<OT> iMac question

[Bill Campbell]

On Wed, Jul 02, 2008, Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
>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?

Make and model, although I doubt the problem is with the WAP.
Given what you have said, I think it's much more likely hardware
in the iMac.

>> >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.

In the switch from XFree86 to Xorg, they came up with a different
method of launching X11, probably to make life easier for the
ininitated.  There is a rather strange DISPLAY variable set even
in a Terminal.app, and in theory executing an X11 client will
cause X11 to be started.

I do it the way I always have, starting X11 from the dock, which
opens a single xterm.  In that xterm I run ``exec ssh-agent bash''
run ssh-add to enable my identity, then launch any other x-clients
from that xterm which gets its display.

You will probably also need to fiddle the /etc/ssh_config file to
allow agent and X11 forwarding unless you want to provide the
appropriate arguments to all ssh commands.

>> 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...

I don't use Apple's Mail.app, but use Thunderbird on those rare
occassions when I use a GUI mailer (mostly I use mutt in an xterm).

The thing that keeps me from using Mail.app is that it doesn't
seem to have any way to selectively subscribe to IMAP folders,
and I have a very large number of folders in my IMAP servers
Maildir storage.

>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!

My main desktop is still a Mac Mini running Tiger.  I only have
Leopard on my Powerbook so haven't really played much with it.

Bill
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