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Im my experience the NVidia machines can range from anywhere between 30 seconds right upto about a minute. I found out that on a cold reboot it does usually take longer than on a restart. I found that after the break my only snow leopard machine did take a while longer than usual. This probably being down to DHCP lease times though more than anything since these chipsets tend to have a problem with obtaining a lease. One thing you could try to remove this possibility is do something that someone else suggested to me. Use the airport connection if possible to see if that removes the issue. I removed some of the problems i was having with these nforce chipsets on the Windows side by updating the drivers to v 73.1.0.0. Unfortunately you can't do the same for OS X. Hope this helps a little. I know all too well just how annoying this can be Also don't forget if the time is out by more than 1 seconds over 5 minutes this connection will stop responding as well IIRC. Check the logs to see what happens.

I can still recall (vaguely) his comment about the Queen and certain areas of her person. I don't recall her complaining

I don't think the reverse pointers is having much affect. When you dual-boot between OS X and windows IIRC you end up with pointers that are wrong anyway throughout the day since windows updates the pointers and OS X doesn't. You could try reserved IP with a manually configured DNS entry for each client. This can be scripted, both to build the DHCP Scope, DNS entries and set the configuration for each client from Deploy Studio. I'm not 100% on the Deploy Studio bit though as i have not done that bit myself. But this is my experience of 10.5 I have not tried 10.6 mass deployment although i have got one machine installed and seems to be fine. Also check your forward DNS record in your AD DNS settings. I found this to cause major grief with OS X logging in but this may not be your issue. Also try just kicking the Directory Service to see if this resolves the issue without re-binding. Type: sudo Killall DirectoryServices It maybe without the S on the end. I can never remember Also have you bound to both the AD and OD? If bound to the OD, try just adding the server instead. I do this now with my current install of 10.5 and seems to work a bit better than previous efforts. You can still manage them through OD as well. I have found though on the new NVidia machines that the networking is a lot slower to react than it's Intel counterparts. The process i have seen is that the time "could" be incorrect until the network kicks in, then it picks up it's IP address (eventually), the time then re-syncs and then the Directories start working. This could be the cause of the problem. I had major problems with OS X and XP over the last few months due to the Daylight saving time messing up my clocks causing all sorts of problems. Check the logs for time skew errors as well. Just my 2p worth. May be non-related entirely but you never know Also try: dscacheutil -flushcache This flushes the DNS cache on the client in case it is holding stale records.

Thanks dhicks. I have only just seen your post. I will give it a go. It's been absolutely ages since i last did any Flash work, and the work i did never involved Actionscript anyway Thanks again. I will post up a link to show you the finish product once it's complete. Graphics have been touched up a little now. Not too good still though since i had my graphics tablet nicked when they took my Macbook pro

I will give this a go and see what happens. Thanks Tony

I tried this and found that i couldn't manage them "always". I had to set it to often i think This resulted in users being able to go to the finder preferences and add them but the changes reverted on log out. So, what am i doing wrong? Also users can still browse to these shares using keyboard shortcuts, and sider bar through applications IIRC.

I just saw the ad where he shows this feature and says that Windows 7 was his idea. I can see someone getting a lot of hate mail. Does this snapping feature work across all apps or just MS software itself?

Well done to all of you.

Just the job. Thanks!

No worries. Thanks anyway.

Any chance of a screen grab so i can email it to the other person so they can see the location. If you are running it under Parallels, you can get a screen dump using OS X by holding down cmd, shift and pressing the number 4. If you have the time that is.

Hello, Is anyone able to post up a screen grab of Vista running IE7? I need to see the toolbars and where to go to reset the saved passwords and forms, cookies etc so i can explain to someone how to do it. I could do with it now-ish though TIA

Yeah the spec isn't as high as the standard consumer one but does the job none the less. We had a 2.0ghz core 2 duo i think it was with 160GB HDD and 2GB RAM running at 800mhz, and also a super-drive. We got ours for around £650 each with 5 years Applecare. Oh graphics was powered by the nvidia 9400 mobile chipset.

The educational iMac will also probably be staying around for a bit. Similar to the white one.

Why can't you control iTunes with a mouse It supports coverflow and you can scroll through it using two fingers on a touch pad.

Probably easier just buying a new fan though

Rory also mentions that once he found that the ubuntu logo took him home it helped. Didn't Windows Vista change to a ball with their logo on? You know it might just the a similar job. Click on it and find out.... No wait! it's gonna blow....!

