<OT> iMac question

[Roger Oberholtzer]

On Tue, 2008-07-01 at 12:46 -0700, Bill Campbell wrote:

> What type of WAP do you have?

What do you want to know?

> >I am also convinced that the iMac is somewhat less than robust at
> >maintaining wireless connections. When it shows the list of available
> >networks, the items in the list pop in and out at great speed. I have
> >never seen this in lists on my other boxes.
> 
> This sounds like it may well be a hardware issue.  I have never
> seen tyis type of problem.
> 
> >I am running the latest Leopard, with whatever updates are currently
> >available. The computer is only a few days old. 
> 
> If you are using X11, there are some issues with Leopard.  Apple is working
> with the open source xorg project to get these resolved.  The primary X11
> developer at Apple has been quite active on the Apple x11-users mailing
> list.  Unofficial updates are available in .pkg format.  The most recent
> being here:
> 
> 	http://xquartz.macosforge.org/trac/wiki/X112.2.3

X11 is indeed running. I tried running a remote X app via ssh (all
proper ssh client configs on the mac set as I always do for this), but
it claims that it cannot connect to the X server. But I can run local
things like xlogo, xterm or xman. This is not a big issue at this time.
I do plan on sorting it out, so thanks for the info.

> The ``macports'' project provides a wide variety of open source projects.
> It is modelled on the FreeBSD ports.

I have already installed this. As well as Apple's XCode 3.0. When I get
the network sorted, and my wife's banking (bank claims support -
computer begs to differ at this time), I will then be able to play. This
is, after all, a home PC just for me to mess up.

As an aside, I did see one unusual thing: In the finder, when I looked
at documents. all the attachments from my e-mails were there. For local
stuff, ok. But all the attachments from the e-mails on my remote imap
server were there as well. It almost looked as though the mail program
had copied all my remote imap mail on to the local system. Could this be
default behavior? I am not against the idea, as it can function as a
backup of my imap server's mail. It could also explain why the first
connection was so very slow. I have quite a history of mail and large
attachments in my imap server...

Even more fun was when I viewed the attachments in bookshelf mode (or
whatever it is really called). I do not remember how many times I knew
what some attachment looked like, but could not remember the name or who
sent it, resulting in hit and miss text searches of my e-mail. I want
this at work as well!

-- 
Roger Oberholtzer

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