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[boomouse]

I'm Back. Couldn't stay away. Someone inside MTC had asked me to un-unregister. Now I am convinced that the shoddy management of the forum doesn't go too deep.

 

Besides, how can I stay away from youse punks? After all the kind words? It was like reading a eulogy. Thanks guys. And to you Chunkyhunk for expressng willingness to take on the slack, thank you too.

 

And of course, I've already let off steam/blown my wad. Now I know that my little "delete BOT" can do the work of ten mods working together--but I can only delete my stuff of course. But anything they can do, I can do better. Talk about competence.

 

Well Sir Boo hope u consider coming back....Nwei guyz can u help me i downloaded a rapidshare file w/a .rar extension can't open it w/ my mac do i need a certain app to open it?its a music file...tnx

 

Go to www.unrarx.com and download the UNRARX rar extraction utility for free.

 

PWED BANG INSTALLAN NG WINDOWS ANG MAC

 

Pwede basta Intel Mac o Mac na Intel processor ang ginagamit (Macbook, Macbook Pro, Intel iMac, Mac Pro, Intel Mac Mini). Maraming paraan:

1. Gamit ka ng Bootcamp (libre sa OS X 10.5 Leopard)
   
2. Gamit ka ng Parallels o VMware Fusion (may bayad)
   
3. Gamit ka ng xVM Virtual Box (libre sa http://www.sun.com/software/products/xvm/index.jsp)
   

Of course, hinde libre ang Windows. bahala ka na doon.

[chunkyhunk]

Welcome back boomer...

[Guest lustfortravel]

I'm Back. Couldn't stay away. Someone inside MTC had asked me to un-unregister. Now I am convinced that the shoddy management of the forum doesn't go too deep.

 

hey, you're back, boom! we had to beg you to reconsider for selfish reasons - wala na kaming makukunan ng matinong sagot sa mac problems namin.

 

 

seriously, boom, it's really good to have you back! :thumbsupsmiley:

[denimhead]

yey the booms back .... im upgrading to leopard from tiger .. do i need to get an external hd for timemachine?

[boomouse]

yey the booms back .... im upgrading to leopard from tiger .. do i need to get an external hd for timemachine?

 

Depends. How attached are you to your data? If you will be forced to consider seppuku, better get one. While one the same size as your primary drive will work, with the low price of drives today, I would advise that you go for one that is twice the size.

 

You can also get a NAS drive (networked attached storage–one with an ethernet port) so you just connect it to your hub or switch and every computer in your net can use it for backup.

 

Remember, two copies of your data IS NOT a backup.

[roxysnonie]

what mac apps is used to "copy" movies from dvd to mp4's, ready to play in i tunes or vlc?

 

is there like a tune up utility for mac?

 

yo, chunks, u still live in that condo after the creek?

[chunkyhunk]

what mac apps is used to "copy" movies from dvd to mp4's, ready to play in i tunes or vlc?

 

Try MacTheRipper. http://www.mactheripper.org/

 

is there like a tune up utility for mac?

 

The very basic is the Apple Disk Utility, but you can also use Techtool Pro.

 

yo, chunks, u still live in that condo after the creek?

 

Somewhat...

[boomouse]

what mac apps is used to "copy" movies from dvd to mp4's, ready to play in i tunes or vlc?

 

is there like a tune up utility for mac?

 

yo, chunks, u still live in that condo after the creek?

 

Mac the Ripper, or Handbrake, or VirtualHub will do it. Also Video Converter. They have freeware versions, just Google.

 

Tune-up utility? You don't need one. The Mac File system is self-defragging. Using third party software to 'optimize' is really just a lot of snake oil.

 

If your Mac slows down, check for free space on your hard disk. OS X likes to use page files. You should have at least 2GB free all the time for paging. The page file is not counted by the Finder as used space. Also check your use of apps. Don't make a habit of opening all the apps you want to use without needing to use them yet.

 

Finally, OS X likes to have lots of RAM and just as you will notice better performance with enough RAM, you will feel a lack of with when you have less RAM.

[roxysnonie]

Mac the Ripper, or Handbrake, or VirtualHub will do it. Also Video Converter. They have freeware versions, just Google.

 

Tune-up utility? You don't need one. The Mac File system is self-defragging. Using third party software to 'optimize' is really just a lot of snake oil.

 

If your Mac slows down, check for free space on your hard disk. OS X likes to use page files. You should have at least 2GB free all the time for paging. The page file is not counted by the Finder as used space. Also check your use of apps. Don't make a habit of opening all the apps you want to use without needing to use them yet.

 

Finally, OS X likes to have lots of RAM and just as you will notice better performance with enough RAM, you will feel a lack of with when you have less RAM.

 

glad to have you back, boomer! thanks for the reply.

 

i use ice clean monthly, i have 2gb of ram which is sufficient, i guess, later on ill update my hdd, which is 90gb now to a bigger one.

 

thanks chunks too!

[boomouse]

Mac OS X 10.5.4 Fixes File Saving Issues, More

from: http://www.macobserver.com/article/2008/06/30.13.shtml

 

by Jeff Gamet, 4:40 PM EDT, June 30th, 2008

annotations in italics by boomouse

 

Apple released Mac OS X 10.5.4 on Monday afternoon. The Leopard update fixes an issue that corrupted Adobe CS3 documents saved to remote servers, and improved reliability when connecting to 5GHz AirPort Extreme networks.

