You might want to give the Mac Mapping and GPS group over at Yahoo Groups a try. They've been discussing Route 66 and various external GPS receivers lately. You can find them ove…

Hey all, I screwed up royally! I was minding my own business when a buddy calls to tell me he's purchased an "open box" 40G Ipod from BB. He can't get it to work so he wants to com…

Sounds similar to what happened to my GF. I bought her an iPod for Christmas, and we used my Powerbook to set it up, and she put about 5 GB of music on it. She was so excited. N…

Quote: Originally posted by orsadude2: Hey all, I screwed up royally! I was minding my own business when a buddy calls to tell me he's purchased an "open box" 40G Ipod f…

for those who own a powerbook..12 in. how long does your battery last? mine seems to suck 1% every minute or 30 secs. sucks

hi, i just got a 12 inch powerbook and absolutely love it to death. The battery lasts quite a while with the energy saver stuff turned on. I have contrast set to around 4 dots, s…

I am in my house surfing the net (wirelessly), chatting on iChat and with the screen on about half-brightness I am reporting a time of 3 hours 8 minutes with 92% battery remaining.

I began developing a bad battery about 5-6 months in to my ownership. As it wasn't a priority, I prolonged calling Apple about it...big mistake. According to multiple levels of te…

With 2-3 bars brightness (I work at night), AE on, 20ft away from Basestation and a brick wall in between. I get around 4:10 when just browsing, browsing and ICQ at the background…

Grr. Maybe it's already supposed to be this way, but, I'm about to kill somebody over this. There are 2 settings for volume. 1. Alert Sounds which I have set at 25% 2. Overall S…

Nobody else has had their hair straightened by a 90db alert tone from an app?

I feel ya. Just can't say I've given it all that much thought tho. It was me who turned up the volume and forgot about it, after all. I suppose dual control would be cool. Like I s…

Hi, PHP on Panther on my PB was running happily some time, but now always when I try to test some php file localy, it jumps to the file in finder and doesnt procces it. I tried to …

two points: 1. did it really just "start" doing this? can you pinpoint anything you might have done? 2. why is it saying it can't read index.html, if you're calling a php page? …

Have you turned on Filevault by chance?

Quote: Originally posted by theolein: Have you turned on Filevault by chance? ahh... and the fog lifted, and all was clear

well....If I tell you how it was you will be laughing at me I was opening the files all the time from finder instead of running them through a webserver...all the time I managed…

Quote: Originally posted by tomatej: well....If I tell you how it was you will be laughing at me I was opening the files all the time from finder instead of running th…

Hi, thanks for all the points and links! I was using the local mysql just for testing my php scripts so I was doing fine with just anonymous login and test_dbs, but now it seems I …

Quote: Originally posted by tomatej: Hi, thanks for all the points and links! I was using the local mysql just for testing my php scripts so I was doing fine with just a…

Quote: . In addition to that mysql should NOT be anywhere in the /private directory mysql.sock is in /Private/tmp/ so maybe that had something to do with it..…

I got entropy, reinstalled mysql and I'm back to life!!!! Thanks Theolein and others for time..... By the way is it possible to make all these "secret" directories like usr or …

Quote: Originally posted by tomatej: I got entropy, reinstalled mysql and I'm back to life!!!! Thanks Theolein and others for time..... By the way is it possible to …

theolein, thats a great tip - cheers. I had just made aliases to all the hidden folders I wanted and put them in a folder... This way is much nicer

Quote: Originally posted by theolein: Edit: Here are the terminal commands to hide and show all the files in the finder: show: defaults write com.apple.finder AppleS…