I occasionally tell my users. If you have used a computer before then using a different operating system is going to be harder than for someone who has never used a computer at all, because if you have used a computer before then you have to unlearn all of the crap (usually Windows) thats gets in the way of using the computer, to learn it all again but differently.

Thanks for that. Might just become my second home from home. This being my first of course.

You would need to give your servers static IPs anyway. I don't think you can install DNS or promote the Server to a DC without it.

Hello, I am in the middle of creating or trying to create an interactive game. Basically the idea of the game is the user has to dress a Teddy in a space suit ready for his adventure. When the user has done this then they will be moved on to the "next level" where they have to put Teddy inside the Rocket. When they complete this bit Teddy will then take off to the Moon. Simple enough i thought... So i have got to the point where i have the first level completed. I have two ways i could tackle the progression to the next stage. 1, have a delay after the completion of the first stage or 2, have a button pop up that the user clicks to progress. The only problem is i don't know how to do either. I have tried looking through the help guide but to be honest may as well be in klingon . So how would i go about doing either or if someone is really good at actionscript and feeling generous, both. Here's the script i have so far. It all happens on frame 1, with the next part happening on whatever frame. I don't think it matters... stop(); var startX:Number; var startY:Number; var counter:Number = 0; head_mc.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_DOWN, pickUp); head_mc.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_UP, dropIt); body_mc.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_DOWN, pickUp); body_mc.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_UP, dropIt); legs_mc.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_DOWN, pickUp); legs_mc.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_UP, dropIt); righthand_mc.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_DOWN, pickUp); righthand_mc.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_UP, dropIt); lefthand_mc.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_DOWN, pickUp); lefthand_mc.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_UP, dropIt); rightfoot_mc.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_DOWN, pickUp); rightfoot_mc.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_UP, dropIt); leftfoot_mc.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_DOWN, pickUp); leftfoot_mc.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_UP, dropIt); function pickUp(event:MouseEvent):void { event.target.startDrag(true); reply_txt.text = ""; startX = event.target.x; startY = event.target.y; } function dropIt(event:MouseEvent):void { event.target.stopDrag(); var myTargetName:String = "target" + event.target.name; var myTarget:DisplayObject = getChildByName(myTargetName); if (event.target.dropTarget != null && event.target.dropTarget.parent == myTarget){ reply_txt.text = "Good Job!"; event.target.removeEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_DOWN, pickUp); event.target.removeEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_UP, dropIt); event.target.buttonMode = false; counter++; } else { reply_txt.text = "Try Again!"; event.target.x = startX; event.target.y = startY; } if(counter == 7){ reply_txt.text = "Well done. Teddy is now dressed!"; } } head_mc.buttonMode = true; body_mc.buttonMode = true; legs_mc.buttonMode = true; righthand_mc.buttonMode = true; lefthand_mc.buttonMode = true; rightfoot_mc.buttonMode = true; leftfoot_mc.buttonMode = true; PS i found this stuff on this website if anyone is interested. Quite good really and lucky i found it to get this far. Hope you can help. I will share the results when i finished if anyone is daft enough to be interested. Need to touch up on the graphics though

Before you do the migration you may want to look at the upgrade from 10.5 to 10.6. Why I hear you ask. 10.6 has moved from Cyrus over to dovecot. And from the point of OS X it seems to be a lot better implemented. I have noticed a small performance improvement over the Cyrus service. I use imap connectivity with ad users authing using login type over ssl.

I have actually completed the order process. I was just curious for future reference. Also what software can you provide on the OS X Side of things? Things like Papercut etc?

How much for 3 of the new macbooks? My mistake. I thought i read software and hardware. Why? i don't know.

You use the copy facility in ARD to copy the fonts. Make sure that the clients are set up to accept copying for the user that you select, most probably the local admin user. Open ARD. Select the client that you want to copy fonts to. Click on the copy icon. Click on the plus icon and find the fonts or select them in a finder window and drag them onto the copy task you just started. Choose system fonts folder from the place items in drop-down menu. and then click copy. This is how i do my fonts although it is only a few of them. They should automatically be available to use as well. The lights out management is only available on the servers so the best way to do this would be to use WGM to start the machines up at a certain time every morning. You can sometimes wake the machines from sleep, although i found this to be hit and miss. Could be due to the Wake for ethernet network administrator access function found under energy saver options in System prefs.