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Comment on Mac OS X Leopard “Easter Egg” by hermann

hermann — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 23:47:06 +0000

is so funny, i have the Leopard Version, beast is hostname (I guess)

And the other pc computers has been showing in this tipe

Old computer and screen blue error! Ironic:?

Comment on Logitech MX5000 Cordless Desktop by V

Mon, 05 May 2008 03:51:47 +0000

Yep, Leopard and this keyboard work fine together, and me both this in august and let it sit for 10 months and now here i am in awe!

Comment on measured noise in madwifi by zoobab

zoobab — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 13:04:35 +0000

Your link to your graph gives a 404.

Comment on Mac OS X Leopard - Built-in SSH agent by Luke Redpath

Luke Redpath — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 19:36:18 +0000

Here’s another gotcha for people who can’t get this working.

I was struggling to work out why I could not get this working with a new MacBook (which never had SSHKeychain installed).

The reason: I use MacPorts and had ended up installing OpenSSH via MacPorts (it was a dependency of some other lib). This resulted in a standard, non-keychain support build of ssh in /opt/local/bin, which happened to be listed in my $PATH first. Only when I ran “which ssh” did I realize what had happened.

Comment on Mac OS X Leopard “Easter Egg” by Gnarlodious

Gnarlodious — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 18:03:40 +0000

Ugly beast, ain’t it?

Comment on Logitech MX5000 Cordless Desktop by david

david — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 19:06:42 +0000

well
i was also able to connect the keyboard to my macbook. i’m working with leopard and i just had to connect the keyboard to the OS. well okay the special keys don’t work - but the volume, play/pause… work. on my windows computer i never used the other keys and perhaps logitech will release an update for their mac software

Comment on Mac OS X Leopard - Built-in SSH agent by Alan

Alan — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 00:20:18 +0000

If you aren’t getting the above mentioned prompt when trying to ssh into a server, it might be that your ssh-agent is not being managed by Leopard. See this website:

http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=5727320

It fixed my issue.

Comment on Outdoorsy stuff… by Mum

Mum — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 01:45:08 +0000

I dont suppose you remember Nana Raynels sister, aunty Marge, she used to live up perongia mountain. Hope your outdoorsy stuff keeps up. some of the walks are really lovely. love to you both Mum xxxx

Comment on Logitech MX5000 Cordless Desktop by Austin

Austin — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 12:50:01 +0000

I was able to get the mx5000 mouse and keyboard working with my MacBook. The mouse connected with no problems, but I had to do a strange fix to get the keyboard working. I installed the Apple Keyboard Update (Version 1.2) and then I was able to set up my keyboard. A number of the advanced features work, including the volume and media controls. I haven’t spent the time to figure out how many of the other features work, but I’ve been using it without any problems. Hope that helps.

Comment on Logitech MX5000 Cordless Desktop by Peter

Peter — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 16:04:22 +0000

Maybe you guys haven’t noticed (I don’t know too many people who require 30 feet of wireless mouse range), but the USB key adds VASTLY to the range of the mouse. I tried it with built-in bluetooth, and it was about 18 inches.

Also, some of the special features work on the mx5000 keyboard with OSX (using the USB key): volume, mute (sometimes), Play (but not stop or any other of the media buttons), Insert (it brings up the help menu), Pause/Break (it turns up the brightness), and Clear Calc works as a backspace key. F12 works as an eject key when I hold it down for longer than a minuscule amount of a second. Otherwise, it works normally as F12.

Oddly enough, when I use the 10-key it sometimes deletes a hard return and then types the number/symbol.

So basically I can type remotely with this keyboard and do everything with it I can do with my Apple BT keyboard.