Curtis Thompson
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ya – if you can connect directly fine and the cables are ok, then the router is what i’d target as the next likely culprit…
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quicker startup is just typically a more efficient process in the osx world – there’s not a given single set of reasons for that, but just faster startup of daemons, network functionality, etc
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have you tried a different router? it could be the culprit here. if you don’t have the ability to do that, try just having one computer in for a while – maybe put a hub between the router and the internet and put the mac there and leave the dell on the router. if it works ok then try swapping the boxes and see how that goes…
typically a wired router won’t really care who’s connected to it in a proper working mode – there’s a cable plugged in and so it sends and receives to that and any other port that has a cable…so if your boxes are losing network then it’s likely not them but the tool that is connecting them…and if you’re able to connect direclty outside it without issue, then the place i’d start is the router itself…
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[Tim Martin] “Is there any problem doing this with Macs on a frequent basis?”
for the most part, the primary problem would be that you’d be losing all that time watching your computer reboot… 🙂
the main reason it helps to shut down any computer is because of memory leaks – almost every app will have them, even though they are bugs and shouldn’t occur…but it’s a fact of life in computer software. alas in windows, it’s much more common, so if you check your task manager over time, you’ll see more and more memory tied up even though you don’t have any apps open. so you have to reboot to get around that…
but unix is much better at dealing with this and has much fewer memory leaks to begin with. even os x is pretty good and you shouldn’t really need to reboot it very often (if it all)…however, 3rd party programs are susceptible to the same memory leak issues that all software is, so if you use a lot of those, then just use your activity monitor to keep an eye on memory usage and other system stats – but also keep in mind that unix is generally better at cleaning up after memory leaks, so in general, you won’t need to worry about rebooting anywhere near as much as you did on windows boxes…
hope that helps a bit! 🙂
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i’d say wait for the end of your project – unix is pretty good and staying fixed when you fix it – windows sorta always likes a reintall after a while, but unix is nicer about that…
if the box is running, there’s probably no need to deal with pram stuff – that’s sort of a first attempt that might help but if all is well it won’t do anything…
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[Mike Hennessey] “Assuming it does work can I just go on using the computer or do you recommend a clean install?”
well – i guess it depends – probably can’t hurt and apple offers a lot of tools to help with that…
sorry to not have a simple answer, but it’s sort of a personal decision based on what you find out was wrong…
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might also want to try disk warrior:
https://www.alsoft.com/DiskWarrior/
there are other technical solutions (fsck being the primary one), however when you can’t boot, you would typically boot to the command line and run a few utilities, but if you’re not comfortable doing that, then diskwarrior is a valid option in most cases…
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interesting – i couldn’t get my ipod recognized by the front firewire port on my g5 – ipod was fine so i figured that it was just a bad cable and i had yet to deal with it…
i have no conclusion really, but i figured i’d log my note as well…
(i don’t have any other firewire devices to test with except for a video camera, but i had yet to dig it out and test with that)
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the only thing worth noting (and i haven’t researched the iomega one, although i suspect it’s the same deal as their old jaz drives?) is that tape backup is typically done in a tar format, and therefore you really can’t just pop in a tape to get a file off of it… :-/
in the sys ad world, tape backup is just to have a backup in a worse case, and something like a disk backup would be one where you would want to have easy access to the backed up content…
not to say you can’t get stuff of a tape, naturally, but it is traditionally more difficult…
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it acutually looks quite different on ie/win – the text is next to each picture there…
i’d say go with a table for that – tables are very handy and often a lot more reliable than all the newfangled technology the kids today use…
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