Xander: Just once I'd like to run into a cult of bunny worshippers. Anya: Great. Thank you very much for those nightmares.

'Sleeper'


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omnis_audis - Apr 28, 2008 7:12:51 pm PDT #5946 of 25501
omnis, pursue. That's an order from a shy woman who can use M-16. - Shir

Anyone know a chat client for Mac that does MSN Messenger?
Hey Sean, I use Adium [link]

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


omnis_audis - Apr 29, 2008 12:47:37 am PDT #5947 of 25501
omnis, pursue. That's an order from a shy woman who can use M-16. - Shir

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)


hippocampus - Apr 29, 2008 2:59:25 am PDT #5948 of 25501
not your mom's socks.

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.


amych - Apr 29, 2008 3:41:48 am PDT #5949 of 25501
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?

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.


Jessica - Apr 29, 2008 4:18:22 am PDT #5950 of 25501
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

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.


Gudanov - Apr 29, 2008 6:11:39 am PDT #5951 of 25501
Coding and Sleeping

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


Gudanov - Apr 29, 2008 6:12:16 am PDT #5952 of 25501
Coding and Sleeping

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


§ ita § - Apr 29, 2008 6:19:57 am PDT #5953 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

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.


Gudanov - Apr 29, 2008 6:28:33 am PDT #5954 of 25501
Coding and Sleeping

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?


§ ita § - Apr 29, 2008 6:31:07 am PDT #5955 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Is there any chance that the computer hasn't been rebooted or samba re-init'd since making the change?

Nope. I reload after every edit. And it has picked up all the changes I've made wrt adding shares.