How to start to program - really good books? — #13
I've found the best way to learn a language and its API is to sit down and give yourself goals/projects to do. For example, work on writing a simple calculator or a really simple 2…
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How to start to program - really good books? — #14
SteveJobs,
If you want to write applications for Mac OS X, Objective-C/Cocoa is definitely a great place to start. However, I suggest that you take daily supplements of learning L…
How to start to program - really good books? — #15
How does learning LISP make you a better programmer than learning Python or Smalltalk?
Setup question (yes, I know, another one) — #1
Before you jump on me, I did search for this, but didn't find the answer.
I'm thinking about getting a laptop (yea! tax return!!) and in conjunction with that, I am thinking abo…
Setup question (yes, I know, another one) — #2
You don't need to connect the wifi ap directly to the cable modem.
Just connect the APBS to a free port on your d-link, and disable nat/dhcp on the APBS. Should work out of the bo…
Setup question (yes, I know, another one) — #3
Pretty much what mduell said.
Setup question (yes, I know, another one) — #4
This is good news. Thanks. Anyone disagree with the above? How about the printer functionality?
However, this may be moot if Citrix doesn't work. I just posted a question in …
Setup question (yes, I know, another one) — #5
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Originally Posted by SimeyTheLimey
This is good news. Thanks. Anyone disagree with the above? How about the printer functionality?
Shouldn't be affected. By the wa…
Setup question (yes, I know, another one) — #6
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Originally Posted by f1000
Shouldn't be affected. By the way, you are getting a MacBook, right?
What do you mean by "shouldn't be affected"? Do you mean the setup …
Setup question (yes, I know, another one) — #7
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Originally Posted by SimeyTheLimey
What do you mean by "shouldn't be affected"? Do you mean the setup that mduell suggests?
Yes, when you have the printer and the AP…
Setup question (yes, I know, another one) — #8
By configuring your base station as mduell says, you turn it into an access point-it no longer does "router functions," but you already have a router and all you want is access poi…
Setup question (yes, I know, another one) — #9
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Originally Posted by f1000
Yes, when you have the printer and the AP Express plugged directly into the router per mduell's suggestion.
As for the Citrix, you might want …
Setup question (yes, I know, another one) — #10
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Originally Posted by ghporter
. . . and that means that everything will stay on the same subnet, allowing whatever printing functionality you have set up already to cont…
Setup question (yes, I know, another one) — #11
Yes. By connecting the printer to the AirPort, and turning off DHCP and NAT (uncheck the "share a single IP address" box in the AirPort Admin Utility), you make the AirPort box si…
Setup question (yes, I know, another one) — #12
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Originally Posted by SimeyTheLimey
On the printing, right now my printer is connected directly to my G4 (i.e. not on the network because my printer is only USB capable).
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Setup question (yes, I know, another one) — #13
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Originally Posted by ghporter
(Well almost any; some wireless routers do not allow you to turn off the router functions so they'd be a pain to set up.)
Can you name …
Setup question (yes, I know, another one) — #14
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Originally Posted by mduell
Can you name a few? I've never heard of that.
Not right off or I'd have listed them. I've heard reports of D-Link and Netgear routers that…
Setup question (yes, I know, another one) — #15
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Originally Posted by ghporter
at least the Admin Utility makes changing a base station from wireless router to bridge (and thus "access point") mode easy-you just uncheck…
Setup question (yes, I know, another one) — #16
"Just works" is always best. But Apple's wireless products come standard with relatively small, internal antennas. This means that range and connection speed at a distance can su…
Setup question (yes, I know, another one) — #17
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Originally Posted by ghporter
"Just works" is always best. But Apple's wireless products come standard with relatively small, internal antennas. This means that range a…
Setup question (yes, I know, another one) — #18
100 feet should work ok. Getting out to the patio might be bad if it's at the opposite corner of the house from the AirPort, but probably not too bad. And unless the [i]interior …
Setup question (yes, I know, another one) — #19
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Originally Posted by ghporter
100 feet should work ok. Getting out to the patio might be bad if it's at the opposite corner of the house from the AirPort, but probably n…
Setup question (yes, I know, another one) — #20
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Originally Posted by ghporter
Not right off or I'd have listed them. I've heard reports of D-Link and Netgear routers that insist on being routers no matter what, but I …
Setup question (yes, I know, another one) — #21
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Originally Posted by mduell
Could just be confused/uneducated end-users.
Very true. I'd check out the manual for a prospective purchase online before I plunked down …
Setup question (yes, I know, another one) — #22
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Originally Posted by mduell
You don't need to connect the wifi ap directly to the cable modem.
Just connect the APBS to a free port on your d-link, and disable nat/dhcp …