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Suggestions for a Mac-friendly network camera? 4 30 (3/11/2007 11:36:07 PM) comp.sys.mac.misc I need a wireless (wifi 802.11g) network camera, which I will access from a Mac. A number of cameras rated highly on-line don't actually work with Mac because they are accessed through an ActiveX control (only ... Michael

How to figure out amount of info needed to specify a tree shape 0 22 (10/26/2005 1:40:20 AM) comp.soft-sys.matlab I'm a biologist with the following problem; I'm hoping someone could suggest an approach, algorithm, or piece of software. I've got a branched structure (a set of deer antlers to be exact). Suppose I pick a poi... Michael

How to restrict access to NetBoot set? 0 10 (9/17/2005 12:27:16 PM) comp.sys.mac.comm I'm going to be setting up a NetBoot set to let some of our lab's desktops boot of an Xserve. My question is: how do I restrict access so that other people in the building don't boot off it (it contains data as... Michael

FTP server on Panther acting very weird 1 10 (8/27/2005 10:55:08 AM) comp.sys.mac.comm I'm trying to FTP to my G5 at work (it's running OSX10.3.9). I've got the firewall configured to accept FTP (port 20,21). When I ftp to my machine, I get the prompt and am able to log in properly. I can do a "... Michael

Can I use Firewire or USB cameras on Matlab running on Linux?? 1 21 (8/6/2005 9:25:10 PM) comp.soft-sys.matlab I have some code which grabs images off a firewire camera in Matlab using the standard interface for talking to a camera. I've sick of Windows XP however (the machine crashes, freezes, etc.) and I'm thinking of... Michael

Should I (and can I) use NFS rather than Apple File Sharing to access files from home? 3 15 (8/1/2005 12:19:19 AM) comp.sys.mac.comm I'm still fighting slow access when mounting my office G5's hard drive onto the desktop of my laptop at home (cablemodem connection). I'm told that apple file sharing is not efficient over the internet; how abo... Michael

Very slow apple file sharing from G5 over cablemodem. Please advise about fastest way to access remote files. 9 16 (7/23/2005 10:56:26 AM) comp.sys.mac.comm I'm noticing a data transfer rate problem that I'm hoping someone can help me troubleshoot. I'm at home, on a broadband connection, which according to 2wire.com has a rate of 217.90 Kbps. At work, I have a Mac ... Michael

Need advice on which functions might be useful to identify centers of blobs in a biological image 1 21 (7/8/2005 11:03:46 AM) comp.soft-sys.matlab We're biologists trying to use Matlab to analyze some worm behavior data and are fairly new to image processing (and Matlab). We are looking for advice and hope that someone on the forum can point us in the... Michael

Where to get a primer on setting up "portable user directories"? 1 63 (7/3/2005 11:21:59 PM) comp.sys.mac.system I'm getting a new Xserve with OS X Tiger. I want to use a number of our laptops (running Panther) with it, using this great new "portable user directories" feature I've been hearing about, which supposedly sync... Michael

How to restrict remote access to external drives on a server?? 1 75 (6/24/2005 8:32:57 PM) comp.sys.mac.system I'm hoping someone can help me think this through. I run a research lab and need my people (6, using Mac laptops) to be able to have automated backups. I'm going to be setting up an Xserve server with lots of s... Michael

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Can Samsung i700 cell phone/pda do "Verizon wireless sync" with a Mac? 8 13 (5/11/2004 2:07:17 AM) comp.sys.mac.comm I'm considering buying a samsung i700 cell phone/pda. Verizon has this thing called "wireless sync" where, as near as I can tell, it gets to sync info to a desktop computer remotely (through the Verizon network... mlevin77 (109)

Help! I can get DHCP address from wireless router but not ping it nor browse 3 21 (7/16/2004 10:53:44 PM) comp.sys.mac.comm I'm having a really weird problem. At home, I'm using a cablemodem hooked into a Linksys wireless router (802.11b). I've got a Macintosh laptop (17" G4 running Panther) and it is able to connect just fine - eve... mlevin77 (109)

How to have OSX run an applescript at startup, or how to keep it from mounting internal drive? 6 28 (7/20/2004 12:44:08 AM) comp.sys.mac.misc I have a G4 desktop running Panther. It has a couple of internal drives, and an external firewire drive. I want it to boot off the firewire drive, and I do *not* want it to mount the internal drives (they have ... mlevin77 (109)

Need a piece of code (or Applescript or whatever) to repeatedly dump my dynamic IP address to an FTP site 30 44 (7/31/2004 5:38:55 PM) comp.sys.mac.system I'm a biologist with a number of Macs in the lab running OS X. One of my Macs has a static IP address, so I can access it from home. The others have dynamic addresses. I figure, one way for me to access them fr... mlevin77 (109)

How to automatically connect to another (networked) Mac's drive? 5 34 (2/6/2005 2:00:37 AM) comp.sys.mac.misc I run a biology lab with about 10 people (most of whom use Mac laptops to store their important data). After a recent hard drive crash fiasco, I have given up trying to convince people to make regular backups, ... mlevin77 (109)

How come my Linksys router reports DHCP client (Mac laptop) name as garbage characters? 3 31 (4/2/2005 10:50:09 AM) comp.sys.mac.comm I'm got a Linksys BEFW11Sv4 4-port wireless router and a Mac laptop (running OS X 10.3.8) connected to it via its airport card. When I access the router (via its built-in HTTP interface) and look at the DHCP cl... mlevin77 (109)

How to assign Pine folders to folders on my Exchange server (IMAP)? 4 17 (5/7/2005 11:43:30 AM) comp.mail.pine This is probably a simple question but I've searched quite a bit on the web and see only "mini-FAQs" which mention that this is possible but don't tell me how to do it. I have a Microsoft Exchange server at wor... mlevin77 (109)

is Matlab the right solution for this problem? 4 19 (6/14/2005 4:51:13 PM) comp.soft-sys.matlab Hi everyone. I'm hoping someone can help me decide whether Matlab is the right application for my problem. I'm a biologist and need to do some automated analysis of the behavior of flatworms. What I have is a c... mlevin77 (109)

Very slow apple file sharing from G5 over cablemodem. Please advise about fastest way to access remote files. 9 16 (7/23/2005 10:56:26 AM) comp.sys.mac.comm I'm noticing a data transfer rate problem that I'm hoping someone can help me troubleshoot. I'm at home, on a broadband connection, which according to 2wire.com has a rate of 217.90 Kbps. At work, I have a Mac ... mlevin77 (109)

Should I (and can I) use NFS rather than Apple File Sharing to access files from home? 3 15 (8/1/2005 12:19:19 AM) comp.sys.mac.comm I'm still fighting slow access when mounting my office G5's hard drive onto the desktop of my laptop at home (cablemodem connection). I'm told that apple file sharing is not efficient over the internet; how abo... mlevin77 (109)