<OT> iMac question

[Roger Oberholtzer]

On Wed, 2008-07-02 at 13:01 -0700, Bill Campbell wrote:
> 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 did an update last night. It claims to have fixed some wireless
reliability issues. I do no think they were for my speed of network, but
what the heck. Anyway, it did not make a difference.

I am going to set up my network with a different security model. Perhaps
that will make the OS happy. Given that it currently works with a
different fully open network, I don't hold out too much hope. But I have
to try something.

> 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.

Exactly what I am doing. And, in the update I mentioned earlier, there
was mention of some corrections to X. And, guess what: it now works as
expected. Wireless reliability aside.

> 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.

I had already done that.

> 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.

I noticed that all my remote folders were available from the start. I
did not pay this too much attention as I want them. There are 50 or so.
But I use them all.

> 
> >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.

Lots of nice stuff. So much of it just works. Of course, when you
control/limit the hardware involved, this level of working is easier to
achieve from the start.

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Roger Oberholtzer

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