I had my Mac logging in to the enterprise Novell system with no problems, using Prosoft Engineering's NetWare for MacOS X v. 1.2.2.
It would mount the various servers I use daily just fine. Then one Monday morning I came in, and nothing would mount, nor could I see them anymore by browsing the tree.
It turned out they had been moved to another tree over the weekend. However I could not see this tree in the NetWare browser, only the old one. I knew the short server name from the notice the Novell team sent out about the migration.
On the ProsoftEngineering site, it says
" To login manually, select the Login tab. You can then manually enter the Username, Password, Tree and Context information. The Tree name should be the IP address or DNS name of the server you want to connect to. You can enter the Context information, or use the Context button to browse for available User Contexts. Please note that if you enter the tree server manually, you must also make this same server a Static SA server in the Directory Services Preferences Panel. "
So, you can manually log in to a tree that you cannot see by typing its full name into the Tree field on the login screen of Netware. Before doing this be sure to open the NetWare preferences and click user defaults. Make sure Use These As Defaults is not selected. That way it will let you change the login settings.
To find the full name of the new tree, I pinged the short name of the new tree in the terminal to find the full name then used that to login.
Prosoft mentions that you must add the ip address (that will also be in the information returned by the Ping) into the Static Service Agent area in the NetWare Preferences. This can be found under the Service Location tab. Paste the IP address into the Static Service Agent List box and click "ADD". Make sure Enable SS Agent is checked.
For more information see Netware client FAQ
When trying out Flashpaper 2, after having already installed Macromedia Contribute 2, on a Windows 2000 machine, things got hopelessly confused.
The driver for the earlier version was still in place, and the new driver would not install. Attempting to use regedit and the Add/Remove Programs control panel did not help. I was able to remove everything, and reinstall Flashpaper 2, but the printer driver simply would not install, therefore documents could not be converted.
Solution:
on the Macromedia Forums, I found this advice:
Go to this link and download the zip file. It contains an installer specifically for the printer driver.
It works!
When using Subtitle Workshop for creating Quicktime captions I found that the settings supplied with the program for Quicktime are incorrect. This can be fixed by creating a new Custom format and saving it in the Custom Formats folder inside the Subtitle Workshop folder.
Put the following into a text file, and save the file as "Quicktime2.cfp"
CODE
[Information]
Name=Quicktime3
Extension=*.txt
Time structure=hh:mm:ss.zz
Time=True
FPS=15
New line char=[Enter]
[Format text]
{QTtext}
{font:Tahoma}
{plain}
{size:10}
{timeScale:10}
{height:40}
{width:320}
{useMovieBackColor:ON}
{timeStamps:absolute} {RepeatSub}
[{swStart}]
{swText}
{EndRepeat}
Then open Subtitle Workshop. I suggest you work in SAMI format until you are ready to save the final version, because Subtitle Workshop treats custom formats a little differently than its native formats: it will ask you to re-choose the format as if you had selected "Save As" every single time you save, which can be confusing. So save in SAMI format until you are finished transcribing.
When you are ready to save the finished file, select Save As and choose Quicktime2.cfp from the list of formats. Double click its icon. It will save instantly, without any real feedback, which is also a little confusing.
Your file will look something like this:
[Format text]
{QTtext}
{font:Tahoma}
{plain}
{size:10}
{timeScale:10}
{height:40}
{width:320}
{useMovieBackColor:ON}
[00:00:00.00]
A line of text
[00:00:04.20]
Another line of text
[00:00:06.00]
A line of text
[00:00:11.13]
A line of text
[00:00:15.20]
A line of text
For the exact meaning of the text descriptors used, see Apple's Quicktime text track documentation here
Thanks to TDobes note on the Drupal forums, I got past a fatal error after upgrading to Drupal 4.5.1 from 4.3.
"Fatal error: Class theme_example: Cannot inherit from undefined class basetheme..."
It turns out I had not read the instructions:
You need to remove ALL the old drupal files, then unpack the new files into the drupal directory.
Then it works, magically!
While experimenting with GoLive's Quicktime track editing features, I opened up a movie, saved using Quicktime's Export to MPEG-4 function. GoLive slowed to molasses speeds.
Thinking I was dealing with a GoLive issue, I searched Adobe's boards for mention of slow performance while editing movies. Nothing - although there are plenty of complaints about slow performance in general, which I haven't had problems with. Then I opened a Sorenson version of the same video, and it worked fine. So, I opened the MPEG-4 version in Quicktime Player - same slow performance, outside of GoLive. There must be some key piece that I'm missing that enables rapid scanning through MPEG-4's.
An article on SlashDot about cardboard houses reminded me of Shigeru Ban, a Japanese architect who has designed beautiful structures using waterproofed cardboard tubes. He has developed methods for creating the tubes on site in areas where temporary shelters need to be built for refugees or disaster victims. However many of the structures he designs are meant to be permanent.
References:
In case anyone is curious, as I was, what film caused someone to murder Theo Van Gogh, the short film "Submission" is available for viewing HERE or HERE
While attempting to build a cross-browser compatible embedded Windows Media Player web interface, I noticed that Safari began to give errors on browsing to any embedded video player. After weeks of suffering through thinking it was my bad scripting, I reinstalled Windows Media Player. It immediately started working again on non-scripted embedded video - in other words, if there is no special scripting or sami files, it will work.