Recent content by happykoala

The skype client does indeed allow you to turn the camera off without the need to resort to sticky tape. While in the video session, you will find a hover over red depiction of a video camera that you can click to turn the transmission of your picture off. Alteranately, why not simply dial...

@satcomer - you have no need to be rude. if you have no idea how to understand my questions, leave off.

Thanks. They are interesting, but not related to this problem.

never mind mate - thanks for your help, I switched to opendns. cant fix this problem

Hi /etc/hosts and /private/etc/hosts are in fact the same file, it is a hidden symbolic link off the root No, my script doesnt issue that dscacheutil -flushcache command as I had tried it manually and it made no difference, so couldnt see the point. As the system is mapping the 127.0.0.1 to a...

Hi, I have a script which downloads a hostfile containing thousands of known bad hosts and appends its to /etc/hosts as follows: # Sorry but in addition to serving ads BrightCove frequently # delvers content (mostly video). It is your choice! 127.0.0.1 goku.brightcove.com 127.0.0.1...

well, in the mean time I mount my laptopn on an akasa thermal extractor, which stops it overheating http://www.akasa.com.tw/update.php?tpl=product/product.detail.tpl&no=181&type=Notebook%20coolers&type_sub=NB%20Coolers&model=AK-NBC-01B

Thanks for the tip, No virtualisation isnt a solution, the performance of a virtual machine compared to an OS on bare metal is very very bad and makes the OS unsuable anyhow.

This refers to the commercial, licensed version of Windows 7 Ultimate with Mac OSX 10.6 Bootcamp drivers installed. While I find the Windows 7 Ultimate experience on my Macbook Pro to be in general quite pleasant, it has some significant problems. 1. Suspend / Resume does not work. When...

I am entirely unsatisfied with the Windows 7 support that the Bootcamp 3.0 drivers supplied with Mac OSX 10.6 give. This refers to the commercial, licensed version of Windows 7 Ultimate with Mac OSX 10.6 Bootcamp drivers installed. While I find the Windows 7 Ultimate experience on my...

My .mac idisk syncing is broken The system log reports: Waiting for MirrorAgent to launch and respond to CFMessagePortCreateRemote(). [111] Dec 2 22:29:00 ibook webdavd[328]: (result == 0 ) failed with 1; No such file or directory; file: mount.tproj/mount_webdav.c; line: 239 Dec 2...

Im using the latests OSX, the application launches and immediately says it cant connect to the Internet, even though I am. Each of the connection tests is passed. Trying to list my support questions generates some kind of sql error. Submitting questions also fails. I can create a profile...

When I try to sync my idisk, it immediately fails and the following error is generated. Dec 2 23:29:07 ibook webdavd[462]: (result == 0 ) failed with 1; No such file or directory; file: mount.tproj/mount_webdav.c; line: 239 Dec 3 00:29:14 ibook webdavd[492]: (result == 0 ) failed with 1...