 

The update also addressed a long list of issues including:

• Includes additional RAW image support for several cameras.
  
• Addresses an issue that may result in a partially installed X11 application.
  

FROM THE WIKI ON X.11 (boomouse):

In computing, the X Window System (commonly X11 or X) is a windowing system which implements the X display protocol and provides windowing on bitmap displays. It provides the standard toolkit and protocol with which to build graphical user interfaces (GUIs) on most Unix-like operating systems and OpenVMS, and has been ported to many other contemporary general purpose operating systems.

 

X provides the basic framework, or primitives, for building GUI environments: drawing and moving windows on the screen and interacting with a mouse and/or keyboard. X does not mandate the user interface — individual client programs handle this. As such, the visual styling of X-based environments varies greatly; different programs may present radically different interfaces. X is built as an additional application layer on top of the operating system kernel.

 

Unlike previous display protocols, X was specifically designed to be used over network connections rather than on an integral or attached display device. X features network transparency: the machine where an application program (the client application) runs can differ from the user's local machine (the display server).

 

X originated at MIT in 1984. The current protocol version, X11, appeared in September 1987. The X.Org Foundation leads the X project, with the current reference implementation, X.org Server, available as free software under the MIT License and similar permissive licences.

 

X11.app is Apple Computer's implementation of the X Window System for Mac OS X. Since Mac OS X v10.5, X11 is installed by default. There is no official way to install X11.app on 10.4 or 10.5 without the install DVD.

• Improves L2TP VPN client reliability.
  

In computer networking, the Layer 2 Tunneling Protocol (L2TP) is a set of specifications that define/describe how to support communications within virtual private networks (VPNs).

For you geeks who wish to know more, I have compiled some info from wikis--boomouse:

L2TP acts like a data link layer (layer 2 of the OSI model) protocol for tunneling network traffic between two peers over an existing network (usually the Internet). L2TP is in fact a layer 5 protocol session layer, and uses the registered UDP port 1701. The entire L2TP packet, including payload and L2TP header, is sent within a UDP datagram. It is common to carry Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP) sessions within an L2TP tunnel. L2TP does not provide confidentiality or strong authentication by itself. IPsec is often used to secure L2TP packets by providing confidentiality, authentication and integrity. The combination of these two protocols is generally known as L2TP/IPsec (discussed below).

 

The two endpoints of an L2TP tunnel are called the LAC (L2TP Access Concentrator) and the LNS (L2TP Network Server). The LAC is the initiator of the tunnel while the LNS is the server, which waits for new tunnels. Once a tunnel is established, the network traffic between the peers is bidirectional. To be useful for networking, higher-level protocols are then run through the L2TP tunnel. To facilitate this an L2TP session (or call) is established within the tunnel for each higher-level protocol such as PPP. Either the LAC or LNS may initiate sessions. The traffic for each session is isolated by L2TP, so it is possible to set up multiple virtual networks across a single tunnel. MTU should be considered when implementing L2TP.

 

The packets exchanged within an L2TP tunnel are categorised as either control packets or data packets. L2TP provides reliability features for the control packets, but no reliability for data packets. Reliability, if desired, must be provided by the nested protocols running within each session of the L2TP tunnel.

• Addresses AirPort issues that may result in slower performance in Logic Studio or MainStage.
  
• Improves overall iCal reliability for meeting requests, cancellation notices, delegation, and syncing with iPhone.
  
• Resolves an issue that prevents deleting an iCal event without notifying the creator.
  
• Addresses an issue in which events in all calendars affect availability. A checkbox now enables information-only calendars to be transparent from free/busy lookups.
  
• Resolves a UI issue preventing delegated calendars from showing up as a separate window.
  
• Addresses an issue with copying and pasting attendees from one event to another.
  
• Resolves an issue in which iCal may not delete events after a specified time interval, even when set to do so in iCal preferences.
  
• Addresses an issue in which To Dos cannot be marked private.
  
• Addresses a potential performance issue when loading secure web pages.
  
• Resolves issues that may be encountered when accessing secure web pages with client certificates that reside on a smart card.
  
• Addresses an issue in which switching from a space with a Finder window keeps the Finder as the active application instead of the application residing in the destination space.
  
• Fixes an issue in which dragging an application from the list of application assignments in Spaces System Preferences does not assign the application to the desired space.
  
• Resolves an Exposé issue that may result in only a subset of windows being shown.
  

Mac OS X 10.5.4 is a free update for Leopard users. It is available via the Software Update application, but is not yet available as a downloadable installer from the Apple Support Web site.

[chancepassenger30]

I'm Back. Couldn't stay away. Someone inside MTC had asked me to un-unregister. Now I am convinced that the shoddy management of the forum doesn't go too deep.

 

 

YEY!! Welcome back! Ang daming mga Mac questions agad ang sumalubong sayo... hehe

[Nismo]

Good to have u back sir boo... tnx for the info... :thumbsupsmiley:

[Guest Dennis®]

welcome back boomouse.

[artvader]

How about that one flaw that Mac OS X 10.5.4 didn't fix?

[chunkyhunk]

How about that one flaw that Mac OS X 10.5.4 didn't fix?

 

Which flaw?