the new books cry "but what about there" (yes, the books talk to me. They are all my precious)

my macbook pro is 2 years old & I run it constantly, with all sorts of apps open at the same time. There have been a couple of battery issues lately, but then I got around to installing updates last night. This morning? The battery flatlined about 2 minutes after I launched, and is showing a varying number of charge times.

anyone seen this before?

also - flip cameras have video and audio... right? I just read something somewhere that made it seem as if you'd need a nano with a mike option as well.

flip cameras have video and audio... right? I just read something somewhere that made it seem as if you'd need a nano with a mike option as well.

Yes. I think what you're thinking of is the flip vs. hd camera smackdown that Kat posted in Natter, where the guy did capture audio on a nano (to get better/stereo/whatever sound, I guess?) and edit it in later, but they definitely do have audio out of the box.

I just posted this in Natter, but the built-in mic on the Flip is crap - it's the only thing about the camera I really dislike. It's on the back of the camera, which makes it really good at picking up the shooter's voice and really shitty at picking up the sounds coming from the thing you're filming. It's acceptable for home movies, but to do anything semi-professional with it you'd want an external audio rig.

Okay. In Vista, it says that my Ubuntu box is in the workgroup MSHOME, and the network location is Velvet. On the Linux box the workgroup parameter is set to Velvet. When I run smbclient it tidily shows me all the right shares and then says that the Ubuntu box is the master of MSHOME.

I'm kinda confused. Is the goal for the Ubuntu box to be in the velvet workgroup?

Here is my configuration (it's Fedora, but that shouldn't matter) for samba that does three public shares. In the workgroup 'WORKGROUP'.

[global]
workgroup = WORKGROUP
server string = MythTV Computer
hosts allow = 192.168.0. 127.
printcap name = /etc/printcap
log file = /var/log/samba/%m.log
max log size = 50
security = share
socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_SNDBUF=8192 SO_RCVBUF=8192
dns proxy = no
winbind uid = 16777216-33554431
winbind gid = 16777216-33554431
restrict anonymous = no
domain master = no
preferred master = no
max protocol = NT
ldap ssl = No
server signing = Auto


[homes]
comment = Home Directories
browseable = no
read only = no


[printers]
comment = All Printers
path = /var/spool/samba
browseable = no
guest ok = no
printable = yes


[MYTHMUSIC]
path = /storage/media/mythmusic
guest ok = yes
read only = no


[MYTHPICS]
path = /storage/media/mythpics/
guest ok = yes
read only = no


[MYTHVIDEO]
path = /storage/media/mythvideo/
guest ok = yes
read only = no

The server string would be the source of the server description.

Yes. I want Ubuntu in Velvet. Here is the relevant part of my smb.conf:

[global]
workgroup = VELVET
server string = Home base
obey pam restrictions = Yes
passdb backend = tdbsam
passwd program = /usr/bin/passwd %u syslog = 0
log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m
max log size = 1000
dns proxy = No
panic action = /usr/share/samba/panic-action %d
invalid users = root

[homes]
comment = Home Directories
valid users = %S
read only = No

[Music]
comment = Shared Music
path = /shared/music
read only = No

And there are a bunch of other shares that follow. When I run smbclient, though, I get this:

Domain=[BLAISE] OS=[Unix] Server=[Samba 3.0.26a]


        Sharename       Type      Comment
        ---------       ----      -------
        IPC$            IPC       IPC Service (Home base)
        print$          Disk      Printer Drivers
        Downloads       Disk      Downloaded from the Internet
        Video           Disk      Shared Video
        HTML            Disk      Shared HTML
        Images          Disk      Shared graphics and images
        Music           Disk      Shared Music
        homes           Disk      Home Directories
        ita             Disk      Home Directories
Domain=[BLAISE] OS=[Unix] Server=[Samba 3.0.26a]


        Server               Comment
        ---------            -------


        Workgroup            Master
        ---------            -------
        MSHOME               BLAISE
        VELVET               ZOE

Where Blaise is the Ubuntu box, and Zoe the Vista one.

Samba is not picking up the configuration. Is there any chance that the computer hasn't been rebooted or samba re-init'd since making the change?